skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think I'm pretty scam-savvy, but it only takes a moment of the holes in the swiss cheese aligning. I saw a recreation of a movie prop that looked like a good gift idea for a friend and made an impulse purchase. Something was nagging at the back of my head and a couple of minutes later I had a sinking feeling that it might be a scam -- sure enough, a little research showed that the product photos were stolen, the original was a limited-run authorized item that sold for 20x what I paid, and I found a forum post where this scam item was being discussed.

The web site I bought from was a single legitimate-looking veneer page with most of its content lifted from templates, and there was no functional tracking or order management anywhere, so I immediately e-mailed them asking to cancel the order, to which they replied that they that the product was "good quality", "you can rest assured that you have it", and that they would charge me a 5% fee to cancel. So I opened a case with PayPal and they closed it saying the transaction was "consistent with my purchase history", whatever that means. I appealed and they doubled down that it was not fraudulent. There are no more buttons to press at that point, but I wrote back again reiterating all of the evidence that they were actively providing a payment service to facilitate fraudulent transactions (the scammer was still around and still advertising the same fake products) and after a long period of silence I suddenly got a refund.

PayPal is not on your side as a customer, especially if you're dealing with a professional scammer who knows how to play the game and string things out. I suspect what happened here was that they got one too many complaints, and if they'd been a little less greedy or more careful, they would have walked away with the bag of money.
Gas stations screw up too.

There was a case where they hadn’t properly desulpherized gas down south so the fuel contained an acid that damaged the fuel gauge so the gauge would always read “full” and you’d drive till you ran out of gas.

There was another case where gas got contaminated with water in NJ which led to the strange spectacle of people noticing a lot of broken down cars as they approached the gas station, then they drove a block and broke down

https://archive.ph/2024.02.07-190857/https://www.nytimes.com...

This just in: https://www.thedrive.com/news/fuel-shipping-company-charged-...
You know that statistically some number of the people you work and collaborate productively with, and get along with. They would, if given the option, never interact with you again for the rest of their lives. You know this, right?

i don't know that because i don't care. what i care about is that we can get along at work. at that point that is all that matters. chances are that the longer we work together the more we get to know each other and the more we learn to respect each other and the more likely we may enjoy interacting outside of work.

i think this goes back to the difference between europeans and americans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39006092

well, actually it is europeans and the rest of the world, because everywhere i have been to, north america, asia and africa, people are friendlier than in europe.

but it can't possibly be true that the whole world except europe is faking being nice. it doesn't make sense. i rather think that people honestly believe that being nice is the right way how to interact with others, and that has absolutely nothing to do with being fake. it is the very thing that allows us to get along. whether i want to hang out with you after work is not a question of getting along or of our personality but one of having common interests or beliefs. and if someone doesn't want to hang out with me ever again, then it's not only because we really do not have any common interests or beliefs but also because that person is likely rather closed minded. (to be clear, not wanting to hang out is not a sign of being closed minded. they may simply have other priorities. not wanting to interact ever again for the rest of their lives however does look quite closed minded to me)

people didn't join linus torvalds to develop the kernel because of his friendly personality or richard stallman for that matter.

for sure, a friendly personality does make that easier, and a hostile one will put of some people for whom the personality does matter more, likely due to their own past experiences.
The "Customer safety, penalties and sanctions" in the article.

Then:

PSD2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive

SCA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_customer_authentication
If my neighborhood had trombones making loud noises dozens of times every day, I'd be in favor of a ban on the sale of trombones, too.
This would be amazing to do practice code/tech interviews for software engineering roles

It could work both for practice and for automating interviews as well
If have an `Application` that starts processes that cache ecto state, or periodically write to db, etc, it's hard to test the whole process tree. Additionally Umbrella projects start all applications in the project with one config. All of those combined mean you have to change your code structure quite a lot to make that testing possible.

Testing single processes is pretty easy. Making sure that two processes and ecto can tolerate failures, delays, etc requires too much.
here's a link comparing parade to duckdb, clickhouse and snowflake

https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/#eyJzeXN0ZW0iOnsiQWxsb3lEQi...
The big techs are gonna lose the game to themselves as soon as competition appears with unrestricted models.
Undo! Undo!
But OpenAI is not serving different responses to customers of different races. Anti-discrimination laws are about not discriminating against actual people.
Except it should be the single most intuitive thing that people with enough resources can work better than those without.
What are people using CPUs for?

I mean I have a crappy 7 year old CPU that I use for single threaded dev, and it works for 99% of cases. In the 1% of cases, I threw on multithreading and its fine.

Now my daily driver has a GPU and it unlocks new possibilities.

