skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PayPal's crypto dollars, which are managed by a third-party called Paxos, are 100% backed by the safest sorts of short-term collateral: U.S. Treasury-bills, reverse repo (backed by U.S. government securities), and commercial bank deposits.

So, PayPal dollars are not dollars.
GraphQL has similar type system and it is portable.
Fiat-backed stablecoins have one of the most reliable business models out there: collect money from depositors, buy short-term treasuries with rate X, and distribute interest to holders at rate Y < X (usually Y=0). Excess interest is pure profit.

For depositors, this is safer than a typical bank subject to bank runs - AS LONG AS the issuer actually holds the backing treasuries.

EDIT: Caveat here is the non-treasury part of the stablecoin backing reserve, e.g. reserves put in a bank. If the underlying bank has a bank run, the stablecoin has a bank run too (effectively without any FDIC insurance, since all stablecoin holders are lumped together, easily exceeding the $250k limit).
The PYUSD contract includes an `isFrozen` method that returns true if the address is frozen[1]. Since all of the transfers and activity on this coin happens on Ethereum blockchain, all of it is transparent and trackable by any party.

It's a nice feature you get when building payment infrastructure on a public blockchain, compared to PayPal's traditional black box systems.

[1] https://etherscan.io/token/0x6c3ea9036406852006290770bedfcab...
Sure, there are many ways one can be accidentally inefficient, some examples:

Batching: Your throughput (and thus cost per token) will be much worse if you don't do batching (meaning running inference for several inputs at once). To do batching, you either need to have a high sustained QPS or adjust your workload to be bursty (but this has utilization issues).

Inference engine: The regular HuggingFace, even with built in optimizations, is not competitive against inference engines like vllm, exllama, etc.

Utilization: Depending on your scale, it might be hard for you to have a nice flat utilization, or to even utilize one GPU at 100% capacity. This means you need to solve scaling up & down your machines and the issues associated with it (can you live with cold starts? etc.)

Hardware: Forget server-less GPUs like Replicate etc, their markups compared to on-demand pricing is usually >10x. On-demand A100 or H100, provided you can even get a quota for them, are also expensive. Spot instances are better. Older GPUs (A10, T4, etc.) are better. Your own GPU cluster is likely the best if you have the scale (and likely, you can resell your cluster within the next 18months without much if any depreciation).

For these reasons, I have been toying with the idea of providing a dead simple service for fine-tuning & serving open-source LLMs where the users actually own (and can download) the weights. If anyone is interested in this and would like to chat, let me know.
Virtualenvs are your friend. I use pipx for Python utils not in my OS repos, never had a problem with that. (`pipx install yt-dlp` creates a venv in ~/.local/pipx/venvs, installs yt-dlp there, then symlinks the executables to ~/.local/bin.)

For per-project dependencies, Poetry is pretty good, although there are other options too.

For Ruby, I think Bundler is the venv/Poetry counterpart. Not sure what you could use for installing global tools though.
> were not anti-union, but we're not neutral

So pro-union?
Normal cars (Not SUVs, pickups) have got slightly larger, there's no excuse for cars that are big for the perceived safety of being the largest car on the road
Not sure you read the article. They apply it to games already shipped, just new installs. This is a retroactive change to already developed games.
As a child I remember doing 45min + a day with them

Thank you for the tip btw I am soon in the market for a backpack and will take care to get a good chest strap
>Assuming a game with a price of $1 and 2 million installs unity is $10k in install fees.

Assuming Unity Pro ($2000 per seat per year) - first 1000000 installs are free, next 1000000 priced as follows:
0.15 * 100000 + 0.075 * 400000 + 0.03 * 500000 = 60000$ + Unity Pro for each seat.
Neat. As an employee, or as a visitor? Like throwing the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game? :)
> The Western idea that the human is the atomic unit to be punished is not universal.

The idea hasn't always been universal in the West either. In WW2, the German army sometimes chose to kill the entire male population of a city in retaliation for attacks on German officers.
See e.g. https://ww2gravestone.com/the-putten-raid-dutch-razzia-van-p...
Very roughly, yes it is. 1-(4/5.74) = 30.3%

It is possible however that this SAR violation only applies to certain bands or that the cell tower already is requesting a lower transmit power. Therefore there is a good chance users don't see much impact.
It is the third type of dollar (the one you get when you withdraw)
I don't believe this - I think that the US' oligarchic/military-industrial classes are very definitely motivated by their religious beliefs, and this gives them the false moral altitude they require to blatantly, with impunity, commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and massive violations of human rights - in the name of their One True God™ ..

