skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So yes, the core idea of technical debt resonates with developers, but not with business stakeholders.

I think that if this is the case, you are presenting it wrong. Business types are very familiar with the tradeoffs of debt financing, you have present it as being paid in effort vs. $ (which after all, have a close relationship) and they will immediately understand that a large technical debt means you can get less desired stuff done for the same input of effort. And then you collectively decide.

Agree you have to be careful about what you present as technical debt. If you need buy in from the business side, you don't want them thinking "that's just what they say when they want more time, it doesn't mean anything". It has to be pretty concrete.
Everything about Rolex is average at best and overpriced mass Produced machine watches at worst.
I don’t think this naturally follows from the article.

If I’m reading it correctly, they’ve only retracted their statements about the amount of missing merchandise attributable to organized crime.

This article does not seem to dispute the volume of missing merchandise or the volume of retail theft, only the amount of that attributable to organized crime.
I clicked on this thinking I would learn how to escape a shipping container if I ever got trapped in one ;)
That would be the volume of traffic being sent over DoH compared to the volume of traffic from every recursive and authoritative dns servers that support dnssec.

It would interesting to see statistics. I wouldn't assume anything in that race. Some TLD's which are signed has quite a lot of traffic going through them on any given day, and most resolvers connecting to those have dnssec enabled by default. There are published statistics for this, but I can't find anything similar from either google or cloudflare.
道 (dao) means "the way of doing thing" in modern-day Chinese as well. For instance, 王道 means the "the way of governing". 路 is more common for the literal meaning of "road", though 道 has a meaning of both "road" and "waterway" as well.
Given the dubiousness of their original number, I am taking all of that with a grain of salt.

This page[0] lists the 2022 shrinkage for a few companies, and said Target was at $753M. Target is a huge national brand. Are there really ~100x more companies of Target's size experiencing equal shrinkage annually? How does the math work to get to $95B?

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/08/this-is-how-much-money-retai...
TIL, one more terrible design I can thank Google for!

Maybe in another 30 years we’ll get a properly symmetrical design with something approaching lighting’s durability.
I’m really struggling to find a use case for these local models when even ChatGPT 3.5 can do it as good as any of them so far.
Phone with camera inside screen [video]
I didn’t know this was possible. The RedMagic 9 Pro puts the camera and fingerprint sensors in between the LED diodes. Very cool tech-wise.
Honestly I never gave it a try because I don’t really take notes on my phone. PC all the time for me.
Exactly. Don't give the poors money, they'll just waste it. After all, if they were actually responsible, they wouldn't be poor in the first place. And because poors by definition are irresponsible, they shouldn't have children, so we shouldn't support poor kids.
AGI won't happen

LLMs will improve asymptotically

Self driving will happen so badly it's put back in a box for another decade

Fusion experiments will get higher net energy yields but still won't be sustaining.

There may be a collision in LEO.

Increased launches mean at least some chance of fatality in ISS and other human space activity

Taiwan won't be invaded

Ukraine won't give up fighting

Covid will continue

Some small increments in cancer treatment will enter service.

5G and 6G will be boringly similar to existing data networking

More European economies will supply most energy during summer daylight hours from renewable sources.

The gulf stream won't disappear but will become less
predictable

No jetpacks or flying electric taxis. Maybe more delivery robots, but not self driving taxis

X's bankers will demand Musk reign himself in and he'll ignore them.

The US election will be a torrid shitshow.

Labor will return to power in the UK just as most of Europe turns right and becomes more insular.
As a prompt "An aircraft enough like a 737 that pilots don't need to recertify but with newer engines", what could go wrong?
Yeah because blockchain and NFTs totally solve the problem of Internet fraud.
This is why I've always liked Omega. Not as high status as Rolex, but a luxury watch nonetheless, and one you can easily purchase direct online.
How are you still in business when everyone will use Teslas standard chargers?
Ahh, sorry, I misread! Thanks for the recs. There have been a few other mic recommendations in the thread, so I'll have to figure out what my next upgrade will be.
Taxes are too passive. I want the FTC to be able to break up companies on an ongoing basis a la standard oil.
> You think CVS doesnt have granular numbers on shoplifting?

