skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting to see a Blue Angels practice for free is just the cherry on top.
People be like, "please provide me with a full stack web app" and then think its bad when it doesnt.
I bought the book and went through it during a post-op convalescence. Good stuff.
go read the privacy policy and my thought is that your data is worth a lot to deepseek so they can charge less. They even track your keystroke rhythm.
"But the US has consistently been far too passive and accepts greedy companies far too readily."

All companies are greedy. That's the reason for existence. Your point that monopolies and oligopolies need to be crushed is very valid though. I wish more mergers were rejected in the first place.

Regulating prices is a recipe for disaster though.
The politicians didn't build this. The cartel owners did, so they are absolutely blame worthy. But politicians sit back and do nothing about it, due to regulatory capture.
No - that’s true if you are trying to determine if you can write it off, but if you actually sell it back for $1, you can take the loss.
I think we should not underestimate one aspect: at the moment, a lot of hype is artificial (and despicable if you ask me). Anthropic says AI can double human lifespan in 10 years time; openAI says they have AGI behind the corner; META keeps insisting on their model being open source when they in fact only release the weights. They think - maybe they are right - that they would not be able to get these massive investments without hyping things a bit but deepseek's performance should call for things to be reviewed.
It seems a strong base model is what enabled this. The models needs to be smart enough to get it right at least some times.
AI slop is not a neologism, slop means low quality content, and it's often used when talking about drama youtuber or brainrot content, "AI slop" is just low quality AI content, not a new word. I say this because some people seem to be unfamiliar with internet slang.
was the taliban going to follow into all of the EU countries in between Iran and Sweden?
Yes, limiting the liability of criminals from prosecution is the design. That's what's wrong with it, and why we must stop it.
> Out of 65 stations in the state, only 33 currently have fuel and are known "online"

Hydrogen cars are the worst of all worlds. You still have to overhaul your production and distribution infrastructure. But you keep the complicated power train and time suck of tank-filling from ICE vehicles.
I'd say like you bribe a robot, by bribing/threatening the people who make it. Killer robots, killer lawmakers, killer judges?
It provides insight to the most powerful unelected man in the world
> it is not possible in theory to replace all traditional cars with electric cars with the current battery technology. There isn't enough materials on the planet

This is not true [1]. And that estimate assumes battery chemistries don't change (or vary), which is also obviously nonsense.

[1] https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/lithium-electric-v...
That's called "barrier to entry" to a market (or "un-leveling the field of play"). Actually, that's what any significant corp use first to forbid any new competitor to compete (and that's the reason of the need of "disruption", meaning changing the field of play instead of trying to level it for all players).

Examples:

- laws and regulations provide great barrier for newcomers

- brand recognition (would you better by a know cigarette brand or unknown cheapest one?)

- technical and/or financial and/or IP investment, either because the INDUSTRIAL process need costly tools (so you need to be big from the start) or because you need some really specific know-how

- ...
>1. Stone racists who hate immigrants, especially brown ones.

This is one of the biggest, most common mistakes a lot of well-meaning people make regarding their mental model of their society. Not that this group isn't significant, but that the author doesn't go on to identify the milder version of that group, which may be large.

It's so easy and obvious as a regular idealistic person, who values justice and advanced society, to look at the entire group of people who, e.g., have bitter opinions on immigration, and under-categorize them into one big group of "these are the people who just plain hate other races". Yeah, there are a shocking number of those people, but I think we may be surprised by how many other people in that group we're making have some amount of reasonableness or understandability in their opinions. In the end, the source of all opinion and action is the human experience, and a lot of humans are having objectively negative experiences with immigration that have nothing to do with their own morality.

This applies to pretty much every negative opinion we all have of one another, but this is a salient one.
What a terrible article. The title and the first paragraph talk about how new business models are circumventing existing laws, which seems fair enough and actually quite an interesting subject.

Then, there is a switch to the most traditional of businesses with the most traditional business models. Who, the author argues, are engaging in price gauging. In the second paragraph he claims that apps cause this inflation ("so much of inflation can be attributed to a crime, done with an app"), then goes on to list a couple of traditional companies who are, he argues rising prices above inflation. And who he partially blames for inflation.

None of the examples he gives support the case he is trying to make in his title. Apparently being an "App" has absolutely zero to do with getting away with financial misdeeds.

None of the questions raised by the title are even investigated. And the core argument, that traditional companies are causing inflation, is never argued for. The last paragraph portraits a stunning lack of economic knowledge, as companies raising prices in line with inflation obviously would not lower prices after the source of the inflation is gone. The source of the inflation being gone does not cause inflation to reverse. And so the fair market price would not get lower, getting something so basic wrong seems ridiculous for someone leveling serious accusations at companies.
It's not like there's an open market you can actually just sell your frozen potato product on. The supply chain between producers and consumers is a web of vertical integration and deals between large oligopolistic companies.

If you can finangle a wedge of the market, they can just buy you, or apply local pricing pressure in lock-step based on their data broker recommendations.
Only 821?
This is a book mostly about writing a more modern Monte Carlo global illumination path tracing style of renderer, rather than, say, a rasterizer. This is why ‘antialiasing’ is replaced with ‘sampling’ and ‘integration’. When you start with Monte-Carlo and the assumption that you’re multi-sampling, aliasing and filtering are generally small problems, not big ones. The code provided does loop over pixels. You’re right that the book doesn’t contain a chapter on signal processing, but graphics is now far too big a topic to be covered in one book, and it’s certainly questionable whether one needs to rabbit-hole on filtering in a college intro course; Monte-Carlo integration of multiple rays over a pixel is okayish at antialiasing & filtering, and pretty good for a first renderer. Antialiasing and filtering aren’t solved problems anyway, especially for HDR, so it makes sense to leave that topic for advanced courses.
Indeed. Not using CUDA but Quantum Prolog has parallel maplist and co [1], and the article also contains a short overview and brief comparison with other approaches, including a short discussion of imperative implementations like SWI's (historic?) threading package. Discussion is necessarily limited to that particular workload since parallel Prolog has a long history dating back to the 1990s (the book "Past, Present, Parallel" was an early survey at the time and already contains tens of approaches/academic implementations).

[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/bioinformatics-demo/part2.htm...
> [...], so the number of likes is meaningless.

uh...

I'm not sure you and I use the same definition for meaningful.
There was a peer-reviewed paper about energy efficiency of programming languages some years ago (see https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pap...). A JIT seem to have little influence on energy efficiency; there are even big differences between jitted languages; but Python is on the second last place. I have no numbers on what percentage Python itself contributes to the deep learning number crunching; but according to the paper, the overall use of JS could be twenty times higher than that of Python to cause the same energy consumption. Maybe someone has the numbers.
>The core argument is tech empowers oligopolies which in turn drives inflation.

No it isn't. How is potato farming "tech"?
Limited liability means the shareholders are shielded. It’s not supposed to mean the company itself is shielded.
They emit water vapor, not liquid water. Gasoline-fueled cars emit roughly the same amount of water as a hydrogen-powered vehicle, so we already know this isn't an issue.
> We already have a gas network for methane, it wouldn't be hard to mix in 20% hydrogen and then filter it back out at the other end (there's an energy cost, but it's not huge, and in any case most existing uses would not have a problem with 20% hydrogen).

Even ignoring the dangers of embrittlement of metal pipes that carry the hydrogen enriched gas, what is the cost of this methane/hydrogen filter, and what is it's safety for home use given that it's dealing with 2 highly flammable gases mixed together. I can't find anything online about household methane/hydrogen separators.

Whereas an EVSE is basically just a big electrical switch.
Most profits are distributed by capital (like share price) increases rather than dividends.
Funny, when reading this sentence, it felt like an LLM that was hallucinating and apologizes when told.
> since it's often not apparent what the next step should be

Backtracking assumes depth-first search, which isn't strictly needed as you could explore all possible options in parallel in a breadth-first manner, but incrementally until one branch returns a satisfactory answer.

> This proves that, at least to some degree, the reason non-reasoning models couldn't reason is just because they had not been trained on sufficient self-correcting reasoning examples.

For sure this is a big reason, and probably also part of the reason they hallucinate rather than say they don't know or aren't sure.
Well, you touch on a pattern: costal cities are named by European explorers on ships. Wikipedia states that the first use of "Chicago" was by the explorer La Salle, who was on foot. Explorers on foot are much more likely to use names derived from local language, Canada/Kanata being probably the most famous example. But areas mapped and explored by explorers on ships (ports/mountains and such) are generally given European names.
With all your experience and opinions, you seem like the best guy for the job!

