skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean when you say that they closed your add-on? Did they stop your add-on from working, or did they just close your Stripe account? If it's the latter, you should be able to sign up with another payment provider and leave them behind.
That could be. As a programmer I am still very impressed by its ability to create a chrome extension for a very specific use-case that I imagine there is not much data on. This rap battle seem like a very similar cross-genre fusion. It would be interesting to see some study on how well LLMs do transfer learning. Do the meta-patterns learned from code segments (what Wolfram refers to as semantic grammar) be used to pick up meta-patterns from a completely different genre (rap battles, medical literature, legalese etc.) with very few examples. It does seem like it is doing such transfer learning, but yes tough to say if there's say without knowing what data it actually had access to. Seeing an open-source replication that also analyzes how well it does across genres and training data size from that genre would be nice.
"During the Zombie apocalypse, whether or not you're a zombie is determining basic civil freedoms and freedom of movement of an individual. This is the future if we go cashless"

WTF? You do realize that it's not an arbitrary status in an app that mattered, but whether you're at risk of infecting hundreds, right?
Does anybody know why some Starlink satellites are lined up?
Digital is always prone to being lost/tracked/etc. You need to keep some "wallet" of credentials or something, there's always a trail, etc.

For societies with no trouble, that might seem fine. In societies (which can include a huge chunk of the world) with turmoil, dictatorships or hostile governments, war, and so on, it's impossible to have the anonymity and portability of cash in digital form, while also being able to use it (a) without electricity, (b) without internet access, (c) without a trail
That's a good point, to be honest I'm not sure there's a particularly good answer to that beyond "it's a much better underlying model". SQL is an ugly bastardization of the relational model, whereas Datalog is a clean application of the logical model to the relational setting.

One thing that's really nice about Datalog is that it puts the focus on modelling relations between data instead of "tables" which often end up with a jumble of data and then need to be normalized to work properly. It pushes you into good structures by default, which is a really good property to have. It's also much much simpler than SQL, no need to think in terms of inner joins and outer joins and whatever else, it is all relations.

It also easily produces derived data from existing data, without needing any kind of procedural process, and is highly composable.

It's not so much that it's solving a burning problem than SQL, it's just better than SQL...

(note: the clojure syntax used in that page is much more confusing than the native Datalog syntax IMO)
Aside from government regulatory requirements, am I the only one who thinks Stripe shouldn't have this kind of say? I know there are business categories that have more risk which may or may not be allowed to transact, but this particular instance seems like a huge power trip to me.

Perhaps someone with better insight can educate me on this matter?
Right but from big business customer perspective it is another cloud with way less available services than other clouds.
Are you arguing that a game in 1993 is flawed because it failed to accurately simulate a city populated with 100k+ people and associated cars and infrastructure?

I think if you assumed such a thing in the first place your premise and assumptions were massively flawed.

You're saying the game isn't playable because it was too different to real life? Did you notice the Superhero who arrives to fight natural disasters or the giant aliens who can invade? Or the fact that you can magically position fire "trucks" where you want instantly?
Not sure why this article is drumming this up as something special, but fruit brandies (from various fruits) are popular all over Southern, Eastern and even Central Europe, under various names: Raki (apparently Rakija in Serbia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rak%C4%B1 ; Slivovitz (apparently Slivja in Serbia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz ; Țuică https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C8%9Auic%C4%83 ; Pálinka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1linka ; Schnap(p)s/Obstler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnapps etc. etc. etc. Or, to quote the overarching Wikipedia article, "there are about 80 different kinds of fruit spirits in the European Union, registered with protected designations of origin from Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Luxembourg, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Spain" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_brandy). Actually, it looks like fruit spirits are popular almost wherever fruit are grown. Further North, they have to turn to grain or potatoes...
Games offer clear perimeters and have lotsa depth to them.

Humans are also trained in games when young, and even into adulthood, think war games that are held semi-annually between countries.

These are just board games with increased stakes and additional variables.
> It's technically possible to use @flaky for that, but in practice it's used to re-run the test multiple times and reports a pass if any of the runs pass

This is useful and fine. Someone wrote a test and it now hits a race condition or something and occasionally fails. Let’s assume we are very confident it is problem with the test not the product.

Choices:

Spend a sprint trying to fix it right now regardless of priority.

Turn it off and lose that coverage.

Buy some time.

In this context it makes sense. As long as their is a procedure to address these in some sane timeframe.

Maybe that is an example of
normalization of deviance. But I think if it is discusses and trade offs thought through it is an OK thing to do at times. Remember most development is not green field. You inherit a system when you start a job.
Also, see this: https://github.com/rectorphp/rector

Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
As someone who has used both, Hetzner felt a bit more customer-friendly overall.

