skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only got the card because I wanted a neat piece of titanium. I used it a few times and then cancelled it. Was I the only one?
Good. They should shut down the whole Apple Card program. It was awful.

I had an Apple card for two months. In those two months, I had more inexplicably declined transactions than in the other twenty years with other cards combined. Every single time I called support and Goldman Sachs pointed at Apple and Apple pointed at Goldman Sachs and the problem never got resolved. They both did an astonishingly bad job.
Interesting. I had zero issues using my Amex in France and Switzerland this past summer. In fact, there was only one restaurant that I visited that wouldn't take it. I must have been lucky.
> I guess it’s some combination of feeling like a victim with a fatalist attitude that’s the real issue.

Yes I 100% think this is the case. Simply creating “awareness” of a social problem, for example, is useless IMO because it leads to fatalism. It needs to be matched with a push to create change. I see this as a major failing of the internet activism of the 2010s, although I support its broad aims. IMO it leaned too hard on classifying and describing various structural inequalities, without really advancing a concrete theory of change. This ultimately squandered the energy it created, leading to this weird situation where much of its sharpest criticisms got swallowed the system and converted into HR platitudes.
Why are we focusing on the negative examples? Would you not want George Washington to live to 500? Lots of bad political figures were stopped by good political figures who would also benefit from life extension.
His philosophy was heavily inspired by Benjamin Franklin and other philosophers who believed in the same ideas on self-pity.
> No one wants to manually configure log rotation for each daemon individually (What signal does this daemon use to reopen its log file shudder).

I do.

I want my (e.g.) auth.log rotated regularly and kept forever. Many other things I only care about (say) 4-6 weeks of retention.

(This is in addition to off-host log shipping, which of course journald doesn't do itself so I have to run rsyslog regardlesss.)
Define "occasional."

I drink about one soft drink per year, and it's a Coke. (Which reminds me, I don't think I've had my drink for 2023!)

If all world citizens limited themselves to my rate of indulgence, Berkshire Hathaway's KO stake would be worth quite a bit less.
Here is a seemingly counterintuitive idea. Can you partner with them? Together your team could be unbeatable. You provide the engineering, they provide the marketing.

As you point out they have an order of magnitude more users. Evidently they have some skills in marketing and distribution.
And what exactly is wrong with a nihilism? If we don’t really know what’s going on, maybe we should accept that truth and move on with living better lives less swayed by political propaganda. Given how many relationships have been ruined because both sides were certain of their political facts, a nihilism seems simply better.
I tried to use it a few times and then cancelled it. It got declined a lot and no explanation was ever given.
Same. “It’s easier to close all your browser tabs in just 10 seconds, than it is for a rich person to get into heaven.”

“It’s easier to grill a steak just right without checking it, than…”

People are really desperate to believe this particular figure would like them…
>Most people don't know a competent <insert job here> or can't afford to hire one

May be relevant in the long run, but it'll probably be 5+ years before this is commercially available. And it won't be cheap either, so out of the range of said people who can't hire a competent <insert job here>

That's why a lot of this stuff is pitched to companies with competent people instead of offered as a general product to download.
Even America has a Chinese-style firewall - it's called Cloudflare.
I had the Uber credit card which at launch had something like 4% cashback at restaurants/bars/uber trips.

Uber progressively slashed the benefits overtime to the point where it just had some generic 1% cashback. That was through Barclays and eventually they shipped me some vanilla master card with no benefits.

I hope the Apple card doesn't follow a similar path.
As of this writing, Ally is still higher than Apple Savings account (4.25% APY vs 4.15% APY)
So If I understand it correctly, the electrical connector was genderless? If so, that's relatively rare (the only ones I can think of are Anderson Powerpole, which I don't think are rated for interplanetary vehicles) and extremely stupid.

