skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, the focus is not on science fiction.

Most users probably come over from https://www.gnod.com after discovering one of the other recommendation projects. The music one is pretty popular. Or they come via googling for "author recommendation engine" or something like that.

Clarke is at position 293:

...
#292 John Flanagan
#293 Arthur Charles Clarke
#294 Augusten Burroughs
...
Important note on Australia - FB only made a deal with the biggest companies, Murdochs, who was using the government to apply the pressure. Independent publishers, etc got dropped like a hot stone.
> The study indicates that if objects are larger than
one megabyte on average, the file system has a clear
advantage. If the objects are under 256 kilobytes, the
database has a clear advantage. Inside this range, it
depends on how write intensive the workload is, and
the storage age of a typical replica in the system.

1. It's not clear why didn't they considered benchmarking various Object Storage systems?

2. Local filesystems are problematic for clustered / distributed systems. That would require shared drives like SAMBA or network filesystem like NFS, at this point a real Object Storage like S3, minio or Swift is a mach better alternative.
Maybe its forward thinking of the ML folk to create big data to train the models that will replace them
> UPI is directly connected to your bank account. It does not go through VISA, Mastercard or whatever.

This is technically incorrect. UPI is connected to NPCI, which runs the platform and charges the participating banks for this service. Same for RuPay cards by NPCI.
Short of full-blown prototype boards (ESP32 ecosystem) and dev environments (Apple ecosystem), are there any modern day consumer-facing devices running on an obscure platform that also come with a hidden layer of an SDK?

I am thinking of the Cybiko, but that’s also contemporary to the Timex watch.
Maybe pick a cheaper provider such as digital ocean for managed k8s?
Maybe like a super versatile trackball? Just guessing here.
Blow is a smart guy who thinks he's far smarter and far more interesting than he really is. Smart people who don't seek out feedback, and especially those who haven't worked in a team environment, tend to be pretty bad at estimating the limit of their capabilities.

Does Blow have a mentor? Friends who call his BS out?
People are already free not to learn anything in the schools they are forced to attend. Many take that option.

I know noting about DraftKings, but if they would choose to offer an education option that people like, who am I to judge?

What makes you think they would be able to offer an appealing education option?

(And: I sense some sarcasm here. So to pre-empt that: what makes you think people would eg rather study at DraftKing where you imply they don't learn anything, compared to not waste time and money on studying anything at all?

Ie how would DraftKing be better than literally nothing for people who don't want an education in the first place?)
Study: No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming
I like the order of starting with preposterous things and finally arriving at present day just to realize it's just as bad.
Some sellers don't have a smartphone/screen and rely on the honesty of the user (they just ask to show them the receipt). I don't know how they manage their wallet though (maybe their kid or a friend?).
According to here: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/money-and-banking/npci-...

Doesn’t apply for transactions less than ₹2000 ($24 usd). Might sound like a small amount but most Indian transactions won’t cross that. And the fee doesn’t apply to p2p anyway.
I think for this price you can built a much better PC.
I read the article, and it seemed like the driverless car companies were reporting every accident no matter how minor (as they should). I don't know what it's like in the USA but where I live in Australia I know people don't report accidents that need only low costs repairs. It's just not worth the excess insurance payment + the increased insurance premiums.

I have no idea what that ratio of unreported accidents are, but my wild guess is it would be over 50%. I can't remember when my wife last had an insurance claim, but the number of chunks has in the side walls of her tyres (and the gouges on the rims) tell their own story. When I was younger, I recall boy racing and hitting some gravel. The car ended up in the bush but miraculously avoided hitting anything too solid.

If indeed the driver less cars are reporting every incident and they are using insurance claims or worse police reports to measure human diving performance, it ain't a fair comparison.
There's not much wrong with the government still setting standard and curricula, as long as they don't force them on anyone, and as long as they don't waste too much taxpayer money on the whole endeavor.
It’s an important question because “digital freedom” tends to be code for “I want the Internet like how it was when I was younger”, and then throw in some stuff about jailbreaking iPhones or whatever for good measure.
> This paper suggests there might be a more fundamental underlying issue with such policies: they may be ineffective at causing intended changes to behaviour. This finding has important implications for the regulation of online gaming across the world. In analogous domains such as gambling, pornography and nicotine use, restriction of online youth access via mandatory bans has been associated with substantial regulatory escape. Here we show that a similar phenomenon may be occurring in the video game domain as well
I'm not an expert in this, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable can weight in - but SVMs are understood much better from the perspective over overfitting and things like the VC bound - while Transformers are not really understood as well. From what I remember it's quite easy to have a SVM overfit, while Transformers have fewer issues. It'd be interesting to understand why

So if the two are somehow connected, then that could have implications for tuning and fighting overfitting

maybe it'd also be possible to design better non-overfitting SVMs
Glad you like it!

