skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frictionless competition in an economic vacuum does not exist. It especially doesn't exist in the US, where foreign car manufacturers are banned from selling their superior, smaller, efficient, lower tech cars that have everything I actually want. Car makers now have a gigantic grapple on an industry that takes billions of dollars to get into. There is nothing approaching a free market for cars in the US.

Price discrimination makes this "affordable", until the base price is just raised back to where it was originally except now you have a gazillion fees you have to pay so that companies can extract more money from people less sensitive to price changes.

A company's dream is to enact price discrimination on every single transaction so that there is no such thing as a consumer surplus. The absolute dream of a company is to make it so everybody pays exactly the largest amount they can bear for everything.

This is why we have tipping everywhere. This is why we have features locked behind paywalls for no reason. This is why we have colleges that are uber-expensive, unless you are poor, in which case they aren't expensive because you actually care about the price.

Price Discrimination and Big Data, when combined, allow for companies to give prices in such a way that no consumer on earth gets a surplus. Legislation to ensure markets with consumer surplus continue to exist is badly needed.
That's absolutely false. You are painting the picture as if the car maker will sell you a high performance model (with all the necessary parts for performance) at a lower cost. No they will sell you that model with all their profit margin and then charge you extra monthly for the performance.
Maybe do not overthink it. 'x' is called a character literal, but it has the type int.

`{'x', 'y', 'z', '\0'}` does not have a type by itself, but it's valid syntax to use it to initialize various structs and arrays - some of those will have the size you are looking for, depending on which type of array or struct you choose to initialize with that: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/Tqjq3xzKo
It is surely easy to cast stones at a single bug, but I don't think that's the right way to look at things.
It's less secure than 2FA and more secure than passwords. How is it practically better than 2FA, because it's easier.
Very nice. I assume the two hidden layers are fully connected?
I was just watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWFg7EDnyY and I wonder if some satellites encrypt the content before sending it to earth.
Im ready for the after market EV control systems too…
We are witnessing the last dying kick of a genuine crypto bro on HN. It's worth taking a screenshot of this and printing it out.
ESA recruits – and not only astronauts. Apply now
> 429 Too Many Requests

Aight, level with me: Is every mastodon server running on a Raspberry Pi?
The training cluster is super impressive, any ideas on how to fine tune StarBase for a smaller language than python on something more attainable?
What a dumb idea. They should have picked one of the "half solutions" that the blog post lays out. Making everyone change their username is goofy.
It's really Smalltalk and C pasted together with hardly any mixing, like JSX=JS+HTML. I can't see how you could put it in either column, it's absolutely in both.
Thanks for the explanation. Kinda surprised xrpc hadn't been registered as a bucket name long ago. Or maybe it was.
Clear and netted bookbags were a thing in Baltimore City public schools over 15 years ago. It was a pain then too. Noone was even checking the bookbags so it was still easy to bring whatever you wanted. We also had to bring gym clothes, so you could easily just wrap it in your gym uniform.
> Don't we go through this like once a year?

No, debt ceiling crises are engineered by the GOP less frequently than that (2011 and 2013 were the closest in sequence, IIRC.)

There’s sometimes media speculation about whether one will be engineered, and that’s more frequent than it actually happening. Maybe you are thinking about that?
LOL. There's that saying... "We pass the savings on to the customer."

Nobody ever does this. The savings is never passed onto the customer. The only time that happens is when they're trying to get just in under the competition's price, but will never go lower than that. Nobody is trying to pass the savings onto the customer, ever.
I want white American men to get jobs doing stuff and building stuff, join a church, and date with the purpose of getting married and having kids. I find it bizarre when guys complain about the implications of social libertarianism while buying into its fundamental premises.
I don't like the idea of unique usernames. Too many issues with clashing ones. The Discord system allowed multiple users to get same one which was actually decent. Trade off really was finding each other in a server, but I don't think creating one is too high barrier.
Male incels are generally very miserable people with a lot of mental health struggles.

The implication is that society is also very hostile to men and boys right now, demonstrated by them becoming incels in large numbers.
I started programming when I was 12, mostly writing small scripts to customize PHP forum software. I joined a number of online forums and mailing lists with more experienced folks doing similar things and learned a ton from reading their code and getting feedback on mine. The experience helped me a ton with my career later on, and I formed friendships that last to this day.

I can't think of a way to define "social media" that wouldn't include forums, mailing lists, Stack Overflow etc. It would be a shame to deprive young people today of the opportunities I had growing up.
My recent story on linkedin.

I subscribed for premium as I was eligible for free month.
I did use one-time card as I wanted to unsubscribe before end.
Of course I forgot to that. It tried to charge the card but it failed.
When I tried to cancel the subscription it said I have attached invalid card.

