skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have hard time having proper implementations of interesting problems, how can we expect an workable open source billing system implementation ? With the proper engineering tradeoffs and flexibility needed to comply with all businesses and legal specificity ?
I’ve heard another definition, if you can and will help out your teammates with the assigned tasks, then you are a leader. If you are just doing the “meta”, you are a manager.
So "you ship your org chart"?
Not allowed by whom? Them?
I understand your point but I disagree.

They're providing me with, in my eyes, a premium product. "Come buy a car without the dance. Here's the price. Give us money, I'll give you a car. No strings."

I'll pay extra for that. I'll never win against an experienced salesperson, so why bother even trying?
There's no point in an AI generating consumer device, the compute can just be in the cloud.
I had Windows 1.01 and 2.03 on boot floppies, they were both small enough to just copy the files into a DOS bootdisk and fit fine. However in my experience most of the programs that I wanted to run in Windows that wouldn't run in DOS required at least Windows 3.x to work.
I'm not sure if it is something to be wrong or right. Maybe it is just a different color, perspective. Because it also has pros as well.
Pre-warning is not an issue of your inspector is so incompetent he can't tell a real factory from a fake one
When I went to Jr High School they still had drafting. We used the same textbook my dad used 20 years before. Lol. And I participated in the computer club where we played around on Apple II’s. Fast forward, my first year at university in typography class we were specing type lines, cutting them up and laying them out with wax on board, and photographing the composition in a positive film stat. Next year it was all about the Quark on Mac SE. I found it funny, even then, to grow up on the cusp of change.
How big was their house? 3 of my 4 grandparents grew up in multi-generational houses, all of their parents were very working class, and yes they "afforded" raising kids and housing their elderly. Their houses were not bigger than 100 sqm though. All shared rooms, and there was typically 1 bathroom for the entire household. Clothes were hand me downs and meals were only what they could afford, so the meat in their diet was mostly weird low quality stuff. They shared bath water! The lifestyle described is 100% still attainable today. It is your parent's choice not to have grandparents in the house - in line with societal standards today, but certainly not impossible.
I sincerely don't understand your analogy or how it would apply to PWAs. But it sounds like you're saying they no longer enforce the policies that way? That's good.
> Much of the blame for climate change lays at their feet.

That's a bit of a stretch given how much money the fossil fuel industry has spent on misinformation and greenwashing.
The coast guard actually samples the ice and marks lanes. There are islands that people live on up there and when it freezes enough you can drive back to the mainland.

There were lots of people who just did their own thing but yes, that would otherwise be a risk without testing and I’m sure too cautious to be one of them.

Now though I don’t think it gets cold enough where I was at (Lake Erie near the Ohio/Michigan border) to freeze enough in the winters anymore. It’s been a solid 20 years since I knew people who drove on it so I’m not sure it’s still a thing.

NYT actually wrote an article about how the lack of freezing is killing a brisk (pun intended) winter business there and mentions it. I used to have family who lived on the next island north.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/us/put-in-bay-ohio-ice.ht...
But dancing is fun. The act of dancing evokes joy, and happiness for people.

For most people, buying a car is a chore. I'm not here to be negotiated with. Give me the price of something that means you make your profit; if it seems like a good deal, I'll buy it.
The core thing with B2B SAAS is you make money off of higher touch sales, that lead to requirements.

The objective as someone working on this kind of billing is simple: offer your sales teams the right options so they can close deals. This involves collaborating with your sales team to figure out what is in the “easy to implement x good enough to close deals” bucket

I can’t stess this enough. Your sales team is closing sales! Stop whining about your perfect billing system. Yes it is shocking but sometimes you have to apply elbow grease to problems involving business relationships

You should try to do things in straightforward ways when possible but really you should have a system that is legible to other teams in your company, and one that is easily to manually tweak even with automation running around it. This is like 80% of why Stripe feels so good to use. Manual tweaks are a fact of life, even if for some businesses they’re rare
I don't really care if it is being sold with Linux as an option. They should just have a policy to make sure that all the relevant patches are upstream before they release the product.

Then they can still decide later if they themselves want to cell it with Linux late on.
Opinions differ. But then paying a premium means paying a higher price than just accepting whatever a sales person asks for initially... To me, that is kind of stupid. But the I never got the German obsession with panel gaps neither, so make of that whatever you will.
yea, because destroying famous works of art and blocking traffic, really helps bring people over to your side....
>Well it's pretty easy for millions of people to notice when it's the face value of their currency which has rapidly lost quite a bit of meaning.

For much of the 2000s and 2010s, people thought crime was on the way up, despite statistics that say otherwise. Clearly "millions of people" noticing a phenomena isn't a reliable indicator of it actually happening, which is why we have statistics agencies rather than going off vibes.

