skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> packaging costs aren’t even visible. So the idea that packaging it in shrink wrap to avoid spoilage and transport of more apples actually seems to make sense?

a) that's per kilogram, and probably not with each apple packaged individually and in plastic

b) plastic is inexpensive, but its true cost is not reflected in its price due to externalities (and emissions are not the only one)

So ... it's not easy to answer. My point was that whether food is sourced locally or shipped (not flown) from afar may not be the main factor to consider.
You may have known IBM i under a different name such as eSeries or AS/400 as it has gone through many renaming.

Yes, it currently targets their Power series, although it's fairly hardware independent. As a matter of fact AS/400 binaries don't even care what CPU they run on, as there are several abstraction layers underneath, namely XPF, TIMI and SLIC. It's a bit like a native, hardware-based JVM with the OS being also the SDK. Another peculiarity is that everything is an object in "i", including libraries, programs and files.

But mostly, it requires close to no sysadmin. Just turn it on, start the services and leave it alone for years if needed.
Aren't there a ton of data science people here on HN? I feel like that would cause a ton of bias and skew away from the general population.
The person(s) that wrote the options is the victim(s). They lost ~$10m because they lacked knowledge that the insider had.
Use ChatGPT from your menu bar
Yeah, this is not that suspicious IMO. The trade was opened yesterday when Splunk was at $119. They just needed a 7% gain by Friday to be profitable on their $127 calls. Traders make those kind of gambles all the time.
The problem with any of these measures is leakiness, particularly in light of global fuels trade, emissions, and global warming impacts.

I somewhat agree that taxing fossil fuels directly is the most direct route, though that faces a number of challenges:

- There's no one single global tax authority. Several of the largest fossil fuel extractors (China, India, Indonesia, for coal, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, for oil, and Russia, Iran, Qatar, and China for natural gas) would tend to be noncompliant with such impositions.[1]

- Outsourced manufacturing means that a secondary tax on imports of goods or services by carbon emissions would likely be necessary. I'm not sure how this would comport with existing trade treaties.

- Taxes would hit low-income countries much harder than rich ones. This is one of the common sticking points for virtually all emissions- and limits-based interventions, and has been since the 1970s if not earlier.[2]

- Any such taxes would have to be adjusted based on actual atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Not merely CO2 but other emissions as well. Effectively the goal is to set a net emissions and warming budget and adjust a tax scheme to achieve that.

- Black markets would undoubtedly emerge, though the scale of such markets would make detection relatively straightforward. The more likely complication is that major actors (the US, China, Russia, India) are nuclear states, and direct interventions would entail their own risks.

- As wealth is power[3], the passing, adoption, and enforcement of such a tax would likely be highly challenging.

I don't have much by way of alternative suggestions, but I do somewhat agree that a direct economic mechanism aimed at the source would be preferable.

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Notes:

1. Five largest extractors each are, coal: China, India, USA, Indonesia, Australia; oil: USA, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Canada, China; natural gas: USA, Russia, Iran, Qatar, China, sourced from BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022.

2. Excellent contemporaneous discussion of this in William Ophuls, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, 1977, particularly Chapter 7. <https://www.worldcat.org/title/2524932> <https://archive.org/details/ecologypoliticso0000ophu>

3. See: Hobbes and Adam Smith.
this is a great point and absolutely a real problem.. the specific person I was thinking of, is getting phone calls daily on her new iPhone from strangers.. In the past, a licensed professional of some kind would be an intermediary over a committed period of time..
Yeah, the false positives are annoying, but this is the best balance of speed and accuracy I could think of. The only way to guarantee availability is a WHOIS lookup, which takes 50ms+ per domain, so to check thousands of options would take minutes.

I'm adding a cache of the WHOIS results though, so will hopefully be able to filter a lot more of the false positives from the initial search results in the future.
Which is why the municipality should be liable for not properly closing off the road well before the bridge crossing, and putting a big, red and white reflective striped fence several feet before the edge visible from a distance after the road closing as a second barrier/sighted warning.
Most normal people I've talked to about this have a deep sense of defeat. They care a lot, but also don't think that there's anything they can do about it -- so it often doesn't figure into their purchasing decisions.

It's a position I can understand. How can anyone who doesn't do a deep dive like sniffing network traffic actually know that they're not being sold down the river, privacy-wise? They can't.
I would guess it's so the same functionality can be used with other Matrix servers without having to rewrite the whole thing
“the market thinks” is an expression that makes me cringe. The market does not think, it’s the result of multiple actions, which many many people pretend they can explain or even predict when really they cannot.

"the market thinks” gives the stock trade market an aura of reason and intelligence which it absolutely does not deserve for many historical reasons. Trading as it exists today is unhinged capitalism, it’s a cancer on our societies as it widens the gap between rich and poor. It should be taxed, something like an Automated Payment Transaction tax, to make high frequency or even medium frequency trading simply unrentable.

I’m not against the concept of stocks in general, but the way it operates now is simply sick, I don’t see how to phrase this differently.
For me, it's configinator[0]. Write a spec file for a config like [1], get a Go file that loads a config from environment variables like [2]. Code-gen only, no reflection, fairly type-safe, supports enums, string, bool, and int64. I made it because it was gross to add new config vars in a project at work, and it's come in handy a lot!

[0] https://github.com/olafal0/configinator

[1] https://github.com/olafal0/configinator/blob/0576a53970bcb4d...

[2] https://github.com/olafal0/configinator/blob/0576a53970bcb4d...
> the benefits to society is … only because that’s directly aligned with … profits.

Yeah, that’s the magic of capitalism. You make society more efficient and get paid for that.

You say that being crammed into planes isn’t a benefit. But the opportunity costs should be taken into account. Every resource not spent on airlines is a resource spent on something else.
Is a 100% reprocessing possible?
> airline deregulation shows just how bad command economies are at planning and allocating resources.

I'm curious why folks think the failure of command economies in the pre-digital era carries any weight today. We have orders of magnitude more data today, and I feel like it should (theoretically) be possible to use that data to optimize for things other than maximal profit.
But the organization has no employees, all money goes towards hosting and maintenance of the legal structure.

This is a bit of a problem when it comes to maintaining the infrastructure and code of a large-scale system.
Most UI applications are broken real-time applications
> the dystopian parts come with the 75-year old widow with dementia or college student aka slacker has to adhere to similar standards to be basically functional.. there needs to be some middle ground, say some

Did I read this wrong? It sounded like you were insinuating that these use cases shouldn't required strong identity assurance. If that is not what you meant, I apologize for reading the statement incorrectly. If identity credentials are provided at low or no cost to prevent marginalization or disenfranchisement, I see no issue. Those credentials are then leveraged for all other systems that require identity proofing. That widow will need to prove who they are for social security benefits, medicare, or to receive an estate from a deceased partner (including removing them from their home's deed if held together, or accepting retirement accounts as a beneficiary). That college student will need to prove who they are for government funding aid, student loans, and to enroll. Disenfranchisement is very real, but so is identity fraud.

People who want strong privacy and governance around identity aren't wrong, they are simply solving at the wrong OSI layer by saying the technical implementation of identity systems shouldn't be good. Fix tech problems with tech, fix people problems with people.
That's cool!

I disagree though that the deal shows any bad judgment on Cisco's part; the gravamen of whether the acquisition was good is not whether many software developers can quickly develop replacements for their own use-cases, or how ergonomic the software is, but whether Splunk is a profitable business with a bunch of paying subscriptions/contracts that aren't going to go away any time soon.
It’s open source so feel free to make it your own
> Isn't each individual airline is itself a command economy, internally

Yes. The difference is that an "airline command economy" collapsing from incompetence is an uneventful bankruptcy, and a national command economy collapsing means civil war and anarchy.
I'm not saying that having a foundation in bad, but you need the right foundation. If a foundation results in compile times ballooning people writing 100 line toy programs won't care, but people writing millions of lines will.
Banned, but not enforced, and due to the 2013 removal of electronic disclosure requirements, harder to detect?

https://campaignlegal.org/update/part-2-stock-act-failed-eff...
I suppose it's a convenient way to have a "Google Docs" type environment for your Latex documents. There's a self-hosted version available, but it's not very straight forward to set up and get fully working https://github.com/overleaf/toolkit/.
That is not what a market failure is.
> OK then, what is your better solution?

Tax carbon[1], mail every man, woman, child, and dog in the country a carbon tax check every three months.

If someone proves that they've actually captured carbon from the atmosphere, and stored it, cut them a slice of that pie, too.

[1] Tax imports based on the same formula.
> Matrix evolves as a protocol by folks proposing new APIs (e.g. MSC3575), implementing them, showing that they work, and making the case that they should be merged into the main spec.

Yes, it is just unfortunate that it is not clear enough to more people (such as the_common_man below) that Sliding Sync is only at the MSC stage at the moment and not part of the Matrix spec.

I am glad that at least Element X allows this MSC to improve and for those nits you have mentioned to be resolved.
Then he complained about 'bots' as if he was trying to do his due diligence after the fact.
> but even in those conditions - especially in those conditions - one should always be careful to not drive off a cliff, or off the outside of an unexpected turn in the road, or into a fallen tree, or into a pedestrian, or into a stopped car!

Yes, but you're missing the fact that that's not always possible.

You can be as careful as any human being can be, going the speed limit (or slower in bad weather), but unexpected things can happen faster than human reaction time can allow you to avoid them.

And in the heavy rain at night, figuring out that the black patch of what looks like road a few yards ahead isn't darker asphalt because the road was recently resurfaced (as you might easily assume), but is actually the road entirely collapsed -- I'm not sure that would even be possible visually.

So "always be careful" isn't helpful here.
I went to buy it, but apparently I already have an account, so I did a password reset, and then it wants my previous password to activate the account, and well, I can’t buy it.
An overwhelming amount of propaganda fueled by private profits.
Yes, it's a multidimensional array, everything is required to be consecutively allocated. (See 6.5.2.1 for more details). `int[2][3]` is 6 integer objects consecutively allocated (as 3 arrays of 2 arrays of integers), not 3 pointers to arrays of 2 integers.
> "Internal consistency" doesn't matter.

The lack of an opinionated stance on internal consistency is exactly how we arrive at traditional measures and also the US Customary set of units. It's far easier politically to be accommodating and allow more units than to put down your foot and say no, this is redundant, this cannot be used.

> Virtually nobody ever has to convert miles to yards

That's mostly true because it seems yards are only used to measure football fields and fabric. Everything else is measured in feet, from personal heights to furniture to rooms to house yards to building structures (the Empire State Building is 1454 feet tall).

But my point still stands. You think you don't have to convert between miles and feet? Okay: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Typical-multi-lane-hig... . There's a highway exit coming up in 800 feet and another in 1/2 mile. How many times longer does it take to reach the second exit compared to the first exit? You have no clue. In metric it's 250 m and 800 m, and it obviously takes about 3 times longer to reach the second exit.

> These people never work with each other. This is a fantasy.

Tell me you haven't worked in engineering without telling me you haven't worked in engineering. If you eyeball everything and use intuition, I can see why you don't care about units, conversions, and calculations. If you actually need to plan and analyze things carefully before you order materials and cut things, you'll quickly see that having a plethora of units adds complexity and chances for error without adding any functionality that a pure system has (whether you're using millimetres or only decimal inches).
Are these cellular antennas really that much different from the wifi antennas that are already found in Apple laptops?
Sales, architects, consultants at my company (all the frequent fliers) lost their shit when we mandated the use of corporate cards for all travel.

"Earning enough points to take my family on a free vacation each year is compensation for the time I'm gone"... "My wife and I get upgraded most trips we take because of this benefit"...

Actual tone-deaf quotes at a time when we were laying people off (not to mention that corporate cards had been around for a while and had been 'encouraged'. And most other managers had already mandated their use.

It's a perk. But when it's a perk only some people get, or get more of, you can't expect too much sympathy from everyone else when it's taken away.
I know options well, but I dont understand how spreads didnt react to this volume. Wouldnt the asks go higher and higher and higher with that volume? Also, what insane market maker would offer this much volume and take the downside risk? It isnt even clear how they would offlay such a risk unless they just happened to be holding 550k*100 SPLK shares
>Is there any legit way in which whoever made this trade could have got a wind of a potential acquisition without relying on inside knowledge?

Cisco is not allowed to use inside information about Splunk to make the acquisition either. So, if someone did the same analysis that Cisco did they could have drawn the same conclusion.

If this trader has a solid history of making many wild option contracts including many that didn't pay off, leading to average returns, then that's a strong case that this was random.
It's hard not to read your posts as hailing from the Linux-on-the-desktop mindset: "either you love it or you don't understand it". I understand federated services just fine. I use several, both personally and professionally. And I even understand ActivityPub, I've written code in the ecosystem before. Because ActivityPub makes a lot of sense in some contexts; I think it is a worthy successor to pingbacks/trackbacks for blogs, for example. That doesn't make Mastodon's conception of federation fit-for-purpose for the people Mastodon likers themselves evangelize at--again, much like Linux-on-the-desktoppers. "Just cope with the community/identity conflation by using multiple separate identities on different frontends with different affordances updated at different cadences, what's the problem??" is right up there with "just edit xorg.conf."

This is a big reason why I'm excited for Bluesky and ATProto: theirs includes many more touchpoints for federation and for control of the user experience without falling into the "server federation is so point to point that the entire thing feels like an empty landscape" problem encountered by many of the folks I know (myself included) who tried Mastodon and then bailed. Bluesky right now is pretty good, and when graph systems and personal data stores are federated along with the existing feed creators (which are a really awesome feature to use even in an early form), it'll be an interesting thing to witness.
As much as I love the fact that I have my choice of server and client I have to say that it does make me wonder if it affects adoption. When the Mastodon growth spikes happened the complaint that I heard most often was from people that couldn't figure out which client to use or which instance to use. Too much choice tends to paralyze people and they default to proprietary services because they don't know what choices to make.
Wait what this is such an important detail. Log aggregators like Splunk start being something to consider when you get to about 25 THOUSAND machines, not 25 machines. I hope that for you, humility will come with experience.
So how would that work if the IRS requires ID verification for my taxes and I live on the other side of the world, usually visiting the US every 2-3 years?
You are correct, but /u/cool_dude85 is making a movie reference to a chain of holding companies created to obfuscate ownership to avoid just this situation.
Apple really really really wants to make more money from software subscriptions rather than hardware.

