skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it's too big a discussion to litigate here, but I don't agree that market forces + self interest have in fact been successful. Most significant problems have merely been postponed, precisely because we just don't have the cooperative mechanisms available to deal with them. Many of our ecosystems (ie. the actual physical world, rather than the virtual worlds of finance and markets) are on their last legs.

I also think the very concept of 'self-interest' is incoherent (as is 'national interest'), but again that's too large a topic for an HN comment.
The machines won’t save your design system
PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”
I thought about it some more after writing my reply. I think a first approximation is that $: gets confusing almost as soon as you bring in more than one level of branching control flow. It’s better to do that with stores or encapsulate the logic in plain old functions.

But if you mostly have some values that need to be recomputed when other values change, or an effect that needs to re-run, it’s a convenient tool to use.
Crypto’s largest use-case aside from retail gambling is to facilitation of capital control evasion in Asian countries, notably China. By and large the flight is into dollars.
Is this a bit like how Windows preserves capitalization but doesn't otherwise care about it? (except in WSL of course) - or is it something more complex
Somewhat related: If you rent your car via sixt.es instead of sixt.de, you'll get it for a lower price [0] [1]

[0] https://www.sixt.es/betafunnel/#/offerlist?zen_pu_location=7...

[1] https://www.sixt.de/betafunnel/#/offerlist?zen_pu_location=7...
Shouldn't you rather deny all, and carefully carve out paths you need to allow?
That is just hypothetical scenario since FBI is doing it legally now.
> it only needs like 16mb of ram by default

TIL. Thank you very much.

I always wanted to invest more time in postgres, but I just find the Windows environment to be clunky when working with it. Like psql isn't supported in a windows environment (last time I check few months ago), and setting up the postgres environment on WSL was quite annoying as you have to figure out port forwarding.

I know setting up a postgres on a local machine directly or even without docker may not be a mature decision, but that is the hacky reason, why I keep going back to sqlite, as it is the easiest solution to get started with a database.
Hmm yeah I can see the appeal of something like that. I just had a look in my local Amazon and saw this study timer with a nice physical button which seems to have "Count up" functionality [1][2]. But it doesn't seem to have a feature to alert you while counting up.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dretec-T-580WTDI-Study-Timer-S...

[2] https://youtu.be/Ak_TjtWc8uo?t=294 (enable caption)
Whats the use case for car getting to 1450C ?
Were these the same people who told us the glaciers would be melted and the Maldives under water by 2000?

How narcissistic do you have to be to believe the world is going to end in your little eye blink of a lifetime?

Look, the West can go carbon negative, but it makes no difference at all if China and India just use the West's carbon virtue to increase their own carbon consumption (that the West isn't using).

We really should be thinking about next generation nuclear and mitigation as first tier strategies and not attempting to remake human nature in a few generations time.
> There is a huge, unquestioned strain in the West that started with German Indology, that it has been as the original 'Aryans', that it was the inventor of all civilizations

This was very much questioned even when it was somewhat mainstream, which was many many decades ago. Since the second world war it is unquestionably considered racist garbage by all reputable mainstream historians, archeologists and linguists.
No offense, but it's extremely myopic to think that any EU state would protest over privacy rights when so many more economically and geopolitically important considerations exist. And yet this is still how fascism and totalitarianism advances. No one will be left out now, because all EU states are too weak alone without Germany.

It's funny that the results of WWII were for America to enable a soft version of the fourth Reich and the Japanese east asian coprosperity sphere. BUT we built it under our auspices, with the rule being that free speech was somewhat necessary for a free market. (skip the part about torturing Muslims and communists). Here we are. Will Europe now become Hungary or Turkey??!
Chase Sapphire travel insurance is limited only to evacuation and transport anywhere >100km from home state.
That can't possibly be right. What size image are you using here?
> The intro was released in 2017, so the title might need a tag. Not sure about the article, couldn't easily find a date.

At the bottom of the article, it mentions that it was released a few days ago.
I did a new mac setup recently and just discovered, after many years of use, that I cannot use 1 Password 7 anymore :( The app works it’s just they’re phasing out the browser “classic” extension with the excuse(?) it won’t work with the new manifest v3, so a migration to 1 password 8 is required. I hate their subscription model and I think I’ll self host bitwarden, but was also considering the system password manager, or the one builtin into Firefox. Problem is passwords won’t leave the browser ecosystem in this way and it’s more often than not that today you need to move password cross platform and cross device. So I don’t see an apple password manager as the best solution, they usually stay inside their walled garden
Some like them, more hate them.
I can even imagine one story being about "my teacher once met this dude who said we should be nice to each-other" and "a cousin heard about this guy who said that poor people should be helped by neighbors" and those somehow merged and became one person one story.

