skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Kind of a tangential brain-dump:

Fora on the old web tended to be nominally devoted to a topic, but each had a massively thriving "Off-Topic", "General Discussion", or "Random" board where the overarching theme of the forum served more as a background ambience.

The userbase was small enough that one "knew" the different personalities, and membership in a forum felt more substantial than on big platforms like Reddit or Twitter, where you either become a microceleb or you're just a fly on the wall of the dead internet (maybe even both). Moderation was less formal, and since mods got to know users fairly well, even an egregious rule violation could be forgiven if you emailed them to apologize. You'd even have high-quality trolls who became accepted as court jesters. And since there was a lot more fragmentation and a lot less overlap in moderation, you'd be more comfortable holding your tongue in a particular setting since you had other outlets for speaking your mind on verboten topics (and usually those topics were better-defined, though power-tripping mods would still interpret and apply the rules creatively).

I like a lot about the fediverse, but I don't think it can recapture that experience. I might just be old and curmudgeonly though.
The justification is simple but you won't like it: retail investors enjoy owning Tesla more than they enjoy owning any of those other stocks

There are lots of reasons for that enjoyment, but I'm not sure they matter
And whom is responsible by and large for working hard to influence those laws?

It's a bit like saying it isn't Intuit's fault for how crazy it is to file taxes in the U.S., as it's all coming from lawmaker policy. The problem is, Intuit has been working hard to influence said laws in their favor for decades; they are very much responsible for why taxes there are still a quagmire of forms and rules.

This is a wonderful fluff piece that appears to work hard to redirect blame in a different direction.

> Regardless, the fact that companies raise their prices in response to shortages is not only defensible but desirable.

It's not necessarily the demand driven increase that pisses people off. It's when that price becomes the new normal afterwards that becomes the problem. Three guesses as to why it stays there.
Every seller needs a buyer for a transaction to happen. For some reason, people are still happy to take 84-month notes on $80k cars instead of sticking to their older car or buying a cheaper one; same with expensive beef, which could be substituted by lentils or other cheaper sources of protein.

A part, perhaps even a large part, of that "some reason" is likely the increase in money supply as well as fiscal stimulus. But consumers still share a part of the blame, if they willingly take on that transaction for non-essential goods and services. Few businesses have the pricing power to jack up their prices arbitrarily high, though there is a clear trend towards consolidation across many industries in the recent decades, and one could definitely argue that the US hasn't busted enough mergers and trusts.
New “Cash Poor Report” Shows Americans Borrowing Money Pay Billions in Junk Fees
> "But wait, maybe this is all just natural cycles" is borderline willful denial at this point, especially on a well-informed site like HN. Might as well ask if maybe the earth is flat after all.

On such website dismissing someone for questioning common knowledge wouldn't be worse? :)

May I remind you people used to think the earth was the center of the solar system and they burned the person who questioned it. Quite an extreme example, but you get it right?
The Economist makes no bones about having an angle, that’s its whole thing.

When I read them I try not to get anything that wades into their very obvious lassiez-faire bias.
The grogue wars of Cabo Verde
Fluoride lowering IQ is not a conspiracy theory, it's a proven fact.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-020-0973-8
Fox? Yes. Absolutely.

NYT? Only if you consider "what's actually happening" or "reality" to be a bubble. I see both liberal and conservative viewpoints in the NYT all the time.

Reality does have a stubborn liberal bias, after all.

That said, NYT is equally driven by sensationalism, in the "If it bleeds, it leads" sense.
Someone said, "I want to do this," and the government credibly responded, "Do that and we'll take action against you." This equals standing for pre-enforcement actions, because the government is threatening to do something. If the government had responded, "Go ahead, we don't care", then that someone would not have standing. You don't always have to wait for the government to actually take action against you to have standing, so long as you can prove the government would take action against you if you did the thing.
People shouldn't be allowed to speak their piece when that piece can be bright-line traced to people dying.

But fine, let's allow people to speak their piece because bright lines are hard to draw, starting with Twitter, who should be completely free to follow or not follow what the US government says, which is literally what happened here.

This will be overturned on appeal, because the bar for this kind of order is way higher than where the Biden admin was, and for the most part we still care about being consistent when applying the rule of law.
I think stuff like this is a symptom of our current era of hyper-partisanship. With no real debate, the bad ideas of each side fester, unchallenged.
Would this be equivalent to a "gentlemen's agreement"? Is that a thing in Canada? It was or is in England AFAIK. I don't think that would work in the US. It is still not clear to me how legal documents on document sharing platforms are legally enforceable when signed by clicking buttons. I would expect a public notary to show up with hard copies for me to sign and photo-copy my state ID but that is not consistent any more, or at least since Covid.

