skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is just for tech. Sometimes I want to discuss non-tech topics. Nowhere is better than Reddit IMO. Discord and chat apps have so many noises that I always feel overwhelmed to keep up with the flow of chatting.
You're using a straw example to try to claim a massive point.

There are 340 million people in the US. The US has one of the largest government systems that humanity is likely to ever see. How many similar cases of children being put on the terrorist watch list have there been in the past 20 years? Unless there are a lot of cases of that happening, if it's not rare (hint: it's extraordinarily rare; your example story is from 13 years ago), your premise is pure straw.
I can't find the source but in some of the communication Selig released between him and Reddit a few days ago, Reddit themselves confirmed that their pricing is based on lost oppurtunity cost per user, not just expenses
FYI, the site is returning a 500 error currently.

Anyway, re: the substance of your post--I've used a few email services for the handful of small web apps I develop. I'm currently on Postmark and I really like it. You state "Nobody is building an exceptional developer experience" and "There isn't a single developer-first email platform in the market today", and I have to disagree. Postmark has great developer experience. And the specific points you raise aren't much of a rebuttal:

- Templates: your own react.email project already has a Postmark integration. More generally, templating solutions don't need to be tied to the email service. I prefer to use separate libraries for rendering and then pass off the html output to the email service anyway.

- Slow performance: Postmark has excellent delivery speed.[1]

- Poor observability: Postmark (and every other service I've used) provides events.[2]

- Designed for marketers only: Postmark is clearly designed for developers, as are several other services.

I am rooting for you! But I'd also like to say that before you trash talk competitors, please be sure you have substance to back it up, because some of us actually like those competitors :).

[1] https://postmarkapp.com/email-delivery

[2] https://postmarkapp.com/email-analytics
I just read the reason for this is that if you are accelerating hard, the car would drone very loudly, which is not the sound one would expect from hard acceleration. You would feel the acceleration, while the default noise would sound like you are at a steady pace. By imitating gears, the steady drone is mitigated to some degree, and you won't be tricked into thinking you are not accelerating.
> You don’t even have to work explicitly in adtech.

I agree, but I don't want anyone to think blame should be shared equally (not that I think you were suggesting this, but that others could interpret it this way). I also don't think that being complicit in an act equates to sharing blame. There is accountable complacency and unaccountable. This is more why it is important to think about how our work can be abused. It always will be abused, and you'll never be able to figure out all the creative ways that they can be. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Intentional ignorance is accountable complacency. Everything is on a spectrum: complacency, blame, abuse, ignorance, etc. We do need to be careful in how we discretize the bins, and make sure we don't binarize. There's unwilling and unwitting complacency, and that should be accounted for. A lot does matter about how much control you have, as you said. But I also think recognition matters: if you realize that the tool will/is being abused then complacency is more explicit/accountable.

Things are easy to see post hoc, and we can always think "what if." I hope that, given what you wrote, you don't blame yourself. But now you, and others, have better tools to predict potential abuse. After all, the road to hell is paved with good intentions (the road to heaven is paved of the same stuff, which is why it is hard to distinguish).
Notes from the AutoGPT Frontier
Cormac McCarthy Has Died
That video is largely what inspired me to post this actually :)

I'll check out salsa! Thank you!
Do high interest rates fix high inflation?
Well, that's ideal. IDK what their issue is.
No, you brought down us-east-1 instead! Thanks!
This was something that the Apollo dev (and a few other apps) were interested in, but the timing was just too sudden to make work. Specifically for Apollo, they had been selling year-long subscriptions for $12/year. With the API pricing change happening on July 1, that meant Apollo would have to continue to offer up to 11 months of the same service, at the same price (since users already paid for it) while operating at massively higher costs.

Christian even said that if Reddit had given app developers longer -- maybe six months to a year -- it would have been tough to change the business model, but not impossible. With this timetable, he would have had to come up with something like $500k in 30 days just to cover immediate costs, which was obviously impossible.
Definitely like the others can’t say it enough. It is a great shell. Having proper data structures in your shell is such a big win.

While using it I feel like working with a db like model. Also using bash commands works great and you learn to improve your parsing skills for free!
Western culture, as putative shaper of behaviour as expressed in the parent comment, even makes it into economics/psychology itself! Most psychology studies are done on WEIRD [0] people: Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic psychology undergrads. It was suggested, in 2010 anyway, that "96% of psychological samples come from countries with only 12% of the world's population". [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...
The fingerprint scanner is just a scanner, it doesn't handle authorization, that's what the security chip does. The scanner has two ways of communicating with the security chip. It can authenticate itself with the chip, and it can send the chip images of fingerprints.

