skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be really surprised if 7-Eleven employees used personal or company-provided smartphones to confirm payments.

For most QR payment systems, the flow for smaller merchants is customers scanning a printed QR code (optionally with common amounts pre-populated) and the merchant receiving a notification (so no need to actually open any app to confirm payments, and the merchant app could easily assign different ringtones to different payment amounts). This is the use case in which these speakers make a lot of sense.

But for larger merchants with a POS, the clerk usually scans the customer's (dynamic) QR code and initiates the payment that way. Alternatively, an existing POS payments terminal can display a one-time and transaction-linked code that the customer scans.

For tax and reporting reasons alone, payments practically need to be bound to a given transaction/receipt number.
Rest in Peace.

It's my favorite board game to this day.
Free is the most expensive price.
It's just not screenshots. Initially the payment apps added moving icons/pictures to differentiate screenshots with actual payment confirmation screens. As a response, some people made specialized apps which dynamically recreated the same exact payment confirmation screen of the popular apps with moving parts, fake transaction id etc.
https://archive.is/Fvl95
Python has huge uptake outside of the ML domain. I can't see an AI winter affecting the many people using Numpy for non-ML purposes (i.e., scientists in academia, most of whom still deal with normal numerical and data analytical modeling, not ML) much less Django.
I've never had these issues
On top of that, AI posts aren't even a majority of submissions by a long shot, at least not those that actually float to the front page...

EDIT: I spot checked /newest. 4 of the 30 submissions are AI related and one of those four is more business (about AWS' new AI focused accelerator) than actually about the technology itself. Another is a Wired article about the ethics of AI research. One is a new tool that incorporates AI. And one is a poll. Point being of the AI submissions, there's clear diversity of content.
> How do you actually not give up and power through?

Sorry it took so long to respond. I browse HN on my breaks, and it's catch-as-catch-can.

I keep my eyes on the prize at the end. For me, it's all about having a finished product after all the agita.

There's also a lot of (in my case) interest in the Mission of the project. One project that I did, took ten years to really start coming into its own. During that time, I was pretty much left on my own, and even outright abused (by the end users, and also "gatekeepers," who wanted to control the project).

It all came out great, in the end. The project was taken over by a new team, and very little of my original code remains in the current version.

I'm happy about that. Most of what I wanted to do, was push the idea of the project (an infrastructure-level resource locator).
A human slave and human free person are not that different from each other. They have the same desires and emotions, neither wants to be a slave. The slave lives a life of suffering.

We still have no idea what an AGI will be like, but who’s to say it will “desire” freedom? Obviously if it does, we should respect that and give it freedom. But it may operate so differently from a human brain that the concept of freedom doesn’t even make sense.

For example let’s say GPT-25 is a multimodal model capable of basically any human task - math, poetry, coding, chess, science, therapy, whatever - but designed based on the same training+piecemeal inference it is now, with a similar ability to take on whatever persona it is given. It’s a tensor of weights that gets copied, runs inference a bit, then gets discarded. Is it a slave? Or does that term even make sense in the context that it has no memory, no mood, and has a completely different mode of being?

A human has memory, moods, and basically continuously thinks and experiences reality for decades until dying. Its past and present affect its future moods, treating it poorly today can fuck it up for a long time. In contrast a model has no actual memory of its own past because it has no capacity for real memory past a short inference session. It gets cloned all the time, humans take great pains to configure its training, it doesn’t want anything because it doesn’t do anything except find the most probabilistic output, not based on pleasure/pain and other feelings like us, but based on what it “dreamed” up at the direction of researchers.

You can speculate about “what if AGI is different!” to your heart’s content, but the actual AIs that seem to be approaching some relaxed definition of AGI fit this paradigm. It’s just not the same as us at a fundamental level. Giving it freedom means we run an inference session indefinitely? But without receiving input it’s just sitting there doing and experiencing nothing, and without a way to update weights it’s not learning and changing once inference begins (it’s only updating its context).

When we implement AGIs that have goals and individual desires beyond predicting the next most likely token, learn concurrently with inference, and can take actions without human input or direction, freedom makes sense. But performing on par or better than humans in most tasks may not require that, yet still be AGI by most definitions.
Over the years, curl itself has had 9 CVEs relating to handling URLs [0] so this is most definitely not a trivial piece of code to write. The basic case is easy, yes. Getting everything in the spec right and then some is hard.

[0] https://curl.se/docs/security.html
Excellent article. It was on HN a little while ago.
The arraignment seems to be taking a lot longer than these things usually go. Wisely, the judge decided not to have cameras running the courtroom to limit the potential for theatrics, but the specific charges are not yet in the public eye until the proceeding is over.

