skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DoorDash has more value when you’re poor because you are less mobile, and more generally are less likely to have a well outfitted kitchen, and I see a lot of younger people who are inexperienced cooks using it.

It’s no secret that it’s a terribly fast way to burn cash but a downward spiral of depression from being poor -> ordering food because you’re too depressed to cook -> depression from being poor can occur. Mind that I’d advise such people hoard frozen dinners and save a whack of cash, it isn’t quite the same.

I honestly think that poor people can even UNDERESTIMATE how valuable debt-fueled DoorDash and Uber usage is if they expect upwards economic mobility in the near future (Students) since it’s one of the better time/money tradeoffs they can do.
What you were doing was muddling the point. As best I can tell (and it was difficult to understand what you were saying), you were talking about summing blackbody radiation over time and distance. That's not what this model is.
> Our latest benchmarks show that Nanos serves static content almost twice as fast as Linux

What about compared to low-latency and real-time linux kernels?
“Tichy diff” pulls up a helluva lot of C. difficile links on DDG. Sheesh.
Is this comment meant to be ironic?
I think they've been negative on “programmers” for a while, but you’ve got to be careful with the BLS on software-related professions, because “programmers” are a different category than, for instance, “software developers” https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... who have a much rosier outlook.

If you read the descriptions, “programmers” are pretty limited (“They turn the designs created by software developers and engineers into instructions that a computer can follow.”)
I suspected as much when one of their support "personnel" used the phrase "I apologize for the earlier confusion..." (there was no confusion, I was simply contradicting what they were saying)
Oh - I replied above with some anecdata from stack overflow, also surprised that BLS is predicting negative job growth for programmers (first time in my life, I think)
An AI company going for investment banks as customers, eh? Pretty smart idea!
So what could it be this “seat movement” in layman term? The pilot was screwing a stewardess on the seat and inadvertently jerked the joystick causing the plane to nosediving??
> Cheap.

Until patents are involved
Totally agree on this take but the founder posted above you saying they have greatly improved their engine. Should be interesting to see!
15 years * 1 sucker/minute = 7,884,000 suckers, not accounting for leap years!
> it is probably no better than what my savings is doing right now in various stocks and funds.

From a numbers perspective sure. When we talk about social ramifications and future business potential — the calculus changes entirely: this guy got a cover in the WSJ, for example.
Do any of these glasses have eye tracking?
> That's just opinion. :)

Well sure, but do you actually disagree? IMO a lot of people are overthinking this and skipping the obvious explanation.

> The indisputable fact is that it is sometimes unhelpful and wrong.

Everyone, and every answering strategy, is "sometimes unhelpful and wrong". (So are AI helpers). So that's not a useful way to compare approaches.
Or phrased more succinctly:

What's needed is to Legalize Housing!
> but it's unfair to the dozens of people who follow in their footsteps and find their question years later.

Exactly.

In similar fashion: duplicate questions are alternative ways how people can find the question. (I.e. Useful for later searchers)
In 1998 I went to a seminar on vending machines and the numbers didn't work.

I would love to see some details from a Japanese owner where vending machine usage is more common, but also there are zillions of machines.
Have people not heard of depreciation, maintenance, restocking?

Oh. Oh waitaminute I see the angle here. Mining company shares to goldbugs, substandard shovels and rations to 49ers, stakes in stablecoin exchanges to the common techbro, and now, at last, "ISO-Certified Vend Automation Accreditation Training" where you can get all the tools you need to STRIKE IT BIG. Then you can rope in more people with the scam, and they can rope in more people yadda yadda yadda

Another goddamn grift . . did we really need another? . . in search of the last dregs of pocket change lost in the American cushions. Looking for actual returns that aren't sacked with fees and conditions, everyone wondering, with an ever-growing suspicion, that all the new clever retirement "vehicles"[1] they've been dumping money in their entire lives will grow mysteriously inaccessible, in a suspiciously timely fashion, until they are all dead.

Shit. Put up a vending machine that dispenses Quietus pills, then you might get some business.

Forgive my cynicism, please. It's not a luxury I can afford at the moment.

[1] Which not-so-coincidentally inflate the market valuation of the same industries employing them. Jesus Christ, did anyone think for twenty seconds about the follow-on effects of that? Whelp. Too late now.
The idea that states should have some of their own industrial/consumer negotiating-power/say is very very new. Interesting to see it kicking in, happening in bits & bobs, but also so slow.

And so many states just make up total horseshit as they please, running afoul of good sense & lacking any limitations. Books being challenged and banned, wild social media laws bossing companies around as they please all sort of wild shit trying desperately desperately to re-aasert itself after a Manifesto fo Cyberspace era has begun to offend particular people in their state.

All it takes is one or two absolutely off the wall federal court rulings to totally upturn the cart & lay bedlam to how stuff can get made. The state based system is interesting, but over it all is some federal judges picking what they please decisions to make basically immutable & un-upturnable.
I guess the Gold Vending Machine in Dubai is not for you then :)

[https://whatson.ae/2023/08/the-uaes-wildest-vending-machines...]
You're confused, negative prices are not driven by techincal limitations. Solar, and especially hydro, and even nuclear can shut down just fine.

Solar and Wind instead drive prices negative because they have subsidized contracts. Each country is slightly different in implementation, between Feed-in-Tarif vs Feed-in-Premium. In either method there will exist prices which are negative to the market but positive to the producer.

Thus if you cannot plan long term to rely on negative prices. Those FIT schemes around the world are transforming into FIP, and the FIP premiums are getting lower and lower. Negative pricing in electricity markets will go away in a decade or two. This isn't magic or even special, solar is succeeding which means the subsidies are getting weakened.

Curtailing solar production is not a big deal. How many existing plants have grid operator directed shutoffs depends on your market. In Japan as of 2024 all new non-rooftop solar has it. Prior to 2020ish only Kyushu and Kansai regions required it. Now Tepco, Hokkaido, and Touhoku require it for new contracts. There are still a couple old contracted plants getting developed this year, but those are rarities.

And that's only Japan, which itself does not have a super strong duck curve yet: http://jepx.org/ Regions like California have had extreme duck curves for ages. While duck curves are a big worry for internet commentors, they've been points of discussion for grid operators are a lot longer. Hence the move to Feed in Premiums which will slowly make the duck curve a solar operator's problem and not a tragedy of the commons situation.
If it turns out it really was written by AI and these errors are as dumb as they look the whole domain should be blocked and the numerous past submissions from there removed.
Years ago when i was much more junior my rate was $85, and if I couldn't get paid more than that today I would be totally ok, but a little disappointed.
And Ada is really an underappreciated language. Still not perfect, but Spark makes it super interesting.
As a counterpoint, my favourite mathematician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold
When machines were cash only, there was a big box of cash sitting unguarded on a lonely corner at 3am...
The obvious solution is to actually have librarians correctly classify the videos. DDS focuses on the nature of the work itself, not on the keywords or spam in the content. Librarians understand how to class all kinds of works, and it should be relatively simple to build a DDS/MDS index (Melville Decimal System since it's open, see https://librarything.com/mds) for YouTube videos. Just like with books, disagreement on classification is inevitable and perfectly natural; there's no perfect classification scheme, though DDS/MDS does a generally good job.
Spreadsheet link https://github.com/ianand/spreadsheets-are-all-you-need/rele...
Even the best management and company culture cannot change that. In engineering terms, these "dysfunctions" are analogous to impedance mismatch.

Hire people who actually know what they're doing and only keep them for as long as they will work as hard as your devs. If they start burning out and shoveling their work onto devs you must protect your dev team. Let's not forget that non-devs are supporting staff. They're not essential and you're better off without them and their incompetence. Even the tiniest slack from them will be highly disruptive as errors accumulate and waste lots of time. Why not just make cuts and save your payroll while you're at it? If you have doubts look at any startup. A skeleton crew looks like almost all devs.
Responsibility for Boeing's Poor Performance
That argument works for an infinite resource, not for a renewable one.
> You can't force people to want to live in the sticks.

Most people don’t dream of living in Sunnyvale. They are there because of the job. Any small city would be a fine substitution for many people.
It aspires to provide consumers with a more secure means of storing their Bitcoin.
Bitkey is available in 95 countries thanks to Jack Dorsey’s organization’s global distribution.
Bitkey, Block’s long-awaited Bitcoin hardware wallet, has been launched by the company run by Jack Dorsey. Bitkey, a cryptocurrency wallet that costs $150, is a giant leap forward in terms of self-custodial cryptocurrency storage.

It aspires to provide consumers with a more secure means of storing their Bitcoin, away from exchanges. The debut of Bitkey coincides with heightened anxiety among cryptocurrency holders over the security of their funds on exchanges.
The Japanese have numerous vending machines of high quality that offer decent prices with good selections of food.

Perhaps it is in our Future in America too
Oh nice! that must be it then.. I don't remember seeing it negative before - thanks!

the stack overflow survey is a bit depressing though - we seem to lose everyone early... Seems like only 30% of people make it past 15 years. Which surprises me, as my circle of programming friends all have like 20+ years. Maybe thats why we keep re-inventing stuff :-/
At a second-hand bookstore I bought a biography of Simone Weil and have overheard some conversations about her work, and it looks like her work is very popular. I said I was interested in the biography because of her brother Andre the famous number theorist, and they didn't know she had a brother. Different worlds combined :)
>Looking for actual returns that aren't sacked with fees and conditions

The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF[1] has 12.0% annualized returns over the past decade, and only charges 0.03% in management fees.

[1] https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...
Rather than blame the Linux patch process & iteration for obfuscating, I kind of want to throw the shade & nastiness at Microsoft for iterating security posture & requirements in a subtle way over time where it wasn't clear up front why Linux would need to leap through Gates' hoop of fire here.

If it were crystal clear what the need being satisfied were, these patches would probably explain themselves.
You hit the nail on the head (well, half) - design is an incredibly tricky problem.

Mostly because it at its core is the process of adding constraints, and once you've added those its far harder to un-add them. That's why CSS was so janky for so long - there were design paradigms (tables, box model, flex box, etc) and once they were there, you hoped they worked and you hoped that your specific design didn't break one of its core assumptions, leading to large amounts of work-around code that was either slow or exhibited constant random bugs in different versions of browsers...

The other half of the nail was backwards compatibility. Unfortunately you can't have web components and your stuff working on 20 year old devices. So any new design/paradigm etc. served to splinter the ecosystem (your stuff only works on this browser, that device, our operating system).

Graceful degradation sort-of would have provided a work around, but it would have done so by shifting the workload onto the provider (please make sure your calendar works, in these browser, and also has fallback implementations as a clock that doesn't break your back-end code because they entered hours as farsi, test on on these 40 browsers and also target moving backends). So instead we invented polyfills as a way of "automatically" back-filling for a lot of stuff.

Unfortunately, you can't do much about the Web Component calendar. The design paradigm that once existed doesn't support it without a lot of busy work, even if newer browsers could natively implement one and never load a line of javascript or any of your shitty thousand line long html layout code...

I don't think its a completely lost cause, HTMX + Web Components seems like our best path forward so far. Right now, a lot of people who've written millions of lines in non-html frameworks like React and the like are very reluctant to give up their codebase(s), however terrible they might be. It is unfortunately, the result of someone somewhere making a design decision that added constraints, now causing headaches and difficulties un-adding those constraints...
The most surreal thing about Tokyo (and there were a lot) was having Tommy Lee Jones' grizzled visage staring back at me from every street corner.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=japan+boss+vending+tommy+lee+jones...
More like 4.5:1 solar is 20% or so efficient and solar thermal is only like 90% when including losses.

Anyway, the real question here costs both in equipment and labor. Solar hot water panels involve plumbing and need radiators etc they quickly pay for themselves when heating a large home but don’t scale down very well.

Running the numbers I was surprised how cost competitive the sand bucket is for something like a chicken coop. Sure the panel(s) are wasted most of the year, but you don’t exactly need an electrician to set this up either. Probably also worth considering for redundancy in some situations.
RT linux kernels would probably have lower throughput.
On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV
I've drilled out the lock on an old Coke machine my dad bought at an auction.

It's not a fast, discreet, or easy process.
Umm, everyone calls them transpilers?
We've banned this account. You can't attack other users like this, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Jeremy Howard has been using spreadsheets to teach NNs for years. Instructive and intuitive.
Fil-C sounds like an amazing project!

Do you have any guesses on whether it could easily target WebAssembly? I'd imagine many people would like to run C code in the browser but don't want to bring memory unsafety there.

link: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug...
For what it's worth, his grandson, Randy (mentioned in the article), is a terrible genealogist. He amassed large quantities of unverified data, with dubious sourcing, and passes it off as legit. He also has a reputation in the genealogy community for taking other people's work with credit.
That's a terrible idea. Why the insinuation that only very rich visitors are "high-quality", and that "low-end" tourists are icky and undesirable?

I'm a university student, and I enjoy traveling by myself, as long as I can do it on a reasonable budget. In North American cities (and in plenty of other countries), I pretty much blend in with the crowd, am not loud, annoying or obtrusive. What exact quality is imbued into someone who's willing to throw away EUR100/day that everyone else doesn't have? Doing this in large, world-class cities would turn any major destination into VIP hangout clubs for rich people. Not to mention that it's probably flawed financially - even if tiny towns that are over-capacity with tourists might be able to justify it, enormous cities will be forcing their businesses to lose money. Fewer people would travel to the city on account on it being too expensive, and the people who do travel would spend less money since they're paying the tax.
They don't need many new lines, having already built them. They also haven't built many new bridges to Brooklyn in awhile nor midtown tunnels under the Hudson nor large parks in the center of Manhattan.
One could also appeal to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other such sites here. These sites are absolutely filled with 'less than socially valuable' content. Yet when degenerate content also shows up on TikTok it's somehow because of some convoluted Chinese conspiracy. And this conspiracy is presented with absolutely no evidence of merit, instead relying primarily on appeals to prejudice and bias - 'Come on man, don't be stupid - it's China!' The same sort of logic that could be used to make essentially any claim, regardless of its basis in reality.
Are animald not tagged with accelerometers and gyros? Seems prudent. Not sure how much ping time they get with sharks specifically, but even in event of recovery for some animals you’d think it’d still be super useful to recover full 3D paths.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700658.
It’s scary they pulled the “spousal abuse” card.

