skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait a second,

if somebody asks an overinflated way-over productivity wage for cleaning toilets because of a supply shortage,
this is considered being unethical and "unwilling to do the dirty work, while receiving benefits",

but asking a way way overinflated price for housing because of a supply shortage is considered good and healthy for the market and drives investment without shaming the investors for receiving undue housing benefits?

Why do we yell at people artificially shortening toilet cleaner supply, while at the same time not yelling at developers for artificially shortening housing supply?

Don't people need to live AND shit?

Looks like it is not about an economic argument after all. Seems like it’s again a pattern of abusing less privileged, weaker, less defensible people. Shaming them for what they naturally and humanly want - and which is the same what the privileged naturally want: To be able to say no, when they want to say no.

Where do these schemes of maliciously founded shame on false grounds come from? How did we start to listen to the voice of the psychopaths which want to divide us?
Yale gets the money; the dutch pay. The dutch would love to terminate the load and do a balloon payment, but yale (correctly) thinks that a 'live' bearer bond is more valuable in their collection, so every 20 years or so they travel with the bond to the Netherlends to collect the (at this time nominal) payments.
There’s a browser API for preventing people from leaving pages if they are in a context like that. And unlike this method, it works for the first page, works if you try to close the tab, and works if you try to navigate to a different link. And it doesn’t become entangled with browser navigation.
I finally did in '21 and it was worth every penny. YMMV but my attitude on price vs value for high end chairs changed quite a bit when I got one.
Yale holds the bond and is being paid ~$30 per year. Apparently someone has to bring it to Amsterdam every couple of decades to collect the payments and keep the bond alive. They are losing money - I guess Yale has enough to do it just for fun, I mean, for the historical interest (pun intended).
Surely you give up LIKE queries benefiting from the index this way?
I tried "Act as a Linux Terminal" and put GPT into some kind of recursive loop with

vim testFile.txt
Somewhat similarly, I recently became a Special Depositor at new mutual bank that's in organization (Walden Mutual). This involved sending them a few thousand dollars, which will be part of their pool of capital for making loans. I cannot withdraw the principal, although I should be able to sell ownership of the deposit to someone else, and of course I would also be considered a (subordinated) creditor if they fold. In exchange, as soon as they are profitable (in a few years) they will be paying dividends at a pretty good rate, indefinitely. The rate is not guaranteed, though.

This feels like a good idea to me because this bank is in the business of making local agricultural loans, and the founders are aligned with my values -- this is an institution that I want to have exist. But also I think they're well positioned to make these loans, so it should be a good investment. Mutual banks also tend to be long-lived, so this is an investment that should continue to pay dividends for many decades.
I think the basic divide is something like "CRUD forms" vs "interactive applications".

I've built basic CRUD forms with ASP.NET MVC. I've built them with Rails. I've built them with React (+ a hundred random libraries). I've also built interactive "apps" in those languages.

Looking back, the amount of "interactivity" that React adds to a CRUD form is NOT worth the added complexity. But! Right now my dayjob is creating an _insanely_ complex app that you could not have done five years ago with Rails (or, like this presentation is about, something like Unpoly).

I think a problem is that React is just more _fun_ to work with than basic server stuff so devs want to work in it. The added complexity is worth it to have more fun. Maybe that's just me, though. I know a lot of people see React as a hammer to hit every nail with, and I was like that for a long time, but I'm starting to come back around to more server-driven use cases for simple sites.

I've been messing with Fresh a lot lately and it's a nice middle ground of defaulting to rendering _most_ stuff on the server, but you can have "islands" of interactivity that get sent to the client as JS. I'm not sure if it will end up gaining traction, but it's pretty nice.

https://fresh.deno.dev/
Also, this Wikipedia article specifically discusses the use of methanol as a fuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_fuel
Yeah found that out the hard way. Horrible design
They lied about their finances when asking for money.
I know that “American banks” are also often viewed as evil for selling crap (knowingly) mortgage backed securities to German banks and we often tend to just go easy by stating “banks are evil” and that’s where the story end. However: it was American households that lived beyond their means for decades and lived in houses they could not afford and lied on (unverified) loan applications; the US government mandated more homeowners, banks provided the means and took a cut. So, more differentiated and in those “evil bank discussions” we tend to forget it was often a significant number of “poor ordinary citizens” living well beyond their means (e.g., not paying adequate taxes in Greek, having fatter pensions than others in Europe etc.)
I went to the gender thing primarily because much of the discussion seemed centered on that. But in general I would say my identity is comprised of many more things other than my gender.

By trying to simplify a definition of identity into something specific or plucking out a single identity trait (any trait) which cannot be defined precisely (emacs vs vim, declarative vs functional, race, intelligence, flavor, color etc) we lose information and end up in never ending ratholes of discussion. People start relying on personal experiences and feelings (subjective info) which makes the discussion personal and more often than not useless.

My take from the author is Keep It Simple Stupid.
Not the same thing, and not the same approach altogether.
You are a lawyer? Or is that just your opinion based on what you personally believe fraud should mean (or on how much or little you like Musk)? Thanks for clarifying.
Terraform industries used to claim that their natural gas would be cheaper than local natural gas in 2027. They now say that the IRA has moved that timeline up to 2024.

https://terraformindustries.com/
It is not a BASIC linter, it is a PHP linter.

Anyways, I think it is a better application of current machine learning tech than code generation. The result of my experiments with ChatGPT is that the code it generates is almost right, as a result, it can be dangerous. But I think it is good at telling you "what you wrote here is not what others usually do in that situation", and it can be a valuable indication. If you really mean it, then you probably thought about it and it can be dismissed (or it may be a good indication that a comment is welcome), if you don't, then maybe it is a bug.

For example, if you write resize(width, width), it is weird. It may be a bug, a common one actually, and the AI found it, or it can be deliberate, and in this case maybe you want to clarify it (ex:// make it square-shaped), or just ignore it. Anyways, it something worth pointing out.
How do you think that compares to "lost my keys" or "lost my wallet"?
It's worth noting that this presentation is from 2016, so it is over 6 years old now
The OpenSCAD version is insanely flexible and I generate all my bins from there.
> Can someone explain what discoverable credentials have to do with a passwordless experience? Accepting a WebAuthn credential in lieu of a password is a policy decision and is every bit as possible with non-discoverable credentials. As I see it, discoverable credentials enable a usernameless experience, which is a rather different phenomenon.

Depends on how much information you want to leak about user accounts.

A non-discoverable credential requires a credential handle value from a previously registered credential to be given in the WebAuthn "get" request. That means you need to understand who the user is to look up the set of possible credential handles to supply.

Credential handles are a vendor-specific format and are not required to be cryptographically random, so this leaks information such as that an account is valid, how many keys they have registered, and potentially which vendor/model keys those are.

The other challenge is somewhat orthogonal to discoverable credentials, and that is authenticator support for user verification. Since the older U2F keys support neither discoverability nor user verification, and since newer discoverable credential usage doesn't make a lot of sense without user verification, the two features sometimes conceptually get bundled together.

Without user verification, your authentication only represents (at most) a possession factor. In several spaces this is considered less secure than a password and insufficient.

I've heard of efforts to support non-discoverable first-factor authentication via an initial username prompt, but I haven't actually interacted with one in production yet.

I believe I have interacted with sites which will do periodic non-discoverable challenges after an initial (password-backed) user login, e.g. step-up a long-term cookie-backed session. These are typically relying on mobile phone/desktop support, and represent it as a faster login option on that device for the future. Since these environments are getting passkeys, I suspect they will eventually migrate over to discoverable credentials with user verification.
3. The willingness to egregiously exploit others for personal gain. You touch on this a bit with the privilege answer, but the truth is those who come from privilege often see themselves as "above" others. And they encourage this worldview in everyone, largely to keep themselves above the rest. They pay themselves more even though, as you rightly point out, they only might know how to code or do the actual work that is generating value. Their "special skill" is in using their wealth, privilege, and occasionally charm to convince others to dedicate their lives to them - or at least 40 hours a week, though Musk is a greedy asshole with his bedroom offices and shit - and direct most of the proceeds from their labors toward the folks at the top who, let's be honest here, don't actually do meaningful work.

SBF and his team fully exploited the investors who entrusted them with their money. I have a little less sympathy for those folks - well, really, for the folks who make the majority of their money off the backs of someone else's labor and call it "investing" - but it's still rampant exploitation. The entire system is built on it and we keep falling for it.

If I want the young folks reading this to take anything away, it's that selling your lives to rich assholes will never free you. Stop competing with each other and start working together cooperatively. Shun the VCs and pool your own resources to build an organization where each member's contribution is equally valued, where decisions are made by consensus, where leaders lead and guide rather than rule and intimidate and make no more than twice the average pay for the extra workload. And any profits generated are partially retained for growth, but otherwise distributed evenly among those who contributed the labor. No need for a revolution, for new laws, for a new system of government or anything like that - stop fighting each other and competing against each other, it only serves the malignant narcissists who keep trying to tell us they are in charge. Work together, share the proceeds, build and support your communities, and focus on finding contentedness and happiness rather than the false promise of wealth and riches.
If you have an imgur link or the like, I'd love to see your interpretations.
Hard disagree with this attitude but I see it all the time.

Stored procedures are much faster than writing logic in some remote server (just by virtue of getting rid of all the round trips), require far less code (no DAOs, entities and all that crap which simply serves to duplicate existing definitions), and have built-in strong consistency checking primitives - which can even be safely delayed until the end of the transaction.

And what people do is, they throw all these advantages away because they can’t be bothered working out how to integrate the stored procedure code ergonomically into their workflow.

I mean - I even use an IDE (JetBrains) to write pl/pgsql. It’s just another file in my repo. Get to this point and stored procedures are a game changer.
Thanks for the information and sharing the paper. I also read it.
Agree with you that the "simulation-to-reality gap" would be more critical to the reinforcement learning community.
That might sound convincing to someone who already prefers working on the backend, but you can basically invert your statement to describe a typical serverless setup: “You need a frontend anyways. Shifting to a client-side codebase is eliminating duplication, and arguably browsers have better DX so win win.”
Those are scare quotes in my comment, not literal quotes.

I’ll rephrase it plainly: difference between the situations is a misrepresentation of material fact.
I believe this has been the case in the U.S. since 2013: https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination...
I understand it for contract work, yes, but full-time salaried work is different, for exactly this reason; the expectation implicit in the relationship is that you are working full time, not just on a contracted project basis.
I did not know that. It's on most UK keyboards
Antitrust in the 21st Century: Video Series [video]
Patrick McKenzie (Patio11) AMA on the Progress Forum
A more agreeable example would be Windows forbidding specific file and folder names to reserve for device names, something it apparently inherited from CP/M.
I believe you can set up "dynasty trusts" in some US states today that basically live forever:

https://trustandwill.com/learn/dynasty-trust
Yale device delivers data from ‘Hell Planet,’ leads astronomers to its orbit
What does that have to do with this site?
What is a closed standard from your point of view?

Is it simply just one that cost money to access?

If I made a language standard on my own it would not be a open standard from quite a few orgs point of view. It is annoying that you are just throwing around vague use of words without giving a clear definition.
This is written from a weird perspective, as if Stable Diffusion is inherently evil and breaking it is a good thing. Why not take the position that PhotoGuard is the evil attacker?
My girlfriend and my sister experience pain that fluctuates from mild to severe, for an entire week. Vomiting is also something that can occur. This of course impacts the actions they can perform during this dreadful week. Although I can try to imagine what the pain feels like, I can obviously never fully understand it, because I lack a uterus.
An easy city is still a city.

Only the low end of L4 is being reached right now, but that's massively better than "far beyond what any near future technology is capable of".
Agreed. I don’t require much but I can’t go without my Aeron
Actually, it's entirely possible. I have friends out in California who still have Spanish land grants that predate the US and California statehood. They have successfully prosecuted their rights (eg water) again & again.

For example, see the section about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on this wiki page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranchos_of_California
Not to shoot across the bow of CS Engineers but the trend I spot (tentatively) is that it is pure computer science folk that most often do this. In NLP you have a mix of people coming from pure CS and signal processing (the latter esp. in speech processing) and others who come from linguistics or other humanities.

The CS people seem all too happy to humanise computation, probably because they had less direct teaching regarding the cognitive mechanisms behind cognition and language production.
"Your 2FA authentication has been downgraded to email/password for ideological reasons."
To me the answer to this question deeply reflects some common cultural values which in my opinion are quite strange.

To me the meaning of life is (obviously?) to solve problems and create things that make the world a better place and help people. It is bizarre the degree to which this culture has a hedonistic selfish focus. Almost all of answers reflect something like that. Even "create purpose" is "for oneself". I mean, obviously everyone is going to act in their own interests to a certain degree, but is that where the meaning comes from?
“Things were different before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In those days, sailors were required to train for a regular Navy profession, known as a rate, before they could attempt the SEAL course. Dropouts from the course could return to the rate they had trained for.”

Pre-2006 you’d basically do as you suggested, you’d make it into intelligence/nukes/etc. and then you’d try out for SEALs. Now you play a <1-in-10 lottery where you have to avoid an overzealous training instructor kicking you while lugging a 300lb log amongst other challenges. If you don’t make it you complete a filler job class under SEALs and you’re stuck.

You’re straw-manning this issue & the challenges detailed. SEALs is hands-on work, no one is making an “I’m-too-good” argument because they went to college. There’s people who almost made it through SEALs who would be immense assets elsewhere in armed forces — and prior to 2006 they would have been.
I've been using splashtop and jumpdesk
He is not. In Spain, for instance, it is already illegal to pay with cash costs above 1.000€ in any commerce. You are forced to buy it using a credit/debit card.
By the time Madame Lagarde is done a lot of people will be praying to still have something in the bank to pay negative interest for.