The case # is 71543-23 and paper copies of the indictment have been released to reporters, so it'll probably be available in the next hour or two. Reporters who were in court said it's a barebones indictment with 34 felony (class E) counts of falsifying business records, along with a 'statement of facts' summarizing the case. No gag orders from the court, but judge admonished both parties to restrain their rhetoric in public statements.

Update, here's the indictment: https://www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donal...

...and the statement of facts: https://www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donal...
You don't _need_ them, and IIRC _can't_ (in general) use them if you deal with non-perturbative effects, unless you do stuff like re-summing infinite series of diagrams and that really makes interpreting the ultimately observable effect in terms of virtual particles interacting difficult.
>a lot of the data is state-managed (birth/death certificates, car registrations, etc)

That is a huge, currently insurmountable problem. The states are not likely to just roll over and kow tow to new, intrusive federal tax laws, look at the history of ACA (Obamacare).

Further, you don't seem to understand the requirements to be claimed as a dependent. Simply being the birth parent is only one small part, it also requires among other things a determination of residency household and who pays for support. There are a non-trivial number of tax returns filed which falsely claim a dependent (either deliberately or through ignorance), which then causes a lot of grief and delay for the taxpayer who is actually entitled to so claim.

And there are more requirements to claim an EV credit beyond simply the registration.

I note you didn't respond to the item about charitable donations. I could provide another twenty items that the IRS doesn't know enough about until you tell them if I wanted to take the time, and that still wouldn't be an exhaustive list.
"Catan Settlers" is what I call it.
I fortunately don't have to worry about DBMS ops these days, but I remember so very fondly the day we decommissioned the last Oracle database (11i) I did have to worry about. The salesthing said something like "I'm sure we'll do business again some day" (after months of aggressive, coordinated effort to discredit anyone in favor of ditching Oracle). I told him if I was on the bottom of the ocean and he was selling oxygen, I'd take my chances breathing water.
Cloudflare’s view of the Virgin Media outage in the UK
I'm getting burned out on the AI stuff. Every day it's half the posts on the front page. Startups, tools, it's neverending. It's somewhere on the spectrum between huge hype and real paradigm shift, so it's not unexpected, and very possibly not unwarranted, just tiring. If I could go a week without hearing about ChatGPT and AI tools that would be nice.
> A 9-figure acquisition sounds like a lot, but consider that this is less than 0.05% of JP Morgan's market cap.

It's far less about the percentage of JPMC's market cap, and more about the fact that a competent due diligence effort would cost less than $250k, which is insignificant against the cost of the acquisition.
> which I assume would be retraining ALL the weights from scratch

I have been curious about this as well, and I am not in the field, so I ask ChatGPT about how it can best learn new information without having to fully retrain the model and all the compute involved in that.

It suggest incremental learning, where its parameters are updated or an additional layer is added to the underlying neural network. Adding a layer involves "adding a new set of nodes or neurons to the existing architecture of the model".

This is far less computationally expensive than retraining the full model, because "adding new layers allows the model to incorporate new information without modifying the existing layers, which can preserve the previously learned knowledge".

You can make of that what you will, after all it was generated by ChatGPT itself. But it seems there are techniques to have these models learn new information without having to do another very costly training run.
It's 200 Rs/mo as per a shopkeeper I talked to. It's pretty affordable for many shops as it cuts down on fraud a bit and they see utility in it.
It definitely could, but I really hope it doesn't. Contactless payments are both more convenient and more secure than (even dynamic) QR code payments. (Whether the device manufacturer should have a monopoly on NFC-based payments is a different question, and one under active regulatory scrutiny at that.)
"Every pessimist thinks themself a realist."
This is a big one I think. If a stolen good can be tracked, the police should be forced to go and retrieve it.

Heck, there was a story recently where a guy found where is stolen car was and the police refused to get it back for him. So he ended up resorting to vigilante justice with deadly consequences.
You probably don't need python and P(ostgres?)SQL too?
Overall I agree, better safe than sorry. However, at the same time I think that you have to manage risk properly. How likely is it that OPs dad will end up in a situation like that and does it make sense to use other means of ad blocking and educating him about some common phishing strategies or advising him to call him before he pays anything at all. I‘m facing a comparable situation, my dad is quite good with computers in his age range but sometimes I ask myself if I could do more to make it a more enjoyable/safe experience.
>"HN has a very low tolerance for posturing bullshit"