Take a look at what CVS disclosed in official shareholder reports

> Whether they report those publicly is another story

Well, no, if they have evidence of a massive material increase in organized shoplifting and don't disclose that, it's securities fraud. Conversely, if they make false material claims in direct shareholder reports, that's also fraud.
Is this based on emotion or are there facts to back this up? Would love to read about it if it's the latter?
Conquistadores Del Cielo
Rolex have innovated consistently with their movements and oyster cases, and their manufacturing quality is amazing. Their business practices are questionable though, as the article highlights. I can walk into an AD today and walk out with a Grand Seiko Snowflake. Contrast this with a Rolex AD who will put me on a “waiting list”, even though I’ve purchased from them before and own a few Rolex watches.
Okay, call them unnecessary status symbols for people to show their wealth. See also fancy cars, gaudy diamond rings. They are kind of in that category.
Note that this article makes the claim that merchandise that is stolen by opportunistic criminals and then later sold to organized fencing operations is not "organized retail crime".

With large organized criminal gangs providing financial incentives to independent opportunistic thieves, then it's all absolutely organized crime.

It's absurd to suggest otherwise. If an organized gang or cartel pays a independent opportunistic hitman to kill a target, it's organized crime.

San Francisco has extremely large fencing operations that operate with impunity right on the open street! They buy items all the way from single items of soap and hand wash all the way up to stolen TVs. The feds are doing nothing for some reason. [1]

[1] https://sfist.com/2023/09/23/a-known-fencing-operation-for-s...
That sounds like bad policing being blamed on technology.
Here’s how to feel about it: MYOB.

If the dealers don’t like the terms, they can sell other brands and need to stop tattling to Maman.

Of all the problems, busybodies decided this was the important one to make a stand on. Fixing potholes in the roads would be more worthwhile. Kids are sleeping cold and hungry in the streets, but sacré bleu at not being able to point-and-drool for a fancy watch.

So-called Competition “Authorities” everywhere can go pound sand.
The $5B must be viewed in the context of roughly $5T in revenue: https://nrf.com/research-insights/state-retail

So we're talking .1% of retail revenue. Not that I'm fond of thieves, let alone organized ones, but it does not seem an existential threat to me at this level.

As a comparison, eliminating cashiers in favor of automated checkout solutions is estimated to a loss of about 1% of revenue: https://www.winsightgrocerybusiness.com/technology/self-chec...
RISC-V resembles RISC and RISC-2 much more closely than it does MIPS.

MIPS was inspired by RISC, not the other way around.
It's almost a shotgun house, which is weirdly common in some places despite being THE WORST architectural style for homes. I lived in one once, and having to walk through the bedroom to get from one side to the other is just as bad as it sounds. Bad for couples, even worse for roommates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_house
plan for offline mode, and a webrtc as server mode.

that's pretty much the gold standard I'm headed for.
In practice none of that is true, the cables hold up fine and the ports wear out. Lightning was a FAR superior design and form factor to USB-C, where what you’re suggesting was actually the case.

I have never encountered an iPhone with a dead lightning port, it’s always the cable that wears out. There’s tons of laptops and android phones with worn out USB-C ports
Because shopping for things behind plexiglass is such a major hassle that people won't bother purchasing at all?

Time never moves slower than waiting for an indeterminate time, possibly forever, for someone to come to open the plexiglass for you, especially as you're not even sure the button you pressed to call for help even worked.
Good point -- in this case I'm using the URL it passes back, which was the only information it had. The original one was passed either as base64 encoded or a URL. IIRC the URL they passed back was random-feeling, but I'd have to look to check it out. Its possible that the initial URL encoded a little more, depending on how the filename works, but my guess is that the model is good enough that, say, "royce_hall.jpeg" wouldn't change it too drastically, especially not over time...
Rolex, LVMH, Ferrari, and those who try to falsely limit distribution are the path forward for luxury. It’s clear that main stream culture eats up a canvas bag with no defining quality features or a machine made watch that can be copied for 200$ nearly perfectly as long as they feel it’s exclusive.

