skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ouch. As others have pointed out, there were a number of missteps that compounded the problem but it is a nice after action report and ideally these guys have learned three things:

1) There is no such thing as asking too many questions.

2) Legal advice is expensive, getting into a bad contract more so, as a result make sure that you understand exactly what the contract says, and what "bad things" it is protecting you and them from.

3) Distributors don't make "big orders", their customers do. If a distributor tells you they have a big order then talk directly to the customer making the order about it. If the distributor won't tell you the customer then don't do the deal.

It looks like they survived this semester in "advanced logistics" and that will make them a much better company overall by incorporating that learning into their processes.

One of the interesting things about being at Sun from "startup" to "enterprise company" was seeing first hand the stupid mistakes that didn't kill them but they successfully learned from. I am convinced this is part of the "business experience" for everyone but couldn't prove that from my own experience (I might just pick companies to join that learn things by pain :-)
Yes, it is (compressed) binary: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/...

TreeSheets tries to be highly efficient in space/time, which is challenging with text formats.

There's an option in the menus for auto html export on every save. It's what I use to browse my data from non-supported devices, e.g. mobile (thru e.g. DropBox).
Off topic, but is there a firefox extension that will get rid of that @#$%@#$%#$% substack popup that floats in the middle of the page?
I like how this says there’s “now” an open source alternative to chatgpt, as if chatgpt was the first ever language generation model that’s been routed into a chatbot
> The import statement maps strings to symbols. No complicated module system to learn. The strings are resolved to something like URLs, but that's not part of the language. It's very easy to see code on GitHub and import it.

This is for sure untrue, unless one is already steeped in the golang ecosystem.

$ cat go.mod
requires (
github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v3 v3.43.1
)

oh, cool, I can just navigate to https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/tree/v3.43.1/sdk/v3 to view the source ... oh, :sad-trombone: it's 404. Well, why is that?

$ curl https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/v3.43.1/sdk/go.mod | head 1
module github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v3

Oh, because the "module" line is decoupled from the apparent URL. Then there's this `gopkg.in/yaml.v2` nonsense, as described by this: https://go.dev/src/cmd/go/internal/help/helpdoc.go#L251

Meaning navigating to https://gopkg.in/yaml.v2 gets one thing, but https://gopkg.in/yaml.v2?go-get=1 produces another and only a view-source of the latter shows what golang is going to use. Yes, I'm aware that out of the kindness of the author's heart the browser version does link to the alleged source repo, but alleged is the key part of that
I also wondered why the database schema is so bastardized with camel case and snake case column names mixed. Likely legacy, but still messes with the OCD.
Maybe consider making an "ad-supported, free" model, and a "premium" plan without ads? As long as advertising doesn't end up in the premium plan at any point it's the best of both worlds.
I'd be happy to hear Stripe's side. So far they have asked for 2 invoices for charges on each account. I've provided them. 2 of our accounts have been released, but the others are still being held. All the charges that they asked for are legitimate bookings. So I don't know what to do about it.
> But I would really suggest anyone out there just to avoid backend-frameworks-based view/templating

I personally struggle to let go of backend templating. It's so easy to translate your data into the right pieces of markup in the template, and just serve the fully-baked HTML to the user instantly. How should I be looking at this differently?
The NFA -> DFA subset construction will identify and squeeze out the overlaps.

Compressing regexes, I suspect, is a pointless excercise, except as a preprocessing pass before a pseudo-regex engine that does backtracking (e.g. Perl).
So you're going for the "incorrect but helpful" angle?

Why not just go for "correct and helpful" instead? It's only a few extra sentences, and comes across much more believably.
Slight tangent: it looks like Crisp is also available on Linux, according to their website.
So is copying the thing to itself the only solution in the interim in order to force the thing to copy itself correctly into the thing?
Where I grew up, the working class paper was delivered later in the day, and was traditionally read at/after dinner. On the other hand the prim bourgeoisie newspaper was delivered early in the morning and was traditionally read at breakfast. I thought that's how the blue collar / white collar divide was everywhere.
I don't think anyone serious thinks or talks in terms of AGI. The feverishly simplistic idea of the singularity is quite silly.

Most notably, neural networks alone will not reach any kind of AGI.

Start adding the capacity to read from massive knowledge stores, and a place to keep long term information (i.e., memory, probably also in a database), plus a feedback loop for the model to learn and improve? Plus the ability to call APIs? Now you're talking. I think all of those pieces are close to doable right now, maybe with a latency of 5s. If one of the big players puts that in place in a way that is well measured and they can iterate on, I think we'll start to see some really incredible advances.
Feature testing is a lot harder when attempting to work around CSS bugs in cough cough Safari, unless you use weird things like @supports (<insert feature that vCurrent mobile Safari doesn't support but all other current browsers do>) and then hope it is fixed in a future Safari.
It must be really bad if Stripe is holding $400K of your money.

