skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Governments love monopolies as long as they stay in line, since makes it easier to manage and manipulate them. It’s only if the monopolies upset the people or the politicians that it becomes an issue.

Very true. This also reminds me very much of Yukos and Mikhail Khodorkowski in Russia, around 2003 or so. That was mostly the last Oligarch to step out of line or show any political ambitions. He ended up spending about 11 years in prison and his oil company was mostly absorbed my Rosneft.
This seems like a logical and interesting service that should drive quite a few sales for Apple as people impulse-buy status symbols they shouldn't really try to afford.

My big concern with using some of these "pay later" types of services is that it seems incredibly risky to your credit score even if you do everything right and pay it off on time.

If Apple or anybody else can clarify on this point, that would be great. Otherwise, I'd never touch this.
I wonder do they ban people’s accounts for doing such things? That’s basically theft
> Just curious, why would you spend days resolving this? What was the amount of money here?

Is the implication here that the should walk away from being robbed of 170 quid? They're fighting for dignified treatment.

I know this is an example of another problem, but in the US it's easy to see someone actually being killed over attempting to rob someone of $200.

People have strong reactions to unjust treatment, especially when they believe they are dealing with a fair system. (I feel it's different when you know you just have to pay the bribe.)
It's the contrast between the ascenders, descenders, and the x-height that make Arabic so lovely for me to see, even though I can't read it. Sudanese script is visually striking, though not traditionally pretty. It's the Mondrian to the Rembrandt of Arabic.
Non-technical people turn their laptop off when they're not using it, because it eats up power and they often don't have the willingness to burn electricity bills on a device they don't fully understand how to use.

This isn't about me, this is about regular computer users, who make up by far the biggest crowd of people.
On the roadmap, no ETA.
They don't have legal power.

The reports mentioned that multiple people vanished after getting dragged into their offices, even with video evidence. That makes your point kinda moot in my opinion.
One word: Fauna
Sure it is, it's saying that a diet which is "good"* for the planet at 10 billion people automatically translates to the optimal diet for one person. It's a completely different scale and matter.

* (without considering any emissions or other negatives caused by shipping perishable vegetables halfway across the planet)
Thanks for asking and posting the old link. I for one never get tired of these types of questions.

I don't have an online biz, successful or not. I find these inspiring and depressing. Depressing because I feel like I never have any ideas.

Everyone always say look at your pain points or scratch your own itch. I don't seem to have an itch and as for pain points I just seem to go the flow and don't think of anything as a pain point.
Oh come on. I don’t have a dog in this particular fight, but if you can’t accept politicians being in the pockets of lobbyists as a premise for an argument you are either being naïve or intellectually dishonest.
That's true, I imagine there aren't a lot of 6 year olds doing drive-bys, but given the other major cause of death is motor vehicle accidents I'd expect that too to rise at the same age as inexperienced drivers gain independence behind the wheel for the first time.
One thing that may help is standing up a simple product landing page to describe what the product is and linking off to the app store.

When I tried to search just for "Pixelist" on DDG I didn't see the app on the first page. Once I added iOS then it was findable.

Your app seems really neat. It reminds me of the everyday calendar that Simone Giertz made.
The more I dealt with PayPal, Stripe, and other payment processors at my job, plus my personal bank and Venmo, the more I appreciated Bitcoin and Ethereum. Takes a while to realize the full scope of control the governments have via money alone, both as a currency and a payment method. And the abuse of power. That PayPal rule against "misinformation" is the reddest flag.

Maybe cryptocurrency isn't the best answer in the end, but there needs to be some alternative even if only to pose a threat to the status quo.
Why should we assume that the way SMS, phones, mail, notifications and other channels have been handled in the past is the way they must always be handled? I work with a lot of those marketers. It's not like they're sitting in front of Braze in a black top-hat, twirling a curly mustache with their fingers, and saying "heh heh heh, how I can annoy all of my users today?" They hate that there isn't a better way to reach people. There are better ways - I know because I'm building one of them and can see how it reaches people when they want, about what they want, and as frequently as they want, and how the engagement and purchase rates are way higher for those individualized messages than they are for dumb blast messages.

It's not inevitable that a tool with a glaring technical flaw must always have that technical flaw. Technical flaws can be fixed.
A Sting Operation to Save Elephants, with No Stings
It looks like for it to work like this the doc would need to be divisible into obvious units that could be retrieved by some key/terms, but in our case it was much looser than that. There were no fixed rules (otherwise we'd have written business logic), it was guidance that really assumed the whole doc as context, and human judgement of the relative weightings of parts of the doc.

