skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your social standing has a lot more to do with money than behavior. If you're rich and live in a van you're interesting, otherwise you're just homeless. If your gig is a successful business you're independent, if it's Uber you're barely surviving.
> Like, the romans and the greeks were a lot more sexually free than we are right now.

Not really, unless maybe we count their elites' exploitation of enslaved folks as a kind of "sexual freedom" but that's not something we would ever want to endorse. We know from ancient sources that their sexual behavior was highly constrained otherwise, and people who transgressed prevailing norms were widely seen as weak and lacking in self-control.
Thanks, added that one to the list as well :)
The weird thing about this ban is that it applies to extremely specific actions. The creators have to do things like blur out suppressors like their penises, but only when they are being attached to the barrel
How many symphonies did the hippies compose?
Devils advocate: is dis-incentivises businesses that causes a lot of charge back requests even if those requests are ultimately unsuccessful.

There was a spate of people selling PS5 boxes on Ebay a while back. They clearly said PS5 "box" but the word box is small and surrounded by "New" "Unwanted gift" etc and priced at the RRP of a PS5. So people bought them and mistakenly thinking they were getting a PS5. Ebay ultimately banned such products (I believe). But I can see a payment provider wanting to dissuade crappy products with a lot of unhappy customers.
This has also been the case in Australia since Stripe added the ability to pay out to a USD account last year.

I was excited to ditch the 2% currency conversion fee - nope, just reduced to 1%. For what? A currency conversion fee can be somewhat defended, or, at the very least, “everyone else does it”...

Now I want my funds in the same currency you accepted them, and I have to pay for the privilege?
Are you sure? https://help.heroku.com/5VODUPS7/mfa-verification-methods

I don't have to use salesforce auth
But that quiet focus time is all for naught if people use it to pursue their time consuming hobby instead of working. Which is the point that kicked off this thread.
Which is basically the government helping an oligopoly instead of fighting it. Of course, considering how attractive the idea of all transactions being trackable must be to governments this is hardly surprising.
Adyen is relatively solid if you know what you're doing, Mangopay felt like a small hippie solution in comparison.

The upside is Mangopay was pretty reactive when we needed a human to talk to, the downside being that many requests would just end in "tough luck, we're too smal for that"

We ended up moving to Adyen for that reason.
In many countries (e.g in Europe) they don't - poison people that is, the usual formulation for the cheaper untaxed "denatured" alcohol isn't poisonous but it has Bitrex in it so that people won't drink it.

Well, I say it isn't poisonous, it's alcohol, alcohol is poisonous anyway, for much the reason you identified with paracetamol, the liver can't process more than a tiny amount and is seriously damaged if you use more, but people do.

Anyway, it's a sin tax. We tax things we want the population not to do, to discourage them, and because if they insist on doing them anyway even though they're a bad idea, why not collect money? In my country we tax petrol (gasoline), sugary drinks, booze, cigarettes, all above the normal levels because those things are a bad idea and it'd be better if you stopped.
Can you please expand on what you mean by DBT?

DBT, specifically, DBT-2 is a suit of tests designed to benchmark a database system. These tests aren't interested in, eg. correctness of an application that is using the database. They are meant to be testing the system as a whole by modeling some sort of an "average business" and defining some sort of an "average business operation" and estimating how many of such operations can a particular deployment of a system perform.

Such tests are rarely of any interest to application developer, and are more geared towards DBAs who execute such tests to estimate the efficiency of a system they deploy or to estimate the amount of hardware necessary to support a business.

MySQL DBT2 suit: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/benchmarks.html

PostgreSQL DBT2 suit: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/DBT-2

Those tools are typically modeled on TPC-B... And, it would require a separate discussion to describe why these tests are obsolete and why there isn't really any replacement.

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However, from the rest of your question it seems that you may use DBT acronym in some other way... So, what exactly are you testing? Are you interested in performance? A benchmark? Schema correctness? Are you perhaps trying to simply test the application that is using a SQL database and you want to avoid dealing with the database setup as much as possible?
One thing that works well is to keep the call going while the issue is being handled. So for example you ask for a solution and they tell you what to do, then you two can bullshit about other stuff while you're implementing the solution live and get back to the questions when you need help, in the same call.
> Ideally, you'll support at least two providers you can switch between, if you can afford the development of supporting two

It is however not that simple if you want to remember your customers payment information, and don’t want any PCI-DSS liability or obligations. You’ll need a card vaulting solution in the middle, which comes as additional burden (and cost!) on top of the other payment provider integration. There’s big volumes you need to process to offset all of this, and probably not ROI sensible for many.
I know it's not cool to say "I told you so", but...

