skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Probably not, Intel does a pretty decent job regulating power consumption as long as you don't modify the power profiles or fuck with ACPI.

That assumes the motherboard vendor implemented ACPI properly, and most don't, you're often lucky to have something that is able to keep Windows alive enough to pass certifications. Linux, xBSD or macOS compatibility? Forget it unless you're talking servers with support contracts making it actually worth the effort for manufacturers.
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I wouldn't put it so strongly: often a long-running TM can be analyzed in several layers with their own independent rules, each of which simulates the next. E.g., at the lowest level, most nontrivial TMs look like a list of unary or binary counters interacting with each other. I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of the lower layers of the longest-running machines included one or more Collatz-like components. After all, it is a cheap way to pad out the tape when setting up the parameters of some greater process! It's just not going to be the entirety of what it does, since no simple Collatz-like process will practically get you past an exponential number of steps.
The type of test definitely matters but 15 hours ain't too shabby either
“By definition, all of the electrons in an atom are indistinguishable, which can arguably be rephrased to say that any electron in the electron cloud is the same electron as any other one.”

For an even more mind boggling idea, see the one electron universe theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40080266
Consumers are free to choose never to pay credit card interest rates (by only spending what they can pay off). No one is forced to borrow money.

Merchants have to choose between being cash-only and paying Visa's high fees.
lol have fun with that
There is not doubt in my mind that if we somehow implemented a UBI in a way that would not just result in inflation of rent and everyday goods, the vast majority of people would simply stop working, get bored, depressed, and more likely go looking for mischief before they started working on useful or interesting hobby projects.

Whats more, if you drop out of work to live on the UBI, by definition, you are the poorest person in the country, and if that is not a reason to be depressed I don't know what is.
Yeah, that all makes senses. But having legacy software that you support has been a big advantage for x86 for, basically, forever. For a lot of purposes, that is way more important than performance per watt.
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Time is more precious than money. Exchanging money for time is the value of a dollar.
> Also, if you factor in that cash is an option

Lots of places stopped taking cash. In many places my only option is to pay with a card.
We are excited for Open Data users to dig into this dataset, experiment, and find insights from the “speed sample of NYC’s streets” that the MTA’s 4,900 buses collect each day. This data will be uploaded on a monthly basis, and can be found on the NYS Open Data portal.

What a great dataset and effort to allow for further research into areas of the city that could benefit from anti-congestion measures (cough cough car tax) to improve bus services!

Also - where does one even store 4,900 buses in NYC? I guess most of the fleet is out on the streets all day, but I imagine servicing all of those is quite the feat.
Looks cool, we're in the same industry, so let us know if we can help! If anyone is looking for cash-flowing investment properties, you can check us out at Coffee Clozers: http://coffeeclozers.com/
It's nice to see the DOJ taking a more aggressive approach towards monopoly charges again.

~1900... ~1950... ~1980... ~2000...

About time for the wheel to turn around.
Many companies I have worked for operate like this. Engineers get to work on shiny new features, they get released, everyone is happy. Months later tons of bugs accumulate. The original authors are already part of another team (because “breaking silos”, but actually because “make everyone replaceable”). The engineers that inherit the project need to maintain it and fix the bugs until another team takes over.

It’s awful.
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> What is the alternative for providing direct benefits without lossage?

Accept the lossage. No system is foolproof, follow the Pareto principle and that's it.

Unfortunately that one is hard to sell to voters, especially as "we're going to eradicate fraud" is a very popular platform of conservative/authoritarian politicians that just use fraud as an excuse to develop repressive systems.
This is so easy to test yourself - just get a calorie tracker. They’re dead simple to use these days and they also track macronutrients so you can see what works best for you. I have never been using a calorie tracker, eating at a calorie deficit, and not lost weight. And it didn’t matter in any noticeable way if I was having ice cream and beer for dinner or steak and eggs. Sure, there are loads if variables, but absent some medical condition I challenge anyone to eat at a calorie deficit and not drop weight.
Ha! They've been quickly pulling some other things in the last hour or two, like a bunch of files with this header...

* Copyright 2000-2002 Dolby Laboratories, Inc. All Rights
* Reserved. Do not copy. Do not distribute.
* Confidential information.
*
* (C) copyright Fraunhofer - IIS (1998)
* All Rights Reserved
I think Notebookcheck uses peak power in their perf/watt measurements.

They go over it in detail here: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Our-Test-Criteria.15394.0.html
Aren’t you trying to be better than them though? People need to know that they are saving money with your new and unproven service that could go awry in so many ways.
If you ever encounter someone who says that companies can't be policed or that government is ineffective, I want you to point them to the FTC.

For context, the current chair of the FTC is Lina Khan who is only 35 years old. She became famous while a student at Yale Law School for writing Amazon's Antitrust Paradox [1], which has come to revolutionize the thinking on antitrust.

