skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an opinion piece.

It speculates about reasons why companies have increased prices faster than their input costs have risen:

"The resulting resilience in demand has given companies the confidence to raise prices faster than costs.

In addition, the power of storytelling has conditioned consumers to accept price rises. Imagine a story about a farmer who takes wheat to the windmill, where it is ground into flour, and then baked into bread. In that fantasy world, a rise in the cost of wheat of say 22 per cent might be used to justify a 15 per cent rise in the price of bread."

The argument is neither complete nor convincing. Unless there's some bread cartel/oligopoly, a bread seller can't just increase prices and use a story to convince people it's unavoidable.
> and there's no discernible compelling advantage

Actually, for wire encodings, there is, although I've (I-think-)literally never seen any proponent of big endian bring it up (versus the bullshit "it's human-readable" nonsense[0][1]): big endian encodings of unsigned numbers have lexicographic order that matches their numeric order.

The most obvious concrete example of why this is useful is a keys-sorted encoding of a hash table: if you encode keys in size-type-value format, you can check sortedness by lexicographic order of type-value strings (which means you can add new types without old software needing to know how to compare them), and you'll get integer keys in inspection-friendly numeric order rather than semi-random order. (Encoding negative numbers with a type id of T_UINT-1 lets you extend this to them as well.)

At a more abstract level, where (zero-padded) little-endian numbers have the same value at different granularities, this means that big-endian numbers have invariant lexicographic order at different granularities: two strings viewed as bits, bytes, or uint32s are consistently in the same order.

You can kind of use reverse-lexicographic order for some of this, but there are obvious problems with sending data in value-type order rather than type-value, so forward-lexicographic tends to be strongly enforced.

0: "You mean for arabic numerals, except not actual arabic numerals, because Arabic is written right-to-left, so the numbers are little-endian there, but ended up big endian because they stayed least-signifiant-digit-right rather than least-signifiant-digit-first when imported into Latin."

1: "Also, so (supposedly) is decimal and sign-magnitude, but we've (agonizingly slowly) learned that those aren't good ideas."
We probably don't have to imagine.
What is stopping him to acquire Unity now? everything is on sale at the moment: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/U
I'd consider Musk to be a true believer.
I think the mania is still there, based on some of the reactions I see defending crypto. But a lot of people must have bailed out to make the Bitcoin price drop so much.

I'll believe the mania is over when Bitcoin reverts to pre-2017 prices and stays that way forever. Honestly I've been considering buying some because I suspect the dip will be temporary, but ultimately I'm not that foolish with my money.
I put up a donation link (before GitHub sponsors was introduced) on a repo that had 5k+ stars. Got just one recurring donation (about $1 a month). This wasn't a s/w tool though (tutorials for CLI text processing).

Later, I switched to creating books out of such tutorials. I gave them away for free during launch weeks (but readers could still pay if they wish) and this model worked so well that selling programming ebooks is now my primary source of income.
Drive both from the same CalDAV calendar: https://github.com/jackkamm/org-caldav/tree/fix-tests. Todo sync works pretty well too.
I suppose I could imagine a scenario where maybe a city dweller who doesn't drive much could street park and they could do their grocery runs and occasional running around from the solar self-charge. Then you would be looking at less trips to the public charger. It's probably pretty common in Manhattan to do less than 10 miles a day so you'd only end up at the public charger when the weather was bad.

Ok I'm sold on that scenario.
Old stock certificates are worth something? I have lots of old stock certificates, would you like me to send them? And some Confederate dollars?
Eventually the complexity of the iPhone will force them to multiply by -i.
A lot of people said exactly this when cell phones were Zach Morris sized, but 3 decades later here we are.

We can probably expect VR/AR to take about that long if not longer. So Mark might not be wrong, he just might be way early.
>People don't like spending good money to spam

lol. Oh sweet summer child. You have so much to learn.
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1800s? Let me tell you about quantitative easing and sub-prime mortgage backed securities...
I have - but did so by putting a Cloud Run nginx proxy between Cloudflare and Webflow.

I haven't had issues with Cloudflare blocking IPs - however the site in question is rather low traffic, so we probably don't pop up on their list.

Main reason for doing this was having routing control. We also had a long list of redirects to manage from an old site, and it was easier to do this in an nginx config.
The concept described there sounds like BS. If you're not achieving breakeven, it's probably much easier to just heat plasma with the drive energy and expel that (VASIMIR, if you've heard of that). The plasma stays much cooler than a fusion plasma, so radiation from it should be less -- and this radiation is a big problem, since it heats the vehicle, and that heat has to be radiated, and radiators are big and heavy.