This was entirely predictable, and is one prong of the primary arguments that these ML models, trained on datasets including copyrighted images taken without permission, infringe on the copyright of those images' creators.

Train the damn things on public domain images and images you have explicit permission for, and you'll be fine. Stop acting like you have a right to just vacuum up every image ever created because it's "AI".
don't worry, all the VC founders will exit with their startup funds long before the lawsuits come in!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t systems like Midjourney inadvertently stealing from the people who are paid to make it?

Also, in some ways that’s like asking “why should I shop local when I can buy from Walmart and get the exact same product?“ Well obviously if it’s all down to simple dollar costs, you do you. But there are several motivations/considerations for choosing why we shop where we shop.
What if the prompt explicitly asks for an image from an image bank? For an image with a particular kind of watermark? I wonder if the dataset was marked up for that.

Also intrtesting: a prompt asking for a well-known image, without a watermark.
Ok, that is truly useful feedback. I didn't consider it like that.

My current role is 3.5 years. 1.5 years was a startup, start-to-finish. In the end it failed, so it's not like I left voluntarily. Before that I was a student so I picked up junior and project-based jobs to finance myself.
git

and a Makefile or bash script very occasionally, but mostly just git

What problem do you have with the git CLI?
>All examples of bad interactions are from Cruise, not Waymo

In this article, sure. However, Waymo is certainly not without incident in SF, especially recently (article below is from 1/24/23)...

>A Waymo autonomous vehicle was apparently stopped in the middle of a key San Francisco intersection, bringing traffic to a halt during morning rush hour.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/waymo-rush-hour-traff...
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Still just complaining about price. It is trivial to search the content you want to watch, and pay for it.

A couple extra taps is not sufficient friction to claim that “service” is the problem.
And what is that narrative? What are the two prongs?
Yeah that was probably confusing because I had a specific part of this culture in mind (trad homesteader). My point was that countercultures are often marked by the presence of posers, tagalongs, and idealists who don’t practice.
If the EU were interested in doing something about this they wouldn't have that problem at all - they could simply mandate interopability.
It’s an interesting situation because on one level, the technology is at least somewhat misrepresented (best case results rising to the top of everyone’s feeds), but on the other side, we haven’t even begun to see what integrated Chat GPT will bring. If I could replace Siri with Chat GPT, I would do so immediately, as it’s objectively better. The author makes some points about the eye watering costs; however, if this is something that people truly want—and I think we do want it—the market will find a way to deliver it at scale in a cost effective way.
We have new words for this now.

Headline should read "Intel quiet firing workforce to please shareholders"
LastPass security breach keeps getting worse, admits parent company
Why the fuck is he still bailed if he is witness tampering. That should be an instant recall.
Outdoor Dining Is Doomed
"UK businesses who are paying out in USD to a US-domiciled bank account will now incur a 1% fee, with a minimum fee of US$2.50."

So if we get paid out a USD payment, into a USD account. We get charged just because we're registered in the UK? That's a huge impact on our business.
The only reason we have this is because the people of the city voted for requiring every home to have fiber. It cost a lot of tax payer money but now the infrastructure exists and is run by the state owned power/phone company. Any private provider can use the infrastructure to offer what ever they want and since the fiber has no real limit on speed, it just depends on what's attached to the ends. Every home has 4 (usually 2 terminated) strands p2p directly to the POP.

There has been on going battle in the courts because the state owned phone company started using p2mp fiber connections for new runs which limit the maximum speed to what ever hardware they have installed in the split. However they have now backed off because it looks like the state will rule against them as it is anti-competitive. Also requires power for the split which is not very green all because they save around USD 50 per link.

So it isn't all roses and takes effort by the people but if you ever get the chance to vote on municipal fiber/infrastructure do it. Even here in Switzerland we have a lot of people who do not understand this and it took a lot of effort. They are even defending the phone companies use of p2mp.
The processor saves you significant effort for card transactions by simplifying your merchant relationship with the card processor. Technically, you can just talk directly to them over their API: https://developer.mastercard.com/apis
>This strikes me as weird. User buys something from me, regrets it and issues a chargeback, dispute gets started and bank says I did nothing wrong, so the charge still sticks, but Stripe gets to keep the fee for handling the dispute?

You should include this in your contract terms with the customer and collect the dispute fee from them.

It's not reasonable of you to expect Stripe to just absorb this cost.
Nobody has figured out how to stop everyone else from extincting species. These people may be able to de-extinct some species themselves. Whichever thing you can actually do yourself is the solution [1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1213773-wish-in-one-hand-sh...
> User buys something from me, regrets it and issues a chargeback, dispute gets started and bank says I did nothing wrong, so the charge still sticks, but Stripe gets to keep the fee for handling the dispute?

I am surprised how little Stripe charges. I processed close to 100MM since 2012 via different merchants, including Polcard, banks such as Harris, Wells, BOA, etc, and even 10 years ago typical fee was $35. And no, they never give you the fee back; if you win they give you the charge amount back, but the processing fee always remained with MSP.

On the upside, over the years credit cards vendors made it harder to file the dispute. Yes its easier to do it online with few clicks, but that's not a dispute yet. These days most people sit in banks and research into charge, including calling merchant, before they submit a CB with the card system.
I just read the Abbott-Qantas-Story. It's lovely.^^
The biggest problem with the F-35 airframe is that it's fat and thus the aerodynamics kind of suck. This design was essentially forced by the need for the B model to have a single engine with sufficient thrust for vertical landing. The A and C models would have been better as twin engine designs with the weapons bay in between, like a smaller version of the F-22. But at this point it's too late and there's no way to fund the development of a D model with a radically different outer mould line.
Same here. This is a massive dent in any of our remaining profit. Realistically we'll need to look to leave
Doing cool shit is good for the human spirit.
Don't be so sure. Trump wants to "end the war" by cutting off help to Ukraine and force them to "negotiate" with Russia, i.e. surrender their territory. Orban is making things harder than necessary for EU to show a united front against Russia. Who knows what the political reality will be in a few years if the war continues then, too many wants things to go back to normal even if that means appeasing Putin.
> only… China and India

For Russia at least, wouldn’t that be plenty enough to get by on?
Presumably you've got a UK bank account, so you can just use that and take on the currency risk and transaction fees of Wise or similar?
The F22 hasn't been made for a decade, and we do export the F35. Not clear to me we should maintain the ban on F22 exports.
Unfortunately there isn't a way to get such a device.
> - Klarna (Sweden)

Erm, isn't Klarna a BNPL company ?

Important not to conflate BNPL with merchant services (card payments).
Jony Ive has designed a ‘magically transforming’ Red Nose
The x11 board was less than $350 and the i3 was $140. I think I spend more on RAM than the board.
loved this, thanks for sharing !
I pretty much always wanted to know the cost of running those models, not training those.

That should be order of magnitude less.
I'm not saying it's only agriculture, but rural areas give much more to urban areas than they receive back, evident by the massive waste and corruption within the cities and the throngs of people being sustained in the cities without producing anything of value or anything at all.

In the past you could certainly say that urban areas give back just as much or even more, when factories where concentrated in cities. Today the factories are not only in the cities.
Why did you switch jobs so often?
Sorry, by examples I mean links to the job board posts for the positions. There’s an art to determining if a job posting is even worth your attention, it’s entirely possible you’ve applied to dozens of jobs that there’s zero chance of being hired for which is basically the same as not applying to any at all.

Regarding work authorization, are you not in the US? If you’re not in the US and you’re applying for jobs that accept non-US people, you can increase the numbers I mentioned by an order of magnitude, you’ll be competing with literally thousands of people.

Step 1 of an effective job search is to invest your time into positions you have a realistic chance of getting — if you can share some links to jobs you’ve applied for, I can let you know if they pass my own sniff test for worthwhile.
If Getty Images has a problem with that, they should try having a working robots.txt. Instead they have one that's seemingly been copied from a porn site.

https://www.gettyimages.com/robots.txt
Looks like it was funded by Deepmind for the purpose of fighting more open models on the legal field. I don't think they are just ,,protecting the artists''.
Ask it “is” questions and not “how“ questions help immensely. For example:

“Is C17orf69 related to cholesterol”

Vs

“How is C17orf69 related to cholesterol”

How questions by their nature can be lies. Been using chatgpt daily for medical questions but then I verify _everything_ it says via sources. It feels like 1998 Google in a way.

A dozen questions can save me tons of time. “My drunk college friend” who knows a lot but likes to boast that they know everything. Great for brainstorming, not great for fact checking.

I would absolutely love to try this model.
Why not just put it in a bulky plastic blister pack, like we do for like, razors? Make the tiny thing larger and harder to lose?
Would you be able to elaborate on your approach to TDD with spark sessions? You can persist them, which is only useful if you are doing multiple tests in a run.

But I find myself running one given test, making some code changes, and then wanting to run it again, over and over. Instantiating a local spark session takes several seconds every iteration. Enough for me to often want to "alt tab" into something else instead of waiting. It's very disruptive.

