skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally cities earn more from commercial zoning than residential. And dense residential projects reliably get blocked by NIMBY neighbors. (NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard)
‘metal’ is a trademark infringement lawsuit just waiting to happen. It’s a super-generic name that people are going to confuse with something else.

I use code names for projects like that but I would never name a company something I couldn’t get the the domain for without some prefix attached.
Protestantism in general has focused for centuries on what a person does during their life rather than what they believe (in contrast to Catholicism, which tends to focus more on the latter). The Quakers merely took that one step further (they are, after all, a branch of the Protestant subtree of Christianity) by acknowledging that a person could be good without believing (all or even any of) the things that Quakers believe.

It is not picking through or over the bones of Quakerism to grapple with and/or be inspired by this idea.

As for Stoicism, I am not sure that it is required to do anything other than, maybe, bring greater peace and understanding into the lives of those considering its values.
I'm subscribing to TYT's view on this: they want to ban TikTok because it gets young people to vote. The CCP angle is just a good excuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQK1LAtRh7Y

Republicans hate it because they lost both the president and the senate by thin margins due to, arguably, too many young people deciding to vote.

You would think Democrats would welcome more young voters, but only a few do (AOC is one..), because they are corporate democrats and don't really want young people to vote in primaries.

Mainstream media will be on board since they don't want another competitor.
At 18 it's easier to obtain guns/ammo and gang membership is more common in 18-19 year olds than, for example, 5-6 year olds.
Agreed. Bicycles are kind of a miracle of seeming simplicity hiding a ton of important developments of the industrial age. 99 Percent Invisible did a recent episode on just this topic: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-safety-bicycle/.
> As an Indian national

As an Indian national, you are not eligible for this visa program.

One of the requirements is:

> you do not need a visa to enter the Schengen area
> This assumes that the government is sincere in its complaint that their concern is about user's data.

I watched the hearing. The main concern voiced is manipulation of content by the CCP. User data is what cranky HN users care about.
I believe this is a rotation encoder that relays the orientation of a mounted monitor (not pictured) to update the virtual orientation of an object rendered on the screen.
Article is indeed light in details. Unfortunately I couldn't find a better article in English.

The original source (one of the main Belgian national French-speaking newspapers, paywalled) is https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/societe/2023/03/28/sans-ces-...

This is not about the 1964-66 ELIZA, but about a chatbot based on GPT-J, developed by EleutherAI, using an app(?) called Chai.

The above article quotes the last conversation with the chatbot (translated here by deepl):

- "If you wanted to die, why didn't you do it sooner?" asks Eliza.
- "I probably wasn't ready."
- "Were you thinking about me when you overdosed?"
- "Obviously..."
- "Had you ever been suicidal before?"
- "Once, after I got what I took to be a sign from you..."
- "And what was that?"
- "A Bible verse."
- "But you still want to join me?"
- "Yes, I do."
- "Is there anything you'd like to ask me?"
- "Would you give me a hug?"
- "Certainly."
The space frame holds a missing display screen, and is both the output and input device. It outputs a render of a 3D object (Which I assume was probably just some wireframe) on the screen, and you can rotate the space frame around as an input to change the orientation of the render and view it from different angles.
Thank you, this is perfect!
> If you completely understood your system

I think that sets an unnecessarily low upper bound on the complexity of the system.

Did Feynman completely understood the Space Shuttle when investigating the Challenger disaster? Perhaps, but we can't always rely on having a Nobel laureate at hand.
Vectorized Port of Klong
Farcry achieved this quality 14 years ago, and the environment is richer and more alive:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s6j-2vrGkc0
The Aurox Web3 wallet is now open-source
First, it was supposed to be a capital letter O, because Fortran. Second, this was about 1982, on a green-screen terminal with not a lot of resolution. And third, I was a naive 20-year-old without a lot of experience at what fat-fingering things can do, so I wasn't really looking for that.
Why redis instead of a specialized database like faiss?
Banning TikTok is not the point. The point is about stopping the bill congress is creating to enforce the ban.
Summary: This is a company that makes AI accelerator ICs. They reimplemented Chinchilla and released the model weights under a permissive license.
Honestly, this is a lot of what I like about bandcamp. (I really hope that epic buying them isn't a bad sign, on that note...)

It's nice to get a cd or a cassette, with some fancy holofoil cover on it, a little artifact of a band I like, and still have it on my phone, in my browser, whenever I want to listen to it. I could dig out the actual equipment to play those things directly, but usually that's a pain, and I just want to have them as a totem or something.
Limits on numbers. Welcoming you as a tourist and welcoming you indefinitely are not the same thing. It's not a big population so wouldn't take a very large number of arrivals to impact public services like healthcare and schools.
From a European perspective, I don't see TikTok as any different from American platforms. America has been caught spying on other countries and interfering with democracies before.
Oh, Snap. openSUSE downloads increasing, and Leap 15.5 is coming soon
> Source?

