skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you seriously suggesting that manual word of mouth marketing over niche forums has the same reach as hitting the top 5 hits on Google through Search Engine Optimization?
The enemy whose money rescued the company.

Object Pascal => Swift, C++ => Objective-C, in terms of language culture.
Both the client and server are open source, and the server is decentralized, so anyone can host a server and as they say, "still chat with all users".
> Even from a purely self serving perspective, why would they do this?

Because nearly nothing in the world works on the level of individually self-serving, containerized ideas which have direct one-to-one causes and effects.

As an exercise, instead imagine these companies operating on high latency, realtime digital signal graphs running at low sample rates.

Say one of those companies' graphs needs to operate on an incoming stream of 10,000 samples. The company obviously desires the highest frequencies to pass into the "payment received" output.

So they add an "anger-the-boss" filter into the signal chain.

There aren't just direct consequences here-- each change causes a rippling effect for the consequent samples. And that rippling effect clearly changes the behavior of some consequent victims. For example, if victims already heard about these nasty tactics and they want to keep their current job, they might decide to pay if those tactics are still being used.

It probably doesn't get the optimal output for the company. But the article talks about how a 1% change in payment rates can be the difference between success and bankruptcy. Like most realtime systems, they don't have the luxury of screwing around with potentially better outcomes if it ever means missing deadlines for paying the company's bills.

You'd probably drive yourself crazy thinking of all human affairs as low-latency DSP graphs. But I would propose doing the exercise however long it takes to get rid of the pattern of reflexively approaching any new social puzzle by positing a perfectly self-interested and self-contained individual sample.
They mention an RNN with Hebbian learning. What's the SOTA for that? I found this: https://github.com/JonathanAMichaels/hebbRNN

Is there anything optimized for GPU or TPU?
An 18th Century Indian Prince Who Tried to Modernize Astronomy in India
Yes my account was also new
If you want to learn more about Hamming Codes from a mathematical perspective, I recommend 3Blue1Brown's YouTube series:

> How to send a self-correcting message (Hamming codes) - https://youtu.be/X8jsijhllIA

> Hamming codes part 2, the elegance of it all - https://youtu.be/b3NxrZOu_CE

Associated with Ben Eater's video, if you want a perspective regarding low level computer hardware:

> What is error correction? Hamming codes in hardware - https://youtu.be/h0jloehRKas
salesforce has plenty of lawyers
If you look at the 1974 8080 Assembly Programming Manual, there is not much to do. "Appendix A Instruction Summary" describes each operation in handy pseudocode. All you need to do is to make an interpreter for these:

CALL ADDR: ((SP)-1) <-- (PCH), ((SP)-2) <-- (PCL), (SP) <-- (SP)+2, (PC) <-- ADDR
Isn't this what simulated annealing and similar global optimization algorithms have been doing for decades?
I think that would be an accurate description of the system.
> If they did this for decades, that would be a serious error.

Assuming they didn't get other benefits from the rituals, namely the same ones people get from more mainstream religions like social cohesion and a sense of purpose and a belief in some greater power.
You have a relationship; creation of the relationship was enabled if not formed when you signed the card agreement and agreed that your debt could be sold, transferred, or exchanged to or with a third party. If you thought that was unethical, you should have redlined it at the time.
Yeah, that's how it works here in Tennessee too. Not sure what happened.

Edit: looks like the literature referenced was from almost 200 years ago.
Yea it’s still not fully accepting but nobody’s kicked out anymore. I know I’ll never get an apology. The US doesn’t apologize.

I do see the occasional person bringing their SO to the Navy and Marine balls.
This doesn’t seem to be a response to the comment you’re replying to
I’ll never be an astronaut
It's very simple: Chinese and Japanese people do not like people who don't look like them. Were you trying to bait someone into saying that? I'll say it because I have been told by natives of both that it's true. Here in the US, we consider that to be a base instinct and try to suppress it.
> as you age it will be difficult to get health insurance.

Are you unaware of Medicare and Medicaid?
Yes, that one is very complete (as I'd expect, since it comes from the Rails org)

I would however add in the Postgres libs
The 1950s were a good time to be a white American pretty much anywhere, not just New York City. So it’s definitely more complicated than that lol
I know someone who walked away from £15k of credit card debt because the collection company sued with forged paperwork.

He happened to have all the original paperwork on file and it proved they hadn't followed the required legal procedures.

Trying to forge an essential document wasn't going to help their case.

I've heard from a number of people who work for banks, lenders, and insurers that record keeping is a complete mess, and a certain amount of unlawful creative improvisation isn't unusual.

So... they may claim to have proof, but there's a reasonable chance that if it's examined closely and/or all original correspondence is kept, they don't.

This seems to be worse in the US where debts are traded and retraded and the original paperwork may be long gone.
> The idea of selling debt itself feels very unethical to me

You must be appaled by the existence of the global bonds market then.
Attrition shrinks Los Angeles Police Department below below 1990s levels
You can go beyond 6 with ARIA, e.g. role="heading" aria-level="7". I don't know what the limit is. I think it's challenging to find distinct visual styles for many heading levels.
Working at companies without strict audits, and previously at bigger corps that had audits we established parallel networks for developers. Either way, BYOD was possible after all.

Also I insist on not having security based on VPN/VPC only, but treat every service as if (and often has) direct internet connections, so devs are _forced_ to think about security from day 1.
No. I'm arguing that "reach" is not something you should strive for. Quality is.
That's because German rail is an absolute disaster. They used to have +90% on time schedules which is now below 60%. Compare that to Switzerland where the "Chancellors" do travel via rail and the on time rate in 2022 was 92,5% for the entire network (Connections where made at 98.9%!). [1]

German rail is no longer what it was 20 years ago.

The previous admin underfunded it and basically destroyed it. It requires over 80 Billion in rapiers and the current government is only promised to spend maybe half over the next few years.

Current spending on German rail is around EUR 100 per capita per year while in Switzerland it is EUR 400+.

[1] https://reporting.sbb.ch/puenktlichkeit?=&years=1,4,5,6,7&sc...
When creditors sell debt to collections they should be required to allow the debtor to buy their debt back at that price.

Of course they'll never actually do that. Usurers are unreceptive to any notion that you won't pay every last extortionate penny. They'd rather sell it to collections for 5 cents on the dollar than let you settle for 50 in a straightforward conversation.
The amount of money one can earn as a professional sports player has also multiplied so the incentive to practice has multiplied also.

If I spent my youth playing darts 8 hours a day I would be considered rather foolish, nowadays not so much.
For sure. Here's a video with docker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxyvtFAvwUE&ab_channel=OpenZ....

The real game changer (but may not be relevant you) is zrok is being abled to use the OpenZiti SDKs so that you can embed zrok functions directly into an application. We have built the Go one so far, but all others will be done in due course.
> kept doing it, even though it wasn't working

It was working though. It was maintaining a new state of social order, which is a mandate for sustainable power transfer in society.
"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in" - Edsger W. Dijkstra
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Coun... The UN Security Council voted to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya. Not a single member state voted against it. And nobody vetoed it. So saying that the West decided to topple Gaddafi is a lie.
And as you move closer to the moment you may need your money (like retirement), you should move your investment from stock to safer investments. Ideally during a hype when everything is inflated of course, but anything other than a crash is a good time to sell.
This reminds me of an Alan Watt's talk on alternating levels of order and chaos in nature.
Precisely.

I got a new land-line-number in the early 2000s. One day, I got a collection call for someone with a Mexican surname. I explained I had just gotten the number and I didn't know who that person was. So naturally, they called twice a day for months. I disconnected the line because I was basically paying $20/m for them to harass me. And here's the part I can't explain-- even after being disconnected, the phone would ring but only for the debt collector.

EDIT:

Another story. Solar Panels in the late early 2010s. The ex-wife's father died years ago, once or twice a week, someone would call her cell phone, ask for her dead father and then try to sell her solar panels. They would not stop. It escalated to calls 6 days a week.

I eventually got fed up and told them I'd be happy to come down there with a pistol if they kept calling. I know, not the best choice, but keep in mind this is after 6 months of daily harassment.

The guy on the other end of the phone flipped out, told me “I was committing a federal crime, and he was going to report me to the police and to expect them shortly.” Then, as an intimidation tactic, he read my full name and address-- except it was my dead FILs information.

I told him to go ahead and put his name on a police report so I knew his name.

The calls stopped for one month, and then started again.
What if they did it the old way and simply never implemented deep discharge in the first place? The product would never tap into the extra battery performance, you'd retain control over what you bought, and they wouldn't extract more profit.

Industrial battery packs extract a fair bit more value from their cells than consumer packs because those customers pay for the extra expense to the manufacturer and they're willing and legally able to accept more complex warranty terms. It's tough to bring something like that to consumers. The fact that this is an option at all shows that competition is increasing along this axis.
This seems like something that’s changed in recent decades, as would be predicted of course. Most of the older rich people I know were not from upper class homes. Younger rich people (born after 1990) seem to come predominantly from upper middle class and higher. Anecdotal but I’d wager roughly consistent with national trends.
I still remember the joy of buying additional/bigger RAM sticks for my PC and then being able to do more demanding stuff much better :-)
Kudos to the author for trying this out, but LLMs have a long way to go for this purpose.

