skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did address those earlier in terms of association, I'm not sure if I understand the aggressive tone of this response however, or of a few of the assumptions in it. A few other people have made similar points about this culture as well.
Welcome to the NYT, a rag that’s been largely irrelevant for the past decade at minimum.
> JavaScript (and typescript) prefers them. Is it because of a convention or it really has advantages?

There are some slight differences: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I believe the reason arrow functions are prefered in his is because of the way `this` is handled: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Light is clearly necessary, but is it sufficient?
Yes, but I meant the trend set by Vision Pro may spill over to similar (commodity) hardware, and we may need to interact with 3D Linux “desktop” in the future.
Just curious, why you hate QR code system ?
This feels like a needlessly unkind and uncharitable response to someone pondering something.
I've used currying in the past but these articles don't really make you tick at all as they introduce the concept first, which doesn't mean anything until you realize you actually need it to solve a problem you may encounter but examples also doesn't really feel like it's usable in day to day code.

I've used it to keep specific variable assigned on a function for later use such as for asynchronous functions which you'll lose the current state without saving it somehow such as by currying.
I'm using https://Kadoa.com to generate scrapers for any job source in seconds, which removes the bottleneck of having to write and maintain custom code for ever source.
Högertrafikomläggningen – September 3, 1967
My naive mind thought "wow I would love to go visit this city, how has no one recommended this to me yet?"

Then the 500-year spoiler hit, and I lamented the loss of a culture I never knew. A city in a lake, covered in tarmac.
I can see the convenience of sort of importing implementations of traits into scope. One difficulty is that traits are used for core functionality, like dereferencing and comparison operators. It would be inconvenient to have to import the implementations to do these basic things and confusing if some commonly used types could have their basic behavior dramatically changed. Maybe that could be solved by choosing some traits that are more central and preventing them from being switched out by importation, so you couldn't for instance change what `==` does to a pair of `f64`s.
How is that better than alt+tab? Do you really benefit from being able to see both at the same time if you have to constantly adjust the scrolling manually? My intuition is that tiling is that scrolling negates any benefit tiling had, since it reintroduces the mouse as a core aspect of window navigation.
You can't define the scope/reassignmentability with latter use.
For a personal Google One subscription, prepayment is definitely not available. You can be billed monthly or annually. Naturally, this is "pay in advance" so if you pay on October 1, your subscription lasts through October 31.

A few months ago, I canceled my subscription, and when I tried to re-enable autopay for it, I found that I could not, even though banner messages claimed I could. It turned out that I could not, in fact, re-subscribe until after the subscription had lapsed on its expiration day! I had no trouble doing that, and now, autopay is re-enabled for next year, but it sure was stress-inducing to just watch it expire.
> Why is discord any different than other platforms like office365 or AWS? Do you feel the same about companies using those platforms as well?

The difference is that Microsoft and AWS don't take on an active role in moderating what happens between the company and its users.

But yes, in a way they are similar and I do feel uneasy each time we take on a dependency on some AWS-specific feature where we could easily have build the component to be independent.

No one else seems to care though. Even worse, the CEO wants us to dig deep into AWS, because that somehow will make the customers trust us more.
I'm kind of surprised they didn't pivot when they had some success and make that multi-million dollar bid for stack.com. It's actually refreshing to see them sticking to their guns and keeping going with stripe.
Price can vary across the Eurozone; check other countries?
How the entire nation of Sweden switched from driving on the left side of the road (like UK, Japan, etc.) to driving on the right in a single day.
The most impressive con is how you think you know what's better for people down South than they do.
UPI is an impressive system, I use it often and it is quite empowering for billions of Indians.

But calling it the "best payment system in the world"! And west wants it so bad sounds like blind exaggerations.

United States is not the only western country. Scandinavian countries has Swish (2012), Vipps (2013), and Mobile pay (2015), Canada has Interac.
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Almost each and every concern is applicable to VISA/Mastercard system too. UPI is just another alternative who isn't a member of that elite card system club but one who has carved a niche of their own.
That completely side steps the question at hand. You, a citizen of an authoritarian regime, are banned from doing transactions and participating in the economy because you are a dissident or not vaccinated or whatever. Why would that ban not also include cash and crypto transactions?
QEMU does something like this in TCG code when running in icount mode.
The story should end there. However, we'd separately come up with the name "PayDemon" and had already purchased both paydemon.com and paydaemon.com (we just couldn't let go of our UNIX references, apparently). Despite being so common, the word "Stripe" was interestingly free of any existing brand associations. And everything it evoked was at least vaguely positive — racing stripes, striping across a RAID array, the magnetic stripe on a card. But we had to decide whether a nice name was worth the price we'd have to pay, whereas we'd already spent the $20 to register our PayDemon domains.

