skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
at least in this respect the now prevalent UPI (unified payments interface) used throughout India fares better.

each merchant -- even a roadside vendor or a mobile hawker of wares -- displays a QR code that has their payment account details / UPI handle.

Customer uses their own phone and UPI payment app to scan that QR code, look at the merchant details displayed, punch in the amount to pay and authorize the payment using their PIN.

(a variation on this is: hand-held POS terminals display a QR code that also encodes the amount to be paid so that the customer doesn't have to punch in the exact amount).

and since this is a unified protocol the users are not stuck with a single payment app or a single payments processor or a single bank network to transact with each other. QR codes are universal - can be scanned by any UPI app.

I have other reservations about the digital trail this leaves for every petty transaction of your life -- and the small risk of a petty vendor being able to harass you later based on the information you leave in their records.

If we don't trust the government -- this makes us jittery about how much they can track you or even cripple your life by disabling a few key things that you need this all to work smoothly.

Those risks aside,this UPI system has been a boon to ease of transactions (without worrying about handling cash and change) across the country. Net positive with some scope for improving privacy protections.
Only of they are connected to a short list of more sensitive PII, of which "tor user" is not one.

IP logs are fully legal in the UE under GDPR and Tor deanonymization is just an IP log of connected users.

Also there is already plenty of research of this type out of the EU. It's quite common in infosec.
I wonder if this was a part of the inspiration for Columbia in Bioshock Infinite?
I think Arubis didn't push the point hard enough. Nvidia is a long way ahead of AMD in AI/ML hardware capability, from my very limited experience.

I got a Stable Diffusion thing up and running locally on a relatively old AMD RX 580 with 8GB of memory, and default settings of 512x512 with 10 (I think) passes, and it takes about 10 minutes to generate an image. On a similarly aged Nvidia 1060 with 6GB of memory that a colleague of mine uses for their local Stable Diffusion instance, it takes about 20 seconds to generate an image.

I don't know how apples and oranges this comparison is, my OS is Linux and his is Windows, for example, but 10 minutes versus 20 seconds is, for me, a massively disappointing difference.

I'm sure the gap has decreased in the intervening 6-7 years, but I don't know how much - such that I'd be opting for a second hand Nvidia over a new AMD (and I philosophically prefer AMD).

This may be a worthwhile read if you're looking to squeeze the most performance:
https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...
I agree - even though these things are generally really easy to do (second year dental students successfully do all of this under supervision), the reason a dentist is needed is for when something goes wrong.
Technically you get quite a bit less than the 256 TB theoretical in practice.

It is a realistic concern, I’ve lived it for more than a decade across many orgs, though I shared your opinion at one point. Storage density is massively important for both workload scalability and economic efficiency. Low storage density means buying a ton of server hardware that sits idle under max load and vastly larger clusters than would otherwise be necessary, which have their own costs.

When your database is sufficiently large, backup and restore often isn’t even a technical possibility so that requirement is a red herring. The kinds of workloads that can be recovered from backup at that scale on a single server, and some can, benefit massively from the economics of running it on a single server. A solution that has 10x the AWS bill for the same workload performance doesn’t get chosen.

At scale, hardware footprint economics is one of the central business decision drivers. Data isn’t getting smaller. It is increasingly ordinary for innocuous organizations to have a single table with a trillion records in it.

For better or worse, the market increasingly drives my technical design decisions to optimize for hardware/cloud costs above all else, and dense storage is a huge win for that.
GPG had 30 years to proliferate and didnt and only got the most rabid enthusiasts to use it.

Crypto made public private keys more ubiquitous, not completely, but much much more.

Speculation drives innovation.
In theory, you remove government overhead. Government bureacracies are infamous for expanding without the requirement to make a profit as a constraint.

