skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making cynical blanket statements about large groups of people doesn't do anything to address any kind of issue, and instead normalizes negative behaviors both within that group.

Within the group, the more people believe that it's the norm, the less social impetus there is to address individual bad actors.

Outside that group, people are less likely to treat people fairly if they are perceived to be part of a group of bad actors. How is someone making a positive difference supposed to navigate an environment where everyone assumes they are bad actors?

Finally, pointing to a single case of someone who was arrested for corruption among literal thousands of bureaucrats does not make a compelling case.
The limit to 6 months is pretty disappointing.
Also the 1,000,000 ISK monthly salary for workers in the Schengen area is pretty restrictive, except for Switzerland, Norway, not that many people earn that level of salary.
> Why not?

Because a lot of people live or earn a lot of their living through donations, and quite a lot of opensource you're using would actually be helped with more donations.

> The creators have the option of creating their own cryptocurrency wallets and accepting the donations without any middleman

Except, you know, all the actual things that those "middlemen" do like provide verification that it is the actual artist and not a rip-off, provide hosting for their content etc.

> Recurring payments are so hard to cancel at times with credit cards I'm at the point I create a new virtual credit card for every subscription I create.

Yes, dark patterns around subscriptions are a problem. However, subscriptions and notifications about whether a person has canceled their subscirption or became a subscriber is valuable information to, you know, actually be able to plan ahead, and not wonder whether that person who did something manually yesterday will be there tomorrow.

Edit

> They could also choose a more libre alternative to Patreon such as OpenCollective [0][1] or Liberapay [2].

The could skip all the middlemen, or could chose these middlemen that I personally like and call them "libre" just because they accept cryptocurrency. And LiberaPay is literally a middleman with exactly zero additional value
AI could replace equivalent of 300M jobs – report
IntelliJ IDEA remains state of the art and I appreciate that they keep refining it - e.g. redesigning existing working functionality/dialogs/UI into something better (which is often unpopular, but IMHO beneficial).

But I can't help but notice that they stopped pushing the envelope of what IDE can be even though I believe there's still a lot of potential.
exactly, they would not have a choice

or more precise they would never have had a chance to reach where they did without becoming a party member

through being a party member in the end isn't the same as being a politician of the party or working for them (just saying because some people seem to not be aware about this)
This card also has no foreign transaction fees.
Ask HN: What's your favorite Python editor/IDE?
True, but I would flag or dismiss Wells Fargo if they started shilling in the comments here too.
Awesome! This video is also amazing: https://esawebb.org/videos/potm2303b/
Sounds promising, but that looks to me like a different kind of notebook? It seems to be a way to write documentation with some fancy features.

An Observable notebook is a standalone program, sort of a cross between a makefile and a spreadsheet. You write code snippets in JavaScript to calculate things and it automatically recalculates them when dependencies change. It's pretty powerful since you can import JavaScript libraries (to draw graphs, for example) and call API's.

Examples: https://observablehq.com/collection/@skybrian/digital-signal...
South Africa is a deteriorating shithole. My mother was telling me that they want to move to guarded security estate because she is afraid she might be raped, and my father bludgeoned in their home. (NB: they’re not under threat because of their race, rather because that’s what criminals do).

The police are dumb as rocks and totally lazy: look at the Boksburg tanker blast in December to see how they don’t GAF about doing their jobs.the public was standing around a burning gas tanker taking pictures for social media for hours before it exploded and killed dozens. The police only pitched after the explosion.

There is no serious border control, and any mention of it is shut down as “xenophobic” by the media and business that want to flout labour regulations by hiring undocumented migrants from the rest of Africa, despite the obscene unemployment rate.

The electricity situation has been discussed at length here previously, but it’s strangling the economy.

Sure you can make money if you are skilled, but you can make better money using those skills in any number of other countries.

The only thing that’s keeping many middle-class South Africans from emigrating is the cheap domestic help. They are happy to exploit the obscene inequality since it gives them cheap labour. They live in terror of washing their own clothes and cleaning their own toilets.
For a while the problem with older iDevices was the rapid ram increases across generations. Which leads to random crashes or crashes after some time on older devices because the devs tested on the latest and greatest.

I think the ram growth has stagnated now? I kinda stopped caring.
I think amazon payments is similar, from the customer perspective.
If a loan is 0% interest, I can guarantee you it comes with a price. And it's most likely paid by people who don't understand it.
Where I think orchestras will continue to win out is for live performances. What amplification can do is complete crap compared to pure acoustic much less trying to record and reproduce something without a million dollar sound system.

