skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profit is revenue - expenses. The margin on one product is not the profit made on that product. That margin is joining all of the other margins, which have to conver the whole cost of running the business. Then once all those expenses are paid, whatever is leftover is profit. A giant company like Loblaws is going to have some high-margin goods, some low-margin. They’re going to have cost centers like IT that just cost them money and don’t make them any money as business units. Some of that butter margin is going to the IT department. Some of it is covering how cheap the grapes and bananas are. Only a tiny fraction of it is going into shareholder pockets.
That's just not possible. You aren't going to be burning less calories during sleep after a workout, you're going to be burning more due to increased protein synthesis as your body recovers (unless the workout was very light).

Reduced fidgeting leading to 600 calories less in a day is not reasonable, either.

To drive this home, just look at professional cyclists : a lot of them have to eat 5000+ calories a day, because they burn 3500+ calories just training, on average, for years and years.

Additionally, if you work out more, you will increase your fat-free mass significantly.

In any case, Pontzer's work never seems to claim you somehow compensate against activity expenditure, it's actually a very strong independent variable in the model of the linked study?
Didn't mean to trigger you!

I'm not an anarchist by any stretch of the imagination, so to turn it around, "you can fuck all the way off with your strawman characterizations of my personal politics".

Upstack, and far less incendiarily, I merely advocate for alternatives (to the colonialist racist USG /s). Monocrops are as bad in government as they are in food production.
I am amused and pleased to see a Captain Disillusion video in there.
But, for example, deaths from e.g. breast cancer have gone way down since we started treating it.
They've been extremely selective in their targeting of Chinese firms accused of selling weapons to Russia. And last year Macron directly said europe has no interest in backing the US's position on Taiwan. I think as the global situation deteriorates, they are likely to want to focus on situations closer to the continent. I haven't heard if they are planning on stopping BYD from opening a factory in Hungary.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for...

I used to run LiteStep, and I remember the one productivity feature it had over regular Windows was virtual desktops. Windows 10 natively supports those now, and I have mostly given up on all desktop eye candy things.
Google restructures finance team as part of AI shift,CFO tells employees in memo
I really hope that someone, somewhere can tell us the origin of the window ;)
Some good questions from this year-old article:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-simulations-q...
Your weight is an equilibrium between calorie intake and caloric expenditure. Increased weight increases baseline expenditure, hence the equilibrium.

If you stop exercising, but keep the same caloric intake as before, yes, it will rebound really fast, because the equilibrium point will stay the same. If you want to move the equilibrium, you either need to do the exercise regularly forever, or reduce your caloric intake, or build significant amounts of muscle (fat free body mass) to increase your baseline. expenditure
Peptides on Interstellar Ice
Western Europe is a misnomer.

Most of it should be all called Northern Europe and North of Northern Europe.

Paris sits between Vancouver and Seattle.

London is the same latitude as Calgary.

Hamburg is at the same latitude as Edmonton.

If the golf stream slows downs or gets diverted north towards Greenland much of Europe will freeze.
The suggestion was to use Whisper as a fallback where no YT transcript exists.
Surprisingly, the voice is the only part of the audio that's real.
Some random spots I checked out of curiosity, Alexandria, VA, USA is on the wrong side of the river and the country of Bahrain is very sad.
Average on what? I'm sure my truck driving skill is less than the average truck drivers.
And while we're at it, let's run the lua interpreter in ring 0 and really get the party going.
My first thought as well. I think it's the phrasing of the title. Although if we could beam in energy at high efficiency instead of pulling it from the ground at low efficiency it would probably be a net improvement. Now let's talk about beaming waste heat into space.
While Loblaws may have had overall ~30% gross profit in 2023, they reported operating income (revenue - COGS - operating costs) of 3.7 billion on 59.5 billion of revenue - so about 6%. Certainly not ridiculous, but also not razor razor thin either.
They enjoy the built-in surveillance of a totalitarian regime.
For example, GET /tickets/12/messages/5 has these advantages over api_get_message_from_ticket?ticket_id=12&message_id=5

Avoids writing everything twice: you don't need to name the data fields both in the base URL and in the query string

If there are several parameters, writing everything twice may make the URL longer than one physical line in a text editor

The ? and & characters need to be quoted in most shells

The _ characters are sometimes hard to read if the entire URL is underlined

Names with api_json don't make it clear whether the request body must be sent as JSON, the response will be JSON, or both
Sounds like there are multiple reasons to not be this kid.
Please note that while the robot is replacing local jobs, the people engineering, building, and maintaining robots could be ln the other side of the plant also. In a world that's seen a huge amount of consolidation we are likely to see further consolidation.
This has become a bizarre populist issue in Canada. Loblaw’s net profit margin is 3.74%.

