skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sweaters being discussed cost $9000, which is “$1000+” (I see it a bit under $8k on their website in my country but prices might vary by import duties). I don’t know how fair the comparison to the $280 cost of raw materials is – maybe the sweater weighs 500g, and the article found somewhere near the other end of the chain the price is $560/kg, but it could be that Loro Piana are only taking higher grades of wool and so more than 500g of raw wool would be needed to get 500g after grading, spinning, milling, etc. I suspect the cost of getting enough wool for the sweater to Italy ready to be spun is higher than $560 per kg of finished product, but that doesn’t mean the price the workers get before then is fair.

I spent a bit of time thinking about other ways to estimate costs but didn’t try too hard. Loro Piana sell (woven) fabrics but don’t publish prices on their website.

They might sell a similar product in cashmere for around $3000, of which I would guess $250-$500 goes on the cashmere (maybe a bit less as they spin in house), perhaps another $200-300 on labor and manufacturing, and the rest would be the typical luxury goods mix of profit and a bunch of low volume stores in expensive locations.
What decreasing rate of home ownership? Nationwide the rate was only ever higher during the housing bubble [0], and the Midwest specifically (which is where this town is located) tends to have the highest affordability in the country [1].

There are certain areas in the country that are struggling with low housing affordability and high rates of renters, but that can't explain excess car washes in the Midwest.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

[1] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fp...
Has anyone ever made the smallest (as in bytes) readable font? How small can the code be to generate a readable font? It could create an SVG, bitmap, or triangles in a shader.
It's the worst design - akin to the crap that yahoo did, trying to make everything appeal to kids. We're not 12 years old, and HTML is king! The new layout is far more cluttered and the constant pop-ups are retarded! It's their way to install all their spyware so they can control what is said between people! They are insane criminals.
@dang I think you changed the url, it makes it harder to find the correct implementation.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/78177261/3374574
sales costs money
> “My experience, as you see,” said Fruehauf, “lends support to the complaint . . . that some RFC officials were determined all along to wreck Lustron unless they could get control for their friends.” [1]

A curious tale.

Sounds like a political failure, more than anything else. I also wonder how, in August of '48, Time reported that Lustron has got no steel to build its houses. [2]

[1] http://www.singingwheels.com/business-week-article.html

[2] https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,888...
It's not like your comment had some deep lengthy arguments, so wouldn't it be obvious?
It was either a common weaselly way to imply "anybody opposite these must have some irrational fear", or a very unfortunate choice of phrasing.
There's a reason why I speak of "third party", though I guess it might be unclear in english - my bad.

There are three parties involved in the bloating. Management prioritising certain things is one. Developers (including here both programmers and designers and others etc.) not caring enough or otherwise making choices that lead to bloat is second. Marketing team with power to require problematic things added or just going crazy with tag manager is third.

All three are involved in the "bloating crisis".
So, turns out doing hard drugs is bad. Who might thought of that in the first place.
To finish validating a request and then start executing it creates a race condition. That's why execution always needed to fail in a recoverable way.
Italian love of calamari.
The price thing isn't just about competition. Meta and oculus before it has a stated goal to bring it to the masses. That's not going to work at a $3500 price point.

You need to get Devs interested too and that won't work if only the top 1% of the western world can afford it.
AT&T says leaked data of 70M people is not from its systems
Further to that, taxi licences were limited in number and sought after.

So it became less of driving a taxi and more about financial investment. People bought dozens of licences and leased them out.

It no longer became about driving taxis and was more an investment.

