skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it has nothing to do with location and everything to do with price. If large companies are allowed to flex their purchasing power then people go where the cheaper prices are.

But there are limits, people only drive so far. So once a big chain has driven everyone else out they can charge what they want or maximize profits by extracting value (see comment on Unsafeway).

Free market is good as long as monopolies can’t form. And unfortunately with local businesses that happens due to geographical constraints. We’ve seen it with groceries, next you’ll see it with plumbers (see all the massive PE roll ups going on now).

This was an eye opening article. I had no idea we already had a law on the books for this. It’s just…unenforced.
Nice approach!

I'm intrigued by the ability to start execution from a particular task.

One thing I like about LangGraph is the declarative state merging. In the MapReduce example, how do you guarantee that the collector.append() operation is thread-safe?
Yeah, the book is quite interesting especially in the context of advice you see online regarding learning about programming. It seems the simplest advice would be to just read the documentation then make things, when you struggle refer back to the documentation. Whereas most advice you read on social media is to pay for a course.

Throughout the book you keep hearing stories about how application and spacing are critical for reinforcing concepts.

I don't have it in front of me but I remember they presented one study that students who took a practice exam did better than those that just read the material and took the exam.

In the book they mention often that rereading material isn't useful or an effective way to learn.
You're likely too young to remember anything much before 2012. Honestly, this stuff has been around for 50 years. Go watch a video about Steve Jobs at NeXT from the 1980s.
For now veganism is outside the Overton window but this is changing, and it needs to, because it's actually much better & cheaper than ovo-lacto vegetarianism even via a "better" commercial farm - they still get rid of the newly born males, they usually get rid of the older "less productive" females, feeding animals is still an inefficient use of land & energy, and cows still generate methane..
Well, others have worked like that because they're Bostonian or a New Yorker, so I think it's just "driven".
Nearly 25 years ago, nested loops and fibs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010424150558/http://www.bagley...

https://web.archive.org/web/20010124092800/http://www.bagley...

It's been a long time since the benchmarks game showed pico-benchmarks

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
Pipelined DML: Memory-Efficient Processing of Million-Row Transactions
The article is missing on a couple points. The analysis assumes all Alice's light is emitted radially exactly outward from the center of the black hole. In reality, light is emitted in all directions, and anything emitted at even slightly different angles would get sucked into the black hole. But, Bob might still see it, because he can catch up with it. So when the article says Bob sees Alice cross the horizon when Bob crosses the horizon, it really means that Bob won't see any photons they emitted from inside the BH until Bob crosses into the BH. But similarly, one second prior Bob will be encountering photons Alice emitted roughly 0.99 seconds prior to crossing the horizon, and so on, because those are all getting redshifted too.

It's similar to if you and the car in front of you are accelerating at the same rate, they have a small head start, and they've got someone throwing fastballs at you at 100mph. When you get to the point where you are going 100mph relative to the ground, you'll hit the ball that was thrown from exactly that spot relative to the ground. So, sure, crossing the 100mph barrier implies something interesting mathematically, but it's not something that the observer would particularly notice. The math for GR isn't exactly the same (baseballs won't redshift), and in particular there isn't even a piece of dirt to compare the photon's motion to, as the horizon is just a mathematically-defined "place", but to a first-order approximation, it's the same thing going on with photons and spacetime distortion. It's a continuous function.

There's a bit more to it than can be explained in a comment, but the main thing to know is that (as far as we know) nothing special happens at the horizon if you're falling in.
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Galaxy Trucker takes this one step further. The first half of the narrative includes only partial explanations of most rules, with the missing details filled in later (still in narrative form), so you have to refer to two locations for any given rule. It makes for a decent tutorial, but it's a terrible reference.
As far as I'm concerned, 3 and 4 never happened. I'm still on the fence about Prometheus and Covenant.
> Eternity in heaven with a bunch of joyless saints and martyrs just sounds like an additional circle of hell.

I don't know if they're in heaven (i.e., are saints), but James Earl Jones, Chris Farley, Bob Newhart, Bing Crosby, Ricardo Montalbán, James Cagney, Gregory Peck, Alec Guinness, Andy Warhol, and Alfred Hitchcock were all Catholic, so there's some chance you could meet up with them.
Thank you for sharing your perspective—it’s an important one. Leadership isn’t for everyone, and that’s completely fine. Those driven to master technical skills should absolutely continue down that path—it leads to incredible innovation and contributions.

That said, I believe technical leadership works best when carried out by those with hands-on experience. This background fosters a deep understanding and empathy for engineers, making such leaders uniquely equipped to guide teams effectively.

For those interested in developing soft skills alongside their technical expertise, leadership offers a chance to scale their impact in new ways. By combining hard and soft skills, leaders can achieve non-linear scalability, influencing not just the work but the people and systems around them.

Ultimately, it’s about choice. Both paths—technical mastery and leadership—are valuable. The key is ensuring leadership is a deliberate pursuit, not just the default next step.
Belated, but especially when I see the group syntax, I wonder if this should be like a Markdoc extension or something?
probably not. please elaborate
Honestly fascinating.

Any first-hand experience?
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They could just stop selling it if it’s that bad :)
There was plenty of cynicism in tech back then too, plenty of posters who always complained about 'micro$oft'.

I think the anti-Microsoft sentiment (outside of some internet forums, and justified IE6 hate) had been dialled back by the early 2010s.

.NET was a thing, they were post-Gates, post-antitrust, making significant efforts at developer outreach. Windows 7 was a hit.

Despite working in the Microsoft ecosystem, I didn't feel trapped, and the walled garden was coming down, with awareness of non-Microsoft technologies being widespread.
The petroleum age would seem an even more encompassing description along the same theory.
That would only be a problem if Republicans had a legislative agenda. If all you want is to be able to break government, you need to be able to filibuster, not to be able to overcome one.
Eh, people back then were optimistic about tech AND had time to get into silly arguments about it on HN. So something's changed
As a manager I'm always trying to figure out if my direct reports are vice or virtue motivated. With vice being money and title. Virtue being what you get to work and with who. In this context I'd say Grifters & Grinders are vice motivated. Believers and Coasters are virtue motivated.
okay, but how can you be sure that what you believe to be random is not predictable by a sufficiently complex system?
CSF sampling is a routine investigation in most hospitals. We don't typically see bacteria in these samples, when we do, its in the form of bacterial meningitis, hence the skepticism.
I've only read All Systems Red but definitely referred to the murderbot as "she" when describing the book to others. I just asked my son (who has read the entire series) and he said that he always uses the pronoun "he" for the murderbot.
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You can read it online if you expand the article. MSN might be annoying but it has a use in removing paywalls.
But, the data brokerage economy was the only way such a thing could connect people from different economic backgrounds, etc.

Without that, to pay for social media, the options would have been paid apps, which would never have had the escape velocity to be what current social media is today
But except for the Arab Spring of 2011 none of these events had anything whatsoever to do with social media. It is just absurd to see Facebook try to associate themselves with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It reminds me of the 1990s ad campaign Apple used to have about "thinking different" featuring people like Einstein, Martin Luther King, and Gandhi, none of whom obviously used Apple's products.
Since this election has unfolded I've been thinking a lot about narratives and what they mean. Progress is largely based on narratives. They're the stories we tell ourselves to stay focused, motivated, and aligned. The narrative doesn't have to be true, it just needs to be a convincing story grounded in some reality (as it would seem). That got me thinking about the function of narratives versus truths, how they're related, and how they're distinct.

Products like this book are just an internal narrative. It doesn't discount other narratives, such as villain narratives, where FB could have the best or worst of intentions and the outcomes are what we know them to be today regardless.

Truth, on the other hand, is reserved for when the dust has settled, the facts are seldomly disputed, and are corroborated. Truth doesn't even need to be precise, it just needs to be accurate. Narratives are powerful in the moment and for momentum, truth is powerful across time. That said, even to truths there is a narrative.
So you don't see _everything_ that went in before you, mostly just the _last_ thing.
Do they have any male authors you describe that way?
It is certainly true as a rule of thumb, although there may be more going on locally that was previously thought
Yeah, this advice doesn't hold up--even the OP mentions learning the clarinet, which is a B-flat instrument. I also play the clarinet and developed the same ability to detect each note by its timbre. I also think there is a kinesthetic element to each note--the way the instrument vibrates, the back-pressure or resistance you feel while playing, that becomes associated with the timbre the longer you play.
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This comment is a bunch of contradictory hipster attitudes.
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i'm sure there's lots of tech optimists in absolute numbers, but my personal experience in the bay area has been that a vast majority of my friends in tech and tech adjacent have become highly pessimistic of the current tech landscape, AI, VR, etc.
The resources are 0.004% of the population of one wealthy country, who devoted themselves to shaping about 400 tons of stainless steel. Nothing constructive comes of starving a project that size, certainly not the global carbon sequestration I'd like to see.
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The parent commenter is right in their dismissal, IMO.