As it pertains to power, People tend to promote government as a means to make it cheaper - but this is sort of a fallacy - the only way the government can do it cheaper is if it's operationally more efficient to a significant degree. I don't see how a government achieves this. Private energy generators are usually not very profitable - the people making money were commodity producers, recently, not electricity generators.
Yea, one of the current ironies is that the folks most able to use/charge an environmentally friendly car are the people living in environmentally unfriendly single-family homes. I've yet to see an apartment complex with more than 2-3 charging points for a building of hundreds of units, and plenty of older condo/apartment housing stock can't even easily retrofit chargers into the lot without spending tens of thousands of dollars on it, assuming your local power system supports it.

Having to drive five to ten miles and wait for most of an hour to charge is just a bad experience.
When looking for Python questions, it honestly ranks above any random StackOverflow link or the docs for me. The detailed table of contents with links that the author labels “…so…much…nonsense”, is actually the kind of precise “take me to exactly what I want to know quickly” solution they seem to yearn for.
It doesn't use the blockchain, it uses a more ubiquitous user experience and namespace than what GPG failed to do across 30 years.
Why would you want to install an iOS jailbreak on a Chromebook?
So this is a device that is developed for use with a smartphone… because people can’t afford a $10 blood pressure cuff? But they can afford a smartphone with a high quality enough camera to do this?

True, a google pixel 4 isn’t expensive these days, but this seems like a distinct lack of prioritization in this use case.

Cool tech though, would be particularly awesome if it would end up going into something like the apple watch.
Since OP was talking about mice, I wanted to differentiate from trackpads. Maybe people don’t use mice anymore and I’m just out of the loop (though my 12yo uses a mouse with his iPad) or maybe OP is thinking of pre-scrollwheel three button mice.
>Moderation isn't some highly skilled activity that requires special qualifications.

Neither is cleaning up a beach. You may even get some willing to clean a small part, but having a few people spend exorbitant amounts of time cleaning a beach everyday that is also infested with sharks and crabs starts to turn a simple problem to a specialized one.
I agree that this process happens. That doesn't mean you shouldn't take advantage when situation 1 is occurring. It means you should evaluate periodically if you are still in a situation 1 for these types of things. Amazon prime and Netflix used to be situation 1s. They aren't anymore. If you're willing to give them up I don't see the problem.
YMMV but I think the obvious thing to do for anyone who worries about range is to use an EV for daily and hire the right car for a long trip. I don’t buy a car for my 1% trips, I buy a car for my 99% trips.

When I need a 4x4, I hire. When I go on a weekend away with lots of gear, I get a trailer or larger car. Big family outing, people carrier. Fetch furniture, Uber van. Getting a huge car and using it for shopping or dropping kids off is allowing the rare use case to dictate how you experience the typical use case. Harder to park, fuel, maintain.

Hiring also means I don’t have the “wrong” large car which doesn’t fit the rare holiday where I need more seats or storage.
You could make a broader
claim that a “purpose” is just filling a niche in an ecological system. In this case, that niche could be enforced by advantages given to an overall ecosystem by virus/transposon gene transference. But I guess it is more of a philosophical question, can a purpose exist without an intelligence validating it? If so, you could argue everything has a purpose, if not then perhaps nothing does
Is the diet angle related to the contact of the food with the teeth, or is the related to something that happens after digestion?

If it were only related to contact of food with teeth, wouldn't rinsing your mouth after eating achieve the same effect as any diet like "carnivore diet"?
I don't think there's as clear a line here as you think. It's not like crypto was just some small-time grifters who would otherwise be running crooked pop-the-balloon games at carnivals. Notable portions of the "real" economy got in on the game. And it's hardly just crypto where people have been hoovering up credulous money claiming they had the next Google all ready to go.
It utterly befuddles me that so many people still can't (or refuse to) sense what's coming. Be it bad or good the magnitude of what is now unfolding is beyond everything that homo sapiens have ever witnessed. Unless we think that MI advancement will miraculously stall and never improve beyond current capabilities, I cannot conceive of future, even a near future, that we recognize as real.

>I think then we have some big waves that will wash over any observations we could make at this point in time.

