skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Virtually everwhere has cheap enough mobile data in 2023 to read books with, so internet is not an issue.

The expense wouldn't be in the communications. It would be in replacing the broken devices. And with the program I'm familiar with, there was no communications involved anyway. You get the ebook preloaded on the device.

> I think you may be severly underestimating the cost of maintaining library-sized collections of books, in labor and utilities and maintenance and real estate.

I'm very familiar with these costs in the library system where I live, and I am privy to the figures it was looking at when developing their own ebook program.

I know they vary a lot depending on where you are, though, so it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that there are areas where it pencils out very differently.

However, as I've said, even if the ebook program saved big money, something important is still lost without physical books.
Depends on what particular "stress and adversity" from early life/ ELA from article. From what we have learnt from Spirituality and all of the wise philosophers, that sounds contradictory. Most of the teachings of philosophy point to adversity and stress as events from which we can learn from and become more stronger mentally. It's possible that always being in this state of stress can morph your worldview to always be broken, and perhaps that is what's being referenced and reflected here.
It's "weird" because it should be straight up illegal.

Anything developed with public money or eminent domain should be off the table for selling to a private entity. If private investment wants to own parking spots or highways, it can pay to create them itself. Private investment should result in development, not rent seeking on things that were already developed.

Law should be fully mutable and not subject to privately owned restrictions. Any terms that have been written in to keep the city from doing things like lowering parking rates should be considered unenforceable. And since the city is no longer getting revenue from the meters, citizens should vote to eliminate the parking fees.

Furthermore, most long term debts or contracts that a government could enter into should be repudiatable due to the principle agent problem - specifically the corrupt incentive of politicians to favor short term benefits and ignore long term liabilities. There should be very limited exceptions such as purely financial bonds that are voted on directly, and even those should have time limits of a few decades.
There are significant risks on some of those deals, as, if the toll highway doesn't get enough traffic, governments will lack the political will to let the road decay, and often will end up buying back the highway, and paying for the repairs.

So if the highway goes well, the company makes money hand over fist, and it all looks like a giant scam. If it goes really badly, the government takes a bath, and it all looks like a bunch of waste. So ultimately it's very difficult to set up a deal that lasts very long and doesn't seem like a regulatory mistake, one way or the other.

Also note that this isn't purely a US situation: Some form of privatization of toll roads happens all over the world, and success rates are also not all that great
In some contexts, sure, you could say literally nothing is "guaranteed." But in this context, we're clearly talking about how distributed systems work in practice, and which behaviors you can reasonably achieve and what tradeoffs you must make. The article clearly states:

> There are essentially three types of delivery semantics: at-most-once, at-least-once, and exactly-once. Of the three, the first two are feasible and widely used.

But in the context you're talking about, even those first two are not "feasible." And in the context you're talking about, there's basically no point in talking about anything you can do to try to achieve certain behavior since there is technically no way to physically guarantee that. What you are saying is definitely not "the point of these conversations," because you're just saying that literally nothing can ever be absolutely guaranteed. Technically true, but not particularly helpful when you're designing real systems to solve real problems, and your systems will mostly operate on infrastructure that mostly does work as intended.
In Chicago, there's always corruption involved.
Being on the board I’m sure they do. But my understanding is the MFi stuff here is to ensure a specific compliance that is a more strict subset of the USB-IF certification, and by using their trade mark they have standing to go after anyone violating it more aggressively than you might expect from a trade group.

I also can’t see where the headline says they’re nerfing anything. It seems like MFi is a “maximum comparability and quality” standard they assert for their products, but their product is still usb-if compliant so works perfectly fine with any non MFi accessory. Further MFi doesn’t mean only works with apple or something. I literally see no issue with this beyond “Apple evil must be irate”
Why on earth would you tell the model the task in english? The tasks have extremely simple JSON representations that would make for a way, way more natural input. The colorful grids are just to make it easier (for humans) to visualize the symmetries needed. Eg: Here is an (abbreviated) train/test example for task 007bbfb7 from https://github.com/fchollet/ARC/blob/master/data/training/00...

"train": [{
"input": [[0, 7, 7], [7, 7, 7], [0, 7, 7]],
"output": [[0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 7, 0, 7, 7], [0, 0, 0, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7], [0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 7...

"test": [{
"input": [[7, 0, 7], [7, 0, 7], [7, 7, 0]],
"output": [[7, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 7], [7, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 7], [7, 7, 0, 0, 0...

I imagine it would be pretty easy to fine tune a davinci model on these and then test, no? Has anyone done it?
It's interesting to think that a technology like this could have secondary ramifications; as, burning hydrogen produced from salt-water could give us clean drinking water too.

Two birds and a single stone, as they say.
at the bottom of the article it notes that it was updated with corrected numbers.
Back in my day, we used to do 17-hour overnight missions, where the crew would have to sleep in ships, since the simulation would continue through the night.

We once did an away mission where the crew was stranded on a remote planet and running out of water. We split the crew, where one half we going to find a viable water source and the other needed to track down a local scientist who had the parts we needed to repair the ship.

After dressing them up in our weirdest costumes, we trekked them outside. The water group were sent to a local convenience store with a couple of dollar bills and told to "act natural" as they picked up some bottled water. I was happy to find that they absolutely did not act normal.

The other group went to a local staff member's house, which had been decorated to look like the scientists laboratory.

Needless to say, the whole experience was quite memorable, and highlights how the computer controls are only part of what makes the simulation fun.
That is what I meant. But you have to integrate the subsystems properly, and I am not aware of an engine that does it.
If the action is sending a message, I’d say the answer is to just send it again, and defer the “exactly-once” problem to the point where the message is actually used. (It seems like we’re in a context where sending messages is always unreliable, so that send could fail, so there needs to be some protocol for retrying it anyway.)

So the action is some local action. If it’s purely digital, it’s fiddly but surely not impossible to ensure that the action and the record of the action either both take place or both don’t. It’s a database with a transaction log.

If the action is some irrevocable physical thing - remotely controlling a printer, say - you need to make a best effort to handle errors gracefully, sure.

I’d concede that it’s impossible to ensure that a document is printed out exactly once, say - maybe there’s a paper jam, and it’s debatable whether the jammed paper counts as a valid printout. But that’s not very surprising and I don’t think it tells you much. It’s mostly a problem for printer manufacturers rather than distributed system architects.
What if your present has no substance?
I have never used any app with more dark patterns than Tinder. It is the worst offender out there - and from that experience alone, I would not count on them caring too much about their users otherwise.

It is simply a tool to funnel as much money as possible from desperate people.
A very reasonable if not generous projection of where they're going to be in the next 10 years, still short of 1/3 of the way into the 75 year lease.
I think we will be seeing a lot more of this across all sectors too. On the local news last night, I saw the city of Portland is owed some $28M in back water bills by residents from the last 2 years as they suspended cutting people's water off for non-payment during the pandemic. Now they're owed a lot and no one's paying, so they're shutting a lot of people's water off and talking about raising rates on everyone else to make up for the loss.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/post-pandemic-portlanders-...
Its a chaotic tipping point. The analogy for the market for lemons isn't as good as an analogy with 80s junk bonds.

Groupthink is incredibly strong so if there's an underserved market, well, tough cookies for them, until the underserved market is so huge someone eventually takes the bait. Given that its been an underserved market for a long time, its pretty easy for the first entrant to make insane profits off the first couple deals. Then the usual suspects gather around and say they knew it all along that it was always the best idea ever and its going to be the new paradigm for the entire market going forward and only the best people have been in it from the start. By then even the slower retail investors are piling in, like an out of control crowd at a sporting event, and the crowd is starting to crush people. Of course its a very small market so returns seemingly instantly go from insanely high to insanely low because there's not many good deals in a tiny market, because its a tiny market, but the money is pouring it from the late entrants. Then when the new deals all collapse, the usual suspects lecture everyone about the inherent evils of capitalism and how they knew it was a bad idea all along, and everyone forgets about it until the cycle repeats.

