skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got my first smartphone in 2011. I got my first iPhone in 2016. I bought an iPhone XR in the fall of 2019, and got a glass screen protector with it, mainly because by then Apple had those nice jigs that let the staff put it on in about three minutes perfectly. In January 2021, my phone fell about a foot from my pocket, landed screen-down on the driveway. A chip in the glass screen protector eventually (about three months) turned into a crack. I went to Apple and had another screen protector turned on.

That's the only time I've come close to damaging a smartphone or tablet screen.
> The censorship of the idea of Tornado cash thing

No one "censored" anything. The Department of the Treasury didn't sanction an "idea". GitHub took down an actively-maintained software project on their own servers that was in use in practice as a money laundering tool.

Now, should the source code to that project be available from other, more trustworthy maintainers? Maybe. I tend to agree with the EFF here that this is something that needs to be allowed.

But the idea that this is some kind of oppression of innocent open source hackers is... really not what's happening. And pretending otherwise seems unserious to me.
I still don't understand what the value of specifying a license for generated images is - at least in terms of enforceability. How could anyone reliably, conclusively determine that an image was generated using a locally-run tool?

I suppose in the case of DALL-E they probably save a copy of every generated image and can use some sort of reverse image search and find if/when the image was created.

With StableDiffusion or any other local tool I don't see how that would be possible. The best I think one could do is come up with a secondary tool that can pinpoint the position in latent space a generated image came from (if that's even possible, I have a limited understanding of how exactly these systems work.) But then, if (heaven forbid) someone applied any sort of cropping or post-processing to the image, an approach like that easily gets blown out of the water.
You're right that a customer shouldn't care the staff are too busy or too ignorant. You're also right in how complaining online short-circuits all that to actually receive help. I continuously advocate for the presence of path to higher levels and short-circuits! But it isn't always "the employee of company X responded to me on HN because my post made an executive squirm!" Some people just care and willing to lend a hand in cases where they can help.
I think the claim that was being made was that no prime minister has completed a term in office.(5 years)

For your first bullet, the prime minister was kicked out after just over 4 years.

For your second bullet, the prime minister was kicked out after just over 4 years.

For the third bullet, Imran Khan didn't even last 4 years.
I would but that is likely to come months down the road - I doubt this thread will be remembered by then! Still I'll figure out how to get that info out.
No, neither for merchants nor for developers.
> you are right that it's dangerous only when ingested

Not really. Tritium is Hydrogen. It cannot bioaccumulate. Each atom of Tritium will spread out to become one among the quadrillions of atoms of Hydrogen in our body. Most will get out of the body in a matter of days, long before they've had a chance to decay. Even when they decay, they undergo beta decay, which is not very damaging. But even if it were damaging, the damage would be very localized, it would affect at most one cell, and the immune system is easily able to handle that.
After acquiring Timeful in 2015, Google is shutting down 'goals' in Calendar
A question for Stack Overflow not HN
An odd discovery on Spotify
> harm towards animals

Killing perceived as causing “harm” (or not) is a somewhat non-trivial philosophical question. In an important sense, death is a social construct. From this point of view, the importance of one’s staying alive is measured by the impact on the society (starting with their family). The life of a chicken, therefore, doesn’t matter, with the exception when it is a pet. (At the same time, the life of a hen who is raising a flock of chicks is important.)
One more deeper level: almost all consulting exists in a world of consultants driven to limit efficiency lest their billables decline. I know a few people who seemed to aggregate their entire personality to "hard worker" when they refused to progress.
These glass-backed phones are the main reason I used a case. Besides, the things are just plain slippery!
StableDiffusion was trained by an academic lab in Germany, which is rather different from a company in California doing it. Though they both have the problem that the output is illegal in many countries with the wrong prompts.
Naming Colors in Design Systems
I've been using their sandbox environment quite successfully for the last few months. Their main competitor, FastSpring, doesn't have a sandbox yet.

There's another interesting competitor that uses Stripe: https://getrevin.com. Their pricing is cheaper than Paddle, making them the cheapest I've seen so far. Not sure if they're any good, though.
From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth (2015)
I think this example was even worse, because it wasn’t the government asking Google for data about a user, Google went out and proactively offered it (and erased this poor guy’s email and cancelled his phone).

There’s also been plenty of cases where people were charged with a crime on the basis of a warrant to find all phones in a given location at a given time.

The political-dissidents-from-audio-clips sounds a little far fetched, but certainly there have been cases where Alexa recordings were supoenaed and used against their owners. GP was certainly right that companies collecting data about me is a liability for me.
> I wonder how it compares to Mypy on speed.

