skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think either of those theories is right. (1) doesn't explain the rise in corporate profits, and (2) is of course silly.

Here is my theory:

Consumers generally have an "acceptable" price range in their head for each product. When most retailers have prices within that range, it is really hard for a single company to raise prices above that range, as they'll lose a lot of business. But, COVID forced input prices to rise and fluctuate quite a bit. Once companies raised prices to account for input costs, consumers lost their sense of "normal". Then, companies were able to get away with charging prices even more, and could get away with raising prices above their competitors without losing any business.
> why they could.

That's a question that has interested me. I came up with:

We (the 99.9%) are not poor enough. We can still afford it "in some sense" and to some degree". The poorest, say, 30% shield the rest of a society from paying too much.

p.s. If you know this idea has some academic name, please lemme know!
I’m stuck with PVS-7s and 14s. The nerd part of me is amazed looking at the stars with them, but the soldier part of me is frustrated having to move with them. I can’t imagine having I^2 and thermal imaging in a single NOD.
This article claims that ketchup, like oobleck, is a shear-thickening fluid. Wikipedia says the opposite, that ketchup is a shear-thinning fluid. Any experts want to chime in?
That's why you need redundancy.
> Trump also slashed corporate taxes and taxes for the ultra-wealth

Congress writes the bills that set tax rates. Congress also writes the spending bills.

I thought Biden told us to blame US price increases on Putin.

"families are starting to feel the impacts of Putin’s price hike."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/597675-biden-bla...
Don’t forget the part where they printed a shitload of money
Pedantic pedantic: The Druedain are the Pukel Men, the Wild Men, or Woses. They are found in the White Mountains in LOTR, and there were probably remnants in Eryn Vorn. They are also mentioned in The Silmarillion.

They are very distantly related to the Dunedain, being associated with the 3rd house of the Edain, and Beor the Old.
Oh they don't care because people keep paying or they make money from the customer data they sell to others. At my employer we just switched away from google because they decided to double our monthly bill because we didn't want to enter into a contract. We could never reach our account manager or anyone at support that was helpful, they are just too big to care now.

We are still dealing with stupid Google issues like any time our mail relay sends mail to Gmail servers it's 50/50 whether they decide to block it saying we aren't authenticated properly even though our SPF record is indeed valid.
There are good reasons why Pixel phones are the only ones supported by GrapheneOS. See the list of requirements here[1]. If other devices met that criteria, they would be considered for support as well.

The GOS team has done very thorough work to audit the supported devices, including the hardware, firmware and software components, to make sure they reach their high standards. They've made upstream contributions to AOSP, Linux and other projects with features and bug fixes to improve security and privacy of users. The project is well regarded in security circles, and I have no reason to distrust the team.

As much as I dislike Google, I wouldn't mind using their products if they respected my rights and freedoms. The GOS project ensures that more than any other modern smartphone, and I wouldn't change it for anything else.

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices
Sure, but I think Google's commanding marketshare is more at risk than it has been in a long time due to their fumbles in the AI space.
I'm reasonably sure that academic economics theories are an attempt to drive, to dictate how "things really work"

because that's what academia does and they know it. Academics talk about how to impact the 'next generations' of leaders all the time

economics are no different. e.g. today somebody studies economics and learn some theory about how stuff "really works", in 5-10 years they're a congressperson or some other high-ranking executive deciding what to do based on the theories they learned

so academics being off the mark means this plan as I very roughly outlined failed. reality asserts itself in spite of the wishes of a few corporate overlords
Related, I work with industrial control systems. We’d call this “smoke and mirrors”. Sometimes the client would insist on seeing a small portion of a large project working well before it was ready. They’d misunderstand that 90% of the bulk of the work is not visible to the user but they’d want to see a finished state.

We’d set up a dummy HMI and have someone pressing buttons on it for the demo, and someone in the next room manually driving outputs and inputs to make it seem like it was working. Very common.
Nah you have the wrong question. You'll need a bigger computer.
Well if they’ve never lost an object then how would you go about doing that.
Audio input that's not text in the middle and video input are two things they made a big deal out of. Then they called it a hands on demo and it was faked.

> My main question then is about the cup game, because that absolutely requires video.

They did it with carefully timed images, and provided a few examples first.

> I'm assuming so, and that it generates audio outputs for the music sections as well

No, it was given the ability to search for music and so it was just generating search terms.

Here's more details:

https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/how-its-made-gemin...
Isn't sshd runnable on both? The distinction between client and server should be less rigid.
"Wikipedia and the Assault on History"
If the NSA chip you describe exists, it's in every android phone. I don't see why it's any more likely that a google product would have a government backdoor than any other manufacturer. (More likely that it's an IP block in the processor rather than a discrete package "chip".)

That leaves backdoors created by and for Google, concern for which I suppose your comment still applies. It seems less likely to me though...
The Drúedain and the Dúnedain are distinct :) The Drúedain are the Púkel-men of the forest who help the Rohirrim navigate through the forest on their ride to Gondor and thereby bypass the troops that the Witch King had placed on the road to intercept them.
FCC certification is for the entire system, firmware included.

The reason the modules with integrated antenna are so popular is that the module carries its own certification, so you don't need to do it yourself.

If you use the module with an antenna connector instead of integrated, you must get your own FCC certification. It's for the entire system.

> Why can't one have an open source stack with specific builds that are approved, tested and certified?

Mainly because it's heinously expensive and difficult.
> The way I see it, the tool can't ever be at fault for its use, unless its sole use (or something close enough to its sole use) is to infringe in copyright.

Even then, you could look at a tape recorder or a photocopier and one of their primary uses is to make a copy of a copyrighted work.

The question isn't "can it be used for" but rather "does it have valid non-infringing use" and "when it does infringe, is it the person who uses the tool or the tool that is at fault?"
> Meetings are a terrible way to drive toward decisions

The decision Altman was driving for was to fire a Board member he disagreed with. That's fundamentally different from an ordinary Board decision, and should not be lobbied for in advance the way you would organize support in advance for a normal Board decision. When the CEO of the company has a fundamental disagreement with a Board member, and wants to get that Board member fired, lobbying beforehand behind the one Board member's back is fundamentally dishonest. He should put the disagreement before the entire Board openly.

Btw, if I were Toner, as soon as I knew I had a fundamental disagreement with the CEO, I would have told the other Board members and requested a Board meeting to discuss the matter (and told the CEO I was doing those things). The meeting would not have to be an actual decision meeting with the Board formally in session. But I would want any discussion to take place with everyone present and with everything openly out on the table, not in behind-the-back individual sessions. I'm somewhat surprised that Toner didn't do that.
> One camp (Open) wants to move faster and break backward compatibility, the other (Libre) wants to move slower and maintain backwards compatibility

There is no breaking of backward compatibility. The crypto-refresh draft and the LibrePGP draft are equally backward-compatible.

See 'A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”':

* https://blog.pgpkeys.eu/critique-critique

Both groups would create a new format (Libre = v5; crypto-refresh = v6). v4-only wouldn't be able to handle either new format, and newer software could presumably be told to create files in the older format.

The Proton folks are choosing to support both v5 and v6:

* https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto/pull/182

As is the Thunderbird/RNP team:

* https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp/commit/fdfc1f5bb11d439e35f3c855...
I think you're missing your parent's joke.
Philip K Dick for all the boards
A repairable phone is honestly less interesting to me at this point then a seamless user-environment restore experience, which I still can't get.

Even with all the cloud-leeching and I presume data mining, if I crushed my phone into dust today, there's absolutely no way even if I get exactly the same model (which I can't) to get it to restore back to exactly how it was.

At this point I've been considering prodding Ansible and ADB to see if it can handle the config setup part, but given how locked down phones actually are I doubt it's viable.
Greedflation is a new word for monopolism. It not a monopoly or oligopoly this time, it's a more intricate network of multinationals, financial sector and govt.

Best thing we can do is start worker coops to serve our basic needs, and somehow vote law into place that makes worker coops more tax friendly than private limiteds (and related forms of business ownership).
Until you get into grad school basically everything you learn is so simplified that it's functionally a lie. Pointing out that drawing a big X on a blackboard with the intersection labeled price is not actually how the world works is not setting yourself above economists.

I mean christ, if that was all there was to it what the hell are those experts doing spending their whole lives studying this stuff?
Article explains the what but not a why…
Ooh, so that's what they are called! I tried to do "bicycle in a jar" and they could do it, but when I did "car in a jar" or "toy car in a jar" all of them failed.
> Why wouldn't one company reduce prices and capture the market share from the companies that artificially raised prices?

I feel like the answer here is probably along the same lines as the ‘because we have a good excuse’ line of thinking that caused the massive wave of layoffs a few months ago.
You would have a point if Pizzagate or any of QAnon's nonsense were in any way rooted in reality, but the right's obsession with imaginary leftist sex cults and trangender "groomers" does far more harm to legitimate attempts to stop sexual abuse than good. It's just the latest Satanic panic from these people.

And no, they weren't right about Epstein all along. Epstein wasn't even on their radar, they were too busy trying to decode Podesta's emails. And when that story broke, all they did (after claiming credit) was try as hard as they could to pin as much shit on the Clintons as possible.

Because that's really what this is all about - not stopping sexual abuse but demonizing their political enemies.
I can't believe they didn't mention crab legs. This is my earliest memory of AYCE, sitting at the table for what felt like an eternity while my father went through plate after plate of snow crab legs. They also are the thing that ties most disparate AYCE places together: I've seen them at the Chinese ones, as well as Continental-style.

I don't often find myself at AYCE places, but when I do, I always enjoy watching people line up and jockey for position for the next batch of fresh crab legs coming out of the kitchen.

Given how much they cost at markets, this has got to be a higher cost than the highest cost they're accounting for of steak.
I’m saying not enough people care about the opinions of a few idealistic geeks to make it a worthwhile market for any company to care.

In the context of who the market caters to, whether you and people like you ignore Microsoft is meaningless
I want to believe!

Thanks for that, I wasn’t aware of this (it was my sister’s CD back in the day). Things like this are a nice reminder of when I believed in more things, when stuff was done for passion rather than profit and being a nerd meant something other than being dismissed as a techbro or whatever people say now. Ok, taking off my rose-tinted-nostalgia glasses now. Things are always fantastic and things are always broken, only depends on where (and why) you focus.
Make a windows file share and open it on the Mac. Super easy
Any linux app that makes use of "LC_" environment variables[0] / supports utf encodings[1].[4]

The appropriate language settings need to be defined in LC_ and/or relevant markup/html UTF encoding(s).

Linux note pad apps[2]

App written in bash (makes use of html utf-8/-16/-32) protocol.[3]

Old school unix geek might suggest something such as [5] perhaps with nroff,sed, awk -b / gawk scripts as html formatting templates per xterm windos call.

[0] : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/74618/how-to-change...

[1] : https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/utf-8.7.html

[2] : https://itsfoss.com/note-taking-apps-linux/

[3] : https://github.com/justinyaodu/bashed

[4] : https://superuser.com/questions/1599019/setting-lang-c-lc-al...

[5] : https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/nyogk0/the_mos...
“Eating out isn't uncomfortable.”

For you. If a person says they don’t like eating out because it’s uncomfortable, you can trust they know whether they are uncomfortable or not.

I don’t like loud, busy places. It’s great when I can have a meal at a restaurant when it’s not packed, but you never know until you get there.
I suppose there are several explanations:

1) they are the ones who remained in Middle-Earth, while others (e.g. Elrond's wife) departed west over the Sea to get away from the violence of Middle-Earth

2) they are ageless, and seem to have a very high adult:child ratio and essentially no elderly, so nearly the entire population is "military age"

Taken together, this could plausibly give not much under 50% able to serve in the military in extremis. Relative to Hobbits, Orcs, or Dwarves, the Elves are biologically far more different than Men.
>We (the 99.9%) are not poor enough. We can still afford it "in some sense" and to some degree". The poorest, say, 30% shield the rest of a society from paying too much.

It's not necessarily "the poorest [...] 30%". It's the marginal consumers who's willing to comparison shop and put in the legwork. They keep prices down for everyone else, by threatening to switch to the other store if one store decides to get too greedy. True, being poor might be correlated with putting the legwork into saving money, but wealth isn't the definite factor.

>p.s. If you know this idea has some academic name, please lemme know!

sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus
Just take your time, warm it up a bit and use a little acetone. Not a big deal. That kind of seal is intended to be opened for repair.
> I don't understand what's going on at Google. If actual data loss occurred, trying to pretend it didn't happen is never the answer.

They're not pretending it didn't happen though? As per the article they acknowledged it and published a help center article on it. They named the software versions affected (notifying the affected users seems impossible, since the entire problem was that the data had not been synced). Following the links in the help center article, during the incident they posted in a pinned article in the support forum (multiple times) on how to avoid triggering the bug and how to avoid making it worse.

That's pretty much what you wanted to see except for a blog post with an RCA, no?

> Or if the problem really is solely with files that should have been uploaded but weren't, and nothing from the cloud ever actually got deleted, then explain and justify that as well -- because that's not what people are saying.

So the suggestion is that in addition to the bug that they acknowledged, there's a totally different one that appeared at the same time affecting totally different functionality and with different symptoms, and that they're covering up despite not covering up the other bug? That seems like a complicated explanation when there's an obvious and simpler explanation around.

That's also the kind of thing that's pretty much impossible to prove categorically, let alone communicate the proof in a way that's understandable to the average user. What are you going to say? "We've checked really hard and can't confirm the reports"?

(I mean, I guess it's possible to do it. Collect 100 credible reports of files going missing that can reliably identify the supposedly missing file by name and creation date rather than say that it was probably a .doc file sometime in March. Then do an analysis on e.g. audit logs on what the reality is. How many files were never there at all? How many were explicitly deleted by the user? How many were accidentally uploaded to a user's work account rather than personal account? How many were still in the drive, and the user just couldn't find them? And yes, once you've exhausted all the possibilities, how many disappeared without a trace? Then publish the statistics. But while doing such an investigation privately to make sure whether there is a problem makes sense, publishing the results seems like a stunningly bad PR strategy even if no data was indeed lost.)
> Tailscale is needed if you require site to site connectivity via something like Starlink.

