skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silver needle is a wonder, when the preparer has decades of experience.

A good friend was such a master, and I had the joy of learning how to prepare Silver Needle with mastery. I had brewed it hundreds of times, but when he did it, it was inexplicably different. Same leaves, same water, same vessel. White tea is a portal to a world of subtlety that I had never experienced previously, and have rarely encountered since.

I helped open Tao of Tea in Portland in the late 90s. We had over 250 fresh loose-leaf teas with which to experiment. Paradise!
Is there a need to explain where the funds to buy a house came from in Australia? Or do they just explain it away as crypto gains?
Why do pseudosciences like these still survives? Maybe the user experience is more positive than we think?
People here are a lot more thick skinned than you lot.

We found Raj hilarious, and I don't know of anyone finding his portrayal "racist."
I thought the UI was pretty obvious but here is how you can use it[0]

1. You enter a Hacker News story URL (such as this one)

2. Click on Preview. You should see the content rendered on the Kindle mockup

Now you can send it to your Kindle (follow step 3,4,5) or download the EPUB file (6)

3. Enter your send-to-kindle email address. To find yours, follow this guide[1]

4. Make sure you whitelist kindle@ktool.io on your Amazon account settings. Refer to this guide[2]

5. Click "Read on Kindle" and enjoy

[0]: https://share.cleanshot.com/yUODpW

[1]: https://thebookbuff.com/how-to-find-your-kindle-email-addres...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
How do the legislation authors expect complying companies to "estimate the age" of internet visitors? Would driver's licenses and other state IDs be considered acceptable? Would website publishers be required to store those records?

If so, does this practically mean that websites would contract with third party age-estimation services which do store state-identity records? What's the track record of such vendors with data protection? Can the state provide age verification services directly, since they are already trusted with the data?
The most official thing I've found about it so far is a line at https://www.amd.com/en/product/12166 (source: https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-5-7600x) which says "ECC Support: Yes (Requires mobo support)"
Microsoft tried everything they could imagine to try and kill off Win32 and force everything and everyone onto Microsoft Store with locked down MetroModernUIImmersiveUWP software.

They all failed because the entire reason for Windows's existence is users can install and use practically anything anywhere anytime.

So no, Microsoft is not open. They do not want Win32 and its open nature. Microsoft is salivating at the kind of walled garden Google and Apple managed to erect, and would try for it again the next chance they get.
A station wagon should be sufficient.
Stripe is still "your bank".
I'm not saying it would be the most pleasant thing in the world, but a 6-month interplanetary trip on Starship (with iPads, unlimited entertainment, a variety of food, video games, and even almost real-time communication with Earth) doesn't seem anywhere near as unpleasant as a 3-month trip on the Mayflower. People seemed to handle that OK though.
Yep, thanks for reminding me about Docker -- I just haven't figured out something much better yet. Maybe mini-VMs like Firecracker or just straight up qemu will be my final stops, who knows (as I plan to buy a workstation with hefty RAM amounts; will likely start at 256GB). I still have a lot of time to think about how to approach the whole thing.

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For Nix, I think you know what I'll tell you: you don't recommend a war veteran with PTSD "just one last war". I get what they're trying to do but their discourse on various platforms has left much to be desired and they seem opposed to offer more ergonomic CLIs and/or UIs. I hear that's changing as well so I'll be checking them out a few times a year. As it is right now, I wouldn't even mind the steep learning curve -- I am not completely burned out and I still punch quite hard in my work -- but mysterious error messages and maintainers ending discussions with "well then it's not for you" et. al. are just not appealing and feel like I'm taking a risk that will not pay off. Nix still feels like somebody's experimentation project.

I truly hope they take off as their idea deserves but that must come with simplicity on the level of your average Joe and Jane pasting 2-3 commands in a terminal (sort of how you install Rust; it's literally two pasted commands). Before something similar happens, Nix is doomed to remain a niche curiosity.
I don't see this as a China cultural thing, but as an authoritarian thing primarily.

You see the same thing in Russian society. Stalin reinstituted anti-sodomy laws. Look at how LGBT are treated under Putin. Authoritarian governments seem to like oppressing cultural misfits.
Yep, it's eating its way upward from junior to intermediate. And even if that doesn't take away the whole Senior role, it can certainly do a good chunk of the day to day work. We haven't even begun to see the market effects of github copilot or stable diffusion yet.
These are the right questions to ask. I suspect that if one were to follow the money behind who is pushing for this law, those questions could be answered.
Corporations are not people outside of idiotic law speak. They should have no rights to freedom of association once they reach a certain (law-defined) size.