>It doesn't even need to be at this scale, there are many situations where the data is so overwhelming that even non-recordkeeping below-average observers can build a more accurate picture than some twice-removed lesser mathematicians looking only at kilos of numerals.

Examples of those "situations"?
Booming Stock and Sky-High Pay: Nvidia Is Silicon Valley's Hot Employer
I just like people better when they're truthful. :D I wouldn't claim they have any sort of obligation to be, moral or otherwise. I was just describing my stance toward various positions in that sentence if you look at the context
Fascinating, is there ever a point where this "magic money" legally becomes your property, after a certain amount of time?
I've had good luck with Keepgo (no affiliation) for low-cost backup eSIMs. Once you add the initial data, it's good "forever" as long as you add something to it once every year. I bought 10GB just over a year ago to have a backup on a different network than my primary plan. Recently added $3 to keep it alive for another year.

https://www.keepgo.com/collections/prepaid-esim-data-bundles
It correlates but the intuition is a bit misleading. What's actually happening is that by asking a model to generate more tokens, it increases the amount of information it has learnt to be present in its context block.

It's why "RAG" techniques work, the models learn during training to make use of information in context.

At the core of self-attention is dot product measurement which causes the model to act like a search engine.

It's helpful to think about it in terms of search: the shape of the outputs look like conversation but were actually prompting the model to surface information from the QKV matrices internally.

Does it feel familiar? When we brainstorm we usually chart graphs of related concepts e.g. blueberry -> pie -> apple.
Burnout is, truth be told, a dead-end... You studied, dreamed of working on projects, wanted to gain experience, create something of your own, become independent, and earn income from your brainchild - be it a game, utility, program, or something else. However, in the end, you realized that years were passing by, and the project to become your own boss didn't materialize. The fear of losing your job instills panic, as your brain at a cognitive level calculates that you've literally spent too much of your own time on learning and working for someone else. You've sold a considerable amount of your time to others for a coin, and now you find yourself at an impasse. Yes, this is life at 40+. Even if you become an encyclopedia, your time becomes cheap because the time of young, ambitious people is considered precious. It's like being charged printer cartridges while you're already an old printer barely printing. So burnout is the result of selling so much time that doing something for yourself to take a break and generate income, becoming your own boss, has slipped away. You didn't become a genius because you exchanged everything possible for money, and there needed to be a balance. Thirty percent of the income from your sold time should have been saved for your own time to work on your projects instead of squandering it!
> Nuclear can be useful too.

I wouldn’t call it just useful. As far as I understand it’s the best realistic shot we’ve got.
One thing this article doesn't mention are affiliate sales which depending on how far you want to go can be a decent amount of work. This is the system that lets other people get commission based payouts for sales within your platform.

You need to track affiliate codes back to sales and a user, handle sending payouts to an affiliate at their configured payment provider and if you want to go all out then handle metrics around visitors and present a UI to the affiliate so they can see their conversion rates and payout history.

Fortunately most of that can be built incrementally. As long as you associate a unique code to a user and wire up associating that to a sale with a specific commission % amount everything else can be done manually or skipped. For example I pay affiliates out once per month where I goto Zelle or PayPal and send out the payments. It takes less than 10 minutes. There is no front end for tracking conversions and it's also never been a cause of someone saying they don't want to be an affiliate because of that.
Productivity has gone up while quality of life has gone down over the last half century. Yeah, we can get groceries delivered now but we're never not working or preparing for work. We have worse economic realities and the cost of living is sky rocketing.

Sure doesn't seem like that's holding these days.
VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development
For fun, try switching the left and right mouse button actions, just give it a whirl, bizarrely I just took to it like water despite decades of muscle memory?!
The government taxed and regulated this and other industries to the point where industry moved overseas. Only now they're seeing the peril of that overreach, and are trying to subsidize it to bring it back. Only, they're so inept that they're forcing the use of their cronies (the unions, etc) to get the work done, and, in comparison to Japan, it's a disaster.

The quote is on target.
That's what I meant, as I remember the desktop apps are a browser wrapper.
If the EU wants the US gone they can all withdraw from NATO and take their chances. Right now they are getting very cheap to free military protection and have been for like 80 years.

Also Germany screwed itself by shutting down its nuclear fleet before its renewable/storage fleet was ready to match that supply, not to mention becoming increasingly dependent on imported gas for two decades while literally everyone (but Gazprom) told them this was idiotic. Germany's wounds are self-inflicted. They set themselves up to be completely dependent on someone for energy.

