skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about russian rail network, but I heard it being mentioned in passing multiple times in the articles since the war started. Is their military logistics rail network actually great? And why?

I am not trying to debate this, I genuinely know nothing about the difference in importance of rail vs air vs whatever else when it comes to military logistics. I found the mentions of the russian rail interesting, so at this point I just want to know more about it in the context of current events.
Isn't that why I use Stripe? They handle the payment details.
It looks like the only options they checked were a control group who sat all the time, and experimental groups who walked for different durations. I can see some advantages to doing this. Using just one form of exercise makes the experiment simpler. Also, everyone already knows how to walk, and you don't have to be in very good shape to do it. If you have someone who's used to a totally sedentary life attempt 30 burpees at the top of every hour, there's a decent chance you'll put them in the hospital.
The compliance framework in the financial organization I worked at was much lower friction than at the tech company. It felt like something they took seriously so integrated it as a first class requirement. As opposed to at the tech org where they seemed to treat it like a chore they had to check off a list.

I suspect that this is something that is organization dependent not a uniform trend in either direction.
That's because you didn't work in a revenue-producing line.

Goldman has people in their mid-20s managing books of business larger than most listed companies and responsible for hundreds of millions in revenue per year. That isn't possible with a bureaucracy (this is how you get the huge insider trading cases, like I know people who worked there, were there for a few years and could not imagine the amount of business they were doing as relatively junior employees...it is a crazy system but seems to work, back in the early 90s they would give prop books worth hundreds of millions to grads a few months out of college...again, it was genuinely mad but it worked).
That's exactly the poor programming I was referring to.

Call isatty()!
If you get an Internal Server Error like me:
http://web.archive.org/web/20230114194140/https://ralphammer...
In ~2006 a group in my brother's AP Chemistry class got permission to make thetmite for their class project. Set it off in a fume hood which I believe was already scheduled to be replaced that summer.

In 2010 my AP Physics teacher gave us all really long leashes in terms of how much we could. One fellow made what equated to a water bottle capacitor, charged on a Van de Graff generator. After playing with it for a few days, trying to get the practicum teacher to touch it, and various other shenanigans, he felt a shock across his chest and was writhing in pain on the ground for a few minutes. We all lost Van de Graff privileges after that.

Somehow that happened in 2010-2011 and there wasn't really concern to call for medical supervision. He's still doing great today thankfully.
> Better be safe than sorry.

You talk bs.

>Plus they also ship devices with Netflix code on them.

Are you talking about open-connect? They don't ship that to "End-users", and you can sell an appliances with GPL software and proprietary code on it..hello Android?? And please stop now, your arguments are like from a 12yo, and i know for a fact that your much much older, also sometimes wiser, i don't know why that is not available for you today.
I tried to use the hjkl key bindings, I hated them, and since I remember, I also use the arrow keys.

The keys are positioned differently, and that helps me with muscle memory.

The fact they are not in a row is a feature.

Of course, I am also a touch typist and I wrote this entire comment without looking at the keyboard or making a single mistake.
What is your model for a successful large scale application of socialism and how do you intend to avoid the pitfalls of the ones which weren't so successful?
wow. that borders on extortion... "you should really buy a license... who knows, otherwise your code might turn into AGPL, good luck with the expensive court fees..."
I have the EPOC32 emulator for Windows, and I use the Agenda / Time apps to organise my life. Can't beat that Psion 5 agenda.
This. Advertising has become a shotgun strategy. Just throw out as many ads ad you can and see what sticks. Not thinking about the user experience you as an advertising company are creating. Or destroying, better.
I personally think it has gone WAY too far when ad pushing has become more important than anything else in media land.
I need an ad-blocker for live TV, please.
You mean to tell me OP's business was actually shady and deserved to be shut down?

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> lookouts reporting from [...] trackside,

This could even be done openly without attracting attention, since railfans hanging out next to tracks waiting for trains are common.
This is really cool. I wish the pieces were off the board at the start though. I’d much prefer to build up a solution iteratively than try to fix a broken one.
> If I look up news, and I see CNN and MSNBC and any of those big networks, I keep scrolling until I find someone showing me the raw event with no commentary.

Here's a raw event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJuyn0WAYNI

There are a small handful of significant characteristics to notice about the raw event to prove to others you are a sentient human using actively using your music cognition.

Here's a hint: disco chord. (Another hint: the answer isn't merely, "hey, I hear the disco chord now!")

If you can hear the event and articulate it's significance, great!

But if you cannot do that with something as ineffectual as pop music, ask yourself: what could you possibly achieve with raw data and no commentary in a domain with high stakes like epidemiology (for example)?

