skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American living in the UK. Go back to visit family in Northern California ever year or two. On the way out (Heathrow) we can get a Pret or similar for more or less the same price as in central London, say £5-7 per person for a medium sized meal. And there are well over a dozen options of similar restaurants.

On the way back (SFO), it’s basically Burger King or one of the airport sandwich shops, and $20+ per person.

I don’t know the details of why it’s one way or the other, but clearly it doesn’t have to be like this!
I think with HyperCard and the Macintosh II that spirit of early Apple was preserved, well until the later releases of Mac OS X when open standards like OpenGL were de-emphasized and Code Signing became enforced by default.
How do you even get a "Social Justice Warrior" badge on reddit?
Well yeah, going down the '5-Whys' it ends up being management to blame
René Descartes
If you look at the recent SEC filing, they present evidence Coinbase likely knew what they were doing was illegal and coached companies wanting to list coins on the exchange on how to remove “problematic language” from their promotional material that might make it too obvious they were selling unregistered securities.
> bad guys have, in general, better execution an exposure that the good ones.

So much better that I take it purely on faith that there are decent people in that space. I have to take it on faith, because I haven't actually seen or heard from any of them and so have no evidence that they exist.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Even if approximately 75% of that sailed right over my head.
This is a file manager, but it acts as a Media Library. See how it can show the music’s metadata in the columns. You can edit all of the metadata, even in batch.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/7iF2D.png

Here you can find a few examples of its features. Skip the sorting and look at the grouping, custom metadata filtering, etc. not to mention the advanced search with any of this metadata.

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/transform-windows-explorer-f...

It has a field for “word count” (!!!) while in Finder I’m lucky if it remembers that I want my files to NOT appear overlapped on the desktop.
Can anyone explain, how, exactly, DAC stores more carbon than it uses?

Even if you turn the entire SW region into solar panels to power a gigantic DAC factory, the opportunity cost of not wiring that same titanic generation into the grid vastly, vastly outscales the gains you get from burying carbon.

L1 orbital mirrors, that's the ticket. Reversible, adjustable, no sloppy gas exchange problems like with the particulates.
I love a good tagging system, if it is done properly. It makes it so effortless to find the content you want.

I broadly like this post, but I disagree with "The lesson: don’t let users encode logical paradoxes.".

If a user says they want (A && !A), just hand them back nothing. Let the expressiveness exist regardless. (Ideally, warn the user, though)

I want expressive tags. It makes everything so much easier. If I can't do (A && B) || !(C or D) then as a user I'm going to get frustrated if there's a lot of content to sift through. Grouping and negation are critical, IMO.

The post touches on this, but I'd say by far the largest issue is the moderation of tags. If only the author is allowed to tag, and there's no moderation or oversight from other users or official moderators, the tag system is effectively useless. Some users will be lazy and not tag effectively. Others will tag incorrectly by mistake or intention. You want the system to support new tags for a variety of reasons, but this allows typos to create new tags.

Generally, when I see that a tag system sucks, it's because it's been mis-used, not because the underlying logic is bad.
I'm just imagining a type system based on this. I've had ideas about a Datalog-based type system before, but it was never really practical; this could be the breakthrough that would make it practical!
It's not so simple. Garbage in garbage out. But if you can get a validation signal in there, maybe using an external tool, a game, an outcome of some sort, then maybe it can work. For example generate code, and then run it to see if it passes tests - this is a good filtering signal.
I replied to your other comment, but posting here that this article is wrong and twists his words. He said Bitcoin is not a security, everything else is undecided. Big difference. Coinbase it taking them to court to make them decide.
Back in the 50s generations were more in sync. A new neighborhood will be built and mostly GI families move in, so most kids have friends around their age. Fast forward to my experience growing up in those same neighborhoods in the 1990s, and most of my neighbors were elderly, part of that first wave and still there until they eventually pass. The whole neighborhood ends up desynchronized. Schools have closed because there aren’t nearly as many kids as in the 1950s to educate.
You're getting downvoted, but you're 100% correct.
> I don't know what Coinbase offers for sale.

https://www.coinbase.com/price/poocoin
That will just sound like lip syncing unless the cover band undergoes some heavy cosmetic surgery. The fun of a cover band is watching a rendition of a song where the band are being themselves.
The Weeknd is so damn unique that I actually like his voice more than his songs. Starboy is a masterpiece, but I can listen to him sing songs that I know I normally wouldn't like if anyone else was singing them. That said, I actually kinda liked this song, but could tell it wasn't really The Weeknd.
New electric car from Polestar has no back window
It should be like recharging a battery.

in this case, CO2 -> gas would be most useful.

