skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price for every subscription you have was likely A/B tested. It's very standard and not shady.

Subscription prices vary by all types of audiences for subscription-based models, test segments are just one of them, and one of the least shady in my opinion. It's a brand new product and they're gauging the right price.
Private companies can't just get bought out. They have to agree to be acquired. There is not some roaming force of Big Corp M&A people who forcefully acquihire companies.

I don't understand this concern at all.
I had watched it. I'm just trying to understand what parallels you were trying to make to the Open AI story by quoting Thiel. I think he was saying Google should be broken up because as you say they have run out of good ideas and are just using their capital to keep new competition in search at bay. So by quoting Thiel wouldn't you be implying if Open AI has also run out of good ideas then they're also trying to keep competition in AI at bay?
> But unions can't have special privileges granted by politicians

Can corporations have special privileges granted by politicians?

Seems to me that without special privileges granted by politicians, corporations would not actually exist at all.
I think we will build it with intent and should be careful with our intentions/attentions.

You are right. Sci-fi movies are short.
Thank you for summarizing this for us, I was hoping to get a good summary of the article!
Even if you don't like Scott Adams (And I don't particularly like the guy myself), I don't think that should invalidate the specific statement that the article quotes, which should be able to stand on its own regardless of the background of the person saying it.

See also: ad hominem, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/character-attack/
The Braille typing is amazing. She interacts so smoothly and quickly with the keyboard. I wonder why she doesn’t use voice input though?
> Take MDN with you: Download MDN documentation and deep dives for access offline.

(Don’t tell anyone about wget!)
You can't see me in my ninja outfit furiously rolling-up the Mona Lisa into a floatable titanium tube to be sealed in a salt-plugged chamber hidden on the side of my speedy, automated, self-sufficient, 150 M super-yacht. Nothing to see here. Move along. <-- The gist of what's happening but without the actual "Mona Lisa."

Yup. Effectively, printing their own currency of large denominations and trading in real money for them. Which then reduces to people stuffing real money into ever smaller suitcases for exfil and cleaning, regardless if they're new shiny thing dabblers, corporate pirates, actual pirates, or drug dealers.
I just went through this. It’s 100x the cost at 1.2x the speed. I’m using the RAM for other ‘research’, but it turns out that trashing consumer SSDs is still the best value because the cost of long-term disk storage is again 10-100x the cost of the SSD you just trashed.

Think about it this way. Junk 1TB SSDs cost $100 and get you 300 TB, which costs you $10k to store on magnetic drives. The SSD is just a 1% cost to get your HDD filled 100x faster, which is the most important part of Chia mining right now.

When the network size stabilizes, people will just plot on the storage HDD and skip the SSD/RAM.
A quote that stood out to me:

> The decision comes as nations around the world have sought to weaken encryption to benefit law enforcement investigations.

When news articles talk about "an attack on encryption" it should be read as "an attack on companies being able to effectively employ encryption". While the NSA/CIA can and have put in backdoors and breaking changes into encryption standards, when leaders talk about how encryption hinders law enforcement they are trying to groom us for legislation (or executive pressure) which restricts businesses protecting their users and their data.

The FBI has applied pressure on Apple to not provide e2e encryption for icloud backups (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end...) and I have no doubt other big companies have passed on stronger protection in the name of complying with government pressure.
After having opened the link and checking the <title> tag I wonder the same
Your logic is present in a lot of economic thinking, but it is flawed as it assumes people are purely rational actors that make decisions at the margins. That is a classic Economics 101 assumption that turns out to only be true in theory.

In reality people are stubborn. We chase sunk costs and we repeat inefficient behavior because it is habit. People therefore won't necessarily choose to drive based on an evaluation of that individual trip. They will base it on things like whether they own a car, whether they have an unlimited pass for their local mass transit system, and simply what they did the last time they made the same trip. Therefore traffic can actually exceed where it was before as new and improved roads can lead to people buying more cars and people being less reliant on public transit.
Evolution as the origin of all life has major problems. For example many animals in the fossil records have no ancestor. They just suddenly appear. Also genes appear in the human genome that don’t have any good explanation. For example the Rh- bloodline should be impossible given that no other primate has it and the devastation it brings to mother mismatched with their offspring during gestation.

The idea that ancient astronauts visited earth, modified genetics and then left has become much more plausible given that the government is admitting they lied about the existence of aliens.