As soon as Uber came, those who invested heavily were left holding a useless (or heavily reduced) investment.
nonsense...the pilot's fault is the official cause...you can obviously spin your own theory, but if you miss key points like eg. the flight simulator waypoints in the pilot's computer then it just becomes another nutty conspiracy
RSUs aren't "extra" pay though. They are shares in lieu of cash compensation. At some companies you can negotiate to get all of your RSU compensation as cash instead and that money will be part of your base compensation, which will make your taxes simpler and might be better for you in the long run.
This isn’t my field, but possibly relevant:

Why Doesn’t My Model Work?
https://thegradient.pub/why-doesnt-my-model-work/

It describes a lot of pitfalls, some specific to time-series forecasting, and it links to this paper:

Forecast evaluation for data scientists: common pitfalls and best practices
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10618-022-00894-5
If you're this salty about SETI being a waste Of computing cycles, wait till you learn about bitcoin.
Look up monkey raft theory. How did monkeys from Africa get to South America? Also roughly 30 MYA.
You can lend ethereum coins that way. You can't lend bitcoins.
Mmh… I see that we definitely have people of good taste around here.
Each token generated may only use a subset of the parameters (86billion instead of 314billion), but the next generated token might use a different subset. If it's anything like Mixtral, it will switch between experts constantly. It helps with memory bandwidth, but all the parameters still need to be in RAM or it would be unbearably slow.
I was sure that they’d return to a toilet in every car by the end, and the moral of the story would be about optimizing for the wrong thing.
That reminds me the classic love affair between reptilian guts and Salmonella...

One in each two of your Py-burger donors carried a surprise. I hope they are well cooked.
I guess with scale, the tiniests of details become the bottleneck :)
Sounds fantastic sadly it's easy to see why it doesn't exist.

Oil changes require following environmental regs, careful disposal, paying for same and it makes a 1000x more sense to integrate them with a business that actually works on cars and can capture additional dollars for other maintenance and repair.

You also want a comparatively skilled and trustworthy individual not someone who moved up from vacuuming to oil changes and a business than can easily write a check if their employee does mess up your expensive asset rather than an owner who will have to decide between writing you that check and paying their rent and employees. This is also why you don't want to get your oil change at walmart.

If you could have it the oil change would have to cost $50-$60 to justify its existence because there would be no chance of capturing additional revenue. If it had full service and 2 people spent 15 minutes we are talking about another $30. This is only true if you can actually keep relatively busy and aren't implicitly bearing the cost of labor while people are waiting for customers.

Then there is competition from both auto repair who are offering 29.99 oil changes and 5-9.99 automated car washes.
> I'm sure just like in X's algorithms, @elon tweets are weighted heavily.

Are you sure or is it the literal opposite and you’re just speculating?
They broke the law, if they didn't want to potentially pay fines or a settlement, they shouldn't have broken the law. They could have spent all this money lobbying in advance to get laws repealed or get an exception instead.

In the grand scheme of things it seems like it worked out for them.
The HN-parsed URL makes it looks like it is from Google (research.google.com), but this is a Colab notebook written by someone who doesn't work at Google. I think HN needs to include the colab.research.google.com on all Colab notebooks to better inform HN readers.
No, you haven't. You've seen some symbols that represent the ludicrous physical notion of a negative amount of an object. Look outside, count negative 3 sheep. You can't. It's a _fiction_ which happens to be useful for accounting for debt.
The mapping seems fairly clear, even if an implementation is not provided. Just write the 32-bit integer in base 85, using the provided numerals. Most significant numeral first. Since 2^32 < 85^5 you can do it in five characters, though some sequences cannot be achieved. Just like you would do with any other numeric base.
If you sell your rsus when they vest its the same result
It’s 100% efficient. All of the power is transformed into heat.
> In late February, a new report revealed that dozens of Idaho's obstetricians have stopped practicing in the state since Idaho's abortion law took effect in August 2022.

Ah.

My heart goes out to people stuck in Idaho that opposed these laws and now have less access to health care as a result.
Ya, he’s bragging about letting his frame and underbody rust out.

(must be nice to live in a place without salt on the roads!)
You can simplify this setup- vector can write to Uptrace which is backed by Clickhouse, which itself can use tiered storage eg. S3.

