skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And when we inevitably leave our card somewhere and we need to get home?

How is this different to cash? I also have Apple pay on my phone and watch.

> Or it's blocked for some random reason

I have a couple cards. Also, I've been cashless for 10 years across three countries and this has never happened.

> Nevermind the services that just don't take cash

Assume you mean card. Not a problem in many countries including Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. I travel a lot, remote, even random middle-of-nowhere merchants accept card. From a business point of view, cash-only makes zero sense. Why would a business turn away people who want to give them money?

> or the fact that their card reader might be down

Never had it happen. A couple of times the payment network has been down, and these terminals seem capable of making the transaction offline and syncing later.

If you're from a country where any of these are legitimate concerns for you, it doesn't mean cashless is bad - it means the systems are bad. And they can be fixed, again, AU, NZ, and UK (and more, I'm sure) are proof. Haven't carried cash for 10 years and it doesn't occupy a single thought.
No physical access, can be dynamically reconfigured in hardware capabilities.
> seeing a CEO feel actually responsible for his employees in a downsizing is refreshing

Too naive. This is a Japanese way of saying "I don't give a shit."
>The Alabama-based 65-year-old, who verified his last name, former employment, and salary range with Insider, but asked that they be withheld to protect his privacy, got a taste of working from home years ago.

Well, if you're a 65-year old, retiring should be on the books already, except if you tie your personal worth as a person to your job, and would be depressed and lost without it. Many (most?) people in regular jobs (not some CEO or something creative) instead get depressed by their job, not by the lack of it. Now, if you used to make 6 figures, is a no-brainer too, with all the money you should have lying around saved. When are you gonna slow down and enjoy those 6 figures, when you're dead?
Have you tried writing a Rubik's cube game? They hire professional law firms to go after you.
Same. Diet (e.g., Vitamin D, fish oil, mackerel + salmon, veggie variety) and (lots of) exercise work quite well.

Also, people exhibiting more understanding and compassion towards others who are not exactly like them is quite helpful when moderating executive disfunction. Lower anxiety helps persons with ADHD/ASD successfully develop and maintain routines.
Hmmm this smells like a biz opportunity
if you're truely that good , you should be able to create a great product that people want to pay for. Work for yourself.
The problem is the vast majority of the physics world disagrees with her on the material points, so her allegations of bad faith and stupidity are themselves incredibly bad faith behavior.
That's right:

> We estimate an aggregate annual redistribution of $15 billion from
less to more educated, poorer to richer, and high to low minority areas, widening
existing disparities.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2023007pap...
> I don't check or audit my CA's and don't think most people do either.

The people responsible for running the root stores do. And when CAs screw up, they are nuked from orbit--this has happened a few times. And they can be proactive: when Kazakhstan announced they would require all TLS connections to be MITM'd, the browsers promptly added the MITM certificate to the root store with the explicit distrust bit set, meaning that the resulting certificate error can't be clicked through, effectively breaking the internet if you tried to use that for MITM (which put the kibosh on that plan immediately).

And for another thing, I wouldn't trust the people who run the nameservers any more intrinsically than CAs. After all, the TLD that runs most of the commercial internet (.com) is run by a company that had problems when it ran a CA. There's no way to route around an untrustworthy TLD operator, and it needs to be recalled that many TLDs are literally run by state governments. And several of those governments believe the privacy of their citizens to be a bug, not a feature; giving them a more prominent role in securing privacy is not a good thing.
I actually profit via cash back from my cards. They pay me. Imagine that.
> because those symbols service important UX functions

As I read the post, I was thinking that #tags and @mentions are primarily about input, not reading. It's easier to just whack some #random #tags in your #sentences than to switch to a separate tag list input. Similarly, highlighting some text in order to apply the "mention" brush like we might with bold or italics would be strictly worse.
This actually seems like a major issue right? Much more than it's being given credit for.

Not sure what a world without capture is going to look like but it's probably not going to be very good, I guess we'll all be forced to identify with a our "world coin(tm)" ID?

That will be the time when I log off most of the internet.
What about a small hot-swappable battery compartment in EVs that give you enough kms to get home (like a jerry can of petrol). I'm not sure if the size of battery needed for a car would be prohibitive though. How big would a ~30km battery be?

Then instead of charging points, you could have something more like a petrol/filling station. Pop in, swap your pack, and drive off. (You could even plug the car in for a fast charge while they do the battery swap).

My model for this is the hot-swappable battery packs that the electric scooter networks in many Asian countries employ. [0]

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/battery-swapping-tech-gives-elec...
That's a silly argument to make. Commutes aren't fun for anybody, and they're rarely paid for by your employer anyway. You should do something more productive with your life, no matter how old you are.
Protobuf is my go-to and I have had no issues with it. If I had to do larger memory mapped files I guess flatbuffers would be the way to go.

Nympy has a reasonably sensible format, but I haven’t tried to do anything tricky with it.
Captchas have gotten _crazy_ hard in the last year. The more difficult ones often take me 2-3 tries. There's got to be a better solution; in a year or two AIs are going to be performing these tasks better than humans possibly can.
It works? https://files.catbox.moe/22gqol.jpeg
Yes, and you can read the documentation which has links to the source code, e.g. here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caching_overview#Retenti...
Well, I find that Doug Rushkoff is a great example of a man who spouses a philosophy for which I have no name, but that boils down to making people angry about those who abandon orthodox values. People like Dawkins.

Dawkins is not wrong. If you look at a bird for example, all of its physiology is "one-shot": legs that break easily, fragile wings in which the survival of the bird hinges, and so on. Yet, as a group, birds are wildly successful, they even have that whole thing about surviving a meteorite impact on their record.

Humans are no different; all our feelings for each other, our measure of success, and the things we do to mark ourselves as special, are Nature's trappings so that we attract a mate and pass on our genes. I know that that thought invites a violent rejoinder from anybody, specially from those of us who love Nature, because we are not supposed to love perfidious things.

And we are also incredibly one-shot[^1].

The issue is that there is a fundamental contradiction. We can say "f*ck nature, let's recenter the world on people." That's "man is the measure of all things," a.k.a. humanism. All said, if Dawkins is right, then there is space for improvement, and seeking that improvement is pro-human, i.e., humanist.

Philosophically, the only way to justify that seeking improvement to the human condition is wrong, is by saying that we are the way we were meant to be, i.e., posing a divine purpose, and declaring that Dawkins is wrong. Rushkoff does that but goes further and poses more mundane motives: he says that we can't have good things because the billionaires will get them, instead of using their billions to fix the other problems, like climate change and so. And he uses the word "eugenicist", which have had a very charged connotation since World War II and that has become a cultural taboo.

[^1]: I could start with all the ailments that descended on me the day I turned 40, as if I were one of those devices that break exactly the day after its guarantee expires.
Further curiosity, did you do extra math at home before the honors split?

I went to a college prep school, and our math teacher from ~3-5 grades was excellent. (We were lucky and she moved up with our class every year)

But I had a sneaking suspicion that by the time the honors split happened (5th grade?), there was a substantial "home" work delta between future-advanced kids and everyone else.

I certainly didn't like math, but my father was dead-set on my learning it. So I know I completed every bit of school homework + a ton of extra practice problems + reviewed problems with him, before honors began.

I expect to everyone else it looked like I "got" math, but there was a lot of burning the candle, and it wouldn't have been my own choice. (That said, mostly grateful, as it did carry me through college math well)
Also a baseball cap: If I wanted to subscribe to your website, I'd find the link myself.
I’m hoping the concept of the “metaverse” can come and go before I ever care to learn what it actually means. Seems like just more made up nonsense NFT people are trying to shill.
Since they have health conditions, they have no choice but to live in the GTA to be able to see their doctors. Trying to find affordable housing and specialists in other cities will have multi-year long wait lists (ignoring the fact that they don't even have the money to afford movers). Nothing in the GTA is remotely cheaper than what they currently have unless they want to rent a 5bdr basement with 4 random students in a firehazard sharehouse. They are effective trapped there until they die.
In < 10 years or so we’ll have fully self driving cars. After some time there will smaller versions that can run on smaller roads even. By that time robo taxis won’t have to park in the central parts of cities but can simply park in cheaper parking spots further out or automatic garages.
Ok, so how do you rate trigger on a particular bot such that it doesn't impact real users negatively? Further, bots that submit enough pseudo-random data have a decent chance of bypassing various security mechanisms, including for authorizing payments. Even at .0001% success rate given enough attempts they have a decent likelihood of eventually subverting existing security measures, and boosting those may be just as painful or inconvenient to users as CAPTCHA and similar mechanisms. The reality is bots don't have their own money to spend, humans do, and on its own that's enough reason to care. And what's next, bots being issued passports or mortgages etc.?
The problem isn't "capitalism". Every developed nation is capitalist, including China.

And more government isn't the answer either (nor is less government); what's needed is better government. America's governmental system is uniquely badly designed and broken. Adding more civil servants isn't going to fix things, just like you can't make a rowboat go faster by adding more rowers who are rowing in the wrong direction or not even rowing or harassing the people who are rowing.
In the attack DNSSec prevents, a client is compromised by a cert that doesn't appear in the CT logs, so infrastructure monitoring is irrelevant.
> decades of "shut up and calculate" have created gobs of contradictory analogies and false intuitions that pedagogy hasn't caught up to.

Think its the other way around really.

Decades of contradictory analogies and false intuitions later and "shut up and calculate" is still the best way to understand it.
Nice find and that's not bad actually! Still wasteful though, it adds up quickly with the amount of future EVs.

Wouldn't some kind of dock with a flexible MagSafe-like (MacBook version) robotic arm extending from the vehicle be viable?

If convenience is the goal then there must be another solution without all this waste.
I’m not even that old, but I despise the entire UX industry for what they did to quality, fun UI work. They stole every ounce of soul from interfaces in the name of “research”. I’m glad the reckoning is happening. I’ve not met a single UX researcher that could actually design anything. They’re glorified business analysts and they clearly can’t even do that right because at least business analysts can create requirements from real customer problems. UX research exists purely to only serve itself.
While I don’t disagree this is an incredibly arrogant statement. Having a phd doesn’t in of itself make you right.
Perhaps the most common US scenario is that minimal bills and income are so close, you'd have to set aside funds from food, utils, rent, etc. Right behind that are folks with income being 80% of minimum bills.

After three decades of working closely with folks of every possible income bracket, I found maybe 1 in 15 had income so high that they could afford to save for retirement.
Sure, I speak to a therapist.

Separate, but related: I also have an agenda to push via protest, not here of course.
A dmca counter claim takes at least 14 long days to respond with. In the meantime, your vitality will dry up.

Trademark infringement is a bit different, since there’s no analogue to the dmca process. But it’s pretty reasonable to want to avoid the hassle by just changing a few words.

(What is the expected litigation route for trademark claims anyway? Can they knock a project offline, or just send a strongly worded lawyer letter?)
If I've learned anything living in central Amsterdam, it's that a healthy city has a mix of all transit options almost everywhere. Cars, bikes, motorcycles, scooters (the vespa kind), mopeds, buses and trams all mix with pedestrians at street level.

Sure, some areas are closed to cars and trucks, but it is just as common that non-cars and pedestrians are simply overwhelming cars on a street by sheer numbers. This means that most places are still accessible to a car or truck, it's just not the most convenient option for most use cases.

I get that not everywhere is going to be like Amsterdam, with high density, narrow streets and a consensus that bicycles are first class vehicles, but the notion that cars have to be eradicated to make a city livable is ridiculous.
China is not worried about safety and reliability in the same way Western producers are. They don't have the same liability laws.

Tesla and the major automakers can't risk their name and reputation on a crap product.
Yeah but it would require a lot of compute power. Even a 1 minute clip takes significant amount of time to deepfake on consumer hardware
bemmu said a random weekend, not 52 weekends a year.
the metaverse exists for 2 decades in second life. It's where people go to enter 'the world' and live an alternate life. It doesn't matter if it's not VR because the important thing is to trick the brain.

There is the open source version of it, OpenSimulator with a few thousands of diehard users having all sorts of fun in their own self-hosted simulators (https://opensimworld.com) .

Ironically these worlds will live long after zuckerberg's
and cryptobros' failed creations. More ironically, nobody invested a single dollar in those. Instead, 'the metaverse' became a testament to how money can dazzle and blind people's judgement.
If we're nitpicking the number of lines, I'm way more confused because there is no obvious way that I can see for that to be 4 lines. Either it's a (very long) one liner, or it is as rendered a 5 line example (with the lines starting with curl, jq, sqlite3, sqlite3, and xargs). Where is 4 coming from?

(To be clear, this sounds like a complaint, and it kind of is, but I think the article is actually quite good if we just ignore that one basically irrelevant detail)
Assuming they started at 000000 this also puts the passcode itself somewhere in the 545000 range. I hope it was 543210.
Nvidia BlueField-3 DPU: 400Gbps infrastructure compute platform
Another possible outcome of "I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know": https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116
> the vast majority of the physics world disagrees with her on the material points

Maybe it's true I don't know

> so her allegations of bad faith and stupidity are themselves incredibly bad faith behavior.

Even if the first thing is true, this other thing doesn't follow from it.
We're already way past the point bots can answer questions like that better than humans can.
Strange. Doesn't seem to work for me across mobile/web. https://files.catbox.moe/fe0qe3.jpeg
This is the unisat wallet/service -- not a single person. https://unisat.io/

Explanation thread: https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1663383996561072129?...
Also related, Hatetris which always gives you the worst piece: https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html
Yep. Probably liscensing and future merger related. “The current plan is to unify the HBO Max service and the Discovery+ service under a single brand”
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/hbo-max-discovery-plus-m...
> Is rent control the only solution here? Why not build more housing? Build out and up until the price goes down.

Exactly. At the risk of being accelerationist, rent control is an anti-solution - it prevents the generation with the most political power from feeling the pain, and also removes some of the profit motive to actually fix the problem.

> Long term I think the solution is to figure out how to structure the national economy so it isn't dominated by just a few cities. This was not always the case and doesn't have to be a given. If the economy itself is less centralized and monopolized the cities will evolve as well.

The main way to avoid it being dominated by a few cities is to give them some competition, by allowing other cities to grow to compete. But unfortunately that hits the same problem of it being functionally illegal to build anything anywhere people want to live.
They can be when the tokens are themselves bounties which can be automatically claimed, eg by posing SAT problems to the network which represent a transformed version of your problem and the script claiming them a solution you can translate back.

This can be (and was prototyped as) a marketplace for optimization problems — until the implementation moved in another direction. Creating a marketplace where the goods can automatically be obtained for tokens is different than fiat currency in meaningful ways and provides a reason for people to buy the tokens at all.

That any money can be used for all that BTC is good for (except evading bank controls) is why there’s slowed adoption following that change.

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I didn’t respond because thats not my understanding, but arguing over old history isn’t a productive use of time.

Accusing me of “bad faith” because I didn’t respond how you wanted me to and instead chose to engage in the productive part of the discussion is itself poor conversational etiquette — particularly when you didn’t bother to provide any evidence for your claim. Despite claims that doing so would be easy.

