skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oregon has sales tax on alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, hotel rooms, gasoline, rental cars, new car purchase, etc.
I have seen it happen, because I did it as a young scout. The spill was ignited by a nearby lit stove. You are right that it’s nothing like the movies. It wasn’t a particularly dangerous situation or anything, I just looked and felt like a fool.
Compressed aerosol one isn’t safe. Ones with squirt handle are ok and great with kids.
The probability of a real number equaling 14.7 depends on the specific distribution the real number is being sampled from. If X is a Bernoulli(p) random variable, and Y = 14.7*X, then P(Y = 14.7) = p.

Support for exact equality between floating point numbers is a perfectly useful and valid concept and should *not* be removed. You can easily design a simulation such that if you run it twice, it will give exactly the same result bitwise. This can be utterly invaluable when debugging complicated numerical software.
> this move to block websites directly within the browser would be disastrous for the open internet and disproportionate to the goals of the legal proposal

While i understand the reasoning of Mozilla here, it is partly their fault this is happening.

The normal way to block a domain was through DNS , but Mozilla pushed hard for DNS over Http, completely skipping computer's and admin's DNS config.
Half a second. Can't even type a good prompt in that fast.

One of my dad's preferred anecdotes about how much computers sped up in his career, was the number of digits of pi that the company mainframe could compute.

He was born in '39.

And now I can generate images from descriptions faster than I can give those descriptions.

At this rate, websites will be replaced with image generators and LLMs, and the loading speed won't change.
I don’t think that follows from their example at all.
Im amazed that we still get such finds! I would have expected all discoverable sites to have long since been exhausted due to people running automated analysis programs over high res aerial footage, that would turn up anything out of place. There ought to be many people that would happily add "discovered ancient maya city" to their resume. Perhaps foliage obscured the view? But then couldnt someone just attach a gpr system to a plane?
I swear by Neutrogena too - the roll on pencils are especially good for face as it doesn’t sting as much for whatever reason.
And all those benefits cease to exist if people don't have to be there all day just to pay their bills. You don't go to the city to eat deep dish pizza, you go there to work and get paid, the deep dish pizza is just there so you can enjoy your life while you're there and spend some of that money you made. The choice people appear to be making is that they'd rather pay for their own home office and cook their own deep dish pizza.

Cities aren't entirely nonviable, just nonviable in their current iteration from the current paradigm. Their main attraction is that you have to go there to make good money. If cities are to survive into the future, they have to change from that to being attractive to live in regardless of your source of income. The only viable jobs in a city are ones that require workers to be present for practical reasons, such as dockworkers and service workers, and cities have evolved into service economies that cater to information workers, which is nonviable in an age of global connectivity. To survive, housing has to be the largest market for real estate development. Cities have to be made more walkable alongside this transition. Most cities cannot afford to make such a transition because their tax bases would dry up and they'd go insolvent. Those that can, some of them won't make the hard choices before it is too late. I expect at some point some cities will do it and survive, albeit very changed and different.
I thought that multi-tenant means that the project offers solutions to multi-tenancy problems like noisy neighbor, fair resource allocation among tenants, fault-tolerance, access control...

But nope.
Yeah, I'm under no illusions about the cost required for these types of conversions/demolitions (though even in that thread there were some counterpoints about how conversions could still be done).

But still, we seem to fundamentally be at a place where we're going to need more housing instead of office space, so we need to make the transition at some point. For example, the new tallest building in Austin, TX, will be the under-construction Sixth and Guadelupe building. This building was designed as half residential/half office. All of the office space was originally leased to Meta, who subsequently pulled out and is now trying to sublease ALL of that space. Seems like it would be much better if they could just turn the entire building into apartments. Despite a recent pullback rents and housing costs in Austin are still completely nuts, and the additional housing stock would very easily be taken up.
Actually not on raw HTML, but with the WebBaseLoader from Langchain which strips away HTML tags.
> Stock photography on a commercial website is an anti-signal

Where do you expect stock photography to be used? Only in mock-ups and design pitches?
Cryptonomicon is almost exactly this premise :) It’s an amazing book, one that any aspiring hacker should read!
If they said "pump", you know the gas stations would immediately find a way to put tanks above the level of the cars so that they could operate on gravity instead.
Maybe this doesn't fit your definition of "software company" but Renaissance Technologies certainly makes a lot of money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
Greedflation frames the problem around greed. Greed is not the problem. Lack of competition is the problem. Robber barons are the problem. Citizens united legalizing bribery is the problem.

Ultimately it is deeper than that. Laborers don't know how to exercise power and laborers don't know how to provide consequences when our aristocracy takes advantage of us.

If banks can say "we'll trash the economy if you don't bail us out," but every day people say "we're going to suffer if you don't bail us out," the people in power have to account for these banks, but don't have to care about your suffering.

The banks had a credible threat of force against decision makers making a decision, while the people offered predatory lending had no credible threat of force.

Until laborers can provide a credible threat of force, we should expect to see a continuous decline in labor power, and therefore wages.

Greedflation means lack of unionization.
I had a brief and rather complicated affair with Emacs some years ago. I tried Magit then. It was ok(ish), but could not understood what all the fuss about. Sublime Merge is so much better -- blazing fast and designed so well. Perhaps I'm not objective here, since I'm also a die-hard fan of Sublime Text -- the best editor for writing research notes, papers, prose, and code :)
At work I go back to using the command line too and use emacs to edit the commit messages.
I find it's not only magit that's not ready for huge monorepos. I had to maintain a huge directory blacklist before sparse clones were supported internally (before everything pretended to be around and was streamed/cached underneath, which tripped every regular tool into fetching too much)
\usepackage{libertine} will give you the font used by ACM journals/proceedings, which looks really nice to my eyes. It's less "severe"-looking than Computer Modern.
"1/4 of the time people who needed emergency responders had to wait because they were busy looking into false alarms."

That would be even better, as that would mean 3/4 of the alarms are hits/non false-positives. I argue that even a 1/4 hit rate, i.e. 3/4 false positive rate, is a good start.
Back in the day, before being spun off from Hitachi, Renesas made the CPU for the original Lego Mindstorms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H8_Family
It's difficult in Europe. Most companies aren't paying more, I've been interviewing for 3 months, so there's nowhere to go to for more money. If they can collectively jack up prices to bump the inflation, they can also collectively put a ceiling on wages.
These discussions invariably miss the obvious filter which is "interstellar travel is hard".

The most plausible scenario for interstellar travel requires deuterium-deuterium fusion and the ability to "live off the land" between the stars. Note a Pluto-sized "planet" could be disassembled and consumed entirely to construct a habitat with more square footage than the Earth. Rouge planets like that might be really common, certainly most of the usable mass in the galaxy is in Oort cloud objects.

If it takes 10,000 years to cross to another planetary system but travelers can stop anywhere between and colonize, travelers might have no interest at all in bone-dry inner solar system bodies. After 10,000 years in interstellar space such travelers would be highly unlikely to have a "space shuttle" for landing on an Earth like planet, with some luck they would have plans for their 3-d printer but they very well might have optimized their printers for the stuff they actually make and the old plans for chemical rocket engines, heat shields and such might not work the first time. Development of such a "space shuttle" might take as long for them as it did for us, if only because they won't have a whole civilization available.

The evidence that they haven't been here is that we have Ceres and Pluto and they haven't been turned into small ringworlds or other habitats.

If it really is a 10,000-year trip then you are left with the motivation people have to do it, particularly if you consider the Von Newman machine scenarios where quite likely your ancestors won't be around or won't remember when they machine finally returns results. There's always the outside risk that somebody will track the machines back to their source and decide to bomb us with a scaled-up "Breakthrough Starshot" as in the book The Killing Star. People are indifferent to make sacrifices to avert catastrophe in the next 100 years, how do you expect them to care about something more distant.

With all the stars and planets out there I wouldn't be surprised if something had made the trip from one star to the next, but it's not sufficient to do that once, colonization requires doing that over and over again and I think the odds are long for that and any life that manages the feat may well be transformed considerably by it.

(e.g. if we were "serious" about colonizing the galaxy note that most of the habitable places as defined by having liquid water are underneath the ice in an outer solar system body somewhere. Creatures who were serious about this might alter their bodies and metabolism so they can survive in the places that are actually available, for one thing...)
Close! It was the Handspring Visor. Handspring was the company Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky founded after leaving Palm. The Sony Clie was also a nifty PalmOS gadget.
That's not mainstream nor the correct interpretation. Other hadiths of our prophet confirm that the second Constantinople is Rome. Thus both are capitals of the (Eastern and Western) Roman Empires. The Sultan who conquered Constantinople, Fatih Sultan Mehmet, sent the navy to Otranto/Italy and conquered there for this reason: to conquer the two Constantinoples and thus fulfill the prophecy. He died without doing it in accordance with the prophecies, the one to conquer 2nd Constantinople will be the Mahdi, expected leader of Muslims in the end times and his name will be the same as our prophet's: Muhammad ibni Abdullah (means son of Abdullah).
I could be :)

I know if I need to get a new Laptop, I will need to either pay twice the average for an open system that meets my needs, or spend months looking for compatible hardware.

So far the ~8 years old Laptop I have is working fine with Linux.
I think you're basically saying "yes - of course there's an elephant in the room, but if you just look past the elephant at the larger picture..."

And to be clear - I completely agree with you that there is a larger picture, and we had a very interesting test of what just-in-time supply chains looked like during global crisis, and we're now seeing all sorts of trends that we don't have good insight on.

But also... that elephant is still there. Running the money printer hot and heavy for a few years is almost certainly a major driver for inflation, even if the timing of that inflation can be very hard to predict (markets are absolutely not rational actors) and even if we know there are confounding factors.
This chain of reasoning is crazy. If gas stations had that much pricing power, why would they not charge $20 per gallon?

Believe it or not, gas stations do compete on price. Exceptionally located gas stations might have some ability to set their own price, but otherwise, if you have two gas stations next to each other, and one priced gas lower than the other, then the other will have to match it.

Which means either the gas price will go down by the cost of the labor for gas stations that are no longer needed, or every gas station owner is in collusion to maintain the same price (obviously false).
And the video, in turn, is a walk-through of this Colab notebook:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1BiQiw31DT7-cDp1-0yS...
There's a decent amount of evidence this isn't quite true anymore. It does seem like Thatcher's Right-to-buy made for a lot of conservative new homeowners, but the conservatives appear to get less popular with modern homeowners over time(though they seem to split equally toward labour and further right parties like UKIP): https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2022/02/22/does-...
It's not that hard.

- Look at the application logs
- Look at the emails and reach out to a sub-sample of them to determine if they are real users
- Look at the network traffic/volume numbers
- Look at the architecture to see if it could actually support that volume
- Look at the pattern of content in a random sampling to see if it's just "Lorem Ipsum" or actual, real content

Just some heuristics I'd use off the top of my head. I've had to do some technical DD in the past and there are always ways of determining legitimacy of claims.

The consequence of not doing even basic DD are outcomes like the $174m fraud that JPMC eventually discovered: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/5/23671000/jpmorgan-frank-fr...
Why do people care about the author more for novels than for software?

I think it has to do with art vs. utility.

I imagine that, likewise, people would care less about the author of a programming language manual, or about the author of their car service manual. It's still writing, but it's writing that is meant to fulfill a useful function. Does the manual adequately describe the programming language? Then who wrote it is irrelevant.

With novels, people are not looking for utility but for enjoyment, for entertainment. And if they enjoyed one author's book, they suspect (often rightly) that they will enjoy another book by the same author.

Now, I personally have some favorite authors in the technical world too. I am thrilled and shouting "take my money!" if I see something new from Guy Steele, for example. But I think that's a bit unusual, and I would happily buy a new programming book written by someone that I've never heard of, it the content looked like what I was after.

Why is it more socially acceptable to be a solo author? I might offer that part of it is ongoing maintenance. It is not typical for a novel to have multiple revisions once it's published. I mean, sure, maybe corrections for typos or something, but we're not going to see a completely overhauled new release of a novel every couple of years. The author does the work, completes it, and it's done.

With software, there's more expectation for ongoing work. If you as an individual were to move on to something else, and not continue working on the software, then an application you wrote in 2023 might become irrelevant and unusable in 2025. Not so with a novel.
This is also one of my favorite papers. It's utterly ridiculous how the "normal"/"average" vehicle in the US is now a huge crossover that drives like a beached whale, most of which have 4 occupants or less from manufacture to when they end up in a junkyard. It's utterly ridiculous. Nearly anything a crossover or SUV can do, an AWD hatchback can do better while being safer for pedestrians, other drivers, better for the environment, and generally less of a nuisance.

Americans have become pathologically selfish when it comes to driving.
Ok, I'll bite. We (mergent.co) have looked at similar tools before but ended up managing our own infra. This is primarily because the tools we've found focus on recreating Heroku/similar on our AWS, which doesn't suit our needs.

For example, in addition to traditional applications, we run:
- Kubernetes + Knative
- Apache Pulsar
- ScyllaDB
- Elastic
- Clickhouse (soon)

How would Argonaut help us with our (frankly, painful) infra? We're living in YAML hell over here.
Sounds like it is time to fork and own it. Just as legal as what IBM is doing and people might vote with their feet rather than pay the IBM tax.

