skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder though does it have to be limited. Like imagine I could make enough apples to fully satisfy the market demand for apples and I’m also willing to sell to anyone.

I want to sell those apples for $1 each. There’s plenty of apples to satisfy the demand. But let’s say that the market would bear a higher price, people would love to buy apples for $1 but due to a love of apples would be willing to pay up to $5.

In that scenario, the arbitrage opportunity still exists. Apple scalpers knowing that people would be willing to pay up to $5 would want to buy up lots of cheap apples and make the $4 profit that I’m leaving on the table for themselves.

And there’s just nothing we can do about it. I think we’d say that when the equilibrium price of $5 is met that the market is efficient but it’s a market where the producer of the good can fully satisfy the demand of the market for $X and yet the consumers have to pay $5X and this arbitragers get $4X.

It’s just interesting is all.
Since xpra takes a sub-command as the first arg it's more like:

:
xpra_cmd="$1"
shift
exec /usr/bin/xpra "$xpra_cmd" --ssh=ssh "$@"

And I don't see how that helps with using the GUI (like the comment I replied to). Also, defaults matter.
Direct link to the article is here: https://research.roblox.com/tech-blog/2024/07/deploying-ml-f...
this specious argument relies on conflating 'intellectual property' in the sense of 'useful knowledge and designs' with 'intellectual property' in the sense of 'legal restrictions on using knowledge and designs'. to avoid getting caught up in these word games, let's use different terms for these two concepts; for this comment, i'll use the terms 'knowledge' and 'intellectual enclosure'

when someone says 'ip is doing more harm than good' what they mean is 'intellectual enclosure is doing more harm than good'. when someone says 'ip-intensive industries contribute (...)% of the (...) gdp' what they mean is 'knowledge-intensive industries contribute (...)% of the (...) gdp'

specifically the thing that intellectual enclosure is doing harm to is those knowledge-intensive industries, who are obliged to spend large fractions of their revenues on unproductive lawsuits instead of creating and sharing knowledge. in numerous cases it has destroyed major parts of those industries; two memorable examples are digital, which created the minicomputer and much of the internet, and diamond, which created the mp3 player

but the greatest casualties are not the productive activities that are terminated by intellectual enclosure, but the productive activities that are never born. do you know why linux didn't get a crashproof filesystem with snapshots 25 years ago? it's because of netapp patents. all the damage done by accidental file deletion and crashes on linux in that time could have been avoided. do you know why today there's still no simple way for regular people to send a ten-gigabyte file across the internet? mgm vs. grokster. and for every well-known catastrophe like this, there are ten thousand that never grow big enough for us to even guess what might have been

unsurprisingly the businesses that are most profitable in the current market are using strategies that fit well with the current regulatory regime. but that does not constitute argument that the current regulatory regime is good in any way, except perhaps by the minimal criterion of not completely cratering the entire economy yet

my intellect is not your property
you can fill in this hole with Google Search Console.

https://search.google.com/search-console/about

It's not perfect, but it is free.
Is there a good App that anyone can recommend to do this with speech to text? Something simple; just a searchable daily log that records bullets and timestamps with whatever I recorded. Ideally something that requires one click, tap, or shortcut to immediately allow transcribing to the correct entry page.
The command line can be part of the UEFI boot entry depending on your particular firmware.

I think I can recompile the Linux kernel in around 15 minutes, but I have a 12400F. And 15 minutes is still 60 times longer than most people are willing to wait.
I've used <site/company>@domain.com for many many years and never had someone do that.

Spammers simply obtain lists of emails through hacking or purchasing them and then spam them, they don't pick a particular address and modify it.
Suppose, for simplicity, that you've got 2 types of people: price-sensitive (your 17yo) and price-insensitive (let's call them rich). In reality it's a gradient, complicated by emotional aspects, but I think just 2 cohorts is sufficient for this explanation.

