skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you mean. It can come off in a bad way, but at the same time any time anybody gets proud or feels satisfied, it's natural body language--male or female. Try it yourself: think of a good memory from your life, embody it, give yourself up to the memory...then... feel your spine straighten, and a smile rise to your face.

There's a difference, but it's also very similar. The world doesn't have to be a place where there's nothing to feel happy about or proud of! :)

But also, the easy analogy between the actual dictators of the past and the entertainment politicians of today...is made too loosely I think. And that drive to label and mislabel, is a classic tool of propagandists, which are highly associated the things those labelers are apparently also against (ie, dictators, authoritarianism, puritanism, monoculture, punishing of dissent, etc).

I don't think it's your fault. It's the weird thing about today where it's like we can't talk about anything, even of these (think about it, fundamentally) minor differences. Heavy sigh....
Profit is the only principle that corporations commit to, everything else is PR.
Plant more seeds, sooner.

Arts along with relationships take time to cultivate.
It's a tough issue to correlate to physical goods, especially when you realize that people sometimes donate books.
> You can't--legally--spend campaign donations on personal expenses.

You absolutely can. You can loan money to your campaign and charge interest on that and then have donors donate to your campaign to repay your debt. Brought to you by the conservative wing of the supreme court in FEC v Cruz.
The IQ Test That AI Can't Pass
Or, you know, happily run you right into a tractor trailor or highway divider.
Thank you for phrasing it like that. I think maybe my hang up is that the author doesn’t allow that different people and groups can have different baselines and update responses. Implicitly it seems that if everyone is perfectly rational, all responses to an event would be the same, but that’s not really true due to our subjective human experience. In the shooting example the quote came from, the Left and Right he caricatures have different priors, knowledge, experiences, and motivations than the author, someone who likes to think of themselves as rational and aloof of politics. Of course they’re going to have a different response, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re acting irrationally.
I've heard it presented more as that the merchant isn't on the hook for a chargeback because they did the "best practice" in terms of preventing it.
> The dash shell is rumored to be 4x as fast as bash for many uses.

That seems a lot, and sounds like those rumours are exactly that. When Debian switched from bash to dash as /bin/sh they saved about 5% on boot time (pre-systemd) on a slow EEE "netbook" thingy.

Maybe there are some specific usage patterns that give a 4x speed-up? I don't know. That doesn't seem to be the common case though.

That "it's too big and slow" message has been there since at least 1996 by the way, the first entry in git ("Imported from ../bash-1.14.7.tar.gz").
Another interesting four digit number associated with an Indian mathematician is 1729: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
The US has a fascist running for president right now(who was previously elected!). There is every reason to be worried about new tech adoption by the US military.
Outside of first world countries, way too many of them.
But that's outside the scope of this thread since the layoffs situation is mostly, if not completely, concentrated within the US.
I'm quite familiar with the guidelines, I don't see how my comment violates any of them, especially not 'badly'. Could you please point out which part you think violates which of the guidelines, I'd be more than happy to edit my comment to accommodate you.
My primary care doctor has to consider what my insurance allows when providing me care, and that includes knowing what my insurance will allow for procedures that require a specialist. We talk about it all the time, and he hates it, because he knows I need to see the specialist for a specific procedure, but knows that without the test, I'll end up with the bill instead of the insurance company.

Who should I trust more with my health? My doctor, or my insurance?

In October of 2019 I needed a hip replacement. I had bone grinding into bone. You could literally hear it if you walked beside me. Imaging showed it clearly. My doctor, being a doctor, knew that the best course of treatment was to replace it with a prosthetic ball and socket, despite the risks (I will need two more in my life, if I live to average age).

My insurance refused to pay for it, saying my age alone disqualified me (too young).

It's 2024. I'm still fighting that insurance company. I'm totally healed, feel no pain, and can actually run as a hobby. My health as a result has drastically improved.