You should be able setup a Wireguard instance on some cloud provider like AWS, then setup each Starlink endpoint to point to that public cloud IP. I have done this for some time on a cheap $5/mo Digital Ocean droplet to work around my old ISP giving me a RFC to 1918 addresses.

Also don’t forget that if you have a line of sight between the two farms you can use the unlicensed 60Ghz spectrum and grab some cheap Ubiquiti millimeter wave gear.
It's interesting that on her LinkedIn profile she instead states that in Beijing she spent those 9 months in "intensive Mandarin Chinese language training" at
a Chinese language program in Tsinghua University, not studying its AI ecosystem.
Her father: http://www.toner-assoc.com.au/Consultants.htm

Her brothers: https://www.vesparum.com/origins

So the short answer is wealth and connections, or daddy.
Yes, but I'm looking for something that's super simple, and integrated into the UI of the OS...
See also 'A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”':

* https://blog.pgpkeys.eu/critique-critique

Which goes over the concerns/critiques that Koch posted at:

* https://librepgp.org/
I think that statement was aimed at readers whose idea of what a typical size for a country is, are informed only by modern times.
Nitpick: they actually make a distinction between availability and durability. Availability means "you can get your data." Durability means "we still have your data." Only durability has 11 9's.
The left? Any leftists worth their salt understands capital accumulation justifies itself.
If truth doesn't come out of vigorous and lively debate then the premise of free speech is wrong. Therefore, we must conclude that this increase in speech is necessarily good.
Let’s take the executives of the non profits that make the most revenue, how many do you think are not concerned with power…now add religious institutions to that mix.

Then add college administrators to that mix.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4941
I am passingly acquainted with ZFS.

The key thing to realize is that you can't, actually, automatically fix every problem, sometimes you have found a logic problem which results in an impossible outcome and you need someone to manually clean it up.

In a world without flaws, it would be great to never need that. But the thing about theory and practice is that in theory, they never differ, but in practice...
You'd prefer the alternative with just a few white guys in the picture and no consideration given at all to appearing diverse?
True.
Although I was planning on extending this to mobile devices as well, and also allowing the connections to persist if you left the local network...
Out of the trillions of galaxies out there and the trillions more solar systems, it is very likely that at least some of them have multiple planets with habitats suitable to whatever intelligent life evolves there. In that case, an interplanetary civilization would merely require reaching the other habitable planet, not trying to change its environment.
Excellent legal analysis, but misses the point completely. These college Presidents are getting pilloried because they are perceived as being supportive of the same people who say “words are violence” in other contexts: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/07/nyt-opinion-bennet-...

These are the same people who said Trump’s anti-China rhetoric caused anti-Asian hate crimes. If we take them at their word about that, what does their newfound nuance in this context say?
> For video games, an analogy could be limiting to people who bought the game on steam, but not limiting to people who ever installed and played it.

I think he is accounting for that. Especially since the thesis has a recursive nature to it. In fact, he does even step down one level. I don't think a person with 1200 hrs is considered a non-participant.
60V DC is the upper limit for circuits that untrained personnel can work on and be exposed to as listed in IEC 62368-1. This is the standard that most consumer goods and IT stuff use to validate and verify electrical safety. 60V isn't going to be hazardous to a person in basically any situation.
I disagree.

One of the major issues in LLMs is the economics; a lot of people suspect ChatGPT loses money on every user, or at least every heavy user, because they've got a big model and A100 GPUs are expensive and in short supply.

They're kinda reluctant to have customers, with API rate limits galore, and I've heard people claiming ChatGPT has lost the performance crown having switched to a cheaper-to-run model.

If google had a model that operated on video in realtime, that would imply they've got a model that performs well, and is also very fast or that their 'TPUs' outperform the A100 quite a bit, either of which would be a big step forward.
What makes "because we have a good excuse" more plausible of an explanation compared to the straightforward one (ie. "macroeconomic conditions have changed, money has gotten scarcer, and the management and/or shareholders are reacting accordingly by cutting costs and increasing prices")?
Emacs: Artist Mode (2006)
> but you never know if these is some NSA chip or some other exploit build in that the Graphene OS

I wouldn't be surprised if there were some backdoor in the Qualcomm chip the fairphone 5 uses or the radios in other phones. Without open hardware you really can't trust anything. Not when we know we're all being constantly spied on by the state and by the corporations who design/manufacture our hardware.