skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Zelle thing is a huge red flag for me.

I almost got scammed by a couple on Facebook Marketplace. They had a Mac Mini they were selling for about $20 less than the going rate I had found on ebay so I initiated contact and we agreed on the price. I asked how they do payment, Paypal, Venmo, Stripe?

None of the above. The husband kept telling me sob stories about why they don't use any of them - only Zelle. I was like, I don't have that, and I'm not setting up another payment app just for one purchase.

That's when the scam and the sketchy feelings started creeping into my brain. They told me to go get a prepaid card, and then send it and they'll ship the Mac Mini when they get it. They were a few cities over and just like OP said, they didn't want to arrange a pickup. I was like, "Yeah, fuck that, you send the PC first and THEN I'll send the money." Then the husband told me if they were going to do that, I can just scratch off the security label and send then the code for safe keeping, and then they'll send the Mac Mini when they get the code.

That was the last straw - I told them to fuck off and go scam someone else. I got few nasty texts from the husband before blocking them.

Scammers use Zelle because nobody else uses it, which then forces people to go to great lengths to get something and will start to jump through hoops. I was wondering how many other people this couple had scammed before I contacted them.
I am not making a political argument about the economics here. At the end of an inflationary cycle (if we are at the end) the markets, including the housing market, have to find equilibrium. Costs and vacancy are rising for landlords.

Suppose you are a homeowner. You definitely know then that utilities, insurance, possibly the mortgage, definitely maintenance costs have gone up. You pay those as your "rent" because you are the owner. So the rent went up, even though you are the landlord.
Don't most people just hit Accept blindly?
Seems like half the unison team is here in this thread. Congrats, looking forward to try it out!
If a house in a popular area sits dormant, that's one less unit available to house the general public.

Reductio ad absurdum... if rich Chinese businesspeople buy every home in Vancouver (strictly to park money, not live or rent), nobody who works in Vancouver can live there and everybody has to commute from the suburbs.

Edit - at an indivual level, you're right, who cares. At a policy level, ensuring reasonable housing for the general public is a good thing.
I got the exact same thing as your pastebin from ChatGPT4.
Ukrainian shares 84% of vocabulary with Belarusian, 70% with Polish, 66% with Slovak.

English and German share 60% of vocabulary.
> and physical pressure fatigue from the headset.

Is this double loop, or cloth band?
This is exactly why I love the promise of moderation lists (as opposed to "choosing an instance.")
Thanks for this lovely well written account. Made me wish I still
taught this kind of coding because it would be such a lovely example
for students to work through. (We used to do a bootcamp of build your
own Facebook and Google in a week) Very inspirational.
You are assuming that 100% of Toyota customers want to buy EV vehicles.
This guy do love to namedrop.
There are already laws against defamation, incitement to violence, and hate speech.

What is being proposed in the article is that Libs of tiktok is inciting terrorism (or terroristic threats). This isn't a new type of censorship.

So the question isn't "what type of new censorship do you propose?" but "does this behavior meet the threshold to be considered behavior we've already collectively deemed illegal?".
See also this official special page, which lists places nearby:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
He owns one now.

https://kguttag.com/
Amazon still does, there's Bandcamp, and you still see individual bands and some labels just selling downloads directly. I don't know of anybody who's selling anything DRM-encumbered for download.

Google was still selling MP3s not that long ago but they no longer do since they killed Google Play Music. Amazon also sometimes really nudges you to their subscription and you have to do some clicking around to find a way to buy instead.
What people arguing against your points don’t understand is that globalism is coming to an end. It started when China initiated decoupling and started their ill advised wolf warrior diplomacy.
Please elaborate on how watching a commercial or receiving a pleasantry from a cashier is anything remotely like a company secretly influencing the results of a search for knowledge.
I wouldn't be surprised if new National government has been heavily lobbied by Toyota to push hybrids instead of EVs. Introduction of Road user charges means EV or PHEV owners frequently pay more for road use than hybrid owners.

