skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine they will make an argument that while you own the hardware, you are breaking the terms and conditions of their software. You never paid them to unlock the heated seats in software. Of course that argument fails if you get it modded so there's an extra button on the side and it just provides power to the seats, bypassing the rest of the system. It's going to be a fun legislative challenge once someone inevitably brings it to court, I'm sure.
How do you find working with Paddle? They've been on our shortlist for a new project and we've heard only positive things from people who actually use them. However, their terms could make any lawyer or company officer who actually read them visibly wince, and so far that has prevented us from engaging with them despite their clear advantages over the traditional payment services.
Agreed with this entirely. The worst offender to me is Booking.com which will pop notifications and badges (I'm a compulsive badge clearer) on my device for marketing stuff, when I really only want notifications for messages in app around reservations. It also has added insult to injury during this pandemic season as Booking has continued to run promos and pop them when there's no reasonable way I could travel.
I awoke wondering am I a man dreaming I am an AI? Or an AI dreaming I am an man?
I guess you're going to volunteer to feed them the human blood they need to reproduce, then?
I don’t have time to find the exact pages but the Rise and Fall of American Growth tries to quantify real realized quality of life gains through what the author Robert Gordon calls “the special century”, 1870-1970.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26634594-the-rise-and-fa...
It did mostly stay above $10 from 1960 to almost 1980, so it's down ~30% from there.

One of my favorite conspiracy theories is that the Legislative Reorganization Act in 1970 is the primary driver for income inequality in the US.

Somewhat unintuitive theory, but the idea is that prior to the act, congressional votes were secret. You got the totals, but not which congressperson voted yes or no. In that situation, a congressperson could take lobbyist money, but vote however they wanted to. The lobbyist had no way to verify if they actually got the vote they paid for.

This chart is interesting in that regard:

https://budget.house.gov/sites/democrats.budget.house.gov/fi...
Better metric: purchasing power of 1 hour of work.
Interesting. Why is CO not participating? Looks like every other state is involved to some extent.
What is so confusing about this? The first time I read a book, it impacts me in a certain way. Every successive time, it hits me differently. I take different life experiences to it, and I understand it more deeply because I've read it before.

Why would a smell be any different? Each time I smell an apple, or taste wine, or examine a painting, I am a different person, and I also discover more nuance about the subject.
Willingly make my donation nightly.

The mosquito "needle" is highly evolved. Less painful than a thumb blood sample. Don't push them off prematurely and you get less itch, IMHO. Don't scratch and you get less itch, too.
The problem with those kinds of graphs is that the price-based fluctuations in purchasing power are dwarfed by the uncertainty in the hedonic adjustment that should be applied to make the comparisons meaningful across time.
What makes handling VATMOSS costly for an Saas?

I deal with the software end of dealing with VAT for a small company that sells downloadable software and technical support for that software. We've not found it costly at all.

It took one guy a couple days or so to get registered with Ireland for VATMOSS.

To do the quarterly report for filing, I run a fairly simple script I wrote that produces a CSV file with one row per country giving the total sales and the total VAT we collected for that country, and someone uploads that to a form on the Irish tax authority site, which I understand is a simple and straightforward process.

To keep track of VAT rates, we use https://vatlayer.com/

Their API for getting rates is very simple, and their free plan allows 100 API calls per month. It is one call to get the rates for all VATMOSS countries.

The reporting script needs to get exchange rates to calculate the VAT in EUR for those sales where the customer paid in GBP or USD. The EU makes that information available in this handy XML document: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist-90d...

That contains the exchange rates between various currencies and EUR for the last 90 days. The rate you want for VATMOSS is the rate on the last business day of the quarter you are reporting for, so there is a little bit of calculation to figure out which day's rate to use.

They also have one that gives the most recent day if that better floats you boat: https:///www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.x...

If you need a specific range of dates for specific currencies, they've got that covered too. Here it is for USD and GBP: https://sdw-wsrest.ecb.europa.eu/service/data/EXR/D.GBP+USD....

Specify the range by adding query parameters startPeriod=YYYY-MM-DD and endPeriod=YYYY-MM-DD.
Fantastic tool to analyze companies in seconds
I get around this by only enabling notifications when I order food, and then disabling notifications after delivery. It's a few extra steps but worth the serenity.
Yes but its giving too much power to one actor only. What if Google decides to stop supporting an architecture, or decides that it's ok to have 8GB ram as a requirement ? What if they choose to implement a hardware accelerated feature that works only with NVIDIA LATEST-WHATEVER-AI-VR-HYPE ? What if they want to implement "crypto payment" as a standard and, oh, that's GDollars ?

Of course those are just random made up ideas but the point I want to make is that it's giving only one actor the power to define what the future of our only and sole international knowledge network will be.
Ask HN: Anybody ever encountered the elusive “Reverse-Spinoff” in their carrer?
The Reverse-Spinoff is from what I understand when the amount of activities and assets which normally gets spinned off gets to claim the original name and denomination of the company, while everything else is then transferred under a new umbrella.

Here seems an example regarding Yahoo!

https://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/yahoo-confirms-its-suspending-its-alibabs-spin-off-plans-will-do-reverse-spin-off-instead/
> If the seller of the asset is a company, then it has to do something with the money as inflation erodes it

The company does share buybacks and puts it back into the hands of a rich person.
There's a discussion of it here:

https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44517778.pdf

Not sure if it's the same method, but there they say these kinds of analyses are produced by using known exchange rates for different currencies, and then sort of back-estimating the value of the dollar based on those exchange rates.

So if you know the value of the USD in 1792, you can use different exchange rates with existing currencies to retroactively estimate the value of the USD if it had existed.

Ideally it seems you'd somehow aggregate over different currency exchange rates; maybe they all produce a unique solution, or maybe that aggregate is done some other way.
.NET Foundation is where a lot of the contribution back to the community happens, I believe.
What I still am left with is, yes we can write down a classical description of superposition, but SOMETHING RANDOM still happens.

When you imagine a fair coin being flipped and describing that with a probabilistic mathematical model, you can always imagine a classical story of what actually occurred. How you went from a spread out of possibilities to witnessing a single definite outcome. So I can understand the ontology because there is a classical ontology.

What QM is forcing us to do is write down as much classical story as possible, THEN SOMETHING TRULY RANDOM OCCURS. I can't imagine in my head any possible classical story. Both the coin and quantum "measurement" use probability theory in a similar way, but this is an important distinction.

When you say develop a new ontology, I really think you mean develop a recipe. I see no way to even comprehend anything but classical ontologies. I'm not sure if it's a limit of our, biology, imagination, or intuition. There is no classical ontology, nor settled ontology for that matter to describe the "measurement" of superpositions process.
Is it going to be copper clad like the big one? Will it fade to green over the years?

Please send another one every like ~50 years. It'd be way cool to have the chance to see time's march afresh.
She began coughing again right before she left. That was enough.
The news is 100% legit but it's pursuant to an ongoing investigation into corruption and infiltration by malicious/rogue actors in SV. The article was published for this dual use purpose and my comment supports that secondary use.

If this makes no sense, then carry on, nothing to see here.
Topical! One of the most recent Corecursive episodes has a guest with a fascinating take on APL, while the episode is completely unrelated.

https://corecursive.com/065-competitive-coding-with-conor-ho...

Get yo actuary tables on.
For this application? Even with adapters to connect m.2 to the desired spinning rust drives, which probably can't be used with the case closed, that only gets you two SATA connections, not four.

The argument can be made quite well that there are better alternatives to the Pi for a low-end NAS, but the HP slimline thin clients don't look like it.
I've run ZFS on my personal (read: cheap) hardware for several hundred machine years and never had a problem with standard RAM

(and issues would be detectable with the monthly scrub)

obviously ECC is better but you're no worse off than you would be with mdraid or some awful hardware controller
The basket of goods has also changed due to technology and living standards.

In 2021 I can buy a bunch of bananas for $1 in the winter in the PNW. This is pretty much not possible for a 1900 factory worker let alone some remote 1800 pioneer. And let’s not even get to differences in the quality of housing like with electricity, or running water, or even a stove with temperature control. (Fun fact; recipes with exact cook times and temperatures only start showing up around the 1930s because previously it wan’t easy to control.)
Taxes are bad. Governments absorb wealth. They don't create wealth. No government has ever created wealth.
I...can neither confirm nor deny how much I love watching compiles happen...
Increasing forest fires would boost the value, but then watch-out for those damn illegal tree farms printing their own money.
Which pieces of APL would you see fitting in a modern language? Simply curious about preferences of people who already enjoy the semantics and would find the APL syntax ideal.
> a clear signal to charge these customers a lot more money.

Interesting, can you explain this a little more? Some of our customers chomp at the bit for particular features, and when we can we give them early access. We do not charge them more for arguably huge amounts of value add to the product.

I wonder how to have these types of conversation, internally and with users. I'm a PM but have a direct line to management. I'm frustrated with how much money I believe we are leaving on the table, even if it doesn't directly benefit me.
No, it s an admission by the journalist he believed scientists were like modern priests, and an expression of his surprise when he realized that Science destroyed comfortable certainty to instead provide more questions.

It's fine for many people, but some like this writer, still can't shake the idea the world must have omniscient oracles.
Depends, if any of the laws of physics were off by a billionth of a percent, there would be no human intelligence (or carbon life, or atoms).

There are many reasonable assumptions one could draw from the fact.
If you want sense of what real AI warfare will look like, look at Cambridge Analytica. Extremely primitive, but still highly effective. The key concept is the ability to sift through vast piles of data, find previously unknown patterns, and then exploit them. Humans have to make one ad for the whole nation. AI can micro-target hundreds or thousands of communities with custom propaganda, often even contradicting itself, achieving a much more powerful result. Now apply this approach to broader conflicts.
Has anyone used APL to implement web frontend? In the GOL example it shows how to use ⍴ to reshape into a matrix and then use ↑ to pad it out, and then the structure is displayed in the console. I'm imagining some kind of declarative JS+CSS frontend framework where the APL-ish source code maps intuitively to the visual representation in the DOM (or canvas).
> And Rust doesn't assume threading either. The default stuff isn't even thread safe

Right, and Rust doesn't even know what a thread is actually. It's all implemented in the standard library. The only thing Rust know, is that there exist some special Traits (Send and Sync) which are automatically implemented if a struct field implements it itself. And that's it.
The US dollar was introduced in 1792. The early days of US currency was a mix of notes/coins issued by states, banks, and foreign currencies.
This all seems like minor differences.

Plenty of software is neither written nor comprehensible I can assure you of that.

Like I don't think your necessarily wrong, but pointing out the literal differences between the two topics doesn't explain to me why the analogy is wrong and therefore doesn't support your argument.

It's like saying "I'm nothing like my mother; I don't even have long hair"
As someone with no business even commenting on this topic, I'll ask anyway: is it possible that a virus could do this? My (again, naive) understanding of CRISPR is that it uses a virus to inject DNA fragments into an organism's cells in a way that they become usable. Is there any chance that a naturally occurring virus injected this sequence into the fish in such a way that they both incorporate it into their offspring, at which point natural selection takes over?
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GNU APL is mostly a reimplementation of APL2 from the 80s, with some additions that in my opinion do nothing to get it out of the 80s. Dyalog has namespaces, but scripting support is only due to be released in the next version, 18.1.

So I don't know of any APL that allows module-defining scripts. This is really unfortunate since there's no technical reason to prevent it. With lexical scoping (Dyalog has it, GNU doesn't), it's easy to define a module system and I did this in my APL reboot called BQN: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/namespace.html .
From PA, can confirm. Also, it's pronounced Leb-nin.
Not immediately, especially with predicted costs. In some cases with new accounts and low usage it can take hours for anything to show up.
Half of the pandemic's unemployment money may have been stolen
UFOs are probably not secret Chinese spy drones
It depends on the workload. With insufficent memory and/or latency, ZFS can perform orders of magnitude worse than ext4/xfs, even when tuned. (I speak from experience)

Not exactly the same, but did you ever try ZFS on a commodity USB stick? It can get really bad when circumstances are not in favor.

With not too much concurrency it can perform quite well even under constraints, though!
As others said, you calculate it as an indirect FX rate with currencies that did exist.
In Julia: https://github.com/shashi/APL.jl
Guess that guy who works on ads at Google will be along shortly to assure us that everything is fine again.
I guess I don't really understand the idea that "oh there was a conspiracy of some sort, sometime..." when it has no connection to the claimed conspiracy.

Seems like that's a common refrain from conspiracy theory fans, when they can't find evidence for their claim 'well there was another thing' comes up.... I'm not sure what they're trying to say.
I'm just picking nits, but :%s/designed/evolved/g

Do very much agree it's miraculous. Biological organisms are robust to error and chance in ways no designed system comes close to matching. It's awe-inspiring
also when we draw a similar graph 20 years from now. :)
That is interesting. I'd be interested to have at least one session revert to the old way, and see what happens.
These are the thresholds for VAT going into effect on July 1st:

IOSS (EU) <150 EUR

VOEC (Norway) <3000 NOK

HMRC (United Kingdom) <135 GBP
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With the defaults of per_replica_batch=1, seq=2048 and gen_len=512, a completion takes about 20 seconds.

I'm not sure yet what settings I'll end up with if I decide to play with this more. per_replica_batch=3, seq=1024, gen_len=64 would give an experience roughly similar to the AI Dungeon that I'm used to, though less clever than the Dragon model, and a bit slower at about 10 seconds per batch.
Skynet is prettier than I thought it would be.
Based on my personal experience I would recommend staying away from TaxCloud. When they make mistakes filing for you (and they have) the states will come to you directly with scary letters, TaxCloud won't answer your calls or messages. The only way I was able to sort things out was by getting another states small business advocate to help.

TaxCloud also has a habit of changing their fees without notice. Currently they charge an API access fee even for their "free" accounts.