This is spot on. Exactly as how we didn't know what the internet would be, the wiser amongst us realized it was a new and strange era. "An alien lifeform. Unimaginable, both amazing and terrifying." - Bowie. MI will far eclipse the internet.
It has nothing to do with loan forgiveness, and everything to do with the language of the law. The law that created the PPP program explicitly allowed for the loans to be cancelled. The laws that created the various student loan programs allow them to be "modified", but do not explicitly mention cancellation. The Supreme Court ruled that cancelling a loan is not the same as modifying it. Changing the interest rate or payment terms would be a modification, for example.

Since Congress did not delegate permission to cancel the loans to the Executive branch, it remains Congress's job to cancel them if they want to.
Yeah, there mostly isn’t a use case for it in databases. If you have that much storage you’ll need to bypass the kernel cache and scheduler anyway for other reasons. That was true even at the 48-bit limit.
I was thinking of the Indonesians. If the silt washes onto beaches it could turn the coastline toxic during dry weather and, as you mentioned, the workers. And as you point out, if it turns bad it is going to be very long time to resolve.

The solution would be to keep thr particle size larger, at lower efficiency.
No one who claims to automate testing ever seems to have a sophisticated understanding of testing. I suspect the urge people have for automating anything comes not from the love and skill they possess for that activity, but rather for the imagined fruits of it.

Software testing is easy to fake, which means it’s particularly easy to claim automation accomplished.

Therefore, all these people thinking they are going to automate what I do when I test? No. You have no idea what I do. But what you can do it convince ignorant managers to buy fake software testing. That’s the real danger.

Imagine if a company came around claiming to have revolutionized blood testing with radical tech, labeling its competitors slow and obsolete. The sober and responsible players in that industry may experience real damage before people figure out that Theranos is a fraud.
Kind of regret not stumbling upon law x LLM hackathon. What a great space to be network with legal tech folks. op, where did you learn about the hackathon and anything similar upcoming hackathon?
I saw other waves and this one is different. This is the first time we can unlock increasing cognitive capabilities by just basically letting capital grow its own ai. It's at the level of like invention of internet or currency or printing press or writing or maybe even human language.
If they are investing in it, they sure as hell aren't getting a big bang for their buck from what I have seen. Their man portable counter UAS systems are a fucking joke and only work on common stuff that isn't designed for heavily contested EW environments.

Their bigger systems look reasonable on paper, but I doubt they would be up to the task of dealing with high end comms in an actual combat environment. They can barely keep them alive in Ukraine and from what open sources are reporting are either not very effective or deployed in such small quantities to be effectively nonexistent for the majority of areas seeing combat.

Sure, Iran was able to down a stealth drone years ago by messing with the electronic nav systems, but it wasn't like there was actual combat happening, and I don't think they have repeated that since then.
This is the world I live in. Loved every word of it :)
No Place to Place – The Wonders of Shared Bicycle Graveyards in China (2020) [video]
Sorry, but this is an absolutely terrible idea.

Signing things is cool. Humans on the internet should sign more things. But why in the world would you want to use the same key that can instantaneously shred the dollars in your bank account to ensure authorship of some edit on a website article? The UX for these two things should be incredibly different; instead you are setting people up to get phished and lose their savings.
Not so. Anecdata point: My wife and I dropped our Delta Dental insurance this year. We reviewed what we'd paid in premiums over the prior 5 years vs. the full cost of procedures we'd had done in that time. Full cost would have been ~40% of our premiums + residuals. In this aspect of life, we've decided to self-insure.
>So like some parts of Europe?

and here we go again...

"Do you have any specific parts in mind?"
> 5m of research could have shown this...

Indeed

> i think this product is only good for artists who needs a specific ipad app or someone who really needs a writing device to use with Apple specific app only. or if you can expense it at work.

Procreate (with the Apple pencil) is definitely a killer app for the iPad.

