skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the current pace of inflation, in 20 years €10k won't even pay a month's rent for a house or decent flat. Demonetization laws with fixed monetary amounts under inflationary systems are tyrannical.
That depends on the country and bank. I can withdraw any amount of money for free.
A friend of mine moved to a company where they use plain Laravel (with just some sprinkles of js using Alpine) and they deploy to heroku. A team of 10 devs, no systems/devops/Infra and he’s fascinated how well things go and how fast they ship stuff compared to where we worked together before (with all the usual react/redux stuff and an elixir backend on kubernetes)
Money laundering was already against the law. The whole premise of this 10K limit is that it will somehow stop money laundering. The way I see it, at best it creates some hassle.
The developer made a nice article on how he did it with almost none javascript. Interesting read: https://javascript.works-hub.com/learn/a-javascript-free-fro...
Sure if you don't want to pay tax
I assure you I am not lying. It would be hard to prove because even under invigilated writing you could argue the negatives were evidence I must have been in the prior case.

For others to test, try Dave Mills who worked on NTP and Jon Crowcroft, now Cambridge uni, both of whom had/have what you might call "idiosyncratic" styles of writing.

I'd go a lot further back than a few weeks in mine. I tend to comment in fits and starts. If you hunt for other times people said "why do you write like this it's stupid"

Btw don't try their corpus of formal writing, it's less likely to trigger. They wrote extensively in pre commercial internet mailing lists where I think you'd find the style of writing.
Don't buy stuff from HP. They're scamming customers, it's known.
TablEdit – Music Tablature Editor
https://archive.vn/NgFbL
Certainly not the last time a company failed because they thought they could make big bucks by creating a vendor lock-in. Just look at Intel with Optane.
Just hypothesizing, do not actually know if this is the mechanism, but it is entirely possible that by storing gold with a broker could allow them to access the value in order to make other investments. Essentially, having cash as collateral means having it in a bank and subject to these restrictions whereas gold in a 3rd party vault might not be but still give you the same access to credit.
This paper, and most other places i’ve seen it argued that language models can’t possibly be conscious, sentient, thinking etc, rely heavily on the idea that llms are ‘just’ doing statistical prediction of tokens.

I personally find this utterly unconvincing. For a start, I’m not entirely sure that’s not what I’m doing in typing out this message. My brain is ‘just’ chemistry, so clearly can’t have beliefs or be conscious, right?

But more relevant is the fact that llms like ChatGPT are only pre-trained on pure statistical generation, followed by further tuning through reinforcement learning. So ChatGPT is no longer simply doing pure statistical modelling, though of course the interface of calculating logits for the next token remains the same.

note: i’m not saying i think llms are conscious. I don’t think the question even makes much sense. I am saying all the arguments that i’ve seen for why they aren’t have been very unsatisfying.
Make sure to get backup codes for your MFA-protected accounts, and then keep them out of your password manager at all costs. Print them out on paper and store them in a fire-safe location, preferably one copy off-site.
For philosophical standpoint it would perhaps be wise to ask what is the purpose of LLM's in general?

Should they somehow help humans to increase their understanding not only of the languages, their differences but also knowledge of what is true and what isn't?

Perhaps it could be said that if anything there are helpful as an extension of humans imperfect and limited memory.

Should the emphasis be put on improving the interactions between the LMM's and humans in a way that they would facilitate learning?

Great paper written at the time when more humans have been acquainted to LMM's due to technological abstraction and creation of easily accessible interfaces. (openAI chat)
And good luck with having a development environment or even decent end to end/integration testing once you start using all those services.
When has Apple purchased a social media property to turn them around?
Horrible take. 10k is a pittance. Small business owners, farmers, people buying and selling vehicles, etc. It’s not a large amount of money. If you go down to the apple store and buy a couple well specced computers the bill is going to be over 10k.
This is SUCH "Paul Graham" advice - useful mostly to people who sit on top of a hierarchy of power which does not demand any of their personal attention.

I think the good version of this advice is: actively evaluate what is important to you and what you can do to maintain and further it. We are all involved, to one degree or another, in systems and processes larger than ourselves. By definition, our influence on those systems is limited - but we may be able to increase or decrease our influence through work and engagement. It's healthy to reflect on what you are investing your time and energy into and how those investments will impact your life. There is no single right or wrong answer - but you will benefit from forming an opinion!

It's unhealthy to falsely base your self-worth on giant political movements outside your control - but it's equally unhealthy to ignore the impact you experience from the issues of the day. Be reflective in how you associate yourself with things, but no one should pretend that they are not subject to the world (unless, it seems, you're at a "Paul Graham" level of wealth and independence).
Yeah, I guess the thing I'd really like to know is, if the employees aren't bringing core value, then who is? I'd be curious to hear pg's take here, since it's either (1) the founder, for having such good ideas, (2) the AI, for doing the work, or (3) the creators of the AI.

