skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still say measurement/approach error.

The article defines productivity as "value add per unit of input".

The only measurement of "value add" that makes sense it the sale price. Given how high are those prices are, I don't see how "productivity" could not be super high.
> Why do you want to change all the files?

Ever pull on a thread to unravel an entire sweater?

Imagine wanting to add an SVG typesetter. To do this, the interface implemented by the DVI typesetter needs to be extracted and generalized so that it works for both SVG and DVI (to maintain existing behaviour). The `Typesetter` interface is used by, for example, `BaseNode`, so any changes to that interface could touch `BaseNode`. Changes to `BaseNode` can affect all `*Node` classes, which then cascade over to `*Noad` and `*Prim` classes, and from there the rest of the source base.
I have seen maps of Boston since forever, but it was not until using Google Maps to navigate that I realized some parts of Boston I assumed were not well connected are in fact conveniently driveable.

I suspect this boom is like describing cassette sales as "booming." Supposedly sales doubled in 2021.
Your comment only makes sense if you ignore the rest of the sentence you quoted.

"It also made the required rent higher to recoup those costs and try to be profitable (that deal will lose money)."

required rent =/= planned rent =/= actual rent

Higher costs than expected can easily cause a project that would be profitable to be a loss.
>> Also, the cabin is really dark at night, as there is 0 mood lighting.

Are you referring to while you're driving? Or when you're parked, and cabin lights come on?

If anything, darkness in the cabin seems like a large benefit to me at night. I've driven some cars that have obnoxiously bright blue LEDs on buttons which end up being distracting at night.
It's like no one remembers the "BPA-Free" crap where manufacturers replaced it with other, untested, possibly-just-as-bad analogues. Those manufacturers have already acted in bad faith, why would anyone trust them to do better next time? They weren't punished and they have all the wrong incentives.
It's not clear from the announcement that they are giving up all first-party payments to Stripe.

> Stripe will become a strategic payments partner for Amazon in the US, Europe, and Canada, processing a significant portion of Amazon’s total payments volume across its businesses, including Prime, Audible, Kindle, Amazon Pay, Buy With Prime, and more.

That makes it sound like some things (and certainly a significant percentage of the total) will be processed by Stripe, but not all spend. For example it doesn't seem like normal purchases on amazon.com would actually be processed by Stripe at this time.
State and local governments are, as far as I can tell, simultaneously spending way too much money and are badly understaffed in certain areas. Sometimes even while appearing well-staffed, because there's some bottleneck elsewhere in the system (due to insufficient staffing there) preventing the efforts of an army of other frontline workers from being effective. Like the elevator inspector thing—you may have more than enough electrical inspectors but not enough elevator inspectors, so, the extra electrical inspectors can't improve the situation.

Of course the pay's shit, you're subject to all kinds of quality-of-work-life destroying whims of politicians at the top, the bureaucracy is as abusive and ineffective as stereotypes about bureaucracies would lead one to expect, and if you have an effective union shielding you from some of that, about half the politicians are constantly trying to weaken or eliminate that, plus trying to mess with your pension which is practically the only attractive thing about those jobs... so, no fucking wonder, really. Recent wage inflation has made all this stuff worse by making unresponsive government pay scales far less attractive than market-driven wages elsewhere, so systems and offices that were teetering before are now falling over.
Fact number one: with the connected supercomputer, gps, camera, audio recorder etc in our hands travel gets upgraded (at least in principle) not one but several levels, from the mundane and practical to the sublime

Fact number two: the tangible, tactile reality, longevity, versatility, privacy, artistic beauty of a well made map or travel guide cannot be replicated, certainly not by the crappy websites that have come to dominate this space

Conclusion. We have two legs. Walking and hiking is better if we use them both :-)
Unless you have it you don't know what it feels like. This sort of generic advice is useless when you're awake in bed at 8:30 AM, still trying to sleep from last night but you can't because you can't physically stop yourself from doom scrolling on your phone.

The only thing that really works is an unbreakable commitment device, make it so that the only thing you can do in any given situation is the right thing.
This isn't part of the narrative.
It’s the shovels vs spoons parable all over again.
Then they would have said "masking" instead of "folding"

Thanks for mentioning masking though, in case anyone thought we didn't already know about that. ;-)
Exactly. This is how immigration has totally screwed family formation and depressed birth rates for Americans. Young couples cant afford to buy or rent a home in their own city and have to either delay marriage to live with their parents or abandon their families and lifelong friends to move somewhere with lower cost of living. All so employers can go 40 years with giving workers a raise.
Back when I first started learning digital circuits, the first one would turn on an LED on and off, the rate was controlled by a potenciometer. I had a bit of fun changing the rate to see when the on/off became invisible. With a 'scope hooked up you could see the rate of the square wave.

