skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully this comment is helpful to fellow entrepreneurs as well.

Learnings From Working With Lawyers

- You Need to Manage Your Lawyer, Not The Other Way Around

Your lawyer often will not understand the priority of a business issue or the impact that a delay in resolution can have on the business. It is your responsibility to explain that to them AND have them get it done. With multiple clients, you are, in reality competing for your lawyer’s time. Just because you are paying them well does not mean they will get it done on your schedule. Don't expect that.

- Tell Them Everything, No Matter the Situation

The more your lawyer knows about the business situation, the context, your concerns, your goals, the more a good lawyer can determine the best solution. There are typically many available solutions for a given problem, or many ways to negotiate a contract, the more your lawyer understands the sensitivities of the issue at hand, the better the ultimate outcome. And if your response to this is, I don't trust my lawyer, you need to find a new lawyer.

- Don't Be Afraid to Make Suggestions or Modifications

While they are experts in the law, they again are not necessarily experts in the situation. You have every right to redline your own lawyer's contracts with typos, word choices, or comment if something doesn't approach the business problem the right way. Just like in any requirements gathering process, you need to own the output from a business standpoint.

Suggestions for Lawyers

- Deliver What You Promised, When You Promised

What everyone is looking for when hiring a service provider of any kind is certainty that the job will get done. If you said you would send it first thing in the morning, send it at 9am PT or earlier, not 12pm PT. If you said you would follow up with questions before moving to the next round of negotiations, do it without needing to be asked twice. If you have run into a challenge, disclose it as soon as possible versus waiting until the next meeting. The sheer number of times I have had to remind lawyers that they owe me something or they are late on a deliverable is far too high for a high paid profession.

- Better Delineate What is "Market" and What is Negotiable

Most of the time in contracts there are certain things that are not negotiable or have to be in there for a certain reason. Don't lead your client down the road of negotiating on those types of items. It wastes everyone’s time and while it may help your billable hours in the short term, you will burn trust in the long term. Founders rely on you to understand what is negotiable / market / fair. Be that voice, especially when a founder is trying to negotiate something that will ultimately make them look foolish for negotiating on it.

- Invoice Timely and Accurately

While it seems basic, invoice items timely along with a brief description. Don't assume that founders will remember why you spent 12 hours negotiating an "NDA". As you build a relationship of trust, this can be more high level. But the number of times I've gotten duplicate invoices, or invoices with descriptions that are wrong or that seem out of bounds is far too high.
I was thinking that something could be true and undecidable (as for the halting problem).

I'm somewhat on thin ice on the mathetematical formulation, but I suppose something could be undecidable but true with respect to all standard models of a theory, while not true for some non-standard model.

For instance, there may be statements acting on infinite sets (such as N) that may not be compressed into a recoursive formulation, which means that a proof of the valididity of the statement (if it is true) would require an infinite number of steps.
Wikipedia is a dumpster fire and should be tossed into a black hole.
Fine-Tune GPT-3 Using Python to Create a Virtual Mental Health Assistant
Stable Diffusion: Like DALL-E but Free [Two Minute Papers]
Could be prompt based memory, or fine-tuning a small part of the big model.
The issue isn’t so much being an insider, it’s did you get access to the data through nefarious purposes or did you have an obligation to protect that data.

If I’m an analyst and I cold call someone with a duty to protect the data, it’s not at all clear how I’ve stolen from the shareholders. Which is the basis of US insider trading. Theft, not information asymmetry.

Compare that to if I steal a binder from my sleeping girlfriend (a recent case). She has a duty, but I’ve stolen from the shareholders in that case.

That said, the SEC has certainly expanded the definition of insider trading recently with their court hypothesis’
Thanks for the edit.
I didn't know that site, thanks! But I have to note that those stations are missing pretty basic and crucial information like platform numbers. I probably won't be using those maps anytime soon.
Yes "If you have an old Patagonia item that is just sitting around, we’ll give you credit towards your next purchase on a used or new garment." https://wornwear.patagonia.com/
Read it again, it does mention climate change. Reflexive ctrl-f won't work because it words it: "global warming." It's in the very first paragraph:

> As we began to witness the extent of global warming and ecological destruction, and our own contribution to it, Patagonia committed to using our company to change the way business was done.

The New York Times didn't slip this in to mislead everyone.
To be clear, do you mean no additional benefit for booster vaccines (not the original series)?
Does this website search the same dataset as https://knn5.laion.ai?
Many journalists whole job is to not keep a low profile and pull attention from the public. I'm not sure politicians get killed that much more in comparison [0]. Money is usually enough to solve political problems.

[0] https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/18/30-environmental-r...
I knew they would skimp on explaining the Reed-Solomon code... :^)
> Because it protects you

After already having had Covid? I'm fit in my 30s.

> and others around you from disease.

Has this borne out in practice?

> My guess is, if you ask your doctor, he or she will recommend you take it.

Guess again.
What's wrong with the 3x ones on the 13 and 14 Pros?
The problem is not just the letter of the law, it's the culture that would even create such a policy in the first place. The law can help some, assuming SCOTUS knocks this down, but it doesn't address the root cause. The people who came up with this will still be in positions of power.
+1. And the subset of those applications concerned with simply converting result sets <-> JSON over HTTP may well even tolerate use of an API generator (eg PostgREST, PostGraphile, Hasura), reducing that thin layer to merely a membrane.
> Those old impression machines?

Good point. Not only do I still have cards with mag stripes, I still have some with embossed numbers. And probably half of the people with credit cards are younger than the date when that was obsoleted.
I've always wondered about how modern contactless methods are more resistant to skimming. Couldn't someone compromise two machines and essentially MITM the NFC communcations, intercepting the card's response from the first machine, and replaying it against another remote machine, along with the PIN recorded from a camera? Though I suppose the ATM company could combat this by encoding the machine's ID or a nonce with the message that the card's smart chip responds to, so it only works when replayed on that first machine - is this what happens in practice?
London buses don't even take cash any more.
Let's be clear about this, unless El Salvador is in a debt crisis. They won't own any crypto by the next BTC cycle because they'll have gone bankrupt, sold off any crypto assets they've got, taken significant bailout money from places like the IMF. They don't have the luxury of sitting on BTC and riding the wave, they are bankrupt. They have $100m of BTC and they need to pay $800m by Jan 2023. And their debt is trading at something like 30 cents on the dollar because no one believes they can pay.
I would be a little surprised if the guy doesn’t have a body man with a cellphone on hand all day long.
Same for "localhost" but "[::1]" works.
What I really like to prepared D&D games are Entity Relationship Diagrams. A very handy app for from the Android Play Store is "Draw Express Diagram Lite" - the touch UX to create diagrams is unmatched in usability if you ask me.
There's this, but it doesn't appear to be fully complete: https://www.infrapedia.com/app
I rewrote some of the Perl code in Texinfo, the GNU documentation system, to C, because the code was unacceptably slow. It was not a migration as we kept the old code as a back-up. It led to reform of the existing Perl code to get a structure that was more easily implementable in C. Data structures have to be more clearly defined in C and attention has to be paid to which parts of structures are shared or duplicated.

Due to C being a typed language, I found the C code often more readable than the untyped Perl. Perl has the advantage of more readable string manipulation and automatic memory management.

You can see the Perl code here (single file): https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/tp/Texinf...

and the C code here (directory): https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/tp/Texinf...

As I was only doing this in my spare time, it took several years in total as I recall, although the project can be said to be a success now as the results are being used in the program by default and have made it much faster.

The existing test suite was crucial for testing that the new code had the same results. When developing the new code I kept a reference file with the old code in it using comments with line numbers in the new code.

You have to decide what approach to take and whether it is worth it. Maintaining two parallel sets of code in different languages and trying to maintain compatibility clearly has its costs, as well as benefits in terms of increased scrutiny of the code. However, I do feel that a lot of time can be spent on issues that aren't very important in trying to get exact compatibility for use cases that are quite unlikely.

Before this rewrite we had also achieved a very significant speed-up (about 30%) by rewriting a smaller part of the program in C, just the plaintext paragraph formatter.

Character encoding issues are a huge time sink - it could be as much as 50% of the work.

Before I got involved with the project, in 2010 there had been a complete rewrite of the makeinfo program from C to Perl. (The main developer of Texinfo did a talk in 2011 - https://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/#sec-2-4.) The main downside of this was that it made the program much slower (about 50 times as slow, unacceptable for some users). It also did not appear to attract many more contributors to the code. The upsides were better structuring of the code, allowing more functionality to be added in terms of supported output formats (although this is only happening now), better test coverage and treatment of different input cases.
I see the ultimate conclusion as "AGI is dangerous to humanity" and your objection here is that "Probably the AI won't be clever enough to seriously hurt humanity on its first attempt."

There are a couple problems with your objection. For example, even in your imagination, the AI is just given "1000x times" to keep learning, at which point, even with the weaknesses you believe the AI will have, it will presumably be more intelligent and capable than us, so really, your objection doesn't refute the ultimate conclusion I mentioned above, your objection just claims that there will be an additional phase before a technically dangerous AI exists.

A bigger problem with your objection though is that your reasoning applies to natural intelligence less than or equal to our own. Your reasoning does not apply to artificial intelligence, which may behave very differently, and it doesn't apply to intelligence much greater than our own. GPT-3, for example, when it was done training, exceeded human ability instantly in many respects - what human can translate as accurately between as many languages? Has as large a vocabulary? Writes as quickly? etc. Why wouldn't it be the case that a generally intelligent machine, on first use, is substantially more generally intelligent than a human?

