skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
haha, you think the fact that Peter Thiel talks to the FBI is the worst thing about Peter Thiel? :)
Dentists, vets etc are being bought up and added to a corporate front. As long as there is a token vet/dentist as a corporate officer, they can roll up 1000 practices. Vet/dental fees have been going up 15-20% annually for 6-7 years. A large amount of 'granular' billing is occurring. The days when you took a pet for a vaccination for $30 are gone. Now you have a billed office visit, a billed examination fee and the vaccination fee = over $120 in all.
Large numbers of people take their chances and allow their pets to live unvaccinated or even die painful deaths. All due to the monopolies these managed corporate practices enforce. I expect a lot of human medical concentration also occurs. To be true, the thicket of insurance paper work engendered by the intersection of the AMA, Big Insuro, big Pharma, and big Hospo are part of why Americans have the same (on average) age at death as Cuba, 30-35 places down the list of longevity as listed by wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
On the other hand with digital cameras and phones we tend to take several photos of the same scene. In that case it would help taking the few seconds to decide on which one is the best and delete the others. We rarely do that.
> produces a cheaper, more efficient service.

More profitable perhaps, but not cheaper. In fact, usually more expensive, because the PE firms buy up all the clinics in a city, eliminating competition, and then they can set the rates to whatever they want. Needless to say, any "savings" are passed along to the investors, not to the consumers.

> If the original small business owner sold, the money they got paid isn't gone - they could've used it to start another small business

They're usually selling because of retirement, so they're not going to start another business. The issue here is that the business is not passed along to another new small business owner, it's passed along to a giant PE firm.

> produce a more intensely competitive environment.

In reality, to reproduce an environment with less competition and more consolidation, as mentioned above.
As ever, it would be a case-by-case basis. I do not reason from the abstract to the particular, which i find generally immoral. Rather I consider the particular in all its details.

In general, someone breaking into a house is a present dangerous and serious threat. On that basis I would call the police, etc.

If someone opened the door, saw a mobile, grabbed it and ran off -- then i'd maybe leave a note with the neighbor
When they said better, they meant better for google! You just misinterpreted the text!
I wonder how much the GPU and AI blocks can be used to acclerate encoding; I'd assume quite a bit.
How can this possibly be news to you?

Damn near everything on the internet, pictures, text, all of it, is copyrighted information. You can only ever use it in ways that you are licensed to, which in the absence of an actual license, is essentially looking at it on a website.
You're shifting goalposts. Your first comment was about how small businesses could just refuse to sell, then a commenter described the (very real) consequences of that decision: a person has to work harder, for less money, to compete with entities that can outspend them by a few factors. Now you're saying that's more efficient overall which is a completely different point.

And, that's true, it is more efficient. But those veternarians, despite now having their weekends off, are paid barely market rate for their skills (if that) and more importantly, no longer running their business: A PE firm is. That means they have zero recourse if the PE firm starts doing PE firm shit: keeping bare minimum stock at their clinic of every last consumable, to avoid taxation; keeping bare minimum staff at all times to avoid paying workers; abusing staff and causing high turnover; basically every stupid ass "why would they do that" type decision you've heard of a large business making in the last 30 years, PE's LOVE those decisions.

And that's not even going into the fact that the profits of that business are no longer going to the community in which it operates, they're going to far away shareholders.
It's too late for that to be a realistic defense. The Mazda legal team already has a target that they can go after for any further developments with the source code. This post acknowledges that he received the cease and desist letter. The issue isn't just whether you win in court, it's also how much of your time and money is wasted fighting a corporate legal operation. Arguably, a random person publishing the source code would create additional problems for him.

An effective defense has to protect your time and money. One such defense is to never let your real identity be plucked from obscurity and fixated on by a legal team.
You could imagine a language which discourages bubbling exceptions by forcing you to catch and either handle or rethrow each possible exception -- while still making it hard to accidentally forget to handle an exception.
That's the interest rate for people willing to lock their money up for 10 years.

Look at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT1YE instead, the 1 year real interest rate, and it's barely been positive between 2009 and 2022.
> Let's discuss what "invasive" means.

> Just for clarity colonoscopy is an invasive procedure.

The definition is the point at hand. Stating that it is intrinsically a truism, is not compelling.
Is the direct competition, like the Orange Pi 5 based on the Rockchip RK3588S, differ at all in this regards?

I think that lack of choice in HW accelerated video encoding/decoding may just be standard on low-end devices in part to reduce costs.
The elusive linear algebra book that isn't simply matrix algebra. A gem.
More efficient for the mega-vet, sure.
Once you've consumed all the competition, there's no need to compete on price anymore. Prices can go up quite a bit before it becomes economical for a new entrant to take a risk in the market. Except maybe another mega-vet.

