skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't use credit cards in place of ACH at the point of sale.

Debit cards maybe, but of course, debit card fees were significantly constrained in the US by the interchange caps in the Durbin amendment to Dodd-Frank in 2010. Non-exempt debit interchange (most of it) is capped at $0.22 + 0.05%. [1] In Europe it's been capped at 0.2% since 2015.

This compares to a FedNow transfer cost of $0.045 [2] - although I suspect there are significant bulk discounts here to financial institutions -- and surcharges to retailers. I'd call this "give or take the same" as the price of a non-exempt debit payment, but you may disagree.

I believe ACH clocks in at $0.003 in bulk to financial institutions.

Credit cards are not money transfer products so much as loan products. The actual interchange, the cost of processing cards, is quite low. In Europe it's capped at 0.3%. In the US most of the delta between what merchant acquirers charge and interchange is paid back to customers in the form of points or cash back, which basically just don't exist in the same way in Europe or other capped markets. Customers also like the insurance products, the ability to charge back, better fraud handling and the ability to batch their transactions into a single lump sum.

We pay a premium for these premium services.

[1] https://www.checkout.com/blog/revisiting-the-durbin-amendmen...

[2] https://www.frbservices.org/news/press-releases/012722-fedno...
Well, the reason those web apps are huge might not be what you think.
Yeah but chimpanzees and cats and mice have all the same million-year-old stuff that we do.

The million-year-old stuff is not what makes humans interesting.
Yeah, that is the first thing I thought.

Modern CSV Editor will probably be a much better name.
In India ISRO top scienntists go to Tirupathi temple befor Every launch of satellites or Mars or moon probe and seek blessings for success.They use AI algorithms in guiding all such probes.
Maybe we shouldn't default to allowing logins on machines
Tailwind gives something like a fluent interface.

div.height(maxVH).color(primary).hide()

It’s all stuffed in classes because that’s the limitation given and this information belongs in the markup.

The above is much cleaner to me than: div.class(“primary”). I need to go find primary. What is the parent class. What happens if this isn’t a div now etc. what happens if the parent isn’t a div?

Tailwind just spells it out for you right alongside the layout so that you have all the information in one place.

For me personally, I was able to do things in tailwind I could never do in raw css, but I bet I got better at css as a result.

The docs are also incredible for tailwind. As good as mdn is, you need to already know what you’re looking for.
It's especially fascinating how such a highly technical, rather nerd-ish concept is being marketed so widely. They did a great job there.
Here's another reasonable summary:

https://www.revsys.com/tidbits/greet_pause-a-new-anti-spam-f...

I get several thousand SPAM attempts per day: I estimate that this one technique kills a large fraction of them. And look how old the feature is...
Pornhub owner MindGeek threatening kebab shop in NYC with trademark infringement
>> Again I share the aesthetics distaste to how this progress looks. But one has to get over such personal tastes.

You're the one who brought aesthetics into this, not me. I just want to know how things work, and why. That's what science means, to me.

And the process we both, I think, understand is happening in machine learning research doesn't help anyone understand anything. One team publishes a paper claiming this one neat architectural trick beats such-and-such systems on such-and-such benchmarks. Three weeks later another team beats the former team on the same benchmark with another neat trick.

All we learn is that some people came up with some neat tricks to beat benchmarks, and that you can't reuse the same trick twice. So what's the point of the trick, then, if you have to do it all from scratch, and you never know how to make something work?

Neural nets work only when they work. When they don't work, nobody will tell you. Teams who beat the SOTA will gloat about it and keep schtum about all their many failures along the way. Their one neat trick can't beat _this_ benchmark? Nobody will ever know.

The sum of knowledge generated by this process is exactly 0. That is why I say that progress is not being made. Not because it looks ugly. I don't care about elegant or ugly. I don't know why you assumed I do. I care about knowledge, that's my schtick. When there's a few dozen thousand people putting papers on arxiv that tell us nothing at all, that's a process that generates not knowledge, but noise.