Okay I will remove card and cancel subscription. Oh, no so fast.
I couldn't remove card because I had "active" subscription. It was circular deadlock.

Finally I found way to unsubscribe on their plan picking page after few minutes of frustration. I hope this is QA issue and not intentional.
Typically higher prices are associated with higher Cost-Of-Goods-Sold, plus some margin.

For internet-based services like Netflix (or Spotify or Youtube or whomever), more stuff (streams, bitrate, resolution, etc) has higher costs for them: bandwidth, storage, licensing. They don't provide a physical good necessarily, but that doesn't mean there's zero cost to providing a higher-grade experience to their customers. (LTT has a whole video about the cost of serving 4k and 60fps video from their independent video platform that's a pretty good primer on this space, IMhO.)

In the car scenario, the cost is already sunk: the hardware is in the car, the capability to go-fast is already there and it costs nothing further to the manufacturer to allow the customer to use it. Putting a cost on it is the literal definition of rent-seeking: they're not creating anything new, which might justify the cost, they're just charging you to access a thing that already exists.

Especially since it's an ongoing cost for a thing you already own. Imagine if this extended to every other product: You buy an ipad with 1tb of storage in hardware, but you have to pay Apple $15/month to use it all. You buy a 4k monitor, but you have to pay Dell $5/month to use it at resolutions above 1080p. This doesn't make sense, and it's plain corporate greed. Mapping physical goods into the "As a service" world is absolutely nuts to me.
How is this legal? From my (granted, shallow) understanding of GDPR laws, isn’t it required for companies to allow users to opt out of personalization?
> there's been a strong pro-Linux bias in academia for a long time that nobody likes to talk about.

Who doesn't like to talk about it? It's so much easier to integrate components on Linux over windows. Why would anyone willingly use windows for data analysis?
Audiobooks help with the classics.

I’m listening to War and Peace now, I’ve tried to get through it before and never been able to but the audiobook is great.
> 2FA code is stored on the device

That's not how 2FA works.
Convenience. DNS is routinely not automatable by API, or inconvenient to automate. HTTP, however, is normally easy to work with.
Even people using 2FA are probably storing the passwords on the phone via a password manager. Those without a password manager are probably reusing passwords or choosing insecure ones.

I'd maybe be worried about the drugging if I'd ever heard of it happening to someone I know.
arsenic and mercury are also ancient medicines...you want to start ingesting them daily?
Interesting! It's like nothing has happened on the field for the last three weeks heh
#embed isn't mentioned in the post and I'm pretty sure it didn't make it into GCC 13.
In general - no, but this kind of fundamental mistake might.
Mind share is not a moat. And market share or being first is not a moat.

Moats are very specific things such as network effects, customers with sunk costs, etc. The very point of the term "moat" is to distinguish it from things like market share or mind share.

The article is correct, OpenAI has no moat currently.
There is some really high quality internal discussions at tech companies, unfortunately they are suffering from leaks due to their size and media have realized it’s really easy to just take their internal content and publish it.

It really sucks because there’s definitely a chilling effect knowing any personal opinion expressed in text at a big tech company could end up in a headline like “GOOGLE SAYS <hot take>” because of a leak.

If there is some kind of really bad behavior being exposed, I think the role of the media is to help do that. But I don’t think their role should be to expose any leaked internal document they can get their hands on.
Base load: no, you can get away with it because there's always some demand but if it ever drops below your base load level you suddenly need to find a way to dump energy off. A grid of perfectly dispatchable, if such a thing were possible, would be the ideal.

Hydro: "Cruachan power station can respond within 26 seconds to sudden demands for electricity." https://www.secret-scotland.com/place/cruachan-power-station

I live in Scotland.

The nuclear fans are prolonging fossil fuels through their false claims that renewables can't achieve what they are already achieving. Scotland used to get 85% of its electricity from fossil fuels. That figure is 10% today. Nuclear fans keep pushing for a hugely expensive solution that will take at least a decade to start producing. It's a delaying tactic. I don't mean that anyone who is pushing for nuclear is a shill, I just think they've fallen for the narrative.
As long as they are getting paid, they probably don't care. If there is some legal way for them to get paid more, then they will care, a lot. They'd probably go after the service either way to get a settlement and/or set a precedent that they should get more money; unless you somehow got their 'blessing' before embarking on the adventure (likely some kind of investment to make sure they get their money and have control). </old man rant>

IIRC, he had quite the adventure. He got flown on private jets by labels all over the world, often-times, not even getting his passport checked. He said the 'other half' lives in an entirely different world and he got a taste of it.

Heh, it might be worth going on the adventure just for the sake of the adventure.
There’s probably a very high price ceiling for diehard Zelda fans! I was one myself until BotW, which in my opinion is the worst game with the Zelda name attached to it ever made.

