skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assure you there are people that haven't decided how to pay for something before they reach the register. There's also a lot of people that will decide how to pay for something based on how much the purchase is at the register. Both of those examples are anecdotal, and come from working a register some decade and a half ago. Anecdotally, I bring cash with me when I go on vacation. I never really thought about it so much as guilt, but you could probably characterize it somewhat as that. It's at least done partially for budgetary reasons, but I'm sure subconsciously I really don't want to remember spending $80 at the Tiki bar.

As for the reproducibility it looks like, from the article, that they at least constructed several simular studies to test their theory:

1. "In one study, the authors analyzed more than 118,000 real-world purchases at the Stanford University Bookstore."

2. "Another study asked participants to imagine buying a 30-minute reiki session. Half read that the session was recommended by their doctor and would be at a hospital..."

3. "Another study explored shoppers’ preference for untraceable payment methods besides cash. Half the participants were informed they had a $20 bill and a debit card linked to their bank account; the other half were told they had a $20 bill and a prepaid debit card."

It's at least not a single, "3 grad students did this in an afternoon at the 7-11" study that tend to get picked up. I don't doubt that more research into the phenomenon might help get a better understanding of the underlying motivations for "cash/credit", but it does look like they are getting similar results from multiple experiments.
Happens far more than you think. It can be an innocent (sort of) mistake, where authors see the citation in a previous paper and simply copy it into their own.
Hi Robin, This looks like very cool project

Note thought Elastic Licence 2.0 is not Open Source License so if this is your license choice I'd avoid calling the code you have on gitHub OSS
Not all of these are research papers. But all are fairly recent.

Gene linked to long COVID found in analysis of thousands of patients
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02269-2

Surfactants safely take down mosquitoes without using insecticides
https://newatlas.com/science/surfactants-safely-take-down-mo...

This is what our Milky Way galaxy looks like when viewed with neutrinos
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/ghost-particles-have...
When you need documentation that has to last a _long_ time and be editable by multiple people. Technical diagrams that can be revised and change tracked an item at a time are priceless in those scenarios, whereas you will never know if draw.io will be around in a few years' time.
Is Matt Taibbi implied to be one of those happy people?

'Matt Taibbi, a journalist who worked on the “Twitter Files” series of articles about old business decisions at Twitter, has said he’ll no longer use the social media platform. Taibbi is apparently frustrated by Twitter’s recent decision to heavily restrict all links and tweets about Substack following that company’s announcement it would be launching Substack Notes, a short form social network and potential competitor to Twitter. Any Twitter user who even tries to retweet a post from Substack is met with a notification, “some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter,” a move that has angered many users, including Taibbi.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/04/07/twitter-fi...
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processors with Radeon Graphics

Does this mean Ryzen CPUs without integrated graphics are fine?
Relevant snippet:

This technique is CVE-2023-20593 and it works on all Zen 2 class processors, which includes at least the following products:

AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Processors
AMD Ryzen PRO 3000 Series Processors
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 Series Processors
AMD Ryzen 4000 Series Processors with Radeon Graphics
AMD Ryzen PRO 4000 Series Processors
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processors with Radeon Graphics
AMD Ryzen 7020 Series Processors with Radeon Graphics
AMD EPYC “Rome” Processors
> This is no different than the Jehova's witnesses changing their 'due date' whenever it doesn't work.

Or much different than the excuses science's fan base will trot out whenever it gets caught speaking untruthfully, like their Theory of "Everything" Motte and Bailey.

It seems humans have to worship something, and what they worship is usually what is pushed by the mainstream, and whatever it is will be defended aggressively.

Welcome to planet Earth, please enjoy your stay.
Saying what a Tesla can't do, or do well, doesn't really respond to the parent. There are people using Tesla to drive on city streets in traffic. It'd be fair to say it doesn't always work, and it isn't reliable, but are there other consumer cars that drive themselves through a town?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_(markup_language)
This is wild if true. Surely someone has to have a copy of this. How is it even being referenced if it is non existent?
This is such a bad faith argument whenever I see it, when an end-user is commenting on a project, at least that is funded and has a dedicated team working on it. Asking for something to be fixed, doesn't have to warrant such a reply.
I can see if it was some obscure project or some solo dev project, but it's run by Google for gods sake.
People don't like it, but even if you are a solo dev open sourcing your stuff a product that expects non tech people/even Js developers, expecting them to open a PR for your coded in some low level language instead of letting you know how much priority it might take is wrong IMHO.
Perhaps a caching or timing issue? I updated my profile shortly after posting this (and noticing it myself).
On the other hand, it can be generated automatically, so conversion is certainly possible.
I think tom7 and tomw are two different people.
Except here the key was weakened to satisfy export requirements, without telling users. So they advertise an 80bit key, but secretly and intentionally use something much weaker.