Banana699 has the right to block you or otherwise tell you to fuck off from their private property, the 10 million viewers Banana699^TM Inc Ltd does not. Media corporations picking and choosing the type of the story to serve is a very plausible reason for the intense polarization and Rage-As-A-Service ecosystem we are in.
There is, you can relatively easily write a txn that put one or more arbitrator in place that are able to reverse transactions if m of n of them agree or something.
Everyone who's not familiar with OK Go should go watch a few of their music videos.

There's excellent videography and creative design in almost all of them.
That's half of the point of having uBlock Origin. Use the zapper to disappear an element for the session, use the picker to poof them forever. They really work on making their webapps as unbearable as possible, but you can get rid of it to make them webapps great again. Can even add sites/pages as home app icons.

Which makes Firefox the obviously better mobile browser, Chrome seems like a pretty strong case of defaults' power. Tho gotta add the "Google Search Fixer" select addon because they sure doesn't want you to get summary cards, financial charts and other goodies if you use a competitor browser.

Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and co without the ads circus. Duolingo without daily activity limit for some reason.
What happens if you've got a young-looking face? Are you going to get blocked out until you upload your driver's licence or something?

Similarly, what about people on the cusp? It's pretty hard to tell a 19-year-old from a 17-year-old, so won't there be a large population of people it simply won't work on?
As Neil Strauss puts it, "the true art of writing is in the revising." First draft you start with a clay (the first draft) and in the second pass, you revise, sculpting the clay, attempting to edit through an ideal reader's eyes.
This was a fat-fingered fiat refund. They only realized 7 months later. What was that about banks saving people from stuff like this?
UBI is a much less bad idea, since people will be incentivized to select the best providers and to not waste limited resources.
Huge news and big congrats! You've been an awesome inspiration. I'm really looking forward to where you take YC.
Because macros can obscure having an accurate mental model of what is happening at the metal level, which is what matters when you're doing a retpoline. This is why ziglang, for example, has "no hidden control flow". Not only the mental model, but also you might find that where you need to add the code forces you to break open a macro, which could be a considerable refactoring task.
No, but the tax office will smash you with some pretty hefty capital gains taxes I believe
All these Cloudflare articles and pieces are a waste of time and Cloudflare will not do anything especially when they have IPO’d on the public markets.

Given that Cloudflare, has not pulled out of Russia and refused to deplatform them even at the request of the Ukrainian government, why would they do anything with this minor problem?

Instead go and talk to ICANN or RIPE about deplaforming Cloudflare since they won’t do anything. I’m sure the answer is also an absolute:

No.
She would have to declare it in tax time, particularly as it's a large sum of money which is being pushed through companies (bank, crypto.com) which I presume are both obliged to comply with reporting obligations and KYC stuff. If she didn't, such a windfall would definitely set off an alarm somewhere, because Australian taxation data gathering is all automatically done by the government and pretty decent. I suspect that there is a simple legal mechanism for crypto.com to come in with and legally request their money back too, for that matter, in the same way we've seen banks get money back from people who take advantage of malfunctioning ATMs and swipe extra bills.

If we assume it was a crypto gain, every crypto transaction needs to be accounted for in a tax return, and capital gains/losses reported at every step, so there's that.
The problem I have with Discord (as well as with IRC and Slack and other "chat" services) is insufficient structure to get a good overview of what's going on. Maybe it's not supposed to be used in a completionist way, but that makes me really uncomfortable. What if I miss something important!?!

It's even worse when a large part of the community is in a different time zone. I just come back every day with too big a pile of discussions and no way for me to make sense of what happened.

I understand the sentiment that I'm not supposed to read everything, but that's just not how I roll.

As a great example of a chat service that works well for me, take a look at Zulip. The UI takes some time of getting used to, but the way how all conversations are grouped into "topics" makes it so much easier to filter.

Discord threads could be used in a similar way, but they just never are. I blame it on the UI.
He is smarter than saying those words but read https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/blake-masters-p...
Being ex-AWS I can now breathe a huge sigh of relief and reveal what was once a tightly-guarded secret, viz. that this is in fact the underlying design of Amazon Glacier. The service team has for years feared that some squirrely commodities analyst with a penchant for correlation would eventually cotton on to how closely retrieval fees are indexed by horse feed futures
I talk to my Dad every day.
You’re conflating business and government. Businesses have the right to do what they want with their property within the law.

Otherwise, I don’t know what you’re suggesting to be done. Do you want to expand the powers of the government to moderate these companies and their property?
For years, I had assumed that the Peter Principle was named as such because it was alliterative, and because someone named Peter exemplified it. I had no idea a real Peter who had theorized it existed.
While I love this quote:

> as long as you are doing your work well and continuously working on the next most important thing prioritised by the business, any pressure to deliver beyond what your team is capable of is objectively unreasonable.

I feel like this is missing an acknowledgement that "what a team is capable of" actually depends on the manager! Managing people and priorities takes skills that require practice and learning. A manager that, for example, assigns people to work on things they enjoy working on and avoids excess pressure is going to have a team capable of a lot more than a team where the manager doesn't bother.