See also: the slavish devotion to maintaining the Palestinian peoples' suffering. A people deemed inferior by religious institutions which have their grasp deep, deep within the American ruling classes' psyche ..
Windows does have an official package manager now - winget. It also supports the uninstall command. Also 'winget list'

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/
Holding the treasuries is not enough in a run, need to able to sell them at the required price, too.
Do you mean incumbent, or incompetent?
Fine tuned gpt-3.5 is ~8x the price compared to regular gpt-3.5. It might be a good way to collect better training data though. :)
A microwave oven has produces non-ionizing radiation, would you put your hand inside one while it's on? It's non-ionizing so it should be 100% safe right?
It is related to the big tech UE regulation still missing out critical parts. For instance meta messaging regulation seems to be server based and not related to small tech client/protocols interop (for instance, IRC bridges, noscript/basic (x)html web, etc).
I alternate between a few just because of the notch on the Macbook. "Dark on the top" walls hide the notch which confuses me a bit. Otherwise always some dark blue/green/black forest/ocean image that makes text more readable.
It's the precautionary principle at work. Of course most people never consider the negative effects of such alarmist behavior. There are some pretty good examples on the wiki showing this happening throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle#Critic...
She's not a troon.
A fuel pump can fill up 6-7, maybe more cars in the time it takes to partially (say to 80% or so) fill up one electric car.

So how is that infrastructure going to work?

Edit: funny how few people are trying to comment on the '80% of gas stations shall have ev charging' and rather focus on alternatives to such gas stations, such as home charging, street side charging and what not. The article is about gas station charging, as is my comment.
Maybe they’ve woken up and realised that the consequence of destroying the climate for humans is not having an economy to worry about at all.

You can’t keep kicking the can down the road forever.
> Even the last few games sold outside Steam still need some launcher

The vast majority of indie games do not require a launcher.
The complaint wasn't even a valid 512 takedown notice, but an (inaccurate) 1201 anti-circumvention complaint written so as to closely resemble a 512 notice.

(Where "512" and "1201" refer to the specific portions of US Code Title 17 copyright law regarding DMCA provisions for infringement safe-harbour protections to service providers and circumvention of copyright controls, respectively.)

I'd pointed this out at the time:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24903429>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24888234>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24875684>

<https://web.archive.org/web/20201025175239/https://joindiasp...>
Does that means the corollary: "Any sufficiently advanced malware is indistinguishable from an uninstaller" would be true as well?

I mean can you write a simulation of an uninstaller to create havoc on target's system and still remain "the good guy, the OS is at fault" type of situation when you write a malware?
I mean, there's going to be a web endpoint that gets hit to count one installation. That is definitely going to remain a secret, so no one could possibly run wget in a loop to say their steam account installed it a million times.
"Of course I want enhanced privacy"

-- any reasonable user not familiar with the issue

This is so manipulative.

This whole new feature looks like it's there to bypass GDPR, I hope the regulation will be updated if it does not already take this new thing in account.

At least the description is quite upfront, but apart from the title, the first sentence is already manipulative.

> [we] give you more choice over the ads you see

This is deceptive. It gives the impression to the user that they have a choice, but the actual choice is not this. The actual choice is whether to see ads at all, not which ones. People shouldn't care about the presented choice, for the most part. In this light, the new features presented as an enhancement are totally useless to the users.

I believe this is a variant of the false dilemma [1] but there must be a more specific name for this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
> Living Wage is a Union Word.

Wait what ?!?
These are very pretty, I really like the line breaks when an element is added over the face, such as in "face with tears of joy" or "star-struck". But some of them look a little off for me, like the skull or the baby emoji.
How on earth can people be denied jobs for poor credit? You're not a creditor to your employer! Isn't this just the "social credit" system that people worry about in China, except privatised?
4090Ti? AFAIK that has never been released
They should, but it's up to each country to enforce EU regulation.

The other countries radio regulation agencies have either not made the same measures, not measured the iPhone emissions at all, or have not yet decided what they were going to do.
or why not just make the uninstaller a stub executable that copies the real executable into the temp folder and run that instead?
This is the warning. They only start to bill from Jan 1 2024.
I walked through Penn station at least twice a day for years, and now I've lived in Tokyo for over 6 years.

I can assure you, Penn Station is definitely the problem.
The idea that computerised phone upgrades are a metric for the progress of our society (instead of hmm reducing hunger and suffering in the world) is revealing

What else do you really want from this technology ?
I think they were just pretty early in the VR space with good libraries/support/tutorials etc. I cannot say for sure because I have only done one Unity-VR tutorial "back in the day" but in the AR space there was a time window where they were pretty clearly #1 (imo). I shipped a couple of small projects based on their Vuforia integration (quite costly) and then later without Vuforia. Nothing big, mostly trivial product vizualizations for customers that had upcoming trade shows/excibitions with somewhat creative markers.

100% of my lifetime AR profits are based on Unity such a strange wild west time but I got out of that market very quickly when it became a lot easier to build these simple demo apps. I still remember the "wow factor" and people running around the office showing all their colleagues how you could see their products through a tables/phone.
Through the combination of DC fast charging, AC slow charging, and battery swaps.

