skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maestro and Mastercard Debit cost more or less the same for NL-issued cards, interchange is a fixed 2ct [1]. As Mastercard is getting rid of Maestro, Dutch banks will start issuing Debit Mastercards soon.

Probably the supermarkets will switch to only accept Mastercard Debit/Visa Debit.

[1]: https://www.mastercard.com/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/...
"banned or blacklisted" vs "executed by the state". Definitely equivalent.

The West, in general, within its own territory, is better on just about every civil rights issue than places like Pakistan and China. That doesn't mean it's good: places like Pakistan and China set a pretty low bar.
Standard practice at law firms these days. Almost every email I ever sent to a partner was "what's a good time that we can talk?"
US Laws are why people aren't posting classic European art because one nipple and you're gone.
And yet here you come. Replying to my comment, using the same exact techniques created specifically "to win".

Literally evoking the feeling of being attack, by introducing thinly veiled insults into your comment.

What do you think would result from such a retort? (specifically after you called my perspective "piss poor")

PS: I have debated many times at school and afterwards. Your condescension is poorly hidden
I don't know if it helps, but in my experience applying to companies directly via their homepage does not work. I think that it is far, far better going via a recruiter (who will push your CV actively and do the talk for you), or applying via Linkedin. Just because there is a JD on a company page, who knows if they are still looking, or just forgot to update their homepage...
It will be (rightly) rapidly restored.
Not necessarily. Training pushes language models towards generalization and "understanding" of concepts.

It certainly "knows" some stuff. However it can't reason about it.

There have been some articles on HN recently on how accurately LMs build world models.
Pity the executives who have been forced to stand side on to the camera, tilt their heads slightly like a giant parrot, fold their arms and told to look natural. If you ever saw someone standing like this in real life, you would think “better cross to the other side”, not “I bet that person is great at creating shareholder value.”

Hilariously true.

Especially the crossed arms photo. "I am executive and I mean business!"
I don't think they are afraid of offending their god. I think they fear their human worshippers devolving into worshipping the person rather than following their religion. In other words they want to avoid the historical person superseding their god.
Scala News ( HTTPS://Www.scalanews.net)
Hi All,
So I created a simple scala news site for the community:

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I want all of us to blog more and have our blogs discovered so I added a blog directory page with links to bloggers rss feed lets bring back the googlereader days :

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I need everyones help though! For this to be a useful resource I need everyone to add their blog to the directory and if you come across any interesting news to add it to the next edition! PRs are welcome:

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It does and I understand. But in my experience most of what should be tested is not "does the database contain x?" but "does this where clause filter y?"

Those sorts of things are programmed in EF by LINQ queries. All I'm saying is, test the LINQ queries the same way you would test non-EF LINQ queries. LINQ doesn't require a database.
What's offensive to someone is just scholarship to another person.
Because most of the job now is just CRUD api kind of work. Who need FAANG experience for such work, at the cost of high salary ?
Concept visualizes everything we want in a new AirPort router
Wait, wait, what? I have not ran into this, but maybe the questions & topics I am asking . . .

Excellent! Now I have a way to identify ChatGPT research papers!
Yes, there is in fact an entire category dedicated to "Cultural depictions of Muhammad": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cultural_depictions_o...

Includes a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends (South Park episode) which contains an image of Muhammad.
Minor correction: ChatGPT does not add explanations why it picked a certain answer; ChatGPT adds explanations that it thinks fit with the answer it has already given. The what predates the why.

That's why, if you want ChatGPT to actually think about a problem, you have to get it to give the explanation first, gradually, and only then output the answer. That way, GPT can use the rationale it has given in the prediction of the answer that fits best. If it has to give the answer first, it's already committed.

If a human has to answer a question, they follow a process like this:

- parse the question

- compute a rationale, and evaluate it to gain an answer

- output the answer first, because it's the most useful

- output the cached rationale.

But GPT trains left to right, and it cannot see the first two steps as they're not in the text. From its perspective, most humans produce answers and explanations simultaneously, instantaneously and intuitively. This makes it almost impossible for GPT to learn how to think. It has to rely on the very few samples where humans give the rationale first, and then the answer. And because this is rare, you have to really push GPT to actually use its scant cognitive abilities. ("Let's think about it step by step.")
Ask HN: Startups that partners with current company
I have an idea for a startup that could benefit my current company, but definitely falls outside of the vision/value that my current company goes after (essentially a tool to help the company).

Has anyone ever tried to build a side company in their extra time that partners with their current company where you build the tool and they provide the at-scale data/partnership you would need to effectively validate the idea?

If so, how did you approach the initial discussion with your current company, what was the outcome, and what would you do differently?
There's an entire article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depictions_of_Muhammad
"these" generative tools can't do that. The transformer-based ML algorithm just can't do that.

