skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think cheques are obsolete in Japan, so much as never having been popular and established in the first place. A lot of things are just done in cash (even e.g. buying houses!) and that's not seen as unacceptably risky the way it is in many countries; COD is an established practice that again just doesn't exist (and wouldn't remotely be considered safe) elsewhere. Furikomi is slow and expensive and cheques would actually be an upgrade in many ways.
The team that wrote the original Google proposal (PIK) joined forces with the team that wrote FUIF and together they created JXL, so no, those particular Googlers are not petty about this.

They're a distinct team from the Chrome team though.
> Expiring money seems patently absurd so why a central bank would consider it seems so outlandish to me at least.

Some countries, like Costa Rica, do this with cash, but with a much longer timeframe. Every 10 years or so they launch new banknote designs, and the old ones are gradually removed from circulation, until can only be exchanged at the banks and eventually lose their value by becoming "demonetized".
I was so excited to try this because I have a book that I’ve not been able to locate (have tried my own searches, Reddit and online forums) but ChatGPT gave me a lot of hallucinations and listed out real books and incorrectly claimed that all those books had the plot bit that I’d remembered.
Shrinking VS Code with Name Mangling
> Of the 532 studies that fit their criteria, only four were considered robust by today’s standards – defined as having at least 45 participants, as well as a clearly pre-registered plan at the start of the experiment to prevent later bias.

Ah yes, we should be applying today’s standards to yesterday’s knowledge. Give me a break.
My Time
> It's a liquid with a boiling point of around 80 C, and I'd like to shake the hand of whoever determined that property, assuming he has one left.
Asteroid with $10 Quintillion Worth of Metals Edges Closer to US Reach
With apologies ahead of time because I suspect this post will end up as an incoherent rant about capitalism.

So activity pub is the common language of a federated system sort of like smtp is the common language of a federated system. or html is the common language of a federated system(html is strange however as it's transport model is inverted compared to the others, it moves the user to the message rather than the message to the user)

The reason federated systems work is the same reason capitalism works, and not incidentally the reason federated systems don't work is the reason capitalism does not work. my conclusion is that capitalism is a federated system of doing business.

I suspect the main reason federated systems work as well as they do is that there is individual ownership over the pieces, each person caring for their own piece. Some will win some will lose. It is not nearly as efficient as a centrally controlled system, but is far better at dynamically adapting to changes.

On the whole I think federated systems end up bringing the greatest good to the most people, but they can go very wrong, mainly this happens when one player gets too big and stops playing by the rules.

On the subject of reddit specifically. on one layer reddit is just a wep page, it provides the forum discussion pattern to people. The web is a federated system, there are many forum discussion patterns available on the web. when reddit fails to provide your forum needs you move somewhere else.

On another layer, reddits success was in no small part in that it provided a sort of ownership over each forum, and each owner was responsible for their own forums success, and when reddit starts infringing on this ownership it feels like something is being stolen from you.(At least I think this is what is going on, I have to admit I am only an incidental user of reddit and the whole situation confuses me) Where if the system were more federated from the start it would be more like actual ownership and less like feudalism.
v3 appears to be pre-release version? Surely that makes sense to not default to pre-release code for the docs?
Hm... so how do we know that the actual values in the produced json are correct???
Yeah but actually working while wet will make your clothes chafe the shit out of you.
I'm gonna love trying to figure out what query gets the support chatbot to pair me with an actual human so that I can solve something that's off script
>The reality is, you cannot "educate" people to do critical thinking.

Critical thinking seems to me like a immune response, if stimulated with study and pratice (outside world knowledge), and -sane- social interactions.. get strong, and there are the danger of an over-response too, too critic can lead to -no-critic-.
And -probably- people is not rational, but has rationality aside others thing. When rationality is not needed, it weaken, and BS are not eliminated and accumulate.
Any database easily handles terabytes, idk why that's a condition.

