skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla dumped 75% of its Bitcoin holdings
Homeowners over 65 in Texas (along with certain widower situations and disabled veterans) are also eligible for exemptions that “freeze” the amount of tax they are required to pay (if the property is their homestead) irrespective of the appraised value of the property.
I think that the Internet Archive is one of the greatest libraries of human knowledge and internet culture in the world. Next to resources such as the Library Genesis, Sci-Hub, and probably the Wikipedia, these together might be the most important collections of human knowledge in the world.

There's almost no-one else who has an incentive to archive that kind of information, if there isn't an economic incentive. And as soon as those primary sources go bankrupt, there's no-one to keep that data available.

So I realize that this is a thorn to publishers, but I think that the interests of humanity far outweigh their personal financial incentives.

I applaud all those, who put themselves into the line of fire of those who just care about themselves, rather than the goal to preseve the wealth of human knowledge. So thank you, to all of those who do, even in light of all the difficulties it might cause in your lives.

Edit: I see these libraries similar to the library of Alexandria, which burnt down around 48 bc. People nowadays have the ability to preserve that knowledge, with equipment that isn't unattainable to the general public (especially with distributed storage). Not everyone, but a huge number of people can now prevent the next burning down of the biggest library in the world. And I think that's a great thing.
Yup, frequency will increase is all.
Until you lose your job which is kind of the point.

Besides if 50 dollars an hour becomes minimum wage for everyone you can bet your years salary that healthcare providers are going to raise their prices accordingly.
Usually if someone posts a link to a 14 minute video from a source I never heard of, claiming it proved their point, I wouldn’t watch it. But I actually watched your entire video there and not only does the info there contradict you, but the narrator says at the end says public perception is the number one obstacle to nuclear in commercial shipping.
I admit personal bias, but that's no longer the only way to deploy Ceph object storage these days. (And full-blown Ceph is rather good when you in fact require resilience and very large scale.)
The IA really messed up when they knowingly violated copyright. The best case scenario now is they pay a reasonable sum to the publishers that doesn't cause long term harm.
> Eliminate zoning rules and start replacing older buildings with new, larger and taller buildings.

Right now, NIMBY tries to prevent taller buildings.

A land value tax incentivizes more effective land uses-- as opposed to property taxes that include improvements, which reduce the incentive to build high density.
I think the important question to ask here is if people continue to want to pay & hail taxis from their phone? If the answer to that is yes then Uber will be fine so long as they're one of the apps that people continue to use to hail taxis. Personally I don't see taxi hailing apps going anywhere and I don't see Uber losing significant market share to its competition if they price competitively.

100% agreed. It wasn't that long ago that Amazon was starting to catch on in large part due to its (and more broadly the Internet's) reputation for low prices. Nowadays that's no longer the case, and yet here we are.

Where I think you have a point is in regards to Uber's potential operating margins. Is it reasonable to assign Google / Facebook sized margins to a company like Uber? Probably not [...] I'd argue taxi hailing apps (as they currently exist) are basically commodities.

I would also have to agree with this. I've long since used Lyft and Uber interchangeably depending on current local prices; a third-party app could easily go further to consolidate every major ride sharing service and automatically book the cheapest ride at any given time.

I see the trajectory of Uber and Lyft more as consolidating the market share of the taxi industry into a handful of owners than really creating a novel market or economics. The economies of scale and massive VC-backed war chests could make for viable stepping stones to bringing production-ready self-driving tech to market, which would change the economics, but last I heard it seems like Waymo is leading the pack there without the albatross of a massively unprofitable service business.
Saudi Arabia Nears Its Oil Pumping Limit
It's not justified. But every time we click past terms of service, we know we're agreeing to a small chance of getting screwed.
Because it still isn't profitable and maybe never will be. I would still use it if it cost more -- hell: I'd probably use it more as I'd feel better about it ;P -- but a lot of people wouldn't as it is already a borderline-luxury for a lot of people. They continue to claim they are "drawing closer to profitability" -- as recently as a couple months ago, after reporting their first quarter earnings (which happened to show a $6b loss that isn't actually relevant as it was primarily due to investments instead of operations) -- but I feel like they have been saying that for a long time now? But sure: they might finally succeed in reaching at least "break even".
As a European, I wish Europe was a bit more like America in some respects. Namely, seeing the embarrassing way how Europe has responded to Russia's aggression has for the first time made me question my staunch europeism.
Simply transform the point x and the point (x + n), subtract the two, and normalise. You now have the correct normal. It’s that simple. I used this method all the time while working on commercial game engines.

