skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't infinity be both even and odd? The field of numbers should allow a possibility for both even & odd to happen at the point of infinity. Of course, infinity would then be a point where the definition of a number could break down. If it doesn't, then it can be both even and odd.
In the latest release (v20.0.0) Puppeteer switches from Chromium binaries to Chrome for Testing binaries by default. Since the binary is different the change is marked as breaking.

Background document from Google about the new Chrome For Testing brand: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XJvxyqAQjhPfJ0rX84PjfXXb...

I don't know exactly what the impact is for the future of Puppeteer and Chromium. Maybe someone can share their thoughts on this.
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I guess their argument is the reason those things suck is because they are hooking in some c++ monstrosity (tensorflow) or making rpcs to an external daemon (redis, horovod).

So rather than writing another Python wrapper over c++ they are making a new performant language that can call Python.

To me it makes sense as torch is great and hard to compete with, but everything feeding into it is a mess today (Data loading, distribution logic).
nextjs is sick and I've always been vercel-hesitant. this is probably an app-specific dilemma that should be solved with spreadsheets to compare costs based on your very specific needs.
Yes, totally forgot to add it. I updated the article now. Was such a good read. A lot of things I do today is because of that book!
Yes, they're right.
Who would you lend to in this macro?
Same thing with gold. Apparently I needed to be buying gold since before I was born and every year since because hyperinflation is always right around the corner.
I’m stealing this excellent phrase.
Yes, but the second you grow beyond one server the complexity of keeping both in sync, sharding the database, etc etc etc, makes it way more simple to just write a worker and let another company handle it.
When you are young, 2 or 3 years actually seems like a reasonably long length of time. When you are fifty it feels like a couple of weeks, so replacing products that last 2 years feels like you're replacing the damn thing every month.
I like how this can be read as an existential dialogue, a cry for the kind of help that can only come from within, or a relational chess-opening of the validate-me-acknowledge-my-intractability variety.

Personally I recommend the first of the three, if it seems a reasonable approach to life for you.

The second is more like something to work on intensely in private but never to reveal publicly.

The third represents something to get off the chest just before you return the favor, as is only polite. :-) Good luck!
Responding to: "He didn’t say that."
I never understood why a website served using a self-signed (and untrusted) certificate would throw up more warnings than a website served without any encryption at all.

Even today, a page served over HTTP just gets an unobtrusive bit of text saying "Not secure", but if a page is served over HTTPS with a cert that expired yesterday you will get a very scary full-page warning that entirely blocks you from accessing the underlying page.

It seems totally backwards to me.
In addition to what the others have already said in this thread -

- the real return is lower (and can even be negative) if high inflation occurs during the period, and

- if you do hold onto them no matter what, your money is locked into a long term asset for below market returns

You can always tell yourself "it's fine", and perhaps it's really fine (for you, or whoever can afford to hold onto low interest bond for 10 years without doing anything with the money). I'm just saying there's a risk here. The fact that half of the banks in US are underwater due to this risk is quite on-topic too.
I just don't get why you'd even want to sleep separately from your young child. They cry because they crave physical closeness, physical contact, the rhythm of their parents breathing, just like we've done for millions of years. All you do in denying that is create a lasting distance, nightmares, and worry for these monitoring companies to feed upon.
I pay for archiving and it was broken for a bit. I've emailed him a few times about it and I can say that it is totally working now—like save a bookmark and it's archived same day or sooner.

If you sign up for Pinboard at this point and expect new features, then it's on you. I pay for uptime and maintenance. (Paid in 2010, 11k bookmarks, very satisfied.)
Another request for RSS please!
This reminds me of fffound but with video only.
If an econ forum started discussing gravity, there'd be some austrian physics guy yelling about how the invisible hand of the market pushes down on everyone.
Pretty easy, take a look at Langchain tutorials on YouTube. Basically you give it a set of documents, split these into smaller documents and then store these in a vector database and create embeddings (OpenAI, Jina, etc). Then when you interface with OpenAI on GPT-3 or GPT-4, you interface with those documents and embeddings and produce an answer based on the document set (or very near to it). It takes some practice, but with some repetitions you could code this together from scratch within 5-10 minutes. This channel on YouTube thought me within less than 2 days:

- https://www.youtube.com/@DataIndependent
Is it their random number generator or are the reselling that off AWS as well? Because have you tried to navigate AWS billing?
> Do these companies worry that web browsers like Chrome could leak data or applications like Google Docs?

