skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not limiting you, I'm just pointing out the obvious.

I don't care what you do
NB this works both ways on a lot of things. For instance, the Chinese word for "guitar" is 吉他; pronounced "jí tā" in Mandarin, but "gat1 taa1" in Cantonese. Similary for "Canada" (加拿大): jiā ná dà in Mandarin, and gaa1 naa4 daai6 in Cantonese.

It's a weird side-effect of two facts: 1) the British interacted a lot more directly with Canton than the rest of China 2) Mandarin and Cantonese are "officially" different dialects of the same language, so once you define the characters in one, you've mostly defined them in the other.

(Some exceptions seem to include "bus" and "taxi", which in HK are obviously based on the English words, but Mandarin has their own, self-describing names for.)
They say later on that some firms do beat their benchmark over a 20 year period, so I don't think it's just noise.
> They use phonetically semi-close analogues for major geographical place names[1].

No, just like everyone else, they use whatever their names are without worrying even the slightest bit about whether those names are phonetically close to the native pronunciation.

I notice you forgot to list San Francisco.
"Well, John Marshall has made his decision, but now let him enforce it."

I'll believe this is more than words when I see something happen to Amazon.
/R/Ooer/
That's the version of Mac I started with, back around the turn of the century, on a 500Mhz G3 Powerbook.

I was in a job that was mostly analysis and presentation and writing, and Win95/98 on a laptop was just a NIGHTMARE of freezes and crashes and excruciatingly long boot times. I had a colleague, though, that was using a Mac (because his background was design), and while OS 9 definitely did crash, too, it was far less frequent -- and boot times were faster. Plus, sleep actually WORKED.

Maybe 18 months later, that firm tanked, OS X came out, and I was keeping the lights on with freelance LAMP work using that same Mac as a dev environment. I'm on OS X to this day.
Correct. No matter how down AWS is, their status page will only show a disruption if a manager approves showing a disruption. There is nothing automated to display the status, so the status page is mostly worthless except for whatever AWS admits is down.
This is from the CANDU plant near my house

"Total capital costs including interest were $14.319 billion CAD (about US$11.9 billion) with the heavy water accounting for $1.528 billion, or 11%, of this. "

$1.5 billion (CAD) for heavy water seems like a LOT of money??
> and that'll get worse the first time someone launches a good AI assistant to handle email / chat trained on your writing style

That one might actually be easy to solve: all we need is to normalize the idea that you're personally responsible for whatever your email/chat assistant AI says or does in your name. After all, it's you who are making a decision to reroute other people to a bot.

(Many would say just using such assistant in the first place is disrespectful towards the people trying to reach you. I personally don't agree, because in my experience, those who'd complain about it are exactly those I find even more disrespectful, as they tend to impose themselves, interrupting me with random inane nonsense. Yes, I suck at chit-chat.)

I think this idea is actually the default, so all we need is to keep it alive, to protect it from all kinds of AI assistant startups willing to dump billions of dollars on marketing campaigns trying to convince everyone that half-broken assistants are good and fine, you should use them and should not be blamed for occasional mishaps.
...and you can buy a keychain with some of it.

Don't break it. If you break it, don't breathe it.

https://www.theregister.com/2015/03/18/atomic_keyring_bright...
From the summary of the section of the report I think this is the extent of the BIS concern - a move away from cleared to otc bilateral agreements dilutes the utility of post financial crisis asset reporting. This is not an exciting topic, and can’t sell advertisements.

“””
In the FX space, an accelerating shift towards less “visible” trading venues and bilateral trading may reduce the information content of prices and the network benefits of integrated markets.
“””

They are spot on here. But there’s no doomsday coming from having prices off market or integrated markets. These issues are issues of efficiency rather than doom and gloom.

My revised headline would be:

“Reporting quality in FX Swaps is reduced by use of Over The Counter bilateral agreements instead of clearinghouse.”

But no one will buy Herbalife with that headline.
Ask HN: Variable Cost Calculation for Quotations
I hope you can help me on this one, since I was unable to find anything relatable on HN or elsewhere:

I am currently building a variable cost calculation function for cost quotations. Craftsman and Installer should be able to create a variable cost quotation for their service which works for different sizes of buildings. Such as the installation of a heat pump or air conditioning.

The calculation should look like this:

(variables are given by the system)

cost block A: variable_1 x 100

cost block B: if variable_2 = true +200

(add all to get the sum)

The current setup works as follows:

1. Create calculation in Form (DnD)

2. Convert to json-logic `https://github.com/jwadhams/json-logic-js`

3. Save to Database in json field

-- Display Product or Service --

4. Get json-logic from DB and apply for each cost block with
variables

5. Return in API

6. Display for Customer in Front End

Am I missing something, is there a better way?
Ah, thanks. I agree that it makes sense to require an empty line before block elements that typically also require an empty line after.
I didn't say "best driver" I said better than a human - even an average human.

