skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another delightful callout -- make your own Antipixel-style badge at http://www.acasystems.com/en/button-maker/

I was so smitten with the design of these back in the day.
Why the dimensions 88x31? How did that come to be back then?
Recently I noticed that the baguettes at Whole Foods (in St. Louis) are about 2 inches shorter than before. They are the same price.
John Cage might not fit into your simple models, I'm afraid:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″
It’s not a recent focus, it’s a continual focus.

Shrinkflation is important for understanding true price increase. It’s not enough to say “toothpaste went up 20%” in price because you really want to know “toothpaste went up 35% based on weight.”

It’s also frustrating because it’s just another level of bullshit to sift through when shopping. It would be nice if manufacturers and retailers didn’t do this.
Sorry, obvious typo! It was four people.
Markets are exceptionally efficient over time, just like nature. Barring cataclysm, organisms that are displaced from their niches take ages to go extinct. It's the same with businesses. And what do you mean "immediate"? Days? Months? Years? Market effects take time, as anyone who has studied marketing will tell you.

> what would stop everyone who doesn't like that from switching browsers instead of upgrading?

The fact that they're human beings with their own lives and finite attention spans. There is an entire body of work segmenting markets into categories like innovators, early adopters, early majority, etc.

Did you wait in line for an iPhone on launch day? Why not?

> If there was a truly efficient market

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman whats a truly efficient market?

> that speaks to a lack of a competitive environment

The environment is plenty competitive. There is no further proof required of this than the continued rise of new companies that displace their competition. In a thriving ecosystem there is lots of death as well as lots of birth.

> The market has failed

It hasn't, it just doesn't move on timescales you can relate to easily. Organizing people to make and distribute things takes unimaginable time and energy. Supposing that a centrally planned intervention can be more efficient is the height of communist fallacy. It has failed every time it has been tried.
I actually agree when it comes to vehicles. I personally would not use self-driving until it is further refined. On the other hand, I haven’t seen LLMs used in safety critical applications or otherwise dangerous integration of LLMs into a product or service. There is mostly upside with little downside.
And if you subscribe to MMT you should love immigrants because they're free "unemployed" people you didn't have to spend money raising so you have greater runway to print more money without inflation.
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In an ideal world, one UPC code would identify only one product with one set of ingredients and one weight. Want to make a "+20% free!" package? New UPC! Want to change the contents from 16% cacao to 14% cacao and some more sugar? Sure, new UPC.

The manufacturers would have to publish the contents for each UPC in a machine readable format.

Then the retailers would have to publish daily prices, again in a machine redable format.

...and the world would be a much nicer place for the consumer. Everyone could build apps on top of that, you could compare retailers, comparable items could be crowdsourced (eg, 1L of 3.5% fat milk and a list of all UPCs for that), shopping list apps could calculate the cheapest options to choose the cheapest store, or in cases with multiple stores in a cluster, tell you what to buy where, etc.

And the best thing is, that nobody actually regulates any prices or item sizes, just the consumer gets more informed.
Solutions vary as the budgets and talent assigned the projects do.

Federal, State, local and hyper local solutions cannot be the same unless the financier is also the same.
We'll have to disagree. My observation is that nodes have, historically (see 2017), been used as a way to decide which miners were mining "Bitcoin" and which miners were mining "some other thing". The whole point made by Core developers was that "proof of work does not equal consensus if your policy is invalid, and what is valid is what is accepted by all these nodes".

As such and unlike your TV and browser, nodes have been used to influence policy, so I reject your "everything is political" straw man.
Total anecdata, but a ton of those seem to be agencies and freelancers from the usual outsourcing hubs overseas.
makes it easier when you understand complex numbers

https://www2.clarku.edu/faculty/djoyce/complex/
> I think he's pointing out that an anticompetitive cabal already exists,

Of course, they're called _unions_, which prevent companies from hiring or contracting anyone who isn't part of their cabal -- I mean union.

Disney and Comcast and WB/Discovery are _competitors_ who would cut each other's throats for a nickel. Would they collude for profit? Sure, but they treat this as a zero-sum game, so they don't want to help their competition too much.
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When Themed Logs are More Useful than Daily Notes
I've made several runs now at trying to understand Hilbert space from a physics perspective, but I still do not have a good intuition for it. Something about it just breaks my brain.
Thank you for your comment. The sliding window approach allows me to dynamically identify relevant "large chunks," which can be thought of as sections in a document. Often, your questions may pertain to multiple such sections. Using only medium chunks for retrieval could result in sparse or fragmented information.

