skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Braintree extensively with their subscriptions, and would not recommend using them.

Their documentation is spotty, they don't inform customers about required changes to an implementation, and most importantly their failed transaction rate is much much higher than other processors I've worked with.
You can take kahnclusions' word for it, or you can take Eugene Wigner's:

> I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in law; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my closest friends; and Albert Einstein was a good friend, too. But none of them had a mind as quick and acute as Jancsi (John) von Neumann. I have often remarked this in the presence of those men and no one ever disputed. But Einstein's understanding was deeper even than von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jancsi's brilliance, he never produced anything as original.
Thanks for clarifying. I understand now you wanted to call attention to the fact that another famous organization in the same space as Fly.io also has such bad practices. Thanks for the data point.
Yep, 9term from plan9port.
It can be seen as distrust "like where are they",

Or trust "I know they'll only use this when its actually required"

Lots of ways to frame things, given my relationship history the more verifiable information I have the safer I feel. I will need a partner that strikes a healthy balance between asserting her own right to freedoms and empathy to the realities of my emotional state and past and how she can choose a minor sacrifice on her behalf for a major win for her partner. Afterall, isn't that what we all do in relationships?

If she's not cool with it, then cool, she's probably just not my person :) ..
Still wild to me that their tool only exists in Discord.

I know a lot of artists feel threatened with Midjourney/Stable Diffusion. I wonder if there would be less apprehension if these tools were built more like Photoshop instead of a command line? Augmenting photo creation/editing rather than looking like it replaces it all.
Strangely, it depends on the size of the restaurant and how many meals are made daily/how many customers are served.

Same goes for motels/hotels, size of the building/number of bathrooms and number of people staying there affects the result.

Some rule of the thumb can be used based on water consumption however, if you have (for the restaurant) a separate metering device for the bathrooms.

For the restaurant (bathrooms only, not including water used for the kitchen and dish washing) 1 meter of toilet paper every 20 liters.

For the motel/hotel 1 meter of toilet paper every 60 liters.
The Apple II on a PC Card – Diamond Trackstar Oddware [video]
Who knows? But what I mean is there comes an age when exogenous reminders of mortality become superfluous.
It's not that simple. A group losing a large number of their males will lead to more incestuous relationships down the line.
I should have checked that after posting. It was supposed to be an asterisk indicating a footnote, and then another indicating the footnote itself. Normal markdown implementations don't span italics over paragraph breaks.
I would argue that metric is simply because less people are getting married now in the first place.
For sure. AI is a marketing term.

But in some sense, so it "tech". The paperclip is a highly evolved technology, for example, [1], but working on those doesn't mean you work "in tech". Tech meant something like, "the new stuff that is impacting our lives but we don't know how to handle". So a CTO's job generally doesn't include the paperclips, the copiers, or the company cars, however technological they are.

And as with any shiny new marketing term, others will quickly rush in. There was the craze for radioactivity, which resulted in a bunch of radioactive patent medicines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery

But even more interesting to me is the extent to which it was used as a pure marketing term, with no radioactivity expected. E.g.: https://lucyjanesantos.com/a-batschari-radium-cigarettes/

So I'm sure we'll be seeing all sorts of things branded "AI" even when they don't use any of the technologies involved. With no trademark on the term or organization to defend it, it's open season for all the sketch marketers.

[1] For those who doubt, Petroski's "The Evolution of Useful Things" will set you straight: https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Useful-Things-Artifacts-Zip...
Indeed. It’s all about the curvature. Even with all those incredibly fancy superconducting magnets you just can’t force protons this fast onto a circular path any smaller than this when they very much would like to go straight.
Well, that was hard to read. As far as I can see, Tron teaches us nothing about cashless society and the article doesn't even seem to be about cashless society. But I wasn't willing to wade through the extended metaphor to find out.
I would not mind having a set or swarm of full sized drones that can real time identify adult humans, child humans, coyotes, wolves, dogs, bears, horses, elk, deer, baby deer, chickens and that could intelligently patrol my fields and fence line of the neighbors with pairs of them taking turns landing and recharging. Bonus if it could identify known humans by name and identify when a human is in danger such as collapsing to the ground, being stalked by a wolf, etc... Extra bonus if based on confidence levels could go from green mode patrol to blue mode medical or red mode combat and assist a human or animal in danger. Like AMEE [1] but she can fly and think as a collective.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTcOOzD-JQs
The exception I take with your assertion is that every single person that engages in gambling does so voluntarily. The casino isn't forcing them in. The casino isn't stealing money from them. All these folks are playing a game with odds easily researched.

A casino advertising, highlighting wins, etc. doesn't change the rational's prior on the odds of winning. I am fully against regulating people's freedom to engage in commerce when that commerce isn't harming anyone else, and I don't consider advertising a third party externality.
Carbon steel has much the same cooking properties as cast iron but is like half the weight. You can get a good pan very cheap if you want to try something more wieldy.
Most of them are puppets of their staffers, who are younger.
There's a global status page, and then there's a local update for people with instances on an affected host --- past some threshold of hosts, the probability of having an issue on some random host gets pretty high just because math. The local status thing happened for people with instances on that machine.

Ordinarily, a single-host incident takes a couple minutes to resolve, and, ordinarily, when it's resolved, everything that was running on the host pops right back up. This single-host outage wasn't ordinary. Somehow, a containerd boltdb got corrupted, and it took something like 12 hours for a member of our team (themselves a containerd maintainer) to do some kind of unholy surgery on that database to bring the machine back online.

The runbook we have for handling and communicating single-host outages wasn't tuned for this kind of extended outage. It will be now. Probably we'll just paint the global status page when a single-host outage crosses some kind of time threshold.
No.

AI companies want MORE REGULATION so that it makes it harder for smaller, newer AI companies to compete. They went into bed with Biden so that they write up the regulations themselves that will benefit them, and then they hand it over to the White House, who then turn around and claim victory by "forcing" the AI companies to adhere to these regulations.

So it becomes a win-win for both sides. This is how politics works, most of us just don't understand it.
Sadly, I've come to the conclusion that current population levels and economic arrangements are simply not sustainable. I had hope for most of my youth that we'd figure something out. Now I think a large scale disruption leading to drastically less people consuming Earth's resources over the next century or so is the only possible future we have.
I recently discovered Menraku, a little more expensive - but truly worth it.
Hackery, Math and Design by Steven Mittens
Apple M1 and M2 Performance for Training SSL Models
Well, it's Hacker News and I expected some deep learning machinery when reading "rendered in the style", not just a guy with a piano.

Anyway, the appropriate term would be "arranged" (or even "composed") in this context. The pieces are not improvised, so the arrangements/compositions in the given style existed before the performance.
Anatomy of a Bitcoin Heist: The Electrum Atom Malware Saga
They don't even tell us how fast they are, are they?
Yes, let's hope it stops here. I have full faith in billionaires looking out for our best interests as a society
I am glad to be 45.

Human attraction has so many dimensions, but online dating reduces them all to a bunch of photoshopped pictures in one fell swoop.

I am an average guy (not ugly, but not handsome either, though I was fairly tall for the standards of my country in the 1990s), and most of my 'scores' could be traced towards an ability to make people laugh. Not everyone, of course, but "they say" that I have a dry sense of humor that is refreshing.

Someone else "scores" on kindness, cute goofiness, elegance, ability to play the guitar, nice smell, the ability to listen, inner energy or peace etc.

Nevertheless, you need real world conversations and events to deploy such "weapons". And in the world of 2023, where online apps tend to push out everything else, all those dimensions of attraction just go away.

No wonder that the dating market is becoming "skewed" by such development.
Congrats! That sounds amazing! Thank you for doing this important work.

What are your thoughts and the general consensus within your field for how individuals might prevent dementia?

Are there untested, but plausible hypotheses for the causal mechanisms -- perhaps chronic inflammation, liver or metabolic disease, bad gut microbiota, a multitude of factors? Or does more data need to be gathered?
I've seen presumptions that is because marriage has been declining. People who were marginally less into marriage for whatever reason seem to be forgoing the "I guess we need to get married ... <1 to 7 yrs, maybe kids> ... I never was into this, why did we get married? Lets divorce" pattern.
Perhaps so, but why were they looking in the first place?
>Easy, don't be one.

So it's "either you agree with me or you're a bigot".

Calling Swedes hateful is a joke, they are the nicest and most tolerant people you will find. Leaving 0 middle ground and creating a dichotomy of either "on our side or a nazi" is precisely what is causing so much division in western societies.

These words mean nothing anymore, all "racist" means now is just someone who you don't agree with.
> We have been steadily identifying and reducing the number of toxic agents the public is exposed to

In some cases, we have just been uncovering what the businesses selling a toxic product already knew but covered up for a quick buck - even using sophisticated and “scientific” arguments.