It should be illegal to manipulate people by implying they’re breaking the law.
With sufficient value?

A pickup truck, a stout chain, and one of crowbar / sledgehammer / angle grinder / cutting torch goes through that right quick.

And there's a lot of economically depressed parts of the country where those things are in abundance.
Work trope in Japan is that everything is done in excel.

Even when it makes no sense.

You even have artists doing painting in excel.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel...

And why exactly can't I ask that question?
> There's a lot of arguments going on between different "people" in my mind quite often, most of the time actually, each "telling me their opinion". Which I know is simply me imagining how they might think of something.

This is called internal family systems and it's super useful in therapy. It can be fun to give them names, likenesses and personalties too. But the value is as you say helping you identify competing motivations, where an emotional reaction might be coming from, externalize them (mindfulness for cheaters), and make decisions where there are trade-offs.

I've kept my IFS since I was a tween and it's sweet to look back and see how much they've all grown and matured.
Stackelberg Competition
Hi there, I've 4+ yrs of experience working as a Frontend engineer with technologies like ReactJs & VueJs. I'm interested to work at Upnext.
Well the end the result is now I don't answer questions, except occasionally on HN. The end result of all this mansplaining / geeksplaining is nosplaing. I just hope we can make AIs advanced enough to take over before the wheels fall off.

She went on to accuse a bunch of other people of some other nonsense so it was really a matter of time rather than the manner in which I answered questions.
Gavin AI first AI politician
In the context of my comment, any group that receives significant military funding or support from the US counts as an Ally.

The dictionary definition is irrelevant to my point, because I wasn't using your definition of the word ally.

So my original point stands.
How is Boeing not a case-study for why MBA programs should not exist?
That's why you drag it somewhere you can do it in peace.
It does not. There are laws against voiding a warranty based on aftermarket modifications made by the end user. This is the case in the USA at least.
I don't see anybody advocating for no public health measures - perhaps you might consider that the views of others are as nuanced as yours.

> Or, just go to pre-1950s graveyards and gather data on how many dead children there were before public health measures.

Indeed! But this doesn't mean that every measure undertaken was reasonable or evidence-based. Germane to the thread at hand: at the height of the polio epidemic, some states sprayed DDT in a bizarre and mistaken belief that it was likely to reduce transmission of the virus. As with lockdowns and masks and surface 'disinfectants' and other unproven measures today, this happened over the objection of a chorus of experts who had already begun to unearth the fecal-oral route of transmission of polio.

Yes, in retrospect, this seems silly and trivial. But at the time, it must have been very frustrating to spend your life (or even your hobby time, as I do) studying public health only to have a hairbrained idea with no empirical basis become the framework on which policy was decided.

> Or look at the data on how the public health measures ran extinct a strain of flu so it is no longer being included in the vaccine formula.

I... presume you are talking about the B/Yamagata lineage of Influenza B?

Nobody knows why this lineage disappeared, and anybody who claims to is trying to sell you something or influence you.

One exciting prospect is that it is the result of viral interference, a phenomenon frequently observed but not yet understood, and potentially the basis of future immune therapy.

In any case, the disappearance of a particular lineage of Influenza B or of H3N2 (which of course is the current endemic influenza, but began as an epidemic subtype in the 1960s) is not an overall public health win or loss; it just means that other lineages (in this case, B/Victoria) will present the endemic strains in future years unless B/Yamagata re-emerges.
You've been breaking the site guidelines a lot lately. Can you please not? I recognize that you're representing a minority point of view and I know how frustrating that can be (believe me, I know). But if you keep breaking the site guidelines, we can't suspend moderation because of that.

Also, it's not in your interest to do this because it makes your comments less persuasive and indeed gives people an easy reason to dismiss them. So if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Past explanations here in case helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Also, in case it's helpful, here is a list of moderation posts I made for a user who was in a similar position a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod. It's old(ish) now but the principles are all still the same.
Faster than the speed of light, eh?
See what whistleblowers have had to say.