skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the POS is down at the store, the cell phone networks are surely down (since many POS these days are just cellphones attached to Stripe or similar)

People have calculators that tend to work and be accurate outside a POS. Many people can do basic math and add tax, and you hand them cash. Is this hard to believe? It comes from an era where a POS didn’t exist.

> I'm guessing your saying FEMA help won't come very soon

FEMA, National Guard, etc, stand up critical infrastructure first. This means hospitals, not storefronts. They also only bring in limited food. They feed some, no where near all.

> come very soon, it will be everyone for themselves in the city

hardly, for one National Guard is patrolling. You’re purposely being reductive here.

> I also don't live in a place where natural disasters (like hurricanes) are very common. I imagine people in Florida or coastal Texas would have a very different view on things.

So you, knowing you lack experience, blatantly state cash is on the way out when you now state there are some uses? What is your point exactly? Because a few people don’t need cash in the US clearly nobody needs it?
It don't help with my existing multi-GB email archive.
worked out beautifully!
Are you allowed to have non-JW friends?
Oh, wow, poor underpaid Spain developers. Suck for them for doing perhaps 90% of the same work .
Aren’t you disclosing your emails to third parties by using something like Gmail?
NL government wants to abandon key safeguards for hacking of non-targets
So now there are targets and non-targets too, just as there are these uses and exceptional uses.
As an improvement for context, the nvidia or amd or intel or tesla ai chip could picture in an svg architecture schematic fault probability distribution and explanation in realtime without human input. Text only status pages with a little color for decoration with this much more information gets the point across quicker.
For the lower bound there is a dark horse factor that has spooked Geoffrey Hinton. He thinks that biological brains aren't able to do backpropagation effectively through multiple layers, and so differentiable programming frameworks are much more powerful than what the brain has, at an algorithmic level. In other words, he thinks that computers are able to learn more effectively than any neuron-based biological brain. Of course right now there are caveats. The brain appears to have more 'statistical efficiency' meaning it appears to learn more from less data, and the brain is obviously more energy-efficient. There is also the possibility that Geoffrey Hinton is just wrong.
It should be 200%
I’m guessing books aren’t really popular among the kids these days anyway. It’s really just a political fight now.

The people complaining about banning are being either intentionally alarmist (if they understand what’s going on) or knee-jerk reactionary. It’s the exact same as when the religious people are mad the state mandates we teach evolution.

School districts and states have to select what kids learn, since we have finite time and resources to reach them, in the same way that libraries have to choose which books occupy finite shelf space.

I don’t agree with a lot of the decisions, but people are acting like it’s some right wing fascism every time they remove Henry Miller a library.
I think the joke is on everyone who expected a project started by Mozilla still with a lot of influence by ex-Mozilla people not to have a lot of drama involved.

Look at Firefox. Its ratio of usage to drama is pretty high. Same with Rust.
Mostly church and ultimate (Frisbee).

When I lived in the bay area and played in ultimate leagues and pickup games, I knew someone who worked at almost every big company.

Another nice thing about ultimate is that it is social exercise, so you kill two birds with one stone (for those of us who sit in front of a computer all day).
Related:

Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35591019 - April 2023 (60 comments)

Prince Rupert’s Drop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31781678 - June 2022 (1 comment)

Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5606228 - April 2013 (2 comments)

Prince Rupert's Drop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5550646 - April 2013 (13 comments)

The Curious Properties of a Molten Glass Blob Dropped in Cold Water - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5440179 - March 2013 (5 comments)

Prince Rupert's Drop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486103 - Feb 2009 (2 comments)
Umm this has been a thing for ages.

Although the points don't go to Facebook - you get "rewards" for them. Eg:

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> Earn bonuses for never missing a beat! Redeem points for rewards you’ll love

https://www.getquip.com/store/products/smart-electric-toothb...
If you want to verify the entire image, I don’t think you can get around reading the entire image. Because any part you didn’t read to verify the hash is a part that could contain corruption.
>>> I think it goes something like this: you start from the assumption that when you see something, you wonder why it is the way it is. Then maybe you observe it and maybe do a little research to figure out how it came to be the thing you see in front of you. This could go for just about anything: a telephone, a scale, a crusty old road surface, a forgotten grove of fruit trees, you name it. By research, I mean maybe you go poking around: try to open that scale with a screwdriver, get out of the car and walk down the old road, or turn over some of the dirt in the field to see if you can find any identifying marks.

... a scientist.

My first job title at my current workplace was "systems engineer." My degree is in physics. I evolved into the role of being the person on the project who understands and can explain how the whole thing works. It doesn't mean just dictating a theory of operation, but also testing that theory.

My job is in an area where products involve both hardware and software. I certainly don't claim to know every design detail. Part of the trick is figuring out what things I actually do need to know, and how to nail those things down.
Tangentially related question:

Do we think dark matter stars, black holes and supermassive black holes exist?
Really?

In my experience, the worst performance is by C++ candidates.

Why? Not because C++ is bad, or attracts bad programmers.

Rather, because if that's the language you reach for a quick solve, you probably don't know very much, and that says something.
I understand that this sucks for specific merchants like you (or OP's Viahart), but if you consider it holistically (across all merchants and products in a category) I think it's a lot less sinister. Imagine some vendor sources a cheap POE KVM from Alibaba, lists it on Amazon for $250, and advertises against your brand keyword, hoping some people looking for your stuff will think "hm might not be as good but it costs half as much, I'll give it a try". If Amazon knows that same item is available on Bestbuy for $50 it's obviously not a good deal for consumers, but also wouldn't you want them to "suppress" that listing? Now scale that across millions of products--there's no longer people making decisions, it's just algorithms looking for signals. Is there a better or more objective criterion they can use than "this is for sale elsewhere for a lower price"?
> The only reason why EU stopped buying it [...]

> I should have said natural gas, not gasoline.

You need to sleep a bit more: "Spain Boosts Russia LNG Imports 84% While EU Urges Less Reliance"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-14/spain-boo...
Slow clap. I mean blink.
This is a nice signal on what the NLRB's interpretation and enforcement focus could be going forward for at least the life of this administration, but don't start throwing hats up yet. It's one thing to say they violate labor law, but even the NLRB has to prove they violate labor laws if they want to crack down on the practice.
Shopify facing severance suit over layoffs
Android Enterprise Partner Program Requirements
EU's Breton to Discuss AI Rules with OpenAI CEO in June
For the free tier, Brave is 1tps capped at 2000/month. Bing is 3tps capped at 1000/month. Kagi is 100 searches total.

Not sure what you mean by "quite" expensive? If you are comparing to other services like Google, then of course Google's privacy cost is many orders of magnitude greater than free.
Query Selector perf test - https://jsbench.github.io/#b39045cacae8d8c4a3ec044e538533dc Compare the results of that in Firefox versus Chrome as the results are interesting.

As for HTTP the issue is two-fold. The first thing is that HTTP imposes a round trip: request and response. That means the connection traffic starts with a request, waits for the application at the remote end to do what it needs, the application at the remote end sends a response whether you want it or not. Secondly, in the case with keep alive all requests on that socket must wait for the prior round trip to fulfill before sending the next request.

The primary advantage of HTTP 2 over HTTP 1 is more massively parallel requests, which greatly flatten the waterfall chart of asset requests and thus speeds page load time. In HTTP 1.1 there is typically a maximum of 8 parallel requests.

The advantage of Web Sockets is two fold. First, there is no round trip. Each message is fire and forget. This allows messages to be sent more rapidly without waiting (with a caveat). Secondly, Web Sockets is completely bidirectional. The local end and distant end can send messages independently of each other or other timing.

The big limitation of Web Sockets is message processing speed. In the Web Socket library I wrote for Node.js performance is memory bound and I can send messages as fast as 470,000 per second on my laptop with DDR4 memory per socket. The problem is not sending, but receiving. Firefox tends to separate frame headers from frame body so you have to account for that. If messages come in too rapidly Node.js will concatenate multiple messages together, so you have to account for that. In TLS the maximum message frame size is 16384 bytes irrespective of the actual message size, so you have to account for that too. There are a few other scenarios to be aware. This processing takes time to parse the binary frame headers and examine the message body length. Even still I can process up to 9000 messages per second on the same machine.

The greatest limitation with web sockets though is message queuing. I solved for this on the Node side because there is an event, the drain event, to account for a message leaving the buffer associated with the socket on the local end. As a result I know when to send a message immediately or queue for sending after the current messages completely leave the buffer. Without a queue any message that comes into a socket before a prior message drains from the buffer will overwrite the prior. On the browser side there is no queue and no event to indicate when to send from a queue, so you just have to manually slow things down with a timer.
That is obvious, I just mean that many companies that don't have, and won't have, any AI competencies are now mentioning AI in their earnings calls. I saw someone had done a chart of earnings calls that mention AI and it has skyrocketed. Also a new trend of stuffing GPT and LLMs into apps that don't need it is already in the pipeline, people comment it on HN all the time.
"Oil spills are still long-lasting environmental disasters"

What if we just lit them on fire...

:)
I wrote F# for a long time, and there were definite phases to learning and becoming comfortable with it. For example, it's often pitched as a functional language but in reality its a functional-first hybrid language on the .NET framework - to be efficient with it is to embrace this and write imperatively when you need to.

