skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of those things you mentioned can probably be solved with Account Abstraction and Application Specific Rollups.

Or a database on the game server…

People keep trying to shoehorn blockchain whatever into places where a simple database would suffice and already exists.

Nobody is going to save in game character state in a Account Abstraction and Application Specific Rollup.
Nicely isomorphic to Musk's point on the affordability threshold - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOTs6xdx278&feature=youtu.be
The spikes are queue length (which we want to control), not load. The load is not shown. Any queue length under 20, including spikes, is fine based on the author’s requirements.

The other line, which flattens out at 26 (see right y axis) is the number of workers.
The problem with online checks (gatekeeper) are when you have flaky internet connection.

It can handle no connection quite well, but unstable internet is really a PITA - commands and applications lag randomly when launching etc... It took me some time to troubleshoot why suddenly ma MacOS was almost unusable and this was the culprit.
There is no way a vinyl can ever sound better than digital. Different and maybe more "pleasurable" (for some), but definately not better. It's more of a built in EQ profile that stems from the physical medium itself.
You can browser the countless HN or even Reddit threads and it's always filled immediately with one of the few standard explanations (which are all in the Monty Hall Wikipedia article). None of the "endless discussions" actually disputes the strategy or nobody needs to be convinced. It's all about whoever things they can come up with the most "intuitive" explanation. At this point I'm starting to thing that it's more a myth than reality that it's "not widely believed".
it read like someone appalled at the state of things setting up the ground work before getting to the problem, but then after that first stage, it just sort of ends. what a pointless read.
lol this is so stupid. being russian is as much an ethnicity as it is a nationality. if you make derisive prejudicial comments about an ethnic group that is racism
So do I... There is a (literally) visceral feeling you get when eliminating plants (and frankly, even most supplements except minerals) that the gut is finally at rest / not disturbed, it becomes impossible to ignore that our digestive apparatus is primarily adapted for eating meat. Judging from the many anecdotes I've come across, breakdown of the gut barrier brought about / contributed by most plants is at the root of many diseases. Not the sole cause, I think gut microbiome disruption plays a big part in the bad effects from plants, but that's another story and there doesn't seem to be a solution for that yet (not enough to just chug copious amounts of probiotics).
I've been doing a lot of my non-work computing lately on an actual VT420, which tops out processing bytes coming from the serial line (the computer you're logged in to) at 19.2kbps. I could stand for it to be faster, especially with the screen at 132x48. But never in 30+ years have I ever thought a terminal emulator connected to a session running over a pty on the same machine was slow.

I have started to see "terminal" apps that won't run on a real terminal, though. Using UTF-8 regardless of your locale, using 256-color xterm escapes regardless of your TERM setting, being unreadable without 256 colors, etc, and in general not using termcap/terminfo.
I’m not saying it doesn’t exist but that maybe it’s not as prevalent as you think.
Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? Answer: Bethesda
You shouldn't build your life here on a temporary visa. 4 years should be the maximum allowed stay, and the employer should be obligated to have you train your replacement the entire time. Otherwise, it's just a wage-suppressing system of indentured service.
Please point out where the author claimed to be surprised by this. We'll wait.
Last i heard, china is also being limited in acquiring advanced electronics :

On October 7, the Biden administration unveiled a sweeping set of export controls that ban Chinese companies from buying advanced chips and chip-making equipment without a license. The rule also restricts the ability of “US persons” — including American citizens or green card holders — to provide support for the “development or production” of chips at certain manufacturing facilities in China.
I don't think so. The question is short but it illuminates an angle most people wouldn't think of. Or when they think of it, there's no satisfactory answer immediately apparent.

There's why does any country owe you, and why does your country of origin in particular owe you.
Some of the carnivore stuff approached flat eartherism in terms of its denial of reality. Anyone can look into their own mouth in the mirror and see that it's half full or flattened molars, similar to other omnivores. But no, we're "obligate carnivores".
It's not the same Sennheiser anymore.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/07/sennheiser-sells-off-its-c...
at best idiotic
There is a note on Aaronson’s blog post:

"[Note for people who might be visiting this blog for the first time: I’m a CS professor at UT Austin, on leave for one year to work at OpenAI on the theoretical foundations of AI safety. I accepted OpenAI’s offer in part because I already held the views here, or something close to them; and given that I could see how large language models were poised to change the world for good and ill, I wanted to be part of the effort to help prevent their misuse. No one at OpenAI asked me to write this or saw it beforehand, and I don’t even know to what extent they agree with it.]"
I think the human element shouldn’t be lost here. Remember, the goal of AI is to have a human brain on demand, but just a bit better than human. It sounds like every complexity there could apply to why humans suck at drawing hands.
Browsing history can be very long, much larger than the number of opened tabs. You open a tab and you instantly see what you wanted to read. In history, you would have to dig a lot.
When I was a kid I assumed that spring started January 1st... since that's when the year started. And then every year I would be like "wow, what an unseasonably cold spring this is." Maybe in a few years my belief as a little kid will actually end up becoming true.
>It is practically a panacea

