skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I do find it interesting that one of the things that I was always taught was a strength of our economic system is that it will produce a wide enough variety of goods that pretty much everyone will find a version of a product that they'd actually want. That it appears that it can't looks like a kind of failure to me.

heck, finding a sub-6" cellphone is next to impossible, outright impossible if you want high end features. and phones are way easier to create in different configurations than cars are.
i remember plastic bags would also disintegrate over long period of time
> avoid what exactly?

I said it already: difficult thoughts and emotions. Teenagers naturally have a lot of that and little to no ability to process them on their own.
Microsoft suffers from bad memories of dismissing the importance of internet, then missing the boat (a failing 3-4 times) on personal music players and music/video streaming, followed by failing to capture any meaningful smartphone or tablet market share, and still playing catch up in the cloud computing space. They went all in on AI, because they want to own the next platform that others will build on top of. Their problem is simple, AI is not the next platform to build on top of. It is not the next internet, not the next operating system, it is a research project with way too much funding.
You can't buy tempered, melted chocolate easily. If you want to cast it into a mold, you must melt and temper it or melt it very carefully.
He’s always thought provoking! “Story of Your Life” is obviously great. A lot of people mention it down below - an order of magnitude better than the movie IMO, since I think the movie missed the main interesting, mindblowing point.

Possibly my favorite is the last story in the “Story of Your Life” collection, “Liking What You See: A Documentary” (I think I got the title right). It’s about a controversy on a college campus where the administration is getting ready to make a rule requiring that students use a technology that blocks their perception of beauty in humans. It’s not even a real technology, but the way he shows all sides of the issue - showing that it’s a lot more complicated than it looks at first glance - it feels REAL. Amazing author.
https://archive.ph/68wsn
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I guess the speech-to-text failed. Do you mean "lignin"?
But then there’s this rule to not editorialise headlines, so…
> I think I heard the games Valve published for PS3 didn’t really use the cell stuff

Maybe - the Orange Box at least was outsourced to EA and the performance was reportedly not great. I think Portal 2 was done in-house though and I don't remember anyone complaining about it.
While I see your point and without defending the lackluster recycling culture in America, filling landfills with paper products is still better than plastic products, no?
This doesn't resolve the ongoing incentive to remove the LVT, creating immediate value for the current land-owners.
Discussions [0] (52 points, 15 hours ago, 88 comments) [1] (34 points, 15 hours ago, 60 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40669866

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40670191
DIY an ERP? It's possible... but it would take a very special kind of organization to pull that off successfully. It would need to be an organization with a particularly high ratio of engineering talent to business complexity.

It typically takes over a year and more than 1 million dollars just to implement a commercial ERP system for a large organization. Starting from scratch would be quite the endeavor.
No, my octree doesn't split any geometry. Large primitives go in large nodes of the tree and can be in more than one node if needed. I was using it for interactive 3d ray tracing more than 20 years ago.
I tried it and it wasn't even close to my description. Sorry.
Then you could perhaps be more precise in your choice of actors here:

In particular -- Russia most certainly does not "need" to dominate its neighbors. It's just what the current regime feels it needs to do to maintain its chances of survival.

Big difference, as you say.
The usurper must challenge the King.
"and career wise -- should be working on the biggest project"

That explains a lot. I have seen a lot of SWE that believe they are working on bigger project but they are not. Probably 90% of them.

These are the guys that will produce a lot of useless abstractions without producing any real value.

I guess they aspire to work with kafka/k8s at Google but ended up at the local shop.

And nothing wrong with the local shop. This is probably the place where you actually have the possibility to produce real value.
> makin babies

"take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves"
You can come up with all the examples you want. Make up your own and try it. Here is an example as you asked for, I made it up: https://chatgpt.com/share/211da88c-d97c-4f18-9984-bed783d0f2...

Just make up your own.
$5B (quarterly profit) is $2,400 per employee, and a 3.2% profit margin on $611B of annual revenue. Yes, an extra $9,600 annual pay for each employee would make a huge difference to many, but how low of a profit will shareholders tolerate below 3.2%? Maybe a better argument would be to find a larger bucket (much larger than $5B/quarter) where Walmart could perhaps reduce spending and redirect that to rank-and-file employees?
> The lack of a formal market for land has not made land any cheaper, it has simply shifted the price from being denominated in money-dollars, to time-dollars and pain-in-the-butt-dollars.

Vitalik writes about this too: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/22/prices.html
I can see where you are coming from. Younger me probably would have loved to be in a situation like that.

Just to go a against the string of harsh negative comments on this.
A hundred years ago, we couldn’t really forecast that the transportation and manufacturing technologies we were developing would enable a new form of industrial warfare that would wipe out tens of millions in two World Wars. We didn’t recognize early on that the invention of the radio would enable a new form of mass propaganda that would facilitate the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany. The progress of theoretical physics in the 1920s and 1930s wasn’t accompanied by anxious press articles about how these developments would soon enable thermonuclear weapons that would place the world forever under the threat of imminent annihilation. And today, even as alarms have been sounding for decades about the most dire problem of our times, climate, a large fraction (44%) of the American public still chooses to ignore it.
Discussion [0] (38 points, 23 days ago, 18 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434049
I wish it would still be normal
is that not just bartering with more steps?
With similar work that should be expected. It would be the same with cabinet making as well. But in cabinet making, they’d hire 5 juniors if it was less than a single experienced person. The experienced guy has a job because sometimes a project requires complex and fast solutions, even if pace is reduced by the complexity.
Looks very cool. Will be keeping an eye on this for local network hosted and/or desktop application version.
Thanks for sharing!
Both of those incidents have a total of zero percent relation to the aircraft being Boeing or its design.

The CNN article is wrong, it was since found the seat move switch was pushed and interfered with flight controls.

The 777 was severe turbulence. The death was a heart attack.

Lol…
Anecdotally, do you find it tends to be true?
Handy Bash Scripts for Every Linux User
IMO you're the one coming in with an HN mindset. Python has massive mindshare even among people who have never programmed. It is the numeric computing language du jour. In any given financial company there are definitely already python users. Lua, a language primarily known for plugin scripting, with no numeric computing libraries, that has zero mindshare among non career programmers, is not even in the conversation.
How to calculate the 42% difference?
> Economist Ramin Shokrizade, with no formal knowledge of Georgist theory, fixed EVE Online’s land recession simply by directing CCP Games to assess a “high enough” holding fee to land-like spaceship factories, which had the effect of dissuading speculators.

How is it that EVE Online (not even that large of an MMORPG) is notorious for having an actual economist on staff (Eyjolfur “Eyjo” Guðmundsson), while actual claimed-to-be publicly relevant projects ("metaverse") seem to be spitballing this? Some of them are going as far as claiming "everyone" will {need,want} a "parcel of land" there. Where are their economy papers?
You've neglected to factor in 10 years of continuous knowing harrassment and spawning an army of real life stalkers intent on harrassing the parents for their participation in "the coverup and false acting", etc.

These are not comparable apples and apples events.
Most (good) orgs use zero copy binary serde in their backends, JSON is only for end users.
They usually have to remove the weapon systems and electronic counter-measures. usually.
LLMs can definitely end up with code that has never been written before, even before considering that you would be able both to ask it for modifications to very constrained parts of the code and can sample more broadly than always picking the most probably tokens.

But it also appear to have a far higher probability of producing changes that move towards something that will run.
Erm, have you ever seen a German car? Pick any Audi, Mercedes, BMW and god forbid a Porsche and you'll have an options catalogue of epic proportions.

Different SKUs is an absolute non-issue in the car industry when it comes to tech gizmos and other optional extras. You want different suspension? No biggie. Manual vs automatic? Sure. Different kind of entertainment system? Of course. Different (branded) speakers? Yup.

Anything is optionable.
> This... doesn't feel responsible.

there are 3 parties involved here:

1. the developers who wrote the p.o.c
2. m$ which provides the 'ecosystem', and
3. the end user

_i_ would put #2 way above #1 in the lack-of-responsibility department.

for example, see: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116 for some more information, it is definitely not an unknown attack vector.
I think most optimisation work is like that. Early effort with each technique can yield large gains. But the marginal gain of using any specific technique decreases over time.

For example, I've gotten a lot of speedups from essentially decreasing the number of malloc calls my programs make. Its often the case that ~80% of all allocations in a program come from just a few hotspots. Rewriting those hotspots to use a better data structure can yields big speed improvements, both because malloc & free are expensive calls and because the CPU hates chasing pointers. But there's usually only so much benefit in reducing allocations. At some point, it makes sense to just accept malloc calls.

The reason is totally logical. Lets say you reduce the number of allocations your program does by 10x and that yields a 45% performance improvement (10 seconds -> 5.5 seconds). You might think reducing allocations by 10x again would yield another 45% performance improvement - but thats just not how the math works out. We should expect that would take your 5.5 seconds down to 5.05 seconds - which is just a 9% improvement. That might not be worth it, given the next 10x reduction in malloc calls will probably be much harder to achieve.

If you want another 50% perf improvement, you need to run that profiler again and look at where the new hotspots are. If the CPU is spending less time following pointers, it'll now be spending more time (proportionately) running linear code. Maybe this time the performance wins will be found using SIMD. Or by swapping to a different algorithm. Or multithreading. Or by making better use of caching. Or something else - who knows.
> I basically acknowledged that my view contradicts itself. People need the option to rent, but rent-seeking landlords are terrible people.

I don't understand how it advances the conversation to say that, without backing it with some level of analysis (even if minimal, back of the envelope kind) of what you'd do differently.

> The onus of finding a solution does not have to lie with the people pointing out the problem.

It very much does. In most circles it is not considered productive to simply be negative without offering any potential ideas for improvement.
History's Most Destructive Lies (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEVrBLmF70

I was curious to see if there was a video of it being done and this seems to be it. Incredibly delicate is an understatement.
What are the materials/companies?
The vast majority of PCs sold today are not that way anymore.
looks like it has serious first amendment problems
The Clojure/JVM statistics/scientific computing/now tensor math packages just never got as good as Python, and in Smalltalk they were a non-starter. R is an awkward language, but it's repl-first, has a lot of Lisp's metaprogramming (done in very ad-hoc ways), and Smalltalk's serializable image model -- so a lot of exploratory/experimental statistical methods research happens there, and then gradually makes its way to Python when it needs to be stabilized for production.

F# based .Net would've made a fine math-centric environment, but it's a language with a high initial barrier, and though .Net community has been making a decent effort at porting over a lot of NumPy/SciPy, it's not fully caught up after many years.

We have Julia now, it's jitted, multicore/GPU friendly, and has interesting REPL innovations, and yes, serializable state (though, ugh, ligatures). But every time I reach for it, it's like, oh no, yet another thing I want to call is in the Python ecosystem. Especially all the modern deep learning/tensor stuff, where the assumption is Python's speed and the GIL don't matter because you're just gluing together GPU calls.
What, you don't know about the Marvel character of the warrior who travels through bovine?
Nothing, my point is that they don't need them. You can physically socialize.
how sad... they should of gone out with the bear!
They’re a repl where you can go back and edit and re-run earlier parts much more easily than on a normal repl.
and it was possible for any user on windows to have access to these screenshots
Yeah it terminates.

A tiny 63 bit program[0] in this language represents a number unfathomably larger than not only ack(9,9), but the far larger Graham’s Number as well. It originates in a Code Golf challenge asking for the “Shortest terminating program whose output size exceeds Graham’s number”, answered by user Patcail and further optimized by user 2014MELO03. With one final optimization applied.

Here's a really short program. Let's calculate 2 * 3

(λn m s. n (m s)) (λf n. f (f n)) (λf n. f (f (f n)))

eventually it terminates with

λ s n.s (s (s (s (s (s n)))))

which is just the church encoding of 6.

[0] https://tromp.github.io/blog/2023/11/24/largest-number
The one-bit explanation for why computers feel so slow these days I have is that everything is now a web app.

The instant you introduce network calls that touch remote boxes, you have added a consciously-noticeable amount of lag to the operation. Yes, there are also programs which feel slow even when doing things entirely locally, but that's in a different ballgame.

Why is everything a web app these days? Many reasons. One that doesn't get enough airplay is that it's simply much harder to pirate a web app. This is not the dominant explanation, though, the real one-bit answer is non-technical end users don't have to install anything with a web app to do what they want and that massively improves one's sales funnel.

A decade plus of being able to get paid for web apps much more reliably than for local desktop applications has led to the supply of web developers increasing, and the supply of desktop GUI developers decreasing. So eventually we have even seen web app tech get retrofitted back into the traditional application market, because that's what the economics suggest is the cost-effective approach. The whole churn is fascinating to watch play out.
how did you get the cash to pay said property manager? How did your ancestor get to own the property in the first place?

Nothing is unearned, except perhaps gov't welfare.
> Clearly we have different priorities and I've failed to convince you.

Im not sure that we should support one "not the best" company just because other company definitely worse.
If they distributed that evenly to every single employee it would only work out to $2k/person. Not nothing, but not life changing.
> I don't think there's ever been a good "looking skeptical" smiley anywhere, though.

There used to be one, a serious face that strokes its goatee. That emoji can be used to express doubts or "that's interesting" in a joking way. Not sure why that emoji disappeared.
Had one of those, it was stupidly expensive for the (low) performance - put me off AMD forever...
I posted in your original thread about making a physical version of the game with tiles and real dice. Did you experiment with using other "dice" than a 20-sided? It seems to me as if just a regular 6-sided die would be more than enough to provide a board where every tile is different (there are still way more than 9 different combinations of possible tiles) and I think that means there is just as much strategy as in the original game? It makes presenting percentages a bit ugly (the nice 5%-intervals obviously look better) so I would not recommend it for the digital game, but I think 6-sided dice could be used to make more readable physical tiles (printing the ranges for happy and sad, together with numbers of smileys equal to the number of positive and negative outcomes, to make tiles easily readable from all directions at a glance; I do not think there is a need to spell out the neutral outcomes).
The last SaaS application I worked on was having issues similar to what you are saying. Too many distinct urls were arriving at the same page content and Google thinks this is you trying to do something naughty unless they all contain metadata for the same canonical URL, which we weren't handling right.