So, when I see the list of "reasonable ways for the business to exert influence over the work" I feel like a huge missing one is "help the manager manage their workload and the team better". The manager has a manager and this is ostensibly their responsibility to see and correct
This reminds me of how VisiCalc / Lotus 123 / Microsoft Office made many tasks traditionally done by a dedicated office worker semi-obsolete. A middle/upper manager no longer had to call on a tabulator to calculate figures or make a spreadsheet. Yet for all the power of these applications, the need for actual accountants never went away.
>and also a reasonably good explanation of why, at least in my opinion, crypto is still completely non-viable as a real medium of exchange

I understand HN is a shit-on-crypto echo chamber but it's naive to think crypto is just settlement.

Settlement is simply a low-level primitive. With smart contracts, you can build whatever mechanism you want before making something final. Multisig, clawbacks, timed-delays, time-locks, escrow, recovery wallets, etc.
DALL-E and other AIs are ultimately doing a cheap, very 'human' task with unclear utility function. I expect professional human artists will always be able to compete for the high end.

However, there's an economic risk. AI will definitely cramp the lower end of the market, and with that there'll be fewer humans who are able to get to the high end market (since they won't be paid before gaining enough experience to become better artists - leading to getting another job which means less time to draw...).
Good. A utility shouldn't be in the thought-policing business. If something illegal is going on, that's what law enforcement is for.
eBay locking accounts of users who sell over $600 till they submit SSN for IRS
TV doesn't teach you how to procreate. It teaches you that sex is something for beautiful people and lead characters to engage in as a hobby. Actually having children would limit you from all this no-strings sex you expect to have every week.
> If they'd have turned the corner to see the engine fall out from underneath the car, while you'd have already strolled off the scene with the money, they suddenly wouldn't be so happy with finality.

Which is exactly the point of the finality of the transaction. Private party car sales in the US typically are not warranted. The risk of maintenance on a used car is non-zero, and the buyer accepts this risk when buying a vehicle with no warranty.
Since Apple recently added the ability to store state-level identity documents in Apple Wallet (IF a state/country is on board), it's not a big leap to combine this with Face ID.

If Apple can perform a digital attestation of a derived attribute, e.g. "older than 18", rather that disclosing name, DoB, address to the visited website, it would likely be well received.

But at that point, we're a hair's breadth away from state-corporate fusion.
Oh, but it will! Maybe not DALL-E 2, but 4, but it will.
Even if it never reached such peaks, it'll still steal the majority of lower-level jobs in every industry it touches, creating a giant expertise gap between new graduates and the level required to improve upon AI generators. That's clear just from current tools working now.
I personally suspect that the true reason for that integrated GPU is the USB4 support. Always having that integrated GPU allows for full USB4 directly on the motherboard without needing hacks like looping a DisplayPort cable from the discrete GPU to the motherboard. And I believe it's possible to render in one GPU but present the output through another GPU, so you could in theory even use a discrete GPU for rendering while the output is going through the USB4 socket on the motherboard, without any extra cables between the graphics card and the motherboard.
Premise 1: Showing ads to bots is generally not good for business.

Premise 2: Showing ads to humans is generally good for business.

Premise 3: A cohort can be created to hold humans (called mDAU).

Premise 4: Only show ads to the mDAU cohort.

Therefore, it is reasonable that increasing the number of humans in mDAU is better for business, because it means more humans are viewing ads. Assuming for sake of argument that the cohort process works well to exclude the bots, increasing mDAU is good for business and should be incentivized.
> this person couldn't be bothered to even do a ten second web search

Do you know that it is true? Pretty sure they read the same/similar info from a web search and determined that foods that contain a bit of garlic aren't a big danger to dogs. The context is important (although it's fair to point out that the quote can be taken out of context) -- the discussion was about food that incidentally contained garlic as ingredient (which realistically wouldn't contain a whole lot of it), not feeding whole cloves of garlic to dogs.
lol, former animator/illustrator. It's a race to the bottom. The jobs looking for quality won't be replaced, but the entry-level jobs are changing. Where in the 80s they used to develop skillsets that you could build on, working towards feature work, increasingly they are optimized for quantity. The skills are not necessarily transferrable.

Look at 3D modelers. There used to be several more environment artists that have been replaced with 3D scanners in videogames. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just a different skillset. It reduces the unit cost.

I think entry level illustration jobs are at a higher risk. I've done plenty of album covers, promotional posters early in my career on a shoestring budget. They don't care if it's interesting - they want something cheap that gets the job done. Storyboard artists have a very different skillset. You need to communicate an idea as a cohesive sequence of images. Dall-E isn't designed for this, it's designed for standalone images. If you're investing in storyboard artists to begin with, you care about this visual communication, otherwise it's much cheaper to just yolo with a camera and and hand it off to post.
Alas, I doubt that I will ever meet a brewer of such skill.
Fair enough on there not being a performance difference. I suppose you could run an IPMI or redfish query (assuming they expose it to you) to get hardware specs on the server to see if any storage is physically connected?

