skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Companies would always like to raise prices and increase profits.

And they're constantly trying to test the limits of what buyers will tolerate. Normally if they push too hard too quickly people start to feel cheated and sales drop. The pandemic was unique in that many people were desperate for familiar comforts. It fed a willingness to spend more if that was required.

People were also primed to accept that everyone was struggling, even the companies making their products. There were legitimate supply chain issues and shortages for a time early in the pandemic. The news was filled with stories about suck boats, clogged ports, and shipping container shortages. That all helped consumers to be more forgiving of higher prices too. It didn't come out until much later that companies were actually pulling in record profits at the expense of consumers many of which were struggling to keep food on their tables and their bills paid.

There was also collusion. Normally when one brand increases their prices, consumers who feel the price is too high will seek lower priced alternatives. When every company agrees to jack up their prices at the same time there's no where else for consumers to turn to and again, consumers were already less prepared to settle on something else or go without. Consumers had been sacrificing, putting up with less, or going without entirely for a long time already. People were willing to go into debt to get the things that would help them to feel better or adjust to being and working at home.

> too much government spending ("stimulus") had increased demand without a corresponding increase in supply.

Companies just took advantage of the situation. There really wasn't even a lack of supply in 2022. Supply could not have been higher. The US was overfilled with goods. Stores were overflowing with unsold merchandise and warehouse space became critically low.

Some examples:
http://stylemagazine.com/news/2022/aug/30/kohls-and-gap-have...
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2022/06/samsung-unsold-inve...
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/target-puts...
https://www.forconstructionpros.com/business/article/2219802...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/warehouse-supply...

You'd expect that a massive oversupply would result in lower prices, but that's not what happened. Stores decided they'd rather horde their merchandise in storage and prices rose higher and higher.

There were a lot of things feeding into inflation but the pathetic amount of disaster relief American citizens received from either administration to help them get through lock downs and the other financial stresses put on them was not the cause it. The billions in Covid relief funds set aside for businesses that got wasted or lost might not have helped though ultimately the real cause was just greed.
We hear this from candidates pretty often (it's the second most common specific reason for a candidate to turn down outreach for a job, after "please don't match me with crypto companies" [1]), although we're new enough that I can't make an apples-to-apples comparison for how common it was prior to the current environment.

What's odd is that, on paper and for the engineering jobs we work with specifically, it doesn't seem like that's actually more justified now than it was a year or two ago. The tech hiring market seems to have bottomed out and to be (unsteadily) on its way back up. Two years ago, prediction markets [2] were pretty confident a recession would occur by this point, but it hasn't. They're now down to about 25% that it'll occur by the end of this year, although the fact that the percentage has stayed flat even as time has run out suggests markets are a bit more bearish now than they were six months ago. And they think [3] that large interest rate cuts are coming.

But perhaps a few years of frustration and seeing others struggle has taken its toll in ways that go beyond object-level economic predictions. Experience with rough conditions might've made people more risk averse, or make them feel more secure in the job they do have (after all, there's a good chance they've survived some layoffs at this point), both of which could (rationally) make them stick where they are even if their opinions of the broader economy were the same or better.

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[1] EDITED to add: reasons they turn down outreach we actually send, meaning it's not disqualified by some structured info we have about their preferences. For example, we know whether a candidate wants a remote job, so even though ~60% of our candidates are looking for remote jobs only, that wouldn't be in this ranking.

[2] https://manifold.markets/chrisjbillington/will-the-us-enter-...

[3] https://manifold.markets/barak/by-how-much-will-the-fed-cut-...
Making an HTTP request and dealing with JSON data is a weed-out question at best. Not sure if you are interpreting the grandparent comment as actually having them write a JSON parser, but I don't think that's what they meant.
Common gear ratios for MTB (and gravel) do favor steep inclines much more. It doesn't matter how exhausted you are, if you have a granny gear 46-52t cassette and 30-36t chainring setup, you're solid.
Not all "AI" is LLMs.
Iglesia El Rosario, located in San Salvador, is a beautiful Brutalist structure.
The only valid argument I see is that some brutalist buildings are historically important and even we don't like them today we should keep some of them for future generations to visit and see what we have tried, and disliked.

