skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone ELI5 me the difference between price gouging, and a high priced supply/demand curve equilibrium point?
Yeah, repeated layoffs really kill the "loyalty", "family" thing that companies try to create. And it tends to make the remaining workforce risk-averse, which is not what Meta has ever stood for. It's a real contradiction.
This is a false dichotomy. You can be resilient and also not price gouge. You can also do things in spite of accusations. Also blaming critics for misbehavior is classic DARVO.
I was under the impression the content sorting algorithms pay attention to metrics like engagement (likes/reactions/comments) and how long people read it, and then since it's their motive to keep you scrolling for as long as possible (so that you view as many ads as possible), they lean on their user data to promote hot stories that cause good engagement.

Therefore, if the users consumer lots of "divisive" content and it causes good engagement, isn't it the user's fault for being such "fans" of the divisive content that it makes Facebook algorithms promote it?
In my experience contractors seldom go back to being employees.
I suppose that there is no objective way to measure that, and we won't arrive at a conclusion by just talking about it. Maybe I could go use one of those sites where you post a picture and people rate you?

You are right that I'm physically attractive to a number of women. I just don't think this number is very big, haha... at least compared to most of my friends, but maybe my friends are way more attractive than average for some odd reason? A bunch of CS/Engineer geeks...

I just don't understand why you are - it seems - almost dismissing the possibility of this being a skill, something you learn. Why wouldn't it be? My life story gives me a lot of evidence that this is the case, it would be tedious to write about it in detail, maybe one day I'll write a book!

One thing that is easy to talk about is how my partners would often say that I'm "confident", "funny" and "charming" rather than "good looking". Not even my wife calls me good looking :)
Which is precisely why government subsidies for child-care are necessary if we're going to structure society around nuclear families with both parents working.

The cost of labour alone is enough to explain eye watering child-care costs, which means you either a) push that cost back on the consumer, b) somehow drive down the cost of labour, or c) have the government subsidize the cost of labour to make the price affordable and the businesses sustainable.

We're doing (a) now and it's not sustainable, hence articles like these.

To achieve (b) you'd need government intervention, anyway, as the market is already optimizing for minimizing labour cost.

And thus you're left with (c), which is the path Canada has started going down recently:

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/campa...
But aren't the algorithms driven by what users engage with?
The profit margin isn’t that insane relative to other industries.

“egregious profits reaching as high as 40%” (from the article).
We should just change the definition of art to anything that people argue about.
Computers get faster in benchmarks. If anything, regular computer tasks like checking your email or editing a file has more latency than 5 years ago. Software bloats to fill whatever container you put it in.
Yes, mistakes can happen there too. And mistakes can happen during data entry into FMS. It's a miracle that all of this works most of the time.

TaaS -> Tailstrikes as a Service...
When was the last time you used them on a $200 laptop like your cousin picked up cheap to take to college?

Or tried to help students use an electron IDE on a computer with 8Gb and a 2 ghz 10 year old processor that their dad saved to buy secondhand to help his kid not need to work overtime at the factory to keep food on the table?

Electon is only fast on developer and gamer tier hardware.

Try running this stuff on the hardware steam says is the average gamer and see how fast it actually feels.
You’re assuming that producing an egg costs 5x more in 2022 than 2021. I can’t think of any input cost increase that could account for a 5x production cost. A hatchery takes in chicken feed and spits out eggs (and macerated male chick slurry), it’s a pretty simple business.
My aunt runs a very well regarded (and fully licensed, insured, etc) childcare business out of a building she inherited and it's a subsistence living.

Complying with regulations, dietary restrictions, allergies, little special requests that all seem reasonable in isolation, replacing supplies, etc, etc. It's basically the opposite of a software business, it doesn't scale.

She could do better for herself by raising rates (she has parents coming to reserve spots pre-conception), but she can't bear the idea of pricing out hard working people.

