skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a long time, payment processors in the US would charge more to offer tokenization services. Cost-conscious companies with an eye on their unit economics reacted in predictable ways.
I think this topic came up a week or 2 ago, and I made an almost identical comment as you, which was why the content of my reply was fresh in my memory. Anyway, in the recent convo, a kind hn poster provided this explanation of CVV

https://randomoracle.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/cvv1-cvv2-cvv3...

I totally see why it just seems like "moar numbers" though, and I find them unnecessarily annoying. I wish they could reduce the complexity (maybe letters, colors or shapes, something more human-compatible), but there's just too much legacy code with too little benefit.
Prompt engineering
Interesting. How is the absence of dreams interpreted from this point of view?
I think the person who wrote this needs some very serious professional help.
"Vague insinuations"? There's nothing vague about it. An unmaintained network server is not safe to run, period. That's not a controversial statement, just common sense from observing how fast we go through CVE's.

Can you take steps to reduce risk? Sure, but managing to safely detonate a bomb does not make bomb explosions safe. Suggesting that such unsafe practices can or should be part of a normal desktop setup as you did is definitely not sound.
I would go :
1. count records
2. make copy
3. insert
4. ensure records = records + 1
5 if records != records +1 or file can be grepped, stat, filesize, then assume is corrupted and rollback to copy
This is indistinguishable from gibberish. A common symptom of "quantum bullshit" articles.

If they have something that isn't nonsense, they can write a better article.
> You might be surprised at how prevalent TBIs are among violent offenders.

Didn't know that, interesting to know.

> So successful AGI alignment (...) might be as simple as adding a secondary "impulse control" layer to the stack that reevaluates proposed actions and predicts the consequences of such actions, weighing projected net benefits and costs.

Problem is how the super AGI gonna weight benefits and costs.

What's the cost of stealing or killing to a super AGI ?

At some point can't that super AGI consider that all those rules we're trying to enforce, are rules set by an inferior entity and so could be bypassed ?
You have to call it Pop exclamation mark underscore OS here.
As a counterexample, I have also authored both assembly and CSS professionally (not at the same time), and I chose to completely abandon web development after endless battles with kludgey, inconsistent CSS vacuumed all the fun out of it.

(I imagine the situation may have improved over the last 15-odd years, but I'm not going back in to find out.)

I still enjoy assembly programming, though opportunities to use it have become a very rare treat.
I put it in vscode, to see if it was better than copilot.

10 minutes in I was literally swearing at it, and I don't remember rage-uninstalling something so fast.

I don't particularly like copilot either, but I can work with it.

Chatgpt, despite me only using it through the Web interface, is so much better than both of these, it's scary.
Not really in the same vein, but I have noticed the following logical fallacy is extremely common.

On average, X is more likely than Y, therefore in any specific case, X is more likely than Y.

This is not true at all, and leads to some really dumb conclusions. Not a perfect example but : gun owners in the USA on average are more likely to hurt themselves with their firearm than successfully use the firearm on an intruder.
Now, if you follow proper firearm practices, then your chance of hurting yourself is basically 0. This average number includes the vast swathe of people who really have no business owning a firearm. If you are educated and take it seriously, though, you won't hurt yourself.
And yet this statistic has really stuck with people and I hear people use it all the time to assert that anyone that owns a gun is putting their own life at risk, regardless of how they treat the gun.
I wrote this chapter primer on these aspects:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229525331_Children'...
Slashdot was about the only site that remained up. Just.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/World-Trade-Towe...
> Aphantasia is also often linked with SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographic Memory).

Thanks for mentioning this... did an extremely quick Google and I suddenly understand everything about my memory.
I don’t like the casting of the frequency domain view as the ‘recipe’ and the time domain view as the ‘product’. The point of Fourier is that you can switch between these perspectives losslessly - they contain equivalent information. The ‘smoothie’ metaphor of ‘unmixing’ the smoothie to get the ingredients, and then blending it to get the smoothie back conjures the impression that Fourier transformation is some sort of entropy reversing process, which is misleading.

A time domain function has a frequency domain interpretation - that doesn’t mean the frequency domain function is what ‘made’ the time domain function. It’s a chicken and an egg - both make each other.

Just like a function has a derivative, and you can recover the original function (modulo it’s y-offset) by taking its antiderivative - that doesn’t make the derivative the ‘recipe’ for the function.
me too! thank you all!
Interestingly, you'll get similar instructions with any Norelco electric shaver. They're not wrong, and they don't seem to interfere with market adoption.
I’m old enough to have encountered Netscape contractors. The kid they sent to us, at $250/hr (that’s $470 inflation adjusted) no less, had the manual open in his lap. I’m pretty sure they were taught never to get caught doing that.