If a compromised scanner fails to authenticate, then the security chip can just ignore the scanner. Not much it can do if its only avenue of communication is cut off. A warning message telling users to not touch their compromised fingerprint scanner would have been sufficient.
Yeah same in the UK although it doesn't sound like we take it as seriously. That said I think it's quite rare to find people that can't swim, even if they are very out of practise.
It's always during the demos to the stakeholders, isn't it?
The worst "foreign call center" experience I've had lately...

Hotel check-in. Walked in, lady at desk is read a novel, I ask "can I check in?", she directs me to a video-conference kiosk across the room, which is actively in-use by a high-maintenance customer who, in addition to changing her reservation details, can't understand a fairly light Indian accent. 15 minutes of waiting later, this other customer is still going around-and-around with the call center guy (who's being nothing but patient and trying his best with the system provided), the lady at the desk, rolls her eyes, harrumphs, and asks if I want to check-in with her instead.
Would have thought teaching everyone to swim would be a matter of national disaster preparedness for the Dutch ...
so you care about having a place to gather, to talk about your hobby and usually at the mods' effort to aggregate content (I assume since these are always the most upvoted and most commented threads on match day), but you don't find their job "that much useful"?
In Canada we’ve been removing them. Probably because some kid drowned at school in 1990-something.

Now they drown more outside of school because they don’t learn to swim unless your parents have the planning, logistics interest and budget to enrol in paid lessons (or teach them yourself).

Doesn’t help that we have a lot of immigrants from places that also didn’t teach people how to swim.

https://www.lifesavingsociety.com/media/239967/2016newsrelea...
Status is subjective depending on your social circles.
Individual humans aren’t, but we’re talking about the emergent properties of a swarm of humans. 6 gigabytes of dna describes an entity that, if copied 60 times and dropped on an island, will produce a viable language in inly a few decades. We haven’t found a NN architecture with this property for language, but we have for , eg, chess, starcraft, and go
I mean, why not create your own subreddit then? All you have to do is create it with a small group of people to see it, post good articles, and keep a 24/7 watch to kill the comment and post spam going to viagra and obvious trash.
Quantum Repeaters for a Global Quantum Internet
Now do the same for Eufy, Blink, Roomba, and every other "smarthome" offering.
Does it matter who felt more comfortable for a short span of 60-80 years a few thousand years ago?
IMO if the code sticks around long enough to disintegrate under its own weight, than that code was a rousing success!

"Resisting management" is almost always a horrible idea. Code is only useful when it provides a solution at the right time for the right price. If not, it is no longer useful and the world moves on.

Overall quality is nothing more than a reflection of business maturity. Like a mighty old tree with a great big trunk. It has had time to grow strong and majestic.

Most businesses don't live longer than 5 years. Most products and solutions are temporary fixes or ideas that don't last longer than a few months. Investing huge amounts of time and resources into those things is a recipe for disaster.
Kippahs cover a very small portion of your head; I work daily with a guy who wears one and rarely notice it. Hijabs are more conspicuous, but like...so what? The intent of the 1905 law is abjuring the promotion or the degradation of religion, and simply wearing something on your head is not promoting anything, any more than being gay or, god forbid, indicating that gay people exist, is promoting homosexuality.
Tried to log on to OkCupid and it was down, I guess I should thank Jeff for taking me off the Skinner Box for a while.
us-east-1 seems to be very 'special' compared to the other regions - I wonder if they will ever align it with the rest of them.
> Curious why swimming is considered a required skill for people to have in Iceland, and why swimming lessons until age 14 are compulsory, as the article says.

The fishing industry is one of Iceland's biggest employers, having everyone able to swim is helpful in case of accidents.
Invite, slightly obfuscated: uggcf://gvyqrf.arg/ertvfgre?pbqr=LD8C3-NL8XQ-Q28BV
> Every api should have its own validation so I don't even see this as a problem.

No.

I'm saying, little by little people will rely on OpenAI hypothetically for more and more.

How long until they are calling POST /credit/customer/bank/account and it just randomly goofs the ID/numbers?

A "human" may or may not have made that mistake, where an LLM will never be a 100% perfect trustable entity by design (aka, hallucinations).

Now you're just giving it a way to hallucinate into a JSON request body.
Vercel (and AWS) are down right now, hence the error.
For me, it doesn't seem to matter which font I use, as long as I keep using it for an extended period of time, then it become the "easy to read" font. Some with line spacing, indentation, etc. Then, anything else looks terrible.

I wonder how much of font design is driven by each authors "local indentation in the font space". What's the push to move that indentation?
The second law of thermodynamics guarantees that there will always / eventually be downtime… and that’s okay. Design for downtime. Shameless self-plug for https://heiioncall.com/ for free website / HTTP endpoint monitoring and cron job monitoring if you want to know about your own app’s downtime.