The iPad is also amazing for musicians, particularly in terms of the wide variety of excellent synth (Animoog, Sunrizer, Korg and Moog apps...) and music production apps (Gadget, Cubasis, Logic...) And it's great for sheet music (ForScore).

It's a nice gaming device as well. I particularly appreciate card games like Monster Train or digital board games like Ticket to Ride, but there are also some great RPGs, strategy games, action games, Apple Arcade, and many games with controller support.

Although I've written code on it (Swift Playgrounds, Pythonista...) and have enjoyed writing text in landscape mode (Pages), the iPad's creative/fun apps are the ones that make me keep coming back to it. That and reading stuff on the web, and magazines in Apple News+. Netflix looks surprisingly good on the iPad screen, but the 4:3 aspect ratio isn't a perfect match for modern shows or movies. It's also my gym youtube player.

Sadly the duolingo iOS app is marred by excessive ad interruptions and an energy system, but the web app works well on a touchscreen.
I was hoping this would be far more interesting, like how some Ukraine-based tech company was supporting some kind of important dependency whose SLA couldn't be met, but it wasn't a violation, because it was an act of war.... Something along those lines.

Bleah.
lol'd at the downvotes

definitely not the smartest at the heights of marie curie nor stephem hawking

but smart and rich enough to be worth more than all of us in this thread

shorters are literally betting against the guy that spearheaded reusable rockets in space, i'm not saying all his decisions and perspectives are agreeable, but seriously what do you all think is your leverage against the guy?
Does this apply to safety issues as well?
if I ever see someone in a Cybertruck I'm going to assume they're a redpilled Elon reply guy
This doesn't make any sense to me in your scenario or in the commuting scenario.

I don't have any "more resources" in a city that's a 2 hr flight from where I live vs. 10 hours away. I use the same app to find a hotel and the same credit card to pay for it. The only relevant thing is which one interrupts my sleep schedule more.

And in daily commuting it makes no sense to me either. Whether you drive 10 min to the train station and take it straight to work, or live next to the train station and then take a subway 10 min (including wait time) to the office, I find it hard to believe anybody cares much at all, or that people's random preferences don't cancel each other out.

Plus for a commute aren't you always doing the reverse as well? If you have an "origin transfer" in the morning it becomes a "destination transfer" in the evening. So wouldn't any preference become entirely moot?
I believe they did this for Wall-E also
So my son is like this. Missing a whole bunch of teeth, they'll never come in. Now the question is... wait for this? Or just get implants. He's already way past this 2-6 age range, too :-( Tough.
For the same reason all the people that claimed they were moving to Canada when trump (and likewise, biden) was elected.
The cost is a big issue for me still. I get it, but I paid $15k for a car 10 years ago - small hatchback that's been more than enough for my needs. The only options I have for EVs are either 2-3x the size (Rivian, F150, Model X) or 4-5x the cost (Tesla, Lucid, Polestar), or both. I barely drive a hundred miles in a week, and often less, but having range to do a 2-3 hour road trip is a big bonus.

You can't even get a quality EV with a shorter range though for less than 50-70k. I'm not even sure I've spent that much on my car over the last decade, including gas, insurance, repairs, and initial cost. Makes it hard to justify the upgrade.
I built and launched Smort.io [1] a year ago to easily edit, annotate and share articles without logging in.

Just prepend smort.io/ before any URL to read.

It also works on ArXiv papers published till May 2023.

[1] https://smort.io
Please accept my sincere thanks for moving on from corporate memphis. And I think this is an interesting project!
I've had an account for months. It is not "public", it's in private beta.
Well that was a trip back into the late 80s/early 90s! Shadow of the Beast, Test Drive, Defender of the Crown, Pool of Radiance... that's what took up my time during my introverted high school days.
BTW, if this list resonates with you, it's a great way to discover other YouTube creators with real content.
Its founder Dan Whaley is a fascinating guy, and hypothesis has a neat backstory.

He was trying to get factual feedback on climate change news, a bit like Twitter community notes now.

Built a web annotation system to enable that.
I assumed this was the main issue around water in their closed system. I assumed even if there are other water cycles, this one would be a limit. But there is no necessary need of that.

Every day they lose all but 2% of this water into the system. So its the approximation of linear decline, assuming a constant 1-2% loss rate per day. I mean sure. Maybe it's 50 days because 2% per day loss not 1 % but I assume they have good and bad days. And that astronauts tolerate some level of uncomfortableness e.g. by reducing the humidity.

I assumed that it's a closed system, and that all water not retained inside somebody is exhaled, sweated or peed out. Presumably quite a lot of water is in fact incorporated into them as something. ?glycogen? alongside the carbs they eat? inside Fat cells?

It's certainly false accounting because this water isn't the only water in the system. fuel cells, fishtanks, wet wipes, cleaning things. They will have other water cycles, and this specific loss rate isn't going to be the limiting factor.
this ignores the fact that strings can contain a null character. for example, this is a valid Go program:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Printf("%q\n", "hello \x00 world")
}
The tank is great. There is a whole bunch of maths going into drawing that final tank so it rotates properly as an ellipse.
> Nearly every complaint in the article could have been solved by using Deno

Alternatively, don't go out of your way to install Node or Deno—instead, just use the runtime you already have on your computer; browser makers are much better at following the standards (and consequently not encouraging/inducing you to write against standards-incompatible APIs to begin) than the people peddling Node and Node-influenced stuff.
Everyone in Japan was starving in support of the war effort.
There's also a re-pc in tukwilia near sea-tac with a small museum section. The unaffiliated recycled PC store in Tacoma has a bit of a museum section too, although a lot less inventory.

I still miss weird stuff in sunnyvale, but this will have to do.
Only if you include plug-in hybrids, which made up half their sales.
I would also love some sincere answers to this question. I'm mostly a back-end person, but would love to start building some front ends that don't look quite so 1997-ish. But each time I think, "Gosh, I should learn whatever the current thing is," a) it's different than the last current thing, b) it seems to be pretty volatile in terms of frequent changes, and c) smart people have some really good critiques of things that are fundamentally wrong with it. And I feel like I've been having that experience for a decade.
Yup. The sane applies to ICEs, but fast refueling means people don't need to think about it.
For an American, being unexpectedly stuck at JFK or Atlanta may be less disorienting than an unplanned day in Amsterdam or Paris.

Entering the EU at a smaller airport is probably smoother as well.

(Obviously not a rail or commuter example, but same principal.)
Ethereum is a blockchain of computations. The fact that it also secures billions of dollars is evidence that the records, such as domains that represent an identity, are highly secure. In the same way that someone can't change who owns a balance, they also are not able to change who owns a blockchain based domain.
At most companies I've been at, this role would be Product Manager based on what he described. Most places I have been that had Program Managers - they managed schedule interlocks, deliverables, helped coordinate between teams like engineering, docs, support, sales, etc. They also managed the required ceremonial material that large enterprises seem to require in order to deliver - like review slides, "sign off" docs, etc.

So is this really what a program manager at Microsoft does as described therein? If so that completely changes my view based on several non-Microsoft roles.
> For example, there’s no traditional file system... The whole desktop metaphor isn’t really there, because that isn’t really what it was.

The earliest Macs feel 'weird' in this way too, since the hierarchical filesystem wasn't introduced until the Mac Plus and multiple applications running simultaneously weren't officially supported until System 5 (with MultiFinder). It doesn't really start feeling like the modern 'desktop' until System 7, where they started treating the desktop like a folder.
> The only way to raise appropriately AIs is to begin behaving appropriately ourselves.

I dunno, wasn't Saint Augustine "lord make me good, but not yet" pretty much admitting that our heroes have feet of clay, and yet they function as educators and leaders.

If you modulate the training set through externally derived axioms of good and bad, can't you train an AI on objectively naughty data to recognise the anti-set of good behaviour?