They are probably doing something wrong or most likely having a very risky business.
We haven't launched yet (Q1 Next year is the target), so the landing page isn't great yet.

We're a platform as a service that you can install on any cloud via Kubernetes, or on your own self hosted Kubernetes.

So distributed systems, automated remediations, machine learning ops, etc are the areas we're using elixir.
In the 1970 World Cup, Brazil plays 6 matches. During the first 3 games in the group stage, Pelé scores 3 goals in 2 matches, but then doesn't score in quarter finals and semi finals. He scores a goal in the final, which Brazil wins 4-1.

Meanwhile, Jairzinho scores a goal in every single game of that World Cup, 7 in total. I watched the matches, and my favorite in that World Cup is Rivelinho, the best playmaker they had. Pelé wasn't a playmaker, he was more like Cristiano Ronaldo, a strong center forward who was very creative in the last quarter of the field.

I think Pele was amazing, but once you watch the matches, you realize that the legend was greatly exaggerated.
> especially in an urban area and doubly so in a randomly planned urban area like seattle

Seattle is a wonderful planned city with very predictable roads, and very safe drivers.

I want to see how a tesla navigated Boston. That’s a city that wasn’t planned, has much more aggressive drivers, and inclement weather much more often.
It shouldn't be a problem for something entirely self-contained like a regex. If other static constructions try to use it before main() is called, then that could be a problem.
Whoa, that's the landscape monologue from Russian DMB movie!

What year was that?

…while the enemy is plotting their assault, we change the landscape, even manually. When the attack starts, the enemy is lost on unfamiliar terrain and loses ability to fight. That's the reason, that's our strategy…
I believe we would be better off as a society if we either decided it was ok, or not ok and not situational.

In a perfect world we'd just all decide to be better people and not racist without external pressure, but that seems like a pipe dream.
Bullying is an additional level of action, right? If you're using a different verb it probably also means additional actions that aren't simply speech.

I dislike bad stuff too. Bullying is wrong and should be stopped. Hate speech is also wrong but I'll defend people's right to speak.
(self-)censorship has seldom brought progress, especially in science.

consider the question: is the distinction between theory A vs B testable?

if we can not yet verify that a distinction is untestable, it might still be testable, but we might just be missing the insight on how to construct the experimental setup to test a distinction.

if in fact a hypothesis eventually turns out to be testable, there is no guarantee that a single person or single group would have come up with such a test, perhaps devising the test requires careful and deliberate thought by a lot of people separated by location and or generations.

in that case, the prescription to "shut up and make testable hypotheses and then invalidate them experimentally" would be counter-productive advice, eliding the agressive "shut up" might do wonders...

as an aside, perhaps we fail to see the forest for the trees:

consider Youngs double slit experiment, the quantum mechanical version, perhaps with single photons or alternatively electrons, self-interfering with single particle detection on a screen.

according to the path integral formalism the particle is taking all possible paths, and the complex amplitudes are added together with their respective path-length-delays, i.e. "simple interference", except I only see course notes picturing the paths through slit A and B, and I never see the quantum mechanics books picturing the infinite number of topological loops: through slit A -> [back through slit B, through slit A again] x N -> to screen...

are many worlds interpretations truly untestable, or are we refusing to acknowledge their having been measured a long time ago?

what prevents a physicist from claiming all of the paths in the path integral formalism correspond to the system histories of the universe splitting over the (continuous or discrete) paths, and then merging by interference on the same final measurement point on the screen.

one can not explain the interference as long as one refuses to recognize the particle passed both slits.

if something so basic to the theory of quantum mechanics such as the single particle equivalent to Youngs double slit experiment could be recognized as not just proof of splitting histories, but also proof of merging histories, that might be seen as a paradigm shift.

what makes self-interference of a particle exploring all paths so much more palatable than simply claiming all these paths correspond to different histories of the photon, and those same histories merging through the laws of interference?

That would render the acceptance of interference into an acceptance of not just many worlds, but also the possibility of diverging histories interacting (at least in setups where interference takes effect).
You are assuming they knew the $250k amount at that point. When they made the deal for 6000 units, they didn't know the total was going to be $250k. They didn't know the total was $250k until they learned it was for 6000 cases later.
In the Netherlands we don't use concrete plates. Just asphalt, usually the highly absorbent type. It wears very quickly and ice buildup damages it so it gets replaced a lot.