>> DeepL today translates to and from Hungarian much much better than the best systems 7 years ago.

Based on what? BLEU scores?

>> The bitter lesson is called bitter for a reason. It leads elegance-seekers to despair and they downplay the results. They rather shift goalposts and deny that the thing that has landed really is a plane.

That's a rotten way to react to criticism: assume an emotional state in the critic and dismiss them as being dishonest. If you can easily dismiss the criticism by pointing out its flaws, do it, but if all you have to say is "nyah nyah you're butthurt" then you haven't dismissed anything.
Bram Stoker Claimed That Parts of Dracula Were Real
And BTW this analysis holds true for many workloads. Memory bandwidth is often at the core of performance.
Dude, I had a colleague, senior to me, do the opposite. I had an idea that I struggled internally to get off the ground for months and months. I pretty much did all the research, found the contacts, got the architecture direction, sought feedback and buy in from multiple stakeholders - including him. Practically I was ignored.

After about 6 months, he's presenting this identical idea to our team!

Guess what, it was approved by upper management!!

Except, the lack of details he had in his super high level stuff lacked any insights, so I called him out in the next meeting and basically said have you seen this document I've been socialising for the last 6 months!?

He said it was 'different'..
Thank you, well put.

I think that one of the things that make it hard, is not always knowing exactly what overhead can and what can't be eliminated (and how). This might be why its more helpful to just call it all waste (lean) to have a lens of optimization on both types.
> Could we expect similar results on humans?

Well humans can't spin webs, which is the first challenge..
It’s easier to poop rainbows with unicorns.
As an aside that is a downside of sprints. It creates pressure points like this. Another is QA testing all needing to be done on the final day.
Sure, tooling could be better.

But the real work is all the hard work that goes into a fork. I've watched open forks die all the time--all it takes is no one to step up and do/pay for the work, which is basically the default, because it is in everyone's interest if someone else is the one to do that.

I think that's really the crux of the problem--there are plenty of folks willing to maintain software for money, and a whole lot of people who'd rather it not cost money and if it does, not their money.

If the tooling is better, who is going to maintain this?
I don't think that's true. Bootstrap was mainly replaced by framework ui libraries.
In Germany all listed prices everywhere (except in strict b2b spaces) include VAT. On invoices and bills prices are usually listed as both "raw", VAT and combined, often per item. The only exception is deposit on packaging (cans, bottles and bottle crates) where the deposit is always listed separately on price tags and listed as a separate item on the bill. But these deposits are standardized by law and can be refunded at any place that sells these goods.

This doesn't seem to have any particular effect (tho Germans are notoriously uninterested in political activism) except that any person on the street can likely tell you exactly what the VAT rate is (it's currently 19% on most goods, 7% on some specific items and 0% on a much smaller set of items -- most people likely won't know specifically which items are in those two categories tho as it's somewhat arbitrary thanks to lobbying).

Shops generally don't break out what exactly goes into the "raw" price tho as that's usually not in the brand's best interest (because it spells out their profit margin, which may be surprisingly high).
Very much still true: "Who reads the papers?" - https://youtu.be/DGscoaUWW2M?t=54
Docker Overrules UFW
The whole "Why _____ won" is the same as specific politically affiliated news channel trying to sway future voters by stating some inflated Exit Poll numbers in favor of the party they are trying to portray as winning the election. Same reason why you see every new graduate you see has been affected by the whole MongoDB/NoSQL, React propaganda.
It’s mostly unknown in Netherlands, so you can find highly skilled dutch hackers here. Most IT folks hang in Tweakers and such
you forgot that they solve a real problem like in Germany where torrent got you layer email
If you already have a server somewhere, an SSH tunnel is a great, cheap way to have a VPN for browsing. I use it all the time to evade country blocks when I travel.
Ah ok, that would make sense, thanks)

(Btw, recently I had a guy who seemed legitimate in wanting to buy my stuff... I asked him to send 120USD... to a charity and just send me the paypal receipt.

He stopped answering my messages when I asked him the post address to send the drawing to)
I don't use a VPN service to "hide myself", I use a VPN service to access content from other countries that is locked to that specific country. A use-case the OP seems to be completely oblivious about.
> I have spent < an year in US (mostly in California) and found the America behaviour to be very polite in speech but indifferent/mean in actions. The passive aggressive behavior seemed quite common

It's worth noting that in the US, that's a stereotype of the west coast and California in particular. The contrast with NYC is particularly frequently cited. New Yorkers have a reputation for being very direct and coming across as rude but will actually be very nice and helpful once you get past that. New Yorkers will call you names that would make a sailor blush, and then immediately rush to help a woman carry her stroller up the subway steps.
Finally pens are no longer constrained to just one island.
It’s actually one less layer. My layout and styling are finally together, and well documented. I don’t mean in the same file like a .vue file. I mean they are TOGETHER.
It’s more generational than age specific. It’s not like you turn 70 and now have a burning desire to play croquet. I have no interest in cars but retired boomers can seem to talk about nothing else.
> the Tailwind code is still pretty crazy.

The rendered output is crazy, yes. But this argument applies to every JS framework ever created.

Authoring the code is best encapsulated by components. If you look at the source files available for their paid templates, they are all componentized.
Because the people making the decisions are the people benefitting from those pitfalls
In a world full of laptops, is there a place for the iMac?
This is a good list. I would also add:

* It removes the burden of having to come up with class names, and the mental overhead of deciding whether to create a new class or rely on the C in CSS. When writing plain vanilla CSS there's always a sense of friction and a need for careful planning (often resulting in me procrastinating it). That whole process is eliminated with Tailwind and I can just start styling the element immediately.

* The fact that you can see immediately how an element is styled. No hidden, detached or indirect styling whatsoever.
But didn't hesitate to go back and use all my notes, research and contacts to quickly backfill all his lack of details with my stuff!
It's definitely unknown outside of a subset of developers and startup types. Probably the most obscure site I use.
But a VPN service is only additive. The way I see it, it’s one of two ways:

1. The VPN is being honest. No tracking. All is well.

2. The VPN is lying, tracking, maybe even reselling your traffic. Fair enough, but they’re not in any more privileged situation than your ISP. They still can’t see inside your TLS connections and whatnot. And you still get the ancillary benefits of:

A. Geographic diversity of IPs;

B. Easy to get a new IP;

C. Security at potentially unsafe access points.

So, worst case, for $80 a year you get some IP flexibility and security at Starbucks. Best case, you also get the whole no-tracking thing.
The Wikipedia link you provide states just after your highlight that this theory has been challenged.
That's mentioned. Search for "scareletters".
> mainly for browsing the internet

That was what the “i” in “iMac” was for. It had a built-in 56K modem, with an RJ-11 jack.
We don’t have this problem simply because we can run it all on one machine (using Microsoft proprietary tools that pretty much do what you are doing but only for a subset of Azure). I will keep your tool in mind for the inevitable future when things get more complex than that.
Meanwhile in Canada:

https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/copernicus-emissions-canadi...
Okay, so the requests do get rejected, it just uses a delay to make that decision.

I don't consider GreetPause to be a form of shadow moderation because the sender knows the commands were rejected. The issue with shadow moderation on platforms is that the system shows you one thing while showing others something else.

Legally speaking, I have no problem with shadow moderation. I only argue it's morally wrong and bad for discourse. It discourages trust and encourages the growth of echo chambers and black-and-white thinking.
> The only source I find in what you link is an AnandTech article

In that thread is also this post:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27573332#27573720>

Which contains this link:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20210502042514/http://www.dell.c...>

Which in turn contains this text and table:

I have unplugged my SSD drive and put it into storage. How long can I expect the drive
to retain my data without needing to plug the drive back in?

It depends on the how much the flash has been used (P/E cycle used), type of flash, and storage temperature. In MLC and SLC, this can be as low as 3 months and best case can be more than 10 years. The retention is highly dependent on temperature and workload.

