skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing! I think everyone has their own expectations/needs from a tool like this, so just for the sake of comparison:

For classification and visualization I prefer tags (not necessarily mutually exclusive) rather than categories (too rigid and therefore arbitrary and therefore hard to keep consistent), but then the database management becomes more complicated (need a transactions-tags table or equivalent).

I want to automate the classification as much as possible, so I set up merchant-tags, which are automatically applied to all matching transactions. Again, this means managing a merchants table. It turned out that both the number of repeat merchants is high (so lots of patterns to maintain; these are stored in the DB as part of the merchant record, rather than in the code) and the number of novel merchants is high (so still spend a lot of time on the manual classification).

Part of the motivation for the above complexity was a vision of some kind of dynamic, auto-generated, multi-level breakdown of cost categories. For example, I might want to see a "date night" tag in both food>dining>date night, and entertainment>date night.

Anyway, all the above complexity was fragile, and too much work on top of the manual classification. A few years ago something in the DB broke and I just didn't get around to fixing it. I probably need to restart with something simpler.

Also, I'm considering trying this: https://lunchmoney.app/
Not in my threat model. But yes at some point you could get offlined completely or your internet heavily sensored if you live in a country that does that
Wait, so if I find one of these in SF I'm just allowed to take it? How do we know when they've been 'abandoned' locally?
You have now in this thread accused two HN members of being far right… while being completely incapable of linking far right activity on Reddit you claim is all over the place.

You may have a religion you aren’t aware of.
The v is redundant unless you want highlighting. You can do yi" directly (or ci" or di").

For more fun, activate vim-surround. E.g. to replace surrounding quotes with parentheses: cs"(
Why does MDN suggest nationality?
Here we go again: https://www.theonion.com/u-s-out-of-my-uterus-vs-we-must-dep...
Physically removing F5? Like going around to individual computers and modifying the keyboards?
I wonder if this applies to coffee brewed with a moka pot
This is a ridiculous overstatement of the risk of such activities.
The entire purpose of compensation like this at the highest levels is to ensure that no other possible group could incentivize you to betray in any way the board or shareholders

Think about it like they are paying based on the question of: how much does it cost to keep this person protecting all of our Crown Jewels AND will never support unionization or anything that gives meaningful power to employees?

The bigger the risk to shareholders if something goes wrong with the stock, or if the CEO defected to a competitor, the more pay they offer.
Yes, oligarch is a precise term.
Relevant but not mentioned: syrusakbary is the CEO of Wasmer, the company behind WASIX. I'm personally excited by WASIX (WASI has stagnated too long), but if you recommend something you have a part in, I think you should mention it.
:wq

The most programmer way to quit something. RIP
What were they? Aren't most core Google products on rails, even getting slightly worse over time? And the non-core products just get buried in the desert.
Reading stuff like this makes me think we are seeing Gen-X's version of Donald Trump, and it worries me.
I think the Turing Test has a lot to answer here for the current fandango. It (and your input/output argument) boils down to 'if it can't be measured it cannot exist', which does not hold up to philosophical scrutiny.

Burden of proof is a well established legal and scientific concept that puts the onus on one side of the debate to show they are right, and if they are unable to prove that, then the other side would automatically given the 'judgement'. For example, if someone claimed there was life on the Moon, it would be on them to prove it, otherwise the opposite would quite rightly be assumed (after all, the Moon is an apparently lifeless place). Another example, a new drug has to be proven safe and effective before it can be rolled out - instead of others having to prove it is NOT safe and effective to STOP the rollout.
Not being combative. You are mistaken. I am simply trying to keep the conversation on point and prevent deviation. You made initial points I want those points to be determined to be definitively wrong or right before moving on and branching off into deviations.

By "you" I mean the average human. The common human. It can surpass you as an average human and thus it can surpass the common human aka most humans. I don't know you but I made an assumption that you are average.

If you are good at drawing that doesn't mean you can do better. When I compare the art from LLMs to other artists it is in general equal. Then in this case it matches you in your preferred style. But likely beats you in photorealistic styles. I know artists often use simplistic styles to make things easier. Is this the case for you? I wouldn't know. But when looking at other artists I find it very likely it matches you in skill.

The claim made by me is that an LLM can surpass humans and match humans. I did not make the claim that it consistently does this. I believe the poem and the picture proves this as everyone on this thread is unlikely to provide any proof to the contrary.

Maybe you can do slightly better for the illustration. But slow speed prevents you from proving this.
Now that I know about the existence of this generation of acoustic attacks I would like to have the possibility to insert a second "master password" different from the main one, that instead of letting me directly access to my passwords just allows me to use fingerprint to get them. Guess if it's already possible
This brings back memories :D
You can also use yi" to yank it immediately without selecting it first (replace y with c or d to change or delete, respectively). Replace i with a to include the quotes ("around" rather than "inside"). Replace " with ( [ or { to match other kinds of bracketing characters. And include a number to go more than one set out.