DuckDB and SQLite easily handle terabytes of data. They're just not so much for cloud based apps, or things that need multiusers and access control junk. They're the best choice for just about everything else though.
I'm sort of reminded of some of those alcoholics anonymous folks who apologize to the people who they have wronged, and are dumbfounded to find they are met with anger, or even being arrested.
> At that point, who knows what comes next,

Zen 5c, although the ~25% increase in per Core improvement doesn't seems that interesting in these kind of workload. Until AMD could fit 256 Core in a Single Socket. Definitely achievable with 2nm, although we are looking at 2026+.
This is BS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZksQBlURBQ
Your website doesn't inspire confidence for me (I'll be the first to admit that I'm a design snob).

One of the major perks of Stripe is its documentation. If you want to position yourself as an alternative, you're gonna need comprehensive docs.

Good luck, payments systems doesn't seem easy at ALL! Kudos for tackling this and giving folks an alternative to Stripe.
Saying they suffer is a bit much. At best they get to collect their fee if there never ends up being a chargeback. If there is a chargeback they don't have to pay the chargeback fee. Sounds like it is an overall win for them to let these slide through.
This is one of those times where anecdotes don’t really do the argument justice. I’d recommend talking to people who actually do research. They can’t rely on Reddit alone.
>cannon ball would remain suspended in mid-air due to the lack of gravity

Surface gravity 1.622 m/s2 (0.1654 g; 5.318 ft/s2)
Have you looked at other systems across the world for inspiration / design choices, and if so, could you elaborate on how this system compares? For example, the use case mentioned is probably the prime use case for UPI in India, which has now been extended to become a full fledged payment network alongside CC networks etc.
SMT Proves Worthwhile Option for 128-Core AMD EPYC “Bergamo” CPUs
oh thanks, I don't know this one!
Makes sense. It's not the software license's job to make you a law-abiding citizen. That's the law's job.

Is there more context to this, though? Are there software licenses out there with "just obey the law" in them?
For the lazy: pick a pixel in the sky to skip to section D (less calculations)…
Pentagon unveils $1.3B for Ukraine, bringing total new US aid this week to $2.3B
For those in the know, will this break the stranglehold Visa and Mastercard have over the entire payments industry and help prevent people from being un-personed on a whim?
Which specific parts of their prosecutions/investigations of right wing figures in the last few years has been “overzealous”, in your opinion?

An interesting word choice anyways - suggesting that the FBI is prosecuting actual crimes too much.
Enterprise multi-cluster at scale: supporting flat networks in Linkerd
Is not just any message, it's a special message (by that vocabulary) that can set the tone for the next messages from the assistant, for example. Generally, pre GPT-4 (so GPT-3.5 for example), the system prompt wasn't as strong as it is with GPT-4. The model pays closer attention to whatever you put in the system prompt compared to other user messages.

For example, you can use the system message to force the assistant to always return JSON messages, instead of just plain text. Then whatever the user puts, it'll always output JSON message, even if they ask for YAML. You might have to tune the system prompt to be resilient to user requests, but GPT-4 is a lot better at this than GPT-3.

> The system message helps set the behavior of the assistant. For example, you can modify the personality of the assistant or provide specific instructions about how it should behave throughout the conversation. However note that the system message is optional and the model’s behavior without a system message is likely to be similar to using a generic message such as "You are a helpful assistant."

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt/chat-completions...
I wonder how much the smallest, cheapest configuration will cost. I would really love to buy one of these. But I suspect it will cost 100x more than I can afford heh.
Zep: A fast, async memory store for LLM applications
Sounds pretty lit, Edit:Dang you guys really hated that
Personally I think that legalizing online gambling will prove to be a huge mistake. 30-40 years ago the national strategy was basically to confine it to Vegas and Atlantic City, and most people live far enough from those places that the inconvenience keeps the vulnerable from developing a full blown addiction. Putting this in every smartphone is going to lead to many destroyed lives.

The one good thing that the gambling industry has is the ability to add yourself to a self exclusion list.

Gambling and alcohol are different though from Fentanyl in that the large majority of people who gamble or drink alcohol don't become addicted. Fentanyl though is just such a strong stimulus that it exerts a nearly irresistible pull for too many people.
> yet if I understand correctly, it often has one version per package per Nix version?

