skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fear of the Crown re-organizing your governmental structure along the lines to move to an extractive form of colonization were well founded.

I'm not sure that's reasonable. The crown was hardly capable (nor particularly eager) to strip the American colonies of their autonomy. They were barely even able to impose new (and quite reasonable if not necessarily fair) taxes.

And anyway "selling" millions of Englishmen to EIC would be politically inconceivable both in England and in the colonies themselves.

> at the same time the EIC is being granted extraordinary privileges in your colonies

The parliament granted the company (which was on the brink of bankruptcy) the sole right to import tea to NA but they still had to really on local merchants to do that and AFAIK had no direct presence in the colonies. I'm not going to argue that was fair, especially when the colonial governments had no say on it but it's still quite a jump to what you're saying.

> to an extractive form of colonization were well founded.

That wouldn't have been feasible in the northern colonies because there wasn't much to extract. And they have already been practicing a form of extractive colonization in much of the south (which the plantation owners didn't mind). Of course to a much lesser degree than in the Caribbean which was much more suitable for growing sugar and other cash crops.

> the colonists were very averse to monopolies on trade since the few examples they had lead to disastrous behavior by the monopolists.

The EIC tea was actually cheaper (al though possibly that would've changed after some time) than the smuggled Dutch tea. So the EIC undercut many of the Boston merchants who made their money illegally importing it. I'm not defending monopolies but self-interest surely must also have paid a part

> try to think from their perspective: the Crown is preventing you from expanding westward

Yeah, if I was a rich landowner in Colonial American I would have also been pissed at the crown for not allowing me to the land (we rightfully won in a war) from the Indian Savages and would surely be enraging by it granting the freedom of worship and limited degree of self-government to the papist Frenchmen in Quebec. This is not sarcasm at all, I just think the self-interest was clearly the primary driving force behind the revolution. The politically active (i.e. well-off) colonists just felt there was more to be gained by getting rid of the British than by maintaining the status quo.

> were not only rampaging colonial brutes.

Unless you happened to not be white, then they more or less were. The thirteen colonies were the equivalent of the EIC, it's just that much lower population density in NA than in India significantly reduced the pool of people to commit atrocities against.
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Time and again, people make the same mistake. Online ads work if you are selling a more-or-less commodity. If your product is a propane tank, paying for AdWords to be #1 whenever anyone googles "buy a propane tank" will generate leads (whether acquisition costs would make sense is another story).

If you have just designed an AI-powered robot for welding propane tanks, you won't get a single lead via AdWords. Your best bet is trade shows and sales people who know people inside companies that need to weld propane tanks.
This is just a bait to tell you not to invest in marketing without knowing your customers (which is pretty obvious but many companies just don’t bother taking a good look at their customers.
> It's just not a market Apple can infiltrate. If Apple wants to compete on the high-end, they have to dethrone Nvidia and their current high-performance ARM servers (H100 clusters and whatnot).

Why? And why is it only about hardware? So AWS, GCP and Azure all run Intel/AMD, who do they need to dethrone?

For all it matters Apple "cloud" could even use these nVidia servers themselves. Not like AWS only uses Graviton. So, so?

> So... who would they be selling to, now? I genuinely think such a "server Mac" would echo the Xserve without a fundamental shift in the way Apple treats the software community.

Right, why would they only do hardware? As is typical Apple the $ is in the ecosystem and services. The competition would be to offer cloud services that has a better experience just like they do for phones and others. The macbook pro was always more expensive and yet people still purchase them.
It really is easier to refer to it as ex-twitter.
Hey, very cool work! How does your solution compare to directly building the context in a framework like LangChain?

I’m an AI researcher, so am a little further from this area, but am very curious.
You’ve exactly hit the nail on the head. I’ve been in larger companies and these 3 dynamics explain well why they have trouble innovating.
This is a classic example of correlation ≠ causation; it's quite possible that people with already-high wellbeing are more inclined to greet their neighbors (as well as the opposite of people with low wellbeing not being inclined to greet their neighbors). Whether forcing yourself to greet six neighbors every day actually "maximizes wellbeing" is unsupported by the presented evidence.