There's enough of a community to own this. Jenkins is a good role model. So is Libre Office. Oracle was once on the other end; now they are on the receiving end. So, I'm guessing they might be interested in being on the other end this time. Between them, Amazon, and maybe a few smaller companies there should be enough to pull together an independent fork, a and leave IBM to piece together long term support by themselves. The goal would be to have a stable long term version but I'd say IBM's involvement might be optional at this point. And what's left of Red Hat might be tempted to jump ship. Shape it like a foundation and make sure that there is no single corporate owner that can change their mind and you have a fine basis for decades to come.
Was that with ReserveAmerica, by chance? That was another public-private partnership: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReserveAmerica that a lot of campsites used before Recreation.gov

But it's true, it used to be a lot easier to find space! I'm especially sad that a long-time dream of mine (staying at firewatch tower) seems completely out of reach now. Selfishly, I do yearn for the times when the outdoors were a more exclusive club. But the American (and communitarian) in me recognizes these as public lands, to be shared by all, even if wider access personally inconveniences me. I feel lucky that I got to experience some of these places at all before they blew up... as a millennial, I guess I'm part of that last generation that still knows what it was like pre-internet. Gens Z and beyond may never have that luxury of experiencing a public place that 10,000 TikTokers hadn't already been to... last week.
It also was surprising to me to learn that the Blade Runner city is considered dystopian. I had some of my greatest times in Asian mega cities like Shanghai and Tokyo. I think the key is to get away from subjective preferences in either direction, price in externalities, remove red tape, but also direct or indirect subsidies in either direction which right now benefits the suburbs by paying for their huge infrastructure needs. Maybe the result will still be that everyone wants to live in a SFH, but I think reality is gonna be a more diverse mix of options and in general more density because it's not economical. We also have a lot of people who right now cannot afford any home and I'm sure they'd prefer a shoebox between hundreds of other shoeboxes over a whole in the ground under a freeway bridge
> One may ask for sources...

I know of a lawyer who did that. Didn't end well.
As I understood it, you do have a weight penalty for a sub. You need to get back up by powered movement, or down by it. You are limiting your dive time either way.

They can’t use foam for flotation at that depth. There is a concrete like “synthetic foam” if you want unpowered rise to surface but it’s expensive. I read early on they wanted carbon to be light enough to get back up by releasing weights on powerloss.

From what I have seen of the hull, it was a tube. I can’t remeber seeing a view with a complex or even drafted shape to it.

I suspect that spinning carbon by fiber would take far too long, and think they probably used narrow weave to do it. It would have been cheaper than the required thickness of titanium, which is the same strength as steel, but 40% the weight and still a little heavier than aluminum.

Who knows!? Nothing they did showed that they ever chose the more expensive option. Carbon was likely just the cheapest thing they could use for their goals.
> The first "realisation" is what is commonly taught within the first 5 sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy

This is something I learned early and explored regularly in my therapy journey of many years, but I never directly experienced it until I had time off to explore it more deeply (mindfulness meditation, time in nature, photography all helped here). It's one thing to understand this conceptually. It's another thing entirely to experience it directly, and it's that delta that seems worth exploring.

My goal in writing all of this out isn't to enlighten people, or to claim I've found the one true path, or to proclaim novel findings about the nature of self. But rather, to re-explore the interesting parts of the break and what worked/didn't work for my own clarity, and in case that information resonates with someone or helps them through their own stuff. In short: "this is what worked for me, might not work for you, do with that what you will". I'm certain it won't resonate with everyone, and I'm ok with that.

To be honest, one of the biggest things that has made me think twice about this project is that I don't want people to think I'm taking myself too seriously.

But your comment helped me realize that I'm not actually concerned about naysayers, so thank you for that!
Eventually they'll be out, but it'll take a lot of political willpower and capital to clean up the mess they've made in the meantime.
Less so than his later books in my opinion. It’s a lot of great plot throughout with good explanations of the math concepts it refers to.

I may be biased, After reading wheel of time, nothing seems too long anymore!
I’d heard it was worth it even if you don’t use eMacs. Spend half a day trying to figure out how to install and just gave up.
Sorry. It is not important at all for the plot, no worries.
Perhaps if you ask an 11 year old.
US11663824B1 Patent: Document portion identification in a recorded video
Low rates and supply chain shock (Ever Given/port problems/COVID) created the opportunity for tacit collusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
Asciinario: Terminal recording with asciinema based on scenario scripts
This conclusion doesn't follow, it only makes sense if they are 100% busy all the time. I volunteered in an emergency ambulance a little bit and most of the time we waited in the waiting station.
In my country (Poland), it's various local suppliers. Some large, some mid-sized. Basically, whoever agrees to do the job for the least amount of money, it seems.
In many cases, there's a fine line between "technical" DD and just "DD".

Case in point is the JPMC acquisition of Frank and Frank's CEO Charlie Javice.

Turns out all of the user numbers were made up. A technical DD would have easily surfaced this even though the user numbers and volume is business related.
Love magit. I recommend using it with magit-delta https://github.com/dandavison/magit-delta for the syntax highlighting.
Studying malware and malicious infrastructure was hard. So I built GrabbrApp