skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, a Tomra machine. They too produce the machines which collect returnable bottles. Those are installed in each Supermärkte in Germany, for example.

And here's documentation on machines which sort grapes intended for wine production:

https://www.food.fraunhofer.de/en/beispiele12/Produktschutz/...
A variant of Thatcher's "Being powerful is like being a lady, if you have to tell people you are, you aren't".
Behind other banks or behind tech companies? Every bank I've ever used is about 10 years behind when it comes to tech.
Personally I’d prefer they find the hackers and people that sell information like this and throw them in prison for a few decades as a deterrent to others.
An excellent video on this project from YouTube's "Just have a think"

https://youtu.be/iJunxkln578
> > text editors, package managers.

> Editor support of real languages is much better than SQL.

So text editors suck at supporting SQL... How is that SQL’s fault?!? Go complain to the text editor authors.

> Package managers enable code re-use.

Yup. Build one for SQL, then you can re-use SQL code. Just like someone had to build one for every other language. What does this prove about SQL being inferior to other languages? A: Nothing at all.
> I wish people would stop getting offended at things they don't understand.

What wasn't understood?

If the term third-world was being used to talk about cold war political alignment, they wouldn't have objected. But that's not how it was being used. The objection was completely valid.
~$300 for each person living there. That's a bit steep, honestly.
The market for wind in the UK is unusually profitable due to a quirk of the UK electricity market.

Specifically, the power price across the UK is the same everywhere. However, there isn't infinite transmission capacity. So, if you generate power in one place, but the power network cannot transport it, you get told not to bother producing it, but you still get paid, and you get paid compensation on top.

You know what's better than producing power... being paid to produce power, paid extra compensation, and then not need to actually have those wind turbines spinning (so much reduced maintenance too!).

The government is delaying lots of permits till they can figure out how to change these perverse incentives... Needless to say, the wind industry isn't happy about the fact they might no longer get paid such large amounts, so they're demanding the old scheme be kept in place for existing producers for 25+ years, and having the new pricing rules only apply to new builds...
Academic research productivity per dollar is greatly boosted by low wages for the people who actually do the work.

Academic labs are basically indenture shops that universities and the government use to avoid paying the market price for labor. And of course the greatest profits accrue to commercial companies that apply the work that was paid for by the government and performed by underpaid grad students.

Grad school may be interesting and even fun, but it can also have very high opportunity cost, making it something of a sucker's game for many, at least financially.

The only thing worse would be trying to stay in academia and being trapped in a purgatory of postdoc and adjunct positions, never making it to the top of the pyramid scheme.
I think you're probably right, but "Low level of contagion" sounds exactly like what we heard in 2007.
same here. i tried to make it write a simple raytracer and the methods looked correct but were slightly wrong. the output was, of course, garbage.
Average electricity prices (edit/correction: in dense urban areas) in the U.S. are ~$250/mwh

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
In my experience (learning aluminum TIG at a hobbyist level) having a "steady hand" is all about setting things up from the start so your torch hand always has something stable to rest against.

There will, of course, be people on either extreme who either have a stable enough hand that they don't need to rest on anything, or who have hands that are so shaky that propping against something doesn't help, but I think for the ordinary able-bodied person it just takes some practice and careful attention to workspace setup.

I've never done MIG, but I imagine it's a bit less of an issue since you aren't constantly trying to get the electrode as close as possible without ever touching. I could see this product being pretty good at telling students "hey, you're holding the torch at the wrong angle" or "you're going to fast" or whatever. Basically, teaching students a few good habits from the beginning.
As someone in the Julia ecosystem, I wouldn't know where to begin with writing performant python. Is it Numba? Taichi? Torchscript? NumPy? Cython? Pypy? None of these seem to work together (besides calling each other, I suppose).
> The bank is telling two or more people they own (or, at least, have access to) the same dollar at the same point in time

But they don't do that. Or, I've literally never seen them do that.

What the bank tells me is what my current deposit is. That's the truth. They aren't representing that the amount they're listing is a specific dollar somewhere, they're telling me how much money I've given to them.
I found that GPT-3 is much better than DeepL when given high-quality examples as a prompt. GPT-3 knows more about the world, so it can translate proper nouns and slang used in specific communities better than DeepL.
SVB is an institution that has supported a lot of businesses in tech.

There are a lot of harmful clowns out there fearmongering. They should stop.

The failure of a bank like this, if it occurs, would be bad for a lot of people.
From very nature of how these systems operate - they aren't capable of "reflecting" about anything.
> it isn't a huge money maker. Margins are thin

You mean, like most of the real economy? In which people produce stuff and provide the services everybody needs? ...
> yet you chose to focus on the connotation that paints the GP in the worst light...

Process of elimination.

There are two main connotations. The political one wasn't being used, therefore it must be the other one.