The failsafes based on confidence levels is an interesting idea though, that is very possible. I suspect we'd have started out with manually reviewing all decisions and slowly backed it off as the prompts got better.
Pretty much all the beef production is done in grazing fields as it is cheaper and less work. It is only the bulk up that is done in feed lots (1-3 months before going to the abbatoir). There is even pasture finished beef production where cows stay in the fields without feed until the end.
I do think there are definitely occasions it's beyond fair to blame management for a bad call and expect consequences. One of the most blatant cases for this being well deserved, IMO, is when management makes cuts and then expects to (or does) receive bonuses for hitting budget targets. You didn't hit budget targets, you bombed and cut back so it didn't look like you failed. Another is serial mismanagement where it's not just a mistake it's a regular failure to be able to manage successfully in a typical scenario.

However, just as it doesn't make sense when people call for blood/resignation/pay cut/etc of an engineer the instant they make a costly mistake (even though some poorly run places of course will), it's not a given that a mistake in management was made therefore we need the blood of some in management. The question on consequences, in both cases, is usually "would it be expected someone else in that role is doing significantly better at avoiding these problems" not "has this employee ever made a mistake".
Can you name some of the prominent examples?
One assumption could be that there are certain products/services that have age related regulations and Paypal needs to comply. Maybe, if your product or supplier wasn't on that list but you still got asked for a birthdate there was a misconfiguration in that regulation rule set...
Is this like an open-source Wiz?
Well, a firewall rule based on a cloud-populated access control list interrupted traffic. More likely vendor-related than employer-related.
Aren’t there towns in the US and elsewhere named for towns in other countries? This xenophobia is an albatross.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Mr. Aonuma Gameplay Demonstration
I think OP was talking more about upending the universal dogma of "statistical optimization to minimize feedforward loss functions via gradient descent." We now have plenty more tricks of the trade (ReLUs were a big one, self-attention was another, making things convolutional was a third, and the smaller ones like dropout/batchnorm/LR schedules). However, in broad strokes, this paradigm remains relatively unchanged since LeCunn+Bengio+Hinton in the 80s. The fundamental idea informally stretches back to Rosenblatt's perceptrons in the 50s, which itself was built on McCulloch and Pitts' modeling of neurons as multiply-accumulate units from 1943. We've spent lots of time questioning these assumptions (e.g. branching off into Boltzmann machines or spiking neurons, which are really fascinating), but to my knowledge, there haven't been promising alternatives yet.

We have "something that appears to work" but is this itself a local minimum? Biology found its own efficient processes that look a bit different after all.

In my opinion, "fundamental breakthroughs" would answer questions like:

- is there an inherent reason that humans learn through a process akin to statistical optimization, or is it a coincidence that feedforward-only gradient descent seems to work?

- Are there other models for "neurons" that go beyond GEMM, like spikey activations? We know from biology that they're nonlinear; how might they be modeled better?

- Are there ways of training effective agents beyond just the reinforcement Q-learning techniques that we've settled on?

- What does it even mean for a model to be able to "reason;" does our current view of recursive models with hidden state really map to that philosophy one-to-one or is there more?
> and any one of the alternative ffrontends or integrations?

And what sort of understanding do you have with the alternative frontends/integrations about how they handle your API keys and data? This might be a better solution for a variety of reasons but it doesn't automatically mean your data is being handled any better or worse than by openai.com
He said that those kinds of statements would be outrageous.
This is not a clear answer to a question about the cost.

Don't be a car salesman.
I guess if you really need a knife you can pick up a utility knife at your destination for a few dollars.
This is exactly the problem.

Median income in India is $3.6/day. It takes very little training to have someone do work for $10/day, which is a three-fold increase in income and a huge boost to standard-of-living. That's call center, data entry, etc.

From there, it takes a moderate amount of effort to train someone to churn out low-quality code. That brings income to perhaps $100/day, which is a very decent standard-of-living in a low cost-of-living area. That's maybe 2 years of bootcamp-level training and 4 years at a low-quality university.

Most of the talent pool in India (and many other developing countries) is shaped like a pyramid, where top-tier talent exists, but it's hard to find the needle in the haystack. Interviewing is far from a perfect process.

It's not a problem which is quickly solvable. The amount of top-tier talent can grow exponentially, but low-tier talent can grow just as quickly for many years -- India has over a billion people.

It's not clear it's even a bad thing. At the end of the day, the transitions from $1 => $10 => $100/day are a lot more important than $100 => $1000, since they provide for access to decent food, housing, and medicine. It's okay to prioritize growth at the bottom.

Without prioritizing the top at all, at some point, you do hit the middle income trap, but that's a much still better place to be than $3.6/day median income.
> Background

> This project started from two points: as part of my PhD, I had to become very familiar with working with NOAA forecast results (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4725-3251). Separately, an old tablet set up as a "Magic Mirror,” and was using a weather module that relied on the Dark Sky API, as well as my Home Assistant setup. So when I heard that it was shutting down, I thought, "I wonder if I could do this.” Plus, I love learning new things (http://alexanderrey.ca/), and I had been looking for a project to learn Python on, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity! Spoiler alert, but it was way more difficult than I thought, but learned a lot throughout the process, and I think the end result turned out really well!