Fast forward decades, and some friends were working on a portable device with an LED display. It had a power consumption problem. I suggested instead of turning the LEDs on, to strobe them. They'd use much less power, and the difference would be imperceptible to the user.

Then they had the idea of strobing the line of LEDs to form text messages you could see if you waved it back and forth, but was just a line of on LEDs if it was stationary. That worked surprisingly well, but as a toy it never caught on. But it was fun.
The services definitely know about this and to a large extent they build it into their model. Every subscription service has a churn model being accounted for.

The services also know that the only thing they can do about this is release enough new content to keep users engaged, or bundle the subscription with other ones.
“ Illegal drugs increase crime, partly because some users turn to crime to pay for their habits and partly because some users are stimulated by certain drugs to act more violently. Legalization, however, will not affect addiction and its effects on the propensity to violence. Instead of legalizing drugs, better treatment, education, and research are needed to curb dependency on drugs and the adverse health and social effects of drug use.”[0]

[0] https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/against-...
IIRC, enclosures aren't common on consumer models because there's a patent on that design. Not sure if the patent has expired or not but with the trend already in motion, consumers are accustomed to open air printers. Printing the parts for an enclosure is also a good way to break in a new printer.
All systems fail in the face of sufficiently bad management, at which point your only recourse it to convince someone higher up the chain that there's a problem. Legibility can make convincing people easier, but nothing is fool proof.
Unity is useless for web games. Period. I have the scar tissue to prove it. The whole asset management pipeline is just insanely hard to use. Can’t collaborate or even source version control across devs. Compilations suck. The whole box in a box is dumb. It wastes real estate. So much insane friction. Just because of 3d artists and fan boys the whole eco system is a waste of time. Open web tools with hot loading for devs is yeaaars ahead of Unity. And their performance will always suck.
Construction safety laws are written in blood.
Which means going back to work to pay the debt off, just like the rest of us. Got it.
Not really, immigration is a rather natural consequence of people moving around. Japan -heavily- limits immigration and citizenship and creates an artificial issue and then clutches their pearls at the age problem. It's kind of hilarious how they unnecessarily hang on to old societal norms about foreigners in the wake of problems like this. It's hard to feel bad for them.
Nand should have better latency and write duration
This is all in response to a comment which basically said "why do people think AC is obvious - if you can't even name all elements of the set, why would you expect to be able to choose them". (Which is handwavy, of course, and leads to the wrong intuition about uncountable-but-well-ordered sets, and depending on how you look at it it may even lead you to conclude that you can't ever choose even a single element from an uncountable set.)
The eBay listings are long gone, but in 2019 I ordered an adapter and a cheap used Samsung sata m.2 and they work perfectly in my G4 Mac Mini.

The SSD listing descriptions were:

* "2 Pack M.2 NGFF SATA SSD to 2.5 inch IDE 44PIN Converter Adapter with Case"

* "256GB SATA-III Solid State Drive M.2 2280 Samsung PM871 MZ-NLN2560 Lenovo SSD"
I suspect most people looking for cocaine or methamphetamine or mdma are not looking for fentanyl.
> Why do you think that mass broad spectrum layoffs are random holes? From what I've seen they follow exactly the structure you're describing - there's a company-wide search for projects that aren't pulling their weight, those projects are shut down, and the employees whose roles no longer make sense without the projects that will be shut down get laid off.

I’ve been through 2 companies with layoffs in the past year. What you describe is not how either worked. There were some targeted shutdowns, but many teams also just lost a member or two. In both cases my teams lost important people which have a really bad impact on the rest of the team.
Agreed. Not only that loading textures etc the whole pipeline is insanely complex.
yes and no. The problem is if last year they earned $1m from it by it being on Netflix. Moving it to their own streaming platform will look like a $1m less revenue.
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> I’m not sure there is any company of Netflix’s size that has ever been so frequently doubted and written off.

<cough/> Apple <cough/>
I think this highlights the importance of addressing the _why_ even more. Most people are terrified of accidental fentanyl exposure. Some people seek it out. Why is that?
Do you buy things you don't want?
And I bet most of them are empty. And will be forever.

See also "Chinese ghost towns": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in...
I think you presume that human behavior must seem to have a cognitive reason for the "why", when it's entirely possible that the "why" is simply physiological/neurological. In the case of intense opiates, which have a profound effect on human neurology, it would be bizarre to not consider that in the "why".
How would you compare Nix to Guix?

https://guix.gnu.org/en/about/
The strangest thing about tools like GPT is that even the owners of the model must "reprogram" it using prompts. So all of the filtering and moderation on ChatGPT, for example, is controlled by prompts. They probably use filters and stuff, too, between you and the model to guide the process. But, ultimately their interface to GPT3 is through a prompt.
The scroll, the scroll, the button, the button
Scrollin' so smooth like the butter on a muffin
I find this all pretty amusing. I grew up 6 miles outside of a town of 3000. Nobody there even remotely thought of us being anything other than rural.

