skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think you meant to say revenue?

Yes, thanks.

>It is also the same mental frame every starving artist shares too. They are able to see the value in what they do despite not having a firm monetization strategy.

If you read the next sentence you can see I was gently incepting that along with the idea that successful people see value before they see the price they can attach to it. To even waste your time performing the economic calculation to determine the numbers you must first be motivated by something, there is a period of time however short between the idea and its technical analysis, the value you see and its monetization. Hey, that doesnt mean monetization isnt important, but it can be forestalled for important reasons like exploring the field or gaining experience, just as much as unimportant reasons, those, being subjective to the one paying the bills.
> I think it's a little disingenuous to make a comparison so extreme

If you mean the moonbeams, it was meant to lighten things up a bit. Sorry that didn't come through.

> Money doesn't make you happy, it's true. But there's a reason it's always presented as a dichotomy. It placates the masses.

I'm a bit lost on how that applies to artists who choose the tradeoff between making their art and wealth.
Yeah. I think that’s the intuition I have about this too. It rotates once by virtue of going around, and three times by virtue of the size of the big circle.

If you imagine a very tiny circle it’d still rotate a full time.
The coin around coin problem has its own wikipedia page, although some people want to delete it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_rotation_paradox
I tried to dig it out of the PHP source but without a local checkout it was non-obvious: I wonder if any such "synthetic rss feed" system honors the ETag and/or Last-Modified and/or cache headers of the target page, or if every rss feed refresh unconditionally loads the upstream page only to throw away 90% of the generated html

And that's not even getting into the raging tire fire that is akamai / cloudflare / whatever anti-bot technologies. I did see support for http proxies, but it wasn't clear if that was something one could set on a per-xpath-feed basis or whether the whole system had to run under one proxy (potentially $$$)
Hello, I wonder if carrying a heavy backpack for a long time will cause obvious damage to the shoulders. Otherwise, it seems very tempting to significantly increase the calories burned in the same period of time. After all, we are always short of time.
More than four would increase cost and wouldn’t necessarily be more accurate. I believe each LED emits Red, Blue or Infrared.

But these Apple Watches are not approved by the FDA as medical devices and are less accurate than a pulse oxomiter. Even FitBit doesn’t try to fool anyone.

So what’s the real market to add in measuring oxygen levels? Wellness? You have to not move to use it and we already know the measurements are not accurate.

Feels like they added it to sell more watches and seems like they really bought the farm this time
I absolutely hate Google Maps and its completely washed-out color scheme.A map should be easy to read instead of having to squint practically every time to work out where a boundary between one color and the next is. What's with the white and very-pale gray thing? Or a very-pale gray and a very-pale blue?

Google, please!, make your colors a bit more saturated so that those of us with weaker eyes can see what's what.
How are you buying seasons? I used to pay $30-40 for a season on DVD/itunes. Or $3/episode for shorter series.
The way I thought about it was to ask what happens if you just have a coin going around a point, which would be the natural end point of reducing the size of the second coin. That of course would give you 1, so a good first hypothesis is that the total is just however many spins the two coins go, plus 1.
The CLOSED() function, used after a RECEIVE() strikes as allowing a race.

Rather something like:

RXORCLOSE(c_j, v_j, VAR closed: BOOLEAN) DO Sj

as an additional guard seems necessary, otherwise these two send side sequences can not be distinguished:

SEND(ch, 'a'); SEND(ch, 'a'); CLOSE(ch)
SEND(ch, 'a'); CLOSE(ch)

Or am I missing something?

(and FWIW, discarding the SELECT() in favour of the WITH scheme would strike me as preferable)
Don't think it's wages that are the issue, it's the relentless need for profit growth. They've basically reached market saturation, so aside from stealing market share from other segments, they'll squeeze clients.
I distinctly recall having to solve a version of this in my 2nd grade math class. Only about half the class got it right.
I don't have any specific predictions as to how or why, but I think everything is going to get worse. In some cases, much worse.
This has been a huge contention point of Common Core and why so many kids had such huge problems with the overall test. Hard questions that seem/potentially-are vague, but are hard questions first.

Personally, I'm a big fan of what Gates was attempting to do, but I have teachers in my family who couldn't get rid of Common Core from their schools fast enough. Debates with them were never good and me, not being an operator, wouldn't dare tell them how to do their jobs.

But, I understand difficult, standardized testing isn't a good answer, but really how do you get a whole nation to up-skill?
Very cool visualization! A meta comment here is that you look at the shapes of the zoning districts and they make no real sense, except that they were applied as the best fit to whatever happened to be on each lot at the time the codes was adopted. It’s sad how much our local governments main job is to try and freeze everything in place and prevent change.
I'm sure he did more than just one game, but the revenue wasn't enough and he had a family to feed. We connected on GarageGames back in the day, which saw some reasonable success. I think it's easier these days to make a living as an indie game developer, but it's still very much a hit-driven business.
Just because it’s spinning more does not mean it wears out faster though.

Maybe tires are more resistant to rolling on curvatures?
+1 for this.

I’d recommend the GUI aspect to keep the kids interested. It’s a way to see the impact of code immediately. It gives the kid a “problem” to solve and lets them see their solution. It removes the need for versioning, tooling, deploying, etc that can bog down new devs. Can’t really get any better than that, i’d argue
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They will all be misunderstood, unless the title is the manifesto. But since the title needs to be short, it won't be.

Another example: Nation State. I can't get a clear answer to what that really means :-).

Back to computers: REST is a great example.
fmt/core.h has been heavily optimized for build speed and is usually faster to compile than equivalent iostream code: https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt?tab=readme-ov-file#compile-tim.... Once modularized std is available we might be able to be compete with printf.
Yes, Dr. Zubrin's models can be peer reviewed.

The more dense the population, the higher the per-capita GDP.

The more man-lives we have records of, the more technology we have access to. Inventions are directly correlated to man-lives (or man-years) we have records of.

Read the first chapter of Merchants of Despair.

I see a lot of silly criticisms in this thread. I want to point out the one point Dr. Zubrin makes brilliantly: Mathus' and the Club of Rome's claim that food production and wealth can not scale with the population is absurd. History shows us that that is not the case. As our population increased over thousands of years of recorded history, we did not become poorer or unable to feed ourselves. Instead, as our population went up, our per-capita GDP increased and the percentage of our income we spent to feed ourselves decreased.

Please, prove me wrong. Prove Dr. Zubrin wrong.

I will not address other silly straw-man arguments.
Or piracy.
48V is simply too much for most electronics. Finding parts to handle 12V or even 20V is pretty trivial, but at 48V you're going to have serious trouble sourcing it at a reasonable price. Maybe this will change as 240W USB-C becomes common, though.

An additional issue is that the sweet spot for voltage conversion is around the 1:10 ratio. Going 120V -> 12V -> 1.2V makes a lot of sense, 120V -> 48V -> 1.2V less so.
It’s almost as if US legal systems actively facilitate cultural appropriation, particularly with DMCA generally being applied by brute force. Using US copyright law to protect an influencer’s appropriation of a 3000 year old name to market their narcissism is exactly a case of that.

Not as if it’s a unique name either. Artëm is common for men in Russia and Ukraine.
This seems to be the sad reality of many paid services: paying is not a guarantee of freedom from advertisement, only a temporary respite. Being a paying customer is a very juicy datapoint, one that every one of these streaming companies eventually decides to capitalize on.
Agreed. In-n-Out is better than McDonalds anyhow and not far apart in price anymore either.
here's the patents in question:

- "Multiple wavelength sensor substrate" https://patents.google.com/patent/US7761127B2/en

- "Physiological monitoring devices, systems, and methods" https://patents.google.com/patent/US10687745B1/en

- "User-worn device for noninvasively measuring a physiological parameter of a user" https://patents.google.com/patent/US10945648B2/en, https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912502B2/en, https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912501B2/en
Tip: Search for the article name and you'll often find copies of it, often shared by the author.
It is now, it has been expanded over the years most recently in response to covid as to include mRNA in the definition of what a vaccine is explicitly to shield these big pharma companies from liability for any harm adverse reactions to mRNA may have to individuals

It is shocking to me that soo many people that normally at against large companies, and against even capitalism do not see the huge danger in classifying these things as something that gives the companies creating them an almost complete liability shield from harms caused by their products.

Once something is a "vaccine" in the US you lose all ability to sue for most harms caused by said vaccine.
Political take: even if many people would like mixed zoning in dense urban centers (with commerce at the street level, and housing above), the familiarity of zoning from games like SimCity makes mixed zoning less legible.

Laws mandating parking space and accessibility requirements add to the problem to make it unfixable: any relaxation (allowing mixed zoning at time t) could create future legal and social problems (not enough street parking at time t+N)
>> by definition a vaccine should NOT be a treatment, a vaccine has to be preventative, and further personally I believe...

Hmm, I don't see the basis for this conclusion. This treatment is acting according to the common definition of a vaccine. Whether before or after disease activation is not part of the definition. As far as your personal belief, I understand that you may feel strongly, but I'm sorry to say that doesn't really enter into articulating an accepted scientific definition.

vaccine: any preventive preparation used to stimulate the body’s immune response against a specific disease, ...

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/vaccine

Could you be more specific about any particular legal shield? They all have to go through the same phased trials system. I don't see any reason to conclude this is a legal shenanigan. What they have created meets the well-known definition of a vaccine.
Randy Pausch's Alice: http://www.alice.org/
I always found that "feature" annoying because students who knew the material well could fail questions testing its mastery due to imprecise instructions. (My personal pet peeve is not making it clear whether "or" is inclusive or exclusive.)
I am aware of them, these also should not be called vaccines.
Ha, what if the 'rule' is 5 lines long?

Many times, a Makefile snippet in an HTML page or a PDF file has had the tab character auto-magically morphed into spaces. So when it is copied, it will be a syntax error in a Makefile. Even copying Makefile snippets from one terminal window to another will eat those tab characters. Fortunately my vim editor is configured to handle most of those edge cases now, but it took me... I don't know... 10-15 years to get that right.

My personal rule is that control characters which are visually indistinguishable from other characters have no place in source code which are meant to be written, read, and copied by human beings. So yeah, that includes the <tab> character. And yes, I do think the Golang people got that wrong, although the 'go fmt' command largely solves that problem. Except when reading Go source code on web sites which don't handle tabs well, and you are nested 6 levels deep, and half the code is unreadable because it's bled off the right side of the page.
For those that want to dig into these numbers more, there was a study completed by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research on global wolf attacks between 2002–2020.

Here is an excerpt from the text regarding Yellowstone but there is a lot of good information so I suggest taking a peek if this interests you.

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After many decades of absence wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in 1995 and 1996. Wild Canadian wolves were used as the source, and animals were only exposed to minimal human contact before release. Since their release the population has rapidly expanded, and wolves have been surprisingly visible to tourists from the park’s road network. With over 4 million visitors a year the wolves of Yellowstone must be among the wolf populations in the world with the highest exposure to humans. Most wolves display a high degree of tolerance to humans, especially those on the road, but most do not approach people, and will keep a distance if people approach. Since reintroduction a total of 55 wolves have displayed behaviours that park authorities refer to as “habituated” (Anon 2003), implying that they approach people or do not move away when approached. Of these, 17 only displayed the behavior on a single occasion. 38 others were subject to hazing, or aversive conditioning, actions that ranged from loud noises to rubber bullets and cracker shells. In almost all cases this hazing changed the behavior of wolves such that problems ended. For two wolves however the park had to intervene and shoot them. Both appeared to have become food habituated, associating humans with food, with one wolf ripping open some hikers’ backpack to access food and another chasing a bicycle. Most of the wolves which needed hazing were yearlings, a life cycle stage when individuals are most prone to learning new habits. Despite the large wolf population and the huge numbers of visitors there have been no attacks on people (Smith et al. 2020).
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REF: (PDF WARNING) https://y86aca.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/20...

If you'd like to look up the PDF on your own, the title is "Wolf attacks on humans: an update for
2002–2020"
> The vagueness is seen as a feature, not a bug. The kid is supposed to read between the lines and find out what the problems are really about.

Pity the poor child who is capable of thinking both inductively and reductively. Such lax testing standards reminds me of the story of the WWII cryptographer in Cryptonomicon who is asked to work out how long a ship would take to travel down the river, comes up with a new theory of fluid dynamics, and flunks the test.
IMO they resulted in massive reductions of death across the world. In a world where pharma companies needed to surrender their IP if it was too useful, Moderna wouldn't have gotten funded to pioneer this new and difficult technology, and mRNA vaccines simply wouldn't exist.

Having publicly-funded research doesn't mean you can ignore profit either — the public funding for mRNA was that the initial research was done at UPenn, which receives NIH grants. But large research universities don't exist on public funding alone — they license the patents they hold to companies to develop them, which is a huge part of their revenue. For the mRNA royalties alone, in 2022 UPenn received over $750 million, which exceeded the total of all of UPenn's NIH grants for that year combined. Even in smaller-revenue years like 2020, public funding represents significantly less than half of UPenn's revenue sources. Take away UPenn's ability to monetize their research, and their ability to fund the fundamental research goes down too.

In my view the default isn't that diseases cure themselves. The default is people die. If pushing forward the state of the art of vaccine tech didn't need money in order to be built, what was stopping anyone else from doing it? And if it does need money, well... Then it needs to be well-funded, meaning it needs to show the potential for profit. I don't think charity has proven an excellent model for funding advanced scientific development of this kind.
I mean I wouldn't put it past myself to try the audio cable in the butt trick, bet it'd feel great
I will repeat this because people want to launch off-topic attacks:

The more dense the population, the higher the per-capita GDP.

The more man-lives we have records of, the more technology we have access to. Inventions are directly correlated to man-lives (or man-years) we have records of.

Mathus' and the Club of Rome's claim that food production and wealth can not scale with the population is absurd. History shows us that that is not the case. As our population increased over thousands of years of recorded history, we did not become poorer or unable to feed ourselves. Instead, as our population went up, our per-capita GDP increased and the percentage of our income we spent to feed ourselves decreased.