Of course maybe in the future we'll have a better method, but it will be a very different thing from what we have today.
> His autism and drug use and liberal education and view of corruption and power from his parents has convinced him that all of society is an arbitrary social construct.
> And the fact that he bought off many famous and powerful people was evidence that he is correct in his base assumptions of the world.

That does not follow. That people violate norms does not mean norms are "arbitrary". We aren't automatons living in some kind of Platonic universe. The good can be frustrated for various reasons, and in your example, by the very people people making the aforementioned immoral decisions. They are frustrating their own good and the common good.

Good and sound norms are rooted in the human good as determined by human nature. Part of what makes humans human is our social nature, which entails society, which further entails a common good because there is no society without a common good. Liberalism gets things backwards by atomizing human beings and construing anything common as a voluntary cession in some way. So, for example, private property is construed as something more basic, prior to, and even in competition with the common good, whereas the traditional view is that private property exists precisely to secure the common good which means it is secondary in this sense.
> You’re talking about Gnome as if it’s an end onto itself. But it did not appear out of thin air just to disrupt KDE’s dominance.

It did exactly this!

Gnome was created because some people didn't like the Qt license.

There had been zero technical reasons. Still people decided to start form scratch just to have a different license.

> Look at the names on the emails and posts.

Good point!

There is one very special name on that list. Someone who turned out being a Microsoft u-boot according to some very popular "conspiracy theory"…

So if you like conspiracy theories you may add "divide et impera" to the possible reasons for the existence of Gnome. ;-)

> But that’s exactly what politics means: making sure people get what they want. As opposed to everyone having what you want.

It's irrelevant what I would like to have.

The relevant question was and is what would have been best for the Linux desktop as a whole.

Do you really want to argue that the miserable split where everything gets done at least twice is a good outcome?
> Your opinion and the actual growth rates do not seem to be in agreement.

Believe me or not, it makes no difference to me. I know I'm right.

Even the resident HN golden boy Elon Musk has been very outspoken recently about his significant concerns regarding the forthcoming population collapse. So it's happening whether you want to acknowledge it or not.
(2017)

A classic story!
Academia’s culture of overwork almost broke me, so I’m working to undo it
I believe those user-created models are still based on the core Stable Diffusion models though, and bring with them all of the same issues.

My understanding is that it's not difficult to tune existing models as an end-user, but to start from zero would be impossible for most individuals financially and technically.
How similar is it though? The US sent emails with suggestions to Twitter. Pakistan is threatening/will block Wikipedia.
Open the images in two tabs and switch between them, there are indeed literally imperceptible differences, as viewed normally, not zoomed x800.
F-35 avionic software is written in C++, so obviously any use of such an airplane is to be condemned until rewritten into an HN-approved language.

/flamebait

To contribute something productive: I'm actually often pleasantly surprised how non-IT people with relevant experience often show up on HN comment threads.
You make it sound as stealth is a boolean value. Stealth is not that easy. It depends on many factors. Stealth from whom, when, systems, where, and how much.

There is a probability (only indirect rumors) that F-35 can already be detected in some situations on some systems (global eye?) and there is definitely no guarantee that F-35 will keep it's stealth ability in the future.
Yet for all that, flowers fall amid our regret and yearning, and hated weeds grow apace.
Biggest point this article gets right: The political figures who brand themselves as environmentalists are there to syphon energy and support for these movements, while providing no real change.

Biggest thing this article gets wrong: Not realizing that the dismissive approach to indigenous peoples and the poor does not make a policy (by defenitiion) ineffective. Turns out that environmentalism and humanism can be (and often are) at odds.

I don't think problem 1 will be solved until problem 2 is addressed, because pretending like there is no contention or sacrifice by the already downtrodden in order to prevent climate change is the only way the grift maintains popular support.
>I have no expertise on this topic but it seems to me that some people are truly smarter than others

Ironic that if you say this almost anywhere (academia, Reddit, your local bar) people immediately assume you're talking about Eugenics, accuse you of racism and try to get you fired.
What would a Getty "working" robots.txt look like? For their images to not be permitted to be indexed? Being able to find their images is the entire point of the service. As is the case with almost every content creator/platform ever.

Signaling that you allow indexing is no opt-in for any use or abuse.
There are thousands of S300*, and Buk missiles in stockpiles of both Ukraine, and Russia.

Enough to shoot down each other's airforce a few times over.
Twitter appears to have complied with removing the BBC documentary tweets for users in India. So some tweets are not available in India.

It does look like Wikipedia is ahead of Twitter in the free speech absolutist game if it prefers being blocked to compliance.
>As an extreme example consider the difference in intellectual talent between Einstein and a mentally disabled person.

