skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why can't fully greedy companies undercut half-greedy Costco and Trader Joe's? When exactly have "greedy" supermarkets driven out smaller competitors through price manipulation? Please be specific.
> I quickly convinced myself that it's entirely plausible for CO2 to dissolve into the water in cabbage just as easy as water that isn't in cabbage; that this is just advanced fermentation technology beyond my ken. But now I want carbonated dill pickles.

Carbonating fruit is pretty common: apple, banana, strawberry, …

This is usually done externally, by popping bits of fruit and some dry ice (not much) in a strong airtight container. You could probably do that with western (vinegar) pickles.
Buy a monitor?
Was it the Costa Rica story?
Can't we use kiclstarter or other fund raising sites to train a gpt-4 like powerful model?
They were replying to the comment:

If you have to pay to learn something, it's a grift

Your response applies equally to it.
They sell various knobs and handles too, at least in Europe, next to the returns/damaged sales section.
I'm in a way surprised that the Netherlands still have such open relation with China after the soying and now intimidating journalists.

Will it really take until a politician (not local) in parliament gets spied / threaten until action is taken?
I wonder if some of the AI fraud will drive to more in person interactions.

If you meet with somebody in person, you know they are not a bot and you know what they look and sound like directly.
> Make Android present convincing fake data to apps when permissions are denied.

I have wanted this for years. I eventually left Android because the permissions models were deranged (IIRC the number of apps that "need" phone access to pause something during a call). iOS isn't perfect but they seemed to be enforcing your prong #1 at least a little more than Android when I switched.
>> But this type of Lichtenstein work never sat well with me. The transformation is extremely minimal - minor changes to the scene, a new cropping, and conversion from ink to painting.

I saw the examples in the article and agree with you. I wonder what prevents others from similarly appropriating the work of Lichtenstein himself. What if I were to take a Lichtenstein piece, rotate it, crop 2% of it and sell it anew w/o any royalties? Could the Lichtenstein estate really argue against it if the original its-self is stolen?

Or imagine if someone appropriated an original El_Cap_de_Barcelona, could the Lichtenstein estate argue against that when many of their own pieces have done the same?
Good move, as China has access to lithium that the west can't touch.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/08/03/chinese-i...
> There is a Latin American country (I forget which one) where the street addresses are essentially unusable and the mail carriers have to find the final location by using their own knowledge of the area.

There may be more than one, but Costa Rica is definitely addressed this way. A hotel I stayed in was 70 meters behind the church of Saint somebody, there was a great restaurant who was “near the old tree” (and everyone knew which one!). It was impressive.
A common misunderstanding of modern art is it's appearance has anything to do with the art. Modern art is a totem, a culture sign post, where the actual object of art is merely the milestone for the emergence of the idea. Before Roy's art comic books were actual trash, and he said "no they are not" and that is his cultural contribution. The value one sees in comic books and that medium today is largely thanks to Roy. But outside the formal art world this assessment is pretty much missing, which is part of the elitism of the art world.
Looks like we are back to the rule-based systems in the AI cycle. This time using ML as foundation.
cool line visuals using mapbox. Will need to look into how that is done
None of your arguments seem to support your thesis that “it is not stealing”. I personally fail to see any logical connection between them.
UPS and FedEx would have similar facilities if they didn’t require you to mail through their stores or partners, or with a preprinted label.

It’s the guaranteed pickup of any stamped paper from any mailbox that is the the marvel of USPS, when you think about it.
The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries
That's highly subjective. The distorted/incorrect perspective for example is a feature, not a shortcoming.
NFTs have done some real damage measured in human terms. It’s natural for some people to get angry about things like that. Asking “are you all okay” sounds a lot like concern trolling, so I would not phrase your question that way. I am not going to accuse you of being disingenuous, but it is very easy to read your comment as disingenuous.

People in the thread here have lost friends to NFTs the same way you might “lose” a friend to MLMs. The friend is still around, but their behavior has damaged friendships and alienated people that care about them.
Ah, don't you need to know the use case before you condemn the solution? Inefficient yes, but still the best solution for this edge case. The ellipses were a lightly informed nod to the explanations offered by other commenters.
If I wrote an article about trying to develop in Xamarin.Forms (MAUI) it would read like the Flutter article that brought us here. Way better than Flutter but still needs work. I spent years on the bleeding edge and mostly ended up with builds failing and other nagging problems. Drained all of my energy. I went back to web dev and have been using Vue 3. Pry it from my cold dead fingers.
the people writing this FUD have never seen the inside of a datacenter or understand how anything really works. they're just FUDsters, professional shit-stirring stooges. it doesn't matter if the tech in question is total garbage or the next coming of the internet.
I don't understand what you mean.

