skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capitalism doesn't just happen. The natural state of nature is cartels, that's what markets will trend towards without government regulation.

If this effect isn't intuitive to you, consider what happens when the market for something is completely removed from government involvement, like the global market for cocaine. Or a market that develops in the absence of any kind of centralized authority, like Somalia.

That's what happens to every market unless a state intervenes. The invisible hand of the market trends towards long term warlord/mafia type arrangements unless the public is organized enough to stop it.
It's not the other direction, it's an other direction. The distinction is important.

If there are only two directions and everybody runs in one of them, there's probably a good reason. If there are virtually infinite directions, trusting your gut about an unexplored direction that you find interesting is a much better bet. See also: startup advice.
For a specific example some variation of "fast inverse square root" will usually get you the exact GPL licensed code from Quake III, comments included.
Ask HN: What are the BEST designed SaaS apps
You need to search for "Operation Elop". There's a free e-book that details the whole thing to a striking degree (I was at Vodafone at the time, and... well... What I know confirms all of it).
There are plenty of housing units in the USA. Housing is extremely affordable in parts of many major American cities such as Detroit and Baltimore to name just a couple. For example you can buy a house in lovely Baltimore for under $25,000 in a neighborhood with amenities like a walkable park, and tennis and basketball courts[1]. The complaint is never really "housing isn't affordable," it's more along the lines of "I can't afford to live in the most desirable coastal real estate in the entire world" or "I can't afford to live in a safe place with a good school district" (a classism/racism dog whistle if ever there was one).

[1] https://livebaltimore.com/neighborhoods/madison-eastend/
I frequently go to a trailer park to help someone there. Young kids are often running around and playing with other kids. In the summer I’ve seen a group of 8-10 kids grade and middle school age (some very young) sitting in street after dark playing games and talking. It’s a very mixed group age/gender/race.
In my own wealthy neighbourhood I never see kids playing outside.
They launder it up in Macau supposedly
If you're optimizing for the minimum amount of plastic in the ocean, not building undersea cables is not going to be very effective.
Think about network functions that where these languages do not make sense; then you will find they are not used. You wouldn't write a packet processing router in any of those languages (aka UPF). High availability, fault tolerant applications for NAS and non-NAS signalling speaking to the gNodeB/UEs - same deal.
And depends on the location. For example, the characters U+1F1FA U+1F1F8 are the regional indicators "U" and "S", and are rendered as . These are two separate codepoints that may together be displayed as a United States flag. Similarly, the regional indicators "T" and "W" are rendered as and "H" and "K" are rendered as . On my system, this is rendered as the flag of Taiwan and Hong Kong, respectively. Depending on where you live, these regional indicators might not be rendered as flags.

Edit: Looks like HN stripped out the character codes. The effect can be reproduced by copy-pasting the symbols from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_indicator_symbol
I saw a lady with a basket full of cucumbers in the supermarket the other day. I have never in my life bought a single cucumber and managed to consume the whole thing before it has gone off.

I can sympathize with supermarkets having to try and mitigate every panic buying frenzy that the media are all too willing to encourage.
Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell also use this technique, making some of the most amazing paintings because they're grounded in real anatomy and references, instead "this looks about right". The artist not using photographic references can miss important details or make proportion mistakes while being deep in the act of creation but those flaws are easily visible to observers after the fact. We saw this on box art of the 80s a lot. Take a look at the dude on the original mega man box, for instance. Who stands like that?!
Automated mathematics, including the ability to read math papers and translate to formal proofs.
Isn’t all symmetric encryption using one time pads safe from quantum decryption? It’s a weird thing to lead with considering all symmetric is safe
Some good MongoDB documentation. (Unix/ulimit)
It is to please the shareholders. Now shareholder can know that Meta can compete with GPT3.
Incumbents do have an advantage, but I wouldn't say they aren't expecting a significant contested election. Trump was the incumbent, and it was a pretty aggressively contested.
Not really. I went to my fruit guy in one of the areas that the media said has no supply...everything in stock.

He spoke to his suppliers and supermarkets just won't pay the higher prices. The supply is there though. He had a full range of salad products.

The UK buys a lot of produce from NL (which is a huge exporter of tomatoes and other greenhouse-grown produce), they have been selling in Europe at the higher prices that factor in higher electricity cost, UK supermarkets have stopped buying from them because it would mean having to increase prices.

And finally, UK producers chose not to produce at all this winter because they believed that UK supermarkets wouldn't offer a price that made production profitable...they were right.

This kind of thing happens because, for multiple reasons, there is an obsession with providing very low food prices. UK supermarkets achieve this (the prices for vegetables are comically low here, still...my Tesco had a sale on potatoes the other week, 20p/kg...how? How is this possible? Farmers here get absolutely abused) but the result is that sometimes they don't have anything.