A recent example is asthma inhalers. An asthma inhaler in the US costs ~$500. In France it's $7. Now we can't just import from overseas. That's illegal (because reasons). So how are generic inhalers blocked? By tricks to extend patents. In this case, the patent holder justifies a patent extension with a small piece of plastic on the cap so you don't lose it.

That's all capitalism does: it builds enclosures, on this case on "intellectual" property and by buying the government to create a monopoly by banning imports and banning Medicare from negotiating prices.

Just the threat of FTC action and a Senate investigation has created concessions by (so far) 3 of the 4 inhaler makers agreeing to cap inhaler costs at $35. From $500. With just a threat.

Companies are so concerned about this that big donors to the Harris campaign want Lina Khan fired [2] (she is, of course, history in the event of a Trump victory in November).

This should be a lesson in both the necessity of regulation and how easy it can be if you halfway try. The idea that the government is bloated and ineffective is propaganda by those who want to poison the water supply to make a slightly higher profit.

Personally, I want the FTC to go after national ISPs.

And I fully support investigation and regulation of the Visa payment network.

[1]: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-06/kamala-ha...
This is great! Thanks for sharing. I am using neovim so zed wasnt the inspo. I saw charm release a tree component and it was just what I needed for my gh-dash tool. I then thought why not make it a standalone tool
Yeah especially since my ~12 hours XPS does maybe 7-8 hours in typical usage. Going from 24 to 15 hours seems roughly on-par with the course.
Frankly your responses on this page have convinced me to stay clear of this product.

Sorry, I guess.
Pip already does its own caching, but it's maddeningly difficult to even locate and extract files, let alone set up anything usable. It's also needlessly difficult to make Pip just use such a cache directly - for example, if you haven't pinned a version, it will automatically check PyPI to figure out the latest version even if you have cached wheels already.

I don't know (I lack the experience), but I assume that container systems get in the way of Pip finding its normal cache, too. (If they're emulating a filesystem or something, then the cache is in the wrong filesystem unless you reuse the container.)
I'm not sure you can really separate concepts and their practical embodiment in this world.

To expand on your example, when you get your passport stolen and someone gets a credit in your name, it's not just the document that has been stolen but very well your identity as seen by society: now the entire society (in practice the bankers and law enforcement, maybe your employer or eventually even your neighbors) think that you own the bank some money, and the bank will leverage their legal power to recoup their money from you.

And respectively, if the state you live in decides that Aleksei Deaman* doesn't exist, removes all traces of you from official records and declares that all identity document you have are counterfeit ones, then you lose your identity pretty much instantly: your bank will close your bank account, your insurance doesn't cover you, including your housing loan, and your employer cannot keep you because you are now assumed to be an illegal immigrant. At the end of the day your life is pretty much ruined, not just because you've lost your identity papers, but because your entire social identity has been taken away from you.

The less familial and based on mutual trust a society is, the more the distinction between “identity” and “identity papers” is blurred. (Not saying that it's a good or a bad thing, that's just what it is).
75160,3375 was my ID. It was like magic, connecting over POTS through a burbling modem to a massively powerful mainframe.
I feel like this project is a classic example of the README missing a "Why?" section. Not to justify the project, it just makes it hard to evaluate without understanding why they choose implementing a transpiler rather than an embedded WASM VM. Or why not transpile to native assembly? I'm sure they have good reasons but they aren't listed here.
Spot on. Why not use any more or less standard cpu benchmark? The publication is either being strangely incompetent at this, or deliberately misleading.
It used to be $6/hour (adjust for inflation, would now be about $18/hr). How do I know this? Because as a teenager, my dad let me use his account to play a multiplayer game called Island of Kesmai that was available through CompuServe, and I ended up putting hundreds of dollars on his credit card (and got in a lot of trouble). I worked as a page at my local public library in order to make enough money that I could pay him back, which itself led to a life-long love of books and reading. In the end, it was an important life lesson about moderation and personal responsibility.

Competitors to CompuServe were even more expensive. GEnie was $9/hr, and Byte Information Exchange (BIX) was $12, and I think at the start was even higher.
As opposed to minimal effort questions?

Ask a better, more thoughtful question, get a better answer.
Despite the title, it's not actually open source yet. Soon!
Updated post today:

DOJ accuses Visa of debit network monopoly, impacts price of 'nearly everything'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639635
Official release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-visa-...
NYC has one of the best open data portals out there. Kudos to all the teams and agencies who manage it.
It depends on your payment gateway. I can setup a POS payment system with any payment gateway processor I want. Depending on the system you can essentially run direct deposit into Google Pay, and as a vendor I can direct deposit the money into my checking via my gateway.

