skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course the scientific community should.

But is the author the spokesperson for this community to the point that Google should feel compelled to answer him directly?
A fancy ad in a magazine (not a book, of course) won't send you 2,000 pieces of advertising mail if you look at. An ad in a magazine won't empty your checking account if you write your phone number in another ad on the page.

Unlike email.
They may have considered that by bundling Figma's functionality into their cloud subscription, with the number of new subscribers that would bring, that revenue attributable to that added functionality would be much more than 400 million annually.

It would need to be much, much more than 400 million to justify the purchase, and I'm not sure numbers of that size will ever materialize.

Another way to look at it is, what amount of investment would Adobe need to make to bring equivalent functionality in-house. Certainly less than 20 billion, by an order of magnitude at least. But then you have to wait, and manage with inspiration and dedication, and possibly fail. Not for the faint of heart.
Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control global Covid response
Super cool project!

I tried solving the search quality problem (for technical content like engineering blogs) a while back by filtering using heuristics based on websites/urls. At one point I was experimenting with RSS, but found that many websites only show the past X number of entries and gave up that direction since it excluded too much content.

Are you seeing a similar problem now?
I look into this, and upon submission I found that you must be an Australian residence. there a check box with the text 'I am a permanent Australian resident and do not require a visa permit to work', which is required from you to check.
I am noticing the same thing too, but only on the Internet. I don't really hear so much about these "doomer" topics when I speak with people in the physical world. I struggle with how to feel about this kind of prophetic, serious news. I personally don't like to spread it because I don't want to give off bad vibes to others.
Serverless framework – serverless.com is down
Generalized case: no one stands to benefit from putting such things on a blockchain.

Except the people making money by running or grifting off a blockchain.
Sounds like the movie Gattica
I said the said thing at first but learned it's an online meme :)
I’m not sure how it’s taught now, or how it might vary by teaching method, but the way I learned multiplication and division definitely treated the number 21 as “containing” the digit 2. I agree with the conclusion that a CC identifier should be treated as a string, but I don’t find this reasoning to be a compelling argument for that conclusion.
Hilarious. I think they will concede soon that NATO is operating in Ukraine in a big way and the USA is the big dog in the kennel. Particularly if things escalate.
I'm really struggling to work out if this article was generated by an AI, edited by a non-native speaker, or is just what trade press journalism looks like nowadays. There's clearly chunks of text lifted from a Ford press release in here, and the sentences have been spliced together strangely, with missing verbs and articles.

I'm inclined to think this is just GPT-3 processing of a press release with a prompt to 'rephrase this as a news article'. There is no way a human hit 'publish' on this paragraph, right?

> Thanks to a segment-first electronic drift brake, new technology is brought to the racetrack. In turn, we get rear-wheel-drive drifting capability of the Ford Mustang with the visual appeal and functionality of a traditional, mechanical hand brake. The new Ford Mustang Performance Electronic Parking Brake was calibrated with the help of Formula D legend Vaughn Gittin Jr himself, comes standard with the Performance Pack on all Mustang models. Engineered for novice drivers to learn and improve their drift skills while providing expert drivers with a competition-ready system. Pull up on the drift stick and have fun.
Governor Newsom of California signs controversial social media bill into law
Man, it's been a long, long time, since the Qwest CEO stood up to the Feds on a hunting expedition[1]... I don't think anyone has had the guts to say no since then, although Apple put up some pretense when asked for access to iPhone data. Coincidentally, of course, as things are wont to happen, the CEO subsequently got caught up in inside trading...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying
Adobe charged me an “early termination” fee of $43.99 after 6 years of continuous subscription!
https://twitter.com/sunpazed/status/1561679328995250177

Support didn’t help, so I had to vent on Twitter before they refunded the amount.

Not happy with their obscure and deliberately misleading subscription model.
Nearly all cars for the past 25-30 years have speed limiters. This is basically a universal feature on EFI cars.