There are some things that probably don't work as businesses, even with subsidies, and if we want another generation of kids we probably have to think outside the market box.

We have free school for older kids, and maybe we could just extend public schools to age zero, but what about subsidizing new parents to stay at home and actually bond as a family? Or cooperatives of parents to take care of each other's kids on a shift basis? It would be cool to see this kind of creative thinking.
Yes. The figure of merit is profit, not how nice you are to your new hires.
In the period when cases were being brought after the 2020 election, there was a pervasive talking point that the cases were not being heard on their merits, and were being dismissed for "mere" procedural reasons like standing.

Notwithstanding that the cases notably refused to allege election fraud (Rudy Giuliani famously refused to make a claim of fraud in front of a judge, but claimed fraud profusely in front of TV audiences), in the years since every election has been looked at fully and thoroughly. All ok the claims made in the last months of 2020 have been shown to be baseless. Not just Arizona -- Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan all had zero fraud of the kind alleged.
I said business model: they had a money printer business model. I did not say that they had a money printer. Yes, they made a money printer with their money printer business model.
The government is definitely full of shit, but historical inflation matches their published numbers pretty well over time. I compared the Big Mac index over the last couple decades, and it fit pretty well

I think most of the extra inflation is going into stocks and housing, and the government's cherry picking hides those factors. The end result is that people can't retire and can't comfortably afford houses, which is why everything sucks now
Not been on facebook fore some years now, but it is not "just" a medium. It is optimized to keep you on the site as much as possible, to show you as many ads as possible. This comes with the hard price of showing you what is divisive, as it keeps you engaged. So they do are responsible for prioritizing divisive posts and allowing ads that are so well targeted that they can make you tilt.
My immediate reaction is, does this offer a feature incentive to use this when I already have this in AWS CodePipeline+CodeBuild?
> SMTP was a purpose-built RPC for email

SMTP is a very chatty stateful back-and-forth protocol, where what message is legal to send when depends on the state of the connection. It's roughly the opposite of a singular request-response RPC.

> judgment often reflects biases

As seems to be true with this article, too.
Making the World (Type) Safe for MongoDB Queries: Papr v11
How could they fix that? If it was that easy to reliably identify illegal/extremist content and prevent it from being recommended they’d just take it down
An Amazon Household requires sharing payment method. So it's not quite a clean "keep separate accounts" solution.
Assuming they continue to pay a generous severance, it doesn't seem like a terrible idea to stay.
I am saying the point of even sending the letter is to demostrate leadership and empathy. Two things delegating the task to a pimpied up suggestion engine fails miserably at.
Regarding that last point, if it wasn't for the relentless media coverage, I wouldn't even have noticed that prices went up. The price that the milk-and-eggs home delivery service charges hasn't changed (organic, free-range, access to outdoors), and the pasture-raised certified humane eggs at Costco still cost the same.
As for true geometry, current 5nm at TSMC is actually a gate pitch (spacing between the gates) of 51nm and interconnect (smallest possible distance between the centers of adjacent wires on interconnect metal layers) of 28nm. Intel 4 is 50nm gate pitch and 30nm interconnect. So, they're between 1nm of each other. As an example, IBM did create 5nm transistors on silicon nanosheets with GAAFETs in 2017. The spacing between the transistors then had to be 41nm to mitigate quantum tunneling. In the case of TSMC and Intel, their transistors are not at the actual sizes specified, but it is currently not clear that much would be gained if they were if the pitch still had to be so long.

NOTE: I am an amateur, so please don't take any of that as actionable fact.
Because clearly that’s what I just said.

> it’s simply not worth what would be an eye-watering outlay

Sigh.
Yea seriously. The price increase is inconvenient, but hardly relevant in terms of calories/$.

I eat 5-6 eggs each morning with some potatoes (my blood work is great btw, so take it easy armchair dietitians). Dietary cholesterol isn't what most people think. I digress.

But that means my at-home breakfast went from:

(5 eggs * $0.2) + (1 red potato * $0.20) = $1.20

to

(5 eggs * $0.5) + (1 red potato * $0.20 = $2.70

I'll survive.
> Some interpretations suggest that any editorial action by a platform [...] changes them from being a common carrier to a publisher

None that have been made with a straight face before a real court, that I'm aware of. That's the spin that the activists put on this, not something that anyone thinks SCOTUS is going to rule on.

You're absolutely right that 230 as written doesn't really speak well to the modern semi-automated echo chamber. But improperly written laws are congress's job to fix, not the courts. Courts step in when laws conflict, they aren't there to figure out how to solve problems with new laws.

The simplest way to look at the spirit of this law is: Congress said that internet companies shouldn't be punished just for hosting other people's opinions. And at the end of the day, TikTok and YouTube and Facebook are still just hosting this data. They didn't write it. They don't curate it. Anyone can post. Anyone can read.

Arguments about "recommendation algorithms" are legitimate, but not really in scope of the first amendment and liability issues envisioned by the original law. They're just not. It's not something congress thought about. And if congress didn't have a clue, why should the courts?
Unit testing is an obvious choice for something like a parser or algorithm library, for common business logic integration tests provide most of the benefit, and then some. Also, unit tests slow down development as they need to be refactored alongside code, while integration tests can use a more stable interface.

This is typically true at smaller scale, one smallish team; when build and test times or team isolation becomes a concern, it's time to rethink your testing strategy.
This sort of article is spot on for lots of standard CRUD apps, but doesn't mention the fact that there are plenty of cases where k8s (or similar) really would be a big benefit. If your application requires a lot of scaling up and down to be viable for instance, k8s can be a good fit. I think a better article title would probably be "you shouldn't default to using kubernetes as a startup".
Ask HN: Anyone else considering moving from US to Europe?
It seems like every week I read about some food additives, agricultural products, or building material that's likely endocrine-disrupting and/or carcinogenic which is allowed in the US but not in most of Europe. On top of that factors like rates of violent crime, lack of social safety net, unwalkable cities, and better laws for workers and tenants make me think of moving to Europe sometimes.

I have German citizenship and speak the language, I also know you can get along easily with just English in smaller European countries and in various major cities. Just before covid I had a job offer in Norway as a non-Norwegian speaker, so I know that tech companies tend to be pretty flexible as long as you are proficient in English.

I know that there are inherent sacrifices to moving, usually pay is lower and even if you keep working remotely for a US-employers at the same salary, the tax burden will be higher. Not to mention moving away from family, figuring out what to do with all your stuff, potentially selling or renting out house, and so on.

Wondering if anyone else is considering such a move or has already done so.
Yes! Right now, the main benefits are the ability to write grammar definitions that are quite close to the ideal AST structure (made possible by Tree Sitter's grammar format), and being able to embed the parser in many different applications (including WASM via https://github.com/shadaj/tree-sitter-c2rust). Rust Sitter also gives quite nice error diagnostics with spans thanks to Tree Sitter's recovery logic.

Fallible parsing is something I plan to implement in the very near future, by letting users wrap types in `Result` to mark them as an error boundary. Incremental parsing is a bit more difficult, since we'll need to add logic to know when an existing AST struct can be reused, but is on the roadmap.
There's a monopoly on US eggs, and like seemingly every industry right now, they're blaming externalities to cover the fact that price increases are mostly going to shareholders. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/cant-make-an-omelet/#keep...
Virtual Trip to the DMZ Border Area
i dont use my gmail for yeads but just looked. my inbox has tons of garbage emails of various casing, 100s of obvious spam emails. very few went into spam
Dude went hiking, alone, in the wilderness, without basic supplies -- e.g., a compass, a map, a proper GPS, or even a flashlight.

