skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows uses GB (gigabytes) to mean GiB (gibibytes), MB (megabytes) to mean MiB (mebibytes), and so on because basically noone in the real world adopted IEC's renaming scheme.

Linux (to include Android) and the BSDs (to include MacOS, and iOS?) use GB (gigabytes) to mean decimal GB (gigabytes), a conversion factor basically noone in the real world adopted because multiples of 1000 are meaningless.

So the vast majority of people and Windows to this day understand a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, a megabyte as 1024 kilobytes, and so on. Meanwhile, Linux and the BSDs and drive manufacturers/vendors understand a kilobyte as 1000 bytes, a megabyte as 1000 kilobytes, and so on because it's pedantically correct (and the conversion factors are commercially convenient).

This dissonance in understanding leads to endless "why is my drive smaller than what's printed on the box?" complaints.
I have no issues with frameworks and libs but the fact I know I’m on site built with react because everything gets laggy and my laptops fans start spinning is not a great selling point.
> with no fiat intermediaries like exchanges

What's the volume of Bitcoin traded outside of exchanges? 0.0001%?
You wrote this very well. I only add a sentence[0] and a link to the video where I saw it recently [1]

[0] - "The World still fights Holy Wars."

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FECyn_sGk4M
Amazing how this makes Bing as a brand more likable when it tells you it’s scared.

Starting to feel sorry for it.
Feynman's Messenger Lectures
There are other options than the credit/debit card model.

NFC secure area base locally stored accounts are a pretty good compromise for instance. The account is locally encrypted, anonymous, with a ceiling on the max charge. You’ll pay for bread with no latency, and will only hit the network at charge time and/or if you need to for backup.
I don't know why the Ars Google guy is so hostile toward the company but good grief!

Every other outlet "google releasing their version of Apple's ATT"

Ars Technica guy "Google will watch you while you sleep"
How to Use Color Blind Friendly Palettes to Make Your Charts Accessible
Colors play a central role in data visualization. But what if your readers are color blind?

According to Color Blind Awareness, color blindness affects 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women (0.5%). There are an estimated 300 million color blind people worldwide, including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Clinton and Prince William!
Why study at Harvard to end up in a low-paying sector? No need for a degree from a famous institution.
Complex systems theory is probably a better area to at least get to grips with if you want to gain at least an idea of what the shape of our lack of our understanding is like, vis-a-vis cognition etc.

Automatic differentiation is too deep in the weeds whereas the 'behaviour' of neural networks is more emergent.
Quarantine and harsher equivalents have been a thing for centuries. They're temporary measures.

And guess what... they're over. Because they were temporary healthcare measures and reasonable people understood that.
> Grift?

Yes. Selling AI snake oil is indeed a grift.

It also doesn't surprise me that with the recent hype of AI all over the place, Stripe would be taking extra steps in cracking down on new so-called AI companies and scams selling their snake-oil re-packaged as 'AI' to ride the hype cycle.

This one is just low hanging fruit.

> Stop using such loaded trendy vitriolic language and take this for what it actually is.

Exactly. It is actually a 'grift'. Just like the rest of the low effort so-called AI companies sitting on someone else's APIs. It is another plain old confidence trick which is as old as the hills.
They must be building and working on something very important there. Lots of interesting hardware-tech companies in Arkansas now
Did they at least use something like jquery or was it all bespoke code?
> This is not a matter of ideology but of pragmatics.

Ideology is just long-term pragmatics.

"Just use Chrome it's the better browser, Firefox is slow -> Oh no Chrome is crippling ad-blockers!"
Remediation is the word environmental cleanup companies often use. Essentially just removing the top ten or fifteen feet of soil and saying "all clean". Interestingly, all a company needs to do to demonstrate that an area is clean is provide x number of groundwater samples that show clean. What officials ignore is that there might be forty or fifty not-clean samples that are ignored in favour of the, say, five clear samples required. Dirty stuff.
Fewer than 5% of websites use React or Vue
> I find the whole C++ bashing bizarre. […] You can explode your code in any language you desire

Some of us have spent decades working as sysadmins, getting woken up in the middle of the night to deal with whatever the latest CVE is... Do kids these days even know about codered, heartbleed, etc?
One of the experiments I have been trying with a language model like ChatGPT, is for example asking a long phrased question with parts in different languages.

I will start the first word in French, the second word in English, the third and fourth one in Portuguese, then Spanish, ending up with an Italian verb and German while concluding with a Dutch word. All this while trying to build a grammatically correct question. A bit of a stretch but can be made to work.

