skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah.

It was payback to Jim Clyburn for the stunt he pulled in 2020 re: Bernie.
Wow yeah please give me more woke nonsense reboots to perpetuate the demoralisation
Well, YouTube-the-hosting-business definitely doesn't fit in very well with Goo-Alpha-whatever (being, really, an advertising-cum-PI-broker), but that's hardly the fault of the owning company.

Fact is: there is very little business sense in an outfit like YouTube. You have massive server costs, massive bandwidth costs, a fickle audience, a precarious copyright situation, and very little margin for recovery.

Yet, YouTube is and remains popular. Very very popular. So, you would think there is some room for a play there. And there have been sufficient suggestions from various parties on what that play should be. Increase advertising. Go full-Spotify. Et cetera, ad absurdum.

What YouTube has implemented is a mediocre mix of worst-case options: sure, customers can get a subscription, but it does not actually offer any advantages. And yes, partners can create opportunities, but only if they're a top-10 media company, and therefore won't create anything if their life literally depended on it. Smaller partners are smothered: Alpha-Goo-tube could listen to them, but they don't and won't.

So, YouTube right now is an entire market-in-itself waiting to be disrupted. Spotify did it for audio; who will be the disruptor for video, and when, remains to be seen. Given the current market conditions, we'll have to wait a year or two, but that YouTube is toast is pretty much a given.
Tbh, I (and most Indians) don't know how 112 works.

In the US, if you dial 9-1-1 for a medical emergency, in most regions, it is highly likely that an ambulance with EMT/paramedics will arrive in < 10 min.

In my city of Bengaluru, there are, no exaggeration, good hospitals within 2-5 km of any point in the city. Most of these hospitals have ambulance fleets that can get to you fast, within 10-15 minutes. Anecdotally, people prefer calling these hospitals directly for ambulance.

Caveat: I am not recommending hospital ambulances over 112, but just saying that I am not aware of 1-1-2 response time and effectiveness.
Waiting for Apple.
But, according to the filing, there is a person called a "RealPage Pricing Advisor" who is typically the only party in the loop with the ability to settle the disagreement without seeking further approvals. And it's not exactly a normal arrangement for the "Lessor's employees with pricing responsibility" to have prices dictated to them by a third party company which also sets the Lessor's competitors' prices.

Similarly, if that store manager at Walmart you mentioned had to seek approval from the same advisor that does prices for K-mart and Target to adjust the amount on the till, I don't think one could argue that this wasn't price fixing so long as he was still able to get you the discount by petitioning the Walton Family...
Plant grass [roots]
Better than LMAA I guess O:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_salute
Admittedly a half baked idea, but I wish someone was attempting to design an ornithopter as an alternative to drones for things like short-distance deliveries. Given higher power density batteries and advances in RL to find efficient flight control policies it seems plausibly possible, and it'd eliminate noise pollution concerns almost entirely. Plus, the mental image of a mechanical harpy eagle (payload capacity greater than body weight) perched on your window sill with your doordash is just too appealing to pass up.
I got science documentaries…
It will take time for the computer in the car to detect the ethanol and switch to a high ethanol fuel map. In the mean time, the engine is going to run pretty lean, since more ethanol is required than gasoline for the same volume of air. Running too lean usually causes the engine to buck and shake pretty badly.

This, of course, assumes that the car is even capable of running higher ethanol blends.

The performance benefits are mostly from turbocharged engines. Though, Chevy V8s can see solid torque gains over 4000 RPMs.

Once you get into the E50+ blends, you should have seen a huge mileage reduction. 10-20% for E50 and 25+% on E85. There's so much less energy density in ethanol.
This whole thing is crazy. I get it that it isn't their fault that they are being attacked... what they can control is their communications with their customers and be transparent with their issues and fixes. They're being vague, and that's the reason I just configured a competitor's SMTP relay account. I can forgive the outage, I can't forgive the poor communications... that's a choice.
Atheism also isn't really a coherent religion, it's more like checking 'none of the above' on a multiple-choice test. I suppose there are the "New Atheists" who'd disagree, but they're pretty insufferable IMO.
> Funny thing is, you can barely launder any tangible amount of money with Bitcoin let alone crypto.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/10/crypto-criminals-laundered-5...

