skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can guarantee you that the customers who actually care about quality are the ones you'll lose first.

We're in general interested in items that are built-to-last, not in being annoyed for each purchase on an annual basis. If you would like to make an impact in the "buy for life" arena, I suggest you carefully select your vendors to actually produce items that are worthy of that label. Quality builds a reputation over time via word of mouth, not via online reviews.

(This might still be a workable approach if you can give trusted reviewers a platform to highlight what they consider the best & most reliable, but you'll still need to vet those reviewers carefully)
With a g, sorry!
AI is catching up to the hype
Ray Bradbury at 100: A Conversation Between Sam Weller and Dana Gioia
Conceptually you are attempting to display something that has more precision than you are willing to display.

You can

- Round (Truncation is a type of rounding, Rounding towards zero)
- Adjust the display to increase the precision it displays
- Do both by dynamically increasing the precision of the display/decreasing rounding as the distance to zero closes in.
I'd argue this is basically impossible. Choosing what to report and how to report it. Which facts, how they are presented, etc. Listening to mostly left leaning shows, even when they think they're just reporting the facts I hear in their voice, their choice of questions, how they ask the questions, how they respond to the answers, which ideas they agree with and which they don't and in essence which ideas they want you to believe and which they don't.

PS: if that wasn't clear I don't listen to many if any right leaning shows. I listen to radiolab, this american life, flash forward, no stupid questions, etc....
I know that. And you know that. But it's a kernel or truth that conspiracy theories are able to weave their way about.
I wouldn't. Only fools are continuing to throw a few shekels into the ever-expanding black hole of government debt and deficit spending rather than putting it towards the health and happiness of their own family.

Perhaps my great grandfather had some sense of unity with his government, and its spending directly benefited his life so he felt an obligation to contribute. But it's now being ransacked by strangers or even used against me, so to hell with it.

Look at this recent stimulus bill farce. Congress were given 2 hrs to read an enormous 5000 page document, yet they still voted in favour. Nobody could have read that. Turns out every foreign influence with any kind of "in" had got their puppets to insert a clause to loot the American coffers some more. Ungodly amounts to Sudan, Israel, transgender programs in Pakistan, etc. And, almost as an afterthought, a paltry $600 for working class folk.
I was mostly taken by the author's stance that "storing" a customer's data is somehow unacceptable. This quote was the big one:

"[Quoting Fastmail:] We also store information from your address book, calendar, notes and files on our servers.

[The author writes:] Is there anything you guys don't store?"

Is not the purpose of an e-mail provider to...store e-mail? On their servers? For me to access? I am very confused, and I genuinely mean that. Most of the author's complaints come from storing the data that I have paid them to store and then taking actions on that data in response to what I have asked them to do.
How do you verify this?
I don't think that's how legal problems work.
Incidentally, many services are now requiring a cellphone to send some one time password via SMS. Your phone number is something that you actually pay for and can transfer between carriers as you see fit. So in that sense, it's much more predictably controllable and, more importantly, under the legal jurisdiction of your own country.
The provider has to save the headers to forward them to you; if it doesn't then it's altering your emails.

I've never heard of providers deleting messages upon being accessed through IMAP. Are you thinking of POP3?
Hard, but not impossible. TEG modules are available with the hot side operating at 800C, so I'm sure TEC modules can also be built with hot sides well above ambient on Venus.
Nobody's getting forced out of "their" home -- unless they can no longer afford to pay the taxes.
"out of paper"

Sure but it would have to be special paper, hard to duplicate with security measures, probably special ink, weird watermarks, a whole bunch of things. Should probably name it something other than IOU to distinguish it from normal IOUs. I've always liked Johny Cash's music, maybe we could derive a name from him.
Oh, I'm an error theorist myself, no need to tell me! The key modifier there for me was "nihilistic" error theory, aka one that gives up on making sense of a world without an "objective" morality. No intention of calling error theory generally crazy or unhinged. In some ways I feel bad for OP - the view seems quite unhinged when read together, but really I would view it as one misstep/lack of step on the way to interesting truth.

FWIW, my personal way forward is something like determinism + moral psychology + Rawls theory of justice if that makes any sense.

Based on this thread plus your bio Spinoza quote I'm guessing we likely align on a good deal :)
Actually no. In Japan, where I live, the country side is covered by development projects that destroy rice pads, mostly because there are tax incentives for that. In France, where I come from that's the same.

Perfectly good arable land is not being misused for development projects that don't mean anything when you know for ex. that Japanese population is in decline and creating individual houses far from the center of the city is going totally against what should be done to counter potential food crisis and the real environmental crisis. Etc.
I'll consider text to speech done when I can give it a novel and have it sound like the best voice actor audiobook performance.
Copyright law seriously needs to change. They should not have to jump through hoops like this simply to use a device that they already paid for.
Where is the native-to-hardware ISA?
The anger in this post is pretty palpable.

The author wants an email service that doesn’t do any of the things the service needs to operate?
Even if you don't believe in the end goal, the technical achievements can't be ignored.

I hate to constantly say this but we can also work on two problems at once. Japan's space agency spending money on scientific research is not stopping climate research and mitigation from occurring.

The US on the other hand truly has hamstrung their ability to react to climate requirements with outsized military spending. It's lucky the universities all benefit from the economic perversions of their massive endowments else I would be surprised the US would have any Universities left to do climate research.

Not to leave myself out and rag on the US alone, Australia is just lucky the economic incentives are changing in favour of renewables else we would keep rocking coal like it's 1800 until we all lived in Cooper Pedy style holes in the ground.
> I would add to this, why even have "phone service" anymore. I call my family via Facebook Messenger or Zoom etc.

Emergency services. You can't call an ambulance via Zoom. Even if 911 supported Zoom, Zoom probably won't support 911 because they don't want to be held liable if people die because of a Zoom outage.
Sure it depends on you audience though.
Without tax I could provide my service at a lower rate and still make more, which I would then invest in the most efficient way I could, unlike government.

“Tax fraud” makes it sound like one breaks a contract - but I never agreed with the state who threatens me to include them in any transaction I make.
wild tales! how grand. the aether, it seems, is still quite untamed frontier. someone pioneering some grand new space amid all that vast vast opportunity that lies out there in the airwaves.
https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/
Yes, compare the portability of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JK9DFKH and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D64QLQ1 with having to lug around the official dock and adapter. If you want to take your Switch with you to plug into other people's TVs, it's night and day.
Wait, is GPT-3 the trained network or is it the architecture and methodology behind it? If they re-run the same code on a fresh web crawl would that then be called GPT-4? I'd have thought you could update GPT-3's... knowledge? Understanding? Whatever the hell it is? by doing this semi-regularly.
It's not really a technical reason as much as it is personal.

It's not C/C++ because I loathe C/C++, and if I never write C/C++ again, it will be too soon. The reasons for these feelings are borne out of decades of experience with them.

Of course, I'm currently an embedded engineer again at the moment, so "never" is actually "every day" unfortunately. Luckily embedded Rust is really looking good these days, and I've been using it a bit lately.

I don't really care about what other libraries do, and really, Buttplug isn't your normal "hardware driver" library. Either way, other libraries made their choices, I made mine. I hate C/C++ enough that I'd never spend my free time on it, and this is basically my back yard shed project that also happens to be a business, so it gets done with technologies I'm comfortable in.

As for exposing things, I mention that C/C++ FFI is coming in the post, mostly for Unreal Engine support. I currently have Rust exposing cdecl calls for the FFI, but it's bottlenecked to be as few calls as possible, mostly flinging protobufs back and forth because that's easy. The main thing holding up C/C++ FFI is figuring out how to translate some of the async paradigms I use to C/C++ in a way that will be generally useful.
Palo Alto is an interesting case. They don't want to build more housing, especially "affordable" housing, because they're racist.

They only approve "below market rate" housing if the applicants have masters degrees and no criminal record. They call this "teacher housing" but it's really to keep people they think are "undesirable" out.
Is this an intentional troll? The post explains why those results are meaningless in this context.
What exactly makes XRP worth anything, though? Isn't it theoretically pegged to the USD?
Assuming free people could not create internet and electricity infrastructure is like an East German assuming free markets could not provide a Trabant alternative
AWS is a company that Amazon bought, which was already providing the S3 service. Unlike what most people think, Amazon did not take the stuff they were doing internally and spin that out as a separate service.

In fact, as far as AWS is concerned, Amazon is just another big customer — and not even the biggest.
> I don’t think we’re in control of what we feel to the degree that we can redirect our thoughts and entirely or mostly prevent certain feelings

Not everyone is like you.

If I want an emotion I have to cultivate it, otherwise I'll get no emotions. People don't like that, so I've learned to fake emotions, but that doesn't mean I actually feel them.

For example I never bother actually cultivating real anger. But sometimes anger is useful so I'll act like I'm angry. But it's just an act, there is no actual anger there.

When I actually (and rarely) get an actual emotion I'll examine it like it's a stranger "wow that's so cool how it's making me feel, that's such a strange thing to experience".

If it helps: My "I", and my "mind" are two different things. And sometimes my "I" watches my "mind" and wonders "why did it do that?".
Never let engineers do their own branding.

