skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Kroger buys other retailers. Their income (and their taxes) will be reduced by (amortization of) the intangible cost of the retailers bought. This is money paid to the shareholders of the retailers who sold out, which should also be counted as income of the retailing sector.

This does not make any accounting sense. Profit (net income) is not a function equity, and what if the prior owners lost money on the investment?

Also, what intangibles are you referring to in a grocery business? The buildings, real estate, supplies etc are all tangibles.
The $10,000 bicycle will be as reliable, light, sturdy, and comfortable as possible with the available technology. You don't want your brakes going out on a 2000+ mile race. Most people only need what a $900 or under bicycle offers, so the $10,000 price is mostly from low volume: that's only ~12 $900 bicycles.

It's the same reason this costs $11k: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1473009-REG/blackmagi...

Only a few people need it, and those few people can justify the cost of a niche tool with small production runs.
Children in schools where their phones have been banned had to learn about the history of music distribution, eg what mp3s are
A good rule of thumb for forming beliefs (and commenting on fora about studies) is if you don’t have more than a passing awareness of an entire academic field, and your observation relies on no unique knowledge, talent, or perspective that you bring to the table, then you can safely assume other people see it too and that there is more to it than what took you a few seconds to evaluate. Just something to consider?
A few thousand (or even ten thousand) tech workers getting laid off isn’t going to move the needle on Mac sales numbers, it’s not like they didn’t all go and get jobs elsewhere anyway.
> They clearly do as plenty research indicates.

I have seen plenty of researchers claim this. What I have not seen is actual support for such a claim.
Our code is open source, so you can choose to independently verify that if you desire.

We have attempted to minimize binary blobs to a pretty extreme extent. Unfortunately there are a couple of things from vendors that are impossible to remove, but we have made progress on avoiding as many of them that are avoidable as possible. bcantrill did a talk about this (and some other things) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911048 if you're curious.

That said your overall point that you’re always trusting somebody is absolutely valid.
“Some popular models like Prophet [Taylor and Letham, 2018] and ARIMA were excluded from the analysis due to their prohibitive computational requirements and extensive training times.”

Anyone who work a lot in time series forecasting can explain this in some more details?

I’ve def used ARIMA, but only for simple things. Not sure why this would be more expensive to train and run than a Transformer model, and even if true, ARIMA is so ubiquitous that comparing resources & time would be enlightening. Otherwise it just sounds like a sales pitch and throw more obscure acronyms for a bit of “I’m the expert, abc xyz industry letters” marketing.
If these people are unemployed (which I doubt), they will buy a new laptop to stay relevant.
> The GTX 1080 MSRP was $599 in 2016, the RTX 4080 launched $1199 this year.

Nvidia shifted their entire product stack up in the 4000 series - the 4080 should be badged as a 4070.
Huh? ERCOT might like the idea in the short run, but as the article points out the opacity of the mining operations actually makes forecasting demand and supply harder over time, since unlike 1 million houses in a heat wave the mines can just switch on (or off) instantly. States need to regulate these operations the way they do generators or batter storage failciities, which they dwarf in size.
> I gave other examples in my post that you have not responded too.

Where?

The only one is cross-play, and let's be honest here, how would Microsoft justify not supporting cross-play, when their consoles are essentially PCs running a modified version of Windows?

> Cocky in this sense is Sony thinking they can get away with something because they were running high after the PS2 era.

I'm not sure what to think about this comment. Corporations aren't cocky. Sony isn't even a monopoly.

> Ok? What exactly does that have to do with Microsoft? They bought rare in 2002. I am completely missing the point you are trying to make.

They bought Rare and their exclusive IP, which became Microsoft exclusives. Same with Bungie, Bethesda, and now, more than likely, Activision-Blizzard.

In fact, that seems to be Microsoft modus operandi: buy big studios, lock popular franchises on their platforms. It is not disputable that Microsoft bought their way in gaming, as all the acquired studios had previous, very profitable, franchises they capitalized on.

> However as I mentioned my key problem is paying for exclusive content. It is indefensible that I pay the same amount for a game on Xbox with LESS content than on PS5 because Sony paid money to try to boost the sales of their consoles.

Right. I still don't understand how you couldn't agree on the fact that Microsoft is doing precisely that, but with whole franchises.

PlayStation owners won't be able to play, say, the new Elder Scrolls. It is likely that they won't be able to play CoD in three or four years. How would you feel if Sony Entertainment were to buy EA, making a bunch of sport franchises PlayStation exclusives?

You seem to be OK with that. That is a bit hypocritical, isn't it.

> That is why I feel like Sony needs strong competition and we need these consoles to be much much closer in marketshare for both companies to actually have to fight for consumer dollars instead of Sony just getting away with whatever they want because they have the big splashy exclusive games.

So the answer to market dominance is... market consolidation?

And the answer to in house exclusives is... taking cross-platform games and making them Microsoft exclusives?

That is utter nonsense.
Vollying back your flipness-- This sort of reductive assumption about software design is why companies that need people who aren't developers to actually use their products hire interface designers.
If you somehow accidentally generate Mickey Mouse and decide to monetize it, how are you going to defend yourself that your prompt didn't include "Mickey Mouse" or something?
> They are quite literally trained to predict a distribution that could supply the next token given previous context.

"Previous context" here means text. It does not mean "the actual world". Big difference.
OK, how about we put it this way?

Who cares if "it knows" if it's apparently impossible to get it to use that knowledge to stop hallucinating?

To me, the end user there is no practical difference between not having the data and not being able to use the data it has. If it can't use it, or refuses to use it, it may as well not exist.
Kodable (YC IK12) is hiring a Unity game Developer to help teach kids to code
This looks like a good place to recycle part a comment of mine from 10 days ago. In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37747936 I said:

> The triangle that you're looking at is that NIMBYs lead to lack of construction, lead to undersupply of housing, which is a direct cost of both high housing costs and high homeless populations. The profit that I have as a homeowner comes from somewhere. Where it comes from is artificial scarcity that causes renters to struggle, and over 170,000 Californians to be unhoused.

There is an answer. It is a simple and direct and has my complete support. It is the one issue where I completely agree with https://twitter.com/mattyglesias.

YIMBY. Build housing. Get rid of barriers to building housing.

It doesn't matter whether it is high end, low end, high density apartments, or weird condominiums. The laws of supply and demand remain true. High prices are a result of high demand and a lack of supply. And if the new housing is only attractive to the well-off, it still helps. The homes that they live in now can go to the less rich.

Being for NIMBY policies is being for homelessness. Go to a homeless encampment. See people that our society has turned into garbage. We did it people wanted pristine neighborhoods to make their houses worth more. Well, the houses are worth more. Was it worth it?
its funny how governments ALWAYS lies about wars they have been involved with, and people by and large considers this to be true. but currently when there are wars, we are to trust them 100%
You realize there's a USAF base and missile range next door right?
I also installed a whole house dehumidifier (in New England). It gives a noticeable improvement in indoor air quality, but I can definitely see it on my electric usage. (I wish I could un-see it. It removes a little over 2L/kWh per the spec sheet, but that also means it's using about $2-3/day in a lot of the summer.)
This same argument could be made for forcing all professional athletes to compete while severely drunk. It would be hilarious though.
how can you possibly think monopoly is an issue when Microsoft is in clear third place in gaming behind Nintendo and Sony, and theres dozens of large publishers/studios and incredibly strong and thriving indie scene. I just dont get what you're talking about.
At 1080p right? Not at 1440p or 2160p
The lifespan of a laptop is not tied to a replaceable battery - if you buy a new laptop because you have lost 20% battery capacity, then you are making an unsound financial decision.

A laptop does not really degrade much apart from cosmetic wear or physical damages - instead, what the same amount of money can get you changes, and at some point you feel like that cost has been amortized and that the gap between back then and now has increased enough to justify a new purchase. The only reason M1's would last longer in that regard would be stagnation on Apple's behalf.

Same with how the PC market had stagnated with minimal generational improvements until both Ryzen and M1 shook things up in interesting ways.
Ah, my paywall scraper removed it! I retract my statement, carry on.
A scrub can both detect and repair damage. You don't need to set additional copies. If you don't want to buy 4TB of drives to store 2TB of data in a mirror, use a raidz instead.

In a raidz with at least one parity disk (and any number of data disks), corruption found on any data disk can be repaired immediately. For non-overlapping corruption a single parity disk is enough. If you have corruption of the same block on two different disks (extremely unlikely) then this can be repaired if you have two parity disks. (Etc. for three identically-corrupt data disks and three parity disks)

You can have eg. two parity disks and eight data disks (or more) and so long as no more than two disks are corrupted in the same block at the same time then a scrub will repair it completely.

The system of parity disks in ZFS' raidz is meant for reconstructing entire failed data disks, so fixing corruption is no big deal.
I think this particular line might have been caused by the overall debauchery at r/NCD.
You shouldn’t care if you have no use case for one. Not sure if you’re attempting to bait people into argument or if you just want to flex how much of a Luddite you are.
We Were Wrong About the GPLs
Rich versus King is another categorisation: https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2016/03/30/rich-v-king-the-co...

[Founders] need to ask themselves, and be honest about, is: do you want to be rich, or do you want to be king? Because very very very rarely can you be both.
Some founders legitimately care less about money than about ensuring that their business stays in alignment with their long-term vision/mission. They certainly want to be successful, but a removal from the leadership position in their company would, in their mind, mean personal failure, no matter how much gold they can expect to line their pockets with.

There area bunch of other amazing articles on the same website about the truth behind VC forces.
The word probability can mean little or much, depending on how large the model is behind it.
I also rarely click the scrollbar (except when "jumping to approximate absolute position" in a long document), however, I always look at it to get the current position/document length.

Therefore, my usual problem is terrible contrast of scrollbars. I have modified GTK and Qt themes to show dark blue slider on a light gray background, but only about half of the apps respect it.
Like real Apples, they go rotten.
> Democrats ridiculed us, too. All but one of them voted for the war

Where are you getting this information from?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37875198 has the actual voting record. Senate Democrats were 57-43 in favor but 2:1 against in the House.

Are you confusing it with Afghanistan? A lot of people seem to do that these days, though I didn't look up the voting record for that conflict.

Republicans had a total of 7 votes against attacking Iraq - in both houses.
How did Arab Muslims get there?
Here's a bit from an episode of This American Life that I think is relevant, cut into a post on my blog:

https://danangell.com/blog/posts/gpt-understands/

> The idea is that back when GPT-4 was being trained for it to really consistently get the next word correct, to do that reliably, it had to do more than just bullshit. It had to do more than guess based on patterns. To get the next word right, it had to truly understand the words coming before it.

Imagine if you were training a transformer to predict numbers in a sequence that came from a sine function. Eventually it would get a pretty good test score and you'd find that internally it had built a decent replication of the sine function.

Now do the same with English text. Throw enough data and computation at it and eventually it'll model a rough understanding of gravity and the shapes of objects, as seen in the different answers between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
The internet discourse around this topic has been awful since it naturally attracts the console wars crowd, and people with an axe to grind against one of the console makers.

Personally, I think the entire "console" industry is just a bunch of predatory anti consumer bullshit, and all 3 of those companies should be forced to end a huge list of harmful business practices.

