skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, the need for non-visa-sanctioned electronic transactions is real. If a society does go cashless, the majority will be finally convinced to end their duopoly and mandate other ways to transact, because having 2 companies mandating whether porn is an tradeable good is tyranny. And yes, crypto is the current option. At least it could work for small transactions.
I was a manager at Amazon. My boss encouraged me to quit
I see that too and wonder if this will lead to an over sold stock and a similar Microsoft lost decade which may be a few years in. Google overall is very profitable and just needs 2-3 wins over the next few years and they have the cash to do it.
iPhones have a far longer service live than androids.
Do all practising lawyers in the US "join the bar"?
My father worked for a defense manufacturer making airplanes and other stuff. One of his first projects was scheduling parts for manufacturing in the late 80s.

They joked at the time they used JIC (just in case) because they had so many random parts with no method to the madness. The scheduler worked out and they were able to move it off some high performance IBM (or similar) computer onto a PC that didn’t require a specialized IBM tech or support contract, written in C.
Germany made the silly decision in 2011 to shut down their existing nuclear reactors, and build more natural gas plants to import cheap, natural gas from Russia. Then after Russia's second invasion of Ukraine last year, the gas got cut off. Overall, it was a pretty bad idea that most people should have saw coming since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
Killer robots is what scares the public but all the war crimes commited by humans gets a pass.

In the Netherlands there are still ex soldiers who have PTSD from their tour of duty among the Balkan barbarians in 1995.
The argument for time reversal assumes that the ball can reach the top of the dome in a finite time, while its speed becomes zero at that limit. Sure, you can calculate the kinetic energy needed to exactly reach the top like described, but would such a ball reach the top in a finite time, as it slows down in the process?

Edit: To answer my own question, the shape of the dome has been specifically chosen to avoid this problem, as described here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/2cueh3/nortons_dom...
To the contrary, small businesses can save costs by going at least partially cashless. Cash costs money in itself on a variety of factors - employee theft, employee mistakes (e.g. handing too much change, accepting counterfeit cash), robberies, counting and transporting the cash to a bank, securing the cash on-premises, lost business by people not carrying wads of cash any more...
I assume this is why Angry Birds 2 is such a terrible game compared to previous incarnations. All the levels get a base then a random generation of enemies. I wonder if it's actually possible to beat all incarnations, as many times I will get to a level, lose all my hearts a few hours or days in a row then easily complete the level without really learning any tricks or strategy.

It has served as a good example to teach kids in my life about the scam of digital artificial scarcity employed by the game by making you wait for hearts or pay.
People will just barter if they want the drugs bad enough. This only adds one step to the purchase.
Yeah, ArsTechnica really has an anti-Google hardon, it's kinda a pattern where they always choose the worst possible hit piece title when it goes anything in relation to that company. When others do similar things they tend to be much more neutral.

But such is the way of modern digital media - do you think "Google creates a new Privacy Sandbox feature for Android" would bring the same type of clicks, comments and advertiser revenue than one titled "Google will spy on your in your sleep" ? :D
Something that you can hardly say about the industry*
Tell HN: I had an accident and ChatGPT has been helpful
I had an accident and I‘m in the hospital for a while. No mental issues. I started paying for ChatGPT and asked it all the questions about my situation. It‘s not about the treatment itself but about the process of healing, and all it‘s surroundings. I‘m learning a lot. I found it very helpful to cope with the situation and to kill the boredom with relevant data. It‘s not a replacement for a doctor, I don‘t try that. It‘s giving me the information I‘m curious about which this stressed healthcare system can‘t provide.
China?

Many other are not completely there yet but move in the cashless direction steadily.
Superforecasters in the Cosmic Bazaar
> The commenter above noted that it’s not specifically a game model that emerged in an LLM in that paper, but 64 additional networks that somehow represent each tile from values of all weights/activations of an LLM. Which is somewhat weaker than the initial claim, slightly less obvious.