Both yeah and no. Taking the example of nodejs, you have all the supported major releases like nodejs_16, nodejs_18, etc. for each Nix revision[1], but within each revision you only have a specific version of the package. E.g. nodejs_16 is 16.3.1 for revision at date X. There are benefits and drawbacks of managing a package repo like that, with revisions which implicitely pin all packages and it's dependencies at once, but it's too long of a topic to write about here.

> For example the curl package [1] has tons of versions [...]

So does it in nix (curlMinimal, curlWithGnuTls, curlHTTP3, etc)[2]. In that regard nix and Spack are similar.

[1]: A revision is like a shapshot of all the packages at a given point in time.

[2]: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&from=0&size=...
Cartoon physics are inherently superior to reality
This looks quite similar to how were using OpenAI functions and zod (JSON Schema) to have OpenAI answer with JSON and interact with our custom functions to answer a prompt: https://wundergraph.com/blog/return_json_from_openai
Télépopmusik's "Breathe" encapsulates the Frutiger Aero aesthetic, for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdUpxch4F8M
Now I'm wondering: could a monkey hitting random keys on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time eventually come up with the right prompts to get GPT-4 to produce code that compiles to a faithful reproduction of Doom?
Breathing exercises have some efficacy in controlling asthma symptoms. (I am not suggesting that this is a substitute for unavailable medications.)

https://doi.org/10.1002%2F14651858.CD001277.pub4
Smells a bit nothingburger-y? If they have the recordings, there might be a bit more to it; for now it reads like hear-say and allegations (which of course the usual suspects will categorize as a clear and obvious smoking gun)
How do you handle disputes or chargebacks?
I like pages like this. Exactly the level of detail I need when I want to use python once in a while. Thanks.
Is Intel voluntarily disclosing in Ohio job listings? Nope.

Is Samsung voluntarily disclosing in Texas job listings? Nope.

A "worse look" argument simply has no basis in reality when this corporate behavior is effectively status quo across all relevant competitors in the industry.
Show HN: Create an image of a random location in the world (from an XYZ server)
Chooses a random location in the world and outputs an image, created from a tileserver (default ESRI world aerial imagery). Could be used like Geoguessr, I'm using it to set changing wallpapers of the Earth every hour!
Think about all the information (marital status, dependents, residence, childcare spending, healthcare spending, education spending, charitable contributions, …) you need to correctly calculate your taxes owed. Now imagine that the IRS is tasked with maintaining all of this information in a single database so they can send you your “statement”.

Folks argue that most of this information is available to some level of government already, but that’s a far cry from centralizing all of it in what by definition must be an easily accessible form.

Dramatically simplify the tax code and this approach becomes feasible without being a security and privacy nightmare.
And at the same time, we are likely going to use codec-specific extensions for all AOM video codecs (.av1, .av2) as well as for images (.webp2, not sure if .avif2 will ever exist but I guess so), even when the same container is used, as we did with .webm (which was a subset of .mkv)
This looks like a great project. Given the costs, I imagine many might want to run on dedicated hardware with GPU - yet:

> GPT4All: When you run locally, RAGstack will download and deploy Nomic AI's gpt4all model, which runs on consumer CPUs.

> Falcon-7b: On the cloud, RAGstack deploys Technology Innovation Institute's falcon-7b model onto a GPU-enabled GKE cluster.

> LLama 2: On the cloud, RAGstack can also deploy the 7B paramter version of Meta's Llama 2 model onto a GPU-enabled GKE cluster.

Why not llama2 on dedicated/local hardware? Memory and download size requirements?

Ed: After reading the linked tutorial - it looks like the built docker container will run fine on local/dedicated hardware?

https://www.psychic.dev/post/how-to-deploy-llama-2-to-google...
I am genuinely curious, how is this news? I can do real time bank transfers since... I dunno...