The third retrieval focuses on "medium chunks" within these identified large chunks. This ensures that only the most relevant information is passed to the Language Model, enhancing both time efficiency and focus. For example, if you're asking for a paper summary, I can zero in on medium chunks within the Abstract, Introduction, and Conclusion sections, eliminating noise from other irrelevant sections. Additionally, this strategy helps manage token limitations, like GPT-3.5's 4000-token cap, by selectively retrieving information
Which in itself is fairly antidemocratic.
You can try to do research for your location: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...
Only if you spell it right! I got “Spearfishing is fishing using handheld elongated, sharp-pointed tools such as a spear, gig, or harpoon, to impaling the fish in the body”
Meh: pigeons are still the fastest way to transfer data [1] within 600 miles.

[1] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/a-pigeon-can-deli...
Unity gets death threats from its own employee
Tesla blocks Scottsdale woman from charging her car
ironically, I was backend at Uber 2014 - 2018 and used to ask a simple version of implementing an excel formula engine as my go-to coding interview question. Its got a nice mix of data-structures, algorithms, complexity, and implementation. Good candidates can get a reasonably efficient implementation handling cell references in an hour.

nice read. made me nostalgic for the wild days of Uber-China hacking.
Blockchain analysts suspect North Korea-linked hackers behind $70M crypto theft
ahhh discovering CVEs, thats often a form of software engineering as opposed to making sure a system is PCI Compliant or whatever. I don't respect IT certificate chasers, because any dev could debilitate those organizations implementing “best practices” and just chooses not to
Ripping a DVD collection to which I own the originals is not piracy in my country.

In fact, we pay a tax by the GB for every writable storage medium we purchase (everything, from HDDs to the SD card I load into my camera, including actual phones) that goes to authors and accounts for “private copies” like those.

I use Plex and the RAWs from my camera take a lot more of my media server's HDD than any DVD rips.
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Some toothpaste can be a net-negative, like those with abrasives. It's actually the mechanical aspect of brushing that does most of the hygiene. Frothing and minty taste of toothpaste are mostly marketing. Maybe there's a case for fluoride, but there are other sources like tap water (and that's a whole digression of it's own).
Even if you have a good point people are going to be less likely to listen to you if you start calling them lazy. This comment would be better without the last sentence
I've long had the fantasy of an economics simulator given dwarf fortress levels of dedication and attention to detail. This might not be it, but it does warm my soul a bit.
> If I were a DC executive

Your reaction is why you are not a DC executive. Shareholders, your board would not stand for your concern for employee/contractor over profit.
> How would you prove that you write the code long before getting hired by them?

Commit it to a repo somewhere.
Explainer: Has life been discovered on an exoplanet?
It's a bit scary to imagine the consequences if this file was somehow corrupted (wrong column headers for instance)!
It’s funny how musk is both totally not responsible for any of the good things any of his companies do and yet he is 100% responsible for all of the bad things. Do you really think he has anything to do with replying to press inquiries?

The top comment is right; this thread is embarrassing.
Love the part about circular references. I gotta say though - I'm having a difficult time imagining how complex these fomulas are that reimplementing Excel's formula engine is easier than just porting the formulas into JS.
> Tesla’s new car-building process could be an industrial breakthrough

Tesla is not a car. It is a toy. It lacks basic car interface (odometer).
They still can.
Just not in luxury areas.
I love this article. It begins setting the scene with Uber's grand expectations for the chinese market and then shows just a small piece of the work Uber spent on Uber China. Meanwhile Uber China itself failed spectacularly, with factories of phones claiming the free rides money.[0] I don't think I've ever experienced dramatic irony in a blog before, certainly not a technical blog. The post itself is a masterpiece.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2016/09/27/ghost-drivers-...
I don’t think it’s risc-the-philosophy per se, but a difference of priority. X86 historically prioritized clock speed (ultimately culminating in the utter dead end that was Pentium 4).

Then Intel back tracked to The Core/iN/M series, which actually reverted to essentially an updated Pentium 3 design, and has focused on raw power, power draw, heat, and cost be damned.

ARM, in the other hand focused on power-per-watt from day 1.

My M1 studio, fully wide open, draws less than a quarter of what my old i7/3080 beat did at idle.
Any model has some precision associated with it. I am not asking for 5 sigma level of precision. But if the economists are fighting about what will happen to a particular macroeconomic variable, they are making a prediction even if it is a log_2(3) bit prediction [1]. There must be some math that is backing that. I want to see it explicitly put into a computational model that runs on live data. Otherwise is there any real content to the arguments that economists are having?

> Especially because it's not possible to create true controlled experiments

Cosmology has zero-experiments. It is a completely observational science [2]. And in fact, has very bad data. Basically a time-frozen snapshot of the universe from a particular point in space. They can't even make predictions about the future, only about what some new dataset of that same time-frozen universe will say. Economics on the other hand has the benefit of lots data about interventions and their consequences. There is so much opportunity to develop models by making predictions and checking what happens.

[1] variable goes up or down or stays the same.

