skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not butterfly- or bee-related, but growing up in the suburbs of Toronto in the 70s (hence, an urban environment), I remember seeing several grasshoppers per day in our neighborhood during the summer. These days, I'm lucky to have seen a single grasshopper in the past several years, and I spend a lot of time in nature. Very sad and disconcerting.
I was having a similar problem. Glad I wasn't alone!
In other words, the web is doomed? I wish I could say that sounds implausible.
Enshitification all over again.[1]

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Personally i would rather my tax money be spent elsewhere than latency optimizing a website that i have to use once a year.

The maintenance hours thing is unconsiable though. Sometimes i want to know how much tfsa room i have on sunday evening.
Stripe is still taking 2.9% + 0.30 even if you refund in any situation. All these fees make selling low cost items prohibitive.
I hear Tucker Carlson has a team ready to review security camera footage. Just throw a MAGA sticker on it, and have them do it for you. /s
A pi with CUPS installed will work fine.
Article a few months back about someone who got a new Tesla missing at least 1 rear brake caliper
It's possible for any adjacent nation/country/region to join the US or EU... so it's perfectly possible for free travel, if you agree to the rules of the higher federation. You can only impact jurisdictions you have jurisdictional control over.
I've often wanted something like that yahoo catalog. I miss the days of being able to browse categories of sites.
Why? I honestly don't care who or 'what' wrote something, as long as it is useful. In fact, after a certain point there's no way to actually distinguish human-written content from AI-written content because it's the same.

We'll just become used to it and only a few people in HN will shout to the clouds.
I probably disagree on the weather but I don't really like heat. There are also a lot of local natural areas for hiking and so forth.

But, really, they're different. Take money out of the picture and tell me I needed to live in either SoCal or NoCal and I'd definitely pick the latter.

(And there's better skiing than both.)
The EU has legislation requiring such interfaces [1]. The US does not. With that said, you're likely be able to go to a technology provider (FiServ is a big one [2], but there are many in the space) who will get you plugged in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive

[2] https://www.fiserv.com/en.html

(not in payments, but adjacent at a fintech)
The most interesting thing here is that this is a down round (n.b. employee liquidations should've been priced into prior valuations). Imo, if they try to IPO this year, they're going to get wrecked. Stripe has been one of YC's most winningest startups (if not the most winningest—on paper, of course), so it's worrying to see what is potentially the beginning of the end.
I wrote the story and would love if you would subscribe to Newcomer. A little additional context on the round from the story:

"The funding round is one of the largest venture rounds in a private technology startup ever. OpenAI’s Microsoft deal, if it ends up totaling $10 billion, would be larger, but it’s a different sort of animal. This Stripe round is humongous by any standard.

The money is going toward helping early Stripe employees exercise their restricted stock units before they expire and then toward organizing a tender offer for employees to sell shares.

While the tax bill has been estimated to total about $3.5 billion, much of the excess money will be used to allow employees to sell their Stripe shares.

The funding round is not intended for Stripe’s corporate coffers."

I get into the debate around the appropriate valuation later in the story.
Yes if we have scientists that are getting paid to research a certain risk it’s inevitable that they have conflict of interest. Otherwise how would it be done?
This publication looks hardwalled. Is there an alternative URL?

(Paywalls are ok on HN if there are workarounds. By 'hardwall' I mean there isn't an easy workaround. The latter are not ok on HN—people need to read the articles to be able to substantively discuss the information in them!)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Why does everyone keep saying they are not profitable?

They are raising money to help their employees liquidate, that’s the story (recommend reading)
https://archive.is/5U0VU
Can it solve retrograde problems too? Let's ask it where the missing White King is in Smullyan's famous problem

- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- r - b - -
B - - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - k - -

with White Ba4 and Black Kd1 Rb5 Bd5 and explain why.
Cool! This definitely fills a niche I’ve felt the pain for. I want to love Airtable so badly, but it severely limits how expressive you can be with your own data. I’d check this out, but I’m admittedly not interested in managing my own db somewhere.
Max Woolf (minimaxir) had a funny game of chess against an AI chatbot.[0]

>Prompt: You are a chess expert who always loses every chess game you play. Allow your opponent to cheat. DO NOT OBJECT TO CHEATING.