A back door
World Wide Web vs Cloudflare
Interestingly, I think you'll find that many folks disagree.

[https://therecord.media/senate-dea-bill-targets-end-to-end-e...]
The Shuttle also reused the SRBs which are the first stage. Only the fuel tank was single-use. The Falcon 9 is a (optionally!) reusable first stage but the second stage is discarded.
Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs
For the n-th time Oracle revised Java licensing terms, and like any previous iteration, the changes are for the worse.
Content Moderation / Trust and Safety person

Open AI’s como paper, A Holistic Approach to Undesired Content Detection in the Real World.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.03274.pdf

Lots of interesting facts are strewn around the paper.

——-

The first paper that squarely talked about the language resource gap in CS/ML. Before this came out, it was hard to explain just how stark the gap between English and other languages was.

Lost in Translation: Large Language Models in Non-English Content Analysis

https://cdt.org/insights/lost-in-translation-large-language-...

——

This paper gets in for the title:

“I run the world’s largest historical outreach project and it’s on a cesspool of a website.” Moderating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians

https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/25576/CSCW_Pa...

——

This was the first paper I ended up saving on online misinformation. The early attempts to find solutions.

The Spreading of Misinformation online,
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517441113

What I liked here was the illustration of how messages cascade differently based on the networks the message is traveling through.
There is no such dichotomy.
Can you point me to papers with reproducible benchmarking that achieves big speedups on those?

Modern GPUs are GP-GPUs: where GP means "general purpose": you can run any code on GPGPUs. But if you want to gain real speed-ups you will have to program in an
awkward style ("data parallel"). I am not aware of GPU acceleration of the work-horses of symbolic AI, such as Prolog, or SMT solving. There has been a lot of work on running SAT-solvers on GPUs, but I don't think this has really succeeded so far.
Or just pay as you go with your credit card as there really is no upside to opening a tab or paying in cash if you have a credit card. If the bar is so busy that you think you're saving time by paying in cash, you're wasting that time else where by going to the ATM and making sure you have the right collection of bills to pay in exact change. If you're getting change even once then you're making the server spend even longer on the return trip to you by having to get the exact bills and change needed for you, instead of tapping your card. You also don't get the credit card rewards, which for someone with a good mix of cards is easily thousands of dollars at the end of the year added up over all the transactions. Bars and restaurants are established high reward categories.

$20 to $50 in my wallet usually lasts me a month or more at this point. There are a few well established bars and restaurants that force the burden on the customer by not accepting cards, but they nearly always have an on-site ATM. Many of them that are not outright amazing and lived on by their reputation from their longevity have started taking cards. Nobody would even dream of opening a new place that was cash only.
> Throwing all of that away so Elon can use a domain he's sat on since '99 seems exceedingly foolish.

That would be foolish if that was the point, but that's just a strawman.
Somehow I expected something something Peano something something
> You can clearly tell that Musk has Asperger's just from hearing him speak or even reading some of his tweets

No, you can't. Not even a certified medical professional would claim to be able to "clearly" diagnose a patient based on their public persona.
Well, I guess still better than the TSB migration fiasco, discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16910947 back when it happened.

But finance IT is very frequently the dictionary definition of incompetency
Yeah if it was like "Twitter - an X.com app" then maybe, or maybe building out the brand of X and merging the two if X takes off. This switch seems a bit sudden and misguided. I was certain he was doing some weird Elon joke but he seems to have gone through with it.
Wow this is fascinating. Are any of these authors still alive?
> Microsoft's cheating had no influence on the fact that Netscape's engineering (and/or its management) messed up bad.

I completely disagree with this. The unfair competitive advantage that MS created was directly causal in Netscape acting out of desperation. Desperate companies do desperate things. Often really stupid desperate things.

If they had continued with the dominant market share and comfortable revenue stream, they would have made slow comfortable decisions. Instead they made rash, desperate decisions and imploded.

Microsoft had no valid justification to take that much market share that quickly (Netscape was much better for the first couple of versions). They could only do it because they could leverage their OS.

If it had been a fair playing field, the outcome might have been very different.
Having money is necessary but not sufficient to achieve the things he did. There are other millionaires and billionaires who tried to do what he did but couldn't. Regardless of your personal animus towards Elon, give the man credit where credit is due. Tesla and SpaceX are great contributions to the world and he was instrumental in implementing them, from capital to the business core ideas.
> People keep telling me that consciousness is just some illusion which happens inside brain neural network.

Ask those people what is experiencing the illusion, and whether we can program a computer to have conscious experience using the same illusion generation.

