skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
makes sense - but note: especially with receipts, there are use-cases where a tax authority might come back 7+ years later, or where heirs might need the proof after your passing (!) - and if they don't have it, it might cost them very large amounts of money in taxes.
And test your backup keys.
In Canada it's not uncommon too see some homemade looking solar heating setups connected to people's pools. The coiled black tubing on shed roofs is very distinctive.
In file sharing, the atoms largely stay put, though some electrons and photons might move a bit.

Therefore, not theft. ;-)
> If all stocks had a minimum 10 year ownership requirement

Then nobody would ever buy that stock, because they have no exit if things go south.

And then that's combined with

> If a company dumps illegal nuclear waste in some river, directly ask for minimum fines from all shared holders. First divide the fine by the shareholder amount, charge each shareholder. Then if it's below a 500 dollar minimum add the remaining amount to get it up to 500.

Again, who would buy that stock? What reward is worth that risk, especially when you've banned them from selling stock even if they see the company is doing shady stuff?
Would rich people be able to stop you from creating a good economy simulator? At the end of the day, it's programming. Someone who has studied economics could make that without rich people coming after him. I argue that no one would come after you if you were to do so.
Did they pass a specific data privacy law in the district? Or are they just strong arming under consumer protection statutes or something

Flew under my radar
This. At least a general equilibrium model.
> rich people don't want that

You had a great comment until you went off the rails. Sadly, economic ignorance is much more easily explained by apathy and the rarity of systems level thought in the general population.
We're getting these via email. Is this fraud?
Leads with a photo of 'not-great industrial-scale bread', and even explicitly calls for 'slice of cheap bread' as an ingredient... it's not doing much to convince me that the described effect is due to starches converting that quickly. I'm fairly confident the packaging for the pictured slice would have listed sugar as an ingredient.
> I kinda wonder if there needs to be some kind of "retry cost" for requests, so high level things retry less when previous attempts consumed a lot of resources further down... but I'm not sure how that could be tracked without either reliable communication of failures (ha) or a global storage of some kind (a potentially massive point of failure)
You could pretty easily get rough awareness of “things down the stack being expensive” without any sort of reliable communication or centralized storage if you tracked it per request.

If you’re already passing something like a request id through to support tracing across your services, more or less the same idea except pass some sort of budget.

All your entrypoints assign a budget based on some reasonable expectation of cost for the request plus whatever margin you want for retries and failures.

Every caller, when making a request, passes the current budget value through to the callee. If the callee returns, it can include a header with the cost so the caller can deduct it from the budget. If you wanted to use the latency idea, you could replace the cost with a scaling factor to multiply by the latency so any service that was seeing latency spikes would automatically get more expensive. If it doesn’t return, the caller has some relatively high fixed cost it deducts instead. (Optimally, a value that’s related to the general magnitude of cost for the request normally.)

If any service tries to initiate a request and the budget is <= 0, it instead throws an exception. It returns the costs and now the caller has reached zero and if it retries it will throw an exception back to its caller and so on and so forth until it gets back to the original consumer.

You’ve basically set an upper limit on how much effort you’ll expend servicing any request… whatever the reason it’s taking more work or longer than expected.

Main issue I’d see though is… that’s a lot of numbers to tune and keep in alignment. While it would probably be good to know that some call you’re making to some other team’s service just got 10x more expensive because they integrated some other thing… probably not by your API suddenly blowing up. Or the reverse, some team optimizes some stuff and reduces the cost of some requests and now you actually have enough budget to retry too many times and you’re almost back where you started.

I generally just lean towards retries being something that happens in one place, at one layer. Or even not at all—the user can see a “Something went wrong. Try again?” and we can retry when they ask us to.
I am reminded of "accidental Americans" who discovered they owe FinCEN hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for not reporting their foreign (i.e., local to them) bank accounts. Now, it's the forgotten-but-not-dissolved LLCs' turn to shine.

> Failure to meet the reporting requirements or unauthorized disclosure of BOI can result in civil or criminal actions. Willful failure to file a complete initial or updated report with FinCEN is subject to a US$500-per-day fine (up to US$10,000) and imprisonment for up to two years.
My background is React, and I have no Vue experience at all.

I only figured it out by looking at the previous section's code before slots to see that attribute and noticed that the slots example first snippet was missing the attribute I mentioned that would connect the pieces together
I would love to switch search engines, but no matter what when I switch my browser to bing or duckduckgo, I always find myself back at google.

Especially recently as with their anti-privacy policies, I would really prefer to use a different service, but they really are the best.
Their answer is "probably the USSR, it's usually them." What a useless article, though I guess it was written for people that don't really know what ramsomware is.
This isn't the 1970s anymore. Very few cars have major repair costs from engine problems. People are just creating an elaborate narrative of cost savings.