"worst" out of two is not exactly a stretch...
Cool, now we are from

> Scala 3 still has ~all the features of Scala 2

to "Scala 3 has most of the day-to-day (from a language-user's point of view) programming features". I'm fine with that. :)
> The mere existence of Widevine is a mystery for me. How sensible for Netflix is to invest into DRM at all?

Well that investment is pretty low since Widevine is quite easy to integrate and the licensing cost is 0 for Netflix.

The thing is, you do need some Digital Rights Management somewhere. If you just have clear-text mp4 with no auth, you can just share that mp4 url, and you could watch movies directly off Netflix servers (so it would cost even more than torrenting).

You could include temporary tokens in your URLs, but then you need your CDN to be a bit dynamic.

Or you could have a completely static CDN, but the files are encrypted, and you download the encryption key off a server dedicated to DRM that will check you're properly authed. And well, here you've re-created Widevine. Widevine do provide more protections than just that, but that's just free for Netflix, they literally just have to switch some booleans.

> They seem to make user experience worse for nothing.

Yeah I mostly agree. As I mentioned before, there are some usages of DRM that are not completely non-sense. What kills me is the HDCP requirement. Many TVs have HDCP compatibility issues (for instance my Samsung TV has the two 4k60p yuv444 hdcp 1 ports and one 4k60p yuv420 hdcp2 port, so I need to chose between 4k content and true 4k resolution), while HDCP2 is utterly broken: you can find decrypting dongles for 20€ directly from Amazon.
Probably they just perform more extensive due diligence because of the market, as cryptocurrencies are more risky. I know of plenty of cryptocurrency companies that use SVB.
This, I've friends of mine who do this for a myriad of media. And I absolutely understand their philosophy.

Looking at video games today, riddled with DRM reliant on the server infrastructure of a finite life company makes me sad.
That is true about clandestine programs: This has little to do with current tech, though, and of course folks invested are going to use the tools of today to do it today.

I know overreach still happens and I truly think we could do better - but I'd rather have it than not.
I urge you to withdraw your funds before they collapse. These are the same frauds that closed my account because they didn't like the business I was in.

Enjoy bankruptcy you frauds.
For some reason you want to hammer all of science into some sort of helpless pre-science. To a more-or-less direct statistical fit of measurements to a non-descript, intrinsically meaningless mathematical formula. A procedure that somebody might apply to an observational set using a generic family of formulae even if they have absolutely no clue of what is going on.

We know it doesn't work this way once we actually start building a real model and move beyond what is really just exploratory data science. We'd be nowhere with physical science if the mental models we construct (which have nothing particularly numerical about them in the first instance) did not actually have a coherence that is both amazing and extremely productive.

This is not some Platonic drift or remotely philosophical. This is how physics is done. Even casual familiarity with the history of physics and reading the writings of key thinkers would point to this.

Heck, in quantum mechanics the relation between the physical/mathematical model people came up with the actual "measurement" is profoundly non-trivial and does not remotely fit your bizarre reductionist "programme".
You realize that IT infrastructure is for doing things, right? Your system can have a security design that makes the harmony of the spheres look like ramen noodles glued to cardboard, but if the business doesn't make money, it's wrong.
Women often report that they suffer from imposter syndrome. I wonder if there’s a name for the opposite phenomenon so amply on display in this story, with this young male college dropout hustling catastrophically, all because he’s afraid a famous painter will steal his maybe-girlfriend.
Validating Streaming JSON Documents with Learned VPAs
That FDIC thing is so laughable to me because it's purely symbolic. Even the feds would have some serious trouble absorbing bank-run losses.
I wonder when are we starting to lay cables across longitude so you get solar power when it's night time. Thinking this out loud now - lower night time loads get covered by wind and other renewables.
The wind blows consistently at night and infrequently during the day in that region.

Solar during the day and wind at night for, relatively to solar, steady energy generation
Yet the spot price of power has been over £150/MWh for most of the last year...

That deal is starting to look pretty good for the government...
Their arguments really are ridiculous.

It ignores the fact that climate change is disproportionally going to affect Africa and that doing nothing does not mean the status quo remains for nomadic tribes.

It means more desertification, less grazing area and greater poverty.
they provide services/incentivies specifically catered to startups and their needs (eg free checking, aws credits, payment processing APIs/etc)

and not unlike aws/stripe/etc they want to be the bank for small companies that grow into huge companies. startups are a good segment to target (eg like vc) because they might also turn into a large company with much more cash and more banking needs
Which includes the transmission grid. Nuclear costs that, and then you have to build a grid.
Also the English version was only published 1.5 hours later, so it might have been overlooked initially.
Seems unlikely given the model does pretty well on novel situations. If you ask someone to apply reasons to things they do not understand, you would expect them to get it wrong pretty consistently.

I don't know that it's significant to say that a model's representation of things tends to be good enough to generalize across things but isn't perfect under the hood. That applies to humans too.

The claim was that these models aren't making representations of the underlying reason for things. I guess I'm indifferent if you agree that they are, but that some of those reasons are not correct.
"Comfortable working at heights" feels like the only part that's somewhat unique, but quality work, friendly and won't trash the place applies to lots of people in lots of industries and trades, and surely you could attract some of them if you paid more.

When someone claims they can't get anyone to work for them "no matter what they are willing to pay", it often turns out they weren't willing to pay all that much. Which solar installation company offers FAANG level total compensation?
`let mut` is completely unnecessary from perspective of the language's semantics (everything owned exclusively can be mutated safely), but exists because people really really like having an extra lint against accidental reassignment of a variable.
It's crazy to me there aren't banks with 100% reserve ratio fully insured for a nominal fee of 0.4% or whatever (gold/silver storage with full insurance is ~0.4% so this probably isn't far off).

I'd much rather lose 0.4% of my money than lend it out at +0.01% to whatever checking accounts pay nowadays while they lend out to some asshole that does business with the bank.
Don't forget about when they embed micro-cameras and other sensors to track the clients activities and phone home to report about it :-)
We use KMyMoney for family finances.
Sounds like an major national security vulnerability.
Well, they're safe until they aren't. Bank runs have happened, and more of them will in the future. Nothing is 100% although using banks is probably the safest storage for funds, if you compare...
Compute is cheap if you only run one program on your computer. The moment two or more "compute is cheap" programs run on a computer is the moment when cheap is not so cheap anymore.

Nothing like IntelliJ crashing during a video conference and then indexing your entire project from scratch... Encoding video in real time is CPU intensive, indexing a hundred libraries adds oil into the fire.
The most amusing thing to me about the ROKR was Jobs' clear distain for the device when presenting it on stage.

I wonder how much influence/impetus it provided for the iphone. I'm sure we'll never know (and I'm equally sure there are various articles claiming the impact was lots, or little).
Indeed, sending a little invite, saying "Install signal ..."

Sadly that's exactly what every phishing attack wants you to do.
A haphazard continent-wide transition from Russian gas, and all we get is nuclear prices for power? So to get it straight, you are proposing that we always should have an energy crisis in Europe?
Silicon Valley Bank’s Swoon Should Scare Us
Show HN: DeepAI Hotline – a conversational AI assistant over traditional phone
Hi all, we’re happy to present this demo we’re calling “DeepAI Hotline”. We were interested in ways to bring ChatGPT capabilities to people around the world, particularly those who might not be comfortable with computers and smartphones. We felt that the old-school phone system was potentially a good way to do this.

We built this using the Vocode SDK: https://vocode.dev (YCW23).

Some of the feedback we’ve heard is that it responds to questions impressively fast, and it feels relatively natural compared to older assistants like Siri.

Another funny one: “Feels more real than some people in customer service”.

One of the harder problems faced with this technology is “endpointing” - how the system detects when the user is done speaking and the AI should respond. It is challenging because any inaccuracy leads to responding too soon or too late, which makes the conversation feel less natural.

We had fun building this! Please give it a try and let us know what you think!

You can call it here: 1-669-333-3724

Thanks and Enjoy!

-- DeepAI
I just released the new version of my site https://aidev.codes which will allow you to easily create your own "hallucination" pages including images, since it has stable diffusion integrated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35086436&fbclid=IwAR2Sr...

For example you can write "Please invent an onion-style article in a web page about the Hacker News website, Elon Musk, and cheese. Include a few appropriate images." Then "great, but make it more dramatic and scandalous" and you get this:

https://aidev.codes/runvnc/trip1/

which admittedly is not great so I think that it kind of proves that GarlicGPT has a good prompt.
I actually looked a little more into it and I found out that Google recently prohibited SSHing into a Colab instance, so it’s not possible anymore sadly :(
True, but it's still work. Using ChatGPT manually is great, but it's not as fast as configuring a feature and then having the whole thing built and integrated. A lot of users also struggle with knowing what to even ask ChatGPT, unless they are already an experienced developer.
Tesla puts a ‘dummy’ camera in its new vehicles
... and has a more heavily-editorialized title?

Frankly the run on deposits is more newsworthy than fluctuations in the stock market.

And there is some conflict of interest here between this site's owners and the subject matter.
The parent is talking about a scenario where the network action may take longer, and you want the UI to remain responsive. Consider a save button that goes through state transitions dirty->saving->saved.
>The standard deposit insurance coverage limit is $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category

My understanding is that this might cause an unwelcome surprise to (for example) someone with a personal account at Bank A, and a sweep account at Brokerage P that sends its funds into accounts at Banks A, B, and C.
Thanks and appreciate the heads up!
Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms
> that got useful enough

Does that mean "they figured out ways to make it reproducible and/or validate it"?