That’s higher than pre pandemic but it just isn’t the cause of inflation or the high cost of living. Grocery is a highly competitive market.
For me, I enjoy programming but just as a tool. I enjoy it like I do my table saw.

But I use my table saw because I want to build certain stuff. Maybe a cabinet or something. You would never catch me using my table saw or programming “just for fun.”

And if I’m not enjoying what I’m building, it’s not like the tool will somehow make it enjoyable.
How many more close calls will it take for us to significantly overhaul the ATC system and bring it into the present century? Or is a large scale disaster the only way to make people understand the urgency?
Sounds like you are a "real developer". Don't sell yourself short.
Is it still a wrapper over wxwidgets?
That's how I see it too. Not security, but developer experience. You set the file as readonly, but provide a message to PostgreSQL superuser that this is as intended
Yes, you can make the math work for you by factoring in subjective criteria like quality of life.

> on the earning side

I'm not sure if you are aware but some of the things you mention are also provided by good employers in the US, but they are not obligated to.
Here's a very good video to help visualise what happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW6lAwLy_Os
Why can’t we just start charging producers of waste a direct cost. If we charged producers (McDonald’s, coke, Pepsi, supermarket, uniliver etc) $1 for every plastic bottle they used, we’d have a budget for clean up and a change in motivations. Suddenly glass reuse programs are suddenly cost comparable etc
Yeah, I was hoping for more pictures and about two lines of text per page. This will work when he’s 15 or so.
This is how I now see biology, and more so with each reframing. Cells being squishy, floppy bags no longer counts as a point against them being "tech" or "robotic." That's deliberate engineering—a complex scaffold of nanotech ladders that continuously reform to emulate "squish" as a feature.
OCR is easier for the developer, but worse for the user in terms of battery drain / energy use.
Yeah, this letter is odd in that it doesn't begin by stating what the problem is, but instead allude to the problem as if the readers were familiar with NixOS cultural issues

I'm sure that somewhere buried in a wall of text they state what this is all about, but reading up to there is pretty hard when one doesn't have context.

edit: it appears that this is mainly about the bad behavior and conflict of interest of Nix creator, Eelco Dostra. Reading this makes me appreciate how well managed the Rust project is (despite occasional crisis and misbehavior like the RustConf fiasco)
sounds like the movie Swordfish
The fact that he is a murderer is completely irrelevant to the discussion, nor was he insane. A genius mathematician, actually
I might be naive comes to classic ML / NLP: how do you keep the prefix table for N = 5? Naively, that look-up table would be 100k^5 (assuming 100k vocabulary size). Is it very sparse? How large that usually is?
I assume the two-level design was the only way to speed up the context menu without breaking compatibility with some existing shell extensions.

Specifically, the older design allows shell extensions to register callbacks that must run — in some cases synchronously, on the UI thread — before a context menu displays.

In Windows 11, these "legacy" shell extension context menu callbacks need never run unless "Show more options" is chosen.

The "more options" menu duplicates items in the first because it's identical to the Windows 10 context menu (again, I assume, because compatibility).
I have a computer science degree. The point is: binary is a boring thing and some what irrelevant to the computer CONCEPT, it only becomes relevant when you delve into logical gates and and stuff.

It's weird that someone would approach a book for kids the same way they do for adults. Instead of painting a top-down, inspiring picture, they start with some boring building block that's arguably not even on the critical path.
They are 5 and 7.
>The western mind cannot comprehend...

Haha, don't most of the users here live in the bay?
> For a computer scientist, a biologist’s methods can seem insane; the trouble comes from the fact that cells are too small, too numerous, too complex to analyze the way a programmer would, say in a step-by-step debugger.

I think this is probably the part about biology that people outside of biology appreciate the least. We know a lot about how cells and proteins work now. But despite this fact, it is still extremely difficult to understand exactly what is happening within a given cell in situ. Many measurement methods are likely to destroy or alter the thing you’re trying to measure… think Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle - the act of measuring the thing changes its state. Everything is sensitive to temperature, shear, ionic strength, pH, etc… and of course most methods rely on these levers to gain resolution and signal. So you have to have a clear idea of what you think is happening to even select a measurement technique that won’t ruin it. This is part of why, while we know a lot of the fundamentals, it is still hard to engineer functionality in specific environments .. engineering requires a lot of measurement and feedback.

I think that also offers insight into why software can be engineered so quickly. It’s a discipline where you can (relatively) easily place a probe wherever you want and understand exactly what’s happening in a (sometimes) deterministic manner. Everyone else is taking fuzzy shots in the dark compared to software. Imagine replicates being a thing you have to think about when debugging a program. Like in software, running your code again with no changes after it just failed is insanity. In every other engineering discipline, you sometimes have entire meetings to decide how many times to retry something that just failed.
I see no problem with this trend. If it’s easier to run in a container it’s probably easier to run outside of a container
You already submitted this, from a worse source[1], but there's a high scoring version (over the 12 submissions so far): [0](85 points, 5 days ago, 9 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40062867
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40080914
It’s certainly pure in the Haskell sense: the inputs are two immutable values, and the output is another immutable value. It’s even pure in some Rusty senses: it could take String or &str as input and returns a String — in a model where String is a value, it’s pure.

