skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this horror alone is enough to make me avoid it. Reconciling transactions with my budget software is hard enough
Notifications are the bane of my existence. Every app, desktop, mobile, website, professional tool, doesn't matter. They ALL have some kind of prompt. Ad, yes/no, another yes/no, are you sure, some pop-up, hey can I have your email, hey look over here, hey my setInterval() ran out. I feel like I live in a jungle of pop-ups and I, the user with a digital machete, must cut my way towards my computing goal.
It's a lie, there is no provision whatsoever for people getting paid in GDPR.
Students aren’t writing because they’re “motivated”, they are writing because they have to. It’s a grade.

Motivated people will still write (perhaps in conjunction with GPT) and think for themselves.

School papers and professional communication falls under the umbrella of “necessary writing”. This genre will be the first to be automated.

Critical and creative writing is safe from replacement, at least for now.
Try putting "bitcoin" as a payment description...
You can't cache the HTML though, and each page might use different assets (bundle splitting).
I considered that, but it felt like a spoiler. I wanted to tell a story, and it felt natural and fair to me to put that advisory disclaimer in the chronology. I don’t think it’s misleading, because anyone who lost interest before getting to that point almost certainly wasn’t going to download and try out Wavelength.

Put another way: do you really think there are people who read my article who downloaded and installed Wavelength based on the fact that I wrote about it, but who didn’t read that far into the article? And if they had seen the disclaimer, wouldn’t have downloaded it on the basis that they no longer trust my word about it? I don’t.
The way the comment was phrased makes it sound like they're bringing in the guns from outside the country.
Sounds like you might be the right person to ask the “big” question.

For a small organization or individual who is technically competent and wants to try and do self-hosted inference.

What open model is showing the most promise and how does it’s results compare to the various openAI GPTs?

A simple example problem would be asking for a summary of code. I’ve found openAI’s GPT 3.5 and 4 to give pretty impressive english descriptions of code. Running that locally in batch would retain privacy and even if slow could just be kept running.
I also got yelled at when trying to get a quote on auto insurance over the phone because I didn't know my dad's birthday. (Identity verification?) The man ardently supports <anti LGBT political party> and me and half my friends are LGBT, you think I buy him gifts?
Well if the LLM is closed and proprietary, there is no insight into how training data is even used. It's just a black-box we have to use blindly and 'hope' the designers are using a blend of fine-tuning coupled with better training data.
I mean... if they neither "defects" (leading, potentially, to lack of supply for the other) and bids higher, they're benefiting from cheap fuel, right? Seems like they still sorta win, the only cost of abiding is that if they raised their bids they might be able to buy more of their overall fuel consumption at a higher (but still below-the-rest-of-the-market) rate, probably amounting to little further savings (and maybe none—if all major buyers defect and offer to pay more, the price of Russian fuel would approach that on the rest of the market). They can secretly hand-shake with one another on sticking to the cap, and just not say so publicly, leaving their options open. Doesn't seem like much of a sacrifice on their part, they'd have to really want to give "the West" the middle finger to not abide by the cap, I'd think.
Yes, but if you already have PayPal, it's much easier to just use it as opposed to:
1. get an account with a new back
2. transfer funds
3. have new temporary card issued
4. use that card to pay
> > If the US fades, this unifying principle will disappear over time.

> Working, functional partnership do not dissolve easily.

I would suggest you may want to consider the fairly vast gulf between what I said and what you seem to think I said.

As all organizations eventually converge into their primary purpose becoming their own perpetuation, I'm sure the BRICS will be around far longer than I will. The UN, a much larger organization already far past its prime and effectively bereft of purpose, lurches on at a scale essentially incomprehensible to the human mind, yet it does not die, because such things rarely do, and effectively never on a sensible time scale.

Without an enemy unifying it, BRICS will eventually just be the UN 2.0.

But it will take time, decades probably, to get there.

The really entertaining question to ponder is, when will the US, or at least something that is composed of some chunk of the 50 states (the territories may well do so much sooner), apply to join the BRICS?
So the big threat of China having control of Tik tok is that… the people of the us might not support going to war over Taiwan?

That’s a silly reason.
Imagine one person on the island is good at fishing. He will stop fishing as soon as everyone has plenty of fish to eat because there is no way to liquidate his assets.

But if the island became connected to a trading route he could trade excess fish for gold or another non perishable asset, he could store up those assets. But he would only do that if he believed that those assets had liquidity.
Every industry is regulated, it’s coming for software and it will help the common user from being exploited.

Do you see the legislation for broadcasting and say, ‘What makes that different from how you have no free speech in China?!’