┌────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│NAND Technology │ Data Retention @ rated P/E cycle│
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│SLC │ 6 Months │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│eMLC │ 3 months │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│MLC │ 3 Months │
└────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
Yup the only option they have is to treat customers like dung and aren't they committed to it? It's impressive. No other possible legal choice.

That's a new one you're not a customer because middleman so can be no issue with warranty ever. Dell's PR would love it if they cared, which they clearly don't because why bother.
Wrong, it ships the lowest amount of CSS it can
Is this a good book for me, now?
This is one of those "we don't know what we're doing, nor how we could explain it, nor what it means, but it sounds cool" studies. They have no reason to assume the two are in any way related. It's probably another fluke, forgotten in a few weeks time.

I can't read the full text, but the materials has this at the end: "Finally, we examined the impact of God salience on respondents’ propensity to use technologically new and/or innovative products." They find a significant effect ("God salience was associated with greater early adoption attitudes") there, too. Why?

My take is that the effect is the other way around: early adoption attitude explains AI acceptance.
The one doesn't exclude the other.

Note: I'm Belgian and visit both
I imagine a future where humankind is worshipping a ruling class of AI servers.
Yeah that guy definitely murdered his wife for insurance money.
If css had a strong opinion and better syntax for responsiveness by screen width, css frameworks were way less popular. Tailwind, bootstrap and co. aren't used to avoid writing css. It's used because writing
`class="my-4 mb-sm-5 mb-lg-6"` is so much faster and easier then doing this with a bunch of media queries and a class name, that has to be unique, because css is a global scope nightmare.

I mean, just look at it. You have to write all this crap in css just to achieve `class="my-4 mb-sm-5 mb-lg-6"`:

:root {
--breakpoint-sm: 500px;
--breakpoint-lg: 800px;
}

.foo {
padding: 1rem 0;
}

@media (min-width: var(--breakpoint-sm)) {
.foo {
padding-bottom: 1.5rem;
}
}

@media (min-width: var(--breakpoint-lg)) {
.foo {
padding-bottom: 2rem;
}
}
Highly skilled dutch h4ck3r here.
The guidelines (see link bottom of page) specifically say "Don't do this".

Worthiness is derived, it seems, by voting on submissions.
That's not really an accurate history of the concept called magic. Magic was very prevalent during the Christian Middle Ages, long after the concept of God. Magic was "removed" from the world by the process of disenchantment (a translation of Entzauberung, literally "de-magicification" in German.)

https://intotheclarities.com/2014/08/23/charles-taylor-on-di...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disenchantment
> Perhaps if democracy was an American invention

They invented a democracy. Their democracy is of their own design, based on the historical work of philosophers. The constitution is not a plagiarized document stolen from the greeks. Marx was decades dead when 1917 happened.

Your point falls flat on its face.

> any time those ideas have been forcibly implemented amongst a population, the result is bloodshed and subjugation

You are one of today's lucky 10,000. Allow me to inform you of the genocide of native Americans, manifest destiny, the slavery of Africans, the toppling of the kingdom of Hawaii, the contras, operation condor, US Imperialism, etc..

Text book example of special pleading.

> But, but, America!

IDK, maybe you shouldn't make such weak fallacious arguments that don't pass even the lightest of scrutiny?

People living in glass Native American burial grounds shouldn't throw stones?

Maybe these """tankies""" are tired of all these first world dronies or diet white supremacists (IDK what you're suppose to be) spewing colonizer propaganda everywhere?
Arguably the most common use-case out there. Most regular people are certainly not subscribing to VPN services for the sake of privacy or anonymity.
I'm not sure what you mean by invoking this quote. Could you elaborate?
you can even do it for free with a free tier oracle/google cloud server
Use a VPN service. Always, if you live somewhere that restricts any kind of traffic. I bought a lifetime VPN for 10€ 9years ago. I never trusted this VPN - mainly because of plain text login data on their website. They still have 3 servers online. I gave that to a person in Iraq almost 5 years ago. They are still using it.
No, it means that these subjects took the survey with the instruction to think or write about God, the Quran, or some other related thing.