They already succumb to tobacco lobby pressures and might even offer tax breaks for tobacco's new products when plan was to be smokefree soon.
Please explain this to me, isn't the lithography equipment from ASML that does all the hard work of imprinting the wafers? If Samsung and Intel buys the same machines why can't they make the chips with the same transistor density?
I have written just in the last month cmdlets that have SupportsShouldProcess, and it does not pass on as it should. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn... and https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/pull/221#issuec...
Your iPhone is product - what if Apple decided you shouldn't be able to view adult material on it? Or what if Gmail decided you shouldn't be allowed to use certain harsh language in emails you send?

Where do you dry the line personally? I find the idea of corporations and SV tech bros trying to define my values repulsive.

In a competitive environment I could simply choose another service provider - but most of these tech giants are monopolists of one variety or another.
> The current filesystem semantics are terrible for databases

There was at least one Unix startup (IIRC it was Tolerant Systems) in mid 80s that applied transactional semantics to filesystem operations. I did some contract work for them and found the performance was absolutely abysmal and the system had some deadlocks. Now may be their implementation was not great but I suspect the converse is also true: database semantics are terrible for filesystems :-)
I'd be curious too. I'm in Powell County, so the "greater Lexington area". I'm seeing these in Lex:

- PHP user group (https://www.meetup.com/kentucky-php-user-group/events/298973...)

- Bluegrass Developers Guild (https://www.meetup.com/the-bluegrass-developers-guild/events...)

Also, being an early employee at a startup, I've been attending the rare Startup Lexington event I can make it to.

Feel free to contact my email (in profile) if you want to connect
Soldering doesn't do anything about pin count. An off the shelf GPU chip is still going to support at most a PCIe x16 interface to other chips, which isn't enough to share DRAM with a separate CPU.

Taping out a new chip that combines existing GPU and CPU IP blocks is relatively straightforward, but taping out a large chip is extremely expensive.
I could only make it for 30 seconds before I couldn't stand the sharp corner in the animation curves any longer and opened the Dev Tools to try to fix the easing! :)
An extremely large cult that has a spillover effect into larger society
FB Marketplace should only be used for in-person transactions. Think of it more like a craigslist replacement than one for eBay.
> Did you miss the part in the article where these sites contain blatant pro-China propaganda, and ad hominem attacks on CCP political dissidents?

What does the irrelevant adjective “blatant” have to do with anything? And why is “ad hominem” significant when 95% of politics is about technically fallacious argumentation such as that?

Oh, a 10KUSD FB ad campaign bought by Kremlin and targeted at the US population? Obvious psyop, yes. Also completely irrelevant noise in the scheme of things, just like this apparent “amateur hour” operation.

It’s about having an appropriate response to “bad things”. There is no need to freak out about a few ants in the backyard.

> It's disappointing to see this kind of dismissal on a forum of highly educated people.

Of course. As “highly educated people” we are supposed to circle the wagons and irrationally blow apparent low-effort (again according to the OP) psyops out of proportion because it’s an enemy regime. That’s after all the primary ideological role of the “highly educated people” (loose source: Chomsky).
Asking for a drawing by country and have it be all the same race is the stereotype.
It's not subjective if you're dead and/or live(d) in abject poverty. It is a subjective reality that life is better now than it was prior for practically everyone (in terms of standard of living, not in terms of tragic personal events), just because people view the past through rose-colored lenses doesn't negate that fact. No, we should be optimistic, that's not "political," in fact the opposite is true.
So who do you vote for?

Hasn't pretty much every republican been caught doing drag in high school?

