skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because we cannot represent fractional units of the already smallest unit of currency, we have to choose a value anyway to charge or dispense. Unlike, say, if we stored it in dollars as a floating point and we can start compounding errors from the floating point type.

I've spent 20 years mostly working in finance. You'd be surprised at the prevalence of floating points used to represent currency. I cringe every time I see it, but it's surprisingly common (and wrong).

More correctly, pricing of securities (from exchanges) is done with integers and a scaling factor. The factor is typically static and doesn't need to be transmitted on every tick. The factor tells you effectively how many fractional digits are present (e.g. the actual price is multiplied by 10^-factor). Factors of 4 or even 6 are somewhat common, but some securities have to go with less precision. I remember in particular Berkshire Hathaway causing issues with overflow using 32-bit ints in the last decade (because they never split their shares, the share price is quite large).
Man is it a good thing not to be in tech.
Another reason why a simple ID which only purpose is being an ID might be useful. No more non-driver drivers licenses
Twitter should be paying them for providing a valuable service to Twitter’s users. It was a service that increased Twitter’s value, both directly and indirectly by legitimizing it as a source of official information.

The new cash-desperate Twitter instead wanted to squeeze a few bucks from them, and lost a high profile user and became less useful to remaining Twitter customers.
Denmark batch‐dependent safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid‐19 vaccine
As Karl Marx correctly illustrated 150 years ago, a state under capitalism is merely a capitalist state.
Preventing customers from canceling unwanted services does not mean they owe you money for that service.
Show HN: A beautiful GPT chat client
Can someone explain what an electron is? I remember from my high school physics that electrons are "point-like" particles, which are "elementary" (not built out of any smaller particles). And electron clouds are like all possible or probable trajectories of how electrons move around an atom's nucleus. Or something like that, it was many years ago. Then what is a "cloud of negative charge"?
It’s really not difficult to build sandwiches that won’t require refrigeration and can be packed into a container for consumption on long trips, people just don’t really know how to make them. But it will vastly improve the quality of your life.

Just stop buying these expensive sandwiches.
I think we might see something like that as part of publicity for the Artemis program, since NASA is heading back to the moon.

In the meantime, at least we have Eagle Lander 3D: http://eaglelander3d.com/
Wonder what the effect would be of forcing companies to equalize salaries if someone with the same title is hired at a higher rate? Ignoring location based pay, though that would be interesting. Could be pretty powerful for labor rights, "rising tide lifts all boats", "decentralized union effect", etc.
I much prefer the new syntax. The C based shader languages always end up in some kind of uncanny valley where it looks like C and C++ but behaves completely differently.

It's not exactly Rust either, the @annotations aren't written like that in Rust for example.

The let-syntax is closer to Javascript with type annotations, so that makes more sense for web programming than doing C style variable definitions. Using let and var instead of let and cons is a bit of a weird choice, though.

Other than the variable definition syntax, this syntax may as well have been C++-based without all the verbose names that C++ likes to add to its namespaces. Shades will usually mostly be math code, though, so it shouldn't even matter all that much in practice.
What do your users want? Will they understand your offering faster if you explicitly mention AI in your messaging?
Somehow I got a copy of James Gleick's book Chaos and it had a big impact on me. I was kind of obsessed with chaos and fractals for a while. Right around that time a whole bunch of similar pop sci books came out and I read a bunch of them. Steven Levy's Artificial Life, a Mondo 2000 collection, John Koza's Genetic Programming, and Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg all stand out in my memory.
This might explain the $29 ham and cheese sandwich [1] in NYC, gives airports the right to charge up to $31.9 for a sandwich.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/12i4fot/29_ham_and_che...
Some Trustpilot reviews that show the same experience:

https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6425f6e859137efc1ec7d625

https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/64081f9f6d2be49468d775ba
It's a natural extension of capitalism into government.

Is that a failure? When you have no strong barriers keeping people and organizations from being able to buy politicians, practically no one with any power looking to change it, I would say that it isn't - at that point it's just working as intended.
> This won’t pass.

do you mean to say it wont get signed into law or that it will be struck down by the courts?
Their interests align with my values. Being picky about the "why" of their interests especially when it is "they want to survive the crushing hand of Microsoft" is a rather rich criticism on your part.

Yeah companies want to survive economically. If they don't exist the products they make would be completely unavailable. It is a rather uninteresting angle to take.
That's not what flagging is for. You can simply make a comment and leave it at that. FWIW I too have had issues with Docusign and found myself 'signing' something where someone just claimed to be me. Docusign is useless without identity verification.
there's native filesystem access?

edit: wow, I had no idea and I've been a web dev for over a decade lol
If you trust a vendor's description of their product you're in for a world of hurt.
I'm mostly working on fairly simple image segmentation tasks but in my experience just replacing convolutional layers with attention layers + position embeddings works well. Using convolutional embeddings before the transformer encoder also helps.

