skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the rather long explanation that was not especially inflammatory.

The original point of the comment was that $500,000 seemed difficult to believe. You at least provide a thorough, if rather Machiavellian explanation.

Not sure if I agree on the sympathy, mostly because they probably had $AUS in their eyes initially, seeing the prices other people complain about. However, too far away in America, with too much American shadowbanning filter on all news, to have any relevant view on the issue.
> until there is a price

Operating costs for information systems are already directly proportional to energy consumption. There is no further alignment of incentives required.
It's not that unusual at all though.

For a long period in the 90s and early 00s the main purchasers of vinyl records were DJs specifically just to mix one track at a time.

I even have some single sided pressings with exactly one track on one side.

Back then if you knew someone regularly buying new vinyl 9/10 times they were a DJ.
Bleak images show snapshots of daily life in the closed world of North Korea
@all, isn't the idea of scraping and selling data the core business of Google?
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Coming from a stand-up striking Muay Thai perspective the only low risk way to grab a leg is intercepting a kick. You are then out of range of their upper body attacks and have total leverage physically and tactically. At that point unless the fighter whose leg is grabbed is extremely experienced in keeping a one foot balance by avoiding sweeps (ignoring the fact that one can bring the fight to the ground in MMA or BJJ etc - which imo is not preferable in a street fight) they're in a supremely disadvantaged position and at the will of the grabber. In a tournament, though, these situations usually resolve very quickly one way way or the other.
Can foobar2000 play 1 album in cycle?
> why tricks like this aren't used more

Some languages don't support this.

The languages that do would require extensive systems to implement this feature. It may simply not be a priority over other requirements like thread safety, atomicity, etc.

> similar tricks for shell execution

Shell only supports strings, integers and lists. The type system is too limited for this level of type-checking.

This works in typescript due to the advanced type operations built into the language.
Sum type is key, called "discriminated union" sometimes generally. In Rust this is an `enum`. Simulated in some languages as tuples with tag first element. Discrete number of states, attaching information only relevant to each single state. Thus, never have invalid combination of other fields.
What do you use for scanning and OCRing? I haven't found a solution that _doesn't_ make me want to throw it all out and just retype the doc by hand.

I too am moving towards a flat hierarchy with dates after attempting Zettlekasten and PARA. I like your "Zettlekasten layer on top of the fs" idea. Def going to do something similar.
As I've seen time and time again from pepple with views like yours, you simply can't see the wood for the trees.

Fact 1: The amount of dollars is continuously increasing, at a rate of ~100% per decade. The amount which it has dropped in the last 2 years is tiny - that you use this as a counter is a simply ridiculous.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Fact 2: The money is created effortlessly.

Fact 3: The banking system is collecting interest on every single dollar in existence.

Assuming 3% average interest, and $100 trillion total, that interest would amount to ~$3,000,000,000,000 per year or * ~15% of the total GDP of the USA*. I'd love to hear your justification for how this is value for money.

It's absolute theft through deception.

> It's not difficult to find savings opportunities at above the average rate of inflation, unless you define "saving" as "bury money in the ground". But yes, if you think the purpose of the economy is ensure the unproductive maximize their returns, the existing system is definitely worse...

Yes, "saving" is storing your earnings for use later. This is entirely sensible and natural. Most people who are not aware of hard money are forced to either
a) lend their life savings to the stock market for essentially free (7% returns only make up for the 7% devaluation due to money printing).
b) take a house off the market and rent it out to a tenant who is unable to buy due the monetisation of real estate, only making it even harder for the next person to buy.

The only reason this whole scam continues is because the general population has no idea of the rate at which the banking system is stealing value from their money. And people like you only exacerbate the problem.

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” - Henry Ford

Ultimately digital hard money doesn't care about your Keynesian pseudo-science. Just like the law of gravity and the law of nature, Thier's and Gresham's Laws will prevail and shut the whole central banking scam down.
True. Something I used to do is go to a bookstore and if there was some new book that seemed like it had an interesting idea, I would look in the ToC for the chapter named the same as the book and just read that. I never felt like I walked away needing to buy the whole book when I did that, and so the only books I tended to buy were history, cooking and fiction.
Wouldn't it be easier (and therefore cheaper and less emission-prone) to make the hardware consume less energy first? Just wondering, because once I got my M1 my power consumption for the laptop went down like crazy even though it's still running some Electron apps which I can't get off of.
Not sure I get the point as I don't know any plans where energy distributors and providers are not strongly involved, and these actors will be strongly impacted by unstable networks. So, obviously, stability has a very high importance in their mind. And yet, they choose strategies like the one in the Netherlands.