paydaemon.com seems like it would be an awesome domain for a directory of BSD operating system projects in need of funding. "BSD is free, but it can be much better if you pay the daemon!"
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For reference, the terminology they use for their API is "guilds." But since most other services in the space used the term "servers" (e.g. TeamSpeak and Mumble, where they were actual distinct servers), I can see why the UI doesn't say guilds.
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You're right. But if you enter 0.3 on average over 28 questions and the actual number of true answers differ by a lot from 8 then you have learned your general sense of GPT-4s abilities is uncalibrated.
> No, I'd say X11 wasn't designed to be run on the network

That's very wrong, the whole point was to run over the network.

It worked exceedingly well even in the earliest 90s (modulo bandwidth expectations of the time) and continues to work wonderfully 30+ years later.
I was in Lao as a tourist late last year. I was able to link the QR payment system (Loca) to my international Mastercard.
I'd like to create it in the future, but I can share a rough version of what I have. Basically, as long as you gain more information than noise by scaling your experiments down (i.e., the smaller models create similar directions in the needle), then it's easier to run lots of experiments, and much more cheaply oftentimes too. Remember that performance oftentimes runs on a log(1+p) curve in terms of cost/time/complexity vs reward.

If you write your codebases to minimize the expected time to make a particular change (fewer files, simpler proxy problem [as long as it transfers to your larger-scale problem!], more 'flat' structure, simple dataloaders, etc), then that is extremely valuable as well. What you are optimizing is the average time from idea-to-answer.

What is nice is that experiments go from strongly-planned, biased (from human beliefs, etc) things to a more high-variance process where there isn't as much requirement to double-and-triple check everything before running it. There is often an _extremely_ poor mismatch between the very first impression of what many of us think will work and will not and what actually works when the dust settles. Sorta like how SGD bounces around the loss landscape before settling in.

One thing that also is easier with fast experiments is to make the 'opposite' change if a planned change doesn't work out well, just to see how it goes. A tiny thing, but if you're going sequentially instead of batched (in terms of batched experiments) it can be useful.

I use as few libraries as possible. A lot of the bulky monitoring solutions can be good for some enterprise things, I don't find they're good for innovating, but instead, integrating. You innovate on small test problems that are appropriately representative. When done, you integrate and see what difference it makes.

Doing dumb things is one of the best ways to learn. Having access to everything to be able to print it out/log it/look at it in a chart is great too.

But everything is bottlenecked by speed. Increase your experiment speed, where (critically!) your speed includes the time from idea to first answer coming back (and not just plain ol' runtime), and you'll find oftentimes it's easy to get 5-10x research speed improvements. We just don't do research all that efficiently these days, I don't think. But we can. And I'm sure we will, eventually. :3

There are a few things like scaling that can be difficult, but math is still math, and if you pick your proxies right, it should be an explored-translation-step after the proxy problem behaves as well as it is reasonably able. And if you have a secondary, slightly larger proxy problem, that's an even better thing in my experience, since it prevents the sticker shock of broken graphs and things failing for an unknown reason. All about how well you can pass the peach from one person to another. :')))) <3 <3 :')))) :'D :'D
Others have the system but is it as good and seamless as the Indian one?
One neat OLE object (btw this works even in Windows 10 - i don't know about 11) is the "package" which allows you to embed any file as an OLE object. So basically you can drop an image file, PDF, video, program or anything else in WordPad and it'll put an icon representing it that if the user double clicks it'd be equivalent to them doubleclicking a file.

Of course most of the time it isn't very practical (and WordPad chokes at anything above a handful of MB) since you're making a bad archive file (using the default .rtf format will encode the binary data in hex which will actually increase file size), but i always liked how general the idea was.

(also it isn't limited to WordPad but to anything that uses OLE - e.g. you could do the same with Delphi which has a "OLE object" control that can embed any OLE object and the object becomes part of the executable - so you could, say, throw a PDF file in a package OLE object in a form and when the user doubleclicks it the control opens the default PDF viewer)
VSCode does have autosave, it's under the "Save on delay" dropdown.
Ah man I totally forgot about this!

From Wikipedia: "The Windows 3.1 version of Cardfile was included with Windows 95, 98, and ME, but not installed by default. For the later two versions of Windows, the user would have to manually copy the Cardfile application from the Windows install CD in order to use the application."
I pay by upi multiple times a day and haven’t had a single instance of a bad QR code.
In 2019 it was gaining traction, as the article shows the volume of transactions were around 1 billion per month in March 2019.
How is this original work? I bet you can find 100 implementations of some kind of recursive summarization memory for LLMs on Github, one of them on mine.
Related. Others?