It’s a bit of a bummer because several other brands have tried to sell on actual quality struggle. Artificial scarcity is just too strong a draw.
I am white born and bred (with British parents) but I did actually originally move here to live with my brother who's a part of the LGBTQ community and was excited to be in an area with supportive folks.

Part of the reason I stay here is because I love to be around non-English languages, particularly Spanish and Portuguese. My kids first words have always been a mix of Spanish and English (thanks to our awesome spanish-speaking nannny), which I think is awesome. I hope they can continue to hear many accents and languages in their childhood.
As an Asian being sweaty in the summer is the worst part. My dad grew up in Bangladesh (in a village with no AC) and now even Maryland is too much for his taste.
Nuke plants gradually deteriorate due to the neutron flux which causes atomic
displacements in atoms. This is a particular problem in the containment vessel.
Forty years of intense bombardment weakens the structure.
I think the glossary is defining variable names as given in the paper. I found this confusing when I originally read the paper as the authors assume that the reader knows what B, L, D and N stand for. I had to use explainpaper to figure it out.
I'm not really following. Scalping prices = market value. The "problem" is that authorized dealers were selling watches at market value rather than at some other price at retail?
Is the layout of that house normal?

The garage, storage, office and bedroom are all a single "room" with no corridor, leaving you with no way to close of any of these spaces (for privacy) without blocking off other parts of the house to the rest of the occupants?
The free standard autopilot on teslas makes highway driving much less taxing. I also have an ICE car, but will always take the Tesla on long road trips. Charging stops make the trip take maybe 10% longer, but that’s fine with me.
This is silly. Their movements are among the most accurate out there, putting watch movements by other highly esteemed brands like Patek Philippe to shame
I've got a similar app in process. ultimately, the value of these apps if open source seem to be in cloud server setups.

I'm working to get a webrtc type light server
> I might despise Musk, and I'm not a fan of Tesla lately

I’m getting sick of this tiptoeing in every thread that mentions Tesla. No ones going to come to your house and beat you if you say something positive, un-hedged, about Tesla
In reality, there's no reason there cannot be two implementations, with the correct one automatically selected on build according to architecture.
FWIW, technically Disney bought "21st Century Fox".

Fox is still an independent media company which owns the Fox TV channel, Fox News, and Fox Sports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation
I was going to say—i've rolled a lot of 5-pin and pretty much every alley i've been to was string-set. It didn't take away from the game imo, so i'm a little surprised about people's complaining that its going to ruin the game.

perhaps the strings need to be shorter in 10-pin to prevent tangling, which has an effect on things.
That hasn't been my experience charging outside in the northwest with average winter temperatures.

But the charger does power a heater to keep the batteries around freezing, so you're right, it's better to charge in a garage. And cold weather causes additional losses, but I would expect no more than 20% or so. I lose 10% range just by running the dashboard heater.
Is it really a Veblen goods when the ROI on marketing/social status increases appropriately?

In the same way a company can pay for marketing, buying a rolex/lambo is like exchanging fiscal currency for social currency.

We don't call buying 100k in adsense a veblen good but buying a 100k watch is?
Ok so you trust the dealer explicitly, and you are paying them each time to keep providence. What does the NFT buy you when you could just ask Rolex?
So like is “sophisticated threats” a passive-aggressive way of saying “Beeper”?
The retracted statistics weren't about the total amount stolen. They were about the percentage stolen by organized retail theft rings.

It still makes sense to lock up your inventory if you're seeing a high rate of theft, regardless of whether it's organized crime or not.
"Seem to have" is relevant. There's an entire industry focused around renting you a mansion in the hills, Ferrari, Rolex, chain, cameras and lighting equipment... For 4 hours so you can do your Insta shoot and head back to your normal life.

Also, anybody can get a credit card and build a credit limit relatively quickly that will buy (though not pay for) multiple Rolexes.
> It’s a Ponzi scheme predicated on never ending growth.

It's a government run pension, that pays for itself. The only reason it's low on money is because it's been stolen from, often by the same people who then say it's "out of money" and needs to be "reformed".
Their businesses are failing because they’re mismanaged and online retailers are putting them out of business. Blaming a made up retail theft boogeyman distracts from their incompetence and hopefully keeps stock prices and golden parachutes up a little longer.
Man-in-the-Middle encryption just don't sell as well...
Many companies are removing self checkout because of this so I'm not sure that's a great example.
Nike and other brands have deals with many third party retailers that prevent those retailers from offering discounts on their items. How is this different than that?
"Escapes" is a vaguely defined term, but considering basic escalation of privilege:

- Networking is the obvious one in this scenario. By default (on Docker/LXC/others) all containers are on the same virtual bridge and can communicate with each other. Even with some additional configuration and isolation it is possible to MITM attack other containers on the same host.

- It is very easy to DDoS adjacent containers e.g. by spamming signals, forking new processes, creating files. There is again no default safeguard against this.
Have you spent any significant amount of time in one of them before?
Drinking the cool-aid.

add 2 more sheep to the herd
After extensive judicial proceedings it was found that Rolex wasn't French.
NYC resident here. Not sure where you are spending time, but I have not seen anything like that where I live and work: Midtown, upper west, upper east, greenwich village, Chelsea, Brooklyn.
I had the exact same thought! That would make a very interesting article.

Related video :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-trd_f6j3eI
I'm really looking forward to the future of this area, especially parallel developments in image-to-CAD. It would be incredible to get an accurate model by taking a couple of photos and then inputting measurements. Sure, you can 3D-scan something, but that makes a messy point cloud when real world objects are mostly make out of primitives that could be far more exactly duplicated.
I'm surprised to see the desk with her computer and stuff right next to the bed where toddler sleeps. I guess she packs it all away or somehow makes it toddler proof each evening.
I think public policy experts sorely underestimate how many individuals have more than 1 apartment for themselves.

Here in Los Angeles, I know a handful of people that have apartments in radically different parts of the city, just for practicality and convenience. Just renting. Nothing anybody brags about given how awkward struggling people will make that, but if you got it like that there is no reason to experience LA, you can totally exempt yourself from the commutes and hellishness and have somewhere to decompress in whichever part of the city you are in. I've sublet for months this way too, while retaining a headquarters that I rent elsewhere.
The framing of this as being turned "upside-down by technology" is a bit weird. Surely the string solution is the much lower tech way of dealing with this than the pin setting machines?
Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount in merger talks
Thanks for the recs! It's so hard to decide when/whether to upgrade my mic. Would Rode Procaster be better than the Elgato Wave:3 (what I have now)? They seem to cost similarly.
Do you have any specific recs? Happy to research mic upgrades.
When I started working from home in earnest, I had to be really strict with the rest of the family about bursting into my office. They had to knock, then wait for permission to enter, and only then were they allowed to open the door. If they just barged in then they would be asked to leave. It took months to get them used to this idea.

It might sound unnecessarily pompous but really it’s just enforcing some basic courtesy.
Only for mass attacks. A targeted attack will encounter the risk of the attacker being exposed.

Think journalists, politicians, public figures
Performance and Storage Comparison Between Pathfinder and Juno
Yep, the sim racing experience in a real car...
We compared the performance and storage usage between Juno and Pathfinder, the results are a bit unexpected
Software engineers forget that the general public isn't capable of or willing to generate a private key and keep it secure for the long term. It's a deal breaker. Crypto isn't the answer.

It's also over engineering. A serial number and a registration process can go a long way.
If you ask your university nicely they may provide rack space for you.