Congrats, from now on you're in charge of and responsible for making a non-android open-source phone (plus eco-system!) that's actually usable.
I hadn’t seen this one. Fascinating. Thank you!
Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability
https://archive.is/wip/XY0Ns
Have you ever looked at tail pipe of car in freezing weather? Most of that is water vapor. Some fraction is particulate emissions, but most of it is vapor. Mostly don't see this in summer. But cars have been for century produced water as exhaust with no issues. Water from hydrogen is really not that different.
If you can’t be intellectually curious why even be on HN?

Strawmanning like this may make you think you’re clever but it signals to the “average person” that your mind is made up.

I don’t read articles here because my mind is made up but because I like considering different points of view and data. Maybe start with that spirit next time?
Well I would argue political donations that politicians gladly accept leads to them sitting back and doing nothing.
I doubt there are any regulatory or legal restrictions that prevent newcomers from selling frozen potatoes.
There are animal markets all over China. This isn’t just any market. It’s a market that happens to be near a virology lab that studies bat coronaviruses, which had been investigated for questionable safety practices by u.s. inspectors.
BOA charges fees for checking. But it is easy to avoid just by having a direct deposit of at least $250 a month.
I’m not sure you understand so I’ll go slow. If one US company owns all of one thing it’s bad. Mmmkay?
I think misused is connotation you really want. unintentional irreverence versus unintentional maliciousness
While I’m sympathetic to the sentiment, I don’t see how “sending shareholders to jail” could possibly work, given how many people own shares. It’s like your dog would be collectively owned by a million people. Maybe you mean the board?
Hollywood Career: How to Tell When the End Is Nigh
> their alleged enemies for

The word "alleged" caught my eye. Alleged in that they're not enemies
but competitors for power over Western citizens who have the advantage
of not requiring democratic assent? Is that what you mean?
"Elon Musk admits cheating in video game where he claimed world-class skills" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817995
This is the answer. On paper, we have laws preventing monopolists from abusing their power. In reality, it's easy to disguise any predatory pricing or "special offers," running at or near a loss in your upstart competitor's market until they go out of business.

The only way you win is either major disruption (which is usually not possible), or having a bankroll comparable in size to the incumbent. But anyone with enough cash to enter the market is doing so for a return-on-investment, with just as much profit motive as the existing players.
What was the plan for fixing taxi service?
Chatgpt does this as well, it just doesn't display it in the UI. You can click on the "thinking" to expand and read the tomhought process.
Java Spring Boot Microservices with Vertical Slice and Event-Driven Architecture
A very good question!

I'd add though that companies don't have to be "ethical and slightly less greedy" to compete on price. Competing on price is a natural way to gain market share. Nobody would say that Bezo expressed ethics and less greed when he said "Your margin is my opportunity"

Companies should charge the real equilibrium price of a product. It's an important signal to lower or increase supply. However, they should not create a coordinated scarcity or otherwise artificially force a higher price than the equilibrium price. This can only happen through (illegal!) cartels or too much market power (which the government is supposed to prevent).

As usual ee cannot ask for better people but need a system that makes the wrong people do the right thing.
News flash: either the head of Potato Cartel inc was tapped to run the US Potato Thief Catching Commission, or the head of the US Potato Thief Catching Commission retired from public life and took a position as head of Potato Cartel inc
I agree, and it's sad that, despite all those pitfalls, some companies and CEOs will keep pushing the idea that human programmers can be replaced by AI.

But well I guess there's a bright side to see here: those LLMs applied to software development might become the new Genexus and there are gonna be plenty of open positions for humans to rewrite entire systems in a not so far future.
> not safe if you suffer from range anxiety

I'm increasingly convinced this is a generational thing. I typically run my car until close to empty unless I'm planning on leaving town. I've had houseguests, on the other hand, who start literally flipping out if the tank goes below a quarter full. (There is no practically conceivable case where running out of gas in town would constitute an emergency.)
At sea level. Put the machine in a vacuum chamber, or atop a big mountain, and we will boil the Ai kettles at less than 100c.
The previous administration didn’t do anything either. They, oh oops, studied for 3.5 years, and launched processes in the last 4 months of the 4 years. Oh my, I need to reelect them to see it happen!
No one knows the real number.
I am assuming it is a close relative to Norvigs solver https://norvig.com/sudoku.html
Yes you can write a very fast SIMD loop over densely packed data. But if that data is mutable and you need to acquire a lock before you work with it, it's very easy to lose all the performance you gained. Immutability can reduce coordination costs and improve effective parallelism.

For a similar reason immutability also helps you write code with fewer data races.
While you're not wrong, the evidence you laid out proves that such an endeavor is not so simple or easy.
the US literally industrialized the process of burning alive people in vietnam who didn’t support the colonial government. would love a source on the mayor claim
Styled Components is too low-level (let’s name every div!!!) and comes with a substantial performance cost. Tailwind is a much better option.
A lot of modern websites even add an intentional delay for buttons to respond or even load because it "looks nice."
The title should be about monopolies, because while I was curious to read arguments on why Uber and Airbnb should be illegal, instead I got an article about cartels in some of the most traditional industries.

Feeling disappointed.
> This is a weird and emotionally loaded statement. Properly stated, the top four frozen potato producers have 97% of the market share.

Properly stated they colluded to fix prices. This is the definition of a cartel.
The man utterly lacks empathy:

> I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
They want high tier customers and they don’t profit on low tier customers? Your bank can sell a lot of services to someone who has money to spare.
Meaning no offense, it is quite naive to assume that the level of discussion about very controversial political topics on here will be any better than, say, on a random subreddit.

Sure, memes and one liners do not do well on Hacker News, but on the other hand, most "hackers" believe they are smarter and with better opinions than anybody else, which is often just a severe case of Dunning-Kruger. And the population of this site post Reddit fiasco is no different than Reddit anyway; how many Eternal Septembers have we gone through?

Your account has been created pre-COVID, so you must have witnessed that some topics should just be avoided for the sake of anybody's sanity, whether it's on HN or not.

In general, up/down vote systems just create echo chambers, not interesting and nuanced discussions.

I might be the stereotypical old man yelling at clouds, but I miss when this place was about startups, programming and Wozniak-tier hackers, not an Ars Technica with a Bay Area accent that attracts anybody calling themselves a "techie" to discuss the daily news.
>while a lengthy civil procedure eventually may ask you to give 1 or 2% of what you stole back in fines.

Examples? Usually when this argument is trotted out, there's two factors not mentioned: the amount "stolen" is the amount transacted (ie. total potato sold, rather than the additional profit made), or that the government's case is shaky and the settlement reflected that.
But why? What is there to be gained in all of this work around the inherent limitations of this technology?
> It means purposely engineering pandemic-caliber viruses

This is not true.

GoF includes any research that amplifies specific characteristics. Transmissibility or severity of infection are just two of those possible dimensions.

For example, the research that enables us to produce insulin (and tons of other biologic medicines) with E. coli is GoF.

I lean on the side of banning GoF that's designed to increase transmissibility of a contagion, but that is indeed just a subset of GoF generally.
We only get to complain about these things because ride service is ubiquitous and easy now. With taxis, it wasn't.
there are some exceptions, when US jails EU CEO https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/6/16743308/volkswagen-olive...
Redbaiting is SO 1950s
What happened to BoingBoing - I was surprised when I read the author was Cory Doctorow.
And for a similar idea in Python see https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/
In fact, it is a mix of theoretically consistent and unrelated images, but the consistent ones are meaningful.
It’s mit licensed, go run it on your own hardware if you are worried about data leaks etc.

That’s what breaks open ai, anthropic’s business models. Anyone can offer services using these models - hence they are commodities.
it does sound like they were legitimately afraid he would crash the plane into the ship otherwise
> Inflation is one of the most politically salient factors of this decade

> Inflation has lots of causes, it's true.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Algorithmic price fixing is certainly a not-insignificant part of the issue. But it's strange to see zero acknowledgement of the massive increase in money supply over the same time period. When doing causal analysis, we need to examine both the private sector and our government.

When you use M2 as denominator for egg prices, we're at the same place we were in early 2016: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1DcVw
All of the FDA and USDA regulations and inspections.
For me, space+f is a "fuzzy search", a filter to find by filename. You can omit some characters, e.g. `pack/back/conf` would show `packages/backend/config.z`.

I have muscle memory now, so I'd have to open the editor to confirm it. There is also another mode, that works a bit like grep I think? I haven't used it but seems that you can look for matches in file content.
> I don't think it'll be too long before we'll have "arrest-a-thief" as-a-service.

I believe that's called '911'...
The books is more academic and solid than this interview
All sorts of medicines are manufactured using GoF'd E. coli. We need a tighter definition of "bad" GoF.