E.g.

y2a(

means yank everything inside (and including) the second nested pair of parentheses out from the current point.
A paycheck and a re-org are pretty rational reasons. Maybe they aren’t the ones that create concise software but they can certainly be the ones taken en masse.
What’s the Deal with Sensor Tower?
You guys subsidize foreigners?

Uni here costs literally 10-20x (depending on year) what it costs for locals.
Injust Games
If only it supported Windows XP!
These grainy and blurry videos from China are simply not credible.
In 2015 twitter changed favorites to likes, but since the username "likes" was taken, the url to view your likes switched from twitter.com/favorites to twitter.com/i/likes (later on they changed it to twitter.com/username/likes)

https://twitter.com/likes
Midjourney: Female Versions of Male Celebrities
TIL where every penny in taxes I will ever pay will go.
Avi Loeb's vanity project to extract money from suckers with too much of it
Really? I thought I was relying on the intuition that most comments on this site are unlikely to be generated by an LLM.

Also, I thought your point was "What is the burden of proof that you yourself are not a stochastic parrot?".
It's not your email address unless the part after the @ belongs to you.
They’re the same picture
I used to bench repair on broadcast monitors. Typically, the flyback circuits have bleeder resistors and they discharge in several seconds. But you can never trust them. They can stay charged for weeks if the capacitor is good. An old capacitor damaged by heat will still hold a charge for hours. I always shorted them before replacing.
Is there an explanation anywhere of their reason for doing the phase out? Very curious!
Well, formally, there is a prosecutor office or court decision behind every new block of Russian Censorship Agency, which then merely implements it (and demands the services to remove information or get blocked), but even they stopped pretending they are not in control of rubber-stamping the papers.

https://reestr.rublacklist.net/en/?page=12&q=archive.org

You can see the fine collection of everything from The Anarchist Cookbook to le ironic nasheed remixes, and from exposures of Astral Jews to Alex Jones there:

https://archive.org/details/geo_restricted?tab=collection
Twitter was already confusing. Mastodon more so.
Easily print-debug any text object in Vim
we have no moat and so does not openai is getting better by time.
Again, you think a subreddit purpose-built around supporting lifelong con man isn't far-right. Not even after he has been indicted for insurrection and stealing secret documents is it clear to you.
Bacterial erosion? Isn't that what the immune system is for?
If anyone is curious as to whether cargo cults are real...they are! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
Huh, my reaction to The Magicians was "let's do Harry Potter where everyone swears a lot and are completely unlikable, and then throw Narnia in as well." It felt really derivative to me.

For me, the best fantasy series of all (including those you mentioned, all of which I loved) was The Golden Compass series. Not sure if everyone would call it fantasy, but I think it is. But it's incredible world-building, incredible plotting, incredible characters, and philosophy and religion and ethics thrown in.
Tim’s partner in mischief on this show was Rex Garrod (RIP), and that man was an absolutely incredible inventor, maker, tinkerer, and just all round nice fellow.

Creator of Brum, self-righting battlebots, and much more. Absolutely an inspiration to me as a teen.

Alzheimer's sucks.
I assume this calculation takes into account stolen intellectual property?
They probably don't want to have the extra headache of having made a promise of uptime in anyway, if anyone uses a free service for stuff that can't go down the fault is on them
I agree, but they're effectively equivalent.
There’s a book called ‘Daily Rituals: How Artists Work’ that details the daily routines of famous creative folks. The early morning work session is common, but so is the late-night session. Strict routines are common, but so is spontaneous creation on a whim. It’s cool to see all the ways people create; very neat book.
A criminologist should do a study on the Discord-cybercrime pipeline. Lots of 15 year olds spending their days SIM swapping, hijacking OG usernames, stealing crypto, swatting, etc. As the article hints at, many don't even care about remaining anonymous because they know there will be no repercussions! The people involved in the 2020 Twitter hack and that kid who stole millions from Michael Terpin I would say are representative of this trend.
Never heard that before either, but personally, I would prefer not to travel to wherever immigrants are called roaches.
> I've never understood the hate for w3schools.