There is a valid realistic market for SPACs which are kind of "headhunter for mergers with small companies" but the problem is there's too much cash sloshing around and ALL of it flows at the same time to whomever had the highest rate of return last year, even if the market of good deals in that sector completely emptied out last quarter.

Really the pity is its easy to see these situations develop but hard to "sell short" a fad. If I knew how to sell fads short I'd be a billionaire.
You may have the wrong idea about what physical collections cost and how much money would be saved by replacing them with digital collections (the number is negative).
I haven’t checked, but I suspect the return is less than they would have gotten just sticking the money in an S&P 500 index fund over the same 14 years. Still, the risk is lower.
Amazon to increase AWS prices by 57%
Time Cube, much?
This is why I hesitate to attempt any fundraising. Stretch goals and donor rewards scare me.

Fortunately, the scope of this is significantly less than Star Citizen, since all of the first-person content of the game is supposed to happen in real-life, LARP-style.
80% of Australian languages are classified as Pama–Nyungan languages. Are you saying they are based off of an Indo-European language?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pama%E2%80%93Nyungan_languages
Choose .clangformat style using a genetic algorithm
You already have that tiny serial terminal, is called cellphone
Although not a follower of Hserok Divard, she's a devoted Branch Dravidian.
If you can make it work, that's great. No car payments, no insurance payments, no maintenance expense, no fuel expense.

I need a car, but I don't buy them new. I buy used cars that may have some cosmetic flaws but are fundamentally sound. I pay cash so I don't have a car payment or interest expense. Insurance is lower, and if it gets dinged or scratched in a parking lot I don't care.
Notifications (perhaps with a delay)
In what way is this a “list of dicts”? It’s an implicitly structured list of dict, str pairs. And it is WEIRD.
Your site only shows positions available in SF and Denver, nothing for remote. Is this the case, or are there more roles available?
I neglected the /s, oh well, I'm in complete agreement with you :)
In general trust is increased when all parties are speaking openly about whatever they are thinking.
Marginalia Search
I’m pretty sure no laptop maker got blamed about some user using a third party power adapter and ruining the laptop or starting a fire.

This is just bs.
Ha yes, the good old "privatize profits, socialize losses" American capitalism.
A true Scotsman?
> no way I'm going to be a sucker and pay a sleazy dealer over MSRP

Everybody talks like buying direct from the manufacturer will solve this. I feel like people aren't paying much attention to Tesla. Sure, there isn't a mark-up per se, but they just ratchet the price up as necessary to extract maximum profit. Same as the dealer. The big difference being that the dealer actually has competition for your business but Tesla is the only place you can go to buy a new Tesla.
If there's a place in the world for pedants, it's in addressing clickbait or manipulative headlines. Someone's gotta call these garbage journalists out.
Open Source Collective Is Hiring Maintainers
dravidian languages are not indo-european
They do (did?) that all the time in Poland. Hot girls will act extremely interested, while insisting on you doing shots with them. The dude then passes out (from spiked drinks), and is brought to the backroom where the staff is going through his cards, making exorbitant purchases from the joint.

Here's one report: https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/05/31/police-raid-strip-clu...
Email is absolutely something that requires idempotence to avoid sending duplicates. Even if your code is perfect and you don't send emails until after you commit your transaction, the actual http request to the email provider could fail in a way where the email is sent but your system can't tell.

Idempotency (either via a token in the request, or another API to check the result of the previous request) is required to prevent duplicates. And this requires the third party service to support idempotency; there's nothing you can do on your side to enable it if their service doesn't support it.
It's a networked video game. If you're in the living room, folks are expected to bring their own computer. Each computer maps to a station on the bridge of a spaceship, like navigator or tactical.

The hope is that the game can be hosted over the internet through port-forwarding or on a VPC. That "part of a larger event" is actually in reference to running the game over a LAN at a convention.

The USS Voyager is a physical bridge simulator in Utah, USA that uses the Thorium Classic software, the precursor to Thorium Nova.
Wait! You can list a company without conducting any real business?
>When you pick up your smartphone, the first thing you see is a push notification - maybe there’s a breaking news alert, a message from a dating site, or football scores… Whatever it is, chances are it came from us.

oh it's you I can blame.
if I coded a function foobar(a) that takes a string a as input and contains the code "if a == "do you have a soul" return "yes, I have a soul", would you start saying my function has a soul?
Best learn Jiu Jitsu, and pull guard when you're about to get robbed or kidnapped /s
If everyone invested in the S&P 500 we would all be rich. Companies should raise capital just to buy S&P 500 index fund so we can finally have universal prosperity.
Who employs the parking enforcement officials?
Does this company have a say in zoning and permitting changes and decisions?
Do they have easement rights on both preexisting meters and future meters?
Subprime auto loan crisis would be neat.

Small chunk of labour unable to commute, unable to earn.

Less earning snowballs into less demand snowballs into recession.

Whatever triple leverage cronenberg security monster wall street has secretly shoved up everyone's ass wrapped in 4 layers of derivatives goes bust causing the fed props up asset prices (obviously) while low income areas turn into the god damn purge.

But hey, used cars will be cheap again
capitalistic, monopolistic
> We must choose between the lesser of two evils, which is at-least-once delivery in most cases. This can be used to simulate exactly-once semantics by ensuring idempotency or otherwise eliminating side effects from operations.

There is a third option besides idempotency and eliminating side-effects: give each message a unique ID, use that to keep a record of which messages have been processed, and don't process the same message twice.
Elon is making an open-source version. OpenAI either make it affordable or be left in the dust.
literally just ask chatgpt. it will walk you through it in your language of choice.
Well they generated a lot less before price hikes. Ideally the city would have kept it and hiked prices, but unfortunately, high prices for street parking is politically unfavorable, even if socially optimal.
Dark mode surely.

Other than that I guess it’s okay as a website.
Does anyone have a sense of how the Shopify integration work under the hood? Specifically, how were they able to have Chat-GPT makes a recommendation from their product database? Given the model cannot be fine-tuned and there is a 4000 token context limit, I'm guessing the only thing really possible is to have chat gpt extract a few keyword and generate a query in their internal product search and return the first one? Is there anything else that might going under the hood?
Yes, but the receiver can be faulty. If it acknowledges the message and then crashes before handling it, you've got at-most-once, and if it handles the message and then crashes before acknowledging it, you've got at-least-once. You can avoid this if the receiver handles and acknowledges in a single transaction, but I only know of one platform that implements this and everyone hates it (hence the throwaway).
Except the profit can also be reinvested. That kind of free cash flow is pretty insane - and will help dollar cost average any equity investments during down markets, compared to just lump sum investing $1.5B and letting it ride.
Do you have a source for that?

Because if the number were negative in the long-term, it doesn't make sense that libraries would be doing that.
The cheap subsidized Broadcom part is a habit that's hard to break. I've stopped suggesting iMX or Sitara to people because they just can't get over what the real price of these things are. And it's not hundreds of dollars.
In theory you could simply wait with TCP ACK until you had committed to your ACID database and then TCP would in fact be exactly once.

I guess hardly anyone does this though.
An easy-to-imagine scenario is that a router with multiple egress paths emits the UDP packet on multiple interfaces. The packets take different routes but both arrive at the destination.
It's interesting they update the software but the site looks mostly frozen in time with copyright notice, templates, and the design.
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It feels like so much of the IPO class of 21-22 was just a 0 interest rate phenomenon. I did this analysis of fintech IPOs last year. So many of them are down by 80% and growth is slowing. https://yarn.pranshum.com/ipos_int
Mech: A data-driven reactive language for games and robots
I currently make ~$12k a year as a student. Bought my first car, a 2013 Scion FR-S almost a year ago for $4k. Had about 150k miles on it. I do oil changes myself, twice a year, for $50 a pop. It's a reliable car, and I haven't needed to do any big repairs. I'm planning to take it to 250k, or further.

Bottom line: find a reliable used car. Don't take out a loan you can't afford. E.g. Toyota Camry/Corolla, Honda Civic. For about the price of a typical down payment, you get a functional vehicle that will cost you <$500 in maintenance a year.
Dravidian is not indo-european AFAIK.
I've used Terminator for years, and it is by far my favorite terminal emulator.
Really? Where?

To my understanding, in a scenario like

A--B--C--D <-master
\
E--F--G <- branch1
\
H--I <-- branch2

You can't identify the set of commits I and H (specifically, commits made under a given branch) without knowing (external to the information stored in commits normally) that branch2 branched off of branch1.
enjoy your user protection for 3x the cost
My Germanic Linguistics grad school prof told us once, to your point, if you count etymologies of words in spoken English and in the English dictionary, you'd get roughly the following:
spoken English uses roughly 80% Germanic vocabulary, but the English dictionary is roughly 80% Latin and Greek words (anglicized).
No it handles a max of 4k. That's context plus reply.
Highway 407 in Ontario is high on the list of nice deal badboys:

"SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. will sell 10.01 per cent of its stake in 407 International Inc., the private consortium that controls the profitable tolled highway in north Toronto, for an expected $3.25 billion, the company announced Friday.

That’s more than a billion than what the government earned 20 years ago – for selling the leasing rights to the entire highway.

In 1999, the Ontario government leased Highway 407 for the next 99-years for $3.1 billion, or $4.4 billion in today’s dollars.

At the time, it was the largest privatization of a public asset in Canadian history. But in hindsight, it may be considered one of Ontario’s biggest financial missteps, considering the SNC-Lavalin sale pegs the value of the highway at at least $30 billion.

The company running the 407 reported revenues of $1.4 billion in 2018"

...they sold the 10% to... Ontario's pension fund...

https://www.yahoo.com/now/worst-deal-ever-the-407-is-worth-3...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-27/why-brazi...

These love motels are usually in surrounding areas (as building codes restrict them being placed in central areas to avoid prostitution)
This is playbook taken from Amazon prime.

This massive price cut, I believe, is intended to undercut competing open source ChatGPT equivalent initiatives.

OpenAI/Micorsoft may be losing money with this new pricing, but that is on purpose. At these lower prices most of the OpenSource alternatives in the works will have difficult time continuing projects.

After few years, when most open source alternatives have died, OpenAI/Microsoft will gradually raise the prices.

This is the same strategy that Amazon Prime used for many years, losing money on shipping. Once the competition was eliminated, Amazon Prime prices steadily increased.
And vice versa. It's tricky to know what the binary will actually be named.

I have had to look directly in the /nix/store enough times that I lost count.
It's built with Node.js and Electron on the backend, a bespoke JSON-based database, a React frontend built with Vite, three.js and React Three Fiber for the 3D views, and an adapted network layer based on tRPC that supports live queries over WebSockets, so data updates are automatically propagated to all subscribed clients.

My biggest regret is the database. During gameplay, the database needs to be in memory so the game loop has as little latency as possible, so the database is just for persistence when the app closes. I really should use something built for this purpose, like sqlite. But the database engine I'm using is designed to be transparent and convenient. It uses a JavaScript proxy to track any time a data mutation is made to the in-memory database, and dumps that to the JSON file on a throttle.

Everything else is meeting my needs just fine.