skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You must trust that the contributors are trustworthy

In theory, that's only the case if you are unable to review the code yourself.

In practice, it's like saying that TLS encryption is pointless, because one needs to trust every single person who implements it.
I noticed cereal has gone up a lot (£5 for Weetabix) but bread hasn't really. Not sure why that would be.
You're mostly arguing against Adam Smith here, and that war was mostly won long ago.

It feels counter intuitive that companies acting in their best interest would be not in the communities best interests, but interestingly, it's definitely not zero sum game.

Particularly in this instance, wherein we have rich countries offering services at a discounted rate, it's actually hugely beneficial to almost everyone.

If you force a 'single price point' - the profit maximizing point will almost assuredly be much higher than most of the world can afford and so the net surpluses are lower.

Price discrimination in this case is reasonable.

Where it gets messy are for things like concert tickets.

As far as 'PPP gaming' - this is not a new concept, and SaaS is not even remotely relevant to anything at national level economics. The 'PPP' game has been going on since the dawn of time! Literally the first Mesopotamian writing systems revolved around bookeeping and pricing.

PPP is not going to be the driving force for pricing for any company that's sophisticate enough to do this - they will find the right price in France the same way they do in America. The PPP is a secondary measurement.

The problem in Argentina is that their leaders are corrupt and a bit dumb. Not an 'index'.

That said, there is still a lot of room for discussion about this.
> Did they "de-orbit" during the creation of the black hole? Or do the planets orbit the black hole as they were already orbiting the original star before that?

If the mass wouldn't change the orbit wouldn't chance much, they're still orbiting "same" mass.

But in most cases (AFAIK) creation of black hole involves supernova so, well, that ain't gonna be very healthy for the planet itself (lmao) and part of the mass would get ejected and orbits would get more elliptical
I was doing this drink and a friend of mine said it was not sensible given the current times.

He was kidding, but it really threw me off.
I wonder if that blackjack program still exists? Getting that to run again on this machine would probably get you the Nobel Prize for retrocomputing (if that was a thing).
Well, it confused an idiot like me, so maybe it wasn't the best analogy to go with.
Still, even as a hobby go player i think the broader point that AI usually only works in the constraints that it is designed, bears repeating. Because if journalists/scientists (and us) wouldn't do it, people would maybe start believing the marketing messages about AI too much. But yes, there are better examples (e.g. those delivery robots that don't work in real life conditions).
WeChat users are handwriting apologies to get their banned accounts back
If you are interested in the Bombe (with some mention of the Bomba), the book _Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War_ is an excellent read.
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Hi everyone, I am working on a project to make competitor monitoring deeper and more efficient. Is anyone here willing to share how their company monitors what similar companies are doing in terms of new features, pricing, marketing activity, hiring, fundraising?

I’m keen to learn about if and how your company monitors competitors activity. What data would you track, what tool would you use, what is doing manually vs automated?
South of France here (5°C - 35°C outside, 15°C - 30°C inside my flat), I don't use any heating nor hot water, nor air conditioning all year long, very few devices and really low electricity bill (10€/mo)
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Doing research – how does your company monitor competitors activity?
Hi everyone, I am working on a project to make competitor monitoring deeper and more efficient. Is anyone here willing to share how their company monitors what similar companies are doing in terms of new features, pricing, marketing activity, hiring, fundraising?

I’m keen to learn about if and how your company monitors competitors activity. What data would you track, what tool would you use, what is doing manually vs automated?
Is it better or worse in Europe? Prices have gone up by a lot but it’s hard to quantify.
So I think that most people "feel" as if the price of petrol has been going up, but it really hasn't - it's been mostly frozen for years now.