The problem of cooling is the bete noir of all high Isp propulsion systems. This is why I liked laser propelled systems, since it's possible to cool an object with a laser beam (anti-Stokes scattering).
Who will pay to put your transaction on the blockchain?
I think thats what Mark is saying in this. VR/AR could eventually replace: Desktops, laptops, TV, AND cell phones. Thats a lot of stuff. Literally owning eyeballs.
I definitely like LISP a lot more than forth, because it's more structured and explicit, and less "hackerish", even though I wouldn't choose LISP either for real use, although I could see it being a great backend for visual scripting(I've done something similar but with an extremely stripped down list based language stored in JSON).
Actually, having worked in hospitality, the threat of a device becoming useless if stolen does hinder theft. (Won’t stop very sophisticated criminals who can make money off parts, but there’s always a threshold with this sort of thing.) If a criminal knows a financial channel can be reverted they will avoid it. That provides the other side of the transaction a clue. If Zelle had a credible threat of reversing fraud people could insist on using it - and thus it becomes a proxy for trust in an otherwise trust-less situation.
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I so hope it will
Some VR gaming experiences are very compelling like Saints and Sinners or Cosmodread.
and how long did iphones come after those? 20+ years
A lot of the big CEOs repeat a mantra that they are really on the edge of destruction. I've heard that from 2010s Google. It is just a motivating chant.
The site works just fine on an iPhone 7
One of my friend works in a division related to VR at Meta. He is constantly battling to close the tickets, build new features (defined by someone). My gut feeling says, innovation doesn't come from closing already defined tasks, it should come from calm, relaxed, curious explorations
If charges were easy to reverse, we would see the opposite type of scam: people buying things and then making false claims of fraud to get the charges reversed.

This happens all the time with credit card chargebacks already. It would happen with Zelle too, if it was easy enough.
This is largely what every sci-fi film has predicted. Though, I don't really see the value of my cell phone being see-through, beside it looking cool.
Look out for anyone dehumanizing and demonizing whole groups of people, especially when it is people with political power doing that. That is the common thread, the one that allows entire populations to be conditioned to accept violence against groups of other people just because of ethnic or political differences.

Could it have been prevented at the time? I highly doubt it, what the nazis did was push to the extreme and industrialize what many European nations had been doing already for centuries. Socially the concept of universal human rights was still very recent and not widely accepted.

Yes we can tell, and it is happening right now, the warning signs are in plain sight. Look at the rise of right wing extremism in the United States, resulting in increasing numbers of terrorist attacks. It has been directly enabled by the language used in political discourse and what it has rendered permissible. Can it be prevented now from getting worse? Time will tell, but at least the election results from yesterday show that there is yet some hope. One should not be complacent though, the Nazis never achieved more than 30 some percent in open elections before they completely took over.
My reading of it on their page was that they are free to ignore your bug report unless you donate to them.

You didn't pay? Well, that's just, like, your bug report, man...

Essentially it boils down to: you cared enough to submit a bug report? Then you should also care enough to donate.
The tragic thing is: Most of this industry takes the concept of the 10x, 100x developer very seriously.

Just talk to a manager and slide that into the conversation, I bet 9 out of 10 will recite the gospel unironically. I am guessing these numbers aren't that better for software developers.

Because all this can easily be mixed with job performance and effectiveness which are obviously real things.
The government, most likely. They’ve blocked other Meta acquisitions.
Because using Zelle to transfer money to someone who is not in your immediate physical vicinity is safer than putting an envelope full of cash in the mail?
Yes, but “other people” includes stock buybacks, which are like dividends but have much better tax implications.
To work, it needed stirring from plate tectonics.
> The world’s richest man said Twitter would make money from content creators and delve deeper into video, business segments that TikTok has mastered. He discussed a vision for Twitter to process payments, complete with connected debit cards and bank accounts, which echoed PayPal, the digital payments company he helped found. Mr. Musk has said that he ultimately hopes to transform Twitter into an “everything app” modeled after WeChat, a Chinese social media platform that is used by more than a billion people to find news, hail cabs and order food.

I had tentatively believed (or at least hoped) that Twitter could be a public town square[0] rather than social media echo chambers. So which is the truth. I can't see how being TikTok+WeChat is compatible.

[0] https://talbotspy.org/twitter-is-no-piazza-by-craig-fuller
Yeah you're probably right. Ill dive back into her book eventually.

It's mostly the beginning chapters don't even get into the meat of CT quick enough. Instead it spends a lot of time justifying things. I feel It's written for people who hated math even more then I did.
I would like also to see comparison with lmdb, didn't dig into code, but from doc I didn't see it supporting multithreading
I agree with you on that, sure. I think being gratis overlaps with being free… I think?… Having free access to the software means being able to use it and distribute it. I guess profit comes most of the times from support or distribution of the software, or the binaries. I have read this post [1] on the topic referenced in the Wikipedia article I mentioned, I thought it was interesting.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2016-...
Wells Fargo has systemic corruption and needs to lose it's Charter.
I've said to friends: the pin's out of the grenade.