Edit: typo, clarifications
> This keeps people coming back for a new phone every 2 years as the cost to repair a new one rises up above the replacement cost

I might replace my 2016 iPhone this coming fall, but the Apple-induced reason has nothing to do with repair or supply chains and everything to do with not running iOS 16 and the impending end of security patches for iOS 15. (Actually there's one more Apple-induced reason: they broke GarageBand, one of my favorite apps, on iOS 15! Very annoying.)

The other reason I might want to upgrade is that technology probably does advance slightly over 6-7 years.
Wash U wants you to use ChatGPT
Great move by the University. Should this be the model all colleges should follow?
Thanks for sharing your reference.

This is hysteresis, not "sensitivity to initial conditions" - a system is evolving on a particular semi-stable trajectory, and then gets nudged to a new one with a different equilibrium or evolution.
The problem is there are many ways to implement a feature. Often one isn't objectively better or worse than the other (but subjectively it is).

Everyone wants the problem solved, but how the problem is solved leads to frustration.
tl;dr "I know the truth. All objections are fringe idiocies. There is no need for debate. Just give me the mic, shut up and listen."

I remember reading about how Lenin dealt with opposition. He never argued with them on public, as it could damage his image and undermine his dogma. Instead, he ferociously attacked the opponent himself: demonized him, called him names, and later got rid of him.
The dinamics of mp3 is much lower.
Are you saying that because of his social class?

Because as far as Edo society would be concerned, anyone who holds weapons would default to being a samurai if doing so legitimately or a peasant bandit if doing so illegitimately. So essentially he should be one, and seemingly was treated as one from reports of his fine clothing, social standing amongst other bodyguards, and land holding.
Yes me, but that's unrelated. Different biz.
Tsconfig-to-dual-package – Node.js tool to support CJS and ESM in one package
And there lies the rub right, because Cubans are deciding it either.
The Tom Sachs video is great and sums it up "align or square all objects" for the layout.
Meh. I don't buy this guy's explanation ("it's because we're so non-hierarchical". There's plenty of hier. there and it's getting worse.)

I worked at Google for 10 years (2011-2021) and I don't remember a single time where it didn't feel slow and bureaucratic. Compared to the smaller companies and startups I worked at before. Maybe it's not slow compared to academia or other BigCorps where many other Googlers came from though.

Getting anything done always involved going through piles of "paperwork". Getting in the right MDB/Ganpati groups, finding the right persons to put on code reviews, juggling multiple code reviews at a time in order to make progress because your code reviews are just sitting in someone's review queue, "readability" reviews, applying to get readability, mandatory security reviews, design docs for the smallest features, going through rigorous launch processes, etc.

It all made sense in the context of the kinds of production environments Google has, but it was often applied intensely even for very small pieces of work.

On top of that, going through all that and having the paper trail for it was intimately tied to need to build paperwork for going through the perf & promo process, too. So it was entirely built into the culture there.

Also, if there was any interesting work, if you weren't some sort of political beast or very assertive, somebody would just steal it from you before you could do it anyways.

(Oh, and over half the people you met came directly from academia anyways, and so of course they were used to this kind of crap, because that kind of "defend your work", publish-or-perish, and showboating culture is all over academia.)

Has Google gotten slower over time? Maybe? It was sure bloody slow during COVID WFH.

What did get worse overtime was shitty bureaucratic organizational politics. Or what I'd call "shipping the org chart." Customer impacting decisions clearly made because of the structure of various product areas and organizational empires. Especially in the world of things that were outside of Core/Search/Ads and were consumer facing. Terrible.

Working at Google is a good way to learn about infrastructure at scale and make a lot of money. That's about it. The best career at Google is SRE. I wouldn't recommend a SWE career there.
I feel that, in general, as an organization grows it is forced to become more bureaucratic as the ability to coordinate a large group of disorganized people grows beyond manageability. Eventually the overly bureaucratic organization grinds to a halt because the different bureaus become too insular, compete for budget, and generally become unaware of how other departments work. Essentially, a company cannot grow too large and still be competitive unless the company purchases politicians for advantage.
The Minimum Viable Data Room
For an industry so enamored with scale and network effects, we sometimes fail to recognize how these work against us organizationally. Or maybe we don't, and the boards/execs just prefer a more controllable organization even at the expense of rigidness and efficiency?
An hour a day is a massive commitment for most people with lives (work, family etc.) You can get very meaningful progress in drawing with much less. Don’t be discouraged from starting.
Normally the tools people use don’t dictate the license they must use for their code.
Just to understand better: who are product owners at big(ger) companies? Even PMs rarely talk to customers. PMM? Research? Not sure what size companies have engineers talk directly to customers.
To add to the above, I also found a great "two liner" that sets up a docker container that spawns a security system called SLIPS that automatically detects and blocks suspicious network traffic in real time, without too much resource usage:

```
mkdir /home/ubuntu/dataset
docker run -it --rm --net=host -v $(pwd)/dataset:/StratosphereLinuxIPS/dataset --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --name slips stratosphereips/slips:latest ./slips.py -c config/slips.conf -i eth0 -p
```
>>Major mistake to rely on one business to keep ours afloat.