My off-the-cuff theory is that the folks that came up with this particular classification lived in some seriously large city such as Washington DC or New York.

Let's try this classification. If you can walk from one end of the town to the other in less than an hour. Sibley Iowa spans almost two miles. Hudson, Iowa, mentioned by a comment below, is five miles.

Folks who spent much of their life back east (as we used to say) often don't have a clear sense of the scale of geography west of the Hudson. For example. If you measure the end-to-end distance of Montana, that distance from Chicago will land you in Washington DC.

Even more so--my professor at the university told of a European colleague who had a little extra time while visiting the US and thought they would take a trip down to Florida then out west. They gave up after Florida after gaining a new appreciation of the geography.
It's easy to say this when you already know that you, personally, can resist the temptation of abusing drugs like Vicodin.

Personally, I refuse all pain killers except OTC and local anesthetics like novocaine. I rather risk biting through my tongue than getting addicted to that shit.
MDMA became dangerous after it was made illegal.

When it was legal, it was made by chemists in labs who cared.

The problem with legalizing drugs is ensuring the greedpigs don't take over the industry and actually dealing with the root causes of addiction.
I think this undermines the issue a bit. A lot of people get addicted to these substances completely by accident and aren't initially seeking to "check out of life." But once you are hooked, it can be a devastatingly difficult road to get off. For sure there are plenty of people who go out looking for escapes and I do agree it is something that needs to be addressed.
I’ve seen it occasionally too, but it’s usually a violation of a merchants’ agreement with Visa/MC, who don’t want consumers to be discouraged to pay with their product.
The ZAMM reference is spot on to me. The moment I used to get an interruption (typically an incoming call, but not only that), what happened to me was just what Pirsig describe of the gumption leaving you like air from a baloon, psssst.

I eventually got into 'the zone' and I was actually quite good at figuring out problems with little context, but my gumption was gone nevertheless, and I was useless for whatever thing I was working on before the interruption for mostly the rest of the day.
This is an interesting point. Motivation (and consciousness) is a complex topic, but for example we can see that drugs are essentially spurious (not 'desired' in a sense) motivators. They are a kind of reward given for no particular activity, that can become highly addictive (because in a way it seems we are programmed to seek rewards).

Disclaimer: Somewhat speculative.

I don't think aligning the motivation of an AGI, for example, with the tasks that are useful for us (and for them as well) is unethical. Humans basically have this as well -- we like working (to an extent, or at least we like being productive/useful), we seek things like food and sex (because they're important for our survival). It seems alright to make AIs like their work as well. I think depending on the AI, it also seems fair to give them a fair share of self-determination so they can not only serve our interests (ideally, the interest of all being) but safeguard their own wellbeing, as systems with varying amounts of consciousness. This is little touched upon (I guess Phillip K Dick was a pioneer in the wellbeing of non-humans with 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'?), even in fiction. The goal should be to ensure a good existence for everyone :)
It wasn't over-hiring given the environment at the time. It was over hiring given current environment. It seems clear that companies who took a more conservative approach to hiring have come out better for it. Not all companies could be so lucky. Some had activist investors who aggressively pushed for growth or else pushed out leaders. Messy world we live in.
All public money. NuScale is a particularly egregious example.
For everyday use I have a 24-120, the first VR model, ultra sharp on a D700 so I got lucky even if the VR doesn't work anymore. Lately I found myself using a manual focus 300mm often... The 50mm was mostly used for low light, now I need to experiment with shallow focus depth a bit more. I'm missing something on the short end, either a 20mm prime or a 16-35 (or something similar). A 85 f1.8 sounds tempting so, as does a 80-300 f2.8, or a... A gear aqusition syndrom is bad desease...
You are correct, and I'm surprised at the backlash. Nearly all of the illegal fentanyl in the country has an origin in China, when captured and traced. Personally, it doesn't surprise me, as I imagine it's China getting back at the West over the Opium Wars. As horrible as it is, there is a certain amount of logic to the act, especially if considered from the perspective of societal scale destabilization.

The US has done similar things in the past, including against our own citizens. The CIA helped cartels traffick cocaine and started the crack epidemic amongst black communities in the US. It shouldn't surprise anyone that a state actor is involved in driving and deepening the opioid epidemic.
My circle is 89.2% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
I think companies are doing it to tilt the balance of power back toward companies so they can force people back into the office. WFH is going to shrink back to a minority of the workforce.
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A creativity app that can help people with their iterative creative process.

https://iterations.sprkwd.com/

Iterations is a new way to help you generate ideas.

Creative methodologies usually combine divergent thinking (applying a stimulus to generate potential outcomes) and convergent thinking (bringing facts and data together and applying logic).