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I saw this when one of my jobs failed for a very weird reason. Then an old friend messaged me about it. Every time this happens we talk about going multi-region, then it kind of gets put on the back burner.
Who in their right minds lends to a PE-owned company? You know they’re going to raid the piggy bank and leave the lender holding the bag. There can’t be that many rubes with $450 million laying around. Are the investors government pension funds or something?
Some of the "10+ expert lawyers" headshots look like they were ripped straight off thispersondoesnotexist. Also, might be nothing but it is interesting that this is this account's first ever activity on HN.
Doesn't have the traction for now. Cloud providers (ms, google, amz, etc) are quickly tiring of paying Nvidia monopoly premiums for their gpu hardware. Google has already invested in tpus and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they got together to fund ROCm development or even went so far as to develop their own NN asics.

Cuda is great, but it's not strictly necessary for much of the latest AI / ML developments.
or really just a round of golf.
RichTeXtFX[1] has these abilities[2] along with demo code[3] that provides an entry point for sleuthing. My text editor, KeenWrite[4], uses RichTeXtFX, but takes a different approach due to its usage of inline variable references. Rather than edit the document in a WYSIWYG-like fashion, users edit the Markdown document as plain text then export as PDF by selecting a theme to apply for typesetting. This cleanly separates content from presentation. The "themes" video tutorial demonstrates how theme selection works.[5]

[1]: https://github.com/FXMisc/RichTextFX/tree/master/richtextfx/...

[2]: https://gluonhq.com/presenting-a-new-richtextarea-control/

[3]: https://github.com/gluonhq/rich-text-area/blob/master/sample...

[4]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30&list=PLB-WIt1cZY...
For those wondering: Currently PDT is 7 hours behind UTC.

AWS can do so many things, reporting critical outage updates in UTC is not one of those things.
Freakonomics had a couple of related episodes: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-you-trust-private-eq....
I never said people don't get budgets wrong. I merely said it's reasonable to try to prioritize dating people who can sensibly budget according to their income and their cost of goods and services in their area. It shouldn't be a consistent problem that you run out of rent money because you didn't budget for paying rent. I think you're misunderstanding my words because you're conflating these sets of preferences like some kind of demand for idealized humans. I think I'm pointing out that people's desires aren't unreasonable and exaggerating them is just strawman behavior.

Savings rates being at all-time lows doesn't mean that people don't know how to budget. It might be that budgeting has become much harder. Similarly, I don't think someone being fat means they don't understand how to cook a healthy meal. It might be that keeping thin has become much harder.
I have been thinking about trying to do LoRA style fine tuning of Flacon-40b or Falcon-7b on RunPod. The new OpenAI 16k context and functions thinking made me lose the urge to get into that. Was questionable whether it could really write code consistently anyway even if very well fine tuned.

But at least that is something that can be attempted without $25k.
>One just needs to follow up on what every child learns since first grade in school, namely the substitution model found in math.

Considering how much people struggle with learning math I'm not sure that this is a good way of going about things. I don't think functional programming classes have much more success either.
The Three Ages of -I Names: An American Tale
> However, abusing retroactive enforcement

Statements like this create a pretty clear case that you haven’t read or shown any real interest in the SEC investigation and litigation related to crypto.
> They are in the business of making money.

Sounds like they're pretty bad at it, then. 4 days ago, their CEO claimed that Reddit is not profitable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
The new lean startup. 3,291 kg
Why is everything these days revolve around ChatGPT(etc). You don't need LLMs to refute Chomsky language models. Modern linguistics pretty much rejected [1] his theories on the basis of evidence.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-c...
I believe they prefer the term "sharp-elbowed", but either way, you can imagine why so many were not interested in having Mitt Romney as a national leader.
> The best time to schedule a meeting is at 11am Monday morning. People want to get meetings done and off the calendar, and this time period has the least potential for conflicting with other meeting invites.

> Avoid Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. These are the most popular times to offer, meaning the potential for conflicts is high.

In case anyone else was interested in just their answer to the title question.
We are seeing console, codebuild, etc. access issues. Possibly all using Lambdas, foundationally?
Thanks for linking the real article. It's an interesting read, especially that the Gibb's Free Energy for formate-bicarbonate is so low. Ammonia is about 20-40x higher!

Looks like they're using Pd/Pt for the best catalyzers... that's definitely not going to be scalable. Though there should be effective alternatives, but it's surprising how unsophisticated much of the research in this field can be.
The problem lies in where the money comes from the execute taking the company private. A big bank will issue the debt, then peddle the debt as AAA rated into all of America's 401k's via their friends at the brokerages. You think the banks are just sitting on those debts hoping to make it to maturity?

And it's never the PE firm that owes the debt, they're able to get paid back by the thing they buy, and that shell owes the debt. The losses are socialized among the public.
Yeah but the issue is that they can make more money if they actually did affordable ML hardware and didn't purposefully gimp the gaming cards.