Perhaps you should set the example of politeness you purportedly expect.
I'm cashless for none of the reasons you mentioned. It's simply more convenient. I don't have to constantly visit ATMs to withdraw money or carry my wallet, deal with coins etc. And my spending is tracked automatically. People can have opinions - just because you prefer cash it doesn't mean people who prefer cashless are brainwashed by globocorps.
Yeah, if you use a user setting such as a non-default skin, you should arguably instead install a browser extension or use a client app built on top of PCS (the Page Content Service API): https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Page%20content

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Content_Service
> it's not because of tech illiteracy, because she refuses help with it

That is still a big sign of tech illiteracy imho. It can be uncertainty about the outcome of changing the settings combined with the fact playing YT videos all day is not too inconvenient for her. You know changing the settings is not a big deal, but someone who sees it as a semi-magical box that sometimes throws random error messages?

I also knew a person who refused to reboot her smartphone in order to fix the problem that it couldn't reliably receive SMS anymore. It had an uptime well over 6 months. The reason? She didn't know the PIN code anymore and didn't want to bother trying to find out. Well, until she bought a shiny new phone that is.
Seems like "M" was just about 8 years too early, I bet their chats would be an amazing dataset for training LLM agents right about now.
Name reminds me of a dos game called xtetris. It was also a very different take on the classic gameplay of Tetris.

The sound effects were pretty good, but I can't find a gameplay video.

https://www.squakenet.com/game/x-tetris/
So basically, if you build perfectly optimal sized battery trucks and run them on a perfectly optimized schedule and route system they're perfectly optimized and attain very high levels of efficiency.

That's vacuously true for just about everything.
Ok, you pick the areas in which to limit progress.

Or we could try to progress everywhere, including in areas of safety from technological risk.
What? He's been the biggest bull for Nvidia for months. Guy changes his mind a lot.
I was working on content heavy web app few years ago and realised that lot of database reads are happening to very few "popular" posts then it hit me that we can just host that content as json files using Nginx without API getting involved. That worked like a charm. Decreased usage of database, decrease in latency. etc. In hindsight we could have just used CDN but for the shoestring budgets we had, we achieved lot of scalability with single nginx server.
Thanks for the information, this doesn't sound good.
"The Rich are Different"

The lesser-known little book of quotations by Jon Winokur.

Appropriately enough on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Are-Different-Priceless-Quotatio...

>the elite members of San Francisco's Union Pacific Club needn't worry about handling dirty money, since every coin the enters the institution is scoured by the kitchen staff.

>When the late Time Warner boss Steve Ross flew his wife and two other couples to Mexico one Christmas, the trip required two corporate planes: One for people and one for gifts.

>Christina Onassis used to have Diet Coke flown to her by private jet.

>Asked why she was carried everywhere by a burly attendant, Barbara Hutton replied, "Why should I walk when I can hire someone to do it for me?"
> don’t forget about complex CI/CD ...

So it’s simple or complex because I got confused ;)

KISS is ALWAYS good. But simplicity doesn’t mean easy or naïve solutions. Naïve solutions get very complex since the initial input is low and they don’t cover edge cases by design making it tangled mess.

Simple solutions are often very difficult to create, require a lot of input to be simple, but they cover a lot of cases behind the curtains and are easy to describe.

Your “use Postgres” strategy is more KISS than doing complex mocking. Sure, initial effort is higher, but using well known, powerful yet ergonomic singular entity is as simple as one can get on some levels. It’s equivalent of “just use Excel for it”.

I agree with you, but I think tagline is misplaced.
LLMs for document reranking with only a handful of examples
Short summary: Use LLMs to rank a given set of documents based on the likelihood of the question given the documents— shows comparable performance to fully-supervised retrieval systems for multi-hop QA.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12650

Github: https://github.com/mukhal/PromptRank
You could make the opposite argument that doctors don't pay attention so we should replace them with AI.