See what Walmart did to communities and small business. Efficiency is not all roses.
Right America is governed by individual incentives.
My understanding is the 10-y is not relevant to venture debt or leveraged buyouts: https://www.svb.com/startup-insights/venture-debt/how-does-v...

And anyway - yes - a 1% real return really only existed in a long capacity since the 2000s, since QE became main stream.
I think carbon dating has undue influence because most other methods of dating things are rather wishy washy and open to interpretation compared to cold hard quantifiable radioisotope ratios. Most people don’t know how complicated radiocarbon calibration can be and when to question the data.
I disagree, I thought it was well written and clear.
Ballistic multi-parachute system saves eVTOL in low-altitude fall
"What happens when something goes very wrong in an eVTOL aircraft? China's AeroHT has released video of its innovative low-altitude multi-parachute system turning a catastrophic propulsion system failure into a soft-ish landing from just 50 m (164 ft) up."
This is great.
Can you elaborate on how the performance is better?
That seems plausible. Cognitive dissonance seems to play a significant role as a social lubricant. Even if there is no direct relationship with autism, the reduced social capacity could mean that they simply do not have the opportunity to develop as advanced a capacity for cognitive dissonance.
The service could also MitM you. They give you a code that validates their account against a second service.
Usually what happens is that 60 something year-old founders have retained control and not shared profits with their employees. Looking to sell, the employees can’t buy out the founder, and the founder finds PE with deep pockets. The fork in the road for keeping the company out of PE was passed long before the founder got to retirement age.
This is the sort of stuff that happens when you entrust your savings to someone else. Some 2000 firms and CIOs are doing the capital allocation which should be done by 350M people, many of them have been brainwashed or forced to part with their hard earned money using the lie that they are too inept to save and invest on their own.

Private Equity is an industry that is only standing thanks to investments from pension funds which act as their LPs.
I was really into this a few years back. This particular variety was somewhat famous for a while.

http://www.fleen.org/generative_art_project/aza.png

Shape grammar building system stuff.

IMO it's the coolest thing to happen to 2D geometry since the Cartesian grid.

Here's more

https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1662465007500574723
Htmx+tailwind with rust/leptos serverside. Avoiding JS as much as possible.
>> shouldn't we see non-PE companies flourish in competition?

It's seldom clear to patrons WHY things have changed. People get stuck in their habits and are hesitant to start somewhere new, particularly with things like medical services. My mom wouldn't recognize PE as the source of a problem at her doctor, dentist, vet or mechanic.
Pensions tend to be much more generous.

They are also riskier.

People see the generosity of pension plans and (understandably) want that, without having the risk.
Transitioning as a child is a series of steps. It starts with social transitioning below age 10. Puberty blockers from around 10 to 15. Hormone treatments from 15 onward. Some opt to continue to top/bottom surgery, usually after the age of 17 (with a parent's consent if under 18).

And no. Puberty blockers are well understood (been using for over 50 years), and their use restricted to timeframes where it won't impact the child's development.
if I was a palace vizier, it might be helpful to know when people serving a king have imbalances / debts that can be exploited by others
The author seems to only be interested in people who appear on podcasts targeting lonely men between the ages of 20-40.

I can assure him that there is a whole world of serious thinkers and authors that have never appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast.
>security theater leading to a regulatory moat. Which is almost certain to help profit margins at established AI companies.

Yeah I think this is my biggest worry given it will enable incumbents to be even more dominant in our lives than bigtech already is (unless we get an AI plateau again real soon).
Jetson Orin Nano, the new devkit from Nvidia, surprisingly does not have a hardware video encoder either, you'll need use CPU to encode video instead, which is extremely odd considering video-encoding is a common use case on lots of video applications.
I also like his point (in conversation with Sean Carroll) that we have rigorous proof that the notion of explanation can't be formalized, yet explanation is at the core of the scientific endeavor anyway.
A Brutal Disease May Soon Be Transformed
I’m not arguing for their suggestion. But if their logic is that this happened because of PE and those PE owning also a big chunk of those public firms, doesn’t your argument proof they are devouring a large part of the economy?
Ask HN: What is the best way to grow on Twitter?
I want to grow my personal brand in an effort to deliver content about entrepreneurship and startups based on what I learn along my journey.

Are there any best practices I should follow when it comes to Twitter (X)?
Thanks. I’ve been meaning to do this in one of my towns and kept putting off finding this site. :)
Correct, if you "Save" shared photos to your account then they start using your storage quota and you can download them in Takeout.
What does the year of a phone have to do with anything?

Eliminating the bump is nice so your phone lies flat.