Good luck avoiding that one. Doing business, these days, means eating "platform risk." Whether it's your facebook page, payment processing, AWS, app store or whatnot... it's very hard to have resilience.

Frustratingly, the risk is almost random. Whether it's a YouTube channel or a payment processor, they won't necessarily tell you why even retroactively, certainly not proactively.
On the broader note (why not use Stripe alternatives), it feels similar to taking backups - many people know it's a good idea, but yet many people don't do it till they lose data. (I unfortunately also don't backup, though I do not have a lot of important material digitally to lose.)
That’s why I posed it concretely instead of as FAANG vs finance.
> But it seems the penalties are meaningless.

As noted in the thread, the agreement itself includes a tiny cap on damages, but there are legal factors which plausibly could nullify the effect of that cap.
You should be able to use Pareto to guide you. It basically reveals that a small part of a set provide the greater part of the result. For example just a few of your clients will be responsible for the majority of your total income. The trick is to recognise that small group and how important they are to you!
9/11 and the quest for power turned the FBI into a political weapon
If you ever wonder what the blockchain people were on about, this is what they were trying to prevent.

Payments that stay paid, under all circumstances, with nobody intermediating.
At least in my experience, if I listen closely to the standard announcements, this is the explicit recommendation from the pilot/cabin crew as well.
Hmm I'm not saying anything like that?
It's not an issue for linking AGPL code.

The issue was that they wanted to claim that AGPL was contagious - That by using mold, your outputs would also be required to become AGPL.
"They used to be the good guys, the ones who you could call and talk to."

Well, "do things that don't scale", etc is the mantra around here.

Customer service with high human touch is something that really doesn't scale. I really cannot think of any large company in any industry that has got this figured out...
Step 1: be great at drawing

Step 2: DTROTFO! [1]

Seriously though, these seem like good steps for getting started. Just start scribbling to get your hand warmed up, then redraw and refine and keep practicing.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/eccj2/how_to_draw_an...
A hackney cab is a type of taxi (one used in london), and can be hailed. A mini cab must be pre booked, like Uber or Addison Lee.
A minute ago it was "Not me, no." Does HN keep comment history?
Now, this is the point where AI advances become interesting. What a year to be alive.

The only limitation I see is, we now need so much more computing power.
You know what they say; one man's trash is another man's treasure.
How about just not watch TV?
Stripe has to be far more sophisticated than that.

Clustering by request IP is a first order scoring for fraud detection.

Say then instead a bad actor is using a bot-net to run a purchase script to validate cc’s. Unusual purchase activity is also first order for fraud detection.
This will require some robotic preening functionality too.
I'm interested in making REPL support for Rust first-class and am curious where people think evcxr lets you down in usability and any suggestions in overcoming them. Compiled languages offer unique challenges for REPLs and I feel like I've not seen it pulled off well.
I don't think it helps to characterise this as a simple textual bulletin log.

I am by no means an expert, however to me this system appears to include: a globally agreed upon data format, a transmission protocol hardware distributed across the planet in ground stations and air vehicles, and 70 years of legacy.

And all of that is enshrined in legislation across many countries.

And while there is a modernisation effort in progress, the nature of this system means that things will move slowly.

In 2023 anyone can suggest a better data format and distribution system if they start from scratch. Good luck getting the world to use it and good luck getting anyone to care.
https://approvaltests.com/
> Compare this to something like RLHF[0] which has acheived far more for aligning models toward being polite and non-evil. (This is the technique that helps ChatGPT decline to answer questions like "how to make a bomb?")

I recently saw a screenshot of someone doing trolley problems with people of all races & ages with ChatGPT and noting differences. That makes me not quite as confident about alignment as you are.
This is really cool. I had a similar thought that GPT3 could be used to simulate political polling. A few weeks ago I tried telling GPT3 that it was part of a specific demographic (age, gender, race, income, political leaning, etc) and then asked it how it would respond to certain political questions (I tried gun control, immigration, abortion and some other issues). GPT3 was able to change its answers in believable ways depending on what demographic I instructed it to be.

My thinking was that this could be used as a quick polling test to see how the real population may respond to certain new ideas.

More work would need to be done to calibrate it, as without specific demographic details the answers tended to be liberal leaning. But its an interesting idea which could be used to create instant focus tests on any number of topics.
> why is payment processing the most uptight industry on this planet? I cannot imagine one other business model that would require a company to treat their customers with such disrespect. There is zero compassion. There is zero regard for humanity. Why? All we're doing here is processing an online payment.