A lot of modern programming logically involves telling a computer to what to compute and not particularly caring how it gets computed. Yet we mostly lack a language in which one can specify computations and then then run the result portably and safely.
Ya, when people use this argument ask them "the population of humans always grows right?" Because up till recently that was the consensus unless something drastic or terrible happened. Then in the past few decades we see people having far fewer children then even replacement rate.

Upsetting the labor market is leading us into unpredictable territory, much like at the start of the 1900s and the automobile set off a string of events that lead to two massive world wide wars.
So they're just realy bad at runing a grocery store?
"But why is the struggle for survival better? Isn’t it just another game?" The reason why the struggle for survival is better is because that is what we are psychologically predisposed to be fulfilled by. Millions of years of evolution have created reward pathways and we get deep fulfillment from these goals, and community. Not all games are the same when it comes to how it affects us psychologically.
How one defines "native GUI" is very simple: it uses the native widgets of the desktop OS, rather than custom-painting its own onto a pixel-level canvas. Buttons, input fields, lists/combos, context menus, the file picker dialog, what have you, are from the host system.
Newspapers and such are propaganda.
"But the power process is just a game, or perhaps more accurately a built in biological addiction to games that caused us to pass on our genes in the past. Why is it truly metaphysically better than, say, racking up Reddit karma?" Because it gives us psychological fulfilment. We are conditioned through millions of years of evolution to find it psychologically fulfilling. That's the point. His argument is that living a life that may be less physically secure, but psychologically fulfilling is a better life to live. That's why it's better.
$300,000 robotic micro-factories pump out custom-designed homes
There is a decent book on this called 'Apocalypse Not' by John Michael Greer that covers the history of all these end times predictions. Good thing for putting these kinds of claims in perspective.

Yes, we have big issues facing us, some we can solve, some we can merely respond too. But we have to be mindful about some of the alarmist language that can be used. While many want to alarm people into action, it can also become fear that paralyze folks from doing any action.
DARPA AI Cyber Security challenge rules [pdf]
Show HN: Fast Calendar Algorithms
I've done this work not long ago and I reckon that the name of the github repo doesn't help people searching for calendar algorithms. (Too late to change it now.)

The name of the repo, eaf, comes from Euclidean Affine Functions which are the type of functions behind the algorithms.
> yet such an incredibly anemic technology industry and space program, essentially zero nuclear power and a joke military whose entire purpose is paying out pensions

Brazil was always a rural country with an extractive economy.

The elites don't want a strong military or a strong educated middle class that isn't composed majorly of government employees.

Look at our industrialization policies, which are basically excuses for politicians to:

- take money from the poor and give to their wealthy benefactors;

- protect non-competitive rent-seeking industries which are completely dependant on those policies;

- increase tax revenue (why else tax things for each there's not even an industry like microchips?).

Look at what was done to FEB veterans. The entire division was disbanded throwing all that valuable institutional knowledge in the garbage.

https://gruntsandco.com/snakes-smoking-brazilian-expeditiona...

> essentially zero nuclear power

Supposedly Brazil has the full nuclear supply chain and is partially self-sufficient (lack scale).

https://www.ipen.br/portal_por/portal/interna.php?secao_id=4...
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing it again, I guess I missed the original Share HN.
The power structures will never allow it. The conditions for a society of leisure have theoretically existed for some time now. We will simply end up with a a planetary ruling class that lives opulently while the other 99% live in abject poverty.
> What need is there for the rest of your life when you can simply endlessly relive, in perfect clarity, the best moments of your life - ones that you, in many cases, will likely never surpass?

Even without perfect memory, this can still happen, especially if something like PTSD is involved. I myself have a dissociative disorder and sometimes it can be difficult not to just relive the past over and over. (It's not like this is a daily struggle, but during low points it comes up.)
I had two options, either continue the personal back and forth by debating that you folks don't understand the meaning of the word 'essentially', or take the high ground and debate the topic.

Sad that both you and the other poster lost the argument so hard that you have to resort to ad hominems and make it about me instead of the topic. Thats very telling. And also look up the meaning of the word essentially.
Infinitown
> they should just take it

Tiktok will not become state-owned/run by the US.
Isn't there a perspective where high margins indicate "good at running store"?
That's very true, but if you have healthy hormone levels and so long as your body fat percentage is high, you will lose way more fat than muscle, even without exercise. In bariatric surgery patients, for example >70% of weight loss is fat on average, and for 2/3rds of patients in some study there is less than 15% loss in fat-free mass.

