skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3241457/ray-da...

Ray Dalio convinced everyone to rush into china with investment at the same time as he was exiting rapidly.

The idea that china would be the new world order is ridiculous. China is knees deep in a collapse that will be rather bloody.
Now you're just grasping for straws. By adding one line in ~/.inputrc i have vim magic in just about every TUI program available (in theory some may not, but I've yet to encounter it). Don't make it sound more difficult than it is just to make a point.

Lots of tools for power-users come with vim keys today, and when I choose a tool it's one of the first things I look for.
Maybe MS will release a version of Word around 2000? The latest versions are way too “smart” and constantly do confusing things.
I thought this wording was funny: "the famous Twitter sign ... [was] summarily removed" - extra-judicial signage removal! Musk is out of control.
It’s been a while since we had sf offices, but back when we did sf had a pretty aggressive additional payroll tax and gross receipts taxes.

I’d imagine this is likely a factor in the decision.

I know for a while they were waiving some of these taxes for companies who set up offices in certain parts of the city. E.g. zendesk got a big tax break for its market street location near the tenderloin.

As for commutes, I’d be pretty curious to know how many folks who work at Twitter actually show up to their offices every day, especially in eng roles. Even with a return to office mandate I can’t imagine this not becoming more hybrid over time (of course I’ve never worked for musk or his managers — but I’d assume that if folks are high output he would not care how often they were in the office).

Even commuting within sf can be kind of a pain it took our folks 50 minutes from both areas in the mission and Menlo Park to get to an office in South Park.

I’d be curious to know:

- how folks who work at X think about this move?

- how much remote work will be allowed?

- tax savings.

- lease savings.

I’d bet getting rid of sf tax nexus was a key piece of the reason.
Good news, Windows laptops have a high chance of not entering sleep or hibernation correctly despite your best efforts and will continue to pump heat into your backpack while you commute. Just be sure to keep it charged.

Also there's a slim chance that your employer will issue you a gaming laptop containing Liquid Metal as a work laptop in the first place.
> Reckless spending played a part, but a major (if not the biggest) component was every company getting it into their heads to "test the price advantage" of their products

What makes 2022 so unique that just now corporations figured out they can raise prices? Why haven't profit margins taken off in 2022 [0] ?

These always struck me as bad explanation. Mostly hand waving. I think a more reasonable explanation is that increasing the money supply over 30% in a few years resulted in prices and asset levels going up ~30%.

[0] https://www.gurufocus.com/economic_indicators/62/corporate-p...
Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring
This one is tough to know where to start. To hear him cover an issue near and dear to your heart, is infuriating. In fact, I think almost all of his podcasts ideas from the first season were terrible.

Mostly, he gets so into a story it's about the narrative itself. He sounds like a crazy child with a made up theory trying to force it to work.

It's hard to say from memory, but it was multiple episodes where he defended corporations and authority figures from legit criticisms, based on nonsense.

Just to be clear he doesn't literally say "and there, so I proved them innocent", but he might as well and these just weird one sided crusades (about David and defending the Goliath as misunderstood).

He's really not far from saying because people sometimes remember things poorly, Brian Williams definitely didn't lie (in a situation where many people lie).

He basically gave the auto industry a free pass, because it's challenging to prove an exact field issue.
It may even change it to a globe of another planet. Or the sun with dynamic sun spots.

Edit: Here it is: https://www.novavisionny.net/3d_globe_led_video_displays.htm...
I used to think that people who were sick and stubbornly refused to go to the doctor were silly, but now, after reading enough cancer stories, I fully understand them and would do the same.

If I got a cancer that required chemo, I wouldn't want to know. Even if the survival rate was 90% with treatment, the mental turmoil would not be worth it for me. I'd rather have the 5% survival rate without treatment and without awareness of the problem.

Anyway I'm 35 now and I already feel like I've lived a full life. I feel like I've already seen and done everything I wanted to do 100 times over. Nowadays, every experience I have is derivative of some other past experience. My enjoyment of life is greedy and repetitive almost to the point of vulgarity.

When I hear about billionaires who are approaching 100 and undertaking radical treatments to live forever, I just don't get it. They've probably experienced way more things than I have, 100 times better than I have, yet they want more... Makes me wonder if they're fully feeling their lives. They must have a dull senses or poor emotional memory.
Text-based hivemind social media like Twitter auto-excludes likes of Trump and Musk. They don't generate text in the Internet sub-language. Twitter users judge, cancel and ignore liberals and conservatives equally hard, I think largely by presentation.
Twitter was given a famously sweet deal by the city to occupy that troubled stretch of Market St. In the time I lived nearby (until the pandemic) the area never really improved. San Francisco has an odd tolerance for the tent communities, no just that it largely allows them, but that it allows them in and around the busiest and most publicly-utilized transit hubs and the city center.
I did not get into it (very short write up), but in general there is a never ending need to build new software and systems. Those efficiencies will simply allow more to be done and more software to be built. That's been the history of software so far.
Devils Advocate: If there is no disruption in Taiwan, and TSMC continues to execute as it has, and Intel continues to execute as is has (not), then Intel might go to $0 or survive only because of government subsidies and military contracts.