The market price would be floored at $21 as it costs the producer $18 to produce and a $3 tax. The prior margin was $1 so realistically the producer would eat some of the increase and charge $21.50

For the person who values the good only at $20, no transaction would take place. If eventually the producer cost went down to something like $16, maybe the price would come down to $20 or below but then there's the marginal consumer that values it at $19.

Price distortions almost always result in a dead weight loss. Only in perfectly inelastic products does it not exist
I agree, but the thing is, can the escalation potential of a scam which is essentially "send me your money for nothing", with extra steps, confound the understanding of an advanced LLM?

The scam has to be both human-comprehensible and plausible in order to be delivered to the victim in the first place, which places a limit on its complexity which the adversarial anti-scam LLM isn't bound to.
One other thing not mentioned is that with pores, the bacteria establishes itself in the material for future batches. At least that's my theory/experience. Same thing for wooden kraut barrels.
Here in the US, the only LPG vehicles I've seen are forklifts and backyard hackjob conversions. My favorite one was a Subaru BRAT with the propane tank strapped into the bed.
New Mexico is losing a form of Spanish spoken nowhere else
Weapons race. You deploy a more intelligent scam detector AI, I deploy a more powerful scam generator AI.

The only ones that benefit really are the AI makers.
Chinese investment in Afghanistan’s lithium sector (2022)
Mark Zuckerberg abandons metaverse as shiny new toy appears
i'm not pro NFT, i wouldn't touch that stuff with a 10 foot pole.

consider, however, that "BUT I'M TELLING YOU IT'S USEFUL!!! WHY WON'T YOU BELIEVE ME!!!" is the exact position the FUDsters want to put you in re: AI.

they're constantly on the offensive, no matter what the target is.
I recently discovered that all of the newly built houses in my street in Japan have the exact same address. I thought the delivery guys were just wankers when they asked 'where do you live', but apparently me and all my neighbors share the same address, so delivery people have only the nameplates on the doors to go on.

Don't understand why they didn't create new addresses when they subdivided these plots from 2 to 6 houses.
According to Safeguard Defenders, China has this kind of operations in many other countries too.

https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/110-overseas

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63395617
I think the issue is that he wasn't just painting large scale canvases of comic book style art, he was literally reproducing existing comic book art.

I usually side heavily on the side of free speech in intellectual property issues, but it seems like this crosses some line to me. It's not about the value of the form of Roy's presentation, it's about the credit and compensation to the artists he was copying.
> What if I were to take a Lichtenstein piece, rotate it, crop 2% of it and sell it anew w/o any royalties? Could the Lichtenstein estate really argue against it if the original its-self is stolen?

You should definitely try this, just to see what happens.
https://archive.md/HQy7d
Lots of its wood was sourced from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. There’s some stuff like bed slats in certain sizes that have been out of stock for months at a time.
Customised advice for a given location would be a very cool feature, but I understand why you would like to keep things simple (and costs down), and also: you would not be able to “proof read” data the way you can with a static site. So there are pros and cons.

Knowing that the site was generated with the UK in mind makes me understand the advices much better as UK — at least the mid to Southern parts — has a warmer climate than Denmark.

Cheers.
Do you have any proof? Everything about it seems like it's a naturally-occurring meme. Nobody pushed it until it went viral 2 weeks after the original video, and the channel has clear history of many different experiments that didn't go viral.
I've been using Emacs for over 30 years without ever needing such a thing. Just evaluate in scratch, keep what you want, delete the rest.
See: https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/

Scroll down to “The physics of air purifiers seem simple.” for the relevant bit.
So what if I draw a the Mona Lisa and sell it?

What if I draw some other painting but an obscure artist hanging in the same museum and sell that?

What if I attribute the work as in “My drawing of the Mona Lisa” or “My drawing of this picture I saw by <painter>”

What if my drawings look very different than the original? Does that matter?
One of the things the UK's postcodes do that US ZIP codes don't do is they're alphanumeric but all the confusables are eliminated, so e.g. SS2 5QF exists, this means S52SQF, 5525QF, SS2SQF and so on are just misreadings of SS2 5QF - so both a machine and a (suitably knowledgeable) human can just correct them automatically.

The use of alphanumerics is much more common everywhere in UK systems than many foreign systems and I think they're almost always a benefit. Postcodes, National Insurance numbers (~ tax IDs), Map references, Car number plates ... In many of these systems the initial introduction of alphanumerics substantially predates automation, so perhaps other countries figured numbers would be easier for machines, but this was a very fleeting benefit.

You do need to eliminate confusables though, having 1I1Il and I1l1I both be valid and signify different things is clearly an enormous problem.
"western journalist who writes critically on China" you mean like EVERY SINGLE western journalist? China has a plan to "intimidate" every single journalist in the NATO countries and its allies?