Seems perfectly fine to assume that this might be purely an exercise in order to learn as much as possible, rather than to build something that is trying to be as cost-effective and performant as possible.
Anyone noticing there is serious view caching issues with this app? Every menu I click into will briefly show me a previously navigated to screen.

Say root is View A which has two sub views B and C

I go into B, then back to A, then into C - it will show me B for a second.
"Classify the following strings according to whether they represent Python programs which terminate..."
Wow. Thanks for the blast from the past. WeatherSpark was the best! Forgot all about this.
Or: Why app stores are a thing
You do that by using delta-t instead of 1 when doing a stateful operation. The fact that a stateless function does it for you automatically is gravy.
> Honestly, Americans are getting hard. They were soft when they allowed themselves to be pushed around, jobs outsourced, sign 4 year non-competes and non-disparage agreements, and put up with crappy bosses with no cost of living increases, and sexually harassed in the office by their boss.

Couldn't agree more. It's almost comical how these owners and managers are resorting to juvenile, schoolyard bully tactics against workers who are finally standing up for themselves and demanding more.

"Aw, you won't eat that bug? It's because you're scared isn't it? Wow, I didn't know you were so such a scaredey-cat!"

"Aw, 2 hours a day is too much to commute? Sounds like you don't even wanna work. Wow, I didn't know you were so lazy!"
At least I have an anecdote that produces a large percentage of the beef and dairy consumed in Portugal. I fail to see proper data from anyone else showing the contrary elsewhere.
Ah, you're a troll, never mind.
Exploitable marketplaces just seem to be seesawing back and forth between those closing exploits and those finding new ones. Anything that gets massive these days seems to get into this stage because of the profit incentive on both sides. I wonder if there's data on whether the general "arc of progress" is going in the right direction? I go back and forth depending on the day.

Personally I've just established my own rules of the road to avoid the bad side, like deleting Facebook and all social other than Twitter, using browser extensions in Twitter to filter out trending stuff, and being very careful and methodical about purchasing from Amazon including avoiding almost everything isn't a reputable company that I can do a simple background check on. I've even been fooled here but it's generally pretty easy to figure out.
> Could also switch to 1992-02-01 now

Huh?
That is in fact how it works though.
Very interesting project, congratulations on the launch! I've been playing with embedding search/clustering on larger documents, and I find that segmentation strategies can be quite tricky and heavily impact results. Do you offer any segmentation strategies via API, or do you expect this potentially personalized feature will be handled by devs on their own servers?
You missed the word "dying" in the OP. The popularity of orchestral music has waned to the point where what you are loosely calling "essentially donations" gets a lot less bang for the buck these days.

Just for a single example-- the count who funded the Mannheim school got musical rockets in return, ones that became the envy of all of Europe. Of course orchestral developments were happening in other locations as well; in general this set off a kind of orchestral space race. You can track it through history all the way to Bayreuth and beyond.

Hell, there's probably a line from those orchestral crescendos to the "orchestra hit" General MIDI instrument.

At the height of all that orchestral fervor you've got, for example, an opera composer as a member of Italy's first parliament. How many people on HN can even name a living composer?

Now imagine $living_orchestral_composer at the helm of a nationalist movement in the U.S.

I've read the preceding sentence three times and brain just outright refuses to come up with imagery for that.

So while I guess you can squint and see the historical funding of orchestras as "essentially donations," there's a big difference between donating to a historical society and donating to the red cross. The 19th century funding of orchestras was much more like the latter-- funding for something that is essential to living (or at least in the U.S., essentially to being taken seriously by Europe). Today it's like building model trains for your ears.
Thank you; finding a habit tracker on IOS that isn't juiced to the gills with social and/or subscription features is impossible.
Maybe I overgeneralised - I had most personal computing devices in mind, which I'm most interested in developing for. I appreciate that there's orders of magnitude more computing devices that do not fall into that category.
Microsoft Security Copilot: Empowering Defenders at the Speed of AI
Your tp is not getting rid of all the feces in your butt and it's leaving a bunch of pieces of rolled up shit paper behind in your ass. I don't care how good of a wiper you are.

Yes a water pressurized bidet spraying your crack is quite a bit better... not as good as actual soap but still. You can apply this to any body part and ask yourself if you think wiping that part with some shaved off tree is better than water???
> As another commenter mentioned this includes a lot of gang stuff

I wonder what these stats would look like for legal vs illegal weapons.

The fact that nobody seems to be publishing these figures should be a pretty good indicator of what they would tell us...
Legally speaking, they can't. It doesn't matter where the ship will be docking. Anything otherwise is a crime against humanity. International laws and EU laws are bigger than any Italian authority and Italian laws that has been ever established.
This is such a lazy move.

This shows that they just wanted to get rid of people where

1/ employment laws are weakest

2/ employees are least vocal

If they really wanted to save costs they'd be moving some open head count from US _to_ India. But that'd require them actually doing their job.

I'd be ashamed of myself if I were part of the team that approved this decision
> First, for the record, any claims that unions make this process harder is a lie designed by a union busting consulting firm.

Do you have anything to back this up? It appears to just be your opinion presented as fact. While I’d love to take your word on your opinion presented as a fact; I would prefer to see some data or documentation to back it up. Thanks!
Can you imagine that public transit does not have to triple your commute time, as rhaway84773 is saying?
Start of the twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Fynnderella1/status/1640016692305711105
> I have lost complete motivation for self improvement in terms of keeping my skills sharp due to the rapid AI takeover.

How long ago was this? Is this a long term change, or just a short term aberration that you're assuming will last forever?
Ask HN: What shell script exit codes do you suggest?
I'm seeking advice/guidance for documenting shell script exit codes, especially ones that can be useful across many programs. Thank you!

Here's the work-in-progress: https://github.com/SixArm/posix-shell-script-kit/blob/main/doc/exit-codes/index.md
So, the kernel is very much to their credit, GNOME - somewhat of a wash, in the sense that some people like it and some hate it... as for Fedora - I count that as one of "their" distributions, which like I said, I'm not a fan of.

But point taken about many people working on the ecosystem.
Can't speak for generated compositions but midi data is played however your software is programmed to do so, which could include adding imperfections.
but who was the seller? This should be a buyer beware situation. The marketplace is compromised.
Hey I feel your sentiment. I have lots of ideas but feel too lazy to actually follow through. I've had a number of half-assed attempts at online businesses and if I persevered they might not amount to much but I'd at least be able to say I tried.

> Everyone always say look at your pain points or scratch your own itch. I don't seem to have an itch and as for pain points I just seem to go the flow and don't think of anything as a pain point.

Same. Maybe we should start a business to help people and businesses find pain points and help them scratch it.
FT: Generative AI set to affect 300M jobs across major economies
Hey CEO2, I totally understand where you're coming from. There are a whole bunch of "productivity tools" out there. Many people try to stitch together multiple productivity apps in an attempt to improve their productivity. Floutwork is trying to solve that problem by bringing it all together into a single "work system" that helps you focus on your work, rather than the tools. It's designed to help you be productive by default, and you really need to go out of your way to be distracted. We would love for you to try it out and let us know what you think."
This forum is also against decentralization and Web3, and often shills for large centralized corporations. The ethos of hackers was always ANTI that stuff.
The blast radius of .COM is ~most of the western Internet.
We agree with the sentiment; we’re currently figuring out the pieces we want to open source, as much of it is just infra (like the ingest pipeline). But the search server and some of our future work around memory will get open-sourced first.
This has to be a joke, right? Given Apple's enmity towards headphone cables, I don't see the point. Their Bluetooth EarPods can never ever render the necessary sound quality.
> If re-attaching the head wasn't going to give as good result as buying a new hammer?

The way hammers have been made in the past, you could almost trivially make a new wooden handle and attach the head to it bringing it to just as good as new or even better (if you sourced stronger wood).
Web megacorps are normally allergic to any kind of human review because they are in the business of picking up pennies on each interaction via adverts. It's unsustainable to police the world on that model.

Amazon is in a different space here. Even the smoothest transaction goes through a handful of literal human hands. They have to pay for those hands regardless. At the very least following up on cases where customers (and competitors) flag fraud on their system should be possible.
Yeah that’s annoying. Then I read reviews and they’re all for a wildly different product because they decided to list 10 under the same item
This is really starting to sound like the recent "Japanese Toilet" episode from South Park.
You’re in for a rude awakening.
You're not wrong, and of course there are many more factors than just monetary policy alone that affect the lot of the middle class- But I'll point out that the middle class was much better off 50-60 years ago than it is now, back when fiat wasn't abused to the degree it has been for the past couple decades
What are your thoughts around WebAssembly, Typed Assembly [1] and will you be using BlueSpec [2] to implement these ideas in hardware?

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=typed%20assembly%20...

namely, Greg Morrisett and Neal Glew's work

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/J.-G.-Morrisett/14364...

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/MorrisettGreg/1643921... (semantic scholar incorrectly thinks there are two Greg Morrisetts)

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Neal-Glew/1710858

[2] https://github.com/B-Lang-org/bsc
On iOS push notifications are gated behind Web Clips[0]. You can only ask for notification permissions if the user has pinned your webapp to the homescreen. This seems like a perfect way to deal with all the spammy notification asks.

[0] What iOS calls a "progressive web app"