skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The efficient market hypothesis is something different, that one just says that prices reflect all available information. I was talking about competition which should ensure that there are no profits, i.e. that consumers do not pay more than the costs of production, including risk adjustment and development costs and so on, but that are mostly uneccesary details for this discussion.

You can see how this interpretation clashes with another dogma of economics: that the price of sth is the price that someone is willing to pay for it.

There is no conflict here. On the one hand the price can be as high as what customers are willing to pay, but on the other hand competitors should show up in order to take some of your profits by offering a lower price.

I read your message as saying that this software should be cheaper (arguing working markets but I think it is really a moral argument).

Sure, there is also a moral aspect to this, overcharging your customers in order to be able to relax on the beach is not the most ethical thing, but the economy cares relatively little about ethics. So the best one can do is to hope that market forces will correct this.

Another argument against 90% being a market failure is that this will inspire competition of copycats with lower margin over time. Corrections and competition are not instant.

Yes, I did not spell this out precisely enough, it is of course only a market failure if it persist. But given that many of those projects seem relatively simple, how long should one wait before declaring a market failure? Maybe there are already cheaper alternatives but people do not know about them? That is itself a market failure.
In India on TVs, (where people use 4g to watch content) Google added a data saver mode in Android TV. They just shape the trafic down (to 500kBps iirc?). I guess that was easier than trying to convince app developers to reduce their data usage on a system flag. That's stupid for a lot of reasons, but I guess in your case that would work.
not OP, but: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2022/06/17/HP16500a-teardown.h...

pros:

- ~hundred very fast channels

- user defined logic levels

cons:

- loud, slow, hot, outdated

- hilarious sample depth
I couldn't schedule a repair at the genius bar and to go in person I could only find apple stores in malls (which I can't stand), going through all that for them to ask me the same shit in person possibly and deny repair is not worth it.

So I just went to a nearby repair guy who only asked for my phone number to update me on the repair status.
Worth noting that implementing FIDO2/Passkeys is more challenging than it looks both from a UX standpoint and from a threat modeling standpoint. We tried to cover some of this in a blog post, in case anybody is interested: https://www.slashid.dev/blog/passkeys-security-implementatio...
Duplicated effort means dignified jobs for the middle class to provide for their families.
If you globalize everything and have a super efficient atomized machine then there's a lot of people who've been 'liberated' from their jobs who then get crappy jobs with no benefits like driving ubers sporadically.

We don't have a world government that has a social contract to provide for all. Rather we have nations that sometimes provide for their citizens. And then theirs multinationals which sort of float above it causing mayhem for the plebs.

But to the original point, if you want cheap EV's you could build them smaller with less features and not try out out compete a F150.
Yes, it is easy and it will get easier, the overall quality of software products is rising fast.

Apps and product development is like a marketplace now, the demand for software is huge but most people just don't know about what they can do with software. So there are hundreds of GPT Excel's out there, but there is demand for thousands so if you can do this in one week, do it! There is a lot of people trying those projects just for fun and spending money on it.
> Modern automatic transmissions tend to be much better than older ones.

I seem to recall improvements in that area around 2015 (probably driven by emissions regulations) but don't know the implementation details. One change was also a marked increase in available ratios (7, up to 10) which combined with better logic drives mpg down overall, sometimes lower than stick or dual clutch on standardised tests.
I first read this a few years ago, it's great. Haven't seen it since and had no idea how to find it, thanks for posting!
Is there a real keyboard with custom lcd display to show doom in the build-in key cap instead replacing it with an mini pcb / display?
Thanks, I agree Steam has seen the light, and I hope they keep focused on improving fun stuff.

Also, Classic FreeCIV on the web looks like fun too, definitely have to find a weekend for a round. The Anti-cheat stuff is unfortunately a necessity for multiplayer games, as even Pokemon GO PvP cheats lamed up the game. lol

Cheers =)
Remember we’re using Node. I don’t think TypeScript compiler supports importing ESM into CommonJS files.

Basically we will have to move the library to ESM and then use a bundler like esbuild to compile it to CJS as well for compatibility. It’s a mess
Similar. It’s a Merkle DAG.

There’s an intro to IPFS content identifiers here: https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/content-addressing/.
Because artists don't want to play to an empty room. Even for a lot of money.
Most people here are referring to transfers of their own data. How do people transfer their confidential information to say, their solicitors, who may be on different operating systems and behind NAT / firewalls?

Specifically if cloud services are banned by the solicitor's company.

You'd have thought by 2023 this would have been solved but I don't believe it has. Particularly as PGP email administration (including key management over time / replacement hardware) is non trivial and unlikely to be successfully achieved by the non tech savvy.
The Chinese EVs seem as safe as any European EV.

- Instead of tariffs, why not compulsory long warranty? (say, 10 years)

It would benefit the consumer, the environment, and prevent sweatshops at the country of manufacture.

Surely European cars can compete on quality against outsiders…
Installing GCC: Building
See also https://publint.dev/
Hey, this guy wrote instructions for our system replacement project! I wish I had read this a few years ago, then I wouldn’t have been so surprised.
Would you mind elaborating on the kind of planning that went on?

I’ve been involved in instances of planning that meant writing out pseudo code in the whiteboard for the entire software, including errors and exceptions and the final task was ‘just write the code!’. It started off well when coding the big picture modules but as we started getting into the details, bugs, unexpected race conditions and more started coming up.
No-code anti-phishing protection of internal apps with Passkeys
This song is literally my oldest memory. I was ~1 year old, maybe a bit younger.
I'll give you 10k usd if you copy this work in 1 hour (which is much easier than creating it, mind you). Otherwise stop downplaying other's people work.
This! I don't know those bikes but here is my hypothesis: older engines required more experience to be fully exploited, as they had 'holes', that it to say revving ranges or global state leading to unsatisfying performance (mainly due to tire, frame, brakes and carburetor's limits/defects): one had to learn, by practicing, how to avoid/circumvent such problems.

They also are accustomed to the effects of sub-optimal or economical designs, the main example being vibrations, and learnt to like them. "If it doesn't vibrate hard, stinks, pours oil, yells... it is cannot be a true bike!"

Modern bikes (especially electric) are way less quirks-plagued, more 'linear', easy to exploit and their performances (at equivalent 'cost', inflation-adjusted) are way better on all accounts (grip, brakes, flexibility/driveability, acceleration, max speed, reliability...).
`tsc` is extremely slow to transpile TypeScript sources into JavaScript. It's invaluable for typechecking, but for transpilation there are much better solutions like SWC or tsup [1] (which nicely wraps esbuild and Rollup).

[1] https://tsup.egoist.dev/
Faster loading times are useful for everyone. And there are plenty of people with bad connection.
Why Americans cannot produce cheap EVs?
The hosting companies have full access to any forwarding configuration set up by their customers, too. It all goes through their control panel anyway.
As opposed to a stall induced by reference counting?

Don't allocate => don't need to collect.
I am a fan of do some then learn some.

For example, in the simpler case of pure technology. Try building in React and only then do the React course. You’ll come with the confusion and questions and know what to get out of it.

In business it is trickier because the amount of poor information out there is ridiculous. Even good information can be bad if it is bad for you specifically. As people often way overconfidently propose they have cracked the code to making money.

Which is ridiculous.

It is easy to see how silly it is if you reframed that in terms of employment. “The secret to $200k/y. Our blueprint shows you how to make $200k/y as a medical doctor…”. What if you hate being a doctor or are no good at the various innate skills needed!
It has your location history though, since you apparently all face presidential level threat in this forum I guess that would be very important. They could also plant microphones and cameras !!
The *updated*, latest Renault Zoe has also terrible safety ratings.

I think the EU shouldn’t be protecting local automakers from their greed…
In my memories it was Google Maps that brought AJAX to the masses.
Hocon (Human-Optimized Config Object Notation)
As someone who's been toying with wasm runtimes for the last year or two in bursts, I feel this pain so much. Just yesterday I was like "hey let's try this thing I tried last year but was too messy, WASM had advanced".

And oh man, what a ride it was. The WASM ecosystem DX is in a terrible state.

First, the "choose a runtime" part is a timesink in itself. Which one is WASI compliant, what are the supported features, is it active, is it stable, how are the docs (mostly terrible), what are the issues? And invariably you get into the Wasmer debate on the way and using other engines with WASI or their engine and WASIX. If I depend on a VC funded runtime, will the company survive, will it be free?

After choosing a runtime, installing it, setting the host and guest project up, you can finally.. wait, what? do I need to use wit-bindgen first to generate bindings? No, wait the compiler uses `wasi_snapshot_preview1` for which I need to use adapters to use with `wit-bindgen`? Another rabbit hole to dive into.

Then finally, you start working and try to do it by the docs - you get some minimal cases covered and are left to sift through the code, comments and github issues to actually understand what the authors meant and how we should use the API. Instead of showing `guest language` code you compile and embed, they show minified WAT that exports a function returning a hardcoded number. "Oh sorry, you want to try anything else? Good luck and grab your towel while you navigate the WASM universe with it's insane amount of WASM 101 tutorials."

I understand it's early, I understand it's in progress, but man there is a ton to improve on the DX side alone. It feels like the race went to "enable every language ever and make the fastest runtime around" vs "actually support people to properly adopt and build upon the ecosystem". And if it feels like that for someone who understands what's going on and has patience to sift through the docs and the code, I can't imagine how it is for somebody just hearing about it or starting to work on it.

In the end, I managed to implement what I wanted, but it took me a ton of glue and deep dives and searches just to get it running in it's primitive state relying on API's that will break in a month or two. And while I'm okay with sniffing that much glue for a weekend project, a lot of developers won't be, reducing the reach and adoption by a large margin.

Don't get the rant wrong tho - I absolutely love WASM and find it super fun. Hell, I even enjoy reading WASM code itself and figuring out what it does. But damn, the DX side _needs_ some serious improvements.
Yeah I'd call the behavior unexpected rather than wrong.

As a design decision it makes a lot of sense, especially given the ideas that went into UNIX filesystems that didn't quite pan out (hard links are a very neat idea in theory, but I'm not sure when I'd ever actually use them).
Is this a spam?
Increasing max/avg/median lifespan without major improvements in battling dementia it is a rather dystopian vision. And even if we are not talking full blown Alzheimers, declining mental capabilities is a big issue: My own grandmother turns 102 this year and even though we as a family feel really blessed, I would say the last 5 years have been a slow but constant decline in mental capabilities. It went hand in hand with decline in eyesight and hearing. So: not hearing much anymore, not able to read or really watch TV and all your friends and relatives have passed for years. I really don't know if I would whish her getting 120...
That's the neat part, it's not.

https://chat.openai.com/share/bce0e12f-ebfc-4fcd-babc-9e0a48...

Just another in a long line of fancy wrappers made by AI grifters.
As someone who has practiced qigong and neigong over many years, feelings are absolutely localized - you can even match them with specific organs. Is is surprising that the adrenals are associated with feelings of panic for example?

The author is part of the tpot twitter sphere in which post-rationalists try to find ways to deal with body-mind/"woo" topics. That a member of this demographic develops a highly systematic methodology is to be expected.
Plot twist, Mr Apple never fixes your phone himself, it's always a guy in a vendor's shop. Same for the components, they're made by guys in vendor's factories. And the software is made by guys in vendor's offices
TIL that types should be listed first in the export map thanks to that tool. I don't think it bothered anyone consuming my packages, but better be spec compliant and update them all. Thanks for sharing!

https://publint.dev/rules#exports_types_should_be_first
I am still confused. What is a typical use case?
They don't make money out of longer warranties.
yet at some point we tend to throw efficiency at the wall for raw compute.

it was exceedingly uncommon for PC's in the Pentium 4 era to ship with anything higher than a 200W PSU. Yet today it is not uncommon to hear of 850W PSU's. Of course such PSU's are undoubtedly more efficient at doing the conversion. What I mean is that the argument of (power) efficiency doesn't hold when we actually end up using significant more power anyway.

Also, to play devils advocate a bit, that's a 20yo PC: how many times would you have upgraded in 20 years- and what is the carbon cost of all of those upgrades? Some PC manufacturing is pretty bad for the environment. I'd guess once every 3-5 years?

According to "8 Billion Trees":

> the Carbon Footprint of a Computer? A desktop computer emits 778 kgs of CO2e annually. Of this, 85% results from emissions during manufacture and shipping, and 15% results from electricity consumption when in use.

https://8billiontrees.com/carbon-offsets-credits/carbon-foot....

So you have to really ask yourself: when is that upfront cost paid for by the inefficiency of energy use (which can be sourced sustainably unlike many parts of PC manufacture)?

20 years? Sure, but it's still very questionable at 10 years.

If only we didn't force people to upgrade their computers by making more and more features non-optional and slowing down the computing experience for the sake of producing features easier for developers.

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EDIT: I can't stop thinking abut this; I think I've been nerd sniped:

I can't find good data on this though, it seems like a new laptop costs the planet 422.5kgs of CO2e on average.

The actual running cost of the Pentium 4 (mobo, ram, etc) itself is somewhere around 40w for this generation (not including peripherals, discrete GPU or screen) - it does not have speedstep so can't power down. a high end dGPU from the era runs about the the same as the entire PC. so let's double that 40w. -- we ignore peripherals and screens as those could be the same for both new and old PC's.

80w used roughly for 8hrs per day? That comes to about 292kW a year roughly.

In the US energy generation costs 0.3712kgs CO2e per kWh; so something like 109kgs of CO2e for running this PC for a year.

Meaning even if your energy efficiency of a new PC doubled (using 40w instead of 80w) it would take nearly 5 years to offset the carbon cost of a new PC. Not discounting that energy production can be carbon neutral.

That said, currently: The most efficient x86 computer will consume 10W to 25W at idle.
True of variables in most languages, are they evil too?
I'm developing a npm package with just plain javascript modules. No more JS fatigue. I won't ever go back to TypeScript and JS compilers, modern JavaScript is capable enough to stop all this madness.
> “When I enter prompts into Midjourney, and re-enter them until I get what I want, it’s true I’m not drawing, but I am crafting an image using a tool.”

One problem I have is this: was Midjourney trained from public-domain data, or not? Assuming that most of the authors of the training data never actually agreed to their work being used for this, then I would reword the quote above as:

"it’s true I’m not drawing, but I am crafting an image using a tool that leverages work that I was never allowed to use".

I heavily disagree with the argument that "humans watch paintings and use that knowledge to create new paintings, and it's the same for AI". Because painters know what happens when they "publish" a painting. They implicitly accept that other painters may get inspiration from that, because it has been the case for thousands of years.

But painters can't possibly "implicitly" know the consequences of their work being used as training data. So it would make sense to require their explicit consent before using their work.
Has anyone bought any electronic device made in China that wasn't cheap: cheap quality, cheap price? Now we're supposed to trust that their electronic cars aren't like every electronic device ever made there? Trade protectionism is saving Americans a lot of grief.
It's human to be afraid of losing things.

I think the guardian has FOLR, fear of losing readers, and they will tell natural things as if they were huge problems to get your attention.

We are good.
If the new app litterally does something entirely different, then I wouldnt consider it a rewrite.
I expect Proton and Skiff to last a long time, because you're the customer, not the product.
Punjab and Haryana are the gateway for any foreign invasions, yet while corrupt, they don't have anywhere close to the corruption that those states have. Besides, Malwa (where MP is) was often not conquered soon enough because of the hilly Vindhyas and the presence of powerful ruling states in that region. So I don't buy the foreign invasion argument.

I didn't say that the corrupt culture has much to do with the oppression of minorities. By that factor, Gujarat should have been doing severely poorly. But oppressing minorities seems to be something all of these states tend to want to do some time or the other. That's just something that's bad for business and economic growth, but still doesn't explain why these states are uniformly corrupt, even worse so than poorer states like Sikkim or Odisha.
Shareholders will not accept anything but unlimited growth in profits
> This may end up as a Linux desktop one day

Based on your goals that's going to happen a lot sooner.
I've been using iCloud Mail since like 2012 and never felt the need to use any other service, let alone the much uglier (in comparison) Gmail UI!

Besides the ads, Gmail also has that annoying "YourRealAddress+alias" which makes aliases useless, whereas iCloud aliases have saved me from a lot of spam, and it's infinitely better now with their new "Hide My Email" feature that lets you create a different address each time.
For what it’s worth, I see this pattern too.

Rewrite a legacy .NET MVC app with lots of cruft. Build a new Node.JS app with lots of cruft.
Yeah. That's the first thing I ask during an interview - "What email provider do you use?". If they say"GMail" I just close the Google Meet tab in my Google Chrome mid-sentence. I can tolerate a lot from an employer, but not GMail. /s
The user partition is encrypted by default, so a Maintenance Mode user has no access to user data. Maintenance Mode can only be enabled if the device is unlocked, so a thief could only enable it if they have your device password or they grab your device while it's unlocked; obviously that's a more general attack vector. The device can still be remotely located, locked or erased while in Maintenance Mode.
When did the EU start competing with companies?
That doesn't seem like a good idea.
Dependent types: de Brujin (1967)

Curry-Howard: Curry (1934, 1958), Howard (1968)

MLTT: Martin-Lof (1972)

Polymorphic lambda-calculus: Girard (1972/3), Reynolds (1974)

Effect systems: Gifford/Lucassen (1986)

Calculus of constructions: Coquand/Huet (1988)

HKTs: Girard (1971)

Type classes: Kaes (1988)

Dates are imprecise and from memory.
>I think the EU shouldn’t be protecting local automakers from their greed…

Yeah, but automotive (when you also include all the various suppliers, not just the brands) is a big part of EU GDP, meaning strong political lobbying leverage from the industry especially in places like Germany, and workers in that industry also have quite strong unions meaning more political leverage, so I doubt the EU will drop local protectionism to. make the local industry more competitive

The EU has already been pushed out of costumer software and electronics industries and now depends on China and the US (yes chip nerds, I know ASML is EU, please don't mention it for the millionth time as if that fixes EU's lack of domestic champions), and at this rate the same will happen to its ageing automotive industry. Other than the established luxury brands like Ferrari, Porsche, Bentley, etc. the mid tier players could get decimated by the likes of Hyundai, BYD and Tesla.
Isn't that the point of requiring it?
This could be more of a symptom of Excel (and spreadsheets) being too darn hard to get right.

I've switched to Sqlite and Jupyter from what was a useful but hard to debug spreadsheet with really long repeated formulas that were just database joins. The amount of code to view has probably dropped by 90%. Of course now its easier there is ten times the functionality, but at least its a lot easier to understand some SQL vs Excel formulas.
"But these commons are now being overgrazed by rapacious tech companies that seek to feed all of the human wisdom, expertise, humor, anecdotes and advice they find in these places into their for-profit A.I. systems."
Someone needs to wrap this in a clippy UI
> Twenty years ago, a group of friends shot a Matrix fan film on a limited budget. Sharing their creation with the rest of the word initially appeared to be too expensive, but then they discovered a new technology called BitTorrent. Fast forward two decades and their “Fanimatrix" release is the oldest active torrent that's still widely shared today.
Somehow I felt like you were describing my Factorio factory…
"It belongs in the ..."

No, not the museum but place where it was found, or at best someones collection as a display piece. It was fine 20 years ago, but today pretty much self harm compared to amateur level <$1k equipment. You wouldnt use it now same way you dont use 20 year old laptop as a daily driver.

What $299 buys you nowadays: Rigol DHO800 12 Bit Oscilloscope review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8jrpCoZyx8