We are not to use any third party cloud hosted software that is not approved to store proprietary information.

There are only three external SaaS companies that I am aware of that we use that stores anything proprietary.

We are not even allowed to take pictures of the whiteboard because the pictures can be synced to external cloud storage providers.
Well, that's really the thing: Who bricked it?

There's really no question as to whether the current outcome is possible under a licensing agreement. This is why random people are asking to see the licensing agreement in question, lol.

Sometimes when there's figurative smoke, there are figurative paragraphs of fire that somebody signed off on in a moment of assumption, excitement, or whatever.
Obviously what you posted was religious flamebait. This isn't a borderline call.

If you set off a flamewar in which other people behave badly, the primary responsibility lies with you. (I don't mean you personally, of course - I mean any of us posting here.) It's not as if these outcomes are hard to predict.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
This is genius. I definitely do have this issue. Sadly I am not on MacOS anymore or I would buy it in a heartbeat.
This reminds me of a forgotten Star Trek video game called Bridge Commander [1] released over 20 years ago that allowed you to play as a Starfleet captain from the first-person perspective of the captains chair. In the game you could free-look 360-degrees around the bridge and click on crewmen working at their stations to give them orders.

I always found this concept unique and it's a shame no game since has replicated it. I would think a modern version would be perfect for VR. It could even use footage from a real set with real actors captured with a 360-degree camera giving it the most "realistic graphics" of all time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Bridge_Commander
They didn't hold deposits. So it's kind of reasonable. They are called "bank" but they aren't the same kind of institution.
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You'd think that radius meant radius, but that'd be too simple.
The context is 1% gains claimed by GGP by chasing AI fads. There are easier ways to get ~4-5% these days. Not saying it's a "good" return though.
No, I absolutely would find an incredibly large amount of Chinese customers if they were my target market.
May I ask, what is the main issue you are facing with what you have now? Is it the software that has become unstable in recent OS versions? Hardware failure?

What OS and version do you use?
You could also just read the Financial Times.
> once the TPM is exploited

This is not addressing my question. It's not the TPM that's exploited but the SP. If the SP is compromised then the whole host is compromised.
I strongly disagree, the current mess is largely caused because some banks didn’t anticipate interest rates going up from historic lows. That’s profoundly bad risk management. A child could have done better.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
"Sony" has an interesting history as well. The official line is that it was a mixture of "sonus" and "sonny" boys (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony). But I have it on good authority from people in the know in the company that the real reason for the name Sony was that it sounded like an American company name to Japanese ears. America was cool. That is, namewise Sony was the Japanese equivalent of Haagen-Dazs. It's even written in Katakana, the script for foreign words.
This seems to be a pretty hot debate these days: https://theconversation.com/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-old...
goddamn!! what a great idea for a site and will definitely be exploring the alternatives listed! now do a similar one for Netlify or GCP!
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> ...by what metrics?

The Wikipedia article is linked right there.

> in a world where talking machines can outperform them in every area?

Seems unlikely for awhile, except perhaps as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

> I maintain that the robots should do the work

It sure would be nice if robots could like, unclog toilets and clean, instead of usurping creative work.

> so that people can e.g. teach their own kids

Some people are really well equipped for this, in knowledge, temperament, and ability. Others, ehh..
Wonderful site http://n-gate.com
Ignorant American here:

No one really knows what is going to happen in the short term...
We don’t all forget about incentives people might have in saying something; but we also don’t all assume that the first convenient explanation is adequate.

Numbers 1-4 obviously don’t have enormous recent progress nor the funding and mindshare poured into, and pouring in, as consequence.
>It's obvious that human general intelligence operates in frontiers that are plainly outside the scope of computation.