It happens today, in an era where information is/appears much more precise, people and attribution is common. e.g. quotes being attributed to Einstein or some rock-star, or actors "cancelled" for stuff some other person did or said.
Based on my experience traveling between Europe, Middle East and Asia:

- for return flights I always get different fares based on the origin. At least for the airlines that I travel with it does not matter what my IP is, but where my origin is.

- depending on the airline or the hotel booking service, I get higher fares if I book with an iPhone (including their apps) or a Mac comparing to when I spoof my user agent to Windows. The difference can be substantial.

- for hotel bookings, my IP location used to make a big difference. I guess these days the services just became better at finger printing and detecting VPNs.
Are you sure it's not because the prices on the Japanese website doesn't include taxes and surchages?

Japanese website:

> All amounts are in JPY. Taxes and surcharges are excluded.

French website:

> All amounts are in EUR. Taxes, surcharges and booking fee are included.
Hype culture in developer tooling has gotten out of hand imho. A SPA with precaching is almost always going to be the most responsive experience.

Next and similar tools are decent if you NEED SSR and don't want to go the prerendering route - but there's some extra work involved.
Found through Google, bought with Visa and MC: Inside the deepfake porn economy
There was a variant of Squeak that ran on bare metal: http://squeaknos.blogspot.com
A browser is a platform. I have no easy way to use passwords saved in Chrome in Safari for example.

It matters to me because I use Firefox and Chrome on my work desktop, Safari and Firefox on my personal desktop, and Safari on my phone. And I want the ability to switch browser easily.

Same goes for Apple passwords, I still use Windows for some games, and I want to access my passwords easily.
Yes. macOS is an open platform. You can install whatever you want.
GPT and other language models have the potential to enhance productivity and efficiency in various industries. Developers and professionals can use GPT with other tools and APIs to streamline their workflows, automate tasks, and gain new insights. For instance, socialbiogen.com that I made is a web application that uses openAI api to generate personalized social media bios based on the user input. While GPT can also be used for writing or correcting code, it's important to note that language models are not always accurate. Overall, these tools have become increasingly valuable for automating tasks, generating ideas, and saving time.
We had a bubble in 2008 (not new) and a pretty mild pandemic in 2020 (also not new).

In the early 20th century we fought two World Wars. The only thing unprecedented is the scale of the Fed’s operations these days.
>I can’t find any exact phrase matches online, and the writing style and overall glib superficiality reminds me of ChatGPT output.

I got it from my notes for an unrelated project. You can't find it because I wrote the notes. But this shouldn't matter. As long as the points are correct, you getting schooled by an AI is irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

>It’s disingenuous to make an overly general statement and then immediately dismiss any counterexample to that overgeneralization by saying “there are always exceptions”.

No it's not. General truths exist. You must dismiss exceptions to get at the general truth. Otherwise we'll be mired in details constantly.

>Denmark is a market economy.

I never said it wasn't. I said "closest" to a socialist economy.

>A common misconception. In reality, they are market economies that combine a dynamic free market economy with a generous welfare state.

No misconception made here. You are putting words in my mouth. I said it was closest to socialism. And it holds true. A generous welfare state is closer to socialism.

>The Heritage Foundation publishes an “Economic Freedom Index” that ranks countries by “economic freedom”, according to their own conservative, pro-free-market point of view, and they rank Denmark and Sweden as more economically free than the United States

That's bullshit. The heritage foundation is a conservative think tank with a biased agenda. How about getting a study from an unbiased source. "Economic Freedom Index" << don't fall for that.

Check out which countries rank the highest for food regulations:
https://www.fooddocs.com/post/food-safety-standards

The US isn't even on that list because we've lobbied the hell out of those laws to be lax af.

Not to mention labor regulations, mandatory five week vacations? Paternity leave? Unheard of in the US.

Just use some common sense before trusting some "Freedom" Index from a politicized foundation.

>So then how do you explain the regulatory crippling of nuclear power?

It's an exception. I mean I literally gave you tons of examples how the US fails to regulate things. The ratio of failures to successes is what matters here. And the failures outnumber the successes by a huge amount. I only copied a fraction of my notes. Would you like more?
I wanted to ask "Is it a VAT thing ?" but Spain actually has higher VAT so no

I'm pretty sure it's illegal in the EU for the same company to give a different price to customer depending on where they live in the union, I assume they get around that by being "not the same company" but sixt spain and sixt germany instead ...
Or with very popular one, where thousands of users send thousands of packets N bytes big to the vpn server.
>Buddha lived around the same time as Socrates. I can't help but wonder if some of the ideas were not cross-pollinated.

Well, at the (later, circa 330 B.C) time of Alexander the Great, some areas of India and modern-day Pakistan had established Greek cities, living behind them some considerable influence. That's a well known historical meeting between the two:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism
Weather from Microsoft Start named the most accurate global forecast provider
Those in power both in government and in the private sector seem to have completely lost interest in the bigger picture and are optimising for short-term personal wealth at pretty much any cost. Perhaps a benevolent AI is the only way forward.
I used to do the same about 15 years ago.