I use pyright at work at my current job, and used mypy at my previous job. Pyright has been better in almost every aspect in my experience. Its been more robust, and performs a lot better than mypy at type-checking in a fairly large mono-repo.
I don't think Numpy is mostly written in Python. It's C.

So using type hints to annotate your flask api, etc. to generate docs is great. No problem.

The issue is that there have been a lot of Java developers switching to Python and they want to pretend that Python is a statically typed language (and use tools like MyPy) because it's more familar to them.

Python is not a statically typed language and treating it as one leads to terrible results. Especially in large projects.

The issue of course if that the Java developers have no point of reference on what a successful large Python project looks like. So they think they are doing great with MyPy when if you compare what they are outputting to a proper large Python project, it's pretty clear they are doing terribly.

When you use Python properly you write self contained microservices. Typing information exists but only on the external interfaces e.g. API. You also don't share business logic code between the self contained microservices because that massively decreases the maintainabily of the overall system. You show your Python code is correct by using Unit Testing and Mocking.

Basically, there is a way to do large Python projects and MyPy (and other static type checking tools) have no place in that story. It only exists to support people in making bad decisions on their codebase.
The case for using Sass in 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/09...
I'd really love to hear why you and other commenters are so supportive of transaction tracking.

Cash was and is still not very trackable; it's so untrackable that the IRS has to declare what events trigger tracking. Something like Tornado Cash just mixes what it's comparable to a credit card purchase down to being as trackable as cash. I don't see a problem with that.

Whether or not criminals use it is really not of concern to me. The FBI, CIA, and NSA can do their jobs just fine without transaction tracing. The fact that their jobs remain hard are also an indicator of freedom. Their jobs have already gotten quite a bit easier with the birth and success of the digital world.
> Kids for some reason love to mess with their system clocks.

There are plenty of mobile games that will time-gate in-game rewards (e.g. wait x hours to unlock y). Often, messing with the system clock skips these delays. You're welcome.
You must have quite the setup to calculate state, county, and local taxes.
A better question might be why you have to login to run these scripts.

Perhaps rethink how you view and solve the problem?
In New Mexico at least, you buy them inside the store in large quantity, take your shopping cart full of them out to the propane fired roaster set up in the parking lot, help the attendant dump your chiles in the barrel, watch them tumble and crackle in the flames, then finally tell the attendant when they are roasted/charred to the degree you want them to be. Every grocery store does this, and during the roasting season, the entire town will smell like roasted chiles. It's possible that other places with less of a chile culture might use a modified routine.
I Burned Out
Are you sure you need special software? I'm pretty sure I just exported a normal AAC file and renamed it to end in .m4r, then dragged it into iTunes…
how do you freeze them? I tried once and the plastic bag had a lot of ice after a couple of weeks
Not just ignored.

Trump at the UN warns that Germany is endangering itself by increasing dependence on Russia. [German envoys laugh.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv9QYrlwgepe). Among the comedians is Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, now enjoying a quiet retirement back home in Saarland.

(The YouTube comments are hilarious.)
>The TLDR is that I think sites like Kiwifarms put a lot of energy into being hard to ignore

I think the opposite. The means that KF avails themselves of are relatively easy to ignore, though obviously doing so is distasteful. They succeed by picking targets which are unlikely to ignore their harassment, often because those targets thrive off of attention, whether positive or negative.
You likely have an ABS sensor issue - the wheel-speed sensor systems don't get triggered that quickly.
That's the main one we're investigating. You have good things to say?
Doesn't the "G" in AGI mean: Better than a human in most, if not all, things that require coming up with solutions to novel problemS (emphasis on the plural)?
With superconducters there's a phase transition if they rise above their operable temperatures. This can introduce sudden forces. In LHC for example loss of cooling has led to substantial physical damage to the magnets. I imagine a simple transmission line isn't quite so likely to be violent, but there's probably some bad things that can happen with this thing if it bonks.
So they have a system for enforcing rules but still haven't built the rule that would reduce their revenue - seems like an example in favor of the article.
> Our bill last year was $80k

You might be able to pay someone from the project to help you switch. A nice way to give back and it will probably be a smoother transition.
I don't need to identify a reason. I simply need to point out that BSV, BTG, and ETC have all suffered 51% attacks already. So someone out there is motivated to perform these attacks.
GPU market conditions are different compared to the 3000 series release
> Perhaps the spec could allow an implementation to support a run-time option to recognize alternate characters for syntactic elements.

Please don't. The equivalent in programming languages would be localizing the syntactic elements ({}, (), [], '.', etc). Its much simpler for a language ecosystem to have the same syntax regardless of the programmer's language.