IMO, the two most important properties of human cognition are that it evolved through natural selection, and that it is embodied, meaning that it is part of a feedback loop between perception and action. I don't see why either of these things requires having a biological brain or body. It's true that current methods aren't close to achieving these things, but there's nothing in principle stopping us from creating evolved, embodied intelligences either in simulations or in robots.
Remember Putin's pre-invasion address when they were surrounding the country pre-invasion?

I'll always remember that he mentioned events from 1912 to justify a war with child casualties in 2023.
How is USD better than Zimbabwean dollars after the US federal reserve has quadrupled the amount of dollars in less than a year and then claimed only single digit inflation?

EDIT: I love how nobody replying is addressing my actual point
On netlify iirc pricing was for every git committer that was allowed to trigger a deploy.

Render.com was more
lenient in a model like you describe but still we have different people manage different apps and it adds up.
Yup. <cue the "How are sex and air alike?" joke>
> that's the definition of a rule.

And there are several example rules on the page.

> You can't escape the fact that there are only one or two samples, no matter how much math you throw around.

That depends on what question you're asking. "How well calibrated are the electoral predictions that FiveThirtyEight makes?" is a sensible question with a lot of data points, seems to speak directly to the crowing about the one call being bad, and seems well suited to the application of a scoring rule for comparison between people making predictions about the same things.
It makes perfect sense to focus on events defined in a uniform way across the dataset (in this instance US FDIC insured bank failures). Otherwise what you are depicting is an arbitrary collation of events that may have very different causes.

What I derive from the visualization (btw Bostock is a genious) are a couple of simple yet still tentative observations:

* A new cluster of failures might be forming. The pattern of correlated failure is not new and it may point to similar business models and/or exposure to the same factors. Measurable correlation may also imply some level of contagion. This is defined as one event increasing the chances of another (after conditioning on common factors). But it is anybody's case what the fully developed phenomenon will look like. Three events is still small number statistics. Dont run an AI model on this.

* There is at this point a remarkable absence of small bank failures. If this persist it hints that it is actually not the vanilla banking model (and poor risk management) that underlies what is happening, but more idiosyncratic factors that are specific to a few actors. In some sense that would be good news.

One thing is for sure. The crisis will be properly visualized.
> No CUDA required

Nvidia has a ton of lock-in with CUDA. Seems like it could shake up the GPU industry if this takes hold as a standard tool in ML. Also, I'd imagine AMD, Intel, Apple, and others will be lining up at the door to sponsor this project.
It falls under the rubric of "please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here."

We can't list everything that's off topic - the list would be too long to read.

I'm not saying that the issue isn't important, but it has been widely discussed in other threads and no doubt will in the future. The Who Is Hiring threads aren't for litigating ancillary issues, even important ones; they're just about who is hiring. Comments on hot topics (like pay range laws) are particularly prone to becoming repetitive.
I don't want to talk down contributions cause I think most SO participants post in good faith and sometimes the answers are outstanding. But even when GPT gets things wrong or goes down blind alleys the conversation feels much more...constructive.
There is a LOT more than zoning that goes into the cost of construction driven by regulations. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if you could only attribute a single digit percentage of the all in cost to zoning for construction in the bay area.

Here is how you could do a first order approximation: Find property zoned so you could build dense housing and get its cost minus the cost of the improvements. Then find matched property zoned for a single family homes, minus their improvements. The difference is attributable to zoning for the purpose of this approximation. What percent of that is that in the overall cost of the multi-unit construction?

I'm not sure of the figure but given that the entire land cost isn't that big a percentage in dense construction, I expect the impact from zoning to be fairly small but not negligible.
What would be even cooler would be to let GPT4 summarize everything, not just rank it.
I’m pretty confident of all the players in that market AWS is the least likely to pull that move.
Breaking a habit is usually very hard, so kudos to you for stopping. Everything should be in moderation. Alcohol/Coffee can definitely backfire. And taking a break from them even for a short time can make such a huge difference. It will give you that extra mental energy to get on things that can actually benefit you like exercising, meditating or anything else that will be beneficial!
Similarly, I predict if a man at a table starts slapping others at the table, some will try to get up and leave.
Econ indeed does teach us what the poster suggests, in perfect competition.