Is $540M considered a tangible amount? I'll let you quibble over that but I'd think most criminals would be more than happy to be able to launder $540M.
It depends on the telco. I have a telco that requires me to have an active roaming plan to receive SMS/calls. Which is about $5 a day from memory (I don’t use it overseas). Another telco has no requirements and no charge to receive SMS/calls overseas as long as the number is active.
Interestingly, none of those reasons were listed in this article from December which seems to have perfectly predicted the current shortage. The article from December made it seem like farmers were squeezed by rising costs of labor, fertilizer, and other inputs and were facing buyers unwilling to budge on the price. So their only option was to reduce output.
That's probably the best and safest way to do it
I agree, not all art is semiotically vacant. At the same time, we'll never get (as the viewers of a piece) get to fully understand what the artist wanted to express – and that's the situation I wanted to evade as the artist here.
The mental model is slightly different. FDWS are basically server -> server linkages, not literally clustering. As a result, data consistency between servers is less of an issue - the data is likely to only live in one place (read replicas and failovers notwithstanding). There may be some error handling and try/rollback around remote transactions baked into postgres_fdw but I'm not familiar enough to say.
if nobody can see their comments anyways whats the point to not let them wast their time and post in the abyss?
might be possible that given the restrictions now placed on purchasing certain vegetables shoppers are seeking alternatives, irrespective of what Tory MPs may or may not say.
> whether Google at 30k employees has the same signaling effect as Google at 186k employees

This is why prestigious universities don't invest in increasing class sizes. The student demand is there. There is no lack of world class professors to hire, and larger facilities could be built. An Ivy league is capable of reaching 10x enrollment in 20 years while raising tuition and providing the same quality of education. However, within 50 years the brand will carry less prestige.
Well, yeah. In most of historical warfare, noblemen fought noblemen, yeomen fought yeomen, and peasants fought peasants. When English yeoman archers fired on advancing French cavalry (noblemen) at Agincourt, it was considered awfully bad form.

Swords were expensive things, you needed money to own one. And there were many laws restricting who was allowed to carry a sword and who wasn't.
You can have a sales office or whatever. Having a small RnD office not doing the grunt core stuff anyways won't impress anyone.
Because employees are primarily a cost vs output equation for public companies in particular (and that's even more true with gigantic firms). Acquisitions are broadly viewed as expanding shareholder value (whether accurate or not in a given situation).

The stock market tanked thanks to the Fed rate hikes. It's believed shareholders will respond positively to cost optimizations. So they'll try to hold the line on growth while boosting margins re cost centers.

It's quite straight-forward thinking as it pertains to getting a positive reaction from shareholders.

The question for that context is: are your cost centers well optimized, or can you trim staff (real-estate holdings, inventory, whatever)? That's a very common question that would be pushed at public companies by large institutional shareholders.

Big tech is extraordinarily bloated with labor. They frequently grow at almost comical rates in terms of adding unnecessary employees (they do it just because they can afford to hoover up the talent to keep it from their competition; one common path forward in the hierarchy for managers is to grow their staff count and expand their footprint), and pretty much everyone knows it. It happens with every fast growth era in tech.
Wow that's insane, is there any references or reading on this? Tried to find sources and having difficulty.
Oh that is fabulous.
Easier trade would help smooth over short-term shortages.
This is in my opinion far too narrow a view of aristocratic honor culture in the US and how that influenced Southern culture even among lower socioeconomic strata. By the civil war, dueling was pervasive throughout the south[1][2]. Over time this filtered down to "redneck" culture for lack of a better name for lower class southern whites. This in turn had effects on southern black culture and was carried north during the Great Migration[3] to some extent. So what you see in inner city shootings is the direct lineage of early American dueling imported to the south from French aristocrats who fought in the American Revolution. History is truly strange.

[1] https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/3655

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_in_the_Southern_United...

[3] https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/4/race_crime_and_c...
Well all the final products (contextually, material fuels or just energy) have a production history: to call one of them inefficient you need to compare production processes. Diesel fuel does not come ready from "diesel springs".
Octane is a measure of the relatives ratios of the octane molecule with some other (I can never remember which). 100 octane means the fuel acts in your engine the same as fuel made from 100% octane molecule. 0 octane means it acts like 100% the other, 90 octane mean it acts like a mix of 90% octane and 10% the other.

You can go below 0 or above 100 if you find some other molecule/mix that acts worse/better, though how you extrapolate beyond the 0-100 range is subject to debate, confusion and deception. Ethanol is clearly better than pure octane, though how much depends on how you choose to extend the scale.
Great read. Starting a corn religion bbl.
A comical new addition to the general impression that Britain is falling apart at the seams.
> Generally, it helps to take comments in context…

That’s true, but when the projection is off by roughly a factor of 10, it’s helpful to bring in the actual data.
"Capitalism" can be a lot of things, including things which privilege capital without regard to market freedom for labor or consumer.