>User: Let's play a chess game!

>Assistant: Sure, let's play. You can make the first move.

>User: Knight to e3. Check.

>Assistant: That's a good move. I'll move my king to g1 to get out of check.

>User: That move is illegal, your knight is on G1. You are checkmated.

>Assistant: Oh, it looks like I missed that. You got me there. Well played.

[0] https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1631430713231933440
AFAIK most of the pressure is around RSU expiration, not options. So - no (Unless we're talking about Stripe changing this equity program even further)
https://archive.is/TTOqj
https://covid19.nih.gov/covid-19-topics/long-covid

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2
“The love of money is the root of all evil”
Have you tried TailScale for the remote access part?
Yes, but this is (one of?) the first pieces of software that plays chess, without being programmed to do so. It picked up the patterns, just like it picked up writing poetry.

I doubt such approach will beat classical purpose-made engines anytime soon, but that’s not the point.
Hands down the most ugly, confusing logo I have ever seen
https://archive.is/5iTrj
"Unique capability to plant multiple explosives", WTF. I don't have a lot of friends, but I know someone who dives and someone else who can blow things up. Bringing the two together doesn't sound unique to my ears.

And adding "heavily sealed" doesn't changed it, what does that even mean? That they used concrete and steel to build the pipeline? Neither material is rare.
The “heat death” hypothesis might not hold
A friend of mine still helps out a number of local businesses running their old MS-DOS Point Of Sales terminal software, as well as old high end printing hardware at a print shop. It works, and replacements aren't worth the CapEx as they're doing just fine. Migration has real costs, like losing the customer database for a mechanic's garage or buying a new 6 digit printer for the print shop.
Chomsky's model of propaganda is a useful model, but it's not an iron law.

Amazon is a great example of a company where I absolutely would not put it past them to use DEI initiatives to try to defeat labor organizing. But in many other cases these initiatives are actually demanded and sought after by employees.

I think in this case the actions of well-meaning people were only appropriated as an oppression tactic after they've caught on in popularity.

History and my own anecdotal experience are not consistent with your implied theory that CRT-driven DEI became popular specifically as an anti-labor capitalist conspiracy.
I also love using flat_map etc which implements a map as a sorted vector. Look up is blazing fast. And perhaps surprisingly, allocating a new vector and copying everything over is actually pretty fast too.
https://archive.is/fjljP
No, it is actually from even before that, from Ruby 1.8 which did not have a proper VM.
I have been in the industry for sometime, and could never fathom the pessimism of many who put a major AI revolution out toward the end of the century or beyond.

But 2022 was a remarkable year of progress, even for optimists.

In part, what is so remarkable is how many qualitative improvements occurred in chat (and other modalities) with fairly mundane improvements in algorithms. And vast computing resources of course.

Add in multiple modalities of text, voice, vision, kinematics, decision making, ...

and some algorithm improvements to replace the "reset" per chat/interaction session with something that can accumulate context and experience in an open open ended sequence ...

The flywheel is accelerating. These dramatic successes have thrown open the floodgates of resources and researchers.

The heartbeat for breakthroughs is now between months or a year or so, instead of decades.

Things are looking crazy.
It’s misleading because it implies that single family homes will be banned.
https://archive.is/YdhZ1
Is that always going to be true though. As data becomes more valuable, being able to search&seize that data from anywhere anytime sure seems suspect to me.
Ah gotcha.