That gas will turn to CO2 again, but the benefit is we don't have to drill for it, which will introduce more carbon into the atmosphere.
As an android user, same question. The last app I used successfully stopped working after a while, and I got the impression Google did this deliberately.
A pull approach seems difficult to manage when you have many layers in your load balancing.

In small setups, you may just have one layer with a single load balancer (well, hopefully at least a hot-warm pair), but larger setups often have multiple levels. There may be a network level traffic split to multiple frontend load balancers via something like ECMP; those frontends may connect directly to the origin hosts, or maybe there are frontends in many locations and they connect to backend load balancers near the origins.

In this bigger case, managing pull requests becomes difficult, because balancing may be unequal at earlier layers --- if your origin can handle N concurrent requests, so it sends N pulls, how many should it send to which of the upstreams, and if some upstreams get many requests and some get zero, those many requests will have unnecessary delay.

There's also unnecessary delay when at capacity between when one request finishes and the round trip of sending a pull and getting the next request.

But, it's always tradeoffs. It depends on the volume of requests, the typical time to process a request, behavior at or near capacity, etc.

I also think a pull based system is more work for the load balancer, and load balancers are harder to scale --- I prefer to move the work to the origins as much as possible, because it's typically easy to add more of those --- that's what the load balancer enables. But, that doesn't seem to be a commonly held opinion, direct server return is rarely available, load balancers commonly do TLS termination, and often intense traffic inspection and manipulation; again, there's tradeoffs.
I produce music but can’t sing to save my life. If I had access to an on-demand pitch perfect AI singer, I would likely release way more of my music to the public.
If you have an old router, or are willing to pay the (sometimes literally) $5 for an ancient model, you can often put those old ones in AP repeater mode just for finicky hardware like those vacuum robots, leaving your 3200ACM to do fun stuff for modern clients. I think it would even make your 3200ACM faster for all its clients since it wouldn't have to process the wireless traffic for the older bands
Why is "learn more about how to properly host something" never an option for people? And in 2018! Suck it up and learn how to secure a VM, folks, especially if you're turning tutorials into production services. Most of those issues don't just go away when someone builds yet another expensive abstraction on top of a server, I promise.
Cue incoming Sabine Hossenfelder YT video takedown.

> “I have not yet seen shocking results that we didn’t know before, but I have no doubt it’s quite likely this will happen, because this is clearly a much better way of thinking about the problem,” Seiberg said.

This bothers me. What about the empirical evidence from experimentation? Shouldn't that be more important?
The SEC enforces the law, and it should be totally normal for them to say "this is how we plan to enforce this law". By not saying so, they create a lot of unnecessary churn.

Imagine you are outside a store, and there is a police officer outside. You ask them "If I go inside and take some bread off the shelf and walk out without paying, is that ok?". Should the officer say "talk to a lawyer" or should they say "I would arrest you on the way out"?

They aren't offering legal advice, they are just telling you how they will enforce the law. And heck, maybe you'll go to court and get it overturned. But at least you know what enforcement actions will be taken.
CFOs have been quite vocal on this.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cfos-ask-congress-to-repeal...

Small companies don’t have CFOs.
This resonates with me. I found a group of folks I loosely knew in my neighborhood, and started doing an informal "Tuesday Night Dinner". There's about a dozen of us, and on any given week about 6-7 will get together, usually at someone's house, and do a potluck-style dinner. If people are busy, we do a "no pressure" takeout night, but the point is we do _something_ every Tuesday night. We've missed maybe a half dozen weeks in the past 2 years, and lots of folks have become friends outside of the group as well. It's been probably the single most enjoyable thing about the last few years living in Seattle
We're on the path for stratospheric sulfide injection to be the utilitarian choice, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Effective Altruism groups discussing it as a very cost effective way to save lives in 30 years. The primary effects are relatively short lived (a few decades) and fast-acting (months). It will reduce global temperatures. Sulfide is cheap, the cost is mostly in fighting gravity. It probably won't happen until there is a stronger narrative around human life lost due to climate change. A bad summer with lots of catastrophes hitting the front page. The global political environment is setup so a non-superpower might act alone or with few allies.

While it sounds great on paper, the secondary order effects will last longer than primary and are very hard to quantify. It's clearly 10x-1000x cheaper to cut CO2 emissions now than to try to block out the sun with geoclimate engineering in a few decades.
Least connections is intuitively very sensible algorithm, but it has one pitfall: if backend server starts returning errors for whatever reason (e.g. load shedding) quicker than typical responses, it can lead to situation where disproportionate number of requests are directed to that one server.

