skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried to find relevant EU law about this. IANAL, of course.

According to 'misleading and comparative advertising' - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... - it seems this could fall under article 2b and 2c, defining misleading resp comparative advertising. The definition of misleading here is:

[..] any advertising which in any way, including its presentation, deceives or is likely to deceive the persons to whom it is addressed or whom it reaches and which, by reason of its deceptive nature, is likely to affect their economic behaviour or which, for those reasons, injures or is likely to injure a competitor [..]

This is a directive, unfortunately, so the actual law resides with (and is different in) each member state. OTOH, this means inhabitants might complain to their regulator, and don't need to sue sandisk themselves.

I was hoping this one would help. It says which errors are allowed when measuring things. Unfortunately it only speaks of weights and (physical) volumes, not other measurements like number of bits. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

In general, I don't have much idea about how to navigate the EU consumer protection landscape. So while I do have a lot of protections, it is sometimes hard to know which ones. Does anyone know a good site or something?
It's more a problem why European countries gave up to American Visa/Mastercard duopoly for cards, where the alternative is... Google Pay/Apple Pay duopoly for mobile. Their only answer are miserable local debit/ATM card systems working only in individual European countries, or superfrauds like Wirecard.
When does a startup stop being a startup and starts being a normal company that handles things like support and "edge cases" only affecting 0.01% of their users/customers? At some point, those 0.01% are still (tens/hundreds of) thousands.
One of the most functioning democracies of scale: the Swiss.

And even there I think lobby (the enemy of actual democracy) has big influence on the decision taking process; it just may not be more than 50%, that in most "so called democracies" it most certainly has.

I'd say it is down to the fact that the Swiss distribute their power better (by it being a collaboration of Cantons), instead of consolidating at the "lobbyable" top.
That's not socialist, that is just consumer protection. Capitalism doesn't just come in one form ('Ayn Rand'-style absolutist capitalism).

Individual consumers don't have the clout to make a dent in their sales. So, you set some rules as a society (such as don't lie in the product description) to ensure that individuals have a recourse when they are scammed.
If you don't use your capslock/numlock/scrolllock on your keyboard you can use those LEDs to indicate hdd, network or even cpu activity (kernel must support it) by writing the appropriate command to the sys interface like this

echo "disk-activity" | sudo tee /sys/class/leds/<your LED>/trigger
Frankfurt rail work damaged fibre, causes global Lufthansa check-in system fault
> What would be sort of awesome, though, would be a distributed bank (or prediction market, or casino) along these lines

I think this is already possible for poker, and will never be possible for prediction markets.

Prediction markets require human resolution of "fuzzy" questions. For example, who won the 2020 US presidential election? You can see why the limiting factor isn't the machine.

But for poker, why do you need FHE? To play poker, you have to deal two hole cards and five community cards. First each player gets two secret ("hole") cards, then three community cards are dealt ("flop"), then potentially another ("turn"), then potentially another ("river"). This could be done programmatically as such:

1. Each player generates five secrets: k_HOLE, HOLE, FLOP, TURN, RIVER

2. Each player derives public key K_HOLE from k_HOLE.

3. Each player publishes the hash of each secret in addition to K_HOLE.

4. Each player publishes their value of HOLE, which is checked against the hash from previous step.

5. To get the two hole cards for you, calculate H(HOLE_1 || HOLE_2 || ... || HOLE_N), decrypt the resulting value using k_HOLE (secret to you), then deterministically turn this into cards (for example: hash it, then map the first half into 52 values and the second half into 51 values)

6. Once it's time for the flop, all players publish FLOP. Then calculate H(FLOP_1 || FLOP_2 || ... || FLOP_N).

7. Repeat for turn and river as necessary.

The only difficult part is how to handle colors, but I don't think this is a serious issue, since nobody counts cards in poker anyway. (We can trivially ensure flop, turn and river don't repeat cards, so it's just a question for the hole cards vis-a-vis the community cards)

EDIT: Looks like someone has already tried to do this seven years ago: https://github.com/zweicoder/PokerPhase
> In fact, I don't even know why one would pick Linode over DigitalOcean or vice versa

For a lot of people “momentum” is a factor: Linode has been around for significantly longer and has been fairly stable/reliable for the whole of that time even implementing a couple of complete tech stack changes¹ better than many other companies seem to manage. In the early days they were ahead of their time.

While Linode were at the head of the pack for a while, their product range, features, and UX, did stagnate at certain times, at those points DO and other companies looked more attractive for new customers.

As the market for such services has homogenised somewhat, with there being few genuinely unique-to-one-provider offerings, small differences in price/features at the scale you are buying, and differences in where data-centres are located & what their bandwidth peering is like from the PoV of your target users, are usually the deciding factors. All other things being equal, check if any of them has a special offer on!