As far as I know, international keyboards can still type these characters just fine.
That migration doesnt make sense.

If AGI were task specific, what would AI be? I mean, the "G" isn't just for decoration.
Don't worry. The Druid will handle that.
> Given the choice of a bigger computer with a replaceable battery/ram and probably better cooling, I’d choose that instantly.

So I take it that you immediately returned the MacBook Air and bought something which did have removable batteries?
> If you allow students to use copilot, you're handing out certificates or diplomas to people who can't code.

Many would argue that this is already happening. Moreover, we have no plan to stop it, so it's no good saying that we should not lose progress toward that goal.
> We're both making the same number of assumptions

Assuming BOTH Apple has surrogates AND rabid fans is one more assumption than just there being rabid fans.
I don’t know why you keep hanging on about the education system.

Your article didn’t address any of the points I made all it tries to do is justify the genocide of Ukrainians.

> Hope your heroes from Azov were "evacuated" safely,

I’d feel safer as a azov member then as a propagandist in Moscow right now.

> I find it hard to believe that people can trust the Western press after the absolute nonsense they have reported so far and continue doing.

I mean your telling me the press that said

“Russia will not invade Ukraine” the day before it happened

“Ukraine using black magic battalions”

“Ukraine using genetically modified super soldiers”.

Tells the truth?.

I don’t understand how you can think that a country that held a area (Crimea) for years and then started another war and has had 4-5 explosions losing half their Black Sea fleet aircraft is “winning”.

Is losing 1000 tanks and having to roll out T62s “winning”;

Is using soviet anti aircraft carrier missiles against malls “winning”.

Is having oil refineries and ammo depots hit in Russia proper “winning”.

Is having 20,000 troops caught in Kherson with no easy way to leave or resupply “winning”.

The situation is so dire in Crimea that there was a traffic jam of people trying to leave.
Why not IPv8?
> For example, GPT-3 has been used to generate essays on complex topics such as the philosophy of mind, and these essays have been well-received by readers.

That's the other problem with GPT-3... it will happily say things that are absolutely false :)

I think this response actually illustrates my point quite nicely; it is a plausible sounding rebuttal but does not actually engage on a logical level.

That said, I don't mean to diminish the impressiveness here. It's quite evident that it could pass a Turing test in a wide variety of circumstances. After all, it's not like humans are consistently great at concept-informed writing either. I'm pretty sure the majority of undergrad college papers have more in common with GPT than with real critical thought... generating something that looks plausibly like an argument rather than actually having one.
Is your contention that China is somehow able to censor individual Youtube videos?

No, China simply doesn't allow the entire platform. Whether it is a video about how to fix your bicycle, about Hong Kong protests, or a song praising President Xi, you can't see it on Youtube from a Chinese residential connection, everything is blocked.
I'm only a former resident, but I've downvoted him on your behalf. :)
Crystalis basically draws on the traditions that had been brewing in Japanese PC action RPGs for some years by that point(e.g. Ys, Hydlide). If you had been playing a lot of PC-88 games this would be one more like those, just on Famicom.

Zelda is doing something different from these games in a macro sense since it combines both an open world and gradual unlocking, rather than either treating each new area as effectively "level 1, level 2, etc." or letting the player go anywhere but gating with power progression(i.e. the enemies instantly kill you). And it engages a little more with puzzles and item reuse than most of these games, though I would not say it's far beyond other examples in that respect.

Zelda 2 is particularly interesting in this light because it's so clearly following with the trend to tack on a grind for power progression and to use side view to expand the combat's moment-to-moment with more physics behaviors. IIRC Miyamoto said something about this game to the effect of "everything went exactly as planned so nothing interesting was discovered."
If you enforce them then you can't do duck typing, this means adding lots of boilerplate code to your code base, increasing the amount of bugs, since bugs are proportional to the total number of lines of code in the project.

Typing related bugs that aren't caught in unit testing are very rare.
> I didn’t expect the battery to be so remarkably difficult to replace

Having seen a MacBook air, I’d be shocked if the battery weren’t remarkably difficult to replace. What was it about the almost paper thin form factor back than that lead you to believe you could just pop the battery out?
Once got a job offer around it (I declined).
I agree with most of what you wrote.

That said, the biggest tangible negative impact of tracking is that the profiles companies build on you are overly simplistic caricatures that reinforce societal biases. For example, for many complex reasons, women do not apply to executive roles as much as men. Google is thus less likely to show me an ad for an executive role knowing that I’m a woman [0], since statistically, I’m less likely to click it. This further reinforces the societal trend of women applying to executive roles at a lower rate than men.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07...
While I empathise with the OP, I would add:

- never-ever really trust any company assurances or contracts. Especially if they're way bigger than you are, always assume they WILL fail you and you'll have no recourse outside of litigation—and even then... :-/

Always have a backup plan for important stuff. Always. No exceptions.