For example, the initial conversation was about Netherlands and negative costs. People who are creating the situation in that country put grid stability very high in their priorities (because it would be catastrophic for them), and still ended up with the situation that currently exists. So, the initial analysis was not far off, and arguing that we should not only look at negative cost is a fair point, but it is incorrect to imply that looking further than negative cost will change the strategy in Netherlands: the strategy in Netherlands is both compatible with "looking at the negative cost" and "looking at network stability".
Time for a custom water cooling loop!
Successful people are keen on telling their success story while people who did not win are busy trying agian or have depression in quiet corner, hopefully short term. Any characteristics derived from self-reported or externally observed data that successful group shares is always askewed due to selection or surviorship bias because of this.

The only true thing here is: people who analyze the data more and reason based on this, can draw better outcome. It is not luck, but yes, might look like one.

Cheers!
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Unhide here: https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden
Me a couple of days ago:

https://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere/status/17711464663602670...

I am really grateful!
Does trading stocks somehow cause an increase production of actual stuff? If not, I don't see how everyone ends up better off.
Minor nit: I’ve found types like these—that is, iterative recursive types—benefit from using terminology common to map/reduce. And by “benefit from”, I mean become more understandable by a wider audience—not necessarily the HN audience per se, but quite likely teammates and future selves.

Which is to say, these names almost always make types like this more clear:

- Head: the first item in the input type you’re iterating through

- Tail: the remaining items or unprocessed structure you’ll likely recurse on next

- Acc (or pick your favorite “reduced” idiom): a named type for the intermediate product which will become the final type when you finish iterating. This can be provided as an optional parameter with an empty tuple as its default, largely modeling a typical reduce (apart from inverting the common parameter order).

It also helps, IME, to put a “base case” first in the type’s conditions.

When all of these names and patterns are utilized, the resulting type tends to look quite a lot like an equivalent runtime function you could encounter for producing the value equivalent to its type. This is great because you can even write the runtime function to match the type’s logic. This demonstrates both what the type is doing for people who find these “complex types” intimidating, and that the type accurately describes the value it’s associated with.
Our friends pronounced it "carrying around our computer towers and setting up folding tables to play Planetside and Stepmania all night". I think it’s a regional thing.
Somewhat related questions:

How can I use an Android phone as a room keycard? Is there an app for reading a card and acting as a tag?

How can I use an iPhone as a room keycard? Why can't I easily add it to Wallet? Is there another app for that?
Seems like a carbon tax that internalizes these costs would help more to focus people's attention on emitting less CO2. All of a sudden, there would be major financial benefits to being more efficient, rather than a few people off in the weeds.
Who? I mean, him?
A local variable can end up referencing a large part of the program state. Some of this can be detected and automated to avoid putting unnecessary burden on the developers, but it's also part of our roadmap for Dispatch to create tools that help developers understand how their application will behave when it starts getting distributed.

This is why these solutions have often seen the creation of a new programming language as a necessary step to avoid those issues altogether. We think it's important to bring those capabilities to mainstream languages, we can't always go back from scratch with a new language.

Regarding where the state is stored, we keep everything in S3 and have plans to allow users to provide their own object store if they need to keep the application state in a storage medium that they own.
I remember watching "Chat GPT-4chan" summer of 2022, and then playing around with some of the early/free online image generators (e.g. Craiyon). Early December 2022, I started playing with ChatGPT and then early 2023 with Perplexity... certainly addictive technologies, absolutely helpful.

All of this background just to say: After trying for most of 2023 to show/tell others about these free technologies, I don't really bring up "generative AI" much anymore (certainly not "potential for jobloss"). If people have questions, I'm happy to answer them... but I no longer bring up the coolest new genAI things because most people still aren't aware of what 2022 (and earlier) transformers can already do.

It's unsurprising that businesses will be massively implementing these cost-saving measures. I'm particularly excited to see how healthcare might be better-able to help more people as we all try to "just survive," often with similar symptoms and maladies. Legal access will also be greatly impacted (see US Chief Justice Roberts' 2023 "End of Year Report," which primarily focuses on LLMs enabling commoner access to the judicial systems of the world).

Hopeful for an interesting future, no doubt!
“Forms that were submitted by encrypting them into a zip, and then sending zip+password in an email…?”

I suspect that’s not too uncommon.
Birdwatching's biggest record threw its online community into chaos
Yes, and backed up with other solutions for longer term supply/demand mismatches.