You can use the same idea to invert transforms by simply imagining the transform as a 3D coordinate system in space and calculating the inverse relative to the origin and axis vectors of that coordinate system. No need to first generate the inverse transform matrix.
Lol. Good ol' Lotus Notes. I think it's safe to say that Lotus Notes has no UX other than the UX that emerges from its ad hoc nature as a piece of software. I wish I had kept my list of Lotus Notes shenanigans from the time when I worked at a company that used it. I don't think I have ever used a worse piece of software.
As long as merchants use dark ui patterns, a misleading or anti-merchant response from consumers is justified.

I for one am appalled that visa is making merchant fraud easier, making payments less controlled by cardholders.
You can force Firefox to use use a DNS server of your choosing with a canary domain: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...
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We’re also comparing it to cheap MPow. That’s already a bargain brand, I can’t imagine what cheap means in that context.

The bluetooth controller may well be the most expensive part of the headset.
If bankruptcy was possible, couldn't every student declare bankruptcy after graduation since that point they have nothing to lose?
Pedantic I know (this is HN after all), but I think that would be considered straw not hay.
Ask HN: How does Live Share in VSCode work?
I'm curious about how this technology works. I'm trying to figure out how to build a real time collaboration tool for a different use case and I have no idea where to even begin.
But if you want a general subsidy then you collect the money from a broad based tax like general income tax or sales tax, not low-efficiency road tolls.
This is one way to spot a small minded European. "Americans are X", "Americans do Y"....
> I think the important question to ask here is if people continue to want to pay & hail taxis from their phone? If the answer to that is yes then Uber will be fine so long as they're one of the apps that people continue to use to hail taxis [and they figure out how to get their unit economics to work]

If they don’t get their unit economics figured out, not only will they not be Google/FB/etc., they will be nothing at all.
And 4chan and Fox News. Let's not pretend the polarization is one-sided.
“Unsupervised learning” gets a bad rap
Now Muggles get animated photos as well.
Client tools had a solution: the killfile. This elegant, distributed solution to trolling has somehow not been reinvented in other forums. It's odd, really.
That's also how I understood it. No photons, no electrical interaction, no friction.
I have a single comment.

The Fujitsu 1k RAM.
In the absence of any "new information" the market is believed to be a random walk.

And before the information age, the market likely did act like this.

But now adays, the dark pools, random subreddit s, etc, almost guarantee that a ticket will fluctuate a price incoherently.

So to find the mythic mean is probably impossible. But the demon could be generate via a novel method of analysis, which definitely wouldn't be presented here, as knowing the method would invalidate mythic mean.
>I've always found it fascinating the level of commitment required to play Chess at this level.

There's several intellectuals I could name which were headed towards world class status like Demis Habbasis & Aleister Crowley decided to give up the game and later became remarkable men in their own right. I think of Paul Morphy who is probably the player furthest above his peers in history who decided to quit and be a lawyer and got annoyed whenever people would try to bring up the game.

I find it interesting to think of these men who are great enough to become the worlds best at chess, and some decide it's not worth it, some achieve that greatness and then require, and some seemingly are in it for life.
So, if I get pulled over doing 200, do I get to just tell the cop ‘I’m in a hurry, I changed the rules’.
I got reprimanded and almost fired recently for being pissed at someone who woke me up for some bs page. Like of course ill be angry, i got woken up for work for no real reason. Now im extra pissed about the managers coming down on my for this instead of correcting the oncall...
This deep learning tutorial overview covers mixed precision training, the hardware required to take advantage of such computational capability, and the advantages of using mixed precision training in detail.
>Arc 380 drivers do not support ReBar on AMD's Ryzen CPUs

That totally doesnt smell like Intel's "cripple AMD" icc optimization!
Yes, this tech won't be cheap enough for most of those use cases up front. The primary saving vs. prior tech is time, and only some can afford to pay. Law enforcement, military, and rich people come to mind. The vessels you mention tend to be car ferries, or at least large passenger numbers and simultaneously function as general goods ferries. Such vessels have far heavier tonnage, so the energy overhead for achieving lift-off would exceed reasonable storage capacities.
All valid points, of course. As an independent explorer I adapted my workflow to use night's worth of workstation compute to generate a crop of new images from a simple templated prompt language.
It also helps a lot to have at least two presets - "exploratory" and "hq", to minimize iteration time and maximize quality of promising prompts.

Still, I think optimization of diffusion models for efficient inference isn't yet pushed to the limits. At least if we look at what's available to the public - AFAIK public inference software distributions didn't even quantize their weights.
It is such a small improvement to simply share a killfile with new users. And it doesn't have to be a "bare" killfile - it could come with links to the posts that earned their place in it, if you were skeptical (and to avoid the inevitability that trolls would try to killfile the regulars in this way)
I don't think the security concerns are totally valid - the OS sandboxing is still there.
I'm turning 30 years old – here are things I've learnt
Yes Facebook is dead, only 2 BILLION daily active users
Yeah, and that goes very well doesn’t it? That’s why users end up with tons of spyware and bloatware. And if they don’t, they might not be as non-technical as you think.
> Any improvements on one's own property (separate from the land itself) would be factored into LVT through an indirect tax on improvements via a higher assessment value.

No, because that's already subtracted out of the total property value to produce the land value.

> And if COVID telecommuting is an indication of market preferences, home-owning adults prefer small, out-of-the-way towns with plenty of space, low property taxes, and good internet connections.

The exodus from city centers stems from farther-out places being cheaper - i.e. having lower land value.
Hypothetically, let's say I owned a modest home. Then, what if a very wealthy person who grew up in that home wanted to buy it for a grand sum of money? In that case, I'd be torn between revaluing my house to a huge amount (that no one except this one person would be willing to pay) and being forced to sell. It's an interesting scenario, because that wealthy person could lower their valuation almost immediately after the sale, since no one else would pay what they paid.
For me it was strictly personal use. For example, I made a series of maps for stadiums for teams in the EFL Championship to use as wallpaper when my club has away matches. I also made some for my hometown and for the universities where my kids are studying.
"Well I still use forums!"

Well the HN demographic hasn't accurately represented the average net user for decades, and there are a whole lot more people on the net now. It's likely that more people in the US today know morse code than 100 years ago but that doesn't make it more relevant to your average person.

Developers saying "well it looks just fine to me" without deliberately considering if their perspective is representative is the reason FOSS isn't the dominant development model for user-facing software. I think a lot of these folks are correct in pointing out the value of having smaller, community-based places to communicate. However, you can't convince your average person to change something so closely intertwined with their daily lives by haughtily informing them that your superior understanding of online communications indicates that their choice of platforms is inferior. Like it or not, everybody has different use cases, different requirements, different motivations, different tolerances for frustrating interactions or delays, vastly different capacities to understand technical concepts, and none of those things make their perspective less important than yours when you're designing tools for the general population.

This attitude will prevent anything currently on the fediverse from getting up enough of a head of steam to even put a ding in current centralized platforms-- forums stand a better chance. While techier folks are busy dismissing miserable user experience issues with "well actually it's pretty straightforward, read the documentation" (which is the non-gaming equivalent of "git gud,") commercial platforms have teams of people that do nothing except figure out how they can make their insanely complex ecosystems intuitive enough for nervous nelly gram gram to get up to speed in hours rather than days.
> US banks in average lose 2-4 orders of magnitude more to fraud than banks outside of the US.

You think US banks lose 10000x as much to fraud as banks outside of the US?

Card fraud in Germany is 0.02% of transaction value. Does that mean it's 200% of transaction value here?

Most recent number I have for US is 6.81 cents per $100, or .07%. The regulatory regimes are not too different, between Europe and the US.

Banks are legally incentivized to reduce fraud, but even so US banks have resisted anti-fraud measures because they add friction to transactions. Witness them being slow to deploy chips to credit cards and electing not to deploy chip-and-PIN in the US.

P.S. I would avoid using the word "retarded", even misspelled.
I have an easier time seeing the fall of the US before I see the fall of Amazon.
The fabric seats on BART were all replaced with vinyl several years ago.
Oilbirds live in caves and I think they are a bit larger
MinIO is leveraging their switch to the AGPL license as a vehicle to extract immense seven figure plus licensing agreements from "big" companies who relied on non-AGPL versions of the code in the past.

I don't know if that makes MinIO bad, better or good but it's all about money.
Google pauses hiring for two weeks to ‘review our headcount needs’
Not necessarily. If they add a cheaper ad-supported plan without modifying existing plans they can keep growing their number of users.
But we all know that once they get a taste of that sweet ad revenue they'll start showing ads to all users.
It would be quite expensive to be honest. The best way to do it would be to leave the short description and add an additional large description, therefore those on legacy mainframes can just continue to work until they've able to conduct a spec update and those on modern systems can add it immediately.

Still will cost money though, particularly those paying EDI/VAN data-rates.
> jobs that suck are the easiest types of jobs

So no true. Human manual and emotional labor is incredibly cheap compared to the cost of automating those tasks.
The page says the avarage size is 228kb. Many of the submissions agree with you :)
I’m curious, if they’re only making DALL-E accessible now, and if GPT-3 was never really accessible (as far as I know). How do you have access to these things to generate text and images?
There are plenty of companies that would happily work you 70+ hours a week, ever thought about applying at amazon web services? I'm sure there are plenty of companies that HN readers could suggest that would be more than willing to take all the hours you give them. Many positions are remote where you don't have to hang out with anyone.
Location impacts that only if the hiring is constrained by location. If you hire remote worldwide, then by all means, go for the cheapest developers that you can find worldwide, or go for developers who have my skills. Either way, it doesn't matter where we live.