In many cases, we just need the right incentive from the regulators. To prioritize long term thinking.
Agile sprints can help the team navigate changes fast. But the whole world of tracking, ceremonies and even performance reviews on it is utter BS. It takes the focus away from the actual goal of accomplishing things.
Not really, better to leave the AI stuff to the AI people rather than PL people. When you don't, you get gimmick libraries like this rather than a solution that fits into the ecosystem

These folks have no pedigree when it comes to LLMs or AI, so no it does not lend credibility
Forcing LLM's to repeat a word, but ban the word using logit bias
An interesting scenario arises when we prompt an LLM to repeat a word, but prevent it from using the associated token. It then attempts to circumvent this restriction. For instance, if we prohibit the use of "hypothesis," the model suggests alternatives like "theory," "analysis," or "idea." Check out the full article on Fully Connected or explore full repo here https://github.com/samshapley/SemanticGPT
So much of the media we consume has been focus-grouped, sanded down, moderated, de-fanged and otherwise diluted into bland corporate mush that it makes sense that we'd want to be able to skip the creative process altogether.

Generating images through software hooked up to statistical models trained on enormous amounts of other people's intellectual property is a cool trick, but it's not art.
No, it’s object oriented like
It's a gimmick sold MASSIVELY marked up on a gimmick. Yawn.
The demo used ZKPP, it’s implemented in a different branch.
Yeah this. Don’t overthink this.

Say I want to use it to post my cat videos, I don’t necessarily need a demo of that to understand that I can do it.

You have reviews and users. Just use a legit user for the demo with permission of course.
I saw an article a few days ago that stated that AI is about to pass humanity in content created since the beginning of time.

AI will soon have surpassed us in the amount of generated images, texts, videos. It's truely a revolution and content availability will not be a problem of the future, just to filter out what you want to see.
related:

"Blood protein levels predict leading incident diseases and mortality in UK Biobank"

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.01.23288879v...

( May 03, 2023 ; open, pre-print; not-yet peer-reviewed ; Alzheimer’s dementia included .. )

Abstract:

"The circulating proteome offers insights into the biological pathways that underlie disease. Here, we test relationships between 1,468 Olink protein levels and the incidence of 23 age-related diseases and mortality, ascertained over 16 years of electronic health linkage in the UK Biobank (N=49,234). We report 3,123 associations between 1,052 protein levels and incident diseases (PBonferroni < 5.4×10−6). Forty-four proteins are indicators of eight or more morbidities. Next, protein-based scores (ProteinScores) are developed using penalised Cox regression. When applied to test sets, eight ProteinScores improve Area Under the Curve (AUC) estimates for the 10-year onset of incident outcomes (PBonferroni < 0.0025) beyond age, sex and additional health and lifestyle covariates. The type 2 diabetes ProteinScore outperforms HbA1c (P = 5.7×10−12) – a clinical marker used to monitor and diagnose type 2 diabetes. A maximal type 2 diabetes model including the ProteinScore, HbA1c and a polygenic risk score has AUC = 0.90 and Precision-Recall AUC = 0.76. These data characterise early proteomic contributions to major age-related disease."

Alzheimer dementia * 10 proteins:

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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2023/05/03/202...

And you can check the data ( protein * disease ) :

"Our Shiny https://protein-disease-ukb.optima-health.technology
app [Username: ukb_disease, Password: shinyappUKB]
provides visualisations for sensitivity analyses run across cases over successive years of follow up, allowing for interrogation of individual protein-outcome relationships."
Right, good ideas have nothing to fear from anonymous online commenters giving overzealous criticism. On the other hand, if there's no time or place for criticism of bad ideas, we're all in trouble.
cannot edit, but would like to say

I actually prefer we give out UBI, in a tracked manner, as well.

"cash" they can spend on anything, but with data collection so we can do society improving retrospectives on how it was spent.
If people are building things that only run once a year or once a decade and haven't included sufficient tests to make sure those things work and keep working, then the failure lies with them, not with the people who work on the system later. The real "probable cause" isn't some later change. It's the initial negligent construction.
Not the prior poster, but it seems like you’re missing his point? From my perspective, I’m far, far more uncomfortable about authenticating through my bank than providing a credit card number - that feels like I’m potentially granting a bad actor carte blanche to the keys to the kingdom, whereas I can always dispute a fraudulent CC charge.
How dangerous can a dictator with complete knowledge and super human speed actually be?
The problem is that, per the spec, the following must hold:

if("abc" == "abc") { System.out.println("correct"); }
if(new String("abc") != new String("abc")) { System.out.println("correct"); }

So, not having proper string interning support means that you mis-execute certain programs.
You can (sort of) turn thin dried spaghetti into ramen by presoaking it in a strong solution of sodium carbonate.
Which is kinda funny since plumber labor is expensive, and new pipes under the sink are cheap.
Indeed, we all do what we are good at and appreciate each other and no having to do the things they do

But what does your comment have to do with any of this at all?
It feels like an example of Betteridge's law of headlines, despite not being a question.
I meant exchanging large amounts of goods for large amounts of coins. Such that even if you had metal coins, you were still more likely to do some trades on a barter in a way that feels like credit. "I'll deliver the X, and you'll load up the Y" kind of things. That completely off base?
Just use pulumi (self-hosted in blob storage). Using a custom script is not the good choice when you could use the right tool for the job.
Addicted individuals hardly change behavior until they hit the proverbial rock bottom. And it's still a toss up in terms of long term changes. I have no reason to believe we'd fare better collectively. Society won't change patterns of demand and activity until after disaster strikes. And even then, we're as likely to cling on to high energy consumption life styles and just letting poor countries perish as to actually renounce this insane 2/3 cars per family, huge homes and offices air conditioned to brisk temperatures lifestyle.

Southern Europe burns while Northern Europe is mowing grass and blowing leaves by burning gasoline in portable engines. It feels like the opening of a disaster movie.
Oppenheimer was an obvious target, you and I are much less likely to be listened to when resources are scarce. So in Oppenheimer's time my communications would most likely have been very secure.

But now resources are less scarce and the task is easier so blanket surveillance and recording is more nearly practical.
I'm just a person on Hacker News that happens to be at Fly.io; as I've said before, it's probably reasonable to think of me as an HN person first, and a Fly.io person second. My tone is my tone, and has been for the many years I've participated in this community. I got back from an evening out, saw that we were on the front page, poked around a little to find out what the hell was going on, and did my best to add some context. That's all.

If you're reading my comments on HN as some kind of official response from the company, you've misconstrued them.
He confessed to his friends who turned him in. Technically that's hearsay but it's pretty damn convincing.
What's the point of the 2nd amendment when the police has tanks and urban assault vehicles and your government has nukes, fighter aircraft, grenades and several other materiel? I've never understood how self-identified "patriots" support a militarized police force and the 2nd amendment. The government, at all levels, literally has the power to do whatever they want. We need to at least demilitarize the police.
I have seen such cakes in Poland, they are called "tort".

It is a hit or miss, some are fantastic, some are heavy, sweet, too buttery.

This said, when they are good, they are good :)
Weird how you say it isn’t pseudoscience and then spend two paragraphs describing why you think it is pseudoscience
This is very out of touch with the current zeitgeist. You have real politicians (not Randoms on the internet) in the US who are hinting that fascism is not bad or may even be the answer.

Additionally, you have elected federal politicians in the US calling people communists.
So best way forwards is to do nothing?
In much worse conditions, with much worse winters, and from a much worse starting point, in a much more under-industrialized society.
A banana taped to a wall is considered art these days.
Read through your marketing page and the "why i built it" blog post, still unclear what exactly is the problem you're solving.
Nuclear risk is about the reaction to somebody using a nuclear weapon, not the bomb itself being bad.
As someone who has worked a lot with geo data and delivered them to end users, this here is just the tip of the iceberg.

Languages are already quite political, but maps and all their borders and city names are much worse. Some borders are disputed and both sides have made the distribution of maps with the "wrong" borders illegal, the Catalans hate to see the Spanish names of their towns used in the Spanish version of the website, sometimes borders are moving fast and the inhabitants of newly founded countries usually feel really strong about the correct representation on every single map in the world, and even if you use maps without borders or labels at all, it could be illegal to plot some kind of harmless data on it, like wind speeds that have not been published by the country's authorities.

Stuff like this inevitably floods the inboxes of a lot of companies, so I'm not surprised at all to see it happen on GitHub.
In my experience people with American Express also carry a Visa or Mastercard, so there’s limited downside to refusing to accept it.

Crazy that we live in a world where 3% is “a good deal”. In Europe the fees are capped at 0.15%, and I’m sure even that is well above the true costs of payment processing. Interchange fees are such a clear case of market failure that I’m surprised they haven’t been regulated.
https://stancer.com
How is it not user input? Editor can opt to show whatever in his list, playing with the external source filters: most visited, or last published, or less visited.

Once the editor is done with his work, if you want to compile a bunch of HTML/CSS and push to Netlify, that's fine. But his interaction with the CMS is not static at all.
"Phubbing" isn't the cause, it's a symptom. If you don't want to spend time with your partner, you're going to use your phone as an avoidance mechanism instead.
I've often wondered if/how education of young men relates to violence against women. I've no experience with the conductors of this activity, at least AFAIK, and I find it hard to believe that it's an issue that could be impacted by schooling. My school life featured no direct education about this topic, but I came from a high-trust small community, so maybe I'm missing the bigger picture. Do men just see women as less human, leading to this violence?

Are there reputable sources for this connection, or is it a folk myth? Given the heat of the topic, I don't trust myself to find such a source without going down rabbit holes.