Same. It's been my go to reference for SQL these days. Unless there's some alternative that I've missed out on
This is completely unrelated
wow -blast from the past.
I used to ftp stuff from here in 1990.
I mean, nobody has really solved succession planning in any industry, and tech is still quite young. And the markets often guess wrong about which successors will do well. See: Disney and its failure to get a decent successor to Bob Iger
Am I the only one who finds it interesting that @ musicfan and @musicmusic were available? Or did they “acquire” those as well?
Studying the Limits of Human Perfection, Through Darts
I was thinking it could be a keyboard designed to make sounds special sounds so it can be interpreted very accurately
I kind of get that. I would take it personally. Violations of trust should be punished, regardless of whether the rest of the world thinks I was stupid to trust in the first place.
I just... like an hour ago... bought the Far Shore.
Bluesky is busy Google+ing themselves with the eternal invite system.
4% return inclusive of 2008 jackpot.
Banning unsafe is actually really easy. Just one line `#![forbid(unsafe_code)]` at the start of your code.
https://scootertalk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=962&start=40

This was already all over the internet 4 years ago when Lime/Bird got started and were using off the shelf vehicles.

AFAIK, somehow going after scooter thefts in cities that often already had a grumpy relationship with them for GTA never really happened. And come on, there's a LOT of people for whom "a couple hundred dollars" is a plenty big enough score. Why would anyone steal a bike in that case either?
The flake is a magnet, and a known type two liquid nitrogen cooled superconductor is inside the blocks at the bottom?
So you eliminate all imports?

That makes absolutely no sense at all.

Also, as far as I can tell there wasn’t any major electronics shortages in India outside of the pandemic driven ones anyways. So it seems like whatever system did exist worked.

And frankly, if you want to promote local manufacturing, doing it at the expense of your biggest exporting industry, the technology services industry, might be the stupidest idea possible.

Imagine being a software services provider telling your client that they can’t take their business because they’re unable to replace the laptop that just broke since there’s a 6 month waiting list for it.

It’s fascinating seeing India going back to 1989. Reversing the changes of liberalization which is widely agreed by nearly every Indian as the one change that allowed India to grow and compete globally seems to make no sense. And it’s even worse that Indians are trusting the government that brought demonetization to make these changes.
Not sure about a mission as old as voyager, but most modern missions use CCSDS protocols, which are open and available online.

But just because you know the protocol dues not mean you have enough information to send a valid command. The commands are wrapped in a common protocol, but the commands themselves are typically mission-specific and definitely not made public.

Here’s an example of someone unaffiliated with the mission decoding JWST telemetry. While they were able to identify the packets defined per CCSDS protocols, they do not know the actual content of the packets, which are mission specific.

https://destevez.net/2021/12/decoding-james-webb-space-teles...

And as someone else mentioned, the biggest hurdle with getting a command to voyager is access to a 70 m dish. Not many of those floating around…
User confusion.basically
Clitoral Phimosis: Effects on Female Sexual Function and Surgical Outcomes
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a registered charity to promote computer science education, so if any company were to prioritize Joe Shmoe it would be them.
> that can regulate the flow of known bad information

> prevent the spread of pro-genocide propaganda

This is a Motte and Bailey.

Your introduction advocates for: regulating the spread of known bad information.

In your second to last paragraph you substitute it with: prevent the spread of pro-genocide propaganda

I’ll engage with your second point only if you yield that the _only_ form of information that is acceptable for a government to censor is speech that is directly and explicitly calling for genocide.

Otherwise we are talking about the “known bad information” from your first paragraph.

Does “bad” mean false? Or just malicious? Who decides it’s bad? How does it become “known.”

As a citizen, are you allowed to challenge the classification of “bad” or does challenging the classification of “bad” itself count as “bad information?”

What protections are there for keeping inconvenient truths about our government from being classified as “bad information?”

> no one's advocating that any institution or system that can regulate the flow of known bad information can operate without any constraints, oversight, etc.

I’m suggesting that’s exactly what people are advocating for. They may not know it. They may mean well.
There is no such thing as true digital ownership for things built on anyone else’s platform. If you want to truly own something you need to use open protocols - like websites and bespoke software. If you build on someone’s API, or rely on “owning” a Twitter account which you literally have zero right to and is at the whim of the platform’s owner, don’t be shocked when it’s taken from you.

Of course, you can always use Bitcoin / Ethereum and the Ethereum Name Service which is true, legitimate digital ownership. But few on HN like that. There is a lot of cognitive dissonance when arguing that blockchain has literally zero use cases and then being angry when Twitter or Facebook or Google rugs you.
This is why I was very careful to include "citizen run communications infrastructure". We need public antennas, public access points. Publicly run physical infrastructure.
> there's no evidence that proportional repreesntation can achieve a higher level of voter satisfaction than good single-winner methods like score voting or approval voting

Proportional representation isn’t a method, its an axis of measurement, and there is very good evidence that better performance on that axis produces better outcomes in terms of satisfaction with government among the citizenry.

There is neither evidence nor even a theoretical reason to think that what you call “good” single winner methods (which are “good” only by abstract mathematical criteria only applicable to single-winner methods which themselves have no empirical link to good outcomes, and which make assumptions like that ballot markets have some consistent meaning across voters that are known false for the kind of rating systems they use) either would in practice perform good (or even better than FPTP) on that measure or defy the observed relation of that measure with satisfaction.