It has been happening with eggs, milk, meat (most UK supermarkets just don't get quality meat anymore, even their premium ranges of top cuts of beef are shoe leather), vegetables...and, of course, all anyone can talk about is the declinist nonsense rather than look at how fucked the food supply chain is.
In a self driving Tesla with it?

A perfect match and around the corner too.
Well that's France, where like in Italy and Germany. it's much more difficult to fire any one person, a department, or N% without much advance notification and government approval. For the worker, it's a very good thing.

Americans don't know how bad they have it and don't remember the mass layoffs of the 1980's and 1990's. A time when jobs became scarce because nearly every company was following suit and REAL unemployment, including those who stopped looking for jobs, rose considerably. The REAL labor participation rate in the US is more like 55% rather than 62% due to the rosy and flawed methodology used to count U-1 through U-6. There are millions fewer middle-aged workers now than there were historically. Ageism, discrimination, and other factors discourage workers from seeking to reenter the workforce. Low skill workers have it worst, cannot always move great distances, and cannot always retrain into magical hypothetical jobs that don't exist. Many underemployed people become Uber and Lyft drivers, where there is the perception of freedom but there is net underpayment and abuse (no help with capitalization, depreciation, and maintenance of a vehicle make their effective pay well below that of taxi drivers).

The global situation is the US Fed's fault for giving out free money for years and then suddenly being a Grinch because they don't like "excess consumption" when there have been shortages and supply chain disruptions. US trucking is still a mess.
Yeah, I don’t see how people with even a mild understanding of energy and electricity can fall for a car powered solely by solar panels on its exterior. It’s utter snake oil if you look at the energy output of solar panels over time and the energy required to move a car just 1 km with no extra load (no driver).
I have been pretty convinced it is tied to commercial real estate. I'm sure shareholders are not happy knowing that some companies are sitting on tons of unused office space.

But recently, I've thought it also has much to do with middle management. I joined their ranks as an engineering lead this past year, and if there is one thing I have noticed, older managers are way too set in their ways. Not to play the generation card, but as someone born into Gen X at the last minute, I see a vast difference in attitude between Boomer bosses and younger generations. Boomers are obsessed with "ass-in-seat" time. Even more of them have created their whole social life around work and work relationships, so no office time means no social life.

These same Boomer bosses think it is ok to make younger, new employees suffer for their bad project planning. I've sat in way too many meetings where I have heard "Well, back in my day, developers would stay awake for days and work non-stop during crunch time... because that is just what you did..." Good luck getting anyone younger than Gen X to agree to that, especially in a situation they didn't create (and I'm completely on their side).
By 'cut it out' do you want me to stop asking my previous question?

If so, you are free to ignore it.

You also surreptitiously edited your previous comment without informing readers.

FYI For small changes due to grammatical errors that may be acceptable, but a substantial change should always be indicated.

(And now that I'm looking at the user profile the about description is just "go away" which makes this action seem suspicious.)
Lots of anecdata of people running their regular vehicles on E85 without issues.

Lots of theoretical concerns “omg, you’re not following the owner’s manual, god is going to blow up your engine and kill 4 kittens”, but either nobody has blown an engine or hasn’t admitted to it.

https://youtu.be/scgtGxxgx6M

Plenty of parts of the world where E85 is substantially cheaper than E10 (e.g. France where it’s ~43% cheaper) where I’m sure lots of people are running it or various mixes.
On my network, running my machines, these privacy mechanisms really are bad. Having them doesn't give me any privacy (the entire system is my private system to begin with -- who am I being private from?).

The only privacy they are affording is specifically to entities that I don't want operating on my machines to begin with, who are mostly interested in violating my privacy.

So this privacy mechanism, in this use case, really is bad because it reduces my privacy.
According to the Unicode standard there is a canonical notion of countable graphemes, with zero ambiguity.

I don't actually know whether ninja cat would count as one or two though. The spec for calculating grapheme boundaries is actually several pages long.

And the OS might not obey the Unicode standard. Ninja cat appears to be proprietary to Microsoft.
Searching for 'R' in CRAN returns around 24000 R packages, pypistats.org tells about 437000 Python packages.
This is not a major difference to you?

I admit, that R has an advantage in bleeding edge statistics, e.g. from papers.
But that is nothing >99% of statistics users need.
I think the various government agencies, but especially the FTC, have taken the position that its America vs the world, and thus have looked the other way as tech giants have engaged in anti-competitive and consumer hostile behavior that earlier would have resulted in at least raps on the wrist, if not more (MS antitrust suit).