Not only did it improve our page rank once we fixed it, it also reduced the amount of bot traffic we were fielding.
It's so sad though. Chats are very ephemeral.
Off topic??
Half those arguments could be made for child labor. After all, if the child works too then the family has more resources, the father and mother don't have to carry all the weight, the child gets a wider variety of experiences, the father and mother can do something that matches their talents while the child picks up the slack. Right?

Who actually cares more about a child's well-being, an employee paid by the hour or their own parents?
I one presented a p75 result of some work as "a 60% improvement" and got direct feedback that it was not a very impressive figure. However when they realized what I really meant was a "2.5x improvement" their eyes lit up.

I've asked around and people generally seem to prefer the bigger, sexier number. I don't care too much either way so I just go with the flow. Shrug.
I'd say just cutting out half of the headline is more editorializing than trying to edit it to fit more of it.
I haven't used QQ for years. Now that I look at them, somehow they look less interesting than what I had in memory. Maybe I'm subconsciously comparing them to WeChat's or many of the user-created variants.
I had a look at their home town on google maps, and it looked like 1/2 to 1/3 of the town was still made up of old terrace houses. I imagine it would be tricky to selectively demolish them.
I have heard these kind of news for a while now. Fungus breaks plastic. Worms eat plastic. Nothing ever seems to happen to plastic though. Why?
If the pages redirect and have a canonical irl, there should be no problem, right?
In that document they explain that duplicate content is not a big deal: just set a canonical, and respond maybe with a 301.

I did this during a migration of a site that used '/<pk-int>/' and was changed to '/<slug>/' with corresponding 301. The SEO not only didn't punish the migration, but it seemed to like the change (except the Bingbot, that after five years still request the old Urls).

The problem I see with the OP strategy is that the bot can hit a Url that still doesn't exist, get 301'ed with that technique, and the Url is reused afterwards for new content: following their example, somebody links to '/supplements/otherbrand-spore-probiotic', that gets a bot following that link 301'ed to '/supplements/spore-probiotic'. Later you actually add 'otherbrand-spore-probiotic', but that Url will never be visited by the bot.
Even in capitalism, the RoR - Return on Research - is something like 10-15% of what it was a century prior. That is, if $1 in 1924 R&R spending got $1 of new products or advancements, $1 of 2024 R&R spending now gets only 10-15¢ of the same.

And then people think we are going to be able to innovate out of extinction-level events that are barrelling down the pipe at us, such as climate change. I would laugh maniacally at that idea, were it not so naïvely pathetic.
> The tax doesn't really increase wealth disparity[...]

Counterpoint:

Where I live the land values have, at minimum, 4x'ed in the last couple of decades. This used to be a sleepy little retirement town, where retirees lived far away from the city, where nobody was interested in living except for those retirees -- hence why it was so inexpensive.

Those retirees are now being driven out en masse because they can no longer afford their property taxes.

These people retired on salaries and retirement packages (if they were lucky) from twenty and thirty years ago. They do not have an income beyond that. They are not millionaires, or anywhere close. Often, they're retired blue collar workers, barely getting by. They cannot actually purchase an equivalent property if they sell their own even at the higher rates--

--because they can no longer afford the taxes on it, and all the other properties around them have gone up just as much in value. They were driven up by the vastly wealthier tech types. These people have nowhere reasonable to move.

Bear in mind, we're not necessarily talking about multi-acre properties here, btw; we're talking modest homes that these people have been living in for fifty or more years.

They're being driven out because the much richer folk value their property. And to make matters worse? If they do sell the property, they instantly lose what little tax cap protection they had, so they'll be paying even more in taxes.

How is that not wealth disparity? If the tax hadn't gone up, they'd still be happily living there. They're only being pushed out because the younger, richer folk want their land.

If that's not increasing wealth disparity, then I don't know what is.
The fact that this kind of scheme is still possible in our society gives me very little hope we’ll be able to solve any of our major, species threatening problems. But at least some of us will be filthy rich when the party stops.
My most annoying daily slowness is opening Microsoft To Do on my iPhone. Five seconds to first render of the todo list. Why? It still hasn't synced! (And the sync isn't transparently communicated, another big flaw)
40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent
> how did you get the cash to pay said property manager?

He said he'd give them a cut of the rent.

> How did your ancestor get to own the property in the first place?

So his parents earned it, not him.
>> ASML is going to remain a monopoly and whatever Chinese alternative that there may be is going to stay in China.

Suppose China develops a cheaper way to produce the EUV light and sells the tools for half what ASML does. They might sell to others just to become the leader.