Since we don't reward our washing machine for doing our chores, I'm assuming it's not 2.

I guess maybe the 4th answer is society?
Avro is a row-based format that supports schema evolution, but unfortunately it is not a very popular format in general and there's much less support for it than Parquet. My team evaluated several formats (ORC, Parquet, Avro) but landed on Parquet due to columnar performance and wider support, though you're right, it's less performant for row-wise operations (but not by that much). If you really want row-wise performance, better to go with sqlite than Avro.
Who do you think makes these rules and laws in the EU? Belgians? Reptilians?

It's the elected by the people of each country and the appointed by those elected by the people of each country.

EU is not a subscription provided by 3rd parties, EU is about coordination between the the European countries and any country can veto. That's actually why EU is considered slow and inefficient in some areas.

If EU says no more cash payments over 10K EUR, that means all the member countries agree that no more cash payments over 10K EUR.
Acetaminophen has numerous well-known risks and is probably more dangerous than most people appreciate, and is overused, over-marketed, and too-readily available. BUT, like some other too-simple hypotheses on this thread, it isn't giving you Alzheimer's directly. It may be part of a complex network of causes. Or not.
Brother’s laser printers are nice. Lexmark also exists, but they’re more of a business brand, and, as such, will cost more
That’s what I do. I keep my backup in a fireproof, airtight container
I've had absolutely excellent experience with my Brother black and white laser printer, cost 100 €, with casual printing I only had to replace the toner cartridge once in about 5 years for 25 €
CFS or it might be fibro. It is very isolating because life and culture is designed assuming you don’t have limited mental and physical capacity. I have less
capacity than say someone living a sedate lifestyle, coding all day, drinking regularly when I am ideal BMI, go to gym often, eat little sugar, no alcohol etc.
What happens when you limit the amount that can be made in a singular cash transaction, is that you then severely limit what businesses that you can use to launder it through.

If you can pay $100k in cash for a gold bar, it only takes 20 transactions to launder $2 mill. That's not all that suspicious.

With this new limit, you've now turned that into 200 transactions needed. Now the business stands out more because they tend to use business averages/data to spot things.
I use a password manager too. The yubikey is usually my second factor
Stocks are equity that (at least in theory) allows you to have perpetual dividends.

Of course most companies fail in longer time frame, also modern stocks are kind of a modern concept, but there are some really old companies here and there. Most dont pay dividends but conceptually they could.

Also in 100 years people will probably still drink wine/beer, eat salt or will want to go to some respected restaurant or a traditional hotel near a japanese wellspring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
Not a GUI tool but try Visidata for looking inside Parquet files (and other tabular formats)

https://www.visidata.org/
You’re totally right. I never recommend Yubikeys to non-technical people
> It doesn't affect anyone. No one in Europe uses cash for anything more expensive than maybe 200 euros.

Sold a used car just last year, got 2700€ in cash for it.

Much easier than doing a bank transfer (which takes 1 day to arrive, if you're unlucky, and can be rolled back), or a paypal transfer (which can be undone) or anything else between to individuals.

For b2c or b2b I agree, nobody pays that much in cash, but for individuals transacting with one another, it still seems the easiest option.
> A cashiers check costs what? 10, 20 euros?

Virtually nobody in Europe uses checks (in my country they are explicitly banned as a tender). It’s either cash or a bank transfer, and for such purchases, most people really prefer cash.

> And we’re talking about how it can impact real people here, not the 0.1% who gamble 10 years’ minimum wage at the casino in one evening

Most professional poker players are staked. They aren’t gambling with their money. It’s a job. A high risk, high reward job, but still a job. And it was just an example, and a perfectly valid at that.
Yes, and "if you have nothing to hide, you don't need privacy".
No markup format will support interactivity well, you need a full scripting language with all of the standard features.

I don’t think it’s possible to couple the interactivity and visual layout in a single language and have it make sense. We can certainly do better than JavaScript, HTML and CSS but I think there will still need to be at least two languages to describe layout and interactivity.
Jesus killing journalists to propagating anti semitic content through Al Jazeera to funding terrorist, is there any level to which Qatar won't stoop?

[ As per European Parliament According to reliable intelligence sources, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are the main funders of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The Governments of Germany and the USA have also accused the two countries of financing and supporting ISIS.](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-8-2014-00744...)

It has been even brought before the US Congress as well how Qatar is an active sponsor of terrorism ( something which Al Jazeera won't highlight)

[According to official US Committee on Foreign Affairs, Qatar has been known to be a permissive environment for terror financing, reportedly funding U.S. designated foreign terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, Al qaeda and ISIS, as well as several extremist groups operating in Syria. At least one high-ranking Qatari official provided support to the mastermind of the 9/11. Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, also made Doha his headquarters for years while the Qatari's--with the Qatari's Government support and even the Muslim Brotherhood has received significant support from Qatar. Of course, not all of this is supported by the government in Doha. Many individuals and charities in Qatar have been known to raise large sums of money for al-Qaeda, the Nusra front, Hamas, and even ISIS.](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115hhrg26427/html/C...)
>CSV is superior to JSON for tabular data

Can't you just do this?

{
"columns": ["col1", "col2", "col3"],
"data": [
[1, 2, 3],
[4, 5, 6],
[7, 8, 9]
]
}

That's valid JSON but it's human-readable and human-editable rows of comma-separated data, just like CSV.
> systemic racism against europe’s minorities, human trafficking and cross border corruption, policies made to serve some countries and not others

You are describing the USA.
UK/CAN/AU/NZ are next.
tl;dr from TFA:

> In the 1840s, mainline denominations were the most important building block of civil society; their breakdown was therefore far more portentous than is the case today.

But the example is telling ... the churches had proven deft — too deft — at absorbing the political and social debate over slavery. Their inability to maintain that peace was a sign that the country had grown dangerously divided.
I should still be able if I want to.
+1 on implementing papers, that's one of the best you can do to improve your skills (anywhere in science or engineering actually). A warning: I remember trying to do this back in my uni / grad days and more often than not there is key information or things (perhaps even by accident) left out of the implementation descriptions. I was more in mechanical engineering so perhaps this is less common in AI oriented papers, but I still think it's a valid thing to look out for.
Many countries already have much Lower limits
> Good ideas stick, they are hard to let go and even harder to ignore.

That's a noble wish, but that doesn't make it true.
I think it is a cultural thing to be honest. Germans are obsessed with their tax filings, they love to do them to the euro etc. Walk into a German restaurant or any shop and observe tax receipts.

Then look around in Greek or Italy.

Germans fundamentally believe taxes are due and should be paid and the government can “mostly be trusted”.

Greek seem to be more hesitant about that…

Greek voted their government into place. Hence they are responsible for the actions.

I’m not looking for a scapegoat. Just stating what it is: if you aren’t trustworthy, stay out of a currency and system requiring trustworthy partners.
I always heard that this was so you could park your car in Harvard yard.
Basically, steering wheel is optional, it wasn’t going to happen, it’s been clear for years
Elon is basically doing a Gilderoy Lockhart trying to repair Harry's broken arm impression.
Nothing for this time of year particularly. A New Year’s resolution is just a means of procrastinating guilt-free for three weeks about what you know needs to be done.
With ink drying in heads and lasers emitting unhealthy dust, and manufacturers trying to lock them down, I'm considering a dot matrix printer as my next printer. Back to the roots. Looks like Epson is still making them, even including an ethernet port.
Yep, I chucked my HP inkjet and got a single function Brother mono laser printer. I figure if I need to print in color, I am probably better off just paying to use a really good photo printer.
I hate to be that guy but this seems like a user problem
I agree with everything you say, but I'm in the camp that thinks that front-end is stabilizing.

I feel many web projects can go a long way with something like NextJS, a few classic libs (eg, lodash/underscore/ramda), maybe a few libraries for handling data if you really need them. The design frameworks (MaterialUI, Tailwind, etc.) are also fairly stable.

Perhaps that's one dependency too many for some?
"Eastern" Europe shouldn't exist, it should be just Europe. How is there a demographic crisis in the east?
I use it to summarize my assignments in class occasionally
Well then, call it, self driving under perfect conditions but not as a star modifier
Automatically order new ink when running low.
I agree that such comments are not useful. I can understand the frustration people may feel (very well actually), but it is not productive to express it in such ways. I don't encourage such reactions, but I do think they are understandable when the first argument for removal is "There is not enough interest". That can be perceived as someone telling you they're removing the thing you want to have because _you_ are not interested in it, and I can see how that can be infuriating and provoke emotional responses.
For my eyes:

AVIF fails to deliver a consistent experience at 3+ BPP -- I'd hate to compress my family pictures at AVIF even at high BPP, some part is smudged in a weird way.

libjpeg-turbo and mozjpeg does deliver a consistent experience at 4 BPP

guetzli and jpegli delivers a consistent experience at 3 BPP

JPEG XL delivers a consistent experience at 1.7 BPP
Define freedom.
Yup, I like the general idea of using PG for everything.

The author forgot to mention LISTEN/NOTIFY feature in PG. Perfect for low volume pubsub.
It was half the price. Should have known better.
Lets not pretend that Toluene is without health concerns. It's a volatile organic solvent with health concerns.

Toluene has a NFPA Hazard ID of: Health: 2 Flammability: 3 Reactivity: 0

Perchloroethylene has a NFPA Hazard ID of: HEALTH=3 FIRE=0 REACTIVITY=0

Either way these are nasty substances.
> Who do you think makes these rules and laws in the EU? Belgians? Reptilians?

Germany and France, mostly.

> European countries and any country can veto. That's actually why EU is considered slow and inefficient in some areas.

First of all, this is not true. There’s no single party veto on legislation. Secondly, the US states have an even more effective veto, which is just ignoring federal law, because nobody can force them to enforce it.

And having no single-party veto on legislation means that if you’re from a smaller EU country, you’ll never EVER have any meaningful impact on _anything_.

> If EU says no more cash payments over 10K EUR, that means all the member countries agree that no more cash payments over 10K EUR.

As explained before, nope. It’s true that there is single-party veto on certain things (admissions to the Union itself, the eurozone, or schengen, but not for legislation)
Ok nevermind, figured it out, it requires login. Then the archive is at the very bottom of the page.
What is a session?
Brother is generally good. The model I had (can't remember which) let you override the low toner warning and just print until it runs dry.

No scummy driver shenanigans, works perfectly with third party cartridges. Once you realize the value of not being treated like shit, the price of their machines is pretty reasonable. You do get what you pay for.

Xerox also seems to be less terrible, but I don't have any experience personally.

If you can find a laser printer to fit your needs, choose laser every time. If you specifically need inkjet, you will have to pay extra for a professional model. Also make sure you keep up maintenance so the heads don't clog.

Consumer printers are dirt cheap because these companies sell them at a loss and use shitty tactics to force or trick you into buying only their heinously overpriced cartridges, then buy more than you need, and eventually the printer kills itself to make you buy a new one.

Business oriented printers tend to cost a LOT more, but you get a better quality printer and less evil corporate bullshit.
Will computers put managers out of work? [audio]
FYI: This is probably unenforceable in most jurisdictions, including the US. Look up the term "unconscionability", particularily in US common contract law.
I had a scummy employer that was always “overpaying” me. So I switched to paper checks that I cashed at his bank and wired to mine. If there was a real overpayment, sure, he’d get his money back…eventually.
Get the popcorn ready!
> Why aren’t startups trying to disrupt the printer industry?

Related question "Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786721 with the top comment from somebody who worked at HP printer division (hint: patents)
It actually is very hard. There’s a long tail of concerns that make it difficult to do authentication as well as a major player in the space.
You can. But I don't see how that is superior to the equivalent CSV.
This is all fine and dandy but the article has a great point here. Redis is absolutely amazing, but if you bring it in you have to care about more stuff. Mo' stuff, mo' problems as they say. You now need to synchronize writes between your Redis and your DB (hello "after_commit" hooks and similar, how is your read-after-write doing?). You need to install metrics for Redis (lest you find that suddenly your application spends a huge amount of time in MGETs or blocks on set operations). You need to have good failover in place at AWS and make sure you do not save anything non-transient into it – yes, this is how Redis is supposed to be used for transient stuff, but are you positive your application can cold-start well enough with a blank Redis? Oh, and now everyone on the team needs to run a Redis locally, and a matching version at that - hello docker-compose...

Brief: yes, a specific datastore is usually better fit for the job, except that until your app requires more performance than Postgres can deliver if you already _have_ Postgres you might as well just stick to it.

Same for SQS - SQS is incredibly performant, but there is a whole lot of features it does not have which a PG-based queue system like good_job will give you out of the box. Just off the top of my head - priorities, separate queues, scheduling - and, do not forget, atomicity with your main transactional workload.

So while it is usually - when everything works great and the workload fits - not a big deal to run a specialized store, it can be more economical and simpler to just stuff everything into the DB until you outgrow that.
No you can't do any of those things because you spent your time/energy at the drycleaner. Outsource only if it saves you time.
What's ridiculous about it?
If you work a minijob, you get welfare (housing, utilities, health insurance, cash) + the first 100€ you earn are yours to keep. On the next ~350€ you'll pay 20% for social insurance and get to keep some of it, the rest is deducted from your benefits, so you'll keep 100% of your welfare + 184€. There's no way you're worse off than on benefits if you're working.

If you work more, your benefits will be reduced until you earn enough to not get any benefits. Roughly 20% of people on benefits work, but make less than benefits, so they get the rest via benefits ("Aufstockung").
Dot matrix printers also produce a lot of dust. Like, an incredible amount of dust.
This is driven by grant writing. That’s the literal opposite of market driven