I was living in DC area but was traveling to Bay Area every week (mon to fri) for work.

I always booked fare in reverse with Friday evening departure (from sfo) and Monday morning ( from DCA) return. A Saturday night “stay” apparently made it a leisure fare which was way cheaper than Monday to Friday fare which was way more expensive. (Like 4x more). [ this was United Airlines btw].

My understanding is that this does not work anymore (at least for US domestic). Airfare are all priced for one way (return fare is just the sum of two legs).

However, difference between what business travelers pay and what leisure travelers pay is huge (see hertz rental prices or Marriott hotel prices for saturday vs Monday).
> The last adjective I want used in relation to my variable names is “obscure.”

Well, second-to-last right after "misleading".
Ask HN: What is the best way to setup a 2sd transactional email server?
Hello HN Crowd,

5 years ago, I've setup a transactional email server for a non-profit. It took me a while to figure things out (properly setup DKIM, SPF, throttle emails for some providers, etc.), but now it can send up to 1 million emails per month (up to 70,000 per day) without those emails being blocked or sent in SPAM.

I can't take all the merit here. This is a non-profit and people really do want to receive those emails.

Anyhow, the non-profit now wants a 2sd email server and here's my question: how to I set up this? After the usual setup, do I just start sending half of our emails through the new server and ip? Or should I send only 10 % and ramp it up to 50 % progressively?

Any advice is welcome! Thank you very much!
? That share market in china is a inhouse market, and completely state-controlled. There is no "free" market as in its public and free of influence. It already collapsed once and was propped up.
I make coffee every morning with a Wacaco Nanopresso. It produces a pretty nice shot after you get the grind, tamping, etc dialed down.

Sure, it is a bit of work to pump out the coffee, but it makes for a decent morning wake-up ritual.
For your preferences, I’d propose Keepass. Maybe you’ve already looked into it.
Adopting a primitive lifestyle is a sentiment that shows up a lot on HN; converting to Christianity does not.
I think, this time it is different.

Of course, there's a bubble, but after that bubble pops, people will realize that current models are useful enough, even with their quirks. People all have quirks and mostly they get along, so they will accept quirks from machines. Anthropomorphizing machines will help accepting models. I know, this is dangerous, but I have this mental image: a doll in form of a seal baby with soft white fur with a Whisper model helping lonely handicapped people (note that I myself am a person with a disability, so don't cancel me, please). Or someone who technically is not very adept phoning for support and a Whisper model helping along and having a lot of time to chit-chat.

And technically I think, something will happen in about five years. A new floating number format, the posit (https://spectrum.ieee.org/floating-point-numbers-posits-proc...), is too useful to be ignored. It will take years because we need new hardware. Why do I think that posits are very useful? Posits could encode weights using very little storage (down to 6 bit per weight). Models perhaps need to be retrained using these weights because 6 bits are not precise. After all, you have only 64 different values. And I think with the new hardware supporting posits they will also have more memory for the weights. Cell phones will be able to run large and complex models efficiently. In other words, Moore's law is not dead yet. It just shifted to a different, more efficient computation implementation.

When this happens, immediate feedback could become feasible. With immediate feedback we do another step to achieve AGI. I could imagine that people get delivered a partially trained model and then they have a personal companion helping them through life.
Funny how they are accusing everyone else of being sinophobic and racist in their other comments.
>There was no invasion of India by Alexander. He barely crossed modern day Pakistan and parts of Punjab before heading back.

Modern day Pakistan was then-day Indian civilization. And he had established several cities there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism

>India is not Delhi and adjacent areas of Delhi which speak Hindi.

Don't have to be the whole of India. Just to be part of it. That's like saying someone who went to a tour of New England didn't visited the United States, because "New England is not the US".
The fed has a balance sheet that consists of bonds of varying maturities mostly. During covid the balance sheet exploded as they bought all sorts of mbs securities and bonds to loosen liquidity. By definition that was basically the exact opposite of what a rational person would do acting in his own best interests, but it’s what they did at first to restore order to credit markets and then after that because they thought that’s what people wanted them to do.

But now those bonds have gone massively underwater because of their own policy- they have drastically raised interest rates on shorter duration bonds while simultaneously stopped buying bonds. So the value of the assets they hold is drastically diminished.

But the fed also borrows money on the short end from banks through the reserve program. Banks keep excess reserves at the fed and the fed pays them interest. In a normal environment that’s not a problem because long bonds usually yield more than short bonds. But because the fed loaded up on low yield bonds they have a negative carry so they are losing money now. Normally they would pay the excess to the treasury but now they have to borrow from it.