If we're finding that lots of businesses have substantial pricing power, such that it's a driver of inflation (and this is open to debate)... then it looks like we have a whole lot of really imperfect competition.
This is cool thanks for sharing! Especially as it was a Yosemite park vehicle, what’s the deal with that?
Didn’t watch the whole vid thoroughly but think this truck is a gasser and not power stroke, based on them showing the engine compartment but could be wrong? I have an ‘88 f250 and am also active on the oilburners diesel forum, some folks on there are pretty excited (and rightfully so) about their ex government trucks - low mileage and fleet maintained. never a spy truck though! 12k miles though just wow

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Their argument is basically that while normally a company raising prices would mean that some of their customers move to a competitor, in today's environment there is an implicit agreement that every company will keep prices high.

So are they saying that the free market is basically not a thing anymore because of covid, and no company wants to get an edge over its competitors by undercutting on price despite having record margins?
> "we'll fight the big guys because, if we don't, nobody else will".

Smoke and mirrors more like it. They collaborate with Facebook and Google all the time. 80%-90% of their revenue comes from Google. Fighting the 'big guys' for real would mean shutting shop and never to be seen again.
I'm still using HTTP and plan to continue for the next 25 years or so.[1]

It is a highly accessible, highly compatible protocol, highly usable protocol.

I also think the MITM risk is overrated compared to how much barrier HTTPS creates to accessing basic information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
I wrote a post about this. The frequency of failures was much higher but the individual failures were smaller:
https://yarn.pranshum.com/banks2
This innovative thinking. More of it is needed.
It's not about virtue signaling, do you think that giving them strings-attached money is going to make them like me? It's kind of a jerk move.

It's about establishing communication directly with the workers so that you can circumvent potentially corrupt unions.

As for general purpose boycotts, I don't think they're as effective as they used to be. Modern supply chains are too convoluted.

It's easy to see somebody doing something that you don't like and engage with them directly about how you can help them stop. Mapping an evil to a change in your spending habits that prevents it... I'm sure there are cases where that's still possible, but I don't think it's the majority of them.
This argument belongs to a broader theory called "Culture of Poverty" (poor peoples' values rather than structural issues lead to poor choices which perpetuates a cycle of poverty). It was popularized by sociologists in the 50s and 60s, but has since been discredited and is not taken seriously by modern sociologists.
I’d like to see a list of those assets because this one consisted of a bunch of garbage tokens largely worth nothing.

https://cryptoslate.com/breakdown-of-current-ftx-assets-show...

The top token in that list, Serum, listed as worth $1.9 billion, had a trading volume of only $2 million yesterday on Binance. -2% depth is $60,000 lol.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/serum/markets/
Ok, but that doesn't make for a substantive comment, and we're trying for substantive comments here.
An analogy may help, imagine the website as a door. A website using HTTP is a normal door and using HTTPS is a door with a lock, where the keyring in this analogy are the trusted CAs by your browser. A website using HTTPS with an expired certificate is a door that should have a lock, but the lock no longer latches; and a self-signed certificate is a locked door with a key left in the doorknob.

From a security perspective, a door without a lock has no expectation of protecting anything. But a door that should lock but doesn’t, or is supposed to be locked but has the key left in the latch is not providing the security expected, and should be given pause when anticipating security from the lock. This is what the browser is trying to translate with its UI.
The budget deficit represents the monetary value of everything the government spends money on (e.g., places, programs, assets, investments, etc.).
i was struck by that as well. smart long game moves.
How do people even afford $0.20 per GB of bandwidth? All it takes is a few videos or images and that will get very expensive.
I'm saying getting banned from the top subreddits deprives you of very little value.
That one's my go-to as well. Hope the author's all right.
i'm super curious about the book!
Also recently added an OAI-driven trending cluster view on BizToc (https://biztoc.com/hot)
How is any of this partially thanks to the blockchain?
Do nothing the next months, nothing productive, you end up where you started.
Enjoy your time, breathe out and dont stress yourself with the next enterprise being productive, creative etc.
Do yoga or meditiation to get rid of what you brought to this decision.
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Same for Italian, it's 99% there but there's a few holes: the mute "h" in "hotel", "scienza" and "conoscenza" sounding the same "sce" but having an extra i, "gl" has two different pronunciations etc..

It's still far, far better than English.