> and besides, you won't get PR at any scale beyond a handful of cities without first escaping duopoly, which requires score voting or approval voting as a prerequisite

This first part of that sentence is a ludicrous claim offered with no support. If you mean “you can't establish a better voting method without buy-in from those elected under the current methods”, that’s false in any jurisdiction with citizen initiatives (as many US states have). Whether states adopting this can be sufficient to create political pressure to negate the problem on a national basis is... well, that's certainly a question.

If you mean “no matter what voting method you adopt, it won’t produce very proportional results as long as there is an existing duopoly for incumbent officeholders in the same body”, perhaps because of some kind of partisan/media momentum effect, then there is probably a kernel of truth there, in that it will probably take more than one electoral cycle to transition to producing results close to the natural degree of proportionality of the new voting method if it is radically divergent from the former one, but that's a frictional effect, not a binary switch.

The second part, though, is even worse. There is neither evidence nor even a good theoretical argument to suggest that there is some scale where you can’t get from FPTP to something producing more proportional results without the first step being score or approval voting. And your link provides neither evidence or argument on this point, only the bare claim that the author(s) “very much doubt you are going to get it” without range (i.e., Score) voting (apparently rejecting your claim that Approval is viable) as a “preparatory step”.
This is sarcasm for anyone wondering
A reminder: Puerto Rico is part of the United States, with US citizens who pay US taxes.
How is AMD for AI projects like stable diffusion and text llm projects?
See, this is what I am talking about. You immediately leap to the problems of the past as a way to misinterpret what was said. This is why people simply cannot agree on a way forward and why Nature will be doing it for us. Some have even codified this into an ethical stance.

And so the scavengers will feast and the plagues will bloom again. And because no-one will agree, we will have little local wars over resources. Maybe someone will grab a warhead or two. Technology still keeps happening, so expect at least one plague to be targeted. And some group will have a "if we can't have it, nobody can," so a self-irradiated country will get to keep a resource out of some other group's hands. You'll get real genocides, then.

Nobody wants to participate in the one way of getting their hands bloody, pretending that they won't get bloody later on, up to the elbows.
5.25“ Floppy Disk Imaging Manual (2018) [pdf]
Types of Garden Hoe
lol Eric Yuan's one company is more valuable than all those tax dollars

Also:

CRISPR (Feng Zhang) -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Zhang

Resnet (Kaiming He) -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_neural_network

ImageNet (Feifei Li) -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageNet
The workflow and photos starting on p. 5 of the PDF will probably appeal to some of you.
The first Covenant trilogy intentionally mirrors Tolkien in order to provide a familiar “fantasy” background against which to cast a completely non-fantasy character: Thomas Covenant, grumpy disbeliever. It’s an intentional choice.

(The second trilogy abandons this constraint and is a much better fantasy story for it.)
>But under no configuration is modern life sustainable for 8 billion people, energy, living space, and raw materials wise, so this situation is going to keep drawing down the reservoir until there is a brutal correction.

We can fit far more than 8 billion people on the planet. Look how much of it is uninhabited by humans right now. The limit isn't living space, it's our ability to generate and distribute clean energy. Raw materials are a concern, but I don't think we're anywhere close to running out at the moment, and if we get our shit together technologically there are plenty of raw materials in the solar system.

>As if native peoples lives (over hundreds of thousands of years, indeed) are such utter trash that they need to be rescued from it by technology. "Oh, the poor brown people living such primitive lives, how sad. Let's do a mission to convert them to consumerism and fill their lives with junk, get them some jobs and atomize their tribes."

> I mean, those stupid native Americans and their huts. Good thing we fixed that, right?

I'm not sure why you needed to bring race/skin color into the discussion, or to attribute this view to me in that tone. How about we ask people what they want, rather than prescribing how they should live from our idealized/nostalgic view of native people? Let's see whether they want to live with an electric grid, medical care, and access to modern goods and services. If we judge by the number of industrializing societies across the world, it seems like people do want these things.

>I invite you to visit basically any place on Earth that is not Europe or North America.

I invite you to look at statistics like life expectancy, infant mortality, literacy, healthcare outcomes, and access to food and housing. I think you'll find that most places in the world don't do as well on these metrics as Europe and North America. You're basically arguing that these people should stay in poverty. Again, I think you should ask the people you're talking about whether they want that.
Http works fine. The risk of a revoked domain name is minuscule in comparison to “whenever we feel like it”.
Beyond making each name available to 10,000 (or more) people, randomizing the numbers puts everyone on a playing field. It’s an elegant solution—and why it’s such a baffling shame that Discord recently abandoned it for the terrible, outmoded “one unique username for everyone” approach.