It still take a lot more epochs to train though, so you might have to decrease the learning rate of your discriminator by a lot.
We wrote tons of games on 80's computers with crappy keyboards and 40x25 text on poor quality TV's
Everyone nowadays is lazier than the average man in the 80s. In the 80s, you probably had to buy music in a store rather than use Spotify or Apple Music or had to look up information in the library instead of google it.

The industry wants you to get everything you want through one click, nowadays though, it's not even a click, you just need to talk about it and Alexa and Google Home will pick up on it.
It might or might not, other counters show 11 million accounts, who knows how many active. Which metrics do each counter use and why do we believe they're representative of what we care about?
"Buyers remorse"is a thing.
Did you reinstall OS, or it works as upgrade?
Because it's really cool to try out experimental instruments other poeple have made by simply opening a webpage, without having to execute untrusted native code that could have bad consequences.
The trenching was expensive but I have a long driveway and trenched in two conduits for two fibers. The fiber is always underground here as winter is 7 to 9 months of the year and its easier than getting permission from the power company to share their poles as I am in a rural area. This is commonly reversed in cities as digging is often impossible due to overlapping electrical and sewage boundaries and other bureaucratic reasons.

Much of the power here is also underground to avoid outages from freezing lines and people hitting power poles. I'm glad I had my power traced out because the 7200 volt line goes right down the middle of my field where I might have trenched in water lines.
This is why I just bring along a few protein bars when I travel. $15 for a shitty airport sandwich? Fuhgedaboudit!
If you want to understand logarithms intuitively, think about them as clocks
I wanted to share this blog post I whipped up a few weeks ago. It tries to solve a problem I've always had and hated with high school math – how do you remember those infernal logarithm rules? In the post, I try to share my solution: a simple change in perspective makes everything much more intuitive, and allows you to easily re-derive these rules on the spot.
> it’s private sector first coming to utilize public sector for protections. So I’d say it’s pretty capitalist initially, and then a failing of government second.

I’d say its just capitalist, period. The owners of capital, collectively and individually, using government as a vehicle to advance their interest is the whole origin and nature of capitalism.

“free markets”, etc., are post hoc idealistic rationalizations that were created to defend those interests by selling people on capitalism well after it existed, and do not reflect the reality of capitalism.
Funny to see the no-doxxing rule evenly applied. It was always stupid.
I guess we'll need to start censoring then.
A lot of people do get those currently, just ID cards for non-drivers, also issued through the DMV. Adults need them for various things like voting, food stamps, etc. But I've never heard of a child needing an ID card (aside from travelling abroad), although they could probably (?) get one if they needed - maybe they don't issue them to people under 18 cause there hasn't been any need
Yes, exactly: bias + imprecision = inaccuracy.
Headline reframed, MSM running cover for how US is ALREADY monitoring the web and now using the truth exposure event to leak their global monitoring programs.

The gov learned a lot with the Snowden leaks - stop relying on hidden spy programs, flip the US media to be a propaganda tool and prime people into believing this is for their own good.
Can you share more about what it takes to build something that'll digitally sign documents that'll be recognized by most countries?
Do not spend more time on this. The pitch demonstrates a remarkable lack of awareness about how the world works.
Please note, that to boot Windows you require a vBIOS to be present, something that is off by default in libreboot, as it's a proprietary blob. It will only boot into safe mode. But you can configure it in the coreboot config menu, though that would go against the libre principle. But the ultimate principle is consumer choise of course.
Yes. YouTube already does this KYC verification with age restricted content. Not a big surprise reveal here.

Meta will probably follow suit with Meta Verified as well for both Facebook and Instagram.
if elmu doesn't want them posting on twitter, it's his call, no reason they should pay when they're the one providing a service to him (relevancy)

guess tsunami alerts on the platform just weren't worth that much to him
Extra virgin olive oil is definitely on the lower end of cooking oil smoke point spectrum, that is not really contentious point. Refined olive oils (e.g. extra light) tend have higher smoke points, same is true afaik for most vegetable oils.

If you have not observed olive oil smoking, then that is more reflective of your cooking habits than the oil itself.
I can't quite tell which social media sites this does cover...?
I've found enough Firefox-only bugs when doing things through spanish government sites that I started using Chrome for them preemptively.
It really is surprising how little diligence work seems to have been performed. With how brazen most of these "Fake it to make it" startups have been, I have a hard time not agreeing with you.

I do think some of this equates to a pump and dump with investors and ultimately the buyer.
Do services like password managers help with this kind of data retrieval? I agree with this in theory and would strive for it but it seems near impossible in practice
For fun, look up what Ronald Reagan did to protect car dealerships, specifically incumbent dealerships in California.
While I agree with you, I think there's a bit of nuance that is worth considering.

