skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, rising prices reduce demand. But rising volumes also create economies of scale and allow low prices. There's a delicate balance and sometimes an equilibrium of large volume, low price can transition to a new equilibrium of low volume, high price, or vise-versa. For example, if you are a software company and you sell software to a small group of professionals, like a CAD program, your price is probably around $1000 ~ $5000 per seat, per year. And competition will not lower it, because your competitors face the same economic situation you do: it's a niche product, you have to amortize a high development cost over a small number of customers, and those customers have money and are willing to pay.

However, there is also a stable equilibrium for a company to turn a similar profit shipping software of equal quality to a very large number of people for a very low price. Something like a spreadsheet or word-processing software. Now your software is cheap, or supported by ad revenue, and yet you can still remain highly profitable. If, however, your userbase started to shrink for whatever reason, you might have to charge the remaining users a large amount. Most will leave, but a few of those users may derive a lot of value from your software and are willing to pay, and you end up with the same economics as the CAD developer.

Software is of course an extreme example, where the marginal cost of production is approximately zero, but most industries outside of resource extraction have declining marginal costs with scale. That's why you can end up with high-quality cheap components (like cameras, etc) that are used in smartphones, where they have high-volume production, and very expensive specialty cameras for eg. microscopes, even though the specialty camera required much less investment of R&D to produce. It can only be sold at a high price because there is not enough demand to reach economies of scale that would allow a lower price.

So if for whatever reason, money was sucked out of the economy and the average person suddenly became very poor and could not afford a smartphone, it's possible that smartphone companies would compete hard to keep those customers and drop their prices. But if that doesn't make for a sustainable business, the smartphone makers have to drop production to sell only to a few wealthy buyers, the remaining phones will get much more expensive, because their components will be made in expensive fabs at smaller volumes. The total revenue will be lower, the GDP would be lower, but the average price of goods can still be higher. Especially when there's a large wealth disparity to make that high-price low-volume equilibrium stable.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/gdp-per-capi...

Japan per capita GDP was 44k in 1995 and 33k in 2022.

People die in of diabetes in the US because they eat too much bad food.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Texas paid Bitcoin miner more than $31M to cut energy usage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37428605 - Sept 2023 (130 comments)

Texas paid Bitcoin miner Riot $31.7M to shut down in August - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418866 - Sept 2023 (55 comments)
it's waste if it's not used
Wait till everyone being negative about bitcoin miners getting paid to not mine learn that sometimes the grid operator is going to pay the bitcoin miners TO mine. Effectively the bitcoin miners will sometimes not only get free electricity but be paid to consume it.

Again, grid stability at the lowest cost is the name of the game.
Submitted title was "How is this zombie enron site still going?"

Good question! but the place for it is the comments, not the title. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: ""Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." The original title is linkbaity, but it's so retro linkbaity that I think it counts as interesting again.

Now can anybody figure out the year? (Edit: I've put 2001 up based on https://enroncorp.com/corp/pressroom/releases/2001/ene/51-en... being listed as the most recent news)
The author of the post forgot a bit to indicate which sides turn it is. That's another piece of state you don't get by looking at the board.
The word climate is mentioned >= 14 times in the article, not including the references. It is clearly an article about climate. Despite our measuring the climate (NOT WEATHER) in 30 year increments, and despite our knowing that from a climate perspective, the Last Glacial Maximum was ~21k years ago and during this time the glaciation hit a maximum and sea levels dropped incredibly.

It was also during this time that glaciers covered half of North America and most of Canada, which retreated and then came back again.

Yet, we act in some our media as if the knowledge of these events is suddenly novel, and that the trend of de-glaciation is somehow fresh. That the climatic reversion to the mean has just emerged

Saying that we need to replace a climate based timeline for a geological one is an order of magnitude of hyperbole.

Please, continue hiding the Medieval Warm Period and the Piri Reis Map and other things when it is convenient.
Almost Airtable-ish Open Source and more economical alternative - https://baserow.io (no affiliation).
Beware optimizing for "average" quality of life, we did that and it worked. Turns out it is more efficient to have a super-minority with a very high QoL. Median is a better target.
It's a restoration project

https://github.com/facundopignanelli/enroncorp

We need more of these restoration projects to populate the internet
> To people who wonder why don't we have good economy simulators that would reflect a real world. Well, I think the answer is pretty simple - rich people don't want that.

The comment above is an example of an explanatory theory [1]

> An explanatory analysis will try not only to describe the information but also to provide causal relationships between the various data presented.

Simple, yes, but also too simplistic. It isn't very persuasive. For the theory to be useful, then "rich people not wanting that" would have to be causally relevant. The comment above only provides an implied incentive (e.g. rich people would benefit by preventing knowledge dissemination that undermines their status). However, there is no convincing argumentation showing how such incentives play out, much less that they are significant enough to be causally important.

I don't want to reject the entirety of what the commentor above might be trying to say. There are probably aspects that are interesting, surprising, or maybe even troubling. Perhaps there have been documented cases of influential elites shaping economic theories and how they get communicated. Maybe; I haven't studied the history of bias in the field of economics per se. I know of many biases, but so far I've tended to think about them as being largely intellectual oversimplifications rather than designed misdirections.

Let's look to some other 'simple' explanations. One competing theory would be that economists and modelers want to earn status and earn a living. There doesn't have to be any malicious nor coordinated action to explain such behavior. There are many levels of systemic behavior that align with powerful interests without any causal chain. This is sometimes referred to as co-evolution or co-adaptation.

I do want to reject the whole family of (not so good) explanatory theories that fail to give sufficient argumentation for causality.

[1] https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/30827/what-is...
There is a much larger market for this tech - parents. Today's world is so crowded, kids or parents can be separated by less than 20 feet and devolve into panic. Give them each a way to know they're safe and can be found. You're already awesome, wish more people could share like you have, magnificent designs!
If you just want to write and not care about tools, there's always LinkedIn. Unlike many tools, people read them.
"If you wish to build an economy simulator from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
It worked. The lawsuit had a tremendous impact on Microsoft's culture and had them running scared from the government for years. It made them less ambitious, more bureaucratic and reluctant to just buy up any Internet startup that posed a threat. Source: I was working there at the time.
Rust is not a good match for embedded Linux so long as binary sizes are so gigantic (same is true for a lot of C++). When your binary takes 100 MB of a few GB emmc, you have a problem.
I do Vue at work, Svelte and Solid JS at home.
> People in the US just don't understand the level of economic and industrial espionage that happens in China on a daily basis.

Back in my day this was called "competition" and worked for the consumer, not against them. I find the espionage factor to be theatrical hogwash trotted out by the corporate types. We americans love competition, right? Stfu and compete.
Huh? So what should we use to e.g. SSH to a server to debug a crashed or hanging process, login to a dev instance etc.?

SSH keys are also not “just long passwords” at all.
That’s the most PETA thing I’ve heard in about forever.
Offhand, I like rustfmt a lot more than gofmt because it handles long lines rather than only changing things within a given line; in my opinion, any time I need to manually format something myself, that's a failure of the formatting tool. I also find rustdoc to be much more flexible than Go's documentation functionality (which I forget the name of, but I assume it's something like `go doc`). At least the last time I used it Go required me to prefix any doc comment for a given function, type, etc. to start with the name of the item I was documenting; not only is this redundant, but it also means that any typo I make will cause the comment to be omitted completely, whereas Rust only requires a third slash for doc comments (i.e. `///` rather than just `//`). It's a minor thing, but small quality of life things add up across an entire ecosystem.
I wonder how much not needing a generator helps too.
It’s alarming because, in my experience, anything you write for an employer is intellectual property of the company. Unless he wrote that Box demo all on his own time and his own equipment completely outside of work, or Box has some abnormal contract with their employees, he can’t just slap an MIT license onto it and call it open source.

I worked with a few people who were successfully sued by our employer when those people left and brought a “spare time” project/tool with them and tried to publish it. It wasn’t even code we sold or ended up using internally, but was still IP of the company because they wrote it during business hours on a work machine.
It's a bit of a doomer mentality but it's hard not to agree with you sometimes. Welcome to reality, deposit coins to retain your oxygen supply.

Do you want to keep living? Better get ready to pay pay pay. If you don't want to die now, you will soon.

Do you want to die? Ok, now that's perfect. The street is right there, just sit on it and beg and someone will give you your hotshot shortly. No need to pay, free to all, first come first served.
I'm looking at it right now:

> mobx-keystone is a state container that combines the simplicity and ease of mutable data with the traceability of immutable data and the reactiveness and performance of observable data, all with a fully compatible TypeScript syntax.

I'm too old to understand all this.
What machine could anyone be running an analysis on where unzip is a limiting factor?
Sounds vaguely like the paper “textbooks are all you need”? Though they are not explicitly trying to remove the copyright taint.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
Why does America have more chairs than people?
>They just claimed this is how it had to be done.

My previous employer (not even the employer, some HR person) tried to steal my outstanding leave payment with exactly the same sentence; this sentence is now a huge red flag for me. It comes from a position of arrogant laziness, a more accurate translation would be 'this is how I want it to be done because i can't be bothered finding out how it's actually done', which is then reflected in the rest of OP's post: they didn't even read the contract. I did end up getting my outstanding leave payment, too, but it took some threatening.
I built a bird feeder similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F4wdJSEVEo only I used clear polycarbonate for the body which allowed me to see the level of bird seed remaining.
"The rule is effective January 1, 2024."
Even with effort I couldn't make them not appear 'flush' and I'm beginning to question my sanity
Care to explain why? When evaluating whether a company has abused its monopoly, why isn't it enough to simply look at its actions?