Yes, there are a lot of directions the project could evolve into. I have many ideas in a list. Finding a better business model than ads would be a good first step I think.
For me it was 50/50 too. But this launched very recently. Here to hoping they fix their system.
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> The government aggressively manages the system to prevent any single company from getting too much weight and forces them to address scams or other system occurs in almost real time by the threat of being thrown off the rails.

It’s actually shocking that only a few years ago RBI was concerned about concentration risk of having NPCI (the platform operator of UPI) and invited proposals from banks and companies for NUE (New Umbrella Entity) licenses. Then something changed and it canceled all those proposals.

NPCI has a monopoly on instant fund transfers (leaving aside the RBI run RTGS). NPCI wants to limit concentration risk among its clients by trying to push for lower market share among competitors within its platform, like Google Pay or WhatsApp Pay.

As for scams, there are plenty of them on UPI every single day, and there’s no way to get any fraudulently transferred funds back without filing a police complaint and waiting for them to do their jobs (and greasing their palms depending on the amount for the job to be done).
Many users do. That’s why you can still upvote old stories and comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28816697
I mean, all you need to do is make it so that it violates some kind of “integrity” protection on the device, after which banking apps, android wallet etc stop functioning.

Its enough incentive to kill third party app stores for the vast majority of people.

Staying within the letter of the law is pretty easy.
"the rest of the planet" doesnt accept visa/Mastercard just anywhere and certainly not amex.
In e.g. The Netherlands, mostly cashless society now, creditcards are hardly ever used by locals and so many POS won't have the infra to accept CC payments.

The world is not the US and the US isn't the world.
The Killer in Suite 104
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/logarithmize
World Records per Exercise: Push-Ups, Squats, Dead Hangs, etc.
Tell me about it! I accidentally let [my first name].au lapse. Shitty registrar, all that was available during the initial .au sale period, their renewal emails went to spam. Whatever. I still get that it’s all “on me” and someone has the right to register an expired domain. I don’t have a common first name. The other .au derivatives of my first name are silly early Internet era sites for local businesses that probably barely exist anymore. I know what the market is like for my first name on most public namespaces. Alas, a squatter wants several thousand dollars for it. I didn’t bother responding to the email. They’ll hopefully realise that they’ve bought a dud and let it go.
Can confirm from personal experience: in standby mode with infrequent app usage it was clocking a good 4 weeks.
Accidents and health problems are not completely predictable for an individual, but the rates are for different groups of people. As long as it’s within their power to choose, they should accept the consequences that come with their choices.

If all your neighbors play extreme sports or drive drunk all the time, would you like to pay the same premium as they do in the same insurance pool?

It’s an established practice for insurance companies to use statistics to charge a higher premium for some groups, eg young male drivers, even if many in such a group have a safe lifestyle. If they use a finer grained model, then it’s more fair to people who make a safer life choice.

The profits are largely orthogonal to whether they use a coarse or fine grained statistical model, but more about the level of competition in a given market. Over time, companies using a fairer model might win over the competition, all else being equal.
Turing machines can also be used as universal function approximators. But I'm not sure it makes sense to put them in the same category as the other two.
> Chrome drops official support for Linux, citing the impossibility to satisfy Web Environment Integrity (WEI) checks

Nah, the whole point of kernel_lockdown and uefi attestation is so they can roll out WEI without having to do this.

Of course compiling your own kernel, or doing anything else interesting, will break the WEI checks as well as break most of the web...
Which begs the question, what would a good investigation look like here? Why is this important? Who are the actors? How can we know their end goals and strategies? What things have happened in the past that we can predict will be attempted again in the future?
I don't buy this, because the user did not read the agreement, and did not have a real choice to reject it. Without choice, and without clear agreement and understanding of the terms, there can be no consent.

But I agree with you that this abuse is a symptom of proprietary software.
https://glitchgallery.org/mountains-of-sierpnonski/

Looks like an artwork, I'd order a poster
there are still traces left there. Even thought they suffered a cruel fate no doubt, you experience much more of the original culture in Mexico than say in CA, where all this stuff just vanished (or wasnt as big to begin with). And the Yucatan for example is still populated to a large degree by the same people as before, with their own language. Love to visit.
An international driver license is not an id. It can be used to show to local law enforcement what vehicles you are allowed to drive. To use it you must have the original driver license with you too
You could also describe a hyperplane as the set of solutions of a system of linear equations.
I could care less
Part of the magic is how bonkers frugal the Epson SoC (PN S1C88349) is: when running at a low-power mode at 32kHz, it consumes an astoundingly low 9 microamps. [1] How much do you think you could get done with a cycle budget of 32k per second?