Edit: I suppose he could've been using alligator leads.
Sam Altman: how to be successful (2019)
I believe this is true in Hindi as well, both are “nimbu”. It’s generally not a problem because we overwhelmingly buy limes for food use at home but it did take a bit to figure out (when I was younger, of course) that the two fruits that I knew from school were not something my mother distinguished.
lower fees is what is needed for businesses to start accepting amex.

visa and mastercard are 2-3%, amex is 5-6%. there's no upside for merchants to accept transactions where they have to pay double the processing fees
"Your facts are biased," is only a legitimate rejoinder if you offer the rest of the facts. Otherwise it is a tool that could be used against anything the speaker doesn't want to acknowledge.

"Reality is too complex to understand, therefore the understanding you are offering must be wrong," is also a way to argue against anything, unless it's accompanied by some part of that reality that the other person cannot explain with their theory.
This is one of his greatest. I wrote a nice summary of Poor Charlie’s Almanack back in 2021 which I’ve occasionally kept coming back to. I think today I‘ll revisit it with a sense of emptiness inside me. I’m sharing it here for others to enjoy: https://www.lostbookofsales.com/notes/poor-charlies-almanack...
I'm uncertain about the 'A' in KA, it might suggest that it was the initial release.

'I' stands for 'Integrated', as it was the first PDP-10 CPU to utilize ICs, and 'L' stands for 'LSI'.

There was also the ill-fated KC-10, which was unfortunately killed for various reasons, both technical and strategic as it was competing with the 11/780. It was to use integrated NAND chips like the 11/750 (or even the Cray 1). I'm not sure what the 'C' stood for.

Oh, I should also mention the small KS-10, which had a mini form factor (the DEC10-20 was a mainframe). I guess you can figure what the 'S' stood for.
Gone are the days of seeing "kernel" in a title and getting juicy OS development content :)

old fart signs out
When you move people onto Matrix, what homeserver do you have them use? I've set up a Matrix server for my immediate family and adoption rate has been good so far. I've set up both my parents, and one of my sisters and one of my brothers have signed up, one sibling is being a bit resistant since "I already use a gazillion other chat apps." But, not everyone has a me to set up and maintain a Matrix server, and I'm weary to tell people to just hop onto the main "matrix.org" server since I don't know what kind of experiences there are for people who don't know what they're doing (e.g. Should they put in PII or remain anonymous?)
We made sure that TFLite workflows would run smoothly with Keras 3 models. We did not come up with any TFLite related improvements. The focus was on the multi-backend architecture, distribution, and training performance.
One thing that Libera and its predecessors have that is impossible with element and discord and slack is: multiple overlapping communities on the same platform.

Maybe matrix/element has that, but I’m not very adept at finding it I guess. Old time original freenode had so many communities.
The early Internet was magical.

The fact that you could see a place through a camera, in real time and whenever you wanted, on the other side of the world, was magical.

Before webcams, only large television networks had the technical ability to do that, through an extremely expensive satellite connection.

Now, 16-year-old-me could do it from my bedroom.
1. they don't beat them outight. It's simply more accessible.

2. those "hobbyists" in all examples are in fact professionals now. That's why they could scale up.
I disagree about the F1000's having a highly competent CTO office team. Much less unlimited HC and budget.

Earlier in my career I worked my way up from Linux sysadmin to Enterprise architect and designed a private vSphere/vCAC private cloud (100K+ ESXi hosts, 12PB SAN, US east/west, Canada, EU) for a F15 company and the level of incompetence I saw in tech leadership from the CTO office down was staggering.

Most CTO leadership in the F1000 has determined long ago that kingdom building and protecting headcount is their top priority, so they don't want things to be too efficient. They have to protect their 300 Windows admin HC and 100 Linux admin HC at all costs, so if you give their customers (the line of business unit managers and developers) an API that lets them provision a virtual server in minutes and might automate away the job of 80% of those Windows admins who were doing manual builds, they will slow it down to the point that it is just as slow as the old 6 month long manual provisioning process.