I have a question every time these stories come up. What exactly is your business model and what are you selling? Doesn't surprise me that these business owners either neglect to mention this in their story or if they do are intentionally vague. I'll wait.
Maybe he forgot his name...

I think the change in comment tells you all you need to know...
Stripe has options for that but pretty sure it defaults to some level of verification
> Meal skipping has become an increasing trend of the modern lifestyle that may lead to obesity

Citation needed. Virtually the entire planet has constant access to food, available 24/7/365, something that has never happened at any point in human history until very recently. Is there an actual statistically-significant trend of conscious meal skipping? In what population? Or are they just parroting something they heard on the internet? I can't access the article but I'd be very curious how they back this claim up.

Humans evolved under conditions of highly variable food stocks. I guarantee our distant ancestors ate when food was plentiful, fasted when it was not (no choice), and were certainly not eating 3 square meals on a regular schedule. Not saying that our hunter-gatherer diet was ideal, but if we evolved under those conditions, our default assumption should be that our bodies can handle it. Even the language ("skipping a meal") assumes that 3 meals is the natural baseline. Seems like the burden of proof runs the other way.

That, combined with the low sample size and the questionable research methodology, leads me to believe this is garbage science. Not worth reading.
Stripe charges for protection https://stripe.com/radar/pricing

> Chargeback Protection

> Defend your business from the unpredictability of disputes. With Chargeback Protection, Stripe will cover both the disputed amount and any dispute fees—no evidence submission required. Chargeback Protection costs just 0.4% per transaction.
Interesting podcast episode looking at payment processing from the online porn side of things: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/hot-money/episode-8-inside-p...
Gotcha. What can you tell us about your business? For every story where someone has had a real problem with Stripe, there's another where, had you posted "can I reasonably build this business on Stripe" on HN, the whole thread would be people telling you "of course not". You say you ran a major marketing campaign, but I can't find evidence of any startup other than StoreCycle associated with you, so you'll need to cue us a bit here.
That'd be quite cool :) I've been using maddy for a self hosted mail server, itd be nice to replace it with stalwart and give ltt.rs a try... and convince the hosted mail i use to start using a JMAP supported server
Yes. All effects are entirely optional
The latency notwithstanding, you can implement a counter with an LFSR that hits every unique value in a 2^n-1 sequence with less transistors than a standard counter.
But it has everything to do with understanding that you can form a union, no?
Not officially, but: you're right, the original response was "Not me, no."
> First, people or companies using the cracked version of your software were never going to buy it.

Or, they would never have bought it if unable to obtain a pirated copy, but now that they've tried it, may purchase. Admittedly this is more true of games than other software. When I compare my steam library to my pirated library, many of my favorite games are in the overlap: I tried them first, loved them, and then bought them.
Sure them for theft.
Largest Sources of Energy by State
Easier said than done. Implementing the game logic during the vertical blank is actually more straightforward.
Does anybody round-robin among payment processors?

Given the number of these types of situations I see popping up on HN, I would consider doing something like this if it was my business. But I don't know how hard it would be, or other downsides. Maybe it wouldn't work. Thoughts?
Sounds similar to what I have witnessed on Twitter, not against me, but against a few very visible people in the AI community.
Show HN: Gopherawaitof: For Await of Library for Golang
That may even be OK. If it really is maintenance, maybe outsourcing it or giving it to entry-level employees may be a reasonable strategy as opposed to trying to keep more senior folks involved, if there are genuinely no interesting new angles involved.
Mmmh, differential equations for N-bodies system have notorious tendencies towards chaos and/or easily getting out of chaotic attraction basins.

For that reason, I'm not entirely sure that playing cosmic bowling with stuff floating around in the solar system is such a good idea ...
Believe it or not we still amortize work and have game architecture where the sim updates at a much lower frequency than the game presentation.
Per why AS/ASD, the logic was that AS is in the mild section of the syndrom. You can probably draw a parallel to digital addiction, which everyone can agree is a much less severe form of addiction than substance addiction.
Hey now, I received my $5.21 check from equifax for their huge data breach! I’m sure that taught them a lesson, but I don’t think it’s the lesson I’m hoping for….
I'm really sorry for dogpiling on your setup here, but why keep wav files rather than flac? Flac files are lossless compression, so you can always get the exact same wav out of them, they take less disk space and they can hold Metadata. Flac support is also really common these days.
Original substack article here: https://ralphammer.substack.com/p/how-to-draw-ideas

with a bunch of other good ones too - like The Creative Switch
OK, so I'm going to enable caching. Why? I could just have one I can download from.

Edit: hmm, maybe I do want a cache, because of the public containers they depend on. https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/speed_up_job_ex...
> why is payment processing the most uptight industry on this planet

Commerce law is no joke.