A computer finding a solution to cancer, maybe.

But solving climate change and world hunger? We already know how to do those, we just don't want to do it because all first world countries are capitalist and solving those problems isn't profitable. At least, not profitable in the short term.
This release brought to you from Las Vegas airport, where I was waiting for my suitcase to arrive.

If anyone wants to talk about FreeBSD, I'll be at AWS re:Invent for the next couple days.
Disagree. If most people lived in dense mixed-use neighborhoods where they could walk from home to 90% of the destinations they needed (work, school, groceries, restaurants, entertainment, dentist, etc) they wouldn't need to own a car, and the nominal difference in price between a small corner grocery and a distant chain mega-chain store wouldn't be enough to compel they to buy, park, fuel and maintain one.

Restrictive single-use zoning makes this type of community effectively illegal, despite it being a big consumer choice winner in places where it is allowed.

Perhaps instead of a coercive fix for a problem caused by a coercive fix, we should strike at the root and allow people to buy what they want in the first place?
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This will be the end of incorporating in Delaware if this ruling is allowed to stand.
She's posted that the sequel is in the works, called Queen Demon
If not a pure wolf then quite possibly a hybrid.dd
> Most of the talent I know is either at Apple or Facebook/Google

That's a damn shame. Big tech monopolies are screwing up the talent market. Nobody can match their comp and it's bullshit
A surprising number of people are optimistic and hopeful about technology while not experiencing an existential crisis about it.

FWIW I’ve noticed with some confusion that over the past years HN has become more cynical and pessimistic towards tech.
That books looks very cheesy.

Seeing them claiming they had their focus on privacy is especially hilarious.

Thanks for sharing it, but I'll delete it right away.
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This will be the end of incorporating in Delaware if this ruling is allowed to stand

Judges should not be invalidating the desires of shareholders as long as they are legal
And everyone will be building these. China will open source dozens of them.
I was running with the assumption that we already bought the game and are going to play it.
> In reality, the inefficiencies matter a lot.

Which is how big stores attract customers with lower prices, provided they already have cars to get to them.
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This was expected actually.

Everybody knows Tesla's board is absolutely not independent, and Tesla literally buying ads trying to convince shareholders to vote yes, should have erase any remaining doubts about it.

I think it also highlight quite well the issue with public companies and passive funds. If Tesla was a private company, or a small public company, then I would very much like them to do whatever they want.

But it's not that - it's a big public company, turned meme stock and 100% treated as a private company by Musk. It's sufficiently big though that was included into several indexes, and thus tens of billions of $ of passive investment flows poured into it. That's why we have rather strict rules about what can and cannot be done as a public company, and especially one being part of major indexes. Of course Musk don't think the rules apply to him.
Tech Crunch should do some fact checking...

1. When this did occur in ChatGPT, you could just ask the API version of the same model and it will tell you without erroring out.

2. There is a notable enough David Mayer and you can see that by Wikipedia that isn't named in the article. However, since the API version of ChatGPT works to answer who is this person, it probably was a moderation issue with the general public versions instead of a conspiracy.

3. OpenAI fixed this, and ChatGPT no longer exhibits this behavior.
My comment is not whether the article's claim re this particular market inefficiency is empirically correct, only that it doesn't logically simplify to "if larger stores couldn't get preferential deals, prices for consumers would be significantly higher." That depends on a lot of things.

Grocery suppliers are, eg, agricultural producers who need to offload whole crops of perishable goods. The industry is full of well known market failures, examples of monopsony buying power, etc, so an argument from an idealized market I don't find very persuasive.
Unfortunately many people claim an absence of evidence _without_a_thorough_search_ is evidence of absence. As in "I have haven't seen it so it must not exist". Many people who are experts do this. There needs to be some new terminology here, just saying "there is no evidence" is meaningless, people need to start saying "there is no evidence after <these> kinds of searches" to qualify their statements. Like "I haven't seen any evidence, but I haven't really looked", or "I asked some of my collegues and none had seen any relevant papers", or "I did a PubMed search and found no papers on that topic", or "I did a PubMed search and found 10 low quality studies that showed no evidence of that". Otherwise it is completely reasonable to interpret "there is no evidence" as "I don't know".
I guess this presupposes that people’s appetite for sharing data is unlimited, they just need the tools?