I hope by the time they get shake off the “endless grind for crafting materials in a giant featureless grass field” high they won’t be charging an arm and a leg for a proper Zelda game.
How does it know how to extract the related data? I could imagine how it could work with fairly popular "user" table with popular fields (from your loom video example). But it's not clear to me how it might work with more business specific data and tables/fields.
+ What's the full prompt used?
I thought simp stood for "someone idolizing mediocre pu__y", a slur for guys commiting and caring too much about lower tier women. Doesn't really seem to fit a discussion about people agreeing with a corporation.
I think the main point here is that there is no limit to incompetence. And sure, having your own servers allow for some goofs that won't happen with cloud (the opposite is also true). But your org had the means to fix the issue, and they choose not to. That has fundamentally got nothing to do with technology choice.
I know people below are disputing your retelling based on how they externally viewed development, but from talking to people who were in the development committees at the time, your retelling is the one that matches up best.
Oh, I know all that. I'm just saying that the airport, by itself, isn't the reason Denver is different.
Does anyone remember the Intel 486SX?
What's different now in 2023 than 1998-2001 stopping us from achieving this?

How much would spending need to be cut by, what programs will actually accept these cuts, how much can taxes realistically be raised by, why won't there be lobbying/special interest/loopholes to prevent this?
Any wrapper that needs writing speaks to a gap in the AI's current capabilities. I just don't see why or how I would put man-hours into trying to close that gap when a future model could eclipse my work at any time.
That's a lot of "ifs", and none of them were very likely, right?

The biggest "if" is the sonic boom problem. Postulating a world without booms puts you into science fiction; at that point, you may as well imagine FTL flight.

The next idea is the whole NOTION of getting a passenger aircraft to fly at Mach 9 on the regular for something non-billionaires could pay. Serious supersonic airframes have existed for decades, but (a) they're all small; (b) they all require significant maintenance after each effort; and (c) absolutely none of them were capable of Mach 9.

Even the Blackbird wasn't nearly that fast. Its record from NY to London (under 2h) was at a speed less than a third of the mach 9 we're talking about here.

The Concorde's loaded range was what, about 3500nm? That's not enough to cross the Pacific. You COULD get from LAX to Hawaii, but getting from Hawaii to Tokyo or even Singapore is still a no-go.

Passenger supersonic flight of any kind (let alone something 3.5x the speed of the Concorde) is a dead letter unless some serious and groundbreaking advancement in airplane propulsion happens. Nothing we've seen yet in the history of aviation suggests that's possible or practical.
As with all groups, the loudest are the least well-adjusted.

Thus, while it may linguistically be the western version of some exotic-sounding Japanese word that translates as "single adult", the implication is the exact opposite causality of your question: they are single because they are bad, not vice-versa.
Like making a specfic mechanic in a video game worse so they can sell the fix later on.
This is a strawman. Nobody is saying that people should not have to talk about themselves in job interviews. What people are saying is that "tell me your life story" comes off as creepy and invasive in a professional context where the parties don't know one another.
Very true. Fortunately, however, there are enough reasons to want to beat Kissinger to death with your bare hands that you don't have to actually go to Cambodia. A trip to the library, or a google search or 3 ought to be enough.
Content Shaping
> with good cross-platform support

Not to rehash the entire previous post, but this should have a giant asterisk next to it. It's very technically cross-platform, but there is no batch interchange format. If you use Safari, your passkeys are only synced to iCloud. You can share them via AirDrop... to other Apple users. If you lose your phone, you can recover them... if you buy another iPhone.

You can use your iPhone to log in on a Windows device, that part is cross-platform. And you can add that device as a second authenticator. But there's no actual portability there. You have (limited) cross-platform support (there is no Open Source platform authenticator that I'm aware of, and I'm not aware of any platform authenticator for Linux). But you can likely use passkeys with whatever platform you want. It's just once you choose a platform, there's no way to export from that platform unless you per-site add a new authenticator.
this is untrue in a competitive market
Looks like we hugged it to death
They may not be. But do you wanna be the person/people to argue that against one of the richest companies in the world? I sure don't, and I definitely wouldn't stake my company/product on it.
> Actually a super-power of Haskell is how easy it is to refactor from "quick n dirty" to "reasonable quality" without introducing defects.

I call haskell "the language of maintainable spaghetti" in this spirit. It really is incredible how types can take 99% of the risk out of refactoring.

Indeed while I miss machine refactoring tools from Java, I've seen vanishingly few bugs result from manual refactoring in haskell.
There certainly are, I'm just pointing out that much of the software that is charging a subscription is doing so to more closely structure their revenue to their expenditures.
Where can I read about what differentiates this social media app from others? The link is just taking me to an appstore download link.
constexpr is terrible.