We are also increasingly seeing batteries as part of PV fields, charged directly with DC from the PV, where they share the same inverters and grid connection, reducing overall cost.
I wonder if those who believe they are lucky work harder and take more chances than those who don’t.
i can summarize the article in numbers.

total steel in the ship: 4,600ton.

union buster guy charged $46,000 and would pay their guys $12/h. labor would amount to half contact costs.

union would pay $17/h plus $6.50 for union managed benefits (medical, retirement). unsure total cost to client.

on both workers, insurances must be paid. but that's only ever mentioned to raise the union labor cost (from $23 to $32)

on the end union delivered the job at a loss for $37,600. workers got the full 23.5/h.

union buster workers wasted a day off work and transportation for no pay.
Congressional Reps Urge NASA to Commit Funds for Mars Sample Return Mission
Around two dozen California congressional representatives sent a letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson Wednesday calling on him to commit at least $650 million to an ambitious Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led mission to collect rock and soil samples from Mars and return them to Earth.
How well does that utility argument play out when companies see fit to grant 0 dividend?
> wants to open source it, that can actually be a pretty big project

See 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
Right, but if we're seriously talking about the liabilities that having a tail has in a fight, then presumably most of the scenarios would involve attacking from behind. Remember also that this would be mostly quadraped animals too. Legs would have been strong, but likely still arboreally adapted, so a relatively strong upper body as well.

In such a scenario, you'd probably attack from behind from a bit of an angle to force strikes from the other leg to be severely cross body.

My original point was not that attacking the leg was easy, my point is that a flexible tail doesn't give you much leverage and control and may not be as much of a liability as you think, since if you could access the tail anyways, you probably also had their back.
I hate browser plugins - but this needs to be a browser plugin. Then I would use it while reading HN. ;-)

I would suggest tackling dynamic difficulty and algorithmic selection of what words to learn, when, and how often, and then let improving LLMs handle accuracy improvements.
I hope the answer the interviewer expects is "Did your current guy do that? Is that why you're interviewing? Was it you?"

I've been a unix and linux jackofall since '96 or so, and I could not answer that question better than "probably a big mess"

Though it would certainly not be points against if they did happen to say "I tried that once just to see". That is good curiosity and tinkering, but I never happened to try it once just to see myself.

I guess it could be a valid question just to see if the response shows some flavor of shock and alarm. IE everyone is expected to say "I don't know" but if the response is blank as though the question were not remarkable, that's not encouraging.

I guess my answer would be "Holy sh... we don't have time for this, take me to the machine right now." haha Or just "I dunno but I'll clean it up."
The rest of the world has the analog problem of some people boycotting fb messenger or WhatsApp and trying to get their social circle to move tob signal or telegram
At the time you’d start up your computer, then go make some coffee or tea while it booted. Imagine if that could be combined into one process!
this sounds similar to prolog!
New cars are now 'the worst' products when it comes to protecting consumer data
The number of CSS and Javascript files doesn't really have much of an impact on how much resources a website uses. It's mostly a logistical decision. You can build a wasteful website with one (or zero) of them, and a slim one with dozens of js and css-files.

There is a weak accidental correlation between these two things, but it's not necessary.
My original game saves are actually still there, miraculously.
Clearly you are ignoring the history of the conflict and the desires of the Russians, and thereby the entire reason for the invasion. It was explained clearly many times prior to the invasion that they would go ahead and do so if you ignore their security concerns.

Remember when they put missiles in Cuba? We can't ignore their security concerns and pretend facts exist in a vacuum.
Excel has some nice integrations with PowerBI, SQL, Azure and a rich SDK.
Rust does not solve this by having the mutex wrap the data it protects. The problem is checking something in the condition variable's predicate which isn't guarded by the mutex. Stopping you from accessing the data guarded by the mutex without holding the mutex does nothing to help with this.

You would need to make it so that the CV predicate can only access the state guarded by the mutex, which is not something that Rust does.
> -over a ton of anti-matter would be required to get a ton of payload to a nearby star at ~40% the speed of light

It all sounds awful until you get to this line. What are the equivalent numbers for fusion? All else being equal, 250 tons of fuel per 1 ton payload? And that payload has to include the reactor and storage and shielding and everything.
I have a canon Selphy for 10x15 format as well as a Kodak Mini Shot Saqure "instant camera" that I really use as a printer for square polaroidlike photos from the smartphone. I also own a Fujifilm Instax Wide and an old Polaroid 600 that I converted to rechargeable batteries so that I can buy the slightly less expensive I-Type films. Between the Polaroid and the Instax, I take an average of maybe 2 instant pictures per week, maybe more during Christmas period or if I have family visiting me. Sometimes pictures that I don't keep but just gift to friends I am meeting with. All in all 2 pictures per week is just around 100 pictures. 2 packs of 10 Instax Wide cost me around 20€, a pack of 8 polaroid I-Type is much more expensive, around 17€ but I don't think spend more than 150€ a year on those anyway. Both printing with the Selphy/Kodak and taking instant pictures is expensive compared to bulk printing at a shop or online but in my opinion it is worth it and is still better than forgetting about those photos or even not taking them in the first place. I tend to think it is still less money wasted than if I was smoking.

