skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True about the political atmosphere in German vs Polish universities. I happen to have had a taste of both. There seemed to be more intellectual freedom in the Polish unis that I visited -- one technical, the other economics. (Just don't try to discuss delicate subjects like the Germans or the Russians.)
As I like to point out about the US. The constitution totally provides a process for changing states borders and probably secession. California and Arizona exchanged some land on either side of the Colorado River fairly recently. Just needed legislation passed by congress and the two legislatures.

So the sovereign types can cry me a river because they don't even try to do things the legit way.
Context Aware Subtitle Translation GPT 3.5
There's a few comments about packed underground trains aswell, as if the once per hour train, ie the only one commuters can get isn't going to be packed, and it takes longer than a minute for everyone to get off and on, and it takes a lot longer than 13 minutes for the entire journey, and these are diesels so the acceleration is slow, and noisy. And this all assumes it isn't cancelled, or so delayed it makes you late for work.

Getting to work an hour and 15 minutes early most mornings because you can't rely on the later train not to be 15 minutes late.
The reason this makes sense is that without glyphosate, farmers (and private gardeners) would start using something else, and the likelihood that whatever new compound they find will be worse than glyphosate is very low.

Yes, there are indications that you can get toxic effects if you massively overdose glyphosate, but overall it is a miracle that a generic weed killer which decomposes as easily even exists.

For context: no-till farming is a candidate technology for binding massive amounts of carbon in farmland. In intensive farming, no-till is completely reliant on glyphosate.
>Trains are just so expensive. UK it is unreal

Yet still jam packed with people
Comment moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37640466
Maybe? Japanese companies have a lot more loyalty to their employees.
Bouncing also doesn’t work with strict DKIM/DMARC verification if the sending domain differs.
Is he "your dev"? How did you come to own him?

If your entire business is dependant on this person then they are, in a way, your defacto co-founder. But you give them no ownership.

The developer probably would say that you aren't holding up your end of the agreement.

Regardless, you can either come to terms with this person, which probably involves giving them some small degree of ownership or a more fair rate, or try to sue them.

By the way, I assume that you are massively underpaying them in addition to not giving them any ownership. If you were to add up all of the time the system has been in development, how many days is it? Then times 3 hours per day? And divide by the total compensation.

Have you been paying them at least minimum wage?
I’ve never heard of anthropic. Who are they and what do they offer that’s worth that investment?
Outfit it with all sorts of Radio communication gear as a single large Geo-Stationary satellite platform while also outfitting it for space and earth facing telescopes and such for observations and additional science related sensor packages. And have a large Space tug/station keeping module attached to haul that up to synchronous orbit and keep that there for decades/longer.

So the The entire Space station could be outfitted with Xeon Gas storage tanks for station keeping usage and other gases for the instrument packages and that utilized for whatever needs that.

Another option is to take individual modules off and make smaller platforms for more global coverage and make more individual platforms for smaller individual Geo-synchronous orbital platforms.

One other option is reconfigure that as one giant deep space probe powered by Xenon Thrusters and slap some space nuclear reactor in that and loads of deep space antennas there and observation equipment and use an initial chemical rocket to get that up to escape velocity before that cuts out and the Xenon thrusters are engaged.

And one question, are all the modules on the Current ISS past their usable lifecycle and are no longer useful for any new station construction?
Single monitor FTW. Window management is a software problem.
Goodbye to no-till farming if it’s banned.

Go and ask a farmer just how much is actually applied to a crop and what his alternative might be.

The disgraceful waste of food diverted to unnecessary biofuels causes far more misery.
US residential electricity usage per capita has been relatively flat for a decade or two[1] so I think efficiency increases can offset higher usage.

In regards to Netflix I suspect there's a streaming bandwidth plateau we will hit (if we have not already): there are only so many hours per day people can watch content, population growth isn't that strong (and can't increase forever), and video resolution then becomes the driver of increased data use (and that probably can't increase forever either).

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49036
Well, for one thing, fiduciary duty to maximise profit isn't real[0][1].

0. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

1. http://in-houseblog.practicallaw.com/fallacy-of-the-duty-to-...
And converting weird US units to sane ones.
Ask HN: I'm bootstrapping, How to get free credits for Notion,GitHub,Slack etc.?
I'm bootstrapping a SaaS AI-based startup, is there a way to get free credits for tools like Notion, Github, Slack, and Figma?
It's not clear that this will be a win because the really-wide transpose at the beginning could be pretty expensive.
Interestingly, AWS (along with YC.org, Infosys, Musk, and others) was one of the founding donors for OpenAI, the non-profit. A few years and Satya Nadella successfully Mark Zuckerberged them.
Mod offers military support after armed Met officers turn in weapons
Some points to note:

The British like to make out that Policing is by consent, and so politicians like Theresa May and others make a big play on not having armed police officers patrolling in public. Yet any trip to the airport and other transport hubs like train stations will see them on display, patrolling. In London you will see them driving around, they are never far from an incident.

They use hollowpoints which dont egress the body, but rather cause more internal damage which is designed to stop and kill. When these people are around they are going to kill people and there is no judge or jury on the "intelligence" that warranted their appearance on the streets as Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes found out.

I've been subjected to a variety of criminal actions at the hands of the police, and there is no recourse in this country for that criminality, you will just get hounded and attacked by members of the public and others sympathetic to the Police.

So this action, is going to cause the friends and family of Chris Kaba more aggrevation. It also looks like the Police officer wont be convicted of murder, but this is a stealth reverse psychology exercise designed to make changes to armed Policing in the UK and quite like get them a pay rise because the Police are not allowed to take industrial action and strike, but this is a strike.

Some of the police are ex-military, and there is culture of secrecy for these public servants, after all some of the military have to go somewhere, once they have had enough of being barked at.

Personally I think all public servants should be publicly known and how much money they get, military, police, doctors and nurses, teachers, if you are taking tax payers money then you should be known, people on benefits, charities, quango's, everyone, zero privacy for taking money out of the "public" purse.

So lets see how the public handle this anguish and anxiety of not having armed police on the streets of London, are we going to have a repeat of the Mark Duggan London riots or something else?

Just how far will people go to get some more money?
Your position is obviously wrong both with regard to the Unicode standard and with regard to the meaning of the word "character."

Unicode does not define "character" because that term is far too imprecise for a deterministic standard. And the Unicode standard is extremely clear that an abstract character may be represented by multiple code points.

"A single abstract character may also be represented by a sequence of code points—for example, latin capital letter g with acute may be represented by the sequence <U+0047 latin capital letter g, U+0301 combining acute accent>, rather than being mapped to a single code point."

> Of course, in real life, character is a silly made-up word that means whatever you think it means and using it to refer to an extended grapheme cluster or glyph is probably closer to how people really think of them anyway.

Human language and writing are the defining inventions of the known universe. Unicode just happens to be one way of representing them. Referring to them as "silly and made up" in comparison to Unicode is nothing short of extreme mental illness.
> Docker feels contrarian for no reason

No, Docker is a mess.
I am a KeepassXC user, yet this sounds interesting. What does Bitwarden offer to make me want to switch?
Because we receive them over the wire as decimal strings.
No. I grew up on a C=64, and while the Raspberry Pi hits the cost point, it doesn't hit the exceptionally low barrier to entry in terms of usability. No modern computer is as simple and unintimidating as the machines where you powered it on, saw a blinking cursor, and could just type a command and see the machine react. You could buy books (or magazines - I miss Compute's Gazette), flip the power switch on your computer, and just type in what was on the page and run it. The Pi and other systems have many more steps between power-on and seeing the machine do something based on your input. The Commodore and peers didn't force you to think about files, editors, etc.

If someone could hack together an OS for a Pi that booted straight into something like Processing, maybe it would be close.
Swipe is terrible and i dont know how people even use it
I care about stability. Its a must. And my Win2003 is absolutly reliable.
In old desktop I had random BSODs due to driver issue. Some Audio driver
was not happy about PAE and 8GB RAM. After long fight I isolated faulty .sys driver and decided to use HW drivers instead instead of my mobo vendor ones.
Problem vanished.
Nice to see Clifford Stoll currently topping the page. I bought The Cuckoo's Egg after reading enough people recommending it on HN and so to see the author referencing the main events in that book as the most recent highlight kinda brings things full circle!
I looked.

main = putStrLn "Hello, world"
investing in automation and efficiency will help them save hundreds of dollars in warehouse worker's wages in the long run
"Bustard" is apparently from Latin avis tarda, meaning "slow or deliberate bird".
Would you like speedy-boarding sir for our discount price of just 9.99? It lets you skip the line

Oh sure, that's great. How many have bought it?

Oh everyone on today's flight, it's such a good deal
Long running transactions can lead to an accumulation of dead tuples: https://brandur.org/postgres-queues
They have an excellent LLM called Claude which is quite competitive with OpenAI offerings and has long context windows.

Other than OpenAI’s models they have been able to deliver the best results in projects I worked on and sometimes they outperformed OpenAI models too.

I’m happy to see this as this gives them funding to further train expensive models and compete - their product is really nice at the moment but could really benefit from bigger size and even bigger contexts.
There's a whole street in Tokyo where you can buy these. https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/shopping/best-shops-in-kappaba... https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/sep/04/a-cooks-tour-...
It’s not the drone strikes that are hurting Moscow, it’s the traffic jams
> ... best public transport in the country. Nowhere else has an underground system with trains every 5 minutes.

Glasgow? "There are trains every four minutes at peak times and every six-to-eight minutes during off-peak times." says https://www.spt.co.uk/subway/subway-timetables/ .
So, is there any shell that can do the oftentimes right thing, and delete that file for you if it created it and ‘generate’ fails? Maybe even redirect to a temp file, and rename that on success, delete it on failure (that probably makes the number of variations on this theme too high)

That would make this work from other tools that run shell commands (other makes, cron, etc)

(Bonus points if it also can optionally revert >>, but that’s trickier, as that doesn’t have to be to a file)
Normalisation of work from home can reduce congestion in mega-cities. WFH during COVID has shown this.
Your message merely says a great deal about you and your judgement of those of us who aren’t interested in making small talk with you.

You have no wisdom (great or small) to impart while using others to assuage your need for external social validation.
We don't need it - that's why it's closing. It's been replaced by digital services.

I don't understand this comment - it might make sense as a (bad) pitch for digitising Netflix in the 2000s, but the millions of FTE days to do that have already been pitched, paid for and worked. What is this adding?
Yeah, I participated in some events in germany and here it is probably especially in a grey zone, because normally in germany everything militia like is strictly forbidden. Paintball is not allowed with camouflage or red paint. And then you can legally go to an event on a former military hangar with bunkers and then there is an actual tank and only people in camouflage and realistic looking weapons..

So if you would want to create a stealth militia in germany, this would probably be the way to go.

And in the events I participated, I knew the orga and I knew they were clearly into LARPing - but with some of the other people who attended, I was not so sure.

So I really hope it stays legal as it is a lot of fun, but I also hope it does not go out of hand, as increasingly with covid, there has been some radicalisation in certain groups ...

edit: to share an anecdote of why it is interesting to me, aside from the shooting:

There was a big event last year, with an apocalyptic setting. Killervirus and Zombies, Military and Civilians.
I happened to be on the military side, which was (by design) better organised and equipped. And during the game, it turned out, that our side was the evil side, who originally released the zombie virus. But what to do? Everyone else was potentially an enemy, who maybe wanted to shoot you and the people around you, your trusted comrades. So you stick with them for survival. As I have never been to the military, this was an interesting inside into how conflict and war crimes works and why people stay in line, despite they distance themself from what they are representing.
They have Claude 2 which is up there with GPT-4 and PaLM 2 as one of the top three publicly accessible large language models. And presumably those billions will train Claude 3.
Sorry to hear about what happened to your daughter.

I read a really terrible story years ago, a daughter was sunbathing in the driveway on a lounger, father comes home and parks... on his daughter, who is then paralyzed.

*Edit, found the article:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/31/experie...

I can't even imagine what that guy felt.
better cross platform user interface integration
Great to see investment in the most alignment-conscious of the AI orgs.
I wish Siri did that consistently. Right now my Apple Watch Siri is unusable even to set timers. I don't know if the latest updates on my old watch struggles to run or what else the issue could be.
I think what you are suggesting is similar to the "dead-beat controller" in discrete-time control literature. While a controller designed with this method can get the position error measured at the sampling times to zero very quickly, it gives no guarantees that the error stays zero between the samples. This means the block could be wildly oscillating around the arrow in reality, but oscillating in such a way that it's exactly under the arrow at the times your digital controller measures it.

This would probably not be a concern in this digital simulator, but such an error can pop up when trying the same thing out in real life.

See slide 17 here for a plot: https://www.slideserve.com/sibyl/finite-settling-time-design
Strange given google's investment history, they owned roughly 15ish% before this.
Thanks FBI i will now stop trying to get the world into an anarchy state
> Or you can increase staffing.

Which would increase the cost. You could pay for that by charging everyone more, but many people on their annual trip don't think that the extra $10 on the ticket is worth the 20 minute saving. More importantly they'll choose the airport which is $10 cheaper as they have fewer agents so the peaks aren't smoothed.
I guess https://news.ycombinator.com/lists which is at the footer of every HN page.
Oh no, will the wisdom teeth grow back with this regrowth drug?
I am using my Samsung Note 8 while my Fold 4 has the fluff in the hinge extracted. It works ok but the storage memory is an issue.
Not OP and not a professional Crystal dev (not even a Ruby hobbyist). But I use other languages professionally, including Java, Python and (to a smaller degree) Rust.

But my $0.02: what Crystal does best for me is the "fun factor". It has a very good balance between a dynamic language "feel" with the safety of static typing, and with native compilation.

I can just prototype things willy-nilly with minimal ceremony and not worry too much if it starts getting big.
I think Windows Phone should be counted as hardware as well - there were other manufacturers whose devices (a few but still) ran that OS. I had htc and Lumia and I really liked these and the software which was quite intuitive to use. Sadly, the interest in that platform was low. IIRC Microsoft was working on solution for porting Android apps into Windows Phone/ 10 Mobile but they eventually postponed it indefinitely and then dropped fully.

