skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really get what you mean. They are always greedy, meaning they will always set prices at the level that is most profitable for them. Which simplistically means they will increase prices until the impact of higher prices on sales outweighs the impact on margins.

So their ability to set prices is constrained, principally by competition as well as the tendency of consumers to simply do without if the price is too high. When there is more money in the economy (eg, due to lower interest rates), consumers will tolerate higher prices for the same goods. Thus corporations have a greater ability to set prices, and they react, predictably, by increasing those prices.
I don't think you're missing anything. Others, including those in-the-know, were left scratching their heads too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/oceangate-titanic-miss...

> Years before OceanGate’s submersible craft went missing in the Atlantic Ocean with five people onboard, the company faced several warnings as it prepared for its hallmark mission of taking wealthy passengers to tour the Titanic’s wreckage.

> OceanGate’s director of marine operations, David Lochridge, started working on a report around that time, according to court documents, ultimately producing a scathing document in which he said the craft needed more testing and stressed “the potential dangers to passengers of the Titan as the submersible reached extreme depths.”

> Two months later, OceanGate faced similarly dire calls from more than three dozen people — industry leaders, deep-sea explorers and oceanographers — who warned in a letter to its chief executive, Stockton Rush, that the company’s “experimental” approach and its decision to forgo a traditional assessment could lead to potentially “catastrophic” problems with the Titanic mission.
Thanks for the book recommendation. added to my list :)
Doesn’t that still just favor people with more money? If you’re tight on money you won’t be able to afford the deposit. And if you’re really rich you still don’t care about the deposit.

Also in many places the camping fee itself is already steep.
This isn't something any normal car review talks about but it really should be a factor in choosing what car you own. Especially if you care about privacy from car manufacturers, who are trying their darndest to be software companies nowadays.
> Auto makers, TV makers, and others use GPL software left and right and they don't, or rarely, offer a easy way to obtain it.

To be clear, if they don't provide source code of GPL software to customers, that's an actual outright violation of the license.
Having the context is everything! This is amazing!
On top of this I really doubt the claim about working in bad weather. Some weather will work, sure, maybe at reduced speeds. But if there is a proper cloud in the way, the near-visible 1550 nm light will be scattered completely.
And this is why raising interest rates isn’t working.

How about we try enforcing antitrust laws and increasing corporate taxes?
Hating holders of capital isn't effective, either rhetorically or as a policy motivator, at least in the west, at least for now. I mean this in the descriptive sense, not as a moral or personal opinion.

Stronger anti-trust, stronger worker's rights, more equitable ownership of firms/real property/capital, etc. -- none of this requires hate, and most of it is actually entirely consistent with the bedrock principles of late 20th century Capital-isms.
Hate to say it but depending on your long term objectives taking a sabbatical might have been the worst thing to recover from burnout. You want to reassociate effort with reward, and the best way to do that is to work on small things related to what caused your burnout that will "guarantee wins with low expectations". By pivoting to something different you reinforce the association of the previous form of effort with failure (in the negative space of rewarding yourself for not doing it).
well, a carbon frame is trash after a single crash even if it seems alright due to microscopic fissures. that's also the point cameron's making. the compound carbon material will progressively deteriorate with every dive due to the immense pressure difference from surface to target depth. extremely small deformations cause tearing and delamination. so small you can't see it. but one dive too many and it just cracks.
Burnout is bad. I recovered after a bad episode but feel I lost some faculties because of it, can’t tap into some skills I used to have any longer. Maybe im more resilient now but that’s because I won’t let burnout build up anymore and enter a don’t give a shit mode to protect my sanity.

And all this to make more bucks for some rich arses.
While I agree RPI screwed the pooch on this one; I am surprised for $14k the damn power switch isnt under a locked panel/switch cover given what it is used for.
Ok, maybe for some competitors it's a negative one, but for competitors interested in growing quickly it's a positive one.
> Sometimes I have no confidence that a mature civilization is even possible if it's composed of human beings.

It boggles my mind that humans have survived for so long considering how suicidal and self destructive we are as a species
What exactly is the intended purpose you envision?
While I think Teslas somehow drive the compressor via an electric motor, it's almost certainly brushless.

In traditional ICE cars it's belt driven off the engine. There is no electricity e involved to rotate it, just to engage a small clutch.
Sounds like they think of Rocky as the enemy, 'under no obligation' to make it easier, 'rebuilding code' is a 'threat'... I have a project in RHEL that they 'rebuild' but I don't see that as a 'threat'.