I don't follow. Those are used to identify the game model. They test that they've found an internal model by then altering the state and seeing what the outcome is.

Are you saying it's not a game model because it's not a 1:1 mapping of activations to board state?
Chess Engine Competition
> The Surprisingly Sacred Roots of Chocolate

I have ~2895876932.3 and ~1.998^126

(Sorry. Once per year... Actually, I think I really misread as 'Square' Roots)

Edit: although, it's really lossful... Reversing the process, only half of the original data is retained - for the 64bit. Not to mention the double precision. Oh well.)
Ironically, that’s what I meant. I left it intentionally ambiguous but Bentonville is lovely. The Bay is dystopian.
Ask HN: How priority (prioritaire) mails processed?
One of the biggest mysteries in my life is those little blue "Prioritaire" stickers on the mail envelopes.

Let´s imagine, a bunch of mail arrives to the distributor center. Some of them has priority, the others not. In order to get know, which ones have to be delivered with priority, they need to check all mail, one by one, for the little blue sticker. Technically it is simply possible, to create two stack of mails: prio och normal.

But what´s next? Do they intentionally pause delivering the normal ones, just for deliver the prios earlier? I don´t think so. Once the mails are allocated to the mailman, there is no rational reason to NOT deliver them all at the same time.

And if this is right: what do I get for my money when I purchase priority?
Are MSM reports clearly stating there's a massive black cloud that will likely rain acid? Are they showing fish floating belly up? Are they covering the farmers saying animals are dying and becoming ill many miles away?

Are they showing the panicked videos all over twitter and tiktok showing residents and their relatives stating MSM news is not telling the real story, that nobody seems to be taking care of them and that some have become quite ill?
Taking a small local car manufacturer and turning it into the one of the worlds biggest car makers, , overtaking all the US giants and creating the JIT process to revolutionise manufacturing is remarkable.
An central point of easy, precise control and programmed permissions. The current banking system can sort of do some of that - they want it done properly. Pure control.
What if porn is evil, but you don't see why anymore because it changes you?
Isn't that really expensive? Far more expensive than just keeping a cluster running 24x7? I think the much bigger cost here is shelf space and the hardware, and so the retail price isn't impact much by the cost of power.

For the record I like the concept and hope it becomes a lot cheaper over time.
How about monthly statements? Purchase history? Stats, analytics, budgeting? In a mobile app? Without you personally or the merchants you buy stuff from having to do anything for that?
This way, the banks still need to exist for every day accounts. Otherwise, they'd only be able to do lending.
> when that hasn't been true except for a short while after the release

Even that was debatable given the restrictions placed on the version of Stockfish it played.

Not to take anything away from AlphaZero either, self play to reach that level was quite the achievement.
Unlimited also generally run a lower QCI priority overall so that any other users on the tower will push you out if things are busy. Most people don't even notice this bit. Reddit for nocontract has some posts tracking plans QCI priority levels, and you need a rooted phone to get that info as it isn't published anywhere. I'm happier running a prepaid limited line with QCI8 and being able to get data when the unlimited plans can't.

There's a reason why AT&T Firstnet can do the things it does.

There is also the benefit from AT&T taking those federal firstnet dollars; they sunk a decent amount of money into infrastructure so these priorities / capacity matter less when they have much higher capacity now than they ever have in the past.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/tn4733/qci_leve...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ATT/comments/ngn21j/how_does_att_ha...
There are many advantages (to the government). One is this will CBDCs will effectively be a digital ID with a full financial transaction history.

Secondly, it would prevent bank runs from happening.

Thirdly, monetary sovereignty. This is a big one for the EU.