This is also a case of good old AI automating things that a great many humans enjoy doing saving us from the drudgery of human expression.
I'm guessing that being laid off twice in a year means they didn't have enough time/wages at the second job to re-qualify for unemployment.
.NET Performance Delivers Again for Bing, from .NET 5 to .NET 7 – .NET Blog
I'm not saying this is how it should be, but a lot of the author lists of published papers on scaling properties of large language models have been employees in research divisions within big tech companies or academics holding dual positions with those companies and with their university.

> Where does academia come into it? Are researchers now keeping everything under wraps for "shareholders interests"? Isn't academia supposed to be open culture from the start without any restrictions so what am I missing or are they mixing two unrelated things?

Yeah academia was never perfect, but it's becoming more and more like you describe. It's been happening for a while and that's a whole other thing.
> We just literally witnessed several banks fail in the last few weeks, along with a litany of startups freaking out about how they were going to pay their staff

We did, and those startups got into the state they were in because they chose to avoid getting insurance on their deposits that exceeded the FDIC limits. That's not the fault of of the financial system. And the financial system protected them well over and above what it had committed to do.

> All because people had some sort of belief like you do.

Not at all. If I had a large deposit like them, I would have actually used the services that would have protected my deposits.

> This is simply not true.

It isn't? What protection is there?
BNPL schemes are (or at least were as of a year ago) destroying Gen Z. This one may be less destructive as it doesn't look like interest rates are a thing, but still. Don't get into the habit of spend ing money you don't have.
I really love bear blog, I've seen it several times now on HN. But how do you earn money from it? Donations?

edit: nvm. I saw the paid upgrade feature :)
And they have, particularly when overwhelming Western sanctions failed to shock the Russian economy and society to collapse.

Remember when Biden triumphantly announced that the ruble was reduced to "rubble"? That was the objective, and it failed catastrophically.
yes! and of that 1% more than 90% report that the unhappiness is driven by societal factors: rejection and oppression by their families or their faith communities or both, or at the workplace.

no. the "DeTrAnSiTiNinG" narrative is a bogeyman narrative to narrowly get above the 50% needed in first past the post votes, with fake "concern" about "parental rights" which are purportedly "taken from concerned Christian parents". That subreddit is an artificial cesspool to feed that narrative in a context which is much less restrictive in its policies than HN. the trans communities in the US are in panicking paralysis for becoming the scapegoat.

the reality is that treatment of gender dysphoria according to current standards of care is nothing less than a blessing for those few adolescents who happen to fall into that narrow diagnostic corridor. And they get _no_ surgeries if treated in a responsible setting. they get puberty blockers. the adolescent is reviewed and accompanied in the whole family situation to assess for potential psychopathologies (emotional abuse, munchausen by proxy, in simple terms: is this real or are the parents nuts) and _only then_ and after a long period of confidence building the adolescent grows into making permanent decisions about their life, as a then young adult.

https://www.wpath.org/soc8

those adolescents who are lucky enough to receive such treatment at an early age have the chance to transition into a new life in their identified-with gender as completely inconspicuous well integrated happy adults.

for gender dysphoric youths it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Mike Judge did Silicon Valley already.

Mike Judge's current work is a soon-to-be reboot of King of the Hill.
> Food, clothes and all the other stuff can be paid with crypto.

Of course they can't

> Rent is probably harder, but I guess when you live in a place like Dubai that also won't be a problem

Ah yes. The solution to everyone's rent problems with crypto: just move to Dubai.

> If you want you can also get paid in crypto, so it's not as hard as you might think.

There are over 200 000 creators on Patreon. I'll let you guess how many of those live in Dubai
Elon truly is a neverending font of bad ideas. I'll leave twitter for real over this. There's nobody I'm into who is verified. This will destroy the recommendation function of twitter completely.
i m not within that group -- very few people are within that group and the vast majority are unelected and unaccountable to us. I m not the only one complaining about the brussels bubble. dont try to shift the blame on us

my experince with eurocracy is from projects i ve participated in
URLBox has been amazing for automating some of my content creation, well worth your time
on paper yes

but oversimplified from Chinese POV it's like they still having all the authority over you as a citizen but you having forsaken all the rights you have as one
Well... it's better than their last one. That last one always felt awkward to me. I can't really explain why. It's more than just the asymmetry. Something about the white patch felt like it was wrong.

I like going back to the previous wave-like shape. I don't especially love the new typeface; something about the angle on the I and P feels like it's drawing attention. But that's probably just unfamiliarity and I'll have to see how that feels after a while.
> Yes that is actually an issue. Websites also seem to think people with small screens don't exist.

Umm if they assume everyone has a huge ass screen, why don't they actually put more info on it? I'm tired of sites with 5 words per screen.
I prefer the opposite. eBay and AliExpress are a better experience because I interact directly with the seller. The seller has control over their listing, their inventory, and their fulfillment. I'm not playing the lottery as with an Amazon listing.
Depends on whether or not the following is set:

export const prerender = true;

If it is, it IS in fact compiled to HTML. :-)
https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender

Compilers are awesome.
You must not need to download those transactions as a CSV file. You can only pull it down one statement at a time!

Thanks Apple for making tax time just a bit more painful...
To me it’s not ideal. I can imagine wanting a notification from an app I don’t want to install to my home screen and I wish it were possible.
I don’t think it holds for two reasons.

First, it only holds for a given architecture and implementation. Obviously, a different architecture will have a different training slope. This is clear when comparing LSTM with Transformers, but is also true between transformers that use prenorm/SwiGLU/rotary-positional, and those that follow Vaswani 2017.

In terms of implementation, some algorithms yield the same result with fewer operations (IO, like FlashAttention and other custom CUDA kernels, and parallelism, like PaLM, which both came after Chinchilla), which unambiguously affect the Tflops side of the Chinchilla equation. Also, faster algorithms and better parallelization will yield a given loss sooner, while less power-hunger setups will do that cheaper.

Second, even in the original Chinchilla paper in figure 2, some lines are stopped early before reaching Pareto (likely because it ran out of tokens, but LLaMA makes it seem that >1 epoch training is fine).
> 1. Why doesn't every company try to hire contractors then? Making firing employees expensive beyond reason, always seems to significantly increase unemployment rate (Eg France)/drastically increase informal employment (Japan)

This doesn't make firing expensive beyond reason, it makes it only modestly cheaper as opposed to absurdly cheap. Napkin maths:

* Per annum 200,000 spent per employee (100,000 plus benefits, perks, infrastructure, etc.)

* Per annum 25,000 spent per AI agent (10,000 per license plus infrastructure)

* Without tax, 175,000 savings.

* With tax of 70,000 per displaced employee (approximate 2x federal withholding of a Single employee in the US), 105,000 savings to use AI.

This isn't rigorous math, but it should help get the point across.

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Now, if you just make it a salary conversation:

* 100,000 per employee

* 10,000 per license

* 90,000 savings based on salary v. license alone

* 20,000 savings after that tax.

Either way, AI comes ahead. This just makes sure some of that savings goes into the common welfare rather than upstream to investor pockets.
It's already happening
Devout Christians in tech are extremely rare in my experience. HN is a tech news site. Have you experienced otherwise?
Once trained, incremental inference costs are very cheap. Instead, everyone will have access
It also covers Whole Foods which is nice if you shop there.
Analyzing Russian Internet Firm Yandex, Its Open-Source Code, and Contributors
is there anything like this for Win 3.x and Win95/98SE, with games pre-installed just like this?
I don't know how you intended for your comment to sound, but on my side it looks like that you demand from me to explain myself.

Ignoring that, the article is yet another window in to the past. You can enjoy it as an informational piece. Or if you want to apply some of its lessons to the present day, you can compare it with some of the contemporary attempts at building decentralized organizations. If none of these options appeal to you nor any other, just skip it, HN is not lacking on other content.
> Familiarity breeds respect

Nice.
In parking lots. It's a different steering regime at lower vs higher speeds.
> I’m a North Carolina–based journalist who specializes in countering misinformation on social media.

> And yet I had never anticipated that anyone would mock and terrorize a grieving parent.

Might as well be broadcasting to the world you're incompetent as the self-proclaimed journalist specializing in such things. The MSM has been full of headlines reporting on Billion-dollar lawsuits for this very thing for years now! You'd have to be living under a rock to be so ignorant, let alone be a journalist specializing in this space.

You're either full of fail, or writing fiction, publishing the above two statements.

Not to take away from the tragedy, it sounds like an awful thing to experience.
We have had a similar issue too. Our child was injured due to a faulty piece of furniture in the rental house. He was even injured! This was 100% not intentional.

All these talks about aircover is crap! This fully protects the host and puts all the blame on the guest.
> Coinbase has the option of immediately converting crypto payments into fiat, eliminating that problem.

Sure. You want to update your bitcoin prices what, hourly, to make sure you are charging what you meant to? I'm not sure that coinbase service exactly eliminates the problem. But I'm sure that is a useful service for some!

But yeah, we're on the same page. Overall... it is not a convenient thing for an ordinary business to take as payment for ordinary daily things.
> Editor’s note: We are publishing these 3D animations to show the destructive power of the AR-15. The images may disturb some people.

Explain why you do it, which is not to do anything bad of course, and then with the next sentence say something bad might happen to some people.

Those animations are glossy as fuck.

