skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, it hadn't occurred to me that the app stores would enforce easy cancellation. I'll remember to prefer in-app sign up over website for any new subscriptions in future.
Ironically, if we apply your first statement generally you are likely excluding yourself from the debate.

"If you are not a logician your opinion on fallacies doesn't matter at all."
Unfortunately it still is mostly the openSUSE build service in practice. I wish canonical switched Launchpad's PPA system to OBS or at least added automatic rebuilds on dependency changes to their own system.
There are now more than 900 unicorns ($1B+ startups) around the world
I would first note that you can keep arguing with me all you want, but it is well known and commonly practiced that a Turing machine such as a digital computer can simulate a Quantum Computer or Quantum System to arbitrary precision, given sufficiently large but finite time. There are even cloud services offering such simulation capabilities, such as Amazon Braket [0]. The simulations take exponential time to run a linear time quantum algorithm, but they will produce the same result as a QC would (after enough sampling of the QC results).

> Hilbert space is infinite-dimensional and real-valued.

Infinite-dimensional Hilbert state spaces are a useful mathematical model, but they are not physical. Physical systems have finite elements and thus finite state spaces. We could argue that space itself is infinitely divisible, so that we need infinite-dimensional state spaces to represent the infinite possible positions of a particle, but this is not a physical concern, as it is impossible to differentiate in finite time two states that only differ in an infinitesimal position change - so, we are free to choose some minimal unit of length (say, one over Graham's number of the Planck length) and get a finite-dimensional state space. Crucially, for any amount of time and for any sensitivity of instruments, we can always choose some such unit and ensure that our results will not be distinguishable with those measurement instruments within that amount of time.

> QM says that there is no `rand(seed)`, rather there is only `rand()` that is what "no hidden variables" means.

QM says no such thing, though many interpretations do. Still, that is exactly why I chose rand(), not rand(seed) in my example, so I'm not sure why you're bringing this up. rand(seed) is a deterministic computation, rand() is a non-deterministic computation.

> If you want to do `rand(s) forall s`, that "forall" requires real numbers -- and then you're out-of-luck on computability.

This is not what I was proposing. I was proposing a Turing machine + perfectly random rand() as the simulation of a random world.

Even this is not necessary if you believe in the MWI, where the whole universe actually evolves perfectly linearly and deterministically from a fixed initial state, with no randomness of any kind. This interpretation is perfectly compatible with all observations of QM, if we also add the postulate that observers can only observe one state at a time (the one they are entangled with).

Even without going there, the construction I proposed earlier, where we essentially select enough real numbers to satisfy any possible measurement device leads to such that our computable set is indistinguishable in practice from the infinite uncomputable set we started with still applies.

In general, there is no (known) way to introduce infinity into empirical science - it is a priori impossible to distinguish, in finite time, between an arbitrarily large but finite quantity, and a truly infinite quantity.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/braket/
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Most of UK customers are VISA debit card users. To be fair, I was completely convinced, that Master cards are the credit cards and VISA are debit cards... who knew.

Anyway - it appears that it is not my problem and I don't care.

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I don't understand how this works. If I see correctly, one entity in the chain simply does not pay the VAT it collected. Why is it important that it's cross border? I could issue an invoice to my neighbour's company myself and simply not report it. You can always do that and hope you don't get an audit.
Have to find something for their engineers to do so they don't have time to make Teams usable
The alleged failures in "Why We Sleep" go as far as quoting papers and books claiming they say "X", where in fact they claim "not X". So to me, Walker saying or quoting something bears 0 informational content (almost).

But different rates of caffeine tolerance and digestion certainly conform with my personal observations, Walker or not.
>Right now we have a Pope who I do not agree with. His philosophy is flawed and not anything I agree with.

I'm assuming you're American, because otherwise I find it hard to believe that anyone could thing the philosophy that comes right out of the gospels as "flawed".

This is a serious question: Is there anything he's said that was not already taught in the gospels?
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Grady Hillhouse is (per his /about page) a professional civil engineer. He just did a YouTube video on a screw-up that has launched a fleet of big-money lawsuits. He has a wife and little kid. If he is making sure that he won't be the target of any deep-pocketed legal action...that sounds pretty rational to me.

Also, I've noticed that we (computer professionals here on HN, roughly) don't always think that the general public is particularly rational in their choices about computers. Perhaps most professional civil engineers have similar feelings about the public being rational in their own area of expertise?
That's absurd. You have no idea my circumstances or anyone who is loosing a job, you are putting people in mortal danger with your authoritarian wrong think.
Why not rely on direct debit to pay the full balance?
You sponsor coups so you don't need a war. Much cheaper, and also saves a lot of face.
This is true, at least, it is for me. I never expected that my country (far down the list in population) would be in the top 30 countries for COVID cases. Disappointment doesn't begin to describe it.
Reasonable would be lack payment ending the contract. We should be able to simply stop paying them with zero repercussions. Let them deal with the administrative trivia required to cancel a service.
Blocking Firefox might not be worth it, but they will not be the only party exploiting this. And that part is certainly problematic
Good. The worst experience I ever had was with NY Times when I wanted to unsubscribe I had to go through multiple call/chats with a person and it was almost impossible since it was hard to get in touch with one.