And let people have their valid personal preferences around the size, thickness, and weight of their phone. What pleasure do you get out of making fun of other people's preferences?
What is wrong with that passage? I think it very artfully and concisely describes Ilichs views.
How do you know this is an EMC issue and not a logical/protocol level one?

NFC is involved in MagSafe, and I believe it’s actually the same chip (just different antenna interfaces) that’s also used for Apple Pay, even the non-contactless/in-app version.
I saw video (coupla years ago) of a Russian tracked vehicle using radar and a gatling gun to shoot down a swarm of about 20 drones in about 2 seconds. But (a) it was a staged demo; (b) I imagine that drone-swarm technology should be able to defeat that, by having the drones jump around unpredicatably (they're very agile); and (c) tracking radars can only track a finite number of targets. Send up enough drones at once, and one of them will be able to kill the tracking radar.
Seconded. It's a couple of years and there could be something better now, but I also used Kiwix. It's not perfect, but it works.
CodeFusion: A Pre-Trained Diffusion Model for Code Generation
There are more kinds of incentives than money.
>what is your edge in this case where your competitor is now bigger and can handle things like a vet quitting as they have a bunch that roam from practice to practice. Or they can handle buying a new machine for millions while the bank won't lend to you due to your shrinking margins.

To answer your rhetorical question:

1. People would rather deal with neighbors than with PE or megacorps, and will do so to the extent that the difference in price is tolerable (and to the extent that they even know their neighbors.)

2. Management layers and performance based incentives are huge costs that small enterprises should be mostly able to avoid.

3. Owning a business can have a really compelling advantage at tax time in the ranges of professional incomes we're discussing.

4. Owner-operated businesses should be able to integrate with family life, allowing dads to spend time closer to their kids, which should be another advantage in favor of professionals going it on their own.

5. Owner-operated businesses can also operate with much more efficient facilities (housing over top of business) when not forbidden by zoning or other regulations.

On the other hand, people like steady salaries and set working hours. They like leaving work at work. And, especially as these professions increasingly see their schools dominated by women, many of these professionals really like stepping away from work or going part time for 5-10 years around their 30s.
I'm fine being a token participant as long as it means I've been seeing significant gains over the past decade, which I have.
There's no dignity in suffering. Not allowing people to die with dignity and forcing them to suffer till the very end is the infliction of Judeo-Christian values on the populace.

We claim to have religious freedom yet we don't when the religious are able to use the force of law to impose their religion on us at the time of our death - the time we need freedom from their religious nonsense the most.
How to survive indefinite DDoS attack?

That probably depends on who your customers are. I can chime in one one scenario but maybe this does not help your case. If you are B2B then you could just shut off all public IP's and set up some Anycast VPN WAN accelerated meshes with your customers and use a wildcard sub-domain for each customer to access. They won't like having to set that up on their end but then they will have more resilience, privacy and security than they had before in that they can route around internet problems that would have otherwise caused outages or degraded services. Your company would have to provide professional services to help them with the setup and the customers would need discounts to offset the costs of the hardware assuming they do not already have it. The customers end-user devices would join their network over their VPN, not yours. For some B2B arrangements this isn't even a rounding error and removes scrubbing center costs and removes some SLA breach credits. Give this text to your principal network engineers, approve the spend and they will know what to do.

For the customers that do not accept this option, update the contracts and SLA's, then give them a public end-point that has a "best effort" SLA or use a cheap CDN if your contracts permit sending your sensitive data through them. Incentivize them to move to your Anycast VPN WAN accelerated mesh with tighter SLA's and improved security posture by keeping sensitive data off third party data processors like CDN's.

[Edit] This would also be a good time to use one of your companies sub-divisions or set up a new legal entity and get a new AS number with some dedicated IPv6 space and let your attackers just keep attacking the old address space. Announce the old IPv4 addresses on a throw away circuit to gather stats for law enforcement and network mailing lists. Try to do as much mesh peering with that new IPv6 space as you can. This is not security through obscurity so to speak, but rather a small piece of The Art of War.

The marketing team will not be happy but they can distribute their sites to a myriad of CDN's on marketing specific domains for your company. Gotta keep 'em separated, set some smart cache control headers and hope for the best.

An alternative to this semi-complex setup is to pay DDoS scrubbing centers to handle the routing of your datacenter traffic but that can hurt latency sensitive applications. This may be useful for the occasional extortion attack but would be very expensive and sub-optimial(c) in a never-ending indefinite DDoS attack.
> I could never understand why would I follow some individual on twitter - why would I care?

Because if someone puts out good tweets at a reasonable frequency, then following them means you will have good tweets in your feed at a reasonable frequency.

You might also get a lot of terrible tweets in your feed, but that's fine, that's how Twitter works, you just scroll past the terrible stuff.

It's not a million miles of subscribing to a newspaper. You don't expect every piece to be good, but as long as there are a few good things every week, it may be worth it.
Microsoft paper claims ChatGPT 3.5 has ~20B parameters
Maybe it's something more like the insertion of a foreign instrument through the epidermis or into a body cavity that...

I dunno. Ears (eardrums), colons, etc are tricky to cover all at once. I don't envy the authors of medical literature.
Not loving the way you steamroll through the already super sensible super easy path & project the ultra hard mode as the only option.

> The older K&M convertors would require a wired controller to be connected to them so they could pass the auth check.

This seems like it'll barely be a speed bump. A bunch of folks will have to get new cheating gear, which will be a temporary reprieve, but most probably will do just that.
You know what Hamas primarily used to disable the fence? Construction vehicles. There are literally videos of Hamas militants using a loader to tear down a fence to create an opening. They also infamously used motorized paragliders to cross the border.

We're talking about a terrorist group operating on hand-me-downs from foreign sponsor states in a very small and densely populated mostly-urban territory that has no control over its borders or foreign trade. They likely have impressive caches for an organization of its size but that doesn't make the conflict any less one-sided given Israel is one of the best equipped militaries in the world subsidized directly by the US. Let's not confuse Hamas and Hezbollah, which is actually better equipped than the official military of its host nation Lebanon and also receives massive funding from Iran - but still pales in comparison to the tech available to Israel.
Fun fact: If you aren't logged in, you can't even see the twitter thread. If the author didn't add /1, I wouldn't even know there was more.

so twitter threads are login-walled :/
There's an app that lets you add whatever barcodes you want into Google Wallet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=color.dev.com....
Sure, until they have no competition anymore, and raise the prices to whatever they want them to be, extracting 99% of value from what they offer with a huge moat that eliminates all competition. Then the consumer is left with no pricing negotiation and the experience is objectively worse for most of the society.

The escape hatch for that is taxes to the powerful market entities, that revert value back to the less powerful market entities, but that's not popular in the U.S.
I'll throw my hat in and suggest also:

"I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World" by Kai Cheng Thom

Really tackles the issues with non-nuanced public discussion on political topics in an eye-opening way.
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One critical thing to think about here: Often (though not exclusively always) PE firms are backed by leveraging debt to rollup up companies. This creates a big cycle of:

- Acquiring massive debt against the new rollup entity

- Using that debt for short term expansion, maybe even subsidizing the business model in some cases

- Payouts to executives at the PE firms. There are instances where larger PE firms actually borrow from themselves via another entity so the debt payback goes solely to the PE firm under favorable terms to the PE firm.

- Then, squeezing as much of the market as possible to service this debt via localized monopolies and/or cost cutting measures. Typically higher prices and worse service follows in short order

- Finally, if they can't continue to service the debt, the debt, since being held by the new entity and not the PE firm directly, the entity declares bankruptcy to restructure the debt (or in some cases, absolve it entirely)

PE firms can then rinse and repeat on this, over and over again, with little oversight or repercussions.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in the wrong business
It's pretty much just a software upgrade to make the things autonomous, isn't it?
Two market crashes and badly managed 401k accounts won’t help. Most trust that their 401k is correctly managed. This is often not the case.

The merry-go-round of debt ceiling and budget confrontations in congress doesn’t help. Any gains from this year are probably going to be wiped out by that continuing drama.

Finally the increase in cost of living expenses and cost of long term medical care will quickly eat into your 401k once you stop contributing.

The math looks ugly once you sit down and figure it out.
This is a very interesting proposal of mechanism for how some foods might promote weight loss.

For the TLDRers: Most foods promote the immediate release of GLP-1, which reduces hunger. But it’s quickly broken down so doesn’t last long. Fermentable fibers, specifically beta-glucan from barley and some other plants, cause another wave of nutrient intake when bacteria ferment them, resulting in a second shot of GLP-1 hours after the first one.
X is what happens when you take the user out of UX.
No no, compassion for the other.

You see the germans imagined the jews a threat (and of course some were, as some of all people are -- just as some dogs are dangerous). Now all you need to do is make headlines of all the times a jewish person murdered someone and the like. Indeed, imagine it on youtube: all these videos of jewish criminals. Now you have waves of compassion for the victims of these criminals. It's trivial.

I take it in this case people here are making an identical argument that were made by those racists who imagined so much danger.

Of course when looking at the actual stats the german jews were no less or more violent than anyone, indeed, often a little less -- and often a little more patroitic in fact.

How here do we imagine dogs? Well 56 deaths from dog attacks in a decade -- far less than from people in that same time, of course.

Dogs, it seems, are incredibly well-behaved compared to people. Perhaps we should leash young men, or ban them from parks. That would have a much more dramatic impact