For post-paid subscriptions, e.g. AWS, you've already consumed the service and you are obligated (legally and ethically) to pay for it when the bill comes. You can't change your credit card details to get out of paying.

For pre-paid subscriptions, like a month-to-month SaaS application, I don't really see the issue with using burner accounts and cancelling them if the company makes it hard to cancel. From the company's perspective, don't they just cut off access when the payment doesn't go through? Its not conceptually much different from forgetting about a subscription until the card expires.

More to the point, if the company didn't implement dark patterns in an attempt to prevent users from cancelling, we wouldn't be here in the first place.
There is a vast difference between the things which are blocked because youre not using a turing complete programming language and things which are blocked because of the nature of that language though.

You'll probably run up against the former quite quickly. The latter possibly never.
"Charge what the market will bear."
In standard C you have nextafterf(3) that gives the next float and allows to traverse them starting from 0:

#include <math.h> // nextafterf
#include <stdio.h> // printf

int main()
{
long n = 1;
float f = 0;
while (f <= 1)
{
f = nextafterf(f, 2);
n = n + 1;
}
printf("%ld\n", n);
return 0;
}
Known as barriers to entry: "Barriers to entry is an economics and business term describing factors that can prevent or impede newcomers into a market or industry sector, and so limit competition. These can include high start-up costs, regulatory hurdles, or other obstacles that prevent new competitors from easily entering a business sector." https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/barrierstoentry.asp
> Small screen hard to read with ageing eyes from that distance, or to operate touch controls precisely. This alone is a deal breaker, anything that requires more focus or concentration is A safety hazard and a no go.

I could see this being an issue for some eyes. For me though the phone's touch screen is actually far easier to operate due to its location next to the steering wheel/driver's side support column. Rather than hovering my hand in the air at full reach to interact with a central unit, I keep my hand braced against either the wheel or the handle on the column and have full support when interacting with the phone.

> unsightly charging cables hanging around.

Guilty as charged. I did wire the cable to my wireless charger behind the trim in an appealing way, but my new phone doesn't even support wireless charging so I have a dangling wire now.

> no backing camera support.

My vehicle doesn't have a camera, but I've never really needed it. It comes from the time when the rear windows were large enough to clearly see everything going on out the back. This is before regulations shifted to make the rear columns massive, block all your visibility, and force you to use the camera rather than your own sense and intuition. If I had a tiny child I might reconsider.

> no handsfree support i.e control volume, skip songs without looking or lifting hands from the steering wheel

I installed a device (USA Spec BT45-TOY) that allows my phone's bluetooth to connect to the stock head unit with full support for steering wheel controls. All the magic of bluetooth with 0 LCD screens shining at me (so long as my phone screen is off).
It’s down a lot, but oil + gas imports are still to the tune of 6 billion euros a month

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/13/germany-r...
Is that not the status quo? My DMV will absolutely issue me a non-driver ID card if that's what I want.
Documentation says you can cancel it through settings:

https://support.docusign.com/s/articles/How-to-Cancel-Your-D...

In any case, your title is inappropriate (please report facts but please don't tell people what to do), and your last sentence is extreme exaggeration if it's based on a single case of difficulty cancelling, which doesn't seem to be representative.
Although it is indeed a weird mix of going all the way of using a FOSS firmware with the goal to remove all non-FOSS proprietary software blobs on the boot-path and then include them anyways via Windows, but that is of course up to the consumer. The right to use your device anyway you wish, the ultimate expression of libre.
Montana’s Looming TikTok Ban Is a Dangerous Tipping Point
You actually like the Car Play texting implementation? Doesn't it refuse to show the text message content on screen and prohibit keyboard entry?
Ask HN: Do you feel OpenAI is in a league of their own?
How important is first-mover advantage in this space? How about the rapid pace of compounding development iteration abilities via the use of AI itself?

There are clearly a lot of incumbents in the space - I expect all the largest tech companies are rolling their own and then there's off-shoots like Anthropic. There's also the hope that open-source models will usurp the private models, similar to what happened for a while with DALL-E vs Stable Diffusion.

I'm curious how relevant others see these other players and options in this space. Do you expect OpenAI to maintain its breakaway lead for the forseeable future? Are others playing their cards close to their chest and will surprise us? Will the rate of progress slow and allow for the field to stabilize with multiple companies having effectively comparable offerings?
Why call it a web company if you simply use web technology (http/2, html, css, reactjs, javascript) rather than develop web technology?
People in this thread are complaining about smartphones not being designed for tinkering as a bad thing. As a dev I agree with the sentiment but otoh I'm very happy I don't have to tinker with my car or my fridge.
Why award the contract for the entire airport to a single company though. My local Spanish airport has a bunch of different options. It's way cheaper, while definitely more expensive than outside the airport. The only price control enforced is on bottled water which can't cost more than 1 EUR.
KraftKit v0.5 – Package unikernels into OCI archives
> The labour shortage sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic has inflated salaries, meaning that in order to land new hires, companies are offering higher salaries than many of their existing staff are making for similar roles.