They have a much better chance to do this in their walled garden environment of iPhones and iPads rather than on OSX where they face competition from other vendors.

They have no incentive to make it easier to be mobile on your macbook when they would much rather you be on your iPhone and iPad instead.

Someday they would really love for macbooks to go away and for everyone to use iOS for everything as they will own the entire environment and competition is much less.
What an absolute joke. Google is not god. They cannot possibly ensure that all of their data is correct.

Give that the local government neglected this road for years without placing a single permanent market to close off the road, I’m going to assume that they also never reported the road as closed.

Legally, Google should be in the clear. Technically, I hate that Google won’t take such reports, because I encountered the exact same situation before (except I did not drive through)
English dubs are usually terrible in general. I'd mind them a bit less if they were just faithful translations using different voice actors, but so often they dumb the scripts down and add a bunch of other changes as if no one in the English speaking world could appreciate it otherwise.

It can make a huge difference. One example of this is the animated Canadian/French film "Ballerina" which got good reviews. The Weinstein Company got the rights to distribute it in the US and they butchered the script adding a bunch of bad jokes everywhere and making unnecessary changes and the resulting film "Leap!" got terrible reviews.
I don't think there is any director in Japan right now capable of directing Ghibli level movies, by that I mean movies that are pure of heart, but interesting enough that you like them, all or at least the vast vast majority.

It's no secret that 2d animation is very expensive and taxing, and if you make failed movies you risk a studio like Ghibli.

Both Yasuhiro Yoshiura and Mamoru hosoda come to mind as directors that could direct films like that if required, but I don't know how consistent they would be if directing constant movies like it.

Regarding Makoto Shinkai I think his movies are a bit too sadistic, or at least his mentality to be do Ghibli films, directing tragic/NTR movies when he was happily married to an audience of mostly shutins always came to me a bit sadistic, even though his movies are visually beautiful I don't think he matches the style.
Regular reminder Matrix/Element work closely with law-enforcement to provide encrypted comms for them. It's a sector Matrix/Element actively markets to and deals with. My personal view is I'm not using a chat platform designed/developed by an organization so eager to partner with governments and law enforcement agencies.

There's Element's Chief Product Officer & Managing Director presenting at the European Police Congress[0]: https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110310853505977058

And a quick post about their excitement at participating in this conference: https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110304013472307767

I mean, whatever, it's just doing business, right? When someone criticized this, they gave a snarky, surprisingly unprofessional response: https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/110334695988903649

Dunno about anyone else but my trust in them is just gone. I'm not saying you have to care (and I don't care if you do). I'm sharing this for the people who do care, and don't want to use "secure messaging" made by people who actively market to and collaborate closely with law enforcement and governments.

[0] https://www.european-police.eu/
> USPS staff scans barcode, requests identity documents, performs proofing, and upon approval, the exception flow completes and whatever action you requested proceeds. In and out in 5 minutes.

This is how code signing certificates should work. Better yet, let them be issued with a simple OAuth flow through sites like login.gov where people have already been verified.

The current system is the worst of everything. It's a convoluted process with geographically and culturally disconnected people doing verification for (primarily) businesses that don't even need to be tied back to a natural person or beneficial owner. To top it off, it's ridiculously expensive for an individual or open source project.

Microsoft also plays a huge role in propping up the currently broken system by trusting EV certificates more than personal certificates even though the identity of a natural person is far more valuable than the identity of a shell company that can easily be used by bad actors.

In one way I dislike identity verification systems like this because I think it's going to increasingly disadvantage people that are already less fortunate, but in another way I hope that it can be used to improve some of the terrible processes we have to endure when it comes to identity and trust.
Fun fact: Cisco is actually headquartered in San Jose, but I believe that both companies have large engineering offices in both San Francisco and San Jose.

For those who don't know, they're both part of the same metro area (Bay Area) but they're 50 miles apart, anywhere from 1 to 2 hours apart depending on traffic.
The cattiness is fine, because the validity of the use case doesn't mean their chips have a big enough advantage on that use case to matter. Not just because of all the vector units you already have in the CPU and iGPU cores, but as another comment points out memory bandwidth is often the bottleneck and a bunch of matrix multiply boosts won't affect that.