The interesting thing is that this is basically what sank svb but on a much larger scale. The difference is obviously that the government can print its own money.
> I don't buy that I'm owed something for my tiny contribution to GPT-3's 300B tokens of training data

I feel like this touches on one of the core issues in this discussion. Any individuals contribution is negligible. The sum of all those contributions definitely is not.

It's like stealing one cent from every bank account on the planet. I doubt anyone would go to the police about their missing cent, let alone any police officer actually investigating such a report. And yet ~70 million was stolen.
This is an overly simplistic take. The other way to frame this is that they are levered 40x in removing liquidity from the system. By spending 2.6% they can remove trillions from the economy and slow the velocity of money.
My office does not have windows (the hole in the wall, not the OS). Also, I usually don't want to know the weather right now, but in the next couple of hours or rest of day. It's not a obsession, it's a handy piece of information which is nice when I'm able to check it at a glance and not have to open some app/website.
Good discussion there, thanks for linking.

Shout out to llvm for sticking with camelCase while the c++ library is all snake_case. Turns out eventually one gets used to reading mixtures of them and only occasionally writes dense_map or unorderedMap, but I still wish it wasn't like this.

edit: I write large patches in the one true style and then begrudgingly fix them up for review using ad hoc emacs macros but it looks like clang-tidy can automate that. Wonder if it's robust enough to bidirectionally convert between review acceptable and legible
I'm not too surprised, in some ways Dairy is the meat industry by proxy. All dairy cattle end up in the same abattoirs.
Yes, I think the joke is that they don’t make a very secure “vault” for sharing passwords.
Another hack is timing. Often I've taken a day off on either Friday or Monday when I'm travelling over the weekend -- the difference in cost can be as much as a day's wage.
Yes, MacOS never had similar limitations as on iOS. I'm using Firefox which uses its own renderer as a daily on my Mac. There are signs that iOS will (be forced to?) drop that restriction as well in the future. Google started working on a Blink based Chrome for iOS.
It's a really minor point, but this is one thing I like about Rust syntax for conditionals vs. C/C++. It always requires the {} around the block, so it has no special rule for single-statement conditionals like C. At the same time, always requiring the {} means that it can get rid of the () around the condition. So all in all, it's as short or shorter than the C style syntax, and clearer without special cases.
Yes, and if we're comparing the overall moral stakes China definitely comes out worse. But if we're talking about the danger to me personally, then the people China is killing are not like me; I'm neither a resident nor a citizen of China.
Metal detector.

No, I'm not joking. One of my high-school classmates works as R&D there. They ask you to pass through a metal detector gate, take away your phone if found, then give your a company phone for emergency call only. It's that strict (at least for R&D. Probably not for management and others).
> We really should be thinking about next generation nuclear and mitigation as first tier strategies and not attempting to remake human nature in a few generations time.

It's funny, because a lot of "greens" are asking for less carbon-* or carbon neutral stuff, but are immediately against anything nuclear, even though it's the only option we have, to generate enough power, even on windless nights.

There are even comics made about this: https://i.redd.it/x1saxijbtj7a1.png
Yes they are, what you are talking about is only happening in iOS.
I don't honestly understand how the Clearview thing would make any difference. The burden of proof is on the prosecutor right? So in court they would need to present proof that he was in the front seat, and if he wasn't there wouldn't be any such proof? Or has the US justice system become so dysfunctional that people actively must prove their innocence?
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/pomo_landing.html

They have a trading desk.

I can’t find the doc now but early pandemic there was some uproar that the desk started to buy “junk” aka things that weren’t worth the price paid.
> That water claim

What water claim? That cows consume water and excrete concentrated urine? I don't know what you're debunking without a source, but appears to be a straw man.

> industrial farming, not grazing cattle

Grazing requires orders of magnitude more land compared to cramming cows into small cages, which decreases the amount of food you can derive from this already (very) expensive food source.

I love beef, but that doesn't change the fact that it's an incredibly wasteful source of food and it ultimately unsustainable compared to plants, fish, eggs etc.
https://www.beeper.com/ might offer an (expensive) solution for you.
Monty Python could have made something out of this. The advertising of such health platforms sound more than dubious to me. I don't know it and write very little python, but it certainly would keep me from attending similar events.
That depends on the age of the boy scout, of course. But so does arm length.
Why neither Arabic or Hebrew didn't accept vowels as the core of its script?
Even before LLMs, MTurk has been in a war with the botters, and my understanding is that the MTurkers have to periodically do captchas but many still use bots or various automated tools or utilities. The LLMs and especially the multimodal ones will only make the bots even better and break the captchas even harder. MTurk's business model specifically wants human workers categorized into fine grained categories so they will try to keep fighting the bots however they can.
Hotels have a different online pricing depending on where you are buying it. It is always cheaper locally.