That, and alongside 48K ROM and 2K RAM, you get 3 timers, a UART, and an A/D converter.
[1] https://global.epson.com/products_and_drivers/semicon/pdf/id...
I don’t usually worry about misspellings, my spelling and typing isn’t great, but it seems like here particularly Site instead of Cite as in citing a source is painfully common.
Show HN: Learn Python’s more advanced features by tinkering with demo snippets
Or pay $2 for a legal copy (and get Ultima Underworld 2 included as well):
https://www.gog.com/en/game/ultima_underworld_1_2
> Why is discord any different than other platforms like office365 or AWS?

It is different. Really

Discord seems run by people with a vague understanding of security, attack vectors, let alone security best practices.

(or maybe they are heavily biased towards the gaming audience - but regardless)
I'd say it's because the US can get cheap stuff from Mexico, and corporations can take advantage of incredibly lax (absent?) labour laws to get things done quickly and cheaply.
Open source screw counting machine
Also provides a career entry point and promotion path for junior DJs?
Yes, this explains why Wordpad seemed like a wrapper for OS-level text controls and views. This is like any PDF viewer on Mac OS now.
Impressive numbers... and site name: "gymless" :)
Knowing EU it could be altered to "Google removes the ability to install non-sanctioned alternative stores which don't have strict content filtering and anti-piracy policies, as per the EU directive" while preserving the (high) level of plausibility.
I don't think it's a values problem. The technical issues here are complex. Can you explain bootloader locking or remote attestation to your grandmother?

Personally I think a better approach is to push the phrase "right to recycle and repurpose" as much as possible. People get that. Everybody personally has seen the unsettling amount of e-waste that passes through their ownership and into a landfill somewhere.

Right to repair isn't enough, because these restrictions don't block you from keeping things working the way they did when you bought the device. Recycling and repurposing is something everybody can understand. It answers the question of "wait don't only evil hackers care about that?"
Forcing people to peer and forcing people not to peer are as fundamentally different as the bill of rights and the death penalty. One keeps communication channels open, the other closes them.

I choose what you frame as might lead to totalitarianism over being in totalitarianism any day of the week. The moment it becomes practically impossible to self host you are very likely to be on the slope with no way to tell how much further till mass graves. That likely will be the case if Josh ends up at the point at which Kiwifarms cant be turned back on again. Thats why people reference them as a canary. They are among the first that you can expect the wave to hit. With no way to tell up front how the wave is going to look this time around.

Communication channels cant be closed. If this form of mob controlled free-market censorship (or any form ) is here to stay much much harder to censor means of communication will start popping up to keep the kinetic breaks from engaging. Which will get a lot more disgusting then kiwifarms due to tribalistic reactions and people weaponizing the moderation burden, which will speed up the conflict cycle and the race to the bottom even more. Its still not optional. Thats what i meant when i said reactions quickly turn fascist. Making sure that it doesnt is an almost impossible task if you are far enough down the cycle.

The more we even need to talk about this, the more dangerous it becomes. What ever you are doing or trying to do, cutting communication channels can not be the likely outcome.
Oh, that explains some things.

Where can I go to get games that do integrate AI/AI content?
How to have Instagram account deleted?
I have been locked out of my instagram account repeatedly for "suspicious activity", requiring a confirmation code to get back in, which does not arrive in my email.

How do I have my account deleted, so that people are not trying to contact me there?
There exist specialized quartz watches with battery lifes in the 15 years range - I am sure if there was any real demand it would be possible to build a digital watch that can survive a century without any service. While I appreciate the craft, let us not pretend the demand for mechanical watches in the modern day is nothing but a luxury vanity driven buy wealthy people with way too much money to spare.
Minor correction - prior to UPI, transaction either happened via cash OR didn’t happen at all.

I think the hidden value of UPI is that it makes doing business easier which is of huge value. People sitting on money has never helped any economy…especially at the level that UPI operates - ie enabling petty spending greases the wheels of the economy and lifts people out of poverty.

For example, say I want to buy coconut water on a hot day. Earlier, I’d go without if I didn’t have change. Now I use UPI. I benefit from fresh coconut water. The seller benefits from my money going to his bank account.

Even GWB told people to go shopping after 9/11 so that the wheels of the economy would keep churning.
E2EE messenger for who want absolute privacy and freedom from any surveillance
> I remember the "poor" kids in highschool couldn't edit their papers in certain ways at home

The irony was that Microsoft included Microsoft Money in the Works suite, likely to give an aspiration of saving and making enough in order to upgrade to the Office suite.
>Oh, i didn't know that there are any.

Plenty! Although, it's not limited to iterators: most languages that have first class lambdas/closures behave this way. Kotlin has `it` as the default parameter of any lambda (but only accepts it for single parameter lambdas, two parameters and you need to name them:

`fun <T, U> Collection<T>.map(block: (T) -> U): Collection<U>`

is called like so:

`listOf(1, 2, 3).map { it * it }`

Swift has $0, $1

>Btw. in for-loops the colon `:` is used inconsistently again, this time for naming the iterator (`foo` in this example:) `for foo: VALUES { ... }`.

Sorry, Jonathan Blow doesn't believe in such silly things as "compiler research" nor "programming language research". Jai gets built by piling up crap on top of crap.
> open, source-available

I see what you did there. That's clever! I might use that phrasing myself.
True for most of the working class, whose surplus labor value is siphoned away by capital.
Ferranti Effect
Sad but true. Same thing as millennial/genZ authored websites who check for Chrome, and throw a tantrum/refuse to work otherwise.

I'm looking at you, vivaticket, booking, and many others I can't keep count of
American culture is remarkably solipsistic. We see and know so much of them, and they see and know so little of us (for any given 'us').

(Four years after moving from Australia to the UK, my twenty-volume print copy of the OED remains in storage in Australia, waiting for international freight rates to fall. Oh how I miss it.)
Whatever gets the job done
When I moved to Sweden I had the same issues because of a dependency on Swish and BankID (and personal ID numbers). It can be a real pain for things when you’re staying a little longer than a weekend and want to go to a gym for example. I went to one cafe where I literally had no way to pay as a foreigner
Chat gpt write me an update on that essay:title.. Experience this tragic irony for me..
On none of my laptops running latest windows does it take 3s… it’s instant…
Bans are like digital jail. It makes no sense to put everyone in jail for life for crossing a red light. There should be a reasonable maximum on it
> the rest of the planet" doesnt accept visa/Mastercard just anywhere

most of the developed world does. even Eastern Europe have transformed themselves into a NFC bonanza.

> The Netherlands

the netherlands is the wrong example. it has always been an outlier when it comes to card payments. case in point: you can't even make a Visa/Mastercard payment in an AH supermarket, you need a Maestro card.

> The world is not the US and the US isn't the world.

i have travelled quite a bit. most the of the developed world (except for the Netherlands of course) has full support for Visa/Mastercard NFC. and Amex support is more and more spread (e.g. i have seen more and more Stripe in Greece lately). the world is moving on from the idea you have of it.
The original version of the stripe website had a black stripe as the top border, evoking a credit card, so the association was clearer.
This is not as useful as you’d assume, some places just don’t acknowledge non-State ID’s regardless of what they try to sell you
It didn't seem contradictory to me. They're assserting that remote workers are more engaged with their immediate job and team, but less engaged with the purpose/mission of the business. There's quite a lot of separation between those concerns.
What is the total file size of this?
No, I don’t think that works. Last time I checked, type inference doesn‘t work for lambda expressions.

Part of the reason - I think - is that lambda expressions need to be boiled down to some concrete @FunctionaInterface interface. You can have arbitrarily many of these, all with the same signature and method name, so language doesn‘t know which to choose.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/27/cell-phone-...

it's literally one of the least secure things you can have.
I’m more concerned with the EUs assault on private communication than I am with this WEI stuff.
Here, “the guy” has 28+ bodies with different genes and chromosomes.

Nice to meet you, I am one of the body from “the guy”.

I am only aware of the qocialApp username.

> A lot of their stuff is also just templates

Thanks for trying it out, could you share what was not working for you, I can pass it on to the development team and bring fixes to make you happy. We are extremely hard working team members.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_effect

>"In electrical engineering, the Ferranti effect is the

increase in voltage

occurring at the receiving end of a very long (> 200 km) AC electric power transmission line, relative to the voltage at the sending end, when the load is very small, or no load is connected."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_resistance

>"In electronics, negative resistance (NR) is a property of some electrical circuits and devices in which an

increase in voltage

across the device's terminals results in a decrease in electric current through it."