skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was sarcasm but I still would hazard a guess that the public facing payments are harder than the backend payment runs.

A few thoughts as a non expert:

They might take thousands of bookings for a single hotel, so the volume of inbound payments is significantly more.

Public facing payments have to operate 24/7.

They have to deal with fraud and bad actors.

Transactions need to be real time rather than batch.

They need to support all kinds of international payments.

They have to take payments over web, mobile and call centres.

They have to support PCI and GDPR compliance on the customer side.

I’m sure neither side is easy at their scale, but B2C sounds much trickier to me even though there are opportunities to outsource on both sides.
If everybody has access to the omnipotent troll farms, isn't there a balance of bullshit?

Mutually Assured Deception?

I retain doubts about the seriousness of the issues: The Russian Troll Farms were going to end Democracy and Truth and all that beginning in 2015. Now the threat is just the same but the actor is different?
> I practically beg my teammates to ask questions in the team slack channel instead of DMing me, but they never do.

I would probably be one of them (although I'd be more likely to email you if that's an option).

If I have to ask my stupid question in public, I'm more likely to simply not ask it at all -- especially if management or people who are not on my immediate team are in the Slack channel.
You know what EMACS stands for?

Eight Meg And Constantly Swapping.
People don't buy a fridge because they want a secure device either, that doesn't mean the manufacturer doesn't have a legal duty of care when releasing software with security vulnerabilities.
I couldn't read the whole article. Is he talking about 1920s Paris, or 2020s Paris? There's a lot to like about Tokyo, but there is a tendency toward conservatism in nearly all aspects of Japanese society as well.

Ian Buruma - a former bit player in Tokyo's 1970s avant garde art scene who later became a New York Times correspondent - had many observations about this in his recent memoir:

What we had seen at Maro’s rehearsal studio was a very Japanese phenomenon. A theatrical method that had been created by a great artist, through sheer daring and experimentation, had become established as a style, passed on by masters of various schools, all with their own variations. This had happened to the tea ceremony, once a spontaneous expression of aesthetic joy in drinking tea, now a rigid set of rules, to be learned by wealthy ladies who pay a fortune to the various tea ceremony schools. The same thing had happened to classical theater and to flower arranging. And now, in a way, it was happening even to a once avant-garde dance form.

He also returned again and again to the mostly white expatriates he encountered at the time, and some of the characteristics and frustrations of their existence there:

Hovering on the fringes was where I liked to be, neither in nor out, neither one thing nor another, semidetached, a born fellow traveler, a male fag hag, an observer in the midst of sympathetic strangers. It was thrilling, but also a way of playing it safe. Perhaps that was why I was attracted to Japan, a society to which a foreigner could never belong, even if he wanted to.

... He, Donald, felt entirely at ease as an outsider. The great thing about Japan, he said, was that one was left alone. To be Japanese in Japan was to be caught in an almost intolerable web of rules and obligations. But the gaijin was exempt from all that. He could observe life with serene detachment, not being bound to anything or anyone. In Japan, Donald felt utterly, radically free.

[Donald] mentioned the “Seidensticker syndrome,” named after his friend, the scholar Edward Seidensticker. Ed habitually spent half the year in Japan. When he arrived in Tokyo, he was ready to kiss the ground. Everything was wonderful. Then, once he had more or less settled down, he began to get more and more irritated by “these people,” until after six months he was quite ready to go home.
Why do they mark Ithaca, New York as Homers native lands?

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/nebrowser?id=tgn%2C7013...
Can you expand more on why you think it's a place best enjoyed by introverts?

I've only ever visited for a short trip so I'm curious to hear your take.
I once saw a cyclist hit a pedestrian in Salem, OR. The pedestrian then beat up the cyclist to where I'm sure he lost teeth. Others called the police and I eventually left when the ambulance arrived. The cyclist was still laying on the ground, and the pedestrian was long gone.

Let's hope those dutch don't purposely hit an American.
I too love Tokyo, but I don’t want to see a larger international community move there. Those big cities with lots of expats and immigrants all end up looking like London or Toronto or New York.
This accidentally(?) makes the case for an extension of email (a la Google Buzz) as a social network.
Can tax payers also take ownership of the physical plant and sell access like we do to public airwaves? States rights should allow at least some states to do the right thing.
Actually, why does Chrome/ium has such a high market share even amongst tech savvy people? I don't see the appeal.
LLM Calibration and Automatic Hallucination Detection via Pareto Optimal
Much like Black Mirror and 1984, media like this will not be a deterrent but rather a guide on how to execute the future.
For people looking for an EV alternative, you can search on youtube for Chang Li trucks, they fit the bill for most people.