So the whole “intelligent design is a religion” no longer is accurate. It’s actually a very plausible hypothesis that matches many data points and should be taken seriously.
Love this so much!
at least one of them is true. The effort spending "cleaning data" which I think by her description she means "connecting pipes" is underestimated. I work for a company that deploys an ML model that works on a "lowest common denominator" between multiple different downstream SAASes, and this week I have been struggling with a field that should be an integer, but is a string in one SAAS provider, (and there are entries that are not parsable as integer). I can't simply convert it to a string because the ML model is not expecting it.
Ask HN: What are the most interesting or worst outages you have seen?
Inspired by comments in the Klarna incident, please share your most interesting / worst outage stories from your past.

I'll go first: We had a project to re-write the cart UI of a large e-commerce platform. The project was later cancelled. I requested to de-provision all the new project hardware, but accidentally used the backend infrastructure name due to muscle memory and being tired. Infra techs didn't double check that these hosts didn't take traffic and I accidentally removed all capacity for our shopping cart fleets in all regions :| It took about 45 minutes to recover, I wanted to crawl into a hole and disappear.
This is already happening for literally everything that you buy. And no, I don't care whether someone else paid less or more than me for something or got it for free. If I don't think the price is fair then I'll say no and move on.
> Which, given this kind of bandwidth, is going to be sooner rather than later.

I don't see why — like NAND up until now, it keeps up by adding more separately-addressable chips to the board and striping writes across them. A 512GB SSD with this chip would hit the wall pretty soon, but they wouldn't waste this controller on a 512GB SSD. They'd use it for 16TB+ SSDs.
It's not an IQ test. It's just pattern recognition which is about 5% of the tasks you do in a real IQ test.

So it is an IQ test, just not a comprehensive one?
I won’t speak for the spambots (which are dubious to be honest), or the banning/kicking which, while I know it happened in some places, was not really widespread.

Most communities I’m in were in a "wait and see" position, heck, one even only had something along the lines "We’re undecided over what to do, but you should register your nick at libera in any case". Guess what they decided to do after the channel got taken away…

> There is no lock-in. They're actually closing down channels that don't want to use their service. Think about it. These channels don't want to use freenode. Freenode closes them and everyone cries.

Because what a decent service provider does is provide a sunsetting period, in which most of the banned channels were already. Immediate termination because you decide to change your service provider and want to not fragment your community is not what a responsible provider does.

> Let's be serious that's because that was a single project and not a mass targeting of the freenode user base

FOSS projects owners are not "targeting the freenode user base", they are choosing another venue for discussion. You can think there is a secret cabal out to get Andrew Lee, but that’s really people considering their options, and getting proven right.
@macintux

I did reply and explained my perspective clearly. Anymore than that will just not be constructive. From here on it will be just difference in opinion and no one will again anything.

And if you think I am troll then not feeding a troll is the best thing to do right?
There is no path from Zurich to Vienna that flies over Czech airspace, but Vienna is so close to Bratislava that (if there was a compelling need for it), a more intelligent adversary than the current Belarusian government could devise a plan to divert the plane onto Czechoslovak airspace and force it to land. Probably overly cautious to hedge against that possibility (just like it was not cautious enough on Pratasievich's part to take a flight that takes it over Belarus's airspace without any diversions). But I wouldn't fly out of Vienna if I were a prominent Czechoslovak emigre. A little too geographically close for comfort.
Related WaPo article on the global shift in responses to the lab-leak theory: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-...

In a nutshell, currently, most scientists (specifically, virologists) say that the lab leak theory is the most plausible, given that the Wuhan lab was studying two bat viruses that are (were?) genetically close to SARS2, and a number of lab workers reported symptoms similar to SARS2 in the fall of 2019, when the outbreak is now assumed to have begun.

Virologists currently differ on whether the changes to the virus were natural evolution, man-made, or the result of contamination/poor safety procedures resulting in cross-species mutations. The argument against it being man-made is that currently as far as we know, we don't actually have the proper tools to get the changes that exist in SARS2; the changes are too efficient to have been man-made. The counter to this is that the released version of SARS2 may have been an evolved strain descending from a (less-efficient) man-made virus.
https://macwright.com/ - my favorite blog about software-related topics

https://vebaccount.substack.com/ - great stuff on economics through a heterodox lens
The issue seems to be with the DNA -> mRNA transcription required by the adenovirus vector of the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines, leading to mutated spike proteins which can cause clots. The Pfizer/Moderna shots don't use this mechanism so weren't the subject of the paper.

(This is not my specialty at all, just summarizing the abstract & what other commenters wrote since nobody replied to you yet)

I'm sorry about your father-in-law.
Has anyone gotten this to work? I was trying to use this as a free alternative to ADS but this didn't seem to quite work.
A few months ago, I watched some videos by Brett Victor and decided I wanted to develop a visual programming language. That led me to https://futureofcoding.org/ and its slack channel.

There was some cool stuff happening on the server, and the admin was doing his best to elevate things, but that slack channel was also the last stop for some people before they descended into templeOS levels of madness.

Right around the time I was joining, the admin posted in the meta channel that, with a heavy heart, he had finally banned [the developer of beads, I feel weird calling him out by name]. Apparently he had been too argumentative and stubborn for the server to further tolerate.

It left a weird taste in my mouth about the future of coding slack channel. On one hand, you don't want toxic people in your community. On the other hand, the server was clearly a channel of last resort for a lot of people with a lot of crazy ideas. Kicking out one if its more prominent members to toil in solitude felt kind of gross.

Its interesting to see that, a few months after being banned, the beads project seems to be materializing.
Where I live, so that I can be a part of and give back to the community that hosts me. Hopefully that doesn't come off snarky, but I mean it sincerely. Most of my clients are also online, in fact most are from the US and I am not. Our countries have a fair tax treaty, so that's never been an issue.

Exceptions I am sure exist where your home doesn't play very nicely and so taking your business elsewhere is fair.
It's possible, but it would have to be a pretty important target because if it gets discovered, the root would get revoked and can't be used for such purposes again.
Accelerating Conway's Game of Life Using CUDA
Learning to Resize Images for Computer Vision Tasks
Here in the Netherlands the tax authorities go a long way. They have demanded data from parking apps and even from a museum subscription. Judges have ruled that they are entitled to do so and use this information in court.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https:/...

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https:/...
MkDocs Material is a popular tool for open source python projects. Here are some examples:

pydantic - https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/

FastAPI - https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

Starlette - https://www.starlette.io/

AutoKeras - https://autokeras.com/
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That's true if the data is PHI, which means that it's personally identifiable. Per TFA, Google is using anonymized data. There are a bunch of companies that do this already, for example my last startup had anonymized health records from ~240 million Americans.
Oh, to be clear I don't disagree at all. I'm all for making this stuff more approachable.
Can you elaborate on the "detection intensity"? Genuinely curious as I haven't heard a modern critique of QM before and would like to learn the other side of the argument.
Butterfly effect – one million double pendulums
How do you do that? I see an option in my Reddit preferences to "make my votes public," but it doesn't seem like this hides votes on my own posts from me.
Knowing people who work with others in accessibility, the discussion tends to be that Android and iOS are more or less on par... with Android having the edge in customization and iOS having the edge in consistency.

So pretty much the same for everyone else...
> "This new PCIe 5.0 SSD ran out of its rated TBW in a week!"

If this drive supports claimed 9 GB/s write speed, you can write 324 TB at 10 hours. Samsung QLC warranty for 1 TB drive is 360 TBW.
This reads like a marketing webpage and is not technically coherent. What is the purpose that this langauge is intending to solve?

I used to program in a declarative langauge a few decades ago, Prolog. Heck, even makefiles are declarative. Declarative programming isn't guaranteed to be bug-free in the way the page indicates.
While I've not interacted with the author, his Twitter and blog opines on all kinds of subjects and has the firm, authoritative tone of an older person who is not exactly ignorant but who doesn't recognize the depth of his own indoctrination, the silencing of the internal critic. He has all the answers already.

And, really, that's the only kind of person that could make something of this encompassing but simultaneously incoherent nature, I think.
I still remember one particular game in the mid-90s where there was basically a corporation of several "evil" players vs. me and another "good" player. We eventually played to a stalemate where neither side was going to get a clear victory.
Even though this happens... Google still makes me nervous because...

- Other large companies with other big agendas have violated rules on data sharing to improve performance in other areas. Amazon comes to mind with how they used markeplace data on vendors to produce their own competitive products. Rules are regularly broken.

- Will Google let auditors really have enough insight to make sure data is kept in a controlled manner? Google is so secretive.

If a data broker started a secure file sharing service I wouldn't trust them. That's how I feel about this.
4-Day Workweek
Submarine power cable between Europe and America: Technoeconomic analysis (2018)
Share crucial figures with widgets for Miro and Notion
A good practice is that once a change passes code review and ships, the team owns it.

Human error doesn't mean blame the human, it's better to look at the overall processes and system to figure out how to prevent human error the next time around.
Is your second paragraph really true? These exact worlds are the reasons many have upgraded their ssd, the PS5 will only let you start new games from they built in fast hard drive for example.
> the Israeli military is calling Operation Guardian of the Walls the first Artificial Intelligence War.