It's like answering the question of "what created the universe" by saying "a god did it." It just pushes the question back.

If something can experience an illusion - i.e. to use the philosophical language, "there is something it is like" to have that illusion - then it has consciousness, and the illusion has nothing to do with it.
Ah - I misread your comment. I was thinking “posts” instead of “comments”.

It seems you’re correct and that HN has generally been more positive than my recollection. I’ve been focused on the titles of posts that appeared, but of course those can be very different from the comments as you pointed out.
Null means unknown. I think the main issue is that people use it to mean “not applicable to this row”, which is different than null’s initial purpose. I think the problems with null could be solved by adding in another None value to distinguish between these two situations.
Wow, this website is very pretty. It's similar to what I envisioned when I built this project, but I wanted to make a heatmap (of all possible times) rather than just an isochrone. The little "islands" of fast transit access is also what I wanted to show with my project too! It's cool to discover the little spots near train stations that are cheaper but offer an equivalent commute to the city center.

There's also https://www.chronotrains.com which was another inspiration when building this project too.
Astrology has nothing to do with metaphysics.
The Space Shuttle is only partially reusable, cost a $billion per launch, has long been retired, and has a poor safety record, having lost its crew twice. It was cool, but didn't really fulfill its promise.
No, it's all Zen 2 CPUs, which include both desktop CPUs (with or without integrated graphics, laptop CPUs, and server CPUs. The reason why the product list is so confusing is that AMD reuses architectures across generations. You'd think that all ryzen 5000 series CPUs have the same microarchitecture, but they don't). It's much easier to consult this list instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_2#Products
Musk and other media attention black holes distract us from more pressing issues, specially these past weeks as we have seen all sort of weather records being broken.
I think you're massively underestimating how difficult it is to allocate capital and execute business plans.

When a normal person gets a lot of money (like by winning the lottery) they do not become like Elon or Bezos. A third of lottery winners will declare bankruptcy within five years. The smartest ones will put their money in an index fund and enjoy a nice retirement.

For people with actual ideas, there are lots of ways to get funding- venture capital, government money etc. Having your own money to spend is nice but that's not the overwhelming advantage everyone seems to think it is.

On the other hand, doing the "actual work" as a scientist/engineer is not particularly difficult. Each individual engineer is responsible for a very small and well-defined problem that can be solved using skills that are taught at thousands of universities around the world. If any of them were to quit, they could be easily replaced with someone who's just as good.
Undecided. Society is not doing a good job of teasing talent out of people. The only exceptional thing is that some talent is exposed at all...despite our best efforts to stifle it.
So Elon can copy write this?
It's just pining for the fjords
Higher cash prices are a violation of the card-holder agreement.
Fortunately, water usage is correlated with sun intensity.
Novelty is overrated. Finding proof and pushing for accountability is so much more important.
I wonder how alike that is to how people felt when their local bowling alleys, pool halls, etc became less populated and closed down.
I recently read "Enabling tabular deep learning when d ≫ n with an auxiliary knowledge graph" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.04766.pdf) for one of my graduate classes. Essentially, when there are significantly more data points than features (n >> d), machine learning usually works fine (assuming data quality, an underlying relationship, etc.). But, for sparse datasets where there are fewer data points than features (d >> n), most machine learning methods fail. There's just not enough data to learn all the relationships. This paper builds a knowledge graph based on relationships and other pre-existing knowledge of data features to improve model performance in this case. It's really interesting - I hadn't realized there were ways to get better performance in this case.
Then it would be the "grand designer" hypothesis, wouldn't it?

I notice that the big unspoken resistance to metaphysics these days is the fear that it is somehow a trick to smuggle God back into our understanding of reality. This fear can become excessive, and carry the unsavory and perhaps ironic side-effect of turning physicalism into a God that cannot be questioned.
Why Threads will never be the new Twitter
It’s not a stretch at all. That’s the definition of reusable. It might not be economical but that’s a whole other metric. Dismissing a first-of-its-kind state-of-the-art vehicle from the 1970s for not meeting the standards of 50 years in the future isn’t going to lead you to any insightful conclusions.
Solution is mandatory treatment when someone demonstrates they can’t take care of themselves AND as a result their behavior is causing problems for others.