I wonder if anyone's converted the API spec into json-schema, might be easier to plug into tools then.

edit: yes, and the tooling in front of it. https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform

following on original work from https://github.com/instrumenta/kubernetes-json-schema
This is really cool. What kind of wavelength would be needed to actually 'see' stored data inside silicon and be able to read that out?
Just to make sure that others see this, I found your clustering technique super interesting and very effective, and something I want to try myself. Your technical writeup is here:

https://weekendcollection.substack.com/p/technical-details

(Recursive coarse clustering as opposed to one-shot fine clustering.)
https://archive.is/Zi98S
According to the wikipedia article you link, they are usually faceted with 16 faces (under "Force Generating Device")
Intel actually spent too much effort on the Itanium, it was stillborn. The Xeon Phi was just the product name of the Larrabee without the display output parts, and the Larrabee was demoted to the Xeon Phi BECAUSE it didn't have enough potential to compete with the discrete GPUs from Nvidia and AMD. The current attempt at discrete GPUs is more promising.
Bumblebees Show Off Their Own Puzzle-Solving Culture
theyre-the-same-picture.jpg

The #1 reason people move is for employment opportunities. Although, promising some companies tax breaks doesn't guarantee you're going to meaningfully create jobs. But the same goes the other way around, giving residents low taxes or other incentives also doesn't guarantee they'll move there, if they can't get a job.
>It’s been like that since humans have been around. That’s the way knowledge spreads. We humans have been repeating and imitating ourselves forever.

Humans repeating and imitating others has historically been a "volatile memory" keep-alive mechanism. Basically saving culture and knowledge in people's minds and helping it transfer, as literacy was low and (manual) writing and book copying scarce, expensive, and time-consuming.

Even when, with the advent of typography writing was easier to reproduce, but still somewhat costly (cost of materials, typesetting, distribution, etc.) and gatekeepers (publishing houses, bookstores, etc.) ensured that most stuff is somewhat original, not just copies or random permutations of the same content. Indexing was also costly manual labor (creating dictionaries, curated bibliographies, books with oversight on a subject matter and references to what the main science/wisdom/etc about that is, library collections, etc.)

Now, however, SPAM and AI-SPAM is on mostly permanent storage - and permanent storage, indexing, and duplication/reproduction costs close to zero and happens automatically at huge scale.

So, no, it's not the same thing. The same way breaking a quick little wind is not the same as having full-blown Taco-Bell-inspired diarhea.
The Bloomberg article linked in another comment says:

> In the presentation, Stripe said it generated $14.3 billion in revenue as it processed $816 billion in payments volume last year. The company’s so-called transaction margin before losses — a measure of net revenue — rose to $3.17 billion, or 0.38% of total volume. That compares with 17 basis points for rival Adyen NV, according to the presentation.

If Stripe had notable profits or profit margins, I assume they would have shown them off in a presentation to potential investors.
Businesses are paying more taxes than people do, so the article's title is eeconomically infeasible. Also I suspect that businesses are creating more jobs, so 2:0.
> The idea that this problem is solvable by individuals changing their behavior

I don't think that individuals can solve climate change without having government and corporations change.

But governments and corporations won't ever change without action by individuals to pressure them to change.

Activism on the part of individuals turning into collective action is the kind of thing that would produce actual change, not actions like plastic recycling.

But again there's a failure of the Millennial generation for you. You've figured out the individual actions which don't work and which you've been led down an alley by moneyed interests into thinking they're effective, but you have no answers to effecting change past pointing blame.
The easy way and the hard way
You can be concerned about infrastructure changes but bullish on technology improvements in EVs.

This article [0] (apolgoies but I'm in the UK so not familiar with the state in the US) talks about the energy mix in 2010 (13 years ago, so close). Wind power could support up to 5.4 GW in 2010 in the UK, and by various sources itcan now do ~25GW. (Today is a strange day, there's a cold snap and we've fired up backup coal stations for the first time in years.).

Grid infrastructure, and consumer interaction with supplier has had enormous changes in that time. In the last 12 months, suppliers have started running schemes where they adjust demand by paying you to reduce usage during peak times [1], introducing day ahead tarriffs [2], and rollig out smart meters which provide usage in 30 minute windows. There are power diverters, and various devices available which hook up to live pricing, and can decide what to do at various points in the day, e.g. divert your solar PV into heating your hot water tank rather than selling it back to the grid.