But to use the environment as an excuse is silly. There are always things that can be done for that: recycling the concrete, rebuild to reduce car dependency and improve energy efficiency, choose more sustainaible materials (like wood) that can easily be replaced in the future (instead of more concrete), etc
Article title: Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes
Intent is the key to the good faith exception here.

If you intend to kick down a door to find evidence of wrongdoing, anything you find is inadmissible. But if you kick down a door because someone on the other side is screaming for help, evidence of other wrongdoing that you find is admissible still.

Here, they are saying that they had good reason to believe they could operate in the way that they did, so while the geofence evidence itself isn't able to be used, other evidence derived from that work is still usable. But going forwards, no one can use the geofence technique in good faith.
Turning off the GC isn't the blocker. Plenty of GC languages manage.

I'm more interested in how Go handles graphics APIs and binding a render thread or working with GUI threads considering how goroutines are done. Does one need to write non-idiomatic go, avoiding goroutines or is there some trick?

For example, GTK isn't thread safe so you can't just use that library without considering that.
Very cool. Have you thought about filming a rocket launch? The smooth acceleration should cause very a interesting distortion.
I can think of many reasons. Seeing other language perspectives definitely can help with your primary language. I have experienced this. But, I have also explored other languages as a means of procrastination or ways to do something easy when bumping into the more challenging depths of my language of choice.
Gift article link: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/san-francisco-is-...

Do not link to archive.is and their related sites, they actively work against Cloudflare DNS because Cloudflare protects customer privacy and archive.is operators demand the additional tracking info cloudflare strips out.
of course they wouldn't have, but if they don't change their policies at all, they have 2 new problems: some patrons will perceive your property as not taking security seriously if other hotels have "beefed up security" while yours doesn't. Secondly, if there were another shooting, even if it wasn't nearly as big as the Route 91 massacre, in court they could point to your lack of doing anything whatsoever "in the face of the nations worst shooting".
A SIM card is an often-overlooked "what you have" second factor, yes leaving aside phone company social engineering hacks.

I made the mistake of buying an iphone on a trip to US, which is eSIM only. The tech works fine --Google Fi is a pretty good example-- but I later traded that phone for the exact same "international" model, traded even plus cash, to get my slot back.
Ironically the Rationalists were the ones to first lose their senses in speculative AI worship.
> Thus you can get more channels than some cable plans with just a pair of rabbit ears in LA but it is not like that in NYC

In LA I think part of that is the repeaters on every mountaintop in the area. Most of LA county and the Inland Empire have clear line of sight to the San Gabriel mountains and most of Orange County has a clear LoS to the Santa Ana mountains. Both ranges have peaks in excess of a mile above sea level.

Even before digital TV broadcast the VHF dial was full and there were a lot of UHF channels. I'd guess the Bay Area was similar as most of the population has a pretty clear view of some high peaks with repeaters on them.
Yeah but you can’t filter on it, dark patterns at work.
How is no one worried about this? This is dystopian-level stuff, and we're all either cheering it on or ignoring it as if it's "harmless".
This is an interesting idea. Though I think it'll be tough to differentiate what exactly constitutes a middle man, and therefore hard/impossible to enact. Would marketplaces (such as Amazon) be considered a middle man? If so, good luck making any traction on this plan. If not, then why would app stores be considered middle men if Amazon isn't? It would have to come down to some very particular and very exact legal points, and you can bet every middle man would try very hard to be just barely on the OK side of the law.
> precommit to not cooperating with acausal blackmail

He knows that can't possibly work, right? Implicitly it assumes perfect invulnerability to any method of coercion, exploitation, subversion, or suffering that can be invented by an intelligence sufficiently superhuman to have escaped its natal light cone.

There may exist forms of life in this universe for which such an assumption is safe. Humanity circa 2024 seems most unlikely to be among them.
It actually used to be a somewhat valid term, yes. The case with the computer was the Central Processing Units, and the rest was peripherals.
One is necessary to have a legal transaction, while the other is rent-seeking. People buy cars all the time without agents. We have excellent websites to educate us about car features and locate cars for sale. Realtors keep their racket going by working with each other to get houses sold, while ignoring FSBO homes. In fact, buyer's agents have a conflict of interest in that they get paid more if you pay more for the house. How people accept this befuddles me.
I have high hopes for this. Jim Keller will make RISC-V the future
Operator overloading essentially makes code unreadable without deep diving past the interface boundary.

In Go, you can generally look at any snippet of code and know precisely what it does.
Naive question - how is geofence different than security camera footage of the street? It also includes indoor areas?
What an odd saying. To me it reads, "The things that affect my life are my top priority".

I'm pretty sure he means to be talking about people who engage in it for funsies and yet approach it with the same level of importance. But there are those for whom politics is still literally life and death.
They need a permit before operating, there is no exemption for that.

From ESGHound who initially broke this story years ago: "This is a lie. The EPA cannot, and did not authorize future discharges. Nowhere in the compliance order does EPA authorize future illegal discharges".
Note that the rolling shutter effect is not limited to digital photography: it also affects physical focal plane shutters at high shutter speeds due to the time it takes for shutter curtains to move across the frame.

This effect is the origin of the "fast race car slants forward" trope:

https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/images/pr...

https://imsmuseum.org/adoptable_car/1911-winner/
Buildings from 50+ years ago are not necessarily the most well insulated and efficient. Nothing is going to unrelease the carbon that was involved in making them, but they also consume energy on an ongoing basis and replacing them with something more efficient might be a net reduction overall.
> Any auction is a tax, that gets increased and passed along to users.

The FCC is a cost center. Enforcement costs needs money which comes from taxes (auction or income). So to me it's a wash regardless of where the money comes from.

The market is the most efficient form of pricing a scarce resource (bandwidth in this case) so it makes sense that an auction is the appropriate way to sell it.
“ Authorities have said he brought 23 weapons in 10 suitcases into the room and set up cameras inside and out to watch for police closing in on him.”

If they are looking through everyone’s rooms I would hope they find this now as he took days to get all of the guns and ammo up to his suite. I am not law enforcement and can’t say for sure though. The US has done a lot worse in the name of terrorism (I believe this was a terrorist act).
Id love to see ML take on Codex Seraphinianus. Even if the answers are just hallucinations, they'd fit thematically.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
New Fragmentarium Website: https://fragmentarium.ms/

Old: https://www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentarium

Related papers:

- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1197.pdf

- https://openreview.net/pdf?id=z6ZGKexu8un

NLP-enabled string matching. I wish there were more details about _how_ they did it in the NYT article since that would be much more interesting than just saying "AI".

The comments here are really atrocious and ironically all seem LLM-generated.
it didn't take them long or much to approve those damn vaccines!
I tried eSIM’s for the first time while traveling in Ireland, used Orange on iPhones.

Terrible experience. So confusing. Data worked fine but I had a lot of trouble with everything else. Probably should have taken more time to do it, I researched and bought them on the ride to the airport and then activated upon arrival, jet-lagged and tired.

It’s just too much to go through. And it seemed to take arbitrary amounts of time for configuration changes to work, with no feedback on if what you’re doing is correct or not.

