skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Didn't we go through some phase where many companies were vertically integrating and then somehow that went out of fashion and everyone reversed that. I vaguely remember learning this in a business class, but no details.

The primary advantage to vertical integration is when you need something but the market for suppliers is broken somehow, e.g. there isn't enough competition and then the suppliers behave like Comcast or Qualcomm. In that case entering the market yourself can be an advantage if you have the resources to do it, because you can cut out the crummy suppliers.

The risk of this is that you become the crummy supplier. The internal supplier has a captive customer because they're the same company, which means they're not exposed to competitive pressure. Corporate politics takes root, internal processes become wasteful and inefficient, but there is pressure to use the internal solution even if a third party offers something better. Internal systems become so integrated with each other that you can't switch to a competing supplier even when you should. One part of the company isn't allowed to improve their product in a way that cannibalizes the margins of another business unit, when non-vertically integrated competitors have no such constraints.

Basically it works well in the early years but then the lumbering dinosaur goes extinct at the next meteor because it loses the ability to adapt.

The secret is to enter the other market but then spin off the internal subdivision before the whole company becomes a festering bureaucracy. Or create an internal preference for the smallest suppliers in the other market to help them gain a foothold and increase their competitiveness, or provide them with startup capital or publish open source software that makes it easier for startups to enter that market etc. Commoditize Your Complement.
i wonder if I can list it on a site like https://turo.com/
Does WebGPU enable a pure 2D game with many sprite animations to not need to pack a texture atlas for best performance? I.e. can I tell the GPU, "Draw these 1000 quads using the following distinct 1000 textures using just this one draw call. I'll be changing the 1000 textures each frame." My experience with OpenGL and D3D11 is that an atlas is the only way to do this. (I've found stb_rect_pack.h to be the least hassle route to packing the atlas.) I started looking at D3D12 and saw that it had command recording but it wasn't clear to me if this is any more efficient for a 2D game than just using D3D11/OpenGL to send 1000 separate pairs of commands to set-this-texture/draw-this-quad. With D3D12 the CPU is still performing thousands of function calls per frame to "record" these commands and I don't see how this is cheaper than having D3D11 do thousands of draw calls. D3D11 just puts a draw call into a command queue and immediately returns so isn't this effectively kinda the same thing as using ID3D12CommandQueue "command recording"? I never got around to benchmarking or learning more, so I'm sure I must be misunderstanding the advantages. I've also noticed that despite D3D12 launching back in 2015, the #1 most used engine Unity is still defaulting to D3D11 and has struggled to make D3D12 as performant/stable. So it seems I'm not the only one who can't figure out how the newer APIs offer more performance.
It's always struck me as sadly hilarious how the same crowd that's always shouting for drug laws is the exact same crowd that argues that stricter gun laws would increase crime and make the streets more dangerous.
The studies on this are mixed, with some saying it worsened the problem, and others saying it didn't. See, for example:

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/27/oregon-drug-decrimina...

This is definitely not a decided issue.
infinite captcha loop on ios safari

maybe its icloud+’s vpn relay thing
the way I used to crop photos they moved/broke, so now I have mypaint installed so I can use it for cropping. Then I switch back to gimp. It's used, but not usable, a bit like a used car.
Typography is still important, but I'm saying interactivity is even more important yet still is a blindspot for most designers. You can imagine two websites, one with subpar typography but excellent responsiveness and interactivity, and the other with excellent typography but is slow and interactions are confusing or don't work perfectly. It's not hard to see interactivity wins.

Many UIs are notorious for bad typography but are still successful because they are responsive and smooth. I like typography but it's useless if the site loads slowly or the navigation is not intuitive, etc.
Isn't the solution to that not to fix your document’s pixels, but rather to have auto updating references (a la LaTeX)?
It's so so hard to imagine Amazon actually building any useful or interesting ecosystem. They won't open source these works. They probably won't talk about them. Another black knight contender in the tech world. There'll end up having to be some kind of sdk, some outreach to devs, but most of this is going to be a huge black box that no one can read anything about. A dark OS.

Maybe just the modern Nintendo strategy of having no third party software is enough, works out. Maybe the big mainstreams apps will all sign up.
Go modules and the domain expiry problem
How so? I am not familiar with the narritive.
Did it cost more in carbon just for the construction workers to drive their pickup trucks to build this plant than what the plant will actually remove?
It's ColdFusion, not Python. A language that forces you to program like it's the 60s because character escapes are too advanced a concept to implement.
“Cecil - No civilization in history has ever considered ‘chief hydrological engineer’ a calling.”
Semi tangent, the MKV thing is so rad, I don't understand how it kills ballistic missiles but yeah -- I thought this thing was supposed to operate in space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMU6l6GsdM
Seriously. 1-2% of Earth's surface is a _lot_ of surface.
> “The airlines do a great job” at reuniting most lost bags, said Bryan Owens, the store’s second-generation owner and CEO.

That is a very generous statement indeed.
oh i read the article, its measurements of gravity wew
How many Coq programmers 'anything', tho?
Chomsky didn't talk about AI at all in his argument about human language acquisition. Poverty of the stimulus refers to the very limited language exposure children are given when learning to speak. It's an extremely powerful argument in favour of an innate capacity for language, and more specifically an innate knowledge of grammar, in the human brain.
It was legal to get opioids like oxy legally, fentanyl was always pretty tightly controlled. I believe it was mostly used in surgeries alongside anesthesia.
"Gift of god" is a pretty common name cross culturally. [Allah is not a name; it's just the ordinary word meaning "god".] The Hebrew version is Nathaniel [rather, that's the Anglicized form of the Hebrew version]; is your daughter's name similar?
I think OP is right but hasn't fully unrolled what they mean. This seems like it creates a moral hazard [1], because it reduces the penalty to airlines for losing luggage.

If airlines were prepared to accept X in costs from lost luggage before, and now get paid Y, they can now accept about X+Y in lost luggage costs. Meaning more lost luggage! After the system dynamics resettle, from a certain angle this is basically stealing: customers pay the same ticket price, but are paying some percentage more in expected lost luggage.

And on top of that, this is just considering the financial cost - what is actually happening is that more travelers are being deprived of their personal belongings. These are worth more to people than insurance payouts! It's surprising, but when you zoom out this seems downright awful.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
Indeed. With the File Explorer keyboard shortcuts, and naming folders sensibly, you can very swiftly navigate around the file system with just the keyboard.

I'm the only one at work who does this.
Esteem is STEM plus Ethics plus Empathy (2014)
The word is obviously foreign, so a lot of people wouldn't even consider applying that style of pronunciation.

The standard way to pronounce "a" in foreign words is as in "father". But this one makes me curious; Hindi is like English in that a written "a" is often pronounced reduced. (Compare the traditional spelling suttee to the "reformed" spelling sati, which more closely reflects the Devanagari spelling, or the spelling of the English word "jungle" to the Hindi word of the same pronunciation, jangal.)

So it's possible that a highly nativized pronunciation of "Pavit", if stressed on the second syllable, might be correct!
>If you take a middle class California family from 1980, are they and their kids better off due to the immigration-fueled rise of Silicon Valley?

Their million dollar houses would suggest so. They can cash out and move to Tennessee or Texas as you point out.
What is a failure is legalizing the use of drugs. You're getting into the technicalities.

When you lower law enforcement surrounding addictive drugs to a state where it's basically equivalent to legalizing drugs and you take this action independent of other actions like treatment and other stuff, you get net bad effects to society.
This sets a dangerous precedent. If you won, it would apply to all defamation/libel/slander cases, not just credit reporting agencies. News agencies could be sued for saying anything about someone if it later turned out to be false. Defamation laws are already on the brink of unconstitutionality.
and here all i want is to turn my useless pdf files into markdown
Some statistics here: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

~60% of the state prison population (~600k of ~1m) are imprisoned for a violent crime. Much higher than I would have guessed.
I've never understood this mentality, the magic of local reasoning is completely and utterly destroyed by abstractions. If I'm looking at your code it's not because I'm doing literary analysis, it's because there's something wrong or because I need to change something. The abstraction only increases the number of locations I need to look to fully understand what's really happening. There is no clever naming of functions and methods that explains to me the reader better what's really happening than the code that's actually doing the real work. And worse it bites you in the ass when you realize that 5 layers down the call-stack you need to change the behavior of something only to realize that doing that breaks a bunch of unrelated places in the code that need the current behavior. So much for locality.

If your code isn't abstracted and WET I actually only have to look at the code currently in front of me on my screen to know fully what's happening and I can be absolutely sure that changing it won't affect anything else. True locality of thinking. Needing to use :vimgrep to update code in multiple places is smooth brain completely mechanical compared to the hell that's having to re-WET the code to split off and isolate the (potentially long) codepath that needs to change. And devs rarely put in the effort for that, more likely is they'll plumb down a flag all the way through the call stack to spooky action at a distance change the behavior of an unrelated function. Good luck figuring out that dependency later when you're starting from the lower function.

My motto has always been software is like pottery, once is DRYs it's much harder to change.
I think if you’re going to decriminalize drugs, you need to be very tough on public use
Far too simplistic a sentiment.