A digital payments revolution in India - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36011978 - May 2023 (165 comments)

Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35440608 - April 2023 (142 comments)

Why peer to peer digital payment system UPI should remain free in India - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32821955 - Sept 2022 (41 comments)

India leaps ahead on payments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31970992 - July 2022 (4 comments)

UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24094323 - Aug 2020 (178 comments)
Yep, graphile-worker seems to be so generally good that you can implement very robust pipelines with it also.

I think graphile-worker as temporal.io 's little sibling.
P.S. Auto-heading is a setting (I turned it off).
They don't help you do that, even though poor non-technical managers might think they do. That's why good software projects don't use them. I don't see any story ticket velocity points used in Linux kernel development.

You can't estimate non-trivial software, and if you are doing trivial predictable work, you should be automating it, not endlessly estimating it.

I didn't say I would "deliver" anything. It's done when it's done. You can't predict the outcome of a software project. Many of them fail and micromanagement makes them more likely to fail.
> Searle's main point is that if I have a book that tells me how to respond and I never learn Chinese, then I do not understand Chinese. If you see a flaw in this reasoning, I am very interested.

You don't understand Chinese, but you are not the process. For the process to understand, it doesn't require any single component to understand like some variation on the homunculus.

And while it might seem obvious that the bulk of understanding can't be contained in a book, you don't really have a book in the Chinese room. Not if the room does a competent job. You have some kind of information-dense artifact that encodes an enormous understanding of Chinese in an inert form. A sweeping library that covers uncountable nuances in depth.

Or to phrase it as a direct attack on the argument: The book does have semantics. You don't need qualia to have semantics, especially not the definition of qualia where nobody can prove they exist.
Don't confuse the check wielding Americans for the "west", for example Sweden/Norway/Finland has similar systems named Swish/Vipps/MobilePay (Phone number based with scannable QR codes,etc) that's taken over between people and smaller merchants (even young people organizing raves use Swish payments on-site despite it being potentially traceable) and the banks/companies involved in those services are now in the process of building cross-national support that probably will let other countries join soon.

I think the main takeaway is that phones and capable app ecosystems was a "hidden" disruption enabler vis-a-vis the traditional credit card processing companies that various actors in various countries has taken advantage of now, the big question is if/when they will make this internationally interoperable (considering the trouble foreigners in Sweden has with being excluded from these "easy" payments that at best requires a card or at worst cash it's an area that needs fixing).
ha, thanks for the detailed explanation. I thought it was just amusing, and I never expected to learn more about how HN works :-p

HN is far more complex than I had thought.
GPL (I'm not talking about AGPL) only forces you to publish the sources if the binary would be published. If you don't have the program you don't have a right to the source.
Fully connected neural networks are hierarchies of logistic regression nodes. Transformers are networks of SVM nodes. I guess we can expect networks of other kinds of classifiers in the future. Perhaps networks of Decision Tree nodes? Mix and match?
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Not sure if it predates Stripe, but there's another payments company called Square. They do the little square (get it?) credit card readers that people plug into their phones' headphones jack if they have, like, a booth at the farmer's market or whatever.

I'm actually not sure how those work now that 3.5mm jacks are critically endangered. Probably in the USB/Lightning port instead?
Unless you're on sunos...
Another tutorial. "Bezier Curves from the Ground Up": https://jamie-wong.com/post/bezier-curves/
I think your quote is from a different answer than Greg's (https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name/a...), which was the submitted URL.

Unfortunately our software replaced it with the generic https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name/ because that's what Quora is listing as the canonical URL. We've corrected this in the submission link above. Sorry for the confusion!
Cruise did provide video evidence, mentioned in this article, though the contents were not described. A NY Times article on the same subject described the content of the video here (gift link):https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/technology/driverless-car...
Not sure about US, here in Germany, I really love the tap-pay(NFC based) usually everywhere(except some random kebab shops). It simply works regardless of me having an Android/iPhone or simply just a the nfc enabled card.

I don’t need to open another account, fumble with one-more-app or anything. Also apple-pay appears to mask my CC/DC number as well, so better safety.

I want it everywhere badly in west as well as east and middle(-east).

