skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> yes the computer prunes, but fundamentally it is attempting to review all possible scenarios indiscriminately as opposed to a human who is trying to make some sort of sense of the position.

No, pruning is by far the majority of the work the computer does. It is very much not trying to review all possible scenarios indiscriminately, because that can't be done, because there are too many possible scenarios.

And "pruning" and "making sense of the position" refer to the same thing. Interpreting the position is how you prune.
I bet the difference is teams has to play ball deeply with Microsofts famously hideous login systems whereas code is a standalone product (Visual Studio is also good, everywhere except the bit where you have to log in to license it).
It takes an awful lot to actually kill a company (often fraud or similar), but a company that is no longer dominant the same way is usually considered to have "died". Myspace still exists, but Facebook is clearly the one to beat in that sector.

If Amazon retreats to being AWS-only, I'll consider them to have "failed", even if AWS continues to be a success.
This is just what we have in the USA today. Capitalism can work, but what we have is lopsided in terms of power balance. Workers should have more power and leverage but that has been eroded over time.

The volatility you describe is part of economic systems in general and hard to get away from. While it seems like a lot, it is actually far, far less than we had in the 1800s and prior to that.
Most car infotainment systems ship with Linux, just they don't let you change it, which might be a GPL violation.
Not really. Let's say Facebook asked for location permission and the user says No. Today the app will be forced to work without it. By Apple Store rules. Tomorrow the app will say "this permission is required for app to work".
The big part though is the urban core existed hundreds before many US cities even had a name. Sure, Munich's borders looked very different 800 years ago, but the rest of the city largely continued to expand and rebuild around that core central idea. Dallas literally didn't exist until the 1850s, and at that point it was essentially just a train stop and a place to load and unload small barges on the small river. By 1850 Munich was definitely a large city with an obvious urban area. Dallas wouldn't even approach something like Munich until well into the 1900s, well into the oil boom and it grew further from just oil fields.

Also it's practically always been cheaper to own and operate an automobile in the US compared to most of Europe. We're really only starting to get to the point where US people are actually evaluating if driving a car is really worth it, if the US had high oil prices since the 1970s oil shocks I imagine our current cities would look a lot different.
20 years ago I was at a company that had gone from small start-up to acquired by a company with more than 100k employees globally. At a site all-hands a year or so after the acquisition, someone from HR briefed us on a change of insurance benefit providers and plans, taking our per-check cost from ~$10 to ~$150 and cutting in-network physician lists dramatically.

Naturally, people complained, and the HR person speaking, at that point a bit flustered, yelled "look, the good news is that this is saving [the company] a lot of money!"

It didn't help, but it was the truth. They were doing it because they could and because the decision-makers didn't care that they were effectively giving everyone massive pay cut. They'd weighed the downsides and done the math. The real impacts are hard to quantify, though, as the employees that leave will be the ones who can, leaving the company biasing towards employees unable to leave. It's how companies slowly bleed out.
I remember a guy at work calling Compuware the place that "Software goes to die", although I'm sure there are many other examples.
> You are looking at it from the wrong end, averages mask the issue.

Your claim was there was 10,000x more payment fraud in the US than in these countries, due to the different regulatory regime.

Data indicates there's like 3-4x, and a lot of it is more easily explained by greater share of card-not-present transactions and lack of chip-and-pin.

> If you compare similar segments and similar business models, the difference can be 2-4 orders of magnitude, depending on segment.

Oh, so you want to compare the lowest-risk banking sectors in Romania to the highest risk sectors in the US? Sorry-- this does not make sense as a way to compare regulatory regimes.

In the end, banking losses due to fraud... and the systems used to mitigate fraud... cost just several basis points on payment cards in the US and a much smaller share than this on other transactions. This is tiny compared to the overall credit risks and the rest of the cost structure of the transactions.

When it comes to regulation E-- many banks even choose to compete by offering consumers greater protections than reg E requires.
The solution to this is simple: allow users to filter by a show quality metric like IMDB/Rotten Tomatoes score. A basic filter would make searching on Netflix so much easier, but instead they use an unnecessarily complex, generally useless algorithm to pick what to show you from their gargantuan library. Consequently, in order to find anything worth watching on Netflix, I have to google "what's good on netflix." It's dumb.
Yep someone I know had to revert to the telephone (which is a better UX always anyway :-))
Not the OP but I assume it has something to do with the loss of same-day or 4 hour turnaround-type services (which if you need try laundromats, some offer fluff and fold services where they'll wash for you).
You aren't just paying for data and hardware, you're paying for the analyst enhanced data and getting it seconds or minutes before everyone else. I saw a presentation of theirs that showed stock prices as breaking news hit BB, Reuters, and then the rest of the market.

tl;dr it pays for itself and this is how businesses make decisions
Entry level jobs for a chef often start near minimum wage and many of them will never make it over $30/hour. It's not a career that pays well.
That Wikipedia article quotes critics describing

> "the sheer arrogance and imperial ambitions of the modern hydraulic West"

and

> "the most outlandish water development scheme to emerge in the past 50 years".

Yet the Chinese South-North Water Transfer Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran...) currently underway is (or at least was at inception) intended to move nearly half as much water--44.8 billion cubic meters vs 93 billion cubic meters. While still under construction, it's already moving 7 billion cubic meters per https://window-to-china.de/2022/02/20/china-reports-progress... That's only about 1/5 of their planned volume, but IIUC the final, western diversion would provide more water to be diverted for the first two completed (?) routes.

On the face those criticisms might still stand, but the context seemed to be an explanation for why NAWPA was an utter failure from inception, in which case they may soon seem merely short-sighted or at least myopic.
If your iPhone is old enough to be vulnerable to one of the bootrom exploits, then yes you can.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/developers-get-linux...
I use git-annex: https://git-annex.branchable.com/

Repositories are synced (via essentially `git push` and `git pull`) between my laptop and desktop and home server, plus encrypted offline backups on two removable drives which take turns alternating between my safe deposit box and a desk drawer. (All my machines are currently Linux, but nothing has changed between now and when my desktop was Windows/WSL2.) The one time (in ~15 years) I had some corruption (dying laptop SSD), the Git history proved invaluable in figuring out which copies were intact and which had synced the corrupted files.

Files are organized in the repository roughly by topic, e.g. "/Finances/MyBank/Statements/", with the date as part of the file naming convention, e.g. "2022-07-20 MyBank Statement.pdf". This lets me sort by date despite Git not preserving mtime on checkout. Renaming/moving a file is just a metadata update in Git, and Emacs dired mode (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15881776/emacs-dired-ren...) is my friend for bulk renames.

I use the same system, but different Git repositories/git-annex remotes, for work and personal. For company books, I use beancount (https://beancount.io/), with the ledgers for each account (e.g. "MyBank.beancount") in the same repository. Tags make linking transactions and documents easy. For example, invoices get added as:

2022-07-01 * "SomeCo, Ltd." "Security Deposit" ^invoice-someco-1234
Liabilities:AP:SomeCo
Assets:Prepaid:Deposits:SomeCo 700.00 USD

2022-07-10 document Liabilities:AP:SomeCo "2022-07-10 SomeCo Invoice.pdf" ^invoice-someco-1234

After the invoice gets paid and the bank statement is reconciled, the checking ledger gets entries that look like:

2022-07-11 * "SomeCo, Ltd." "ACH Payment" ^invoice-someco-1234 ^statement-checking-2022-07-20
Accounts:MyBank:Checking
Liabilities:AP:SomeCo 700.00 USD

2022-07-20 document Accounts:MyBank:Checking "2022-07-20 MyBank Statement.pdf" ^statement-checking-2022-07-20

(This renders links in the web interface for jumping between transaction legs and supporting documents.)

The running theme is Git + plain text, which lets me leverage familiar tools.
There have been a few 960 world champs. The first FIDE one was in 2019. Wesley So won it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess960_Championship
> Honestly this post sounds a bit whiny and lacking reality in how acquisitions go about.

I think you’re reading more into the post than is actually there. It’s three sentences written in a pretty matter-of-fact voice, giving context on the old policy and management’s messaging on the new one. As someone following the labor side of the tech industry, I found it to be an interesting data point.
No, my point is that the rhetoric from Republican office holders and candidates such as calling Democrats "pedophiles", "groomers", "satanists", "animals", etc. are a form of dehumanization in preparation for suppressing and then killing Democrats in large numbers. For real. They've even posted anime videos of killing other members of Congress [1]. This is common in all authoritarian takeovers.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/us/politics/gosar-violent...
OkSo – drawing app with hierarchical drawings/sketches structure
As a foreigner, I don't care. Holiday schedule is one out of many issues with US-centric policy and culture, but mainstream biases exist everywhere. This is about an employee perk.

Extra time off is always much appreciated, especially in the US tech sector where prestige white collar work = your life & identity. Most work overtime during the year anyway and are available outside of business hours and make countless other sacrifices for their employer every hour of every day.

Moreover, many of us celebrate Thanksgiving and July 4th anyway, because, well everyone else is (ie the same reason as most Americans).
This is one of the worst licenses I've ever seen. Not only is it neither free nor open source, despite claiming to be, but it's also another Web3 grift.
Ah,

That is actually an illuminating perspective cutting through verbiage.

Abduction is the first "step", that the produces the ideas that can be considered ... by induction or deduction. It is the principle that we have to start somewhere.