If memory serves I helped our IT guy replace the whole mess with Apache, so we’d never have to talk to them again. I used to compete with Netscape so there was no small amusement in costing them contractor hours.
Have you been to both? I've lived in one of these french ghettos, I know without a doubt what I'd choose in-between starting with empty pockets on Mission street or in Seine Saint Denis.
If I had to guess, there are hordes of businesses out there that maintain operations on prem, and a large lift like this is great for the resume.

Of course, I could also be entirely wrong, but I also am not going to pretend that IT resume padding then jumping ship and leaving a shart of an architecture behind doesn’t happen all the time in this industry.
Two awesome technologies / companies joining forces!

Supabase and Fly.io are awesome - can't wait to see how cool they can get together!
I came here to say the same thing.

It's bizarre how the author's attitude is that the webp authors should know better. Yet his blog cannot link to images properly without JavaScript. My browser supports lazy loading images and srcset; all the things he would want. It does that without JavaScript. Yet he tries to implement that in JavaScript and does not have a fallback to use the browser's native implementation. It's difficult to take him seriously in criticizing others' competencies when he, in a blog post about image quality, cannot include images with over-complicating things to the point of breakage.

His point on color banding is clear and others have pointed out that the luma in 4:2:0 subsampling is terrible. But Google is not in the photography business. (Overlooking his attempt to convert from lossy compression to another lossy compression.) It is in the content business but only in so far as it furthers its advertising business. It is not in content for the same reason as the author so they don't share the same interests.

Compare https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/ to https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/

> JPEG XL is designed to meet the needs of image delivery on the web and professional photography.

If you search google's documentation on webp they mention photography like four times and never as "professional photography".

It's honestly funny that he is surprised that Google is advocating for a file format that does not suit his needs as a professional photographer. Google is an advertising business; everybody knows this.

Finally, I never see critics of (or anyone commenting on) webp mention that it supports transparency. What other format is someone to use if they want lossy transparency? It's great for small low quality thumbnails of images (like jpg or png) or animation (like gif) or video. You can throw just any input at ffmpeg and ask for a webp and it will give you something useful that represents one frame of the input. It fills that niche very well.

Once JPEG XL because well supported, I'd like to use it; I hear good things. But it isn't well supported yet so webp is the only option for images with lossy transparency.
There was a time that ed was necessary knowledge because you often had richer editors installed on a different partition from the boot partition and more frequently than you would expect you ended up in a position where you were only able to bring up the boot partition or had to boot emergency media, both of which only had ed. That wasn’t a preference thing, it was a necessity thing. Trying to learn how to use ed when production is down (and you might not have a readily available command window with man pages available when you’re in a data center on a vt220 plugged into the dead system!)
I'm 3.5. It's crazy to me that people can see vivid imagery or rotate 3d objects in their minds eye.
I don't understand either. I understand that CSS can be tricky sometimes, but more difficult than Assembly? Well, admittedly I have no idea of assembly or pretty much anything outside of your typical web stack, but it seems more difficult to me from the distance.

Not to mention game devs doing GPU stuff. I regret committing to programming with 30yo, in my 20s I probably would have the time and energy to learn much more.
Typically Japan is used as an example. Rural houses there are extremely cheap these days. Urban housing is still expensive.
Everything waterproof will be worse to some degree, but that's okay. We learn to make this trade-off all the time; can't fight the physics of elements.

The more interesting area is in military applications, because China will continue to utilize PFAS technology and that gives a huge advantage in many areas.
Exactly, I can think of very few tools/apps that are as effective and powerful as winbox.
Not to mention that the entire program is portable and around a few megabytes in size)

For probably the past 10 to 15 years there has not been a moment that I haven’t had at least two winbox sessions open/running on my daily desktop 24/7. (Network/Wi-Fi admin , responsible for thousands of devices)
Lift and shift is a sales term to make it sound like the internal team is trying to over-complicate the migration. The sales guy will normally phrase it as "just lift and shift."
there's CSS and there's CSS.

macro layout stuff with complex component structure, shape changing web components, multiple scrolling divs, sticky footers, animations, lotta state changes, cobranding, 5-10 year old code base?

Yeah it starts to take a dedicated expert vs a dev who "knows CSS"
Live replicas (perhaps initialized with a cold backup, initially, if the dataset's really huge), carving off parts of it for separate migration if that's at all feasible, and some expensive folks doing a lot of butt-clenching-worthy activity for an hour or two (unless it goes very poorly...) for the final cut-over, some evening.
> I'm thinking: construct a visual scene, object A is on top of object B, etc., and then ask a question that would be obvious to someone actually seeing the scene, but very difficult to reason out otherwise. Obviously such a test would be hard to come up with, hence why we don't seem to be able to talk about this stuff very well.