Einstein's report cards https://www.openculture.com/2020/04/albert-einsteins-grades-...
Just comply bro
If there is one thing that can reliably eliminate nuance from any discussion, it is politics. Alleged censorship in social media is a hot topic in the last few years amongst partisans.
I'm a Spotify subscriber. every week I listen to a song I would never have found anywhere else, not even apple music, amazon music or youtube. I don't let them currate music for me. I usually listen to artists, then find playlists that other's have made, and listen and discover other artists, and if I find an artist I like, I listen to more of their stuff and then build out my own playlists.
They disowned their one Nobel laureate and maybe one of the greatest minds of his generation because of his Islam being different from their Islam. That place is a failed nation. Thank fuck for the internet so the people aren’t insulated from the outside world.
KDE was regarded the spiritual successor of CDE.
Because Pakistan shouldn't and doesn't get veto power because some backwards religious fundamentalists don't like what's on the Internet
The problem with being an expert on the F-35 is, you can't talk about most of the things you know. So internet hot takes dominate and you can't refute them without revealing things that you shouldn't reveal.
A couple paragraphs ought to be enough to make it copyrightable.
Government mandated belief in a deity, and censoring contradictory content has nothing to do with belief or a god, but is designed to preserve a power structure.
I had similar vibes from an email I got from a recruiter stating:

> -- all outgoing emails from ACMECORP are virus checked by the newest version of WINDOWS DEFENDER --
My experience is that disputes are 100% from Americans who are encouraged by banks to "just do a dispute" anytime they are dissatisfied with anything. And in 100% of these cases it is customers who forgot to cancel or just didn't need the service as much, not really any actual dissatisfaction. Most fraud is stopped by Stripe and not really a big issue, in some cases we do a manual check and it is obvious fraud (no account activity, info not matching, fake data entry etc) and we just refund the charge before any dispute is made.
I think it depends on the channel too. I've read the low number channels get more bandwidth and the channels above 300 are a newer more efficient codec that not all radios support.

I've also read the Sirius version is worse than the XM version. Yes, they merged many years ago but they still run two incompatible systems. Ford was still installing Sirius until 2021.
> the universe of applications where companies can afford to spend 1c on an LLM answer is very large.

I hear this a lot, but don't see it very often in practice. GPT and it's ilk are coming up on 3 years old now, and our most novel application thus far is the same textbox + response that Talk to Transformer had. That's sad.

I've heard the sell before ("imagine AI spreadsheets!") but I don't think people are willing to pay for answers that are regularly wrong in the long run. If your bridge only works half the time, people probably won't be inclined to pay your toll anymore.
Just one year after that paper claiming the DNA half life of 521 years[1], the DNA of horse from 700k years ago was sequenced [2]. That would be about 1344 half-lives. Then, in 2021 the DNA of a mammoth that lived 1.2 million years ago was sequenced.

To answer your question, dinosaurs last lived 65 million years ago.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/130626-an...

[3] https://www.science.org/content/article/mammoth-molars-yield...
Unfortunately the measurement if something was worth engaging in is only really able to determine its value in hindsight.

If it were 1890 we'd be talking about how our cities will soon be buried in animal dung which will lead to the collapse of mankind. The people debating that could not have reasonably foreseen in 100 years that CO2 would be the greater risk, and 100 years from now the greater risk will be something most of us have not imagined.

Are the issues you point out worth talking about? Of course, but are they worth the amount of time and effort that we will debate them? Get back to me in 5 years and we'll see.
> What would the business model look like for going fishing with your friends?

Well for one thing it would definitely not involve $20M+ in up front costs..
Yeah this. SEPA (e.g. what is known in the Netherlands as Ideal) is easier than entering cc numbers. Unlock phone, open app, scan qr code, enter pin on phone, click OK. Much nicer and faster than entering 16 + 3 numbers, and don't even get me started on 3DSecure or whatever it's called bullshit.
JUMP! (Mike Solana)
Europe is not corn but mainly wheat based, but it's the same after all.
Bail rules can be surprisingly lenient. I watch a cop channel on YouTube from time to time, and at the end of the video they'll often state what charges the person in the video faced. You'd be surprised how often someone who has already jumped bail 5 or 6 times gets bail on a $500 signature bond or something along those lines.
Climate change has only one priority: stop releasing carbon into the atmosphere.

We're all dead if we don't and we cannot afford to add one tiny extra burden onto that monumental task. Sorry. The alternative is death for us all and no chance of any justice ever.
OpenBar: Opération À Coeur Ouvert
It's a strategy for sure. But not the most effective or common in tech.