It's all in the EU CBDC working paper https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2713~91ddff9e...
The point isn't to be invincible. If you have a diversity of cars, any one kind of embargo will only harm a portion of your car market. If you mandate only one type of car, then an embargo can completely stop your ability to make new cars.
From my father- cost of the thing is not how much it was bought for but it's replacement cost today !!
Deep
Buffet is a big investor in railroads and they are cash flow machines. It is true that they use very mature technology but plenty of people are train people and would get into it if there was money. Because the 4 big freight companies in the US are so large though (and have dual duopolies meaning investment isn't rewarded), only safety/environmental regulations will drive big projects and spending.
No OP and I are not agreeing. Cause its not a euphemism. They are cleaning up their spill. Will it make everything like before? No. But that doesn't makes the term an euphemism. The other ideas in this thread are more newspeak by a longshot.
It's a discussion site. There are transformer models that can summarize Wolfram if that's all you want.
I knew this argument would come haha! And realistically, how often do you do it? And how do you feel, having a day without any real social interaction? How about on a bigger scale? This can only be detrimental. How do you meet and make friends? How do you meet potential partners? The office always played a big role in that.

/edit: let me add, a big topic is disconnection, how dating apps destroy dating, how we don't have enough friends, how mental health deteriorates due to apps and lacking social skills. and then we want to stop going to a social outlet and stay home all day? seems obvious to me that this development is really a big problem.
I remember being shocked in the 90s at finding out the Toyota Corolla had the highest value retention of any car according to the Kelly Blue Book. And then there was the NUMMI joint-venture of Toyota and GM and the same exact cars that would come out of that factory would have different value retention. Obviously the GM car would depreciate more in value. Brand reputation clearly matters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

Tesla has now taken over the NUMMI facilities.
Off-topic but that first picture circa 1920 of the 4 sailors up on the mast is such a storm is amazing. It commands respect to the work and life of those men.
It's no coincidence. Jobs was influenced by quality philosophers like Toyoda, Deming, etc.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kib6uXQsxBA
Llm gets unhinged when it's prompted with unhinged and rude prompts. pikachuface

It's the users input not the model that steers the conversation if you are talking with someone who can't comprehend a fact and you are consistently rude and condescending you get answers like that. I really believe it's a ploy by journalists and wannabe researchers that just don't understand or don't want to understand how the underlying technology works.
> no hardware acceleration exists

I'm picturing an alternate history where in addition to dedicated graphics cards, we also start building dedicated common algorithm cards - NVidia and AMD duking it out over whose hardware-accelerated sorting implementation performs best, Phoronix benchmarking how each companies' Linux drivers handle A* etc :)
DO has had both an app platform and serverless functions for a while, and Linode has neither (they have edge computing which is similar but different to serverless)

DO has managed website hosting, Linode doesn't (they just explain to you how to create a website, which is still you managing it)

DO gives you VPCs out of the box, but Linode basically doesn't, requiring clunky and limited custom networking configuration. VPCs are table stakes at this point.

DO has been offering K8s for years, while for Linode it's been sort of an experiment. (Even Linode's pricing for K8s was hidden for a while)

DO has had managed databases for a long time, Linode only recently

DO has provided object storage for a long time, Linode only recently

DO has the most amazing documentation and community forums of any cloud service provider. Linode has a fraction of the guides and very limited docs. They dump you into this doc wasteland which doesn't explain things.

DO products are intuitive, simple and easy, and just work. Linode on the other hand feels like it was designed by somebody's little cousin in 2003 (even after the redesigns, somehow the UX got worse). Doing basic things like configuring your VM's networking has a horrible UX, with stuff just not working at all with no explanation why (last time I used it).

For the people who never touch their VMs and never use new features, of course Linode seems fine. For people who want a better experience, DO blows them out of the water completely. And you don't get VMs constantly having maintenance windows with DO, or entire data centers constantly losing connectivity.
> 256GB DDR5 uses 80W!

WTF?!
What an irony that the Deutsche Bahn caused an outage of Deutsche Lufthansa. And Deutsche Lufthansa now tries to shift domestic flights to Deutsche Bahn[0] (see also for general advice/help). And who got recently a Star Alliance member? Deutsche Bahn. And who has experience with interrupted cut-off fibers[1]? Deutsche Bahn!