As an example - I found in my google photos this picture from 2011, literally 11 years ago, and it shows petrol at 134p/litre, which is actually more expensive than it has been for few years(other than this year, obviously). Definitely 2016-2020 petrol has been around 120p/litre, with 130p/litre for premium(which I remember well because I had a sports car for those 4 years and remember thinking that 130p/litre is expensive for fuel).

https://imgur.com/a/JqT15rm
If you are referring to the change from 461 MB to 293 MB that's because he didn't call runtime.GC right after the insertion loop.
There are not many things in life that are as satisfying as spending time outdoors, especially when you couple that time outside with fishing. Fresh air, wilderness, water and the company of friend or family, there are not many things that are better.
What's interesting to me is that cyclist injuries went down after these laws were passed. At least according to the wiki. Naively, I would think they'd go up, or stay level. Do you have any hypothesis for why that may be?
For a while now food has seemed to be getting more expensive very quickly so this isn’t a surprise. It’s very easy to spend £50 on just a bag or two of groceries (albeit buying some fancy stuff).

Cheaper items have gone up a lot. They are still cheap in absolute terms (55p for six pitta breads) but the price increase is very difficult for people on the breadline.

The UK’s inflation problem is compounded by the fact that wages have stagnated for over a decade now. Salaries are really quite low. Only 15% of income tax payers are on the higher rate (over £50k). That was sort of manageable during the period of low interest rates but I really don’t know what people are going to do now.
"Such a difference cannot be explained by PPP"

? It's definitely explained in terms of PPP.

If you could only have one single measure to use in terms of price discrimination, it would be that.

Europeans have less purchasing power than Australians.

Ergo, price difference.

I'll bet Philippine visitors get an even bigger discount.
Why not cardboard?
Winter temperatures in the UK have reached 10 degrees Fahrenheit or lower in recent years, and British people aren't usually adapted to living in yurts.
Thanks! Right now I'm feeling pretty good about docker BUT I'm still a bit nervous about how storage works and networking works. I need to get a level deeper on those 2 topics. I'll be sure to check this video out.
I wonder how much of the articles written about the cost of energy is causing people to not turn heating on at all or suffer needlessly - as the article says she's not turning the heating on because she can't afford to find out how much it will cost her.

there's a need for clearer ways to display exactly how much energy your using (or will use) but that's not simple as everyone's standards and homes are completely different!

As others have said cold is up for interpretation. Our house is between 17 - 20 degrees c. We have very poor insulation so there's no point in trying to heat it excessively. Both sides of the family complain about how cold it is when they visit (without jumpers or even socks on!) though they walk around their own homes with t-shirts and shorts on!
It could be that it they only meant they only notice petrol price changes because during a weekly shop you're looking at dozens of items, and maybe aren't in the habit of looking at each one then at the end you pay for everything at once. Whereas petrol prices are something you tend to specifically look out for when you're out and about, and it's the main component of the bill when you go to pay.
"Just do the dishes."

"It is sufficient to do the dishes."

?
There are balances to be had. Long ago when I worked in a grocery store, I could cut a watermelon into quarters, wrap each up in plastic, and slap a label on each of them in under 30 seconds. Those watermelon quarters each sold for more than double the price of an entire watermelon. Even if you include the time to bring watermelons to the back room, return the slices to the sales floor, and then the refrigeration costs and opportunity costs of using highly visible space for the slices, it was still a huge markup for what couldn't have been more than a minute of labor on average.
Now you can remove the simply too ;)
It was not an especially good film by any stretch. It is rare to find a fan. Hokey male posturing, celebrating vicious violence as now historical whimsy, cartoon opponents, plus some bad direction, script, editing, and acting. Literally generic. I don't know anyone who liked it, and certainly no one who would ever watch it again. You're quite safe. I would add in its defence, like so so many films released, there is a decent film in there dying to get out, if only the editor had their way. Colin Farrell was 'hurt' by the lack of audience and box office response.
The main difference with Go is that the table of a HashMap in Java is a table of pointers, not a table of structs, so the overhead to not shrink the table is less an issue.
Well, thinking logically: if everyone really got what they wanted, that question wouldn't be in the FAQ, would it?
Check out distributed services in go as well. Best technical book I’ve ever read
Its kind of funny to see all these young people talking about "reading books for free/illegally". Do people not know actual libraries still exist haha? people would think they were a scam if they came out now
The title does bury the lede: this discovery is the closest confirmed black hole now. Before that, the closest was ~3000ly away.