It's not about their beliefs, it's about the instruction.
If you can lock down ALL the software used & disable remote access, you'll likely never encounter this vulnerability. It requires local unprivileged access in order to be used, so if you can restrict that to a few allowed processes, you'll be 90% fine.
Why is legal action and eco terrorism the only two options?

Better to work on solutions, like fusion power and battery technology for electric transport.
It's both, relative to the US. The US is uniquely horrible in this because it has no real consumer protection mechanisms. Instead a lot of US business practices are the result of litigation rather than policy.

It may be expected in the US but it seems ridiculous in Germany because we have a consumer protection agency and it has teeth. On the other hand, suing a company for damages won't get you nearly as much money here. But of course most of your medical expenses would be covered by public health insurance and you normally don't have to worry about something being "out of network" or requiring a copay etc.
A year is still much shorter than most people assume. In my experience, most people think they can buy SSDs, put data on them and then shelve them for 20 years without issue.
I have only ever interacted with 1 person IRL who used HN, which lead to my using it. Other than that, no-one I know that works within tech uses it, so anecdotally I would say, HN is a relatively unknown community. I wouldn't say exclusive, as anyone can join.
Compromise on microseconds
Or Intel! They're not making any high-end cards currently, but the A770 16GB is pretty decent if you're on a budget. The software support isn't really amazing yet, but their GPUs have some quite decent matmul acceleration.

Unfortunately support for their GPUs is not upstream in Tensorflow or Pytorch, and I don't think they're well-supported by Llama.cpp either, but Intel does look quite promising. I also believe that Intel oneMKL works on Arc GPUs these days, which in CPU land is amongst the fastest BLAS libraries out there. Also their matrix hardware is accessible using OpenCL extensions, which means that rolling a custom kernel for things related to quantization should be quite possible.

(For Tensorflow and PyTorch, you need to install a custom package called Intel Extension for $FRAMEWORK. The PyTorch one got updated to PyTorch 2.0 recently, which is promising.)

Currently rumors seem to indicate that their second generation GPUs will go from 32 to 64 Xe cores for the top model, and keep the 256 bit bus. If Intel were to double the VRAM to 32 GB as well (at least as an option, just like the A770 comes in both 8GB and 16GB variants), it'd immediately make them the crown of consumer VRAM size, which I'd wager would drive a lot of interest from the ML community.
I don't classify myself as a highly skilled hacker, but I just like this site and the discussions on this board.
A few are and understand that most of the time your are defending scoundrels. But there is a sizeable and probable larger group that very easily wants to suppress speech they do not like. There never was a case where to much freedom of speech has been a significant problem, contrary to the other way around.

Next is misinformation and tomorrow you wonder why you cannot state your opinion anymore. A cycle that has been repeated ad nauseum. It just isn't a smart solution and causes more problems than it solves.
I don’t think it replaced bootstrap either, but I think it’s sort of the Jquery problem.

Jquery was handling element selection, manipulation, behaviors, futures/promises, ajax calls etc.

Somebody came along in each of those categories and “specialized” such that jquery was left as the bloated old choice.

Bootstrap was awesome, but as component based libraries like react/vue etc came around, I don’t need component level css helpers as much.

And then tailwind helped fill in the gap of being quite a bit more explicit and granular.
" It is surprising to hear someone in 2023 suggesting these things as these are all the things which have failed us for 20+ years"

But maybe it is not all because of an evil elite, but also the very common people who don't believe or care about climate change, because it would mean bad consciousness or reduced comfort?

And the people who say they care, but still fly around the world for a vacation?

A scientific consensus alone is not enough, it needs a general human consensus that something needs to happen. And slowly slowly it is forming in some ways. In other ways things are going backward (russia for example is thinking out loud that climate change is just caused by earths natural radiactivity).

But I also fail to see how terrorism can help create such a consensus.
I assume OP meant cost == community. That is the hard part of a fork.