skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday I had a chat bot take my order at a Checkers drive-through. It was surreal as it answered my questions and read me off the list of sauces that could accompany my chicken.

It happily accepted my request to add a caramel sundae to my order, but once I arrived at the drive-through window and informed me that they were out of ice cream. "She just does whatever she wants," said the cashier. "We would tell her that the ice cream machine is broken, and she'll reply with ' alright checkers.' but still happily ring up costumers for the ice cream."
Better question - why is America so expensive?
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yes, arguably vintage is singleton vintage :D
Blaming this on politicians takes voters off the hook too much. There are plenty of homeowners, and ironically, pro-rental groups, strongly advocating for policies that limit supply of new housing.
More info about the 4 year delay, changes to the management/publication structure, and more are on the blog, which perhaps the post should link to instead:

https://pagedout.institute/?page=blog.php#entry-2023-12-18
I think an e-book is a great idea, but Kindle Unlimited never has anything I want to read. I’m not saying they don’t have items I would read, but when I go to find a book I’ve heard about, it’s not available there.
Instead I just Libby through my local libraries and OReilly through my work. Those are services I’d pay Kindle Unlimited subscription prices for if not already available.
I'm writing it as I go. There's an annual challenge called threadapalooza where you write 100 tweets on a subject in December
ADHD as a self diagnosis is a plague. As a medical diagnosis it is consistently overdiagnosed, and dangerously underdefined.

It's largely the verbalisation of personality trait arrangement:
If on the BIG FIVE you are:
- Low in Conscientiousness
- Low in Agreeableness
- High in Neuroticism
- Posses an above average IQ, but a below average working memory due to poor prefrontal cortical development (not entirely causal but partially causal for above personality elements)

You will suffer from the "symptoms" of ADHD. Typically, unstable or volatile childhood environments are seen as a key driver of this.
Sure, if the Fed is prescient. There's lag in the system, so to prevent inflation the Fed would have to predict supply shocks several months in advance.
Didn't work at all.
This was a good presentation. I liked how he didn't pull punches, but was also friendly with the audience. It was an intervention, more than a confrontation.
Maybe, but it also seems fraudulent for the car dealership to act like you are talking to a human when you are really talking to a computer program
Given the per-minute parking regs sometimes seen in the UK, this might be a rational approach.
The risk-reward here is out of balance for SMB, so while we could just not pay it was more headache not to. Here is hoping for some class action. Perhaps small claims but its pretty frustrating that a company as large as Adobe has this in place.
A comment above yours says that these scrap-processing mini-mills are more labor-intensive to operate, which is why most of them are in China. So... yes, seriously, a citation is needed for your claim.
Why do you say that, and how does it work? Are you making a completely different statement than the point the parent was making? Sure you usually need to sell something in order to get the profit, but that doesn’t mean that the good or service or it’s quality was prioritized above getting any profit, which is what I think parent was talking about.

Generally speaking, private non-subsidized companies that offer goods and services for sale cannot actually survive without any profit, right? They can bootstrap for a while with investment, but they tend to die, statistically speaking, if they prioritize goods and services over profit. The way companies tend to survive death is by doing everything they can to ensure that the sale of their goods or services generates a profit. You might also be temporarily forgetting that it’s also incredibly common for companies to pivot on what products they make and sell whenever they’re not making enough profit.

TBH it actually seems really funny to me argue about which comes first, because the kind of company we’re talking about needs both, it doesn’t otherwise exist. But the idea parent shared, that profit takes the highest priority, is often absolutely true in practice, many companies will do everything they can to avoid not making a profit, from lowering the quality of their goods and services, to coming up with other more profitable products, to merging with another company that has more customers for your product and/or a longer runway.
The link provides data about the question, but it doesn't answer the question. Here's a thought: https://fortune.com/europe/2023/12/08/greedflation-study/
The problem isn't the API. If I build a service using the S3 API but run it on my own infrastructure, that's competition to Amazon. If I somehow write a system that uses Amazon's S3 infrastructure without Amazon's approval, I'm probably violating the CFAA.

Beeper's problem isn't implementing the iMessage API but providing access to Apple's infrastructure without authorization.
Don't worry middle-class and below in the future will: not be able to buy cars, not able to use fossil fuel in any way, very limited in what steel products they can buy.
Who is “we”? I would guess you are describing the garden-variety US “cafeteria Catholic.”

But different Catholic populations around the world have different degrees of dogmatism, and papal statements like this can have profound human rights impacts in the long run.
The EU's Digital Services Act permits the gathering of evidence and enforcement activities to be conducted confidentially behind closed doors. It does not require the EU to make their evidence available to the public, particularly when information is considered to be sensitive. This approach aims to preserve the integrity of the investigation and to protect the rights of involved parties.

Once such a law is passed there is no right to public scrutiny. While certain aspects of the process may not be open to public scrutiny, this does not entirely preclude the public's right to some level of transparency as it is stipulated that any decisions taken will be widely publicised (paragraph 101). That is, once they've made their judgement the matter will be settled and a superficial amount of information will be released to the public.

This is exactly why I think it's so important for us to speak openly about the speech rights we expect on the platforms we use and the level of policing of speech we're happy for there to be. If we don't do so, lawmakers can and do pass draconian laws that take these considerations away from us, and at this point we have little recourse to rollback our loss of freedom.

I'm not a free speech absolutist but believe that it's incredibly wrongheaded to try to argue away conversation about this as being without evidence particularly after lawmakers passed laws that denied us this same evidence. Blithely allowing lawmakers to pass laws that enable confidential evaluation of evidence limiting public scrutiny, but then afterwards criticising public discourse for lacking evidence without acknowledging that access to such evidence has been restricted by the same laws -- what a manipulative argument/framing!

The whole conversation on speech rights is also incorrectly centered in my opinion, as freedom of speech rights are centered on the speaker instead of the audience/public. I personally find myself advocating the following approach to speech rights:

> "It’s not just the right of the person who speaks to
> be heard, it is the right of everyone in the audience
> to listen and to hear."
See https://terrapin-attack.com/
And more specifically, are you just a bot? You seem like a bot based on your post history.
Here's how a monopoly hearing would work against iMessage:

Apple: We do not restrict who you can talk to on iPhone

Prosecutor: but the bubble is green and my friends won't talk to me :(
The truth is probably somewhere between yours and Invictus0 comment
Because the Catholic Church is top-down and tries to be unified, unlike other churches that are bottom up and therefore more chaotic.

The Pope's job is to figure out how to keep the Church unified in matters like this.

This is the issue of our time. Centuries from now, other issues will split the opinions of individual church members but the Pope's of the future will continue to try to keep the Church unified despite those issues.

> We completely ignore most of our holy text anyway

Biblical Literalism is heretical. The Church has always placed emphasis on tradition

Catholic Faith Mysteries like the Assumption of Mary were never in the Bible but instead a tradition of the Catholic Church. From the start or at least documented to nearly the start of our Religion: we got documentation of these traditions dated to like 300ish A.D.
Please illuminate us. How is this misinformed?
Yeah. Considering the Soviets had just killed millions of Ukrainians in the Holodomar when WWII started, I don't think from the Ukrainian perspective either group invading Ukraine at the time was the 'good side'. Many Ukrainians thought siding with Germany was their best chance to gain an independent country after the war. Unfortunately, we know now that the Nazis were never going to let that happen, and it did lead a lot of Ukrainians to collaborate with the Nazis in committing terrible atrocities. But it was a much more complicated situation than that they fought for the bad side. "Slava Ukraini" reflects their desire then and now for independent self rule, not any moral failings during WWII.
> they (politicians) limit the number of new builds,

This theory doesn't work very well, because there are lots of places where new construction is entirely uncapped (politicians are desperate for the new property tax growth), and prices still don't fall there. Prices are lower there than SF/NYC comparables, sure, but still up 300% over the past decade, and still rising every year.

I know everyone takes Econ 101, and then nothing else, but there's a lot more to pricing than just "supply v demand". We have lots of markets with high prices despite adequate supply, or even despite major oversupplies.

> Imagine if it was 'flooded': the diamond market would collapse.

The diamond market was already flooded decades ago (we can literally manufacture diamonds without mining now) and the market still did not collapse.

And of course, the supply price of diamond stones has almost nothing to do with the cost of a diamond ring, which is why Zales can still charge thousands of dollars for a loose diamond stone, that can be infinitely manufactured in lab for less than 1/4th of that price

Prices are almost never supply vs demand. And in a capitalist economy, prices are almost never competitive.
Most chinese workers (and foreigners working in China) are in a union, however run by the communist party.
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The website doesn’t explain why things are expensive, it just presents the comparison between search terms frequency. Also, data visualization for “Top categories by country and year” reminds me how pimple cream companies illustrate pimples.
That seems eminently plausible to me. When I was growing up (and still the case for my parents, some of my childhood friends, etc.) at-home downtime meant TV time. This could easily be hours a day, especially on weekends.
It's not really a "get away with it" when you need more to afford the other increasing prices, though.
It's not exactly unheard of. One feature that makes unions in the United States different from other countries is that they tend to have a more adversarial relationship with employers and the government. Sectoral bargaining is very rare, if it exists at all. Union laws are a patchwork of left- and right-wing administrations' attempts to undermine each other. American culture, in particular the prominence of Manichaean narratives, may play a role in making different groups see each other as "evil" and willing to do underhanded things, whether it's the UFCW planting an ABC news story about Food Lion or Amazon ignoring labor laws to fire unionizing workers. The teacher's union and police union serve as bogeymen for one or the other political party. Advocating compromise is often met with scorn.
Brave figured this out long ago with their BAT system IMO. Basically automated micropayments for content consumption (I mean, Basic Attention Token, what's in a name). You can either buy BAT directly or watch private-by-default ads, which takes away one of the biggest ethical qualms one can have with adblocking too.