Especially if (as myself and many others) we don't live in one place and travel between different countries with drastically different local income levels.
did you feel proud when the eu passed the cookie law? are you proud every time you have to wait for and click through a cookie modal? (never mind the development costs)

you might end up with an ad- and app-store- riddled europhone and if you decide that you want to buy a us or international spec iphone you won’t be permitted to do so.
I still see forums around but I hate them. PHPBB and similar things don't seem to have evolved past what we had in 2000. They desperately need threaded discussions.

I’ve got a car forum open in another tab. I see a number of posts with 5 pages of replies. At that point it may be impossible to read the thing coherently. Various people are replying to each other in their own (invisible) threads. Some new posts on page 5 reply to things from page 2.

Once things get over a few pages their worthless. But that’s where the gold is.

There is often a few big threads to address a big issue. People don’t read 30 pages, so they post asking for the solution. And people say “Look at BobFrank72s posts on pages 12 and 14.”

In a threaded discussion like HN or Reddit those answers could rise to the top and be easy to find. Subthreads wouldn’t get in the way and the 75 “me too” posts wouldn’t hide the wheat in their chaff.

I like the idea of specialized forums, but the user experience is just terrible for me. I almost ever join them. When I do, despite the value, I tend to be frustrated on most visits.
You must be a real hit at Vulcan social gatherings ;)

Using figures of speech in headlines is hardly new; here on Earth, it's indeed quite common, and most of us Earthlings have no trouble understanding that "melting" ain't meant literally.
Thanks! Yeah you shouldn't feel bad - rich people are a good example, and I would expect them to have a lot more resources to escape depression in general
I recently talked with a concept artist about DALL-E and first thing they mentioned was "you know that's all stolen art, right?" Immediately made me think of GitHub Copilot.

However the artists being featured in DALL-E's newsletters can't stop gushing about 'the new instrument they are learning how to play' and other such metaphors that are meant to launder what's going on.

My theory is that the professions most at-risk for automation are acting on their anxieties. Must not be a lot of freelance artists on HN, and a whole lot of programmers.

I think the artists have an even clearer case. I don't think GitHub Copilot is ready to steal anyone's job yet. But DALL-E is poised to replace all formerly commissioned filler art for magazines, marketing sites, and blogs. Now the only point to hiring a human is to say you hired a human. Our filler art is farm-to-table.
It would be absolutely hilarious if this skews the market heavily towards apple dominance
I think it will happen once genuine downward mobility becomes a very real fear for upper-middle class kids. As in once 10% unemployment or 30-40% poverty wage employment is the result of each private college class, we'll see giant shifts. Before that, we'll just keep claiming to be a meritocracy, but there will be more and more pressure build up.

That's what I think. A shift on work views can't happen without there being some other way to sustain that percentage of unemployed people, and that requires political action, which probably won't happen until people who've previously been comfortable start feeling the pain.
Zelda Hit Detection – Behind the Code
Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

You’re capable of more, we’re capable of more, this entire thread of yours is beneath us all.
I work in cybersecurity and this is b.s. , they are including things like planned attrition and head-count based on the budget they have. Let's say you have a million dollars you extra after using up yiur budget, you ask for 8 more people in different teams so you won't get cut next year. You won't fill those roles but you still have the budget. There is also folks that think they need more bodies when they need to collect better data and automate. Also, when they say they can't get skilled people they mean they don't want to hire entry level and promote from within because they lack maturity and/or have terrible talent retention rate.
Was this part of the big change they did a few months ago to use credit card numbers that vendors can't see as temporary / prepaid? I'm not sure about what you're describing, but it's been substantially more useful to me since that change.
You could spend eternity studying how some people feel aggressively about cyclists. Would be great to understand the crux of it. Fairness (road taxes), jealousy (skipping lights, getting ahead of traffic), shame (should I be exercising too?), otherness.
> When most people think of fraud, they think of stolen account numbers or identity theft, but first party misuse, which can account for up to 75 percent of all chargebacks1, is when a cardholder disputes a legitimate purchase that they intended with their issuer. This includes customers refuting valid purchases such as long-forgotten recurring subscriptions, or children given access to use their parent’s card to make purchases with parental approval.

sounds like BS. if it's because a child made the purchase or they forgot to cancel subscription, why don't they deny the claim? it's not like every dispute claim has to approved.

this is akin to Visa and other credit card providers removing price match policy for purchases (up to n days from purchase date). one of the issuers said they are removing it because no one uses them. BS. if no one uses them, why not keep it for 1% of users who benefit from it?