Also typically you'd have more than one load balancer instance, and at least naive least connections requires shared state (backend connection counts) between the instances, while with round-robin you can avoid that?
Good. It’s about time these things get established as law one way or the other. Court cases are necessary to see where crypto and regulations fit and what if any new legislation is needed.
So a social commentary on AI in our culture?
I had both the Blackberry KeyOne and the Key2; I loved the combination of normal Android software with a real keyboard. When my Key2 broke last year, I bought the cheapest Samsung available, since I knew I was probably going to hate using it anyway - there is just no joy in fumbling around on a glass keyboard. I hope there will be a good keyboard option available next time I need a phone.
Why is there not a queue system where a server can pull requests when it's ready to handle one?

Why must the work to determine where to send a request go to the load balancer, when you could just pull from a queue and save yourself the trouble of finding the exact right load balancer strategy for your application?
Making home Internet faster has little to do with “speed”
> but an ERC20 token is a security

What is WETH then?
The task of generating images is harder than that of classifying, the training signal is also much denser. So it means the diffusion model implicitly learned a better visual model, and now they found a way to invert that and improve the discriminative task as well.

We can do the same thing in text. A recent paper showed GPT-4 is better than most human labellers at tagging NLP datasets. I personally used it to generate samples for smaller models, basically the same thing this paper showed. You can even top that with a second LLM round to reflect on its generated data and filter the noisy examples.

In the end it still makes errors. And the errors GPT makes are hard to detect at scale.
That's not a legal issue though, more of an artistic integrity one, and that is something that can be settled by public opinion.
nice, thanks for that link!
The way he described it, he's talking about CDS. "a mortgage, packed into a portfolio (MBS), that has a derivative (CDS), and that derivative’s volatility (VIX for CDS) is tradeable."

CDS is (usually) a derivative on MBS - it's a promise to pay out if a given MBS security defaults.
That seems a bit unreasonable

1. The App Store is not a "core UI element";

2. Even if it was, it's reasonable to see ads in a _store_. It's somewhere you go specifically in order to buy things and see companies' offerings. It's in the name -- a store. Like others have pointed out, no other portions of the OOB experience have ads.
Help the Police, coming straight from the downtown! Young cop eating donuts, so he's round.
Colorado is not a rectangle – it's a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
You presume he did this for other reasons than simply having fun with AI filters?
They hold to the best traditions of British tabloid journalism. My favorite is Every! Single! Headline! About! Yahoo!
I like Mikrotik hardware.
I don't think any of the realistic models have DAC providing a significant percentage of the carbon reduction. For example, 99% of the reduction from green electrification, and 1% from DAC.

DAC is still in the research phase, and is probably a decade a way from widespread use.

Solar power, wind power and electric transportation are already well into the production phase and are happening today.
How many people want a Western Mass meetup?
I have noticed there are more people than I would expect from Western Mass on HN. If I hosted a MeetUP would anyone attend?
If self censorship starts that early then damn.
> Why would Coinbase think that it could run a securities brokerage, exchange, and clearing house without registering with the SEC?

Coinbase is a public company on NASDAQ. They are about as registered with the SEC, as possible.

Update: cause I'm getting downvotes. See below. The point that I'm making is that if this company is acting illegally, then why is it still trading?
Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
I was just going to make a low effort "Cars." comment, but yours captures my answer in a nicer way.
Cars were mesmerizing at one point. The novelty wears off and even if the utility is still there, the drawbacks are no longer hidden by the glitter that for some reason catches some eyes.

People who care about the night sky won't be impressed by that sight more than by actual beads on a string. Certainly not for long, especially when they realize what it means for that night sky.
This is an awesome blog. Learned a quite a bit! And bookmarked for future reference! <3 :)
Let's say you have to pay 30% tax on 800,000 of profit, so now you're 240k in the hole. That's your year one! If you don't survive to take the future deductions it's kinda moot right?
A gifted mimic is not a mechanical reproduction. The right of publicity doesn’t protect you from people with similar appearances or voices, it does protect (to a certain extent) against uses of mechanical reproduction of your appearance or voice.

Because it is separate from copyright, US federal statutory fair use considerations don’t apply to this right (I’m not sure to what extent Constitutional fair use might apply to it; statutory fair use in copyright largely recapitulates what were found to be Constitutional limits on the copyright power stemming from the First Amendment, I don’t know if it has ever been considered the extent to which the First Amendment, applied ot the states through the 14th, applies similar restriction on the right of publicity, which is in the US, to the extent it exists, a state-law intellectual property right.)
From my experience, weekly is important for a couple of reasons:

1. That's the cadence that most people's life runs on. It's easier to schedule and remember something that happens every Wednesday, than every other Wednesday.

2. You actually start to feel like friends with people fairly quickly when you see them weekly. It feels like a good balance between space and closeness for strangers to start becoming friends.

Starting a meetup is hard. If there's something relatively popular or trendy with the demographic of people you're hoping to make friends with, that might be something that will attract more people to your meetup quickly (AI, board games, investing, etc).

Even if you only get 1-2 great people to become regulars, you can cancel the meetup and still meet with them every week.
The parks as I know them are.

