skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price matching refers to lowering prices. That's legal, up to the point of predatory pricing.

Raising prices then checking if so-called "competitors" follow is the illegal part - that's automated collusion, definitively illegal.

There is grey area around intent/motive, but the OP article is clearly on the bad side.

(Also, "standard practice" doesn't mean legal or moral)
Agree. You're talking about Piracy. Yes it will exist (just like today), but not at a scale that would make any economic difference (just like today).
They were addicted to the big budget videos and glorifying production costs at a time when special effects were still very expensive, but the benefit to doing that was inherently dropping since any artist that could expect millions more in increasingly cheaper CD sales had alternatives to an expensive Ad/giveaway.

That doesn't answer any question for me of whether the video medium was good or bad, clearly MTV's monopoly meant the only way to release videos was an economical disaster.
The grass could be conducting heat to the soil for storage and later emission back to space at night, or evaporative cooling.

I'm guessing in general solar is a win for the environment, I'm a big fan of the tech, it's the only way most people can generate power right at home without obnoxious fumes or noise or something.... But I wouldn't be surprised if the temperature did change.
The defense in this case would be everyone else's infinitely smart oracles.
People love to work on “projects” (myself included). But when it comes to businesses, projects are only interesting in terms of the revenue they generate. Either you are building revenue or you are building shit.

(Yes, even in a post-ZIRP environment, revenue is king. Cost cutters eventually get cut).
Forest restoration can fare better with human helping hand, study shows
Treating "price" purely as a supply signal, and not as "value" or "worth it" I think it's true the price of lumber worldwide related to supply chain shock, and the consequences for just-in-time dependencies in the building sector.

I am a little surprised things like chip and plywood suffered, I guess when you cannot get timber, you go to manufactured wood (which in some circumstances actually has better mechanical strength, but most people think has lower aesthetics although opinions differ on this) and maybe even as a downstream (sometimes, waste+, certainly different cuts/grades of timber go in) informed component of construction it "costs more" in these times.

The whole Price/Value/Worth thing is really confusing. Timber is amazing. Burying it inside the carcase of a home feels at first glance like "why not something else" but the entire tooling of construction crews can be built around "its wood" not "erect this premade steel form" or "lower the entire wall with insulation, wires windows and pipes into place" as they do on 'grand designs'

The problem really is that price isn't just a pure supply signal. People treat the ratchet up and down as distinct arcs with their own dynamic. It goes up faster than it comes down unless you know something about the future to make it worth dumping at any price. With wood, there isn't much surprise in the future driving price down, only suprises driving price up.

"Building codes to forbid wooden housing due to giant space termites" wasn't on my roadmap for 2024 but you never know...
if it was useful, bigPharma would provide it for us! /s

to an extent, I understand the concept of studying the old plant remedies for what is actually useful from the plant and which remedies really do not harm but do no actual good either. dosing is important and using raw plants makes that really hard. creating clean extracts of known qualities makes a helluva lot of sense. i just think bigPharma took the concept too far.
Yeah "by conveniently dropping token out of attention we can have infinite tokens" not exactly a breakthrough
Semantic Versioning 2.0 (2013)
appreciated, as always
There are signs that policy is not going well:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...

The state has a legitimate interest in limiting the number of people taking opioids in public. It's self-defeating to do that through mass incarceration. To be determined how well decriminalization works. But it's definitely not that the government just doesn't like drugs - hard drugs really do have societal costs.
Yep, why would anyone own anything that negatively impacts them.

If you had 100 dollars would you invest it into a company where the CEO could just take the entire company hostage and potentially make you lose your entire investment?
The NIST standardization process, appears to have a grey area particularly around the selection of constants.

The skepticism around standardization, advocating instead for direct adoption from cryptographers, sheds light on potential shortcomings in the current system.

There is definitely a need for a more transparent or open scrutiny in algorithm standardization to ensure security objectives are met.
Let the Bono restore your faith in husbands and fathers.

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/2978423617_f00d3a39d5.j...

https://goodtimeswithmo.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/bono-par...
Could you expand on that?

If they’re “us”, then that statistical review should show similar distributions to what we have now, especially in children. Can we see the artistic child’s work? It’s probably made of mud, so probably not. We only see accidents of preservation, due to the tools and final materials.
I agree. Unfortunately the majority of shareholders are rich dudes who just care about their numbers going up. The whole thing is psychopathic.
I guess I don't get what change is needed. Most of these Amazon sellers don't do any of the following:

- manufacturing

- marketing / advertising

- warehousing

- shipping

So basically they have outsourced the entire value chain, and then they complain that they are losing almost all of their revenue. Well, yeah, the people doing all of the work are getting most of the money. We don't seem to think it's an issue when a manufacturer takes 50% of someone's revenue, but when a platform that handles marketing/sales/logistics takes 30% everyone acts like it's highway robbery.

These sellers remind me of the people who find out I'm a SWE and want me to work on their "brilliant idea" which they somehow think is worth something without putting in any actual work. It's not. And the fact that these sellers are able to even make a living acting as a middle man between Alibaba and Amazon at all is honestly a great deal for them.
For a long time (less so recently), Amazon retail made no or essentially no profit.
Fair enough. From an evolutionary perspective, there is a much smaller distinction between “family” and “society as a whole”. Prior to the nation-state, most of “society” were people known on a personal level.

So I’m not sure that there is a strong distinction between “ensuring my family has a good outcome” and “ensuring a stable society” because a stable society is meant to be a means and not an end. Regardless, this feels a bit like an untestable hypothesis.
I was under the impression that musl does care about standards compliance, hitting problems mostly when people expect non-standardized behavior.
Passive Solar Water Desalination
No, anything you can do with arrow functions can be done without them. Arrow functions are just a simpler way of writing code. For example, you can control "this" in non-arrow functions using tools like call, apply, and bind. It is just more verbose.
> He would have been cleared in court

Plus, in many US states, you never get fully cleared. Just having a record that you've been arrested -- regardless of the ultimate outcome of that arrest or whether or not you were cleared in court -- can keep you from renting housing, getting jobs, etc.
This isn't his take on AI. It's his opinion about the arguments presented in Mustafa's fear mongering book about how dangerous AI is and what government should do about it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease

Seems this is could be a direct result of warming:

"The Asian form, Ca. L. asiaticus is heat tolerant. This means the greening symptoms can develop at temperatures up to 35 °C. The African form, Ca. L. africanus, and American form, Ca. L. americanus, are heat sensitive, thus symptoms only develop when the temperature is in the range 20–25 °C."
Tech stocks are still sliding after closing out their worst month of 2023
They're worn in theater to prevent the surgical team from contaminating the sterile field they're all huddled together around.
I didn't know his middle initial, so I thought the post was about the computer scientist, to be honest!
> Predatory pricing is supposed to involve a corporation raising prices after destroying it's competition.

That is not necessary for the definition of predatory pricing.
I stopped using Netflix when they did the whole password crackdown.

There's probably still a bit of leeway they think they can extract off people I guess. My friends all have pretty much every streaming service out there, for people who can't be bothered to procure things off the internet these are very comfortable.

But also, I think we'll probably start seeing more people going on and off streaming services (do HBO for a couple months, next netflix, etc.)
Will seeing a show at the Sphere be appreciably different from watching one in the Apple Vision Pro? Sphere has larger FOV, but Vision Pro is 3D.
are there any existing greek roofed temples (not tombs) that support any of this?
This spring/summer there were a number of attempts to organize coding meetups here in Chicago.

https://www.meetup.com/js-chi/ is still going strong, but some of the other events aren't happening anymore.

I've been going to events all summer, but I've heard it's very hard for organizers because of the pressure from participants who are trying to find jobs at these events. I see it as a great opportunity to get a handle on the latest developments in tech and also meet people in the local area who are programmers. But yah, there are lots of people trying to land those high paying tech jobs at neighborhood meetups and it's hard to have that conversation about like just chilling out a little and enjoying the company of fellow developers.
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The trade-off between memory usage and inference time uncovers a potential flaw in prioritizing resource efficiency over performance.

This would deter real-time or near real-time applications where latency is a critical factor.

Also, the confusion over the phrase "0.5-2x slower" highlights a possible lack of clarity in communication within the community, which would hinder the accurate assessment and adoption of such optimizations in practice.
> iPhone stolen out of my hands

People still steal iPhones?? I thought the non-reusability of parts had eliminated that problem.

Sorry to hear about your misadventures, I hope you were not injured.
Can we actually control viruses? No. 2020 was evidence enough of that. We were comically bad at it. Thankfully, immune systems have co-evolved with viruses for millions of years and there's limits to what viruses can do. After all, the most successful viruses don't kill off their hosts (since they would also die off).

It quickly became apparent that Covid could mutate quicker than we could possibly keep up with. Like the common cold and the flu, it iterates too quickly to eliminate entirely like smallpox.

At any rate, it seems all you need for AI is attention (transformers + processing power). If AI ever becomes a real threat outside of generating believable fake images and videos, it's likely the counter is a diversity of AI models that can compete with the "evil one".
Commissions are fine, they are transaction overheads. This doesn't still justify taking a 40% cut on any upside I have when I upgrade my house. This is not necessarily targeting an individual broker, but the system as it is set up right now, with no real innovations happening.
> A virus is a...

You don't need an AI to construct a virus that can destroy humanity. We already have that capability, and bioprinting one by average grad at random biotech on their lunch break will become commonplace soon.
Flight diverted due to a technical issue, how can I find out what happened?
I was on this flight and I am wondering if there is anything available online to see what actually happened? I don't think it was serious at all but would still love to know - out of curiosity. The airline hasn't shared any details, although I suspect they'd reply with _something_ if I asked nicely over email..?
Thank you for the suggestion. A couple of ML engineers with whom I've spoken after publishing the blog also suggested that I should try representing x and y coordinates as separate tokens.
Sun's last successful SPARC project was the UltraSPARC II, in 1997. Their subsequent projects, like "Rock" and "Niagara," were disasters. (USIII and USIV were little more than core shrinks of USII)

If Sun had given up the day Itanium was announced, they mighta come out ahead!
They mention that they use Apple Virtualization Framework, that means they use real macs with macos but the github action runs virtualized on it through AVF
> and the rest will have to be consumed by the rest of the system somehow

The wattage figures on a charger are the maximum it can provide. The connected device only draws what it needs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

Certain aspects of the us government were put together to help counteract this, but yeah I agree to some extent. Maybe at some point the majority will be renters.

It’s interesting to compare housing to automobile prices, because recently both seem to be in a bit of a bubble (and I say this as someone working in the auto industry). Easier to import cars from overseas though if the US dollar stays strong.
> What's unusual about the US (currently) is that citizens worldwide are considered resident for tax purposes (as other countries would call it I suppose, since it's typically more about residency than citizenship) whatever their living and working arrangement and wherever else tax may be due.

For most people who aren't insanely rich or aren't getting most of their income via a trust fund, this isn't very relevant. You have the foreign income exclusion (somewhere north of $100k now) and the foreign taxes paid deduction to insulate you from playing taxes in the states. The problem becomes when you are making > $100k in a low tax place like Singapore or Dubai, but even then there is a housing deduction that works for most working class people.

> Surely the main reason to do it is because you moved and wish to be free of 'doing taxes' (maybe you moved somewhere where that's not even something you have to think about!) in the US?

It isn't hard to file if you have simply income to consider. I did it by hand for many years, it took around 15-30 minutes a year.
Translation-specialised models like Google Translate don't actually understand what they're translating. But models like GPT do. This fact is intuitive and easy for anyone to test.
I also enjoy interpreting antisocial by the strict psychiatric definition when someone describes themselves as such.

Oh, so you're a devil-may-care litterbug? Tell me more.

But only for humor or conversational interest. Rigidly rejecting folk colloquialisms is kind of annoying.
When you say "virtual machines perform extremely poorly", on what do you base that?

(note: I've worked in supercomputing and HPC for over two decades"

The network I was talking about is called UltraCluster which have an extremely high bandwidth and low latency, designed to get great scaling on MPI jobs (as well as ML). Typical instances used with UC are p5, which have 8 H100 nvidia GPUs, 192 vCPUs, 2TB RAM, 3.2Tbps bandwidth PER MACHINE, 900GB/sec between GPU peers, and 8 3.84TB SSDs. They are not marketed as metal instances.