Now the position seems to be to let them do whatever they want and shield them from other governments and competition if necessary.
everybody is jumping down GP's throat here by focusing on the word "Biden".

him saying they're doing it to lock in Biden (their mainstream/establishment frontrunner) in large early primaries in 2024 (the next election) is not really different from saying they're doing it to lock in their mainstream/establishment frontrunner in large early primaries in future elections to avoid the kind of "self destructive" internecine primary battles with fringe candidates like Bernie Sanders--yes, he was very popular, but his views are to one side of the Democratic party which is to one side of the Republican party which makes his views part of the fringe in the uniform tapestry of views--which have taken place for many years.

Not saying it's right or wrong, just saying GP's analysis holds together as part of the larger analysis everybody here seems to be basing their thinking on.
This is just naked collusion as a service. The lawsuits will be spectacular.
Ericsson literally hires people full time to work on Erlang.
What are "capitalism laws"? My point is that the government is preventing the transactions. Doesn't matter if we are talking about a republic, a parliamentary system, a monarchy, a socialist country, authoritarian, feudal, local gangs, organized crime, etc.

It requires power to prevent voluntary transactions and that comes in lots of flavors.
do they do instruction fine-tuning
I don't understand what net income has to do with anything. Profit, not income, is the only thing that matters.
That is peanuts comparing to how much was lost in FTX, 3AC, Celcius, etc.
The real reason the Dutch East India Company is integral to the history of capitalism has less to do with trade and more to do with the innovative legal structure which for the first time separated the owners from the managers, and unlike all prior enterprises allowed for tradable claims on the ownership in the form of equity shares rather than an ownership governed by a partnership.

The problem with using 'capitalism' in discussions like this is that there isn't a precise definition of it. To some people it simply means private ownership of the means of production, to others in includes free trade, to others (and to my thinking, the most precise, but YMMV) its about the separation of management and ownership and tradable claims on the firm.
It's perfectly safe.
It's been a while, but tbf not using the Nordic proprietary BT stack on their microcontrollers was a pain in C too.
Working a 30 hour workweek constitutes "a recipe for working more hours and severely curtailing being able to do activities with other people"?
So why not turn off overdraft from one's main bank account?
> I'm not going to go through every example you mentioned because this comment shows the exact problem with that. You are putting the origin of the term on some fault with the Romani people. Have you examined why that is? Are you sure that they did actually swindle people more than other groups? If they did, why did they do it? Was that a byproduct of their position in society? I admittedly don't know much Romani history, so I can't speak to it directly. However I know Jewish people were similarly thought of as swindlers because they were often bankers, and they were often bankers because that was one of the few jobs non-Jewish society would allow them to have. The fault doesn't lie with the Jews, it lies with the rest of society.

My point is exactly that by not washing out these words, we allow ourselves to have conversations about and raise exactly those points you mentioned. It allows us to think about the root causes of these terms and reflect on our own behavior.

> That same concept applies elsewhere. Like white generally being used to represent good and black bad. That is such a fundamental aspect of our culture that it seems silly to try to change it, but the silliness originates in a lack of examination of the origin of those standards.

Have you considered that the white/black differentiation of not about color but about what humans can perceive? To me it seems as if it would have been established because humans can see during the day vs. can't do so well at night. There are many reasons outside of race where light/dark, black/white make sense.
This page is very rough and shouldn't be considered scientific. I didn't even find a link or the actual study name on the page. Not only that, Dr. Thanh-Son Pham is listed as a co-author but the page doesn't even mention the name of the second author, Hrvoje Tkalčić.

I was able to find the home page for Dr. Thanh-Son Pham [1] and his google scholar page with his list of publications. [2] He looks extremely accomplished and a prolific researcher, especially for someone who appears to be so young. I was very impressed and can only think that others would have also liked to have a link to this paper. I found the actual paper online. [3]

Abstract:

Probing the Earth’s center is critical for understanding planetary
formation and evolution. However, geophysical inferences have been
challenging due to the lack of seismological probes sensitive to the
Earth’s center. Here, by stacking waveforms recorded by a growing
number of global seismic stations, we observe up-to-fivefold
reverberating waves from selected earthquakes along the Earth’s
diameter. Differential travel times of these exotic arrival pairs,
hitherto unreported in seismological literature, complement and
improve currently available information. The inferred transversely
isotropic inner-core model contains a ~650-km thick innermost ball
with P-wave speeds ~4% slower at ~50° from the Earth’s rotation axis.
In contrast, the inner core’s outer shell displays much weaker
anisotropy with the slowest direction in the equatorial plane. Our
findings strengthen the evidence for an anisotropically-distinctive
innermost inner core and its transition to a weakly anisotropic outer
shell, which could be a fossilized record of a significant global
event from the past.

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/tsonpham/home

[2] https://sites.google.com/view/tsonpham/publication

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36074-2
Oh? I thought I answered it. What are you really asking for here? A tutorial?