Don't worry America has lots of self-inflicted wounds too, like the second Iraq war.
Just an FYI, the acronym for the United States Supreme Court is SCOTUS. Supreme Court of the United States. POTUS is the president, as well.
Thanks for catching this. Will fix!
From my own experience and that of many peers I've talked to it really seems to benefit DJing as a skill. It's an activity where you get to be hyperfocused and freely associating/improvising at the same time. Not really a career-path I'd recommend to anyone though.
Embracer's Acquisition Stampede:Talent, Turmoil, and the Future of Gaming
Language Modeling in the Limit of Infinite Data
Someone didn't do proper QA on their home page: their Google Play/Android icon (under Get the app) doesn't even go to their app; instead it goes to https://play.google.com/store/games?hl=en&gl=US.
If I don't care about being "myself", I can easily plug into or create community. It is not about ability to be honest. I want it but when I have it I want to get rid of it quickly.

If I ever could stay somewhere long enough to take a root, I probably would be a completely different person. I feel both glad and sad for the life I lived.
This is a vapid question. If you have something to say, just say it.
That's a great idea and exactly what I need to do next, just need to find the time :)
There's also the Finnish solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
If we really do care, we cannot have people living in Northern Europe, America and Canada. It is criminal to insist to live under conditions humans cannot survive without heating.

I suggest mass migration to Africa.
I also think it's a good idea, but there are too many loopholes[1] for bad actors to abuse at the moment.

[1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/carbon-loophole-why-is-wood-b...
> that documentation doesn't matter and nobody reads it anyway

Did I say that? I don't think so. I said that it is possible to create key mappings without reading 18 chapters of documentation. How? By looking up what we need.

But Emacs users do read the documentation but not necessarily in a linear manner where they must start from Chapter 1 and go all the way to Chapter 18 before they are able to do something. Some people might it read like that. But most people including myself read the parts that matter to us.
yeah it's pretty heavy, it's a good point
And yet CO2 per capita is much lower in Germany than in the US. So Germany must also be doing something right.
>Austrian

False. I'm Australian. You shouldn't be surprised that someone who has been watching OUR war crimes, crimes against humanity and massive violations of human rights at scale, is critical of the narrative being proffered by folks such as yourself which only leads to more war, bloodshed and calamity. "Bothsidism"?

No, I'm not concerned about any side but my own, which is the only state I can do anything effective about.

>Nuclear deterrence is part of diplomacy.

A classic America-first point of view which is entirely incompatible with the mores of the rest of the world, as we are finding out with BRICS - which is real, true diplomacy.

>Western diplomacy failed in 1938 and 1939

Another very USA'ian-centric perspective which only leads to a blindness. Your argument would be better centered around the failures of the American political ruling classes in preventing the American military junta from massacring 5% of Iraqs population .. in 2003.

Or, lets just address the bear in the room: America's utter failure to commit to the diplomacy of the Minsk accords. Or of the Istanbul agreement. Or any one of countless other acts of real diplomacy that America has shat on, in order to sell its weapons stocks to the cultures its oligarchic classes deem inferior...

Taiwan? Yes indeed, respect the wishes of the Taiwanese residents, and not just the ones the CIA send to have interviews on CNN. ALL of them.
There are actually quite a lot of solutions out there that fly under the radar but do a great job.
Billsby for example has slowly crept up to becoming a significant player in the field by starting with a focus on one segment: recurrent billing.
I can see a world where there could be multiple unicorns just in the billing sector of fintec.
There was also the commercial products going into the 9x era - 98lite still surprisingly exists.

https://www.litepc.com/98lite.html
Super cool looking, but the projected keyboard will be what kills that concept. The tactile feedback is surprisingly necessary for typing on a traditional layout.

Maybe integration with a smaller screen like a phone is the way forward with electronic keyboards?
Firstly, do these models learn a good physics grounding for nonsense actions? Like keep pressing down even when you are in the ground? Or will they phase you through the ground?

Secondly, why are all videos like half a second long? I thought video generation came much farther than this. My guess would be that the world models unravel at any length longer than that, which is (and has always been) the problem with models such as these. Minus the video generation part, we had pretty good world models for games already, see Dreamer line of work: https://danijar.com/project/dreamerv3/
If you make your free version ugly, then doesn't that drive potential customers away?
Insert meme of Obama putting medal on Obama.
Who is complaining that software gets worse and that quality is dropping? And, more importantly, do they offer any data to back that up?

Or do they, like I do, anecdotally complain that slack eats all my memory to do stuff that we could do with IRC decades ago? (Which is provably wrong when I think about it for more than a few minutes)
You'll Miss Sports Journalism When It's Gone
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium may be of interest!
I can give you couple example.

