skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at the already expired March cocoa futures.[0] This is clearly not speculation.

>The normal thing instead would for people to eat less chocolate until there is enough supply

The cost of cocoa is not identical to the cost of chocolate.

>Based on a 200g milk chocolate bar costing €2, cocoa
comprises around 10 percent of total costs; sugar 1 percent;
milk products 6 percent; production, packaging and
marketing and profits around 78 percent and tax 6 percent. [1]

This means a 3x increase in prices would make the bar cost €2.60. There are also products that use only small amounts of chocolate, reducing the total increase even further. For example the increase in chocolate costs in a chocolate chip cookie is negligible.

[0] https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/CCH24

[1] https://edepot.wur.nl/335476
If I got laid off today, I'd use this to my advantage. Just apply for and work for two lower-paying jobs at the same time, cumulating in a high total comp.
That's sad, I hope things improve for him soon.
People are not aiming for tens of millions. Just banking $5M to $10M gives you security against you and your descendants not being able to work due to thinks like disease or injury.

Some people are willing to gamble and for this security, and others are not. Personally, a desk job with some politics does not sound like a bad tradeoff. You might have to live away from family for a little while, but you would be setting descendants up very well.
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It's actually 90 days of searchable history.

https://slack.com/pricing/free
I often see people settled into being more financially responsible, and it's good. But not in term of personality maturity.
TIL Sony maintains a Flutter eLinux embedder project[0]

[0] https://github.com/sony/flutter-embedded-linux
But it’s ok though, because the rest of us will just pick up the bill and clean everything up when Timmy-the-cowboys-unhinged-plane falls out of the sky over a populated area, or the ocean or something. No big deal right? Fuel and emissions don’t have an environmental impact, so people can just fly whatever they please around and the rest of us should just put up with it, because god forbid we put a stumbling block for those mighty captains of industry.
I agreed!
But if you're looking for security against not being able to work, you don't need to leave Europe. People unable to work can still live decently on government assistance, at least in the richer European countries.
You have to type in all the digits of Pi in the field at the top. But there are an infinite number of digits and there isn’t a field at the top
It's actually "neither of the above": the congestion funding is simply going to replace federal funding (mostly Covid relief stuff) that is due to roll off.
Is that $80/ft^2/yr raw land value? Indoor space cannot be directly compared against a spot in a garage that’s not climate controlled and is more vulnerable to vandalism.
Evidently there are quite a few backstories waiting to be filled in.
This is about new cars, so the condition is expected to be "unused". Of course there's always the possibility of a lemon.

But in terms of how lemons affect negotiation on the used market, there is a classic economics paper, "The Market for Lemons" (summarized here[1]) which you would probably enjoy tracking down.

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Market_for_Lemons
>It is a lot harder with variable-length instrs where the length cannot even be calculated from the first byte - you need to read 10 bytes in the worst case to find an instr's len in x86. In aarch64 you need to read 0 bytes to know the length - it is 4

x86's approach to variable-length instructions is unfortunate.

In contrast, RISC-V leverages variable-length encoding to get the best code density among 64bit ISAs while sidestepping the instruction boundary problem.

(I digress, but note that while for the 32bit ISA RISC-V code density was competitive yet bested by ARM thumb2, it has since improved; RISC-V has the best density overall)
Hah, we all know the NYC experience is about bringing a personal automobile onto the island of Manhattan.
Finally. someone talking sense about AI.
It’s definitely a toll on the middle class. They’re also the ones more likely to be driving in to Manhattan on a daily basis rather than living there compared to the über wealthy.
I found the blog's soft font hard to read. Fortunately my browser's reader mode fixed it.
Thank you it's really nice to hear (read) someone say that!
Durin VII?
Connection: Keep-Alive is your friend.
Accelerating Progress Toward Trustworthy AI
Because of "growth & engagement". Somewhere around 2010, technology shifted from being a tool to empower the user to a tool to waste the user's time with spam. Things shifted from offering a service and collecting a fair fee to spamming the user or collecting their data (so it can be used to further spam the user down the line).