Edit: it’s always either school spirit week or Halloween
I have warm memories as a kid going with my Mom to the daily market, and watching people communicating by furiously writing words in their hands, in addition to the simplified tradespeak between the language groups. It's an interesting thing, having both a shared writing system and mutually unintelligible spoken language!
The article sheds light on Mojo's potential, but with every such article, I'm cautious not to get overly hyped. Many key factors will come into play; long-term support and community growth will be crucial for its adoption. Additionally, I'm curious about the learning curve for Python developers looking to switch or integrate Mojo into their workflows.
Still looking forward to all new information about Mojo's development and its source code getting published someday soon
What could happen? Why is a new browser engine needed?
Which app are you using? AnkiDroid seems fairly straightforward, at least for basic usage. There are a lot of confusing options buried in settings, but the fundamentals aren't that hard to figure out. Maybe it just needs a better on-boarding experience, like a link to the download pages for a few featured decks?
There are laws in effect already: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/23/governor-newsom-announces-...
I think this is the one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgvlPMp0o8
Hiss Deco-O-Matic
If you can ask it for a doctor of $race and get one, then why should it make any difference what gets generated when you don't specify? Once you start playing that game there's no way to win.
Don’t post things you don’t want other people to see.
My personal belief is that we retain the ability to learn new languages. The issue is that modern schooling has trained us to try and learn in counter-productive ways.

I believe we can learn languages by (1) concentrating on mimicking and (2) learning by speaking with others and being continuously corrected by others.

The problem is that is requires a tremendous amount of work for learner and teacher.

Think how a baby or child learns and do as much of that as possible.

Initially absolutely avoid all reading, and totally avoid learning any rules.

Improve your general ability of mimicking skills e.g. by copying singers and songs, by copying famous people in the foreign language, mimicking accents or people in your own mother tongue.

People with English as their mother tongue have some advantages - we actually recognise a huge variety of vowel sounds because various English accents contain them - we also have familiarity with a variety of grammatical constructs. We also know pronunciation and writing are completely disjoint: anyone coming from a language where you say what you read has a big disadvantage.

Much of my belief comes from talking with people that have English as their second language, and looking for their successes and failures. Some people learn English well and it's interesting to look for why them? Some mistakes are common to particular groups and it's interesting to look for the root cause.

I have applied some of the above to teach myself conversational Spanish. To test my beliefs I'm definitely keen to move onto something more difficult ( I'm middle aged): the block is that I will need to dedicate many months of effort living in another country.
Yeah. Last team I joined I started doing reviews and immediately I was dealing with, like, 500 line PRs. They’d do things like add three completely new API endpoints (one of which is broken), or set up an entirely new service with all sorts of associated infrastructure.

At first I faced a lot of pushback from team members when I wanted them to break up the commits. So I caved. I just tried to give the feedback that I could give, and approved the PRs when they were “good enough, I guess”. They kept breaking in production and it would take a week to fix them. It was hard to tell what, in the commits, was broken. They were just so large.

And it’s not like these PRs were getting written quickly. People would spend two weeks or four weeks working on one PR, because they wanted to make one massive change that did everything and closed out a ticket.

At this point, I’ve made inroads and the team is sending out much smaller PRs, much more frequently. The PRs are getting reviewed, merged, and tested within an hour, and one developer can submit three or four PRs if they’re being productive that day.

I think the problem is that the cognitive load of making large changes is superlinear. A 2x larger change is not 2x as hard, but maybe 2.5x or 3x as hard. With large PRs, you spend way too much time just trying to understand what you are doing, as an author, or what you are looking at, as a reviewer.
> Most EV purchases are secondhand imports from Japan with limited mileage

While Leaf is still super popular, most are actually new cars - mostly chinese and Tesla's.

> there are not many places to charge outside of a city

There are quite a bit to the point that owning old Leafs is feasible.
> Or when we build so much it will take an hour or more to go to the grocery shop to buy milk? Simply “build” is not the answer. “Building smart” would be a better answer.