I am familiar with UPI and few similar things in other neighbouring countries(looks like every SEA country has its own entirely different version of it and some country has almost 4-6 competing copy-cats!).
Hyperplanes is all you need
The reviewers are from Germany so I checked the Germany price which is similar, or even lower, to most other Eurozone countries.
Nice to see number of levels of reasoning depth mentioned. I personally believe the size of a (well-trained) LLM determines how many steps of reasoning in sequence it can approximate. Newer models get deeper and deeper, giving them deeper reasoning context windows. My hypothesis is that you don't need infinite reasoning depth, just a bit more than GPT-4 has. I think once you can tie your output together with thinking in terms of ~10+ reasoning steps you'll be very close to hunan performance.
I think your comment comes off as "concern trolling" whether you intended it to be or not. And indeed we are now off the topic and discussing "going brr" instead of the subject.
Mental Models of On-Call
Oh swish is traceable and actively monitored. A few college friends of mine were organizing a party and they all chipped in a 100 kr to one guy (about 25 individuals) who got a call the next day from his bank for suspicious activity.
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Haven’t they been made obsolete a decade ago by ‘tap to pay’ or chip-card systems? I know in The Netherlands I haven't seen a magnetic stripe payment system since 2012.
>I dislike the idea of a taskbar. It takes screen real estate that would be better used by apps

Since the very beginning in Windows 95 the taskbar has had an "auto hide" mode if that is your concern. For the vast majority of users, having a consistent present launcher and switcher is important, as seeing a screen with no button to switch apps would be incredibly confusing.
The industry standard for SPE is moving towards a transformer as well, because to get 1,5kV in isolation from a capacitor requires large components. A transformer is a lot smaller and provides common mode rejection.
Bluetooth

https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/7948-identify-your-s...
"PyPI is growing fast. If this dangerous expansion not stopped, our advanced machine learning models predict that in only 8 years the number of packages will outnumber human beings."

This is one of the funniest things I've read all week.
There are multi-million dollar domains [1], but stack.com, especially assuming no significant existing traffic, doesn't seem like it would rank that high as compared to these. Maybe it would be worth tens or hundreds of thousands, but such a high ball starting price is going to end negotiations before they begin.

[1] https://www.godaddy.com/resources/skills/the-top-20-most-exp...
you would be correct. :)
Depends on what you mean. Instant transfers up to €100k work in Europe's SEPA (and you can indeed use a QR to encode the transfer information with most bank apps, I think). And there is of course the usual contact-less payment stuff at merchants.
Swish has 3 ways:

1: You follow a link on your phone that opens the app, you're prompted with the transaction sum and then sign with a code on the phone and done.

2: You scan a QR code (from sign or screen), opens a prompt in app for the sum, sign and done

3: Person-to-person, you enter their phone number(often from the phone book), amount and message, sign and done.

The signing is done via the standard app that's also used to login to the tax-office,etc so the entire population has it.
I'm not into ML at all, and this was the first idea I had when I learned about the limitations of the context length. Even commented on it here[1] some time later.

Of course, it's one thing to have a good idea, another is to actually implement it well...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531771
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> If this dangerous expansion not stopped, our advanced machine learning models predict that in only 8 years the number of packages will outnumber human beings.

Incredibly there seems to be no sign yet of an S-curve type saturation (which would be only normal at this point of the Python hype cycle).

Would be interesting to control by repeating the analysis with other languages to see if that exponential growth is Python specific or really the exponential growth of all open source

Maybe publish in JOSS?
And plain text editors are alternatives to rtf supporting richtext editors how exactly?
I’ve built one of these before as a way of learning NextJS.

One challenge I had was because it was a web app, it acted weirdly compared to if I had done it as a native app.

You say you want to move from the monitor and relax the brain but your timer will not run if I turn off my phone screen and do something else (tested this btw). How do you plan on fixing that? I ask this because when I did it, I managed time client side so super curious what you would do.
I actually don't have the problem of lack of accountability or responsibility.

I also don't see how it relates to long term learning and efforts that make achievements such as acing college possible. The kinds of achievements that require long term discipline and work ethics.
I don't know about averages, but I have known a cop who got into it for the sake of law and order, and promptly left after seeing how things were done. It must vary widely depending on the management, like any bureaucracy.
The name Square is extra genius because it also means “all debts settled”, like “After this final payment the two of us will be square.”
Why the hell would a HashMap use a cryptographically secure hash?
> Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever.

Other people can pick up the baton. For example my window manager of choice is Window Maker which was abandoned for literally years (fortunately since the underlying tech doesn't change every other month, it still kept working) before someone else it picked it up and nowadays there are a few developers working on it.

> If it was open source, the odds are no one would care to take over maintenance (though they could) since it’s basically redundant at this point.

When Microsoft opensourced winfile[0] (the file manager from Win3.x/NT 3.x) some developers did flock to it (i personally even added a small feature to allow for multiple file masks which was merged), so i'm pretty sure the same would happen for an opensourced wordpad.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile