skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reads eerily close to the just world fallacy. The market isn't perfect.

No, it's not arrogance driving people to do their own design system. But corporations engage in all sorts of dysfunctional (to the whole) rituals.
Absolutely incredible reporting. The risks taken by the sources both at the factories and within North Korea defy comprehension for anybody lucky enough not to fear that speaking out will endanger their family.
"you know what I mean" ("x is true [for a certain definition of true, other than the correct technical definition]", etc) on both sides causes humans to believe that they adequately understand the meaning trying to be communicated, which is a hallucination.

It's true that this is often not a big deal, but which times it is and which times it is not is not known (which itself is typically not known, once again because of the convention).

Talking about the phenomenon is also contrary to conventions, and typically extremely well enforced (as I imagine you noticed during the dispute with your incorrect classmates, or else you were smart enough to not push the issue).
What an aggressively myopic, narrow view of the situation. The reason "this VMware stuff" is a huge issue is because Broadcom are just absolutely fucking up relationships between every part of the VMWare ecosystem: the vendor relationship, the support relationship, the licensing system, the trust in a product reliability roadmap, just everything. This creates chaos in any org relying on them, at any size and efficiency. Chaos costs a fortune. The reasons that any org has for keeping their server operations on-prem and reliant on VMware are not as blithely dismissible as you are indicating. In fact, the reasons are frankly irrelevant anyway, as even the most impeccably managed migration plans to whichever big 3 cloud vendor you'd like are going to be thrown at least somewhat askew by the recent actions from Broadcom. The volume of clear, unambiguous discussion and media coverage that this is getting goes a long way to smooth over the pain of mitigation strategies with nontechnical leadership.
Yeah, it has gotten us into an extremely fragile state where only a couple companies can make a web browser.
I hated this. I had to wipe a brand new laptop because windows wanted me to create that account. Windows 11 is atrocious, long live Linux.
In competitive markets prices have collapsed. US domestic internet appears to be very uncompetitive.
Jason @ textfiles also did a nice compilation: http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/

There's a delightful irony in the fact that such a page would absolutely have murdered a browser from its era. Nevertheless, these remind me of a different internet and scratch one heck of a nostalgia zone.
What's up with the "random site" function? I would expect it to sample uniformly, but it seems to return certain sites over and over.
Quote precisely, because it continues with ... (I am not an English native speaker!)
> The difference is that wait staff effectively get paid 20% less than they would otherwise, on the expectation of getting a 20% tip.

Yes, and the only reason restaurant owners can get away with this is because there is a labor market of servers willing to work for 20% less based on the expectation that they'll get the rest back in tips.

I agree that you should apply pressure to the system at multiple points, not just by foregoing tips. Tell managers straight up that you don't intend to tip and to pay their staff proper wages.
From the article:

> Patients sometimes went along with this, being indifferent between spending $4 of someone else’s money or $2000 of someone else’s money. Everything in the US health system is like this, and the Amish avoid all of it. They have a normal free market in medical care where people pay for a product with their own money (or their community’s money) and have incentives to check how much it costs before they buy it. I do want to over-emphasize this one, and honestly I am surprised Amish health care costs are only ten times cheaper than ours are.

People voluntarily getting together to do stuff and not forcing anything on anyone is pretty compatible with capitalism (whether it's 'capitalist' by itself is a question of definition).

The main thing I take from the article is: you can lower costs dramatically, if you can avoid some of the more onerous regulations. And as a second point: if you can build up a reputation for being honest and trustworthy, you can bring down transaction costs a lot.

The point about Amish never suing doctors mixes both: they are capitalising on that point via reputation; but in principle you could also sign those rights away with a contract. But while we allow companies to sign these kinds of contracts with each other, regulations doesn't allow patients to sign those rights away.
Show HN: Distributed In-Memory data-store build with Go
Hi everyone,

EchoVault is a distributed in-memory data store and cache built entirely with Go. Features include:

TLS & mTLS connections

Persistence and recovery layer using Append-Only files and Snapshots

Distributed Pub/Sub w/ Consumer Groups

Replication layer using RAFT algorithm (leveraging hashicorp memberlist & raft)

Access Control List

Set, Sorted Set, List, and Hashmap data structures

There are more pending features in the pipeline, such as eviction policies and transactions. You can check out the GitHub repository: https://github.com/EchoVault/EchoVault
We are working on GPU accelerated rendering for Vega and Altair.
There’s some variations of prisoners de facto working for below minimum wage, but that’s now what you meant.

The biggest issue, if we ignore moral values and try to keep it a cold hearted calculation (which I don’t agree with), then you have one big problem: making prisoners a profitable business will encourage imprisoning more people. Economy responds to incentives, and this seems to me like a bad incentive.
See also many of the discussions about housing costs, on HN and elsewhere. Yes, housing is expensive, but somebody keeps paying those prices. Boogymen like private equity and landlords are often blamed, but looking at the data shows most houses are still bought by owner-occupiers.
Emacs has very good documentation. It's just that most people nowadays can't read, and if they can read, their attention span is too short for long form content.

You bring up a good point about Vim though. Because Vim has much fewer features, its docs are comparatively shorter and thus more accessible for people nowadays.
Much love, I agree completely. I hope we can find a way to bring justice and care back into this world.
China's Quant Clampdown Risks Damaging Fragile Markets for Years
Fly.io employee here. This is neat!
1Password wrote a blog post stating something similar. Basically it comes down to if you're using TOTP as a true second factor. If you are it really shouldn't even be accessible from the same device.

https://blog.1password.com/totp-and-1password/
They mean reviews where you warn others about receiving fake product.
I use it almost every single day, it's pretty simple and neat, haven't had the need for anything fancier.
Giving the state financial incentives to convict and imprison people has some pretty obvious possible second-order effects. You can see them all over the world, from the growth of for-profit prisons in the US to forced labor in Xinjiang. Once the state or a state-associated entity profits from convictions, they have all the reason in the world to increase the rate of convictions.
Magit performance has very little to do with Emacs. All operations are performed via git subprocesses.
Republicans have basically 0 to do with any of the reasons the Biden administration is struggling to implement the CHIPS act.

They’re struggling because

a) Industrial policy is hard enough in a federal system without …

b) A federal government inexperienced with implementing industrial policy and …

c) An administration that sees industrial policy as YA avenue to achieve its social objectives, so called “everything bagel liberalism” [1].

I think industrial policy is a terrible idea, so not too distressed to see it trip out of the starting gate.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberal...
Dude if you want hardware that as ancient you do you.
For comparison to Japan, "Flat 35" loan is widely available. Even "Flat 50" is a thing.
Who asked for this?
C-suite-ers looking for ever more ways to cut humans out of the loop to fatten their profits.
What's a "gotcha argument"?

If the growth was bigger than the lawsuit, then from the corporations point of view, the earlier executives made the right decisions.

We were talking about aligning interests of executives and long term shareholders. You seem to be talking about aligning interests of those shareholders and interests of the environment or so?

That's an important topic, too, but it's not the same.
"Turing-complete comments" is the scariest phrase I've read in a while
We’re already there with corrections labor unions lobbying against decriminalizing drugs.
The c128 just didn’t know what it wanted to be. And what it wasn’t was very expandable like IBM PC.
Well maybe they don't want a lower resolution.

One person leaving a twitch stream on during working hours would use up more than half that budget.

> and at only 80MB/sec

1.2TB is only 5% utilization of the connection on average.
As do I. But that doesn't change the fact that had we not had Japan force the issue, we may not have been there when needed. And yes the Soviet Union made the brunt of the effort, but the German military was quite strong.
Sometimes I wonder if Kroger Corporate saw the inflation headlines and said "nows our chance to milk our customers, without them blaming us, they'll blame Biden". I live between the Fillmore Safeway and the Nob Hill Trader Joes and the price difference is almost 2x. Cage free eggs are $9 vs $3.50, Block of cheese is $8 vs $3.50. Pound of hamburger is $13 vs $5. Something fishy is going on.
Yeah, that's why I also don't use the OTP features in Bitwarden (Premium), despite using the software as my password manager.

On my computer, I also use a distinct password to protect my pass-otp secrets.
Personally the reason I chose a remote-based option over a cast was A: that price difference didn't manifest when I was shopping, and B: I don't want to have to deal with making sure everyone in the household has the login credentials to every streaming service we use.
I suspect most people aren't though. Most people are just being forced or nudged to using it. The main purpose for platform providers to push TOTP is probably consumers reusing passwords leading to account compromise, but if you are using a password manager, you can generate high entropy single-use passwords which don't really have that problem.
Yes — the canonical source of truth for a user's data is their "data repository" which is analogous to a git repo. These can really be passed around any way you want. Our current relay architecture was designed to support large, real-time scale, but other configurations are possible as well, since all the pieces here are composable.
Thanks! I'll watch out for that one.
Huh I didn’t know about Dr Forest Radio that’s interesting!
I’ll correct the “explicitly not grant” language, to me that seemed the same as it telling you to get a license, but I can see how that’s not the same.
There are a lot of ways to contribute to society without contributing a person, but many parts of our culture consider these ways to be somehow secondary. If we can change this, we can reduce our population without forbidding anyone from having children.

For starters, I think we should increase tax benefits for people who don't have dependents and who are participating in research, or teaching, or nurshing, or ... create a list of activities which we want to see more of but that the market does not prioritize. Let's celebrate, and empower, individuals who take the time they would be spending on their own kids, and instead spend it on solving society's problems.

This would increase the likelihood that somebody without children has the kind of impact which makes them a role model for existing children. This will help erode the idea that people who chose not to have children are somehow defective and will decrease the likelihood that a person decides to have kids.
How do you know what's in the training data? Has OpenAI made the dataset searchable so we can see that GPT4 is performing tasks not in there?
I say cereal, you say dinner! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Dw1bjRxY0
I'd personally add "autodidact" to that list as well.
that depends entirely on which store you're talking about. the store i used to work at, for example, would simply put the radio on, while a store next door was run like this
It's not something to ignore. But Chinese car makers have done very little selling of gas cars outside of emerging markets. The relative simplicity of EVs is an advantage and they are selling in Europe already.

In other words, the headline "In 5 years US complacency will have dire consequences," doesn't get as many clicks. But we don't have to wait that Chinese: Hyundai/Kia is going to dominate legacy car makers the way things are going now.
That company now has to open a whole new business account which probably takes them all of 15 minutes! Thank goodness for Amazon doing Something!

(Seriously though, might as well make it hard for these hucksters! I’d give you a high five for reporting ‘em)
Agile doesn't mean "not planning" or even "vague planning".
Peeled garlic is almost an entirely prison labor driven industry in China and is exported all over the world
And in this CenturyLink market (now split off as Brightspeed) the available speeds went from 10Mbps DSL to 3Mbps in the last couple years.
Throw the file on Cloudflare R2, no egress cost then.
>I have been here nearly fifteen years. I know for a fact that participation here helps line the pockets of some of the men here.

Well... Yes. The way it works is the people who established reap ideas from the technically minded, but not necessarily business minded. Once the idea bubbles up sufficiently to be recognized as a viable business opportunity for someone, it is either acted on by onramping the originator to a source of funding/offers of partnership, or just run off with. Back when interest rates were zero, a Unicorn was well worth the risk if it decided to turn into a Pegasus.

That it functions as a cadre of technically/business literate individuals is a bonus in a sense. But I tend to limit myself to trying to be a voice for sanity here; as I've found that sometimes the tendency of YC to encourage people to disregard ethical constraints sometimes requires a bucket of cold water to remedy or at least give the Feds a datapoint in the inevitable investigation that someone was told somewhere that X is not a good idea.

Plus, it's a great way to keep a finger on what the people I vote "Most likely to facilitate the creation of an unconstrained technical helltopia" are up to.

If you're looking for people with a shred of unconditional decency (if such a person exists), mayhaps look elsewhere.
I think your interpretation of the meaning of "can't" is excessively sophistical. Of course, if someone does not do something which is to be expected, we can never completely rule out that he might be able to. But this is besides the point here. There is a severe flaw in the author's line of thought, something central he does not clarify. The reader is under no obligation whatsoever to reach out to the author for clarification. The author should have explained it in the first place. The conclusion that he was unable to do so is sound.
"Why we fight"

Even with all the problems in the West, with all that's broken at the moment in our end-stage capitalist societies, never forget that the alternative, in almost all instances, is pure terror.
I've actually increased my spending more than just the inflation / rising costs.

The current state of food processing allows for way too much adulteration, even in the simple foods.

Even yesterday I discovered that there is high quality pasta and low quality. The high quality pasta is made with seminola wheat. And on the lower quality one you get wha it's called "durum wheat (seminola)". Same name, but different processing. Th difference in quality is staggering.
It’s not clear that more tokens are better.
> Bold title with and bold claims

It's a cut-and-paste job of articles that have been circulating among political magazines and blogs for years.
I tried out Swift on Windows and really enjoyed it. The experience was 100x better than I expected.
There can only be predictable news-that-pushes-the-shareprice-lower, if all the people who trade the stock are idiots.

You just need eg a few short-sellers who anticipate those predictable news. They can make a killing by selling the stock at the higher price now and buying it back at the lower price later.

If enough people take this opportunity to make easy money, that brings the share price down today as if the news had already dropped.

So, how do you want to 'artificially' inflate the stock price? Especially how do you want to do it in a way that doesn't require everyone in the market to be idiots only?
This article seems to have no actual evidence for its premise outside random quotes from a few consumers. Is there evidence in name brands' quarterly reports?
These days it comes off very much as “I have liked and subscribed to multiple varied topics/channels on YouTube making me quite knowledgeable and naturally that makes me special/intellectual in a world where everyone else are ASMR seeking simpletons”
Just be careful not to use the same account/database/vault for OTPs and passwords, when using a manager like Bitwarden or KeePass, otherwise they no longer contribute a second factor to your authentication.

To be honest, password managers that support TOTPs should always come with a very clear disclaimier that keeping all your eggs in the same basket is a detriment to your safety, and that you should either use a different software for these codes or a separate account.
I don't believe they do, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Never forget that American Exceptionalism relies on comparing itself to the most mismanaged places in the world, ignoring the existence of developed nations entirely

We uniquely have the resources to be better and more advanced and create a more productive society with those resources, and merely lack the consensus to do so. There is no need to compare ourselves to anyone else to rationalize our incompetencies, consensus failures, or to spearhead development goals.
You are incorrect. Increasing compute during inference renders similar gains to increasing parameters/compute during training time (see self-consistency, tree of thoughts, etc.)
yeah self hosted low power LLM's is what I'm waiting for.
If you didn't have copyright people could remix stuff I guess?
Yeah, seems like a small enough thing to get your hands dirty. Might give it a shot soon, thank you for the suggestion!
That’s a good idea!
Wouldn't that make SQL a sequel to Sequel? Sorry, I feel like I'm annoying on purpose, I shouldn't do this.

Reading up on the history parts in the Wikipedia article, the German language version presents it as if SQL was the Oracle (Relational Software Inc) implementation of IBM's Sequel, the English page says the name was shortened due to trademark issues, before mentioning any implementation outside IBM. That would make Sequel and SQL the same thing, just rebranded early on. It also lists a clever (b)acronym and two other reasons for why they called it sequel before shortening, so it seems like there's a decent amount of mystery around the name. Almost as if it happened before the invention of writing.
Also Australian, about 10 years ago my local council aggressively installed parking meters everywhere around the shopping mall and they have steadily jacked up the price ever since. Public transport where I am is crap, so driving is essentially the only realistic option. this has pretty much killed the entire area.
No need for a middle ground; why not both? (ex. the US)
Opinion based: It's the focus on growth and not bettering the service. Even Apple who has been constantly focused on experience is trying to lock users in with "We know better than you" as an explanation. Windows XP, 7, and even Vista, has tried to provide an operating system so that the users can utilize their tools. I'm not against business trying to make a profit. I'm very much for it. But more often than not, engaging in a transaction with tech companies feels like doing shady deals in a dark alley, wondering if you're not selling your soul.
Alternative 1: we achieve 6 billion in 2300 because we cannot sustain 7 billion

Alternative 2: we achieve 5 billion in 2300 because we chose to

The quality of life in alternative 2 is higher because we're not right up against constraints that limit us. People feel more secure because there's less contention over resources, they're more likely to take risks like trying new ways of doing things, etc. There's a greater potential for discovery.

So the problem is that if we let nature force us into Alternative 1, we're in for a worse time than we otherwise would be.
> On the other hand, I’m equally surprised at how few people seem to understand supply and demand has influence on prices. I watched as some family members complained loudly about how concert prices were outrageous and unaffordable for the average person like them, then went right on ahead and then bought the tickets they wanted anyway. They didn’t understand that people’s willingness to pay uncomfortably high prices was the entire reason tickets were so expensive.

It sounds like the alternative you propose would involve... not having a ticket? That is clearly not an acceptable outcome if I want to go to the concert.
> "A lot" ..

The solar system is still spinning, perhaps you might widen your outlook and quantify.

The guide from Applied Mathematics is the only "numbers" that matter long term are -1, 0, 1, sin, and infinity. Systems either dwindle, explode, stabilise, invert, or oscillate ... and everything around us in the universe is part of some system or another.

> We haven't seen any population rebounds yet.

One example (in humans)

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep04541

Another example of a type of constriction with evidence that this likely occured in human population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck

Many many examples in nature (eg: cyclic boom | bust of kangaroo populations).

Have you considered looking about before uttering readily falsifiable platitudes?
Exactly, so I can only speculate at this point on the motivations. I suspect undergrad admissions committees are incentivized to maximize the first year retention rate, so they are overly conservative when it comes to selecting for people who they think won’t flunk out the first year.
Encoding floating point numbers to shorter integers [pdf]
Except GPUs, you’re paying Jensen’s constant – 25 bucks per TFLOP – until further notice.
This is why we are so divided as a nation. Politicians corporations have been attacking consumers and citizens since the Powell Memo. We have no true fourth estate.
I suspect it’s just an incomplete memory and no “filter”. LLMs aren’t self-aware enough to judge their own confidence in their responses, so they don’t know when to shut up.
Might be worth taking a look at Firefox. Not sure I would consider myself a power user, but it's been good to me the last couple years.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/
Everything else on the network my TV is connected to
That cognitive load around ownership and sharing already existed in C and even assembly, we were just managing it very poorly without tooling.