skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The percentage Icelandic banks (by memory) have had on normal deposit accounts, locked somewhere between 3-36 months has been around 2-3% over the last few years, and effectively 0% on checking accounts.

Now, with inflation running rampant, the percentages have reached up to 7+% (Central Bank interest rates are 7.5% and inflation measures at 9.9%).

I am in the privilaged position to be able to gain more in interest on a considerable deposit at a local bank (which is unlocked I might add) then what my total monthly mortage interests now come to (close to 1.8x). In addition since the mortage allows for direct deposits into the principal without incurring any additional cost, each Krona that gets put into it has effectively the same buying power as when the loan was initially taken.

It is a peculiar state of affairs.
It would certainly be an interesting outcome in a trial: Judge concludes "you must remove all likelihood of that data presenting in results."

Cue re-running the training model a little bit more frequently than they'd like... At least it would certainly become opt-in very quickly, which of course it should have been from the start.
MIT/Berkeley/CMU courses?
That's more like vendor binding. Apple’s credentials aren’t device bound so “pinning” to Apple as a vendor by requiring attestation doesn't ensure a credential is device-bound. Not that you don’t have a point, generally.
No, the training data is, in fact, sitting in a large database somewhere.
The whole point of being a lifetime appointment is so that external parties cannot exert pressure on the justices. The system sacrifices a lot of other checks and balances because it puts "lack of external pressure" on a pedestal far far above most other things. When the justices put themselves in positions where ruling one way or another could make the difference between earning $3M to $100M or $0, its a complete travesty for the court and the nation. It means we get all the worst parts of lifetime appointments and we still don't even get the primary benefit of it.
> but I think it's a bit weird to have a pricing tier than effectively doesn't work for anyone who would pay for the service.

When we had only the $10 plan, we were getting messages from users that that plan is too pricey for them when they don't search as much.

Hence the $5 month and now about 5% of our users are on this plan. (and Kagi still has zero marketing spend). You have to start somewhere. This gives us an opportunity to onboard almost everyone to Kagi.

> if unused searches rolled over month to month. This tends to feel fairer in general.

Yes, except something still has to pay for all the free trial searches and our salaries. Selling product at cost or below is something VC funded startups can do, which we are not.
Gold/Silver is best in this situation. Don't have to worry about inflation, but you still have it in case of emergencies
But you can turn around and ask it to write a story about the person and it happily complies. That's fiction but contains some facts. Repeat this enough times and you can pull out the facts the stories have in common.
"Deceptive patterns" is now the preferred term for what used to be called "dark patterns"

It's both more descriptive and avoids equating "dark" to "bad". I've also heard "hostile patterns" as an umbrella term that covers deceptive patterns as well as careless UX problems like a design that isn't accessible.
Ah that makes sense. I was doing B&W with basically a kettle and a glass thermometer, I had no electronic temperature control equipment. I think I would have found it extremely challenging to do C41 consistently without that.
Where are these state of the art facial recognition systems deployed? Because as someone with dark skin and a Nest doorbell with facial recognition, I can tell you from experience that Nest still struggles with dark skin.

And if Nest is not deploying state of the art facial recognition then what are the odds that some random landlord is? I'm going to say close to none.
I think that is fine if language also does directory = namespace
I've been following speech recognition, in particular, since the mid-90s. Around 2000, after many hours of training the best speech recognition software available commercially, with a slight speech impediment (which does not confuse people, for some reason) I personally concluded that even tailored speech recognition of general speech for a specific person was not viable yet. General purpose speech recognition of an arbitrary speaker perhaps with an accent that was even 80% accurate would be a long, long time away. If you had asked me to guess I'd probably have said after 2050.

I remember a presentation by Bill Gates, about the cutting edge statistical modelling based translation and speech recognition at Microsoft, similar to what Google was doing. The software was live-transcribing him, well enough that he could be understood. I was floored. Assuming this wasn't tailored to Bill specifically for the demo, it was revolutionary technology of the kind I had expected to take much longer to develop. That was 2008. At the time the notion that speech might become a common interface still seemed rather far-fetched to many. By 2018 such tech was everywhere. Deep learning based models have now closed much of the remaining gap in just the last couple years.
> Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted May 1-10, 2018, with a random sample of 1,024 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

> Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/235280/americans-say-pornograph...

Dunno about you but I never answer unknown numbers, and neither does any of my friends, or anyone in my age bracket that I know, or anyone younger (gen z), so ... "Older Americans say they dislike pornography" is hardly surprising to me.

If you look at the demographic break downs its only getting more acceptable.
You down with OPP? (other people's perception)

Yeah, you know me!
Artificial intelligence is remixing journalism into a “soup” of language
Twitter, specifically.
Well, exploiting brand loyalty is also a dark pattern. The better your brand, the more you can sell it for.
And yet Agda, which is a proof language, was included (in the ML family).