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[1] Their services were originally user-mode-linux based², then switched to Xen³, then to KVM.

[2] I used them during that period.

[3] at the time of that switch I'd just moved to UML on a dedicated server for my own stuff, and later moved to a mix of containers & KVM.
I’ve never moderated, but participated a lot in forums and boards. First thing to know is that bad players are a lazy impulsive attention-seeking mob, so if you want them to back off, then restrict their abilities and feedback. Old users (even if sometimes misbehaving) are the core that is (1) conscious of their role and status, (2) assimilated and can decide what’s right or wrong for themselves.

For example, if a forum allows voting for everyone, it allows voting wars (+457 -371). But if it doesn’t have a score at all, there’s no feedback for a user. HN only allows downvoting after a good while, and I suspect that it amortizes upvotes after some limit. Some forums allow for weighted voting - this creates score monsters and wars between their armies. Forums that do not rank posts by f(time, score) suffer from “first” syndrome when most active neet users mark the tone for every discussion.

Moderation and self-moderation is a second important thing. Moderation should not be offensive or too strict - that simply enables a counterattack. Self-moderation allows to leave bad posts without attention. A moderator should advise good users to avoid bad discussions every time they appear and leave them as is unless the post is really destructive. Silent moderation isn’t future-proof because the message becomes hidden. But silent deranking works, because it’s unclear to abusers if their content was moderated or was simply not interesting.

Reddit is a classic “anyone up-down score” forum, it never ought to be successful in this regard, considering the scale. Boards provide no feedback at all except for illegal content.
I don’t know what the chances are, but over time it might happen. Economy of scale should not be underestimated.

30 years ago, there was a consensus x86 architecture was only good for small computers, while servers need faster specially-designed processors like IBM Power or Dec Alpha. Then AMD64 was introduced, after a while they took server market too.

15 years ago, Intel was making specialized HPC co-processors called Xeon Phi. The chips were actually good, exceeded 1 TFlop of FP64, and weren’t terribly hard to program. I think it were consumer-grade graphic cards which made it obsolete. Despite much harder to program, the raw performance numbers were better, and cost efficiency in flops/$ was an order of magnitude better.
Do you honestly think that people from those companies aren't on here and taking active feedback? And actually, I've seen people from two of those companies (amazon and microsoft) in the comments actively engaging with the community, so not great examples to use.
Touch grass.
>If you are financially in a situation where you can buy a new flagship phone at any time you might not even think about this viewpoint.

You might even feel attacked for being privileged enough when someone points that possibility

No, really. Just what is it with that fragility? Did people get all defensive back in the day when someone said "that's only valid if you are sufficiently rich"?

Might be that I just never noticed it, but it's getting real annoying just how often people get all defensive about what they said only applying to people who have it good enough
If you look up a product in the AliExpress app and copy the link, this is what you get. It does not give you any commission unfortunately. So it's not an affiliate link.
I don't think it qualifies as "socialist" to require that products sold match the description.

Maybe, at an extreme Mr Fantastic-style stretch, it comes closer to what many people classify as "socialist" to also require clarity in the description, i.e. the description needs to be written in a way that everyone understands it, not just the very brightest[*] readers.

The same company selling such a product would not appreciate it I paid them "up to the requested amount", they want it all. Then they need to deliver what they said they were selling.

I won't even get into how not requiring that completely skews the idea of competition, which capitalism is supposed to thrive on ... Okay, maybe I just did, a little. :)

[*] Or "most fit", "best educated", or whatever. Talking about human intelligence is always hairy, hopefully I got the meaning across.

Edit: added asterisk:ed text.
Thanks for sharing, I've been looking for another trackball to try besides logitech's and microsoft's.
One thing I really appreciate about Wikimedia is the openness and quality of documentation for their infrastructure (which can be found at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure).

It's an excellent resource for anyone curious to learn about their systems. I wish more organizations would embrace transparency and open-source principles as much as Wikimedia does.
Totally agree. Something similar should also apply to laptops and smartphones. If your phone comes up with 30GB of bloatware on a 64GB device you should definitely not be allowed to advertise 64GB of space.
generally no...

Secret sauce is in the ML compiler and accelerator used, but all those improvements simply lower the cost of training a model. You could still do it on a regular GPU, it would just take you more time.

In the case of Google, they probably used TPU chips that you can't get direct 'bare metal' access to anyway, so none of that code would have helped.