To be clear, I don't feel this way to give companies a break. I feel this way because whatever employees were thinking behind the scenes shouldn't matter. If a company locks up the defaults on pretty much all browsers, why isn't that fact alone enough to come to a conclusion?
> Also how do you tell your friend that his wife is kind of a lot and maybe his hypertension is cortisol and not congenital?

many such cases
If you steal baryons, it’s “theft”. If you steal leptons, it’s “piracy”. Pretty simple, really.
Sietch Nevada: A city for a water-poor world (2009)
This adds money in before it adds the state, or taxation. Money is created through taxation by the state to provision resources away from the private sector to the public purpose.
Thi is objectively and grossly wrong. Diabetes is genetic and most of those you hear about rationing got it as a child because of genetics(type-1), not because they over-ate. Also, elderly get type-2 diabetes without being overweight. It’s statements like you made the perpetuate the victom blaming of diabetes.
Is that true though, globally, over the course of a year, mining + transactions?

I'd like to see the data sources and working on that.

As for decisions, a WWII European economy would have ditched both as excessive and not contributing to the current situation.
Also, curtain rods.

I don't see that listed but I used 3 PVC pipes and two 45-degree PVC couplings for about 5 years as a curtain rod above a bay window in my breakfast nook.

I painted them black and glued a finial on each end to disguise it. Nobody ever noticed, which is quite disappointing.
> the subscription also including coursework that integrates into the lesson plans themselves

Mandatory publisher-licensed courseware is the ultimate DRM, and it's an abusive scam.

Instructors, please do not yield to this temptation.
Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition apparently doesn't stop working even as you keep abstaining from signing in. It still asks you to every now and then but you don't really have to agree anymore. You had to reset the trial period (this is easy, it's there on StackOverflow and GitHub) every month with previous versions but with 2022 you don't.
Because there are no fundamental tradeoffs between the strategies. Because if it was so objectively more efficient and effective every project wouldn't move to that strategy.
Does it even matter for most of us?
Fencing weapon sheaths (sabre, epée or foil).
Pretty much. All in all they’ve been a very poor investment for home owners in America. At best you break even after ~20 years if they’re even still functional.

Could change as tech improves but as of today they are pointless for most people.
Agent confirmations don’t need local authentication really; local confirmation is what’s important here.
Getting a meaningful market share of browser usage is very hard.

First, because most statistics are based on self reported user agent metrics from the top websites. But my parents don't go to Reddit, PornHub, YouTube or LinkedIn, etc.

Second, culturally speaking, I don't think we have accurate reporting of non-western websites. I bet most of China, India and Russia websites don't care about reporting their metrics publicly.

And last, internet usage distribution is very skewed. I myself probably generate 1000x more internet traffic as my parents, so I probably count as 1000x more market share than them. Yet, in terms of "users", I would count the same as they do.
They are taking the nuclear option to push free to play mobile games to adopt their advertising platform, after rejecting a buyout offer from their main competitor earlier this year. If you use their ad platform in your games, they will likely negotiate favorable terms on the fee schedule. Indie PC games aren't even on their radar for this transaction.
That is basically exactly what is happening here, though. A bitcoin business considers itself non-essential and gives up power availability for a lower electricity price.

The issue with "pure" surge pricing is that it doesn't solve the actual problem. Most businesses - even "non-essential" ones will have fixed-price electricity contracts. They are not affected by surge pricing on the electricity market and have zero incentive to reduce their usage even when the market price spikes 100x.

In practice the "market forces" here are a bunch of Wall Street investors losing a shitton of money because their bets went sideways, but that is not going to fix the grid itself.
What’s unclear is if that deal is for new phone models or old.

Keep in mind Apple has a strategy where they graduate down new phones and sell previous year models for 3-4 years after it was first introduced.

This could just be Apple needing Qualcomm licensing/chips for iPhone 14 models since they will continue selling that model for a few more years.
If indeed 40 people don't go to church, they're not really worshippers any longer, are they? Yes, I read the article, I think the author is cherry picking data to support a predetermined conclusion.
No, they aren't. Credits aren't as liquid or fungible. You can't pay for equipment, salaries, vendors, etc. in energy credits.
You're not exactly wrong since living requires air, air requires space, and space is rented.

Same for food, health care, etc.
It’s super good!