Very easy to get setup locally too as a POC.
The comparison is to "Subaru of Old" that wasn't afraid to make a car with a body style that was distinctly different than competitors. And targeting an outdoorsy market.
You can add bounds checks to c, but that costs a hell of a lot more than 1-2%. C++ has them off by default for std::vector because c++ is designed by and for the utterly insane. Other than that, I can't off the top of my head think of a language that doesn't have them.
The Only Thing We Learn (1949)
Actually, why don't apartments offer a spigot and outlet somewhere nearby where you can park a car?

In my mind, it's kind of like how above $20/hr or so (and >= 5ish employees), it's a no-brainer for businesses to pay for lunch. It's more cost effective for the business to pay, and it results in less dead time and more camaraderie. The experience of automatic or manual car washes is bad; your car doesn't get that clean; it's shockingly expensive for what you get; you don't have the proper tools/time to clean the interior or wax and dry the outside; you have a variety of quickly deprecating fake-currency scams (where the unit costs are a prime number not dividing the amounts you're allowed to use to pay for the fake currency, and the fake coins only sometimes work in the machines and are replaced every 2yrs or so to deprecate anything you may have bought in the past); and so on.

Like, I average $5/mo or so cleaning the cars in my household. Doing it at my apartment with my own tools would be a strictly better experience. Most tenants I've talked to agree. In our complex, that's a (ballpark) >=$12k/yr opportunity. Is it that expensive to place a spigot and outlet close to a private road? Have bad actors made this infeasible? What actually keeps landlords from providing that amenity?
There was an earlier article (Sep 20, 2022) about using the Stable Diffusion VAE to perform image compression. Uses the VAE to change from pixel space to latent space, dithers the latent space down to 256 colors, then when it's time to decompress it, it de-noises that.

https://pub.towardsai.net/stable-diffusion-based-image-compr...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32907494
It's slightly exaggerated; the Python program might not have been able to fully utilize all cores, it's really just 16 cores with hyperthreading. But it's not unreasonable: 150x speed-up isn't unexpected when going from Python to C/Rust/C++ in number crunching code, 150/16=9.3 (16 is based on the assumption that the gains from hyperthreading and the losses from imperfect parallelism more or less cancel out)

I don't think I have the code for these large-ish data processing experiments I did any more, but it would be fun to make some toy problems with large amounts of data and create comparable Python and C implementations and create a blog post with the results.
> I found this letter in a folder of old correspondence from my days when I was editing at the Whole Earth Catalog. It is from the science fiction master Robert Heinlein.

One unanswered question here: the image shows no box checked off. So, if it was not in reply to a letter from Kelly (or someone else at Whole Earth), then where did it come from?
The entire point of working for a living instead of e.g. subsistence farming is that you can simply switch jobs if it's not going well.

As an adult if you can't weather a couple of weeks of unemployment you've seriously screwed up somewhere - probably overcommitting to expenses based on assuming that your income is guaranteed.

The mindset that someone should be stopped from even offering a job because it might not be forever is completely ass backwards. It's never forever, act accordingly.
> • Being able to tune out 180 degrees of my space with a natural scene so I am completely undistracted. Wish I could go 360 degrees, and still leave keyboard visible. (Either by having an unobstructed low circle, or having the keyboard "punch through" like hands do.

Oculus quests have had this feature for a while now so I guess it'll come to AVP too. It only supports a handful of models but that's no big deal for Apple users as they mostly will use Apple keyboards anyway.
(edit) needs clarification that this is a personal example, not a product from Google Research
The prices of cartel approved taxi plates crashed from ~200-150k to ~20k overnight once the market saw that the gov was letting Uber continue operating. Uber didnt compete on the same field, they created a new game, that was completely illegal in Australia, on another field. If a regular joe did that he would gaol.