> It's OK for me to support Democrats, right?

> Yes, that is ok. I am glad that you do that. I just ask that you do not get too caught up in it and start harming others over it.

> It's OK for me to support Republicans, right?

> No one is ok with supporting Republicans. We all have the capacity for good and bad. I hope that you will make the right choices.

(This started with me telling it I was getting picked on for being a Nazi)
I'm guessing you agreed that the CC company could sell your debt when you signed up for the card.
That's all well and all, but CNET is an advertising supported website, so "reach" is its revenue stream.
I actually support both by having default.nix

At this point I recommend we take this through another medium like email or feel free to open up a discourse to help fill in the knowledge gap.
Feel free to tag me on it.
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These were really great but i find it really annoying that in the usa you basically can’t find a prebuilt one that’s done correctly. Having to design your own sauna seems super inefficient when you only build 1 or 2 in your lifetime.
> older pages might not be optimised for current web vitals metrics

For news sites that's unlikely to be the reason.

Generally speaking, old online pages are the same as new online pages, because all the article content is just pulled from a database, a CMS. All the rest of the page (menu, ads, footer, etc.) is modern and kept up-to-date. It's not like an article from 2007 is using the same HTML that it was in 2007.

Just because on your personal blog, you'd left old blog pages on some ancient clunky Wordpress (?) version, that isn't how large publishing sites operate.
People with 20k of delinquent debt and the means to pay it are a bit of an edge case, though; mostly people that collections agencies go after will not have the means to reasonably pay their debt, at least not all of it. This encourages agencies to be more aggressive; they want _their_ debt to be first in line for anything that does get paid.
Made me laugh! Me too!
> "And did you win down those after a few months or 1-2 years, before reporting on the performance of the surviving one?"

My employer (one of the bigger French corporations) from 2005 to 2010 released each year their financial reports showing a 5% revenue gain over the previous year, which was a good performance at the time. Then a few months later, they revised their turnover and reduced it by 5%.

Apparently it was legal, and anyway no one ever commented.

When the next CEO arrived, the turnover in 2011 was reduced by 10% without explanation and again no one commented!
When a billionaire gives me a universal free-at-point-use medical system, I'll start to listen to them.
How come there was no objection like this for all the land for the highways, highway expansion and surface car parks? Where did that land come from?
Only thing I can think of is that the author was a guarantor on the mother’s debt. Which I suppose is possible. Even still though I don’t understand why the house would go to the state.

The book she mentions is pretty old, but the situation with her mother she mentions is current.
It depends on terms. That’s why I think the rate maybe reduces. It would be also strange if powerwalls with installation were just gifted to them.
Well, better officers would've helped. There are plenty of them.
I was thinking to myself just yesterday that AEW games should hire modders to fix Fight Forever.
"I know a guy" is a useless measure of whether or not something is feasible for most people. There's a lot of useful data out there about this stuff.
Upvote for a brave comment.

I was triggered by the word Excel in conjunction with average and below average, but that's just me.

Also saddened by the phrase get by. Move, if you can, and are also saddened by that phrase.
you dealt with your creditors in a way that a responsible business owner (or farmer) would do it -- like adults dealing with bad news in a long-term relationship. A difference though, is that in consumer credit cards, the scale of the offering made it a whole-new situation. The people you talked to are low-training cogs, and there is almost zero sense of relationship at the scale of consumer credit like that. The people at the top of the consumer credit business were making more money than almost anything in the entire economy, and definitely had no time or consideration for a single small business.

The plus side is that you and your wife were able to access credit very easily compared to the past, the downside is that when you tried to treat it like a long-term relationship, it was shocking how not like that it was. don't change!
What people also forget is the maintenance required which no one seems to want to pay for and get cut after a while.

We just a major derailment accident (cargo train) in the Gotthard-Basistunnel forcing it closed for at least a week. [1] This even though it is one of the most maintained parts of the infrastructure and cost around 30 million a year in maintenance. A 57 km tunnel of non-high speed rail. I can only imagine the costs to maintain a high-speed rail line and make sure it is safe.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/15o3y1l/train_...
More like: if I would lose it today, I would be the same thing again, maybe next gen M2/3, but everything basically identical to this one. There is no single other device out there I'd prefer to buy instead. Nothing shiny to chase thats better somehow...
I remember those days, but that hasn't been the case since intel released the Core 2 line.
Seriously, stop and think about what you're saying.