Its been over 10 years since I've really spent time thinking about a CPU.
High German is the language which was traditionally spoken in the southern 2/3 of Germany and in Austria; it evolved from the languages of the Allemani, Bavarians, and Franks. Low German is the language which was traditionally spoken in the northern 1/3 of Germany; it evolved from Saxon. For historical reasons (the big one being Martin Luther's choice of German dialect for translating the Bible), High German became the basis of the "standard" literary German language and is taught in schools, while Low German is seen as a weird dialect. Although if objective criteria were used, Low German and High German would be classified as different languages, not dialects.
If you're Swift famous, I'm not sure you're going to get onto a regular plane without a load of people tweeting about it.
Exactly. The amount of money I spend that goes to recipients in a ten mile radius utterly dwarfs what I pay in property taxes.
In Bitcoin, the computation being challenging is key to the product.

In AI, it's an inconvenience to be optimized away if at all possible. If someone figures out how to make AI models run on an iPhone with zero battery use, everyone goes "yay!", not "oh no our entire financial system collapsed".

AI and Bitcoin may both use a lot of power, but there's a vast difference in whether they want to. (There's also a difference in how useful they are, but that's a separate argument.)
Yeah. It’s weird. Even the analysis of passthrough is so off. If I look out of my window with AVP on, it’s obvious that I’m looking at a comparatively low res screen, but if I look at digital content, passthrough seems perfect because it’s not in my fovea, and given that the point of the device is to interact with digital content, passthrough is definitely at the level of being good enough.
When someone else has already spent money on the hard part of being first, those that follow do not need to spend the same amount of money repeating the same mistakes.
Or, to put it even more simply -- the battery pack is the replaceable battery. Which is fine; it's little different from the similarly sealed battery packs on electric power tools, for instance.
You most likely just don’t realize that your podcast app of choice actually gets its list of podcasts from Apple. That’s the authors point of Apple hosting it for free for everyone.
4000 other men couldn't meet anyone because of bots spam
Karl Guttag: "As per last time, since I don’t have an AVP."

For a device like this where there is so much more than just raw hardware impacting user experience anyone who doesn't own one should have their opinion immediately discounted.
Twitter's Grok would have more of an impact if that were the case.
I'm pretty sure it's part of "the algorithm". I don't get 2FA prompts every time, but ever so often for it to be annoying - especially since I am then thrown back to the login prompt which dares to tell me that the password from my password manager was wrong. No, it wasn't wrong, your system apparently just cannot handle going from a password prompt to 2FA and then realizing that the correct password was already entered! I asked lots of people around me and they don't have this issue, so I guess it's kinda random who is treated how.
The only real "trickle down" that actually exists, heh. Invent cool stuff, protect yourself from having it stolen, eventually give into the ridiculous sums the giants will throw at you and pivot with that to your next endeavor.
I got vampirecake
To save you a click.

> As of 2019, individuals under 40 years old held just 4.9 percent of total U.S. wealth despite comprising 37 percent of the adult population. Conversely, individuals over age 54 made up a similar share of the population and held 71.6 percent of total wealth.

To make it sadder you can break down that younger set. Its more like 10% of those under 40 who have 2.5%, 40% who share 2.4% between them and the other half have enough to pay rent.
Ha, I read that as Tesla and it's still true. Almost like there's more to a car than range and charing speed.
Here's an interesting and often used Chinese government propaganda word they use: vassal. It's meant to insult any U.S allies that work together with U.S against Chinese aggression, and to try to drive a wedge between the countries. Nevermind that it's so obvious it never works. And they never call Russia or North Korea a Chinese vassal officially - although some Chinese netizens do
DDR5 Memory Standard: An Introduction
If I combined ParadeDB with a common postgres extension like PostGIS, would I get the benefits of both?
Sorry Dave, I can't do that.
Would love to know your feedback on this https://breathe.noisli.com - don't worry, no surprises :)
I prefer to take advantage of the fact that without a proper shebang the file will be first executed by the shell. Then it is easy to do almost whatever you want.

For example I put this in front of my test C files:

#if 0
set -e; [ "$0" -nt "$0.bin" ] &&
gcc -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -std=c99 "$0" -o "$0.bin"
exec "$0.bin" "$@"
#endif

I call those: polyglot shell scripts. All my examples are valid files for the language while working as shell scripts at the same time.

In the past when Python 3 was still not obviously there and under different names it was once useful for me to have this on top of a python script:

"set" "-e"
"exec" "$(for p in python3.7 python3 python; do which p && break; done)" "$0"
"$@"

It works, because Python doesn't care about stray strings.

