skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > I think we need some social mechanism where you can do your best to make amends and get some measure of closure.

> It's called prison.

No.

Prison (and the threat of it) accomplishes a few things:

It's punitive, which allows people who enjoy retribution to feel some satisfaction at their idea of justice being carried out.

The threat of prison theoretically prevents some people from inflicting some societal harms on others.

And it keeps dangerous people away from the general public.

It also has the consequence of lining the pockets of the people running for-profit prisons (this is actually really really bad for society though), and also costs taxpayers a ton of money.

And another nice benefit of adversely affecting minorities, poor people, and otherwise marginalized people disproportionately.

It largely is not successful at rehabilitating people. Maybe some people, sometimes, but in the U.S. at least, there are more people who come out of prison more broken than they were going in, and also have fewer options for living an ethical life coming out. They fall in with gangs for protection, and those networks extend back out of the prison. The money spent imprisoning people (especially for things like nonviolent, victimless crimes) could likely do much more good to society if it was used differently.

If someone theoretically did something bad, and was remorseful for their actions, and we could say with a degree of certainty that they were no more likely to commit the same act again than any random person on the street, I think it would be better to not imprison them, and spend that money on, say, social services instead.

If you're looking for models of actually allowing people to atone and work towards improvements in their future behaviour, we'd do better with a restorative justice model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice
So e-transfers are dead?
Curious to know, have you tried Render? What is the successor to Heroku in your eyes?
Correct, I was disagreeing with the other poster but also making it clear at the beginning that I'm not a fan of Atmos, even though I was defending the technology. The rest of my comment was about how Atmos is not the same as plain stereo. But it's still a scam.
Well that's not gonna fly.
Claiming words with detailed and well documented meanings don't have meanings is specifically a key component of fascism.
HN is probably salivating at the prospect of earning 200k+ while only working a mere 60h a week.
i've also had success with render.com so far! been running an app & DB for $14/mo for a almost 6 months and it's been solid.
wow americans can't do that already????
Is non-Electron client not on the Roadmap? That's a big missing piece in the puzzle of great note taking alternative
Willful ignorance? It's not like these studies are uncommon now.
> I would suggest instead that there are no legitimate reasons, and that businesses who are requiring old software are at best being negligent.

1. Backwards incompatible schema changes for data that the software works with which requires a migration path. The version for that software needs to be locked until that migration is complete.

2. A functionality regression in the software. The version needs to be locked until that patch lands.

3. A security vulnerability can be introduced with new features. The version needs to be locked until that security issue is patched out.

You can't just yolo to the latest version of software every time it drops.
Why only care about the short term?
For hobby projects - where I dare not touch AWS for fear of going bankrupt from a misconfigured service - I found the sweet spot to be Dokku on top of a Hetzner or Digital Ocean instance. It provides a Heroku like interface on top of cheap hosting, and is fine where you don't expect to scale very much.
A study apparently found that open-source code with profanity in the comments was statistically measured to be of higher quality.

https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/el-open-source-con-malas-pala....
Both, yes
I wonder where that statistic came from too. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num... the number of L2 speakers of English is ~1b or 12.5% of the world population (~8b).

But one thing that's missed is the advantage ESL speakers have: they by definition speak at least one other language. English speakers either don't have to or find it too hard to find someone to practise on even if they want to learn.

The fact that English is the lingua franca of science has another advantage even to ESL speakers: they only have to learn English to communicate with just about any other scientist in the world. Imagine having to pick between learning English, French, German, Japanese, Latin, depending on who you wanted your audience to be?
>Finding the exact group of people who are amateurs at a similar level who can grow in some subject together sounds great, but I think we'll find this when we get an AI

This could take another 50 years.

I hope that they are successful and that they will grow into a social network for science. It's almost surprising that there is not already something like BookWyrm for subjects and skill levels.
Exactly. Few things can cross the intestine wall, for example we don't have a problem with the absolutely insane amount of bacteria that process food inside of us and produce, well, shit. If you were to make a small cut in the intestine somewhere, well, then chances of getting septic (i.e. the bacteria overpowering your immune system) are high.

So I'm not worried about things larger than a bacteria, unless proven otherwise.

The other issue is with quantity. We all have lead or radioactive isotopes embedded in the body. Or, we can breath in small quantities of carbon monoxide, form example from a passing by car. That doesn't immediately cause problems, the quantity matters.
They would be hard to establish if you didn't have data on the kinds of health problems that would only show up post-plastic.
Seems, it started with Google advising the Fed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

In December 2019, noting the success of UPI, Google suggested the US Federal Reserve Board to follow UPI as example in developing FedNow,[22] a real-time payment system for United States.[23]
What exactly were those studies on?