There might be one ~960ly away, but that hasn't been confirmed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_known_black_ho...
This! Identical situation in the UK from my experience. Why maths is taught completely separated from its history and its purpose is baffling. Well actually it’s not: it’s because it serves the teachers. You hammer the formulas and patterns into the kids so they can pass the exams. Your school gets good grades and the principal is happy because he can now market his school as successful and the government inspectors are happy because the school is hitting its metrics. Meanwhile, the kids haven’t actually learned anything. As soon as the exam is passed they forget the formulas and go on with their lives.

We should be explaining the story of maths and how it benefitted society. We should be asking kids about their interests and then showing them how mathematical tools can be used in those areas. We need to show kids how maths is tied to real life rather than just presenting them with a boring formulas to memorise.
I’m not sure I agree. I’m a very outgoing extroverted person, and even I feel cut-off when someone points out they think something is super easy, especially when it’s really not easy.

Just a few weeks ago at work, one of the TLs told me I should ‘just do X’, and when I pushed back saying it’s going to take a few weeks, he said ‘oh it’s just a couple of lines, I can do it in 10 minutes’. I challenged that. 5 integrations and 2 weeks later we had a first working version, that caused more harm than good in the end because of an assumption that didn’t hold.

I think easy things might be easy in theory, but not necessarily in execution. So when a student comes to you, I suspect they have thought about theory, but find the execution hard because of the knowable unknowns they are not aware of and you are. Many times people don’t even propose things that might seem obvious to them out of fear they might say something stupid. Indicating something is easy in a demeaning fashion is bad. Phrasing it differently has a different effect. E.g. Oh, I think that might be solved with X. It should be relatively straightforward. Look at the work I did <here>, it should match your use case.
I'm really surprised you say that, because in my experience all 3 of those have massively gone up in price.

Like I said in my other comment - 4 pints of milk have gone up from 1.10 to 1.55(40% increase), countrylife butter(we buy the 500g pack) could be had for £3, maybe even £2.50 in a deal, now it's £4.25 at both tesco and sainsburys.

Tesco also removed their cheese deal which they had for years, where you could buy any two packs for £3, it went up to £3.50, and now it's £4 for two packs. Literally a 33% increase in less than a year.
>Why couldn't the entire system be E2E encrypted by default, though?

Probably because getting the system together in its current state was enough work.

> In 2022, that's my standard expectation from any service.

You have high standards. Do you expect others to raise their standards as high as yours...?
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Our usual weekly shop (which rarely changes at all) is now around £75 as opposed to £55-60 before.

Petrol and energy are WAY more expensive.

Everything is just more pricey at the moment.
Yeah - I have no idea where I can buy lamb that cheap. We can get deer really cheap from a pest control guy, and we still pay more than £5 a kg (think he charges £5 a pound, as he is old school) and it is some of the cheapest (and best) meat we can buy.

Unfortunately once my wife and kids realised what type of deer is was (generally the little muntjac deer) they all went off it.
It's the high quality beans.
Yeah, a one-person Discord "server" is a great way to have e.g. RSS notifications (via MonitoRSS) as well as simple bots. It is just remarkably straightworward - you don't need to register an app, just generate a webhook token and then curl a simple json to that endpoint. Now, I was confused and thought webhooks are somehow standardized, but they're not. It's kinda like RSS in reverse, with an application defined payload.
Or maybe instead of "did you just try clearing the cache?", "would clearing the cache solve it?".
Thank you. Finally I don't have to set up some crazy email auth or build a special app to get info from my pipelines or raspberry
Most companies appear to be ditching plastic packaging for packaging which has a combination of plastic (mostly films) and card. The card now can't be recycled as the plastic content is too high and consumers are too lazy to separate the two materials. This leads to more waste in landfill, but CEOs get a tick on their ESG ratings for using less plastic...