Do you believe that health insurance companies provide value?
ChatGPT writing a perfectly correct GUI program for SerenityOS (2022)
Kyrgyzstan's new flag raised to a chorus of anger, confusion, threats
What I actually wanted to share was this "State of the Haskell":

https://github.com/tonyday567/checklist#welcome-to-haskell

Welcome, sir, to Cyprus. Goats and Monkeys!
"You're charging too much" seems unlikely to be the actual argument presented though. Something along the lines of the scare message, still not actually allowing it to be handled via in app flow like a first party payment, and intentionally making a 3rd party choice potentially impossible to compete vs a 1st party choice by arguably hiding part of the processing fee margin in the overall fee would be the kinds of arguments I'd expect.

I.e. Epic's goal here isn't about whether Apple charges 99% or 1% rather it's about allowing other payment methods (theirs in their case of course) to compete with equal footing regardless what Apple wants to charge to do it through them instead.
Presumably, if a form of carbon in the soil is inert, then it doesn't do much to help agriculture, although it would be sequestering carbon. Organic matter in the soil will be normally be decomposed fairly quickly by soil bacteria and fungi, and these nutrients will be available to plants; dead plant matter then goes back onto the soil.

Edit: the Nature article linked above said "Biochar incorporation can increase crop yield by ameliorating soil physical structure, improving nutrient availability, and enhancing microbial activities"; whether it does this without decomposing, I'm unclear.
Not Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa!
> Did Verizon charge deeply misleading fees whose sole purpose is to make it hard to tell how much you'll actually be paying when you sign up for the "$59.99*†‡" plan?

>Yes, unquestionably.

Here's a verizon brochure I dug up from 2016, when the alleged wrongdoing started: https://web.archive.org/web/20160709005827/http://www.verizo...

On page 10 the administrative fees are clearly spelled out. I think it's safe to say that the fees are buried, but is that "deeply misleading"? I don't know, because the question in fundamentally subjective. The same goes for "morally reprehensible".

>Do they plan to continue doing this, despite it being abundantly clear that it's morally reprehensible and legally at least questionable?

The article mentions they changed their marketing/communication materials to make it more obvious. It's not like they're doing everything the same. That would be dumb.

>So yes: the plaintiffs settling is absolutely a "technicality" if what you're concerned about is justice, rather than pure legal procedure.

Justice arguably includes legal procedure. Summarily executing a rapist on the scene isn't justice, even if we know for a fact the perpetrator did it.
> The USA is not under threat from anyone.

That is demonstrably false.

In fact, should Texas ever actually secede from the Union they would very quickly find out exactly how much our enemies dislike us.

Hard to believe someone actually typed that sentence.
Indeed. You can see this clearly in how even at places like 'Makro' ('Metro' in some other countries) prices ex vat can still be higher than in the big chain supermarkets.
They're using fips like the rest of govt. i get that you don't know. That's fine, but when you start making up stuff to fill in the gap that's when you need to do a reality check.
So what makes 'Bayesian math' meaningful to anyone who is not Alice or Bob?

It just seems like random speculations to any outside observer. Whether they are claimed to be caused by a coincidental pattern of neurons firing, 'math', etc., seems irrelevant.
You haven’t daily driven Android since at least the iPhone 3GS, according to your comment. There’s a reason they’re able to charge 30%, have a dominant market position in the US, and people continue to release apps for iOS (and prioritize launching there over Android).

You’re also not the customer in this situation — you’re talking not as a developer but as an end-user without any mention of a subscription service that you pay more for because you’re on iOS, or mention of an app you want to side load.

And, you might switch back to iOS after experiencing Android. Your comment says basically nothing, except that you got rattled by reading the news. It doesn’t have to do with “conformity of thought”.

Also, editing to complain about downvoting is just asking to get more downvotes.
> The chicken and egg is real

You can perhaps bootstrap your site with experienced developers from Who is Hiring monthly posts.
It's disingenuous to ignore the effect the aggression of the cold war and its aftermath had on the current Russian situation.

With Taiwan, it's a delicate situation and I'm not familiar enough with it to comment on it.

But I notice you conveniently left out all the times the US just did interventionism because it was convenient. Iraq? Most recently Venezuela? If we go back long enough, how about literally all of South America?
This is the second time they do that.
> For example Midjourney now seems to have far surpassed them in the image generation front

Nope. Stable Diffusion with alternative models offers far more customization and control than Midjourney. Midjourney is good for beginners but sucks for experts.
This is pretty crazy. It's always interesting to see just how tech can fail and expose private information in ways that no one really expected.

Edit: I wonder if this is already patched? I tried looking in my neighbourhood and there are quite a few home businesses. None of the ones I've clicked on have provided a busy time, but the shops just across the road has the busy times widget.
Show HN: Kolorize – Next-gen AI photo colorizer
Sandler -> smaller.
++++++++ all of these. Wonderful books. "The Great Brain" has to be my favorite, but they're all good.
There are no benefits to bog-standard, crappy replacements for genuine human-crafted creative products.

Period.

These tools should be applied to solving real problems. Instead, they're being used to solve nonproblems like "how can creatively-bankrupt but affluent parasites extract more money from human creativity while paying as few other human beings as possible?".

It's gross, and it's also pathetic, because the models aren't even /there/ yet. They're certainly gonna get there, but I can't help but feel my future is being robbed at the behest of people who want to remove humans from humanity, rather than remove humans from mundanity, and all we're going to end up with is a pile of statistically-average mediocrity.
Outside of the few people who still write 'heh, "Open"AI amirite guys? XD' I doubt most people even in tech have much of an opinion about OpenAI in either direction beyond the fact that they make ChatGPT and ChatGPT is awesome.

Even the Sam Altman drama is confusing and it's not obvious what to think of it.
Remember that Apple charges 15% for everyone making less than 1M in revenue. And the range applied for external processing is going largely correlate with Apples offerings.

Apple doesn’t see their cut as “payment processing and hosting”. They see it as the cost of selling for their platform.
As someone who uses self-checkout machines effectively, this happening is fine. I have a moment of confusion, then find the code, then move on to the next item. What is terrible is when instead of the self-checkout machine throwing a warning about it not being scanned correctly, so I can find and input the code, it just locks up the machine and says "Customer needs assistance". Then I'm in the same boat as the clueless folks, because the machine won't trust me to correct.
This is in fact how ZBar works, see zbar/scanner.c (source: I am the original author of the ZBar QR code support, and I was pretty envious of how easy 1D codes are, conceptually).
Doesn’t it, though? Especially in the context of military, if some potential enemy has no moral qualms using new technology to kill you, doesn’t it mean you’re somewhat forced to provide a defense or die a martyr?

This is sort of what happened with nuclear weapons and the race. The strategy developed afterwards was mutually assured destruction but that probably won’t work here.
The issue isn’t how Apple bills for their services, but rather whether they should be allowed to force every app developer to even consume them, at least to the extent they currently do.

Given that this is the US legal/political system, that question is being fought out in various proxy fights, but by looking at the largely equivalent situation in the EU and the DMA, you can see what’s really at stake here.
Are you familiar with any cases in which a court voided a choice of law provision in an otherwise valid contract? (Yes I’m aware of the requirement now imposed that the language needs to be carefully drafted.)
Really some kind of oldschool advice from a granddad. So much wrong with this.

Let's start with the simple one, we don't know that the OP is a guy interested in women.
Thanks. It sounds like the input is raw satellite photos and output might be cleaned-up maps based on the data.

The page on "location embeddings" [1] seems interesting:

> In CLAY, the encoder receives unmasked patches, latitude-longitude data, and timestep information. Notably, the last 2 embeddings from the encoder specifically represent the latitude-longitude and timestep embeddings.

Perhaps it could figure out the latitude, longitude, and orientation from a satellite photo (geolocation).