I wonder how much data they gathered thru all these killed off projects, and which projects were created solely for that purpose
They are basically the only direct competitor to OA.
It is possible for them to make suboptimal decisions without being actively malicious.
incidentally: what's the term for a foreign-language word creation in a different culture?

as far as i can tell, "highload" (typically spelt in english) exists only in the russian-speaking communities and means "high performance".
One contribution is that jet fuel is not taxed in the EU.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair
It's useful to realise that humanities yearly CO2 production is greater (by weight) anything else we make. by far.

So yes, if we don't stop producing industrial quantities of CO2, we'd need to plant about 1 USA sized forest/year to compensate (and keep it away from fire etc). Obviously Complete Nonsense.

Also a strawman argument. We need to stop producing industrial quantities of CO2. Then reforestation can help (a bit, perhaps).
I've been using the claude model over the past months and I have to say I usually prefer it over ChatGPT.

Some things that impressed me particular are:

* It can often give you working urls of images related to your query. (e.g. give me some images to use with this blog paragraph).

* It can list relevant publications corresponding to paragraphs, chatgpt often halucinates new papers but claude consistenly gives highly cited and relevant suggestions.

* It can work with pdf inputs.
Vault synchronization between devices without needing to self-host anything, for free
Here, I also want to mention vaultwarden which is an open-source Rust implementation of the server: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
Alexa and google home have been excellent for discovering new music. You ask them for a song you know and they play either a very weird cover version or something entirely different.
I hope not. Imagine having to go through primary school again :(
Does it have syncing 2fa support? That's what keeping me paying for 1Password.

I know it's controversial, it's a risk I'm willing to take.
I am a happy user and find it very convenient but how safe is it really to have all your jewels centralized in the cloud, including 2FA. It seems such a worthwhile target.

On the other hand keeping everything in sync manually seems a hassle and in the end you just encrypt on your machine and the syncing goes through the cloud anyway, so where's the difference? I'd be happy to hear thoughts on this.
Nothing. Adding 2FA codes to logins costs money, and self-hosting is deliberately difficult so you’ll be using the cloud.

Also you can’t edit while offline.
that sentence is pretty clear about other tribes choosing to do something to the victim of their actions, so, no.

nice try though

if it’s really so unclear, to you, each sentence is about a different group comprising large swaths of Americas population.
Aereo had this ludicrous legal defense of "one antenna per customer" which was clearly bogus. Their "antennas" were tiny and inside datacenters. There was no way they actually worked, and they clearly had one real antenna on the roof somewhere.
Same boat. I'm also curious how does device sync happen with bitwarden - from a cursory glance it seems to rely on their cloud. Can you manually manage the database file, like with keepass?
Bitwarden is great. I use it everywhere and it manages passwords well. The key feature for me is the ease of use of "organizations", which allows me to share passwords with my wife easily. A lot of accounts regarding our financials or children are shared, so we both need the password. Bitwarden makes this trivial.
Not only is this a weird generalization, but it doesn't even make sense. Why would a terrorist want to downplay the frequency of terror incidents? That defeats the entire purpose of trying to, you know, inspire terror.
By the sounds, it's actually a $4B investment (taking minority stake) whilst also potentially providing free access to some AWS services? The degree or agreement of access to AWS services isn't totally clear though...
I wonder when Dalle3 is released if OpenAi will release any technical documents about the integration with gpt4. Their approach might be similar.
Also, the forest would need to live forever, because when a tree dies and decompose, it releases CO2 back.
That's the only thing I am using it for and I'd prefer if it stays that way.
I am not a Google Home or Alexa user, and I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic.
Anthropic’s main mission is ethical. Profit is just fuel for the ethical mission (and they would rather have hockey stick AI safety than hockey stick growth given the choice)

Amazon, well you know them :-)

Flogging their model on Bedrock etc. must be part of the plan for Anthropic but AWS investment must surely create tension.
Unless you got a good sound system this doesnt even matter, wonder what the market share for this is
SQS limits you further in other ways. For instance, scheduled tasks are capped to 15m (delaySconds knob), so you'll be stuck when implementing the "cancel account if not verified in 7 days" workflow. You'll either reenqueue a message every 15m until its ready (and eat your the SQS costs), or build a bespoke solution only for scheduled tasks using some other store (the database usually) and another polling loop (at a fraction of the quality of any other OSS tool). This is a problem well solved by sidekiq, despite the other drawbacks you mention.

Bottom line, there is no silver bullet.
In Thailand (and I believe in Japan as well, maybe also other SEA countries like Malaysia) LINE [0] is number one.

And it’s quite nifty as an “everything” app (kinda what Elon wants to do with Twitter/X).

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[0]: https://line.me/en/