They want to be a little bit more careful with dogma that makes sense to their management, will get them patted on the head there, but is just nonsense seen from other perspectives - like my perspective contributing to their project for free.
"In 2022, China's overall grain output reached 685 million tons, an increase of 3.7 million tons over 2021, which showed strong resilience despite the pandemic. "
You don't need to raise money to do that, because your profits being high from lack of competition allows you to build up a nice war chest, then spend it on protecting that lack of competition. It's not difficult at all, it's literally how every single area of commerce right now is owned by like two giant conglomerates. From tools to bathroom cleaners to crackers.
Calling this thing UNO is a mistake. It has nothing in common with the original Uno (all three revisions) except the form factor, and that's going to confuse a lot of people.
How does a startup unicorn have anything to do with innovation? All a startup unicorn proves its ability to convince early investors they will make a big exit eventually.
Yeah, and regarding OpenShift, I wonder how well that play has been working for IBM. My guess is they were expecting to 10x or 100x OpenShift revenues as giant corporations standardized on containerized infrastructure...

...but then Kubernetes (sans OpenShift) seemed to do the 10x'ing while OpenShift was just what RH customers used if they weren't already exploring Kubernetes through some other cloud provider's offering.
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#2. Databases like Postgres are central to backend applications, but for AI the real action is happening on those tensor frameworks.

Honestly I can't see pgvector becoming a mainstream way of running inference. I used pg cube for that on one project a while ago. Yeah it worked, but even ignoring the performance issues, the only reason we considered it was because of our weird use case. We were also doing other funky stuff like large sparse matrix math using just float8 cols, with parallelism (by splitting one query into ~32).
I believe that was for Ubuntu Pro.

Ubuntu Pro provides some extra support (five more years) for packages in Ubuntu's existing (gratis) Long Term Support (LTS) releases of Ubuntu.
Cloudpilot
Did you even read the context around that? Everyone involved in the scene described was Bangladeshi. And the point of writing it like a dramatic scene in a movie is made clear in the giant quote and paragraph that follow: it was law enforcement theater. They didn't have the capacity to enforce food safety at the scale necessary, so they used this tactic to instill fear in people who were still using the outlawed lead-based pigment.
> Sorry. What part of human trafficking is consensual?

The article was about porn. Consensual porn. It was you that decided to deliberately taint it by dragging in human trafficking. Because you don't like porn and can't accept that sex outside a rigid framework should exist so you try to deny other people the right to be themselves or have their own lives their way. Elizabeth Henson has more guts and morals and decency than you.
A new US-India joint venture will spend $1.5B to build US solar factories
The way it builds on immutability means it naturally can lean in that direction, but the way it tends to be used for networks a lot undoes that because network communication by its nature is not deterministic in the sense you mean.

In my case, IIRC, it was something to the effect of, a lot of our old clients out in the field connected with a field that crashed the handler. Enough of these were connecting that the supervisor was flipping out and restarting things (even working things) because it thought there was a systemic issue. (I mean, it was right, though I had it configured to be a bit to aggressive in its response.) The fact that I could let things crash didn't rescue the fact my system, even if I fixed that config, would strain its resources constantly doing TLS negotiations and then immediately crashing out what were supposed to be long term connections.

Obviously, the problem was in the test suite, we were able to roll back, address the problem, ultimately this was a blip not a catastrophe. I just cite it as a case where "let it crash" didn't save me, because the thing that was crashing was just too broken. You still have to write good code in Erlang. It may survive not having "great" code but it's not a license to not care.
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My word is this impressive.

I uploaded Wuthering Heights[1], selected just the trailing guitar solo (3:09 to just before the fade-out starts), and got a bunch of seemless sounding 3m tracks of just that guitar shredding away.

All the ones it generated were perfectly cut and pasted, with one exception in track 2 where I could tell where it was cut/pasted.

Can't wait to try it with the guitar at the end of Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits), or the flute solo in Locomotive Breath.

If anyone is looking for a good use of AI, I wouldn't mind a webpage that lets me say "complete this solo that was abruptly cut short" and get something great.

[1] This one is especially sad because the sound engineer/producer later lamented that he faded the solo out so quickly because the player was still improving like mad and what he had left after the fadeout was apparently better than what he had done while recording.
First thought was that we finally have an answer for Symphony No. 8 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._8_(Schubert))
It's not a GPL violation, but it's definitely a willful misinterpretation of it's goals. They're using a lot of mental gymnastics to try and make themselves out as the good guys here:

> I feel that much of the anger from our recent decision around the downstream sources comes from either those who do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to repackage it for their own profit. This demand for RHEL code is disingenuous.

The demand for RHEL code is genuine. The expectation of a return on investment is the disingenuous part. GPL does not give you the right to deny others a genuine copy of your code. If someone pays for a RHEL license and then mirrors all the GPL packages, they would feasibly be complying with all the licenses in play. Putting up all these roadblocks and assuming self-righteousness is how the community loses trust in a platform like this.
It's just rhetorical hyperbole, you're reading too much into it.
Yes, and regulation prevents them for charging the true cost for peak/constrained energy demand (except in texas where you can get a $16,752 for running your lights)

Naturally theres a wide spectrum of options between fixed prices and dynamic pricing that leads to shocking results.
> strawman

Did we read the same gp which claims that market efficiency is an ideal to be had?
I don't recall where the the Arctic expeditions slot into this saga, but for ages we understood the lemon link but we hadn't identified Vitamin C yet.

So there was a moment in time where the British Royal Navy was carrying around concentrated lime juice to fight scurvy (hence, Limey). Only the vendor that made the lime juice processed it in copper vessels, destroying most of the vitamin C.

It doesn't take much vitamin C to prevent scurvy. But it does take some.
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GP was suggesting it's far more realistic in Vegas than London, where they moved to.
I ama amazed how ahistorival this statement is. Its like from a parrallel universe.

Look at the last 4 times inflation yas gone through the roof - every time it was a supply shock, a trafe embargo or a war.
I didn't mean to imply Cambridge was a suburb. (Hence Boston/Cambridge or really Boston/Cambridge/Somerville.) Cambridge also didn't have significant technology companies--as opposed to universities--in the late 90s.
I'm sure that's a contributor - thank you for highlighting the other side of this issue! :)
Really nice! Do you use a library or service to find the self similar points, or is it your work?

Found a bunch of cool related links here [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_information_retrieval
> we don’t particularly need to do anything to reduce birth rates of technologically advanced societies societies with human rights.

Other than the hard work put in to scaring would-be parents. Indeed, the birth control pill put people in control, but it it is only since the "16 and Pregnant" movement, which campaigned on demonizing having children and stressed the importance of not being saddled by a child, that we've seen below replacement levels.

As a result, the youth of today in their prime rearing years look negatively upon having children, and by the time they "snap out of it" they are into their geriatric child birthing years and biologically don't have much time left, putting tight constraint on how many children can be birthed.

> That’s because women choose to study and work on their career in their 20s

Trouble is that, thanks to the same campaigning, those who choose to have children in their 20s (or earlier) have to face the scorn of society. Unless you are strong-willed, you have little choice but to study and work on your career, even if children is what you truly want, because everyone else is going to try and make your life miserable if you don't.
> My personal, uneducated, unverified hypothesis was that companies overcompensate price increases for three main reasons:

profit-maximizing sellers can only increase prices if demand rises, otherwise they will sell fewer units at the higher price (and if they could've made more money selling fewer units at a higher price then we can assume that they were already doing that because they are profit maximizing)

the only way that demand can rise (allowing prices to rise) in unison is if there is more money going around, which is what happens when the money printer goes brr, which it did https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
When deleted comments were restored recently some users were reporting shredded comments were restored to a previous versions, like they had simply restored a backup not rolling back to the pre-deleted state.
Well, you can only have high rates of vacancies if you have plenty of housing.
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This makes no sense and addresses nothing in which I am interested.
"Lived in Australia and New Zealand which are disgustingly, obsequiously devoted to following tiny guidelines."

As someone born in, and having spent most of my life in New Zealand, I have no idea what this means. I'm not being defensive, but I just don't understand. Maybe I'm 'too close' to see it. Perhaps I'm thinking about civic rules (e.g. jay-walking, speeding) and you're thinking of, e.g. industry like construction?
very exciting way to use llm's as an application with simplicity
I find the following sections ringing true:

> There’s a lot of dark fuckery that goes on in the fiat system, but it certainly expands with our population, whereas a disproportionate amount of the Bitcoin supply arbitrarily lies in the hands of a few thousand random early adopters. Consider the fact that there are almost 8 billion people on the earth right now - not including future generations - and yet the 21 million possible Bitcoin units were being given out in 50 token chunks to people who happened to be around in 2009 with the expertise, capital, equipment and peer groups to exploit it.

> To justify the massively unequal initial distribution, many Bitcoin proponents rely upon dubious ideological positions (like claiming that the early users are being rewarded for being bold risk-takers) and semantic trickery, noting that there’s no problem in running short on units because a bitcoin can be split into smaller increments like Satoshis. It’s somewhat like noting that a tonne of gold can be split into 1,000,000 grams, without asking who owns the tonne of gold. So, one day the big holders of Bitcoin (people like Michael Saylor and Elon Musk) will be old, and future generations will have to wrest small fragments of Satoshis out of their wrinkled hands, a process that would presumably give those ‘whales’ an ability to extract huge amounts of labour from them in return. Given that most of these big holders basically did very little labour to get the original distribution, this is extremely problematic.
Feel like you could interchange that particular title and the rest of it will work for 99% of HN stories.
> Email infra is cheap; email reputation management is not.

In that Reddit comment linked in that article the person says they were spending $325k on self-managed infrastructure and the same thing would cost them nearly $4 million on SES.

It's unlikely they're ignoring reputation management with their self-managed stuff, so that's included in the cost, right? What kind of value added reputation management would something like SES be providing that's worth +$3.65 million per year?

What's the real threshold where the costs makes the system unattractive to bad actors? It's definitely nowhere close to millions of dollars in my opinion. I would say the entrenched players like the status quo because it gives them astronomical margins, so they act in an anti-competitive manner that ensures we never get anything better.

Overpaying by thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars per year for email reputation management seems like a terrible deal to me. Maybe someone can break it down for me and explain what kind of value you're getting for the 10-100x increase in costs. Is it anything beyond a pay-to-play scheme that's the result of tacit collusion?
i prototyped this using two windshield motors (powerful worm gears for cheap) and two slip rings to transfer power / position data between the arms

it looks awesome but I need to work on making it easier to produce by figuring out a better way to sense where the connecting arm is (hall effect?), and do more work to account for backlash in the relatively inexpensive / tolerant worm drives

i built one that rotates about the hour hand and another the rotates about the minute hand to try both ways out; it's pretty cool to see the whole thing swing around once an hour but probably not something you want in a home...
They gotta eat, how do you propose to feed them? I'm pretty sure if all paid Redhat developers stopped contributing it would be a massive blow to the Linux ecosystem that would not readily be replaced by volunteers. They employ people who work on every fundamental pillar of kernel space and userspace. Even if the fired devs wanted to continue contributing, it would probably be reduced hours compared to what they contributed before, because they will be simultaneously doing a different job in order to eat.
> Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere. This is a real threat to open source, and one that has the potential to revert open source back into a hobbyist- and hackers-only activity

Doesn't Red Hat do the same thing for many packages? Do they substantially contribute to every single project they distribute?

I wonder if this will lead to the creation and mass adoption of GPL v4 explicitly forbidding this loophole(and others which have popped up over the years).
Targeting a RHEL kernel version is quite different than targeting the same official kernel version as they backport a huge number of features, resulting in drivers that may work in RHEL but not upstream, or the reverse
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Unless they're doing individual daily reservations, it doesn't work like that. You forfeit the entire reservation if you don't arrive on the start date, but you can always depart early.
The 'you can be right and dead' trope is so tired.Of course we should always be looking to mitigate dangerous and distracted drivers.

>Outside of HN, in real life safety is a responsibility of everyone.

The person driving the gas propelled two ton vehicle has more responsibility to avoid hitting things than pedestrians have to avoid getting hit.

>. You are careful when you drive, careful when you walk. You don't text while driving, you don't text while crossing the street. Everyone stays safer.

Pedestrians *should* be able to text while they cross the street. The only reason they can't/shouldn't is because American drivers are largely allowed to operate their machines in a negligent manner at all times.

Walking is an inherently safe activity. Driving is an inherently dangerous activity. Drivers should have more a burden for safety than walkers. You, as a driver, should expect things to enter the road. That's why we have speed limits. That's you watch the road instead of playing on the road.
How would you write a game engine where one user is on Earth, and the other is around Alpha Centauri? Assuming the entire thing has to be modeled as a single world.
That's a pretty good set up for some wild fiction. You could go to the fabled moon / arctic bases, time travel, aliens ... it's a nice foundation. Problem is these days people would start believing in whatever fiction you write. The internet is broken like that.