I wonder how much of this packaging will actually be plastic.
Nvidia Offers Alternative Chip for China to Clear U.S. Export Hurdles
Your ideas about population control are antiquated. It is well known that demographic change follows women's rights and economic development, particularly in access to healthcare and education. Draconian laws just lead to wide-scale oppression. India's population (and Africa's) are only growing in the regions that schooling and healthcare infrastructure haven't penetrated yet. The only controls a government can institute under conditions where it can't even run a school are genocidal.
Fujitsu to test robot datacenter inspector that trust us – won't take your jobs
Depends on what you mean by "super cheap". I know lots of non-techies who default their PC purchase to whatever is cheapest that seems to fit the bill at the time, and storage now typically can't be expanded after the fact. I just had a fun time updating my partner's 2.5 year-old MacBook to Monterey with a 47gb free space requirement on a 119gb drive.
The blog post CLAIMS to not be using that feature, so charitably they could be talking about something different.

Who knows though? They provide so little information and I have no particular reason to trust them without some kind of evidence. I'm flagging this article since all we can do is speculate.
Oh, KDE is much more than a desktop environment.
this would help reduce server costs, cause you would probably lose more than 90% of your users in one go!
The cheapest of something has become much more expensive, whereas the middle range has only gone up a little.

e.g. Aldi:

250g cheapest butter was £1.45 now £1.95

250g premium butter was £1.95 now £2.10

That's an 8% increase for me because I always bought the nice stuff anyway and I continue to but it's a 35% increase for someone who was already buying the cheapest item.
Grab all the papers and pictures together, sit down with Grandma (or whomever is the oldest person in your family), and go through it all. For each picture, document who is in it, tell stories about where it came from, record it all. When you are done, digitize it, publish it on paper, whatever makes you happy. But the time spent with the people who are around to talk about it all is not only the key to getting all the information correct, but also a meaningful way to pass knowledge around, and is not time you'll feel is wasted once the older folk are gone.
Kenneth Reitz wanted to be a programmer like Armin Ronacher.
How to offer custom SQL support in your product to customers
It's (likely) exacerbated by the pound tanking, the Eurozone is similarly affected. I visited Switzerland recently after a year off and the price hikes are there too, but not as noticeable as in other countries in Europe.
If you would like to lower the cost more, I think switching to a cheaper cloud service like Linode or Hetzner would be the way to go.
Nothing less than over £10 a kg here - unless you want liver/kidney/heart:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/fresh-food/fresh-...
It's not just food. Purchase history in online stores shows current prices are insanely high - electronics alone up to 100% increase.
Or just make mathematical education more efficient which seems like the Occam’s Razor answer to me.
Here is a thought experiment, in a world without cars and trucks, what would the laws be like? Would we even have stop signs or red lights? Maybe only in high traffic areas. I think motorists who argue against the Idaho stop have the idea it is unfair to have different rules, while ignoring the monumental difference between cars and bikes.
Genuinely interested in your thoughts, please expand. For instance, I hear lots of great stuff about .net core but I don't see as large of an opensource ecosystem to support it - but maybe I am missing something.
> I find telegram messages only get insta-delivered about half the time. The other half, they're delayed till I next re-open the app. Doesn't seem to happen with any other app.

That happens to me with WhatsApp. Curiously a message to Telegram kicks it back into gear too. My fiancee first messages me 'calling' on Telegram before calling on WhatsApp, because she figured out (remotely, by experience) that otherwise it often doesn't ring.
Indeed, this person showed that you can read/write to arbitrary memory addresses inside of a Go program: https://blog.stalkr.net/2022/01/universal-go-exploit-using-d...