That's a long way of saying that inflation requires higher salaries and that employers are particularly hostile to matching inflation for their existing employees. Just because they're used to shoving their fingers in their ears and ignoring employees asking for money because things are getting expensive doesn't mean it's normal or okay.

> Before New York City enacted its own pay transparency law, lobbyists warned that they could create conflict in teams and remove incentives for employees to work hard.

That's the intent. People will get mad that they are not being paid the same as others doing the same or similar work. No more secrets.

> Activists and community leaders argue that the laws provide vital information to women and employees of colour who otherwise might not have the professional connections to know what kind of salary to negotiate for. Illinois, Oregon and Kentucky are weighing pay disclosure rules of their own.

I don't know what activist they found to argue that these laws are only for women and employees of color. That's a terrible take on these kinds of laws. They benefit everyone, everyone at some point or another has experienced a pay deviation from the norm, some people repeatedly, some people for most of their careers. This includes companies that routinely underpay compared to industry norms. This should even start to highlight how awful cost of labor is; someone based on their geography can be paid more than you simply for existing.

> But those most upset about the disclosures are the firms’ existing staff. Alan Goldstein, a New York-based executive recruiter, said that Wall Street human resource executives blamed the transparency for a wave of resignations after bonuses were paid out at the end of February.

That's quite a silly take on this situation. Maybe they should pay better, and have incentives that keep employees around since they can't rely on the mystery of the future anymore?

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I moved out of Texas because of a salary sharing thread on Twitter. I realized I made a third of what someone doing my same, if not lesser, job in San Francisco made. Asset prices are also higher in SF, so by the time these folks retire, they're sitting on a very fat nest egg. I've since left California, but I do side hustles that bring in some income to match what my SF salary used to be. If I hadn't seen that thread, I would've never known that the normal salary and benefits were so high there. It also helped me develop the opinion that cost of labor is an awful mechanism whereby we justify paying certain people more based on their geography, a geography that's often tied to exclusivity and high barrier to entry.

If business leaders are mad that the story is unraveling and they'll have to pay all or most of us fairly at some point then that's just tough luck I guess.
> Knowledge from around 3000 bc to 1580 or so just burned

If it makes you feel any better, it’s likely a LOT less time that that. They didn’t develop their complex social culture until ~750BC & the earliest sculptural examples of Maya script are ~300BC.

It’s extremely unlikely any books the Spanish burned dated back until then but that’s the likely earliest they would have been.

Still a massive cultural crime & attempted genocide tho
Where did you get that it has to be a driver's license? Just get a regular ID card if you don't need to be able to drive.
Thanks, my joke about "will it work in theory?" is kinda on point here:

I don't think it's any slam at game theory to say that it doesn't represent the real world perfectly. It's an approximation.
Clear does not change the screening, it only changes the identification check and puts you at the front of the line.

At SeaTac, there’s separate lanes for Clear with and without Precheck.
Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix
My (mis-?) understanding of the Central Limit Theorem is that the average of >30 measurements increases the accuracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
> exploit others for free for ever

They made use of a functionality that was willingly made available for free. That changed, so they are stopping to use it.

They made no financial profit, but offered a public service of great utility, for a marginal cost to Twitter that is practically zero. In return, it made Twitter's platform more useful. Everyone benefits. It baffles me to see this called "exploitation".
This is just a low effort “kids these days are X, unlike when I was a kid” or “back in my day, men were men”.

Your specific claim isn’t worth responding to, but maybe you’d enjoy a short history of “kids these days are spoiled” - https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1600628195854020608?s=20
Starting a response with “you realize” is so condescending. I wish people would just make their point neutrally.
Was it a struggle? Seemed like fairly boring long term planning.

Next up for phase out, Coal.

I would until recently have bet that Germany would phase out Coal before the USA, but the recent IRA changes might have made it a competitive race again.
I thought you were talking about the comment, which either sounds like it was AI generated or pulled directly from a dictionary.
Someone buying their first Mac is probably not aware of OCLP. Depending on the hardware, OCLP might not provide a stable or a good experience. Better to buy a newer and still supported Windows PC.
Classic systems was designed with the idea of desktop computing: having something flexible at the users fingertips. Modern mobile devices are designed as consumption and monitoring devices of someone else service.

The user in the classic desktop design was intended as a powerful tools in hes/shes hands, modern mobile+cloud are designed to milk data and keep people entertained.