Looking at some TLA+ examples, I’d say, squinting a bit… somewhere around Prolog ? I’d love to hear someone chip in !
The issue with private dwellings is it allows the citizen to destroy his contraband/evidence, so even WITH a lawful warrant, the US gov cannot access/seize it until it’s too late.

#endprivatedwellings #camerasineverybathroom #thefourthamendmentispropedophile
Just for reference, this was all publicly known at the time because the information was all disclosured on her forms. The daily wire didn't think it was a big deal back then because they didn't bring it up.

The issues that people are having with judges like Clarence Thomas are him earning large sums of money from potentially interested parties of the court without disclosing those earnings.
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I wonder why there isn’t more support for replacing possibly the entire industry with generative AI. Pornography is such low entropy content.
Or better yet, don't. One has no reason to take the Better Business Bureau seriously. There was no reason 30 years ago when I, as a business owner, signed up for it, no reason now. "Ooooh, you'll report me to the BBB, those three senior citizens that actually look at that might not do business with me!"

Plus, I looked up Amazon: A-. What was I supposed to see here?
You're probably right... I suppose at the very least I could label them as "predatory". But yeah, still more a personal problem there, duly noted.
Prize is an accepted alternative spelling of prise, which makes it likely to me that the error here is simply a typo s/if/it/
My apologies, I guess I read these bits wrong.

https://github.com/dlenski/python-vipaccess/blob/cc4366f7bce...

https://github.com/dlenski/python-vipaccess/issues/39#issuec...
Dear Lord, Youtube.

Annoying Ad plays
Saaay, we can make those ads go away, for just a little money.

It's like paying the mob to make sure nothing happens to your store (by the mob)
> I work within a university and socially impactful research goes through rigerous ethics committees before being approved

This is a gross exaggeration. Only a small portion of academic research requires IRB approval, and it's mostly limited to experiments on humans or animals.

If we were to start requiring IRB pre-approval for all research that might be "socially impactful", it would be the end of progress as we know it.

The first step would be to determine what counts as "socially impactful". You couldn't limit it to just AI. What about security and privacy? Why not all of CS? And then, why not Economics or History?

Source: worked for various universities doing research, first as graduate assistant, then scientist, then tenure-track professor, for 19 or 20 years.
There was no computer involved when publishing at the time. It certainly just took time and money for a professional typesetter to painstakingly set symbol after symbol on his manual typesetting machine.
Shopify still a valuable business! It's a success story in a volatile space. So if they want to maximize their growth during good times, it's almost inevitable they'll have to walk back some of the earlier steps they made during fallow times.

So I would put Shopify in a different league altogether than RIM or Nortel... these latest moves in fact may help them avoid the fate of the others.
you claiming that government accounts are amplified is a strawman

> free speech absolutism starts with removing algorithmic feed and stopping profiting from ads

if you can't make money off it, the platform will cease to exist. its cherry picking to say that something isn't perfect because of this when its the same as everything else on the internet.
My usage of “state of the art” was misleading, I apologize. To be more precise I should say “most of the companies offering services in this area are this good and getting better”. This is not like batteries or carbon nanotubes where research is way ahead of production; it is more like LLMs where commercial offerings are significantly ahead of published research offerings.
Yep. "Special VIP access for Mount Gibbs tier and higher-tier 'Yosemite Club' Members...exclusive events...". The usual classy-looking plaques & such around the park, informing mere mortals of the names of the park's uber-green benefactors.

Side benefit - when Congress is doing its annual budget fight, the National Parks Service can remind certain members that lots of donation-giving wealthy people care a lot about the National Parks.
That's right, I was mistaken. The point I was trying to make is that compiled shader languages are very unlike dynamically interpreted PostScript, which is much more like Lisp or Smalltalk than C or C++.
I prefer "One way to format everything", it just cuts so much needless whining if everyone just uses same formatter with little to no settings.

... and having curly bracers instead of the whitespace nonsense. Using invisible characters as flow control was never good idea.
Wow, this looks really good. The buildings rendered in 3d look a lot better than Google Earth models, especially around central London, I guess OpenStreetMap data is pretty accurate for geometry.
Iceland should offer high interest savings accounts to non-Icelanders!

Oh wait...
If the company is forcing you to put reminders instead of just letting you cancel right away, that's a dark pattern. I do not know about Linkedin, but I've seen plenty doing this, like Amazon.
Why can't they just build tracks and have trains running through this network of tunnels?
> If a hypothesis provides a prediction, but can alter the interpretation after the event to fit the facts, then it's providing no predictive power. e.g.

Is this an accurate and comprehensive description of the situation we have before us though?