If that doesn't sound negligent to you, well, you're not reading well.
Eggflation is just more price-gouging
perhaps the take here is that many features of modern c++ are not intended for application writers, but more for library writers?
There's a wide gulf between "one-off afternoon-long project done for fun" and "serving all traffic for amazon.com during black friday", so I am receptive to the "I can just do this one off thing in Perl". On the other hand I know that once you get familiar with Rust it can be very productive (the "it hurts when I do that" stops when you learn to preemptively "don't do that" and stop fearing "this code is inefficient because it has two extra allocations!!!1") and I've seen too many "weekend projects" become the backbone of large enterprises. Rust's superpower is being able to scale up and down. But the GP might be talking about a project that falls squarely on the former. Anything that starts to move towards the later, I would immediately push for a language/ecosystem more tuned for "maintainability" than "time to first char on screen".
Farmers have finally cracked the code on how to increase greed and profits...economists puzzled as to why now
presumably the lawyer is representing his client to the best of his ability and pursuing all legal avenues to keep her out of prison
Eggs don’t just get 5x more expensive on their own. Competition should keep gross margins in a mean-reverting band over periods of time.
i don't think gp is talking about building business logic or core product. but like maybe don't roll your own monitoring or log uptake or kanban board / task management solution.

i worked at a company that decided they needed to build their own rdbms because none of the off-the-shelf solutions were going to be able to manage their unique scale. come on.
> but that does not excuse Black actors being blasted with n-bombs and other slurs on Twitter and other social media,

I'm not denying, much less excusing that. What I am saying is that such trolls are an irrelevant minority who's voices are amplified by those to whom nutjobs are a convenient excuse for their own failures.

Black Panther sold many millions of tickets in America, and had maybe a few thousand 4chan-style trolls complaining about it. Am I really expected to believe those few thousand trolls were the reason the movie got less than flawless glowing reviews from critics, rather than flaws in the movie itself being to blame? And if the Star Wars trilogy failed to perform as Disney expected, it certainly wasn't the fault of trolls. Star Wars fans outnumber trolls a million to one. If the Star Wars trilogy under-performed, it was because the Star Wars trilogy was flawed. Trolls are just a convenient excuse for the people involved in the production who don't want to face the facts about the quality of their product.
Nature is the premiere science journal on the planet. The purpose of publishing in a journal like nature is to share progress and methods with your peers, and be able to get credit for an idea or an observation.

The audience is scientists in the field, not consumers, not the public, and not investors.

Articles in Nature tend to get hype for two reasons: 1) it's the most prestigious journal in the world 2) they tend to only accept papers about important, novel progress in a field.

If you can't contextualize the information in Nature, I suggest you wait for the popular press to digest it for you.

(There are admittedly some critiques to be made of nature, that it biases towards flashy results, but no one in their right mind would prefer to be published by PNAS.)
Makes enough sense to me. Or we could just provide world-class healthcare to inmates. Or just put prisons next to hospitals. Or make them the same thing.

Honestly the last time I was visiting someone in a hospital for an extended period it felt like a prison.

Not looking forward to eventually dying in one. Maybe they'll be full of backflipping atlas nurse robots by then...
These thinly veiled product research Ask-threads are getting out of hand.
Tom Scott did a video[1] about this. For the UK at least, this may have been an urban myth rooted in the fact that only the fastest fire brigades were paid[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wif1EAgEQKI

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_insurance_mark
That had me laughing! Case in point, from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34855372
Zaps would be great on HN
But they are already more expensive. Does that mean they were colluding previously?

Couldn’t you argue that their pricing is more inflation resistant as their margins already allow for fluctuations in eg fuel prices?
It's worth noting that safe Rust prevents two things. Please be patient with this explanation, as I'm about to butcher it badly (probably not using the right terms):

1) UB - this is when code is invoked. Basically memory mismanagement. We know the signs: segfaults, etc.

2) Unsound code - this is code that has the potential to trigger UB if called incorrectly.