I've caused two issues that was my fault and Hetzner was willing to help out while OVH told me tough luck.

I accidentally picked the wrong option in OVH Cloud and picked the one month up-front option and quickly destroyed the VPS after, it was barely on for 1 minute but that was enough to demand 60 euros for me. Sure, my fault but it should've been obvious that it wasn't intentional.
“Zombie” - dehumanization is always a critical step in the process.
The good news is that if there is a global push to digitalize currency, any country that doesn't, e.g. Switzerland is going to see demand for their money as a reserve currency shoot up. I don't know which country is actually closest to mandatory digital currency, say england for example- expect to see (and ideally start participating in asap) a CHF cash market
Maybe you are right.

As an observation: a human of normal intelligence but with much better access to a calculator and to Wikipedia, or even just external storage (faster than pen-and-paper) would already be super-human.
Black and white from here on out, then.
> It's generally true though

I agree, but that isn't what mathieuh wrote. I'd say racism against white people is less common and generally less impactful, but it isn't impossible or inevitably different.

> since Whites tend to be a smaller majority

You're underestimating the diversity of the United States. There are many places in the US where white non-Hispanic Christians are a minority. In fact, white non-Hispanic (but including Jewish and Muslim) people are only 60% of the population of the US.
Unlike RAM, where you always get exact power-of-2 number of bits per chip, modern flash storage normally ships with defects, plus error-correction codes to deal with those.

Number of defects vary. Chips coming from the same factory, even same batch, are likely to have different number of defects, and will be binned accordingly.

Devices with larger (but manageable) number of defects will simply have larger ECC region reserved - leaving smaller space to show to host computer. OP's new USB stick is like that, that's it, I reckon.
> If I had to guess their mission, it sounds like Tailscale. [1]

Linode

Li Node

Linux Node
I wonder if Cloudflare is going to make a move like this.
Yep stores wealth for and makes money from dictators, war criminals, and international criminals. Of course they want to prevent a cashless society.
Monero makes for a strong anonymous digital currency. But it also suffers from all the inconvenient benefits a truly anonymous digital currency offers that cash does not and which governments and casual users tend not to appreciate (for understandable reasons).
Such a hacker news comment. The title isn't a question Stephen Wolfram is asking you a question, it's the title of an article he's written that answers the question.
Don't forget that he's also shaming everyone for complexity while his own work brings untold complexity to the web platform through dozens of Javascript-only standards around Web Components.
Musk is a free speech absolutist, as long as his speech comes first.
The author looks at one of the drives, but they bought 2. What size was the other one?

It may just be that there's some distribution of "usable flash blocks" in every flash chip, and they happened to get one which fell at the bottom end of the acceptable range. You'd have to sample quite a few before you could be certain this isn't just an outlier.
Also having tons of fun with this

Some more feedback:

- The blue indicator is 4 ticks behind the playback

- It would be nice to have more options for where the sounds can appear, like bars 3 and 4

- When I enable a track, I expect any notes that have already passed to have been skipped, but some (kick, cymbal) will start playing halfway through the track even after the note has long passed.
The author mentions they don’t “trust” VenToy yet (they don’t state which kind of trust) my question is why?

I’ve used VenToy just fine for a while now. Am I missing something?
I wonder how many of these are in the sky:

https://hackaday.com/2017/10/30/quick-and-easy-solar-hot-air...

Since they are filled with plain air they could stay up a long time. They probably have no radar cross section, though they'd probably have a thermal signature.
You won't get many movers with 2x the price of L:inode for comparable instances...
Great question, I've been thinking about this myself. Does anyone know the state of the research on this or can point to some sources?

I found one good article once but lost the link. The only thing that i remember is that having graduated levels of participation like HN or SO was positive.
Gin had become its own thing by the time of the gin craze. The origins of the gin epidemic are varied but introduction from a foreign source is not one of them. In fact one of the major factors was Britain subsidizing the local gin industry and establishing protectionist laws that cut down trade for liquor from Continental Europe. 20 years of that plus the majority of Londoners losing their shirt in the South Seas panic was a recipe for disaster. It’s a fascinating case study with echoes to the current opioid crisis. For more information checkout,
Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva.

You could also make an argument for rum is native to Britain given it was likely in invented in Barbados, or another British sugar island as a direct result of colonization.
Worth noting that while AlphaGo and AlphaZero are incredible achievements, the amount of actual code to implement them isn't very much.

If you have the research paper, someone in the field could reimplement them in a few days.

Then there is the large compute cost for training them to produce the trained weights.

So, opensourcing these bits of work without the weights isn't as major a thing as you might imagine.
Find a new provider that won't randomly shaft you for spurious reasons.
At just double the price of Linode lmfao
Total Crap, the First Magazine Written by AI
>Irrelevant except perhaps for collector cars. For cars that are actually used the manufacturing differences will be swamped by the operational differences.

