skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dynamic pricing destroys the consumer surplus. The reason why people don’t like it is because the consumer surplus is the only reason why capitalism really provides value to most people.

The reason why less-well-off folks are more likely to support a command economy is exactly because they are at the bottom of the demand curve, thus, receive almost no consumer surplus ever… it’s like they have dynamic pricing for almost every item they buy.

It big data is allowed to defeat the consumer surplus, don’t be surprised when the political winds quickly move toward price controls.
Its literally the first words in the title AND the tab subject.
The clientele at a high end restaurant is very different from teenagers standing in line outside a concert or bar. I have experience in this area and I can tell you that the majority of patrons would laugh in your face or get angry and storm off if asked for ID at the door of a restaurant. I wouldn't be surprised if most don't even carry it around with them.
The least effort route is just to use WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to give yourself a Linux command line environment.

If you're determined to go native, I'd simply take the relevant areas of that course and work out how you would do them in Powershell. You could even make a HN posting out of your efforts.
What % of approved PERM applications do you think had a salary of $50k? Clown.
Anyone found a solution because now the buttons like Ambient is also greyed out...?
I posted elsewhere; the blog started off in 2003-ish on HTML, then Xanga, migrated to Thingamablog (Static Site Generator before it was cool), then Drupal.

I started writing on the blog 20 years ago while in high school and college. I like leaving up the old to help people see not everyone comes straight out of the womb with the same maturity and style of someone in their 30s/40s.

I still have a lot to learn, and I imagine I would say the same thing when I hit my 40 year blogiversary :)
But honestly still essential when you're meeting up with someone or trying to find them.
And every time people explain why the idea is either impossible or describing v6's existing behavior.

At what point do these posts become trolling?
I wonder if anyone has a favorite pointer or two to their favorite real world examples.
Whereas in philosophy, ALL the crackpots are overfunded.
>For myself and many others their choice is to take the 30% (really it’s less considering there are still credit card processing fees and unless you make your own billing system the fees of other systems) or nothing.

Exactly, in which case they would have to come back to the Apple App Store. Still I'm not sure how common this sentiment is with how popular Netflix and Spotify still are even without App Store payment methods.

It's still beneficial for you if Apple have to compete, cuz maybe now they'll lower that 30% fee, and you can have all the advantages of Apple's subscription management and a lower price.

The whole reason Apple blocks other payment services is because they know plenty of consumers will choose the cheaper one. Which is what Epic tried to do with allowing multiple payment options in Fortnite that got them removed. That is removing consumer choice.
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I would have thought the polish workers would be a similar size to everyone else
Developing a "trading algorithm" has never been the barrier to entry
> Russia has put a lot of effort into developing the ability to cut and disrupt as well as intercept undersea cables

Sure, but the United States military are the undisputed masters of that craft. I mean, same goes for the rest of your claims.

Maybe the idea of "world superpowers" is one that shouldn't have outlived the internet.
Legislators can change the rules if they don’t like them and want them changed. They can add the requirement of posting the job online.
IGN Top pc games of all time (2000)
I was nostalgic about X-COM: Ufo Defense, and I ran into part of my childhood.

25-21: https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/07/21/the-top-25-pc-games-...

20-16: https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/07/21/the-top-25-pc-games-...

15-11: https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/07/21/the-top-25-pc-games-...

10-6: https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/07/21/the-top-25-pc-games-...
In general, antennas do not work underwater.

There is a very specific exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sanguine

(Also, if it is a Chondrocladia concrescens sponge, it's unlikely to still be alive and in the same place, 60 years later.)
No, I don't think I've seen that being claimed. It has been claimed that they have used their anticompetitive practices against others. Having Walmart as a competitor doesn't mean that they don't have a dominant market position with power to abuse at their disposal.
Are you running Ubuntu LTS? If so HWE or original kernel? I've only had one instance on my XPS where the HWE kernel broke something so I rolled back to the original kernel for a month or so.
MOVEit global security incident
That thread mentions "hand-repainted graphics ... as well as totally revamped audio (the original game's sound effects were not good)".

I found the graphics and audio quite lovely, if quaint. I'll be interested to see quite how revamped it is, and whether there will be an option to use the originals.

(oops, these are addressed in the video, I still like the original sound though!)
This is a good point. “crypto” and “ai” are very much buzzwords for scammers.
They are just laundering difficult decisions and premade conclusions through post civil service gig partners. Nothing new or exciting to see here.

I'll keep my outrage for phoenix (1) with their 500mil/year budget to process transactions(3) and and whatever the hell is going on with Canada Life/PSHCP(2).

1 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/phoenix-pay-system-202...

2 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-life-federal-go...

3
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-budget-2023-ca...
The use seems to be funnelling millions of dollars to a few well connected individuals with little prior experience who in turn, farmed the actual development to other contractors?
happens every time where I work. once you get a manager from India, they will rarely hire anyone other than Indians again.
> Ethics is far from useless. It has important connections to open issues in society and e.g. birthed the effective altruism movement.

That's not a great track record.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/sam-bankman...
This is basically it for me.

I've had a play around with some OpenAI-powered sites and it is neat how much it is capable of, but I feel uncomfortable typing personalized prompts or detailed questions into a system where I know everything I type is going to be harvested. You could argue that by commenting on HN or posting anywhere in the internet everything I type is also going to be harvested (perhaps into the very same models), but that contract was always clear. There is a difference between companies using information I have chosen to share publicly, and companies doing the same with what is presented as a private exchange.

But once they can fit that mini GPT into my pocket, and the learning it's doing is truly personalized to my own install... for me that will be a much more appealing product. I guess the technology will get there, eventually.
And the ones that can do something would be better served as a simple form.

My state has used a chatbot for car registration renewals for years. It works just fine, I can't truly complain, but it's literally just a higher friction way to fill in a short form. Why did it need to be a chatbot?
I mean, how is there no way to authenticate the truckers you charter on that platform, or when they arrive to pick up the load. Presumably the least they can do is identify the person.
The problem with CPS is that the kinds of people who want to work for them are the petty tyrants who can’t get any better job. So they have a large false positive rate because they want to feel powerful.
Ask for sources. Ask if what it has already told me makes sense. Knowing that hallucinations happen and not to blindly trust.

Learn the limits of your tools.
In all honesty I've only been using InstantClaude so far due to the larger context window being something I'd want down the line. What should I be using in your opinion to get the best results?

Examples I can think of where it gave wrong info was:

- I asked to compare the size of the MacBook m1 and the 16" framework laptops

- I asked how to add the nixpgs-unstable channel in NixOS.

- I asked to help write a power shell script to create AD accounts.
The Art of Software Auditing for Ultimate Security
Yep, if a chatbot could do all those things then I'd honestly rather use that chatbot than talk to a human, unless I had some very specific concern. But it seems that GPT models can understand other humans just fine.
What do you think trains and ships are fueled with exactly?
That post was fascinating. You are a model example of what progressive prison reform can accomplish and your story should be getting major press coverage if it hasn't already.
Why do you get to pick which occupations are most worthy?
> I am using Linux and trying to set up a systemd service that needs X to display a UI through VNC, how can I get the X authorization token in my systemd file

> I'm using python and my string may contain file paths inside, for example: (...) , For anything that looks like a filepath inside the string we should replace its full path, for example (..)

> Can you write me a python script to kill processes in Windows that no longer belong to a process named "gitlab"

> I want to write a test for it that mocks both sentry_sdk and LoggingIntegration so that I can give my own mocks during test

> I want to create a Python script

It should be able to be called from the command like, like below (example)

Write me the script

;;;

All real examples from last week that took me 1 minute to be solved instead of of googling or creating from scratch / thinking about it
Except, of all nations in the world, the US is still by far the largest foreign skilled talent hirer.

Brain drain is something they bought into during the cold war and this idea that "they don't have talent" is ridiculous. They have a shit ton of homegrown talent and are also more than willing to hire your talent to further monopolize and supplement it.
I've also gotten good results that have added value to whatever I was working on at the time, but I also get a lot of partially correct responses, or responses where ChatGPT will forget what I told it seconds ago and repeat the same incorrect response from a few prompts ago. It's very effective if you know enough about what you ask it to disregard incorrect information quickly.

It can be very helpful to guide you in a direction maybe you didn't consider looking into to begin with, but I don't fully trust it.

There was a fun example I had a few months ago where I wanted to see how well it would do with being asked to solve a problem iteratively instead of recursively, something like: "generate all valid, distinct permutations of a provided string given that you have a dictionary to check valid words against" and it got most of the problem correct, but when asked to fix anything it would go right back to a recursive solution with the same issue appearing, or in some cases a new issue.

It got me most of the way there with some edge cases I needed to handle myself, but it definitely seemed like that was as far as it was going to be able to go
Give it some time to get situated in the marketplace. There are a ton of "middleware" companies that are going to get absolutely crushed by openai when businesses commit.
> Iain certainly wasn’t pro-union in the Culture books. At all.

WTF does this even mean? Does Musk think the people and minds of the Culture were gainfully employed?! You can't be pro-union when there are no employers/employees - that's not even wrong.
H1Bs are more slave-like. They can't quit easily. That alone is worth a lot.
This is how I feel about English language where every 'e' in Mercedes is different.
It seems to be a weird mix of half-assed kerning and scaling mixed together.

Perceptually, based only on playing with it a minute, it seems to improve legibility a bit (but not as much as a proportional font would be) but also visually breaks the alignment a little sometimes.

Not sure it's a worthwhile overall, but interesting.
...yes? If you're marketing a tool as being "real time" I'd expect it to not have this much latency (e.g. when the blue is added to the mushroom). Imagine if Photoshop made you wait a second between each brush stroke.
I'm bullish in the short to medium term. I also pay the $20 a month as it's worth it for the quick in co text answers. The company I work for (60k+ employees) has also rolled out an internal version Of ChatGPT and will be integrating live data with our ticketing system which will be a game changer from the demos I've seen. We are also doing a 9M trial of office copilot which I think that will be as big as office 365 as it's $30 per user per month which is costing 32 per user per month. Also bullish on Microsoft as a result. Hard to see how MS will be out manuvered in the enterprise.
I recall an interview with someone about this - I think it was Tim O'Reilly - where it turned out that Bezos had a hard time getting the developers to even see the value in it. They kept putting in confirmation dialogs and he'd have to go back and tell them to take the confirmation out, and that was what persuaded O'Reilly it really was innovative, the fact that it was difficult to get the programmers of the feature to even understand the requirement.

Edit: maybe not O'Reilly, since he penned this [1]. Maybe it was Kevin Kelly?

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/pub/pr/537
> At the same time I think it's important to have explicit dissent (differing world views) and give both a room to grow, rather than trying to create the "one true" view on the world.

you can embed this into ontology itself, e.g. create classes/entities: InPeterView, InMaryView etc.
I prefer being able to quickly recognize the specific characters and this would drive me nuts in a diff where same character can change. I am not a fan of this for coding.
Prediction markets and bookmakers really strongly expected a Clinton win in 2016. Irish bookies were so sure Trump would lose that one firm began paying out to those who bet Clinton even before the election.

And we all know how that turned out.

Nov. 7, 2016:

"Hillary Clinton’s odds of winning the presidency rose from 78% last week to 91% Monday before Election Day, according to CNN’s Political Prediction Market."

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/07/politics/political-prediction...
Elon Musk almost needed wellness check after getting booed at Chappelle show
Every few years I try LTO on our game engine (about 1M LOC C++) and either the resulting binary crashes or isn't measurably faster.

Invariably, though, the executable is at least a few MB larger (a bad trade on systems like the Nintendo Switch where memory is scarce) and the incremental build time is intolerable.

I've always wondered why it's never brought the promised free performance; I can only assume our frequent profiling and judicious definition of hot functions inline has gotten us almost everything LTO would bring anyway.
It's more partial or constrained kerning (you can't leave your "box"), and then on top of that glyphs are being scaled at the same time to take up space "left over". In a proportional font it would just be kerned and the overall "footprint" changes.
Well, regarding your last sentence, I think that’s what OP is getting at.

ChatGPT made one great product. Bitcoin is one great “product.”

But the successors in the same category aren’t doing anything wildly more useful than the original “killer app.”

Crypto never really revolutionized finance, it just provided one solid digital currency product. Smart contracts and NFTs went pretty much nowhere and I struggle to identify a way that they are used in a widespread manner.

You and I are using ChatGPT regularly and it helps us quite a lot, but it hasn’t revolutionized life nor has it turned me into a 10x developer or something like that. It’s a service that is collecting $20 a month and that’s about the extent of its economic value so far.

In other words, “Replacing Google and Stack Overflow” is arguably not that exciting.

(Then I end up going back to SO/Google when ChatGPT tells me shit that is wrong)

I do think LLMs have way more potential than “crypto” but it remains to be seen how much more that is
Thank you for this! For some reason, I missed this in my reading.
Seems like it would be an easy meal for all sorts of predators.
> my question is why hasn't the FBI seized every Amazon warehouse for knowingly selling counterfeit goods?

What government would kill the goose that lays golden eggs? They pay tax. Buyers pay tax. Huge amount (but not that much as I expected [0]). What else is needed?

0 - https://www.investopedia.com/insights/amazon-effect-us-econo...
> Nothing too fancy. No control-flow. No function calls. No data structures.

If that's the problem statement, then you may as well perform register allocation: all you need is Sethi–Ullman's algorithm [0][1], and it's quite simple.

Register allocation only becomes complicated when the control flow comes into the picture, especially the loops. Even then, there are some more or less obvious ways to do it, if you don't want to do graph colouring after Chaitin et al. (remember, people had to write register allocators before Chaitin's publication in 1981). For instance, you can do what the very first FORTRAN compiler did: you look at registerts as a cache for memory, in which case the Bélády's algorithm can be used for spilling. And with loops over arrays you can leverage the knowledge that you're looping over arrays quite nicely [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethi%E2%80%93Ullman_algorithm

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/321607.321620

[2] https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Fortran/1...
Thank you, as I might have overlooked this downside had it not been for this comment.

The article doesn't make this immediately clear:

> It's a 24.6MP camera that Sony says doesn't compromise on ISO performance or dynamic range.

Then later:

> This might explain the base ISO of 250, which will ultimately limit the camera's maximum dynamic range.

Sounds like a compromise to me...
There is probably a lot more money in that. The cargo will still be an insurance loss, but recovery of loads that can cause damage to marine environments are subject to mandatory reporting and fines.

If you could build a device to detect the potential for conditions leading to parametric rolling and warn crews to make adjustments I would invest in that.

https://www.marineinsight.com/marine-safety/what-is-parametr...
Other AI companies are less than a year behind OpenAI and I'm not convinced that's enough for OpenAI to 'win out' in the market.
I'd pay money to watch someone like you work. Like other responders, I've tried using chatgpt multiple times, and very often when I've used it for tasks where I was familiar with the subject matter, I was disappointed in the results. It's possible I haven't learned the proper way to get what I need from it and would love to learn how others are using it to solve real problems.

I mean it. I'd pay money to watch streams of someone using chatgpt to solve non-trivial problems.
Yes. Ben Thompson has recently written a lot of commentary about it and, to be fair, he seems quite bullish on it.

But so far to me this seems to be almost universally loved by programmers while I don’t really know anyone else who uses it at all.

I think after the past 15 years which saw some of the most rapid technological advances in history along with the greatest bull market in history, people’s credulity is off the charts.

But to me something just feels off about this entire AI/NPL complex. For one, I agree that it’s largely oversold on features. Also, every single enterprise software company is attempting to jump on the bandwagon and everyone on LinkedIn seems to be posting about it every day. Most people who talk about how revolutionary it will be have absolutely no track record of being correct on similar calls and on the whole if I had to bet, probably were highly skeptical of new tech over the past decade that was revolutionary.

I also agree that it feels very similar to crypto. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both were largely enabled by advances in nvda chips. It may sound absurd to most but I actually believe nvda is the most overpriced stock in the market now by a large margin and is sort of in its own bubble. There has been a head long rush to stockpile their chips in anticipation of npls taking over but I predict it is going to result in an eventual glut of oversupply that’s going to put downward pressure on the semiconductor market potentially for a year or more.
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hey if the 6th doesn't work, there's always the 7th
Looks like an interesting article but behind a paywall
I agree, but it's also a good idea to post a comment explaining you are the author as the OP did.
> "they're aware that the success of the business they work for will contribute to their own career success."

If this was commonly true, then it wouldn't also be commonly true to feel best served by switching companies every 2 years. Other than simply continuing to be employed, but even that's tenuous and often volatile.

> "Unless things have broken down horribly"

It's a lucky individual who's never experienced this in their career.
Hey Peter! You coached me through 2 TNs, and an H1B. Thank you for everything you do!
New Amazon office in Holland is an old prison
Doctor, it hurts when I do that!
I'd put that the author hasn't managed people in a multicultural team before. It quickly becomes apparent that there is a cultural component to communication style that changes language expectations by a lot. And at the end of the day word choice doesn't matter much.

There is a deeper aspect to watch which is response over time - "tracking what does the boss say to me?" as it transforms into "What are the consequences later on?". A big part of being "bossy" IMO is creating consequences for getting trivial instructions wrong.
It’s pretty disturbing, if you are a good human
SNI reveals the exact site though
It doesn't make sense that the original owner would allow this to go so far as 50% of the load being lost in storage bureaucracy and the mess published by a journalist. The scammer was skimming pennies and generating much bigger losses to everyone else.
The local thai cafe is "pretty good".

I was also struck by how good the wifi was in most of the dining places I went to.

Ran around, past santa's post box, and the seed vault, snowshoed up trollstein (spelling?), had great fun with the sledding dogs from green dog.

Ah, those were the days before covid.
https://archive.ph/E4BDJ
I'm assuming that this is getting upvoted for the interest in ontologies in general and not really Protege itself.

Protege is a nice toy if you are making first contact with ontologies (and OWL), but beyond that I don't think there is anyone out there that enjoys using it. It's been effectively an abandoned for 5+ years, and webprotege (which many hoped would be its more modern successor) is similarly as dead. And no that's not because it is "finished software", it is riddled with bugs. Most ontologists I know rather hand-edit their ontologies in plaintext Turtle than let Protoge near them and mangle them.

In some ways it's quite an apt embodiment of the current state of ontology engineering and the semantic data space...
Very tough, and they hang on tight to the ground when you go to rescue one that's in a dangerous place. But possibly the only Australian native animal that you don't have to worry about being bitten, kicked, clawed or envenomed.