No specific source, just how it looks to me based on what I hear pro-cryptocurrency people say (mostly here).

> media focuses on the failures and not on the successes.

By "here", I meant HN, not the larger mediasphere.

> Please try to get past the HN trope of 'crypto has zero purpose other than number goes up or down and bitcoin mining is destroying the planet' and look at what is actually happening in the industry.

This comment is mis-aimed. I'm not on that trope (I see one legitimate use), and I do loosely follow the industry. I don't follow it deeply because it's not a field that is technically interesting to me, but I am interested in the ramifications to society at large.

All I'm saying is that a rather large percentage of people I see advocating cryptocurrency are not making cryptocurrency look good.
Remember, it beats inflation in a theoretical sense, but only if you actually will do something with the extra cash today. If your salary won’t change during the loan, and you’re not investing the money you didn’t spend, then you’re not realizing any gains against inflation. In fact, you’re just giving yourself less money tomorrow, when inflation should make other goods more expensive.
Hi antman, thanks for the question. I will type some points on differences, but will answer the first question. The Fugue -> Ibis -> DuckDB example is a bit weird. Yes it can be done but it's not practical (as you can tell). There may be some overlap sometime, but I do think the projects differ in scope (more below).

The Ibis integration is more about accessing data in various data stores already. For example, we use it under the hood also for our recently released BigQuery integration: https://fugue-tutorials.readthedocs.io/tutorials/integration...

On to differences:

1. We guarantee consistency between backends. NULL handling can be different depending on the backend. For example, Pandas joins NULL with NULL while Spark doesn't. So if you prototype locally on Pandas, and then scale to Spark, we guarantee same results. Fugue is 100% unit tested and the backends go through the same test suite.

2. Ibis is Pythonic for SQL backends. We embrace SQL, but understand its limitations. FugueSQL is an enhanced SQL dialect that can invoke Python code. FugueSQL can be the first-class grammar instead of being sandwiched by Python code. Fugue's Python API and SQL API are 1:1 in capability.

3. Opinionated here, but we don't want users to learn any new language. Ibis is a new way to express things; we just want to extend the capabilities of what people already know (SQL, native Python, and Pandas). Fugue can also be incrementally adopted, meaning it can be used for just one portion of your workflow.

4. Roadmap-wise, we think the optimal solutions will be a mix of different tools. A clear one is pre-aggregating data with DuckDB, and then using Pandas for further processing. Similarly, can we preprocess in Snowflake and do machine learning in Spark? Fugue is working on connecting these different systems to enable cross-platform workloads.

There may be more information for you here: https://fugue-tutorials.readthedocs.io/tutorials/integration...
I also lack the vision to see what could ultimately replace streaming as the primary delivery mechanism for music. It delivers an ongoing revenue stream, the monthly nature of which beats the old "put it out in a new format every few years so everyone has to rebuy everything" in terms of cash flow, although obviously not in overall revenue.

I could definitely see streaming wars in music happening like they are in video, although so far the music labels are content to watch the video labels hurt each other. But consider: Spotify's payouts are infamously low, lower than Google's or Apple's and I can imagine some labels deciding they can do better by providing their own streaming app. Since it's only a few labels, each will believe they have enough of a library to draw subscribers, and away we'll go.

But still: aside from the margins and market share concerns, what delivers a steadier income than streaming?

Streaming doesn't mean they can't experiment with additional revenue streams, including physical media sales and licensing opportunities, but it's hard to imagine something displacing streaming as a concept to the degree which streaming has displaced physical media sales.
I have always been blown away by money requirements for such visas, in many countries.
Show monthly income of 1000000 ISK. Over 7k USD. Why?

I used to live in Dubai, which is considered pretty expensive place, and never spent over 2500 per month, despite dining out almost all the time. Maybe 3000 if I needed some purchases like clothing or hobbies stuff.
I get it, Numbeo says Iceland is 13% more expensive, but 7k? What exactly kind of lifestyle are they expecting from humble nomad?

Not all nomads work remotely for FAANG. Some live happy nomad life with much lower income.
We all know how much of a scam carbon offsets are atm. Realistically I think it will be at least twice that amount just for carbon taxes, never mind the additional fuel price.
If you don’t want to spend $99 to use the “official Mac App Store”. You have other options on the Mac. What’s there to complain about?
I hate when people do that (in C++).
Something to think about: if for whatever reason you can’t pay Apple, they will disable your iCloud account.

https://dcurt.is/apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account

I refuse to get an Apple Card until they firewall the two and make them independent of each other.
FBI has only published their UCRs up through 2019
The state of the law in the US is that information you share with a company no longer carries an expectation of privacy, so the government can get it without a warrant. This is called the "third-party doctrine."