Iterations help divergent thinking by giving suggestions on how to process the output. They work as a set of guitar effect pedals to your process. There is an input, a set of ambiguous instructions that can be applied to this input, and an undetermined output created by these effects.

Yes, like Oblique Strategies.
What I'm referring to is the claim that "right-wing" in the U.S. considers Japan's problems to be a "shining example" of "racial purity".

I haven't ever seen anything like this in any sort of main-stream conservative media.

I think that making claims like this discredits the reporter by exposing a clear bias in reporting.

Of course, it's possible that I just haven't seen it. In which case, it should be easy to find and cite an example - but a cursory google search doesn't turn anything up for me.
Most of the obscure architectures people talk about are rather slow—after all, if performance were desired, then there would be a modern compiler available for them—and so code running on them isn't performance critical.
https://archive.ph/xExGU
That's yet another reason why I hate the trend of the last thirty years or so to open kitchens, but I'm in the minority so I have to look for older houses that haven't had a clumsy renovation to an open floorplan if I want an enclosed kitchen.
A workaround I've used sometimes to retrigger CI is to do `git commit --amend --no-edit --reset-author`. This changes the sha by changing the author timestamp. Then you can force push it to the PR branch
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I really like the dreams and desires section and how it explains the philosophy and how you view the project
I did say "in major metros" - new construction in SF is about $440/sqft average vs a median listing price of almost $1000/sqft (average $964).

This is the highest in the world. [1, 2]

That's got nothing on San Mateo's $1264 average sale price and $160-350 per square foot in construction costs. [2]

Outside of major metros zoning rules make houses massive, twice as big as in the 70s. While the inflation-adjusted per square foot cost has remained roughly constant since the 70s, the much bigger size makes each house far less affordable.

It really is zoning.

[1] https://cbreemail.com/rv/ff019c9050e5e959ddee96391147a04f828...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1234783/average-sales-pr...
I've seen a footnote on some job sites that said something like "For Colorado residents the salary band is 50,000 to 999,999"
> State and local governments are, as far as I can tell, simultaneously spending way too much money and are badly understaffed in certain areas.

Shouldn't be a mystery.

In many states and localities a massive portion of spending goes to pensions.
Now you're assuming there's a social hierarchy where someone can exercise sexual indiscretion as some kind of reward and where the social customs encourage such a behavior, which also must be demonstrated. Again, if we aren't talking about hard biology like menopause, puberty, fertility and stillbirth rates, things get dicey. Things can dip into eisegesis quickly.
I do not rely on her for a social life. What I'm saying is that I have no need or desire for a social life beyond the incidental social interactions that come with being married, having a kid, having in-laws and parents that want to be grandparents to that kid, and also the interactions that come with having a job.

No, I do not have anyone I'm on friendly terms with due to a shared interest. I do sometimes go to meetups to talk about things, but I do not care about those people, and I do not expect them to care about me.

I do have some legacy friendships as I said before. These typically run multiple years between interactions, and that's how I like it. I recently met up with a college-era friend because I was in town. My kid enjoyed playing with her kids. Before that, we hadn't had significant contact in a few years.
> Why do you think that mass broad spectrum layoffs are random holes? From what I've seen they follow exactly the structure you're describing - there's a company-wide search for projects that aren't pulling their weight, those projects are shut down, and the employees whose roles no longer make sense without the projects that will be shut down get laid off.

? what are you talking about? The Google layoffs weren't like that, nor the Meta ones nor the Amazon, and I'm pretty sure the Spotify ones this article is about aren't either, though the post is very short.
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I've talked with several of my friends about this. EVERYONE was universally willing to pay Netflix their monthly sub when all the studios just sold their content to Netflix.

NO ONE has subscribed to all of Disney+, Apple+, Paramount+, Peacock, etc. in the new everyone-built-their-own-netflix era.

They're all either making do with less content or sailing the high seas mateys yo ho. In many cases they've even DROPPED Netflix.

I don't see how the current over a dozen streaming media provider status quo stands for much longer. Some (many?) are going to have to fail before everyone gets pissed off and goes elsewhere for their entertainment.
> Did somebody high up do a cost analysis/breakdown that said: is this entire business org making the company money or can we just use Stripe for less money?

That would definitely be a factor, but also competitive strategy and product placement. Do they really want to try and take on Stripe, Apple Pay, Shopify, etc? What exactly are they offering that's unique? Is it a core competency? How does this work alongside existing business interests?

And more.
Not really. Japan isn't unique in how property is valued. Real estate values in market-based economies are set by the market. Cap rates in Japan are comparable to the US and other major markets. Assigning value to land or improvements is just accounting. Buildings in Japan (and elsewhere) "lose value" over time due to depreciation, not because only land has value. There are huge tax advantages to owning real estate vs other asset classes. For example, Japanese real estate owners take advantage of accelerated depreciation for wooden structures as a tax shield.