We'll see what happens next.
>I open with a doozy: “Am I,” I ask, “talking to the world’s first trillionaire?”

wow this is shameless lol
Well, no, some stocks actually have value, because there's a money-making company behind the stock. (Or are you using "stonk" to refer to a stock that has a money-losing company behind it?)
I long suspected that "monopoly on violence" is a dog whistle. So I looked it up, and actually it's quite straightforward. If you think about the number of entities in a society that can legitimately control violence, the answer is either zero, one, or many. Zero is a pipe dream. Many is civil war. The only answer that makes sense is one. Thus "monopoly on violence" is just a scary sounding way of saying that a society has a government.

In my view, society is propped up by future expectations. This includes the value of government money.
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I have camera on for most of the small-team (10 or less) meetings, esp. with the clients. Typically off for larger meetings. I notice that once people see I have the camera on they tend to turn theirs on as well. It helps tremendously.
> which he describes as a physical threat, but doesn’t seem to have actually been according to the description

So he, ah, "didn't feel safe" with others expressing their opinions?

> “I started getting hate mail, I started getting death threats,” he said. “I started getting questions about my funding sources even though most of my money has come from the NIH for most of my life.”

"Death threats" do sound like actual physical threats, but it isn't clear that those were in fact from Stanford students, faculty, or staff or just random lunatics on the internet.
If you’re storing your own crypto you need a wallet, backups, and cold storage at the very least. Plus you need to remember your seed phrase. If I lose my bank account info or cards I have several ways of getting access to my money, crypto no so much.

It has been a while since I set up but last time I did I had to download the blockchain’s ledger aka the history of every single transaction. Is this no longer the case?
I think most code review already requires good faith on behalf of the reviewer already.

I do see what you mean about untrustworthy crafter. If we want to preserve master history, then the damage of a bad commit chain is worse than of bad code (which can be fixed/undone).

However, I think that the truly adversarial case is rare (and an exception could be made and master history be rewritten in that case). In most cases though, hopefully your coworkers and not deliberately trying to sabotage the codebase :). And I don’t think the commit chain needs to be a work of art or anything, just mainly avoiding typo commits and similar, so it shouldn’t be difficult to do when approached in good faith.
Same. My requirements are very basic, so the switch to colima was basically seamless. I also appreciated being able to avoid Docker Desktop constantly trying to update itself (which is what ultimately motivated me to make the switch).

As a bonus, you can install the Docker CLI (e.g. `brew install --formula docker`) and use that to interact with any containers you start with colima.
What visual cues or tells would you LOSE with a video call, but maintain with an abstract avatar?
For a lot of folks, they either just want to be heard/understood, or they may not even recognize if there’s a problem (i.e. they have anosognosia). Imagine someone forcing their opinion when a person is at their most vulnerable, it’s most often perceived as just patronizing/dismissing their concerns, or as an outright attack. Active listening and developing trust first is key.
But depositors didn’t lose their money.
Imagine if it was another name that became generic, like “Steve” or “Chad” instead of “Guy”.

“He’s a nice Steve.”
“Ted is an awesome Chad!”
I think you are looking around you not in front of you. The path now is to a thinner ski goggles looking form factor that supports AR through a passthrough video of where you are but with the ability to turn anything into an iphone or iwatch or 60" TV screen (try carrying that arround in your pocket). Wearing goggles will not be any more inconvenient or disconnecting than pulling out your phone at the table. One Apple leak hinted at an LED outward facing screen so people around you don't feel as strange including you in the conversation. The form factors will iterate towards human centered simplicity just like the possibility space of spatial computing enabled by these devices will iterate towards a more natural interface where information systems will conform to our world as it is in 3D rather than us being forced to deal with them through keyboards and mice and touch screens in our pocket.
Your assumption is that Lockdown Mode doesn't change the scope of telemetry data sent back to Apple, but we don't know this, which is why testing it would be interesting.
Cat's Cradle is one of my favorite books, but to be honest, I've never found it that funny - at least not in the sense that it makes me laugh much. What do you find so funny about it?
I hate this argument. It is economic dogma ... and it's bullshit. Why? Bread in Jerusalem: the law of demand and supply doesn't exist for the vast majority of goods.

Jerusalem is a city like any other. Everybody has food. You can buy bread there. And while the city has big problems, not many people are starving (not quite zero, but which city can say that). Economic theory dictates that bread would follow the law of supply and demand. Is that so?

Let's say the price of bread halves. Will tomorrow see more bread sales in Jerusalem? Here's the critical piece of evidence: NO, it won't. It won't even shift from one kind to a fancier kind of bread. Let's say the price doubles. Same thing. We're in a ZERO price elasticity regime. Sure there are prices where supply and demand would work, but we're far away from those prices. But it gets worse.