More in general, avoid every single point of failure you can afford to.
It is a terrible article. I’ve been on the engineering side of these big data platforms including snowflake in its early days, Paraccel (redshift’s code ancestor), redshift, and others you probably use but don’t realize are actually hyper scale database engines. The author missed the mark consistently. I chortled when he discussed the redshift WLM which I helped design a very long time ago and it’s absolute garbage. Snowflakes entire point is you can decouple the storage and the database from the warehouse query engine to provide total isolation from noisy neighbors. If you’re encountering noisy neighbors you’re using the product entirely wrong.

And you’re right. The motivation snowflake has to improve is survival. It’s not like their architecture is impossible to replicate. Redshift is doing a total reorganization of the product and rewrite to compete more directly with snowflake (redshift aqua etc).

They also seem to completely discount the value of SaaS outsourcing database and storage operations to snowflake whose only focus is operating the database product. Running your own clusters is an exercise that seems smart in the first few months then like a puppy when it grows up you’re stuck with a dog. If you love dogs and train them well then great. But fact is most people are terrible dog owners, and the same is true for MPP clusters. Being able to focus on the query management operations exclusively is really ideal. Highly stateful distributed products are a PITA.

He also rants about snowflake not telling him the hardware. Snowflake runs in ec2, gcp, azure. You can literally guess the hardware types - there’s just not that many saddle point instance types for that sort of workload. Discussing ssd vs hdd is also an obvious sign of ignorance - it’s basic premise is it does very wide highly concurrent s3 gets and scans of the data using a foundation db metadata catalog to help prune. Being in aws, it’s implausible they use hdd and realistically they could elide ssds (I do not remember if they use local disks for caching, but it’s stateless regardless).

The unit costing being hardware agnostic is totally normal too - they don’t have to expose to you the details of their costing because they normalize it to a standard fictional unit.
I'm sorry, the tipping culture has to go. I am disgusted by the optional (but really mandatory) tips. I am disgusted by the social shaming for not tipping. I am disgusted with having to make a calculation every time I receive a service. I am disgusted by the tip field in the receipt, even for things that didn't provide any service.

Before the pitchforks come out, let restaurants include the price of tip into menu items. Increase prices on the menu by 20% straight. Then pay your employees wages. It's that easy. Starbucks does it and they don't have a shortage of patrons. It makes patrons come over and over again, regardless of jacked up prices.
Seems like if you have tax collection on you’re gonna have a bad time, which is our situation.

I’m surprised only a small fraction of Stripe customers collect sales taxes.
True, but someone at Google working on a public facing app, even if 99.99% of users never know it's there, will still have orders of magnitude more people using their software than most of us.
> it's probably more about developer time, maintenance burden, etc.

I mean... SQLite is famous for having almost a thousand lines of test code per line of application code. So yeah, I think they view the functions not just in terms of implementing, but also in terms of a commitment to robust maintenance.
> Kids for some reason love to mess with their system clocks.

They are cheating at games!
> They aren't playing Tetris ignoring the queue.

Nobody said that.

> likely the front-line staff are overwhelmed

Which means that the company knowingly and intentionally decided to skimp on support, or have other policies which lead to their staff being overwhelmed.

> don't know how to cut through the corporate hoops/politics to find and deliver the fix

Which means the corporation decided to skimp on their training and or efforts to streamline the issue resolution.

> and/or too shy/embarrassed to admit ignorance and having to pass it to the higher-ups for someone who knows how to fix things

Same as above.

> It's more likely going in circles because they want to resolve it within their levels without having to escalate it.

And why is that? Ah yes, because the company knowingly and intentionally set the incentives as such.

I don’t have a problem with the front line support. They are just humans like you and me. But I will have zero pitty on companies who under allocate resources to their problems and then try to hide behind their overworked support line as some meat shield.
> The author misunderstands competition and how much it drives products in this area.

Snowflake compete on marketing.

Plenty of people rave about Snowflake and have never heard of Databricks, BigQuery or Redshift.
If the parabolic graph in the article is roughly accurate, and performance accelerates as the number of parameters in a training model increases, then it will be very economically valuable to generate huge ML models. Depending on the shape of that curve model training could become a primary energy sink for the whole species, dwarfing the ergs spent on bitcoin mines.

I could almost wish for diminishing returns.
Don’t you see this with any cost based query optimizer based product?