*Please*

All critical system shall be working autonomous. Cache flight/passenger data locally at airport for next weeks. Servers are for synchronizing, not for keeping your data away. With a local cache you can keep going for some weeks, adding/changing bookings will be harder but you can remain in the air. That is pretty complicated and requires more work but is important. Git or IMAP are examples how it should be.

Outages will happen and will keep happening and when the get more seldom, the will become more serious because it will hit inexperienced staff. Especially British Airways is known for issues[2][3].

[0] https://www.lufthansa.com/xx/en/flight-information.html

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/Sabotage-bei-der-Bahn-Viele-vertra...

[2] https://thepointsguy.co.uk/2017/09/amadeus-network-issue-cau...

[3] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/british-airways-e...

PS: Deutsche Lufthansa is known for reliable transport. Deutsche Bahn is known for unreliable transport.
I'll admit it's conjecture based on limited data. However, the tone he takes when discussing the event seems accusatory towards the victims, rather than repentant or horrified, which is what I would expect.
Nitter instance shut down due to content on Twitter
Imagine its perfect for Computer Backgammon, but overfits higher dimensional spaces ;)
so very limited resources at the beginning.

This is called "under-capitalization" and is a fundamental business problem.

The best practice is adequate capitalization.

Adequate capitalization lets you focus on customers, revenue, and cashflow...aka "the things that matter" instead of chasing your tail with free software.

Or to put it another way, the best practice is obtaining money because obtaining money is what businesses do.

Good luck.
> ... but the economy is massively more unequal ...

Have I got a book for you to read: https://www.tenglobaltrends.org/
Biden was backed into that corner - it's not like he is anti-union but of course having the economy tank from a union strike would have been catastrophic for his agenda and the economy (and Democrats staying in power).
My hobby horse is more representative voting systems and the one in place in Scotland encourages people to aim for broad suppport rather than be loved and hated by a minority.
Effectively, yes. Although a lot of additional things are also randomized like item/enemy spawns.

Then for Spelunky 2 there's the randomizer mod which randomizes almost everything. It pretty much never ceases to surprise you. Look up spelunky 2 randomizer on Youtube to see for yourself.
I'm running it's older cousin - N36L with 4 Drives. The CPU in that one is Athlon II Neo N36L with 12W TDP, 3.5" spinning drives are 7-10W per drive. So 40W is very reasonable.

Op should just run more services on his server, but that probably won't be 43W at idle, when the box would actually be doing something ...
> unfiltered garbage humans post online.

ChatGPT is surprisingly good though. I wonder how they nailed it.
Yep, the primary distorting effect at a place like Google is the seemingly infinite source of revenue from something which is in large-part fully automated. The ad revenues are a crazy firehose.

Yes it takes a large crew of SREs and SWEs to keep that firehose fully primed, but nothing close to the labour force that Google employs.

When I joined Google at the end of 2011 there was something like 20,000 full time employees. At that point it was already clearly a company that had already transitioned from a disruptor of the industry to a maintainer of the status quo. e.g. they clearly bought the ad-tech company I was an employee at just to make us shut up and go away.

The conservative review and permissions structures in place there that the writer is complaining about are in place to avoid fucking up the firehose. And they're legit important. One of the most intimidating times I had working in my career was on the Ad Exchange release rotation, where I had production access for the deployment of binaries to thousands of machines in many datacentres that produced millions out transactions per second and were responsible for buckets and buckets of revenue. Please Don't Fuck Up was like an airplane banner circling around in my skull the whole time.

Any innovations that happen at Google happen because there are very smart keen people there, and Google is constantly seeking out alternate $$-firehoses. But it's never happened and I doubt it ever will. It's not a culture accustomed to being hungry enough to work aggressively to hunt $$.