This guy's youtube channel name implies he does this for a living, you can get more info from him, I guess:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ufkBRrQoSA

here is another guy who modified his, and put a small solar panel, and now his charging requirements have been reduced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgDpqd38HtQ
I always find comments like this a little awkward, because how much of Tokyo and Japan being "safe" is because it's largely racially homogenous, politically/socially conservative, and anti-immigration compared to other first world countries.
> should absolutely offset that, and if they don't, the airport should be closed.

Or restructured to be profitable. IAD is a good example of where there is clearly enough demand and example of similar scale airports being run effectively. So if they are running at big losses (no idea, not something I've researched) then that to me implies bad management (or poor political constraints) rather a fundamental business model problem.
That's how oauth2 works. If the app isn't registered with reddit, it doesn't get to act on behalf of the user. No app secrets are necessary, just the user's login credentials, which the app never sees. The resource owner (reddit in this case) can allow or disallow based on the client_id (which is not a secret) and the redirect_uri registered for the app. Reddit, twitter, google, github, apple, and dozens of others handle apps this way.
Scholars say that scholarly activities make you smarter.
> Just pay them the fucking respectable wage they deserve.

In many rural areas; it's not even a for pay job;

It's volunteer outside most major cities; in Alabama and Georgia. It's not even part of sales or property taxes here; the volunteer fire department (with no employees, much less a paid head of marketing or collections) has to market to the community.
The steam bomb scenario is the most alarming scenario to me.

Though I’ve seen people destroy their garage floor as well.
Interesting! I'll have to check it out after work.
And yet the moderate voter in San Francisco is on the right wing of most political continuums outside of the U.S. The statement stands.
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

Has a unified management experience with the ability to subscribe to various projects, and set priorities/schedules for work units.
I still use Tesseract. It's not the fastest or most-accurate anymore, but it gets what I need off of PDF files.
I had some of the best French food I’ve ever had in Tokyo, and I wasn’t even searching for it. All the food in Japan was given so much respect and care, everything was delicious
I doubt that's possible. It would be exhausting at best. But he probably does the equivalent of grepping them for [@]dang, and keywords that are typical in flamebait.
I actually do put things like "write report" in my calendar, because it's a task I dislike. I try to find a specific-sized gap between meetings, where I'm already paying the cost of context switching. That helps me get the task done in a timely fashion, where it isn't in contention with the much more interesting deep work that I consider my "real job."
Yes. We need absolute iron hand in deciding in what place and what kind of housing must be available for all people.

Whenever people say they got it right this time, it really means they got it right this time.
I don't know the full history of each of these companies, but it wasn't my impression that Google or Apple really started with a lot of VC funding. Sure there had to be some kind of private investment to kick start them, but they became profitable on their own pretty quickly. "VC" to me is associated with finding an outside source of cash to fund your money losing business until you can drive competitors under. If revenue picks up the company can IPO, success! Then once it's public the stock price flatlines or drops (otherwise the venture capitalist left value on the table).
I think it may seem a bit jarring to you only because it's not common, because there aren't so many women physicists and these sort of personal interest pieces aren't done for them so often. It's not necessarily some DEI flex by the author. Take a look at all the submissions to HN that begin with "He" [0] and meditate on how you feel about them.

I know I had the same reaction around that "The woman behind the first black hole image" story a couple years ago, but after watching news articles since then with a careful eye towards phrasing like "The man behind X" I realized it's just a normal phrasing that seemed jarring in the black hole case only because I wasn't used to hearing about the women behind something.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=he
Do you have any evidence to back this up?

Look at Civilian vs Soldier dead for various major wars.

Only ONE war has WAY more soldiers killed than civilians. If Russia is trying to target Ukrainians, they are doing a worse job than any war you can name.

Civilians Soldiers
WW1 10M 7M
WW2 50-55M 21-25M
Korea 2.7M 0.8M
Vietnam 2.5M 1.1M
Kosovo 1-5K 0.5-1K
Afghanistan 500K[1] 100K
Iraq 135K[2] 40K

Ukraine[3] 9K 65-250K

[1] I don't trust US numbers in Afghanistan. There are prominent cases like the US claiming 25 casualties in a village when there was video evidence of many more bodies not mentioning all the bodies vaporized by the bomb.

[2] Another definite lie. Studies done in 2004 and 2006 published in Lancet showed around 1M excess deaths of which almost all were directly attributable to the war and at least 31% were directly attributable to US forces. Who knows how many people died in all the conflicts that followed in the next 15 years. The US officially rejects these studies as flawed, but the British MoD considered it to be robust and adhering to best practices. Further, it used the same methodology and team the US considered to be stellar when doing the exact same thing the exact same way in the Congo.

[3] From the Ukrainian MoD and/or Ukraine-leaning groups, so the likely bias is to overstate Civilian deaths, overstate Russian KIA, and understate Ukrainian KIA.
New is not always better.

