skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment reminded me of an account I saw in a niche Reddit sub for an e-reader brand that posted gigantic 8 paragraph "reviews" or "feedback for the manufacturer" with bullet points and a summary paragraph of all the previous feedback at the end.

They always had a few useful observations but it required wading through an entire monitor's worth of filler garbage that completely devalued the time/benefit of reading through something with that low of information density.

It was sad because they clearly were very knowledgeable but their insight was ruined by prompting ChatGPT with something like "Write a detailed, well formatted formal letter addressed to Manufacturer X" that was completely unnecessary in a public forum.
The fact that there are other ways to work around previous limitations to accomplish something doesn't render the use-case invalid. The GP was asking for a usecase outside of currency and one was provided. If a valid use-case for electricity was asked, and someone described a lightbulb, you could just as well say "...or, you could just use an oil lamp"
On an iPhone, you can click the power button 5 times to disable Face ID until the next time you enter your PIN.

Depending on your settings, this may also call 911 automatically, but that can be canceled.
requires obscene amount of memory for context.
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Further, from a markets point of view, by managing their market with micro-lockouts of drivers out during projected quiet periods, they are essentially setting a price floor such that riders are paying more than they otherwise might have.

Stock markets for example generally have circuit breakers and limit up/down rules that will put in pauses for a stock if there is too much volatility. However they do not institute asymmetric throttling by say restricting half of sellers from selling but allowing buyers orders through.
Costco food court to switch back to Coca-Cola
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Good writing is hard, but it's also very easy to just regurgitate patterns of nonsense buzzwords you see everywhere else. I've seen many people hear that and just nod their head. Sadly it convinces some.
Yes to electric cars and grid scale storage. To the Hyperloop, there is a case to be made that he mostly promoted that to kill public transportation projects, which he tends to oppose. https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-sca...
Paper bills, or “fiat” money, also have no intrinsic value.

Using paper money has already defined you as a participant in accepting the societal construct of money.

As such, Bitcoin having no intrinsic is not novel or consequential and has no bearing on its utility.
> arent competing in the same market

It's the same market, because those investors are already there whether or not new luxury housing is built. The people buying the ultra-high-end stuff will, if it's not available, buy slightly lower high-end stuff, and so on down the chain ad infinitum, resulting in higher prices for those low-end two-bedrooms. Conversely, the very-high-end stuff being built then frees up some fraction of housing capacity all the way down the chain, lowering prices. https://www.nmhc.org/research-insight/research-notes/2024/wh...

> inner city land is scarce

Inner city land here in Portland has plenty of surface parking lots, one- and two-family homes, and old buildings that have gone unused, sometimes for literally years†.

† This part also gets into the bizarre rules around commercial building valuations and mortgages, which can make it a better choice for the building owner (at the expense of the city) to leave a building vacant indefinitely and eat the commercial mortgage payments than to rent it out cheap and have the mortgage provider suddenly call in the entire loan because the building valuation went down.
> That's variable based upon time of day, not completely variable.

It's completely variable. If there is a major sporting event in your city, the demand is going to be much different than it is at the same time of day when there isn't a major sporting event. Demand is affected by weather, public transit disruptions, current events etc. It's not just time of day.

> Take public transit: drivers may hate split shifts, yet they are given well defined shifts that they are paid for.

Public transit has internal buffers that absorb demand. You have a bus which seats 40 but typically has 7 passengers. If there is a demand spike, this time you have 35 passengers, but this is still less than 40 so you don't need any more drivers. If that happens with Uber, they suddenly need five times as many drivers.

> On top of that, a company that operates through an app ought to have the ability to develop software to relatively reliably predict demand.

They could certainly predict part of the demand, but then what? You don't know ahead of time what time of day it's going to rain and cause a ton of people who usually ride a bike to want a ride. There is still a high amount of unpredictable variability in the demand.

> Willing, or desperate? For example: relatively few people want to be on-call replacement workers. They either do it because they need the money or they do it because they are hoping to get their foot in the door.

Let's consider these people then. Their options are to have no job and likely run into serious financial difficulties, take the on-call job to cover some bills while they look for a better job, or take some even worse job than the on-call job, but that might not be worse in a way that has been legislated against, e.g. because it's two hours away and there is no law against having a four hour round trip commute.

The only reason they'd take the on-call job is if their other options are worse. But if their other options are worse then taking away the on-call job option isn't helping them. To actually help them you need to give them some options that are better, in which case you still don't have to prohibit the on-call job because then they'd just choose the better alternative once it's available.

> Those who do it willingly are typically doing so for extra cash and because they don't have any other obligations (e.g. retirees in some fields).

Then why shouldn't those people be able to do it, and get the extra cash?