Let's look at supply. Bread is incredibly cheap to make. There is at least a 80% or so margin on bread (it's quite expensive, or profitable on the other side, if you look at it from a COGS perspective). Let's say the price of bread doubles (you could argue it has, many times even). Will more bread be produced in Jerusalem? NO. Again there are prices where we'd see supply tightly tied to prices, but we're very far away from those prices.

BOTH on the supply and demand side we see ZERO price elasticity. If you look up in your economics book you will not find this situation, and even in academia people aren't exactly comfortable discussing it. Price elasticity is ZERO for bread, both on the demand and the supply side, if you belong to the economists that at least split that up.

So what makes the difference? You can make a good living selling bread, but you can't attract customers using prices ... nor can you change your profits much by playing with prices (in fact the very act of trying out prices will lose you a lot of customers). So something else needs to make a difference. What determines which bread you buy? Google does (and Facebook, and ...)

And this applies not just to bread. This applies to the vast majority of foods. One of the big complaints in European countries these days is that entire economies are running headfirst into this problem. Even labour! People can't change jobs (supply of labor is regulated by employer demands, or outright regulated with laws) and employers can't change the pool of labor by much by raising wages. Unless you're exceptional or outside of the norm (yes, programmers are, so this is the wrong forum to make that particular argument), you cannot change your income much by providing more labor! Given "no skills" labor even the difference between working and not working ... is not very large and dropping.

This, obviously, enables FANG companies to extract the profits of normal businesses. They can choose who gets the profits of many products, and demand a growing share of the profits ...
They're not designed to break, they're simply picking the trade-off point that tends towards the "lightweight enough to wear all day" end of the continuum.
I wonder if Mark thought we would have cheaper or more-accessible headsets by now. The real danger in all of this is Apple coming out with their rumored glasses. If they do that, they will capture the platform that FB will be subservient to.
Well sh*t, there went that idea.
In practice, excepting for major issues. In principle you are supposed to donate in order to use it at all, and the issue tracker is simply where they check to make sure.
It works fine, unless you want to use Google Calendar and a non-Gmail email together. Then it goes nuts and makes your Gmail send out calendar invites instead of the email you use.
Right but I'm saying that regardless of what he wants, the viable medium I see it replacing is the laptop. Not all of them, just one, the laptop.
In their own marketing materials they say that they are using monocrystalline cells. However, there is no reason to take any of these statements seriously as the whole operation is transparently a scam.

https://sonomotors.com/site/assets/files/1621/informationssh...
The first gen 68K emulator performed worse on the PPC 603 than the 601.
2 weeks ago someone said it was a recession, looks like they were right [1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33363650
Delegating trust is really, really, really hard (infosec edition)
Learn mathematics or a math-adjacent field (e.g. physics) rigorously. The famous algorithms you'll hear about are ones that optimize a certain calculation to require less computationally heavy or fewer overall "steps" to get to an answer. A new algorithm is just a new way to solve a problem or class of problems within a given set of constraints in a systematic way.
Body language is the most obvious. You don't even need very expressive avatars before certain things we naturally do in person become useful tells. I've had multiple conversations in VR, they flow much more naturally than video chats based on the sense of presence.

The quest pro just added expression tracking as well so now you have body language and normal emotional expressions. Wayyyyyyy more natural feeling than video chats, even if I'm seeing an avatar of someone and not their actual face.
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Yeah the exchanges are collapsing because They all held positions and went exchanges. Although at some point they collapse for counter party risk
> Are four actively-developed, open source, mainstream browser engines enough? I think so, given that we haven't seen a downside to a relative monoculture

We have a near-monopoly with Chrome, a very distant second Safari, and a nearly non-existent Firefox. Anything else (like Goanna or Flow) have literally zero impact.

Chrome's outsized influence is such that it no longer even pretends to care about consensus or processes at w3c and just ships random features at neck-breaking speed.
That is too much copium.
I’m curious what you’ve done.
Yeah some men are so sensitive over this that they'll literally rush out to write "academic" papers about it! Just get over it, dude.
It would be awesome if it just quickly took a picture from the front camera for that particular request and then just filter it to finish the "in the style of andy warhol"
Concerns about Trustcor
appstore has app size limits.
This is somewhere between a gross oversimplification and wrong. Sure, most problems can be solved by “money” — if someone just gave FTX $10bn in the form of a wire, they’d probably be fine. But this misses the point.

If a bank holds short term debt, due in one week, but a customer is withdrawing funds now, the bank needs liquidity — they need dollars today, and all they have is dollars next week. If a dealer owes a customer 500 BTC that they’re trying to withdraw today, they need liquid Bitcoins, not money. There are many ways a financial company can fail, and lumping them all together as “money” loses all nuance and understanding.