Pure syntax wise, its pretty nice, though having a single pass compiler makes it a bit dated feeling compared to other languages.
> presumably there is no warranty from the person selling it which is in violation of EU warranty laws on products and Nikon doesn't want to get in trouble with the EU either

As the lens is so old it is no longer manufactured, presumably it is outside of any mandated warranty window. But supposing it wasn't - can companies be held liable if someone without their knowledge or consent imports and item into a jurisdiction where that item may not comply with all regulations? This is settled law? And the risk of that is higher than the risk of being sued for tortious interference with the second-hand sellers perfectly legitimate business/transaction?

This kind of argument is common in such threads - that unless companies trample over consumer rights in ways that just happen to drive company profits, they will be held liable for the actions of those consumers. What's not common is citing any legal precedent where this has happened.
I’m not sure of OP’s intentions but in practical terms everyone who read that is a time traveller from the past.
I was under the impression most non-competes were largely unenforceable unless meaningful consideration was given, e.g. in connection with selling shares in the sale of a company
I'm just using notion_client, a Python wrapper for the Notion API which says it's a Python version of the reference JavaScript SDK.
https://pypi.org/project/notion-client/

Would sqlite or postgres still be the right place to start if I don't have an http interface to start off of?
Gardening isn't easy to get started. Most people end up living in houses that have poor soil (fill dirt) and dont realize how much you need to water to have success. Automatic irrigation with sprinklers and timers is critical otherwise things will die while you go on vacation. Your gardening season is probably offset from the rest of the country with a dead zone in the July/august when you get heat kill.

My wife for example likes to water for 5-10 seconds and that basically does nothing, you have to water significantly more as you need to put down 1/2" a day or more during the peak. It would take forever to do that with just a garden house and the pots you have can probably barely hold the water required to last a day. Reference https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/ssebop/modis for you area.

Also if you aren't buying compost by the truck load you probably aren't buying enough. For the first run you need like 6+ yards to fill up a couple beds, and the next year that will decompose to half and you will need to fill up again. Spend a bit more buy the good stuff (ask online whats good locally), the city waste compost is not great stuff has plastic and shit you will never get out plus it holds water poorly due to all the filler they add.
I don’t think that’s what they mean by per square inch. They mean in a plane, not a volume. If you add a third dimension the law stays the same, because a volume is two planes and the density law applies to each independently. That’s why node sizes are a single value not a two dimensional value. A 3nm node is 3nm feature sizes, regardless of dimensionality.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097900 - May 2023 (304 comments)

A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095352 - May 2023 (127 comments)

ChatGPT-Authored Legal Filing “Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092509 - May 2023 (71 comments)

Presumably also related from earlier today:

Mandatory Certification Regarding Generative Artificial Intelligence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36131942 - May 2023 (35 comments)
Also, the question of who should have kids and under what circumstances has been a matter of debate for centuries. There are so many strong, different opinions that whatever one says will probably insult someone else. I do not believe there can be consensus on this topic.
> (In this case it's to protect Nikon's pricing structure between different continents.)

Ah ha - so what seems to be different in this case is that he's selling products from the US, shipping to the EU. In the US, this is already settled law.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/thai-student-pro...

Same concern. Not sure how they're allowed to do this in the EU, but I assume it's to do with them not having precedent, or some EU regulation which disallows it somehow.
while I like it, it doesn't actually seem that useful.... and given I work on IoT systems measuring all kinds of things in all kinds of units, it isn't at all useful for that. Kind of cool for when you are using F# as a calculator though
> As we can always go vertically if needed.

I don't think you understand how difficult non-planar transistors are to engineer at scale
It's been suggested that Mersault, the antihero of The Stranger, is based on Camus himself. (See the following(0))

It doesn't make sense to me given that Mersault has kind of an autistic affect and Camus is perceived to be a extraverted and easygoing guy.

Any experts care to comment?

(0) https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/55062/the-first-m...
I wonder if you can even run this on a regular 20A circuit - I'm thinking no - 20 * 120 = 2400 Watts - I assume that will not be enough...
We found a way: nuclear fission reactors. So that problem is solved.
They probably mean in terms of profession or class. I would be surprised if you didn’t find that kind of diversity at most churches.
I have no expertise in GPU System used for AI Learning, but would It be possible to buy a bunch of consumer cards and get the same performance?
Or is this not possible because consumer cards go to 40 ish GB RAM and Models would not fit or „swapping“ like crazy and be slow.
> The Self-Boot Engine (SBE) (quantity: 1) is a core which is responsible for booting the entire system. It's responsible for initialising the chip and getting it out of bed enough to the point where at least one of the main cores can run using cache-as-RAM mode; it does little after that point. It has some SRAM to do its work in and uses a slightly custom variant of the 32-bit Power ISA, extended to support 64-bit loads and stores using adjacent GPR pairs. This core design is known as a PPE. It's the first thing that runs on the CPU die.

What I’m curious about is how does the ‘Self Boot Engine’ initialize itself in the first few miliseconds?

Maybe, a motherboard chip does the actual work, but that just invites the same question, at some point something must be initializing itself, how?
Cool, the OpenBSD tedu, thanks for doas.. etc.

Also, is there a post about this zfs on apple silicon error thing?
maybe our brains work like big matrix, but we do know yet. before someone resolving this problem, I hate people proclaim brain just another chatGPT.
It's very common across lots of platforms. Slack overrides it, and it irritates me (although I have adjusted to Slack's alternative which is that Cmd/Ctrl+V turns selected text into a link with the clipboard URL, which is actually really slick).
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes begins 11-year prison sentence
To clarify: does this mean Canadians visiting the USA don’t have to worry about their devices getting invasively searched/cloned at the border any more?
I think you're more likely to train a model capable of writing Doom using this machine.
I don't understand this argument (the "Terminator" scenario). AI could conceivably self replicate and evolve as software but it still needs hardware to run on, power, networking etc etc. There's no better way to kill that than to start a nuclear war or engineer some super virus that kills everyone.

It's hard to see any scenario where AI could become a dominant force without significant human collaboration. Perhaps somewhere like North Korea where a very small elite has complete control over the the population it could happen but it sounds a lot like sci-fi to me. I'd love to hear some plausible scenarios for the counter-argument. I've seen a lot of "I think there's an x% chance we're in trouble" arguments which might be convincing for job losses, but I don't find at all plausible as a case for human extinction or indentured servitude (the "Matrix" scenario).
It's not sociopathic to want children and to take your only shot at them. If you think you could perhaps get out in 5 years, you've missed some early years but your children will grow to love you. If you'd waited you'd be childless since that is a risky pregnancy at 44.

In her place, I would do the same, and I"m not a sociopath by any means.
That old site was rough . Hopefully this one is a much better experience for you.
Dear Commissioner Breton, I find your statements a little bit dissimulating:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134000
Some other health issues mixed in there too (COVID, back problems, shingles). I was really worried for a while there I was going to have to bury him.

He's doing better now. So now, I just gotta worry about getting him back out into the world. Maybe a date?
Except, say, nature. Can’t much legislate gravity out of existence, can we.
That depends. Currencies are used for paying each other and accounting for usage. Sites like HN and Reddit have a "currency" like Karma. If Wikipedia operated its own currency, it could reward helpful contributions and make vandalism costly (you'd lose 10-50% of your currency if you were found to have vandalized a page, etc.) You can see a quick overview here: https://intercoin.org/communities.pdf

Also, micropayments are essential for a truly decentralized market. I suggest you read this: https://qbix.com/ecosystem

Xanadu used to have the idea of micropayments. You can do those with trustlines which settle eventually on a decentralized ledger.

We're not the only ones working on this. Stefan Thomas (I met him when he was CTO of Ripple) left Ripple to work on his true love, Interledger Protocol, and started Coil. A few years back, Mozilla joined forces with Coil to offer a $100 Million dollar fund for Web Payments (that don't need the banking system): https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/100-million-investmen...

The creator of Javascript, Brendan Eich, left and started Brave Browser, which had a currency for monetizing people's attention, instead of the Surveillance Capitalism economy that's pervasive in all the centralized walled gardens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

BitTorrent (the largest decentralized network by traffic) launched the BTT token, to help incentivize traffic.

The IPFS folks (who are helping decentralize the Web and ) did a $200M ICO for their coin, which helps pay for storage.

The guy who started AngelList, Naval Ravikant, launched CoinList and helped them do it, in a legal way, and involved many Web2 VCs participating in that ICO.

You're going to have to hate a lot of Web2 greats in order to carry out the hate of Web3 to its logical conclusion. Perhaps HN is wrong to simply hate the idea of decentralized currencies?
I go to my local hackerspace a couple times a week and there's nearly always a few people working on software, and just there for the social aspects and/or to bounce ideas/solutions off others.
>I get a little creeped out

Maybe you already know, but this 'it's all just a train of mechanical compulsions, there's nobody in here' is the very thing that meditation is intended to allow you to realize, it's the 'liberating insight'. The problem with just reaching it on your own is you don't get the other part, the viewpoint about the world that build the case that this is a good thing, a great thing (believing there is someone there is the cause of all the dissatisfaction you ever feel). So you could check into that if you want - ajahn brahm or suchlike
AI, write an essay for me: A comparison of human vs. ChatGPT-generated essays
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning_super_sampling