> Now imagine that an entire company is based upon the concept of replacement workers.

Suppose Uber was part of Costco but otherwise operated in an identical way. Is that supposed to make any difference?
Nobody said every shareholder would go to jail, just that it should be more common that some of them do.

But supposing that you did propagate it to every shareholder... I think that creating an incentive to divest in companies that are likely to commit crimes, and to avoid financial instruments where you can't be sure just what it is your money is up to, would create a much healthier investment environment. There would be more homework done before deciding which companies ought to get the boost. As it is, there are no market forces working to prevent cases where investors are enabling activity that are harmful to the rest of us.

Those mutual and index funds where the investor is disconnected from whatever harms their money is doing are a hazard to us all. Investing should mean understanding what you're investing in. The whole system needs more types of risk, it's currently like a car with no steering wheel.
The difference is that Bitcoin only has resale value.

The other examples you mentioned generally have some significant additionally value beyond just resale value -- e.g. stocks pay dividends or are expected to at some point, a house is something you can live in or get an income from by renting it out, and so on.
For those trying to work out an alternative, I've found OnlyOffice desktop to be pretty good – it's quite similar to the Microsoft products, and fully compatible, but free.
nothing that you can't do in AWS but generally Render tries to do things in less clicks and have less advanced clicks for you to accidentally press. Thats pretty much it nothing fancy.
Right. And few people involved in real estate have any interest in lowering housing prices. Not builders. Not agents. Not the government. Not your neighbor. Etc.
I built a chrome extension to watch Netflix in a group, other streaming platforms would be supported soon. It include features like polls, scheduling, video/audio calls, emoji/emote and multi language.is this something you find useful, I would appreciate your feedback if anyone is kind to provide one.
(Super fascinating read. I'm glad to have come across it.)

> Getting paid for sex places women into a traditionally masculine role - they become the pursuer, trying to extract something they want from the opposite gender, competing amongst themselves to be the most attractive to otherwise uninterested targets. In a sense, this forced masculine areas of the internet into adopting defensive feminine norms, as they banned any ‘predatory’ behavior and started socially deriding any sellers as being gross or embarrassing.

The gender assignment makes me scratch my head, though probably in the same manner that people do the same in "normal" discussions where the "gender roles" aren't "reversed". But, I'd easily characterize it as unwelcomingly aggressive sales and marketing.

Earlier in the article:

> Sexy subreddits I used to post nudes in with no issues suddenly started instituted rules against me and every other girl who had a link to her OF in her bio. [..] banning accounts that linked to OF, and then sometimes even accounts that linked to any other website which then led to an OF.

These sound like more like communities trying to cope with the aggressive tactics that saturate the forums when a user is just trying to browse content without the bombardment of creators' self-marketing eclipsing the material they are trying to find.

To be fair, I'd feel a lot less aggro when the creator is submitting content accurately in line with the topic or /r/ and without spamming the forum, and some do play nicely in this manner; many people/agents do not.

And sure, in turn, I could get on board with the /r/ moderating their community and not resorting to a blanket ban policy simply for a link to an OF or extra-hop funnel in their profile.
I have run Wayland since it was available for testing on Fedora Workstation and I have had zero problems inputting Japanese and Chinese.

With regards to accessibility, what problems have you had exactly?
Imo the most "unhinged" cpus for AVX-512 are early batches of Alder Lakes which is the only cpu family that has nearly full coverage of all existing avx-512 subsets.
Unlike pesos, or dollars, Bitcoins can't be printed for free.
Has anyone run this test on Ghostty?
> between you and some user across the world? Yes, crypto solves it

Crypto solves a problem that less than 0.1% of the world have. It's not very useful. Local laws and regulations are way more effective for me.
IMO this is structurally a part of capitalism. Capitalism provides limited avenues for cooperation. If your problem doesn't meet those limits, capitalism can't solve it. This seems to arises because capitalism seeks to maximize a personal reward function, rather than a societal one.

A good example is car-dependency. Designing land use around car-dependency has a lot of rather painful externalities. Capitalism doesn't account for those externalities, and so decisions are made that are a net-negative (suburban sprawl, urban freeways, etc). These degrade everyone's quality of life & degrade the environment, but are optimal from a capitalist perspective (they enrich the individual decision maker).
We'll absolutely document a theft of a sack of potatoes if we notice it, because it's never just the sack of potatoes. The vast majority of thieves get emboldened and either up their thefts, or continue to repeat offend at a low level.

The one sack of potatoes is likely actually a sack of potatoes every week, and it doesn't really take long to rack up a dollar amount worth prosecuting over. I can get my local detectives hungry to file a warrant at the $100 mark.

