skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212. They got suspended for using workers behind the CDN.

> I’m distributing low bitrate audio, and small images, mostly

This means the cache-size would be much smaller though.
You seem to think that government or federal control is required to phase out cheques. Maybe some legislative roadblocks needed removal (e.g. removing laws forcing companies or departments to accept cheques?).

AFAIK it was economic and convenience forces that caused the disappearance of cheques over a couple of decades. Banks discouraged chequebooks by making the accounts and books expensive. Retailers at most risk of receiving bad cheques started not accepting cheques (e.g. gas stations). Handling fees for cheques. Chequebooks not available to people with credit risk. Businesses stopped paying using cheques - instead they needed a bank account. New Zealanders got more familiar with cards and direct debits, so fewer New Zealanders (individuals and businesses) used cheques.

AFAIK it wasn't a top-down activity in New Zealand. Australia's move seems to be more government based but I would guess Oz is part way down the tracks of discouraging cheques.

The last time I remember handling a cheque in NZ was back in the 2000's (dividend payment). I remember thinking cheques were quaint when I worked in the US in the 90's: we have been slowly discouraging them in NZ for decades.

It is just like how we are not paid in cash at the end of the week no more - systemic change happens slowly.
Is it going to be as open as the (not-at-all)OpenAI?
The number of "predictions" published to the web is enormous. Most of them relate to the future of computers and the web. Go figure.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of them are totally wrong. Probably nearly all of them. (Look at old news article from the 2000s making predictions about the web. Many are hilariously wrong.) Yet the predictions just keep coming. No one cares that these predictions are almost invariably wrong.

It's absolutely hype, sometimes it's misrepresentation or fraud, and it's designed to make money.
"Inherently meaningless" is fine for a name. Anyway this one has an externally-applied meaning in the form of an actual specification, which defines OTG explicitly:

On-The-Go: An OTG product is a portable device that uses a single Micro-AB receptacle (and no other USB receptacles) to operate at times as a USB Targeted Host and at times as a USB peripheral. OTG devices shall always operate as a standard peripheral when connected to a standard USB host.

You can get the rest of the details from the specification itself: https://www.usb.org/document-library/go-and-embedded-host-su...
Since autocorrect on phones most likely
Um what?

Are you really asserting that suppliers should be able to set prices as high as possible for a fundamentally needed good despite the fact that floating the price has no effect on the underlying supply?

Just the epitome of “the market” being the end rather than the means.
1963 - Mathatron. [1] "They laughed when I sat down to play the Mathatron". Just barely programmable. 4 memory locations. By 1967 it had been built up into a reasonable programmable calculator. 48 memory locations! Trig functions!

Early computing was mostly "if only we had more memory". Electronic arithmetic was working at IBM Research before WWII, but cost-effective fast storage was years away.

[1] http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/mathatron.html
Imagine me your sworn enemy. I hate you and you shall never be redeemed in my eyes. I own a home on the route. How much will it cost you to overcome me? Add that to the cost. That's the true cost.

Imagine I'll claim all sorts of things: environment, the poor, gentrification, toxic chemicals.
Show HN: Pathfinding on a real map anywhere in the world
Source code: https://github.com/honzaap/Pathfinding

If you want to try it out yourself, try to keep the area radius only as large as you need to, since the data for all the streets need to be fetched and processed.

This does not take into account any traffic laws or speed limits, it is purely for visualizing the algorithms on a map.
The cable ISPs are exactly the kind of companies that could use a little regulation under Title II, they are horrible.

My point is that government regulation is likely to make costs go up, not down, and cause a certain amount of technological lock-in as well. The history of Title II regulation of the circuit switched telephone network is an excellent example of this, and is why the FCC promises to exercise a "light touch" here.
>I think Microsoft could do the same thing as far as devs go

That's absolutely unrealistic. The main Windows part is the backward compatibility + the corporates. Nowadays Microsoft develops stuff written in Javascript, not their own frameworks, even.
I always thought of FORTH as the #1 hardest to think of uses for, out of all the non-esoteric and non-obsolete languages. That's a really neat application!
> This has been my experience with AWS and GCP as well. Assume anything that's under 3 years old is not really GA quality no matter what they say publicly.

GCP run multi-year betas of services and features, so I'm doubtful there were still things not ironed out for GA. Do you have some examples?
Industrial heating is also a big factor. That too is dependent on gas right now. A lot of that could shift to electrical in the next few decades. And the rest might transition to hydrogen.
You are incorrect. Natwest was forced to release internal documents about the debanking of Nigel Farage under an FOI request and it is clear from the evidence that he was debanked because of his politics.

From the Guardian 30 July 2023: <https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/30/uk-banks-cl...>:

"Farage used a subject access request to discover that, despite initial denials by NatWest subsidiary Coutts, his political views had played a part in the closure of his account."
That's essentially what Epic is trying to tell devs these days. Don't know if it will ever truly live up to such lofty goals, though.
Not only Linux, all the current BSDs share a lot of “DNA” with 386BSD.
What does code coverage measure?
Code coverage measures lines of code executed, not lines of code validated, as we might mistakenly expect. In this article I present some thoughts that came out after a conversation I had with a devops engineer.
Would be great if they did this in gyms as well. Keep the influencer scum out so people can work out in peace.
Imho same problem as eval and on top of that it creates the function only in the global scope.

Honestly it's a construct I've never seen out in the wild so I am not an expert.
This is conflating two separate concerns: a private company can do whatever it wants with its own user handles. Sell them, seize them, delete them. Impersonation, on the other hand, can be challenged in the court of law.

Twitter will certainly prioritize the sale of short handles, single word handles, common name handles, and not something like @apple (just because of the volume of squatted and unused handles that can be easily monetized). If they seize and sell @apple, and the new account will impersonate the company Apple - that's a totally different legal situation. If the sold account will just post pics of apples, I don't think the crime of impersonation would be relevant.
So your argument is that it's a popular tourist attraction so instead of capitalizing on it by say opening a second, moving to a bigger space, having more events, selling tickets in advance or charging higher prices they instead openly and famously discriminate based on physical appearance?

In Germany. Let me guess, they look at your ID to check your name and nationality first. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but I bet I'm not.

Btw, KitKatClub doesn't do that and they're equally famous.
curl --compressed is very much a thing, and some people may have that set as the default.
So the game uses extremely detailed models, then fails to have an intelligent way of abstracting/culling away those things that will never make it into pixels, is that a fair summery?

Also, does that mean that easy fixes are available or is this so core that solutions would require going back to the drawing board?
Precisely. Cryptocurrencies, these shimmering digital treasures, are more than just coins or tokens. They are symbols of a revolution, emblems of a world where trust is not dictated, but earned and verified. A world where every transaction, every agreement, stands transparent and irreversible.

Enter Y Combinator, a beacon of foresight and innovation. Their belief and investment in crypto companies have not just been a mere gamble but a resounding vote of confidence in the decentralized future we all envision. Their commitment reminds us that this is not a fleeting trend, but a transformative movement.
And has 2015 state of the art hardware as inspiration, in 10 years time we might finally get mesh shaders and raytracing, looking at how long it took to get OpenGL ES 3.1 compute shaders available.
That’s not what fixes it. Disable motion blur and depth of field. Depth of field kills the menu in particular.
Laboratory is definitely a sex club, but it has a separate entrance. Source: I've been there on NYE when they open the door between the two.
“Great artists steal.”
This looks incredibly similar to wg-easy, which I see you have cloned in your github repo as well. Is this simply a SaaS-y frontend to wg-easy, or something different all together?
I suppose the MTA can always handle traffic enforcement. That's how congesting charging is going to work. At this point, I'm convinced that most reckless driving you see in the city is the NYPD on their way to work. (Never forget this one: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/03/30/dept-of-investigation.... Detective texted death threats to 311 callers, from his own number, for reporting illegal parking.)