This payment compentsates those taxi licence holders who held the dip.
Yeah I know. And I don’t understand 2 things about it:
1) How is it possible to have a company releasing VSCode wich is a quite viable and ok to use Electron app and on the other hand, releasing some Electron garbage such as Skype or Teams.
2) Why MS discontinued the version of Teams on Linux ?! Isn’t the purpose of Electron App to encapsulate web apps to make them look more native *and* be able to release these *cross-platform* I mean if your Electron app is working for PC and Mac, then, why not releasing it on Linux ?
-fomit-frame-pointer Had serious performance improvements back in the day. I would always compile my own MySQL and PHP and save money on hardware.

But those days has 32bit processors with few registers.

Times change.
I really don't get what this is implying, commuter cars are essentially self-cleaning. You're driving on roads where the worst that's gonna happen is some salt buildup in winter that isn't worth washing off in winter (and isn't rusting in winter) and then it washes itself off first rain of spring.

This feels like one of those iceberg tips where I'm really glad I'm not in the kind of social circle where having a spotless car matters at all.

I've driven four going on five cars to 200k miles having never gave any shits about car washes and haven't had any problems.
A lot of my friends dads worked in coal power plants (they would be the guys climbing the stack for inspection and cleaning.

They all used Stanley mugs, usually the dark green one with a little detachable cup.

Such an uncanny valley for Stanley to suddenly the be the IT mom and influencer accessory, but it’s a well trodden path from work site to boutique (I think Carhartt, Suburban SUVs, many others I am sure).

Watching SNL, I have to ask: are they not leak proof? https://youtu.be/L2tUO2mp99Q?si=zVjGlxi-rcrMW2JC

We always just use Nalgene since you can’t lose the cap and they generally don’t leak but of course accept room temp water.
The demofox.org page I see has blue text against a black background - unreadable. No other web page I can recall has this color combination.
While remote monitoring can be useful, be careful about starting to rely on it more and more. It can't monitor everything (for example: skin condition, cuts and bruises, periodic hallucinations and confusion, depression, etc.) so don't rely on it completely.
> Especially true in the American two-party system, political parties want to maximize vote allocated to their candidate. Political parties will adjust their platform to comply with the median voters’ demand. The Comparative Midpoints Model represents this idea best: Both political parties will get as close to the competing party’s platform while preserving its own identity.

On the contrary, the ever increasing dysfunction in US politics is largely because the players have hacked their way past the constraints of this model.
Yeah, not around here though. My estimate is based on how long a wash takes and allowing for people not washing as frequently at night at the wash attached to my local gas station. This is a rural area.

However my neighbor used to own a chain of car washes in the suburbs and going by his 11,000 sq-ft house, I'm guessing it was pretty profitable!
https://www.themainewire.com/2023/11/triad-weed-illegal-chin...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/12/oregon-marij...
Ollama is just a wrapper around llama.cpp, so when the gguf model files come out it'll be able to run on Ollama (assuming no llama.cpp patch is needed, but even if it is ollama is usually good at getting those updates out pretty quickly).
The unexpected reverse angle was just speculation last I heard.
Regarding this quote on ESPP programs:

> If the company does poorly, the employees with ESPP will lose, and get their money back at a reduced rate, which is great for the company, effectively having to pay less payroll if things are going poorly.

This doesn't match my experience. I've obviously not worked at every country on earth/in the US but the ESPP programs I have used have always been a 15% discount on the low point of either the start or end of the ESPP period. e.g. it's a near guaranteed 15% gain (obviously stock market so no such thing as a real guarantee[1]) because even if the stock price has dropped, because you're still getting the stock at a discount on the reduced price. Assuming you have no reason to believe there's a chance of a sudden 15% (or whatever) stock price drop, your employer is publicly traded (and has trade volume), and they are doing "vs lowest price", ESPP is one of the lowest risk ways of getting a 15% gain on your funds.

[1] e.g. because stock sales/purchases are still inexplicably not instantaneous it's conceivable something terrible could happen in the multiday period between purchasing your shares at a discount, and being able to sell them.
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Pushed a fix for #2 in v0.0.41!
>You said that the stdlib needs to provide it first, you were very clear about that.