The actual optimizer used and parameters (like the learning rate schedule) is normally published in the research paper.
Haha, a truly objective analysis of both media conglomerates with no a-priori biases would show that the BBC is just as reliable a purveyor as RT.
58 sources according to ground.news: https://ground.news/article/ohio-train-derailment-leaves-tox...
Switzerland is one of few countries in the world where the citizens WILL decide if they reject a cashless society. In most other societies, it is the politicians who decide, who are by and large beholden to corporate interests. And because corporations are more or less uninterested in freedom, and love big profits, corporations are fine with a cashless society.
As far as I can see the author now owns 4 memory sticks, but only looked at the flash on 2 of them.
Deepmind did not pioneer reinforcement learning. In fact it wasn’t even the first place to use neural networks for feature representation in RL. That was achieved with Backgammon in the 90s.
Don't use them?
What?

Synology DS413 and DS213+ does this automatically.
What second machine?
I wrote my own unpoly (so to speak) to transition from React, for a pretty big ecommerce marketplace: https://solovyov.net/blog/2020/a-tale-of-webpage-speed-or-th...
I'm Swiss too, and while the fee argument is a great one, my main concern is preserving the optional privacy you have when transacting with cash. It's one of the last aspect of your daily transactions that businesses and most importantly governments cannot trivially track and tie to your identity, aggregate, and potentially use against you (and people who consume like you) in various ways.

Giving up this power, out of convenience, is a bad deal for citizens. And before anyone argues that this privacy is used by criminal/terrorists/etc., I would need to be convinced that going fully cashless would stop them to even consider it in the balance... but as far as I can tell they happily use the banking system for their criminal dealings, with the support of banks, since each year there are scandals about banks helping money laundering to the tune of hundreds of millions, even billions at the time, I don't think it happens mostly thanks to cash.
Yet keeps legal eagles in business :-/
Nice job! and thanks for sharing..

Here are some suggestions / wishes:

- Can you add a decay slider to each channel? That shouldn't be hard. It could change the sound & balance of the set by a lot.
- Also panning is very useful..
- The repeat every n bars is a very nice touch. Trig conditions are out of the question i guess.
- A random button would be lots of fun and make users stick around more. It could have a percentage parameter, too. Could be used as a starting template each time you reload or revisit the page.
- The sliders could be a bit wider, especially the one for tempo.

Do you make music yourself?
https://github.com/simh/simh

Richard Cornwell has implemented the IBM 701, IBM 704, IBM 7010/1410, IBM 7070/7074, IBM 7080/702/705/7053 and IBM 7090/7094/709/704 simulators.
Actually this might be a case for GNU Taler - unlike cryptocurrencies it’s specifically designed so that merchants do not have anonymity, so tax can still be assessed, but users do.
Apparently multiple antiviruses flag it [0]. A tool that can inject whatever during the OS installation process should be closely scrutinized. Some also have trust issues with software that comes from China.

https://axebase.net/blog/2021/11/12/ventoy-verdacht-auf-malw...
"put the X stuff in x_lib and the Y stuff in y_lib" is exactly what takes 4x amount of time

Also this process can continue. In the next iteration you have will 3 incompatible features with the same or different customers.

If you use different branches you can always to go to branch X and know exactly what is deployed on customer X.

In your case the only way to recreate what customer X has is to find the proper combination of libraries that you have shipped to them so far.

Imagine I am a developer and want to do a hotfix for a specific customer. I can just do git checkout branch-of-customer and start working. Isn't the process more difficult with your approach?
I feel the same - to the point where I’ve considered dumping Spotify.

I don’t want music and podcasts mixing - and I resent the fact that screen estate that should be given to helping me find great new music is instead given to desperate attempts to shove podcasts in my face.
But stripe already charges the customer for disputes, and presumably makes a little margin on top.

I can understand if they're saying "we think you're about to get a lot of disputes, and you may not be able to pay for all of them, so we're going to hold some of your money for a few days just to see".

But that isn't what they're saying.
I find the intersection of peoples core beliefs adjacent to this subject to be fascinating. Local production, wind/solar, energy efficiency etc is seen as the preserve of the treasonous liberal woke intelligentsia, trying to destroy the economy.

Surely a true patriot and capitalist would want their country to not be subjugated by a foreign nation, would generate the means of running their homes and economy as independently and financially sustainably as possible and try and where possible be at the forefront of any advancements in technology such that you have and maintain a competitive advantage.
How inevitable is the concept of numbers? (2021)
Love the point around the iPhone in particular. Part of the joy of the object is using it naked, feels as it should and what a joy that is.

Putting a beautiful work of art in bubble wrapping May we’ll protect it, but would diminish its joy, beauty and sheer pleasure to that of bubble wrap.
> Out of interest, how much of that is caused by the law degree being (as far as I understand it) a postgraduate degree in the US?

At face value, the sticker price of grad school will always be more expensive, however, UF[1], UNC Chapel Hill[2], UT Austin[3], etc. are just a few reputable public universities with relatively affordable law programs, in particular, for in-state residents with enough grit to skip on-campus housing.

> Here in the UK you can just go straight to law school if you want without a first degree.

Hasn't been a thing in the US for decades[4].

[1] https://www.law.ufl.edu/admissions/costs-and-financial-aid

[2] https://law.unc.edu/admissions/financing-your-legal-educatio...

[3] https://law.utexas.edu/admissions/tuition-fees-and-expenses/

[4] https://asklib.law.harvard.edu/faq/115308
I might be alone in this and I am completely unaware of what the work that goes on in Walmart under tech/software but I wouldn't mind RTO if there are some higher-level interesting work being done along logistics, manufacturing, efficiency-related work
I'd suggest KataGo, which is much stronger and more actively developed than Leela Zero https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo
Not strange at all; first they make the batch, then they test them to see how many of the bits are actually writable, and sort them according to how well they turned out.

This is also how phone screens are made (a huge panel is produced, then lit up; some pixels are stuck, but phone-screen-sized pieces can be cut out of it where there's enough good pixels).

This is also how most CPUs and GPU models are made - test each sub-component, disable the parts that fail testing, then price the result according to how much of it works.
The greatest video Jonathan Blow has ever done on Video Games and the Future of education is 0:10:36 long and is just him going over the first part of his video game "The Witness".

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

We have him demonstrating:

* Starting off any new concept with trivial examples that nonetheless convey important information about the problem space and how to interact with it.

* Making the progression to the next problem or related problems obvious and intuitive.

* Adding in 'curve balls' that help to jog the player into thinking critically.

* Whilst showing clear progression to alternative ideas, also allowing freedom to approach different problems

* Showing how video games can give immediate feedback to 'show not tell' nuanced ideas

* Showing how understanding of concepts grows over time

* Showing how decomposition of ideas can make them easy to understand individually and then composition of them is intuitive and immediate

The Witness is a thesis on learning/pedagogy, motivation/reward, truth seeking and self fulfilment. To that end, I would recommend playing it to anyone who has an interest in video games and how they relate to the future of education.
Are there any payment providers that let you migrate a customer subscription to a competitor?
> cyclists just mostly stick to sidewalks

I really don't think this is it; yes, you see a few cyclists riding on the pavements alongside the main roads, but you see many more making their way along the side/back streets which don't even have a segregated pedestrian pavement - and don't need one.

> This causes lots of interactions between cyclists and pedestrians, which has led directly to the requirement for liability insurance that I mentioned before, because of so many pedestrian injuries.

It's not "so many", otherwise that would have happened decades ago. It's largely an (IMO over-) reaction to one dramatic case where a cyclist hit an elderly person who then needed a lot of expensive medical care.
I know a few people personally who mainly used Word (and increasingly also web browsers) when working on computers, and it's sometimes obvious they view everything a computer does through that lens. For some people only used to Windows even appstores are a foreign concept, a relative's first impulse when trying to install a phone app is to open the phone's web browser and do a Google search.

Those are things many recent UI "improvements" haven't considered.
What you call democracies are really just capitalistic governments. Why would they do that? It's bad for next quarter's profit margin
> what does Rust do better than Nim?

I can install Rust, for one thing (I’m on an M1 mac; trying the three main nim installers, one gives me an out of date version, one gives me the x86 version, and one segfaults)

Also Rust’s error messages and standard library documentation are way more helpful

Also Rust runs nearly twice as fast

(I do like the nim language, but no more or less than I like the rust language; tooling makes a big difference though)
Seems you can usually replace 'not a viable' with 'only available' and be in basically the same place.

Practically, you gotta thank the person for the role they're taking on.

Holistically, they're not really part of the system, so that role doesn't exist. They're certainly not getting paid to do that and it needs to not scale up to where it's interfering with their real job.
Would you say their interview process is similar to FAANG? I've had recruiters reach out but I have yet to take up an interview
This is impossible, surely? Or do they only care about the running of the car, and not it's manufacturing? If so, that's just incredibly dumb. The CO2 required to manufacture EVs is significantly higher than ICE (like 40-60% higher)[0]. Unless manufacturing moves away from fossil fuels, first, this will massively accelerate the amount of CO2 we release, and we won't see any reduction for a decade or more (partly depends on the lifecycle of the batteries). And you won't see a NET reduction for many decades, due to the front-loading of the CO2 premium in manufacturing EVs Vs ICE.

This is crazy.

We cannot consume our way to a fossil fuel free world. We need to invent and build clean energy sources, and low carbon manufacturing.

[0] "The emissions from Materials production and refining of the ICE are roughly 40 per cent less than for the BEV" https://www.volvocars.com/images/v/-/media/project/contentpl...
Vice Media Gets $30M-Plus Lifeline from Fortress as Bills Pile Up
This seems like a pretty good couple of answers to OP's question.