If face value is constant over time (i.e., the current model), scalpers can buy at any time that original tickets remain available. If they predict huge scalping margins, they'll buy up tickets ASAP, competing with the 17yo buying ASAP. And scalpers are more likely to have bots/scripts to help get in the moment tickets go on sale, putting them at an advantage over the 17yo. The 17yo probably ends up finding that the show has sold out to scalpers, so now tickets are too expensive. If the scalpers overbought, they'll eventually let the tickets go at reasonable prices (maybe even below face value) as the event nears, so maybe the 17yo has a chance that way, and many seats will be empty. If the scalpers underbought, great.

If face value decreases over time (i.e., my proposed model) from the original seller, then you've sort of got the exact same thing going on in terms of the rich buying early and the 17yo buying late, except the 17yo has one less middleman to contend with. Less chaos. Authoritative information about how many seats are yet to be filled. Bots that simply react to slow price changes like a human could, instead of bots that rush the release of tickets faster than humans.

In either model, the rich get their way and the 17yo gets whatever is left. But when well-controlled, this gap can be filled through need-based programs, student programs, etc. -- Broadway has some examples. These programs can be layered on top of, as they are orthogonal to, eliminating the incentive to use bad bots for scalping.

I don't have all the answers, but as someone who has been a musician for 30 years, programmer for 24, FoH audio engineer for 21, stock trader for 15, booked several shows, and buys tickets to shows every month or two, this is something I truly think could benefit the ticket-buying experience without excessive downside. The prices don't need to be astronomical (i.e., for the richest of the rich) when they first go on sale. They just need to be set, and reset continuously over time, so as to have N% be sold equal to N% of sale window elapsed, with the window ending at doors; sales would be almost exclusively to genuine show-goers because scalpers would almost exclusively be bag-holders.
perhaps my formulation in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911782 will be helpful to you. or in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911903
There’s no way to seal the GC’s unsafety behind a safe API unless the safe code pins every GC object it touches. That’s not what happens in a browser engine - the GC has to ask the rest of the engine where its pointers are, and if any part of the browser fails to account for a pointer correctly, then you get use after free as soon as the GC runs. It’s a harder problem than you make it seem.
Since you cast this a few times, I have to ask: did you determine the shrink ratio empirically or were you able to look it up? This is a super cool project, and I'm impressed that you got it done before the wedding!
Cool design, needs some refinement. Keep at it.
I'm glad the response to your post didn't dissuade you from protecting our children from the plight of atheism and /r/antiwork
I'd guess that's for shops that are severally space and power constrained relative to their needs and/or need to move around immense amounts of compute.

eg: sports media that need to ship container-offices around the world three times a year. Two of those, one as a cold spare, running immutable OS images, a honking big disk array, and thin clients or laptops. simplifies HVAC, power, noise control, and networking requirements, plus it's only one system to test, validate, and secure, vs a bunch of workstations.
Does it work for anybody? When I tried it a few weeks ago, it would freeze on any dialog boxes launched by an application, then would unfreeze if you managed to close the dialog without being able to see it.
The string itself is a fact, not a benchmark.
JPEG / JFIF isn't really smart enough to take advantage of that. It's a file format from 1992, CPU speed was limited.
interesting last name.
Also, if my YouTube recommended is any indication there's a healthy Linux ecosystem for the Switch and the X1 now - some people have even shown Switch games playing on Switch via emulator in Ubuntu [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/H1gveQUBIKk?t=2332
Ask HN: How long does a post take for new users?
My friend just posted a Show HN, but he just created his account around an hour ago. After waiting over 30 minutes, his post still has not shown up on the new section or the newest of show section. Do you guys know if there is a time it takes for posts to be reviewed before getting posted, or does his account being new have something to do with his post not getting posted right away? Or was the post shadow banned or smth?

Thanks
In my experience it's the "force inline" directives that can make this terrible.

I had a coworker who loved "force inline". A symptom was stupidly long codegen times on MSVC.
Keep the legacy company. Split 50-50. Add a contract clause that the first 300k in anual revenue will go to your co-founder for X years.
I assumed that GP was an average person who doesn't have a storage array sitting at home. I'm not really sure why the IA is relevant here
This is a great idea but the UX needs a rethink.
What exactly is your "social advertising bot"? Is this a bot that makes contextual comments like the one you're replying to?
No way, scanning tickets is slow because it rarely works seamlessly. It's pretty standard to stand there for a few seconds moving your phone back and forth and/or rotating it. Or when one person has all the tickets for their party and has to scroll to the next one between scans.

I think maybe 4-15 seconds between scans per scanner, at best.
I hear you. I love that you can share a favorite food like that with your partner :)

When I worked for amzn.. I was eating approx 3500 calories a day - long bike commute. Pizza was always disappointing as rarely enough (and even then, eating my fill would be too much. I had to go out and still buy another lunch anyways* - and almost always not enough veg pizzas!). We perhaps could get into the variety of factors, yeah, eg: nutrition density to as a function of toppings.

Though.. if you look at serving size and how many people a large is meant to feed, it is pretty simply just 3 to 4.

* worse yet, because lunch was delivered, there was an expectation to work an extra hour that day (ie: working lunch meeting, and certainly do not go home early). Foing out to get enough real food and suddenly I was the bad guy for being the one team member not in office. Actually buying lunch was easier, I would just buy two at once.. Thinking back to that time, holy shit the work expectations were something else..
That's correct, `ffmpeg` needs to be built with `SDL` (SDL2 really is what is used on all recent versions). When `ffmpeg` is built, and the dev files for SDL2 are present, ffmpeg's build configuration picks it up automatically and it will link against the library unless instructed otherwise by a configuration flag. When you run `ffmpeg` first lines usually show the configuration which it was built, so it might have hints as to what it was built with, but if you want to confirm what it was links against you can do a quick:

$ ldd `which ffmpeg`

And you should get the list of dynamic libraries your build is linked against. If SDL2 is indeed included, you should see a line starting with "libSDL2-2...".

If I remember correctly you should be able to output to the framebuffer even if there is no support for SDL2, you just have to change the previous line provided from using `-f opengl "hdmi output"` to `-pix_fmt bgra -f fbdev /dev/fb0`.

You can also use any other framebuffer device if present and you'd prefer it (e.g. /dev/fb1, /dev/fb2). Also, you might need something different to `bgra` on your board, but usually `ffmpeg` will drop a hint as to what.
I've never heard of The Final Cut but there was an episode of Black Mirror that had a very similar general premise (implants that record everything).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
Yes, good example. On the other hand, emojis seem pretty popular, and many programming languages do support non-ascii symbols in identifiers. We just don’t use them much for actual code.

Along with markdown, there’s also increasing support for math equations in forums and blogging software.
I was rotating the carbides on a wood planer and a couple of them were held in by machine screws that weren't budging. I called Byrd, and their recommendation once you've stripped the screws is to shatter the inserts. I put a crappy chisel underneath and whacked it with a hammer.

I can confirm that it works. I heartily recommend a face shield, and I wouldn't want to be the first guy the doctor had to break a ring off of.
2014 Nissan Leaf: first impressions (2024)
Writing Rust is fun in the sense that solving a puzzle is fun.

Great when that's what you set out to do (rewrite it in Rust^TM) can get annoying otherwise (solving/researching a problem).
If the government needs people to have IDs, then maybe the government should provide those IDs for free...
Apple is pretty good about not axing published APIs, unlike another FAANG company we could compare them to.
Or also does karma impact it?
On the software side I don't think HFT is as special a space as this paper makes it out to be.[1] Each year at cppcon there's another half-dozen talks going in depth on different elements of performance that cover more ground collectively than any single paper will.

Similarly, there's an immense amount of formal literature and textbooks out of the game development space that can be very useful to newcomers looking for structural approaches to high performance compute and IO loops. Games care a lot about local and network latency, the problem spaces aren't that far apart (and writing games is a very fun way to learn).

I don't have specific recommendations for holistic introductions to the field. I learn new techniques primarily through building things, watching conference talks, reading source code of other low latency projects, and discussion with coworkers.

[1]: HFT is quite special on the hardware side, which is discussed in the paper. The NICs, network stacks, and extensive integration of FPGAs do heavily differentiate the industry and I don't want to insinuate otherwise.

You will not find a lot of SystemVerilog programmers at a typical video game studio.
> don’t just say congress is broken and then embrace socialism and tyranny!!

This escalated quickly. How does socialism arise from what you're describing?
CHP only needed hours to locate Bay Bridge shooter using new tech
I guess you can go ahead and take "criminal mastermind" from your CV! Why would I think that a physical 3D object with the pattern of my fingerprint that can be carried around and held up to anything might possibly be a security issue? Nope, I can't think of anything...
Sure, here is an image:

https://lulimjewelry.com/cdn/shop/products/fingerprint-close...

The grooves are cast quite deeply. I don’t anticipate any problems and I’ve been wearing mine for 7 years.
I haven't made any claim that humans are special. And your claim, in your own words, is that if mistakes are made in logical deduction, that means that the agent involved must ultimately be employing statistical auto-complete? No idea why you would think that, or what else you want to conclude from it, but it's obviously not true. Just consider an agent that inverts every truth value you try to put into the knowledge base and then proceeds as usual with anything you ask it to do. It makes mistakes and has nothing to at all do with probability, therefore some systems that make mistakes aren't LLMs. QED?

Ironically the weird idea that "all broken systems must be broken in the same way" or even "all broken systems use equivalent mechanics" is exactly the type of thing you get by leaning on a language model that really isn't even trying to understand the underlying logic.
Mac actually does this already - hold down a letter key and you can select a variation using the number keys. I guess he was on to something back in 2011!
I spent a ton of time on Glest growing up. The fact that it could be modded with simple XML files made it really accessible and was a gateway for me to get into programming. So even if seems a bit dated today Glest will always be special to me.
Computers Are Fast
Costco proving a one-stop shop for regional revitalization in Japan
Did you check?: https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew

I think they might be moderated but I don't have a reference for you.
If you use Bootstrap and are more towards "static" websites, I recommend Bootstrap Studio (https://bootstrapstudio.io/). I used it on and off. Last time, I used it to make one-off HTML, then edit the rest by hand (meaning, I can't return to the app again to make changes).

But recently, I used it to develop https://momenial.com/ with 100% editing in the app. Meaning I can use the app to make changes. I _do_ still need to make minor edits (that I think I can automate using a script).

It's not perfect (e.g. it can't import existing design, gosh I wish!), but it gets the job done for design-illiterate people like me.
I can't wait until the big distros decide multi-booting is a feature "nobody uses" that "never worked" and therefore isn't going to be supported because "everyone can use VMs" and containers and whatever other solutions that do not, in point of fact, solve the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-booting
$50 on upwork is far from "hiring a dev shop"
Give up more and more privacy to make the police’s job easier? If that’s the trade, no thanks.
Circularly Polarized Light Unlocks Ultrafast Magnetic Storage and Spintronics
The book gives you permission to lean into your scanner personality type. It explains that exploring our ideas is often enough and you can do so in a notebook. Interestingly, I eventually complete many of the projects I write about in my Scanners Daybook. It could be that writing them down somehow solidifies the idea and focuses your mind. Still, writing it down is enough in many cases too and I’m perfectly happy to move on, having explored the idea as deeply as I wanted right now.
Boeing indeed has a failure here, and is responsible for it. But as the first LA incident confirms, the pilots, by following their training, were able to deal with it. It was the subsequent flight on the same airplane that crashed.

This remains omitted by the mass media, which contraindicates any of the reporting on it as "good".

There is also responsibility in the production of a faulty AOA sensor, and the failure of LA to fix the known faulty sensor, or inform the crew, before authorizing the next, fatal, flight.
Millions of LLM and dozens of providers
How do you pick the best?

With Kolank compare models based on price, latency, max output, context and throughput across providers.

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Just replace BASE_URL, API_KEY and model name, You're all set!

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what country you're at?
Yea we did :(
If you have to ask, big boy, you can’t afford it
Opinionated Annotated List of Favourite Mechanistic Interpretability Papers v2
ASML shares touch 1k euro mark amid optimism over customer TSMC
Looks like I'm wrong. If I fire up an interactive dash on Ubuntu or Debian, no arrow keys. /bin/sh is dash, but that's only for hash bang scripts.

Not just no arrow keys, but nothing. No Ctrl-P to recall previous line. No editing beyond the POSIX TTY line discipline stuff: Ctrl-W word erase, Ctrl-U line erase, backspace.
Turn on Show [dead] in your profile. It's probably [dead].

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In the future, email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting.
Thanks for the thoughts they are also interesting.

Sorry I saw your comment after I wrote this reply to someone else, I’d be interested to hear your take on this hypothetical situation too if you don’t mind.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911779

I agree with you though about the idea that the market works well when those that receive the most value spend the most money. While we have very high rates of wealth inequality, which also seems to be something of an emergent property of this system, once you have even medium amounts of inequality the system becomes interesting. I think expanding on your thoughts it comes down to the relative value of money being different for different people. If I have $100 then $10 is a LOT of money, it’s 10% of all my money. If I have $1000 then $10 is probably not a lot of money to me, not trivial but it’s only 1%.

Now this is an order of magnitude but if you asked someone if a system where the wealthy had 10x as much money as the poor they’d probably say that the inequality wasn’t so bad. But even in that case the guy with $1000 would probably be willing to spend $11 on some good that the other guy wants maybe infinitely more, just because that guy can’t really afford it.

It’s a fascinating way of looking at things I hadn’t quite ever thought about in terms of relative value of money itself. I don’t have any real point I’m making here, just thanks for contributing I found your reply interesting and it made me think.
New shapes of photons open doors to advanced optical technologies
Free the heel, free your mind?
"Symmetries and wave functions of photons confined in three-dimensional photonic band gap superlattices" (2024)
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.2...
XKCD 927
Yet another package manager?

https://dublog.net/blog/so-many-python-package-managers/
Yes, and there is an incentive problem too that people are rewarded for being decisive but rarely punished for being wrong. In many contexts the odds are really stacked against you if you have a strong opinion that deviates from the consensus which is perhaps why persistence is a trait that we valorize given that it does require real courage.
The towns can still pay vendors, just as they pay vendors for lots of things. They just can't keep any of the ticket revenue generated.
I enjoyed reading it. FOSS projects can learn from what happened here.
Can you add a shebang line and have it truly be a script? I do self executing JARs with a bash stub/header all the time, but haven’t tried with this.
"Ultrafast opto-magnetic effects in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-024-01686-7 :

> Coherent light-matter interactions mediated by opto-magnetic phenomena like the inverse Faraday effect (IFE) are expected to provide a non-thermal pathway for ultrafast manipulation of magnetism on timescales as short as the excitation pulse itself. As the IFE scales with the spin-orbit coupling strength of the involved electronic states, photo-exciting the strongly spin-orbit coupled core-level electrons in magnetic materials appears as an appealing method to transiently generate large opto-magnetic moments. Here, we investigate this scenario in a ferrimagnetic GdFeCo alloy by using intense and circularly polarized pulses of extreme ultraviolet radiation. Our results reveal ultrafast and strong helicity-dependent magnetic effects which are in line with the characteristic fingerprints of an IFE, corroborated by ab initio opto-magnetic IFE theory and atomistic spin dynamics simulations.