I never touched a check in my life and I get my employers payment mostly even before the end of the month?
People are sensitive when it comes to the sovereignty of their home countries even if they're not particularly fond of their governments. When I lived in China a lot of young, laissez-faire, liberal minded people who were critical of the increasingly repressive culture were nonetheless allergic to any kind of foreign encroachment.

The attitude is largely that, "our government may suck, but it is ours", and when foreign countries are perceived as strangling their development, you'll turn even the most raging regime critic into a reluctant supporter. And of course they don't view NATO or the rules based order or what have you as some benevolent thing, but tools of power.
U.S. Ambassador to China Hacked in China-Linked Spying Operation
Yes, if the guy writing that is in one of those countries with lockdowns. But if he's in say Switzerland, he's not exactly wrong. Listen I'm not going to defend intellectually dishonest people either but I'd invite him to clarify which country.
Those may be the worst people you ever met. I have met rather worse people.
We call them Wordsmiths.
That kinda doesn't matter. Those things account for a single-digit (at most) percent of all taxpayers. People with complicated tax situations will have to do more work to pay taxes. But well over 50% of US taxpayers could make use of a simpler, IRS-provided system wherein they just get sent a bill and can choose to pay or contest.
Nothing I said implies the user has to find it. With rolling deployments and blue/green strategies, bad changes don't even have the potential to go live.
It is also worth reading the Little Schemer at the same time. That will teach you to be truly comfortable in a recursive style.
When do you need another Kafka cluster?
The US military as a guaranteed purchaser, maybe. The US military as an organization, definitely not.
Precisely why I also create READMEs in top-level directories. I'm not going to remember how to structure queries for my API a year from now.

Future me will always appreciate how considerate present me was.
I think they’re referring to Lit naming components ‘html’ and ‘css’ - if you go to the tech docs here the very first example imports ‘html’ and ‘css’.

https://lit.dev/docs/components/overview/

I agree that those are odd choices and the arguments provided seem reasonable I.e. they’re likely ungoogleable, and beginners would be confused.
School students can barely type or use a full blown computer anymore so I don't think this is a good anecdote. The type of people you're referring to are more worried about their next TikTok swipe and live on mobile apps. They don't even get to the point they search for meaningful content.
Wait, but that is the feature. My issue with Shadow DOM is that "base" styles (like fonts and colors applied to tag selectors) don't come through, not that I can't override any given style from outside.

I'm not really sure what you mean by "own your own components"?
Ageism aside, you are describing a system where an unrelated third party who has experience validating state/federal identity documents validated yours, visually compared the person presenting the documents to the picture on the ID, then signed a log in his possession that he’d testify to in court if needed.

That feels like a pretty damn good system to me, and far beyond the system you handwave at. Where’s the complaint?
Stop and think about this for a bit.

Putting someone on the Moon takes a certain number of people, and it's a thing, and you can do it and be done with it. Less than a hundred thousand people, probably. A fixed budget.

Addressing climate change means suddenly stopping everyone from doing certain things. It's much broader in scope and involves forbiddance, long-term. It's a near-endless stream of don't: don't burn that coal, don't leave that light on, don't drive so much, don't use that plastic bag, don't have that many kids, and so on. This goes across billions of people and it won't ever end.

They're not even comparable.
$250 today buys you a Intel 13600, a 14 core chip.

$250 ten years ago bought you a Intel 4670K, a 4 core chip (with significantly slower cores, less cache, etc). A 14 core processor was available only as a server CPU and cost $3000.

I'm not sure that is evidence of price going up faster than density over the last 10 years.
Has there been a case where a school board activated such a device to spy on the parents? That would be absolutely mental.
except that guidance is defunct and is not maintained anymore.
I'm inspired by alternate modes of data storage and compute, and blockchain gets points for popularizing public key pairs as a means of committing transactions, but I totally understand the hate: whenever a tool is invented, it makes certain things easier than they used to be, sometimes unintentionally. Merkle trees make verifying data integrity fast, and proof of work was invented to make sending spam emails slow. The two combined with a money-metaphor makes spinning up pyramid schemes zero marginal cost. Whether or not you're on board with Mr Nakamoto's banking critiques, the result of the technology has been a tidal wave of thin schemes defrauding hopeful and desperate people, while adding little value outside of that world.
>In practical terms, Ukraine would probably emerge very quickly as the leader of a hard-line group of anti-Russian nations, calling always for a more confrontational policy and more hawkish positions and statements about Russia.

It seems rather in the natural order of things that an invaded country would be antipathetic to their invaders, yes, and might hold those objections post-war. Perhaps that might explain similar sentiments from the long-memory Finns.

I do hope and believe, perhaps without merit, that should European political gravity and intellectual influence shift eastward, that the European story may benefit in surprising ways. The author seems to disagree.
OK, let's document that in the title above. Thanks!
https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/LLM-OpenAPI-minifier

I have a working solution to exposing the toggles.

I’m integrating it into the bot I have in the other repo.

Goal is you point to an openapi spec and then GPT can run choose and run functions. Basically Siri but with access to any API.
Checks never took off in Japan because their 1947 Labor Standards Act (Art. 24) actually made it illegal to pay wages by check [1]. So it's not that checks were made obsolete, it's that they were smothered in their crib. Until the advent of electronic payment, it's said that tens of millions still got paid in cash rather than bank transfer in the early 90s [2].

I think it's easy to forget that societies that adopt a technology early might be doing so because the slightly outdated alternative from elsewhere was never brought over. Japan has no shortage of those, like a lot of dining is still cash only. Who knows, perhaps in 10 years those restaurants will skip credit cards and contactless and go straight to face-based automatic payment.

[1] PDF warning https://www.ilo.org/dyn/travail/docs/2018/Labor%20Standards%...
[2] 1991 article https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1991/10/24/japanese-prefer-cold...
Surely just adding "lit" to your query helps narrow down the search.
And remember, the next maintainer could very well be you.
Run out of people... for what? For buying Tesla model 3s? For logging the Amazon?
Implement location-based access control without a CDN
"I thought we were free to choose our filename extensions to our liking?"

"Well, three characters is the bare minimum. If you feel that three characters is enough, then okay. But some people choose to have longer filename extensions, and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don't you?"
I write shitty code only I understand for job security. This is probably why I’m a sysadmin lol.
There's a lot of wisdom here. Stupid but hard goals are still hard goals. Necessity -- not taxpayer largess -- is the mother of all invention.

The corresponding risk is in the resulting cargo cult around arbitrary constraints whose reasons were forgotten. I bet if we committed to building the Panama canal with only spoons we'd have ended up with a lot of amazingly useful spoon-platform earth moving technology, and the commercial sector would've ended up with highly optimized spoon-based machines, and it'd all be very stupid compared to what we got instead.
Eating a generally healthy diet isn't enough. Research has shown that type-2 diabetes can be reversed in many patients by following a specific protocol focused on nutritional ketosis. Have the diabetics you know tried following the approach documented here under medical supervision?

https://www.virtahealth.com/research
The main difference is that Spack has a single definition of a package, and in Spack language `curlMinimal`, `curlWithGnuTls`, and `curlHTTP3` are all "concretizations" of curl. That has the advantage that dependents can say `depends_on("curl")` if they don't care about the flavor -- only if they somehow require curl with GNU tls, they say `depends_on("curl tls=gnutls")`.
Trying to run this locally and once I get past a few gotchas (local.env, needing to be renamed to .env) and needing to `pip3 install poetry`. I start getting back responses like

"D<D,8H8,H<,,DH8DHH,,<<,DH<,<DHD<<,<<D,D,HD88<<H8<<D8D88,,8D,DH<,8,D<D,D,D8,D8<D8H,DHH8,D8H<,8D,,H8DHD88DD8H8<,8,HD<8D<,8D,<<888D<H,8<HD<HHD<8<<D8DD<DD<HHHH,,DDD<<DHDH,88HDH8,8DHD<<,D8,<8<H8<8H<,,<,,,D,88,<,<<8D,8<8,,H8,,D888D8<HD8<D,D8,<8<<H8D,,D<D,8<DD,<8"

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong :)