skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to have an industrial-scale civilization, well, 100% renewable might sound good but the scale is not enough for factories and modern infrastructure needs. Compare and contrast the average usage in Zambia vs. the USA, per person:

per capita Zambia = 669.89 kWh

per capita USA = 11,695.27 kWh

Now the USA isn't the most efficient user of electricity (probably the least), but still, asking the US economy to function with only 1/20th the normal energy use? Implausible at best.
If I could ask a single CEO one question, it would be Lisa Su.

What is she thinking? She's sitting on what could be the 2nd most valuable company in the world. And she's doing nothing.

AMD's GPUs are as good as NVidia's. But their drivers suck. They did all the hard work. Now they need to invest a relative pittance in fixing up their drivers and open sourcing the rest. But they won't.

Absolutely nothing about this situation makes any sense. It's a company that's sitting on gold (actually, by weight, the value of GPUs is far higher than that of solid gold bars). But... they're throwing it all away for nothing? Is she getting paid off by NVidia to do this?

AMD is the single most confusing entity out there.
Here's the equation:

Rent = (LandValue + (ZoneType * Building Level)) * LotSize * SpaceMultiplier

Basically rent never goes down unless land value decreases.

IRL Land Value basically always goes up (barring external events...) but you can help stagnate rents to at or below inflation by subdividing the land value. So the question is like is there a mechanism in the game for that? Doesn't look like it here in this equation (ie. no divisor) but maybe LandValue is modified elsewhere and at the Rent per Person equation the LandValue has already been divided by some amount.

(edit: unless lotsize is the mechanism by which they're creating subdivision/apartments? )

This seems like a weird equation in that land value doesn't have a close relationship to zone type? That seems unaligned with reality, but maybe zoning impacts land value elsewhere via another equation.
"In a notebook, you can go back and edit and run individual lines of the notebook without re-running the whole notebook from the start and without re-computing everything that depends on what you just edited."

Isn't this a standard on REPLs as well? You can select the code you wish to run, and press Ctrl+Enter or what ever. I must admit, I've programmed Python for about 10 years in Spyder and VS Code now, but I haven't used notebooks at any point. Just either ad-hoc scripts or actual source files.

My definition of a "notebook" is an ad-hoc script, split into individual "cells" which are typically run as a whole. On my workflow, I just select the code I wish to run. Sometimes it is one expression, one line, 100 lines or 1000 lines depending what I've changed on the script.
Thanks! But no, it looks like canva alternative not Lightroom's
Baby baboon brain anatomy predicts which hand they communicate with
As a “land pauper,” I disagree. I have renters in Seattle and lose $1k a month because HOA and property taxes. I get zero tax breaks on the loss. Nothing. I’d kick them out and sell, but apparently Seattle is still recovering from COVID. Who knows. It was a bad investment and I learned a lot. That education was expensive. Not all landlords do well.
You must mean 'existed' in Ultima Online. Hardly anyone plays it anymore, unfortunately. Still my favorite gaming memories.
A lot of html, css, and JavaScript may not be independent.
A lot of blame gets placed on mobile, but the problem predates it. Windows being the leader refused to implement any notable standards for decades and still doesn't. This led to standards developed for mobile getting applied elsewhere, just because there's no other standard really and Microsoft's official stance is just to use those same mobile standards anyways, and to allow developers to do whatever they want anyways.
What brought you all the way from the UK to rural New Mexico?
What I'm curious about is how they derive land value in the first place. Do they have an actual supply and demand model driving it?
>Japan is a massive exporter,

Absolutely no, Japan imports far more than they export.

>Total exports reached 100.88 trillion yen ($680 billion) last year, up 2.8% from 2022.

>Total imports stood at 110.17 trillion yen last year, down 7%, due to lower oil and gas prices, resulting in an annual trade deficit of 9.29 trillion yen. The deficit declined from 20 trillion yen in 2022.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japanese-exports-hit-record-...
When i worked in a small business,a factory, the boss, having a hard time getting people to work for hime(due to salary, benefits and work environment) explained it by "people just don't want to work".

Why? Extroverts usually blame the world, introverts look for the reason in themselvs. Many managers are extroverts.
Merely acknowledging potential benefits from non-race-to-the-bottom salaries is "pretend charity" now?
I think yours is the most common story.

I read an article on Reddit about something very similar; It's on the tip of my brain, but I can't recall.

The jist was that after the latest recession there was very little in the way job "churn", or where people would quit jobs and move to others. There as a noticeable trend of staying at whatever company they were at, and working, even if there was a serious mismatch between skills and job. They theorized that this was because the job market was so tight, and that they had been burned so many times, that they held on to a known job (even if terrible) to keep their finances in shape.

Then, if you're in nerdy work (just assuming you are), then there's been a lack of a rebound in such jobs after the last major downturn. However "blue collar" (not so nerdy?) jobs have bounced back. And so finding work in nerdy fields is especially challenging at the moment.
Link between brain topological resilience and cognitive performance
I agree with xlwings about this but for different reasons. MS are a company wot makes money. Python was added to Excel cos R and Python and so on - market share.

I suggest you do what my brother does and unanswer the question! He works for quite a large firm and is surrounded by quite a lot of data. He is a Windows user by routine and asked me for some help. I got Python + MS Visual Code installed and integrated for him and off he went.

He is an expert with the data and its "knowledge" and was willing to roll up his sleeves and get to grips with a grubby data processing facility. He decided on Python and he is my "customer" so I did the best I could too hence anaconda and VS code.

He grabs data out of SAP (he's senior enough to get IT to do his bidding) and then passes that through Python scripts and then passes that on to Excel for reporting.

What many seem to forget is that most apps are chainable. It's often referred to as the "unix philosophy" - each component should do one job and do it well. That's nice but also bollocks when abused as I have just done.

If Python is not integrated properly within Excel then do it yourself via whatever interfaces are available. Pass in and out with .csv or whatever. You just need some imagination.

For me: I use Libre Office and despite owning my company, I don't require everyone else to do so. I believe in freedom and expression of choice.
NFTroxies: Combining Gold Investments with Blockchain Technology
Hey HN,

I've been working on an innovative project called NFTroxies, which combines the traditional security of gold investments with the advantages of blockchain technology. NFTroxies are digital representations of gold bars, allowing investors to prove ownership of their gold assets digitally and use these proxies instead of the actual gold. Each NFTroxie is backed 1 for 1 by a real gold bar, ensuring authenticity and preventing counterfeiting.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this intersection of physical assets and digital technology. Do you see a future for such hybrid investment models? What challenges and opportunities do you think lie ahead for integrating blockchain with traditional investment assets like gold?

Learn more about NFTroxies at: https://zora.co/@nftroxies

Looking forward to the discussion!

Joseph D. Smith
Woww, very creative and interesting idea: I understand it as: train a bunch of fact-based LoRAs to zero loss (they mention 100k different ones), then use RAG to pick the appropriate Loras for a query.

So cool. The only moat I can think of for such a company would be proprietary fact loras- basically licensing a modern ai encyclopedia.

Anyway, really nice idea.
In The Aleph, Borges predicts the internet : "... Carlos Argentino tasted it, pronounced it
“interesting,” and, after a few drinks, launched into a glorification of modern
man.
“I view him,” he said with a certain unaccountable excitement, “in his inner
sanctum, as though in his castle tower, supplied with telephones, telegraphs,
phonographs, wireless sets, motion-picture screens, slide projectors, glossaries,
timetables, handbooks, bulletins...”
He remarked that for a man so equipped, actual travel was superfluous. Our
twentieth century had inverted the story of Mohammed and the mountain;
nowadays, the mountain came to the modern Mohammed."
>Command line interfaces don't fit modern application usage. We simply can't do everything with pure text. I'd like to pipe my Skype call to a video analysis service while I'm chatting, but I can't really run a video stream through awk or sed.
The dual posting it’s important but does not mark Nakasone as uniquely talented — the post is always served by the current director of the NSA.
Ideally, people with the intellectual capability to get into MIT wouldn't have to go into massive debt that would drastically curtail their future choices in life, which is what higher education has sadly meant for many people:

> "To attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology for four years, the cost, based on 2022-23 numbers, would be $319,400, including tuition and fees, books, and room and board."
And then you want these automation APIs to be accessible through a REPL for quick prototyping and...
Can company provide a choice for employees where they can either get facilities or a raise?
Then sell?

I don't cry about the money I lost investing in startups I just keep investing. Why are you crying about the money you are losing like you are supposed to be absolutely guaranteed to make money?

The reason you aren't selling is because you are lying or you believe the government should bail you out of your bad decisions.
But that isn't because +12 is a country code: it is because, as your link even shows, some of those are codes are international. I did not claim anything about the country, only the parsing process and how using +12 as an example is just confusing the whole matter as the reader is probably familiar with +1 and +12 can't exist.
I am a survivor please contact me
Look, I'm a DINK, don't have kids, never plan to have kids, don't even like kids. But child care is important to both the parents and society. Not subsidizing child care often means one parent has to leave the workforce, and that's almost always worse off for everyone than if they were able to afford child care and can contribute
I have 6 weeks of vacation which I never take more than 2 at a time at my employer's request because when I'm gone it's less than optimal. They are acutely aware of this. For the last 6 or 7 years we've had good metrics on developer productivity and error rates which also helps make my case. If they fired me I'd just take the position I was offered anyway.
Good for you.

I'm describing how things are, not how I want things to be.
Best solution, must be applied to domains and patents, increasing tax as time passes.
> a nice low-level language

The usability is not great, too opinionated. For example, they have decided their strings are guaranteed to contain valid UTF-8. Many external components (like Linux kernel) don’t have these guarantees, so the Rust has another OsString type for them. I think Rust is the only language which does that. The rest of them are fine keeping invalid UTF8 / UTF16 in their strings.

> proper and easy to use iterators

C++/11 introduced range-based for loops, they make iterators very easy to use.

> nice tooling

Packages are OK I guess, but I think other classes of tools are lacking. For example, I can’t imagine working on any performance critical low-level code without a good sampling profiler.

> ANY, really?

Yes. Even very simple data structures like std::vec::Vec require unsafe code, they call unsafe APIs like alloc::alloc for memory management. This can, and did, cause security bugs: https://shnatsel.medium.com/how-rusts-standard-library-was-v...

By comparison, modern C# is memory safe all the way down, possible to implement even very complicated data structures without a single line of unsafe code. The collection classes from the standard library don’t use unsafe code either.
Chat group rituals and expectations are objectively the worst parts of chat groups. The same goes for most closed community groups.
Discussions [0] (19 points, 3 hours ago, 9 comments) [1] (28 points, 3 hours ago, 8 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674839

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40675077
The price has not been announced.

The version with JH7110 is priced at $765, which seems not unreasonable for a quality case, screen, keyboard, battery and so forth. It underperforms for the price compared to a low end x86 laptop, but the money is not going into the CPU in either case.
To make it more equitable, my uni was the ancestor of SBF's alma mater (bureaucratically as well as vexillarily).

If that's too much travail, consider that its location is the namesake of an oikos that perpetually draws in a certain Homeric hero.
So Musk has learned that he can extort his shareholders? Well, you get what you pay for I guess; Pitty those shareholders.
I'm not sure what you mean.

The point of this quotation is that a cell phone is a very personal thing. It's anxiety inducing and burdensome to hand over your cellphone to someone.

And that's not the mention the power dynamic between the kids with the cellphone and the kid without.
Incident with Google Analytics slowing down websites
> Each NFTroxie is backed 1 for 1 by a real gold bar, ensuring authenticity and preventing counterfeiting.

prove it
Ah, so you drive a Tesla.
And tax breaks for primary homes so to not affect families owning a single home.
> 1984 at work.

This gets thrown around a lot, but here it is entirely appropriate. Jordan's "Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government" is in-fact, the weaponization of the federal government.
I am 99% in the CLI.

I just want eyeball tracking for the mouse and voice to LLM to bash.
The big problem is that this is exactly backwards.

I rarely want to access Python from my Excel. I quite often want to access Excel from my Python.

A spreadsheet is a great GUI for a lot of things. A lot of people are employed creating "shitty version of Excel but can be driven from any of <web, desktop, application, websockets, WASM, etc.>"

Being able to easily drive Excel from an external Python program would make for a nice cross-platform application substrate.
I find that lots of features in MSFT Office exist for the sole purpose of generating lock in. This is one of them. Just a feature no one needs but enough people use that becomes a sore thumb when trying to evaluate a competing solution.
Maybe so, but it's still their choice in that instance. Some data is with dying to protect.
Microsoft's all-knowing Recall AI feature is being delayed
i think you dont get it
If China was a rule of law country without capital controls you’d be right, but nobody is rushing. Yuans are worthless unless you want to buy goods in China and if you amass too much, the Chinese government can control how it’s used without much recourse. This is a country whose government banned Winnie the Poo on social media because somebody started a meme of Poo and Tigger walking next to a photo of Obama and Xi walking.

The only real alternatives today are the Euro and to a lesser extent the Japanese Yen, and they have their own issues (in particular, the Eurobond market is fragmented between its member states and while the EU does issue its own bonds, it’s not institutionally or politically designed to issue at massive levels). Even Russia, which tried to bypass sanctions and sell oil direct to India was left with either collecting in rupees (that it couldn’t really spend much of) or in rubles (which India had a hard time finding a market to trade rupees for).

But again, don’t underestimate the basics of recourse in rule of law. You can own shit tons of US Treasuries and still speak ill of or go against the US government or its leaders. Do you think Saudi Arabia or anybody else wants have to bend the knee to anybody else?
Bigger discussion 6 hours ago [0] (55 points, 111 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40673064
Manifest V3 updates landed in Firefox 127
Yeah, that's completely messed up. And probably completely unnecessary, given the income from their endowment. OTOH, someone who can get into MIT can probably also get into a university in a civilized country that doesn't view education as a profit center.
> Extroverts usually blame the world, introverts look for the reason in themselvs

That's a really odd conclusion to come to IMO. I feel like it's more about the amount of self awareness and not extroversion vs introversion.
Actually, if you model LVT as a revenue-neutral tax shift (a universal exemption on buildings), most residential single family home owners already come out ahead on net versus existing property taxes in high property tax states like Texas.
POTUS is limited to two terms, so if Trump wins 2024 then he will be ineligible for 2028 and vice versa for Biden.

Not accounting for death from old age making them physically ineligible, since that's also a very real concern at this point for both.
"Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72." (Mark Twain)

=3
What Is the Apple Vision Pro? A Lifesaver for Disabled Users
So, not the rouble? I don't believe the tweet.
Where is Jessica Hyde?
in austria/germany rent protection even does not allow you to evict a tenant when you are selling a house. the new landlord has to continue the rent contract, unless they want to use the house for themselves. (but then they have to prove that forcing the tenant to move does not cause them problems. no chance of that if moving would cause the tenant to lose a job or force their kids to change schools)
Can it win at Jeopardy?
I'm not a security pro, but the claim about "spun clickbait" doesn't hold for me. I thought it was new to me, and an attack possibility that I hadn't considered before reading. I do think I "validate" sites pretty well before doing any serious things there (logins, transactions, etc).
To me the main issue is that it forces a middle men and auditor in all parts of the business, when nowadays we can get away with smaller structures and independent producers directly accessing end(ish)-consumers.

For coffee, that can mean an Colombian farm directly making a deal with a small London roaster. It was unrealistic 20~30 years ago, but this kind of match making is doable now, and a farm that gets access to the market in that way won't bother to pay and keep intricates records of absolutely everything they do for a third party organization that brings to them nothing to the table.

Another example of this is producers using the Fair Trade label to pass the lower quality goods at a guaranteed price ,and in parallel negociate higher prices for the more luxurious goods [0]. In that example the producer wins so I'd see it as a decent situation, but the brand perception getting hit might be problematic long term.

All in all, I think there's a movement to provide the transparency at the small scale level: a coffee roaster can showcase which independents farm makes their specialty coffee, and the farm negociate deals against a small set of small roasters instead of a giant conglomerate or the whole international market, making it more balanced as they can come up with a decent arrangement that benefits both.

That will never work for Starbucks or Nespresso, but for specialty coffee it seems to be a good model.

[0] https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_problem_with_fair_trade_...
Best time to get out of a market is before everyone else is running for the door. Lots of stranded assets and sadness ahead for folks who held on to assets too long in the wrong places.

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/05/28/are-we-in-the-midst-o...

http://www.deltaterracapital.com/
There's not a single person in any of my Signal group chats that I haven't eaten, drank, and/or danced with. I very much require "offline connections" with people in my group chats.

In my head, what you're describing is "social media groups".

I have not met most of the people I follow on Mastodon in real life. There is some crossover between my Mastodon crowd and my Signal group chat crowd, but it's fairly small.

I also have a few Slack "workspaces" that are mostly "something in common" groups of largely "not friends, just other people". I am a member of a few web forums which each have a core of people who are becoming or have become real life friends, but include a vast majority of people who are not and will never be friends.

Everybody in my Signal group chats is a friend or at the very least a friend of a friend. In general Madtodon interactions are with "other people", not "friends".

(But I totally get that other people do online and real fife relationships differently to me.
Drinking at Altitude: Worse Sleep and Oxygen for Flyers
I like to think of it as a disguised original Tesla Model S
How could this be stopped? Blocking images or rendering that mimics a real URL bar would be challenging.

Perhaps the PWA forces an overlay of the real apex domain at the top or in a top corner?
Right, because raising kids isn't contributing to society.
> Nobody is going to start frenetically doing oil business in Yuan just because this agreement has expired.

But the Europeans would prefer the Euro and the Japanese the Yen,[1] because it is beneficial for their own economies.

In the past period of energy price inflaction one could observe quite for awhile that the exchange rates favoured the US-dollar over the euro although inflation in the USA was higher than in the EU. The best explanation I came across for this phenomenon was the petrodollar: Importers from the EU needed to exchange a lot of euro into dollars to pay for oil. As a result, the exchange rate shifted increasingly against the euro, which made energy costs within the EU even more expensive, which gave the USA a competitive advantage.

Importing countries therefore have a great incentive to conduct oil transactions in their own currency. This will not lead to the dollar losing its supremacy in oil trading overnight. But I expect its share of trading volume to gradually decline.

[1] Some import figures of oil from Saudi Arabia from 2022 for context: EU 25.8B US$ and Japan 39.8B US$, which together was almost the same as China 65.0B US$. (However, the figures fluctuate considerably from year to year.) Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/imports/saudi-ar... https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/imports/saudi-arabia/crud... https://tradingeconomics.com/china/imports/saudi-arabia/crud...
It's not $1000.