An open standard isn't something any of the current providers want since otherwise users can easily substitute them with different alternatives and no longer "engage" with them.
> the merchant chooses how much personal info they want or need to collect, and Apple Pay doesn’t prevent them from asking you for that at checkout.

Does this happen when shopping in-person?

> of course that info would be there! In this example, my checkout page was for a physical item so I needed the customer’s shipping info.

They don't need my name and address if I'm buying eggs in a grocery store. Does Apple/Google require my consent to share that info when it's obviously not required? Is it similar to a terms & conditions, or shrink-wrapped EULA? (ie take it or leave it)

I've never used these payment systems.
Well, you can't buy them from EMS anymore and the art tools page on Bantam says:

"THE BANTAM TOOLS NEXTDRAW™ WILL BE AVAILABLE IN SPRING 2024."
That hasn't been my experience.

For example, Naval Undersea Warfare Centers, Division Newport, had a job fair a few weeks ago. IIUC a number of attendees were given offers very soon after.

But NUWC is a DoD DEMO organization, so maybe it's easier for them than some other parts of the DoD.

And salary definitely is an issue. Even with the Boston pay scale, I think they have a hard salary cap for most software positions at about $150k + very small annual bonuses.
Hamas gained a ton of support for their cause by the tragedy inflicted in the counterattack. I believe they celebrate the deaths of Palestinian innocents as much as they do the Israeli ones so they can extract propaganda wins. This has been part and parcel of their strategy for decades - it’s why they embed their military activity in soft targets like schools and hospitals.

The Israelis know this by now, so the fact that Israel was goaded into a ground war speaks as much to the political situation as anything else, but either way it’s tragic.
That would be Project Builder and Interface Builder. Project Builder was kind of a graphical make tool and Interface Builder was the real star of the show, it was the graphical user interface builder. And there was Edit for source code editing.

There were sold as separate product, NeXTStep Developer that had all the development tools, but if you bought the education version of NeXTstep the developer tools came bundled.
How much does Level Up Tech charge? I scrolled through their website and could not find anything related to classes or prices.
I don't see the problem with scooters if they're electric, but mopeds are nasty and spew tons of pollution, plus they're ridiculously noisy. I think they should just be banned.

e-bikes are fine though, and should in fact be encouraged somehow. They're a great form of personal transport in a dense city; they're very very common here in Tokyo these days.
There is no benefit other than the profit made by the companies manufacturing this "aid", payed for by the American taxpayer via the US congress and government.
How will there be economic growth if humans will keep losing their jobs due to AI?

You know we do need a customer base of actual human beings to sell things to. AI buying AI products AIn't gonna cut it.
I realised last year that I'd reached the age (48) that my mums dad was when I was born. I remember him "always" being "old", but I also know that I have memories of him from before he turned 55 (he took early retirement around then, and I remember clearly the discussions about what would happen to his workplace that led up to the offer of taking early retirement). He lived another 32 years after that, and all of my grandparents were young enough through most of my childhood and teens that not only were they around but they had the energy to have us stay for whole weeks during the holidays and take us all kinds of places...

Meanwhile my son, at 14, has only one living grandparent, and it does feel weird.
Given I'm forced to pay for the BBC a fee for a service I don't use. I'd prefer they did it as cheaply as possible, maybe it will stop it getting even more expensive. The BBC's job isn't to create nice jobs.
If every odd utility is several megabytes, good luck fitting an OS in a meager eMMC.
Why not advocate for incentivizing use of public transportation by lowering costs trains and buses instead? It seems like prices only ever go up.
"fond memories", I assume
Yeah it doesn’t add up.
Sorry VERY late here (I somehow missed this), but have you considered weight training? From an efficiency point of view it seems hard to beat. Building muscle (like you'd like to) helps with metabolism, etc.