Universities love when students take initiative and build/maintain servers. My university had a student apprentice program where students provided technical expertise to departments as a work study program. And my colleague in the program had a deal with the CS department where they hosted his game server for him. Since he was learning valuable server administration skills and working with other students they approved it.

It’s an easier sell if you ask to put it in the DMZ and if there’s some benefit for other students.
Nobody defends crime. What people oppose is goofy and demonstrably false political narratives about how we should all be afraid of cities as bastions of crime etc etc. Nice try.
I own a couple of Rolexes, neither were purchased from an AD simply because I live in a place that has no ADs and I'm not travelling hours to play the AD waitlist game.

I say this is a good move. You should be able to sell them online. The second-hand dealers do it and it works fine.

This also doesn't really affect the exclusivity of the product either. The ADs still get to control supply and will still probably not sell to people unless they know them (which sucks).
These have been around in the U.S. for generations.
It’s kinda crazy if they can cite you for not selling your product on a platform that didn’t even exist 100 years ago. I bet the reasoning is going to be very rich and well articulated.
I think the only answer is you fire up the sawzall your captor neglected to remove before they locked you inside. Also hope there are some earplugs, because you are going to be deaf before you can cut an escape hatch.
This lead me down a really cool rabbit hole:

"How long would it take to throw one of these between two ISS ships spaced one AU apart"

Here is the conversation - I started by asking it to define terms based on the spec sheet from Neumann, so I could fully understand how to read it. Then I wanted to figure out how these little guys would fly in space.

https://chat.openai.com/share/b43cca9d-0eeb-4ee0-9639-043c62...

I learned a ton about Specific Impulse, the Rocket Equation, and it lead to GPT breaking, but we came up with the formula - but before I could arrive at specific numbers - GPT race-conditioned and hallucinated on the responses. [0], [1]...

But the journey was really cool.

https://i.imgur.com/o0ivPy1.png
https://i.imgur.com/7Y8ScUk.png*
Collectors of Rolexes live in a bizarre netherworld where their watches aren’t mass produced machine made. This isn’t even a secret it’s openly stated. It made of few to no precious materials and is engineering a problem (time keeping) that has been solved in a variety of ways already to super accuracy.

The reality is that a microscopically accurate replica can be made for 300$ in china. This isn’t true for A Lange or FP Journe, yet somehow people act like Rolex is unobtanium.

They are simply the same as an LVMH canvas bag. Objects of desire because they are expensive and have no other unique features. I could get into details like how a blue hairspring is not that special or their movements are fine but nothing outstanding. But most don’t want to go that deep.

Think of it like Bose. They sound good to someone who hasn’t heard anything else good.
> Are you sure? I was a tourist in the US in 2021 and were really surprised by even inexpensive non-prescription products being locked down behind plexiglass at stores like Walgreens or Walmart, things priced below $25.

> Either the retailers are being brain-dead by discouraging purchases or theft is a massive real problem.

In NYC Walgreens locations, the store brand versions for many products are not actually locked up, but the branded versions are and require you to wait for an employee.

It's a subtle move, but once you're aware of it you see how prevalent it is.
They solve it by not supporting 99% of the hardware that linux supports.
It is, being a century or so old!
Rolex aren't the best watches but they keep value pretty well for a bunch of models. Some of the grey market prices they charge are pretty ridiculous even wit h prices going down.

Personally I prefer to spend the same amount of money on a nice Lange* than a Rolex. I think the only place where you can get a Rolex is in an airport store.

*=you might still have to wait for your watch to get made.
It is a standing desk, so sometimes I raise it, if the little ones are messing with stuff. They usually have more fun destroying the rest of the house, however. :)
Seems like Apple is tacitly acknowledging that sophisticated actors have successfully been man-in-the-middling iMessage users. I wonder if they have clear evidence of that since I haven’t seen any coverage on this.
it's been a few months since that post. looking forward to the complete technical walkthrough of their implementation.
Sometimes even from Costco.
This feels very much like the "Android is way better than iOS, why pay more?" argument