skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being differentiable does not make something a neural network nor does it mean the differentiated function is meaningful (such as can be the case in highly branching or otherwise complex control flow). It also doesn't always escape combinatorial explosion and that fixed structure limited precision strictly bounds how far a neural net could look ahead.

By making something differentiable, you're hoping relaxations or some smooth proxy doesn't break fundamental structure, allowing you to solve an easier problem than discrete combinatorial search. Sometimes there can be barely any leveragable structure. This has proved very difficult to achieve in general and is a sort of holy grail in some fields.

That said, there are powerful game playing AIs that use either no (DeepNash) or minimal (DORA) search. But in general you can't get something for free, you're always paying something with an approximation.
Many law firms and lawyers offer pro-bono services to those that qualify. There are even lawyers and law firms that contribute to open-source organizations on legal matters regarding lawsuits and licensing. Many court motions and filings are accessible to the public if you visit the courthouse and there are organizations that make case proceedings publicly available on their public websites.

There are also medical clinics that offer medical services across the United States to those that qualify. Many medical studies and patents are publicly accessible on the web. There are organizations that offer compensation and health-care for those willing to volunteer for medical studies, questionnaires or clinal trials.

Additional lawyers and doctors offer “free” work that grow their business. Why do you think some lawyers offer free consolations. Why do some dental offices offer free cleanings or free consultations and exams when patients are looking for braces?

When folks equate “free” and “opensource” and mention “doctors” or “lawyers”, they imagine the lawyer working on their probate and wills for free or representing them on traffic accidents for “free” and in reality, that’s never going to happen.
Honestly I couldn’t get through 10 seconds of that video. They stretched out what seems like 3 sentences worth of information into 7 minutes of content and EVEry SECOnd SYLLaBLE was shouted. It got grating incredibly fast.

And honestly the three answers he gave were good in that they answered the question thoroughly, but they sounded so robotic. It sounded like it was following a script with a lot of fillers like “I made sure to research your company and…” etc, which makes sense since it basically is.

Would I write home about any of those answers? Probably not. But I would also accept them, take a few notes, and move on so it accomplishes the task.
>This sounds nice until you actually look at most of America. Cities are designed around cars.

Right, and that's the problem. These cities are a product of choices that Americans have made over many decades, and now they're paying the piper.

>If you want people to walk more for their commutes then you need to design cities for walking.

No, Americans need to choose this for themselves, but they don't and they won't. They don't move to places like this, they don't demand it of their elected officials, they instead just buy big SUVs and move into subdivisions. Americans have chosen this lifestyle, and now it's costing them dearly.
Maybe I'm being too sensitive here, but I'd rather not be treated as if I'm in 2nd grade.
The FCA (one of the financial regulators) stepped in for the insurance market, which is why that change has started being made.
It's a solid practice in UX design. Physically having to type or copy/paste it in really highlights the action for the end user. There's only so much you can do to stop people setting their own house on fire but something like that puts the onus on them and fairly places the blame where it belongs.
It wouldn't unfortunately. It's merely one stranglehold in a duopoly; Blink and Webkit are controlled by their corporate overlords in their respective spheres of influence. Ios won't allow non-Safarized browsers (think back to the IE days, but worse), and Google decides what goes in Blink.

So in short, no. If Mozilla dies, then there will be trouble and would need someone to carry on their work as the last remaining 'freedom' blessed engine.
I would probably put it like a messy problem can’t have a too elegant solution, in that essential complexity can’t be reduced. If your problem domain have edge cases everywhere you might be able to put an elegant abstraction over the common case, but the edge cases will have to be dealt in an inelegant way.
Could you point me towards some materials re Colossus?
Zitadel v2.3.0 – PostgreSQL Support
I only know one thing about emails:

Emails - extremely cheap if compare with any other ads method.
Extremely effective, good to scale and gives much more results, that all known and tried ads networks with big budgets.

What about the topic -> all of that info related to 90% of users.
Most of normal casual users has one email, and all stuff mentioned in the topic.

Very rare cases when something else.
The list more about exceptions, instead of real life
On the positive side, cameras and social media are increasingly catching everything on the spectrum from anti-social behavior to crimes and providing consequences where there were never any before. You can't just trash a McDonalds, go on a racist tirade, or act belligerently in public without a good chance that someone's going to capture it and post it on social media. These are cases where "social cooling" is welcome.