I'll copy/paste something I wrote before:

The computer would have to be 99.99999% reliable to simply match humans.

The accident rate is around 74 per 100 million miles (and fatalities is 1.13).

It's unclear exactly how to turn that into a percentage, but no matter how you do it it's quite high.

Say an accident takes 5 minutes, and people drive 30 miles/hour. Then that works out to 99.999% for humans. If you use the numbers for fatalities then it's 99.99999%.

I.e. 99.99999% of the time, as whole across all [US] humans, people drive in a way that does not cause a fatality.

Do you know any computers that can simply run with 5 9's of reliability? Never mind actually do something complicated?
> most of my bug reports are "it doesn't work"

That is not a bug report. That is a "I am very annoyed this is not working, you **" report. Or maybe an "it's not me but you" report.
Nicely formatted. I have a Python script that strips out a bunch of the menus and whatnot to post transcripts to my website. I had ChatGPT write the script for me, and I didn't bother cleaning it up further.

Example: https://www.thomasantony.com/chatgpt/ChatGPT_ParseTranscript...

^ That's the one where I had it generate the script.
You keep making this same kind of argument throughout this thread, and I don't understand what you think you are accomplishing. You seem to think that just because some invasive tracking already exists, people should freely accept further expansions of invasive tracking. Why should that be the case?

You should feel free to accept whatever comes along, if that's what works for you; but some of us clearly believe that while some is bad, more is even worse, and it is therefore worthwhile to resist.
Currency swaps range the gamut from _extremely_ short period swaps (read hours to days) to very long period swaps (I've never heard of one bigger than 5 years but they may exist).

The short period swaps are almost pure liquidity imbalance mitigation techniques. It's cheaper and less risky to do than the equivalent bridge loan plus fx transaction. In these cases the notional really is fully owed on a future leg, but a) its a really small number and b) the counterparty risk is miniscule. These happen a lot. Large treasury groups may be making hundreds of swaps a day if they have lots of multi-currency cash flows, so the notionals can add up even though the actual dollar amounts per swap are small.

The longer period swaps I have a lot less expertise in, but in my experience they are modeled like CDS' and your premise is right. The notional largely doesn't matter as its the cash flow that is at risk.

As far as I know, in _neither_ case do people write the legs as 'debt'.
> For example, if you had a study which compared moderate drinkers to non-drinkers, but not carve out "cannot drink due to other medication" from the second group, you get a more discriminatory result from the study.

This is in fact what seems to have been underneath all those studies 10-25 years ago that seemed to show that non-drinkers have worse health outcomes than moderate drinkers. The problem is that "non-drinkers" includes a lot of people who can't drink because they're already sick or because they're alcoholics and drug addicts with long histories of abuse (and so on).

Once you control for that group non-drinkers do better than moderate drinkers.
blog? That word is so last year. That's an extented tweet or non-visual tiktok movie.
Its not related to alcohol. Fermentation is mainly about producing acidity that stops harmful bacteria growing (also in the absence of oxygen, plus salted).
ChatGPT is in fact just a chat prompt on top of Davinci3, plus a markdown renderer
FWIW, any fast-neutron reactor can use MOX fuel, and extracts more energy from the fuel. However unlike CANDU they need fairly highly enriched fuels which is a proliferation concern.
Websites that will increase your productivity
The overwhelming sentiment in my friend group, including some blue-collar types who might not work for a while if there's a rail shutdown, was "please, strike—we can take it". We were all shocked to find out how poorly rail workers are treated. Everyone was very unhappy with Congress and Biden screwing them over.

But I may be in a bubble.
> A total of 1280 adults with obesity ... could earn up to $750.

A financial incentive to lose weight is also a financial incentive to qualify for the incentive program. If it becomes a policy instead of a one-off study, and you could qualify by gaining a few pounds, you can justify your next binge as a duty to your family.

As a champion binge-justifier I can testify that this is an easy one. Advanced justifiers can do it from just a palindrome in the current date, in the Babylonian calendar.
I've run trading bots on Hetzner without issue (Binance and Bybit api)
Risky online behaviour ‘almost normalised’ among young people, says study
Even 20% wrong answers probably = "website with garbage answers".
I don’t know if this opinion is unpopular, but I personally think anyone should be allowed to refuse to render their services to anyone they want to…I mean, if I don’t want to offer my services, can’t I just make an excuse like I’m overbooked or something?

Obviously, it gets murky when it comes to innate characteristics like race…but I don’t think religious views fall under that category because a considerable number of people change their religions or go from religious to atheist or vice versa.
Sometime you have to eat something to stay up sometime you wanna eat Italian food and in particular you want eat Pasta. I'll try to explain you how to cook the Pasta in the right way.
That's lean.
It sounds like you were the only one who was uncomfortable. Your nephew probably thought it was funny.
This is called Hallucinations in the world of NLP. https://youtu.be/dtLsrLoopl4

ChaTGPT Hallucinations
Furthermore, they're trying to convince someone else (usually a boss) of a theory/idea/strategy that they might have but don't have the resources/rapport/etc. to demonstrate it's effectiveness.
It would matter immensely imo
The Problem with ChatGPT Hallucinations
I have reread your comment multiple times, and I am struggling to understand the purpose of both your comments, and the meaning of your recent reply eludes me. Are you are responding at all to the idea that “wealthier full-fee students are not subsidising other students at all”?

The closest I can paraphrase your point-of-view would be “rich students are great”, or potentially that poor students gain by associating with rich students?
Have you tried telling it not to make sources up or that made-up sources will not suffice?
That's interesting, I have a 500GB Crucial SSD that's essentially new and it failed (it failed progressively over some days until the drive wasn't recognized). I've done everything to get the data off it as nothing I do can see the drive (it's no longer recognized as a SATA drive).

It may be worthwhile heating it up in the oven and see what happens (I can control the temp pretty accurately). Take the case off first etc. If it falls apart or the solder melts nothing's lost over and above what's happened already.
If you're on Android you can install the APK.

https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android
This is actually backwards for botulinum. Boiling denatures the toxin, but doesn't kill the critter; you need to use a higher temperature, e.g. that produced by pressure cooking / canning. So I'd be curious what bacteria are being referred to.
> under the old Wade-Giles romanization system the city was transliterated as 'Peking'

Not even close. Under the old Wade-Giles system the name of the city is transliterated as 'pei-ching'. That is because, as you note, the pronunciation in Mandarin didn't change. You seem to be imagining a sound that might be interpreted as a K or, alternatively, might be interpreted as a J, but there is no such sound.
> I don‘t know man, to me you describe a real dystopian future.

It's hilarious to hear that I and almost everyone I know have been living in a dystopia our whole lives.
I recently found out that the author is John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor I have read papers from in totally unrelated contexts. I was more than surprised to see that he is the original author of pandoc. It boggles my mind how someone with an academic career in a somewhat unrelated field can have a GitHub profile like him. It's really impressive.

On topic, though, preceding sublists with empty lines is a complete non-starter for me. However, since I don't hard-wrap lines (goal 7), but use soft-wrap only, I am not in the target audience anyways.
I apologize to everyone who got triggered by the above comment. Please remember that Nike makes great shoes, but they also make a lot of crap.
This might make sense.

I responded to this question as well and it seems the plant near me took $1.5 billion for the heavy water.

After a bit of digging, it turns out it has approx. 500 tons of Heavy water.
> generally have negative effects on your overall health

smoking tobacco for years, every day, definitely changes your body. Most of those effects are not great in the long run, yet many people start and continue to smoke cigarettes for years on end. The change to lung tissue, mucus membranes, tongue, mouth ecosystem.. are real.. and for an otherwise healthy person, yes, they have to get "tougher".
This looks great. Thanks a lot!
> Otherwise a team of hijackers could locate the air marshal by having one person act as an unruly passenger.

For the last twenty years, hijackers (in flights originating from US) are probably always presumed to be suicidal and much less likely to succeed in a hijacking. To the point where I'd assume that they're rarely even attempted.

Perhaps we could end up needing air marshals in the future, a future where many passengers are not old enough to recall or be affected by the terrorist attacks on September 11.
This question is too broad as is. A good place to start is looking at your cost breakdown which is available in the console. For example, if it shows your highest spending is on EC2 then you should assess your instance types and use case. If your S3 spending is high, assess what you're storing; if any of it is low-access, assess the storage class you're using and consider glacier. These are just two examples of two services and how you might address high spend; AWS has countless services so it is highly dependent on what you're actually using. So figure that out and then google reducing AWS spend for [specific service name]. Good luck!
re: "because it was the cheapest"
I use Budget and I haven't had any problems. However, I always thought Hertz and Avis were the expensive premium rental places. So I learned something today.
Thanks :)

> So by "weaken durability" you mean basically allow committed changes to be "lost" in the case of a common conflict, aka give it up entirely?

I should have said "weaken ordering".

I mean that the transaction will run, but its order with respect to other concurrently running transactions may be different in the end than the submitting client initially thought. As an extreme case, you submitted the transaction and your local client thought you got the concert tickets, but by the time it hits the server, the last ticket was already sold. Transaction still runs: it just runs first optimistically on the client, and then later authoritatively on the server with a potentially different result. Clients converge to serve view of the world and application invariants are maintained regardless (number of sold tickets doesn't go negative).

Or just read Jepsen's take: https://doc.replicache.dev/concepts/consistency

In the case of concert tickets, this design doesn't make a lot of sense, but in lots of other cases -- in particular document editing applications -- it makes tons of sense. The chance of concurrent edits is low, but it is critical to maintain application-defined invariants when conflicts do occur.

> CRDTs are meant to converge even in the presence of network partitions (offline first)

Sure. Replicache converges in the presence of network partitions, as does OP's design, as do most games, distributed databases, etc. What CRDTs uniquely provide is the ability to converge *without a leader* -- in a p2p environment. As OP observes, this is not a property that most applications today need. Because they have an obvious leader: the server.

> so you're saying your committed transactions can be uncommitted? Or you're saying writers have no idea if their transaction is committed because it might converge the other way after arbitrary delay?

They run optimistically (speculatively) on the client, and then later authoritatively on the server. Application can render the optimistic result, and then later the authoritative result when it is known.

This is exactly what CRDTs do. The only difference is that CRDTs can do it without a leader, but the Replicache (and OP's) design offers additional flexibility -- ability to define your own operation/transactions.

===

We need new terminology for distributed systems. Terms invented in the 70s aren't going to make sense. I believe that "transactions" in the common parlance mean "a set of code that runs together or not at all, isolated from other concurrently running transactions". This is entirely possible to provide with convergence if we are willing to weaken ordering.
There was a recent article about Toyota still making old-school Land Cruisers that have little to no electronics[0] I don't think they can pass emissions tests in Europe or US though, which would make them unusable, if not unimportable.

0: https://www.carscoops.com/2022/11/this-shop-in-gibraltar-mod...
Hrm. Don't know about anyone else, but Windows 7 was the first ms os I felt genuinely impressed by since DOS 6.2. (also the last) The big difference is the migration away from native apps. There are numerous reasons why getting out from underneath decades of MFC and old C++ dependencies needed to occur, but the choice to go the electron/react-native route seems to have left them with a 50-cent-bin-at-the-dollar-store UX.
The model is trained to, essentially, fabulate an excuse in response to correction; which also gets to a major limitation: it is not learning truth from falsehood but rather learning what human evaluators like or dislike.

"ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers. Fixing this issue is challenging, as: (1) during RL training, there’s currently no source of truth; (2) training the model to be more cautious causes it to decline questions that it can answer correctly; and (3) supervised training misleads the model because the ideal answer depends on what the model knows, rather than what the human demonstrator knows."

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
> would have been enough to alarm Zuckerberg’s minions

If you're not going to write the article seriously, I'm not going to the article read seriously.
One idea is: https://hackaday.com/2017/05/05/converting-parallel-port-cnc...

Plus there are a bunch of off the shelf solutions on Amazon (YMMV).
Fission, boosted, or fusion all start with a fission bomb with a possibility to fizzle.
That's not the Big 4. There is "Big 4" and "MBB", that's it.

Big 4 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms

Big Three / MBB = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_%28management_consul...
I’d note too the issue the BIS has is with the amount of notional in off clearing house deals. I would expect long dates swaps would benefit from standardization and clearing, but that it’s too expensive and tedious to do cleared deals on short dated instruments. Does that map with your intuition?
Sounds like bullshit.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/01/obama-contin...

> So-called “signature strikes”, targeting people whose behavior is assessed to be similar enough to those of terrorists to mark them for death, will continue, according to senior US officials.

> Human-rights groups have long denounced the practice – whose criteria can be as vague as killing “military-aged males” in regions where terrorists operate – as anonymous killing.
You’re right. I think there isn’t any and I was initially misled.
There are! Digital/virtual pinball is huge.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/atgames-legends-virtu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Pinball
Yeah, is that why they forcefully shut down my browser mid session any time they feel like updating?

Seriously thinking of moving away from firefox these days
A claim that 'masks' don't protect generally does imply N95 masks don't protect specifically.

Did you not see the last video? Why are you trying to amend history to suit your political views here? Fauci repeatedly discouraged mask use because he said people would infect themselves by touching their faces to adjust the mask. He said this over and over, and that applies to N95 as much as any other mask.

Frankly due to the amount of intentional suppression of these videos it's hard to find them. You would think there would be plenty of documentation of all the news around covid, especially the early days, but lots of tv appearances have fallen down the memory hole.

It doesn't not matter, yes it was hard to buy an N95 mask at the time, but many, many people have N100 or P100 masks for work. As a hobby I spray paint sometimes, so I have multiple P100 masks, which far exceed anything necessary to prevent infection. The truth is people should have been encouraged to wear masks, and educated on which masks are effective and which were not. Fauci was wrong about masks early on, and as usual for him he lied about it later (hilariously that he lied is his official story, he lied to protect mask supplies, so he would rather you think he lied previously rather than was incompetent) to try to avoid looking like he made a mistake.