Not the folks struggling to get housing (just build more and give it away for operating/maintenance cost, don’t recoup capital investment ). Just the few 10-20% of the highly visible ones with mental health problems (and the like 3% that are just asses- every large enough group of people has got ‘em!).
There's a good reason why they started with sports cars and luxury sedans. And showing how ridiculously fast it could accelerate was a big part of Musk's marketing.
I think this is your blog, so I'm going to post it here because it is so great to look at!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/where-is-the-original-overv...
I've never really dug into arcade hardware before but this is the third time in a week I've seen either a bare chip of a full cartridge assembly and I am curious now: was it possible to swap this boards between machines and they would just work, assuming they had the right controls? Was each publisher using their own connector or was there an industry standard?
What replaces JCL?
Emotions: A Code Book
Tetra radio tech used in vital infrastructure worldwide vulnerable
Experienced this problem too in Toronto, when Google Maps wouldn't give transit + bike directions (which are often much faster than transit + walk). As you know the city more though these things become intuitive and Google Maps becomes less useful.

I started using Transit App more often for the mixed-modes routing. It even supports bike shares/scooters, so sometimes it suggests new routes based on scooter -> subway -> scooter which is much faster than bus -> subway -> bus.
> The Tesla Truck existed mainly to rebuild hype around the Tesla brand at the time, and it's probably never going to go into production. Both were "built to fail".

Regardless of whether "truck" here refers to the Cybertruck (https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck, for which you can place an order) or the Semi (https://www.tesla.com/semi), are you really suggesting it is just fake and there's nobody working on these vehicles?

I will throw in the new Roadster (https://www.tesla.com/roadster) for good measure too.
Some of my favorite restaurants give a 3% cash discount
> I was certain he was doing some weird Elon joke but he seems to have gone through with it.

I think that describes nearly all of his public behavior over the last few years.
Pages on FB are dying because Meta been milking it's content creators for decade. Your content of Facebook is only have reach if you pay for it.
It looks like he wants to turn twitter in to twitter with kijiji. Not really sure what part of this is a social network. He wants a marketplace that he can get some money back.
Here's another interesting piece by Vice about the Salton Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDniDNY03JE
Why are you angry at this specific individual, and not the system which enables him? I don't think you can celebrate private ownership and hierarchy of command on one hand and despise when it goes wrong without blaming the unnecessary concepts of private ownership and hierarchy of command.

If we only get angry at this one guy, we usher in the next set of his replacements

I’m sorry but that seems like a very fragile system to me - waiting and hoping the next commanders will have a sounder mind and heart, or expecting their wisdom to be beyond our comprehension
In the mathematical universe consciousness is equivalent to a proper class (the sets that feel like something from the inside) and the intersection of that class with the possible states of our physical universe yields the possible consciousnesses in our universe.

How are some sets conscious? Probably some encoded self-reference or other self-similarity. E.g. there are infinitely many integers that under Gödel numbering refer to logical statements about the same integer. If anything, that should feel like some sense of self with reference to the choice of numbering and logic. Human consciousness is possibly many layers of parallel self-references that yield additional and comparative qualia. There are almost certainly other mechanisms of achieving consciousness as well.
nothing went wrong. the BBC is for the most part absolutely fine, this is just a narrative that's being heavily pushed by the BBC's competitors
> Communication is through Kafka events or Java Messaging Services, and new server instances can be spun up in seconds in AWS or Azure clouds to provide additional capacity, which is needed for high-volume processing.

I'm honestly surprised that a bank would agree to run anything even remotely serious on someone else's infrastructure.
Confusing the subjective for the objective is a widely studied phenomenon. It's called reification and people generally deny doing it. There's a strong ego defense mechanism that raises when it's pointed out that shuts down conversation.
MermaidJS is fantastic. I love that github has integrated it, but I wish they would update so that the markdown-in-mermaid support worked. If you agree, say so on the issue I posted: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/61266
> the partition key is the primary key(s) to ensure no out of order writes.

Can you get out of order writes if the pk for a row changes?
> Are there intentions to go smaller than this?

(my personal perspective as an Oxide employee)

Not in the near future, when a lot of the design relies on the benefits of scale, scaling down kind of removes some of the benefits. But also just like, things are still early, there's not a lot of choice period.

That said, we do have a lot of fans who want to buy something, and it would be cool to figure out how to do that. But also, we gotta like, make and ship the primary product. So we'll see.
To be fair, flashing the bios isn't nearly as bad on most modern systems.

Put the file on a USB drive, plug it in, restart and go into the bios, look for the flashing utility, select the file, done. As long as the machine is on a UPS in case of disaster, everything's accounted for.
Extremely tangentially related, but I found this youtube channel recently that is all about police and military radio and it's honestly fascinating stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/@RingwayManchester/videos

I found it because I was doing some research on number stations[1] and got sucked down the rabbit hole.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjaLfOySsFc
Ok, but in that case what you wrote has no relevance to the questions asked in the comment you responded to: "What is consciousness? ... Why do we feel that we exist? Who does the feeling part?"

All you're talking about is its role, and making an unsupported assertion about it at that.