I did not know about Fugue but will definitely give it a try. Looks almost too good to be true.
Where can I get 650 to 900nm light?

Is it in common light bulbs?
Banks starting to charge more for (crossborder) transfer, Visa/MC charge more for tokenized card payments, which they mandate adoption of, and most likely more of this.
I tried to use a couple of the AI image generators when building a landing page recently, so I can answer this.

Look at the homepage for a popular site like Stripe, Figma, Digital Ocean, whatever, take your pick. Try to get Midjourney to generate high-quality art like you see on those homepages, in a format where it is ready to go directly into a site without further processing in an image tool. My experience was that I could have gotten better results at Fiver.
I suspect you're wrong that the stealing is inadvertent.

I'm suspicious the makers of the art generator AI systems know exactly what they're doing and see no issues with it.
I've noticed this as well. I'm a freelance iOS developer (or rather, subcontractor) with plenty of experience, in N/W Europe. Frankly, it's awfully quiet. I've been looking for a project since november last year, so that's approaching 3 months now. I'm getting antsy, I love developing but I can't concentrate and have to spend it on looking for a new client. One recruiter told me that she has a number of mobile devs looking for a project right now.

Besides contracting projects, I've been including regular jobs in my search now as well.
It's an interesting legal question.

If a human cannot publicly use a copyrighted image without a license, why / how a non-human can?

If some image are free to use with attribution, how can an ML model track and provide such attribution?
Comparing Compiler Errors in Go, Rust, Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python, TS, Elm
I get where you’re coming from but just because some of the criticism of working from home is in bad faith doesn’t mean it all is. Many American cities were hollowed out by white flight in the 1950s and 60s as people moved to suburbs, taking a great deal of economic activity with them. The balance which kept that from being an immediate disaster was business-related spending but that came at a steep cost as infrastructure was built for car commuting at the expense of neighborhoods, quality of life, and hefty maintenance costs.

This was arguably a major long-term mistake but I understand why mayors all over are panicking at the thought of that system crumbling, leaving them with all of the costs and half the downtown economy. I don’t think the entire country is turning into Detroit but it’s going to be bad anywhere that they can’t take a different path. Setting up some kind of larger tax zone to pay for at least the broader infrastructure costs could help but many suburbs were specifically designed to prevent that and few have enough slack in their budgets to help in any case.
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Parts of Speech in a nutshell
We use language for communicating our ideas and thought to others using a language. We use words to express our ideas. The words are used in a perfect order in complete sentences.
Learning about Parts of speech is essential and interesting in learning basic grammar. Parts of speech deals with the role or part played by a word in a sentence. There are 8 parts of speech in U.K based grammar. They are noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection.
A noun is the name of a person, place, thing or an idea. The main types of nouns are proper noun, common noun, collective noun, material noun and abstract noun.
A pronoun is the word used instead of a noun. The major types of pronouns namely personal pronoun, possessive pronoun, relative pronoun, demonstrative pronoun and interrogative pronoun.
An adjective is a word that qualifies a noun or pronoun. The major types of adjectives are proper adjective, possessive adjective, adjective of quality, adjective of quantity, numerical adjective, demonstrative adjective and distributive adjective.
A verb says something about the subject. It can be an action, event or status of an event. We have discussed about action verbs, stative verbs, transitive verbs, intransitive verbs, linking verbs, helping verbs, modal verbs, regular verbs, irregular verbs and phrasal verbs.
An adverb is word that qualifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb. The major adverbs are adverb of time, adverb of place, adverb of frequency, adverb of manner, adverb of degree and quality, adverb of reason, adverb of affirmation and negation, interrogative adverb and relative adverb.
A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun, pronoun or phrases with the remaining part of the sentence. There are 3 types of prepositions. They are prepositions of time, prepositions of place and prepositions of movement.
A conjunction is a word used to join two or more words, phrases, clauses or sentences. There are 3 types of conjunctions namely subordinating conjunctions, coordinating conjunctions and correlative conjunctions.
An interjection is a word or phrase used to express feeling rather than meaning.
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Especially so if the new role is a stretch and your referrer can provide context about why you are a fit. Even in apparently rigid enterprise hiring environments - speaking from first hand experience.
> Which begs the question, why?

Google Docs are the books. Hermes is the library.
They literally have such a right because there is literally such a right written into German law.

And UK law is adding that right even for commercial models.
Thank god that I live in a country with more than two political parties. And where gun control isn't part of a culture war. Gun ownership is no different to car ownership and isn't tied to any political opinions.
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I think this is supposed to do that https://www.gptduck.com/