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Ask HN: How does retail pricing of computers and GPUs work?
Do the retailers buy the stock and pay up front?

What happens when prices start dropping on a computer/GPU, are the retailers losing money then?

Curious to know how pricing works behind the scenes.

It must cost an absolute fortune to buy all the stock in a computer store if the retailer has to buy it all, and they are taking a risk on what sells.
Probably a bimodal distribution will be the outcome.

The skilled on-shore would be paid more, the fungible would be paid less.

But again offshoring is not always the cheapest answer due to the inefficiency that time difference introduces.
This is not (just) about adding a compatibility layer. The original deno presentation complained about the whole concept of a module that Node introduced (rather than "simply" referencing script files the way an HTML page does), it complained about the need of an additional file to specify imports etc.

The blog post explains in detail why these things are actually required and useful, and introduces the new deno.js file that is functionally equivalent to package.json. So even purely deno packages meant to be used entirely in the deno ecosystem are encouraged to use the new package.json 2.0, for many of the same reasons package.json was introduced in Node all those years ago.
Fingerprinting and everything work perfectly fine on Fedora with the ThinkPad's built in fingerprint scanner.
I don't understand how that relates to what I said?
This makes me think of https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-please-resign email! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222192

Is this a leak from Amazon?
Well at least it gives you an excuse if someone checks your history.
It's just a very new and therefore unknown package. We were suprised about the benchmarkings too. Turns out some libs benchmark their memoization by feeding the memoized functions with one and the same argument millions of times. If you hit the memoized functions with a set of say 1000 different arguments in a loop it turns out some implementations get slow (maybe some O(n) algorithms under the hood where there could have been O(1)).
> Oh, perhaps write them in a JSON form in some sort of package.json and read them from there perhaps?

Maybe even have an executable that will read this file and understand your dependency graph and needs and install everything for you, and also allow you to keep it up to date.

Maybe put this in `utils/npm.js` // short for node package manager.

Brilliant. Lets all implement our own.
I hope the Supreme Court treats this differently

While I want strong law enforcement, logically when law enforcement isn’t required to identify themselves when using force then citizens are inclined to defend themselves including use of deadly force.

This would be counter to law enforcement’s self interests, at least in the Ivory Tower perspective.

Obviously I am not a lawyer, so none of this matters.
Many parts of the internet are filled with people who feel entitled to steal the work done by other people without compensating them for it. HN is no exception.
Any game where you're seated in some kind of cockpit is my idea of a perfect VR game. This way you can be comfortably sit at your desk with familiar controls, but still have immersive head tracking. For me, I'd love to see a WWI or WWII air combat kind of game like the old Red Baron or IL-2 Sturmovik.
Amazon releases code, datasets for developing embodied AI agents
> Like y’all, it isn’t that hard to expressly minority opinions without being toxic or hateful. I express minority opinions constantly and have never once even been worried about the banhammer.

I've been banned from several subreddits for simply disagreeing with majority views, and pretty much every time it was in a neutral or respectful tone.

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PS: the entire concept of "toxic" seems "new age-y" and pseudo-religious. People refer to things being toxic as a substitute for "evil" and "taboo" - stuff that brings uncomfortable or negative associations, and in this manner they are embedding their projection of a civil religion onto others, which is an act of aggression in itself in a medium that is supposed not to have such rules.

Note that they say "toxic" and not just "rude" which would imply a certain common, traditional culture that most people would be expected to know and to some extent abide by. Toxic takes the place of the figure of "rudeness", "bad manners" and "heresy" but instead of based off a longstanding tradition, culture and religion, based of a newfangled atheist civil religion that a lot of people simply don't accept or don't want to play ball with. Their very presence and their discourse is seen as contaminating society, thus "toxic" - this is exactly equivalent to the moral worldview of a religious fanatic.

And those "heretics" are dealt with with medieval intolerance as there is no discussion to be had on these "values" from their point of view. You see in this people the fervour, hatred and emotional response you'd expect from an inquisitor who just witnessed wanton heresy or a taboo being broken, and that is exactly how more often than not mods behave in these platforms. Their interest in expanding their ideology and protecting themselves and others from heretics motivates them to put a lot of free labour in these endeavours, which is hard to compete with.
I think this is a great question. When I graduated way back in the day, CS was surging as a major but was still very much emerging from the Mathematics department. We were encouraged to take electives in software engineering and other "adjacent" fields, mostly in order to better understand what CS was and what it wasn't. The kinds of fundamentals referred to here were absolutely considered minimums at the boring state school I went to. By the time we graduated, we were expected to know this stuff so well that one of the required classes had us build a basic unix-like OS from scratch, which included many of these kinds of fundamentals in the guts of the project.