> If someone predicts that <insert deity> rewards/punishes people when they die (which alters their near death experience), but then amends their interpretation of good/bad to fit the data, then it can't be used to predict anything.

That you can identify one attribute of this nature is no guarantee that all attributes (which is not known) are of this kind.
Wow they BRIBED her 3 million dollars??!! Wait, no, they published her books and sent her the proceeds from the sales of those books. Keep trying guys, I'm sure you'll find a liberal justice as bad as Thomas.
> Part of the cuts come from Shopify's sale of its logistics division to Flexport, based in Silicon Valley, Calif.

It's really surprising to me that the company that laid off 20% of their staff is now buying an entire logistics division off of Shopify. I actually interviewed at Flexport earlier this year, and it was not the greatest experience (delays on interviewing, interviewers who didn't know who I was or what role I was interviewing for, one on one interviews where the other party wasn't even paying attention). The week I interviewed they ended up announcing the layoffs, so I just assumed they weren't serious about hiring.

* https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/flexport-to-lay-off-20percen...
Oops, quite right -- the glob pattern for matching any letter is `[[:alpha:]]`, not `[:alpha:]`. Cheers!
Someone please explain to me, how I am supposed to access our national parks and resources that are ONLY available on recreation.grift if I don't agree to recreation.grift's privacy policy[1]?

[1] https://www.recreation.gov/privacy-policy
That sounds like a "cleaning up that oil spill is way too expensive for our company". If complying with the law or dealing with the consequences of your actions isn't feasible, think of a solution beforehand or change your plans.
> introducing important enough new concepts

What do you have in mind, apart from duck typing?

> considering Smalltalk it's own ur-language, and because I agree with you that Simula at least on the surface will seem more familiar to people familiar with ALGOL-derived

For ST we have to differentiate the 72 and 74 from the 76 and later versions. Starting from 76 it has inheritance, compiled methods and virtual method dispatch quite similar to (though less efficient than) Simula 67.
It's called professional typesetting. The manuscript sent to BSTJ would have been typed, probably double-spaced, and I assume with hand-drawn equations. Once editing was finished, it would go to the typesetter.
Answers on this Stackexchange thread go into some detail: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/244082/typesetting-b...
On page 290 of a linked source you can see an example of typed/handwritten copy that the typesetter (a person) would have been working from: https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/2003-matrix-typeandt...
yeah its not clear but that seems to be the case. Meanwhile in the US I am getting 4.5% of a few high interest savings accounts I have open, I am not sure if these options are available to Europeans but if they are there are banks that are paying really good interest rates. That being said the major US banks are offering absurdly low interest rates and I just use them for a checking account and nothing else.
America Faces a Debt Nightmare
In my case, equities. It makes zero sense for me to have money sat in a bank account earning 0.75% (3.5% below base - it’s the best savings account my bank in the U.K. offers) when I’m paying 6.5% on my mortgage with the same bank. Rather than pay off the mortgage with a stiff penalty based on current rates, I’ve stuck it in equities and funds, where at least the yield will be better than a kick in the goolies, which is the best most banks offer.
Signing up for subscriptions is rarely a good idea.
Given that the author points out Vimeo as being the worst offender in their sample, I wonder if having a lot of dark patterns is a signal that the core value proposition of the business isn't strong enough to stand alone.

2nd thought is that every dark pattern that makes it harder to cancel or easier to sign up is a bullet point on a resume of a growth hacker somewhere.
Yes potentially, we found out that incorporating billing system is painful and takes away resources from our (small) team that we'd rather spend on building better search experience (like this update).
I once had the pleasure of seeing Terry Pratchett speak, at the first Penguicon, near Detroit, MI. (Somewhen between 2006 and 2009, I think)

He told us, among other things, of working at a facility where they had to wear some sort of dosimeter, and were not allowed to leave the base without treatment if the card turned black, or something like that.

Then he mentioned one of the workers who turned up too hot to get IN to the base.

Turned out, he'd acquired some old aircraft instruments that used radium paint for nighttime visibility, and had been messing around with them.

Fun times!
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There's a toxic brew of mistrust for US institutions. It has real consequences
The current UK government are on their last legs - the overwhelming majority of the public don't trust them and we're now on our second unelected Prime Minister.

IMO, they're just trying to get through the things they want into legislation before they get booted out next year.

But, they've been so awful generally that the public are beginning to see for themselves why we can't trust government to 'do the right thing' for the people.
One day we'll figure out this "Democracy" thing. I'm sure of it. But for now it seems like it's always getting beaten senseless by oligarchs and their cronies.
I recently purchased their newer Hue White A21 (1600 Lumens) and while it has a brighter maximum as advertised, the lowest/dimmest it will go is also brighter than the previous generation which sucks at night. So YMMV as far as generation and lower brightness.