No, it's not like a grid. Your thinking is dated and not representative of how people do HPC on AWS, Azure, or Google.
Pregel is a distributed graph processing system, this (AFAICT) is a library for working with graphs in-memory on a single computer.
It seems like Amazon could take a cue from the tactics employed by very small shops and start dynamically adjusting prices per item per customer. Strategically lowering prices for some customers and raising prices for others could quickly become more profitable than worrying about the average customer. Amazon's already got their system setup like a shell game with multiple pages selling the same item via multiple sub-vendors so placing blame on Amazon would be incredibly difficult if not impossible for anyone outside of Amazon.

Artificially deflate prices across the board for some customers while artificially raising prices across the board for others. Some customers could end up paying 4x the Walmart price while others might end up paying 1/2 price - there are customers that don't care or don't pay attention to how much things cost.

Jack up prices for the big spender while slashing prices for cheapskates and offer bulk discounts to customers who will lay out more cash for single large purchases.
I heard that a Danish horse forum makes up about 20% of available training data for that language
I was thinking a bit like EVE online or Off World Trading Company but using real life stats.
Incentive markets aren’t “democratization”. Something like BitTorrent where people freely choose to contribute simply to help others is democratic.

An incentive market basically makes it a business.
If T-mobile didn't include it with the phone plan for "free", we would have cancelled long ago. We just rarely watch anything on Netflix anymore. I think we pay $2/month now, thanks to the last price increase. If it goes up again, buh-bye!
Yeah, let's change our laws so that Tom, Dick and Harry can pimp, deal drugs around schools, run underground gambling dives and protection rackets. Genius!

Plenty of consensual acts are detrimental to the society.
Pirates were always going to pirate, I've seen it happen even during the good times when Netflix was $5/month. Do you think pirates were doing this to spite Netflix for being... extremely generously priced? Or do you have some other ad-hoc reason that just came into existence 10 seconds ago?

This is hardly even a threat.
Isn't the loss for dimensional lumber more due to drying than finishing?
The car is on fire and there is no driver at the wheel.
We might end up in the weeds here, but I imagine you are meaning when moving relatively slowly? I hope pedestrians aren't in need of moving out of the way of your driving over 25kmph!

Indeed at slow speeds EVs are quieter. That probably does make a difference for inner city traffic, which is also where you really want less tailpipe emissions, EVs help there too.
The destructive power of nukes is not the stuff of fantasy and fiction.
> How big does it need to be before it is good? 2%? 50%? 100%? If you can't give any answer to that question, then it doesn't matter what the number really is because the number still doesn't mean anything.

Uh, seems a lot like it should be the government answering that question before spending tax money on it and subjecting real people to the uncaring US justice system just because crime is bad so we have to do something, even if that something is ML snake oil?
There's a meaningful difference between assuming an actor is malicious or untrustworthy and going out of your way to provide the maximally malicious interpretation of each of their actions. As a matter of rhetoric, the latter tends to give the impression of a personal vendetta.
Meetup didn’t (want to) realize its customers were running events to make money. So they ignored all the calls for features like selling tickets and let Eventbrite eat their lunch in that space.

The non-commercial side of things - evergreen interest groups - got eaten by Facebook, who doesn’t need groups to make money, just to engage users.

Everyone too young to have anything to do with either Meetup or FB are in some private chat.
I use Infuse, so it must have been transparently solving the problem for me.
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> And the US has tax treaties with other countries as well, so if you pay taxes in say Japan or Canada you do not pay taxes in America as well.

That isn't by tax treaty, which is usually related to payroll taxes. You can always deduct taxes you pay to any foreign government, with a couple of exceptions (Cuba maybe?), even if they lack a tax treaty with the USA.
In life some people are a force to be reckoned with, others: a farce.
How in the world could anyone fall asleep in a machine that loud and weird-sounding? To whit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvXoHU9Cexk
yeah me too...I've been very negative about the edge, it got overhyped with the romanticization of local LLMs, but there's a bunch of stuff coming together at the same time...Raspberry Pi 5...Mistral 7B Orca is my 20th try of a local LLM...and the first time it handled simple conversation with RAG. And new diffusion, even every 2 hours, is a credible product, arguing about power consumption aside...
Ironically leeches are used to this day. At the most specialized hospital in Sweden they are sometimes used to treat wounds that have a hard time healing. IIRC they somehow promote revascularizing of the tissue.