skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the terms and guarantees, and so far both o365 and especially google workspaces have been reluctant to offer proof that there is no way for the US headquarter to access data stored on Europeans citizens.

MS had a German cloud region operated in a way that was designed to look independent of the US Headquarter but somehow that got rolled back into the global azure operations structure after a few years. And while there is talk about trying something similar again but nobody can tell if that will be accepted as separate enough or how long it will be before those boundaries are crossed anyway.

For public funded institutions depending on any kind of user accept as a prereq for any service is extremely problematic so none of the workaround that have been used by businesses to bypass the lack of a valid "safe harbour agreement" so any solution put in place have to be designed in a way that don't require any "consent to data transfer"
I think it’s already automated when the line planing was good. However some places like Munich have terrible delays and all the strange things not allowing getting on time by subway.
Hey Katie :-) If taking requests, it would be great to be able to test occasional root servers before committing, even if it's only a few hours access.

I have my eye on one of those new ARM many-core servers, but I'm not going to pay the setup fee and month rent in advance only to measure the performance and find out quickly that it's not what I'm looking for (because the AMD line is really good).

You offer a refund policy by writing to support, but I always felt a bit dirty at the idea of using it, as though it's abusing the process if I know before I buy that I'm probably going to return the server.
I just use khanacademy.org to freshen up on individual maths, as desired. I'm not going to be able to read an entire book and remember everything.
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I think you read dzdt's comment exactly backwards. Deductive reasoning is not the primary feature of human brains; pattern matching is.
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Jeremy Clarkson is the son of a woman who sold unlicensed, knock-off paddington bear dolls so well that the author of the books eventually decided to just license the bear to her for production.
It is his mother's explicit opinion that without the millions of dollars she earned doing that Jeremy wouldn't have been part of the British upper class and wouldn't have had the success he has. His family was very rich when he was a child.

He's an anecdotal case from a classist society and his success probably should not be used in a generalized discussion about IQ. In general, Britain has been so thoroughly classist that it's hard to make any meritocratic statements about any British people over about 40.

Also the Brits don't have SATs? It's a very weird chain of arguments.
As somebody who would ordinarily look for products in this "more expensive, reasonable quality" category, I feel this comment so hard :(

I've actually started building my own furniture from raw wood etc. just because it's impossible to find anything that costs less than $1000 that isn't just cardboard and MDF with a veneer. At least with furniture there's a market for "solid wood". But in so many other industries you get to pick between $3 garbage in a $0.20 box for $5, and $3 garbage in a $5 box for $20.
Because they're pretending to help Ukraine while keeping them from being able to do anything decisive while the war grinds on in trench-warfare-on-the-western-front style.
I've been playing around with stable diffusion a bit, and if you use an iterative process starting with either an extremely vivid and "code-golfed" prompt (like verses of poetry, concise prose, or elegant lisp), or your own illustration, and then feed the output back in again (with some fuzzing) along with the prompt, or a modified prompt, or a totally new prompt, after 2-3 generations the result becomes something that, although it undeniably integrates existing works in myriad ways, looks wholly unique and shaped by the user of the AI system more than by any of the individual contributing parts. I don't think this is terribly different from my creative process when I play music; I feel I have to work just as hard to avoid copping other peoples' stuff unconsciously.
The thing is, as much as I hate all the scanning too, identity is an extremely weak safeguard against what TSA is supposedly guarding. If we could verify that he didn't have any weapons, bombs, etc., Osama bin Laden himself could have taken a flight without anyone else on board being in danger.
I suppose you’ve not played Minecraft lately. Microsoft has loaded it with monetization. Yes you can buy a license to play Minecraft with updates for forever (although I don’t think they assure you of this, as the developer in question did). But you’ll be constantly bombarded with Marketplace appeals. My daughter and I play it all the time together with her friends, which since some play on a switch we have to pay a monthly fee for a realm. Then they’re constantly asking for “gold coins” to buy skins and stuff with. Microsoft injects animations into the Home Screen to pull you into the market place, which is rendered like a flashing crack casino for kids.

I suppose that’s another option for the developer.
It seems to create a double dipping situation where the customer thinks they can deduct it, while CVS is also deducting it.
Does it include AP exam answers from an exam released after the model was trained? My impression was that its training data was largely collected in 2021 (hence the disclaimer about ChatGPT not being very aware of events from 2022), while this exam was released in 2022.
> Now what I really wish they'd bring back is the Space Monorail...