Yeah. I mentioned this elsewhere in this thread but the big thing that made me understand (some of) the gulf in terms of visual rendering abilities was murder mysteries. I read a lot of them with friends and oftentimes mysteries rely on an ability to construct an image of the scene in your head. Not being able to solve such a mystery doesn't mean you have aphantasia, of course, but there's this feeling for me in these that they're literally impossible, and yet other people can definitely solve them.
One phenomenon I heard about recently is that new developments plant smaller trees in order to reduce impacts on power lines. While this achieves the nominal objective, the smaller trees are generally ineffective for shade and general thermal management, provide limited support for squirrels and birds, and generally result in a much inferior aesthetic. According to some models (which are difficult to test), trees improve air quality; smaller trees probably have less effect. But the costs of trees accrue to the developer (who may be a city), while the benefits are diffuse and difficult to measure. Moral hazard, unintended consequences, call it what you will; you have to know about the problem to fix it.

In this article, we hear:

>“The biggest asset for [the county government] in this program is the reduction of maintenance costs,” Maluki says. “It’s a two-way benefit.”

What relates my first paragraph to this article is that I have read dozens of articles touting the benefits of trees in urban design and practically never see much attention paid to the forces in the decision process that keep trees out of cities. Yes, the emerald ash borer and [other story] played a role, but not all villains are so one-dimensionally bad.

This article reads like another puff piece. Insofar as it engages with differing perspectives, they contacted an ecologist who doesn't want to build any roads, and he got two paragraphs. They didn't bother contacting anyone who builds roads and who has doubts about the project, though; their concerns are limited to about half of a sentence:

>but road departments themselves have proved reluctant. “They don’t want the costs associated with designing and implementing [them],” he says.
Walter Peters vs. Apple Inc
No, it's more because when the bug was filed, you said to yourself, "oh, was I supposed to update the $HOOZIWIZIT in that transaction, too? Oops." Code coverage won't save you from that. Matching test cases to requirements, or summat, can be helpful, but good golly it's a bunch more paperwork.

Your point is a good one, but not where I was going.
driving raw LCDs is not hard, but tedious as you need a large (3, 4, or 5 depending on MUX settings) number of drive voltages. You are MUCH better using a chip that has a native LCD driver. Microchip has a bunch of 8-bit PICs that do. And then you can talk to it using SPI or UART from your ESP32. As for pinout - just guess and check the rows and cols. It won't take long.
it also shows the market potential: 10000 people would buy this set. sure not all of them will buy it, but it's certainly a useful metric.
You’re right; it’s very inconvenient. Especially frustrating because I’m in the same boat as OP: I can absolutely hallucinate, but only if I’m on the edge of dreaming, or actually asleep.

I really wish I could change that. The machinery is clearly there.
Thanks, that's something I didn't know!

I'll fix it later, and change the wording to say that these are properties of a database transaction
Nvidia’s response is the shady one, in their response they’re using a different batch size
Both those solutions are failures, but they aren't at all the only options (look at HN, for example). On a certain scale, public social forums need effective moderators.
... and a lot of this foreign people are awesome, I would say

To add context, we welcome more than 70 millions of international tourists each year. Many of this people return regularly and decide to live here after they retire; So a percentage of this foreign nationals group will never compete with unemployed youngsters at all (In fact, they will generate a lot of first-job opportunities for young adults).

Is not always moonlight and roses, but we learnt to appreciate many of this people
What's Left of Cable TV Is Slowly Going to Hell
Yeah, based on my own experience with AWS and Azure (that has nothing to do with Linked In), my immediate reaction to the headline was, "well, you can be keen on Azure, but "stuck" on AWS for a myriad of other reasons". Reading the article pretty confirmed it.
I think the fundamental lesson for me was to utilize the cascading nature in small, very clear logical units of tags. And don’t try to implement a grand unified theory of style for your website where everything is based on a brittle chains of selectors. It’s okay to give tags ids and select by the id instead.
Yes it is if the context is global.

Oxford dictionary:

privilege - a special right or advantage that a particular person or group of people has

1st example there:
Education should be a universal right and not a privilege.

Globally, it's a privilege. Worldwide many girls can not get it. Or poor.

Even clean water is a privilege on a global scale. Perhaps in USA as well, ehm see Flint.

Language evolves. It's 21st century, privilege isn't about feudal taxes anymore. Queue meant tail and gay happy.
6.5 is available too.

Anybody would be so kind to tell me why I have been downvoted?
The reason they removed the ban and allowed "artistic nudity" recently in the first place was "a majority of bans due to nudity were female streamers".

The lengths these people will go to avoid accepting men and women are different.
At the risk of instantly drying into dust by suggesting that 2002 is also The Past, but my SSN was also my student ID then.
In the case of AI computing, my layman's perspective of the last decade is that NVIDIA created a market where one did not previously exist "at scale" as a long bet that is paying off significantly.