Do we need to start adding AI of text messages that detect when one may be accidentally accepting legal obligations and force the person to recite a hymn and hit their forehead with their phone in order to send a thumbs-up? ~Pie Jesu domine, dona eis requiem~
I said a real republican. Not what the current status quo is.
They discovered that they could get even more profit than they believed possible before; specifically that customers could bear even higher prices, at least in the short term.

This was discovered by pandemic price increases caused by increased costs. The new plateaus have just never dropped, even as their costs have dropped.
There is no evidence that fluoride is remotely dangerous in reasonable quantities, only in ridiculous quantities that are impossible to reach under normal circumstances.
I just love these responses so far. It really does seem like it’s “a little of column A, and a little of column B”.

The takeaway I get is that he got stuck buying an overpriced tool, without understanding how it works, or how to use it, and is slowly starting to break it with his mishandling of it.

Reality must seem a lot different to someone with more money than anyone. With my finances I can only afford to eff up so much. He can afford a lot more than me.
Pakistan’s Existential Economic Crisis
They have plenty of ways to do so without using intermediaries at social media companies.
Do phone companies have access to that when the phone isn't actively placing a 911 call?
There's nothing wrong with that because you're expecting costs to continue increasing but you might be locking in the price you charge for the next year.

That's the problem with attacking inflation -- it's not about changing current conditions but about changing expectations.
The rights apply to people not the govt lol

Edit: Amazing, a perfect factual comment is downvoted.
Trancitor
I find it really funny how people blame corporation's "greed" for the high inflation. It's literally raison d'être of for-profit organizations to squeeze as much profits as they can in existing market and regulatory conditions.

The main reasons why corporations get away with "unfair" margins are:

1) Broken anti-trust regulations.

2) Irresponsible fiscal policy effectively monetized by money printing.

3) Ability of corporations and most wealthiest people to ~bribe~ lobby politicians so 2 would benefit mostly them.

To summarize: the root issue is with the government and the political environment which has created it and allowed its short-sighted and irresponsible actions.
Threads hits 30M users a day after launch, putting Musk’s Twitter on notice
There is a user on this site that commented recently on installing one. The problem is I can't remember what thread it was or what his username is, or even what the name brand of the system he installed was.
I believe it was the bit in the article where they, well, they said it:

>Bertyar88 is your average Eastern European basement dweller - unemployed, and with $1,000 in his account
Not always, but yes, information brokers tend to consolidate wealth and power.

And I made no mention of political orientation, please stop with the tired idea that this is a conservative/liberal issue. I have more in common with a redneck in Alabama than I do with Jeff Bezos. Stop falling for their traps.
Eh, they call it, “what the market will bear” and they’re quite proud of it.

It’s a lot easier to do a lot of things when you Other the people you deal with, including exploitation and especially warcrimes.

They don’t talk about citizens or people, they talk about “the market”, which is barely anthropomorphic.
Know that there are sources that survive on misinformation on both sides. While the situation isn't good and still needs our attention and focus, it's not hopeless.

Recent reports show significant improvement, although I cannot provide you with a link at this time (since I'm not in the habit of bookmarking things). Sadly I've also seen plenty of social media responses to this that we should keep regarding the situation as doomed, lest we start to slow our efforts due to good news.
Considering how much money is being invested into the solutions, I would say that the change from fossil fuels will be great for economies and geopolitics. Specially since by going renewable/nuclear most countries are reducing dependence on crazy countries and may end up spending way less money on energy.
Is assuming the sequence length is directly correlated to the context window a meaningful thought?

Does this imply similar increases in context in practice?
> TS is complicated and chaotic because the language it compiles down to is

I hear this regularly but don't think it holds water. Other statically typed languages compile to any number of targets without issue; machine code, llvm, and even JS.
Yeah we never had sets or instructions as a kid (of the 80s). But now doing sets it's pretty relaxing, fun, easy. It's a puzzle. Eventually everything ends up in a heap like other comments mention. I imagine once the heap is big enough we'll go back to creative free form building with the variety of generic and tailored pieces we've accrued.
A third possibility. Prices could also go up if there is lack of competition, implying a lack of proper regulatory oversight.
I think it's a problem outside of the VC-adjacent space too.

There's a sense that if you can't solve a huge societal problem (ideally several), it's not worth doing anything. It's really disempowering mindset because most of those problems are really hard to solve.

It's like all the focus is on what effect the thing you're building will have on the world, rather than just building something because you think it would be kinda neat if it existed.

The latter type of projects are the only sorts of projects I've had any success with. It's really liberating to not have to play some five dimensional chess game guessing what will make other people behave in certain ways and just using your own judgement to build what you like.
It was not "just" a thumbs up emoji, there were preceding negotiations as well. Sort of important...
Couldn’t read the whole article but in the beginning they write:

The imf has found that higher profits “account for almost half the increase” in the euro zone’s inflation…

It sounds like it’s a legitimate idea. Do they disprove the IMF finding? With the rise of oligopolies it seems to me that pricing power isn’t subject to downward pressures one would normally expect in a market with healthy competition.
Biomes 1: Digitising old maps
Because the judge was wrong and he actually limiting free speech. The whitehouse should ignore the ruling.
Definitely saving this comic for future reference!

Was chatting about "marketing gimmicks" earlier with a colleague but saying so what if the gimmicks are actually objectively good? Things like product made by humans, sustainable packaging, etc.
[dupe]

We can stop posting these now? There's plenty of discussion in the other two or three threads (pun intended)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632
I am satisfied for the space of the government’s unenforceable opinions to be circumscribed.
Hardware accelerated ray tracing?
All whitespace remains meaningless. That is, the optional closing tag has nothing to do with a newline. Rather, they are defined as optional if the next tag is one of a set, or their parent is closed.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#optional-... is where these are defined. It basically says that a TD remains open until the next sibling td or the tr/tbody/table that it is in is closed.
Recent Canadian court rulings have made me wonder if I live in an extremely US-system mindset; it is hard to understand the logic here.

The buyer was concerned about this transaction, it seems - they sent a message asking:

“please confirm flax contract”

In response they did not get a contract. They got a thumbs up. What's next, text a thumbs up to a car salesman who is trying to get you to agree to a deal and now you've signed the contract? Contracts have much more in them than a text message could convey. Perhaps I'm being to legalistic, but this is a court matter.
North America is TOO Expensive and it’s unsustainable [video]
What does this offer that isn't already well-established at https://usesthis.com ? -- aside from /Uses having a hideous design, that is...
<< This'll come out in discovery, but I didn't see anything particularly crazy in the complaint.

You are absolutely right the discovery part and I admit it will likely be something now I will follow more closely ( not completely unlike gems that came out of recent Microsoft/Sony deposition ) despite its political flavor.

<< I didn't see any examples of economic posts at issue, despite it being in the summary.

I disagree here, but I just dislike government overreaching so I also might be overreacting on principle ( and assuming the worst rarely steered me wrong in that realm ).

<< And the parody accounts seemed to be focused either on (1) non-public figures, like Biden's granddaughter or (2) have resulted in sincere confusion, such as when Twitter actually asked the CDC if a 'parody' account was Fauci's real handle.

A parody is a parody is a parody. The backstory is irrelevant for one reason and one reason only. The moment POTUS seemed to implicate himself and his administration in deciding what is kosher, he opened himself to, justifiable, scrutiny and, more importantly, likely eventual mistakes. It can be defended, but the more subtle point is that it should not have happened to begin with.

Not if you want to preserve the system that has even a semblance of pretending to adhere to the original founding principles of this nation.
I think most people can understand what a meter is, or what a kilometer is, but would have no idea of what a kilojoule is, or what the energy inside a barrel of oil is.
From memory: Products prices are determined by costs + profits. Inflation is a rise of that sum. Economists traditionally hyper-focus on costs, primarily wages, as the cause of inflation, while completely ignoring profits.

The podcast features a researcher, who has received high pushback from the economics corner although recently more articles support her view somewhat, who says that her research shows corporate profits are the main driver of the 2022+ inflation, and also played a - lesser but under-highlighted - role in the past inflationary periods in the 20th century.

One main reason she highlights is companies expect higher costs and raise prices, but those costs don't materialize, leading to higher profits. This also has a compounding effect throughout the supply chain because each intermediary adds an effect, resulting in a high increase at the consumer end.
Those complex sets are great for stimulating certain types of spatial reasoning, perseverance, and fine motor skills. My four year old went from 'building a tractor (60287) with dad helping' to 'building 5+ kits all by himself'.

The kits don't stop him from just building his own stuff either. The two forms of play seem complimentary.
... wait, what? Did this morph out of HHVM? Any links on this?
Maybe exponential intervals are better than linear indeed.
But your remark is orthogonal to parent's complaint that the updates are simply too frequent: to take your exponential framework, they would probably prefer a x100 interval before the next post rather than a x3.
Like I said, the "database" is just a directory of files. You can use anything you want to keep it synced. I've used OneDrive, Dropbox and iCloud to sync mine.
The only, and I mean only decent argument I've seen against 'greedflation' is that if corporations are increasing prices for increased profit, it's odd that I haven't seen it reflect in share prices.
Linking Chips with Light for Faster AI
Indeed. Perhaps the profit motive has run its course as the primary driver of all economic activity.
You’re still missing the point entirely. The purpose of a car is to take you from a to b. If you don’t need that service, you don’t need a car at all, and if you don’t need a car it’s doubly true you don’t need a virtual car even if it is cheaper. It’s not real they’re selling a fantasy. You’re trading a real burger for a photo of a burger. You can’t eat that.
Or making the phone more reliable, particular in high-humidity climates, where you want to prevent air from getting to the electronics as much as practical.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/transsexual-fr...
The turning frogs gay is about endocrine disruptors [0]. I'm not aware of fluoride being on that list though.

Clearly fluoride has health risks if my local water municipality had to get federal assistance building out a fluoride removal plant to treat its ground water supplies, but as always the dose makes the poison...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/oil-companies-post-massive...

An example from site itself: https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/us-companies-record-profits-2...

It's absurd.
It amounts to “no one from these 8 government agencies may communicate with anyone working at these three non profits, 20 social media companies or any similar organization”

Except that it doesn't say that. It's quite clear that such communication is still perfectly fine when it's for normal gov't operations; I'll quote it below[1].

The folks objecting to this don't make much sense to me. The injunction forbids the gov't from doing the things that the plaintiff complains about. If the gov't isn't currently misbehaving, then the injunction is a No-Op: the government's claimed current state of doing nothing wrong will just continue as is (putatively) already is.

What is lost due to the injunction?

[1] Here are the exceptions to the injunction:

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the following actions are NOT prohibited by this Preliminary Injunction:

1. informing social-media companies of postings involving criminal activity or criminal conspiracies;

2. contacting and/or notifying social-media companies of national security threats, extortion, or other threats posted on its platform;

3. contacting and/or notifying social-media companies about criminal efforts to suppress voting, to provide illegal campaign contributions, of cyber-attacks against election infrastructure, or foreign attempts to influence elections;

4. informing social-media companies of threats that threaten the public safety or security of the United States;

5. exercising permissible public government speech promoting government policies or views on matters of public concern;

6. informing social-media companies of postings intending to mislead voters about voting requirements and procedures;

7. informing or communicating with social-media companies in an effort to detect, prevent, or mitigate malicious cyber activity;

communicating with social-media companies about deleting, removing, suppressing, or reducing posts on social-media platforms that are not protected free speech ….

[EDIT: fixed formatting]
Huge fan of your product. Was using a different coffee subscription that would always show up late and I'd be without coffee. The scale does work well and I've only had once or twice have coffee show up a day late.
> Inflation is high, and the search is on for the culprit.

Is it really that hard? Faith in our system's ability to produce desirable results is waning (greed may be among the reasons, poor leadership during the worst parts of the pandemic may also be). That makes money feel more fictional than usual, which means it's worth less.

Turns out people don't put as much energy into playing games that they think are meaningless.
Young children chug toothpaste
It's been exactly one day so of course all users are active users.
No, according to the Snowden documents, the NSA spun up the MUSCULAR program specifically because Google was refusing to play nice. This was where they dug up dark fiber between Google data centers to tap into the information being sent between them. Within a month after the MUSCULAR leak, Google was encrypting all comms between data centers, which in theory, killed all the MUSCULAR taps.
You should consider asking if they'd like an update! I'm sure they'd love to see how things have changed in the past ~6 years, and readers would enjoy it too :)
1. He thought they had a lot of extra fat - Judging by the fact that he basically kicked off the silicon valley firing trend, he might have been right.

2. He thought advertisers/power users were locked into the platform but didn't pay enough - Judging by the fact that he had to hire a new executive from traditional media whose job is to likely negotiate with advertisers he was likely very wrong on what he though the power balance between twitter and ads was.

3. He thought the platform lacked core products - Since there are still no tangible new products at Twitter not sure how to grade him.

Overall, this is basically what a PE buyout of a shit company looks like. Except this company's product is used by basically everyone(on the free tier) and we get to watch the turnaround/last breath from the first row.
> Software does not have to be wildly unpredictable if you do good estimation work up front.

You also need someone with 1) strong technical and/or product skills, 2) good communication skills and decisiveness, and 3) explicit executive authority. That's the only way to avoid scope creep and bikeshedding.

When you started working on a project without knowing what you're building, or end up delivering a very different project than what was originally planned, it's hard to even say "that project was late." No it wasn't: you just never built whatever you had promised to build by the original deadline.
Same. I don't read them anymore, but I used to subscribe. Much of what they do is worthwhile, but there's the occasional bad take. But same goes for New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.
I had never heard of NAMBLA before. The wikipedia page is fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_As...

Allen Ginsberg was a member as well.

Reading this article, it makes me recall all the pop songs from the 80s which had lyrics like "...she's only seventeen!" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_(Winger_song)). I don't think Winger was a member of NAMBLA.