Agreed. I still think about that thing. I was about 10 when it came out and used to go and stare at the box at the toy store. When the new Futuron LEGO minifigs came out with the first revamp to the Classic Space suit, it just looked so damn cool. To this day they always make me think of the monorail.
My sql is so much more readable with common logic extracted into ephmeral models.

Sounds great. My concern though with DBT is the cognitive overhead and just plain ... weirdness and clunkiness it seems to introduce as a cost to obtaining benefits like these.

For example if we look at their own documentation:

When using the view materialization, your model is rebuilt as a view on each run, via a create view as statement.

https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/build/materializations

Now, isn't your reaction, upon reading this, some version of: "Whaaat? Views are not materializations - by definition, they are essentially the opposite of materializations."

And yet here the DBT documentation is describing the results of plain old "create view" statements as materializations.

And then we're not getting into even more basic issues - like why we're supposed to believe that code like:

select
...
from {{ source('jaffle_shop', 'orders') }}
left join {{ source('jaffle_shop', 'customers') }} using (customer_id)

Is more readable or maintainable than what it compiles into:

select
...
from raw.jaffle_shop.orders
left join raw.jaffle_shop.customers using (customer_id)

I'm happy it works for you. But I'm just not seeing the magic here.
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Everytime I read one of these I wonder..."where'd you get a raspi?"
My marketing team uses a suite of AI tools for everything: headlines, email copy, direct mail messaging, entire blog posts from start to finish. It's incoherent nonsense and yet no one cares. They celebrate new blog posts as if it we had something meaningful to say, then ask the whole company to re-post on LinkedIn. Any attempt to be helpful with copyediting or rewriting is met with total hostility and "stay in your lane" bullshit. All of these idiots make well over $200K to create "original marketing content" that is dead on arrival. It makes me sick to my stomach.
In a world without health insurance, fine. Otherwise the system will try to minimize the costs - by forcing the people contribute at minimizing the risks. This is how it works now (in Germany, maybe also other places?) if you have a bike or ski accident without wearing a helmet, if it was self caused you'll probably get reduced payments.
Now look at most sold cars in US. The whole reason for it was essentially "kids can easily get behind dumb US sized pickups without driver noticing"
DHS, who houses TSA, got a federal search warrant in the middle of the night to forcibly have me "internally examined" at a hospital, during which I was confined/detained for 16 hours cuffed and shackled and strip searched, made to perform bodily functions in front of officers etc. After a dog supposedly "alerted" (but actually did not, and the agent even lamented to me that the dog did not).

They may not get a conviction but a warrant or arrest will turn your life upside down for at least a few days. And they can get that based on basically nothing (I read the affadavit of my warrant and the claim was 3rd degree anonymous hearsay that didn't list the officer or the dogs name).

I am still in debt to this day as debt collectors are chasing me after DHS billed me for their search made on the kind of shoddy "evidence" they obtain from any electronic and other device they have. Every tool they obtain just makes it worse.
there's no need for a cbdc, just invoke the emergencies act and you can do whatever you want with anybodies money
The author of the post is replying to an NYT article [0] complaining that the US doesn't actually destroy nukes, but rather aims to recycle materials and so stores those materials in the meantime while awaiting need for those materials. This makes it seem like maybe the US is just being opportunisitic and not actually disarming.

Exceprt from the blog:

Second, it's extremely difficult to destroy plutonium effectively (some weapons are built out of highly enriched uranium and that can just be diluted in U-238 and used for reactors). Obviously, you can melt it down, but that just leaves you with a chunk of subcritical plutonium which someone can re-form into a new weapon. The plutonium is highly toxic, so you can't just grind it up and scatter it around without causing huge environmental impacts (watch Chernobyl if you want to get a sense of what I'm talking about here). You can't burn it because then you're going to have oxidized plutonium in the air, which you don't want people inhaling, and while you can of course use chemicals to dissolve it, vitrify it, etc. you're still left with an equivalent amount of plutonium, just bonded to some other stuff, and so it's just a matter of (potentially highly unpleasant) chemistry to get it back out again. In other words, it's precisely the properties of plutonium that make it attractive to build nuclear weapons out of that make it so hard to dispose of.

It's also very difficult to store because while an individual weapon may not be a critical mass, if you have tens or hundreds of weapons you have to worry about them getting close enough to worry about accidentally assembling a critical mass just from proximity, which, would of course, be bad.

[0] https://archive.ph/QCaov
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Then don't cheat. If you are a known cheater other players have the right to be suspicious of you, especially in high stakes tournaments.

>But somehow is Niemann how is doing the public relations stunt.

What else would you call this lawsuit? Do you think Niemann, a known cheater, has an actual claim which meets the very high standards he needs to overcome to win the suite? Do you not think a professional chess player has the right to withdraw from a series and say that he does not feel comfortable playing a known cheater?
India has very successfully introduced infrastructure for mobile payments. This is one of the pieces to counter corruption and also to bring the "underground economy" into the mainstream. Digital currency is another such piece to help reduce "underhand" dealings.

CBDC in India will probably be used to curb hawala, black money and underground economy.
Sure, and lets make the speed limit 5mph and avoid 1.3 million vehicle deaths every year. It'll take people longer to get places but we know what's best for them
These days I give take home video exams. The students record themselves explaining their code for 5 minutes, which is about as long as it takes me to hand-grade a written exam. I can even play the video at 2x to cut the time in half. This scales at least to the size of my class (100 students on average, 3-4 hours isn't bad for grading an assignment).
I like that fact the ChatGPT sometimes gives wrong answers. So do humans. Makes it human-like.
They are basically trying to replace trains with their less efficient robotrucks driving between “transfer facilities”.

Anyone who needs it “just in time” loads it on a truck and the ones who don’t throw it on a train, generally speaking. In order for them to compete they would have to be somewhere in the middle price wise which, theoretically, shouldn’t be all that hard if they don’t have the cost of a driver. Minus the costs of all the trucks that are going to get disabled once people figure out they can be easily hijacked out in the middle of Texas.

I’d imagine this will be a lot harder now since they won’t have VC money to subsidize their business model and have to compete in a highly regulated market where the DOT will shut them down in a heartbeat if they get up to the usual Silicon Valley tricks.
So with your solution, the inserted table cell would "disappear" from what is rendered?

That's not necessarily (depends on the product) great or even acceptable user experience. As a user I would certainly want a way to know there is an "orphaned" "edited after delete" cell to salvage the data inputted or understand the confusion between editors.
> I doubt the average driver notices bicyclists at all.

This seems like an issue.
The average driver should absolutely notice the environment they're operating in.

This includes noticing those around them. This should be especially true for the more vulnerable road users.
If that's the issue what is this lawsuit about? Chess.com did not accuse him of cheating OTB.

Here is a quote from the report[1]:

"Despite the public speculation on these questions, in our view, there is no direct evidence that proves Hans cheated at the September 4, 2022 game with Magnus, or proves that he has cheated in other OTB games in the past."

[1] https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/hans-niemann-report
About David Brooks explanations:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/06/16/the-david-...
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I'm making an app for novel writers. Care to give your feedback?
I'm working on the following app - https://writesimple.co. It's currently in the validation phase, so I'd love to gather some feedback. Both on the landing page and on the designs themselves.
The whole thing is designed as psychology journey. First buy veggies to ease your conciousness, then but sweets and vine.
So my question is how you trust a service like this. I've thought of similar but each time I see someone with that solution I'm reluctant to use it. If Google or someone as big came up with that I'd have more trust in them given the reputation and scale they've built over a number of years but new entrants will struggle.

All I can think is you need a really well known way to create trust. Maybe starting with an open source solution.
OK, but "chunky" is still much less than the notional value, right? (I mean, if one currency suffered runaway inflation, it could approach 100%, but that should be rare...)
It's frustrating that people think every problem needs to be solved via legislation and enforcement. Not every problem can, or needs to be.
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> I thought the whole thing re boomers was that they were a demographic bulge that was followed by a shortfall

Governments have been trying to soften the shortfall by ramping up immigration to ever higher levels.
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Now, if you can explain to the AI why it is wrong, and if it could learn from that, it would be wild and even more human-like!
I guess a lot of people are afraid of being left behind.

What goes into the average developer's day? I think a lot of time is spent writing boilerplate, fighting with tiny CI errors, shuffling code, refactoring, writing tests and staring at code hunting bugs. As this technology matures, all of that noise might go away, and I think a lot of people are having a hard time imagining what they are left with.

Remember, we were trained in the "classical" fashion. How will budding engineers approach learning in 10 or even 50 years?
What a ridiculous notion! Using cookies when you want to set a cookie! Absurd! What we are trying to do is set a cookie while also proclaiming to the world that we don’t use cookies. What’s the matter with that?

I’m sorry, but “I want to sort of lie” is just not a very compelling reason to me. I guess I just have ridiculously high standards.
Thankyou for this article. Knowledge is empowerment.

The actual point of 3D printing technology related to firearms was about sidestepping unconstitutional ATF regulations. It was never to build some 100% plastic gun that you could sneak through metal detectors a la Jason Bourne.

In my humble opinion there should be a section at the very beginning linking to sites that describe what states and countries have added terminology to their laws making anything like this a Ghost Gun by their standards not mine and what risks this carries. This no longer side-steps the ATF and related agencies in many places. Even in places this is still legal, I have seen articles suggesting that law enforcement are still running people through the system and treating them as criminals.
I meant between version VIII and IX. I can edit my comment to clarify this.
Oh I see you make effort to read someone's history of posts, explains a lot about you
Ask HN: Why is Zuora trading below the $1B market cap mark?
Even at it's peak, Zuora was "only" worth $2B, despite operating successfully in a promising space (subcription billing and payments).

One of the many reads about Zuora's valuation: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4494987-zuora-slow-and-steady-wins-the-race
> too dismissive of the technology

lol, yes. The "technology" is the minimum needed to construct dubious financial instruments, and none of it works at all well in practice as money.

Cryptocurrency is still not a product, it's a prototype. A bunch of wires on a lab bench.

> it's focusing too much on the now.

dude, it's been fourteen years.
It's not that much power, it's simply the normal home needs: being a new home it's ALL electric, heating/cooling, cooking, hot water, ... if you have a classic home where for instance heating/cooling is not needed of course the story SEEMS different until you do a bit of conversion:

- 1 standard m³ CH₄ is ~10.36kWh

- LPG in standard m³ is ~12.80kWh in kg ~10.87kWh

- 1kg of pellets ~4-5 kWh

- 1 liter of heating oil (it's name vary from country to country, but it essentially diesel in the west) is ~11.1kWh

- 1kg of reasonably dry coal is ~10 kWh

Once you compute ALL your energy consumption you'll see similar data. Oh, of course, in mere math terms I can produce 110-130% of my overall consumption from the grid. BUT that's just math, it's not autonomy because it compute locally generated energy vs locally absorbed energy from the grid. Autonomy means you have to store or use ALL the energy you produce. Look at your self-consumed energy not the balance between what you give to the grid and what you get from it.

To dig more:

- try to measure how much energy you use for heating/cooling

- how much for hot water

- how much for cooking

- how much for VMC if any

- how much for the car

You'll might be astonished about the result in mere kWh.
Now obviously this would cost a shitload of cash, but could you dispose of it by building a reactor? Said reactor would consume it as the fuel, and so you'd end up with fission products instead of plutonium. The costs, security, and the fact that reactors don't use up 100% of their fuel would of course be an issue...
How is it biased to ask you to explain your point?
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To protect yourself, it’s best to use tools with these principles built-in. For instance, Sigstore has transparency as a fundamental component, and uses TUF to manage its own root of trust, ensuring that if the worst were to happen, the project can safely recover.
It's like talking to modern academics on Twitter.

At it happens, it was trained on Twitter...
Home Assistant needs "a computer". There really isn't any particular reason why it needs to be a Pi. (Which is true for a lot of use cases: sure, defaulting to a Pi made some sense pre-2020, when they were easy to get, but if all you need is a small device running Linux, just pick up something else)
It will remove a large amount of stress from people's lives for sure.
When an AI model can explain the non-obvious bug in the code written by the developer who left the company 2 years ago - that's quite powerful. Saves more time for other stuff

Though at some point it may create new sources of stress (like much discussed job security when the other job candidate is the AI model)
> A helmet law would kneecap the system

Just an anecdote. Bike share in Vancouver, BC where helmets are mandatory comes with helmets attached to the bikes. And there are "hair nets" IIRC for hygiene purposes.
Your address and phone point to a location, not necessarily a valid identity but I understand you may be hesitant to share personal info with just anyone. If you are a EU citizen you can ask them exactly how long your data is retained and who may have access to it (it’s actually published on their website). They use it only as a 2nd level verification to prevent spam (not shared with 3rd parties). As a German/EU company, Hetzner is subject to all regulatory requirements for handling of personal information and so when leaving, you can also request the deletion of your data.
Once you have self-sustaining energy, water, and food source with the same cost parity as your current living situation. Extra points if you can convince a group of people to join you to create a community.
I'm trying to think of what useful evidence that law enforcement can get out of an infotainment system. Guilty of listening to too many Brittney Spears tracks?
If the poaching activity is acting as an amplifier for that rare mutation's frequency, then yes, the poachers are in fact causing those elephants to evolve not to have tusks.