Those bags are almost certainly polyethyelene without any additives, which is safe and has been in widespread use for almost a century.

Petroleum jelly is far more reactive than PE, although it's substantially the same chemical structure, yet most of us regularly use it on our skin.

If the biggest concern about sous vide is the plastic, then I think that's a very strong argument for its safety, as I'm sure you get far worse byproducts from other more common cooking processes like baking or frying.
I had one situation where a Hetzner dedi didn't come back up on a reboot. Their dedis are cheap, this one is like $40ish/mo?

Opened a ticket and support had it back up again within about 10 minutes, turned out to be a failed CPU fan which caused an overheat condition and made it so the system wouldn't complete the boot. They swapped the fan and it came up. It's the only failure I've had in years of dealing with them and was just impressed how quickly a physical failure event like that got handled.
Why do we even need this? If I want to animate text I can just use <blink> tags. Also, not everyone has high-speed dialup yet. Phone bills are going to go through the roof!!
Yeah Apple and Sony headphones that support Atmos require photo-scanning your ears. Bose and Logitech don't. In my experience, the Apple and Sony implementation of spatial audio sounds much more realistic than the Bose and Logitech ones I have tried. But those other 2 still work out okay. Especially for just gaming usage. Dolby also has a windows app that can "convert" any stereo headphones into Atmos. It also works better than plain stereo but not as good as ear scanning methods.
> Public perception doesn't change at the snap of a finger. I'm sure there are plenty of people alive today who grew up thinking "Oppenheimer bad" and would possibly perpetuate that perception down the generational line.

I had a vague understanding that he had a bad reputation, but always assumed it came from more of an "anti-nuclear activist" angle (because he was responsible for making nuclear weapons real).
When I first learned about HTTPS, and certificate authorities were brought up, I basically laughed. Trust indeed. Qui custodiet ipsos custodies?
Outside of STEM educated | aware people?

I'd say rarely taught in the USofA - I dare say a vox pop person on the street interview might struggle to find someone that can name three countries starting with the letter U let alone name 5 Manhatten project nuclear scientists (that haven't had recent big budget movies made about them).

> It's pretty well known that Operation Paperclip shoveled loads of foreign scientists into the USA

Case in point really

* A: I mention that it's relatively unknown that during WWII before the start of the Manhatten project the MAUD committe spelled out that an atomic weapon was feasible and game planned a design.

* B: You respond that it's actually really well known that after WWII scientists flooded into the USofA from Europe (and a number from Nazi rocket and other projects).

It's not clear how B bears on A.
I wonder if this means Business Basic plans will get more that 7 days of login logs. It’s really crappy when someone gets phished and you can only go back 7 days to check for suspicious logins.
Try this keyword: "anandtech cerebras". You'll find a lot of details.

The basic premise is that data does not have to move off a giant chip as often as a normal sized chip.
Here in the states, municipal construction hours ordinances usually force work to occur during the day.
Silicone
A cell culture would die if the water was slightly saltier than regular media. Or the temperature was a few degrees higher, or the gas concentration was off by a few percent, or the shape of the container is weird, or etc. etc.

You need a much more rigorous study to determine toxicity to a full-size living organism. Much more costly and much less likely to get funding...
Fortnite?
Thanks for that OS jazz link, will investigate. These days i play maybe a couple days a week, Oscar Peterson's Minuets and Etudes and a pile of guitar books by Mimi Fox, Doug Munro and others.

My top-down approach is to work books as best i can, i need to incorporate "bottom up" which is listen (50x if necessary) and transcribe.

(and i have another TODO for Barry Harris' books/vids etc)
Wasn’t this supposed to change with iOS 17?
Ask HN: Which AI tool you wish existed but doesn't exist yet?
Yes. Infinity is weird.
Acme Stoner Toys? Steamer Tycoons? Ace Monster Toys? Comatose Sentry? Amnesty Scooter? Economy Tasters? Ceremony Toasts? A Torn Ecosystem? Necessary Motto?
> but it's actually a government based system system which renders free transfers between bank accounts (your own or others) with a cap of 3 or 5k/month.

Zelle is run by Early Warning Services [1], a joint venture between Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.

It's most definitely not "government-based".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle_(payment_service)
> It does feel as if this regresses for long-term partners. The volume of shared experience must blur the boundaries of individual experience, or something.

This is so true, and painfully so. I was fortunate to have an epiphany a few years ago when I realized I was failing regularly to see my wife as a separate individual and part of the whole of "us."

More accurately, there were times when I probably viewed her merely and extension of myself. It honestly changed the way I view the world, and I somehow managed to extrapolate that understanding to life itself. It was a glorious dose of ego death, and one I sorely needed.
you had better get working on that cabin in the woods.

...where you use a wood stove and inhale far more proven carcinogens instead?
> However, it apparently can write a program using the Z3 SAT solver to find a solution.

Not that it's unimpressive in general that a LLM can write a program from a prompt like that, but for this particular juxtaposition it doesn't seem like it's especially interesting or impressive that it can write such a program. A SAT program is basically just re-stating the the rules in a particular form. It doesn't even have to be able to apply those rules. The solver does the hard work.
RFC 9446: Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations
> I would hope that after a couple of hours downtime, they'd bring up a fresh machine with Ansible or whatever.

It is not just about a fresh machine which hopefully sits in each datacenter. I can imagine they needed the clone of the system due to the design of the fly.io service and that's where the "fun" begins.
LLM Constellation
I use Dokku on top of Hetzner for my hobby projects - hosting is super cheap, for a little extra I can add a mounted volume for storage, and if the project outgrows a single server I can always just break out of Dokku and use some Docker containers behind a load balancer.

If you are outside of Europe, Digital Ocean or Linode may work better for you.
Note that you can easily install on a Mac with

brew install --cask cool-retro-term
I think FedNow can serve as the inter-bank settlement rails for CBDC, or the wholesale side of CBDC
> Killing RSS was part of that strategy.

Oh boy. RSS died because it was "only for nerds". Never had I ever met a person outside my tech bubble that had used RSS yet knew what it was. That's not how the average Joe uses the internet.
The LLM will be able to handle more complex scenarios. I could imagine a use-case: If you are ordering from a self-vending machine, instead of having to go through the whole process you just say your order out loud. You can say, for example, a couple chocolate bars and the LLM tries to guess from inventory.

Of course, if you are on the web, it makes no sense. It is much easier to use the mouse to click on a couple of items.
The more chemists I have spoken to over the years, the more I hear warnings about polymers in general. Seems as though, that in general structure simply cannot be manufactured in a way that is innocuous to our health.

It is plausible that plastic will be the next tobacco/leaded gasoline. Time will tell however.
Or, you know, I used it to accurately describe the way statistics are created, manipulated, promoted, and used to paint all kind

Another generalization without evidence?

Merely claiming? This is reality 101. Anything you can directly observe is more real than some third or fourth-hand statistical "knowledge".

No where did I say your observations are false. If you use limited observations to reach a conclusion. You're not even documenting your observations if you are simply relying on your memory.

This is literally how racists think. They observe behavior then generalize about a race. However confirmation bias, media manipulation, and cultural bias muddy your "recorded" observation. I'm not saying you're a racist but I'm showing using your own input of the world to generlize leads to faulty conclusions.

Making generalizations is the cornerstone of understanding the world, and the basis of science

No, the scientific method is the cornerstone of science. Observations are only the first step to creating a hypothesis then attempting to disprove it.

Statistics can be wrong but that doesn't mean you should dismiss them.
UPI is a modern marvel tbh. Can't praise it enough.
if we can let everyone get basic education, this will come true !
Plastic is not an oil, not to mention you can make plastic from air and nothing else (other than energy). (You can make plastic from CO2 and Water.)

Plastics are polymers, oils are not. Oils have specific chain lengths, polymers have no specific length. Both are hydrocarbons, but almost everything we interact with is, so that's not saying much.

Saying something degrades with heat means very little - everything degrades with heat. The question is how much heat.
> Feels a little like a déjà vu from an older browser by a big company that had a monopoly..

Any resemblance with previous events would be totally unintentional, of course :-)
Which is obvious to anyone who's not a 90's PHBs asking for their TPS report (and even then, I know many older managers that value remote work)

But yes, companies who bet on bringing everybody back (and having the office space for that) will be less competitive
Replicate my *entire* production database? You must be mad
Apple is dropping requirements for all browsers to use WebKit, but that doesn’t mean Mozzila/Google/Brave have started releasing them, especially with iOS 17 still being a beta.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/07/new-iphone-browsers/
That’s what cash is for. You never had any privacy for electronic transactions, might as well nip the idea in the bud.
> Only one of these is any kind of potential scientific discovery

You've moved the goalposts here quite a bit from "nobody from the [peanut gallery] has ever, in the history of science, come up with an idea worth pursuing" to "their ideas have never resulted in a new scientific discovery"

Stories of technologies that didn't exist and weren't at the time scientifically possible have inspired people to try to make fantasy reality and science has certainly progressed as a result.

I'll leave you with one other example though: https://www.otaquest.com/masahiko-inami-thermo-optical-camou...

> If it's a new null result, sure. But anyone who understood what was already known about fundamental forces at the time would have known that there would be a null result without having to do the research.