Biggest diet dogma red flag. It sounds like you might be spending too much time in an echo chamber.

inb4 << a bunch of anecdotes >>
What's surprising is that anyone believed it was a product.
Ha, very true...
What if there is a country which has had a strong influence over turning your country of origin into a place that is very difficult to live in?
I think you should lay off the sci-fi.
There was a hugh cold snap in the South East during December that lasted a week or so. The timing and the duration was unusual. Even some of my garage kept citrus plants started to bloom, usually it would be late winter not early or mid winter.
After I started using Disposable virtual machines on Qubes OS for random browsing, the number of opened tabs drastically decreased for me :-)
One thing that I would like to push back on the idea that “It is not a ‘human right’”.

A “human right” is a social term defined by the demands of the people living in that time collectively. There is no list we can check off, it is what people demand and can fight for.

By asserting the right they very well could be /creating/ it.
How is it a 20th century phenomenon? In the past we had barely no movement in comparison with today and at least here you actually had to apply for permission to move away.

The whole welfare system is based on the requirement that it only applies to a selected few and adults today support the elderly so they can retire under the assumption that children will pay the adults for their retirement. If you open up the welfare system for 7 billion people that haven't contributed, it will all collapse.
It's not "a few months" everywhere. E.g.in Ireland current processing time is about 19-24 months since the moment you've sent your application.
i don't even keep snacks in my house ... none, just meals
I like ingest!

That said, I believe OP is offended at being referred to in an impersonal way. As such, I don't believe there's much to be done for him beyond "don't refer to people by their actions", which is impractical.

"I ingested [The Sandlot]" or "We had 50,000 ingesters of [The Sandlot] this week!"

are, to my mind, faaaaaairly equivalent to

"I consumed [The Sandlot]" or "We had 50,000 consumers of [The Sandlot] this week!"

Not terribly compelling but... "ingest" has a gut association whilst "consume" has a head connotation... so... there's that.

However, there is a fun distinction between the two. "Consuming" a book, to me, just implies you read it. "Digesting" and "ingesting" have implications of /rumination/.
I also feel that not building world-destroying robots should be something we should be able to reach consensus on. My current favorite world-destroying robot photo is from the battle of Lutzerath:

https://i.redd.it/bonkanv0xiba1.jpg

If that photo doesn't cause people to wake up to what's being done, ostensibly on our behalf, I don't know what will.
Uber's website says:

Drive when you want, make what you need

Earn on your own schedule.

They can't force you to pick someone up.
Wow, never expected to see "Gaben Newell is a big-tech consumer-control suit" from anyone around here. For what it's worth I'm a huge fan of Steam, if you want to avoid it for personal reasons just go download a copy off the devs blog (linked here: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=73043.0)
I've noticed the same phenomenon where I live in Patagonia.
Two weeks ago, my wife noticed that some trees were changing their leaf colors earlier than usual, which isn't too surprising. But then we noticed that wild apple trees and berries were also producing fruits about a month earlier than expected.
I joked saying autumn is arriving earlier this year now I'm a bit worried about the whole situation
There are people who have lived past 90 who have smoked. Anecdotes like this do not work.
"Folks know this" is not an excuse for ANY harmful behavior.
You realize that you're basically the stereotype of a vegan - preaching the ethical/health benefits of their diet - just with a different dietary preference?
There are arguments against VAT but your argument is nonsensical. It sounds like you're thinking of how sales taxes work. The VAT rate varies throughout the EU so I'm not sure what you're basing the 21% on.

In most of the EU that I'm aware of, VAT must be included in all listed consumer prices because that's what the consumer pays. VAT is only excluded by default in B2B prices so yes, sometimes as a business you have to double-check listed prices to see what you'll actually pay. It sounds like you're arguing for consistent price labelling regulations (aka consumer protection laws), not against VAT.

VAT also doesn't really affect businesses. Businesses collect VAT from sales and pay it on purchases, then declare the difference to their tax agency and either pay any excess they collected or get refunded what they overpaid. It's literally a zero sum game and dealing with it in accounting is trivial on top of everything else you already have to keep track of.

The problem with VAT is that for consumers it is an inflexible tax that acts regressively in practice: because it's a flat tax on all goods, customers with less money spend proportionally more of their income on VAT than customers with a lot of money. It also doesn't apply to business expenses (due to the aforementioned zero sum) and people earning higher incomes are more likely to have access to "job perks" that convert regular expenses to business expenses (e.g. business lunches, company vehicles, etc).