Whereas the other subfields of philosophy don't (yet) have ways to fully validate them, and/or make them reproducible?
You may be confusing solvability and liquidity. You may be well capitalised but if you run out of cash it's game over. Being well capitalised only protects you against losses (eg bad loans).
> back breaking outdoor labor that has a high likelihood of causing musculoskeletal healthcare problems by one’s 50s,

Are you sure about this, I mean non-anecdotally? Much might depend on the type/repetitiveness of the labour, etc,etc, but in general I suspect most HN-fiddlers are (mutatis mutandis)in poorer physical shape than labourers. There's little more dangerous to a mammalian frame, designed for a life of outdoor physical activity, than hours of inactivity. The sofa and car are probably the two most physically dangerous items we've come up with. I started to notice most of my peers having become functionally disabled by car and sofa abuse by about their late 20s.
I think the Julia people underestimate how many people, and how much those people, like the syntax of Python. If they'd stuck more to that they might have been able to have won more people over.. (white space, plus many other things).
Interesting bit of backstory. That reminds me how one of the frequent complaints about Gandi have been its unusual terms of service, having fairly extensive "morality clauses" in there

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

http://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.p... (note that new versions seem to not have the clauses anymore..)

I wonder if that history has something to do with that...
Hover has been about as no nonsense as it can get. Not the cheapest, but I'd rather pay a few extra dollars a year to not have to deal with this in the future. I swear I'm the only person I know not constantly switching domain registrars, because I don't want to waste time sweating over maybe tens of dollars a year for something so core to my operations.

The one time many years ago I had to call support for a question a human being answered in 2 rings.

Tucows (which owns Hover) has been around for 30 years. It's likely they'll be around for a long while still.
It would take all the energy the coal plant produced to capture all of its CO2 emissions, it's a pretty futile cycle... For comparison, try to imagine a diesel truck that captured all its emissions onboard as it drove down the highway. It's not very plausible and would represent a huge drain on power output.

FutureGen was a massive failure, too.
Lol you're not wrong. BUT I do want to take my time with the video. I might be slower than you – it would probably take me an hour+ to tweak it, and find a better song.
In a bank? If you have that much you really should invest in something better than a bank account. Banks should be petty cash that you spend in a couple months.
lisp is big in japan :)
The futures market, even 5 years out, doesn't show a return to old prices.

It looks like the market doesn't expect russian gas to ever return.
Klipper (KDE's clipboard tool) lets you set up this sort of thing pretty easily. It can take actions when a certain type of content is copied. So, you can match on "^http[^?]*" and "echo %0" (you can call any program, builtins are provided for MIME types, so you can, for example, launch a browser when you copy a URL) as the action will allow you to replace the copied URL automatically/on-request.
It was worse for me because i thought I knew roughly what a Deicer 3000 looked like. :/
This is kind of like saying we can eliminate most automobile fatalities by eliminating cars and making everyone walk or take the train everywhere.

Yes, it would solve one type of problem. But nobody wants your solution because it’s an unreasonable trade off for everyone to solve an extremely rare edge case.

Single-minded optimization for single edge cases is really easy in fantasy worlds, but in the real world people choose trade offs even if they come with rare edge case risks.

> Daily reminder that bank runs wouldn't be a thing if we did duration matching, forbidding banks from borrowing short and lending long.

In other words, no liquid deposits allowed. Banks charge customers to hold their liquid cash because they can’t do anything reasonable with it.

So yes, you could make one type of extremely rare problem go away by removing a desirable feature used by hundreds of millions every day. I don’t think people would actually choose this, though.

> As always, the underlying problem in banking is that the banks are lying, telling two or more people they own the same dollar at the same point in time

Either you don’t understand how banking works, or you’re trying to project a crude misunderstanding onto the general public.

The concepts of assets and liabilities are well understood in the business world. Banks aren’t “lying” and fractional reserve banking does not mean that banks are creating fake dollars. Liabilities have always been part of the equation.
We're fine as long as we don't hit an iceberg.
Thanks! You're not wrong. A.I. is nothing more than an extension of our collective minds. If our collective minds are messy, the A.I. results will be messy as well.
Your chart shows residential prices for the total us average ~$140/MWh, not $250/MWh.

Plus, this is the total cost including transmission and distribution, which is roughly half the retail cost. Generation costs average less than $70/MWh, including expensive peaking power in the average.

You want to compare the £150/MWh to generation costs of the alternatives in the UK, which are a fraction of £150.
Jesus Christ dude. Cry me a river. It’s quite a unique and novel project. There is no “new normal”.
Why would VC firms urge their founders to all use the same bank in the first place? Seems like a recipe for Bad Things™...

(I assume the answer is some combo of laziness and kickbacks and old boys club and such...?)