Sorry, I dont buy it. Every single day is another "china bad" story. The journalists who write positively on China are the ones targeted and harased. Thats easy to see on Twitter with the extremely few people who write anything positive on China.
It sounds like you are saying that only ChatGPT can be called AI.
Ask HN: Django v/s Rails? Please bring your pitchforks
The order was chosen alphabetically.

Is the Django equivalent of Hotwired.dev as polished?
Whats the Django story around mobile apps?

Is Rails still into magic?
How does Ruby remain relevant in the ML wave?

Repeat after me:- I solemnly swear that I wont be downvoting comments in favor of the other framework.

Previous discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20921454
Rust won't give you a lot that Go doesn't give you.

Certainly not a better salary. Beyond that... Rust forces you to care about allocation, deallocation, borrowing, all the low level stuff, while not necessarily being faster.

To me it doesn't feel like Rust beats Typescript or Go as a higher level language at what Typescript is good at, and I don't see why that would change. Some performance critical things to port to WASM maybe...
What are you talking about? There are plenty of €100+ per person fine dining restaurants in Milan while the average sit down restaurant in the US charges around $20-30 per person. Whatever restaurant you went to wasn’t fine dining or you are used to prices in a very expensive (and outlier) part of the US.
For applied maths I agree with you. But when exploring novel and innovative approaches I disagree. There is so much we can learn from finding new ways to look at the world. The initial take may be complex or clever, but it can lead to a deeper understanding that allows for later simplification of entire subject areas.
My handwriting still looks the same as it did in fourth grade. I was blessed with a forward looking teacher and school system that recognized my interests early and didn’t penalize me for bad penmanship. When my parents asked about my handwriting they said “why worry? He’ll be typing everything when he grows up - we all will!”
And they were right!
I hope so.

You already need to meet someone in person to get a true feel for them. There are so many things that don't come throug video. Smell, for instance, generally plays an important role in our perception.
Agreed. Sadly, remarkably, one of the only individuals who might have forced that through was Muammar Gadaffi, who initiated the Great Man-Made River Project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River

That is little known and is a historic, epic feat of human effort and construction.
Tim Dillon's (Comedian) take on Balenciaga:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-VGv0rRrqU
>the Sceptre 4K TV I bought for the office last year takes 20 seconds to boot and display output - and it's a dumb TV

How is that even possible?
It doesn't necessarily seem as though the Chinese government is behind this.

Look at what actually happened: Somebody called in a bomb threat under her name, and somebody made some fake reservations under that name at a hotel near the location they were "threatening."

...That's the sort of thing a bored teenager on 4Chan or KiwiFarms would do, without even breaking a sweat. There's nothing in the article to suggest that the Chinese government is behind this; their only action was to report the bomb threat as though it was credible. The threat itself probably came from some terminally-online, but patriotic, expat Chinese ne'er-do-well.
Style whatever you like however you like, but please do include a functional text/plain part in your multipart/alternative email, and please ensure it includes all the requisite information and links and URLs that the HTML version does.

I regularly encounter HTML email that has an empty text/plain part, or an error message, or a converted text version of an email that's missing the most critical information. For instance, I often get "confirm your registration/email" emails whose text/plain parts leave out the confirmation link or confirmation code.
I live in the middle of it, and I still think it has merit. I am conflicted.
First - it is a clickbait. Second - if am being asked to transfer money by say my fake relative I would surely do some verbal grilling first. Are they saying that listening part of AI can perfectly decipher all the questions and give proper answers? I doubt it. And even then I will make bank transfer to a relative. How would scammer actually get it?

As for bank manager transferring hefty sum without some proper verification - the problem is not scammers but the manager themselves.
I wonder if this will drive adoption of secure voice communication ala Signal or something.
You're making an analogy with something (ChatGPT) that isn't analogous.

ChatGPT kan be useful or useless and NFT:s would have the same value or qualities otherwise.

NFT:s can be useful or useless and ChatGPT would have the same value or qualities otherwise.

The one playbook that exists here is defending NFT:s in lieu of it defending itself by being actually useful. (Which is not me saying that they are not nor that they couldn't be. Just that shouting that everyone is dumb and that your product is in fact awesome isn't a good look, is it?)
I've had a great time contributing to this project, using Elixir to create a multi-tenant connection pooler. It's still under development, but we're excited to gather feedback and improve it. Elixir has been an awesome language to work with — let us know what you think!
I didn't like the presentation at all. I'm not on a mobile device; the amount of information on the screen at one time is tiny, like one sentence, and the UX is unpredictable.