If you've got parking spaces where cars are parked for hours then you've got lots of opportunities for installing DC and AC chargers.
There is a lot of irony in the replies where most people here are in the business of shoving tech into every remaining open space in our lives whilst preaching it should actually not be part of a child's. I myself am a luddite quite honestly but I don't work in tech (directly) so it's odd for me seeing this sentiment so pervasive on a forum for tech workers.
You're right on the money. I've heard it a few times from my associates (in UK), who don't feel comfortable driving. They want to go for the big car so they can be safe. But what about other road users?

You can also notice how pushy all these Range Rover drivers are on our very narrow roads.
It tends to be the case that most of Elon Musk’s audience are men impressed by his brazen attitude and experiencing his “wins” as their own. They’re also those buying the blue checks, hence you see them on top of every list of comments and in your “for you” timeline. Twitter’s algorithm itself likely has no gender bias. But Elon Musk’s improvised marketing strategy does, intentionally or not.

It’s interesting how easy it is to bury a ton of good content below this toxic fan base and the clickbait engagement grifts and scambots. There are dozens of millions of people posting genuinely intelligent, high quality links and content on Twitter, I’m sure of it. But you’ll never find them anymore. This creates a self reinforcing loop of them becoming less active and even less visible until they have no reason to open the app anymore.

I see tweet views that are approximately 1% of my followers. This seems highly abnormal. It didn’t use to be the case a year ago.
I don't believe that there's a well defined thing called "physical attractiveness". It's quite possible that "looks like an entrepreneur" is part of your definition of "attractive" in this instance, in which case your observation rather boils down to "people look like what they are", which is still an interesting observation, of course, and one might want to ask how/why people look like what they are.

I think I once had to pick a medical doctor from just names and photographs. Probably my choice was different from what I'd have chosen if I'd been picking a partner in a tennis competition, though they'd be a strong positive correlation, I expect, between those two things. On the other hand, if I'd been picking a bouncer for a one-off event at a nightclub, they'd be less correlation, probably.
That has little to do with modern energy harvesting.
If we are imagining not just a society in which (1) people are punished for the crimes committed by their family members, but more specifically (2) a tyrannical society which criminalizes acts (blasphemy, lese-majesty, etc) most of us don't regard as morally wrong, so that even children can commit crimes through stupidity/thoughtlessness, then I agree most people would live in (genuine, suffering-inducing) fear that one of their family members might commit a crime. But IMO the fear in that case comes not so much from the mechanism of family punishment as it does from the tyrannical nature of the society itself (one would equally fear oneself accidentally committing lese-majesty by a slip of tongue, for example).
Economic suicide would be continuing with business as usual and leaving all growth markets to the Chinese. What we’re trying to do is forcing companies who have grown fat on milking innovations from decades ago into adapting to the global market realities.
Seems a good time to drag up this ad that demonstrated how much space cars take up again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYn8aQIpNH4
The ~/.whatevertheyfeellike is an antipattern (that is annoying) but the others are well defined in the xdg_desktop spec[0].

Personally I appreciate knowing where the config/cache for each application is. (Though it does annoy me when programs don't follow this as in your third example)

[0] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...
It's baffling that the writer either overlooked or ignored this. Collective punishment transfers the cost of enforcement from the ruler to the ruled.

We don't need florid nonsense[0] or baby Hitler hypotheticals to explain it. The Nazis didn't engage in reprisals[1,2] on the basis of moral philosophy. One practical motivation was to alienate resistance from the remainder of the population.

[0] What’s clear is that when rulers enforce family punishments, the ruled shiver with terror. Don’t tell me these tactics don’t work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Kondomari
It's not new. RF is RF.
There was a bug in an uninstaller, once, that deleted all of the files on the disk. Sounds like malware to me!
France is doing this (albeit with a carveout for electric cars).
running 70b on 24gb has been possible for months (so basically forever) it just got like 2x speedup now. the issue that it's a lobotomized ~2bit quant remains.
How do you lose that much money? How does Unity Technologies employ 7700 people?!

For comparison: Epic Games employs about 3700 people. That includes the people working on Fortnite and the Epic Games store.

Edit: the stats might be a bit questionable though.
People will only fast charge on long trips and slow charge whenever the car is parked, i.e. 22h per day.
Have you seen https://github.com/evoluhq/evolu? What do you think?
I wonder why Raymond Chen suggest a WSH solution. Isn't PowerShell the official scripting language for Windows nowadays?
Oh, for a while Public Lab's Paper Spectrometer [0] was very popular in "citizen science" workshops or forums. It was made peeling the diffraction grating of a DVD-R (not a +R) disc.

It's a fun thing to do in an afternoon.

0: https://publiclab.org/wiki/papercraft-spectrometer
> Wage is capped by value provided, but scales with power.

Did you mean: "Wage scales with value provided, but is capped by power". It seems to make more sense to me.
It doesn't have the same effect. If torturing someone made 3 billion people sightly happy, and 3 miserable (the tortured, his wife and his child), but still the total happiness supercede the total suffering. Positive utilitarism says 'do it'. Negative utilitarism says 'do not'.

I'm not a full utilitarist anymore as I don't think a good utility function exist, but it is a good way to evaluate quickly if an action I do is more likely to do good than bad: 'do I risk hurting someone?'.
At the power levels we're talking about (5W)? Of course I would. The effects are well known: It heats your hands up at 5 joules per second.

Incidentally, Tech Ingredients has a great video on using microwave ovens without an enclosure and how to block similar directed energy weapons that use a lot more than 5W: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg_aUOSLuRo
The GP mentioned “short term” treasuries which, assuming something like an 7 day maturity, are very stable in price. Reverse repo is also an option.
It applies to new installs (from 01/24) of all games, regardless of when they were published.
Disposable e-vapes are planned to be banned literally next week...

My region's water company has paid huge fines for dumping sewage, which are invested in improving natural water quality...
By calling home. The implication here is that unity is malware.
I have considered it. Never had any serious problem about it during 15 years of desktop linux use as a developer machine. Grandma would not have more problems than unplugging the pendrive where the file was opened from, and trying to save it, for example... Modern operating systems have far worse and more user hostile patterns.

And for the live volume shrinking: the kernel can solve this problem, it there is a need for this, there is no need for this invariant for this feature, as it is not only possible to do it via the same APIs offered for ordinary basic file manipulation gruntwork. On unix basically a filename is disassociated from the inode, but afaik the inode holding the blocklist still exists, will be cleaned up later, thus it can be updated if its blocks are moved under the high level filesystem APIs.

You just made a strawman you are sticking to.
Simple data pipeline powertools: SQLite, Pandas, gnuplot and friends
> Punishing a criminal's family _is_ perpetrating violence on innocent people

What's the logical fallacy here?

The point is that consequentialism doesn't object to ideas like "perpetrating violence on innocent people" with any kind of principle. If the consequences of such violence are overall negative, then the act becomes immoral. Punishing the family members of a criminal has negative consqeuences for those people, but those could be outweighed by the positives for society as a whole by reducing other kinds of immoral actions (which themselves have greater negative consequence.) All of these individual actions have their own moral weight - there are no categories of moral/immoral actions in general.
I mean, china is also committing economic suicide, so at least there's that...
Individual countries within the EU have their own regulators who make their own enforcement decisions.

The EU isn't a super-state and EU law isn't applied by some overarching entity. On a technical level, each country ratifies and applies their own laws in their own ways.

Given this, other countries could act on this too, but it's the French regulator who has chosen to do so.
I don't think that's true any longer. Windows now defaults to setting FILE_DISPOSITION_POSIX_SEMANTICS

https://stackoverflow.com/q/60424732/1362755
Black start wasn't problem as the current draw from the PIC waking up to check vref was so tiny it didn't stop the system charging (so long as there was a base line minimum amount of vibration).

I forget the minimum amount but so long as there was more than say 20 mG (milli-gravity) of vibration acceleration then it could harvest from empty.
I am not sure if this change is really a bad thing.

I don't really know, how the current wild west of online ads works and who stores which data about users.

But if Google throws their weight behind the idea that a common set of informations is used, which is completely under the control of the user, easily accessible and changeable, maybe that is a good thing? Maybe no more "header bidding" which sends the users data to a gazillion companies?

I guess it just needs a browser API call to see what data is stored in your browser? So it is easy to check?

It might also be leveling the playing field. So small websites can get ad revenues similar to big websites. Currently, small websites get something like 1/100th per pageview of what big websites get. If "the user is interested in toasters" is all that is needed to raise ad revenue, maybe that is fresh air to finance the indie web.
And this has been the case since Windows NT in 1993 according to a presentation I saw from Sami Laiho where he strongly argues that you don't need and should be a admin account as default.

From microsoft's documentation [1]
> Administrator-to-kernel is not a security boundary.

I recommend the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09nAxZFKzc

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/windows-security-servic...
Alibaba Cloud open sources its generative AI models Tongyi Qianwen
You can use PlugShare (https://www.plugshare.com/) to find chargers. And A Better Routeplanner (https://abetterrouteplanner.com/) is a good EV route planner to plan charging stops for road trips.
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Someone with poor credit may be assumed more likely to commit fraud or steal from the company. Someone with poor credit might also be assumed to be personally irresponsible and lazy, and more likely to slack off, ignore necessary details or cut corners.

It isn't fair but in the US money carries moral weight, and many people assume the less of it you have, the worse of a person you are.