I know that HN has a prety small but ultra-vocal minority that will hate on Brave any chance they get, so expect a lot of disparaging comments.
Prices increase when costs go up. If you’re selling widgets and your wholesale price goes up, you have to increase the retail price or your margins drop.
The Catholic Church has never stated that the Bible is infallible. That's why the Papal doctrine even exists. They knew very early that the Bible was not only fallible but also contradictory in many points.

Only after Martin Luther is that the idea of "Sola Scriptura" was popularized.
Only 90%?

Take for example elo ranking in video games

Top10% or top5% may sound good

But the gap between top10% and top1% (let alone top 0.1%) is so huge that you could say that those ppl barely understand this game

Same when top 1% is matched against 0.1%
Nothing convenient. Bits and pieces here and there, tons of forums, a few videos, a bunch of books, a few specialists who gave good advice.

The inbound temperature into the radiator network took a dive from about 70°C to about 40°C here (I _could_ push the inbound temp to nearly 50°C but by then I'm no better off than with resistive heating), and that's rather obvious when heating the rooms.

The main advice everything came down to was "have a lot of surface that can heat" and from my experience that seems to be quite true.

The house has a bunch of radiators that never ran in the nat-gas days, basically it was overcommitted on heating surface. Now they're pretty well used. Another retrofit option that I had in the back of my head was radiators equipped with a fan to move the air along the radiator surface more quickly (essentially creating "virtual heating surface"), but I didn't need those.

Other than that, warm and cold parts of the house (e.g. basement) are more clearly separated. A FLIR camera module for my phone gave some hints on where heat escapes so that I could focus on the right spots.

When a larger rework of a room is due (and there's a huge mess in any case), that's a chance to look into floor or wall heating there, connected to the same system.

Once that's (mostly) done, I suppose the inbound temperature can be reduced some more, and I expect super-linear electricity savings from that (due to the way the heat pump works).

In terms of costs, it comes out at about the same, although there are more options in electricity availability, and I suspect that pricing there remains more stable than with fossil fuels, so longer-term I expect operating costs to develop beneficially (even if that only means "remains flat"). TCO of the project, I don't know, but I was optimizing for long-term OpEx for various reasons.

By the way: Heating engineers tended to dismiss the project, but the project started before there were any issues with gas supply, so "just use gas" was their go-to solution anyway (for the eco-conscious, they dangled the carrot of "it's H2 ready!", even though it's unlikely that the pipe work will ever support that). Not sure if the attitude of heating engineers changed in the meantime.

In the end it was done by air conditioning technicians, and it can be switched between heating mode using radiators and AC with split system frontends, so this house covers cold winters and hot summers with just one external device (which pleases the historical landmark office)
Hey, listen, please note that our menu has reciently changed, and due to unexpected call volumes, you're just going to have to wait it out. Don't hang up or you'll have to start over.
Photoshop is one of the best pieces of software, period.

Premier is, well, the premier photo editing app.

Every designer knows illustrator. UX/UI is just a subset of design.

Many web developers who were around before the HTML5 era will swear by Dreamweaver.
Yeah all of this is just a lot of work and decisions, and rolling a dice just feels weird and unfair. I do pay for YT premium which distributes money across my views which is therefore somewhat fair, and I'm considering a Nebula subscription (if Curiosity Stream's sign up flow doesn't persuade me not to again).

I wish that Patreon had a support format where I could pay, say, $20 a month to Patreon and have that spread between whoever I'm supporting in a way that's cost efficient on payment fees and stuff like that.

It doesn't help though that individual creators price very highly relative to the amount of their content I consume. Fundamentally, a podcast is just not worth $10 a month to me because if I lost access I'd just listen to a different one.
Youtube is a platform business. Being in the top 5 is everything because that's how you get creators and consumers. If Youtube fell to #27, it would be a ghost town and lose a ton of money.

But steel is just steel. You make it and then you sell it. If you make money, great. That is what US Steel does. They make steel, they sell it at a profit. I call that a win.
While this may be a particularly dangerous way of thinking[1], it might be good that everything on the internet is becoming obviously fake, AI-generated junk.