That said, I wouldn't be too surprised if there was a causative relationship, especially with some of the more specific "social" and "community" wellbeing. Seems like a reasonable guess, and it'd be straightforward to test: evaluate wellbeing scores from before and after one starts making it a point to greet six neighbors per day.
Why does -he- need to address the poor decisions of the person who was in charge before he joined?
OpenZFS – add disks to existing RAIDZ
"This feature allows disks to be added one at a time to a RAID-Z group, expanding its capacity incrementally. This feature is especially useful for small pools (typically with only one RAID-Z group), where there isn't sufficient hardware to add capacity by adding a whole new RAID-Z group (typically doubling the number of disks)."

A feature I am excited to see is being added!
Specifically, it looks like they've broken any http links to t.co, while the newer https ones still work.

The practical effect of this is actually worse than the thread stated -- all old media and links on Twitter are broken (at least, since 2010 when they started using t.co). But perhaps they can fix it by restoring the http version of t.co?
Ah, yes, that's true, it's usually not done maliciously like the ATI example. It came to mind because it was a well-documented case of the driver being aware of the application and changing behavior.
The Impact of Climate Change on US Subnational Economies
i feel like scrolling would be better than pagination as its easier to select from the choices that are available
Yes. That's the only problem with it....
"bloated" is just such an absurd and lazy way to describe the performance of software
That's not the "cost" being discussed in the article, it's explicitly referring to dollar amounts, therefore the contextualized discussion is also about dollar amounts.
Loans aren't income. When you get a mortgage is that income?

Also anyone with a brokerage account can get one of those loans. It's not remotely exclusive to rich people.
Three 6 Mafia turns $4,500 into $45M with 'Mystic Stylez'
> almost none of these people have audited a `build.rs` file or a proc macro implementation which effectively runs as you, completely unsandboxed

The biggest orgs tend to run all of their builds sandboxed, including what happens with build.rs. It's part of how they enforce dependency management day to day, but also helps protect against supply chain attacks.

So not everyone does, but enough people do that you can rely on their complaints for the more well trodden parts of the ecosystem.
How about giving out free samples in the supermarket? Going to a conference and talking with people? Busking at the farmer's market?
I've heard of similar things, like a team "turning on" Facebook ads and just leaving them running for a total of £1m, with almost nothing to show for it at the end.

I don't think many people understand just how much active management these things take. New ad content is needed all the time, new testing needs to be done, ad channels change in cost and effectiveness month to month and need balancing appropriately, targeting needs to be reworked.
That was on GPU, and there are various CPU implementations (e.g. based on Tencent/ncnn) on github that have similar runtime (1-3s / iteration).
… but let’s show the readers a picture of an Asian forest tortoise.
> You can "use" the platform without being a user of the platform

Come on! That’s just ridiculous.
The article might be an interesting read for you. What you say is supported by their findings:

> We only register under a hundred. And we pay conscious attention to even fewer.
What do 'CAC' and 'LTV' stand for?
There are a few.. Zig compiles to webassembly and looks fairly C-like. You can also use Cheerp or Emscripten to compile C to WebAssembly (though they both assume you are targeting the browser).

Also +1 for Assemblyscript which is fairly C-ish. It's based on Javascript / Typescript but really works more like C if you are doing anything low level (also it doesn't support Closures etc).
Pain as a signal to "stop doing what you're doing" or "avoid that" is one thing -- pain as something that causes emotional suffering is another.

It's clear that many creatures feel pain, it's less clear that it causes them anguish or distress in the way we would experience it.
I’m firmly not in the “I have nothing to hide” camp.

I am firmly in the “pick your battles” camp.my

Worrying about cameras on the road picking up your speech when 99% of the population willingly carries smartphones doesn’t seem like the right place to pick a fight.
> While there's plenty of more or less dispassionate comments focused on finding a solution, there's a greater number of people from the peanut gallery drowning that out with comments that amount to "I don't like this!" at best and questioning the integrity of dtonlay at worst.

Only see comments doing that are on here.

The comments on the github issue are all pretty productive and constructive. The worst is the commentator that calls the approach 'despicable', but also provides constructive feedback and helps describe the problem.
"We might see 4,000-10,000 advertisements a day[1]. Do you remember two advertisements you saw today?"

Thank god for adblockers and pity those who do not have one or do not know firefox on android still allows them.
Look up my contact info in my profile.
Also people who throw litter out of their car windows. The Venn diagram of the two groups is likely nearly a circle.
I know several blockchain projects that would love you but none that can afford you. Market is terrible especially in web3 gaming. I myself have taken a 97.5% pay cut with my most recent position compared to 2020.

Edit for the haters: it’s completely expected. In 2020 solidity engineers were being offered $1m+ annual base pay packages with no takers, since anyone could earn more building something on there own. Like it or not more actual utility that people enjoy is getting built now that the hype boys are gone.
who cranks it up >$10k/mo without proper conversion tracking and retrospectives of the campaigns? This was a complete failure of leadership. If the first $10k didn't bring in any eyeballs (not to mention conversions), you need to change your strategy.
Here is some investigation into that: https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/heres-truly-surprising-re...

Not that I'm a Jobs fanboy, he's still a toxic shit messiah-complex execution-genius (all can be true), but don't just hyperbolize because it fits your narrative. Like the overblown story about Musk's emerald mine. This is the same thing: a Jobs/Musk hater pushing a heavily modified version of a decades-old story told by a third party, but based on a grain of truth.

I've known rich people who love getting stuff for free even though they have money falling out their ass. It's a disease.
Yeah, edited my comment. Agreed that direct outreach is ineffective if you aren't b2b.

If you're selling commercial products for a mass market, I think doing things like sponsored content might be more effective.

If I'm selling products to businesses or a few customers, it's better to do outreach by attending industry events, talks etc... I think the cold approach still works.
> considering your phone likes connecting to cell phone towers (and thus disconnecting from your printer)

I don't know what kind of weird broken phones you have, but every smart phone I've ever used has had no trouble connecting to things on local networks via wifi even when not in a cell deadzone. Your objection sounds made up to me.
I’d love to see a consumer / environmental protection law that says you need to provide functionality-preserving security updates to a product for as long as it works, or pay the current owner retail + 10% interest to buy it back.

I have a sphero bb-8, and two 2017 or newer cars that no longer function as purchased due to software updates. I’d like my $125,000 in cash please.
Wow! Thanks for the feedback.
I have always thought that food taste is much more smell than actual taste. Taste is rather limited in complexity with only 5 tastes, compared to hundreds of different smells. Or so I heard.
>have one car drive a lonely highway every 10 days

This is obviously an availability issue. If it's available and cheap enough it will drive that stretch all day, since there are private cars driving there all day. The only reason it's barely used now is that it costs a days salary to drive to and from the next town.
That's true, I should probably include some measurements too. Oh wait...
Customer acquisition cost and lifetime value
Customer Acquisition Cost
LifeTime Value
According to ChatGPT, in the context of gps post:

"CAC" stands for "Customer Acquisition Cost." It represents the cost a company incurs to acquire a new customer, including all the costs associated with marketing and advertising.

"LTV" stands for "Lifetime Value." It represents the total net profit a company expects to earn from a customer throughout their entire relationship with the company. This takes into account all the revenue a customer will bring to the company minus any costs associated with serving that customer over their lifetime.
Apologies. CAC is "Customer Acquisition Cost" and LTV is "Life Time Value".

e.g. If I buy $100 of ad views and over all of those ads get 10 new customers, then my CAC is $10. If a customer on average spends $100 over their lifetime (typically defined as 3 or 5 years, but varies per business) on orders that cost me $70 to fulfil, then their LTV is $30 (Edit: as marketing is not included in gross profit).
I like to point out that computers are war machines. First use of computer: help win WWII. Second use of computer: simulate atomic bombs. And so it goes...
Customer acquisition cost. Lifetime value.

I am not sure about whether the metrics above are benchmarks for CAC based on advertisement alone.
More like you posted a cope comment.
> I think it would be very confusing for a child to start with a language so far away from low-level logic.

Depending on the person.

For some, it would be very frustrating to start with a language so close to the implementation detail, and so far away from what you want to do. It's very possible that someone might have long lost the motivation before one can do anything non-trivial.

I started from Python, to C, to assembly, to 4-layer circuit boards. Whenever I went a level deeper, it feels like opening the inner working of a blackbox that I normally only interacts with pushbuttons on its front panel, but I otherwise is roughly aware of what they do.

On the other hand, much of my childhood was spent on tinkering with PCs and servers, including hosting websites and compiling packages from source, so I was already well aware of the basic concepts in computing before I started programming. So, top-down and bottom-up are both absolutely workable, under the right circumstances.
Being unable to debate with yourself in your head must really suck.
Mike's Amateur Arcade Monitor Repair on YouTube reviewed a similar 25" Universal Arcade Monitor Chassis a couple years back and was "blown away" by it. Definitely worth the money. High praise from a guy that knows CRTs inside out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3u9sWDeoYE
If you want the focus to be only content, you probably don't need a template. Templates often try to be flashy, but you can usually cut out the bloat. Some off-the-shelf offerings might have more desirable results out of the box, but I like Astro because I want to build the site myself.
Bad batch, not bad luck.
i'm glad capitalism is so efficient at allocating resources
Correction: It's benchmarked, https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/pull/2514.
It’s cool, I like it, congrats on getting something out the door :-)

Would be cool if you could share - if the url updated as you edited?
Though maybe it’s a hint?
(Edit: Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion and is based on information before 2015)

China is good at controlling public opinions like this. I grew up in a "third line" city and we were always told if we don't have good grades, we end up having to clean the streets. But we were also told there is "social safety" for medicine.

In reality, you need a job and need to pay a monthly fee for "social safety". And in reality, people with low grades can end up in gangs or prison. Only the obedient type can get a hard labor job.

Many of these lucky ones would sleep where they work or stay with families or sleep at "migrant worker hotel/camps". It's not a life anyone would want to live.

In terms of quality of health care, even though all workers pay into "social safety", most cannot be seen by good doctors. For surgeries, they often had to travel to bigger cities and pay out of pocket. And " social safety" mostly covers visits to clinics (baiscally a consultation at a third world version of your Walgreen pharmacy counter).

I know people tend to hate the USA but it's not worse than China.
I think that LLMs are evidence that we are simple as well.

The locked in LLM still uses tokens, which is language. It cannot operate without these tokens.

My conjecture is that since LLMs are built on a technology designed to mimic biology (neural networks) that they probably work in a very similar way to us.

But also that thinking symbolically, as an LLM does, is only part of the experience of existence.

Other animals arguably experience self awareness, and have passed the tests that we use to demonstrate this. Even some insects.

This non-linguistic part is what I am arguing that LLMs do not possess (discounting magic), ergo have no sense of self. It might be inherent in modelling a corporeal existence, or inherent to some other process of being.

I do not posit however that this neural function of self could not be replicated. Actually, since it is apparently possessed by insects, I would suggest that it may actually be very, very simple, some kind of neural REPL perhaps.

Regardless, LLMs in their current form do not seem to possess this sort of self awareness.

Im pretty sure we could achieve it though if we worked on it a bit… but should we?
While I am annoyed by loud motorcycles, I understand and totally agree with riders about being loud so cars are aware. Drivers are shockingly unaware of their surroundings. It's worse with drivers of larger trucks and SUVs. Drivers don't address their blind spots, they don't pay attention, they don't signal, they don't look. I've fortunately never seen a motorcyclist hit by a car, but I've seen a lot of close calls, and not one of them has been saved because the driver suddenly noticed the bike.

I'm sure there are guys who want to be loud, just like the kids who put the noisy mufflers on their cars. For most bikers I don't think they see a better alternative.
A moment of rage followed by laughter. Well done.
And I have removed my accounts. X was too much. No, thank you. One time Twitter was a nice place. That was a long time ago.
It's a pretty nuanced thing.

Some large OEMs with the resources to do the design effort could use a large passive heatsink on even surprisingly late processor (i. e. Pentium 4) because they could make a holistic design with shrouds and baffles and know you were getting just enough airflow from a case fan elsewhere to keep the CPU within spec.

Early ATX designs, in fact, were often based on "the PSU has its fan placed so that it will draw air over the CPU heatsink and out the back"

Enthusiasts, obviously, went for brute force designs.
Maybe not "well", as that page cites Wikipedia as saying she was "seriously ill with leukemia" last December. :-(
You think Arab Spring was good? For whom?
What should I do then?
Intel also had a famous bug / 'feature' where the SSD refuses to respond after a fixed number of writes.

If all your drives were Intel and part of the same array, they'd all fail at exactly the same time.

Reliable storage is hard.
oh this is really cool. It requires zero infrastructure on the user's part (just a github repo) and does exactly what it advertises. Great job. I'm going to start using this.
This is very timely as some jerk has just got himself a very loud motorcycle and decided it would be fun to ride it through our neighborhood day and night. I mean night, like after 11pm. And this is Seattle, where we leave our windows open at night because nobody has air conditioning. He is single-handedly interrupting the sleep of at least a thousand people every night.

Because this thoughtless dweeb actually seems to stick to a schedule, I’ve managed to capture his license plate, but I am considering building and deploying a personal “noise camera” to deliver a mountain of evidence to the police and see if they’ll take action. From this thread it sounds like that might be a popular open hardware project!
This would essentially mean the rich are the only who can drive.

A car accident goes form 50k to millions with ideas like this.
So sad. Such loss. Wow.
> Mixing binaries with source code means the whole package is not FOSS anymore.

This is completely untrue and a bad-faith argument. The source is right there for the binary. It's still FOSS.
Is it? That seems like a very bold claim. MLs have been at the heart of a lot of language development for the last few decades, both as research languages for various concepts, but also practically: OCaml is fairly famous as a language to write programming languages in. FP isn't something wild and niche, it's discussed fairly regularly even amongst users of mainstream programming languages. Even Go has an FP library now, coming out of IBM of all places.

I don't think you can attribute this to ignorance, because it's very clear that Pike is not ignorant of programming language design - even if you disagree with his decisions, he has had tremendous success at implementing his vision. To me it speaks more of disinterest - FP doesn't seem to really register on his radar as a useful mine of PL ideas. That's fine, although I agree with the previous poster that it's ironic to be such a proponent if APL, and yet have such a blind spot to another very fascinating area of his field.
> Assuming the majority of purchasers of Danish housing are made by those who are paid in DKK, so this is in fact keeping the prices low.

When the cost of servicing a mortgage goes down, the price will go up.

How do you support that prices should go down?
Marketing is not ads.

Marketing your product is placement. Was the product placed in the proper market, at the time where it would receive the most eyes? Was the product placed in the proper segment of the market? Was the placement during a time where the market was slowing?

Ads are only a tiny portion of marketing. The where, when, and how of marketing are just as -or even more- important for success.
I bought Sandisk SSDs & SD cards. All, literally ALL, of my Sandisk SSDs & SD cards either failed (no longer read) or have significantly degraded performance.