Insurance cost data doesn't seem to bore this out. BEVs have pretty decent maintenance costs.
Seeing as how latency did not decrease from the previous generation, is it fair to say that existing latency is inherently tied to 5G (and other) wireless protocol(s)?
I've heard of organizations like Footsteps[0] that help NYC Orthodox Jews leave. I sure hope there's something like that in Israel.

[0] https://footstepsorg.org/
In this day and age of AI, I think it's worth trying to build a better economy simulator without having any existing economic models in mind. Addressing this from a programming point of view could lead to interesting results.
TIL that PVC pipe is normally blue in Thailand. In North America it is almost always white, but also finds similar structural uses.
Quite fun. I got to a zen-like place and just wanted to stay there :) https://river.maxbittker.com/?id=6524851

Are these images real or genAI?
I'm currently in my second year of my Bach degree for Information Technology and I have had this exact same idea but never really knew how to go about it. But I think I might attempt it next year during my A.I. and Data Science paper. Just as proof of concept for neural network practice and learning.
Sort of related is chocolate. I feel like 'pure' chocolate is a loss leader and all of the other types with mixed in caramel bits etc are a way of selling you a bunch of cheaper stuff for the same weight and price! Better to just buy the least adulterated chocolate for the best deal.
NASA Assigning a Director for UFO Research Is a Waste of Time
> It's just that the energy recovery equipment is expensive, bulky and needs to be maintained.

ERVs can be had for US$ 500:

* https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-FV-04VE1-WhisperComfort-Ven...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3CRGhu8C5I

You can get some pretty small units as well:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-wCCJHIZAo&t=10m35s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGB83pSLMiI
In the footer:

Unplugged 2022
All rights reserved 2022

Minor but also - in Sept 2023 - makes ya wonder.
About the training: Suppose GCP or Gmail accidentally steps on the toes of a user who happens to compete with Google in some other way, and during some anti-competition lawsuit/hearing, they dig up a message between employees dissing that particular competitor. Maybe things like "let's make X feature better than Y company" are fine, but it can easily slide to less innocent-looking things.
Undergrad Econ courses still present micro and macro economics as two disciplines, but that’s theory from the 70s at best.

Graduate level economics packs a lot of economic models where for example the interest rate depends on the intertemporal preferences of different types of agents.

It just gets terribly complicated.
> Curious to hear what aspects of Objective-C you feel influenced id?

Well, 'id' is the generic object type in ObjC. ;-)
Looks to me that Googlers reading the news of this are quite concerned about their employer being held to account for not only their monopolistic actions, but as a result of that and retaining 90% of the market share, also having virtually close to no serious competition to challenge their monopoly.

It appears that this is the beginning of the end of the big tech party.
Just search YouTube. They're all there.
Looking over the "fact sheet" linked in the announcement[1], this appears to be the key requirement:

> When filing [Beneficial Ownership Information] reports with FinCEN, the rule requires a reporting company to identify itself and report four pieces of information about each of its beneficial owners: name, birthdate, address, and a unique identifying number and issuing jurisdiction from an acceptable identification document (and the image of such document).

While I could wish this information would be public in the same way as eg. SEC form 4 filings, this rule really does feel (to me, a rank layman) like a big step forward for corporate transparency... to government, at least. Still pretty exciting!

Any corporate legal eagles out there who have an actual informed perspective to share on this new rule and its possible effects?

[1]: https://www.fincen.gov/beneficial-ownership-information-repo...
What about the Geoff Mack version?
Yes because it makes it potentially less healthy and often worse tasting / useful.
So what is the "context" on this?
I’ve tested it on homemade bread without sugar and noticed it. It even works when you don’t tell people ahead of time why they’re doing the experiment.

The link was chosen arbitrarily, you can find plenty of other examples if you’re concerned about its authenticity. But, it’s not a very strong flavor so you do want a bland bread.
https://archive.ph/7JLzW

> In May 1973 the Supreme Court accused the government of flouting judicial decisions and the law. The medical and bar associations took a similar stance. On Aug. 22 the lower house of the Chilean Congress passed a resolution denouncing Allende’s power grab and calling on the military to uphold its oath to the constitution.

Not exactly the sort of coup that's normally portrayed. Allende getting a lower fraction of the vote than Hitler is also cute. (Slightly less than 37 percent vs slightly more than 37)
One really cool thing to do is consider the agents to have limited computational capacity. There are a few NP economic problems, and you can’t expect agents to really be solving enormous computational problems in their heads.
Neeva also failed because of their business model. Turns out, not many people want to "pay for search".
do they still lie about signal strength?
Unless your MacBook is 20 years old, something else is going on. Are you perhaps on 100Mb/s link? With overhead 10MB/s is about what one would expect on a 100Mb/s link.