Try buying real estate, even something simple like residential. The last home I bought was 1) part of an HOA with a full set of restrictions and responsibilities; 2) the sales contract explicitly excluded mineral rights.... existing in a neighborhood which was known to have commercially viable oil reserves under the ground this wasn't surprising; and 3) had any number of easements for things like utility access and the like. And I assure you, other than the mineral rights exclusion which I did not own, we were in all ways treated by the law as owners. Absolutely others had certain rights which I agreed to at the time of sale: but ultimately I was the owner and if push came to shove I'd be treated as such by the law. My currently place isn't so dissimilar... save for any mention of mineral rights... though there are even more complex arrangements of common property co-operative ownership and management as I now live in a townhouse, in a complex of townhouses, built partially above a retail property.
What mess? Moved most of our workloads to it. been quite pleased
Could be a huge blessing for T2s too, who often have issues with e.g. foot ulcers that are very hard to heal because the skin is constantly under loading/flexing.
Every time I read about how "decriminalization of X was a failure" it's because the governmental bodies responsible didn't properly set up the support structures and procedures that were meant to mitigate the problems that arise (or more accurately, already exist but are ignored). If I weren't so ready to lean on incompetence as the most likely reason, I would think it's sabotage.
Here are two issues I have experienced that I feel generated content could help with:

1) My wife and I have different native languages, and we want to teach our children both. A big issue we have is that we can only get books in one of those languages where we live, so whenever we travel to see family we always come back with a suitcase full of books, but we have less books than we would like.

2) My children ask "how does this work" and a book would be a great way to teach them. If it's something I don't know we turn to YouTube, but the quality of that is often lacking and not aimed at children (they are under 5). Example: I was asked why cars get holes when they get old.
From reading through the supplementary materials for the paper [0], it seems that the authors are aware of this flaw and they found a way to make it hydrophobic. The approach they tested involved soaking the ceramic in a bath with a commercially available fluorosilane [1] that is used to make things superhydrophobic. Fig. S20 in the supplementary materials has a chart that shows the treated ceramic being very good ("solar reflectivity...remains at ~99.0%") but not quite as stellar as the untreated ceramic.

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adi4725

[1] https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/667420
Opioid epidemic wasn't caused by the war on drugs.

Opioid epidemic happened because doctors prescribed it as pain killers.
That’s not how evolution works. A cockroach might have 4x neurons because it just does.
Rents are regional, "overall" (by which I assume you mean either national or global) demand is irrelevant. If the government provides a program that incents people to move to low-COL areas (low, because there are no employment opportunities), rents in those areas will increase.
> The war on rain hasn't worked. Many houses have leaky roofs and people get wet. This is painfully obvious to anyone. We should destroy all forms of shelter and we will finally be free.

This is a great analogy. Rain is drugs and arresting people for drugs is patching roofs. When the government spends resources on anything other than arresting people with drugs (doing roofing jobs) then they are destroying people’s homes (things that are affected by rain or drugs).

It is so refreshing to see a simple and profound insight on this
It depends what you think the goal is, AGI or making a ton of money. OpenAI doesn't seem that close to AGI.

But in terms of value creation they have turned numerous industries and jobs on their head. Things like copywriting or how they are destroying stackoverflow and quora. The next lowest fruit they are disrupting is front line chat/email support - this is usually never part of a core product but the market is massive, almost every company needs support - look at Zendesk or imagine the costs of Uber's offshore support army.

They are going for the AWS platform approach - every niche GPT wrapper that gets a modicum of success and has happy paying users, these users likely are likely to stick because it improves their work in obvious ways. OpenAI gets their slice, think of how AWS made it easy for anyone to spin up a service, sure some failed but the hurdle is much lower - with such a powerful general model, I don't need to spend millions training my own to launch. The issue for them is it'll likely be less sticky if competitors/open source models catch up - hasn't happened yet but it might.

I've never seen such disruption to ways of working in so many industries in my lifetime. If you're on HN you may not see any use in your work if specialised, but at the entry level (majority of workers), doing writing work in 30% of the time has been game changing.
Very well said it’s a company within a company. You want to be in the most diverse sub company
> Every time I read about how "decriminalization of X was a failure" it's because the governmental bodies responsible didn't properly set up the support structures and procedures that were meant to mitigate the problems that arise (or more accurately, already exist but are ignored).

If we're ignoring them now, what's the problem with continuing to ignore them?
This question makes me wonder if larger bodies have more complex physical/mechanical dynamics to solve for. Do physical laws become harder to get along with as your body plan expands? I wonder if that’s a factor.
the pilot trying to shut off engines mid flight after having taken mushrooms 2 days prior definitely wasn't a great look either!
Also need to build factories for these like they planned for SMR reactors. Mass produce and ship them out for installation.
I think presenting voters with "decriminalize drug use" was a deceptive play to start with. Most voters picture themselves smoking weed on the weekend or doing mushrooms at Coachella, not the people unescapably trapped by drugs.