Ubiquitous cameras are also slowly starting to allow the public to hold police and other public authorities accountable for actions they were previously totally unaccountable for.
Not sure what disgusts me more, the term Jewglers or the fact that she faked the retaliation. This story just doesn't add up.
I thought a case-insensitive email address can be compared by using pseudocode lower(x)

You shouldn't be comparing the mailbox part of email addresses at all other than as literal bytestrings: you cannot know what equivalence rules the mailserver for that domain uses.

The domain part can be equivalence-tested using the normal rules for domains though, including case insensitivity, IDN translation and punycode resolution.
I mean, I had a company asking me to send pictures of my passport and my residence permit by email in the first interview for a remote role. They acted very surprised when I flat out said "No, you can have them when you approach me with an offer. Then you can decide if my papers in order, not before"

Ended up not continuing the interview, as giving out very sensitive information like candies to companies on the first interviews is not a good idea at all.
Every country requires pragmaticism, in some cases encrypted storage is a good thing
Many businesses require to "write FROM the email address you signed up with". At first I tried to argue, but now I'm just spoofing the From header and everyone is happy.
This is a fantastic retelling of this story: https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-maintenance-race/
HN doesn't even request a mail. For all intends and purposes it is synonymous with
anonymity. Sure, there are platforms that don't even use a user handle. Given, you are free to reveal anything about you.
From the many depressing years I've done UX work I can promise you no amount of changes they make will protect users from their own mistakes. It is far better for your own sanity to accept people make mistakes. This is what development and staging environments are for.
> If that isn’t “real hacker” enough for you then that’s fine.

"Means to an end", "make a living", "rat race", yeah I don't think that would be considered "hacker" by any definition of the word (I think the word is "corporate"), and this site is called "Hacker News".

You don't have to be excited and bullish about every single new trend, but at least be interested enough to take a closer look. I was interested in crypto a few years ago, now I don't care much about it. Still excited about VR and AI though. I mean, it's a free country, but if this pessimism is the default attitude here on anything, I think it's time to find where all the actual hackers are hanging out.
I would say almost from day 1. Even at a lower price, it's an important step to validate an idea. When people need to put their credit card in and give you money, it's another level of commitment that I don't think you will have with a free plan.

It is a level of commitment from the user but also from you. If you're getting paid, it's expected that, for example, if a service is down/not working, you need to fix it.

For many years, I've tried to put side projects out and was never to keep up with them. Only on my latest project (https://isdown.app) did I put the payments. And from the moment people started paying, I felt I was in debt to them, creating the extra motivation to keep going.
It's called asking people who hold despicable views to be honest about their views so they can be criticized instead of hiding them behind a thin layer of plausible deniability.

Speaking of which, what is exactly is the "reality-based" heresy you think GP "dared" to say? You seem to be agreeing with something but too sheepish to spell it out. HN is supposed to be a place for discussion, so please state your actual opinion if you want to participate in a discussion.

EDIT: You can hold "heretical" opinions and not be a coward, by the way. I'm neither a liberal nor a libertarian so my political opinions fall well outside the general consensus both online and offline and I've faced pushback in all kinds of spaces. But if you talk politics with me, I'll openly tell you my beliefs without sugarcoating them.
As ex dota player, the highs you get from those outlier games are incredible.

You overperform, outplay other players. Your team starts to move together and work as one. It feels amazing, you feel like a god for an hour.

But this is one of maybe 100 games, the rest of those games is subconsciously chasing that next amazing game where all stars align you get a good teammates and opponents that are slightly below your skill level. But instead you get toxic team that make you loose hope in humanity.

Its like slots, just each pull lasts 40 minutes :)

Dota is one of most amazing and horrible games ever made. i am glad i am out of it
That is not always possible - sometimes the problem domain is simply complex enough and we should accept that. Fighting essential complexity is stupid.
Yeah I missed that the article was only talking about libraries, I was thinking about client code. Agreed it's not an issue for library/server code.
How much does this correspond to colored number statistics in childrens' books?
Not an apples-to-apples comparison, but I just wanted to see the price positioning for this screwdriver. It goes for $69.99 [0] and Megapro ratcheting screwdrivers (which they mentioned in their video) goes from ~$50 to $59.99, depending on what bits it comes with.

[0] https://www.lttstore.com/products/screwdriver

[1] https://megaprotools.com/collections/ratcheting-drivers
That "an online AI art tool" in the first sentence is potentially misleading, as the clarification is being made in this article, but this clarification was not made by the artist at the time.