In Germany, there is a park within walking distance, and usually a bike paths leading to it. You can also walk along numerous paths in the forest and along rivers.

In Canada, I would have to drive to them, or risk biking on busy roads. It boggles my mind that you have to drive to the place where you walk. These parks also tend to severely restrict what you can do, and when you can do it.

Sure, there is amazing nature if you can drive to it, but daily access to green spaces is sorely missing.
The worst part about going from G to FB was going from buganizer to fbtasks.

The internal tool at G has a strict hierarchy called "components", and fbtasks is tags alone.

This means if you want to file a bug against anything at G, you could navigate this large hierarchy and find a rough spot for the bug. Regardless of that team's documentation, tooling, bug tracking helper forms, etc you could always file a bug that would get pretty close. Then someone on that team would move it into the proper component if you got it wrong.

At FB... you go to file a bug, but you need to know which tags! If you miss the right tag, that team may never see it. All teams implement their tagging differently, and many implement almost nothing at all. This devolves to pretty much all bugs being tracked through internal group posts, because at least internal groups have names and membership lists that are easily searchable. Then teams implement bots & programs to take every post filed in a group, and auto generate a task with the right tags! And pray that they append the `donotreap` tag...

Bugs need to be filed against specific systems, and those systems need to be owned by teams. Those teams are in orgs, those orgs are in companies. I cringe whenever I see a bug tracker for a large company that is not in a hierarchy.
https://tuple.app is set up so that you can click once and be on a call with up to 6 people in a few seconds, with screen sharing and remote control if you need it.

(Just a heads up – I’m a part of the team. If you have any questions I can answer them or find the right person.)

- Dan
He notes this in the video and demonstrates it with two more mazes that have multiple solutions.
The chart that shows the total amount invested per quarter indicates that we are back down to 2020 levels. Deals are harder to get for sure, speaking from experience as a first time founder in Canada. But I would argue 2021 was the outlier and we are just going back to "normal".
I think maybe we're talking past each other a bit here. First I agree that phonics alone is insufficient and in and of itself does not lead to reading comprehension. I think the evidence is clear there. It also seems clear from the report that England is wielding it like a hammer.

> I mean maybe, but go beyond it and look at the stuff they cite: the report and the PISA study. Teachers aren't just responsible for getting students to sound out words correctly, they need to take illiterate children and make them functioning members of advanced societies. The report has lots of data on how the focus on phonics undermines this long term goal.

Yeah, my issue was that the Guardian piece was cherry picking from the report to make it seem like phonics was useless and not based in evidence. Whereas the report makes it clear that phonics is in fact excellent as a first step, but must be followed by broader instruction in language/culture/literature/etc.

> don't think this is what it says, but either way it's pretty common for academic papers to list ways their conclusions could be wrong.

I was paraphrasing pretty directly from the conclusion section. My point being that the Guardian was making stronger claims than the research supports, or rather the existing research wasn't great and the report acknowledges that but the Guardian obscures it.

I think overall England has probably gone in the wrong direction and treats phonics like the proverbial hammer. In particular there seems to also be a weird trend there in abandoning instruction in the cultural competency required to comprehend most extant English language writing. My concern is that here in the US, teaching has to its detriment abandoned phonics in favor of a whole language model which has proven terrible at teaching kids to decode language.
> the personalization of the 'messenger' where we listen to the same song, but mine is personalized to me, and you

Dynamically generated, personalized content already exists in the form of video games. Yet it is not notable when an NPC remarks on my unique gear, achievements, etc.

Technology may eventually enable easier remixing of art to personal tastes. However, this has also existed as long as art itself.

What people look for in the artist is their uniquely curated tastes, human connection to the person themselves, and a sense of community with fellow fans.

A machine that creates everything for everyone can provide none of these. Its output will be products, not art. It will have customers, not fans.
And it’s like AOC said, we’ve only got 12 years until the planet is dead anyway.
In most subreddits, you can choose your own flair through reddit preferences.

Once logged in, on `old.reddit.com`, search for "Show my flair on this subreddit. It looks like:" on the right side of the screen.
Microsoft shifts to a new threat actor naming taxonomy
Why engineering teams struggle to scale their test coverage
I agree with this; most of the folks I work with spend a lot (to me) on clothes. Once I started buying more fashionable clothes I noticed I felt more like part of the group. Even though nobody changed their behavior to me, it definitely boosted my feeling of acceptance at work.
If, as you write, "everyone has access to synthetic data from large foundation models," then I'd agree. But I expect we're going to see a transition in the opposite direction, with more corporations keeping newer models and data proprietary to maximize competitive advantage. I suspect this kind of thinking factored into OpenAI's decision not to release any details about GPT-4.
The place where the customer placed the online order from.