Of course cardio with a consistent routine is great too, but the potential for injury/schedule stuff can be hard.

If it's within reach for you, a small home gym (but in a room that is NOT the garage) is also fantastic, much easier to do 5 mins spontaneously and feel badly if you miss a day of doing at least 5 mins.

> Additionally, before GLP1 I’ve struggled a lot with tasks like grocery shopping and cooking because of my ADHD. But… since I’ve been on this GLP1, I have more mental availability to plan meals (super interesting!) I’ve actually found it a manageable task to plan a meal, acquire the correct ingredients and then prepare the meal, so I’ve been making far healthier meals (and it doesn’t even feel like I’m trying).

This is a huge thing and I'm pretty sure you're not the first I've seen say it. Impulse control is something a lot of society needs help with and eating is just the beginning.
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I don’t think you’re likely to see a significant change to the flying experience (at least not for the better) as long as most customers continue to prefer the cheapest, most terrible option.

Maybe somebody succeeds with a delta-wing design, but the highest-profit configuration will still be to make the seats as cheap and terrible as possible.
A better fix would be to just make transit more attractive, not make driving less attractive. Reduce the price of the train by $15 and, without this new toll, voila, your commute is cheaper by transit.

On top of that, make transit faster and more frequent so people look at driving & transit directions side-by-side and see that there's not much difference time-wise. This is already true for many trips inside NYC.
Assuming you’re not renting.
>If someone really needs to drive into Manhattan most days perhaps they should move to a place that's close to a PATH, LIRR, Metro-North, subway, ferry, or other transit system.

So "not in Queens", then? Jesus Christ.
And some won't, so they'll remain directors
Apple didn’t create contactless payment infra in the US either. The contactless interface was already there, had its own logo, usable by tap cards, etc.

Some retailers eg CVS turned off tap payments when Apple Pay was introduced.
> Software Procurement by Federal standards is relatively straightforward

> FedRamp and FIPS compliance

It’s odd to see these in the same sentence. FedRAMP is so insanely complex/difficult to achieve in a straightforward way. Even by your own estimate for a series E startup (with lots of capital and the ability to spend >18 months< on compliance) there’s a 3M$ variation in cost.

That rules out every startup or SME in software and that’s why you have Palantir, half baked tech that rarely delivers/is somehow more universally hated in USG than ServiceNow. Yet able to seize the space and hike prices endlessly due to compliance being so difficult to achieve — they realize/accept this as their edge as well and it’s why they so aggressively pursued IL6.

The good news is that this is going away and USG is strongly reconsidering its approach here. CMMC, imo, is a huge step in the right direction.
Dementia in the Ancient Greco-Roman World Was Minimally Mentioned
The horn honking is cultural in New York. If you visit the area, and cross from New Jersey into Manhattan, you'll notice that as soon as you cross the Hudson river, drivers are suddenly honking their horns for any reason at all, whereas they weren't in NJ.

It's not about city size; I live in Tokyo now, which is much larger than NYC, it's extremely rare to hear a horn honk here, even in the areas with heavier car and truck traffic. Horn honking is a cultural thing.
More money to funnel into the unions
> As an aside, also getting on a dose of Semaglutide has been similarly life changing. The damn near elimination of "food noise" has been incredible.

>. I know there are a number of folks of the opinion that its somehow cheating. But for me I am left wondering "Is this just how normal people feel?".

Heavily under-weighting (heh) the opinions of people on the internet (and honestly most people in real life) is the way to go.

We generally don't (and shouldn't) ridicule people for taking scientifically proven treatments that can help save/prolong their lives.
HN guidelines request "please use the original title"[0] (although there's also a character limit which can add complexity). As the page currently reads, the submission title should be "Better software requirements" (rather than using the first sentence fragment).

I'm guessing this is your page, in which case you could update its title/h1 to match this submission title, if you prefer it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Balrog is missing. Not sure, if it's its own race or belongs to demon category.
I am not from the USA; I am from Spain and learnt programming before I learnt English. I never found English keywords and identifiers to be a problem, they are just fancy words that you memorize and reuse. Heck, I know plenty of programmers that don't speak English, and they don't see to have a problem either.
This is good as it’ll encourage people to hopefully leave and start other competitive ventures. Hubris destroys all human endeavors, why should businesses be immune to it?
i ran into the same sort of documentation desert.

off the top of my head:

- keep in mind there is LVM and LVM2, and proxmox now uses lvm2

- I don't understand the thinpool allocation. You don't have to use lvm-thin if you don't want to deal with oversubscribed volumes, or don't care about snapshots or cloning storage.

- get to know "pvesm". A lot of things you can do in the gui

- when making linux VMs, I found it easier to use separate devices for the efi partition and the linux partition, such as:

efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-205-disk-0,size=4M
virtio0: local-lvm:vm-205-disk-1,iothread=1,size=1G
virtio1: local-lvm:vm-205-disk-2,cache=writeback,discard=on,iothread=1,size=32G

(virtio0 = efi, virtio1 = /)

and I can mount/expand/resize /dev/mapper/big2-vm--205--disk--2 without having to deal with disk partitions
This makes me bearish on OpenAI as a company. When a cloud company can offer a strong model for free by selling the compute, what competitive advantage does a company who want you to pay for the model have left? Feels like they might get Netscape’d.
They tried a few times in the 60s (pan-arabism) but it always broke down over the question of who to put in charge.
I'll agree in theory but to play devil's advocate:

* I did the VCP4 and 5 courses. It's entirely a sales certification. I mean it's a technical certification, but I've never run into anyone who certified for the purpose of running an organisation's tech. Rather, you certify for the purpose of your company being able to sell the product. Note also much of VMware's training focus lately has been on things outside their main virtualisation, like Horizon or their MDM product.
* Accurate. But I don't think it'll be far off.
* Proxmox does Ceph out of the box. I'll also add that it's very easy to manage, unlike vSAN. I'll further add that none of the VMware training and certifications I've ever done covered vSAN, all the courses assume someone bought a SAN.
* All the "hybrid cloud" pushed at least by Microsoft completely assumes you're in Hyper-V and is irrelevant to VMware
* I've consulted to an awful lot of VMware organisations and I've never seen servicenow integration in place. I'm sure it's relevant for some peopel.
Just to add to this, there's data to support the intuition there that there is long term good in taking GLP1s even after you stop:

https://glp1.guide/content/do-people-regain-all-the-weight-l...

Now, we need price to go down and availability to go up, but people who think all the weight bounces back as a sort of "gotcha" are silly. It's possible, but is a testament to the difficulty of dealing with obesity -- not some sort of gotcha of the drug.
At least, they sound that way to your System 1!
NeXT had a Motorola 56001 DSP (coprocessor) that could decode MP3 in realtime
Because it's been consistently underfunded for years – tentpole current affairs/factual programmes like Newsnight have had shrinking resources for years, and commercially successful franchises like Dr. Who are often majority-funded by other broadcasters (Disney+ in this case.) [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/27/russell...
Perhaps God will make his next miracle something more generally observable. The context of your lived experience is useless to me. Unfortunately, I have seen schizophrenic people maim their bodies over perceived threats that a security camera proves isn't real. I'm not very good at the whole "trust me" thing anymore, at least without seeing the boogeyman myself.

Maybe both of us will be proven wrong, someday. It's the nature of unknowing.
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>I'm sure we're all at the edge of our seats hoping to experience an efficiency revolution, and that this can be given to us with this one weird trick of changing ISAs... but it's not happening. At least not with ARM, or RISC-V or any other contemporary architecture that isn't x86.

You seem to miss that RISC-V being better is besides the point.

RISC-V's massive success was unavoidable, due to its open specification and free license.