He said (in the Midjourney Discord) that when submitting he "stated that he made them via Midjourney", but it sounds like he didn't make clear that this was an AI tool.

Sincarnate — 26/08/2022
Yes the description clearly stated I created them via Midjourney
starshadowx2 — 26/08/2022
Was it explained what Midjourney was though
Sincarnate — 26/08/2022
This is why I did it. Should I have explained what Midjourney was? If so, why?

He also mentions that he originally mentioned Midjourney in the caption, but didn't correct them when they edited that part out.

I think these sorts of details do matter.
> The dating app gets paid when you get married?

Wondering how it can be enforced from business model point of view.
Been there just last weekend. It is an amazing experience. For an engineer mind is an incredible masterpiece. Getting (the creator) is always there supervising the maintenance of its creations.

They are a little bit hard to operate but the feeling of enjoying a ride that has been propelled by your own legs is terrific.

I cannot suggest enough to pay the place a visit. Also do absolutely eat there, the price is right and the quality is incredibly high for the type of food.
Whilst I've definitely got the impression, that _most_ people think of it as a shared heritage, I have now and then had a few people quoting the same prophecy from Zechariah as their reasoning.

> And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it - Zechariah 12:3

The (mis-)interpretation being that for the return of God to occur, the existence of Jerusalem is a pre-requisite. It can't disappear, again. So for that to happen, we should protect Israel, who will protect the city. We should especially protect them because the world will gather against them.

The logic has some major flaws to it, and can be easily worked around, but I've heard it a few times.
The article is not about ads, let alone "ad networks".
I missed that the article was talking about server/library code, I had client/application code on the brain.
It's a person who gets paid by views. They did this for the attention.
Well, if you actually feel that way... Let me suggest reading about J.P. Morgan's heroic actions during the Panic of 1907 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907 ). Vs. John Astor IV's passive uselessness during the 1912 Sinking of the Titanic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic ).

But please try to make sure that the situation around you & Cloudflare never gets bad enough that you're needed as heroes in any historic crisis or disaster.
> Yeah I can already imagine in other places, just ask Santander Bank. [0]

Per the article, they were very likely to recover most of that money (and were legally entitled to recover all of it, but were unwilling to do so for image reasons). So exactly the opposite of what happens with DeFi.
Kagi, Searx, Bing and Brave Search can't figure answer either, 3rd result in Yandex is correct
Microsoft would immediately require you to upload your ID. Governments want it because they consist of lawyers and corporations like MS want it for government contracts.

I think a header field that classifies the content could help. The client needs to do the filtering.

I will never use a OS account synced at the OS provider.
As the comment that kicked this thread off pointed out, she's considered a traitor not for talking about the badminton conspiring, but because she is signed on to an organization openly dedicated to overthrowing the Chinese government.
Non-Self-Coercive Productivity
YKK is that ubiquitous, that even when I was a child living in USSR, almost every zipper that I ever saw had these mysterious letters on them. Even on domestic products.
and in a live trading system a small mistake can cost you 6-7 figures per second

see: Knight Capital
> If you are obese, how is your success rate with obese women?

I've obviously got no real metrics, but I'd say it's not much better, not sure though. One woman directly told me she wasn't looking for somebody who "looks like her", which at least was a honest answer.

On the other hand: I myself do not prefer girls who are very slim (is that the right word in English?), so I don't write to/like these woman. Not sure if my "success rate" would be better with those, though.
Or what happens when the tech bros get their hands on radiography hardware [0]. They probably would write it in Javascript.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Show HN: Automatic Images Classifier Generator
Perhaps you can give me an example of "speak the language of fantasy". While I can see your point, I can't really see how to put it into practice.