I am glad FTC is doing something others are afraid to do.
I subscribed to NYT via apple pay (through their website not the app) to avoid these shenanigans but the subscription won’t show up in Apple pay. Does anyone know why?
It never included the windows/office teams otherwise we would have had a native port if office to Linux.

What happened was merely that azure was given the same freedom the Xbox division used to have to operate in their market niche as if they were an independent company with no obligation to promote Microsofts other products, and it's a question if that is actually going to last.
This study was conducted over 10+ years, the COVID numbers are probably per case, or possibly annualised.
I’m certainly no expert but isn’t the evolutionary timescale for parasites considerably longer than for bacteria? That would presumably lead to quite different consequences (though of course the evolutionary pressure, and thus the risk, is still there).
Hi @atombender,

with the new SDK you would be able to parse your K8s manifests, and create (dynamic) configs with the parsed info. This is actually an interesting usecase, tnx!

Could you explain what you mean with "running a single job across multiple machines"? How would that exactly work clustering- and result-agreggation wise? Of course it's perfectly possible to run parallel jobs over multiple machines (https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/parallelism-faster-jobs/) but i guess you mean something different?
Sure — and I don’t read Bolshevik, Nazi, or Cultural Revolution literature.

I don’t really want to understand how their contemporaries propagandize, either.

That your life is better with culture (broadly) doesn’t mean that any culture improves your life.
Or even better. Send a fax. :D
I absolutely love this, thanks for the recommendation! It's wonderful to watch but has absolutely cured me of a desire to own a wooden boat, I'll be happy to follow his progress from a fibreglass boat instead!
Which software would you need to work to make the switch? So much of what I use is web-based nowadays, it's only really dev tools and games which I care about running natively. The former is best-in-class on Linux, and the latter is getting pretty darned good.
>In American political discourse, any member of the Democratic Party is considered a "leftist' regardless of their beliefs or policies.

As an American living in America, this doesn't match my experience. My impression aligns with Urban Dictionary:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Leftist

'Leftist: A person belonging to the political left and usually identifying with the radical, anti capitalist, or revolutionary sectors of left politics. Includes anarchists, marxists, communists, socialists, and all other explicitly radical left ideologies.'

There are absolutely conservative commentators who describe all Democratic Party voters as 'leftists', just as there are left-leaning commentators who describe all Republicans as 'fascists', but these descriptions are commonly understood to be hyperbole. I think when using words like 'leftist' among non-American company, we can agree that the current Presidential adminstration doesn't fit that label. Compare the current White House policy agenda to that of Germany's political party Die Linke, translated as "The Left":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_(Germany)
Amazon to stop accepting UK-issued Visa credit cards
What you say resonates with me as well. I think this is a two-fold thing. A desire for self-actualisation and a desire for recognition.

I have a very creative job and it provides me a lot out creative outlet but that doesn't stop me daydreaming about making something of my own and that desire is something I struggle with a lot. Interestingly it's become more acute as I've got older, had kids and have more time that is taken up by home-life. Before I could throw myself into other hobbies that have largely fallen by the wayside. It doesn't help that my health took a large oopsie this year and I'm still getting back on my feet from that. I've very slowly started scratching that itch and every time that I do I definitely feel more relaxed.

My other issue is that I've spent so long being creative in a commercial setting I find it very hard not to look at everything through a product lens.
You somehow think that all the bad decisions from Microsoft comes directly from Ballmer? There are plenty of people at Microsoft (still) who think like Ballmer did, and they will in the future too. The decisions that come from Microsoft comes from the entire of Microsoft, and they are all contributing to it happening too.
Look up Jesuit Oath which has nothing to do with any books or gospels.
> "Pablo was earning so much that each year we would write off 10% of the money because the rats would eat it in storage or it would be damaged by water or lost," Escobar wrote.

https://www.businessinsider.com/pablo-escobar-and-rubber-ban...
The title is a bit misleading
It's strange that an auto vehicle maker that has manufactured and sold less than 300 vehicles if I remember correctly is somehow, mysteriously, more valuable than Ford
More likely, that the user base of VISA credit cards in UK is not big enough to pay for using it.

After Brexit both Master cards and VISA cards have increased costs, so this can't be the reason.
The last version of Windows I used was Windows XP. I since switched to various Linux distros and macOS, now settling on a combination of Debian and Ubuntu as my daily laptop/server OS’s.