I love my Yubikey - it’s way less friction to use than other forms of 2fa, and I get to use it for stuff like storing my PGP keys. I don’t feel like it use it to its full potential (mostly signing commits and ssh) but it’s super satisfying seeing that little “Verified” badge next to my signed commits :)
Plenty of companies using Macbooks as their primary machines. Though as soon as the finance/accounting departments grow beyond tiny they frequently get exemptions to be able to get Excel on Windows - all other options are sub-par.
That does not compromise the user’s SSH key, though, “only” (and potentially persistently as you say) one or more target servers.
> a lot of frontend libraries unfortunately tend to crumple once the long tail has been reached

Example please. Which libraries are we talking about?
Have you ever heard about the MessagEase keyboard? It's a pretty radical departure from the usual touch qwerty. Once you get the muscle memory down, you can even disable the letters completely. Right now I'm typing on a featureless black 3x3 grid (save for a purple dot in the center). It's a great conversation starter too, cause folks see me typing and are universally like "wtf how are you typing".

I never thought of it, but now that you mention it, yeah my eyes are on the text, not on the typing.

I switched to messagease in the first place because I make far less mistakes and it's faster to fix a one-letter goof than redo a whole word with swype (sometimes several times, also the gestures fail on unusual or jargon words).

https://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php
At my Kroger, almost half the times I try to compare unit price bergen two products, the units are different (e.g. $/oz or $/lb or $/g). And these are always products right next to each other on the shelf.
Carter was running against traitorous Americans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-...
Getting Used to Microservices
Whenever there are elevation changes for underground pressurized pipes there are usually cast in place concrete thrust blocks that take the load from the pipe and give more soil area to push against, minimizing movement. Otherwise you're just depending on friction.

But public infrastructure that wants to move is always scary conceptually
See, that requires some argument of who it's for. Legally, copyright is established the moment something is created. (Hope you have proof.) I don't think you'd be able to claim _damages_ by sneaking your copyrighted code into the company repository, but other than that, I really have no idea how this would play out in court. It seems very risky but it's not obvious. I'd be interested in reading about cases in this middle area, if there have been any.

But anyway, I focused mostly on ethics. The specific situation you describe is ethically dubious, I agree, but I'm interested in where the line is and it's just not as clear as some are suggesting.

Copyright law is its own can of worms and is not the same as what's ethical. But, it does govern risk and practicality.
My respect for copyright is proportional both to its duration and the propensity of corporations to try to use it to cheat creative people.
Yes, but if we speculate as to the invalidity of the explicitly published license, we basically can't use any foss code on GitHub.

Any reasonable person can expect that the MIT license on this code is valid and authorized by the rightsholder.

Did Uber or Box explicitly agree to release it under an foss license? Is it the author's personal individual copyright made on personal hardware outside of work location/time? Does it predate their employment? Nothing in the article linked indicates clearly that it was written for an employer.

If I am expected to research this for every foss library published on GitHub by someone who works for Big Tech, then we are all capital-f fucked.

It's easiest and sanest to assume that people are not lying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Everywhere

Placenames were all originally in Australia, adapted for the north american market.
Make a digital AI clone of yourself
As other commenter mentioned, you can use pg_repack. We also had similar issue and we configured it to run every month and it works flawlessly.
The first sentence of your comment is unnecessary to make your point and I’m curious why you chose to post it.
There's a subset of the anti-EV crowd that's against EVs not because they're brodozer drivers, but because they realize individual vehicle ownership is the other half of the problem. EVs still cost resources that are harmful to harvest outsized relative to their use thanks to strip mining and the chemical process used to separate cobalt from manganese at a mass scale. Those people, myself included, believe that mass transit needs to make a resurgence instead of everyone switching to EVs. I even get annoyed seeing EV "bicycles" that weigh as much as the riders and cost as much as a scooter because I think they're wastes of resources used to dodge taxes and pedestrian right of way laws regarding motorcycles.
To be more precise it means "copy" in the noun sense, not the verb. It's a distinction that a lot of bad translations from English fail to make, like when X changed "tweet" to "post".
What it would do is punish companies that do real R&D, and reward companies that have no actual talent in that area. So ultimately the field would stagnate because no one would invest in R&D.
Right, but if you observe a high enough effect size, it’s in some sense irrelevant whether there was a placebo arm. If somehow there is a reliable d=0.4 placebo effect, then that is just as good as if the drug “really works”. To be clear on magnitudes, there was a something like 70% increase in the treatment effect vs. therapy+placebo.

Indeed what does it even mean for the cure to be “just in your head” or “a placebo” if condition is purely psychological, the trauma is resolved, and there is no remission? It’s a very different game vs. a mechanistic acting drug which either does or does not reduce cholesterol or whatever.
Funny that this article is talking about interns exhilarating data and yet the author blatantly recycles code between employers.