One of the last Polaroid picture I took was of a little girl playing with her mom. Her husband told me several week later that it had become a bookmark that he has pleasure rediscovering everytime he grab his current book. Sometimes the smallest but meaningful gifts are the nicest.

For holidays, special events, whenever I have more than a handful of pictures to print or if I want bigger format I am doing it through the local photo print shop or online.
They’re snipping another gene (BCL11A) that silences, or turns off, HbF. Turning off BCL11A then allows HbF to be expressed
I have absolutely no idea what that program is intending to do, such that I can’t tell if you’re joking.
US Kleenex plant contaminated drinking water with PFAS, lawsuit says
Actually, I do. Why would I do it differently than the HTML I just authored?
I don't know your exact area of expertise, but the salaries for software engineering in Tokyo tend to range between 4M for a junior to 12M for a senior. Some big companies (especially in finance) may go as far as ~15M, but it's pretty exceptional.

Unless you have a specifically rare expertise, I do not think it is realistic to ask 20M, it will probably make the company reject your profile without negociation.

Now if you go the freelance route, it's probably feasible (but not necessarily easy, it depends a lot on your Japanese level and how much you want to work and can handle context switching), but you'd need a plan to get an appropriate visa first.

Source: I have been living here for 5 years, AMA.
Does it? I must have always configured differently but sighup. Usually have to disown preventing sighup!
They abstraction being the universe.
Maybe I’ll give it another try. Do you still have to keep your hands on the steering wheel?
Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
We've just launched in developed preview, so no pricing yet, but this is coming!

A good starting point to answer your other questions is the "getting started" section in our documentation https://docs.dispatch.run/dispatch/getting-started

If you have more questions, join our Discord! We're always happy to chat and get feedback on what's difficult to grasp.
Really? Merching in RS3 always seemed to be more of a pump and dump than anything that overlapped with real life quantitative investing
I would actually find it rather impressive if you told me you played a game from the last 5 years with said 2 friends.
Autonomous inspection for enhanced nuclear safety at Onkalo
I'd guess it is more opportunities than wisdom.

I remember reading about a study looking at why boys who did very well in STEM subjects in high school were more likely to major in those subjects in college than girls who did very well in those subjects in high school.

They looked at how these kids who were at the top of their classes in STEM subjects did in their non-STEM subjects. The boys were much more likely than the girls to have STEM subjects as the only subjects where they were at the top of the class. They were often good in other subjects, but usually only outstanding in STEM.

The girls were more likely than the boys to be at the top in both STEM and non-STEM.

They speculated that this could partly explain why girls who are as good as the top boys in high school STEM subjects are less likely to major in such subjects in college.

Maybe there is something similar except for chess instead of STEM? So girls might obsess as much as boys, but girls who are good at chess might be more likely to also be good at something else and so are less likely to pick chess as what they obsess over.
I am unimpressed with the data being sold. For example $25 for prices from a store over time. I fail to see who this market is for.
Who needs the data at this price?

They don't tell you what fields, formats just a general description. Not even how big. Doesn't feel good enough
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From the site, there's a Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glossarie....
I found it interesting that she didn't remember everything. Notably in one example, she couldn't recall what she had for lunch, but did for dinner.

I find it almost more weird that she can recall so many meaningless (in the grand scheme) details yet there is still a limit. Perhaps too meaningless?
> I don't see why we should let a small group of people hold the whole economy hostage just to enrich themselves.

So you're against capitalism
Hm actually I remember I read in the studio's reply to this, that there weren't 750 active artist names at the same time, this was over many years and they release under some names, then let it go and do 50 new names etc. Still.. it's some kind of diversion of the consumer's expectations. It's one thing to see a pseudonym, but in this case, it was under "normal sounding" names.

Also, the composers' names were faked as well, so there were 750 artist names and 50 composer names..
But even then, how is it not anonymous? Does it somehow publish my identity alongside wallet address?
Italians and Spaniards were sold as slaves in North Africa and were still perfectly able to colonize.