My initial reasons for my leaving the Microsoft world were because I didn’t agree with Microsoft’s ethics: it’s like being an exploitative, self-serving (as opposed to user-serving) conglomerate is wired into its company structure.

MS’s great work with VS Code got me thinking that maybe there’s some hope for them as an organization, but every time I peek back into the Microsoft world like this I’m even less inclined to ever go back.

I mean, their customers are actively developing workarounds for their shitty dark UX patterns, and their response is basically: “sorry, we insist that you adhere to our dark UX patterns”.

Fuck that. Life’s too short for that bullshit. Vote with your time, money and attention.
Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced
>Put simply, we suggest that by applying the RL framework as a model for human learning it becomes evident that in order for us to learn efficiently and be intelligent we need to view ourselves as if we have free will.

Granting the authors' assumption that we don't in fact have free will, it seems very difficult to argue that we need a false belief in order to learn efficiently and be intelligent. If it's possible to give a coherent explanation of why the false belief is helpful, then that's sufficient to indicate how we could do without the false belief.
Doesn't it at least protect you from someone else registering it and then suing you?
that was the point of leaving?
The scientist that found this potential planet in the old data did calculate the location where the planet should be and provided it in his article.

I'm sure there will be follow up studies and some telescopes will be pointing.
I don't think that's really true outside of the US.
The Behaviors and Attitudes of U.S. Adults on Twitter – Pew Research Center
The cost of handling cash is similar to handling a credit card transaction
We also need to remember that the infallibility of the Pope is dogma and questioning it is heresy.
I don't think that analogy holds. Let's assume you can still publish a perfectly fine (for 2021) web page with strict HTTP/1.1 - I think you can. It's very flexible and unchanged since its publication.

Finger on the other hand is would be a very narrow API to for a certain service without ANY of the flexibility of HTTP. No custom headers, no Basic Auth, not even the difference between GET and POST.

So yeah, maybe the original comparison between finger and http is already flawed, but unless HTTP/2 gives you something that HTTP/1.1 can't do then HTTP/1.1 is still perfectly valid, and probably will be in 10 years, at least for low-traffic situations. (finger should be reaaally low-traffic in comparison).
Govoize
GoVoize is a centralized service or product feedback solution that gives you anything that you need to collect, analyze and use the feedback from customers and in-house teams to improve and provide better solutions.

We are a Silicon-Valley Based Company working with a vision to make Ecommerce communication as easy and seamless as possible, with verbal and voice communication integration plugins.
One would honestly have expected the opposite. We live in crazy times
Having dealt with The Guardian and others like them to cancel, I say "I will not explain why I wish to cancel nor will I reconsider my decision. Please cancel my account. My account number is x, my email is y and my address is z."

I usually have to repeat it 3-4 times before they finally give in and do it.
I wonder if this strategy could impact your credit rating though?
No, this way they can build the search experiance (and others) without cross browser testing. I'm not defending it though, it's an abandonment of the open web. Rather than work to right the ship, they choose to force everyone on a tiny lifeboat and pray they make it ashore. Nevermind that they left half the crew behind.
Monzo. It's the default in fact, since in order to get an overdraft you need to do a credit application.
Aha okay I didn't know that. That's just plain evil then.
I can imagine that there's some contorted logic that goes like this:

* MS (used to) allow the user to choose default programs in the spirit of "openness" (because they were legally told to).

* The default settings in programs have never been legislated...

* ...therefore do dark patterns in programs and set the default search in Edge to be Bing...

* ... and make it even harder (impossible? dunno, not using Windows) to change Bing to Google in Edge and drive all Windows users to Bing, and drive ad revenue.

"There's nothing that can't be solved with an extra layer of indirection".
CD rates barely beat inflation over time. The amount of money that you could remove from the account in a year and leave the principal untouched (in inflation-adjusted terms) is given by the real rate of return. That’s not 7% in the mid-90s (the nominal rate wasn’t even 7%)

In order to leave purchasing power untouched, you need to grow the account by the nominal inflation rate and leave that for next year (especially in the context of having “a comfortable living situation then and today” over a near-30-year period.)

https://www.putnam.com/literature/pdf/II514-59fb3e978431513e...
In the UK you aren't able to add a fee for using a credit card over another form of payment.
I put this on par with Google automatically signing you in to Chrome when you log into any one of its services, or even the mandatory Windows Online account that you need to install Windows 11 (and to a lesser extent 10).

Just user hostile actions in the name of "convenience" (for the product owner / business).
The heavy-handedness at Microsoft right now is surprising. Is there some kind of internal power struggle going on?
My experience with Emacs is bittersweet. On the one hand, org-mode in Emacs is extremely powerful. I use it to schedule TODO items, organize my thoughts, write notes, publish websites, and lots of other things. On the other hand, Emacs drives me crazy from time to time. It's slow, hard to maintain, the environment I set up is fragile, and most of all, it lacks a modern UI. Scrolling pixel by pixel is still impossible in Emacs.

Sometimes I do use VSCode as an alternative, but VSCode only has a rudimentary implementation of org-mode, and the so-called org-mode alternative - markdown - is not nearly as powerful as org-mode.
> Also, I've noticed that we (computer professionals here on HN, roughly) don't always think that the general public is particularly rational in their choices about computers.

Hah, how’s that for an understatement. Most devs definitely see the general public much as Joe Wilkinson sees Fabio.
Sure, but extending a TM with a source of entropy is trivial and doesn't affect the computability results in any way.
Breaking changes happen regularly in many commercial and business adopted languages. Es. PHP 5 vs 7, Python 2 vs 3, Typescript ecc. Even Java added some keywords over time.
But that 2% fee is squeezed out from the processors anyways and flows back to consumers.
I call Microsoft’s implementation improper. Will block them from my purchasing in future.
Poor management on my part, i'd rather know its done and keep a watch on my spending day to day.
that would be suicidal, but an EU initiative for incentivizing low-fee cashless payments is not out of question.
The L-cones that detect red color also are sensitive to violet light. You can see some of that in some of the curves here: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/51870/can-red-co...
I've been thinking about a series/anthology like this. Similar to Black Mirror — each story starts with a window into our current reality, often dystopic. We see what happens if we continue going down that path.

And then, we see a change. An intervention. And we see a new future unfolding, based on the choices and changes we made.

If this sounds interesting to you, let me know! Would love to connect with others — whether storytellers, artists, creatives, or anybody who's interested in thinking about problems we're facing and what change could look like. Feel free to drop a comment or contact me at https://twitter.com/sambutlerUS or https://sambutler.us!
The creator of SWC [0] is working on a faster compiler alternative in Rust, so there is still hope for a faster compilation speed in the future

[0] https://github.com/swc-project/swc
I would assume theres a high correlation here (though complete conjecture) that GOP base may have fewer members who have graduated with non economically productive degrees and 10-200k of school debt. For every person that graduates shackled to their student debt, the fed has another willing tax-payer who appreciates high inflation.

Similarly i would assume the upper percentiles in both parties are happy to see high inflation as it reduces the cost of your multiple million dollar debts.

The people getting it the worst will be folks who work for a decent amount of money, have very little debt, and arent hedging / bitcoining their savings.

Im assuming the fact that consumers arent saving has to do with them trying to avoid watching their savings shrink 6%
At least in this case, there can be multiple correct answers using different approaches, in that case your theory leads to further confusion.
I wonder if this is why my bank (Santander) is switching everyone to Mastercard.
Yet the stock is doing better than ever.
Does the exec board only offer cybersecurity lip service?
Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections (2020)
Yup, and forced injection mandates are sprung from terrifying socialist (leftist) authoritarian efforts.
That's very cool, thanks for sharing your story :)

If you find a way to monetize it, you can become the next patio11, eventually get hired by Stripe (or whatever is the cool finance startup in about 10 years) and start ranting about how the new financial ecosystem being built at the time is nothing like $NextStripe.
Was actually thinking about that last week.

What's the physical weight of 1.9 gb of digital books?
> doesn't really matter

Their 35/50Mbit upload speed says differently. I'm really looking forward to not having to call them again for discounts (since you otherwise pay more than new customers) because I can then actually leave them when the fiber is installed.

Good to know I just have to hang up on the sales guy.
And all that stuff is still illegal as it is in the US. I don't see your point?
Streamlabs would like that very much. I wrote them a zesty email about pretending they (Streamlabs) created OBS and continue to control it as a sub-asset of Streamlabs. In fact, Streamlabs is entirely seperable.
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Not having seen it does not mean it does not exist. I have seen it more than twice. I hope to see it more times.

I have also seen -10x engineers. Generally the best you can do is stay well clear.
The last one is not a necessarily true point. If Apple and Android can stop supporting older hardware on their newer operating systems, why can't Microsoft?
For a lot of technical people they start applications by hitting the Windows key and then typing. If you do this quickly and accidentally mistype something you'll most likely end up doing a search.
> Office is not supported

I mean realistically how many times have you ever had to reach out to support regarding an issue with Office?
The email is evidence he's let them know of his intention to cancel. Unless there is some major clause in the contract that entitles them to more money such as a minimum commitment, I don't see a problem.

Granted anyone can sue for anything anyway, but I can't see them having a strong case. They'd be paying a lot of money to try and litigate this and demonstrate their bad faith in the process.
Criminals would be out of a buissness because it became illegal? Are you sure about that?