We’ve already had voluntary step backs in the idea of online liberalism with Twitter having to be heavily pressured to take down ISIS propaganda. Codifying those rules for everyone is inevitable.
NSAIDs are rough on your stomach/digestive system. A doc told me to stay off them after a bout of gastritis.
> Although I guess that in today's world, I could just say "use AI to figure it out."

Amazon do this and it doesn't work at all well for classical music. The album reviews are full of reviews for the same piece of music but different performances, it's not always easy to tell either. I stopped buying CDs from Amazon years ago, although primarily because they'd always arrive with cracked jewel cases.
I don't know, much of what I order online are non-perishable staples. If I order more soap or paper towels or whatever else I'm running low on, the exact arrival date doesn't matter much but it's definitely going to get used at some point.
Mobile only. I have a copy of it sitting on my iPad right now. It's the iPhone form factor, but seems to work.
what is the difference between a clamped down App Store with arbitrary rules, and what China does with their Great Firewall?

With a locked down App store in America you have an option of using another device, or just using a computer, without any repercussion. With the Chinese great firewall working around it can lead to legal troubles, to put it lightly.
Transient Response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions
> supply chain disruptions

Government meddling in the market though lockdowns, embargoes, and other limiting of supplies.
I don’t see how that could work without cooperation from the labels since they, the artists and producers have the authoritative data about each track and album. Even then, going back more than a number of years accurately would be challenging.
That is nasty, but does not sound like a very bad behaviour. Annoying - yes, tricking user into doing something they had no intention to do - hardly.
What you're describing is the exact way that large swatches of the population live. They were smart enough to make themselves be born earlier than other people and they can spend decades or even their whole life doing literally nothing, taking out another mortgage on their real estate as the value continues to increase.

This is not a tiny 1% of the population. I would wager that most people reading this thread has at least one person among their friends or family who live a good life without having contributed much to the economy, or even having never contributed anything at all. Riding the wave of inflation in real estate.

Tell me again why I and others should contribute to the economy to support these people's lifestyle?
Sorry, that's somebody's else problem. NGOs have high moral ground, this means that they are automatically right. Can't expect them to solve practical things.
Less energy available -> less goods produced -> goods and resources diverted from civil to military production -> supply can't keep up with demand -> prices raise -> inflation

Raising the interest rates is just dumping the issue on the people in order to keep demand in check.

Did I get this completely wrong or does it make sense? (unironically asking)

Feels to me like this is largely a consequence of the geopolitical situation + rampant speculation on the markets. The financial autocrats already decided that we are the ones who are going to take the hit.
Wrong. Taiwan is internationally recognized as being part of China. Heretofore the United States has had an official policy of 'strategic ambiguity' - play both sides. Pretend Taiwan is part of China when convenient and then pretend Taiwan is its own sovereign entity when convenient. You can thank Kissinger for that cowardly policy.

Taiwan is not the Ukraine.

For better or worse, I'll give Biden credit for picking a side, though I personally think he picked the wrong side.

No. Let's call spades, spades. The Unite States is declaring war on China, not the other way around. Our policy with Taiwan is as stupid as if the EU recognized the Confederacy as not belonging to the United States.

Once again the United States seeks war - and this coming from a U.S. Marine.

Once again the United States will compromise its principles in its pursuit of war. Winston Churchill is credited with the quote, and I'm paraphrasing, "the United States can be relied upon to do the right thing, once it has exhausted all other possibilities."

Here we go again, exhausting all those other possibilities.
QEMU: A generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer
Ontology is constructive. Ontology is explicit. These qualities represent an approach for language understanding that is the inverse of inference, which is the approach LLMs take.

Somehow, humans manage to do both: we remember the narratives we have heard or experienced, and we hallucinate new ones. We seem to navigate that dataset in an implicit way, but we construct speech and writing in an explicit way.
where in the states? In LA, NY or SF, the Iceland price seems pretty on par for a large pizza
Very cool. The “sending everything of relevance on the page to OpenAI” is of course creepy. But that’s table stakes for anything like this until people can run them externally.

This would make a cool, “magic box”, at the top of a web page. Type in what you want to do, it sends it to the server along with the DOM extract (same site server). Server asks magical LLM how to do it, and then spits it back to the client. So no plug-in needed and data flow would pass through the source server.
We are very aware of why police exist.
I think you must not have interacted with many people who advocate for police abolition. Even just googling "abolish the police" returns a page full of results of various proposals, with detailed breakdowns. It's quite simple: just how we don't call the police for house fires or heart attacks, there are a large variety of other societal problems which would be better served by more specialized (and less heavily armed) services.