Even without hardware acceleration my 2018 Mac Mini, which is much slower than my 2020 MBA using ARM, does much better than that--64MB/s, but that's a floor as the file itself is only 64MB. I tested by forcing chacha20-poly1305, which wouldn't be 6x faster than software-only aes128-gcm or aes256-gcm. Also, though /usr/bin/ssh on macOS is compiled with libressl, and there was a brief post-fork period when libressl lacked accelerated cipher implementations, it has supported AES-NI for quite awhile.

I'm sensitive to these things as I still run a few PC Engines APUs and force aes256-gcm in sshd_config; by default OpenSSH prefers chacha20-poly1305. To an APU I get 30MB/s with AES-NI aes256-gcm, and 10MB/s with chacha20-poly1305. The APU has an AMD GX-412TC, which came out in 2013 but as a low-powered embedded part has the performance of something 5 or 10 years older.
The nice thing about DDG is that you can always use !g to go to Google. But even after using them for years, I still find myself using !g 30-40% of the time.
How does this compare to aim chess?
> At $1-2/minute of labor, there’s a reason pros use the fittings.

This has absolutely nothing to do with "pros", we're not talking about plumbing - we're talking about alternative applications for PVC. PVC hacks if you will.

The amount of time you waste trying to find fittings that match your weird ass project in the disorganized and poorly stocked shelves of the local Home Depot you probably already could have had the thing done with just some careful application of heat. You often end up with a more streamlined end result too.
Neither is "enshittification." Only HN and some tech bloggers even use it as far as I know, and mostly just to be able to imply something is "turning into shit" while pretending to use a precise term of art. But it isn't, it's a poop joke.
Yes that makes more sense. I can imagine that could work. Do you know how it compares to therapy with hypnosis?

There are multiple psychologist in my family, so maybe thats why im opposed to doing therapy with drugs unless physically necesarry.
Got an argument for that conjecture?

AI existential risk isn’t “inevitable” in the same way that eg heat death of the universe is.
I don’t think I’ve been in the super high end Tesla but every other one I’ve ridden in felt like an economy car. The seats are terrible and the suspension on those things is an abomination. I also severely dislike all the usual suspects… huge screen, no knobs. It’s like that “safe” spaceship in Futurama. I can understand making a totally utilitarian vehicle but Tesla isn’t in that price bracket. For the price, it should be a lot more comfortable.
I don't know why there is this concerted effort to stick your head in the sand and pretend that such things cannot be the subject of a contract if the parties involved want them to be.

I severely doubt that if you offered qualcomm a trillion dollars they could not support the hardware for another 3 years. In fact it would be much less than a trillion dollars in practice.

What you're fundamentally saying is, qualcomm isn't going to do it out of the goodness of their hearts, and google is not willing to write the check to make it happen, and that's still on them.
Wonder what? They didn't update their website footer?
So my grandfather turns 101 this year. He's kind of an ass in his old age, and wildly out of touch with the world. Like shockingly out of touch.

But he talks about politics from back in the day. Everything has always been super politicized. Everything. But our memories are short as a country.
I did not expect to read through and run every simulation. But I did.
That was delightful. Reminds me of a Google Maps hack from back in the day that tracked Sir Mix-a-Lot’s trip through the Seattle area as documented in the song Posse on Broadway.
Chasing Hobbies over Achievement Boosts Happiness
Unit-y, like unit-ish, unit-ful
I like Reagan's world better than Carter's world of hour long gas lines and "Malaise Forever" stagflation.
Mozilla needs to outgrow its dependence on Google anyway—it cannot effectively guard against Chrome's monopoly in the browser space while being wholly dependent on Google, any more than Google can be a good search engine while being wholly dependent on ads—the monetary incentives are off.

Give me a Firefox subscription and I'll pay for it in a heartbeat.
Thousands of people refuel with hydrogen regularly. There is no evidence of real danger.

The problem isn't that you can't live with a BEV, it's that you don't have to. People are "fighting the last war." There is a way of making an EV that has zero compromises compared to ICE cars. BEVs in that context are coming obsolete or perhaps niche cars.
Be careful when burning / process PVC.
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/legacy/Glo...
I don't think the objective is realism here, but rather education.

Also, I'm not convinced "rationality" is key in reaching realism.
Man, I knew Epic delisted it from Steam out of spite but I didn't know they took it down from GOG too.
Economics is a science and what an economist calls economics is not what the market things an economist knows.

In a science you are interested in testing hypothesis.

Econometric/statistical models will generally serve to test general hypothesis. What happens if we raise interest rates? Will inflation go down? This can be tested in many ways. But it is not a concern to actually predicate the values of macroeconomic variables. It’s really not interesting academically and basically impossible to do right.

This is of course completely out of vogue since ML wiped out the scientific method education of us all.
That's more or less what every quantitative hedge fund out there is doing.
smspva is perfect. Thanks! Do you know of one for gift cards? Particularly ones that could be used to pay for services like server rental or Tarsnap.
No edge case dependencies on the WWW server's configuration, and no sudden "why did we just saturate our external connection?"