Operation names should be legally required to state their strategic objective in their names. This should be called Operation Keep Netanyahu in Power.
Is MDPI a Predatory Publisher?
This false equivalence between MBA degrees and poor management really has to stop. It's a pretty bigoted take and I'm always disappointed to see that on HN, even though I half expect it coming into most threads these days.
Here is a very interesting perspective from a guy called Andersen Cheng who developed an encrypted messaging app - before removing it from the public domain given its adoption by Islamic State:

https://www.ft.com/content/00e6b9d5-a9a2-488d-821f-de6813ca4...

His proposal is for "threshold cryptography" as a trade off between privacy and allowing law enforcement to do their thing when necessary: to break a message would require agreement / input from multiple parties, including the courts. I think potentially a good compromise.
I've been messing with Cyclone Scheme lately, but I don't use emacs. Might be worth a look?

Guile is what I mainly use for hobby projects, it's pretty dang reliable and fast, Andy Wingo is a compiler genius and there's a lot of good internals walkthroughs on his blog.

Other than Racket, have you tried a lot of implementations?
Well each culture has its own quirks which changes how often you see a particular story. Greek culture held that the Gods saw "blood crime" as the worst thing imaginable, so you get a lot of mythic story arcs around it. For later Western European cultures, killing your kin just means you're taking initiative.
"The government" isn't deciding who gets funds. The EU has public funding programmes and grants and you can apply to them if you meet the requirements:

https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/funding-grants_en

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/find-funding/eu-fu...

I can't think of any programme that would work for Mozilla though, especially given they're a US-based for-profit company wrapped around a US-based non-profit.

The purpose of these programmes is typically to either contribute to regional development that is in the EU member states' interest, or to help implement policies the EU has passed. There are arguments to be made about how well the member states' (or their citizens') interests are represented in the EU's electoral structure, or how effective these programmes are in general, but saying this is "the government deciding who gets funds" is absurd.
Isn't this the opposite of the modern zeitgeist on this topic
Are these things blocked on disk i/o?
> Can a computer play chess? No.
> They search through many permutation of board states and in a very dumb way merely select the decision path that leads to a winning one.

This is a perfect example of moving the goal posts. The objective was never to simulate a human playing chess.
"Don't be evil."

For-profit healthcare is evil.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-healthcare-divide-rv6npd/
If the idea of common motifs through different cultures and mythologies interests you I highly recommend this 6 part interview with Joseph Campbell, who was the author of “The Hero with 1000 Faces” and an expert in the field.

Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers.
Why suppress the revolution when you can just sell the revolution in episodic form as escapism to be consumed from the safety of your own home.

There's an argument that progressive political comedy shows are actually detrimental because they give the viewer the feeling of having "solved" the problems presented by the mere act of watching. Instead of facing the problem directly and trying to do something about it, we consume the problem as entertainment in a small neat (time)box and can then just go on ignoring it.

There have been recent findings that support for BLM and its causes among "white allies" drastically rose throughout the protests but is now as low or even lower than before (and also corporations not following through with their promises of donating money towards relevant causes because it is no longer profitable for them to signal support). This would fit the same model: most white people who supported BLM only developed an awareness for the problems due to the protests and then supported the protests (and hashtag campaigns) but as soon as the protests were over and minimal reforms (including non-reforms that actually did the opposite, e.g. police funding bills) the problem was "solved" in their mind and they abandoned the movement and maybe even felt personally attacked by anyone claiming nothing had changed fundamentally.
This is fantastic news, even if I never had any complaints about Liddell Scott. It’s interesting to note that while they stopped using euphemisms for words like “fuck”, they seemed to have removed references to homosexuality. Different times, different hangups.
Flatiron itself has had struggles moving people out into academia (not counting joint positions it already has) so citing it might be the exception proving the rule
I like defensive programming. Even though I think the state is unreachable, it feels nice to add a panic assert just in case.
pluma is pretty good
Questions are silos.

StackOverflow users are constantly complaining about duplicate questions. The real problem is that the onus for better question asking is placed on the asker, who is only really motivated and prepared to express their confusion.

The whole reason most questions are asked is because the asker isn't familiar enough with the problem domain to find the answer. That also means they aren't familiar enough with the problem domain to find a duplicate/related question.

It's much easier for question answerers to find duplicate and related discussion. Instead of antagonizing the asker by closing their post as "pointless discussion that has already happened", answerers should be continuing discussion with the asker.

Every StackOverflow question (duplicate or not) provides two opportunities:

1. Answering the question.

2. Finding what information to better advertise so that confusion can be avoided in there future.
I think it depends a ton on the jurisdiction. But the way they can ignore it is just by ignoring it. E.g., by continuing to negotiate with individual workers and firing the ones who don't comply. That might be illegal, but whether and when it will be enforced are different questions.