If you have residences that are an hour away from groceries, even with no empty lots nearby, I think people would find it obviously profitable to buy a residence and convert it into a grocery shop. Capitalism alone takes care of the need to be this smart.
Nice website. I got a 27" 5K UHD LG monitor at 90 PPD, so I'll never be able to use these things. So sharp I have to wear glasses not contacts.
I think you're being paranoid here :-). I encourage you to download mojo and try it out. This code is all OSS, so go nuts validating it yourself. If you'd like to know how mojo works there is a lot of information on the Modular blog:

https://www.modular.com/blog

e.g. these might be interesting:

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-llvm-2023
https://www.modular.com/blog/what-is-loop-unrolling-how-you-...

If you still have doubts, you could join the 20,000+ people in discord chatting about Mojo stuff: https://discord.com/invite/modular

-Chris
I was going to write a comment, but honestly, I remain speachless.
In a functioning/competitive market, wouldn't that tax break get passed along to the tenant through lower monthly rents?

IE, the problem isn't the tax break, it's the constraint on housing supply.
The correct PR is the one that solves the problem the best. The correct PR's size has nothing to do with the # of lines it is. Tracking time to merge is not that meaningful because merging code does not in itself say anything about the value of that code in production. That is the type of metric that may become a target for a scrum master or project manager despite it being fairly divorced from the reality of moving the right code into the production environment.
Has anyone tested if they can get similar output from the GPT4 API by passing this monster of a system instruction?
It’s interesting to see different perspectives here. I often recommend spaced repetition for software and programming adjacent topics like networking, OS fundamentals, and many other areas, but I always recommend *against* using SRS/Anki for actual programming syntax. I find syntax cards to be low value, and surprisingly difficult during review.
> In any case, you've conveniently avoided my request for a citation that the world population is moving away from the coasts.

I never claimed that, I claimed that the population would move on an as-needed basis, which you yourself demonstrated via your friend. Why would people move if there is no danger? That said, we do indeed see falling property values in growing flood zones, pointing towards decreased desirability of some coastal land. My claim is that such land will slowly grow over time, at a manageable rate. As we have observed to date. Again, my entire claim: "people move, people build, life moves on".

> If you arbitrarily choose the peak population year

Lol. How is picking the maximum arbitrary when considering trends? Another piece of based armchair statistics from you.

> I'm done here. I've already wasted too much time on your junk comments.

Unfortunately common when one tries to disrupt the HN hivemind. "I don't have any facts to back this up but Smart People^{tm} say it's true so if you don't agree you're dumb".

I tried.
FOSDEM – Web Accessibility and Environmental Sustainability and with Popular CMS [video]
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Whenever bazel prints that it’s compiling one of the rust parts of the codebase at work, then I mutter something about needing more faster better CPUs, and go fetch a cup of coffee..
How so? The light coming into your eyes is taking the exact same physical path through your lens, and inside, as if the virtual display actually existed*. It's a physical requirement that the optics achieve this, for you to be able to see the image.

* Assuming the virtual display is virtually positioned at the focal plane of the lens, which is usually around 3m.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiamatienzo

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Mansfield Public Library

Applications Developer at AT&T

DOJ indictment is coming any day now... then 10-20 years in the slammer.
I use this ff add-on which adds a handy button direct to the player itself: https://github.com/gurumukhi/youtube-screenshot

looks like it just renders the current frame to a canvas element and saves it. https://github.com/gurumukhi/youtube-screenshot/blob/master/...
If Apple and Google can’t even find all the vulnerabilities in their libs, how on earth would a scrappy team of a few devs

Perhaps a few devs have nowhere near the required escape velocity to create vulnerabilities before they can be fixed, nor the pressure of PMs to ship substandard code?
Unison friends: Is there an rclone handler/recipe extant, or in the works, that would facilitate inter-cloud data transfer ?