[2] The fact that the roots of modern science lie in a purely observational no-experiment discipline of astronomy is lost on many.
There's a service in SharePoint and SharePoint Online that let you program against Excel. Just gonna leave this here.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-dev...
How about a concrete example of a big business that did not allow you to cancel online prior to this law?

Netflix? Nope. Comcast? Nope. Google? Nope. Verizon? Nope. AT&T? Nope. Apple? Nope. PG&E? Nope...

Where is this mythical renaissance of new online cancellations?

Turns out - most big businesses did this already... oh, but now it's the law but who's enforcing? Lawyers who gain private settlements? That's not enforcement, that's a racket.
Part of my evolution as a modem owner was downloading small files I was pretty sure I could download before getting kicked off, running out of small files that were interesting, and having to progressively ramp up to zmodem and late nights to just barely finish downloading a file before timing out if I logged straight in and didn't do anything else, and then nobody in my family picked up the phone to make a phone call.

Even for shorter files, if they picked up the phone at 80% that was it for the day (and at the time restarting a transfer either didn't exist or was too esoteric for me)
Fair enough, but let's not pretend this is what shrinkflation is all about...
Irrational care instincts are irrational.
> Over the summer of 2016, we came up against a new twist on the project. We had a model that ran overnight to generate data for anticipated ridership in China. That data wasn’t useful on its own, but if you fed it into a tab on a special Excel spreadsheet, you’d get a little interactive Excel tool for choosing driver incentives. Our job was to take that spreadsheet and make it available as the interface for this model’s data.

They eventually built a homegrown "Excel" clone as the UI for their model because "city teams only know how to use Excel".

I would have done it the other way around - connected Excel to the data output by the model so the "city teams" could continue to use real excel. I think most finance teams do something like this.
It isn't. But that's easily mitigated with temp tables, ephemeral database and COPY etc.

Upstream can easily f-up and (accidentally) delete production data if you do this on a live db. Which is why PostgreSQL and nearly all other DBS have a miriad of tools to solve this by not doing it directly on a production database
JavaScript, Dhtml Tooltips
Forking is usually good for the community around a piece of software but I struggle to find who made this argument originally
Editing 8k video and running a social media app on a phone are vastly different workloads.
Musks companies all have a policy of refusing to respond to journalists.
Bread wouldn't be bread if it wasn't processed. We would be eating the wheat kernels.
I get that. I feel for arms and armor specifically, in a world where you have magical methods of production, magical materials and non-human races needing to utilize these, you're so far removed from pre-modern European tech as to make the comparison a bit redundant.

I mean the main trailer artwork has Laezel bearing a greatsword with a kind of semicircular notch in the blade with a hook on it like you could use it as a giant tin opener. Hopefully noone needs to be told that's unrealistic when she herself looks like some sort of psychopathic grinch knight.
The Samsung Watch 4 Classic had a rotating bezel, gave it a nice look and also practical.

https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-watch-4-classi...

The lack of a bezel is probably part of why the Pixel Watch is so damage-prone.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of [data] tapes hurtling down the highway. -Tannenbaum
Yeah, people call it skimpflation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation#Skimpflation
I assume, given the headings there, it talks about Model/View/Controller as the way to organise a game (and an application as a whole)?

If you’re interested in how to put a game together, MVC is an obvious model to follow.

For those who don’t understand what I mean, you firstly worry about data and have a way to represent that. That data only been the “actors” state and position in the game. Nothing graphics related. Nothing to do with how they interact. This is the “model”.

You then have completely separate code that can move those actors around by changing the values in the model. This will include state changes like collisions. No graphics involved.

You then have separate code that draws the actors in the model based on their state.

It isn’t obvious to many but this allows you to concentrate on the various areas that need coding. It also allows you to, say, easily change parts of the code as needs be.
> Revenue: $279,800 Million > about “an hour” of their annual income

Nitpick: mistaking revenue for income(profit) is a very common error most of us make when talking about businesses. If you wish to own a business or invest, it is well worthwhile to program the difference into your head. It matters less for high margin businesses, but it is crucial to delineate the difference for low margin businesess (such as retail).
Oh, yeah, I'm sure it's more complicated than I made it sound, especially if you had early CGI added later like Babylon 5. What I wanted to convey was that the source material for many programs had much higher resolution than the original NTSC broadcast or VHS versions, and that's what makes it possible to produce an HD version of a show that was filmed before HD was invented.
I guess in theory a government could strongly guarantee freedom of speech while not guaranteeing anonymity — you could say whatever you want, but you couldn't do so anonymously. I suppose until recently in history there was a limited number of methods of making public messages anonymously.

I think Internet anonymity has some benefits though: it's certainly helpful for whistleblowers revealing crimes committed by a company, government or other organization. While you could in theory still drop folders containing documents or a USB drive to different news organizations, with how widespread CCTVs are, so I think that path may become more difficult. In countries with oppressive regimes, that's even less of an option.

I'm also not sure that the lack of anonymity is a sure-fire way to improve public discourse: just look at Facebook comments (which are rarely anonymous.)

As you mention, perhaps anonymity could be allowed on the Internet, but not on the big 5 platforms — that could be a balancing act between chaos and oppression.

Though, while a policy like that might be a net good for someplace like the EU, the precedent of requiring government IDs for Facebook etc. could set a dangerous precedent for places that are less free. Not every country is a full-on liberal democracy OR an authoritarian state where Facebook etc. is outright banned — there are places in-between, where the government oppresses people but still has elections and some degree of dissent is permitted. It's in those places that I see government IDs being required to post on major platforms being a major issue. Being able to share instances of government oppression on major platforms is crucial for those places, but if the identity of those sharing it is revealed, then fewer people may speak up and share such instances.

It's a complex issue to say the least.
Unless we all have maglev bikes we would still be using something to create friction. Even these tires require a tread. I don’t see how this is a real improvement with regards to the sacrificial rubber.
I really hate being pedantic here, but it's ultimately using mass for thrust instead of being a pure photon rocket (which arguably is also expelling energy which has mass but in this particular case you're expelling momentum - and probably causing smarter people than me to groan in exasperation at my description).
I always wondered if it is the sodium or the chlorine that triggers the flavor. Unfortunately licking raw sodium would explode and elemental chlorine is a gas that burns ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
I don't think that's unusual. When Valve announced Source 2 for free, there was a similar discount to use the engine: the game must release on Steam. Maybe that has changed in the 8 years of no news about the release of Source 2 for developer though.

https://www.pcgamer.com/source-2-will-be-free-wont-ask-for-r...
The point was we have these sort of consumer protection laws and nothing has changed. The enforcement mechanisms are weak and designed to make lawyers money more than actually gain compliance.

Given the decades of P65 enforcement - and given the prevalence of "harmful" chemicals imported into this state every day, we have no reason to believe this unsubscribe law will be any different.

Having this law makes people feel like something was accomplished, despite reality.
Exactly, in 2016 there was several off the shelf options for doing the exact same thing. It’s a perfect example of a young engineer feeling a huge accomplishment from reinventing the wheel, and then realizing the clever solution wasn’t actually worth anything like the effort required to create it.

I had a long conversation to convince someone not to go down that path in 2006, and I am sure someone’s going to do it in 2026.

Pausing to think: I wonder how someone else solved this exact problem is such a huge part of how you grow as a developer I wish schools would focus more on it.
Know this is early news but there's no english/other decent source for this report? Not seeing anyone writing about it
I guess my real question is, "Why Don't Any of the Lite Systems Use Soak?". You already got two rolls, a hit roll and a damage roll. Make the hit roll actually a roll to hit, and have damage that has to exceed a threshold.

But ok, I don't want to sound like an ignoramus. I get it[1]. It changes the game pretty fundamentally, and totally throws levelled systems under a bus.

Dig it: if your soak and "hit points" go up consistently, it's not going to be long before a lot of damage sources are just meaningless. That cuts into the drama of the game, it actually makes it a different genre; worth noting here that Hero started out as Champions . . a superhero game.

Now my counterargument to THAT - and yes, I am arguing with myself, it's Friday - is that some of the boss monsters in the DND5 module I ran for 4th level PCs had over 200 HP. Two Hundred God Damn Hit Points We're Going to Be Here All Night. So, which is more meaningless: doing 11 HP of Magic Missile to a 200 HP behemoth, or doing nothing at all because he's soaking 11 points of damage? Well, by definition the second one. But the first one can get damn boring if the GM lets it turn into a HP counting contest[2].

And a good GM never lets it come to that.

The encounter is never just a flat grid and a monster, it's a lava river, a waterfall, cliffs, flying mounts, a vat of toxic goo, freezing cold, the deaths of friends. There's also a real time component in addition to the game time: at one hour playtime, the players hear a distant army. Two hours, the ork scouts spot them. Three hours, they see the mass of the army. Etc, etc - the point is, the world moves on with or without the PCs, but the path it takes changes with the actions of the players. Gives the players a sense of danger, urgency, and reinforces the suspension of disbelief since the baddies aren't sitting in a cave waiting to be murdered.

[1] And let's be honest, people that want lite games are going to Fate anyway.

[2] Which - if I'm playing - my Bearbarian Druid is going to win, because damn, that build NEVER runs out of hit points.
Holy echo chamber
Anyone can be a failure, but it takes a lot of work to be a real piece of shit.
Netscape made a popular button with these dimensions in 1995 that everyone used as a basis to riff off of. I don't know if there were specific motivations for those exact dimensions by the original designer.