Please, prove me wrong. Read the first chapter of Merchants of Despair and prove Dr. Zubrin wrong.
If you don't already have the 'tune' icon, you should have it by end of the week
Curious. I canceled prime years ago and everything is still delivered within 1-2 days. I was starting to wonder if they forgot how to make deliveries take longer.
Other than power consumption, is there any reason to prefer a single workstation card over multiple consumer cards then?

A single $6800 RTX 6000 Ada with 48GB of VRAM vs 6x 7900XTX with a combined total of 144GB of VRAM honestly makes this seem like a no brainer to me.
I thought we already paid for Amazon Prime Video via our Amazon Prime memberships?
Thank you so very much. Reading this article was so much more valuable to me as I would have never watched an 18 min video to show a single question that needed 1 paragraph to discuss.
For anyone that doesn’t get it, add a /s to this.
I predict that 2024 will be the year that the S finally HTF.

For the US, it will probably be a neck and neck race between an internal Civil War or an external Major International War as to which one happens first.

And the general reaction will be a disbelieving "Huh? Wha'?" As if people can't see what's happening right before their eyes.
IIRC the Apple case went differently because

* it has always been locked down, from the get go, so it has never misrepresented itself to consumers or the people participating in its ecosystem

* it gained marketshare despite this very limitation, indicating that to some extent that is what consumers were expecting to purchase. Apple had zero marketshare in phones before iPhone. And many attempts have been made before and since, like Windows Phone, Fire Phone from Amazon, the Facebook phone, etc.

* they hadn’t, at the time, told anyone else not to participate in other stores or on other platforms
To demonstrate a concept: You would in addition to paying the price also deduct against your CO2 footprint and it is illegal to purchase a bigger CO2 footprint. Then you have two values which are orthogonal to each other so less information is lost in the transaction.

That is however still a system of debt and scarcity. A system of abundance would account for how many of the gifts you have given have been retained. Then add orthogonality to your retainment. That system of value does not destroy information that makes us happy. It assigns resources to where they can be refined to additional value.
Game & Watch was first, still Gunpei Yokoi, but yeah I’d consider that the start of mobile gaming - at least that’s my memory!
>look at the shapes of the zoning districts and they make no real sense

???

Commercial zoning aligns with the major streets of the grid, per design.

Industrial zones along the Chicago River, where barges can access, and rail lines.

Residential everywhere else.

What doesn't make sense?
And when you were at Walmart, I’m sure you were also puzzled why there wasn’t a rent free Target store within the Walmart.
Or when you were on the Xbox store, etc etc.

The difference is Apple makes and spend all the R&D to make the hardware and the software. M$ just makes the toy OS and terrible laptops.
> […] Apple’s war on kexts

Hardly a war, a rather rational decision it is – they are progressively moving kernel modules, drivers, file systems and network components into the user space.

It is a foundational design principle of GNU Hurd where everything, apart from the microkernel server, runs in the user space. Minix 3 followed the same principle, and many other microkernel designs as well.

It makes sense from the resilience point of view where a defective kernel module / driver can no longer crash the entire system.

It also makes sense from the security perspective on – the kernel itself is cryptographically sealed off and can't be tampered with.

Previously, the overhead of extra context switches was too high on the old CPU's and hardware, but today's computing devices are fast and the hardware is more optimised, so moving stuff into the user space is viable and incurs a much smaller performance penalty.
Somewhere in the last two decades, multiple 12v rails was popular, but I think we've gone back to single rails.
I mean the significance. People die with all infrastructure projects.

Any loss of life is sad. But 8 lives is important depending on the value from their loss. If it’s 8 lives in 100 years to allow 300 million people to have gas then that may be acceptable. Just like the loss of life from building hydro dams and solar arrays and whatnot.

The simplicity isn’t in the loss of life, it’s in not performing the analysis to know if it’s meaningful or not. I suspect it’s not meaningful.
The Bay Area in particular is known for Indian pizza. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmpa9d/meet-the-godfather-of...

None of it is gourmet, but if you want pizza and spice, it gets the job done.
I've seen a couple videos labeled as being "AI Enhanced." To me they look weird because shadows are way too dramatic, and anything that might blur in motion gets this very strange look about it that continually makes you think you're watching an animation.
Lots and lots of cardiac events.
> It’s sad how much our local governments main job is to try and freeze everything in place and prevent change.

I wish we had mixed zoning outside the rare cities like NYC: it would offer at least one scalable option to reduce urban sprawl - say when lots are demolished.
Those massive Computer Shopper catazines were a great way to spend an afternoon or 12. So much killer hardware to drool over.