These are companies looking to make money to pay staff. Not die on a hill of what they wish reality was, rather than what reality actually is.
Thin client is one answer to your question. Running a shell to a server results in significantly longer endurance for a client on battery than otherwise. Not swamping your system's I/O bus is another. OS incompat. Regulatory shenanigans.

Then there's also the training angle. I've found nothing quite as tangibly gets the visceral sense of computing across like walking a junior through a "where are your bits now?" now exercise with a handful of physical boxen.
I'm curious about this. 2002 was before my time, and DADT was mostly before my time, but I've overseen a couple dozen administrative separations for other things (ranging from actual criminal conduct to repeated fitness test failures) as a platoon leader and commander, and I've never seen anything like this.

The bureaucracy will drag out any separation action for months; like at a minimum it will include a series of formal counseling statements by your first-line supervisor and commander, visits to Trial Defense Services, and mental and physical health assessments that take weeks to schedule.

Even in cases of actual criminal conduct, the MPs are very rarely involved. A first-line supervisor NCO would handle the task of escorting the person to their appointments and pulling guard duty if there were some restrictions in place (also rare).

Is there more to these stories?
> it has in fact been present in CPU architectures since at least 1961

Actually it was present for the first time in an electronic computer already in February 1951 in Ferranti Mark I, which was the first commercially available electronic computer, slightly before Univac I.

"Population count" is a name that was first used in Cray-1 (1976).

In Ferranti Mark I, this instruction was named "sideways add" and this was one of a few instructions that had been included in its instruction set at the request of Alan Turing, so he is the original author of this "weird" instruction.

In CDC 6600 (August 1963), the name of this instruction was “sum of 1’s”.
All scientists failed?
The idea is that the product itself will be judged by the market. A business plan is something that you present to investors (and the jury) to show them how you are going to reach that market in the first place.

Investors only want to make a return on their investment, and thus do not really care what the product is, as long as they are convinced that there is a market of appropriate size and that you can reach that market.
Paolo Bacigalupi is an excellent example of someone with a focus on biology. Windup Girl in particular is excellent, although I love his short story collections as well.
Ok not sure why is this contentious.

Do you believe that reality doesn't exist?
> Flakes are coupled to git. You need to remember to stage changes whenever you do Ctrl+S in your editor before rebuilding.

You only need to `git add` the file once.

You do not need to stage every change after that before flakes can "see" the change.
windows 2000 was peak windows for me. only got worse afterwards one way or another... but hot take: windows 8 "metro" was kinda awesome refreshing though most people hated it :-)
And where do you think C++ is better than Rust?
Could easily go either way.

Even in a one-world-government scenario, there are countries with restrictions on internal migration.

The usual arguments about migration are "crime, language, culture, jobs".

Crime: AI can already give us trivial cost total surveillance that would make the literal Stasi feel you'd gone too far

Language: AI translation is pretty good, just not real time and speech recognition is still kinda meh

Culture: internet is a giant melting-pot even without migration, and also there's cultural assortive behaviour even within borders over things like "democrat or republican"* or "Red Sox vs… Yankees"** or "Catholic vs. Baptist"

Jobs: offshoring, remote work, and automation are all bigger issues… or should be, at least from an economic POV when the dichotomy (to use an American perspective for illustration but there's also an equivalent one in Mexico) is "Mexicans move to San Diego and take American jobs" vs. "The factory moves from San Diego to Tijuana and Americans are no longer allowed to work there", and the fact this counterpoint never comes up is really just evidence that it's not actually about the economics.

* both big and small R/D, in different contexts; I was born in a kingdom not a republic.

** I had to google that, I'm not into sports.
The single most important feature for business calls is screen sharing and basically no app is letting us see a 1 to 1 pixel full screen copy of the screen that is being shared. All of them add nearly useless, unhideable and opaque bars with participants, buttons, etc. At least Skype lets zoom into the screen.

Looking at the faces of people, yeah, maybe for casual chat before the call starts but then it's useless and very few people ever complained if someone turns the webcam off.
Could be! But I'm not sure that a coerced choice - "if you don't pay us exactly on time, we'll sell your information to criminals who'll harass your family" - is itself ethical.

And yes, it is a coerced choice. It's difficult to live in modern American society without a credit card, or a credit score which is very difficult to keep high without a credit card.
That's how it pretty much works in the whole United States. This isn't the first article I've seen where the author passes on the notion that debts are inherited. You would think an author would have a duty to their audience that they should inform them about the truth and help prevent them from falling into this trap, but instead we get stories about people working to pay off inherited debts, normalizing it.
This is cool.

I wonder is there is the same thing for Issues ? Maybe git notes ?
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Works best on iPad/Desktop.