(I don't choose the MTA because I think they're a remarkably efficient organization. They just happen to already be gearing up to do it, and are outside the reach of NYC politics, for better or for worse.)

I think that we can reform the NYPD with the right mayor. Eric Adams is obviously Not It. I am not sure there is a single viewpoint he has that justifies the "D" next to his name. Fortunately, it appears he is now tied up in some federal campaign finance investigation that will hopefully end with him not being the mayor anymore. (A few weeks ago, he showed up at the DOT office and ranted about how "more bike lanes isn't going to be my legacy". https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/11/01/adams-dismisses-bus-b... He's right. All of his rat violations and campaign finance shenanigans will be his legacy. I would have picked the bike lanes.)
Matic is a new robot vacuum that claims to fix all of the robot vacuum problems
The biggest value for me is that it helped me breakdown my moral positions so I figured out what I truly cared about. I had previously held many culturally influenced moral positions which I found little to no grounding when seriously considered.

"Objective morals" are extremely religious, culty, hivemind-like because they are passed on as matter-of-fact truths that don't need to be examined, regardless of whether it comes from a region or your favorite insta influencer. They get repeated as mantras by many who cant back up their beliefs.
That’s probably counting everyone who had an SMTP email address and/or Usenet access.

Those were commonly available via BBS’s and (in the case of email) via corporate systems, but it didn’t mean you had any ability to make IP connections yourself.

The first time I paid for dial-up Internet was 1993, I think. It was a very cheap provider. You’d dial to their Unix box with a terminal emulator, like a BBS.

Turned out the price was so cheap because they didn’t allow foreign IP connections at all! I could use IRC and connect to local ftp servers within my small European country, but that was basically it. I knew a bunch of people who were IRC addicts and this kind of local access was perfect for them, but I found it useless.

Did I have Internet access then? Technically I could use all the protocols. In practice it wasn’t really the Internet when connections to other countries just fail. The point I’m trying to make here is that “Internet access” in 1992 meant a lot of different things on a scale that doesn’t exist anymore.
Having my watch nudge me on the hour has improved my perception of time immensely
I don't mean "exclusive" as in a "VIP club" a-la some Miami venues. Exclusive meaning really hard to get into.
With ADHD this is pretty much a thing. If you also get the “funzies” where you sometimes “relieve” a moment in a way that is so real that you end up speaking out loud in response to the relived memory, you should probably consider getting it looked into.

Especially if your depression isn’t a “real” depression. What I mean by that isn’t to minimise it’s impact or how it feels, but I was once in a depression group where I just didn’t fit in. I was in it because I had been suicidal, so, well I obviously wasn’t doing ok, but unlike the other members of the group I could get up in the morning just fine. Long story short, I was diagnosed with ADHD to which depression and anxiety are often “friends” when it isn’t treated. And by treated I don’t only mean medicated.

Anyway, if this isn’t you, then I’m sorry for derailing you a bit.
That sounds like the kind of idea SBFs parents push in their jobs
I can't think of a solution other than a massive increase in police funding. Maybe it could be conditioned on being purely for higher salaries rather than for military weapons. It'd also help if it was tied to prohibiting the disqualification of applicants with high IQs.

More generally, I think it's weird how we tend to hear more about shortages in all sorts of key industries these days. Medical professionals, police, teachers. Well, it seems it was always true for teachers. But I'm under this impression it used to be easier to have a self-sustaining mix of professions in a geographical area, without trying to regulate it all in place. Maybe this is again all going back to the wealth gap and housing costs.
> We don't have the data to claim this, this confidently, and the only way to get the data is let the experiment keep running in the real world (only place that matters).

I don't have to prove it. It's incumbent on the AV evangelists to prove they are better. I signed up to be a driver on roads with other humans. I have zero interest in being part of this experiment. Especially not when it comes out of silicon valley.

For an industry that claims to be all about safety and fixing how dangerous driving is, I expected them to be taking inspiration from Boeing and the commercial airlines. The remarkable, steadily improving safety record of the Airline industry should have been the paragon. Instead, they've copied the move-fast-and-break things playbook from the silicon valley tech bros. Which makes all of these claims hard to take seriously.
Thank you for this really cool video! As a game designer, I find combinatorics super fascinating and helpful for creating balanced sets of cards or other variable content in my games. I wish I had a stronger foundation with it.
Maybe some fiction with facts? You might like "Andy Weir" (sci-fi)

- Project Hail Mary

- Artemis

- The Martian

Maybe watch the movie "The Martian" first if you don't want to commit. As always, the books are better.

Also "I Robot" by Asimov is short stories. (Not like the movie)
This is an awesome idea! Yeah refining and asking more questions about the image could make it viable. The BakLlava model is pretty impressive, but I do need to tune the prompts and the hyperparams as well. Or even do a small finetune. It’s a fun space to dive into.
Not all projects are "business-able" I think. A nice tool with an identifiable user base, a nice UI, etc. is easier to market than a NTP library even if the latter has more probability to be critical and to get installed in billions of devices.
These folks are doing God's work. (Not the ones from Big Tech like the dude from Meta of course.) Great stuff.
Banks send out a cashier check upon closing accounts. I was pointing out some edge cases (last deposited check being the culprit of closure; however, this check was cleared by the payee bank). Contingency is one reason. It also depends on what you use banks for. If it is direct deposit from jobs and paying bills, big banks are okay.

The moment you start use Zelle heavily, one of those zelle recipients is linked with suspicious activity, that's a problem (btw, Zelle is owned by big banks). Banks find so many things suspicious: many check deposits, many zelle transfers, low balances, many cash/money order deposits, asking for cashier checks, wires(both domestic and foreign), any crypto activity, being a public figure, names similar to those on OFAC list, etc. Basically, they want normal customers (4 pay stubs, paying 10 bills a month) or extremely wealthy clients. Otherwise, you don't fit the average profile, and whatever you do is construed as not being legitimate.
This is the yeast/bear version of toxoplasmosis cat/rat?
I think this is a bit unfair. Besides his views (some of them extreme), he's a super smart and accomplished individual, and this article is worth reading IMHO, irrespective of Balaji's background.
Booting from a firmware Forth loader was how the early Sun SunOS (BSD) workstations did their thing - you could hotkey to stop the default OS load and boot from an image on an alternative drive, across a network, or modify the Forth loader to <imagination>
Anyone know which is "better", GDB or LDB?
There are dozens of us! Dozens!

I paid $99 for Coherent because Linux didn't support the fancy RLL hard drive in my work computer. Eventually Linux caught up (or I got a new computer) and Slackware replaced Coherent (for little things like X11, better networking etc.). Those were the days :)
In this calendar system, though, the third Saturday in September would always be the same day of the week, so it would keep you from celebrating in that format.
Very common way: Go Open Core, sell hosting and plugins and proprietary engines etc and if that's not enough do a coup and change license to prevent competition from providing same services.
No one has formed religions around fake nudes, even despite the fact that it's been possible at least since the first cave paintings.
> I was once in a depression group where I just didn’t fit in

One of my weirdest thoughts to date has to be "I think this group is for normal suicidal people" haha

Doing much better now! Similar to you my depression was more of an ADHD symptom than "real" depression. Real in terms of end result but treatment for ADHD worked much better than antidepressants.