That isn't how science works. Why assume that physic abilities which seem to defy everything we know would be dependent on fundamental forces? I'm certain that physicists like Robert G. Jahn and other researchers were well aware of fundamental forces but still thought it was an idea worth pursuing, and of course many of the null results they got were new since the researchers were often doing pioneering research into topics that hadn't seen serious scientific study.

If the US government already had a mountain of prior scientific evidence showing that psychic abilities were non-existent or ineffective they wouldn't have poured such massive amounts of money into that research. What they did have was evidence that other countries (and the USSR in particular) were already doing this kind of research, but much of that was kept secret.

> Huh? Wegener was a credentialed scientist; he wasn't "from the peanut gallery".

I acknowledged that it might be stretching your definition as a scientist exploring a topic outside of his area of expertise.
I'm so glad people are speaking their mind in relation to reddit admins
You're absolutely right. I was wrong here.

The real point I should've addressed is not this tangential one but that the fact of the omission doesn't reduce the value of Rhode's telling of story of the atomic bomb at all. This HN post's existence is due to the book covering Oppenheimer which is currently a hot topic but the book is so much more than that.
Whoa, what? That's a much bigger red flag than the downtime itself.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_12799.htm
While the end of your comment could be seen as 'whatabout-ism', you are right that in simply over cooking something or just adding to much salts/sugars to some foods would probably be a bigger issue.
lol, you're joking? The right-wing loves to call liberals "communists" as well as "socialists", as if it's the worst possible thing in the world.
> But I was asking about a chance from the status quo.

> If you owe the US government money right now they can take it out of your bank account.

Yes, but they can't see your transactions unless they go ask your bank. Now, they could do that, but they're not set up to do this for all transactions. FedNow changes that for all transactions within FedNow. The government wouldn't start taxing transactions until FedNow is the only game in town or all other payment systems also give them that kind of visibility.

As well, with FedNow they get real-time transaction visibility, which is very different from getting non-real-time batched transaction data from banks.

> Yes but your legal remedies might actually be better under FedWire. US fourth amendment law has a massive loophole whereby if a private business "voluntarily" assists the government it doesn't count as a search. So if the government searches your government bank account you'll have potentially better remedies than if they ask your private bank to pretty please send a printout. (and there's very little chance your current bank tells the feds to shove off and come back with a warrant in that kind of situation)

This is a very good point.
"any vendor that doesn't pass along credit card fees to the customer in some way"

I think every vendor passes along the fees, either in aggregate through pricing, or to the individual as a charge. At least in the latter case it is more transparant and fair to non cc users.
Sweden joins the chat
The worst thing about Fly is, when something goes wrong, it's not just one thing, there's bunch of things broken at the same time and their status page will show everything green.

Their typical response is either silence or so casual ("oh this is what happens we deploy on friday"). The product looks amazing but it's just a nice package around the most unreliable hosting service I've ever used.

You can't just keep breaking people's work every once a week, make them spend their weekend nights trying to bring back their stuff, and give these "we could have done better" answers. This is an excuse for exceptions, not patterns.
It already happened with autotools, bsd ports, cmakelist list lists and static-y linked apps like “snaps” and its analogs.

C is not special in this regard. Special part is an OS itself that takes the role of a single system-wide virtualenv or node_modules/.. with all common trouble packaged in.

Python and others didn’t create this trouble, they ejected it from your system into a single rm-able folder.
Weird, I just begrudgingly went from Postgres to Dynamo because it was so much cheaper. We're not huge scale though, so I'm wondering where the costs start to diverge the other way.
A lot of the magenta pixels are people thinking that ####|1 means "leave 1 digit" instead of "remove 1 digit"
Hetzner has 2 data centers in the US now. 1 in the east and 1 in the west.
My rough assumption is that this is by design. If you can't find the local talent you can justify H-1B[1] and L-1B[2][4] visas. For the L-1B I would imagine the TSMC North America[3] would suffice for the criteria of "enables a U.S. employer to transfer a professional employee with specialized knowledge relating to the organization’s interests from one of its affiliated foreign offices to one of its offices in the United States."[2]

While TSMC North America may need to follow US tax codes, employee unemployment insurance, I'm not sure how much negotiating power as a visa/sponsored employee you would have for high salary since your job is linked to your stay or related pay. I'm sure someone has figured out the best way for TSMC North America to bill the visa employees as contractors back to head quarters and avoid visa holder tax with holdings.

These two articles were interesting which indicate "TSMC profited from the tension between China and the U.S. by playing off both sides. Analysts say that TSMC building a plant in Arizona is “the minimal price to stay neutral.”[5][6]

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/h-1b-spec...

[2] https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

[3] https://www.tsmc.com/english/contact-us#TSMC-Subsidiaries

[4] https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-l-chapter-...

[5] https://international.thenewslens.com/article/135648 (2020-05-26)

[6] https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2719&utm... (2020-05-21)