Edit: I didn't realise you were the person I responded to. I see what you mean, but I still think it's an important thing to discuss. It just won't be relevant to those people, which I can live with.
I worked with a company that upgraded a mainframe cluster not located in the USA. The upgrade topped out a collective rating of that user's installed computing power allowance given for civilian purposes. So, to do the upgrade, US Export controls required the client to decommission some older nodes and that had to be witnessed by US Consular representatives walked through the whole process taking video and photographic evidence. And the agreed method of decommissioning was to haul these old nodes out in to a deserted area and run bulldozers over them in a pit. Not joking. Wish I kept some of the photos though.
A generalist would be someone who is fluent in C, Python, Java, JavaScript and probably Haskell/Clojure/Scala. This would mean that they have been exposed to static and dynamic typing, manual and GC memory management, class-based and prototype-based OOP, and all the important functional programming concepts.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer...
If generations ahead means it's impossible to figure out wtf is going wrong with the hardware/software then that's true. Just like Apple, their ethos makes a lot of sense.
AI-Generated Bible Art
Dalle generated images from specific Bible quote prompts. This website (openbible) is really fascinating overall, I recommend checking out their different sections.
Seems like generally good policy to give (paid) time to them if you expect them to learn something new.
Interesting data, but I think a lot more could be done with presentation. Something that puts the data in comparison by itself visualizes it better as a whole.
> Note that the guy who submitted the images to the contest created hundreds of images, and spent weeks finetuning the prompts and curating the results.

Let a monkey write for a million years and choose the best writing. I think that currently AI is better than that, but not so far as to be a misleading comparation.
"Sorry, {excuse}" seems to work best for me. Not all cultures are good with a straight no. Sometimes the excuse is just "I had a long day."
Category Theory for Promises/A+
"let the better person win the match." - that's exactly what the Chinese told her to do.
I could spend all day on that site! Those kinds of videos are going to be an invaluable archive 100 years from now!
Keeping Up with the MEGA65
"It’s a funny coincidence that the field where we’re seeing the most innovation happens to be the one we regulated least, and that the fields that got worse are the most regulated ones."

Man, you almost got it here. Let me rephrase this:

"It’s a funny coincidence that the field where we’re seeing the most innovation happens to be the one with the most immediate ROI, and that the fields that got worse are the ones that are absolutely crucial to society - and therefore heavily regulated - but aren't 1000x unicorns that get their investors on the cover of Fast Company and their CEOs the subject of Hulu docudramas."
Seems like the other commenters understand this already but it took me a while to figure it out so for anyone else that's confused: IIUC by "natural ordering" they mean you can tell the ordering just by looking at the IDs.

Funnily enough I have the opposite desire - I've worked in a VC system with "natural ordering" and it once led to an incident, where I visually compared two version IDs and said "yep this release has the bug fix". Turns out this is hard to do accurately for big numbers and I was wrong. I put a big warning on our ops documentation saying "never compare version IDs visually" with a link to the postmortem!
Much, much better. I don't know why so many devs rely on solely AWS as much.
I've seen a lot of IT product development processes and that's what I realized
Microsoft Shifts Alternative
Shifts in Microsoft Teams doesn't integrate with Outlook Calendar for some reason. So we made this integration with Soon.
Ask HN: Need advice on how to deal with setup.py, Conda requirements and recipe
Hi,

I work on a Python project, with non-Python dependencies. For example, the project uses redis ; a full installation means installing redis server + redis-py.

So, we are using Conda and are happy with it. We have a
requirements.txt file with the dependencies. When making the Conda
package, dependencies have to be copied to meta.yaml... I would like
to avoid this duplication.

I can access yaml or setup.py from conda-build, I was thinking to replace requirements.txt with environment.yml ?

Some people like using setup.py - and also, for development it is quite convenient to rely on `pip install -e .` in an already existing Conda env. Finally, maybe it is better to have dependencies only in
setup.py, then (`install_requires`) ?

But, how to deal with non-Python dependencies like Redis server ?

I was thinking of using Poetry... Not sure it helps.

I am a bit confused ! Any advice from the community ? :)

Thanks in advance
> They are getting hard to find now, partly because 2nd hand bookshops don't stock them because the condition is too bad.

In the Netherlands a handful of second hand shops who specialize in sci-fi and fantasy show up at the huge yearly outdoor book-fair in Deventer. We always pick up a bunch of those old paperbacks there (in the original English obviously). This August the fair returned for the first time since the start of the pandemic shut it down — only 500 stands instead of the usual 800, so hopefully next year will be back to full strength. I would expect such specialised sellers (and large book-fairs) to exists in most countries (although the Deventer one is the largest in Europe).

Good recommendations, Dune certainly is as good now as then (I guess, being born after its release), but I wouldn't blindly recommend everything by, say, Heinlein (like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress stands the test of time, but many of his juveniles and later works are an acquired taste). Good bookshops and publishers already do a lot of that curation by their choice of new editions of older works of course.
Or your microwave suddenly changes into a steam oven.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30721530
> you shouldn't be taking this personally at all.

Yes, probably, though this is obviously not that easy and you start thinking whether you are the problem or not.