Shoplifting is a bad game where the store has every edge, and only has to win once. The shoplifter has to win every time. If they don't, they usually find the line between getting away with it and jailtime is much thinner than they thought.
We currently use Render, Wasabi, and BunnyCDN. It’s a great combo. If you offered a low-price object store with a CDN layer, that would be swank.
I just tried to create a new account and it worked just fine.
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> How many shares of SPY does a car cost? Before you answer that, you cannot convert any value of this into currency first. I certainly can't answer it!

How many wons does a car cost? Why would I know it? You seem to keep missing the point that the unit of payment doesn’t need to be inflationary. And that there is no magical requirement for it to be a temporary store of labor value.

> Rich people are paid in cash.

You confuse a store of value with a unit of account.

> If I get a $500 bonus from work and immediately buy a few shares of AAPL, there's no fundamental difference between that and me getting a $500 stock grant of AAPL.

Ok? If there is no fundamental difference then how is swapping one for another supposed to bring an economy to a halt?
The wait time for medical procedures is extremely long in places with price caps.

It does not work “extremely well” at all, it results in shortages and wait times exactly as you would expect from economics 101. I’m speaking from personal experience having been through it myself but feel free to look up how many Canadians go to the US every year and pay out of pocket for more evidence.
Lately I have been trying to propagate type ideas:

(1) corporations are not people. They are groups of people acting in concert under the direction of a small number of, or even one, person. They get legal immunities that individuals and unincorporated companies don’t. It is bat shit crazy to legally treat them as people for the purpose of “rights”. They don’t have morals (literally corporations are amoral entities). They concentrate power. We should be limiting them; not doling out rights to them.

(2) the best way to limit corporate power is to make it undesirable to centralize too much corporate power. I think that corporations should have a tax rate base on power - eg increasing based on revenue and number of employees and market share. The rates should increase with increases in any of these numbers. If done correctly, it would eliminate the need for antitrust and much oversight as it naturally deters centralization. Lots of details like shell corporations controlling other corporations, etc, but do-able.
Both about as useful.
Came here to say the same.

Had they been scamming small investors, even for the same total dollar value, they might have actually gotten way with it.

Not only did they lose other rich peoples money, they lost money for people that were richer than them. Important distinction ..
The Chinese interests behind Trump's Panama Canal bluster
> they don't read or understand the smart contracts they're using

I'll tell my parents to learn JavaScript or Rust to make sure that there is no bug in the smart contracts they are signing.
It's not a "breaking point", it's the market rate. There's no landlord cartel; anyone can easily defect and lower their own prices.

The entire food production and provision supply chain has razor-thin margins. If you're hyperfocusing on that industry, it's a sign that your heuristics are pointing you at the wrong things.
My understanding is that buildings that are built to rent out are of higher technical quality than comparable owned apartments, since the owner's plan isn't to take the money and run but is on the hook for upkeep. And thus more expensive to build.
Exactly my thought, having visited the museum in San Diego
I think it's hard to get all the data captured in a broad economy as you state. So I simply go by what people are saying vs. what they are doing. Revealed preference, if may be slightly misusing the term.

The 2008 crash? Absolutely was a horrible local economy where I lived. Shops closed up left and right due to lack of customers, restaurants were basically empty, crazy deals to be had on tools on craigslist, people moving in with family, etc. The actions of the people absolutely matched the broader economic readings and it was trivial to see simply driving around for a day in the commercial/retail areas of town.

Now? I hear more complaints than I did in 2008 at the local bar, but it's jam packed and you are lucky to get a table on a Tuesday night at a mediocre middle class restaurant. Everyone seems to be talking about how expensive new(ish) cars are and how high inflation is over their $8 beer and $20 appetizers.

I understand my local perception is not 100% accurate, but it's really hard to square the "local chatter" with "local actions" at the moment. If you didn't talk to folks and only looked around at economic activity you'd think things were going pretty okay, if not great. But then you talk to folks and you get an entirely different story.

I think we're seeing a bifurcation of society, but not just at the "top 1%" like it was before. The top 20-30% seem to be doing just fine, but complaining on behalf of the bottom 50%. Everyone "feels" like they are doing poorly while engaging in economic activity I could only dream of growing up. It's really jarring to me, and I'm still trying to fully understand it. There is also the increasing asset prices (housing the primary but not only example) that may be hitting tipping point levels for people to finally notice.

Edit:
A good one to talk to someone about is grocery prices. They will swear they are paying double or more than they were pre-pandemic. Absolute belief in this to the point of actively angering someone if you challenge them on it.

Then I check my actual history from those days and now? I see them more or less match the official USDA statistics of about 25%. Mine are actually around 18%. I can't square this either. It's like folks want to have inflation be far more exaggerated than it really is, and they truly believe this - regardless of political party in my case.
There's some anecdotal accounts that, through the mismanagement of its acquirer, Heroku is slowly dying after the acquisition. If Render so much as provides the Heroku experience at its peak, that would already be valuable, and many of us would already be happy.

Of course, if Render directly says, "We're going to be like Heroku before it went off the rails," that's not compelling to media or investors. So, instead, they've got to fluff it up a bit with marketing buzz. Throwing in some AI won't hurt, either.
It’s probably low margin but it’d be nice to see object storage. We host almost everything on render, and use digital ocean for storing assets. It leaves a ton to be desired - I wish it had simple object versioning, backups, even a nicer search tool would be awesome.
Alcohol may help you fall asleep faster, but leads to a worse night's rest
I am quite sure I do not « think » by generating a wall of text word by word, thankyouverymuch.
I have observed the reverse - lobbying by the BEV industry (and pro BEV activists online) against hydrogen.

Personally, I think hybrids, PHEVs, and hydrogen are better because they can be refilled quickly. I also think battery electric cars are way too expensive to repair in accidents. And having had to deal with a battery replacement out of warranty, I wasn’t happy with the experience of battling the company to not pay enormous amounts.

Also hydrogen refueling might be better if it received the same investment, subsidies, etc. It doesn’t seem fair to critique the current state of things when it could be different.
> So, while the margins on luxury housing are ~15% and affordable is 4-6% the free market will do what it always does...

Volume isn't something that companies tend to ignore.

In any case, there's a chain of purchasing; if people have to move somewhere then they buy whatever is available at the top of their budget. If there's a shortage of housing then they buy whatever was originally the cheaper housing. You can see this in London where in some areas 2-bedroom terraced houses are well over £1 million.
Anecdotally, I was considering Austin but am no longer, primarily b/c of the governor, ag, and socially regressive laws. Sad I'm going to miss out on a great music and growing tech scene. There are other options though

I also have a (former) long time friend that went hard MAGA and now wants to move to a state that reflects his political alignment
This is the narrative we disagree with most people on and are focused on disproving: multiple unicorns have started and stayed on Render, and our platform continues to add capabilities as their needs become more complex.
Strictly speaking a Ponzi scheme involves a single person or entity doing that, consciously. Bitcoin is… an anarchist self-organising Ponzi scheme? :) It has many of the features of a Ponzi scheme, but largely by accident; there is no _intent_.
Even the political left (in the US, IDK about other countries) is pretty committed to the nationalist world order. Unless you mean the Marxist left, which doesn't really exist in the US.
No, the people who buy the ultra high end stuff will not buy it if it is not a good investment.

Tax them more and they will decide that they dont need a huge and opulent second home in the middle of a city where all the jobs are.

>Inner city land here in Portland has plenty of surface parking lots, one- and two-family homes, and old buildings that have gone unused, sometimes for literally years.

100% land value tax will get rid of those too.
Man, you're a smart guy. Just once I want you to like, do the reading and argue in good faith. I'm sure a lot of people on HN respect you, including me!

Let's say that any donation to any Democratic campaign makes you a Democrat (ignoring for a moment that being against Trump isn't the same as being for Democrats). By that logic maybe half of the signatories on that letter are Democrats--and also a few are Republicans. Also many "Democratic" signatories signed a letter against Obama when he revoked Brennan's security clearance, so how in the tank can they really be? Also the main way the Hunter Biden emails were "authenticated" was via DKIM, which would allow you to mix fake emails in with real emails (we recently learned you could do this with $8 of server time). Too farfetched? The Russians did it to Macron in 2017. Also let's not equate creating a false basis for a full on war with 51 intelligence professionals raising doubts.
sometimes, super long email threads in corps
Meanwhile, Huawei Harmony just embedded the digital yuan at the system level.

All the ETFs mean is that it will be so much easier to get out of the position and cause even bigger cascades of selling than before when the next shock happens.

You can't have a reserve currency with an asset that has so much volatility it can't even function as a currency.
I'm curious what you use for a database on Fly.io. When I last looked into it, a proper managed database option was the last thing that they were missing from what I wanted.
Then the next version would have been Microsoft One.
I feel similarly, personally. I can't imagine needing emotional support... emotions are tools of my psyche, and needing another's help would mean that something was broken within myself that I needed to fix.

That doesn't mean relationships and support aren't helpful, for many reasons. I just don't see a need for them for emotional support.

But people are different, and we all develop unique inner mechanisms. So I don't think other men should be criticized as infantile for needing or wanting support, just as you wouldn't criticize women for the same; it's just a difference in how the individual processes their emotions.
This would depend on your phone being able to permanently disable its radio, right? I don't know if I would trust my phone well enough for that, I would be worried even in airplane mode about it making some small beacon checks.