I guess there's a larger question - is it possible to construct a completely transparent architecture for customers who are trustless in you as a service provider?
“misinformation” is a term used to discredit and dismiss. It’s often used by the government in an attempt to censor people on social media

heres an example where the White House admits it: https://nypost.com/2021/07/15/white-house-flagging-posts-for...

That is censorship, because social media then bans (censors) those users and the discussion. Which was my exact point.

What do they do in China: “hey this snippet here looks like misinformation” then the company removes that snippet. They extend it to insults about the Chinese race, but don’t we do the same with gender pronouns?

How is it different materially?

My point was censorship is done universally, just in different ways and for different topics. It’s always the same reason though, to avoid some idea the people in power don’t want propagated. Could be a joke, could be “misinformation”, could be that there’s only one good race (no one dare make fun of), or you can have any gender. It’s all just power / politics.

The censored rarely take the time to learn what is being censored because they don’t think to know. You have to keep the idea from entering the mind of the opposition. That’s why you censor in the first place. You have to defame those who question the authority and call them “fascists” so no one listens to them. Self-censoring who you listen to and not telling others “hey this person has an interesting take!” It’s all the same game, a game to control the population.

> Besides, censorship is not inherently bad, and most stable democracies with a functioning legal system will have some form of censorship, to protect minors, for example.

I would argue we don’t see stable “democracies”, we see oligarchies. Why is it ruling families in the UK still effectively rule? Politicians are always from a certain class. Similar in France, when’s the last commoner who speaks like the rural folk who’s held the prime minister seat? We all see how Trump was treated for speaking plainly… then again, he was a “threat to democracy”

The oligarchs control what you can think, through managing what information you can read / see. “Democracy” in the US is a code word, for the status quo.
A surprisingly, almost realistically cult-like following.
Check out Musimathics volume 1 if you want an absurdly detailed explanation of why Western 12 TET is the way that it is.
http://www.musimathics.com/
Video creators do get a higher amount of money per-minute-viewed from YT Premium subscribers than the do from free users with ads. But the sponsorship slots from NordVPN and the like can pay just as much as the video earns in youtube revenue, so youtube would have to pay a lot more.
The incredulous of people commenting on this kinda astounds me.

The people who made adtech what it is today are your (our) colleagues, friends, bosses, peers.

This didn't happen by itself.
> So it definitely can be done, but at this level it's really just being homeless with extra steps.

Vanlife is basically the same. You just need to accept that not showering for days and pooping in a bucket is your new normal.

Maybe the real solution to homelessness is we need to lower our standards of living, so 'homes' can be more affordable.
The author talks about the quality and professionalism of his work which is true. I'm not sure how much a model can replace that.

However, with this is cheaper to produce a huge amount of substandard stuff. That will swamp out the quality stuff and will probably have economic effects too.

One analogous example that comes to mind is cheap animation software. In a world where there were a few hand animated cartoons, now there are tons of quickly put together shows.
Does Australia have no property tax? In what Earth do you sink a one-time $10.5m payment into a house you can't maintain? Perhaps I am missing something very fundamental here. I can think of much better uses for those funds anyway.
I feel like the number of secretaries and receptionists has collapsed however under the weight of everyone learning how to type, office suites, voice menus, and good-enough speech-to-text.

So the concern isn't without merit.
New Zealand's plan to prepare for inevitable climate change impacts
They're required to do that by the law
It's true. I drank some vodka and had no trouble falling asleep right away.
Mind sharing the exact model/link?
Why does it matter to you that your sexuality is depicted on screen? Sounds like a bizarre thing to worry about.

And US studios already has you covered for centuries worth of "representation" heavy film and TV, why is the Chinese allowing them important?
This is 100% at odds with both GDPR and CCPA. Should be interesting to see how the laws battle it out.
How can you ensure your economic status will not be affected?

How were farriers able to ensure their economic status wasn't affected by cars?

How were switchboard operators able to ensure their economic status wasn't affected by automatic switching?

How were travel agents able to ensure their economic status wasn't affected by Expedia, Priceline, and the dozen other sites out there?

No one can know when or how their job is going to go extinct. You just need to pay attention to the changing winds of technology and adjust your ship's sail accordingly.
From what I can see in the bill, storing personal information collected to determine age is specifically not allowed. The specifics of how to implement the actions specified are left up to a "California Children’s Data Protection Working Group" that would prepare a report on best practices. So probably it depends on whether the age verification providers get to influence that committee to the exclusion of the rest of the industry.