It seems unfair to criticize AMD or Intel for placing losing bets on other market segments when things could have just as easily turned out differently.
But it actually seems to serve a useful purpose, namely memory consolidation and differentiation between objects/experiences.
That contributes to the overall difficulty.

Where do you draw the line between CSS and CSS?
Your heart is in the right place and you are thinking about all of this carefully. That is a good thing. But ultimately, don't compromise what you want and where you want to be.

So the best thing to do is to be honest with yourself and your cofounder/team. This means you need to let the cofounder and team know that it is time for you to move on. If you stay for them so that somehow a fundraise can happen, you are setting them up for failure because the later you leave, the more damage you will do.

It is one of those wounds where you have to rip the band aid off. Take short term pain and move on. Good luck.
First, get a sense for why the middle managers are against the system. Are they afraid of losing their jobs? Do they believe that it will add more friction to their process? You can do this by getting the stakeholders on a call and asking them to explain the why (which will make them feel included and important). Or if you can, visit them and say you want to shadow them to understand the process and in doing so get into their minds.

Once you get that clarity, work with them to design a solution that works for them, and make it look like it's their idea not yours. Make them look brilliant.

Much of success in hostile environments boils down to identifying the motivations of people and making new ideas theirs not yours.
Pretty sure this thread will be the slashdot equivalent of iPod launch.
Then we would only have 4 thoughts. Next.
Boggles my mind that they gave their distribution such a bizarre name with those characters. Something something there are only two hard problems in computer science...
> The books piqued my curiosity enough to write my own little database

I think many developers go through this phase at some point. I wouldn't even try to fight it. You learn so much about what won't work by doing this. Extremely valuable lessons, if you can spare the time.

Building my own databases gave me more respect for the existing solutions than anything else. Getting the bytes to & from disk quickly isn't the hard part. It's doing it reliably for years on end while supporting use cases you couldn't have even dreamed of.
I've done both CSS for about 26 years (since its first release) and Assembly language for about 35 years, and I love both of them - for different uses and different reasons. They are both great for the job they were meant to do. I even once wrote a JSON parser/serializer in 8-bit Assembly so the embedded device I was building could easily communicate with the browser front-end I had built. It was all pretty fun to me.
Once the ones wear down below 0.5 they start to look like zeros.
> I think you misunderstood the attack. The idea behind the attack is that the attacker would create what is effectively a honey pot website, which writer.com customers want to use as a source for some reason

Or you use any number of existing exploits to put malicious content on compromised websites.

And considering the “malicious content” in this case is simply plain text that is only malicious to LLMs parsing the site, it seems unlikely it would be detected.
> Elements of Statistical Learning

"Elements" is a great reference book, but it isn't really a textbook. There's a popular introductory textbook by some of the same authors called "An Introduction to Statistical Learning", which focuses on applications but elides a lot of the mathematical details.
I really can't believe people are seriously still in the "don't worry about what he actually says" stage of this
That was a year ago. AMD is changing their software ecosystem at a rapid pace with AI software as a #1 priority. Experienced engineers have been reassigned from legacy projects to focus on AI software. They've bought a number of software startups that were already developing software in this space. It also looks like they replaced the previous AMD top level management with directors from Xilinx to reenergize the team.

To get a picture of the current state which has changed a lot, this MS Ignite presentation from three weeks ago may be of interest. The slides show the drop in compatibility they have for higher levels of the stack and the tools for translation at the lower levels. Finally there's a live demo at the end.

https://youtu.be/7jqZBTduhAQ?t=61
If color was all they wanted, they could have used food coloring at lower cost

They chose lead chromate because it is yellow and it increases the weight.
> Being able to reasonably go days without charging with regular usage is quite nice

No it's much worse than that for us Intel laptop users. Our machines make loud noises, overheat and throttle to the point where it affects Zoom video chats. The fan on my X1 carbon even comes on when booting the machine!
This article is terribly written. It flows between strong claims like this one:

> The company’s technological accomplishments are still recognizable as the forerunners of the digital era, yet its culture of social responsibility—a focus on employees rather than shareholders, restraint in executive compensation, and investment in anti-poverty programs—proved a dead end.

And loose narrative, without ever tying the two together at all.

How was this culture of social responsibility a "dead end" exactly? Oh, it's just a vibe. Let's talk about Watson family drama.
Same here. I wouldn't want to get in trouble for inadvertently using a word that people consider offensive. I would appreciate software warning me about it.
As explained in the nearby comments in more details, it needs more time to heat up a spot on the disk, than to see a reflection from said spot.
If they're not going to update the status page, then it's a liability and should be taken down.