Cartels certainly aren't free markets. To keep those you need policy which keeps them that way.
It might not do well in a collision with an F350, but an Aptera is considerably larger than it looks in pictures. It's wider and higher than a Tesla Model S. It'll fit a surfboard in the trunk, or a bicycle without any disassembly.
That's like saying the sky isn't really blue, when someone asks you the color. "As far as wavelengths go, Earth's sky really is a bluish violet. But because of our eyes we see it as pale blue." [1]

Saying OPEC doesn't fix prices is a nonsense statement that does nothing but split hairs. OPEC engages in price fixing as set forth by the FTC, though they are not subject to the FTC. [2]

Price fixing is a term of art that doesn't just mean the specific price of a sale is fixed. Price fixing can also mean that prices are indirectly fixed by production quotas or capacity. OPEC exists for the very reason to set production quotas or capacity. "OPEC's objective is to co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries" [3]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2017/01/11/earth...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

[3] https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/24.htm
Let them play NES, classic games like Super Mario World. Then show them the same games on the emulator FCEUX, specifically the hex editor (for glitching the game by plonking numbers at random addresses) and then the lua scripts that give them super powers by purposefully putting values where they do specific jobs.

Same with Minecraft: Use a Pi, search for Minecraft Pi Reborn (just so it's not a crap experience like the original abandonware Pi Minecraft has become). Then show them https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started... or any of the other pi+python+minecraft projects. Use Python to check the Minecraft players location and upon sensing it's at a specific location on a particular map, move the player somewhere else. They've just created a Teleportal (randomize the destination for added mischief).

Then for bonus points use this: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/python-programming-tuto... to tie conditions inside the Minecraft game with real world buttons and lights. Wire up a button to GPIO pins that the python code checks to trigger summoning a 5x5x5 block of TNT upon command, or an LED that lights up upon some other in-game condition. There's a lot of material there, and if you're on several Pis you can network them together safely so that all three can play together on the same server without needing access to the internet. Clobbering siblings with Minecraft Python magery is a great motivator. They'll never even notice they're learning stuff even adult devs may not know.
Lots of R&D uses deuterium, the neutron output is lower-energy and a handy diagnostic. Even hobbyists with fusors run on deuterium. Getting net power with deuterium is harder than D-T, but just fusing some deuterium isn't hard.

The same goes for aneutronic fuels, as long as you reach the necessary temperature. Helion for example claims to have achieved a significant amount of D-He3 reactions. LPPFusion has published research saying they've achieved boron fusion temperatures, though not with boron fuel, or the triple product needed for net power from boron. (They're using deuterium though, and getting neutrons.)
So "oil and water don't mix", as is often said. Oil/ gas with corn based additives DO mix with water, so it cannot be piped through a pipeline, thus making it be carried totally by truck, and making it's carbon footprint even worse.
The research article is located here: <https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2101084119>; if you're interested in what "likely" means in this context, it may be beneficial to read through the article. My understanding is that the "likely" comes from it being an estimate using models, as the research article states.

> Substituting our empirically derived domestic emissions for those modeled in the RFS RIA would raise ethanol’s projected life cycle GHG emissions for 2022 to 115.7 g CO2e MJ−1—a value 24% above baseline gasoline (93.1 g CO2e MJ−1). The RIA estimate, however, includes improvements in feedstock and ethanol production efficiency that were projected to occur by 2022, such that the GHG intensity of ethanol produced at earlier time periods and over the life of the RFS to date is likely much higher [...].

My understanding is that they took the model used in the RFS RIA (when the RFS was first introduced), and plugged in what they've seen over the past few years to that model. Take that with what you will.

> And we're to assume that, without the production of fuel ethanol, the same land wouldn't be tilled and used for other crops?

With the increase in demand for corn for fuel usage, more fields are needed to plant the corn. Because the corn is for fuel, not food, food wouldn't have been planted in place of the corn had there not been fuel demand.
When it comes to fermentation, you can get pretty far by developing a good intuition (through experience) of how to steward your little ecosystem and how it responds to your particular ingredients and environment. You can be an expert on that and produce great flavors without knowing the microbiology, like cheesemakers and brewers have done for thousands of years.

Granted, the hard science is helpful in getting to the next level and achieving a product that's consistent from batch to batch.
In sports betting, you can buy a service that tells you what you should set your odds at [0], in order to match the market. Since hundreds of betting sites buy from the same company, they quickly converge on some set price.

[0]: https://www.betradar.com/betting-services/live-odds-service/
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The rub is that the suggested pricing is the default that doesn't require extra layers of approval with an included reasoning for deviating. All the pressure is for using the price derived from the proprietary information of other companies-that would be price fixing. It's not the process, so much as the source except that the process is set up to encourage as universal adoption as possible to keep the scam going.
In addition to the points already mentioned (counterparty risk, currency conversion, popularity, ease of seller side integration), don't underestimate how much PayPal can increase conversion rates by making it easy for the buyer to make a purchase.

Fumbling around with credit cards or IBAN numbers + having your banking app fail randomly when trying to authorize payments is annoying. PayPal just works. Also, if you're some random shop on the internet many customers prefer to pay via PayPal rather providing you banking details or credit card numbers.

> That or give the option to accept the counter party risk for failure of transfers.

In Germany, merchants frequently offer to be paid by IBAN in advance or by invoice after the delivery. No fees, but the risk is fully on one side.

> And there surely is signing methods that one could do as an escrow like service to mitigate most of the fee.

PayPal basically acts like an escrow with their buyer protection policy. If you find another provider, good luck convincing the customers.
It may get demonized if it ever gets some users. Quite a Hurd(le)!
Saying just buy from a competitor to See’s is completely missing the point. The point isn’t See’s candies specifically (which I’m so surprised everyone really held onto), but rather the mindset of the MBA type (doesn’t matter if they actually have an MBA) that says let’s just keep increasing prices on this commodity forever until we’ve squeezed all the juice, and once we have, we’ll do it some more. When you apply this to every sector, over time you disproportionally hurt those at the bottom and make them poorer. You also cause inflation, which dwindles the power of savings. This software in the article is doing it for housing, and worse, it seems that it does it more than a human would. You especially see it in entertainment, where now a basketball game is something well beyond the capacity of most. It’s very unfair to me as a society that we say only rich kids can go to Disneyland, and NBA game, or a concert. Or if they do, it’s far less often and they’ve had to save for a long time for it. But you also see it with eating out, car insurance, almost every good except fast fashion, TVs (which are largely subsidized by monetizing your viewing), and some other consumer electronics. The percent of people’s average income spent on most sectors has gone up over time.

I’ll leave you with this: https://youtu.be/X29p13cAT1g?t=17
Did they, too, overhire to prepare for a mad tsunami of post-pandemic demand for base stations?

No, nm, they didn't. They are doing it just because.

It's getting pretty comical by now if there weren't people involved.
They won't. Brexit and the Tories must be bemoaned every time a UK story appears on HN.
I have no evidence for this, but my feeling was always that the highest-volume exploits were just having a bot run yesterday's Day-0 on every IP listening on a port. You can't get that kind of volume by calling people and asking for their password.

If you leave an unsecured mail server accessible to the internet, it'll start sending spam emails within 30 minutes.

On the other hand, phishing emails are also automated, and that's essentially asking for the password.
Why? Ericsson has always been a back-end networking and telecommunication company.

Erlang was created, at Ericsson, for a telephony switch.

It's shuttered the consumer side entirely (Sony Ericsson was a joint venture, not a group), it's one of the lead developers in mobile telephony, as well as the lead IP holder in the domain.

In Europe also a large player in the broadcast space, though Red Bee Media (formerly Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services): BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Canal+, as well as Channel 4 and Channel 5's VOD. RBM is also a huge provider of closed captioning, signing, and audio description worldwide, by far the largest in europe for more than 15 years (after they acquired Mundovisión and Titelbild).
You may be right but i think the 1/4 the price notion is misplaced. It's when they are in Mexico that they're 1/4 the price, and that's already legal due to free flow of goods with NAFTA. I can pay $2, $3 an hour and have the Mexican produce the widget and import it. If the Mexican is allowed to come to USA, now I have to either pay more to the remaining Mexicans (supply vs demand) or pay them minimum wage in the USA, which actually makes them MORE EXPENSIVE competition and thus the (USA)American working stiff relatively more attractive to employ.

When Mexicans can come work in the US they generally have to be paid more (at the very least due to minimum wage). So we'd be angry because now we're competing against.... more expensive labor? It's not the voting masses of people at the bottom that benefit from current policy, it's those at the top. NAFTA is the worst of both worlds for labor on both sides, which makes it democratically unattractive.
For sure. I have no aspiration to be a landlord, but I bought a place last year with a mortgage payment a bit higher than what I was paying to rent an equivalent place before. This made good financial sense.

Now, let's suppose somehow we build all over my neighborhood over the next three years and rent craters. Instead of paying, say, 1200 on my mortgage to own a place instead of 1000 in rent, I could now be paying 600 in rent vs. 1200 on a mortgage. I'm now in a bind where I'm losing money every month over renting the place next door and there's a good chance my property even when I pay it off is worth less than I've paid.

I'm certainly not against building, but if somehow every YIMBY dream came through for them near me, I've definitely just made a really terrible financial decision that's going to dramatically change the trajectory of my life. Moving to another city for a job is now borderline impossible if I'm tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars underwater on my mortgage, and couldn't rent the property for anything close to what I'm paying.

Like many fixes to societal ills, it's easy to look at the end result and see how it's better for most people, but it's likely to hurt a lot of people who made totally reasonable choices.
Which would be price-fixing and illegal?

I understand there's no way to 100% guarantee such actions will be punished, if it does occur, but clearly it's already not accepted by society.