But that's not the issue being contested because there are hundreds of payment gateway processors available.
Maybe. Nobody really knows what happens at the center. General relativity I believe says "yes", but nobody knows how true it is in the case of ~infinitely dense crap in an infinitely small spot. Usually "infinite" means what really happens is not captured by the model, but nobody has a better answer yet as far as I know.

A better answer would be something like a grand unified theory of gravity and the other forces, including quantum effects, which doesn't exist. It's like the holy grail of physics, you'd be the next Einstein if you figure it out.
It's not that farfetched, Nix is living proof that it's possible. Zig's perspective is just from the inside of your codebase.
I expect that advances in AI and robotics will make most human labor obsolete (economically unviable) in the next few decades. I expect widespread adoption of UBI as a consequence.

I have also considered the fact that most people just sort of "drift" if there isn't an external system forcing them to stay on track. I suspect we're going to see "fake jobs" subsidized by the system for the sake of maintaining widespread sanity.

Well fake jobs isn't quite the right name, rather they'd be real jobs but a portion of the UBI budget (or wherever it comes from) would be spent maintaining a human economy for the people (most people?) who apparently require such a system to stay sane. I say fake because they wouldn't be economically viable without the subsidy.
Compuserve Magazine - only 19 issues at https://archive.org/details/compuservemagazine Seems very low number - I thought it was published for much longer .....?
> users who want better GPU-bound performance and their games to not freeze and disconnect them when occluded have been forced to use X11/XWayland.

Can confirm. I often will leave na idle game or two running, but with Wayland most of these games wont run, will freeze, if I'm on a different virtual desktop. There's suggestions to shrink it to a really small window size & float it on every desktop, which is well, some kind of workaround.

There's lots of experimental protocols.out there. I'm not sure how notable or exceptional this act is.
Maybe I'm a prude, but this page made me consciously register how pervasive the suffix "porn" has become in decidedly non-pornographic contexts. "EarthPorn", "SpacePorn", etc. are understood to mean gratuitous imagery specifically intended to excite the viewer. (And I just checked: r/PornPorn exists but has been banned)
And the comparison with Tinder also carried the implication that the successful swiping had already taken place that there was human-to-human communication that was happening, but where one party decided to no longer engage.

There may be essentially no effort to say that you are no longer interested, but at the same time if you are no longer interested, who cares?
> This is actually a bad example because C style decls are provably, objectively, bad.

I found your comment extremely funny. You singled out the language which is not only one of the most popular languages ever designed but also the one whose syntax inspired or was straight out cloned by the bulk of the world's most popular programming languages.

Yes, the programming language defined in the 70s isn't perfect and has a couple of kinks that could be improved. As does every single programming language.

But when you see a curly-bracket language you see programming language designers yelling to the world that C got way more things right than any other language not derived from C, which is the exact opposite of your unbelievable claim.
Which of those is realistic though. They exist but you turn away customers with money who cannot pay.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639635
Costco (in Canada at least) doesn't work with Visa. It's cash, bank debit cards, or Mastercard. (No AmEx/Discover either.)

It can be done, at scale, but definitely a business risk.
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Where are the references?
> this essay looks at how AI and automation are flattening the Phillips curve

Sounds like a causal relationship between a very narrowly focused observation (more AI + robots) and a very general phenomenon (Phillips curve flattening). This is a futile hypothesis to begin with.

> There is an entire industry in trying to understand the changing curve, and I will just lay out the main arguments made.

And then you just go and dismiss them, without providing evidence, just to claim (not prove or support) that your own theory is a better explanation, i.e., AI and Robots are to blame.

> Why is bargaining power changing? In a word, automation.

Automation has existed for 100+ years. So you are actually providing evidence against your own argument here, because, as you noted, the graph did not flatten until, allegedly, 2009 -- and even then I'm with Terr. BTW, what significant event happened in 2009? If AI will revolutionize labor then that's only starting now (maybe as of 2022). And the robotics market has not had any significant break-through event either. It has grown very steadily, but so has, say, the number of smartphones.
> While the proponents of the “calories in / calories out” idea claim it's just thermodynamics

It obviously is.

> they use it as an argument to eat less.

You have evidence that _other_ things will also have an impact. Eating less does work regardless of your genetic makeup. There's decades of good evidence and plain observation that this is true.

> Mouse data show clear interventional evidence that you can change the metabolic rate to change weight outcomes.

I really wish people had a deeper understanding of how "mouse data" is actually generated. You don't find fat mice and put them on a diet as there is no study that can accommodate this. You make them fat intentionally and then you mess with them to measure outcomes.

> I don’t expect these trials to pass IRB review, so you must go forward and be n=1.

You might ask _why_ they wouldn't pass review first, and it's not because the IRB is interested in promulgating "bullshit."
Oh, Norm Hardy's wife.