Since then, I perceive that CS programs have come under immense industry pressure to crank out software engineers and not computer scientists. The need for real computer science is not very large as a percentage in the entire computing/software industry. And generally once a funky CS problem is solved, it gets encoded into software and then reused by software engineers over and over.

I think this has forced CS departments to start directing some of the curriculum towards software engineering rather than CS -- resulting in students who are more diluted in the fundamentals, but who also aren't great software engineers.

I also think that some departments are also now trying to figure out how to support the massive growth in the kinds of computer science theory needed to support the emerging data science/machine learning/deep learning/etc. fields. When I graduated GPUs were still relatively new and we simply didn't learn those until later MS programs. Now I couldn't see somebody graduating undergrad without knowing some basics on how GPUs work on the hardware and software side, and understand the data structures and computations required to work with the new classes of models emerging in the field.
Considering the audience, this language is more vivid and precise than saying something like "middle management causes bloat." It puts a picture in your head of how that bloat grows and what causes the bloat (the tree structure of the organization).
Looks like nobody wants to make customer friendly product anymore, it needs to be packed to the brim with useless gimmicks and software which WILL become obsolete and outdated, and of course locked down as hard as possible.
It's really weird, all this dichotomy and delusion - on one hand there are numerous educational initiatives, kids are learning from young age that we need to take care about environment. There are numerous government initiatives focused on telling individual people how to live, how many times to fly on vacation and how many times one is allowed to leave residential area.

And yet I'm unable to buy electric bike WITH INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS - you know - just like all the bikes were for more than 200 years until now.
And the country uses internet for banking. I am imagining a bank run due to cutting off the internet.
> The newer style of cargo bikes can for many families replace a car.

Absolutely! My wife and I have a 6yo, and we take him everywhere on the back of our Kona Minute.

He's big for his age (65lbs) so we're looking to move to a ebike sometime this year, but up to now it's been great! Literally the only time we need to use a car is when we go out of town.
Wow. Great progress! Recently, I was wondering why gitea does not have a GitHub Actions alternative. What a timing.

BTW, a colleague of mine told me that GitHub Actions wasn't supposed to be a CI/CD alternative at the time when it was released. I couldn't find any note on that online. Is it true?
It's excellent. Gigabit fibre. I mapped out the rural fibre routes (along with other infra) and current real estate listings. Threw it up at gaffologist.com if you're curious. Note that I am not a front-end dev and it shows.
So far, what I've seen of Filigrees activities, they are not the baddies here.
>The next couple years should be
interesting.

A pity for those who enjoyed the calm of the last two years!
When your trip is 3km you can easily walk. Bicycle commuting is very hard in warmer climates, because you will get sweaty. But motorcycles solve that problem at least. Then you have those cold climates with awful weather, where bicycle commuting is pure misery, compared to riding a car or bus. So it is all very location dependent.
The main problem is the machine protects itself. Prosecutors won't prosecute because they work hand in hand with the police. The police feed prosecutors cases, the prosecutors prosecute and look good.

When the prosecutors refuse to bring charges against police, the only remedy is civil court, which QI forbids in most cases. There are exceptions, but there should be more.

Having said that, nothing prevents you from suing the police department, city or government. It's just that the people who commit these acts have no repercussions because the prosecutors don't bring charges and their superiors support that type of activity.

I can't overstate how dangerous and what a powder keg this is right now. If we ever had a hot civil war, I suspect it would be citizens vs police, not liberal vs conservative.
> might be impossible depending on work or children

a dog it's even worse in this regard. I don't think any taxi will refuse a child.
I have a suggestion. Instead of trying to figure out what to build, why don't you start reading the source code of what others have built?

For example, interested in blockchain and know some Golang? Why not start reading the Ethereum main repo source code and documentation? This is just an example to make a point, but you get the idea.

Good luck :)
"The same is true for this note as the impacted teams are not yet finished making final decisions on precisely which roles will be impacted. Once those decisions have been made (our goal is to have this complete by mid to late April), we will communicate with the impacted employees (or where applicable in Europe, with employee representative bodies)." What a terrible experience. Employees at Amazon are waiting to be terminated right now.
Chief Grug warns fire could be used for nefarious purposes.

Equally informative, equally valid, equally pointless.
Maybe SRE related spam?
unemployment frees up a lot of time.
> Yatte [1] is a third party client built from scratch in swift ui. It can connect either Piped or Invidous servers.

How though? I just spent the last hour trying to configure a source and it seems impossible to make it work.
> Bicycles are somewhere from 3x to 11x more dangerous than cars.

In the US, where there is effectively no bicycle infrastructure. In the Netherlands it seems to be about 1.18x (or 1.1x if you include trucks) [0].

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/523310/netherlands-numbe...
Sorry. That was uncharitable of me. You did not make a "just use X" claim. But your suggestion does elide the significant difficulties in doing as you suggest. It's an alternative that will lead to more frustration due to the tons of design decisions wrapped up in package.scripts. And asserting that because you can do this, package.json "doesn't need this section tbh" is misleading and a recipe for further frustration for people who listen to your advice.

And yes, Deno not literally being Node is in fact its problem. I've shipped stuff using Deno--and I don't hate it, and I did use Makefiles--but yeah, that's the actual problem here. Node conventions are the ones everyone expects and every tool expects, and Deno does not have a unique selling point to it that makes using it more reasonable than just using Node.
This seems like a strange example because out of my fairly large VR game collection, I can't think of a single shooter where reloading is anything different from just physically doing a reload action like you would with a real gun. I can only think of two games where the ammo is stored differently than real life (Compound and Alyx), the rest have ammo pouches and belts.

I can think of one smaller game where reloading is different, and that's Space Pirate Trainer, where you bring your guns behind your back for a moment. But that's more of an arcade game than what most people mean when they talk about shooters.

Maybe give Subnautica a try. Or the old version of HL2 on VR.
I think maybe this is a confusion from the OP. A context relevant title will be created by an AI based on your question.

Instead of having "Chat 1" the AI will automatically find a name for your tab. Brilliant if you ask med. Confusing if you don't notice it.
How did you end up finding customers? And particularly customers who are willing to pay for logos? Any marketing strategies you implemented?
I always like to reference the moment I saw on tv in Vancouver interviewing an old lady who was so immersed in her enclave she referred to white people as foreigners.
NASA Space Place
I'd rather rent somewhere I can walk to the pub then live in my current paid-off house where I'm just lonely all the time. It's beautiful but that only goes so far.
I’m a tech nerd and developer who enjoys social VR, whether Horizons, VR Chat, or Rec Room. One issue is that the public rooms are usually full of annoying griefers, all the nice interesting people have retreated out of the public areas and into private rooms and parties. This means if you just drop in to one of these systems casually you don’t get to see all the interesting private events happening, like lots of private DJ and music concerts in VR Chat for example.
Most bike insurance include covering the cost of paying for a taxi or other transport alternative on the day of your bike theft.
The trip has to be worth the gas.

In a novel, the point of suspense is to make you read the next page. It's an almost trivial step to get to, almost automatic, but I still have to want to keep reading. I do (for most competently-written novels), because the payoff appears worth the effort.

"I'll tell you tomorrow"? That only works if you're promising me something worth the wait, and if I believe that you will deliver. Almost everyone who uses this technique fails the second point. And the more you use this technique, the less I believe you. You're willing to waste my time today; you'll probably be willing to waste it tomorrow, too. So I won't be back.
Yes, but that's not what the OP said.
They are not.

The criminals who do this like doing this and get protection from them.
Either you are participating in a audio or video call and your audio is bidirectional or you are watching a video with stereo sound. If the latter the video player should buffer the video and adjust the delay of showing it to match up with the delay of the audio sink. If not there is a problem in your device.
Do you have source of truth for if that job is still active? For example, is the job description still publicly visible from your ATS (Greehouse, Lever, etc)

I asked because I've been thinking about this problem with job boards. Job boards often duplicate job description information rather than relying on the original JD in the company's ATS.
1 subway train.

In real tests done in NYC, the mean dbA for subway platforms was 81.1 vs. 76.0 for buses (which, by definition, run on the roads)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2707461/
I think courts have started to find that the output of AIs like ChatGPT can’t be copyrighted at all because it isn’t human expression.
Car parking for residents is heavily subsidised by London councils, a policy which encourages car ownership. Residential parking permits are very cheap (often as little as £100 or so for a YEAR of parking), where as outsiders coming in to park will be charged a small fortune. [1]

This system discourages schemes that could reduce car ownership, like car sharing, car rentals, etc, because residential parking permits must be linked to a particular plate number.

[1] It's true that some newer housing developments have been approved on a "no parking" basis, which means if you live in that building you can't apply for a parking permit. But these developments are still the exception, not the rule.
Because Fidelity is not a bank, the FDIC does not apply to them specifically. Brokerage firms are covered by SIPC, but the types of "losses" are limited.

Fidelity offers brokered CDs, which I assume you are familiar with. CDs are issued by banks, which are generally FDIC-insured. You can read more here (https://www.thenewsinsides.com/blog/commercial-loan-truerate...)

You're probably covered, at least up to $250k, assuming your CDs are from different banks and not the same issuer.

Confirm the above with your Fidelity representative or advisor.
Don't they watch their parents hunting and things like that?
That actually perfectly describes the behavior of lower class predators(of all races!) who destroy their communities with violence and drugs
At this point I don't understand why there isn't a "PBS for web sites". Group funding sources, very, very reserved allowances for advertising.
I assume it's not a particularly exact science; in particular it would definitely miss completely defederated instances like Gab and Truth Social, but also likely a lot of small federated ones.
I wonder why they did not release any details on training data …
downvoting me isn't changing the rate of layoffs kids

you can't wish this away
Similarly, someone on the moon would find a spacecraft useful as well.
At a tiny startup I'd be more concerned about selling product/delivering to get the next round and keep the company running than saving few 100$ on infra cost.
Not that im defending anyone here but couldn't almost anything be misused for nafarious purposes?
I’ve been around pessimists, which can have different flavors, and while it can be draining, it can also be strangely motivating - some of my best work is frankly adversarial pessimists.
Two come to mind quickly: Spending a night or two trying to tune 2D chemical matching code to gain 10-20% and ending up with a factor of 3x. Bought the group lunch for that one. The other was creating an application that hung together well and was easy to use. Took several iterations of the GUI to have something that did more than cause confusion... They say the best GUI's aren't memorable because they're not in the way. This was too complex for that, but it was considered obvious.
Writing a Compiler and a Virtual Machine in Rust
Ugh, good luck.

I do currently have a job, so I've decided to just drop out of this game for a bit. It's too frustrating to waste my time.
While I do concur with you about negotiating and interviewing best, I like to save shotgun for last because often the interview process from all of those companies slows me down a lot. Especially the companies that give you projects to do :/

While it stinks to feel like you've done worse going for jobs that you really care about, it helps to remind yourself that all companies have communication/social problems that will impede your work. No company is really all that special.
Star Wars Squadrons really excels with this. It seemed like it was a VR only game before being released non-VR, but the style of game really would take well to VR.
It's not "activism" or "proving a point", it's the prisoner's dilemma. You maximize the global reward (fewest accidents) by putting yourself on the most risky position.
I mean the ultimate model is either a turbo cube with dimension board, or a turbo colour station.

The turbo cube dimension had dual monitors (one colour one bw) in 1989 which was cool.
Myself I just run a turbocolour station.
If I, some poor guy in the ghetto is considering tightening the belt on my finances and looking ten years out, then I assume so is every other person in business with half a brain more than me is doing the same.

I agree with your speculation, I do not see the money as free flowing as it once was. Anecdotally, I was recently given a worst interest rate in 2023 with a better credit score, and more income than I had in 2015.
Why is it illegal to build almost anything but suburbia?
If the case really went down as described in the article, this country is really f...ed up if the cops get away with this.
Is privacy really that big of an issue? Netflix had insanely good revenue when they started out and there wasn’t much competition. The age-old saying is still true: “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem”.

We again got to a point where you have to be subscribed to like 4 different providers, so torrenting is looking good again.

There will be people who will steal this and that, always have, always will. A tiny percent of this is just cheap, the rest is likely from poorer countries, and the (mind you, completely made up) value of these goods weren’t made for them - sure that $2 app really is cheap for you, but that is not globally true. (And it’s not like downloading that file cost anything to anyone). How do you fight against that? By making a good service and you make up a reasonable price.
Do you have some sort of automatic test suite for what's generated by the LLM prior to release? Just to ensure what it returns won't break downstream?
But wouldn't the same issue apply to user-space TCP implementations too?
User-space TCP implementations too could have "path-dependent sequence of accidents" which a power user might eventually need to figure out?
It could be a honey trap, to identify potential competitors, or it could be used to falsely imply said company is working on something they are not, so as to distract there competition. In either case it's clearly an intelligence operation.

I've scraped job listings for several companies, organizations and governments for years. It's a wealth of information that gives you insights into what a company is doing, what it values and where it may be going.
> Even if they brutally beat a criminal, they are going far beyond incompetence.

It is actually worse than that. The police cannot be the judge, jury and executor. The Judge Dredd is an anti-hero for a reason.