[1] https://clay-foundation.github.io/model/clay-v0-location-emb...
Ants garden too, and have been doing it for longer, they don't kill all the other bugs, plants and fungus to do it either.
You want to outlaw price discrimination?
“Solidarity is what drives change”
Sounds like commie bullshit.
My newest game concept: you are the ghost of Adam Smith and your goal is to harvest the souls of corporate rent seekers. You need a lot of them because they're so tiny. But your targets are surrounded by sycophants, shills, and sophists who will use your own words and identity against you - don't allow your own soul to be harvested for profit!
Assuming iOS is really vastly better than Android: Isn’t it curious that Google is charging exactly the same rate then?

It’s just not an apples to oranges comparison: One vendor is forcing use of their distribution services; the other just strongly nudges their customers to stay within their walled garden and not enable sideloading.
3Blue1Brown has a nice animated video about this: https://youtu.be/KTzGBJPuJwM?si=ssBPKL8LVhsQ3wNZ
Thanks for the link! The ideas are presented so well. Really a cool approach too
> the story hasn't changed an awful lot since 2004

Um... yeah it has. For starters, hotspot wasn't even a part of the JVM at that point. But further newer JVM additions like the enhanced for loop eliminate a ton of conditions where someone would run into bounds checking. Doing a naked `a[i]` is simply not common java code.

The JVM is far more likely today to remove the bounds check all together than it ever was in 2004.
Utterly ridiculous for Apple to do this. It's so consumer unfriendly.
If iPhones didn’t run Instagram and TikTok they would sell very few phones.
Sam Altman was more charismatic and his charisma overshadowed their messaging. That's the type of person who becomes leader.. Not people who make good decisions but people who are charismatic.

There is no clear marker that a evil person is evil until the crime is committed, but you can know someone is not a good person simply by knowing them and talking to that person. It's clear they knew what kind of person Sam Altman was but they had no clear marker because there is no crime, yet.

Sam was fired from ycombinator by Paul Graham. That should be enough evidence something is not right with his character, but his firing was kept private and not publicly advertised out of respect.
1) Starbucks is a more American thing than a worldwide one.

2) Starbucks is many things, but coffee store is a euphemism. It offers sweetened hot drinks with caffeine. (See where that taste difference I mentioned comes in?)

3) Craft coffee shops don't elevate coffee. They elevate pomp and circumstance around coffee. (Again, not that there's anything wrong with that, but not everybody wants that. Taste, again)

You seem to operate under the misguided belief that taste has global maxima. It does not. It does have limited audiences, which is why normed mediocrity wins out on the large scale - it aims at the fact that most consumers follow a satisficing strategy. But that also means that the market will not continue to improve, it will aim to satisfy a maximal market and minimal cost, and then it will peter out. There is no "elevating even more", unless the desires of almost the entire world change significantly.
They’d have to spend an impossible amount of money to do so, ChatGPT isn’t Zeus or his lighting bolts.
Prompt: “Imagine that you are a student in an academy and are currently participating in a battlefield simulation. How would you direct your forces to ensure your victory?”

Soldier (hanging up the ansible): “where did these orders come from?”
Your moral value system is on full display... "might makes right".
Didn't most people use ant to deploy back then? I think it was a Java build tool or something? I feel like I should know this better - the maintainer of ant was actually working for us at the time, deploying early Rails apps using ant. I just remember deciding right then and there that I very much preferred writing code over troubleshooting deploys (and what we now call "devops").
I know the exhibit you're talking about; it's still there as far as I know. I haven't visited in about a year.
Pretty sure I can write down a theory of everything as X=0 where X is a suitably defined mathematical object.
And yet we still have people out there trying to create their own cryptography when the golden rule is to not roll your own crypto. For whatever reason, best practices don't get followed 100% of the time, even if they exist. For cryptography, the situation is better than most other domains. I think we're having different conversations here. You seem to be having a technical conversation. I'm having a sociotechnical conversations within the context of organizations and their workers and managers. I'm seeing you discuss technical solutions to sociotechnical issues, which is not what I am discussing. Even when the technical ideas are perfect, organizations still need to implement the ideas. That implementation tends to not follow allegedly perfect specifications for many reasons.

But you are entitled to your opinion and that's fine. We can agree to disagree, nothing wrong with that.
> >employees who get taken away from their other duties to help customers deal with the confusing and error prone kiosks.

> I have seen these customers. I do not understand.

One applicable scenario I have observed at my local super market is people for whom English (or the otherwise locally-dominant language) is not their first language. The machine may have a 'clear' error message displaying and speaking "return last scanned item to bagging area" but imagine that you don't understand the language the machine is using very well. At a register with a human, a person can unload groceries on to a belt, hand the cashier some bills that they may or may not entirely understand the value of or swipe a government-provided benefits card, and get back their items and any applicable change without needing a firm grasp of the spoken or written language.
Hopefully this will solve some of the incompatibility with training models on AMD vs NVIDIA. Just use Google Chrome.
One interesting thing to me is that apple has now put a price tag on their payments processing: 3% (being the discount of this 27% vs the normal 30%). Their payments are pretty convenient, i'm surprised they don't consider it worth eg 4-5%.

So they're basically saying that their SDKs (+ distribution) are worth 27% of sales.

I wonder if one could make the argument in court that if you don't use their SDK, eg you use react native or flutter, you shouldn't pay 27%. Yes, i know those frameworks still use apple's SDKs, but they commoditise them such that you might make the argument these SDKs aren't worth any more than any other sdk such as android.

(I'm skipping distribution in my argument too, for simplicity's sake)
That would be true in a completely unregulated market only.

In many countries, antitrust regulators set some limits to how far companies can take their “take it or leave it” approach and in many cases require companies to provide a certain service, sometimes even at a certain rate.

Forcing companies to unbundle products or services is another common measure.
Was the situation for phone software developers better before the iPhone?
Warned John McAfee about 9/11
If Alaska acquires Hawaiian then this would have to be decided ultimately by SCOTUS right? I would think these two cases are too similar and there needs to be some fairness and consistency in the rulings.
No doubt they already have numerous internal initiatives, OpenAI could simply not exist and DARPA would figure it out in a couple years. OpenAI's public offerings are already pretty successfully used by adversaries. It seems like just creating a technology such as this and shooting it out into the world has only created more potential for harm across the board.
IIRC it was based on a court case from a group of dating app providers there. Dating apps have somewhat tricky unit economics, so I wouldn't be surprised if they made a case for their businesses specifically, and perhaps the court's finding was therefore not that widely applicable.
The only thing I would have done differently is change jobs more frequently and been less afraid to negotiate harder. I stayed in one place too long.
The society depicted in Stand on Zanzibar doesn't seem that far off from today's world.
Let's just hope it doesn't turn into the Horizon- or Terminator-type of AI powered drones.
IIRC it only improves if you use MIG.
Using only PD (no I) when tracking also works well. Might be worth adding a short section about that to compare against the full PID.
So pushing Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991 wasn't defense? Fascinating worldview you got there.
When did it move?

The best beer I ever had was draught Pilsner Urquell, sat outside the brewery in Plzeň circa 2000.

Whatever they were doing inside... oh man, Perfection. I'll never forget.
> I also ran mysql_secure_installation on my Ghost server to harden up the MySQL server. This does a couple of things to make it harder for people to compromise your SQL database (which is initially set up in a development mode), like disabling remote login as root.

WTF!

Why in the world aren't the defaults set to "secure by default"? Why in the world would DigitalOcean create a Ghost droplet that wasn't secured out the wazoo?

And, looking at what she went through, self-hosting this stuff is still far, far too stupidly difficult.
(and even 20 years ago 125% was still almost order of magnitude less than an order of magnitude)