You'd be surprised.

This electricity needs to be generated, and it will hardly be clean for decades. It also needs to be stored in car batteries. And if the energy is "green", in grid "batteries" - plus all the work needed to support the green energy generation, solar panels, huge grid changes, etc. Both of which are nowhere near available, and it's not even certain they can be supported if EVs go to 100% of cars, neither from a manufacturing capacity wise, nor materials wise. And those need to be disposed too. And they'll need replacement during the car's life.
Agree. There are dozens of payment providers you could use in this situation.

This call for help rubs me the wrong way.
The UK is a very long way from going cashless, we still have three of the four nations with independent banknotes!

CHF as a banking currency has long been a safe haven. For a while they had negative interest rates in a desperate attempt to keep the value of their currency down to avoid destroying their export industries.
The paper is discussed by another commenter which brings interesting points how that model is built and it may not be what you think.

I agree with what you said regarding how we choose to view things, but I think you also have a bias/belief that you want it to be something more, instead of being more neutral and scientific: we know the building blocks, we have to study the emerging behaviors, we can’t assume the conclusion. One paper is not enough, we have to stay open.
This is awesome, I love this. Also advance sorry for the wall of text. Feel free to keep on ;)

Actually, I have another super relevant example. The Talmud derives that one should always hold the kiddush cup (glass of wine) when making its blessing. However, the מנהג in my (and many a) family is to leave the glass on the table, and stare into it at the time of the blessing - due to a Kabbalistic matter. To be clear, this מנהג clearly goes against accepted הלכה (Jewish Law). It's also clearly, 100% okay. One of the larger Rabbi's in recent memory (חכם עובדיה יוסף) when asked said that it's fine. Ultimately this probably depends on the item to be honest, but there are many instances of nuanced הלכה (like the wine blessing, blessing on the bread, other things) having מנהג trump מסורת.

This is due to the fact that while the Talmud is the Oral Law, it's not the Torah. The Talmud itself, repeatedly explains how nothing can trump the Torah. However, once something is Rabbanut (from the Rabbis) the debate opens, hence the Talmud itself - which is a mixture of the Oral Law (משנה) given at Sinai, and the discussion of the Oral Law (גמרא) by generations post, when this was formally written down by Rav Yeudah Hanasi. This becomes super interesting in the case of Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) who were disconnected from "mass Judaism" at the time of the Talmud, and literally did not practice Judaism with these Talmudic inclusions. To help codify their historic traditions, and how they can be understood within the framework of "Judaic norms" within modern Israel - Harav Sharon Shalom, an Ethiopian Rabbi wrote his book, while in discussion with many Kessim (Ethiopian Jewish religious leaders, effectively Rabbis).

As for your question about couples, this is literally my marriage. In reality, it depends on the couple. From the pure perspective of הלכה, these religious items follow the male. In practice, in most communities it follows who cares more, and even that can depend. My wife (Ashkenaz) has wildly different traditions, foods, music.. heck tonnes of things than I (a Sephardic Jew) do. We tend (overwhelmingly) to the Sephardic side of traditions, she prays as we do now, etc. At the same time, on Pesah we sing many of the songs she grew up with, we maintain a stricter stance on certain kosher items because it makes her more comfortable - and I'm happy to do it for her.

But our children "follow their father" as per the Talmud. This means that my kids follow Sephardic מנהגים, prayers, etc. Then again, we're also in Israel which unlike North America tends to be more Sephardic than Ashkenaz (practice not numbers).

Apologies if I rambled.
There was no advice.

There was no mention on compensation.

There was no mention of the revenue model of the 1st person.

You came up with a narrative and argued with me based on story and arguments you made up.

It's just silly and not remotely professional, especially coming from a grown up person.

Here's the story of the first dev: his compensation model depends directly on how much his employer (partner) helps their customers achieve higher revenue. Their software is related to subset of financial industry.

You are right, he didn't make near the market rate for most of his career. He made so much he never has to work any more. But he still works because it's what he finds fulfilling.

Your attitude is dangerously misleading. You assumed too much in order to paint someone sociopath.

It'd be a lie if I said "I wonder what prompted you to behave like this", except I can tell you recognized yourself in the story I wrote and felt the need to discredit the narrator. Think about it, it's for your sake.
> Please don’t encourage stifling of discussion by invoking privilege.

I didn’t read it that way.

Pointing out that being able to buy the most expensive model and then risking harm to it is something not everyone can afford is not stiffling the discussion. It is the discussion.

It is hard to be aware of one’s own biases due to personal circumstances. It is a “fish can’t see the water it is swimming in” kind of situation.