Although, it's pretty useless as an exploit, since it requires you to be able to run arbitrary Go code to begin with (the author admits as much). It's _very_ unlikely that a remote attacker could exploit a data race in a regular Go program.
Hm, why wouldn't that be embedded?

How do you define embedded?

One of my application is a simple "blog-like" webservice where you can either use a SQLite db or Postgres.

Personally I often prefer SQLite because it doesn't need a thousand configurations and I can just migrate all the content with copying a file.
The web page is ultra annoying, won't even let me scroll
Lichess by Thibault Duplessis

https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/graphs/contributors
Direct link to Archive.org's PDF: https://ia804703.us.archive.org/2/items/cryptographers-way-b...
NASA will leave its $4.1B rocket outside as Nicole approaches Florida
Stopping a moving bicycle messes with the rider's balance and forces them to focus their awareness on balance and to look down at their feet to make a complete stop (otherwise they'd tip over). By allowing the rider to merely slow down it lets them maintain focus on the road and the hazards that might be around them.
TikTok overhauls US business following advertising slump
> Who doesn’t have a passport or two?

Americans. Millions even don't have any government IDs
Arguments against:

1. Google prefer Kotlin over Java for Android.

1. You're old so your opinion counts for less.

6. On the stackoverflow survey Java is less wanted than APL, bash and CSS.

2. Go has a cuter mascot.

3. Java just copied from Javascript's name as an easy way to gain popularity.

5. OOP hasn't been cool since the 90s.

(Some of these things might not be true but if you're just looking to argue pointlessly, I think they'll do)
Sendmail was developed in the early 80s to be bug-compatible with crappy bespoke email systems of the time, as well as long-dead protocols like decmail and whatnot. It made a lot of decisions in that context that were sensible at the time, but that have become a lot less sensible as the world and ecosystem has changed over the last 40 years.

Sendmail is not dead, but its glory days are over. 30 years ago the entire world was running on Sendmail, but this already started shifting 20 years ago, and today Sendmail operates a tiny minority of the world's email servers.

If you want to keep running Sendmail: great! Go for it! But it's just not a sensible default any more. The art of picking defaults is choosing something that will work for most people with a minimal surface for footguns. And Sendmail is clearly not it. I appreciate you don't want to "change your habits" – I usually don't want to either – but FreeBSD does not revolve around you.
We're sure you review all the code you run.
I'm not agreeing with rvz, but I don't think even extremely pro-Rust devs would agree with what you just claimed
There's a big difference between a "software engineer" and a "product software engineer".

A software engineer builds to a well defined spec, that likely came from a waterfall process.

A product software engineer gets a story, that largely draws no conclusions as to what needs to be built. It's up to the engineer to hypothesize, experiment, and iterate.
> who says how much complying with labor laws costs?

Basic accounting? If you used to pay $X for something and a new tax goes into effect that makes it $X * 5% tax, you can hide that into the overall price or be transparent to your customers about why your prices are increasing.

> they can shut down and find a job

Love it. The financial equivalent of "Why should I care about farmers? I buy my food at the store".

> Owning a business isn’t a right

If you're not allowed to independently make a living, but must be a wage slave for a different entity, then none of your other fundamental human rights really matter. The right to start your own business is one of the most fundamental human rights.
I'm not in business nor am I monitoring competitors, but https://www.similarweb.com/ does appear very nice for these kinds of things. I would summarize their service as having analytics for competitor's sites. From my personal comparisons against my own analytics, Similarweb is surprisingly accurate.
Prices are a bit higher but it varies from item to item. Nothing seems that out of reach mind. I think my weekly food shop has gone from £50-£55 to £65-£70.

Lots of scaremongering, lots of panicked news article but nothing tangible i've seen on the ground.
I just happened to watch this video from today https://youtu.be/dLCc60VDArM of a guy interviewing Russians in a village. Development of their village is not the topic but they are all carrying around or filling buckets of water or drunk, and no paved roads to be seen.