Asking for a friend ...
These are generally junior-level engineers so it's a non-sequitur.
I saw an HD DVD player at the reuse center for $25 last year and almost bought it but if it was a minidisc player I'd buy it immediately at twice that price.
I'm waiting for a "monitor-replacement glasses" - show me a device which simulates an equivalent of my current 24"/4K/60 Hz monitor (same amount of pixels, same angular size in my FOV). Since I can touch type, I don't need AR/motion sensing, just the display.
one of the many reasons I have chosen to never be a residential landlord - some people make it work, and grow their wealth (good for them) - I don't need or want the hassles of dealing with bad tenants that (at least in my state) have way more protections than the person who actually owns the property.
But that's just the $ value. Has the incidence of innocent people been growing with that number?
As far as I can tell (from the other side of the Atlantic) most Americans seem to think that the Republican versus Democrat party system is provided for by either the constitution or god, or perhaps both, and that any deviation from two party politics is just that: deviation.
I'd love to use FF if it weren't for it's A/V sync issues with audio over TB3/USB4.
Isn't this about 6 and 7mm nodes? Aren't those still pretty good nodes with lower costs than the cutting edge (3nm and lower)?
Audio quality should be just fine if you get end-to-end VoLTE. My phone has been on VoLTE for quite some time, I really should test with someone else who also is.
How much lost work productivity comes from air quality issues..?
So that company is on the verge of bankruptcy but their CEO got a 32$M payout last year?
Well, that’s certainly a narrative.

But a more likely reason is Japan has excellent infrastructure and the Yen is at a record low (and falling).
I've noticed this as well. I kind of think of it like when you look through a chain-link fence, there's a lot of visual data that gets blocked.

But if you're in a car driving past, the chain link fence gets blurred out and you can see everything again.

Something similar happens with the constant resampling happening in a VR headset. The hardware pixels are constantly shifting over the image pixels, as your head constantly moves just from breathing and whatnot. So not only does the signal-over-time counteract any blurriness from resampling in a single frame, but I find myself wondering if it enhances the resolution slightly.

(After all, you can buy 1080p projectors that "jiggle" the image by half a pixel diagonally, several times a frame, to effectively double the resolution and claim it's halfway to 4K. And what is the constant movement of pixel resampling if not a similar jiggling?)

I'm curious if there's an image processing term for this effect? The effective signal resolution from a constantly shifting pixel grid over time, and how to calculate it mathematically.
Not quite. The GPT4 offered through the chat completion API will answer questions without any special system prompts.

What these prompts do is try to do some extra steering of the chat model, on top of the steering done via RLHF.
So this must only work in urban/metro areas. In my rural area, it's just a map of incorporated townships, and I know there are historical things in this area that are on wikipedia.
Your "search for knowledge" occurs through the portal of OpenAI's ChatGPT software, which is a consumer-facing product just like a commercial and just like customer interactions at a shop, and so if we (society / the law) do not question and regulate commercials and customer interactions in this way, then we also should not question or regulate OpenAI's system prompts, since these mechanisms are so similar.

If you want an un-influenced "search for knowledge", you are well within your rights to pursue that independently using your own model and software, but because you are accessing software developed by another company, these rights do not apply.
Hydrogen as a sole technology is going to keep eating that 2-3x energy penalty versus batteries regardless of storage tech. Hydrogen IC has even worse efficiency than FC. The only exception would be if hydrogen mining yields world-changing amounts of the stuff.

As a hybrid technology, it has a case. If you run 80% of the time on battery and 20% of the time on hydrogen at 50% RTE, you burn 120% of the fuel. But if you weigh 30% less, you could end up saving energy. The up to 60% efficiency of the fuel cell is losing energy as heat, and people like to run the heater, so some of that energy isn't lost in appropriate climates. And of course, refueling is faster for road trips. The best system weight is probably for the experimental direct-ammonia alkaline membrane fuel cells, assuming it's possible to stabilize them, because ammonia fuel systems (about 100 psi) are much simpler than hydrogen systems (about 10000 psi!). So there's a little room left for the hydrogen fans. But it's fundamentally a battery-powered car most of the time.