Many people I know don’t consider phone protectors on an aesthetic axis, but on the “what is the probability that this slippery brick falls and shatters and then I won’t have a phone for the next few years at all”. 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.
I do not have a Tata car, but its everywhere here in India. It gets the job done and it is reliable, cheap to service and maintain and has good fuel economy. They also have make so many heavy buses and trucks. Technology and reliability isn't an issue with them. The latest Tata cars score high in NCAP too. Only reason I don't like a Tata car is because they are not so great in styling their cars. If some of them have good front design, they look bad from the back. The one's that look nice from back or sides doesn't look so nice from in the front etc.
Therapy sometimes uses a method called exposition. E.g. if one has an irrational fear of elevators, they can gradually expose themselves to it. Stand before it then leave. Call it and look inside. Enter it on the first floor and exit without riding. After few weeks or months they can start using it, because the fear response reduces to manageable levels. Because nothing bad happens (feedback).

One may condition themselves this way to torture screams, deaths, etc. Or train scared animals that it’s okay to leave their safe corner.

And nothing happens to you in a seismically inactive areas when an earthquake ruins whole cities somewhere. These news may touch other (real) fears about your relatives well-being, but in general feeling sad for someone unknown out there is not healthy even from the pov of being a biologically human (watch emphasis, the goal isn’t to play cynic here). It’s ethical, humane, but not rational. The same amount of people die and become homeless every year.

What I’m trying to say here is: feelings are our builtin low-cost shortcut to thinking. Feelings cannot be used as a line that separates conscious from non-conscious or non-self-aware. The whole question “is it c. and s.a.?” refers completely to ethics, which are also our-type-of-mind specific.

We may claim what Chinese Room is or isn’t, but only to calm ourselves down. But in general it’s just a type of consciousness, one of a relatively infinite set. We can only decide if it’s self-ethical to think about it in some way.
Oh, the CEO gave his personal guarantee that they won't leave until everything is clean. I'm certainly convinced now!

There is absolutely no way they won't walk away from this the moment they can unless they are legally compelled to stay.
There might not be another 100x of written language.

But we noticed that training your neural networks on multiple tasks actually works well. So we could start feeding our models eg audio and video.

With lots of webcams we can make arbitrary amounts of new video footage. That would also allow the language model to be grounded more in our 3d reality.

(Granted, we only know as a general observation that training the same network for multiple tasks 'forces' that network to become better and abstract and generalise. Nobody has yet publicly demonstrated an application of that observation to training language models + video models.)

Another avenue: at the moment those large language models only see each example once, if I remember right. We still have lots of techniques for augmenting training data (eg via noise and dropout etc), or even just presenting the same data multiple times without overfitting.
I'm Swiss and try to be as cashless as possible but I can absolutely understand people & businesses opposing a completely cashless future under the assumption that the current situation remains.
The fees associated with the current system are exorbitant. Credit cards, as expected, have a pretty high fee of like 2.5% or more for the accepting business and the new Visa/Mastercard debit cards that they force on everyone have even more egregious fees of CHF 0.5 to 0.95 + 1.5% per transaction. Twint (our digital payment app) also has ~1.5% in fees per transaction and the business case of Twint is to farm as much payment data of the customers as possible for analysis and offers/ads.
I do like the convenience of cashless but the cost in fees for businesses and the increased interest in exploiting my transaction history for an ads business sours this a bit for me.
Is this really a hard and fast rule, or is it more that you think we should avoid the dumpster fire that is the Reddit mod ownership situation?
I would focus on the CDN part first and foremost. Maybe read up on CloudFront, Fastly and BunnyCDN. They can all be replacement’s for Cloudflare’s CDN.
Stripe might have detected that you are grifting with an AI chatbot and is clearly telling you not to do that on their payment gateway.

Like I said before [0], perhaps it is better to go on multiple gateways. At least then you can continue your hustle / grift on another payment processor rather than complain here and use HN as Stripe customer support.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34747526
If you visit Hadrian's Wall in the north of England you can see Roman graffiti there.

I find it curious that archaeologists or historians (?) seem to take a lot of things like this so seriously and assume everything has some sort of symbolic meaning, rather than just some teenager scribbling on a page or painting his hand on the wall of a cave just 'because'.
New Architecture That Beats Transformers: Hungry Hungry Hippos (H3)
I kind of made a general purpose sleep proxy myself a few years ago with a apache and some cgi scripts getting triggered when I visit my /jellyfin or /guacamole

It just listened to the fixed routes, woke the server and proxied the page when finished (sometimes took 2 loads)

But basically is the same as in the arzicle except I didn‘t need to manually WOL anything and my server just went to sleep by itself
While I somewhat agree that progress has been slow, a decade is hardly anything considering the scale of a country like India.