The physical sim days were easier. Oh well I will try again on the next international trip.
I do not own many leather-bound books, nor does my apartment smell of rich mahogony, but this gave me a wonderful idea for visualising what my many ebooks might look like through an AR or VR virtual library experience.
The instruction in question doesn't map to any instruction in neither RVV0.7.1/xtheadvector, nor RVV1.0. Disassemblers don't disassemble it, and assemblers don't have any mnemonic for it (the 'vse128.v' used by the authors is essentially arbitrary afaict; and even if it weren't, there's zero reason to think that C910 had any intention of supporting 128-bit elements)
The William Morris Gallery[0] is pretty far off the beaten path for tourists in London, buit it's well worth visiting.

0. https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/visit/
/flagged, /upvoted, and /favorites, with an "?id=<your_userID>" are how your own flagged, upvoted, and favourited posts/comments are displayed. "&kind=comments" specifically returns flagged comments, otherwise posts. For upvotes and faves, the argument is "&comments=t", for consistency one presumes...

Favourites can be displayed for other users, upvoted and flagged cannot (for mere mortals).

I suspect downvotes can also be displayed, though I don't know that syntax.
May I ask what circuit simulator game? I've attempted something similar with my very limited and hobby level hardware knowledge in Virtual Circuit Board and I learned that it would take me much longer than a weekend, heh.
Awesome, thank you for the suggestions! I train kickboxing IRL, so this might be a good way to supplement that at home. Appreciate it :)
Python is a slow interpreted language (I write Python every day). Go is compiled and an order of magnitude faster for most everything.

So, I guess, yeah, everything can do everything. Computers are fast where language is rarely going to be the deciding factor.
I like long walks on the beach and not bending over backwards attempting to justify my unsustainable environmental impact and consumption habits.

Shoot.
I concur; DDG is fine. It's been years since I have bothered falling back to !g.
The article appears to be deliberately obfuscating the definition to keep the reader hooked for longer. The link to the article that describes a geofence is even more transparent about it.
If there was ever a case to link to a text only version a discussion of architecture isn't it. The full article with images: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/12/g-s1-6417/brutalism-architect...
I wish Bazel was a Go project. Unfortunately, it's written in Java.
I don't have an explanation from Patreon as to why they didn't ship a webapp, but I can at least provide some plausible explanations.

The thing is, while iOS is only 27% of the global phone market, that percentage increases when you look at high-value customers. That is, the people with disposable income to spend on fancier phones[0], the people who pay for apps, and the people who would, most critically, donate to an artist's recurring crowdfunding campaign. This isn't even something I made up, it's specifically one of the allegations in the DOJ's lawsuit against Apple.

Now, you are a counterparty to this $3tn megacorporation[1] who owns all your customers. Said corporation is altering the deal: you either bill through our royalty-bearing[2] payment processor or we kick you off the platform. You have two options:

- Upend large sections of your business model to comply with Apple guidelines, including killing an unusually quirky billing model some fraction of your creators make use of, or,

- Leave the platform where all your creators' customers are, hope said creators can get people to follow along through Apple's convenient and extremely discoverable six-step process[3] to install a PWA, and enjoy degraded access to push notifications[4], having to fight Google SEO spam for discoverability, and the ongoing business risk of Apple having complete and total editorial control over how your webapp works on iOS[5].

I'm sure Jack Conte looked at Patreon's numbers, looked at how many subscriptions they get through the app, how many people browse through patreon.com, and realized not being on iOS would screw creators over more.

[0] To be clear, high-end Android phones cost more than iPhones now, but iPhone is still a status symbol.

[1] Incidentally, this is about half the current budget of the US government.

[2] Apple's argument in the Epic lawsuit was that the 30% is a copyright royalty for the use of iOS, which doesn't quite make sense but the judge bought it.

[3] Navigate to the website, press the Share button, scroll down to "Add to Home Screen", fill out the form to name your new home screen icon, tap "Add", relog into the PWA again

[4] Yes, I know iOS added push notification support. I'll believe it when the Google Fi PWA actually notifies me about text messages on my iPad.