But this is the advantage of a small country with many people. Good infrastructure.
It's honestly not very good compared to a "real" type system (platform). I've used it about a year ago for a couple of projects, and it was painful and ultimately not very useful exercise.
Haha. Pardon the naivety. Have lived in the Svelte world too long. Hooks had just come out last time I used react. I’ll get to reading.
Art of programming by Knuth. Best gift ever.
I see, so the hypothesis is there's some way of determining "how much choice" it has for each output token. The less choice it has, the more we will call what it's doing "verbatim copying". Once the threshold is crossed and you want to "trace" it, though, I'm still not clear on how you can map back through the latent space and figure out where in the corpus it's copying from. Other than the technique suggested upthread, where you just literally search the corpus as a separate operation.
Do you have any specific criticism of OP's complaint here? It sounds like they've tried to go through normal support channels and have gotten nowhere (e.g. being asked to submit the same documentation multiple times and not getting any new info). Sure, the "amount of detail" might be low compared to an issue that one might receive as official customer support, but what exactly do you think they could be providing here that would be relevant to the readers here? I don't the the fact that they didn't provide account numbers or whatever on a public HN post is surprising, and I don't think it would be reasonable to draw conclusions about whether they provided more specific info in their official communication with customer support. As for plausibility, I don't really see any basis for assuming this claim is more likely to be false than true. As someone who has never used Stripe and as far as I know never interacted with someone who works there, my initial instinct is that OP's question seems more likely to be in good faith than your response.
"Bullying" is actually a great example of something that once we decide the concept is bad, there is a rush from people to frame everything they don't like along those lines. I'd suggest that under the blanket and nebulous headline of "bullying" are actions that are already illegal like harassment and assault.
Because they didn't know the total was going to be $250k until they learned it was for 6000 cases.
Firstly quokka is pure Python, which I believe is good for interoperability with Python based UDFs.

Secondly quokka tries to be fault tolerant. I.e. it can handle worker failures intra query and not have to start over. This is quite important in real world spark deployments with thousands of nodes running many hours. AFAIK this is not well supported by most spark alternatives.

Finally quokka has a much stronger focus on time series data analytics. It is meant to excel at workloads like range joins and asof/PIT joins used for feature engineering. (This part isn't too stable yet so is not open source)

This means quokka optimizes on a different point in the UDF/performance/fault tolerance tradeoff space than something like arrow ballista or starrocks, which I think are pure performance plays
Always Break Yolks: The Joy of Microwave Cooking
Yeah I've been trying for a month to go through the regular support channels with this issue and we're still selling via stripe because it's not an easy change to make in the middle of our busiest season of the year. So the money is just piling up with very little communication from Stripe.
If your option is either lose $400,000 or pay for a lawyer - you're of course right that you want to get a lawyer.

OP said:
> Honestly that's the next step. Hoping to not have to involve lawyers.

My understanding is that OP was hoping to communicate with support and get access to their accounts without paying for a lawyer - as that would be preferable with a cost of ~0$

All three of us appear to agree - If that doesn't work definitely time for a lawyer
Calling everything an algorithm rests on some implicit/vague assumption of computational universality (that subsumes human functioning!) which seems quite non-obvious.

It's a useless (tautological) statement unless we start with a good definition of what is and is not an "algorithm". From a cursory glance, this seems trickier than it looks, and once we have a constrained definition it's not clear any more that human minds operate in the same framework (strong claims require strong evidence).

Eg: If we define algorithms as what can be implemented on a Turing machine, then we're necessarily talking deterministic algorithms (allowing pseudorandomness), etc.
What’s been your experience with Live View?

I ask because I’m under the impression that using it comes with some sizable scaling problems, which somewhat defeats the point of using Erlang in the first place.

I could be wrong though. Would
like to learn more.
If the 2021 encyclopedia is outdated, so is almost every fact in my head about the broader world.
if it was the original ДМБ, that was 2000; "Rove" was 2004 (I don't know if he's admitted ownership)

As mentioned in a sibling comment, however, elevating "men of action" over "eggheads of reality" has the sort of history that Ezra Pound celebrated in the mid-1900s. IIRC there was a substantially-sized war fought over the principle at the time?
Nasdaq closes out its first four-quarter slump since dot-com crash
As Musk had pointed out at the time, the requirements were essentially just large amounts of paperwork (since if NASA considers F9 reliable enough for cargo and even crew, it's kind of ridiculous to suggest it can't handle a GPS satellite), such that it was unreasonable for USAF to buy multiple years worth of launches without competitive bidding despite obviously having another option almost through certification. At the time they had made that award, SpaceX was already mostly through the certification paperwork with zero changes needed to the rocket.

Besides that, although not a lawsuit, Lori Garver's book "Escaping Gravity" goes into a lot of depth regarding the behind the scenes political struggle regarding commercial cargo and commercial crew and how Congress and some parts of NASA leaned on the idea that they couldn't tolerate any failure as a means of trying to disqualify anyone but ULA,Boeing etc from those programs.