They are not usually set to the maximum speed of some arbitrary legal jurisdiction, though. They are typically set to the maximum engineered capabilities of the vehicle: often limited by the speed rating of the factory tires. In the cases of hybrids or other electrics, they may be set to the safe RPM limits of the motors.
"your server needs a GPU and an i5 to use our shell, as it provides a graphical interface and some shader animation because that's what attract the money people, they want shiny stuff y'know"

This trend of "new modern shells" that runs and start as slow as some javascript code (powershell) needs to stop

People forgot what shells are for, and what scripting is for
The Authoritarian Personality and the Rising Far Right – History News Network
You don't know my convictions and are projecting them on to me.

This kind of abuse of power dynamic is directly conflicting Hayek's view on competition and on antitrust from 1946.

There's this modern ideology of reactionary fealty to every abuse of power like some masochist vigorously shaking pom poms at every market exploit and cheering "thank you, give me more!"

You know how utterly indefensible that position is and so instead of even attempting to do that you try to pry into my personal life and imagine you've found inconsistencies from which you mount a personal attack on my character.

Give me a break. A company buying up its competition to dismantle it is garbage and plenty of even Austrian economists agree.

Living a life a charity isn't required to see when an emperor wears no clothes.
No, it's even worse than that. Because the question with KF is more like: "if someone unrelated and at a later time, screeches over and over about how someone killed themselves because of your posts, but just forgot to mention you when they did it while listing their reasons, is it your fault?"
Rush to publish first?
They might still be the best of a bad bunch. Payment processing is a de facto cartel (probably driven by it being an actual cartel at the Visa/Mastercard level).
Charted: Breaking Down Big Tech Revenue and Profit
I am so tired of people romanticizing the monarchy, especially one of the bloodiest colonizers on this planet - the British monarchy! The year is 2022! Can't we finally grow up and stop telling girls stories about princes on white horses and stop talking about monarchs like they are some kinds of saviors!? Instead of wasting billions less than 20 years from now to wipe our Charles' face and name, end this now and turn them into a British Disneyland!
As I wrote in my other reply to your other comment

You're trying to let perfect get in the way of good

The power is never ever ever going to be spent on anything else, the energy used would be purely hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. This is what is happening for decades. Absolutely zero sentiment and protest has or would change that.

Bitcoin mining has changed that. If that is what makes you think of a solution that nobody else has thought of for decades, just because bitcoin makes your tummy ache, be our guest.

> To me, any renewable power going into bitcoin mining, is contributing nothing

I also think it will be helpful for you to get the terms accurate, this benefit comes from stranded energy, using this energy is more sustainable. This doesn't necessarily mean renewable or clean, it can though. Since we are talking about reducing methane emission, this isn't a renewable or clean source, it just has 90% drop in methane and hydrocarbons going into the atmosphere while stripping them apart in catalytic converters just like cars do. This is good!
Roads, parks, and libraries are pocket change compared to pensions and healthcare in any developed nation. In the UK you might be able to skate on the NHS, but someplace like France actually has a free-market healthcare system backstopped by insurance. That leaves pensions, and if you’re not a contributing citizen, you’re not getting paid out of it either.
Unfortunately, this is simply the state of automotive journalism in $THE_CURRENT_YEAR.
The Mirage's top speed is supposedly 107mph, though I personally would not drive a car more miles per hour than it has horsepower.
It’s weird because everyone in SF has been saying that these have been decriminalized when the news says that nothing has happened yet AND it’s not about decriminalization:

> It calls for San Francisco police to give investigation and arrests related to use of such substances “the lowest priority.”
> The vast majority of people buying this cars are not going to be using it for drift events. So for the 99% of people who are buying it without intentions of tracking it, why is this there?

This applies to 90% of pickup truck drivers also - most of them will never really "need" the bed. People sometimes buy cars with certain features for bragging rights or to present a certain image. This is not new or noteworthy.
You could literally say this about anything the government does. If 100% citizen agreement was required for everything, government would do nothing. This is why we’re a republic - you elect your leaders that you best trust to make society-level decisions.
The internet population wants everything for free.