[5] Yes, this risk is higher for webapps. Apple can't modify submitted apps after-the-fact (just refuse to host them), but they can modify webpages behind your back by changing Safari. To quote Cory Doctorow: "An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to block ads in it." If users can block ads, Apple can block whatever else they want, too.
Very well, let’s just agree that in physics (r,s) tensors usually refer to sections of the tensor product of some fixed number of copies of the tangent bundle (r copies) and cotangent bundle (s copies) of a smooth manifold (almost always pseudo-Riemannian) and leave it there. Elementary!
This is what dirty politics looks like. This!

Irrespective of how you personally feel about Musk, consider that this is targeting a company with thousands of employees run by…
its CEO Glenn Shotwell, not Musk.

SpaceX is terrifying to the competition: both dinosaurs like ULA, and also newcomers like Blue Origin.

The article states: “In total, the Harlingen region received 14 complaints alleging environmental impacts from the Facility’s deluge system.”

Umm… what!? Fourteen? Fourteen locals were wading through the local mud within spitting distance of the launch towers taking what… water samples? It’s tap water! If it has mercury in it then the real article should be about mercury in the tap water!

“I have a complaint to make! Yes I would like to remain anonymous, but you can call me…
umm… Beff Jezos. Yes, I’m personally and financially affected by SpaceX activities and would like to file a complaint.”

The popsci article was definitely written by an anti-Musk hack. I seriously wouldn’t surprised if he took a bribe to write a “hit piece”, because if he didn’t he’s doing dirty work for billionaires for free.

We shouldn’t reach for the stars, unless every local office of everything is fully satisfied that all of the paperwork is filed.

Speaking of which: “Neither regulator answered CNBC’s questions regarding SpaceX’s statement.”

You don’t talk about corruption to the media. It’s shameful what they’re doing, otherwise they’d be happy to clarify the issue to the public.
Just one part of a cycle that keeps repeating, hopefully.
That's not specific to eSIMs, that is an iMessage issue. Having done this recently myself (just got home yesterday from a trip to the UK), my recommendation for anyone about to travel with an iPhone is to get a data-only eSIM that works in your destination country, then toggle off roaming on your primary line and make sure WiFi calling is enabled. If the phone asks to add a new number to your iMessage, refuse. Then your phone just works like normal, including iMessage, but without the roaming charges.

Oh, and if my experience is typical, don't go with O2 in the UK. I was disappointed in both the coverage and the performance. Even in London proper it was frequently crappy.
> LLMs are professional bullshitters which need constant supervision and expert human knowledge to guide and refine. They are useful but only in the hands of someone who can see right through their omissions and often, lies.

So what you're saying is that academic philosophy is the perfect application for LLMs. All is clear.
same on a pixel 7. Super smooth experience with a mexican and multiple US mvnos.
Nie ma za co! Powodzenia!
The idea that trading money for time is only worth it if you can spend that time making an equivalent amount of money, implies that the only value of time is as a resource for making money.

On its face, that doesn't seem to stand up to scrutiny.
A few more conservative states have signed onto the compact. I think most Republicans (individuals) would support it, the leadership is all realpolitik but normal folk do believe in the basic idea of democracy, especially something simple to explain like this. Republicans won the legislature in Florida the same year people voted to give felons voting rights... the electorate is more principled on these things than the parties. (I suppose that makes sense, it doesn't actually affect the electorate nearly as much as it affects elected officials.)
Yeah, but the "AI" on CPU means some basic NPU doing (sparse) matrix multiplication, not AVX512.
You just… built exactly the thing I was working on. Except it looks better.

I’ve had this before, but I figured this project would be small and niche enough that it‘d never happen. Crazy shit.
This is a surprisingly low quality article for Quanta. The discussion here is far beyond it.
This is the old eBay shipping trick. Ebay charged vendors a percentage of the product sale price, but nothing on shipping. So I'd often buy posters for $0.99 with $14.99 shipping (US Media Mail shipping was a lot lower than that).