If you wanted to reduce the burden on lower income households, you'd not just abolish the VAT but also abolish any other sales tax and instead raise income tax (especially the ceiling, which often lumps in millionaires and billionaires despite the 1000x difference in scale which often translates to an exponential difference in lifestyle) or (re)introduce a wealth tax (to discourage wealth hoarding and instead encourage reinvestment and commerce).
Any usurious transaction is predatory by definition. Of course people don't want to talk about it. Someone submitted the wikipedia article about usury to HN about 12 hours ago but it got flagged apparently.
For those still hosting websites themself, is there any modern web stats analyzer you could recommend?
AWStats or Webalizer look so dated.
Venmo users on discovering others' secrets on the app
> It does not follow from the GP comment's claim that the author must be writing for HN readers.

It seemed clear to me that the comment was a snide remark suggesting that the article was clickbait. Much like some of the other snide remarks on this submission, such as the sibling comment "The difference is that this article is an advertisement for the app they're selling." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35149157
“On the other hand, everyone involved in the development of AI agrees that the technology poses potent and possibly existential risks, both known and unknown. Tech giants have taken pains to signal that they are taking those risks seriously — Microsoft alone has three different groups working on the issue, even after the elimination of the ethics and society team. But given the stakes, any cuts to teams focused on responsible work seem noteworthy.”
I've always been interested in the effect of air traffic on weather. Contrails can initiate cloud formation. With the war in Europe causing changes in routes I wonder if that's having an effect on northern hemisphere weather patterns on a large scale.
I am really not, you are not understanding my core point - you should NOT have a single identifying key.
Did your dental health improve when going from carnivore to non carnivore?
The only constant is change.
They can. Refusing to take some rides that they do not deem profitable is the same as "negotiating their rate".

If anything, they probably have a lot more power regarding compensation than if they were employees, all earning the same (definitely shitty) salary.
Given that their 'diet' resulted in them being chronically malnourished with such lovely diseases as rickets and pellagra I'd take what we have today thanks.

People today seriously underestimate how common famines were.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines?useskin=vector

If you filter by country until the 20th century you had a famine roughly every 5 years.
Especially if they dont market to fraudsters and money launderers but to normal people who already pirate movies and wont start paying for monkey jpeg.
Show HN: I made a web app that makes web pages with ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion
It also can talk to you using realistic text-to-speech and hosts the web pages on a subdomain if you want.
The ethical standards, interestingly enough, are actually relatively stringent but based on more self-control and collective feel.

Now the use of the results of that research...
A post about PID controllers without a Bode plot? Honestly the post had a lot of promise and then didn't really get into the interesting bits. Building things up in terms of the proportional, then adding integral and derivative feedback is a fun exercise that helps you understand what those terms do (as you pointed out in your comment). OP would benefit from taking a control systems class and not just reading the wikipedia.
> breakdown of the gut barrier brought about / contributed by most plants is at the root of many diseases

And yet we have a unending amount of evidence that consuming plants results in better health outcomes...
In one word: ethics.

Consider the following:

There's a store giving away "free" coffee, if you agree to have your photo taken and shared publically on social media. And you agree to sign up to their mailing list. And, in the very fine print, you implicitly agree to have your contact info shared with other companies for the purposes of direct marketing. (Of course, you can opt out of the mailing list after you receive your first email... but as for the other companies that now also have your email address, well then it's not so clear. I suppose you'll just have to deal with those, individually, over the course of the weeks/months/years that you receive (and try to opt out of) their marketing barrage.) But hey, free coffee, right?

Next to that store is another coffee shop. This store charges $1.75 for a rather plain, unmarked cup of surprisingly adequate coffee. The store has a tip jar on the counter that's clearly labeled as going towards supporting the local kids' hockey team. (Does it actually go there? Who knows. But people report feeling good dropping loose change in there once in a while, and that's sufficient.) The store clerk knows the regular patrons by name, and the staff tend to "source locally" (not just their materials, but even for their part-time and student help during peak seasons). They're small. They're struggling. And thanks to the "free shop" next door, there's even talk of raising their prices to $2/cup for a small.

Given that scenario, will people choose the "free" coffee? You bet your ass they will. But know these 2 things: there will still be a sizable portion of folks that, given the above scenario, would STILL choose to pay for a product if they knew the "warm fuzzy benefits" that came along for the ride. In other words: money isn't everything.
The 2nd thing to note is that, after a while (perhaps, after being sufficiently educated? Or just being tired of treated like a product themselves?) there will be folks who jump ship from the "free store" in search of a more sustainable and ethical alternative.
I suppose it might happen in the other direction as well (people leaving the pay shop in order to get free coffee next door) but I hope by now you can understand WHY someone would want to pay a nominal fee for something that is apparently "free" somewhere else.
Since 2016 at this point I am never going to be surprised if there is ever a big reveal some kind of horrible toxic pollution has been going on nationwide for years and at this point is never going to stop.

Non-stop fracking burnoff is bad enough, it makes people ill dozens of miles away enough to put some in the hospital but we have allowed industrial toxic zones right among populated areas, schools, etc.

https://www.propublica.org/series/sacrifice-zones
What’s the ethic he’s preaching? Save the plants?
Someone really needs to write some dead simple Cloudtrail analysis tools to advise on needed access. I know there’s a couple out there but they were kinda flaky when I tried them
In theory, you are possibly right, but in practice, that is not always the case.

For instance, in France, currently some departments have a fixed number of interview slots per month, meaning people either have to hack their way into finding an available slot (e.g. using scripts to refresh the website in the middle of the night and hope to wake up when a slot becomes available; good luck if you don't know how to hack the system yourself), or they have to pay scalpers to get an appointment.

Then, you get assigned a pre-interview slot, which can take as long as a year of waiting. If you are lucky and everything works out, in the pre-interview, you will get assigned an actual interview slot. Which will be communicated by letter. And which can take yet another year of waiting.

Then, when the actual interview takes place, they give you no definitive answer for almost a year. You only know if it worked out at the end of the process. Overall, the "be in the country for N years" can thus become "be in the country for N+3 years, while not being sure that the next step will actually work or you will be sent back to the beginning"; also, hope that no politicians change the system in the meantime, since all of this is unspecified, so that they can change the rules at any moment and there's no one to complain to.

Of course, your mileage may vary; if you are rich enough to live in Paris, you will probably get better treatment.

So, the US is definitely bad, but the real situation in some Europeans countries is not as good as it looks like.
I mean yes, but there should be some incentive to keep the H1B workers that are already in the country, and have been in american workforce for a few years.

Considering barriers to actually interviewing and assessing someone who is abroad, and how long it takes for someone to actually get a brand-new H1B and move to the US, 60 days just does not seem like incentive enough.

Besides what is the downside of allowing people to remain longer? They don’t have access to majority of benefits citizens get, yet they pay same (but also due to highly skilled job nature much higher taxes)?
The new ARM-based Macbooks are great.

On the other hand, the ideal system for local development of ML software is a desktop computer with a NVIDIA graphics card, although a laptop with discrete graphics will work too. You can do that kind of work with either Linux or Windows.
At my first meeting with Saddam, within 30 seconds, he knew two things about me
I want to copy more, why would I pay to copy less?
Hahaha, reminds me of Strategic Planning and Innovation departments I've seen at various public sector orgs.
What would it be like if Italo Calvino and Sun Tzu explained refactoring?
In a talk I gave on refactoring, I used quotes from Italo Calvino and Sun Tzu, but I never would have guessed that it was They who taught me, better than anyone else, how to do refactoring. Here are some thoughts I have collected.
I remember a lot of people prone to choose left side. so supermarket put things they want to sold a left side of entrance.

although this book is old:
[1]The Secret Family: 24 Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds
Some subs only allow historians, some subs only allow women, some subs only allow students at a specific university.

I don’t think one’s access to different subreddits is something anyone should waste brain cycles on, many bigger fish to fry :)
Depends. As with Internet forums, the presence of Nazis (or whatever similar bad actor) could ruin it for everyone else.

Let’s say you are a high schooler writing an essay about WWII. You ask Google LLM about it, and it starts writing Neo Nazi propaganda about how the holocaust was a hoax, but even if it wasn’t, it would have been fine. The reason it’s telling you those things is because it’s been trained by Neo Nazi content which either wasn’t filtered out of the training set or was added by Neo Nazi community members in production usage.

Either way, now no one wants to listen to your LLM except Neo Nazis. Congrats, you’ve played yourself.

FYI, the reason no one uses Dall-E is because the results are of higher quality in other offerings like Midjourney, which itself does have a content filter.
I don't know about relationships,but as far as online discussions, AIs are better because they don't argue in bad faith like all of the internet. Unfortunately they are too censored currently but locally running bots will arrive
What you want is a newsletter management / email marketing / mailing list program, not a mail server.

Selfhosting an email server has its challenges, and when you're using it to send what people may consider spam, those challenges only get much harder.
In this scenario. the community is a danger to the family.

Reporting the murder will see the community punish the family for not protecting the person better.
If you want to meet almost real persons in VR, each with their own backstory, needs and desires, I have an easy fix for you...

...walk into a real bar instead of a VR bar.
Russia has spend billions to gain soft power by hosting the 2018 world cup, the winter Olympics etc.

However the only "soft power" that has actually worked for Russia are their hundreds of thousands of social media disinfo sockpuppet accounts. They have convinced half of India, Nigeria, Hungary and Kentucky that Ukraine created COVID-19.