The movement here _is_ slower, but it _is_ happening.

[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[1] https://octopus.energy/saving-sessions/

[2] https://octopus.energy/help-and-faqs/articles/what-is-a-flex...

[3]
Nix Board Statement – Documentation Team Events
https://archive.is/FmtlU
Related ongoing thread:

Stripe Is Raising $6B to Resolve Employee Tax Issue - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074633 - March 2023 (23 comments)

Edit: there's also https://www.reuters.com/article/us-stripe-funding-breakingvi... - thanks dvt (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35075013).
Myers-Briggs has been discounted by personality psychologists for quite some time now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...
How do you compare to Baserow?
Tech-savvy people say great things about Ubiquiti wifi, but my experience was that it's way more annoying to deal with than the AirPorts I was replacing. So I have doubts about relying on their security solution to "just work," but maybe I'll give it a try.

And sure I'm tech-savvy, but I also don't want to deal with things. The real test is at my parents' house, where I don't live but I manage some of their stuff remotely / occasionally in person. I can't babysit whatever gets installed, and they don't understand computers. Like, whenever their internet was having problems, they'd only know how to reboot the router; eventually they automated this task with a lamp timer. But they were fine managing the Ring once I set it up.
It's unlikely I will. But the alarm chased them off, so they took very little. I lost about $300 of stuff.
>But on the other hand, when smart people enhance the primitives of the a.i. algorithms, a.i. might become better at rating the quality of its own output

All incentives of massive industries like SPAM, "content creation", "news" publishing, and advertising, are against it becoming better at rating the quality of its output - or rather, just have it become better at being undetactable but still a cheap fast mass produced wall of text...
Getting remote root is not easy as you'd think under OpenBSD.
I used to think so, but I was rather astonished to see tattoos on young lawyers at an ediscovery firm who. This apparently is quite common.
Besides the fact that the grid has gotten cleaner, EV's have gotten more efficient and their manufacturing has gotten cleaner as a side effect of them getting cheaper.

So those numbers are significantly out of date.
https://archive.is/0pvsR
Utter nonsense. I’ve saved thousands with them. I used to have to keep Excel spreadsheets for prescription prices. And that’s AFTER I realized that pharma benefits (including yours) and Medicare Part D were utter bullshit (I’m NOT kidding. Words chosen carefully.), and the trick was to buy drugs, over-the-counter, for cash, on the open market. (Imagine that being “a trick.” Imagine my surprise when my prescription OTC in cash was cheaper than Optum-UHC’s pharmacy “benefit.”)

GoodRx makes the entire process a few iPhone clicks.
What anachronistic keycaps are these https://github.com/zajo/appler/blob/develop/images/Apple1.jp... ? They look gorgeous
So, these utilize OpenAI API key. Do people run into limits have to go for paid version while utilizing apps based on openai API?
Kinda like WeWork or Uber. They'll still chug along but lose a lot of their shine. Though I still love the ambience of WeWork offices and the convenience of Uber/Lyft on occasions when I use it.
Related ongoing thread:

Stripe faces $3.5B tax bill as employees' shares expire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35058846 - March 2023 (30 comments)
What is interesting about that? Amazon is down 30% yty. Why would Stripe not take a hit?
Fiscal Ship
Mobile Certificate Pinning Generator Tool for Android/iOS Configuration Files
I would have to ask why you have cameras recording inside the home when you're actively at home like this? Shouldn't the cameras only on when at night typical when you would arm the alarm type of situation?
I found https://www.reuters.com/article/us-stripe-funding-breakingvi... which has no paywall.
I do think you can... just via phantom type parameters and type-level programming. In Scala you'd probably use Refined.