Also, police exist to protect capital, not us. It evolved from slave catching forces, and does relatively little to prevent or solve most crime.
You don't need to be a subject matter expert to understand how encryption works. E2E can be explained to an 8 year old. The problem is that the skills selected for in politicians is the same as the skills selected for in non-venomous snakes, ie, their resemblance to venomous snakes, without the metabolic overhead of actually producing venom.
Do you normally decide where to travel based on the destinations biodiversity?
AMD-Xilinx Publishes Open-Source “Nanotube” Compiler
Preparing a Consistent Python Environment
The US does not live in an isloated vaccum where it's not affected by geopolitics. Your life will be impacted, personally when China decides to invade Taiwan.

I don't want to be spied on by either government, but this point you are trying to make that China has 0 influence or means to impart change in American life is incorrect.
Patriarchy and old boys clubs are related but separate things. One hint they aren't the same is they are different words with different definitions.
This thought progress is unproductive at best.
> But in my experience Iceland (just like its name) is a desert with no vegetation and consequently has minimum biodiversity.

Yes, although don't let the bus out from Keflavik fool you, the south west tip of the island is lava flats and it does look a bit like the moon. The rest of the country is a lot more interesting than that.

However you _never_ go to Iceland for the biodiversity, same way you don't go to Bangladesh for the diarrhoea. You go for the pristine wilderness, the ice and glaciers, the volcanism, the aurora borealis, the perma-day in the summer, the people (they're amazing!), the partying, the new year celebration (most households fire a firework at 00:00) or the language which is as close to ancient norse as you can get.

Also what is unique to Iceland is its size and culture, it is very Anglosphere, and a curious blend of European and American in culture (due to the legacy of the US base) Reykjavik has elements of both city and village life in a single spot and its an interesting test bed for services or products as a consequence.
Eliza was the name of the chat bot the guy made with chai. Eliza (1960s chatbot) is a parody of psychologists at the time, who would be characterized in movies an tv by asking questions such as "and how does that make you feel?" or "how would you say your relationship with your parents is?", or "tell me more about X". It was a way to vent to something that based on the patterns in the program, made it seem as if it was really listening to you (or just playing the scene in the movie), but in fact it was only spitting out algorithmic responses.
Starbucks did not offer to negotiate these new benefits with the unionized stores. They rolled them out to non-union stores, then made a lot of noise about how they couldn't possibly give them to the union stores, because the union was preventing it—but they didn't actually engage in any negotiations with the union, offer the benefits, or in any other way show good faith.

It is painfully clear that this is a deliberate union-busting tactic on Starbucks' part. The only reason they gave any stores these benefits is in order to make the union look bad.

This is illegal.
Seems like it all gets wiped by one git force-push.
Show HN: A vintage-style website about ESP8266 code snippets
Hi all!

I've been lurking HN for a while, and this time I'd like to give something back to this awesome community :)

I'm Michele, and I'm just another Software Engineer. I recently felt in love with micro-controller programming, as I started building tools interacting with my home-automation systems (mainly to optimize energy consumption by getting and processing data from / to photovoltaic inverter and heat pump using the KNX protocol to talk with other devices).

I knew nothing about this field, and at first I was confused by the amount of information is available online (I mean, should I go with ESP8266, With ESP32? What's a NodeMCU then? And what about the ESP-12E.. or ESP-12F?).

I've embraced the ESP8266 fully, as it's tiny, fast enough, has wifi built-in and.. it's incredibly cheap! I used to make stuff with the Raspberry Pi, but it quickly becomes expensive when you need more of them around, and it's a waste of power for most of the projects I'm dealing with.

I recently decided to start a small website to share the knowledge I'm gathering during the process, and even though it's pretty minimal and features a bunch of articles, I'm keen to get some feedback from you guys to make sure I'm on the right track (I'm regularly adding new content).

Honestly, I like the idea of keeping it extremely simple (and fast!), and I think other tinkerers like me will benefit from having a repo-like website for quick snippets that typically we search over and over again on the web.

Also, I try explaining the code step by step, so that even beginners can understand it easily.

So.. you hackers out there, take a look at it, ad let me know!