NVIDIA, AMD, Apple and other companies seeking cutting edge performance will choose the most advanced node to stay competitive. Being the second best foundry has historically not been good business.

This is an extreme scenario, of course.
Discussion by actual Australians :

https://old.reddit.com/r/AusEcon/comments/1ek6rk0/whats_driv...

The most important quote is :

Do you seriously think McDonalds has that much market power to be able to raise margins without any issue? If you're having trouble finding an alternative to McDonalds, you might need to reconsider your weight mate.

Also, this ABC article is fucking bullshit, putting quotations on domestic profits. The RBA calculates the profits based on the sales and costs accrued domestically, and profits are usually offshored through transfer pricing or intercompany lending after the fact. Hence, the calculation of their measure regarding profit margins and profit share as a % of the economy accounts for offshoring as it considers the sales and costs a company incurs before any of this income is shifted overseas.

Not only that, but I also don't think McDonald's has the market power to raise its profit margins as high as a telecommunications monopoly when you can walk yourself down the road for a cheaper burger that's better in quality. There's a reason why the sales for McDonald's are going down. If you can't handle McDonald's raising its prices, eat a god damn salad.
exactly!

reading xitter today is worse than daytime television.

contributing to it's content pool is just counter intuitive.
Do I even need to point out that you've committed a tautology. "If's commercially successful, it is "good"."

Good musicians are successful != successful musicians are good.

Like all tautologies, this isn't a good or bad argument, it isn't an argument at all. If you're trying to make the point that successful musicians are successful then no one can rationally disagree. If you're making the leap to inferring quality from success, then please reread my original post. I wasn't arguing for my 'taste', I was listing a few aspects of objective musical accomplishment. Feel free to substitute your own. Sales isn't one.

Even from a (literally) tone deaf, utterly venal perspective modern pop stars don't do well in the musical marketplace. That's why a) charts exclude legacy sales - real sales charts consistently show 'classic' albums outsell new releases and b) charts include merch and other non-musical play / purchase sales. One factoid I often think about is that the first Counting Crows record massively outsold the first Brittany Spears record. Brittany of course, with her t-shirts, dolls etc was a greater source of revenue, and hence massively more highly promoted in the corporate media.
An exclusive deal is different from an auction.
July numbers for our (boostrapped and open) SaaS startup: 32K MRR
Here are the July stats for my SaaS business Simple Analytics:

We are a two-person company. Fully bootstrapped and open about our numbers.

July:
$32.707 MRR
11K website visitors from Google
865 new accounts
80 New Customers
52 churn

MRR has been somewhat stable in the last few months. We’re averaging around 3.4%. We aim for 5%, but seem a bit stuck.

Reasons:
- We discontinued an old plan for business customers
- We added a free plan. Some users downgraded
Summer slump for SaaS?

On the flip side: Interest from Enterprise is growing

Here is some more context (and proof of numbers): https://1millionarr.substack.com/p/road-to-1m-arr-june-update

Happy to answer any questions.

Cheers,
Iron
>Theres also talk about their shift to GPU, maybe Battle Mage will deliver in this year

Considering the stock tanking and the announced layoffs, I fear Battle Mage will be unfortunate collateral damage along the line.

Really unfortunate timing as that was the only competition we could hope for to the Nvidia and AMD GPU duopoly who jacked up their prices, and Intel was actually committed to the new GPUs constantly pushing updates and fixes.

There's no point in rooting for Intel's downfall here as some people seem to take pleasure in, as then AMD will just jack up their prices as they've done in the past, since they're a business not a charity, and only acted nice to consumers while they were the underdog but will not hesitate to milk us dry the moment they own the market like Intel and Nvidia did.
Which makes sense, no? Having a say in how the country (or union in this case) is run is precisely the difference between a (permanent) resident and a citizen.
This document was made by a specific globe manufacturer, so it probably isn't meant to be used to date arbitrary globes, but only theirs.
Tell HN: iLovePDF's Dark UX Patterns
I had subscribed to iLovePDF last year. Recently, while going through my credit card transactions, I was surprised to find that they had automatically renewed my subscription.

I had not received any email reminders and/or an invoice. Hence, I reached out to them and requested a refund.

Their Customer Support staff gave me a form reply that I'm not eligible for the refund in line with their terms and conditions. For the same reason, they were not obligated to give me an advance intimation of the renewal charge.