It's kinda hard to not be depressed when you're not getting any dopamine from doing things I guess
I don't remember that being the reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBhZ6S0PFCY

Google I/O 2014 - HTTPS Everywhere

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2014/08/https-as-r...
According to the annual report[1],

2021 2022
Epic Mega Grant € 334,609 16% € 87,540 4%
Dev. Fund patron € 687,896 32% € 1,073,684 49%
Dev. Fund corporate € 314,546 15% € 218,000 10%
Dev. Fund individual € 364,032 17% € 423,837 20%
Blender Market € 126,502 6% € 155,673 7%
Google Summer of Code € 2,649 0% € 2,003 0%
Other large donations € 148,486 7% € 160,819 7%

[1] https://download.blender.org/foundation/Blender-Foundation-A...
Williamsburg is more than lame. It's surreal. Sit on Bedford and watch people for an hour sometime. Makes me feel like I'm in a simulation.
Some people actually saw this coming. The author fell in the trap of assuming nothing would change or improve. Which is interesting as a thought experiment but otherwise a bit flawed for making any kind of projections.

There's a reason we have had so much progress in the last fifteen years: fifteen years ago, investments in this area had been ramping up for a while already. Those investors were making calculated bets on things improving massively. And they weren't wrong.

There are some good reasons to continue to be optimistic about the next 27 years (until 2050). That's almost twice the amount of time since the original article from 2008.

I expect grid storage is going to be massively successful as prices drop. There are a lot of different solutions emerging currently; many of which are not dependent on any scarce resources. Then learning effects applied to solar and wind should result in more cost reductions. Finally, industrial use of energy is likely to start changing as well. Industrial heating is a big topic with lots of possible solutions.
Svalbard requires you have a job or can show you can support yourself. There is almost no available housing in the archipelago so 100sq m costs about $500,000 _ https://www.finn.no/realestate/homes/search.html?location=0.... .

Food is expensive and you will not be able to live off the land.

Here is someone who was forced to leave the island because he could not demonstrate he could support himself, and was in poor health: https://icepeople.net/2021/07/24/our-editor-get-expelled-her...

How does one get enough food and heat to survive while living on Marie Byrd Land?

Croatia controls Gornja Siga.

Lagoan Isles is a pretend place definitely under English control.

Bir Tawil is a tough place to live, like Marie Byrd Land but easier to survive. Good luck finding water.
I mean, 70 percent is pretty good for a selection strategy. I wasn't aware H&S had published a followup and now I'm curious if it ever got a peer review, because their table contradicts some earlier work suggesting that structured works better than unstructured.

It's also pretty keen to recommend Integrity tests which I think the authors play a role in studying.

edit: I guess it's "operational validity" which maybe isn't "percent that did well later"?
Shoes? When I rave I dance barefoot, like it should be. Ofcourse, I wouldn't go to a rave between walls even if someone paid me to. Open air or bust
They should probably give people an email account that they can scan all your correspondence to for people who are without an address.
Mods to Create Tamriel in Skyrim
Yes we've had nude stuff before, but part of my point is we've developed as a society since cave times and it might be nice to keep things that way instead of heading into some AI-driven valueless pit, and abdicating these valuable things because 'it's too hard'.

Also this is more about pornographic content (what is mentioned in the article) than nude art- there's a world of difference between having a crude charcoal sketch, a renaissance painting, and a degrading porn shot of someone.
Not a Discord fan either but whole companies are now using Discord like if it is Slack. I don't think the product looks amateur by having a Discord.
Thanks for sharing! Several questions:

1. Could you address concerns regarding the data exposure and privacy? According to the registry, company owners are:

Nikita Paushkin 38912300100 (Russian Federation) Direct ownership 25.01.2020

Ekaterina Marova 49003260123 Direct ownership 04.09.2021

2. Reading through the Customer Agreement, the list of banned countries includes Iceland... Why so?

3. Is there a looking glass to assess the latency? Who owns the hardware?
> According to Thomson Reuters, banks filed over 1.8 million SARs in 2022

> The algorithmically generated alerts are reviewed every day by human employees.

At 1.8M reports either banks employ an army of reviewers or there is fuck all of a review.

> or wire transfers with banks in high-risk countries.

Sounds like something ripe for discrimination against immigrants.