I wish they'd supply this information before you purchase. I want to know lumen RANGE.
What We Know About the Explosions over the Kremlin
Linear Algebra (chap 10) always reminds me of this quote:
“Classification of mathematical problems as linear and nonlinear is like classification of the Universe as bananas and non-bananas.”

And its standard reply:
"It's actually bananas all the way down."
I disagree about the point regarding "turn off auto-renew". This actually makes way more sense to me than "cancel". When I read "cancel" I am always worried that I may lose my current access that I paid for. When I know I am simply disabling auto renew I know that I will still have the remaining access that I paid for.

These companies do a lot of dark patterns, but you stressing things such as this and others really discredits your otherwise valid argument.
I want to go hiking, not play some stupid game.
BlackBerry director Matt Johnson on why the iPhone won
That's how you know it's not AI generated :) Full of typos.

Fixed now. Looks like “pry” was chosen.
It changes gradually with age, and depends on a lot of other factors as well.

Given how infectious SARS-CoV-2 is, it is a very deadly virus. It's nearly a worst case for public health. It's not Ebola, but almost no one gets Ebola. It's far deadlier than other viruses that people get seasonally.
So...I get the reasoning, but yet another in a large string of things where I wouldn't have conflated something with race....until you brought it up, and now I do...I don't know if I should feel guilty at the inherent privilege or if people are just taking it to an extreme, or if it's just language being language.
>> How do you find a VM by IP address in Azure?

> The point is that you probably don't need to/shouldn't. IPs are ephemeral, don't matter and can easily change, and shouldn't be used for anything like identity.

Hi, the ip 1.2.3.4 seems to be one of our VMs, and it's relaying spam. Which vm is it?
if anything owes its success to being flavor of the month, it's git. mercurial was probably a better dvcs in the end, and svn wasn't all that bad before both of them. and as impactful as github has been, we had svn-based online open-source communities before git too. git/github was just there at the right time/place imo.
They should be able to set their display name, right?
Still no #embed
Whoa holy shit this is the kind of nuanced and intelligent discussion I come to Hacker News for. Can you write in a cyborg executioner that extrajudicially murders the black man and then gets a puff piece from the local news rewarding him for protecting the building?
Should have added a little clip of him to the video...
Why is

sizeof('x')

equal to 4 if

char letter = 'x';

sizeof(letter)

is equal to 1, just like `sizeof(char)`? If `'x'` is represented as an `int` in C, shouldn't `letter` in this example also be represented as an `int`?
Version control dates back to the 60s and early 70s. Not really the last decades, but literally the infancy of modern computing
What engineering problem isn't "manufactured"?

Hell, pii itself is manufactured. God damn houses! Builders never stopped to think someone I don't want to talk to could use my address to find me!
With the advances in productivity tools, this would seem to make sense for most white collar occupations. It might keep more people employed, but salaries are sure to come down along with it. It’s still a good deal in my opinion—-we only have a limited time to enjoy life.
The opposition to pornography is multifaceted. In particular, most women are opposed, and there’s a significant philosophical basis to that opposition both among conservative feminism but also a significant category of liberal feminism. Even secular people have objections to how porn represents women, and how it socialized young men to think about sex and what normal sexual activity looks like. In the Gallup poll (linked above), the only group where a majority find pornography morally acceptable is men 18-49. Only 1/3 of adult women find it morally acceptable. Among married people it’s only 1/3. Half of women also think sex work should be illegal, compared to only 36% of men: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/11/11203740/prostitution-legal-me....
> real people can't feel things unless they plug into a program

Too real :p

How did he predict my addiction to World of Warcraft in 1968?
Agreed that the premises (land ownership is a moral wrong) and conclusions (we should adopt a land-value tax) of this article are strangely disconnected. If land ownership is the problem, then Georgism is not the solution, it's just a different property tax regime, one that will only have a meaningful effect in urban areas where land values constitute the bulk of total property value.
I'm not sure if it's common knowledge that "ur-" means "original".
0.5-1% is the average over the population of a country like the US. The mortality rate is far higher for the "super old," and lower for the "super young."
Tenants putting the apartment up on Airbnb and not using the property themselves. That could run counter to other laws in NYC and have the property owner at least partially liable if they are complicit or didn't take action to prevent their properties from being used as short term rentals.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/specialenforcement/stay-in-the-know...

> Under the NYC Administrative Code, property owners are responsible for ensuring their properties are maintained in a safe and code-compliant manner at all times. Property owners can and will be issued the violation for any illegal short-term rentals at their property -- even if it is conducted by tenants.

Even aside from that, short term rentals can generate more complaints from neighbors and increase wear and tear on the property.