Basically, an abductive step is something like "I can think of only ten hypotheses that explain X and only one of them works. I could consider an infinity of possibilities but it's not worth it. I will stick with my working hypothesis".
My worry here is that judges will not see it their way, and side with the publishing companies (if not now, then perhaps on appeal). The Internet Archive could end up facing massive legal fees and monetary judgments against them, causing them to shut down. Is the risk of loss of Archive.org itself worth the benefit of having this library lending program in the first place? Would it have been possible to "firewall" the lending group into its own entity, such that the rest of Internet Archive would be protected from something legally catastrophic happening?
I didn't have friends before Discord existed, so I never had a reason to use it. Network effects don't mean shit when you lean into capitalist atomization.
oh, hey
Share: Incident: TM402718, impacted service: Microsoft Teams, impacted feature: TeamsComponents, current status is: Service degradation

We're rerouting Microsoft Teams traffic to an alternate region in an effort to provide some relief and potentially restore some functionality to the service.

This quick update is designed to give the latest information on this issue.

This quick update is designed to give the latest information on this issue.

Published Time: 7/20/2022 10:11:49 PM

Title: Users can't access Microsoft Teams

User Impact: Users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams.

More info: Reported impact scenarios include, but may not be limited to, the inability to access to the service, initiate messaging, calling, and meetings.

The desktop app may sign in successfully, though all functionalities may be down, and users may see the following message: “We ran into a problem. Reconnecting…” Users leveraging the web client may see a message stating “Operation failed with unexpected error.”

Current status: Our investigation has determined that a recent deployment contained a broken connection to an internal storage service. We’re working to direct traffic to a healthy service to remediate the impact to Teams. In parallel, we’re exploring other options to mitigate impact as quickly as possible.

Scope of impact: This issue may potentially affect any user attempting to utilize the Microsoft Teams service.

Next update by: Thursday, July 21, 2022, at 4:00 AM UTC

Published Time: 7/20/2022 9:05:26 PM

Title: Users can't access Microsoft Teams

User Impact: Users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams.

More info: Reported impact scenarios include, but may not be limited to, access to the service, messaging, calling, and meetings.

The desktop app may sign in successfully, though all functionalities may be down and users may see a “We ran into a problem. Reconnecting…” message. Users leveraging the web client may see a message stating “Operation failed with unexpected error.”.

Current status: We've received reports that users are experiencing issues with the Microsoft Teams service. We're analyzing service telemetry to help identify the source of the issue and determine our next steps to restoring the service.

Scope of impact: This issue may potentially affect any user attempting to utilize the Microsoft Teams service.

Next update by: Thursday, July 21, 2022, at 3:00 AM UTC

Published Time: 7/20/2022 8:31:01 PM

Title: Possible delays or problems when accessing Microsoft Teams

User impact: Some customers have reported issues with accessing the service, or using features in Microsoft Teams.

Current status: We’re looking into your reported issue and checking for impact to your organization. We'll provide an update within one hour.
I meant, in North America. I don't know how widespread Teams is outside the Western hemisphere, sorry.
Honestly, I'd suggest starting out with a more contemporary and easy author before delving into the classics, for the same reasons Einstein gave about music: https://www.rd.com/article/the-night-i-met-einstein/

The classics tend to be harder to approach due to the many cultural references contemporary to their time, and also their literary devices and techniques that are part of what led to their selection as classics to begin with. Without that background knowledge, you'll feel lost and frustrated, and there's little point in reading things if you can't enjoy them.

I started my journey into history and the classics later in life. I never thought I'd ever actually enjoy reading Shakespeare, and yet King Lear is one of my favorites (but it takes a lot of background knowledge to enjoy).

So start with someone contemporary to the last 30 years or so. Think of the genres of TV shows or movies you do enjoy, and then seek out famous authors of those genres.

Here are some authors I've enjoyed in the more "addition and subtraction" end of literature. Temba, his arms wide:

- Stephen King (horror, suspense) - fun fact: Did you know that "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" is one of the few non-horror short stories he wrote? And I daresay his best.

- Terry Pratchett (comedy, fantasy) - Spent many an evening giggling uncontrollably with his Discworld novels.

- Douglas Adams (comedy, scifi)

- Robert Heinlein (scifi) - "Stranger in a Strange Land" is still my favorite scifi story. This is where the term "grok" comes from.

- Tom Clancy (drama, thriller, spy)

- John Steinbeck (drama, depression era) - "Of Mice and Men" is particularly good, and a source of many references. Whenever you hear references to Lenny and the rabbits and the puppy, it's referring to this book.

- Farley Mowatt (drama, environmentalism) - Most famous for "Never Cry Wolf"

TBH I'm a little jealous... You're about to discover a whole world.
Hard agree. I deleted my reddit account over the fact that they kept letting T_D exist despite its obvious flouting of the rules around brigading (they arranged brigades on discord and took over other subreddits, repeatedly, after being warned) and how it was an increasingly obvious alt-right funnel full of some of the absolute worst people on the internet.