Tymnet was interesting. It was a virtual circuit-switched system for keyboard terminals. There was a central control machine, and a bunch of dumb switching nodes. The central control machine (an SDS-945 originally) would set up a route and send out "route channel 24 to channel 57" commands to each node. The nodes just forwarded packets per the set route. If the control machine went down, all routes stayed working, but new ones could not be set up. There was a second control machine that could take over if needed.

Nodes had a queue for each virtual circuit, and flow control. It wasn't end to end raw packets. In the days of expensive long haul bandwidth, this was essential. Pure datagram networks only work because our long-haul connections today have huge bandwidth. Datagram networks can't really handle congestion in the middle of the network. Virtual circuit networks can. Which is why, in the early 1970s, it looked like virtual circuit networks were the future. Even the original ARPANET had node to node flow control.

The Tymnet "backbone" was originally only 2400 to 4800 baud, so they had major lag problems. To help with this, they used local echo when possible, so local typing didn't lag. You'd type in a line, and at the end of the line, the whole line went across the network. The connection could shift from local to remote echo seamlessly.

(Telnet, for the Internet, can do local echo, too, but Berkeley didn't put that in their BSD Telnet, so it fell out of use as network bandwidth increased. That worked in pre-BSD UNET, and echo would be local until you used some program, such as "vi", which enabled "raw mode".)

Here's a summary of the Tymnet technology.[1]

[1] http://cap-lore.com/Tymnet/TOCN.html
My 'favourite' nowadays is Tidal. Those botchers cannot make a stable playback experience, also the UI is full of user hostile elements, approaches, and malfunctions. If I was in the position of hiring, those coming from Tidal had no chance.
True, I'll update the website to reflect our updated pricing model
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It might honestly be easier and cheaper for those CI providers to just pay PyPI's bandwidth costs.
Quite interesting but it always makes me a bit suspicious when someone finds such a simple solution. If it's that easy wouldn't someone have realized already?
to put it another way at the quantum level you are not looking at protons, electrons, neutrons, etc... until you attempt to measure one....

Literally something is solid at our level due to how quantum objects behavior gets up to our macroscopic level.

Or if you want to go further down the rabbit hole....Eastern dualism only is useful at the quantum level....not my words....someone else's.....start with Tao of Physics...yes it is reachable to non math people.
Show HN: Chrome extension for instant MOT history lookup from images
I love browsing cars but got annoyed tabbing out a million times. So I made a chrome extension which lets you right click any image with a UK license plate and see the MOT history right there!

It's a small, niche project, but I thought HN might appreciate it. Tech for the sake of making everyday life for tradespeople a little bit less painful. I certainly loved implementing the idea :-)
...So being up-front with your pricing, even if that's a "our fees are negotiable but tend to be (flat rate or percentage) around the X range" is a "race to the bottom"?
I take it you've never read Mad magazine then?
Come on. When you combine Visa and MasterCard, you have clear oligopoly and near-monopoly. And the situation is terrible for businesses, who are getting ripped off on every credit-card transaction with ever-escalating and variable percentages. A lady running a small diving shop told me that Capital One is the worst, jacking them for 4.5% or so. They are now out of business. Some businesses' entire profit margin is being wiped out by monopolistic middlemen.

A business can't be cash-only and survive today; so no, cash is NOT an option.

As for your assertion of fraud-prevention as a benefit, it's a joke. Credit-card issuers have, for some reason, ENABLED fraud in the USA. First they dragged their asses on issuing chip-based credit cards for what, a decade or more after the rest of the world had adopted them. And now that we finally have them, what did the issuers do? Defeat their purpose by neglecting to implement PINs. WTF. "Chip & PIN" is standard operating procedure across the industrialized world except in the USA.

You could drastically curtail fraud overnight by simply implementing the PIN requirement. But we've gone the other way, with a lot of retailers giving up on ANY attempt at validation.

There must be some tax benefit of fraud for the card issuers. Or they're clinging to the extra profits out of fraudulent transactions that are perpetrated but not caught. Regardless, there's no excuse for abetting it, or tolerating this consumer- and business-harming oligopoly.
You are not technically wrong because a statement "there is a risk of leaking data" is not falsifiable. But your comment is performative cynicism to display your own high standards. For the very vast majority of people and companies, privacy standards-compliant services (like HIPAA-compliant) are private enough.
There are tons of cash-only businesses.
That doesn't in any way address the question the other commenter was asking?
Venmo gives you the option of direct deposit or using the network to instantaneously transfer the money for a fee. As for the merchant, unless they are getting their payment gateway directly from Visa they usually just deposit the money directly into their bank account.
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page if you're feeling adventurous.
Microsoft was condemned, but then the sentence wasn’t applied. Microsoft kept IE, and a few years later only got slapped by the EU commission.