LLms running on standalone affordable boxes could become a ubiquitous home accessory, not to mention the potential for things like being able to leverage learning from widespread use to retrain the models, like Tesla does with their fleet.
But it's forgivable if Ukraine did it... Hence the spin begins.
> The US doesn't have compulsory swim lessons for little kids

Is that true across all states?
PCI Express 7.0 Spec Draft 0.3: 512GBps Connectivity on Track for 2025 Release
Refinements would be more useful if you could expose the refinements, but currently you can't.

module HashExts
refine Hash do
def symbolize_values = transform_values { _1.to_sym }
end
end

module Test
using HashExts

def self.new_h = Hash.new
end

puts Test.new_h.symbolize_values
# => undefined method `symbolize_values' for {}:Hash (NoMethodError)
CLI works OK still.
Theres already precedent with police and judiciary misusing technology they don't understand, I suspect the underlying issue is that this person would not trust government employees generally with a tool that issues false positives and requires discretions.
Maybe azure was hosting some services there, getting ddos'd and all.
I think a lot of companies just do everything there and pinky promise one day they'll go multi-region.
It's the entire subject of the article.

And as I pointed out in another comment, issuing new stock would have nothing to do with anything. If the article isn't about acquiring new loans then it's not about anything.
I also still script in bash, as zsh sometimes has some minor deviations that are not directly that obvious.

One of the reasons I use zsh is because of all the plugins that exist for it. With them I have the feeling that they boost my productivity. But the real reason is, zsh feels more like it does what I want/expect compared to bash (, that is probably subjective?).
I would absolutely want more speed if the quality was comparable to the competitor's offerings. But it looks like it's a speed up at the expense of the image quality.
Every loyalty card purchase generates granular data about your consumer habits. Where you shop, what you buy, how much you spend. Coupled with age, income, race, sexual preference, political affiliation, and more makes for a deep insight into your inner life. These businesses don't operate out in the open so the general public is mostly ignorant about what has been going on. The level of invasiveness that has existed for 30+ years should not be underestimated.
People, not in my circles, who "touch grass" or are not entirely online.
This shows a disconnect. MIT requires swimming skills for those who try to enroll.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3f3kph/til_t...
Yeah, Iceland is like the last place I'd have guessed people swarm to get swimming lessons.

Like I go to Crete in August and I cringe entering the sea coze it feels cold. When I was a kid I'd bathe in local rivers, hills area and always took me quite a bit of time to get in (water's maybe 20 Celsius?). And going to the mountains with water exiting a large underground cave (10 deg Celsius), some people would swim in it but even getting with my feet in it would numb my fingers, no way I'm dipping my balls in it .

So again, Iceland and swimming... sounds more like a joke.
>Yeah but the issue is that they can make more money if they actually did affordable ML hardware and didn't purposefully gimp the gaming cards.

It's a dick move but it's not illegal (at least not now). Their purpose is to make greater returns for their investors, not make affordable ML hardware for every consumer.

>LLms running on standalone affordable boxes could become a ubiquitous home accessory

They could be, but why is it Nvidia's fault if they don't happen? They're in the business of making money, not fulfilling dreams, and currently they can barely fulfill their orders for the datacenter customers. Consumers could move the LLM stuff on cheaper Apple HW or Intel or AMD SoCs if they can't outbid the datacenter companies for Nvidia silicone.

Seems like a market opening for Nvidia's competitors to price cut them. If they don't exploit it and let Nvidia dominate, it's their fault. It's not Nvidia's fault their competitors were asleep at the wheel since they launched CUDA in 2007 and were helping researchers put their GPUs to use for parallel computing for over 15 years.
But isn't Orca non-commercial? Or.. do people just ignore that part.
What I did once I was in the position of _having_ to provide that level of support, was to run the pipeline in a third region, different from the "prod" ones. That way, worst case you can't do deployments during the outage...

Another alternative studied was to use a thirdparty ci/cd service, outside of our network. It was discarded bc you never know where that would actually run
You read this article, and you see moral courage? I sure don't.
Best of luck with your scam company!
This was the sticking point and why IRS adopting Login.gov was delayed. In short, ID.me's face scanning is what Login.gov was missing to provide strong identity assurance for IRS. I am not aware of how Login.gov intends to replicate this assurance.

> In particular, that report found that the General Services Administration had continued to bill agencies for Identity Assurance Level 2-complaint services, even though Login.gov did not meet IAL2 standards.

> Login.gov does not meet IAL2, which is an identity proofing requirement set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as part of its SP 800-63 guidance series that provides crucial technical requirements and guidance for identity proofing by government IT systems on open networks.

https://fedscoop.com/internal-revenue-service-to-expand-use-...

NIST SP 800-63 IAL2 Remote Identity Proofing

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3-Implementation-Resources/63A...
which better solutions would that be?

at the moment i believe the most important thing that our society needs is more awareness that there is a problem to begin with. without that awareness no change can happen.