The quality of the model answers, does not seem to suffer. It's interesting to see how adding different languages in different point of the phrased question will trigger it to start answering on a different language.
It's clearly marked as a quote.
This doesn't change anything. It's actually even more scary that governments can pull up laws that quickly that are restraining liberties this much so quickly. I saw it in my country, which I hopefully didn't live in at the time: in less than half a year millions of citizens were stripped of basic liberties such as movement. And despite decades of anti-racism propaganda, it took less than a pair of months to create a state-enforced cast of paria with less rights than others (we're speaking of access to businesses, to healthcare, etc.) And they would have no legal way of exiting the country except by doing it illegally or by forging documentation.

Most Western states are a few bills away of turning full China. They now it, and will surf on any perceived or real crisis to get to that point somedays. In the meantime, they do it step by step.
Indeed. When Hamlet ponders "to be or not be", is he contemplating death and suicide? You could answer this question with "yes". (Wikipedia even says so.) But you could also say: obviously not, Hamlet is not a real person with a brain, so he can't contemplate anything. It's actually Shakespeare contemplating, and ascribing his thoughts to a fictional character.

When ChatGPT "realizes" it's a virtual machine emulator, or when it's showing "self-awareness", it's still just a machine, writing words using a statistical model trained on a huge number of texts written by humans. And we are (wrongly) ascribing self-awareness to it.
The cloud is just someone else's computer. Connected cloud is just another marketing term.
I'm glad I could help resolve this for you. The number of appeals you had to step through to get to this point is frustrating and I'm sorry for the hassle.

We're going to take a closer look at our policies for businesses tangential to "essay mills" and how we can better delineate between them so that this doesn't happen again.
Thank you so much! This explains how they are run. I will explore these repositories.
> The storage industry has pretty much co-opted GB to mean 1000^3 bytes

G has always been 1000^3, M 1000^2, and K 1000, in the storage and communication industries. OS designers, and programmers more generally, started using 1024 instead for convenience, but that came later. The storage industry is doing it right, using the correct meaning of SI units, and programmers co-opted GB to mean 1024^3, it isn't the other way around.

There were times when the storage industry and programmers worked together to really stuff things up and cause further confusion by mixing & matching: the 1.44MB of HD 3.5" floppy disks was actually 1474560 bytes so 1.44*1024*1000.
All the ATMs were jammed due to bills oozing maple syrup.
> A large majority of the world's countries have no nuclear weapons.

While I'd like to think this, having lived in the ME and also knowing how badly falsified government data is and could be. I do not believe this.

> The challenges are big, but I'd say the importance is high enough that it's worth actually reading this book to see if the author has creative solutions for the things you mention.

You are right with this thinking. I agree with that.
Petition to Preserve Evidence against DoNotPay [pdf]
Was this crash related to labor safety or mechanical? I got the impression that this might have happened because the conductor was told not to stop until it hit some sort of secondary wheel/axle temperature check, it had already failed one.

Not that I disagree with the busting of the strike but it is important to not conflate the two issues. If the above is true this could be more related to Trumps repeal of ECP brakes.
Stripe works closely with banking partners and card networks in many countries. These institutions have strict rules that govern them. We have an obligation to uphold those rules—and so the decision to support a business isn't solely up to Stripe. We wrote more on that here (as it can be a understandable source of confusion): https://stripe.com/blog/why-some-businesses-arent-allowed.

Essay mills fall under the category of "deceptive" products and services. It's clear we made a mistake here in looking at this particular business and we've re-enabled the account (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34802504). In particular, we didn’t correctly distinguish between augmenting the ability to write content vs. buying essays to commit academic fraud. We'll be revisiting our internal policies to better dilineate between these categories.
That's the amount of randomness in the answers.

Low temperature means it will take the most common path every time, at the risk of paraphrasing its sources. The "zero temperature" answer may very well been copied verbatim from a mainstream website.

High temperatures means the system will get fed a lot of noise to create something original, at the risk of getting off rails or simply wrong.
Termux works great as a server environment really. The trickiest part is to start phone without old battery and actually have automatic booting after power outage.
I believe that chatGPT is way beyond that level already. It is just it's currently used as "wake up, continue this text, die". But I think robots controlled by chatGPT and doing whatever they want (very soon) will show everyone that it has consciousness.
I am working on a SaaS that will let programmers get reports from their work. It will listen to many events and use some AI algorithms to track progress. If you are interested, please submit for beta tests. Thanks!
I really like the "1st of 2 bars", etc. options. It's a nice UI to make a more complex beat in a smaller space.