For example, from about 1960-2010, anthropologists universally held a "pots, not people" view of prehistory: they asserted, with great confidence, that styles of pottery and metalworking changed over time due to voluntary exchange of ideas among peaceful, cooperating peoples. These anthropologists asserted that pre-1960 theories that pottery styles changed because population groups violently replaced each other were not only wrong, but immoral and barbaric. To them, it was modernity that made humans violent.

Now due to ancient DNA, we know that the pre-1960s anthropologists were right and the post-1960 consensus was wrong: prehistory was violent and populations violently replaced each other with regularity.

You're more informed reading, say, Gordon Child book from 1920 than a serious book on prehistoric archaeology from 2000.

So it goes in many fields. Imagine how much longer it would take for science's self correction mechanism to operate if our knowledge were encoded solely in a "living" information system aligned with only currently fashionable ideas.
They were saying that talc doesn't cause weight loss, just in a very oblique and condescending way.
Migration instructions are now here:

https://stalw.art/docs/management/migrate
> If in fact every paper that claims a better performance over state of the art was true we would have solved AI by now.

"Better" is not a single axis. By your logic, all I need to do is jump higher and higher, and sooner or later I will be able to fly!

You aren't alone in this line of thinking. This fallacy has been written all over "AI" since we started calling it "AI"! That was the biggest mistake of all: by calling any arbitrary project "an Artificial Intelligence", we declare it an instance of the end goal! Now it just needs to be a "better", never "different".

And that's what it means for a company to fail: it doesn't just need to be better, it needs to be different. If we don't allow failure to happen, we can never explore "different".
Crypto’s New Favorite Bank Is Reluctant to Accept the Title
If the ship is small enough, it wouldn't be required to have an AIS beacon. From an article someone else posted, the suspected ship is a 50-foot recreational sailboat.
The one I remember which has previously been shared on HN was this:

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
> You _can_ accept pre-made defaults

In my case, I'd prefer to do so. I'm a different use-case though, I'm a server admin so I want to be as comfortable with bare-bones defaults as possible so that I can jump on any server and just use Vim (or sometime just vi!). I can't afford the time it would take to set up a custom config on every server in every environment, so the most I need is a basic .vimrc that has `set number` and a couple netrw tweaks that I can copy with scp and get going. Most of the time I don't even copy that over and run `:set number` when I open a file.

Note that I'm still an intermediate Vim user at best, splits and markers are the most complex features I use (no macros yet). I know I can edit remote files, so maybe once I'm comfortable with that then I can set up some real customization in each environment.
I think the author was talking more about the difficulty in finding a few hundred people who want to buy Internet access from you, rather than finding a few hundred people who want Internet access in general.
I have hacked javascript port https://gist.github.com/netdur/a777f75fb70e0abc19c407c2ff7f9...

and it seems to work!!! regardless

Best matched answer for 'How do I start a new project?' is 'To create a new project, go to the dashboard and click on 'New Project'. Then, fill out the details and click 'Save'.'

Best matched answer for 'How can I delegate tasks to others in my team?' is 'To invite team members to your project, open the project and click on 'Invite Members'. Enter their email addresses and click 'Send Invites'.'

Best matched answer for 'What do I do when I finish a task?' is 'When a task is completed, it should be marked as 'Complete'. It will then be moved to the 'Completed Tasks' section.'
It is a shame that CCL was never updated to M1/M2 Apple Silicon.

Until recently I had three Common Lisp environments: LispWorks Professional, SBCL, and CCL. When I (mostly) retired I stopped paying for LispWorks and now CCL is off the table also.

I hope you have better luck than I did with CCL’s cocoa IDE and GUI library. I only write the simplest of GUIs. However, CCL is great for development because of fast compilation times and for some reason, file IO is so much faster than SBCL.
Tokyo isn't even the best city in Japan. Osaka and Sapporo are both much more livable: They both contain most of the amenities and conveniences of Tokyo -- but everything is cheaper, distances between spaces are shorter, and nature and green spaces are nearer to hand. (Much nearer, in Sapporo's case.)

Tokyo is very closely analogous to New York City... but nothing in America, and very few cities in Europe or elsewhere in Asia, are anything like Sapporo.
> people saying stuff like "I loaded Wikipedia onto this battery powered Raspberry Pi in a Pelican case, now I'm ready to rebuild civilization if it collapses," and seemingly believing it.

The least delusional part of this is the sparseness of information contained within Wikipedia. If that scenario came to be, they wouldn't be short on information. They'd be short on time, resources, and skills.
Compression is equivalent to intelligence:

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html
Israel’s interests wrt the US are complicated.

Israeli politicians campaign in the US. There’s a lot of mutual personal, commercial and government interests between the two countries that often are out of alignment with official positions.

France also has a complicated relationship and does more adversarial spying.
Every place even a little bit exburan/suburban/urban in Canada and the US has highly regulated planning restrictions. It's unavoidable, so the fact people who criticize current planning rules live under them isn't a choice; it's a necessity.