No emergency change requests from the outage team that has to be impacted by other areas and fit into the infrastructure's teams maintenance windows and their capacity to address that.

No rebalancing of workloads because Jane had to implement (or schedule the task and monitor it) that change, Joe had to check and verify that the external availability tests passed, and Annick had to sign off on the change complete, and now everyone isn't available for another OT window for the week.

Or something.
"Greenthreading" is a weird term because it often refers to a very old Java implementation that was removed in 2000. And the Wikipedia article on the term is plain wrong in some ways.
That's such a cool story! Thanks for sharin :)

I like how the Navy gives people a chance when they might not otherwise, and how you did so well on all your tests that you blew away your high school expectations. So cool!
You're routinely successful at arguing down C-level execs who have already rejected your pushback multiple times?

Seems like a risky strategy...
Espionage, in the classical sense is not strictly the issue. It's everything else...
It's too bad, I hoped EVs were one thing everyone could agree on. Maybe because it's good for the environment. Or because it's good for energy independence.
I can second Kagi. Paid search is the only model that isn't going to end up awful in the end, and Kagi is far better than Google already.

Recently discussed on HN is the feature to block and boost domains, which is the feature I find makes the biggest difference in their results:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006082
What if people just buy more and now there is more package waste?
Exodus 6 now features IBM Music Feature Card
Love the tiny unicorn nomenclature!
But dude, that's the whole point of these studies! It's really hard to know what a given drug does! We should absolutely factor in people's subjective experiences and recreational experiments in terms of deciding whether it's worth investigating something more thoroughly, but once real, high-quality studies are done (especially RCTs), people's recreational experiences hold very little water when they are in conflict with the study.
Best you can get is some bounds for whatever effect you want to predict and those bounds will open wide very fast.

As for lots of data, doing proper econometric models requires really well gathered data. Data is published quarterly or yearly, so you do have comparable series for international country level macroeconomics, but those are actually short considering how many variables must interact.
> This is also the reason why pvc is super dangerous for compressed air.

Back in the day all us kids knew to get the ABS stuff when building our potato cannons. I was terrified of the combustion chamber shattering right next to my face.
Plants are so fascinating. Yeah it's weird how diverse the experiences can be...and how it's about the whole of plant chemistry, not just a single compound.
In my opinion it is extremely unfortunate that they are making this change. We have so many Lightning cables and they all work perfectly fine.

Transfer speeds are because of the iPhone hardware itself, not because of Lightning. The early iPad Pros had high transfer speeds. And case in point the new non-pro iPhone 15 still has slow transfer speed over USB-C.

They should've seriously waited a bit longer. This is annoying. Lightning is a better connector design, easier to use, smaller form factor, generally thinner cables, and "just works". USB-C on the other hand is "just because it fits, doesn't mean it works".
Except China has required technology transfer and has been actively committing state sponsored industrial espionage for decades. Surely this isn’t news?

I’m down with China as a competitor, but we have a strong division between state and industry and China does not. I don’t think a unipolar world is a good idea, and I’m glad for a resurgent China. But it’s absurd to put on blinders and believe forced technology transfer and industrial espionage isn’t a cornerstone of their success.

https://www.investopedia.com/forced-technology-transfer-ftt-...

https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program...

At several megacorps seeking access to Chinese markets we were forced to transfer crucial trade secrets in exchange for access. We did our best to render it as useless as possible, but it was still very key stuff. Over two decades the Chinese government erected barrier after barrier even after complying to the point that the market access failed and competitors based on our technology dominated the domestic Chinese economy.

I see your parallel comments where you vigorously decry these statements as some sort of nationalism and anti Chinese sentiment. This isn’t that - this is simple historical fact, and I have had first hand experience with it and know the game being played from personal experience. I assumed this was all common knowledge given how much press it’s gotten over the last twenty years, which makes me wonder why you’re grinding this contrarian axe so hard?

Edit: I would note that this is fundamentally different from counterfeiting. This is capturing R&D directly at the top end of technology and processes through extortion and outright theft. I don’t actually blame China or Chinese people, it’s just a cultural difference in what’s acceptable and a belief that the state and industry are separate, which China doesn’t agree with. But the lesson to be learned is China doesn’t play by our rules, and we need to adapt to the situation better.
These things are related.
Schedule 40 is white. Schedule 80 (thicker walls) is a darker gray. (I think.)
I'm well below Canada's latitude, and it costs me $250/mo to heat a relatively small swimming pool (about 10,000 gal) ... in the summer. If I keep it warm enough to swim in October, it'll be at least twice that. The capital cost of the heater is practically zero compared to the fuel. I can totally understand janky DIY setups to try and defray that cost.
What is this in response to?