I was wrong about them having to sue "several times" though.
Nobody ever actually reads TAOCP*. Beyond that, you'd have to ask him.

Anything 'useful', or industry/professional related, are particular, specific things that he can get for himself, as and when necessary.

Anything 'meaningful', well, you'd have to figure that one out yourself - what would your son find to be meaningful? Certainly you don't think fun, or relaxation, or what he wants, holds any meaning for him. And certainly not reward. So you definitely don't think he should get the message that hard work actually pays off beyond being given more work to do, and tools that make him focus on work, because you think the only meaning of his life is to work, and that he shouldn't have fun except on your terms and when and how you allow.

He already has the objects he needs for professional development - a laptop. I'm sure he can figure out how to dual boot on it if he wants to dev on linux. Maybe the most meaningful thing you could do is let him make decisions - he'll never learn how to if you keep trying to control him just a little bit more.

*This is a(n obvious) generalism. I am aware some of us actually do go and read TAOCP - I have read some of it myself. I will profess that, on balance of probabilities, TAOCP will be a heavy and pointless shelf-weight if bought for OPs son.
How can you know if a scientific hypothesis is worth investigating before you've investigated it? It can of course be more or less plausible, but unless you've actually done the work, you don't know.

Jumping to the conclusion that because there is no evidence, that this in itself means something is true or false, that is committing exactly the same category of logical error the flat earthers and ancient aliens people are doing. In the absence of evidence is uncertainty.
This is worth replying to because you ask important questions;

> Did you get into computers by intentionally expressing an interest and then having
tidbits fed to you by someone? Or did you discover it organically

As a kid in the 70s I discovered it as "monkey see monkey do". Other
adults (airforce buddies of my dad) were doing clever shit with them,
which obviously impressed and engaged my dad, so I was drawn in.

> interest in something you aren't familiar with, will you let her
explore it herself or will everything be filtered through you?

I am a student of Paulo Friere [1] and fan of John Taylor Gatto [2] so
I'd find over-controlling pedagogy quite abhorrent. The trick of
"Liberation pedagogy" is to open doors to the earliest self-sufficient
(auto-didactic) exploration. Unfortunately the unfiltered internet is
not a fit place for a 7 year old. At some point I intend to curate a
"mini-net", probably a downloaded Wikipedia on localhost.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
HSL came in clutch when I designed my website (https://joeldueck.com) to change colors based on the outside temperature. (See the slider at the bottom)

A script maps the temperature in °f to a value between 0 and 360, and this value is used for the Hue paramater in CSS hsl() colors.
My read was the novelty lies in the combination of a language model plus a reinforcement learning layer on top, just like chatgpt.
Only if you’re unaware that “anyone” also includes yourself.
They took out the Tochkas from the reserves months ago, the Iskanders have probably already run out.
I think this is needed tbh.

My fortune 10 company regularly pays our bills after the pay period - like 60 days late on a net 30. And then I, a technical person that just wants the damn AWS bill paid so I stop getting emailed about it, have to chase down the people responsible internally, even though they get the same billing emails. Because for some reason they didn't like the old way of setting up auto pay. Oh. And they will send literal paper checks to pay some bills... to closed offices since everybody works from home now.

The accounts payable department wastes more time than they save.
I don't understand how everyone knows what the commenter is referring to when it took me forever. I figured he was referring to the "dents" on the shoulder, which I thought were rumble strips.
That's unfortunately not working on firefox. There is that text input field looking thingy on my screen, and it tempts me every time, and it punches me in the face every time as it copies the original URL instead of my text (on both linux, windows).

But recently I added the search bar next to the url bar for this very reason. I don't remember using it yet.
Good point! And you're right of course regarding the bats. I was speaking more generally about vulnerable animal populations in general, but I wasn't very clear on that point. :-/
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This has become such a problem the Canadian government has been warning its citizens traveling to the US to avoid carrying cash.

This is from 2014 when the problem seems to have really taken off.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/american-shakedown-police-won-...
> Minimum Component Size: 0603

I'm stocking mostly 0402. We're shlepping it to various small assemblers, but considering a small PnP for in-house prototypes and as a reserve resource for when the assemblers are overcommitted or have other problems
Quite a large and important topic, but is this a worthwhile article to center discussion upon? The author of this article, if you were to look him up (on LinkedIn, as I did), has no particular background or connection to finance, monetary policy, geopolitics, or international trade. Likely, he referred to various online sources, and he wrote what is not dissimilar to a report that a schoolteacher might assign as homework (“nice work, Lucas, though points off for not including a bibliography”).

From an editorial perspective it probably made sense to publish, for whatever reasons related to the publication strategy.

Does the Computerworld brand somehow lend credibility?