Finally, they lock you in by not giving you enough information to cancel all the accounts they started for you in other states but not providing a clear way to cleanly close your account.
I was reminded of campfire discussions of specific brands of motorcycles while reading GP's post. Some of those owners really go out of their way to justify the purchase, while I'm pretty sure they're only trying to convince themselves.
What was the exchange rate of dollar to British pound at 1776?
You can keep going backwards from that point.
Ooh, I agree. Amazon does this, too. I had notifications enabled in their mobile app for a while. I work in a cottage behind my house, so it’s useful to get a notification when something’s delivered.

Sure enough, after about half a dozen deliveries they started spamming me with promo messages as well. I quickly turned off notifications.

As usual, spammers ruin everything.
There's a graph in the book Why the West Rules--for Now that charts a "social development" index from hunter-gatherer times until today. (Basically a complicated distillation of various measures of civilization.)

The bottom line is that if you zoom out essentially nothing happened for thousands and thousands of years until the industrial revolution.
This is crazy from the perspective of "old fashioned binaries", but less so in the context of neural networks. You can do all sorts of splicing and dicing of the bits in neural networks (their weights) and end up with useful networks. Dropout, for example, specifically trains a network to be resilient to having swaths of the network removed, and makes individual features in the network resilient to having a random selection of other features present or not-present. If I remember right, the original dropout paper even analogizes this to how genes have evolved to be resilient to this type of random pairing.
We were on the gold standard (Bretton Woods system) that was established after WWII until Nixon ended it in 1971 when countries started to demand gold as payment from the Federal Reserve Banks instead of US Dollars because they didn't believe America could pay its debt due to spending more than it collected in taxes, and they were correct. We've been deficit spending ever since to pay for all of our toys. We owe more now than at any other time in our history. No country that has gone to a fiat currency system at any time in world history has lasted. It was probably the worst thing that Nixon did to this country, but we only talk about the other bad thing he did.

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/gold-convertibi...
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Don't forget the "Continental dollar", which went worthless almost immediately. The "Continental Dollar" was the denomination of debt of the Revolutionary War. It was horribly mismanaged, hyperinflated into worthlessness and then largely forgotten about.

It wasn't a big deal because IIRC, the typical citizen back then was using Spanish Pesos.
I'm not sure how valid these charts are - how much of what can be purchased exists across the ages? How do you compare a bag of flour, the cost of a carpenter to make a table, the wool to make a sweater - with a pop tart, an iPhone and a pair of Nike sneakers?
Doesn’t the brain rearrange itself during sleep?
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> Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

So if we're gonna have an opinion we need to do the whole academia & job in the industry dance?

That's quite a terrible way to view the world and quite limiting. A world without diversity is a stale and rotten world.

So fuck that and the glass houses and the boxes this kind of worldview puts people in.
Everyone should be able to throw stones, and if the hit hurts, well guess there is a reason.

The thesis is that DeepMind has financial incentive to state "we can achieve AGI with what we're doing", to keep up the funding and hopes for the field, not "the author is an idiot".

And the thesis is true, they do have financial incentives.
That's not ad-hominem.
If there's one place where the chances of dying are higher taking AZ than of covid, it is Australia.
Not at all. (And that's actually the big reason why Rust is making its way to the Linux Kernel)
unless you have several hundred TB, 4GB should be fine

it's quite happy with a 40tb array I have on a 2010 server with 4GB of ram

(and I've run ZFS on every laptop I've owned in the last decade or so)
Interesting to consider the possible effect of the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913.
I probably should have added a disclaimer when posting this:

- "A while ago" is about a year ago. When choosing a new email client, run your own test and don't take my stale test results. emailprivacytester.com is fantastic.

- It is not an apples-to-apples comparison. I used Apple's native client as a pure IMAP client fetching directly from my email server, while I think many other apps want to pre-process your emails on their own server sides so they can providing timely email notifications without eating your smartphone's battery for background activity.
If you were to do this with a new currency that was created today, that would not giver you a unique solution. e.g. if you said "well Bitcoin started its existence in 2009, and had an exchange rate of X USD = 1 BTC, so before this date we'll use X USD to stand in for 1 BTC", you get a different solution if you change USD to EUR, or GBP, or CAD, etc. because the EUR/USD rate changes over time prior to 2009.

But back around the 1700s, were most currencies pegged to precious metals? In which case I think you have a lot less freedom in your solution (I think you're basically choosing between gold and silver).
Aren't there a lot of things that need to get done that are annoying to developers? I personally enjoy having someone else in charge of all the manager responsibilities such as planning who works on what wand when, handling expenses, etc
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I am unsure how my comment is political while yours was not. But I see this double standard as a symptom of the same bias on HN.