Habitual drug addicts don't have personal responsibility, family support, or a community of non-drug addicts to depend on. Forced incarceration in a treatment program is literally their only chance at breaking the cycle long enough to get them support for the underlying issues that led to addiction.
what country contractually obligates someone to continue working for a company that fired the person? would the person go to jail if they took a few extra sick days?
IANAL but I think First Sale Doctrine is mainly concerned with copyrights, as opposed to some kind of contract for sale of a physical good.

So whether it poses a problem for Tesla will depend on whether they are trying to rely on copyrights to exert their control through the contract.
yea umm first sale doctrine doesn't apply to software.

Edit: also resellers are a plague. That do nothing but buy up supply and double the price.
Cockroaches are pretty impressive and live a long time, at least as far as insects go. Fruit flies measure life in the order of hours, but roaches can live for a year or more. I suspect you need a more complex nervous system to assess and survive in an environment as a prey animal for long periods of time, whereas fruit flies can likely just brute force it.
Perhaps they didn't think it would be an issue since they had committed to living in Norway.
It will be interesting to see citations in years to come or if it will make it to "popular articles" in ScienceDirect's front page.
Just have someone else buy and "illegally" sell it to you.
From what I understand, the barrier devs are planning to add Wayland support via libei [1]. I guess this should be relevant to you too?

1. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2023-Ma...
The fraud alert adds a requirement that potential lenders call a phone number added to the credit file to authorize new loans/accounts, making it significantly less likely that fraud can take place.
There's a fourth part:

"If Tesla declines to purchase your Vehicle, you may then resell your Vehicle to a third party only after receiving written consent from Tesla."

You are simply not allowed to sell the vehicle you "purchased" from them without their permission.
To those god wishes to punish, he first teaches typography.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/founder-and-former-chairm...

Bro, there was a movie made about how wrong you are on this topic. It's called pain hustlers, it stars captain america and emily blunt. In the movie they renamed the drug to Lonafen, but the actual drug is called Subsys. The drug contains Fentanyl.
Non twitter users only see the first tweet in a thread. Is there any other (readable) source of this information?

I am not up to speed on nitter. I think of twitter as a novel on flashcards. Sometimes a one-page novel. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I remember the confused used CD store clerk when I traded in Metallica's "Kill 'Em All" and purchased a copy of Metallica's "Kill 'Em All".

Some versions have two extra cover songs, Am I Evil and Blitzkrieg. The CD's identification number is identical on both, just to be extra confusing. I showed him, because of course he asked why I was picking up a CD I just traded in, and he was dumbfounded. He'd never seen anything like that.
Rust was originally garbage collected. From Graydon Hoare's post, he didn't want explicit lifetimes originally either. He agreed because he thought they would always be inferred by the compiler.

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html

It seems to me that Rust evolved into a better C++, but it did not start out that way.
Not really. There were things like Purdue, but that wasn't fentanyl.

The fentanyl epidemic is the result of market developments in the illegal drug trade.
Because that's just maintaining the status quo. Are you suggesting the status quo is acceptable?
This is a truck.
It does apply to software: If I buy a game CD I can resell it without any copyright infringement.
You should be worried that any system they required government intervention was a good idea.

The entire idea is insane. Let’s make drugs legal and provide treatment for the problem we created.

It’s the same of saying hey! Lawn darts are now legal, don’t worry we will increase our EMS staff during the summer.
Ford had similar rule for Ford GT and successfully sued John Cena (the actor / wrestler) for violating it and won.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a21622751/the-flip-that-fl...
PFOETES, sounds as great as PFOA/PFAS.
I mean you only have to ask yourself the first logical question about how any of this pays for itself to realize that it’s ethically questionable at best, so…
umm they can 100% disable the software on the car.
I don't think the US ever had a war on drugs. If any state in the US did the following three things, Singapore style: Announce that all drugs are illegal, users will be institutionalized and undergo mandatory rehab, traffickers will be executed you'd be rid of the drug problem pretty quickly.

Every US state I've ever been in had people use drugs, smoke weed, completely openly, every club, every corner. Where's the war?
Sorry for being confused, I didn’t realize I would need to make things complicated in order to give myself problems to complain about.
Increasing price when the initial seller is incentivised to sell below market rate is an important and valuable service.
I have a bad burn on my leg, looks like a shark bite - I wish this would be out so I could try it on my leg burn maybe it could look a little more normal
It's Nothing but a Deepfake [pdf]