I watched this play out first hand. On my small team we designed a private cloud that could give you a Linux/Windows server in ~20 minutes with as much storage as you wanted, and it was so effective at stealing internal customers that the VPs who managed the server build/run teams made sure to break it apart into their separate storage, compute, and database silos so that the provisioning process got slow again. It still takes them 6 months and a project manager to provision a single server now.

These dinosaurs don't want change. They want to kingdom build and make sure they have hundreds of dead weight server admins so that when they get forced to cut due to budget reductions they won't get cut too deep. They could care less about the bottom line, and the CEO and executive leadership don't know they're being gaslit by their CTO office on down about the "dangers of public cloud."
I usually read books recommended by other people, articles, goodreads, bookclub, etc.

However, when I'm browsing in the library I always go by jacket art and blurb, then read a few random passages. How else to sift through dozens of books to find the one I want to invest my time in?
My theory about the Apple Card:

Goldman Sachs is not setup to be a direct consumer bank. This caused a lot of problems:

* The ease of sign up / approval led to a lot of subprime approvals that might not have gone through with a more established lender. Not only did this cause GS to lose money on delinquent accounts, it prevented the Apple Card from ever becoming a status symbol.

* Goldman Sachs developed a reputation for almost never backing up cardholders in the case of dicey/fraudulent charges.The sense of security is a huge part of why people use a credit card for purchases. I myself terminated my Apple Card account over this.

* The card itself was just not competitive in terms of rewards. The UI/UX of the app and the deeper integration into the Apple ecosystem was nice... (if a bit confusing) but when I moved over to Chase I found myself not really missing it at all.

* Edit: Forgot one additional thing. Apple Card did not have contactless (tap) technology because they wanted to promote using Apple Pay. But whipping out your phone sucks compared to just tapping your card against a reader.

All I wanted was a simple, easy credit card. I didn't care about minmaxing bonuses etc... but when I moved over to Chase I realized I had been leaving a lot of money on the table.

All the other players but especially Chase and AMEX have very established reward systems setup.

It's possible that Apple wants to move banks specifically because they want to reposition the card and need a different partner to do it with.
No, many are associated with known organizations like the Chaos Computer Club and Zweibelfreunde.
Are there any good resources for learning a lot of "syntactic sugar" terms? This is new to me, but I'd love to know more.
The reduction of in-office requirements is surprise. I would have figured it would have double down on office requirements
Clearly not, given there's worker demand for blue collar jobs that offer 12/13 USD/h in an area where that doesn't even meet rent, let alone savings, buying or repairing a car, let alone the prospect of having children, buying a house or investing into one's 401k (pensions be damned, amirite?)
It's interesting story, but not a catastrophic failure.
It saddens me that he is gone, but I am glad he lived the long good life that he did. I first started reading his "Psychology of human misjudgment" around 10 years ago. I try to reread it every year. Whenever I see a young person who appears to have a little drive, I recommend that they read the speech. I really wish I had run across these concepts when I was in my early twenties, but I am still grateful that Charlie packaged them up for me. I hope everyone here takes some time and reviews this list, and then takes up the assignment and peruse some of the other literature in the field.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe there was a court ruling that says AI generated works cannot be copyrighted. So you could use them, but couldn't stop anyone else from doing what they want with them
What would that change?

Amex acceptance in the US is basically ubiquitous, and how would a new type of Amex change things abroad?
This is great! Hope you ship.
I've had it since it launched. I make thousands of transactions a month. I've never had a decline.
I doubt your numbers then, as when I googled I found “There have been no deaths caused by carrying panels or laying panels on a roof. Electricians are required to connect the panels and inverters as it is.” -- https://reneweconomy.com.au/trojan-horse-industry-angry-at-q... so in the 158TWh generated by solar in Australia, that gives an average deaths per TWh of 0.003, nearly an order of magnitude lower.

It's odd that you bring up cobalt, as https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2023/trends-in... and https://www.energy-storage.news/lfp-to-dominate-3twh-global-... both suggest that cobalt is no longer relevant. It seems that sodium ion is also poised to replace lithium ion. Is cobalt the most dangerous mineral to mine?

Why doesn't solar+battery provide reliable generation capabilities? There are any number of off-grid solar only projects, it's simply a matter of cost, not capability.
I guess a good example of a moat in consumer email could be the fact that once you have the user, their email address is forever tied to your service. They can try to forward emails or fetch them, but they can't retain that email address on your domain without still using you (at least to some extent). Sender authentication then means they likely need to use you to send emails.

That's a fairly effective barrier to switching for many people, as they won't want to lose their email address now, or need to go through every site they ever signed up with and change it.
As smart and rich as this guy was, and I know very little of him besides his critique of cryptocurrencies, I wonder about his empathy. That dorm design...https://youtu.be/VKXOQ8duhRg
From the Wikipedia page: "His father, Alfred Case Munger, was a lawyer.[2] His grandfather was Thomas Charles Munger, a U.S. district court judge and state representative.[3]"

This is not the billionaire white guy who can empathize with most people's situation.
A totally reasonable response to a minor inconvenience.
It's way better than my previous savings account as well, but still about 0.5-0.75 points lower than a couple of CDs that I have.

Not sure if that counts as significant or not, but I figure it adds up.

Apple Savings: 4.15%

CIT Bank 6-Mo CD: 4.88%

CIT Bank 18-Mo CD: 4.5% I think?
Christchurch did not drop 20% - only 10%. And house prices are still up a lot.

From https://www.opespartners.co.nz/property-markets/christchurch

Christchurch property prices peaked in February 2022. Prices are currently 7.28% below the peak (REINZ, October 2023)

Property prices appear to have bottomed out in June 2023. That was 10.7% down from the peak

I guess that I am talking about the leading indicators that I read when I am in the market, versus the lagging statistical figures. Also sentiment matters - at the "low" a few months ago there were very few transactions and auction room was very very quiet.

There are now adverts for 5% down mortgages. And I feel we have lost the doom sentiment that existed a few months back.

Also I believe that using "peak" for any price comparison or analysis will usually mislead (shares and crypto too).
I see it as a black triangle[0] more than anything else. Sounds like a really good first step that will scale to stuff that would take even a good modeler days to produce. That's where the real value will start to be seen.

[0]: https://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745
the days of coding are going to go :-) from assembly to javascript to AI... where no man has gone before
Mine. Which, at least usually, has working federation...

I don't like the modern internet, and I go out of my way to find workarounds. One of those, currently, is having a physical server colo'd locally to host my internet presence.
A column of plasma is not like a ferrite because it has no solid shape. While the ions in the plasma exhibit zeeman splitting under an external biasing magnetic field like the ferrites there's no way to set up a stable standing wave around the rim of the ferrite with the amorphous plasma. I don't think there is non-recipocal circulator behavior at work here.

http://superkuh.com/standing-wave-circulator.jpg
http://superkuh.com/magnitude-of-electrical-field-around-per...
http://superkuh.com/waveguide-y-junction-circulator.jpg
I imagine they'll replace the physical cards as the existing ones have Goldman's name on the back. The transition could otherwise be nearly invisible, the Goldman name and actual card numbers don't show up often in normal usage.
>Can I assume everyone commenting here has a WSJ subscription?

I was able to read it fine with the current version of the Bypass Paywalls chrome extension.

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
California doesn't have a tip wage, tips still expected.
> […] but overall your comment supports the GP assertion of a vocal minority.

Is it possible to tell the difference between a demographic minority of people who are (all/largely) vocal, and a demographic majority of which only a small number are vocal?
Well maybe the social engineering type.
In the meantime, people still need a roof over their head, need a car to get to places (at least in large swaths of concrete jungles, like in TX, as the RTFA explained), which means jack to those who aren't in that position. In other words, you are explaining away huge wage inequality via elitism.
These are wonderful, thanks for sharing
Feels like an MVP, but with just the right amount of features. Love sites like this.
have you ever been to a dorm? do you think people just sleep there?

especially a couple thousand people?
Absolutely I agree with you. And ultimately the article was about why everyone quit working at the theatre. It is entirely the theatres fault, and one way they caused their own situation was by not making the custom clear to the customer. If for instance tickets and food etc are billed together, it is tricky to know that you’re supposed to tip for the food but not the tickets and everything gets blurred. One solution is to make sure waiters and bar tenders bill their services independently.

Overall, I think the business model they have doesn’t work for labor, and they suffer the consequences by being unable to hire. To their point, it’s not about workers being lazy, it’s about the business owner making a work environment that’s untenable but expecting people to be grateful for the opportunity. The tipping was only one issue, amongst a lot of others, but it’s also the one that would have cost the owners nothing to resolve by simply clearing the ambiguity.
I'm not an expert but here's my intuition.

The L1 cache is very fast and each core has its own 32 kilobytes or so cache.

If we could send between L1 caches of cores then couldn't we have latency below 100 nanoseconds?
I replied to your other comment - I've not had this experience. Its been a rarely positive fintech experience for me.
I don't have a savings account but buy CDs on a regular basis. For the next two years, I have something between 5% and 6% maturing every 3 months. Apple Card Savings is 4.15%.

So you can definitely do better than the Apple Card, but to some extent you're paying bankers to do what I do manually every 3 months. (You just pay them in "spread"; they're buying the same CDs I am, but keeping some of the profits to themselves. And letting you withdraw the money whenever you want, not just when the underlying CD matures. I get only a small amount of interest on my "what if I get fired and need to eat for 3 months until the next CD matures?" fund, sitting in my checking account.)

I never bother with actual savings accounts because in a year or two interest rates will be back down to 0.0000001% or whatever, in which case just holding the cash in my brokerage account is easier. (At least it gets swept into an overnight account that earns 0.0000015% interest! Wow!)
As market get saturated with Apple devices and new sales are lower becoming finance company can keep generating growth and returns wall is street looking for.
Goldman Sachs’s customer service was surprisingly bad – I imagine that factor alone is a sufficient threat to Apple’s brand, worthy of terminating the arrangement.
Sounded like a forced marriage
I'm sorry, what? Do you have any idea whatsoever you're talking about? Why would cash, with a nominal value of x, be worth more in in a year than cash with a nominal value of x plus some interest? Inflation aside, as this affects the value of your holdings in any case, in what universe are you better off doing nothing than earning a return?
A simple next step would be to simply scale the model, make it bigger, and train it on millions of images in the wild.
I see the hacker mindset has become a 'pro-profit' enterprise!

Perhaps consider a worldview where the many talented people who actually write the code can be properly compensated for the fruits of their labor, rather than someone far-removed from the process simply holding a paper that says they own the deed to the company.
Probably, but isn't that how most if the technical fields go? Software in particular moves blazing fast and you need to adapt to the market quickly to be marketable.
Cover art is not unconnected to the work itself. It correlates fairly strongly with the stylistic choices made in a book, though that correlation becomes more tenuous the more distance you add between the author and the selection of cover art, be it middlemen in the form of a publisher and a separate cover artist or just the passage of time motivating new cover art matching the predominant contemporary aesthetic while the contents of the book remain unchanged. This correlation is the result of at least two factors: 1) that people who have specialized into a very specific niche have shared stylistic preferences that motivated them to specialize into the niche in the first place, resulting in a clustering of aesthetic preferences between niches, and 2) that even when middlemen are involved, those middlemen will try to align the aesthetics of cover art such that they align with the spirit of the book.
Why Won't OpenAI Say What the Q* Algorithm Is?
Beeper contribute to and maintain many of the bridges.
> which was open sourced under MIT license

This seems like the main mistake. Try AGPLv3 instead.
RedoxOS uses Matrix for their chats now.
I did get a chuckle.

Even if it is wrong.