They ultimately closed the subreddit about a year later, but I had already deleted my account at that point. I was better off in the end though, as the entire site is now just a giant meme dump with no redeeming qualities (it felt like all subreddits eventually saturate with memes on their main page as a function of their popularity, and it gets tiresome and same-ey after a while.)
+1. I am a deep sleeper and Ive missed pages at times that got escalated to the secondary. Nothing major, just something that autoresolved. But the guilt I felt was… incredibly stressful. Because I felt I was letting down people I was familiar with.
Yeah there could be some kind of “varnish-like” layer outside the app server designed to modify the response to the required “lens” that is specified in a header.

This would process the app response and filters/zoom to the part of the doc you want. The app could be agnostic and it reduces the amount of crap sent over the wire.
If you enjoyed this post, I highly recommend reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling. He spent his later years trying to educate the public on the realities of the world. This book contains a series of tips on how to understand facts.

His TED talks are masterpieces as well.
> The borrowing feature is an amazing way of working around utterly broken copyright law

If lending had exceeded the number of available purchased/physical copies, then it wouldn't be "working around", it would be "violating" copyright law. I agree with you that copyright law is horribly broken as-is, but I think it's irresponsible of the Internet Archive to play so fast and loose with it. A monetary judgment against them could be devastating to their effort to preserve history.
MRTK is more of a library. This seems like a stand alone engine.
Streetcars in the modern "done right" sense - with a dedicated right of way, signal priority, and other similar treatments for efficiency can be great for local getting around.

Streetcars in the sense of what they were at the time - Stuck in ever increasing traffic with everything else and less able to navigate around issues than a bus, boarding in traffic in the middle of the street, sitting at all the lights - are not.
Congrats! What a lovely project. What a fantastic job!

Question: I am currently evaluating Ory/Kratos as authentication backend for a side project. Ory Kratos is a mature and excellent project. However, it has very little documentation when it comes to self-hosting. Further, I also feel like maintaining code that uses it down the line could is going to be
problematic given its shear size and complexity.

How do you think Pocketbase compares with Ory Kratos?
Yeah, I think you nailed the reason why they both use the same word: "mathematical induction" is deductive once the proof is finished, but coming up with the proof is absolutely an inductive process.
I already have individual tools that can do all this and more, but it still looks damn nice... wish I could justify buying more stuff
> So if someone says “ah, don’t worry about that clause” then simply ask if you can strike it from the document.

And if the answer is no, it's because they do plan to use that clause against you and you should worry about it.
Talk about fake news.
I would humbly suggest that if this person didn’t do anything, either they needed to be better informed of expectations or that your culture needs to change so that they don’t feel the need to ack without actually doing anything.
One more thing about lightrail, in the US they tend to share right of way alongside freeways (median) for long stretches and can veer off on to local streets when it gets to a dense area. Steetcars I tend to picture as going on local roads as in the "trolley dodgers" kind of way.
Anti-Interdiction on the Librem 5 USA
Friend you are wrong. Hay is harvested green. It says straw is the byproduct of harvesting wheat i.e. what your grandfather was doing. You could have wheat hay, but you would have to harvest early. No one is going to do that.
> As long as we need to fill the gaps around supply of renewables,

There are several assumptions hidden here.

One is that it's a choice between building new renewable and fossil fuel plants vs. new nuclear. The real choice is between moving some fossil fuels to renewable immediately, or leaving fossil fuels online while a nuclear plant gets delayed 5 times.

The second is the assumption that all capacity to consume energy much be fulfilled and must remain constant. We can turn down the aluminium smelter. We can smelt steel with electricity. We can use renewables to drive chemical reactions. We can make fertilizer with electricity. Noone dies if we stop doing these things sometimes. The only downside is it costs a little more.

But this is the downside of nuclear anyway, so where's the problem?

We can also time shift energy with things like thermochemical storage. A huge amount of emissions come from burning natural gas for heat. Thermochemical storage is a fraction of the cost of batteries and is compact enough to store a year's worth of energy.
Declaring bankruptcy immediately after graduation was last legal in 1976, when private school tuition could be paid for with 20 hours/week of minimum wage labor. Even for an amoral profit optimizer, explicitly planning to have zero assets and maximum debt at graduation and immediately declaring bankruptcy was not yet a particularly compelling idea.

I don't think it'd really be a thing today either, but the circumstances are clearly very different.
I am not the person you originally replied to but you (again) commented like I was. My comment was about how your comment erroneously targets the wrong person because you thought you were replying to one person when you were replying to another. You did it again in your previous comment hence my serious question.
That is a great idea! Love the sticker.
I don't think it's accurate at all to characterize GANs as denoising auto-encoders, they're not even superficially similar, unless you're talking about a very specific architecture of autoencoder-based GANs like AAEs.