The ISA did not need to even be good, just decent.
If you're young, and relatively untethered, right now is probably the best and easiest time to take a risk on something. The future will undoubtedly hold relationships, connection to your local community, ownership of property, maybe children or other family obligations, etc. You have more energy right now than you will have ever again. Which is all to say, it will (probably) only get harder to do this from here on out.

That said, Food service has famously thin margins. I don't know a lot about coffee, but I'm willing to bet that it is not the exception to that rule. You really have to have a deep passion for doing this, because the money will probably not be enough.

If you're super ambitious - why not both? Start a coffee company and start prototyping a coffee machine that does things the way you like. The Coffee machine market is massive, and ranges from ten bucks to thousands of dollars.

Congratulations on your degree, and on graduating without debt. Good luck. If you feel like sharing in the future, I think we'd love to know what you chose.
Yep. I don't know the situation around NYC, but in the bay area, lower-income folks have been getting pushed out of SF and most of the peninsula, and have moved farther out. Something like this (e.g. if they were to analogously increase the Bay Bridge toll) just hurts lower-income folks even more. They have no choice: they need to drive to where the jobs are, but can't afford to live where the jobs are.

And the transit options are laughable. It's great for the people served by BART or Caltrain, but there are a lot of people far enough from a station to make it less than useful for them. So even with the traffic, they make the entirely logical choice to spend 2 hours commuting rather than 4.
Here’s an AMA with one of the researchers https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1boz2nk/askscie...
In the sector of computer chips manufacturing, ASML [0] is a pretty big European tech company.

Also, if we think in term of people instead of companies, many big tech companies have offices in Europe or buy European companies. They employ European people with tech skills and productivity that seem good enough for those tech companies. So we can say that European people also make products that the average person uses often, even though their company is not labeled as European.

Mostly I think that scientific education level is an important factor for jobs in tech companies, and Europe seems to be ok in this area.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding
It certainly has interesting ideas in small doses but knowing about your heuristics and biases doesn't mean you still don't fall victim to them.

The real issue I have with the book is the audio book is read in such boring way by Patrick Egan. I would love to hear a different voice actor take a shot at it as it is not the most exciting book on its own anyway. Then read in such a boring way it reminds me of the worst of college classes I took.

I also don't think it is the type of book that was ever meant to gain the popularity it has. It isn't even that easy to find Judgment Under Uncertainty by clicking on Kahneman's name on Amazon. Kahneman and Tversky wrote that 30 years before Thinking Fast and Slow and it is a great book.

Because of its popularity I would say Thinking, Fast and Slow might be the most overrated book I can think of.

A big reason for that is I would say it is the greatest marketing of a book I can think of by Random House given the subject and how dry the book is.
> It’s odd to see these in the same sentence. FedRAMP is so insanely complex/difficult to achieve in a straightforward way

Agreed! Hence why I said "relatively". It's an easier procurement system than for other products in the Federal space.

> That rules out every startup or SME in software and that’s why you have Palantir

Tbf, Palantir's federal usage is kinda overstated from what I've heard from peers.

But yea, I agree, and made this point in another comment
It's not that it has gotten harder to have kids, but that people come to expect and want to provide more.

I had a perfectly decent living standard growing up, but I also remember very clearly in retrospect the economic uncertainty and the things my parents did to save money, and no uncertainty I've faced has been anywhere near that. Of course it's not like that for everyone, but overall, living standards are up massively, yet fertility rates are down, and the two are firmly correlated.

If I were to budget like my parents did, I could afford many kids. But I don't want to budget like that. Not because I resent how we had it, but because I don't want to go back to that just for the sake of having lots of kids.
Ah, I guess I just checked the wrapper.

That's what I get for doing it on my phone over ssh. I would have probably looked deeper with a real keyboard.
> imagining my kids grow up and move away how often am I going to see them and talk to them?

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

> It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end.
You can use a beer can. https://bitcan.world