skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is long term benefit in that it signals to suppliers that more demand exists and leads to more supply.

> No one who is excluded from affording a service due to dynamic pricing going higher than their budget is "benefiting".

If everyone cannot afford a service, then that means there is limited supply. Any option other than increasing the simply simple favors one party over another for some reason. For example, if price is kept lower than the highest bidder, then it favors whoever was first (which is unfair too). Or you can do a lottery system, which is “fair”, but not necessarily desirable for a society of every limited service is distributed via lottery and hence removing all incentive for competition.
I think the best interpretation of EA is still "Effective altruism is a question" (which I believe is more or less the original interpretation): how can you do the most (in my opinion, reasonable) good (within a budget)? It's trying to separate feeling good about doing a small act, versus simply pausing to think about what is effective.

Sure, people will converge on claimed solutions to that question. But you can give your own solution[1] (I myself am an EA and disagree on some points, including giving locally in my third world country, and volunteering). The perspective is really valuable I think.

Now that said indeed, don't try to make money at all costs in order to donate. First that can easily fail and be a direct net negative, and second there are secondary effects like losing trust and unexpected side effects on other people. Being honest and trustworthy is a really good idea.

[1] Recently Give Directly dropped out of Givewell's top charities, for probably understandable reasons; I still like Give Directly and still give. Just get informed and give well! (to Givewell or not :P)
I've lost the link, but IIRC someone on twitter demoed exactly that in Blender. "Neural rendering" in a 3D editor has some nice properties - the scene can be rendered into separate layers with separate depth maps and openpose skeletons generated from the rigs to serve as input for controlnets, objects can be tagged and tags composed into the prompt for the particular tile in case of tiled rendering, etc.
Wasn't trying anything, I was legit curious about places where intellectual conversation happens. I suppose you are right that exposing such places to air will risk their integrity, then you'll be left in the same situation as me. Forget I ever asked.
Per this example, the B2 isn’t being used in any real capacity, so it’s not really relevant to compare it, especially for conventional weapons. As of late 2010s, the B1 and drones did the preponderance of munitions drops in the Middle East, and just about all of those drops were using some form of guided munitions. I’m not even sure we use unguided in any real capacity.

Source: was there, saw it. The exclusive purpose of the B2 is nuclear strike.
> the second difficulty is handling reflow. a real terminal can't resize its screen, but an emulator can. how to implement that correctly with cursor movements?

That's not entirely true. Most serial terminals did have multiple text size modes eg 80x25 but also 128x50 or something. I still have a real VT520 here that can do that. Not a Dec labeled one sadly but one of the later boundless models.
The incentive designers of the system disagree with you fundamentally that it is a net positive. In their mind, investing is risk taking for a profit by allocating capital where there is potential to be beneficial, saving money shouldn't involve risk. Saving money isn't supposed to be productive. Yet with a type of money that devalues over time, it is impossible to save money, so one must invest. This leads to all sorts of market distortions, in particular monetization of non money assets such as housing.

I personally though do believe that a slow and predictable, to the point of being unchangeable, supply increase is better, but not for the reason you mentioned. I think the system is a commons, having to store and upkeep a record of everyone's wealth, and that simply storing wealth is a use case of money, and so no perpetual inflation is a subsidy of those using the money to save at the cost of those spending. People just storing wealth on a system that requires active maintenance at no cost are free riders. The inflation rate is their share of the cost to keep the system alive. So in these systems I have a preference for a linear, algorithmic perpetual emission of coins. Two of my favorite (from a technical perspective) networks that do just that are Monero and Grin.
Whether you count tokens or sequences, it’s about 25x the usual batch size. My guess is it makes for a fancy benchmark but isn’t actually useful. Would be interested in being proven otherwise.
2% advantage is huge.
I didn’t realise Spotify wasn’t paying less well known artists. That’s actually pretty shit.
I love music. I have a deep utter obsession with music of almost every genre and I don’t think I could go without it. I used to just pirate music (because I was a kid that didn’t really fully understand that that was theft), until Spotify happened, so when I was pirating music artists still weren’t getting paid. Spotify became my default for ease of use, but I suppose they’re a middleman that decides who will get paid, and who won’t.
I’ve also got SoundCloud where I listen to artists who don’t seem to be on Spotify, but SoundCloud seems to have a similar structure around paying artists.
What other platforms are there for listening to music, where the artists actually get the recognition and reward they deserve?
Real estate is illiquid. At best it takes months to convert it to cash.
None of these are weird or something the browser is trying to hide from you, just things that an experienced front-end developer would probably know, although I was not aware of the monitor() command.

That being said, I am pleasantly surprised at the debugging and development tooling that is built right into most modern browsers. It really does make the UI development experience very powerful. I wish more back-end languages had this experience.
> 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.

Nobody is going to go through all the effort of getting a reservation, traveling to a restaurant, getting to the front desk, and then storm out and ruin their entire dinner plans on principle just because they were asked for ID.

> I wouldn't be surprised if most don't even carry it around with them.

I highly doubt that people are bringing their credit card but not their driver's license when going to a restaurant. Why you think anyone would arrive with a means of payment but not a 10 gram ID card is beyond me.
A reduction in foreign energy dependency is always nice to have. They can also use the geothermal to generate electricity. The carbon savings aren't that much but nearly free energy sources are nice to have.
You mean the water rights of the Utes, Paiutes, Hope, Diné, Havasu, Mojave, Kumeyaay? I agree.
It actually would be worse. It would distort the entire market...
US actors' strike ended after securing 'deal-breaker' AI agreement
I see this as a very reactionary take, and I see the alternatives to streaming as impractical. Spotify is great, honestly it’s really great, I don’t have the free time the author seems to have to make a sociopolitical statement with my choices in music streaming. For me, music is about the music, and the emotional experience thereof. If you don’t like Spotify, just go ahead and cancel it—you don’t need to write a blog about it. I’m also not one to select my products based on their “one [or two] bad thing[s]”; there are dozens of things that make Spotify excellent from my view.
That's my favorite thing about Grin, the simplicity of the emission curve. It doesn't lend itself well to early speculative adoption, but it does work really well for long term utility, which is supposed to be the point of all this.

I know, there's so much more beauty in Grin, cut through, your absolutely wonderful proof of work scheme, but the simplicity and elegance of the emission scheme was what first piqued my interest and made me realize this is no steel reinforced bridge, this is a stone pyramid.
> A U.S.-bound plane took off from London last month with four damaged window panes, including two that were completely missing,

Doesn't "sound" like that at all. Inspection could have caught it after the plane was modified...which should have never happened without an engineer present and a full post-filming inspection anyway. Their insurance is going to go up because they compromised a plane then let it fly with an immediate mechanical failure.

The crew are not customers nor did the customer passengers affect the failure. It's a process failure, not a bug or "customer" error.
I need a follow up...what happened? Did they send you another?
It's weird that one of the science fiction authors I grew up reading is so pessimistic about the future.
Can airplanes be hacked? Navigating cybersecurity threats in aviation
Indeed -- web browsers are very comparable to X -- especially with things like web sockets or streaming media.

Which is why I offered that the question "what process is generating my window" is comparable to "what is the PID of the process that generated this HTTPs response?"
I can see the utility in being able to tell a chat bot "Get me tickets to somewhere warm sometime in October" and having it trim down the options by asking me questions. Obviously you wont get the best deal, but I can see the convenience.
The comment doesn't mention technical anything. There are many ways to build something difficult to replicate. A billion users is hard to replicate. Deep insight into certain workflows is hard to replicate. A sticky product embedded into a lot of users workflow is hard to dislodge.

It's a simple question. Have you built something difficult to replicate?
Ya but it also influences where I shop. I don’t bother with Trader Joe’s anymore, because they don’t have self check out. Some people are the opposite, but in general I think self checkout is more popular than not.
> whatever security issues may have lead to this information being leaked

I'm interested in ending the _collection_ of this information. Since we went off the gold standard, and the uniparty spends unlimited amounts, let's stop the privacy invasion of the personal income tax.
Arbitraging prices in different markets is not rent seeking.
Yes. Either through simply carrying many cards (see the binders of credit cards in documentaries on ticket resellers) or getting many numbers issued against a single account by a friendly bank. These were popular in the 00's and 10's. I expect both techniques are no longer state-of-the-art.
pro-tip - just try to use an old version of outlook that's still functional like outlook 2010 and just set autoarchive to run pretty often so the ost doesn't get too big and make the thing crawl...

much better than nuOutlook

though often hard in most corporate environments...

that said, if I were in a more buttoned up IT environment, I'd just use the web client as it's sadly faster than the desktop client these days

I'd use the web client now except the version my company has is pretty bad and old still...
`queryObjects` is notably missing. It is a crazy API which returns a list of all objects created by a particular constructor. One can for example get a list of all functions on the heap by doing `queryObjects(Function)`.

This will return even functions contained in some module that are “private”.
Man it'd sure be cool if great thinkers had been writing about hubris since the dawn of history or something. But alas, we'll just have to move forward with the torment nexus
That's inflation, GP is referencing purchasing power.
> The issue is that you were taking something that was free (open reservation slots), and then forcing people to pay for them if they wanted to dine there... when they could have just made a reservation -- perhaps farther in advance -- for free.