Planning restrictions are also highly bipartisian. Both sides favour restrictions, often for different reasons and with different intent, and the result is no supply.

People like to point to Houston as not having zoning laws, but they have deed restrictions that behave in much the same way (and are even harder to undo). Houston does have some of the least restrictive planning rules and also has some of the lowest housing costs. This is not a coincidence.
'no ads in the public space' seems to me like one of those well-intentioned ideas that sounds good but has a lot of edge cases. What about if I am a plumber and I have my business logo on the side of my truck. Is that advertising? What if I have a sign in front of my shop? If someone really likes skittles and they mention that (unpaid) on a TV show is that advertising? What if skittles sends me some free skittles after, is it retroactively advertising now? What if I have a negative experience with one provider that ends up driving business to a different provider when I relay it. Is that advertising?

It seems like instead of starting from an overly broad position the best thing to do would be to start specifically. We could start by moving content online back into being protocol-based instead of walled gardens. Let me subscribe or not subscribe to whatever content I want without being beholden to a platform.
> They had a lot of great ideas for the prevention of tyranny.

c/had/borrowed

> some parts of the Constitution as originally ratified were simply a product of reaching a compromise that both Northern and Southern states would both be on board with.

A compromise that didn't even work well or last, as violently evidenced by the Civil War.

> The beauty of the Constitution is that it can be changed via amendments

In the past hundred years, it's only been amended eight times. One of those was to repeal a previous amendment (alcohol prohibition). Three of the eight are related to Presidential terms and succession. Another one, the last amendment in 1992, was about Congressional salaries. The last substantial amendment, over 50 years ago, lowered the voting age to 18.

Amendments to the Constitution have become practically nonexistent.

> it benefits the country as a whole

The Constitution never benefited the country as a whole, as I already explained in my previous comment.
Honestly, I'm surprised that sites invest so heavily in this approach because it leads to your advertisers trolling your users, and is basically sacrificing the actual experience of the site and the access to advertisers that the users might actually possibly buy products from.

"Here's a long weird video that promises a big payoff in the end... and then fails to deliver. The user is interested because they want to see how it ends, but they didn't actually like it. Clearly the user enjoys this content and we should show them more of that."

"Here's an incredibly confusing graphic. The user paused to figure out what the hell is going on. Clearly the user enjoys this content and we should show them more of that."

"Here's a poorly cropped image of something possibly very strange. The user clicks through to find nothing related to that image after the clickthrough. Clearly the user enjoys this content and we should show them more of that."
The issue with Paris is not the Parisians. It’s the bloody tourists. Covid was great. Please stop coming. Thank you.
Type theory establishes correspondence between theories and models. aka one possible interpretation: hashmaps for matrices/graphs [0]

Some applied references/examples can often be found within discussions on designing/implimenting a given programming language (virtual machine, compiled, interpreted).

[0] : https://thepalindrome.org/p/matrices-and-graphs
Good driving skills should be a requirement for driving.
This sounds like a particularly useful adaptation for shrikes[0], so they can impale their prey directly into their "dining room".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrike
No, what you're suggesting misunderstands why these ads work well.

I don't care what content you're looking at. I care who are you. Specifically, I care whether you're a person who owns a dog and spends money on high-quality/luxury dog goods. Whether you're looking at something related to dogs or a post by someone in your family about a wedding last weekend doesn't matter.

Displaying my ad next to dog-related content would be much, much worse from a targeting perspective. Instead of targeting the people who are likely to buy my product, it'd end up targeting people watching dog videos. The set of people who watch dog videos is much broader than my target audience - my mom watches dog videos sometimes, and she's a cat person!
If you have a modern processor, you don't really have idle CPU cycles. This isn't like the heady days of SETI@Home when your processor idled without really reducing its power usage all that much. Modern processors can have most of their silicon go dark, especially in the deeper C-states.

The excess energy you would use is probably better spent elsewhere.
Thanks, I love it.
In my university days, I took Latin. Ended up doing a lot of work and picked up a smattering of languages - but across EMEA, there was a core familiarity.

When work had me go to Japan, that lack of any foundational familiarity was shocking. The people were kind and put up with someone slaughtering their language (and practicing their English) It added a level of exoticness that is hard to explain.

Best part was work had finally implemented a 'you must bring back receipts' for expenses. 10 pages of something was dropped off to the poor sod in accounting. Their face was priceless.

I miss both Paris and Tokyo...
So you DO care. A lot. Enough to install tools to frustrate the process.
> Activists will fight fiercely to control the model's output on controversial topics,

They already do. I'd love to know how much "brain damage" RLHF and other censorship techniques cause to the general purpose reasoning abilities of models. (Human reasoning ability is also harmed by lying.) We know the damage is nontrivial.