But there's some explanation too:

https://buttplug-developer-guide.docs.buttplug.io/intro/intr...
I'd tend to agree the latter but not the propaganda since the Westerns indeed admit this achievement.
Yeah, what is the advantage if not turing complete anyway?
I find LN's UX really painful. Ethereum's layer 2 solutions are far ahead in terms of user experience. The other day I had to settle an election bet, and either I settle it in stablecoin on high tx fees of ETH/BTC or try explaining one of the layer-2 solutions.

And no, I can't pay them in USDT on bch because that requires them to get a new wallet.

Raiden network which is Ethereum's LN like solution, faces the same problem. Whatever bitcoin folks envision, they will never get LN bitcoins to have the same network effect as bitcoin itself.
Google inexplicably takes away wide-angle astrophotography from Pixel phones
Just finished this book. At times I found that some of his generalizations were too broad, but overall I thought the book was excellent, especially the insight that credit predates money and is the more “natural” form of exchange.
Reading online comments affects us
Could you expand on why you think that? I very much agree with the substantive arguments made by chemmail, and would like to hear yours.
For one device sure. If you need a small fleet then you have to pay someone to manage them and that gets more expensive for quite a while.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - “The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions, and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for non-reversible services.” https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Average transaction fees are frequently $5-10 these days, which completely invalidates the original proposed use case for a system that would enable “small casual transactions.” https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

Since transactions will only increase in price as demand grows (and the tx limit has been effectively capped for years), I don’t see Bitcoin ever improving in this regard. Bitcoin may be successful as a speculative asset and for other purposes, but as “peer-to-peer electronic cash” it’s a failure.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p007...

It's been proposed already. One of the issues with the proposal that jumps out to me is that it wants memory allocation to be not allowed in a pure function. Which is both fair & not. That means no collections, more or less, as you can't allocate the return value.

But if you allow memory allocations, then you go down the rabbit hole of well whose memory allocations are allowed? Only `new`? What about `malloc`? Or a custom allocator? If custom allocators are allowed, do they need a `mutable` keyword equivalent but for pure functions, where it's internally not-pure but is allowed to be used from a pure function?

But it looks like there was no follow-up proposal. `constexpr` isn't too far off from a [[pure]] specifier, though.
Is there a textbook that teaches these sorts of theorems? I'd love to read economics from a theorem-proof perspective
Ford's head of EVs says the new Mustang Mach-E's 'roof doesn't fall off'
yadm is better.
Obviously the same (or probably even larger) airport exceptions that current regulations include would still exist if the floor were raised.
Is there any evidence that Apple has an LLVM compiler with these extensions, versus using asm blocks within the Accelerate library source?

There's certainly prior cases of Apple shipping branches of LLVM (most notably adding arm64 support, which took about half a year to merge in upstream), but the mere existence of these instructions is little evidence of any branch?
If I understand correctly, this is more like an experimental milestone towards an photonic approach to QC. The system is not programmable and cannot be consider as a computer. The article sounds more like the team has demonstrated construction of a better quantum computer than Google's.
Those SD cards aren't close to a single layer, so it's not really equivalent.

Ad absurdum, stacking two Micro SD cards on top of one another hasn't just doubled your density even though surface area is unchanged.
I am an end user. And I rent VMs on AWS.

I may not be the typical end user, but I’m also not a business.
IIRC some of those soundness holes are an intentional tradeoff to simplify the type system. http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~abadi/Papers/FTS-submitted.pdf
> Last year lots of people complained about a simultaneaous reduction of ANC across several brands and models brought with firmware updates.

Was this ever verified quantitatively? It sounds like the kind of thing that could easily be generated by group confirmation bias.
I'm fine with alternatives but I didn't feel like any space was left to teach anything but your desired magic bullet that killed this feature dead & I still don't see that you accept limitations or alternatives in your hardline stated views.

I wouldn't call object descriptors an unfortunate at all but I think this recent article crystalizes well for me a lot of my instinct, which is that we ought teach & know & learn the hard things, even when we have instincts telling us they are inferior or unsuitable.
https://www.executeprogram.com/blog/teaching-the-unfortunate...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25564666
> Apparently https://ssl.comodo.com/ used to then proceed to execute that code. However, this is not a vulnerability in the browser, but in that website. Am I missing something? Was Chromodo breaking the `messageEvent.origin` property, breaking same-origin checks in JavaScript? Seems far-fetched.

I believe it's neither of these - I think the claim being made is that Chromodo installs a custom event listener for MessageEvents in all websites, which exposes a handful of APIs, including "execCode" and "callOuterFunction". If you look at the sample exploit (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/attachmentTe...), while it defaults to ssl.comodo.com, you can specify an arbitrary website.

(Also, if this were indeed a website bug, this would have been reproducible in normal browsers.)

We would need to find a vulnerable version of the Chromodo browser to confirm this.
In practice, Haskell doesn't do this.

import System.IO.Unsafe
import Prelude hiding (last)

last :: [Int] -> Int
last (x:[]) = x
last (x:xs) = unsafePerformIO (do
print x
return (last xs))

secondToLast :: [Int] -> Int
secondToLast (x:y:[]) = x
secondToLast (x:xs) = unsafePerformIO (do
print x
return (secondToLast xs))

main = let
list = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
x = last list
y = secondToLast list
in print (x + y)

The above code outputs

1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
11

indicating that it traversed the list twice, fully completing one traversal before starting the next.
It depends how general you mean, I reckon. I don't know enough about physics to know how important boson sampling is, but simulating other systems in particle physics is already one of the big-ticket uses of supercomputers today.
You're providing an excellent illustration of why I don't understand popular coverage of the Prenda case.

Paul Hansmeier isn't in jail for abusing copyright, or for doing anything the courts thought was wrong relating to copyright. He's in jail for misrepresenting facts to the court. The entire case against Prenda was that they represented to the court that they were agents of the copyright owner, when in fact they were the copyright owner themselves. There was nothing, legally, wrong with their suit.

And yet everyone seems to think of the Prenda case as a victory against copyright trolling. It is no such thing! Why would Hansmeier lose rights to own copyrights, when he didn't do anything wrong with the copyrights he had?
Yes, XRP is a bad example of what makes cryptocurrencies useful/interesting for many reasons. I'm just speaking to them in general
I'm curious why you chose to use the term "bcash" to refer to BCH. No exchanges or mainstream projects use that term to refer to BCH. As far as I'm aware it's primarily used as a pejorative, so it seems strange that you'd use it here.

As far as BCH's additional value: I'd suggest researching the block size debate. This debate is BCH's entire reason for existing. This article [1] from 2016 by Mike Hearn contains a good primer on the block size debate itself. He ended up quitting development of Bitcoin, but others decided to raise the blocksize limit - with or without the majority, thus creating BCH. Succinctly, BCH is the continuation of big-blocker's vision of the Bitcoin experiment.

[1] https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experi...
Right now, no one wants to pick up things from potential COVID plague bearers. Previously, probably how many wouldn't get reused and just get thrown away. Paper getting thrown away is eco friendly (renewable source, biodegradable, etc.), plastic is not.
As far as storing a human readable version for code reviews and diffs, we use nbautoexport for this - https://nbautoexport.drivendata.org/ - which automatically exports plain text source files.

(Disclaimer: this tool was written and maintained by colleagues of mine.)
> The wealth created by each boom — flowing chiefly to an elite circle of venture investors and lucky founders — outlasted each bust.

This is an interesting way to describe the VCs ("elite") and the founders ("lucky").

It's true that successful founders owe part of their outcome to luck, but isn't it more relevant (in the context of a discussion about why SV continues to be an innovation hub) that successful founders are also usually hard-working and creative?

The PayPal Mafia was lucky, but the reason we know who they are is because they didn't rest on their laurels — they invested millions of dollars in other companies, and created other companies of their own.

Much of the wealth that flows to SV is plowed into other startups. SV has lots of angel investors whose expertise is valued by the next generation of founders. So lots of founders go to SV in search of capital and guidance. If successful founders were just "lucky", they wouldn't be so sought after, and SV wouldn't be so appealing to early-stage founders.

Disclosure: I live in SV, am the founder of a mostly-bootstrapped startup, and by most measures am not a successful founder.
I don't want to sound condescendant, but are you not basically doing packages ? Instead of standard packages your distro gives you, you have "custom" packages that also contain more specific installation instructions (write file with specific content, set environment variables, ...). I know that PKGBUILDs in Arch allow you to do such things if needed.

Bonus: now even configuration files can be linked to the software that needs it; when you remove a software you also remove all the files related to it and there are no leftovers.
> a story about how the state, with very little evidence, can ruin your life and leave you with very little recourse.

Buttle? Tuttle?

https://vimeo.com/224785800
He wasn't.

You can be treated as a nuisance by the court, if you demonstrate a tendency to file meritless suits, but Hansmeier didn't do that either. He was sent to prison for lying to the court; the merits of his copyright suit don't enter into it.

And again, even if you're formally a nuisance, you can't be barred from the courts. That would be a travesty of justice. You just get your suits viewed more prejudicially.
It probably does not, though there are some proposals (such as generating certified random bits I think). But that is not relevant to the discussion here. A computational algorithm does not have to be useful generally, for it to prove a result about complexity classes.
Setting a value is easy. Let the asset holder owing the tax set the value. Should the IRS disagree, let the IRS purchase the asset.
There’s a Typescript joke in here about treating the author as an “any” and not realizing that it was actually a Gary Berndhart.
I watched this > year old video about C++ 2020 and feel like I totally changed my outlook on C++ to from kind of negative to fairly positive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ij0YNkFUs