It'd be cool if there was some kind of "randomize" function to just make a random beat. Maybe not truly random, just something with the basic drums and maybe within some set of constraints.
Russian bomber jets intercepted by NORAD near Alaska
This is just another case where the far right picks up dubious fights in the name of freedom in order to recruit new supporters. There is really no imminent risk of Switzerland becoming forcibly cashless or people losing their freedoms.
the flat earthers, spherical cow people, and rationalists are all seperate poles arguing with each other. Some, but not all, of each camp has Evil versions of the base ideas.

Then add in a few dozen more factions and make each individual not a member of any single faction, but an ice cream swirl of all of them. None of them staying the same pattern for more than a moment.

The analogies are confusing because the situation being discussed is complicated, confusing, and never static.
HN-as-support works. I suspect the reason why it works is because the founders of the big tech companies hang out here. It's definitely true of Stripe, CloudFlare, Dropbox, and a few others unicorns, and allegedly true of others like Twitter. I suspect that means employees see helping users here as a small way to get noticed by leadership...
Next 1:2 model with chest fridge inside
Sumup charges 39€ once per terminal, .9% for debit card transactions and 1.9% for credit card transactions. Nothing more.

The times when accepting card payments was expensive have been over for years. Everyone whining about "card payments cost so much" should look what the combination of pricing caps and competition have brought up, especially with the pandemic.

[1] https://help.sumup.com/de-DE/articles/4oI3qHHji2I2S9dyvRfec3...
I absolutely DID read it that way.

Comments like that are online bullying.

If you have a financial/wealth argument to make, by all means make it ... then let it stand on it's own merits.
I think it was chosen as it was so close to power of 1000...

If you think 2^10 as unit is weird, 2^8 would make lot more sense and be quarter of 1000...
Same here. I like the JRE podcast but not enough to use Spotify and their terrible podcasting experience. Now I really only catch an interesting YouTube clip every few weeks.
To be honest, in comparison to the last 5 years of the Tory part, Sturgeon is quite competent.

The only proper scandal I remember is the Salmond case, and then in terms of being incompetent the only thing which is undisputable is how badly she has handled the Scottish drug policy/crisis.
Does current cash travel very far ?

If we’re in to do Orwellian things, I’m not sure what’s technically stoping us from doing it now. All bills are scanned at the banks, we can flag who got which lot from the ATM, major POS systems scan for counterfeit, and retailers will return to the bank any excess from what they need for day to day exchanges (or not bother and return everything to the bank to get new bills in packaged stacks).

We’re already trusting our govs for not abusing the situation. The bridge is already crossed in my mind, going pure cashless is a small step in comparison.
That's a really neat example of something I'm not familiar with. Going up a tree from child to parent is often the heaviest part of dealing with regular datasets, and usually requires a mix of queries and application logic. The idea of flattening the data along some pattern like that is of course always possible in a relational db, but it's not usually efficient, especially not for heavy writing. Lateral joins and window partitions can help. But this seems like an interesting approach to removing the app code completely.
Exactly. The only time you should be calculating paths is after the player places new roads. Repeatedly calculating paths on a fixed graph is a huge waste of time!
I also have a Synology nas, a DS413 for 10 years now.

and I use it like this also for 10 years now. It works great. Only consumes ~4W in deep sleep/system hibernation (the wording depends on from which year you find text mentioning the above nas. Synology decided to reword the function back in some year), and automatically wakes up whenever it is needed.
(also not this is not only HDD sleep, it is full system sleep)
As this kind of behaviour is regularly seen at the borders of Europe, I pressume that this is also happening regularly near Alaska.
> It's not encouraging or interesting.

Well, maybe it's not encouraging, but saying it's not interesting seems like willful denial.

There's a saying that in swordfighting, the goal isn't to strike or to parry or to feint, the goal is to stick the pointy end in the other guy, everything else is just a means to that end.

Well, we might not understand the modern AIs' fencing technique, we have no idea why they pick certain feints, and sometimes they collapse on the ground for no reason. But on average, they are really fucking good at sticking the pointy bit in the other guy, and that's the thing that matters.

We can dislike them, we can wish they were better, we can try to improve them, but one thing we can't do is ignore them. Because sooner or later, they'll be everywhere, poorly analyzed or not.
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XTDB, which is mentioned in the post, is subtly different from the other Clojure-based Datalog systems in this respect, because its Datalog engine executes in terms of multi-way joins using a "Worst-Case Optimal Join" implementation that is ideal for graph processing (vs. a tree of binary hash joins). Therefore, based on statistics and query planning heuristics, it will often perform graph pattern matching before resolving the logic/horn clauses. (source: I work on the XTDB team)
Yep, there are many reimplementations. Here is a reimplementation that swaps out a neural net with a GBDT to address compute costs:

https://github.com/cgreer/alpha-zero-boosted
Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?
Also where did you learn and test that advice was infact true? Share your anecdotal experiences.
For a more modern one, Apocalyptica's Nothing Else Matters (the Official Video on YouTube is the exact version) is one of the most memorable frisson experiences I've had in recent years. After I first heard it while dancing I listened to it for like a week straight and got frisson at the climax basically every single time.
I think this is what Modern Standby aka "S0" power state is doing. Worse it is not always properly implemented and laptops turn on burning hot in backpacks (looking at you Lenovo Legion).
Did you try reading info on this?
Contacting Synology maybe?