On the other hand, if you're a man, then going to a reasonable body fat percentage is likely to make it easier for you to gain muscle.

So, as long as you make sure to eat a lot of protein, unless you have a large caloric deficit, you can expect muscle loss to be minimal (studies show that for extended moderate caloric deficits, muscle protein synthesis doesn't really decrease)

So yes, but if you're overweight, it's still a very good change on the balance, and you'll be way more fit in the end even if you do lose a bit of muscle.
And that's why 1% of us must hold on to 50% of that money and resources.
That really isn’t true. Australia is a major consumer market, SEA has money to buy things even if they don’t make many cars outside of maybe Thailand. Ceding the car markets of just the non major countries is enough to create huge waves in the industry. The EU and the USA can lockdown its market with Japan, but that’s about it.
I've been a music fan since my first 7" vinyl in 1988, and my first CD album in 1990. I listen to all sorts, from all around the world. I live for each Friday.

So, yes, I can hear the influences on this album. No surprise as they're pretty in your face. But, for whatever reason, they didn't excite me. The disappointment is all mine.

(ps: it's The Boo Radleys; I loved their euphoric, trumpet-infused, cover of The La's "There She Goes")
"had their brains addled"... no need to be mean

https://tomazweiss.github.io/blog/so_2023_compensation/
You are mentioning accurate points, but I suspect that the real change is caused by trying to handle the fact that they now compete with dollar stores.

Traditional math on supermarkets is that the green grocer's, meat and milk aisles end up being relatively unprofitable because of inventory losses: Way too many of the items spoil, and more has to be spent just preventing the spoilage of what they do sell. Most of the profit typically comes from the middle of the supermarket, where almost nothing spoils fast enough that the inventory cannot be moved, even if it takes a sale or two. Thus, historically people are brought to the supermarket by good prices on french toast components, but many of them are being subsidized by big margins elsewhere.

But that cross-section subsidization is how dollar stores attack the business: They avoid the expensive sections, and just sell the middle parts of the supermarket at very low margins, outcompeting then there. As the supermarket loses sales there, they have to rely on the least safe sections to stay afloat... sections that used to be straight out unprofitable. So of course prices have to go up, as each section has to carry its weight, instead of being cross-subsidized.
No kidding. This admission feels like a professional food critic whining that McDonalds isn’t available on DoorDash. This music isn’t my cup of tea, but this guy sounds like a real poser.
In regards to criticism that the information is too esoteric for kids and how to make it more appealing, I strongly suggest watching this episode about computers from The Magic School Bus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WHahEKL1v0

It's obviously very dated today, but I really appreciated it as a kid when I saw it on TV.
> So they're just realy bad at runing a grocery store?

Single-digit profit margins are fairly standard:

* https://www.itretail.com/blog/maximize-grocery-store-profit-...

* https://www.marketplace.org/2022/05/13/how-do-grocery-stores...
>What if we use AGI and make ourselves smarter

I mean a large portion of people on the 'information highway' seem to use it to make themselves dumber.
Robert Mann was already forced out for standing up to the Governor. I have collaborators at LSU, but who knows how long they’re gonna stick around too at this rate. Jindal was the first blow, and Landry seems to be following in his footsteps.
At most it would take Voyager about 190 days to travel 16 light minutes. Considering it’s been flying for 47 years and that it will take 3 more years for it to reach 1 light day of delay half a year more on top of that is pretty negligible in my book.
That's three comments where folks are attacking me instead of addressing the topic because they know they lost the argument. Sad to see that happen. And also look up the meaning of the word essentially.
I admit that my criteria for what I consider creative is vague. To explain it roughly, it means work that is not just modifying something that already exists. More specifically, when I say that LLMs can't do creative work, I mean that I have never actually used an answer obtained from a prompt like "Create something new and original (text content, technology, novel scenario, etc.)" in real life.
Oh, that is cool!

But corporate IT has apparently blocked being able to use graph-explorer.

Thank you anyway! :)
There's a youtuber I've seen who I think is mostly legit who spent not much money on land in the middle of nowhere and built himself a one-room cabin and an outhouse on it. He's up-front that he isn't actually living off the grid or even in the cabin full-time, but his point is that if you live a very modest life and are handy, you can live on just a side hustle. Like you said, you're unlikely to meet people like this in the (sub) urban tech bubble.
Didn't work as well as ATMs in externalizing costs to the consumer, eh?
I'm guessing most iOS users got their device used (either inherited it from family, or bought it used).
Who Warns of Warners?
Well, anything in current social networks is also impossible to find. It is made for ephemeral content, if it goes viral, you get tons of likes. If not, it might as well never have existed.