Then we get upset when terms change/ we’re the product.

I wish there was a better way.
No, which is the main reason why I don't subscribe.
Not in sf tho :P
What do people use tiktok for?
How about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKeRnsDIiDg
> Some of them are due to government regulations like 'don't launder money' and 'don't process money for illegal activities'. Which are, like, basic operations of society 101 level stuff.

Except the operationalization of those rules is: here are some vague guidelines that you have to follow, and if we don't like you we'll retroactively decide you were committing a crime even if you followed those guidelines to the letter. See HSBC for a case in point.
So the argument now is that because the head of state of Egypt did not request that, then British shouldn't return this back and refuse the request that came from a minister who was responsible for all Egypt's antiquities affairs?. It does not feel pedantic, it is.

Also the Gaza strip example is just unnecessary hypothetical scenario. The British and french stole a lot of things from all over Egypt. There is no need to imagine hypothetical scenarios.
Plants would say otherwise.
Sure. Hit me up at @lrvick:matrix.org
The platform should ban the user, with an explanation written by a human being explaining what rule they broke. And no, "our shiny new machine learning algorithm flagged your account" doesn't cut it. Arbitration should be an option. I could write a lot more, but hopefully you get the idea.
LoL. Not in any way, shape, or form. INTERNET ACCESS can be seen as and drastically needs regulation as a public utility. One specific site via that access; no.
The Lightroom subscription is particularly painful because not only did Lightroom move to a subscription, they also “updated” it to a version with fewer features.

I really want to move off Lightroom, to something that doesn’t change a subscription, but getting close to a terabyte of data out of that cloud with all the edits and into something else is painful.
There’s also an interesting kurzgesagt video that says that if we reach some threshold we’ll never be able to launch anything in space anymore. Quite depressing :(
> This seems more expensive than a ... without any obvious benefit.

Nice summary of the last twenty years of the automotive industry's progress.
>Are you saying you should empty your account constantly

This doesn't really help. When you link your bank account with PayPal the link is 2 way. I.e. PayPal can, without any input from you, transfer money out of your account. They can even do that if the account is empty. Your bank will almost certainly allow an overdraft on your account and you're still liable for the amount + overdraft fees.

I had some issues with PayPal about a year ago and a senior rep at my bank talked me through these details.

With my bank, it wasn't even possible to turn off the overdraft feature.

Bottom line is, PayPal almost always wins.
A bargain at only $2200USD
Sorry, yes, I was trying to say Teller is similar to Increase, not Column.
A textbook example of capitalism squashing innovation.
Nice try but that is only for driving them on a public road. Not for mere ownership or use on private property. That's the loophole used to "justify" it.
Marcus seems to be treating it as the hallmark of intelligence (I think he actually uses that phrase), so arguing about whether the hack manages to get the tree into the effective object slot vs the effective subject slot is really not much of a hallmark.
Shit rolls down hill, I’ve heard.
the digits you parse out of a credit card number are used in a numerical algorithm. That's not the same thing at all.
Agreed, exactly like crypto or a money changer. Nothing specifically solved as a user.

> Nothing specifically solved

Besides permissionless transactions? Does your credit card offer those?

Do you pay monthly fees for the privilege of not paying fees on foreign transactions? I do :(

Which single currency satisfies the GP's description?
Nginx is an absolute beast when it comes to accepting HTTP/1.1 from clients and talking HTTP/1.0 (or HTTP/1.1) to a fixed list of backends or serving files from disk.

Everything else is...hard. Writing plugins - arcane knowledge with next no none documentation. 3rd party plugins, multiple times "acquired" (read: paid the author to work on a new plugin) an open-source plugin and made a much better version available in this plus offering.

gRPC support added only in 2018, http2 support was late, proper web sockets support was late.