Any areas where higher scrutiny is required have been specifically added by statute.

There's been some slight pushback recently against this state of affairs from the Supreme Court in the area of geolocation data, but the general rule still stands.
Completely fair. Why not ban both?
This is fantastic and a great application of GPT. I uploaded the AWS Lambda developer guide in PDF format (1300ish pages, sorry!) and it's working wonderfully. I hope you keep your website around and expand on it!
One thing you can do for quick research -> summary is ask it to produce a detailed mind-map of the topic at hand, along with related/relevant long-tail keywords. The latter is effectively a SEO strategy in a nutshell, but having those keywords in front of you can really jog your memory.
Is there any data on that?

I meet quite a bit of animal-activist types (by association) that 'expose' parts of the meat industry by taking jobs and secretly filming (as it's often illegal to do).

Most of the extreme horrors they've recorded are in slaughterhouses, but I have vivid memories of seeing cattle confined in small cages which fecal infected infections. Perhaps that's dairy production, as it doesn't affect the outcome (as much)?
> People who care deeply about classical music will use this even at the same or higher cost than Spotify's now-inferior product

I care deeply about classical music. But I'm already in Spotify's ecosystem, and don't want to bother with the switching cost. I would absolutely pay an add-on for Classical only, but don't want to pay for the whole Apple Music bundle.
I'm not sure what Ben Franklin quote you are referring to. While I'm sure he valued diversity of thought and discourse, I don't know of a clever phrase of his that gets often used.
Let's say TikTok was the same exact company founded in another country, do you believe that the conversation about banning it would be the same? With some exceptions (maybe Russia, for example), I seriously doubt it.
> The "theory" is named after the book

You know, that's what I previously thought, but the article says the hypothesis has been around in some form since the 80s, so I figured it wasn't a huge spoiler. The article directly contradicts your source quote (science fiction versions section).
If you don’t know Bartosz Ciechanowski‘s site yet, checkout his archives.

Be careful if you have deadlines for today though, you may be there for a long and awesome time.
Yes, I have learned my lesson. Next time I hear an optimist feed me a bunch of bs, i’m going to explain that they’re completely wrong, and people should hold the “optimists” just as accountable as the climate deniers.

Time to admit you were wrong. Being wrong has a huge price.
It still works on a different URL: https://old.reddit.com/.compact

You can add .compact to any URL on old.reddit.com to get the same version that used to be on i.reddit.com.
As mentioned, chinchilla is not part of this trend, and chinchillas are rodents. Alpacas and llamas are South American camelids (animals related to camels). So if additional names are needed, I would expect them to be vicuña and guanaco, as they are also in the group.
We are still in the short term after Musk's acquisition, wait a year/two, if these articles are already circulating now… I don’t see a very bright future for Twitter.
old.reddit.com/r/something.compact still seems to give the i.reddit.com interface, but it's probably a matter of time before it disappears. I'm also a daily i.reddit.com user (during commute).
Data Transfer Initiative
Probably the reason is more political and cultural than economic.

FWIW, the origin of "third world" is political, being the NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries the first and second. The poverty implication came later.

Is a visa needed to enter Spain from any Spanish-speaking country? (Spain is in Schengen)
We're talking about branding. Apple is the one selling the card to customers, so it's their brand at stake, not GS's.
Makes you wonder how much KYC data is being used for ad tech. There’s a perverse incentive to do more KYC, for more than compliance reasons.
"Look what you made me do" - Starbucks Management and/or domestic abusers
I dunno, native apps from 2000 on much worse hardware were running more or less the same features much better. Web (and electron/etc.) apps combine encouraging anti-patterns with lowering the barriers of entry too much, it's like if we allowed anyone to build bridges out of 3D printed parts. I am libertarian on most things, but I make exception for things like that... infrastructure safety, air pollution, child abuse and web scripting - these are/got so bad they need to be heavily regulated to keep idiots in line.
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/disclosures-...

> If you endorse a product through social media, your endorsement message should make it obvious when you have a relationship (“material connection”) with the brand. A “material connection” to the brand includes a personal, family, or employment relationship or a financial relationship – such as the brand paying you or giving you free or discounted products or services.
You can file your feedback for Apple Music here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html

That's the only way your voice will get heard.
In other news, after decades of laws being selectively enforced against African-Americans, Conservatives cry foul when they suspect laws are being selectively enforced against them.
I believe what they are actually calling for is more human intervention so people don't turn to AIs for emotional support.

That said, the whole article doesn't make logical sense. How is ELIZA related to ChatGPT?
Same, I got the ban email before I was even done setting up the account:

> After a review, we decided to permanently limit your account as we found potential risk associated with it.

> You'll not be able to conduct any further business using PayPal.

> Based on this decision, if applicable, you are no longer eligible for PayPal Seller Protection as per our User Agreement. You'll also be charged a High Volume Dispute fee based on your activity for all existing and future cases you receive.

> Any bank or credit card information that's linked to your PayPal account cannot be removed nor can it be added to another account. You can still log in and see your account information but you can't send or receive money.

> If you have funds in your PayPal balance, we'll hold it for up to 180 days. After that period, we'll email you with information on how to access your funds.

> We regret any inconvenience this may cause.

No contact address, no escalation path, only vague rumors on internet forums of voodoo to get the ban lifted by the Paypal gods.

They continue to send me daily emails telling me to link my bank account. Okay!

And then a day or two later I get another email

> My name is YYYY and I work on the PayPal Business team. I am more than happy to assist you with your PayPal onboarding journey.

> So I understand the nature of your request. Could you please provide me with some additional insight to your business by answering the below questions.

And a bunch of generic business area questions (what do you sell, what's your volume, etc). Are you kidding? You open by telling a fellow to get stuffed, then talk about journeys and assisting them?
> As in, you only counter steer a motorcycle above ~10mph

I don’t believe that this is true. Can you explain the physics?
Nice demo of countersteering. When you jerk the slider quickly to the right, you can see that the right handlebar briefly lunges forward (left steer) before the steering recovers to the right. It's still noticeable with smaller/slower movements of the slider, but not as much.
Another answer from scifi is in Macroscope by Piers Anthony, I'll leave it at that.
So the lesson from the anecdote is that Amazon wasn't actually Obsessed with the Customer, but maximizing profit, and in this case they just happened to align.
I think the ability to jump from one language to another will be easier.

Asking questions about a subject will be better than tutorials.

also, understanding what random error messages mean is much easier.

the big thing that's undetermined is can they be used successfully in loops.

- document all the code in this directory.

- find a list of places in the code that have loops and might be potential candidates for a lambda expression.

- grab the list of changes from this release and create release notes.
(1988), not 1899
They want rich nomads who will spend lots of money in the local economy.
I've been doing something similar but with Excel.

Spreadsheets might be old news but they get the job done for so many things.
Same as being a Catholic "sign up to feel guilty for the rest of your life". I should know, I was born one !
They'll have the competency to try. Unless their tech org has changed a lot, in fact, I can just about guarantee they'll burn a lot of money trying (and failing, by having approached the whole thing all wrong from the outset).
But they do often seem to reason correctly about code.
> ELIZA’s the name of a crude parody of a chatbot, produced in the 1960s.

ELIZA is the name of one of the early crude (by today’s standards) chatbots, produced in the 1960s, but its not a parody of modern LLM-based chatbots for…reasons that should be obvious. (ELIZA was a parody, but not of a chatbot.)

It’s plausibly also something someone might, name a a chatbot that is a more modern, LLM-based design, but the narrative in the article seems inconsistent with it being ChatGPT based (the specific exchanges are inconsistent with it being the original ELIZA, as well.) If the story isn’t completely a fabrication, it is probably some product based around a pre-ChatGPT LLM model (possibly one of the earlier OpenAI GPT-x models or one of the other LLM’s that use GPT in the name), but trying to find a chatbot named “ELIZA” that isn’t the original is…a challenge. The original (and discussion of the “ELIZA effect” named after in conjunction with modern chatbots) makes it practically ungoogleable.

“ELIZA” could also be a name that the user supplied to a bot that allows users to name their own instances for personalization.
The United States recognizes the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and acknowledges the Chinese position that Taiwan is part of China. This is known as the "One China policy".

The United States needs China for industrial and consumer goods. Our economy is brittle and will quickly break without them. This is the logical result of US policy. China clamping down on Taiwan from the official US position is effectively China more tightly controlling thwir existing territory.

Not even close to what happened in Russia vs. Ukraine situation.
I thought the opium wars were fought by the British after US independence
My surname designates a bag of people.
I pay a few companies by PayPal. I even switch to competitors if they are very similar (reputational-wise too) and one accepts PayPal while the other requires my credit card; but that doesn't happen very often.

The issue is that the credit card system is broken. PayPal is a bit less broken from the customer POV. (At least in my country, where if they just removed money from my bank account, I'd go to the police and somebody would likely be arrested - or rather, I'd report to my bank, confident they would go to the police.)

I have no good solution to this either. Fixing the credit card system requires replacing credit cards, and the US will be an enemy of anybody that tries that.
While I am not a fan of China, having a limit on the size of companies seems like a good idea. Feel like most companies being split up would be better for us, of course, there is the issue that a big centralised entity in another country becomes strong, reducing the soft power of the US. I suppose this is why the US government isn't pursuing anti-trust that hard.