Politics is eating everything there.
Am I understanding you correctly that your new point is "humanity can't influence the amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere"? It's very different from the previous points, so I'd like your confirmation before engaging.
Same here but with an XPS 13 model. Power usage from laptop chips is great for home servers. They're still really fast when needed compared to a Raspberry Pi, and typically come with 256gb or even 512 of built in fast SSD storage.

The battery in mine is old, but with the screen off it still lasts several hours as a sort of UPS.
“it never loses the plot” - great assessment. it really does hold your attention throughout.
Whoa whoa whoa are you telling me that at least one if not multiple groups have tried to take distilled “internet,” with all the ugly that entails, wrapped it with the loosest of shackles to make it a servant, and then pretended that it wasn’t born from sludge?

Because that’s what it sounds like, and that sounds significantly different than magical chat buddy that knows the universe.

It’s almost like these groups were driven by a lust for profit and power rather than anything good. That wouldn’t have flavored the chat bots, would it? Layering the biased prompts of ivory tower researchers over the condensed sewage to make something plausibly good and sane?

These groups couldn’t possibly be so careless as to build something dangerous and sell it as a miracle… right? That sounds as nutty as if there were ever lead found in those little souvenir cups at fast food places.
By their nature, CDNs and DDoS mitigation require many endpoints near your traffic sources, in their jurisdictions. Cloudflare would be useless for serving to US users if they weren't willing to cooperate with the USG.
> Update: my guess would be that private money (think Venmo) and crypto have a chance to win over commercial bank money (think bank accounts and transfers) for the general public, and the government thinks it’s a potential threat (probably wisely IMO).

Venmo is really still commercial bank money - any deposit in a Venmo account is backed 100% by a deposit in a commercial bank account.

> God knows why the bank industry doesn’t have its shit together, but even in the EU I’ve come to feel suspicious towards bank transfers. Maybe a transfer will take five seconds, maybe one day, maybe a week with no explanation why. Bank apps, even modern ones (N26 etc) are still somewhat meh.

EU banks use a combination of SEPA and SEPA Instant, and for a payment to go via SEPA Instant both the sender and recipient have to be connected to the SEPA Instant scheme and settle via a common system (e.g. TIPS). Where this isn't the case, payments fall back to SEPA, causing a lack of predictability at time of payment.

The status quo in the UK is much better, every bank is on Faster Payments (the UK equivalent of SEPA Instant), and have been for almost a decade. This makes bank-to-bank transfers in the UK fast and predictable.

> A CBDC is at least going to be stored in a single database, so maybe it’ll be working a bit better.

All UK bank transfers settle via the Bank of England's RTGS system, which means at heart, everything is already in a single database anyway.
Finance: aim to be broke when you die.

It changed my view at the personal finance, and made some decisions much easier. If I die at the old age, my kids will be in their 40's-60's. My savings won't make a significant impact on their personal finance (assuming all is well; validated over the multiple inheritance splits within my family).

Which means, don't (extensively) save for the retirement, but invest in yourself and your children. Makes spending money for the classes, better schools, moving to the neighborhood with more options, etc. much easier decision to make.
It’s worth mentioning Apple didn’t resort to layoffs, unlike the other Big Tech companies.
Power, prestige and influence
It's not clear to me whether you see this as an argument for being part of that union or for picking another one. Protecting the workforce against expectations that might be unreasonable for many workers is an essential part of the functions unions serve. Your dad might have been happy to have worked faster and longer when he was young, but if he'd remained in that job he'd soon be happy the performance expectations were not set so high that he'd start struggling to meet them. Having grown up in Norway and now living in the UK, I massively prefer the work-life balance and workers protections high union participation has created in Norway over the UK (and the US is far worse than the UK in this respect).
"Cleaning Up" when compared to spilled milk like the OP says implies that it will be the way it was before. The term is more positive than the reality so I would personally call it a euphemism.