The part that always confuses me is why the heck does the government keep deciding to protect Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo's monopolies? These 3 companies always seem to get special treatment, such as with the DMCA exception and the recent California right to repair exception for game consoles. This literally only protects 3 nonessential entertainment companies, two of which aren't even from the US. The piracy argument doesn't hold up to scrutiny, so I don't get it. ESA lobbyists are probably really good at their jobs I guess.
Aren't "millimetre wave weapons" used for crowd control by some US police departments?. I recall seeing some 60 minutes style video about it a while back. It makes you skin feel like it's on fire.
It's not far off from the $400k houses in suburbs of Lancaster PA where I grew up.

My family couldn't afford that personally but plenty of families with two working parents did.

This was 20 years ago though so of course prices mean something different now.
Thanks for pointing out these points. The people who are planning to ditch a smartphone completely, please explain how are you going to overcome these problems.
I can't imagine Apple's pricing is helping, at least in the UK. We've had high inflation but even as a dev/power user that is usually happy to justify an upgrade every few years, I can't justify it anymore. Comparing my last Macbook Pro 16" purchase in late 2019, with an equivalent current model, the price increase is about £1000. That's insane. £1000 increase in four years.
psychohistory?
Phones have always on mics for voice commands, as well? The camera sensors are probably new, but likely not as new as you think they are. For a fun example, consider this site: https://web.seattle.gov/Travelers/

And your phone is much more directly linked to you. And can probably track you through buildings quite easily. Worse, probably makes you trackable to anyone that wants to, for example, watch for your phone's bluetooth id to pass by.

To be clear, the cameras around the car, I think, is mostly a good thing to consider in more depth. Though, again, I'm not too clear on what makes these unique for being on the car. If someone was to stick a camera next to their mailbox, I'd expect they would also be limited in what they are allowed to do with the images they capture.

Again, though, if you are at all worried about your privacy of data collection, watches and phones are far more of a concern than your car.

Just to explore the idea some more, how much of what can be learned about you from the car, cannot be learned about you from looking at cell tower logs about where your phone has been? Heck, for most of us, looking at where you have scanned your credit card is already more than enough to construct when and where you traveled throughout the day. The wifi history of your phone is probably good enough, as well.
The number of humans is actually becoming more limited; global population growth is slowing and will cease not too long from now. So building productive systems that need fewer humans will be good for the economy in the long run.

Personally I hope we never make it to AGI as I think it would raise moral and social concerns about issues like compulsion and slavery. Best to stay under that line, where tools are extremely productive but not arguably conscious beings.
'PC shipments decline slows' == 'PC sales increase'

Why complicate the headline?
Laptops definitely get replaced when the battery stops holding charge, but typically that happens at 5+ Yeats not 3.
I want to believe this / hate on Apple as another iPhone X user with very slow web performance.

I would wager it’s not Safari mobile though just your standard website got way more resource hungry due to SPA proliferation etc.

TL;DR hard to verify your claim as Safari is the only allowed browser engine on iOS.

If somebody had a jailbroken/dev phone that would eg allow compile and install of Firefox then we could actually know.. I’m very skeptical it’s down to the browser though. Not sure if typical benchmarks are telling as hardware always different. Again “badly optimized” websites and 6+ years old hardware; albeit should be fast enough…
Spot-on article, for the most part. I firmly believe that the use of an LLM as a fact-finding tool represents a misunderstanding of the technology's abilities and intent. If you're using an LLM like it's a search engine, then you should just use a search engine instead. LLMs are conversational devices. Search engines are an index of human knowledge. Right tool, right job.

I'm fine with the term "hallucination," though. Hallucinations are, by definition, not real. The term emphasizes a detachment from reality that LLMs possess, and the general public is just beginning to grasp.
You'll be pleased to know that pretty much no post 2005 car can gas you.

Old cars gassed people with carbon monoxide. Odorless and deadly.

Modern cars make basically none of that. Instead, you'll die of too much CO2.

Luckily, humans are pretty good at detecting gradually increasing levels of CO2 - it's what happens when 5 people are in a car together and someone says "it's getting stuffy in here, turn the vent on!".

Sudden CO2 increases can still kill. But gradual ones like a car gradually producing more and more CO2 likely wouldn't. Even in your sleep, you will wake up and find the air stuffy (it can happen when lots of cave people are all sleeping in a badly ventilated cave, so we evolved to handle it).

However, you shouldn't rely on the above for the safety of people - all it takes is someone to be drunk or taking sleeping pills, and they might not be able to act on their senses... Also, cars where the emissions system has been tampered with or faulty can still produce a lot of deadly carbon monoxide.
Of course it is not a revolution. In modern medicine, there are hardly ever revolutions, more so incremental progress.
I think, given how the porn industry has engaged in a race-to-the-bottom with regards to sensational content, and the fact that smartphones are ubiquitously adopted by children at younger and younger ages -- that it makes perfect sense to burden the industry with the requirement to verify ages of users under penalty of law.

TFA:

> 16-year-old Isabel Hogben described how, by the time she was in 4th grade, she had seen internet porn featuring “simulated incest, bestiality, extreme bondage, sex with unconscious women, gangbangs, sadomasochism and unthinkable physical violence.

> In Louisiana, a new law sponsored by state representative Laurie Schlegel, a sex therapist, requires porn websites to verify the age of users. Schlegel is a Republican, but her bill drew bipartisan support, passing the state legislature 96-1, and has inspired copycat legislation in six other states. Initial signs are that this approach works: Pornhub has withdrawn service entirely in some states that have passed age verification bills.
Many power users travel often and it's nice to take your computer with you. If the top of the line laptop is powerful enough for your use, then it's a great choice. Power users compute is often in the cloud anyway, so having a powerful home machine is not always useful.
They have earned the right to be cocky. XBOX only ever was in the lead for like what maybe 1-3 years in the 360's lifespan? They got that by shipping an incorrect design(360 RROD) to market and consumers paid the price in lost gaming time and lots of frustration due to that mistake.

Every other instance of Microsoft being in this industry is either themselves being cocky (Xbox one launch), releasing a non compelling product, or just plain incompetence.
AI is climate change of consuming all that data
Uh, yes? Of course. They are just another company that cares little for your privacy. Apple OSes Are Insecure by Design to Aid Surveillance https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveil...
That is truly frustrating as a customer. You know that person that built the code is putting that Mazda up for sale right now if not setting it on fire as I'd likely do.

These fools really don't like someone building a better mousetrap, particularly when they see it as an exploit of their systems to do so, as they can't track/monetize/charge, etc the usage without the app component. That's really what Mazda is angry about.

As a result of things like these, I'll end up keeping my old non-connected cars as long as possible, environment be damned.
The issue is that computational photography is mostly useful in the consumer market yet the point and shoot was always doomed.

Maybe Sony specifically deserves criticism for not pivoting hard into cellphones with computational photography chops. I’m not sure who else could have realistically succeeded in the new mainstream photography market.
Also by unintelligent services
Answer: fs.protected_hardlinks=1 is what prevents the creation of hardlinks to files you don't own. It's on by default on all machines I checked though.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/800179c9b8a1e796e44...

Without this, a whole lot of attacks are possible with hardlinks.
No, because when every player is using it, they will need something else to give them an edge. Anyways, quants do a lot more than time-series forecasting.
Nix Lang in One Page
> $500K/year might get you a 2X exit,

Depends. When a company is subscale it's purchase price varies wildly. This is because standard revenue x multiple thinking just doesn't make sense when:

* you are buying the team (leaders, skill positions, etc)

* you are buying the tech (which may have great value in accelerating go-to market or adding competitive advantage)

* The small company holds key contracts

* IP has great value

As companies grow, they tend to get valued more traditionally...
Cool it works on time series.

I’m willing to bet 90% of the people who upvoted this did so based on the title alone. Sorry, no time traveling GPT for you.