You can also use the trick with Makefiles, although I never needed to use it:

#\
set -e
#\
exec make -f "$0" "$@"

This is not a useful example, but it works. This works, because make will treat slash followed by a new-line as a comment continuation and bash will ignore it.
Double rainbow warrior and rainbow Dracula ninja
You can try this https://breathe.noisli.com
Excellent piece that touches on a diverse variety of thoughts! Each of the thirteen would make for a good conversation in cafe with one or two friends while drinking good coffee and sharing lemon and poppyseed muffins.

The question posed in the first definition is perhaps the most interesting, i.e. why are flowers beautiful? Flowers appeared ~130 mya while mammals appeared ~225 mya, so this cannot be coded in our "reptilian brain."

I like the answer posed "natural selection went too far", the only answer we currently have. To push the analogy, these traits that we take to define our humanity are probably our brains "hallucinating," trying to optimize some unnecessary group of functions. Why are flowers beautiful? Why do we believe in God? These are probably unintended consequences of our evolutionary brain. Yet these "bugs" define us and are the source of all that we find great about us.
> but the displays are at a constant distance from your eyes

Nitpick, but the focal point is about 6 feet away, which is the important thing for this discussion.
Not really, the transmission can be made much simpler and more robust.
The battery charges via USB-C. The battery connects to the headset with a weird side-snap connector that's rather flat. As designed, there's not anywhere obvious that a USB-C port could really fit on the headset and assuming they hope to make it smaller in future years, the problem only amplifies. I think other headsets have cables coming out of them when they need to connect to other things, rather than relying on a port. It's not particularly aesthetic.
They are best in class for marketing though.

Even chatgpt says they are the best company of all time at marketing.
A lot of games still bottleneck on CPU.
One of those things is not like the other. Certainly your own growing child is a special case of "someone else" using your body.
Germany forced to slash DHL stake by €2.2B to fix railways
Apple is rumoured to be testing multi-monitor support:

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/06/vision-pro-virtual-disp...
That doesn't answer why Firefox doesn't have RSS support anymore though (removed in 2018)
You probably should not use jQuery unless you have an actual need for it. 10-ish years ago it was helpful because browser features were very fragmented at the time and it was hard to write code that would correctly function across all major browsers. Today, there's little difference (mostly due to them all being the same under-the-hood nowadays) so instead of being a helpful tool, it's being overused for numerous reasons. Most of what jQuery was really good at has now been added to Javascript core or there is a browser API for it.
I'll share my ship trick.

This is for those of you that live by the bay. Needs a clear day but
no Otis Redding song necessary.

Where I live it takes about a 20-30 mins for a ship that left the
harbour to disappear over the horizon. As it leaves I can see all the
details, the name of the ship, the containers or people. Lots to think
about and observe. I don't take my eyes off it. Gradually it turns
into a smaller and smaller square, and eventually a dot. All that it
is, all the people and cargo and funnels become an ever smaller world.
Somehow that grabs and keeps my focus.

Actually started to do it as an exercise for vision from too much
screen time. Apparently it helps to focus on a distant object and I
think... maybe... hmm... maybe it helps. But anyway, after a half
hour of watching a dot vanish over the horizon, it leaves you with a
_good_ feeling. Like I used to get from astronomy before moving to the
city. YMMV.
This is a very well articulated and nuanced comment. In the most pathological engineering organizations, that lack of perception can fester into active resentment of other disciplines.
> But the (essential) behavior of the command remains the same.

Of course. A command needs to do it's defined function.

You'll find some programs that are quite a bit different when invoked from outside the terminal vs inside the terminal. Developers need to take into account both situations, which is really the point the original post.
Huberman wildly oversells and overgeneralizes. Apparently that's what listeners want.
For many people, the icon on the desktop they click isn't important. They just know when they click that icon, it brings them to "the internet". If she's one of those people, my guess is she blames the bank.
Measured by conscious observers, and results perceived by conscious observers. There is no way around it.

The laws of physics are “universally” agreed truths about certain mental phenomena experienced by the conscious observers that conscious observers have so far interacted with.
i think it's a historical argument. i.e. from when the "pod" in podcast meant "iPod".
I started with the osdev wiki's Barebones Tutorial: https://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_Bones

It teaches how to do a hello world, with proper setup.

It's a bit more than a single C file, with some assembly/linker script/custom GCC toolchain required.

From there, that wiki is probably the most helpful resource you can find, along with the CPU manuals.
Art(n.): An overloaded catch-all term for various creative things which people can nearly define however they want in any given context to lend unearned credence to their glib and/or self-interested philosophical stances.
> Who has the right to steal my property if I perform calculations on my computer that cause no harm to anyone?

Did you read the article? Harm is definitely being caused.
Sort ordering is handled automatically by Datafusion.

Collations at the column/operation level are not yet supported but we're working on it.
People generally leave reviews because they are unhappy with a thing. That alone is sampling bias from Glassdoor. Rarely do people leave a review because they are happy with something.
>> Environmental groups have long criticized Toyota for being slow to move toward fully electric vehicles, instead clinging to gas-electric hybrid technology.

When you run a company as large and old as Toyota, you always hedge your bets. There are some other options to battery-powered electric vehicles (hydrogen IC). They are currently not as mature but anyone running something as big as Toyota needs to hedge against that sort of outlier tech. If Toyota abandoned IC, got rid of its IC production lines, they would suffer hugely if hydrogen IC one out as the green tech. All the major car companies do such things. That's why they have survived as long as they have.

Would Tesla survive if a new hydrogen storage killed the market for battery-powered cars? Toyota has seen and survived a few such revolutions.
I think it can be acceptable to use "I" in UI messages. After all, the app is the one doing things, and it's what I'm interacting with, so it would be fine to have a message like "I'm going to do X" or "I tried to do X but Y", or "I can't find the Z on this computer"
Off topic, but what do you think of your e-tron? Would you recommend?
I find it interesting 'analysts' are looking at Apple's product rather than user sentiment.

If you are only looking at objective metrics, Apple is always going to perform at B and C levels.

If you are looking at fanaticism, they are A++.
I don’t remember the story of how Apple got involved in that, but it was incredibly clear when it was released that Steve Jobs hated the thing. Even when he demoed it on stage.

Perhaps they agreed to a partnership and didn’t realize that Motorola and the carriers would ruin it? Or perhaps it was some sort of “we’ll do this to learn some of the business” kind of a thing?

I’d love to know more of the story behind how it started and it’s development.
I think it was the noise mainly. The lack of licensing was the angle to shut’em down, but even if they had a license, I’m sure the complaints would have persisted.

Would like to know if the noise was primarily from the generators or from the miners.
Came here to point out the same thing. I guess when dealing with internet randos, it's best to keep your real digits to yourself (or at least use a phone number that isn't linked to your PayPal account).
Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat
Yes, but what's your point with those facts? Those were Bulldozer based APUs, not very good compared to what you could buy for PC back then, in an era where AMD wasn't very competitive and GPUs weren't overpriced unobtanium.
Theft from a parked car would typically be covered under an auto or homeowners insurance policy, and most of those contain no such exclusions (although there are limits on covered losses). I don't understand what point you're trying to make by bringing up commercial insurance which is irrelevant to most people.
> essentially no performance requirements

In my experience this is very rarely actually true, even though people think it is.
Also, shows are just disappearing. My most recent torrent was series 1 and 2 of Bluey, which disappeared overnight from Disney+ in Europe. Try explaining that to kids who love it (and I do as well).
I honestly think the Hyperion series does a better job predicting the enshittification of everything at the hands of AI than anything Stephenson wrote. And as an added bonus, it throws in some really interesting thought experiments about what a sentient AI would logically conclude the "right thing" to do with humanity was.
> The average annual salary for full-time employees in Taiwan reached an eight-year high of NT$694,000 (US$22,242) this year (2023).

I am the complete opposite of a CCP shill, but that is by definition stagnation.

The 2015-16 recession was brutal in Taiwan [0]. It basically was a lost decade.

South Korea and Japan ate Taiwan's market in the upper bracket, and China ate Taiwan's market in the lower bracket.

[0] - https://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/30/taiwan-gdp-falls-for-first-t...
I, too, thought that Unison Cloud was somehow a backend for this.
This article does a fantastic job of explaining how good the screen is in clear, easy to understand language. Good job!

Is it a good display? It's incredibly good, far beyond the DPI of your phone or monitor. Does it look as good as your phone or your computer monitor when used? No, at the distance you'd look at them from, it looks much worse.
Unicorn alert Homeland Security posts rare ad for all-remote AI Corps
These types of arbitrary rules are why projects end up depending on deprecated packages. Nobody can do it so everyone whistles around a slowly smoldering dumpster fire.
A record number of Americans can't afford rent
So, the fantastical plot argument is that one can insert a singular hard-to-verify subtle error among a see of factually correct statements? That's not novel, it is a fact on about any decently sized compendium, \that there will be a typo, an out of date fact or error. That's supposed to be scary?

One of the underlying assumption behind these sci-fi ideas is that people believe weird things because of carefully constructed misleading chain of reasoning, when in fact they simply believe in things that are convenient to support their general world view. Climate denial, for example, is not about carefully planted false evidences, it is about adhering to a view point that avoids forcing you to reconsider your lifestyle.
Not if nine of them fail.

Also, Elon Musk has done nine and he is only 52.
Nice, I really like it. A quiet nice way to bring meditation during my work time actually.