Many features that were available "for free" with OpenResty were only on the paid version - good luck writing your own plugin.

They were doomed before F5 probably around round time when they raised series B1 in 2014. All this money and it still had nothing "new" to show. For every Plus plugin, there was most likely a better solution available, and often enough that solution was free or cheaper.

Almost nothing has changed since F5 aquired them.
You've not maintained drum brakes in New England, I guess. Not as finicky as calipers, but the cylinders do rust and fail.
According to Marriam Webster:

Definition of discover
transitive verb

to make known or visible : EXPOSE
to obtain sight or knowledge of for the first time : FIND

Even in other sources for the definition it is not necessary to either be the first or to 'understand' much of what you found/did. You simply have to have done 'it'.

He discovered America as in he found it for the first time for the 'western world' of that time. Whether he thought it was India or connected to it does not seem to matter. He still found it and even found it first as to the knowledge of the Europeans alive at that time.

It does not seem to matter that other Europeans (vikings) had also discovered it previously. Or that Asians had discovered it and stayed on the continent (native Americans)

Can you elaborate on what edge cases you mean and why that would be relevant?
What seems insane to you about using an auction model to efficiently price a scarce resource? (The auction model is the transaction fee bidding market, the scarce resource is block space until/unless Ethereum scales.)

If you're sidelined by the market because resources are being used by people who feel they have a greater need for them than you (who bid higher), that's an efficient market. It's no different than being priced out of buying corn or wheat - there's not an infinite amount available for everyone to buy at whatever price they please.
Thanks! This makes sense of it.
It’s a distinction I remember from (American) childhood (I’m ~40) but I think even then it was viewed as pedantic and falling out of common usage. I don’t think either is “right” even if I take a prescriptivist approach, but even if I’m not aware of it I do tend to favor omitting non-decimal “and” in my own usage in hope it’s less ambiguous.
Criminally underrated film
Given the Steam Deck runs KDE, I'm surprised I don't see Valve down on the list of patrons at the bottom of the page.

Seems like this type of functionality/framework could be beneficial to the Steam Deck, since anything that looks good on a 10-foot display should also look good on the Steam Deck's display.
What kind of insights do you expect a machine to be able to extract? I passed your example to GPT-3, and got back results that seem about the same as I'd expect from a human:

PROMPT:

> This is a test of reading comprehension. Read the following passage and answer the questions below in order.

> Passage:

> "You are engaged in a long conversation with someone, perhaps a friend of a friend who you met for lunch. At some point in the conversation they mention that they have a startup and are seeking someone like you. This revelation colors the whole conversation from that point onward. Indeed, each sentence colors the conversation from moment to moment"

> Questions:

> 1. What is the "revelation" referenced?

> 2. What do you think the person is hoping to achieve by inviting you to lunch?

> Answers:

GENERATED OUTPUT:

> 1. The revelation is that the person has a startup and is seeking someone like the reader.

> 2. It is possible that the person is hoping to recruit the reader for their startup.
I would agree with you, cwkoss, except for this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/paypal/

and

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/paypal.us

and

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-03/paypal-cu.... (which was attempted as a class action lawsuit)
> especially if you don't refund it.

That's the trick. Let Stripe put the money into your bank account and let them think its a real sale (not a production test), then refund the money out of the bank account back to the person who's card was used instead of refunding or reversing the charge. Stripe don't need to know about that.

(You also owe yourself "due diligence" in knowing that you _can_ refund or reverse charges, so you'll also do that test in production as well, but don't make it one of the first transactions you ever do in prod. I try to stretch that test out until after a 60 day window past the first few dozen real sales have gone through, under the assumption that by then Stripe (or whoever) will have seen a bunch of payments go through and not be challenged when the CC statements arrive, and that'll have sent some "probably not a new fraudulent merchant" signals into their systems.)
Lol. I’d start with the very safe assumption that I’m not going to be able to keep $250k that was clearly given to me by mistake.
Seconding this, and if anyone is willing to add a performance angle in their assessment, that'd be great too.

I haven't evaluated Markdoc fully, but I did have some experience using both MDX 2 and markdown-it—the parser used by Markdoc. I can honestly say that MDX 2 (and remark for that matter) is a lot slower in parsing bigger markdown files. Anecdotally, I saw markdown-it outperforming remark by a factor of 20 in terms of generating the file's AST alone.

Markdoc with its added complexity may add some penalty to the parsing performance, but does it do so to a point where it gets considerably closer to MDX? I doubt that this is the case, but would love to see someone verify this.
So many trees, so little forest.

Gary Marcus comes off in this as very long on pious snark and very short on awareness of his own vulnerability to cognitive error, which is just as striking as any of his targets.

The error in his question being: unconsidered linear extrapolation in a domain that is demonstrably non-linear, indeed exponention.

To frame this a different way, he's very pious for maintaining a faith in his specific god ("strong AI is like production fusion power, ten to twenty year from now for every now"),

but he's worshiping a god of the gaps. The gap in this case being <checks notes> "compositionality."

Yes, language is hard. Yes, strong AI isn't here.

But to not take a hard look at the jump up the abstraction hierarchy going on with contemporary ML and not nervously wonder if your faith is maybe a little too sure for a "scientist"...?

Bad look when you're on the offensive.
I see that the Iranian government has also demanded the diamond in the past. Forestalling the diplomatic difficulty of giving it to Tehran, give it to the current Pahlavi claimant in exile, satisfying no one in power and thus the truly neutral solution.
BusinessInsider is summarizing the https://www.gq.com/story/leg-lengthening article. I've read another first-person account of the procedure months ago, it's months of constant pain. As soon as you get used to the new millimeters there's the next procedure for the next millimeters. I wish I could find the older article, the guy said it was worth it but at the same time most of his close friends didn't even notice the height difference.
Not sure what you mean here. The Spanner trial is a completely separate thing from the $300 starting credits. So if you use the Spanner free trial, you aren't spending any part of the $300 credits during that trial period. You can also start the free Spanner trial regardless if you've spent the $300 starting credits in the past.
You're one evil motherfunger!
I have been on oil and gas pads and drill sites. Flares have significant incomplete combustion. A financial incentive (lots outside north America) to pipe it into a generator encourages those with troublesome gas leaks to fix it.
If I used a device running macOS or iOS, I'd probably use Ulysses. I've tried both (on someone else's fruit machines) and just had a slightly better feel for Ulysses.
Yeah while EROI is supposed to be some sort of objective value, it is of course extremely sensitive to the data you put in. It is hard to even agree on what to include and where to draw the system boundaries. LCA suffers from the same issue but I do feel like EROI gets abused more for ideological purposes than LCA, I think LCA as a concept is a bit more robust by now. I mean this in a general sense, I'm not pointing fingers here.
Custom Dev Container Features
2FA apps record physical location. Now you need to spoof time & location on your phone to log in.
I am not sure the article argues cohesively that these big things are truly breaking apart. You can argue that the three nations mentioned are showing signs of weakened faith towards the top-level government, but why is it going to degrade from here?
That is what I see too.

The Xerox PARC vision (tabs, pads, boards, gui, mouse, OOP) have largely played out. Smart TVs have not fulfilled the the potential for boards. As an industry, we collectively turned away from the potential of user-modifiable software (Smalltalk, Hypercard).

AI/ML, VR, AR, as far as I know, wasn’t coming out of PARC. I am not sure they have the same kind of mass market appeal … or maybe, we do not have someone like a Steve Jobs that could bring it to the masses.
It doesn’t really matter what Biden thinks. He has almost zero power over vehicle licensing. The US government doesn’t even license drivers or set traffic laws.
At one point, there was SammyGO firmware to root non-Tizen Samsung Smart TVs. However, it seemed to be for sideloading certain apps only.