Ah, btw, it's cookie-free, analytics-free, ads-free and affiliate-marketing free :)

Thanks for checking it out!

https://esp8266code.com

P.S. [Meta-information]: the website is made with zero frameworks with just a bunch of shell scripts building static pages on my private VPS. I even implemented a 90's vibes cgi script for the search function (I'm toying with the idea of making a blog article about it as well.. let me know if you're interested)
If I write a message to someone, them being blue or green means I will either pay for the message (sms) or it's free (iMessage).
This is what showed up for me https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/519791942654230528/10... .
Windows 11 has already lost the marketing battle. They should have kept the version number at 10 and gone with a "ui refresh" update. People aren't going to switch until Windows 12 is released.
If you don't know then don't say that Advil is better. You can die of ulcers on Advil or get kidney damage.
What's weirder about this is that... most 'pros' really need more than stock stuff you can get at a retail store anyway. If you need an M2 MBP, you probably want it to be 64g or 96g, and probably want 2tb storage. I've never seen anything but stock/base configurations at retail stores (best buy, apple, etc). Perhaps they occasionally have variations? Or the stores I've been to are just... lower on the priority list for top-end configurations?
Front running a transaction is essentially a sandwich attack. It primarily happens in illiquid markets where someone sees a transaction in the mempool, does a large flash loan borrow to affect prices, then your transaction executes at a poor price point, and the loan is paid off. All in a single block. 1) Typical transactions are not front run. 2) There are ways of preventing front-running. This is not really an issue for the majority of users or a design flaw.

> you know the exchange rate before you trigger the exchange

You know this in crypto too. The issue is that the market depth might not be large enough to support your transaction. That will change over time, or you just stick with the basics... BTC/ETH/Stables and ignore the rest of the stuff.

> how does immutability facilitate this?

If you know that it is impossible to double spend, you can trust the math.

> And how is a blockchain that can technically be rewritten at non-infinite cost immutable

This is well covered in Andreas Antonopoulos videos on YT.

> Credit cards (and payday loans) exist for people who lack the collateral for a non-signature loan.

In Vietnam, there is no credit reporting agency. You don't get a credit card from a bank, but you can get a MasterCard/Visa "credit card". The thing is, they are effectively debit cards because you have to time deposit collateral in order to use them. People still get to shop online, but they are limited. This is honestly a far better system because it encourages people to spend what they have, not what they don't have. I also prefer to cut out the middleman who's generating all those fees for both the merchants and the end users.

> The only way to do this in crypto is to trust a third party lender such as Voyager or Celsius.

Bad examples given that Celsius was a ponzi. There are decentralized lending protocols. AAVE is a good example.
> "terrorist" is an opinion or a judgment

More importantly, "terrorists" is often used by some governments in reference to protesters or any group that they see as unfriendly to them.
Ah ok, you mean evergreen, in that case everything is ok in browser land ;)

> it's only been in recent years that all the browsers became "evergreen" and are able to add new changes at a rapid pace

The "rapid pace" is due to basically only three browsers left, and the only winner is the browser cartel we're enduring.
Which country? US? I would have taken his/her name and asked to speak with the manager.
I could not disagree more. I absolutely love Iceland and would love to return. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. My experience was beautiful scenery (with plenty of vegetation), stunning glaciers and hot springs etc, and very friendly and welcoming people.
I feel like I'm on crazy pills when I complain about these things and all the other intrusions Windows pops up at me every time I use the operating system... Yet, the people who use it (mostly gamers), seem to think it's all fine and the operating system is great.
As OP said, iceland is about as un biodiverse as it gets. I've been a few times and it's as close to the moon as possible. That said it is beautiful and kind of feels like....you're on a giant desert island surrounded by mountains that's very cold, and very expensive.
Apple Card is very convenient, but it's not the best in the rewards arena.

For example, CapitalOne SavorOne (3% for many categories) and Wells Fargo Active Cash (2% on all purchases). There are many others that are competitive for specific situations though, including Citi Custom Cash (5% in a single category). Most of these cards also offer an intro APR and/or bonus after $X has been spent.
> Today, billionaires and middle-class everyday people use the same phones

Don't assume the rich have just one phone. It is common to compartment with several different phones for different purposes. One you only give to family/friends, another for strictly business topics, another for social media, another for giving out publicly on business cards, and the list goes on.
That is impressive, especially given that neither Google nor DuckDuckGo find any previous trace of that idiom.
I believe that doesn't extend beyond degree 6 polynomials though. Isn't that Hilbert's 13th problem?
Strange, I have never seen those ads. Are they restricted to the Home editions? I use Enterprise.
TikTok is a proprietary piece of mental malware driven by a malicious state actor - it has nothing to do with the open Internet.
Zero isn’t bad. I was explicitly talking about deflation above. The effects of deflation I explained above is not a myth, it is introductory macroeconomics.

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroec...

Deflationary spirals have happened in the past, but they have stopped since we moved away from the gold standard and we can now intentionally inflate our currency to prevent deflation.
> this point you are trying to make that China has 0 influence or means to impart change in American life is incorrect.

That is most definitely not the point I was trying to make.

I'm talking about data collection, not propaganda.