I think it's the result of the "mobile first" dogma, when you don't follow through with "desktop second". IME, "mobile first" usually degenerates into "mobile mainly".
Show HN: A text adventure and puzzle game with AI-generated story
Not surprising, in my experience book groups in the US are overwhelmingly female.
i'm getting downvoted because we're in an NFT thread and people think i'm pro-NFT (lmao. lol. etc.) instead of anti-dipshit-FUDster "tech journalists".
The US can't be a №1 world power without the USD being a global reserve currency? And isn't the US still the second manufacturer in the world?
Once we can run our own personal, private LLMs it will definitely open up a world of possibilities.

Actually applications like this will probably be implemented on the cloud-based models, since 98% of the public does not care about privacy as much as people on this forum.
There are a few parts to it.

First, Latter-Day Saints believe that one needs to be baptized in order to enter into heaven (based on the teachings of Jesus Christ recorded in John 3:16). For this to come about for those who never had the opportunity to be baptized (let alone the countless individuals who never even heard of Jesus Christ while alive), they perform proxy baptisms on behalf of dead individuals. Obviously they don't baptize corpses; instead, they have a member of their faith baptized again, on behalf of an individual who has passed away.

To find out who of their family tree needs to be baptized, Latter-Day Saints perform tons of genealogical work, which includes indexing handwritten censuses into digital form. Hence the census sheets.
Not if you use it to pay off national debt
In a democracy, it absolutely is a criticism of a political party that it can’t win elections among an electorate that is securely rooted in the country, and must instead rely on newcomers who will put aside their own values because of their precarious circumstances. Democracy is about allowing people to create the society they want to live in, not maximizing individual freedom from moral regulation. Using immigration to enact social change that is undesired among both the people already here and people coming here undermines democracy.
https://archive.md/zXyg2
This might be a good idea, but it might have an issue: Whereas people can't merge, companies can, and this might incentivize mergers. It'd have to be thought through.

The tax paid is an increasing, convex function f of some measure x of "profit". I'm not sure how to normalize by company size (or if you should). First, let's say x is per-capita profit, "capita" being the number of employees. Let's also say that the tax f(x) is also per-capita.

Now say there are two companies, 1 and 2, and for simplicity say they each has a single employee, the owner. They would pay a total tax f(x1) + f(x2) to the government, on a before-tax profit of x1 + x2.

If those companies merged, then they'd pay a tax 2 f((x1 + x2)/2), again on a before-tax profit of x1 + x2.

You can just divide both sides by 2, the total number of people involved, to get the usual statement of Jensen's inequality:

(f(x1) + f(x2))/2 > f((x1 + x2)/2)

Thus, with my choice of per-capita normalization, this tax scheme incentivizes mergers. Probably it also does so for other normalization schemes. (What are other reasonable denominators?)

This incentive goes away if the tax isn't normalized at all. In fact, then it mostly just disincentivizes largeness. Which, on the surface, might be a good thing, given that we have too many monopolies. On the other hand, it might incentivize some kind of artificial splitting of corporate structures (not that this isn't a common thing already, what with "Double-Irish Dutch sandwiches" or whatever they're called).

Possibly anything that isn't linear will be gamed in some way.

And, not to sound like an apologist for the capitalists, but it's true that when they take their profits out of their companies, then they will be hit by convex taxes which are a little harder to game (though there is still marriage and other things). And that doesn't prevent companies from amassing stockpiles of cash -- representing power for their owners -- without paying out.

I like this general direction, but it needs some "red-teaming".
Here's a flickr page by David Barsalou with Liechtenstein's works and their sources. Many of them are extremely blatant, way more than the examples in this article: https://www.flickr.com/photos/deconstructing-roy-lichtenstei...
During COVID brokerages did start allowing online transactions for certain things they didn't used to. However, at least my brokerage has reverted to requiring either a direct or indirect in-person presence.
I grew up in the cursive age and I'm mostly incapable of writing well by hand. No decades of practice ever budged that needle.

Past that, I'm glad to see cursive go away; it is only legible from the people who are capable of doing it well.

I've been doing genealogy for some years now and I can't count the number of unreadable documents that would have been saved, had they been written in block. For each one, I am reminded that cursive begins with curse.
Some financial institutions already support this concept. Accounts can be flagged to require a live video chat to transfer money or even require being in-person and showing state ID.
The near freezing temperature should only be for preservation. Usually fermentation processes start around room temperature and then move progressively lower. Lactic acid bacteria thrives around 65F-72F, which is the supposed to be the ideal starting temperature range. After even a day or two at that temperature it has established itself and enough acidity to safely lower the temperature with minimal risk of other organisms outcompeting it. Below 41F lactic acid bacteria stop growing and are almost entirely inactive.
I created something similar a few years ago.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/particles/fire-exp...

I didn’t use AI though, just overall cleverness.
I guess that means the answer is "none"
Doesn’t leak your IP address. It also doesn’t tell the server you opened the email, or when you opened it, because it always fetched them whether you open or not.

Basically all the server learns is that the email address went to an Apple Mail client.
Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation