skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The futures market is the only thing that allows you to lock in a price to buy something 12 months from now at a reasonably consistent price. How is that a hindrance?

The existence of the futures market does not prevent a copper provider from entering into an exclusive sales contract to sell 12 months from now to a specific consumer. However, unless they match the current 12 month contract price, one of them is taking a bad deal with what they can get on a much more liquid market. Additionally, their counter party risk is now much more significant because they are tied to one other party.

Maybe you could actually offer something specific about how “the speculation market is more of a hindrance than a help”?

So far whenever I see this, it’s people who don’t like that the price changes on them but their solution is to remove participants from the market to a point where it is so illiquid the lack of trading looks like the price isn’t moving.
Not sure how interesting for other people but my wife didn't think this would ever work so here is the story:

- our puppy would bark in his room

- I set up a web based interface to generate commands via the Linux utility espeak

- I trained him to be quiet when he the espeak "quiet" word played

- The first time I did this from the other room and he stopped barking, my wife was impressed
Any plans to get this on windows?
The government is not a person so your rhetorical device is as nonsensical and irrelevant as your unsubstantiated character assassination. Moreover, a criminal organization can make no claims to ‘fairness’. Criminal governments are no different.
> AI is a great pivot.

What is the "pivot", exactly?
It also crashes on my SE.
This is most likely due to memory as it suggests.

Update : Also other users with beefier hardware comment about it.
The CDC says we are in the midst of an "STI epidemic." https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/s0411-sti.html. Norms against sexual promiscuity were reduced as we were able to compensate for those problems with technology, like condoms, antibiotics, HPV vaccines, etc. That doesn't mean that the norms haven't played a major historical role in protecting society from disease.

Indeed, where technology couldn't address the problem, norms against promiscuity strengthened. The aftermath of the HIV/AIDS epidemic saw a decline in teenage sexual activity that is now in its third decade.
I worked on a system a few years ago that has timeboxed data... In other words, the bulk of the data was for a singular event at a time. I seriously pushed at the time to just use SQLite then the backup/recovery/archiving of data would be much easier. Instead, what we got was a rube-Goldberg contraption of MS-SQL with functions and stored procedures. Supporting multiple deployed versions became that much harder over time. The clients were different govt jurisdictions, so actually being able to deploy was complicated to say the least, and often required a month of planning.

In the end, I still think that SQLite would have been a much better approach for this particular use case.
Nobody is forced to use the futures markets. The onus is on you to explain why it’s negative despite all of the sellers and buyers choosing to participate there.
Reminder that pg&e is a for-profit monopoly. Reminder that this is the dumbest way of organizing an energy company imaginable. I literally can't think of anything so stupid. You know they make profit. They steal about 16 billion a year. Think about how much infra improvement we could do with 16 billion.

We could nationalize those assholes today.
Exposing illegal government surveillance programs is far more important than "national security". His leak exposed US foreign operations; who cares? Maybe don't do stuff that is so illegal and immoral that your own citizens feel compelled to risk everything to expose it.
> The primary reason, it is argued, that fakes and copying hurts consumers is because it’s a drain on the economic incentives for creative and productive people to author new works.

And this is kind of stupid because authors that can live on their book earnings are very rare indeed. In fact, you can blame communism for a lot of things, but it certainly produced a lot of books, which would seem to indicate that should it become possible in the US survive on the promise to make a book, while making zero profit of the actual book, many more books would be produced.

Economic incentives incentivise publishers, not authors. That has never really been different. That business model can't really exist without copyright. Authors very much can.
Good point. Brand new homes within 10 minutes of my places of business 485K. Single family homes from the early 2000s start around 425K. You can buy from fixer uppers for around 300K. Townhomes start around 250K and go to around 350K.
> the controversial/illegal activity

I wasn't aware that it was only one controversial activity.

And I wasn't aware that one could only blow the whistle on illegal activity.
Also it's just insanely easy to malign the character of someone with a few well placed news articles and tweets.
rllama has an OpenCL version, though I wasn't able to test it.
It seems like you are talking about software engineering vs programming vs maths.

While there are exceptions, I'm seeing that people, who were able to teach themselves programming, make good software engineers lot, lot more frequent. Same for maths. The same for programmers with good understanding of fundamentals vs hobbyists who never tried to look at the basics.

There are always exceptions, yes, but for me it looks like these exceptions are rare.

But very often I see dissatisfied people who spent years of time and some good money but are unable to get any kind job/internship. They are not engineers and they did not become programmers either.
I've noticed that paper cuts expose some of my subconscious biases. When Windows does something braindead, I shrug and move on. When Linux does the same, I get a certain sense of inferiority and feel an urge to rant about muh Linux desktop. Maybe it's a matter of low vs high expectations.
AI health coach to help me manage my Crohn's Disease
I wonder what America would be like if it had 24 working languages like the EU. Lol.
Wow, the music is awesome
Hate is maybe too emotional a word but your entire comment is just another way of saying “they don’t like and wish to dismantle some parts of government,” which is not substantially different in practice.

