skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! Assuming that is what "using Nix" looks like for an expected use case, that would be informative for someone who does not know what using Nix looks like.
If the walls are open, they shouldn’t. They should be using the minimum number of connections/joins because that’s always going to be a higher point of failure. However, When you/they need to patch something and don’t want to open up the whole room/house, then that’s the correct use case for these devices.
> dilution in investment rounds

Using share prices side steps dilution, which is a problem when one linearly scales valuation increases to wealth gains.
If you do that, you have to rename every class file it impacts as well, because now those files are changed. A lot of refactoring systems don't take into account the ancillary files (like build files, start scripts, etc.).

So, the workaround can be quite impactful in the end. Renaming the entirety of the code base, potentially.
The "past few thousand years" is a tiny fraction of the human timeline. And, the overwhelming majority of even the "past few thousand years" is obscured. What remains is a poster example of selection bias: hierarchical organizations depend more on writing, so the written record is of hierarchical societies.
How Apple’s Upcoming Mixed-Reality Headset Will Work
In the Butterfly Place
Experience of exploring a Butterfly Place in Westford MA

"No photos came from these small events, so I could only appreciate them in the few seconds of their passing, but in them I saw something more than the wings of the small creature. I saw myself, enamored by my control and intelligence, trying to wrest from the present a future I was perhaps not yet prepared to meet. And I saw that future watching me afar, uninterested in my impatience, deciding it will come to me on its own terms."
KYC and AML: Beyond the Acronyms
Accurate, but there is only so much to be done on that front when the consumed packages do not strive for reproducibility. As Nix or similar tools bring the lack of bit-for-bit reproducibility to the forefront, I hope build systems start adopting processes that will correct this behavior.
Up to you, but it honestly really isn't that much of an issue and I'd trust a simple properly crimped joint (which is easily visually inspected with a simple tool) a heck of a lot more than a welded one that is impossible to see what the inside looks like... um, did I put the right amount of flux on? did I know to use the 1/2 of solder to 1/2 of pipe trick?

As far as insurance companies... I bought an old place... I'm finding all sorts of stuff that isn't up to code (hidden electrical boxes, in the floor!, with wire nuts and not even twisted together wire and not even grounded properly)... I'm bringing it up to code, with modern products... in a court of law, it is going to be hard for them to argue against me.
> A good analysis of Apple: capture the news cycle with your whiz bang thingie, and then forget about it.

I kind of don't agree there. Apple really only officially announces, demos and talks about products they have to sell you right now.

About the only vaporware I can remember from them in the last decade was that stupid dual charging puck thing they just quietly walked back from.

The only released & quietly abandoned product in recent memory would be the iPod Hi-Fi dock boombox thing.

So when Apple announces something I'm 99% confident it will make it will be released within days/weeks. And when it is released, I'm 95% confident the product line will exist in 5 years.

Google, for me, those numbers are like 70% & 20%. Which is why I rarely waste my time to look at anything new from them. Odds are its either not something I need, or if I need it.. won't be long for this world, so why bother.

I think they clearly feed rumors to journalists about stuff that is further back in the development pipeline, to the point that the conspirational minded might think its to throw off competitor from the right course..
Because copilot is a copyright hellscape that litters codebases with landmines.

Anyone using it for company-owned code is relying on the cloned code never being discovered.

Google would have learned an expensive lesson from Oracle v Google. Even the smallest snippets of "copied/replicated/duplicated/parallel implementation" code are bad juju.
"reproducible" means you get the same result, bit-for-bit, when running a build in different circumstances.

It's trivial to write non-reproducible Nix derivations by placing timestamps, randomly generated data, or similar into the build output, directly or indirectly. Nix is a powerful tool for working towards reproducibility, since it can specify the software side of a build environment more exhaustively than most other package managers out there, and has a language (derivations) that enables repeating builds easily as well as comparing them, but does not guarantee reproducibility on its own.

A lot of the reproducibility of nixpkgs is attributable to reproducible build efforts elsewhere, including conventions like SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Nix itself does not in fact "freeze the clock" for builds, but many tools that use timestamps as part of a build will respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH instead of using the system clock. Many of these valuable developments in this direction are coordinated in the cross-distro https://reproducible-builds.org group.
hash of build output is not used in hash of derivation and in derivation tree. hence it is not reproducible.
Interesting choice considering the number of Nazi flags the unit has posed with... Even recently. But if Facebook says they aren't dangerous, OK.
Or even just a TV series you didn't watch at the time. For a traditional 1 hour drama on TV, that could be 7 seasons times 20 hours per year even absent any spinoffs. I'm unlikely to catch up on 140 hours of past content.
I've just been starting my Emacs from the direnv to ensure it has the right dev tools. This works, but can be annoying. It'd be nice to have a better solution.
1) Small time offenders should probably be given the same dignity and privacy as other people. There's no reason to believe allowing people to turn a police blotter into weekly entertainment is a positive thing.

2) This is about the state government doing things. Florida's different criminal disclosure laws have no relevance here. Florida is fucky because florida's state government is run by a narcissist who wishes he was a dictator.
The business of Spotify isn't "streaming music": it is "music licensing"; and, even there, it isn't like most of the music was due to Spotify going out of their way to contact people and get their music on their service: people--not even "labels", but people--upload their music directly to Spotify.

You can compete with that, but it is a massive uphill battle; it is similar to trying to create a new app market competitor from scratch and assuming that all of the apps which exist on someone else's platform--many of which might not even be maintained by people who give a shit anymore--are somehow going to appear on your platform.

> There are a dozen VOD services with the same library because the industry has standardized licenses.

This is entirely untrue... hell: Apple doesn't even have a lot of the content that exists out there anymore, as numerous titles now can only be purchased from Amazon, as it was essentially uploaded directly. I wish I could obtain all of the movies/TV I consume from Apple, but that just isn't how this industry operates.

> There are only three major record labels and if you can get deals with those, you cover most of the music people care about.

This wouldn't be sufficient to cause most users to switch from Spotify. It certainly wouldn't get me to switch from Spotify, and I don't even like Spotify!

> The smaller labels will come along

The long tail of music doesn't even involve "labels" :/.
How does that happen? For 700k I could hire 2 skilled persons and 5 undocumented immigrants to work an entire year.

How long does it take to raise a house?
This would hold more water if they weren't also trying to vault or bury a bunch of their other animated content, and sell off their back catalog for easy money.
This is extremely naive take. No one can predict the future.

If I hire a bunch of construction workers expecting to sell 100 homes and suddenly the housing market collapse and I need to only build 50 homes that I have contract for, I need to fire some construction workers.

It is as simple as that.

No one can predict business cycles and that is the fundamental driver of sales and input costs. If one can successfully predict business cycles, they can be a superior macro investor and make billions.

The entire HN crowd talks about as though they never made any bad future decisions.

How many of you invested in stocks in 2021 that is down 50%? Did you cut down on subscriptions? Why don't you fire yourself for making stupid decisions?
The reforms needed everywhere in the world:

1. Fees related to mode of transaction (credit, debit, cash) are separate from price of product.

2. Cash-backs need to be banned altogether to prevent this pseudo-regressive tax.
And Irish
I’m glad they are cutting prices. I own a model 3 and am quite happy with it. However when people have asked me if i recommend it, I’ve said “not at the current price”.

When I bought mine, I think my net cost including CA sales tax was ~38k. Considering how much less this was than a mildly optioned C class or ES or 3 series, I went with it despite not being in the market for an electric car.

It is fine and reliable but the fit and finish is below the luxury car makers, so when Model 3s started costing 50k it was hard to see the value.
Juspay has launched Hyperswitch that lets you connect to multiple payment processors to improve payment success rates and reduces payment costs, ops and dev efforts. Its built on Rust and is open-source.
You don’t need all of its music.

You need the three major music producers and the rest will come.

But that’s not the point. The “feature not a product” saying means that a major company has your entire reason for existing as a feature in their product.

Streaming music is already just a feature for Apple and Amazon.

Just like today, you wouldn’t create a separate spell checker application like in the 80s.
To me, the expression "The set of undescribable numbers" is meaningless. While discussing plausible-sounding, but meaningless, linguistic constructs like this, we descend to the intellectual level of chatGPT. My conjecture is that one can design a prompt to chatGPT such that the output would become a decent PhD thesis with no internal contradictions, but a complete BS otherwise.
I'm inclined to take your side on this. By virtue of being undocumented, they should be boosting the perceived productivity, not dampening it.

If I was to steelman the idea, though; I would guess that removing incentives in the form of higher pay will lower the contributions of everyone involved?
> You have to initiate a transfer at your bank, there's no way to use ACH independently as a consumer

That's actually not true - it appears that way because in practice ACH is only used in corner cases in the US, but it is absolutely possible.

> There's no confirmation step. If someone has your Account Number and Routing Number and does have a commerce setup, they can debit your account at any time.

...I have bad news for you about what the SEPA standards require!
Lack of first class support for them in the computer languages.
Back in 2003-2007, I worked for a home builder who vertically integrated and went for maximized modularity. In '05 we expanded our truss yard to 2 large presses and 4 automated saws, and added a wall-framing yard what worked the same way as the truss yard. Add in that they bought a concrete company to do the slabs, and a 2-story house could go from pour to sheeting in 35 days. Plumbing, electrical, and finishing jobs could take as little as an additional 30.

Since the parent company dissolved them in '08, I haven't seen any of the other subsidiaries using the same techniques or scheduling, and it's always rather surprised me. They invested literally 10s of millions of dollars into us figuring out how to make it all work, then trashed the knowledge.
Always love these. If you wanted something more automated to spin it up/down in AWS, checkout https://github.com/nelsonenzo/tolocal
Who benefitted from the mass hirings? Stock holders, and also workers. Did the workers complain when the job market (esp in tech) was on fire and wages were increasing? No. Did they blame the people at the top for their new job and wages? No.

But, now they want to blame leaders when there are mass layoffs. I think the blame is misplaced. The root cause was the stock market, and better yet blame the fed. The incentive was to show growth at all costs, even at the expense of burning cash. Leaders who did not optimize to growth were fired in many cases. But the game changed when stimulus and endless money printing stopped.
Payments are hard, it's no coincidence that only a handful of tech companies do it well despite it being one of the more lucrative areas to do business in.

Makes sense for Amazon to work with a market leader in this case rather than spend years playing catch up. Perhaps in the long run they'll acquire Stripe instead of simply partnering.
Requires a ton of overhead at the planning / pre-construction phases. That’s only amortized out if you built a ton of volume which these do. It’s also why you may only have a choice of 8 floor plans even though it’s a neighborhood of 500 homes.
Remember that the conservative take for decades was "if we allow gays to marry, what's next, allowing dogs to get married? Or people to marry kids?"

Conservatives have been pushing to make being gay or trans or queer in any way to be morally equivalent or at least directly leading to pedophilia forever.
Former Special Agent FBI New York Charged with Violating Sanctions on Russia
In regards to content scaling, that seems right on the face of it. But, Netflix had been pushing the idea of "Amortization of Content" in that content once created has an extremely long lifecycle, and essentially a long tail. As people will always watch older content. And a lot of times people would miss it, and things start trending later on. However, quality of content matters. If you're spending money on poor quality content. People won't watch it once, let alone multiple times across time. I feel that's what Netflix had been doing lately. And lost their competitive edge, as competitors increased the quality of their shows.
I've genuinely had the same general idea (minus the ML part), and I've started working on it once but abandoned it. I might get back on that some day.

Another thing I considered was that, instead of the lisp, you'd have a math-y language and compose everything together. This has the added benefit that it compiles easily to GPU code. So like a chroma key thing would be a function that chooses one buffer over the other based on pixel color. You the compose that with other functions to create a frame. An APL-like language could be amazing here.

I feel like there's _a lot_ of potential here.
London too
We have an oncall rotate in which whoever is oncall is not expected to work on anything else.
Wake at 10:00-10:30.
Eat.
Turn on computer by 11:00.
Work.
Go for lunch between 13:00-15:00.
Return to desk within 60 minutes.
Work.
Finish at about 19:00.
Eat.
Return to computer.
Leisure.
Get in bed between 2:00 and 4:00.

Leave your house and go to the office, seriously!
Yes! I think this is proven very much by the industry widely still being far behind the curve of what is possible.
That was my point.

At some point, we can't keep borrowing to satisfy our debt(s). The question then becomes, what happens? This current inflation is actually a not bad thing for US debt, as we are inflating away some of it. It totally sucks for those of us that want to buy food and shelter though.

Either we endure some hardship(s) and have a miserable decade or three or we crash and burn.

I'm betting we endure the hardships. The other option(s) are much worse.
I have a setup where I share a screen between two computers (a macOS productivity machine and a Windows gaming laptop / x86 VM lab). I did look at a lot of tools to be able to disable one of the screens in macOS so I wouldn't need to fiddle with cables, and I remember that this one didn't work.

I use mirror-displays[1] (alongside Bunch, which also turns on VBAN Talkie for audio) now. Mirroring a screen is the only way to approximate disabled screens.

[1]: https://github.com/fcanas/mirror-displays
Even spiders and newborn babies count; it is a natural animal behavior. Axiomatic systems, not so much.
Azure/O365 admin here. No, nothing special from a technical perspective.

The value to OpenAI to go Azure(/Microsoft) exclusive is:

- Money & general financial security forever

- Integration with the largest software suite in the world (Windows, O365, Active Directory, etc)

- Rapid push to worldwide enterprise sector

- Rapid push to worldwide gov/mil sector (ChatGPT, coming soon to a war near you!)

- Rapid push to education sector
I'm not surprised that they are giving up on Amazon Pay, as that never seemed to get much traction or customer recognition.

However, I am very surprised that they are abandoning their own first-party payments to Stripe. Don't you all already have the very best rates possible, directly negotiated by every bank? In other countries Amazon has even threatened to stop accepting cards because they couldn't negotiate the fees they wanted, and they are about the only merchant big enough to dare doing that.

I'm sure they won't be paying Stripe the standard 2.9%, but still--what value does Amazon get out of this? Stripe is supposed to make payments easy from both a coding and business perspective for developers. Everything Stripe does, from card acceptance to fraud handling to UX to ACH payouts Amazon already has working at large scale.
Also, triathletes aren't always the best swimmers. A modest +5% buoyancy for them is probably more meaningful than a top swimmer.
If prices stay the same after years, it means price is going down overall due to inflation (even when inflation is lower, it's still 2-3% usually). So, although prices are just going back down to 'normal', they're lower.

Also, this is after basically every single other EV manufacturer has raised prices significantly citing profitability issues. Given Tesla's margins, they can afford to drop their prices and still maintain margins that are positive (possibly, significantly positive).

I'd say it's bullish. Anecdotally, everyone in my circle basically had written off Tesla because of Musk's antics plus the cars seemed to be pricing evenly (or slightly above) to other EVs on the market. However, after the price drops, I'm seeing a LOT of people saying they've reconsidered since the deal is so good compared to other EVs.
+1.

Not an Eagle Scout, and have mixed feeling on scouting as an org at this point, but I'm very grateful to have learned how to read maps properly.
Perhaps the only fine print I've seen on PTFE-coated pans is that they should not be heated above 500F/250C. My understanding is that, under these temperatures, decomposition of the PTFE is not possible.
I don't think this solid state fan can be run backwards, if I'm understanding how it works correctly
Does the vaccine make fentanyl less dangerous then, does it keep you from OD'ing on it?
Unlike netflix, Disney+ has a good incentive to never become profitable. It pays enormous licensing fees to its parent company. This means the profits flows to there, and they don't pay a cent of taxes.

Now you are going to say, but doesn't "The Walt Disney Company", the parent of Disney+, then pay all the taxes?

No, because this company is located in Delaware, which means it's virtually exempt of taxes as long as it makes only money from activities outside of Delaware. Which is does, since it's only selling IP to other companies, like the entity managing Disney+ which has it's headquarters in California.
It's like saying that software built using an open source languages and libraries was built for free.
I've got plenty of those too :)

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...for ex., but my Amazon userstyle has a lot more visual changes than just hiding things.

For blocking resources from downloading in the first place (ad banners mostly), I use uBO.
Undocumented workers show up in many statistics. "Undocumented" doesn't literally mean that there is nothing recorded about this person, it means they do not have permission to work in the US.
Wait - do I not know what the word 'vaccine' means?
I'm similarly pessimistic about Google. They can keep old successes running at least.

Their one thing that bothers me extra for some reason is Waze. They boast so much about their self-driving technology and take shots at Tesla, but you know, where do I buy a Waze? Oh, it's not a product I can buy or even use, it's just a beta test run in two cities that's far away from being a real product, let alone profitable. Odds of Google (or Alphabet w/e) axing that project is pretty high, yet they're still arrogant.

Edit: Hahaha I mean Waymo, not Waze
It seems like it has a bit of a PR problem, though? See "environmental concerns" in that article and also [1].

I don't know how bad the problem with contaminants is, but it seems like this kind of recycling is going to face a lot of skepticism from environmentalists?

[1] https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781567510607
How fast is nix on delivering security patches? I am looking for arguments to use it in an enterprise setting given the declarative nature but unless there is somebody who will sell you a support contract and Guarantee security updates it seems like a hard sell
My circle is 87.9% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
The 2600xl came later and featured an upgraded processor from the 1000 line.
It seems insane that they'd let the limit be that high ($65B) but it's really quite reasonable when you look at it from the POV of already performing fraudulent activities. Once you're in the $100M-$500M range of theft, do you really care, does it really register morally/ethically (to the thief), if you bump that up to $65B?
would love to see the blog!
We were on a road trip back to Midwestern City 1 from Midwestern City 2, with the grandparents driving. Every 50 miles or so I'd flick the rear door ashtray closed, and we'd immediately screech to a stop on the side of the interstate/freeway, as 'we have a blowout.'
I think your view is far too negative - Musk is unlikely an idiot and Karpathy is unlikely to be uninformed in the AI space.

However, I do wish that Lex would have dug deeper on this particular point. DeepMind are certainly no slouch.
> but the workaround is trivial.

If you have a trivial solution to rename hundreds of Java classes and their references en masse without breaking the build and without renaming each file one-at-a-time, do tell. You can find more details about potential solutions I've tried here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75154524/bulk-rename-of-...

FYI, the following plug-in for IDEA supports regular expressions (as of Jan 20, 2023), so it may be a viable solution:

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/17455-rename-files-refa...