Interesting.
If they were able to invest billions in a moonshot then obviously their profit model was working...
The raises and tips that Starbucks was giving to the non-union stores, but not offering as options to the unionized stores.
Right, so sort of like https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals but for the training phase. I suppose different training runs could be proposed via a RFC type of procedure. Then it’s not only the open source model maintainers that put the effort, but also supporters of the project can “donate” their hardware resources.
if you want to Buy Old Gmail Accounts. then You are in the right place. we provide phone-verified Gmail accounts. Also, we provide 24h support with any issue.
A lot of times the users of these services are very dumb people trying to get very dumb revenge on something they perceive as a very dumb slight
That name aged like milk. First of all, what you said. And second - a parrot can make more parrots without human help, language models can't make GPU chips. Insulting for both LLMs and parrots.
Big difference between preventing information getting in vs getting out.
They have to pass it to find out what's in it!

Never go full American politics.
Switching cost is trivial with apps like SongShift. In any case, Apple want you whole not just bits and pieces. Before you know it you’ll upgrade to Apple One.
Make it so the product name/title, product number, and brand are immutable. Make it so you can upload new photos, but you can't remove old ones. Flag changes to the description that change more than 50% of the text for human review.

It would require the seller to be a little more careful with the initial submission, but hopefully if they do make a mistake, they notice before there are too many reviews anyway.

And maybe have a way to request a change to fix mistakes that requires manual review. And I think charging a fee for that review would be fair.
All? Like, you reported the account confirmation as spam?
See : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-15/brics-deb...
Their net margin is 10% as per https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/pro...

How much of that would you like to see them give up in order to appease the employees to your standards? Would you like to see their net margin at 0%? 1%? Do they deserve to make any profit in your mind?

You're saying they make too much profit. That's fair. You'd like to see them to treat their employees better at the expense of making less profit. I just don't know how realistic that is...
You share a link from Chinese state mídia lol
They ended up backing away from ZFS because of patents and Oracle. The irony.
Yes, with Bing
We did not have an alternative to electricity for all of the things electricity could power. For some of the things alternatives to electricity continue to be used (e.g. oil, gas, or wood heated homes; windows for light; combustion engines and fuel cells for automotive power).

> You obviously have some understanding of the system if you can speak about bots and front running.

What I've read on crypto skeptic blogs. So basically my understanding is equivalent to the understanding that anyone gets from reading news articles written by content-expert journalists. From what I understand the front-running in crypto can have pretty egregious effects, and can occur with simple monetary transactions, not just the crypto equivalent of stock market transactions. (Yeah, sure, front running can occur in currency exchanges in non-crypto, too, but as an individual, when you go to a currency exchange, or make a purchase overseas, you know the exchange rate before you trigger the exchange.)

> Today, people actually appreciate the immutability of transactions.

I don't. And I don't see how this follows: "It enables the effective store of infinite wealth as a basis." Infinite wealth cannot exist. And how does immutability facilitate this? And how is a blockchain that can technically be rewritten at non-infinite cost immutable (i.e. the MakerDAO rewrite, or any Sybil/51% attack)?

> Credit card companies are providing the reversal business, which is paid for by the people who are borrowing money at insane interest rates... no reason why it can't be replicated once there is enough demand for it, but honestly, I'd rather move to reverse the model.... over collateralized loans.

From what I understand, the interest rates go to the issuing banks, and the credit card companies take their profit from fees. Credit cards (and payday loans) exist for people who lack the collateral for a non-signature loan (without having to collateralize their freedom, aka debtor's prisons or endenturing). The only way to do this in crypto is to trust a third party lender such as Voyager or Celsius.
Ask HN: Twitter will go private, what is the motive?
On one hand we have the press that suggests that TikTok should do an IPO to avoid a ban..

But on the other hand we have Elon Musk who wishes to take private both Tesla and Twitter.

What are the benefits of having a public/private company when it comes to social media? Or a tech company in general.. ELI5

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tiktok-ban-us-without-ipo-mega-cap-tech-acquisition-wedbush-2023-3
An important difference is that you are not modifying the state, though it is still there. There is one problem - time is limited to the range of values the given type can contain and since it's often a floating point type, the farther from zero you go, the less precision you have. Depending on how exactly you use the time variable, the loss of precision can become catastrophic long before the ulps get larger than a nanosecond.
I avoid PayPal completely. I've had experience with them charging twice and pretending it didn't happen (never got a refund), being charged secret "fees", exchange rates 2x the market rate (which I only found out after completing the purchase). All sorts of actions which we'd usually call "scams" but legal department has probably signed off that they can defend in court.

Additionally, *a lot* of scams operate exclusively with PayPal, because PayPal doesn't care as long as it's profitable for them. There's no risk of a bad reputation because you can't have a reputation worse than PayPal anyway.

Oh, and PayPal has also many times banned activists because of simply disagreeing with their cause. Not because required by law or any similar obligation, simply their own will.

We really need decent payment providers; it's sad how many have to rely on this kind of business because they don't realistically have a choice.