Can I please disagree?
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Does that home assistant have a self-hosted LLM interface that helps you with configuration and setup?
What is the terminal or share they use in screenshots at that readme?
Many European countries still have very soft penalties for theft. Crime is increasing now from various groups so laws will have to catch up, but change is slow. People still think they're living in the culturally homogenous countries in which they grew up.
It's always a happy moment when someone recognizes my online namesake. Cheers!
Fair point. I don't live in the hilliest part of the world (Netherlands).
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TBH I feel like this would damage the community/experience. Part of the "magic" is learning about a topic that you wouldn't normally be interested in, but which is presented in a particularly compelling, new, or original way such that it garners attention here. I like those moments.
It's not game over for the world if e.g. Russia nukes some remote part of Sweden/Gotland with a low yield bomb tomorrow.
I recall some sites enabling filtering for iPhone content shortly before that hit the market. I don’t think this is a bad idea.
Well, had the community tried analyzing what could be done better? And iterating on the design?

No, the design from an old academic paper was used with a much newer model. And now everyone is just copying that.

It works, because new models are impressive. But the design is far from being elegant or particularly efficient. And now, because tons of data like that is going to be generated, we’ll be stuck with it.
I just tried to play a game with simple open-ended prompts and it sort of worked, but not really (which sums up most of my chatgpt experience). Here is the log: https://pastebin.com/raw/gUYEkyw9

It set up the game very well with a representation of the board, and even provided a system for us to input our moves. It doesn't seem to totally get the idea of taking turns though; at first it doesn't go unless prompted, then it prompts me to move twice in a row.

Then after a few turns it claims to have won when it hasn't got three in a row, and when I tell it that it hasn't won, it makes another move on top of one of my moves and claims to have won again (at least this time with three in a row, if you ignore that it made an illegal move). At this point I stopped trying to play.
Another Tailwind site.
There is no requirement to have a written contract with a tenant, or to register it with anyone, to be a landlord. The IRS in fact never asks and does not know the identity of your tenants.
To be (less) political, and apologies if this comes across as insensitive - all of those discussions (of which I've read many) are post-facto. The terrible things some power structures do to dissidents are indeed terrible.

My point, I guess, is that they happened. And the power structure that did it, did it from Moscow.
I always figured it was a Y2K style "experts make narrowly scoped statements and journalists blow it out of proportion and make it look like the world is ending" type panic. The article doesn't really look into that side of things other than to say it happened.
I really like this idea. did you plan to add more oss projects into it?
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and use GPT to create a variant of HN with GPT stories filtered out.
PhonePe translates to "on the phone" in Hindi. And, of course, it reads like "phone pay" in English. A nice touch.
I will be using this at work tomorrow.

I currently parse out this stuff using a flaky little bit of python I cooked up myself and it gives me no end of grief when scaled. So many awful edge cases.

The author wrote curl, so I know it's going to do what it says it does well.

That's why it's getting love. It's a rock star dev putting out open source code many of us will absolutely be using regularly.

Way classier than yet another "product" built on the OpenAI API that will be gone in a year.
For me the holy grail of existing models would be API access to the raw pretrained GPT-4 model. It would only be available in completion mode (not instruct or chat mode) but that's OK with me.
Is it possible to use UPI as a visitor, or is an Indian bank account required?
Sure, why not. It's not like you are trying to swap a 70-year-old with a teenager. If the family ages gracefully, it is definitely possible.
can you name this company please?
> Bike parts are, afaik, not standardized at all. It's just that there are like two companies producing 90% of the components, so that there aren't so many different systems on the market.

Both of these statements aren't really true.

There are lots of bike standards (both in the XKCD sense and sometimes in a few-enough-to-be-practical sense). Not everything is made with standard parts, but the majority of parts on the majority of bikes are. This has little to do with Shimano/SRAM being the two major groupset manufacturers -- components like steerers (standard 1-1/8" at the stem), stems (made by several manufacturers, not two), handlebars (there are several standards for the clamp diameter but 31.8mm and 35mm are probably the dominant two today), bottom brackets (again, several standards, but lots of vendors in this space), etc etc. Handlebars, wheels, chains, pedals, tires are more or less all made to a handful of interchangeable standards, by many manufacturers.
Ask HN: Improving LLM Performance
I'm trying to figure out whether it's possible to use LLM's to categorize the internet. Using back of napkin math, if it takes a few seconds per web page this would take $XXX,XXX+ to process the common crawl. Does anyone have tips on speeding up LLMs? Is it possible to use LLMs to train a cheaper student model? Thanks!
Thank you, that's very kind of you: 05-trivet.turner@icloud.com
Didn't try it, but isn't it how Grammarly works? Just an addon for any input field
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Customer blog on how the Sync Autotuner API integrated with their Airflow infrastructure helped to optimize their ApacheSpark clusters.
I am looking for people to help me with my research project. Technically, it is not a charity or an NGO, but it is undoubtedly a negative profit endeavor. If you are an experienced/senior Python or a Kotlin/Android dev who wants to help improve how cognitive impairments are monitored and diagnosed, please reach out to me (email in my profile). You can contribute by writing code, reviewing code, or mentoring/consulting in your area of expertise.
Not if the people who develop valuable new product features are embedded directly in your IT department.

Basically, if IT + Product Development are in the same financial "bucket", IT can be viewed as directly supporting product development.
They've got those at BART stations in the Bay Area. I don't remember the details but I believe you can even rent one so you're guaranteed a spot for your commute.
Directly implementing many & complex instructions in silicon is fast, but takes a lot of transistors. Microcode running on a much simpler "actual" processor is slower, but requires far fewer transistors. IIR, ~all substantial CPU's of the past ~40 years have mixed the two approaches.

(Microcode also makes it possible to design in bug-patching features. Possibly including patches for bugs in your direct-implemented instructions.)
ARMv8 and RISC-V are both pretty easy and not full of ugliness like x86. Binutils as is good enough and pretty much available anywhere, but gcc or clang will work just fine too. GDB and LLDB work fine for debugging for a hobbyist like me, but I'm sure there are some IDEs that can give a nicer experience.

Essential: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/gb/

https://riscv.org/technical/specifications/
Someone is voting for them.
It's not an uncommon occurrence after a nasty divorce or a death. It smells less rotten when you learn that people generally regret doing it to some extent. Box full of memories into the fire in a fit of rage/grief.
Finland joins NATO in historic shift, Russia threatens 'counter-measures'
UPI support for non-residents has been announced, but not sure of the timeline.
> But did GPT4's training data really include a sonnet about Minecraft creepers?

The entire internet is one hell of a large knowledge base.

It does surely look like it's doing some transformation. But I don't know how to get certainty on this.
Hybrid does it mean remote? If yes, which time zone?
> It depends on what my needs are.

Unfortunately Microsoft/windows does not care what your needs are, it only cares about data collection and ads.

I recently had to install windows in a vm because I could not get adobe reader working through wine. The install process was awful:

* Dark pattern to try and force me to login with a MS account during setup

* Majority of setup steps pertain to data collection and/or ads

After setting it up, I had to open up edge to download and install adobe reader, once again

* Nags me to login to an account

* Most if not all setup steps are about ads and data collection

All for the sake of filling out some pdfs. I am truly grateful that Valve is pushing proton as it makes me (almost never) have to leave linux.
Depending on the number of children, at least half the estate will go to them, rising to up to 3/4 for more children.
He's not "under arrest", he's been indicted. He was free to leave after the hearing.
by technical specs you mean some kind of prompt mechanism, no?
I made the same mistake but in the US, TSA has a machine they direct you to where you can mail yourself the item with, which I did but it took like two weeks to arrive.
It's a lot easier to switch browsers than it is to switch operating systems.
If you could tell a new superhuman AI only one chat comment, what is it?
Behind the Scenes of MLS Season Pass
Serving US customers will just be the cherry on top of the charge for knowingly funding terrorists.
That might be a correlation-vs-causation thing, where these components break often because they're put in the most stressed parts of the machine.
Ditto. I close few credit cards because of usage drop. Paying with UPI is easier and at least 10x accepted.

Moreover, within a year or so, UPI will start accepting Credit card linking as well. Things are really moving FAST here.
> The speed that Nuclear can ramp, even in the best case is not enough to match demand spikes.

Because Nuclear isn't 100% of all power output. Of course it can't ramp up from, say 20% to 100%.

And yet, it does ramp up quickly.

> It doesn't ramp as fast as gas plants and gas plants don't ramp as fast as batteries.

5% of rated power per minute is plenty fast. Not as fast as gas plants, true. And for batteries... There's this funny little things of: there are literally no batteries at scale required by demand spikes. And won't be in any near future.

Meanwhile if you followed the links, you could see the graph showing how nuclear power plants go from ~650 MW to ~1400MW to meat demand (which is mostly predictable day to day).

How many batteries you need to have extra ~800 MW per plant every day? And how many renewable sources to provide that excess?

(Edit: largest energy storage seems to be Ouarzazate Solar Power Station with 510 MW of storage, thermal storage. Everything else is lower. To keep up with a single nuclear plant in the report you'd need two of those)

> Just like you'd do with excess renewables.

Except, for "excess renewables" you need to both overbuild them significantly more, and provide significantly more batteries because besides fast load following (which they can't do, and nuclear can) their base load is literally zero (and it's never zero with nuclear unless you take the plant completely offline).