-constexpr is not anything like constexpr in C++.
-It makes no guarantees about anything being compile time.
-It in no way reflects the ability of the compiler to make something compile time.
-It adds implementation burden by forcing the implementations to issue errors that do not reflect any real information. (For instance you may get an error saying your constexpr isnt a constant expression, but if you remove the constexpr qualifier, then the compiler can happily solve it as a constant expression)
-All kinds of floating point issues.

We should not have admitted this in to the standard, please do not use.

nullptr is the third definition of null. one should be enough, two was bad. why three?
Yeah, I missed that the url goes to kent.edu. Still, that photo is out there, and it's actually more present by its absence here IMO.

Given it was published in 1998, you might be right about the latter point, but I doubt anyone is still hanging around from 53 years ago today.
I have read that Schizophrenics tend toward heavy smoking as well. Given that, it makes sense that they might try smoking something a bit more potent, though I'm not sure it would have the effect they're looking for.

I read the article looking for evidence of causation and didn't see it, so it could be either way. Maybe the actual study was more clear on this point.
That and “insider threat” policies. You can’t have a publicly accessible building also be secure from extremely low probability terrorist attacks.
It's not that hard to modify code.. and I'd argue it's new enough that people should expect growing pains if they want to be early adopters...

"Death" of a product for one bug? ....
Not only that, affordable effective ad targeting makes niche businesses more viable. It's really great to see a business that provides a widget or a service that I particularly value much more than the mainstream does. Those businesses are often only possible due to the effectiveness of this targeted advertising.
how much memory does the 7B training need?
It got hugged to death too. Icing on the cake.
Government-Issued Digital Credentials and the Privacy Landscape [pdf]
It's already criminalized, so the only thing that could change is legalizing it or decriminalizing it.

By legalizing it, you effectively add cost, or tax, and the illegal component continues to remain (unlesss you simply make it stop being illegal, and unregulated, which most people agree is a bad idea) and the market segregates the workers into legal and illegal workers. The illegal workers lives get even worse, and the legal workers end up losing a lot of their money.

Look at legal marijuana, or hell, even legal prostitution in places that allow it and you'll see that's been the real effect.
It's no exaggeration that it sucks for certain use cases where you would expect and can achieve near-realtime response, and that's fine because it's not built for that use case. I'm responding to someone saying it's always best if you can afford it
There's nothing wrong with that, but physics and math are also about taking understanding, then building useful abstractions around it to deal with inherent complexity.

I find the "complexity bad and makes me sad" attitude around development to be almost paradoxical - our job is literally to abstract things. If you seek for complete understanding you'll never find it. There's always an abstraction underneath and one to build on top.
Oh geez, just the black layer on glossy paper is such a different vibe than black + loose wash colors + newsprint.
Cold turkey might have gone fine, but I was afraid to find out. :-)
If they activated this software with a bolt that was installed at the dealership, there would be no complaints
That sounds silly and overtly sexist. I learned what I said to you by listening to my girlfriend and other women over the years.
I see just error 429 can someone please explain?
OpenAI has 80% of the developer community. Why isn't that considered a moat?
The server itself seems to work fine. It only seems to be this specific post that's being 429'd.
I'm guessing it's some kind of anti-DDoS setup kicking in.

Mastodon is also quite heavy to host, my single user instance will easily gobble up several gigabytes of memory if you let it. There are more efficient ActivityPub servers but specifically Mastodon seems to be written for running efficiently on huge servers.
> Historically Congress hasn’t been being led around by its most extreme elements

The Republican Party in Congress has been since at least 1994, which is why they have engineered debt ceiling crises at least once in every Democratic Administration since the Congress elected in 1994.
Not to forget the classic "lp0 on fire": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
Yeah unfortunately as pessimistic as it seems I must agree, this title is disappointing to me. I'd love to see a series discussing the ins and outs of even just tiny segments of implementing ECMA262, as there's quite a lot of interesting nuance that has come up over the years.

I guess the difference is runtime vs perhaps interpreter, but it's definitely ambiguous.
can I get 100$ discount for going slower, please? driving like a gran-pa-pa finally pays off.
Oh, it's certainly not a "type specimen". It does actually have recursion and matching-like behavior, but those are convoluted and not really used, so it is not very suitable for general programming.

But lacking those general features makes it an even purer "learning example" of the group.
There's almost nothing that people need. The vast majority of my spending is on things I want, not need. I get value from spending on those things.
"Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is Meta. Because the leaked model was theirs, they have effectively garnered an entire planet's worth of free labor. Since most open source innovation is happening on top of their architecture, there is nothing stopping them from directly incorporating it into their products."

An interesting thought. Are the legal issues for derived works from the leaked model clarified or is the legal matter to be resolved at a later date when Meta starts suing small developers?
I didn't realize that the USB standard was ineffective against cheap cable manufactures. How would MFI be any different?