So first come first serve is an okay way of allocating resources, but charging a higher price is not?
And what does it have to show for it? WLS and ads.
When SQL Where Meets Vector Search
yeah -_-. graduating in april and just hoping I can get something in the field
“endlessly enthusiastic savant intern” is a good description!

I’ve had to sharpen my skills at verification and cross-checking, but the volume of pretty good insight from a much wider domain than I myself could consider has been so worth it.

It’s also worth noting to that I feel like I used to get this type of help, roughly, from good search engines. Maybe not quite as spoon fed but pretty good. But now… just blogspam and paid listings.
cloud, A100, so yeah, beast.

we are doing tests, will keep you guys posted.
yup, see comment above!
I did a two week trip in the UK recently, and over the ~8 restaurants we ate at, 7 required credit card to reserve, with a specific fee that would be applied if no-show
Where did I hear that - "We are a nation of laws"?
> You only get one to keep for your whole life, so keep it safe.

You should be able to get replacements, but there is a lifetime limit of 10 replacements after 12/17/2005 [1]. I think that means the one from when I lost my wallet in my bedroom doesn't count! (lol, I know, but I had given up all hope, and then months later found the wallet just hanging out between the mattress and the bed frame)

[1] https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0110205400
> It's not obvious to me how any further work could fix it.

In "gimme" you could have a rule that when any character is next to itself both occurrences must have the same width. Wouldn't that fix the "gimme" example?
If it's so easy to offshore these jobs, why hasn't Apple done it yet and quit fooling around with this whole onerous visa process? Out of the good of their heart?
Yet-- not annoying enough for you to make the change yourself? It's open source, not owed to you.
The correct answer is 0
A custom GPT code generator that creates GitHub PRs and auto deploys the code
You absolutely can file multiple concurrent I-485 petitions. I know because I had two concurrent petitions myself: an EB-5 that I filed by myself, and a regular boring EB-2 sponsored by my employer.

However, this will make it almost 100% certain that your interview will not be waived. During the interview, the officer will ask you with which I-485 you will want to proceed.

And you generally want to keep your case as straightforward as possible for quick adjudication, having multiple petitions will complicate it for sure. And the USCIS can take months to do anything as it is.
The law is the problem.

The law requires explicit knowledge, so Amazon can get away with it.

I don’t agree with it, but lawmakers should be making these changes.
The Author stated that they had experienced hostility when asking questions. While I'm not sure to what level their experience was, I can share the many times I've tried to answer a hardware question in many forums , I found the the individual who was asking was just looking for a quick working solution to their design idea (mostly a school project) and not really willing to take input on how to figure the solution out themselves. Many became hostile when I would not provide the schematic (with calculations) for them. That got old fast and convinced me to not try to help out any more. It's unfortunate that I can't share my 30 years of hard earned design experience with someone who truly wants to learn but I don't have the time to determine who is genuine and who is not. I'm just not going to deal with the hassle anymore. I get plenty of that at my day job....and they pay me to tolerate it.
PS: I swear when I wrote this there weren’t 4 other perfectly good replies visible yet. Apologies for the redundancy
You get to do that because of net neutrality. The FCC in 2005 made it clear that ISPs couldn't block online services (Madison River blocking VoIP). In 2008, the FCC stopped Comcast from blocking Bittorent, establishing precedent that network management should be application agnostic. Then on 2015 the FCC said it had authority over interconnection, which stopped AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from throttling Netflix, League of Legends and Cogent at the point of interconnection (shaking them down for payment). That meant 10s of millions of Americans could actually play games and watch videos.

So yes if you get to do what you want to do online, that's because of 20 years of net neutrality oversight
I predict the enshittification of restaurant dining.

My hunch is that turning restaurant reservations into a speculative bidding market will not make it better for restaurants on average, but will just extract value while making the business more volatile, and also less pleasant for the average customer.
A mathematical proof by an anonymous 4chan user
there is no such thing as an EB2 visa.
EB2 is a category for Green Card.

PERM is one stage in the Green Card process. (it goes: PERM -> I140 -> I485. https://maggio-kattar.com/three-stages-employer-sponsored-pe...)

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/gree...
That's a good link. I think the text-healing mode with VS Dark Theme is clearly the most readable
The thrill of the bargain hunt at unclaimed baggage
From the National Association of Ticket Brokers (the lobbying arm of the ticket reseller industry): https://www.protectticketrights.com/news/86/PRESS+RELEASE+NY...

(This is not my personal perspective.)
Yeah the there is an abstraction level. Even “take out the trash” is an abstraction. A lot of this minutiae can be handled with coding standards, policies, automated checks and so on. It gets “bossy” when say you need someone to do something out of the ordinary. Take support calls when they usually don’t. That is where emotional intelligence needs to kick in. Depending on culture and context it could be anything from “You are on the phones Frank” to “Sorry guys we don’t normally ask this but…”
Am I missing something? This threads post was made yesterday. Is there a different “end date” mentioned that I’m not seeing?
Well, I don't know about that, but cellphones have certainly made the Internet a worse place.
The Marines and Tet: The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War
Is the answer from those not yet brainwashed. Aka kids!
This is interesting. Are there restaurants doing this kind of variable pricing?

I bet there are some eager GMs thinking about it.
I think they should adjust their rules so that when a character is next to itself, both occurrences must use the same variant.
They don't have to actually cover that much space; not even close.

It is actually possible to emulate an arbitrarily giant antenna using an array of antennas.
If you’re holding elected office or have other regulatory/lawmaking powers you should only be permitted to hold index funds, or preferably you should have to move all your investments into a blind trust. Then there’s little chance you’re benefiting personally from inside info
> includes their name, Social Security number, date of birth, driver’s license or state ID number, and taxpayer ID number. Medical information as well has health insurance information may also have been affected

monthly reminder that AML/KYC is a joke if all the banks only think they are dealing with people that would pass AML/KYC
Calling Google Search one of history's great inventions is beyond delusional starting from the fact that Google didn't invent website indexing and searching if anything it had better algos and was less disrupted by the various waves of SEO spammers that killed the likes of Yahoo or Lycos or Altavista, etc.
Ask HN: Raid Alternatives?
I'm looking at replacing my current drives in my desktop. I was wondering what options are out there other than RAID for data protection. I'm not looking at a NAS currently, but I've heard there are some file/object storage technologies out there being used in place of RAID. I'm not sure if that's applicable/advantageous on a single desktop or not.

Looking for options that preferably support encryption and indexing.
Or. “It’s OK i’ll take out the trash”
This discussion is about EB2/green card process, not L1/H1 visa that employee is given when relocating to the US. That is why it is not obvoius. In a lot of cases, an employee works in UK (or another European) office for many years, then moves to the US on L1A visa, works there for several years, applies to green card (not with intent to stay in US forever, but because L1 visa (and H1 too) cannot be extended for more than 5/6 years). Then to get this EB2/green card document employer has to pretend that they plan to replace this person who is already working in this organization for 10 or more years. It is not specific for Apple, Intel is doing the same when a CPU architect from Haifa or fab engineer from Dublin is working in Hillsboro for several years and decide to stay for a few more years. Or google bringing someone from Zurich.
For most of us technologists, figuring out user need is way way harder than doing research or building something. That's the reality. So we tend to take comfort in building technology and figuring out the user need later on.

Even discovering a real problem, a problem that warrants the expense on technology, is unfortunately out of the comfort zone for a lot of technologists. We often assume that the problem is real, or worse hope that the problem be real and jump into solving it right away because that's our comfort zone, building stuff.

There ain't nothing wrong with this attitude or process. In most cases, where technologists have solved real problems, the real problem has been a serendipitous unraveling during the build-iterate-shut process. So the best shot at figuring out a real problem for technologists is not spending time in problem discovery, but in a better ship-iterate-shut cycle. A cycle, in which in one can look at current usage and postulate the future and take rapid decisions on what to build, or what not to build.

Having read the biographies of many tech leaders, I have come to the understanding that the key skill that has set them apart is that exponential growth in their ability to hone the intuition about future demand, in a very short span of time, starting from a barebones MVP.
Okay, make that spouse instead, because spousal immunity. Also, make the funds' holdings temporarily blind: a fund does not reveal the entirety of the holdings in its portfolio until 5 years after year-end, and waits 3 months after the closing of a position to reveal that it held XYZ, Inc. during a 37 month period. The idea is not to try to exactly match "the economy" with "the market" or even with "the funds" but to disincentivize politicians making any direct connection between their work and with individual equities, while still being able to benefit from general economic growth.
Well, even the 3.0/3.1 versions worked under direct supervision of MS-DOS and Windows wasn't a true OS on its own. The Windows-95 is what I'd call birth of the "real Windows"!
I think it is intersting and can be improved
> If it's true they colluded to remove ads from Apple pages on Amazon

Amazon is not the only company to do this. Not sure how reducing ads is problematic. Amazon doesn't have to show ads it doesn't want to.
Windows 11 and Windows 10 are the same OS.
Sounds like an interesting story! How big was a pallet? How does one come to know the specific truck driver?
But not the "real mode windows."
for further reference this is about half the width of your finger at arms length held up against the sky