With the current inflation €10.000 will be worth far less in the near future, and I'm certain the amount won't be updated yearly to account for that. This 10k "magic number" has stayed the same for a long time. This isn't about money laundering as much as about control over even relatively low value cash transactions.
Germany is 'fully decoupling' from Russia, eyes China as 'systemic' rival
> I have 2 yubikeys and always register them both

How does this work? Do you have to physically retrieve both any time you sign up with a new service?

If that's how it works, it sounds like a choice between two bad options: either having both of them handy at the same time, hurting redundancy, or registering them at separate times, hoping you remember to do both. Is that the case?
Underreported info is that during many months of pandemic you couldn’t withdraw any significant amounts of cash.

I decided to withdraw $10k just in case and they told me maximum they can do is $1k per day and this story repeated for many months.
That is literal misinformation. (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en)

"When you open Gmail, you'll see ads that were selected to show you the most useful and relevant ads. The process of selecting and showing personalized ads in Gmail is fully automated. These ads are shown to you based on your online activity while you're signed into Google. We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads."

Also assuming it was true, if you deny people the Google Sign-in they will simply use their Gmail address next, so you'd have actually increased usage of the service. Brilliantly thought out strategy.
From what I’ve read about VAT vs income taxes in terms of politics to make a gross generalization European income taxes are about as simple as US sales taxes for consumers and European VAT is about as complicated as US income taxes. The political levers of power and legislative tooling makes one easier to touch than the another. I’m generally a fan of the spirit of the law over the letter of the law and given the means to hide sources of wealth it seems easier to enforce compliance upon consumption rather than anything else (of course being mindful of the largely regressive nature of consumption taxes).

Compliance that punishes smaller businesses disproportionately to multinationals seems awkward, and it’s also unfortunately true that increasing taxes on corporations (like any cost of business) tends to be passed onto buyers of goods and services rather than the intent to structurally promote divestment from consumer-hostile practices.
Better analogy might be the soccer midfielder. All playing a similar game but experts in different positions.
Is there a percentage ranking of the possibility of a -or- most politicians being corrupt? Odds are? Asking for a friend that is thinking of going into politics.
Ask HN: How would you argue that ChatGPT is not a big deal?
These last few days I've been having some mild anxiety over ChatGPT. I feel like this is such a powerful tool that it somehow will give too much advantage to its owners at a certain point, and it must be replicated in the open domain as soon as possible. But I guess to easy my anxiety, I thought it would be fun to ask about it here. After all, HN is the best at dismissing stuff as not a big deal.

So, how would you argue that ChatGPT is not such a big deal?
This used to be the case, but is explicitly mentioned as untrue now: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en-GB
Those folks used to have some resources on their website:

https://macocustoms.sgs.com/?lang=en

All my experuence comes from running the logistics and supply chains cross border and being involved in the proper system and reporting set-up. One of the lessons learned: get proper tax and customs experts, and do what they say. Also get proper accounting experts.
Not a name, but I think it's called making the perfect the enemy of the good.
Freight rail has significantly different requirements than passenger. People want to move quickly, with frequent daily trips (eg 24 trips per day, moving at 90mph). Freight does not care about train speed so long as it is reliable (eg 1 trip per day moving at 50mph). Logistics networks can plan around reliability.
The US did not reboot jurisprudence when it was established. We imported English common law.
Greeks lied about their finances and took loans they couldn’t pay back. I don’t see how they are the victim in this discussion. Deutsche Bank or anybody else giving money to Greek is stupid imho. Lacking “street smart” for sure. Still I paid for this bullshit w/ my taxes and could t do anything about it.

Do I dig this entire “oh poor Greek got screwed by Germany and Greek is the victim” nonsense? No.

Greek lies and screws over their neighbors and then threatens to tank the entire EU / Euro over their bankruptcy: not a victim. Not to be trusted.

Thats what you imply with your post: don’t trust the Greek, they lied in the past, they will lie in the future. No sympathy from my end.
If I heard right, he said it was 25K if you had access to a backhoe and could do your own labor.
Spain is in the EU, but Spain is not the EU.

So he is.

But then again, what's the practical reason to pay more than 1k cash?
Probably because, barring completely antibiotic resistant bacteria or some super-virus, if you live in a high-income area, you are either looking at dying due to your heart giving out, or your brain.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...

“Deaths due to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias have increased, overtaking stroke to become the second leading cause in high-income countries, and being responsible for the deaths of 814 000 people in 2019.”

And given the nominally cerebral bent of this forum: kinda makes sense we’re freaking out about our brains throwing a kernel panic someday.