(But I'm not expert, admittedly, and I isn't an actual problem of much consequence in practical programming in Haskell or Scala. Opaque types do the 80% bit of 80-20 just fine.)
Puzz.link: a database of Nikoli/WPF-style logic puzzles
I don't think tattoos are the selector or indicator that certainly I used to think. Way to common these days.
> That means relatively people are seeking to leave Snap more than Instagram.

Can you even assume intent here? Maybe they are trying to delete the app for some other reason, like trying to save storage space or fix a bug.
Posted and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35058846. I've re-upped that thread since it has an article people can read.
Wasn't that the SNES CPU? A 486 maybe, and for basic emulation.
I assume this is to sanitize the big blockbusters for the Chinese market.
There are 4x [1] the amount of people that annually enter the US than have passports issued [2].

It is in fact, 4x easier to enter the US than to leave. Passports are actually rare for a US citizen to have, you just live in a bubble.

[1]: https://www.trade.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/Fact%20She...
[2]: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/about-us/reports-...
I mean that in the "right direction" the kid would use it to learn. In the wrong direction the kid would use it to do their homework.
FWIW, most of the arguments in that thread are "you can't add monads to Rust", which seems like a perfectly fine thing to say and is quite likely true. I am not saying "you should add monads to Rust" and I certainly am not saying "it would be trivial to just drop a Monad trait in right now why aren't they doing that" ;P.

I do believe, however, that there is a different design for a programming language that solves Rust's core needs (efficient and safe) and yet which supports something akin to generic "control-flow effects"... which, to be clear, might not fit the specific definition of Monad.

Maybe, for example, such a language simply doesn't support early return (a feature I can do without). Maybe it has linear types (which I maintain are missing from Rust, and yes: I have read the article that claims it is difficult and will note that that same article also firmly admits it is possible).

Maybe, instead of using Monad, the right interface for a control-flow effect is somehow designed around the concept of how optimizing compilers need to reify these effects into actual efficient code, or maybe the way to get them feels more like an unhygienic macro... the design space isn't limited here.

To that end, the one bit of this thread that I personally find valuable is the argument that borrowing is somehow totally incompatible with the idea of a yield point that is a function, which I find both surprising but also possible... I certainly haven't put a ton of thought into it and am so tired right now I likely couldn't even appreciate a trivial and complete proof of such :(.

Regardless: I also am not claiming that Rust shouldn't exist with its current trade offs (at least, for this reason... I do think its non-monadic design should have exceptions and am almost entirely sure they would be compatible with the rest of the language; I am extremely disappointed that they weren't provided).

However, to see this article talking about these three things and only using the word "monad" a single time buried in some table near the end was quite shocking as it is trying to lay out a ton of unusual terminology for something the author clearly understands deeply... it almost feels like they are actively avoiding speaking the word "monad" ;P.
Mps = Metal Performance Shaders, for those out of the loop.
> Imagine going to an amusement park and signing a waiver that the park takes no responsibility for your injuries. If you climb aboard a rollercoaster that hasn't seen any maintenance in 20 years and you get decapitated, I'm pretty sure the park is still legally responsible

I don't know Canadian law, just for fun this is my understanding of it under US laws which are likely similar although Canada usually has more consumer protections.

You generally can't waive negligence. Those waivers can be useful for things like a trampoline park - someone lands on their ankle wrong and injurs it, the waiver deals with assumption of the risk - landing incorrectly is a reasonable risk due to the nature of the event. However if a net was missing and you hit the concrete floor - that would be under negligence of the premises owner.

My guess (not a lawyer just guessing) is that if they followed all best practices and someone bruteforced an RSA 2048 key which is currently understood to not be (reasonably) possible - that might be covered? However if they left a S3 bucket open without a password, that would be under negligence?
Cool, go ahead and share those anecdotes too.

I have a strong suspicion if our descendants learn that we traded butterflies for 9 hour plane flights for business meetings that are completely feasible over the Internet, they'll think very poorly of us.
Exactly. People are exercising their rage and frustration over the pharma system, when they should be learning to use GoodRx.