The thrust of GP’s claim is: you elect people who wish to dismantle government and you get a dysfunctional government.
And you actually believe those stories? They also tried to claim that Assange was a rapist.
sudo doesn't strictly need OpenSSL. That dependency is part of it's log server client implementation, and it's also available for the plugin system.

I had no idea sudo even had the need for plugins.

Which raises the question, maybe there's a need for two different sudo implementations. One that provides the simplest possible implementation of the feature, and another one that provides fancy log server and plugin integrations.
Most of Washington State lives around Seattle, which has never recorded subzero fahrenheit temperatures:

https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/WA/Seattle...

https://patch.com/washington/seattle/monday-was-seattles-col...
Did you try that before saying we were wrong? I verified that both worked before I commented.
Big false.

A state-sanctioned monopoly is hardly a private company. They can set any price they want and force you to pay. That's not capitalism, that's extortion.

So yes, gas infra is highly, highly subsidized. In a competitive market direct gas would have died out decades ago.
Isn’t the whole point that 007 is a member of “his majesty’s secret service?”. I can see losing the ‘white’ and ‘male’ bits but making 007 work for Singapore or Poland or someplace else doesn’t seem right.
For contrast, here are zoomable grains of lunar regolith[1] and random Earth sand[2]. Thus the insane abrasiveness, and use of crushed rock for simulant.

[1] https://virtualmicroscope.org/sites/default/files/html5Asset...
[2] https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/sites/default/files/html5A...
Thanks, I'm trying to understand all this mechanics. Matrix multiplication is an equivalent to passing through a single fully connected convolution layer. Which means we can probably beef up and make it a small network. Also it's easy to make it work not in fixed windows, but in scrolling, if the output is processed sequentially. Even if not it may make sense too. It can be implemented efficiently. The idea is that in switching window first and last elements are being influenced only from one side. Which is not a good thing in text processing. Only middle elements are influenced from both sides. With scrolling window all elements currently being processed are in the middle. Except for the ends of the dataset.
That's not really true at all. Quest Pro is technically an AR headset with full color pass through. It's extremely limited to be sure, but it's not like meta is ignoring AR.
If you try it, you’ll find both work.
science might just save humanity
There's a tool you might like: https://buttplug.io/
Had this discussion recently with someone advocating IDE debuggers over CLI debuggers. I'm like, don't you realize that the CLI debugger is used underneath inside your IDE? And by using it from the CLI you get an entire HISTORY of your debug sessions you can refer to.
Well, it's about workforce, not the shareholders. There is probably some correlation between morale and stock price, though.
US complicity has permitted the decades long ethnic cleansing of Palestine to continue unabated.

It is truly abhorrent.

However, there's a significant difference between arming a nation under invasion, and arming religious fundamentalists.
As a non-USAer, I strongly disagree. There are probably a handful of other countries watching you right now (in a broad, abstract sense) and the USA is the least of our concerns. There is a reason why nothing significant came out of it: every other country knows that this is happening (not exactly but roughly) and they know there are much worse problems to worry about, given other strong international players such as Russia and China. There is no ”surveillance free world” alternative. The USA is a very strong and stable democracy (maybe even the strongest) so I think it’s naive to think that removing them from the board would be a good thing.
Thanks for emailing me! Was able to use the code successfully.
It seems like the argument that it's false is harder than that to make. Could changes in direction, including expense cutting and layoffs, have anything to do with renewed profits?

There's more to making an convincing argument than putting two contrasting things side by side and letting the audience assume it proves something.
Because Epstein wasn't just a sex trafficker. He did all of the normal rich guy stuff too, which involved meeting with a ton of people, and having a ton of people come to his island for the normal rich guy stuff that went on there.

The lists alone don't give enough information to tell which people on them were there for the normal rich guy stuff and which were there for the sex trafficking.
Well, that and the constant threat of your pay going away due to another lockdown, semi lockdown, or the furlough scheme ending.
I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone (or other phones) come with a LLM pre-built as a Siri/Hey Google replacement

(on the other hand I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't come with it neither, due to the difficulties of it)
I believe this is the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0k9wIsKKgqo
Why did people downvote my comment? Gary Marcus is known for saying things like this but there are also high-profile people who disagree and this article makes it out like all experts are saying this
>>> Look into BCCI and a name you might be familiar with, Khoshoggi not the dismembered journalist by MBS, but his relative who was the arms dealer that sold his yacht to... donald trump. Who bragged about the purchase on nightly entertainment TV.

Damn, this is actually true. I just visited Wikipedia, and I did not expect what I learned there. I thought Jamal Kashoggi was just some journalist. I never looked into him.

Turns out:

-He worked at the Saudi equivalent of the CIA

-He's the cousin of Dodi Al Fayed (the billionnaire who died in the car crash with Princess Diana)

-He's the nephew of billionnaire arms dealer Adnan Kashoggi, who sold Donald Trump a $200M yacht

-His grandfather was the personal doctor of the king of Saudi Arabia

-Considering the amount of noise the US made about him, I also expected him to be a US citizen. But no, he wasn't even a US citizen. I've never in my whole life seen the US govt care this much about a foreigner dying abroad, even if they work for a US company.

-George Soros' Open Society Foundation sued the Saudi government over his death

I know HN is the sort of place where you get flagged for voicing your suspicions without linking some establishment-approved source that gives its blessing on a particular narrative. So I'll just say this: it feels to me me that this is a very surprising background for a mere journalist.
This is one of the best recent articles on the cryptocurrency topic, and some of its supporting mechanisms.
Also, it's a good ol' classic that I use for my primary domain, too.
Apparently, it is used since January 1st 1985 and supposedly the oldest registered domain is nordu.net.
Rounded induction cooktops exist for woks anyways so it feels like its basically all FUD in that other thread.
Dumbest take I've heard all day. Banning gas would increase quality of life. Why subject yourself to pollution, gas leaks and expensive secondary energy infrastructure when you can just not do that.

I understand the gas lobby has spent billions convincing you otherwise, but the fact is that direct natural gas is far inferior to electricity at this point.

Some education for you:

https://youtu.be/hX2aZUav-54
Yes, new seal designs have been proposed and prototyped over the years. As far as I know, so take it with a huge grain of salt, no particular design is as of yet hailed as the solution to this problem. There have been multiple NASA technical briefings on the subject since Apollo, with the last one I have seen just a few years ago. These take into account all known solutions proposed by industry and NASA, and the problem just seems to get worse the more we learn about lunar regolith and the lunar environment.
Are "e-stovetops" induction?
They were betting on web technologies instead of native, which was quoted as early Mark Zuckerberg's biggest mistake [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-bigges...
I wouldn't agree with the "deserves to win". If you look at the classical matches, probably Ian had the slight edge, and tbh, he could have wrapped up the entire thing in Game 13(I may not be remembering the exact game, but the one where he had a strong position but gave it away and lost, thus leading to a tie).

And, honestly, in rapid, they were really really even. Even one better move at the end might have tied it up.

I think the match showed that they were about equal, not that really anyone was better.
"A star’s light would fade as it was encased in such a “Dyson sphere,” but Dyson noted the constructions could be detected by the mid-infrared glow of their radiated waste heat"

--

In Star Control II [1] the player meets an alien race which admits to having tampered with humanity's DNA to "alter its smell" so that other, hostile civilisations can't "smell" us. Maybe there's someone looking out for us and hid us in a quiet corner :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control_II
Schrödinger's Cat is still the most controversial thought experiment in science
Yeah I was really surprised not to see the Affinity suite listed for the Adobe alternatives. It may not be FOSS, but it certainly seems like the more truly comparable set of alternatives than what’s on there.
> Vector programming: represent software architecture as vector embeddings, code against sequences of vectors that are arranged into relationships and then the space where the vectors reside is concretised

Sounds wonderful!

(What does it mean?)
Do you mean induction stoves are e-waste? Why? They should be perfectly durable, no moving parts, simple operating principle. They aren't even super expensive and their price is going down.
I honestly don't think there is a room for a third commercial mobile platform, after Apple started the smartphone market, and Google caught up soon enough after. Even strong and entrenched players like Palm, Nokia (with Tizen) and even BlackBerry could not hold.

In 2007, Facebook was way, way less mighty, and by 2012, it was late.

Speaking of Windows Phone: it had great hardware and good, innovative software. It's Microsoft's bureaucratic ineptitude that killed it, not its (possible lack of) merit.
Why does this website scroll differently than every other website? Do not want.
> You understand that Palo Alto et co are on different power grids to Atherton/LAH/MV etc right?

They are not on a different grid at all. Most of California, and definitely the entire Bay Area is part of the same grid managed by CAISO:

https://www.caiso.com/Pages/default.aspx

Palo Alto has its own municipal utility. There is a huge difference. A municipal utility is only responsible for retail electric sales and distribution infrastructure in a specific area. That includes local substations and power lines, which are the likely source of your electricity reliability problems.

Palo Alto doesn't manage supply and demand in real time, maintaining 60Hz AC, or run the wholesale electricity markets. CAISO does those, along with transmission and regional interconnects, all of which are functions of the electric grid. The meanings of words matter when discussing these things.

> Again, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Thank you for the pleasant feedback.
> It's not possible that the average modern software developer is just a bit more sensitive about their work than a welder was in 1950?

I was responding to this.
My answer is no. Whether they express it or not, I imagine the sensitivity hasn't increased. You can feel something (being sensitive) without choosing to express it.

Emotional control is something well-adjusted people do every day, regardless of what they are feeling. It is simply more acceptable to express these emotions now.

If I had to guess people in the 50s just died inside and then drank themselves to death instead. Or took it out on their families.
Interesting, as I have opposite reactions. When Windows does something off, I get frustrated because I know that there’s nothing I can do to avoid it. When Linux does something off, I start guessing at what caused it and how to fix it.
The idealist in me agrees, but the pragmatist in me does not.

The idealist in me believes that everyone do their part and lead by example. I’m not a vegetarian, so I’ve already failed that test (spouse is though, so I’m reducitarian by default). But I do walk a lot, and have only driven 65k miles in the last 19 years (same car—best environmental thing you can do is not even buy new cars). Pragmatically, my impact is minimal.

Celebrity X hopping around on a private jet speaking for and convincing people to make environmental decisions on a national or planetary scale probably has more impact than me, even if they themselves are worse. And I begrudgingly admit that.
the last line makes me laugh.. while it's true grid layouts make things so much easier then back in the 2000s, web dev today is still just as hard, but for different reasons.
Yeah, my bag use hasn't changed at all, except instead of getting 3 to 6 lightweight plastic bags on each trip, I spend an extra quarter, and get 3-6 heavy plastic bags on each trip. Very much a net loss, as they have to use at least five times the material.

(When paper bags aren't available. I've always preferred paper.)

Product packaging probably generates 1-2 orders of magnitude more waste than the bags holding the product.
https://telegra.ph/Ask-HN-A-good-IDEenvironment-for-programm...
It doesn’t become false because you tried to be pedantic without first confirming that you were correct. Just check first next time.
Exactly. This dood drank the gas lobby koolaide hard
Same applies to other listed alternatives.
> their efforts to make a mobile phone were late and substandard

Meta was in its infancy when the mobile hardware revolution was happening. Do you really think they stood a chance of creating their own hardware platform while simultaneously adapting their existing software platform to the new paradigm? According to a google search they had 850 employees in 2008. Apple had 32000.

> It's not that they are speculating on a moonshot, it's that they are wasting so much of their money on a single moonshot

And yet Google is constantly trounced on this very site for never committing and constantly shutting down promising products. Armchair critics will never be satisfied and Zuck is wise to ignore them.
Oh, it's definitely harmful to have a manager saying things like that. Fortunately, this story seems to be about precisely one person. I'd be surprised if they didn't give this guy the boot.
> Huge win for whom?

Us. We can make electricity from lots of things and turns out in about 10 years a lot of it will be made from renewables in most countries, and the trend is only going one way.

There's a reason there is a push to electrify everything.
Why do the agencies not bother to filter out unrelated material? According to you, the responsible course of action would have to be to record only what is related to illegal activity in the first place.

Your talking about legality is a straw-man anyway: the point is mass surveillance being highly unethical. Not even the law reflecting that fact makes the reality of it only worse.
Yeah, Balthazar is 100% a Soho tourist trap, I've never known anyone here who would actually eat there unless it was paid for by your company or something. (Not that the food is bad, it's just overpriced to take advantage of tourists, not a place locals go.)

A normal, nice popular brunch spot in "trendy" Williamsburg is Egg Shop. Their egg plates are all still $14–16, and coffee is still $3–4:

https://www.eggshopnyc.com/menus/#breakfast-lunch
I never could get a straight answer if the activated charcoal filters can remove these.

I’m distilling my own water now. Seems about the same price as filtering once you factor in the costs of the filters. And you know you’re getting everything out.

(I add in my own minerals in case that’s important.)
So it turns out that you can actually make money if you offer source code for free.

Epic Games earn billions with their Unreal Engine and Fortnite and they aren't afraid of pirates.
This was submitted and discussed long ago (simply using the "past" search does not find this one without some additional tweaking of the query):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9398836
Could one use this for epubs?
I find it completely implausible that a huge amount of people would.

But people already do.

Email, Facebook, twitter, messaging, slack, all of it, is by no means real, human interaction. It is a step away from that.

Some even say that this type of interaction is so fake, so filled with disinformation, and algorithmic monkeying, that it is toxic poison.

Yet people will be with friends at a restaurant, or hanging out, and so addicted, so unable to stop, that they are constantly be staring at their screen instead of interacting in person!

People cannot help themselves, and people cannot resist addictive platforms.

So sadly, Zuck probably has a good idea. He's probably a bit early, but you can be sure when VR takes a Musk implant, and a simple pair of glasses for full immersion, people will be in VR while having lunch with you.