Finally, I don't even think objections like this one meaningfully obstruct the ultimate conclusion - that AGI is fundamentally dangerous. You could just imagine that the people who are controlling the AGI, if they are able to, are people other than your preferred controllers. If a team of computer scientists develop AGI, and they manage to perfectly control it, and they take it through the "childhood" period that you imagine must exist, is that really any better? This team of researchers will be the new omnipotent rulers of humanity. Even without going to nanotech or exotic technology, we could imagine they just automate robot soldiers and surveillance with their aligned AGI, and the rest of humanity would be powerless against them. And there is no reason to rule out exotic technology, which might be possible, and might empower the future rulers of humanity to unimaginable levels.

Not only does AGI need to be aligned with its operators, the operators need to be aligned with humanity, and neither of those seem plausible.
I found them super funny! Bazinga! xD /s

On a more serious note, I know someone who does this kind of talk in real life, 24/7. He's insufferable.
With just about everything either chip or tap now, is there any danger in just scratching out the mag stripe of my cards?
Interesting, do you do a lot of processing in Golang or basically you just use it as a wrapper around sendfile[1] ?

1. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sendfile.2.html
>No one I've talked to is actually interested in the step-sibling fetish,

I derive much enjoyment of the lewd but not pornographic memes and other humor it generates as a byproduct of being widespread.

So I guess that supports your theory that nobody actually wants that in their porn.
Well, it's also much harder to crack down on voter fraud like voting on behalf of dead people. I would say paper voting has a larger attack surface for the average voter.
Related - GPT-3 with a Python interpreter can solve many tasks. It is also language model + a computer, but on a different level.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sergeykarayev/status/156937788144...
I see, fair enough. I've used your library in the past (i think, it seems familiar anyway), so thanks for that, and also thanks for the insight that writing my own toy qr generator might help me understand the reading process. :)
I haven't read Machines Like Me, but Atonement is one of my all-time favorite novels. To give you an idea of my general tastes, I'm drawn towards late 19th and early 20th century writers. McEwan's style reminds me of English writers in that period, such as Maugham and Greene.
Dismissing privacy on a basis of "I have nothing to hide" is an equivalent of dismissing freedom of speech on a basis of "I have nothing to say".
Involving a bunch of people is a security feature. Perhaps the only one that works consistently.

The only reason to move to electronic voting is to reduce the number of people. Ie. an attempt to reduce the security of the election.

Additionally your voting system has to he simple enough for transparency to be effective. Ie. a non-compromised voting system must be distinguishable from a compromised one by the average Joe or it will get replaced by the compromised one.

No electronic voting system passes this test.

By all means use a computer to help (ie. optionally mark the paper with a computer, or do some zero knowledge vote verification thingy or count the marks automatically as a pre-count), but it should never interfere with the basic process of put mark on bit of paper, put bit of paper in box, have human tally marks in box.
Mortality is very low for younger people with zero vaccinations as well.
Not if you're interacting with the real world. This is like software startups trying to get into hardware, it suddenyl becomes incredibly difficult because you need to actually interact with the world. You can iterate an incredible number of times with your software model in a blink of my eye, but that's not going to help you if the hydro-electric damn that you didn't know about suddenly goes offline.
How about a nice pastel?

Also, google up... Oh, I forget the term. "Heritage colors" or something like that. There are certain classic colors, time-tested, from over the past couple centuries, that really do the job well. Worth looking at.

There's probably a list at the Sherwin Williams site.

At my house we did this classic beige overall. Invented by Ben Franklin or something. And then accent walls of pastel sunset orange and a 1920s seafoam. It's nice.
My family is excited for it simply because of the hand-me-down supply chain - someone gets a new phone, someone else a few hops down gets a gently used iPhone X and we donate/sell a still functional iPhone6s.
Maybe he is here to be curious about why other people get excited…

I know I am excited for when stable diffusion/DALLE level manipulation is built into the photo app and iMovie to compile cinema level clips while I sleep.
I agree 100% with the conclusion but I don't think this one is a good argument (although it sounds clever).

> “If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me.”

Because they couldn't know you're not doing anything wrong unless they watch you. Not doing anything wrong does not get rid of their "need" to watch.
From my understanding you can't really skim these cards as the cards sign some piece of data using a private key stored only on the card that never gets exposed in the transaction. I might be _totally_ wrong though.
I’ve been thinking for a while about a common people programming language able to interface with machines with pure casual conversation ( not exact commands) and I feel something it’s coming in the next decades even if not earlier. Imagine the ability to casually chat with a widget which understands flawlessly and where most devices would be able to communicate as well. This could eventually be used in psychotherapy, everything automation around humans and in nefarious ways as well. I’m only hopeful of a human augmentation scenario but there are countless ways it could become totally different.
An irrelevant story about Yvon's climbing days:

In 1967, he met a young woman named Joy Herron, and they went climbing together on a new route. The route is named "Jump for Joy" after her.

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/105866381/jump-for-joy
I thought Googlers were supposed to work with greater focus in mind. Someone is playing around.
The chips on my card have a habit of not working, and my bank doesn't give NFC "tap" cards. Mag-stripe has saved my bacon a couple times after the chip wouldnt read.

And the fancy Amex tap card barely works -- Apple Pay is more reliable.
Yes, this is my point - that costs to consumers are rising, rather than being driven down by economies of scale and competition. It seems to me that this was a highly predictable outcome of market dominance, once achieved the incentive to collect economic rents goes way up.
Kind of strikes me as Joplin meets Simplenotes meets Standard Notes. That it's compatible with Nextcloud Notes is a plus (well, for me at least). Not sure about the look of the UI – it's a bit busy for my taste. But it looks like you can fiddle with that a bit. Overall, though, it's not a bad plain text note taking tool. Not bad at all.
> Though I suppose the ATM company could combat this by encoding the machine's ID or a nonce with the message that the card's smart chip responds to, so it only works when replayed on that first machine - is this what happens in practice?

Yes, more or less. The chip and contactless flows defined by EMV both require the card to generate a nonce for the transaction. The terminal also generates its own nonce[1].

[1]: https://www.cs.ru.nl/E.Poll/papers/EMVtechreport.pdf
The internet is so bad that when I see titles like these I know the article will not be true at all. The great thing is I can see lemire next to the title and I absolutely know not only did he walk the walk but he can write about it in an understandable way. I upvoted before reading and I haven't yet been disappointed. -Edit- Done, it's nice and short and I want to reread the code example. I'm not familiar enough with avx512
I really like climate drift
Broadly speaking, doing business on the internet doesn’t have a separate set of laws. Many online retailers don’t accept cash.
Catfished by My Airbnb Host and the Place Was a Mess
Ok, that was very surprisingly catchy.
Yeah I'm not super convinced. If I want untraceable transactions, cash is hard to beat. (Pleeeeeease nobody mention crypto I beg you.)
It is really unfortunate that AVX-512 has been such a mess when it came to support from Intel on their newer hardware platforms. I think Dr. Lemire has gone quite a ways in demonstrating that there's a lot of potential for software to see performance gains with this type of platform, but I think we'll need further improvements in developer experience before it's more commonplace.

The other way to look at it is that quite frankly most business services just don't hit a performance barrier where you're sitting and waiting on a string operation. You're usually waiting on some sort of I/O.
I don't see what's wrong with the outrage considering it's fleecing people's good will. Once upon a time when Wikipedia was the only service of its kind maybe there was more reason to ignore this kind of behavior but YouTube does more to bring knowledge to people these days so I think it's fair to have some kind of bar for behavior
Sensor size in smartphones is also "highly manipulable", because the smartphones are very flat and have serious angle of incidence issues as the lens is too close to the sensor. If consumers demand larger sensors, sure it can be done - but it will reduce the amount of light that reaches the edges of the sensor, eating the possible increase in image quality. Smartphone cameras are limited by thickness, not by sensor sizes.
That's also a reasonable suggestion. It wouldn't stop them from becoming billionaires. The GP suggested "every billionaire is a policy failure". What's the policy success that prevents this failure?

"No one is allowed to start a company by themselves"?

"No one is allowed to join a startup unless they get more than X% equity"?

"Startup founders must give more than X% equity to their first N employees and/or investors"?

"Bootstrapped startups are not allowed"?

"Once a startup becomes more successful than X, the founder must sell"?
But the sensor the 2x crop is taken from is better than the old real 2x camera. So it should still be better.
Those things are overwhelmingly less common than you are pretending, make very little difference, are substantially easier to prevent than attacks on electronic voting, and are trivial to detect.
my argument isn't that adblocking is theft, my argument is specifically that if you're watching a video and circumvent the ad through technology, that is, since it is. clicking skip isn't. not watching it isn't. scrolling down and reading the comments isn't, same with just muting the sound. certainly you're not obligated to engage with the ad.

if circumventing it is not theft, then piracy is not a problem for the same reason.

> The analogy I would make is that, once I've obtained a piece of software, there is no ethical issue with me deciding to modify my copy of it, perhaps to remove assets I don't want included.

your analogy, is also piracy, since by your stance here removing restrictions that might requirement payment is OK even though that too is piracy.

though if you want to be pedantic all adblocking can be considered fraud since you're deceiving the content provider (by blocking ads) for personal gain (not seeing ads).
Fyi you will still need a backup heat source as heat pumps have a lower temperature limit to where they can't capture heat from out side that is around freezing to 20 degrees fahrenheit.