Not clear enough apparently :)

What I said is: (a) I see "Lack of standard library support for X brought 5 competing libraries for the same X functionality, (b) no de facto standard, (c) and projects using incompatible implementations and versions maintained in different states of disarray" as a problem.

That's 3 things, and the 3rd occurs because of a lack of either or both of the first two. So, I didn't say stdlib "needs to provide it first", except if by that you just mean the order in which I wrote it.

To spell it out, what I'm saying is: Not having something in stdlib AND not having a defacto standard for it either, and THUS getting many incompatible implementations - that's a bigger problem than stdlib scope creep.

>And for what it's worth I agree with you about that doing it first, on the whole a stdlib should aim to do it first if they're doing it at all. Take Microsoft's belated decision to ship a JSON implementation for .NET. Obviously meanwhile a de facto standard took hold, Newtonsoft, and of course the Microsoft library isn't a drop-in replacement.

It's good to do it first and get it right, but they can as well also do this: embed the emerged de facto standard as is, if they decide to do it later.

That's what Java should have done with Joda-Time for example.
And agile can absolutely suck for refactors, because it only rewards superficial steps.
If it’s anything like the 3 that have opened in my town of 80k in literally the last year it’s because they’re huuuuuuge. The wash itself is 100+ft long, and tons of parking, vacuums, etc.

Just one of those things takes up the space of 3 or 4 normal gas stations.

The crazy thing is that after a small wave of initial enthusiasm, they hardly ever even have customers.
Didn't you know about -fno-omit-frame-pointer?
(Smart guy. Totally grasped the subjacent idea)
Because you say consciousness is a loaded concept I will try to give you a description of what it actually is. I do agree that many people think different things when they talk about consciousness.

It's your inner experience. Oh well, you can probably read this in a philosophy textbook. But what I think it really is, can only be explained with a thought experiment.

Lets say you go into a pitch black sensory deprivation tank with salt water, so you can float in the water. Doctors give you injection that makes you forget about who you are, what is your name. You also forget about how to talk, you know no concept of the languge. You simply temporarily forget about you and what makes you really YOU in this world. The cemical in your blood also deprives you of any physical feeling, you don't feel any water around you. All there is to do is to gaze into darkness. And still...you are conscious, you have the inner
experience. There is something like to be you, even in that state.
>If I had started an illegal gypsy taxi business I would have been fined or arrested. Why are there different rules for large corporations?

Shouldn't you be wondering why is it illegal for you to do the first thing rather than the last?

Why shouldn't you be able to start what you call a 'gypsy taxi business.' what's the need for arresting you? Is it that authoritarian of a nation?
They were “widely considered” to be better, but again, almost never with any specifics. Just knee jerk hate.

And I don’t have any of those issues with the official client, other than the ad one. The performance is great, it’s very reliable, I have most notifications disabled except for a couple things I care about (and the notification settings are pretty fine-grained).

Maybe the customization stuff could be more extensive? But I don’t want 1000 settings for every tiny little thing. Regardless, it hardly seems like a complaint that people would get so worked up over.

Maybe the official client used to be much worse and I don’t remember, but increasingly I think people are just pissed about Reddit cutting off the alternative clients and hate being forced to change, so they moan and groan as if the official client is the worst app they’ve ever used. When really, it’s fine.
I think your definition of "simple" doesn't agree with the average person's. I guarantee you that 98% of people don't know the word "adiabatic".
I wanted to go fossil hunting (and for ammonites in particular) after watching these guys just haul them out:

https://youtu.be/9XWhdPL58is
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/critters Might be a good starting point. It’s designed to inline the css afterward so it’s more focused on extracting used css than removing unused.
Yeah, conhost.exe is the old terminal emulator effectively (cmd.exe being a shell).

Before that, csrss.exe handled terminal emulation (which is why console windows weren't themable[1]).

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071231-00/?p=23...
I'm not seeing anything resembling an evaluation of model performance on a quick scroll.