So that peoples attitude toward things that are real or borderline but are manipulated by bad actors, whatever their motivations may be, also lose some of their influence over the public.

And (hopefully) the public becomes more skeptical about everything on the internet.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
1st hand info / network. I'm a CEO. YC Founder and Techstars founder. My CFO is a fractional CFO that works with other startups clients, same stories.

This kind of information and what really goes on behind the scenes is rarely revealed. Mainly because if I told you about the shitstorm story of a top tier VC trying to buy my company and the deal exploding, that VC will do everything in their power to bury the story and make sure I'm personally not able to operate in the industry in the future.

The people at the top of tech are cut throat individuals. (And the people at the "top of tech" are not CEOs... they're the investors. The people who sit on boards who you never hear about. And that's the way they like it)
There was https://flattr.com/ and, more recently, https://twitter.com/coil

But, yes, a complete chicken-and-egg problem.
What would you want Figma to do that Adobe cannot do itself?

In the end 3 probes is way too much legal tape for even Adobe to step into hence the abandoned deal being cheaper in the long run than fighting to acquire Figma.
Wake me up when it can do precise 400led 2D mapping under 10seconds and even not be picky about ambient lighting conditions at all like Twinky.
Or ones that outright are dishonest. Had a slew of fraudulent returns on ebay and called only for humans to waste my time and end up saying "I will submit this to some-other-department and I very much expect the case to be ruled in your favor" only for them to send me an email an hour later saying the ruled against me. This happened like 3 times in the span of three months. I eventually learned I can't get all of my money back if a buyer trashes my item on purpose, returns it to me in a literal pile of ewaste pieces, and thoroughly document everything and bring it to ebay. I've been selling for 15 years, too.

It seems like customer service nowadays is just to wait the customer out. Mercari made me send 8 unique photos in order to get a return...wtf? Just waste their time and make them jump through as many hoops as possible I guess so that they give up. I feel like in a decade online retail returns will be the equivalent to cancelling gym memberships.
Bots are great for FAQ kind of stuff and you don't have to wait on the phone for "the next available representative" and listening to the answering service continually proclaiming "your call is important to us."

Use your judgement as to whether you should be working with a bot or a human. Conflating matters, some bats are backed by humans. If there are things they don't know they'll ping a human to provide an answer. Not all bots are like that though.
> mass immigration.

What are the statistics?
Maybe if Google could figure out how to build decent search experience in general…
> Apple is stopping unauthorized access a private network they run.

In order to prevent competition, Apple does not provide services like Beeper an authorized way to pay for access to their messaging protocol.
This is a take that would take serious evidence to convince me of. Population growth rates been declining in every western country to the point where, even with immigration, many are below replacement.
Lawmakers make the law. They have to consider not only what is currently illegal but also what should be illegal. Just because Apple is currently allowed to block access from competitors doesn't mean they should be allowed to.
How is this an issue? You can easily wire up to 999 million with just a mobile device any work day.

If you think im joking no I’ve designed it for major banks.
Yes seriously. You backed up your answer with nothing.
Isn't that just inpanting? Stable Diffusion has had it for a while.

Eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1_sq-i_5U

You can do that with any part of the image, this video shows a face sample.
You would just need 1 api connection to your bank, which there are many options for these days.
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Laravel offers an elegant method-calling feature called Facades. At first glance, they resemble static methods, but well, they are not! What kind of magic is Laravel doing?
At the same time some industries and their major businesses are strategically important enough to warrant government support.
See the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555629
My guess is because it violates the HN Guidelines.

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime,
or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence
of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of
pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures.
If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably
off-topic. "

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You should probably check out the FAQ, too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
This is better than most human content on Facebook.

Lol
It's not really the UK regulator's fault though, if anything they were the best as they gave their response first (a provisional no). The EU was still investigating and the US DOJ was also preparing similar investigations. The CMA also provided Adobe with a list of changes they could make in order for the application to be approved, so it's not even like they were unwilling to entertain it.

As we saw with the Blizzard acquisition the UK CMA will bend to international pressure if it's the only one holding out.
SCADA networks historically have very low available bandwidth (often due to being on the other end of a 10 mile radio link over 915 MHz with the radio & RTU powered by solar panels) and rely on a poll/response methodology. Even if nothing has changed, the poll happens, and the response sends the same exact data every poll. MQTT can be a far more efficient protocol if you only send updates. Multiply this situation by 1000x RTUs (now imagine you have a slightly better radio link from office to a remote tower, but that remote tower is communicating with 10x RTUs). You can see the need for efficient communication.

Now - realize this is how natural gas pipelines are monitored/controlled in the mountains. You want that kind of communication to be reliable and scalable right?
And none of what you said has anything to do with US Steel, so your point is?