This experience has left such a bad taste in my mouth. Legally, they may be in clear but how about ethically and morally.

We often blame big companies for not carrying for their customers. But it seems that small companies may also be doing the same.

Anyways, I have learnt my lesson. Just wanted to share that it's a case of "buyer beware" with iLovePDF.
Sadly this article does not give any clue about how the evolved the income/profit of the mother holding of McDonald's. This is probably where we can check if big mac inflation went to profit and dividends or just covering expenses.
> You're implying that the only reasonable reason to doubt data is contradicting data.

No. I'm implying that the only reasonable reason to doubt massive amounts of data that has been, and is being, actively studied by thousands upon thousands of experts for decades, is contradicting data. Perhaps more importantly, I'm implying that armchairing an opinion on the matter carries zero weight.

> Which is what I'm objecting to, since funding and media representation in science certainly isn't favourable to this way of thinking.

Science's very imperfect funding structures do indeed cause worthwhile endeavours to go unexplored. That's sad. But irrelevant here, as it does not invalidate the conclusions from endeavours that are funded.

> Sometimes, "I'm not sure" or "I don't know" is wiser than "nothing better to challenge it".

Absolutely! For example when evidence is scant and a problem is under-studied. My problem is that you and OP seem to leap from that fact to that always being true. Climate change is not such a case, and unless you have large amounts of contradictive data, you're an idiot for saying "I don't know". And if you did have vast amounts of contradicting data, you'd bring it!

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a-french-anon 24 minutes ago | parent | context | flag | on: Is Europe headed towards a new Ice Age as ocean cu...

You're implying that the only reasonable reason to doubt data is contradicting data. Which is what I'm objecting to, since funding and media representation in science certainly isn't favourable to this way of thinking.

Sometimes, "I'm not sure" or "I don't know" is wiser than "nothing better to challenge it".

> The crux of the problem in your post is the use of the words "consensus" and "established" when these can easily be manufactured

No. You clearly have zero clue how science works.

> (and the infamous climategate shows such social engineering, even without debating the scientific truth or untruth of the matter).

?!
> No way a better text generator and search with bell and whistles will be able to close this gap via subscriptions from end users.

For me this shines a light on a fundamental problem with digital services. There is likely a much bigger willingness to pay for these services than there is ability to charge. I would be willing to pay more for the services I use but I don't need to because there are good products given for free.

While I could switch to services that I pay for to avoid myself being the product, at the core of this issue there's a coordination problem. The product I would pay for will be held back by having much fewer users and probably lower revenue. If we as consumers could coordinate in an optimal way we could probably end up paying very little for superior services that have our interests in mind. (I kind of see federated api routers to be a flawed step in sort of the right direction here.)

> federating NN providers will be hard from the technical point of view...

I don't see how you adress that point in your text? Federation itself doesn't seem to be a hard problem although I can see that being a competitive LLM service provider can be.
Musk already moved Tesla, and is in the process of moving SpaceX, to Texas. It's surprising X isn't following suit.
Shows how wild the past 4 years have been… I completely missed that and had to look it up.
CNET to Be Sold to Ziff Davis in Sign of Possible Media Deals to Come
Do you expect the traffic price to come down over time for Singapore, or not really? I'm based in Australia, and will need to get a server set up sometime in the not too distant future, so Singapore might be a good option.

I have a small suggestion: I found it confusing that the price was € 7.40 in the infobox, but € 8.14 in the Traffic section. The infobox mentioned it's exclusive of tax, so I realised the latter figure includes GST for me, but it was a little confusing at first, having it shown two different ways.
Maybe we should just train an LLM on it, then ask it to build a entirely copyright-free clone of WordStar? (sarcasm).
So the actual lack of choice here is not the phone, but the apps. No different from having to install Windows to run your apps in 2003.
So... would this let me build GLSL shaders visually, rather than by code trial and error?
I've wanted something similar for my Alice layout keyboard: attached to closest edge of the keyboard, between the 2 space bars, would be a good place for a wheel or trackball.

A roller or wheel in that position would allow either thumb to use it with hopefully a minimum of movement/stretching.
So you're concluding that there is no benefit to general aviation because, presumably, you don't fly?

I think we should absolutely keep airplanes as a mode of transportation, because the alternative is that all small airports go away and then it won't matter when renewable fuels become a reality because there will be no longer be anywhere to land and take off. Those airports would not come back.
like almost every blog, you could be covered with a blanket statement

" our model will occasionally recommend advertiser sponsored content"
Yes, reduce the human population.
I stopped using X because it was literally impossible to not see his posts.

/shrug

My partner has the same. …but, to be fair, who knows what different variants of the platform are given to different people in different regions at different times.
Help Me with CSS for Firefox
hi, I need help with this css code for firefox, I'm not a programmer I tried to use AI but couldn't fix it. I would like someone to fix this css script for firefox to add the close minimize and full screen buttons, with my current css they don't work, can you help me, with these buttons I could completely switch to firefox.

link of the autor of the script: https://gist.github.com/morrolinux/87aa37396432ea5d14a9220bc4892100

link of the script: https://privatebin.net/?1ad339dfbe397783#9t7N6kAzgBUufrreHTv1pxQ8MNCvRw2AWAaYGY1jydzu
Nvidia reportedly delays Blackwell GPUs over TSMC CoWoS-L packaging issues
even for niche topics i only recall "influencers" left there by the time i left.

i guess it's the new Facebook, social network for old people who will not open a different app ever, for some small groups?
Show HN: Htmf – literal HTML in Python f-strings
Kind of lit-html and other html`...` libraries, but in Python.

It's a suite of:
Few text processing utilities you could write in a hour
Linter validating the f-expressions
HTML beautifier
VS Code syntax highlighter

It was used to succesfully rebuild UIs of several internal CRUD-apps.
Designed to replace the traditional jinja templates with something preserving type-safety and better IDE support.
Keeping the models and templates in sync is much easier now.

Maybe you would find it useful too.
The industry always has information before-hand, all those AI capable datacenters aren't being built just because a hunch.

It is possible that the next iteration of GPT4 level technology has already ocurred a year ago, august 2023. The Q* thing was built around that time, probably went online some time after that. Word "in the street" says it is an exponential jump from GPT4 level of "AI cognition".

The whole conversation - papers, press articles - about datawalls, billions sunk "for no reason", etc. could be just empty words since maybe october 2023.

We'll see in couple of months probably.
Yeah, unless you live in Oakland, this probably will be irrelevant to everyone who lives north of Palo Alto.
I remember someone getting banned for a tweet saying "Men are different from women". Not even a conservative person, and a very mild take at that.

See e.g. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/journalist-sues-twitter-...

Getting banned for wrongthink on the old Twitter was a rite of passage, almost every content creator I follow (mostly gaming youtubers, nothing spicy or even controversial) got banned at least once.
> To put this into perspective, the new TSMC fab being built in Germany will tape out 28/22nm nodes

Add to that those older processes are more mature, having been refined for decades, get higher yields, and are far cheaper as well.
Some countries have long standing laws which help control the price of buying a residence, so they will not have this penalty baked into their future financial situation. Basically ensure that residential property should be unattractive and unprofitable to hold commercially for renting or sitting empty.
I while ago (around 2010) I worked at Océ Technologies R&D and at least to me the machines while incredibly complex where quite easy to operate and maintain. In fact every developer was allowed to print their private stuff (non commercial) on the machines under development. I believe this really helped because we basically had to become operators and maintainers and got a feel of their roles. If you print something for yourself, family or friends you also take a better look at the output or sometimes have a very specific use case in mind.
Tracking Your Search: A Guide to the Grid Generator
While you're right that Silicon Zeroes is not the best as a zach-like puzzle game, I actually found it did a better job of teaching me about building a computer than most similar games.

However, I played it years before Turing Complete was released, and I'd probably recommend that over SZ. But SZ does a better job at introducing some of the timing concepts.
Not following is for content you don't mind seeing, muting is for annoying friends you can't be screenshotted blocking, and blocking is for content you don't care.
That's their opportunity to differentiate from Chrome; they need to support V2 Chromium and fork away from Google's dominion over Chromium.
For me, the true classic is the last version for CP/M.
> I was shocked when learning to fly how much GA tech was stuck in some weird pre-World War II era state.

This is accurate. Between regulations and insurability, pilots have the choice of newer, less expensive, and more innovative experimental aircraft that are expensive to insure, or FAA-approved aircraft that were not even state of the art in 1952. It's so bad that most people are flying refurbished 1970s model planes because the new ones are identical except for the electronics and upholstery.
> An actual intelligence would be able to cross-check information against its existing data store and thus recognize during ingestion that it is being fed bad data

There’s a physics Nobel Prize winner, John Clauser, who has recently been publicly claiming that climate change doesn’t exist. Is he not “actually intelligent”?

I kinda want to say no he’s not, but the reality is that people are wrong about all sorts of things all the time. Intelligence is not some sort of guaranteed protection against that. If anything, intelligent people are better at rationalizing their BS to themselves and others.
'Delicate, authentic, charismatic': Dolce and Gabbana launches €99 dog perfume
I dunno. He seems somewhat consistent. I think people just generally don’t like the things he’s consistent about.
The ABC loves this style, for some years now. I haven't encountered it elsewhere and I loathe it.
Not so simple if you want to pre-render and cover multiple zoom levels and a large area
> The strategy is as simple as it is disturbing: rewarding screen time with financial incentives.

This is just work in IT.