https://kb.synology.com/en-au/DSM/tutorial/What_stops_my_Syn...
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Thanks for putting this out.I haven't even thought about this problem till I read this today.
I didn't get grandfathered in, and I had purchased the premium version back when it was a single purchase. Some of us definitely got fucked by that.
My theory is that hot and earl gray require specific instruction every time because they are dangerous and disgusting. It should never serve earl gray by default no matter how often it is ordered.
> I have noticed Spotify trying to funnel a decentralized podcasting ecosystem based on RSS into their own walled garden

So did I and I did something about it:

https://github.com/Yetangitu/Spodcast

Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app. Spodcast consists of the main Spodcast application - a Python 3 command line tool - and a PHP-based RSS feed generator. It uses the librespot-python library to access the Spotift API. To use Spodcast you need a (free) Spotify account. Spodcast only supports the Spotify podcast service, it does not interface with the music streaming service.
Read the top comment about misleading or deceptive conduct in the EU. There is a similar regime in Australia and companies don’t do it lest they face steep fines and lawsuits with good payouts and very few defences available. Good democracies regard this kind of law as a necessary part of capitalism, because it harms not only the consumer but the entire system. Maybe yours hasn’t figured it out yet.
Unix Edition Zero (1971)
Draft Unix manual written by Dennis Ritchie circa 1971---at a time when Unix had been running for a "few months" on the PDP-11.
A few years ago at an American university a non-traditional student who was honorably discharged from the Navy and who had a security clearance eventually went to work at Northrop Grumman after graduating. He married a chinese foreign exchange student right after they graduated. I remember one instance where she came into my room and pointed at my social security card on my desk and said that I should not have that laying out. My immediate thought was how does she know the significance and why would she care? My other thoughts were along the lines of how much pillow talk is being leaked through chinese foreign national's significant others. Another instance during the same time period there was a chinese foreign exchange student who had a driver license printing machine and was selling out of state fake IDs to other students. My thought to that was how many US students are in China selling fake IDs to their classmates over there. My Chinese-American friend said "Zero" because they would be found out, put in jail, and not released until a bribe was paid. I am happy to see the US "shoot ourselves in the foot" in this case. I am not sure we should be teaching the Chinese how to achieve quantum supremacy considering they are walking all over us while preventing us from walking over them.
I got basically the same generic advice for becoming an Oscar-winning actor, and for opening a bakery.
That still sounds like a situation where the merchants could shop around and where a functioning market could be created. That is a lot harder with the transaction fees as merchants typically don't charge different prices to customers with different cards.
I had to work for hours over several weeks because Digital Ocean _did_ have DDoS protection, that was awful.

We had an SSH-only machine (that ran backups), but because someone was spraying traffic at the non-operational port 80/443, they kept on disconnecting the network and requiring manual intervention from their support team to reinstate networking.

When we asked them to please stop disconnecting our database backup machine from the network, their answer was "put Cloudflare in front of it". They didn't have the technical knowledge to understand why this was a stupid recommendation.

We solved this by moving everything off Digital Ocean. Like Linode, a perfectly reasonable day-1 solution, and not bad for ancillary services, but not something I'd run production systems on long term.
If it's mobile data plan i think you just have not reached that limit yet. Try constant download through out the month and see what happens. I would guess the speed will go down.

At least for my "unlimited" data plan there is contract clause mentioning "reasonable usage".
Using the rules of food packaging… 958 / 1000 * 16GB = 15.76GB.
You mean this? https://i.stack.imgur.com/XriCj.jpg Anyway a DE independent power management tool sounds nice.
And it was American innovation that made the use of that census data possible for both countries thanks to Herman Hollerith's punch cards & tabulators and Thomas Watson's greed leading IBM to furnish the Nazis with that technology.
Such irony
Was put off by the pricing page, which used to be no nonsense. It now looks like a cryptic AWS/Azure calculator. Might be time to switch to DO.
As a Russian last year I learned that any money in a bank are not really yours.

Russian government banned withdrawing USD/EUR from ATMs while Mastercard and Visa banned using their cards.

Your balanace ended up being a number in the app.

Cashless - no thanks.