If that's what you want, you need to give me time to put it together. I set this up a number of years ago and don't remember the details off the top of my head.

here's what I do remember: I use a squid proxy and replace all of the HTTPS certs on my other machines with my own. When HTTPS is negotiated, it's with my proxy, not the end destination.

Then the proxy does its proxy thing and sets up a normal HTTPS connection with the destination.

In my proxy, I have a script that is looking for the HTTP lookup exchanges detailed in RFC8484 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8484). When it finds them, it drops them on the floor. Everything else just gets passed through.
I have no idea about the utility of divesting YouTube but on this point...

>YouTube clearly shares a lot of infrastructure with the rest of Google, especially datacenters and ads.

I don't see this as a particularly thorny problem. Normally in a divestiture. Newcorp would just sign a 5 year infrastructure deal with Alphabet, and a 5 year deal for it's ad space. That is plenty of time to resolve any lingering issues.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Alphabet divest some business, however I think it is unlikely to be for tech reasons. It is more likely to be financial engineering, as growth stalls and share prices need protecting.
True. But there are infinite ways of working out this tradeoff. Some companies are examples while some really aren’t.

If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a terrible warning.
Keep in mind that you can downgrade firefox back after the update with pacman -U /var/lib/something, then just refresh/keep using the open windows with no issue.
let alone faceid!
Which reinforces the point I was making. Stop trying to win an argument online and think for 5 seconds about what it means for the claim "the human brain is just an LLM" if you're arguing that an LLM is naturally ill-suited to this task human children can do without issue.
Honestly, the title threw me off at first—I used to work in supply chain optimization which very much follows a predict → optimize pattern, and I think there are interesting directions[1] for preferring a different approach, but the abstract and title made it pretty clear that the work focuses on a fundamentally different area. Supply chain forecasting is qualitatively different from the predictions in this essay because it applies to aggregate behavior, not to individuals.

[1]: In particular, what we did (and what most people do?) is predict first, then optimize. Prediction and optimization were done by different systems, built and maintained by different teams, optimizing for different performance metrics. But, over time, I became increasingly convinced that this separation was not effective and that we could get substantially better performance by jointly optimizing the prediction and decision-making models. I saw a paper[2] demonstrating this idea mathematically, but now I think some variant of this would make sense from an organizational and systems-design point of view as well. If I ever get the chance to build a supply chain optimization system from scratch, I'd want to start with the forecasting and optimization components much closer together technically and organizationally, even if we don't jump into trying joint optimization from the beginning.

[2]: "Smart Predict then Optimize", https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08005
I think most people mean "don't roll yor own and use it in production"

Writing your own crypto for fun should be encuraged.
The people who complain about shortages of produce are the same people who complain prices being too high.

As a consequence, supermarkets have become reliant on overseas producers who, sometimes, are not able to meet demand.

People want to buy locally produced fruit and vegetables but they do not want the people who pick it to have a decent standard of living.
FWIW I've had 2 at-fault fender-benders over the last 6 years with Progressive and my insurance has gone down by 5-10% over that time (for some reason adding a second motorbike lowered the entire premium instead of raising it). YMMV insurance pricing is really weird, location specific, and imo designed to be difficult to predict.
The only place where you can get useful power is the largest RVs. As long as you can legally make them (length as almost 0 effect on wind resistance), cover the roof and sides with solar panels (knowing that one side is always in the shade).

Note that I said RVs not semi trucks. Semi trucks are meant to be driven all day (11 hours per day, though the law is more complex). Many RV drivers never drive that long in a day, and so we get a lot more stopped time where solar is charging batteries. Also we should assume that because space limited and they want a lot of power the person doing this paid extra for the highest efficiency panels, while less efficient ones are more cost effective for fixed installations.
Yeah, gas producers like it as cheap octane booster.
> In US selling is absolutely the backbone of the economy.

you're right; I forgot that it is impossible for money to change hands without a salesman in there somewhere.
ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution
I'd describe it as follows: The paintings are the side effect of me having an evening painting. For me, it's all about enjoying a nice evening, seeing the art come into being – with nothing I want to depict, express or evoke – and trying not to ruin the car with wet paint afterward. (As you can see from the paintings, I'm not the most tidy/cleanly person.)

BUT then comes the meaninglessness stamp, and this really gives the entire thing meaning – the meaning of meaninglessness.

I'm a huge fan of Douglas Hofstaedter's work (if you haven't read it, I can highly recommend his book 'I am a strange loop') and self-referential statements and things.

And this is somehow what happened here: I only wanted to get out of the way, people should interpret the works as they like, it's about them feeling something. But HN, as HN is what we love it for, escalated this into a logic discussion.