I think this distinction is pretty important. It explains why small projects in c++ can get going so quickly, and they have issues when they grow. You can prevent unsound code from triggering UB, but that of course gets harder to do as a project gets bigger.
Personally, I think their optimization of engagement will by default bring out the most extreme viewpoints, and the worst of people. They’d rather show you 10 extreme things in a row to make you outraged, than to show you 2 extreme and 8 normal.

Facebook wasn’t always like this — it used to just be a place where you could see what your friends are up to.
> Pretty much every prior civilization

Incredibly broad claim here that frankly I don't think a global view of history anywhere near supports. Either extremely narrow view of "prior civilization" or just straight ignorant. Even the concept of personal property isn't near universal!
> Developers find poor quality code significantly slows them down within a few weeks.

By the way, I'd like to know which kind of software those "skilled" developers are used to work on. If it is the umpteenth CRUD web application, several weeks can correspond to a few releases. In other fields, a few releases is a matter of years, and even only a few months of customer feedback is a treasure that smart developers don't give up easily.
Just like hate speech can be any thought that I disagree with, price gouging is when anyone other than me or my friends increases their price.
I think that means he can't handle vim.
No idea, I guess I'd have to learn machine code, Fortran and some COBOL. That's not going to make me millionaire. I'd look for the first opportunity to code a spreadsheet in some way, even not interactive.

About noSQL, all databases where noSQL back then.
We support optional elements by wrapping them in `Option<T>` (other annotations are applied to the contents of the option)! So you can define

struct ... {
...
#[rust_sitter::leaf(text = ",")
_dangling_comma: Option<()>
}
> Frankly your tone made yourself sound like an entitled armchair expert

Well, the OP's tone was flippant, and I thought it was dismissive. Who cares how thankless the job is -- it is your job. Stop blaming it on the users for wanting things and fix the problem and stop making excuses and acting put out.

> whereas the paragraphs you have labeled as "irrelevant" sound extremely relevant. Why don't you use a few words to explain why you think that paragraph is irrelevant?

It is irrelevant because the issue exists now. Who cares what they accounted for 8 years ago, and who cares what their competitor does?

P1: My lock opens with any key. It should only open with my key.

P2: But the competitor's lock opens without a key!

P1: I don't care? Fix it.

> Even though he didn't take responsibility I walk away convinced that he's doing a good enough job.

You should raise your standards.
Publishing in the most prestigious journal on the planet implies it received some of the highest scrutiny peer review around.
https://www.youtube.com/@aarthificial
It's one thing to grow on the ride up, and now we're on the ride down. It takes a different kind of long-term thinking.
> There's a subset of users who are hungry for high quality applications and games.

You're right on, here, and it points to a few problems and opportunities. I'm that subset of users yet I have an incredibly hard time finding apps meeting my criteria in the app stores. They are there. I often find them right after purchasing something that isn't as good or using one of a hundred free-but-varying-degrees-of-awful apps because I don't trust that spending even $3.00 isn't going to get me a paid-but-varying-degrees-of-awful app[0].

The amount of awful going on in the space of "mobile development" long passed unacceptable to me. The idea that McDonald's is $10.00 or $4.50 if I use their app that crashes, needs my location, sends me random empty notifications and every other minor and major brand's app that wants to slurp up any little bit of data they can and make my notification tray useless. I'm not happy with the "check this box and we'll track everything you do but 'trust us'" cloud-enabling Windows and every app being non-functional without an internet connection and the "functionality provided" often being "license validation" and/or "share this! social network features and data mining"... takes a breath yeah, that got away from me ... but it's just nuts.

[0] The reviews which mix in the mess of one-stars from "a bad release" among the five-star "some of which were clearly paid for" just leave one wanting to take up drinking.
I can't see it being valuable in contrast to having a decent knowledge of which brand names become big in the 60s and 70s.
Is it possible to invent bitcoin with 60s computer hardware?