The most common is to relegate your competitors stack into an open one and thus eliminate their profit margin.
I don’t see this. If somebody’s scraped just the recipes from all these long winded sites, I’d be thrilled! Adding the extra nonsense and narrative doesn’t prevent that.

The reason is SEO; this is Google’s fault.
Not at all, unless the FBI can drone strike you for posting something they don't like.
Previously there was a comment that was quite elucidative made by an HN user here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34304824

In recent years I've come around to viewing the American ideal of absolute "free speech" as not being all that nuanced, particularly because we know know the speed at which viral false and illegitimate claims travel and the slower speed at which reasoned responses to those speech travel.

I think we can all agree that artistic depictions of Mohammad, even if they fall squarely under free speech, are something that are of poor taste because they trigger the sensibilities of a large chunk of people that abide to certain customs and norms. The hope here is that these folks come around to their viewpoints and say "sigh, I don't like what you're doing, but I'm just going to turn away". The debate is front and center, let's see how it evolves.
Not an expert, but I think you can just hash using an image hashing algorithm and bucket by hash. Should be linear in time/space.

You can then either have a human check collisions, or just accept a false positive rate and move on.

This is a decent write up of someone doing this on a (smaller) dataset.

https://towardsdatascience.com/detection-of-duplicate-images...
> Is that info in the prospectus?

Ek clearly communicated this during the Q2 2022 call.
To show the cost of extra parameters is exponentional, they made a graph with price linear and parameter count logarithmic and then fit an exponential? It seems very misleading:

https://proofinprogress.com/assets/images/cost-llms.png

With linear or polynomial increase per parameter it would also look exponential with that graph setup.
If you copyrighted a point (2, 1) then is the equation y=3x-5 infringing on that copyright?
This is the typical boneheaded, executive-mandated, policy.
Once they get enough backlash they'll probably backtrack.
That seems generally antithetical to the goals of the folks making these, which is "don't pay a human for what a computer can do instead".
I recently took a course on greenwashing, the history of distraction in the ecoactivist movement, and effective political activism.

I don't know if there's a single movement that has been sidelined more than the conservation movement. Maybe the US labor movement.
I should have linked to https://twitter.com/nonmayorpete/status/1620485494663704578?... instead, but too late to change now.
Such a tool is completely unethical and inappropriate, period. Automated "screening" related to decisions about whether to take someone's kids away or otherwise intervene is the absolute last place we should be using this technology (along with other criminal justice system areas). these pattern driven tools stereotype by design and by definition. That's how statistical tools work. If the government doesn't care enough to have real people doing the work, they shouldn't be in the business of monitoring this kind of thing at all. Whatever bad outcomes would come from just getting rid of CPS, they would be worse by automating it. It's common sense and disgusting that this was ever allowed
> But this fallacy has been repeatedly exposed. For one, the organisations that are supposed to certify that indeed enough tree-planting has taken place do not have the tools to verify that the declared emissions will definitely be absorbed. Another problem is that many offsetting activities do not actually offset anything.

> A recent investigation into the world’s largest carbon standard found that 94 percent of its rainforest offset credits did not actually contribute to carbon reduction.

When I looked at the offset market in the past, I realized that it was one of the few markets where both the buyer and seller are perfectly happy with fraud.

- The buyer is motivated to seek the lowest cost offsets they can find. They're not paying for the cleanup - all they need is the offset document itself, often for legal purposes.

- The seller is more than happy to take the buyer's money and spend it on looking like they're doing something. The rest is free margin.

Neither side remotely cares about the underlying activity behind the offset, and neither side is really penalized if the underlying activity is fraudulent. In fact, both sides are actually better off if the whole thing is fraudulent! I can't think of many other markets where this dynamic exists.
Neither are strictly "internet" language, but I feel you. Just be glad you're not on TikTok, it seems they have their own language and euphemisms there, and the teens get rather upset if you don't know them: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/01/mascar...

But to fill you in on these words. While a couple is a relationship involving two people in a (usually) monogamous relationship, a "polycule" involves a few people in non-monogamous relationships. Not my thing, and I've personally seen them explode for reasons that are probably obvious to you or I from the start, but there we go :)

NEET is shorthand for "Not involved in Education, Employment or Training" - it's usually a long-term unemployed person who has lost the motivation to try to get out of that situation.
Just FYI, my last comment has now been slightly outdated by this new paper today:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12652
If it seems to you that everything is securities fraud, this may be an indication that you a) are in a very shady company, or b) have a very skewed view of what should be considered acceptable.

Even for officers of publicly-traded companies, it should not be difficult to avoid committing securities fraud if you're not actually attempting to make money in ways you shouldn't.
I don't understand what's the fuss about.

I would build F35 over the weekend in Rust.