Private prisons profit directly from incarceration rates (crime)

Sugar factories profit from selling unhealthy food.
We should stop acting like AGI is just a matter of time and that it'll save all our problems, this is borderline a cult at this point.
> Michael Jackson [1] is the another Systems Thinking guru, and argues that ‘wicked problems’ like these can never be solved, and it’s irresponsible to claim otherwise.

Can you point to a more detailed reading about his arguments for this position?
I think the problem is there is an entire class of people with bullshit degrees who think themselves far more intelligent and educated than they are in reality.

It would be interesting to see what the results of a poll would be among college graduates asking "Do you consider yourself above average intelligence?"

In the US I suspect the results would be laughable. At least 75% say yes.
If you duplicate the file from the Figma community:
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1338456115232271694/fun...

Go to the "Getting Started" page and you will have instruction there on how to set up the Figma library. It's pretty simple. Let me know if that worked for you.
>all of society is based on the premise of building it when it didn't exist yet. Just the same we can create our belonging, and that's the scary part.

I definitely agree with this. I love process of creating, forming something. After it is created, it loses all its charm and becomes something to get rid of.
I have a theory that the results are actually a side effect of having the information in a different area of the context block.

Models can be sensitive to the location of a needle in the haystack of its input block.

It's why there are models which are great at single turn conversation but can't hold a conversation past that without multi-turn training.

You can even corrupt the outputs by pushing past the number of turns / show the model data in a form it hasn't really seen before.
What is the use case of a transparent screen with what looks like terrible resolution, colour fidelity and viewing angles? Especially when laptops are so low on the desk one can see what's behind just by lifting their head.

It's a decent proof-of-concept of the technology, sure, but why make a full laptop out of it?

The glass keyboard is simply a terrible idea, until we invent a way to simulate the shape of a key, not just the tactile feedback when pressed. I've always wondered whether simulating the tactile presence of an object is in any way possible... Something like the magnetic repulsion effect, but needs to work on bare fingertips
Much to consider here, thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Perfect is the enemy of good.

As a result we're now relying on more coal and gas than the much cleaner nuclear energy. What lovely progress!
A bit of warning about TRT, I was put on it after having a thyroid issue. I started experiencing male pattern baldness within 4 months. My hormones are back without TRT thankfully, but my hairline has receded significantly.
MEGA65 platform release v0.96 is now available
Why did you cash/deposit the checks?
I think a lot of these are niche applications, intended for other startups working in this space. The services they offer are overkill for the majority of casual users trying to get a handle on AI by dabbling with llama.cpp or Stable Diffusion on a desktop.

These startups are offering tools to maximize workflow efficiencies for high scalability deployments, but most of the world is still trying to understand WTF is a transformer.
> As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.

What a comparison...
The worry with nuclear waste is of course that the shielding doesn't last long enough and waste then contaminates surroundings with much much higher radiation than in coal ash
Yes, they seem to use "Europe" to refer to the EU.
I think using pronouns with cases like I / me / my as a contrast to other nouns like "dog" would convey the difference.

> the idea that a 50 character or so regex will cover all your edge cases seems to be optimistic

At the very least. I'm thinking of Latin, where you can and will have ambiguity which declension a noun belongs to and what gender it is (e.g. frūctus (4th, m) vs pecus (3rd, f) vs pectus (3rd, n) vs actus (2nd, m)), and you just have to memorize which is which, since that entirely changes its endings as well as that of the corresponding adjective. Third declension is also wacky in that the stem isn't always present, e.g. pectus -> pectoris (where the stem here is pector-).
NetZero, who eventually bought Juno after they went under in the dot-com bubble.
Nice solution you have there, a shame if there's no problem it fits to be found.
Why not solar, wind and storage?

To decarbonise transport storage needs to massively increase. There are 30 million cars in the UK, that alone is 3TWh of storage, which isn't far off a day's total energy use. If we can make 3TWh then it's reasonable that we can make 2 or 3 times that much.

It won't be financially viable to operate a nuclear plant for the few days a year that the wind and solar and storage and imports can't cover the use, better to simply increase storage and production a bit more.
Not to mention questionable views about boys being predated on by older women
Now it's time to invent an opacity pixel, so we can define which areas of the screen will render black and which are transparent. Anyone into micromirrors?
Part of ATT is having a "Nutrition facts label"-style forward disclaimer of what the App might ever request access to, but also combined it with the software vendor's information-handling/privacy policies.

The first-half: a declaration of requested sandbox permissions is a technological problem with a straightforward solution, while the second-half is a soft, squishy, "human" problem.
They said the opposite direction, EU -> US. In my experience this makes things harder because of the way the US healthcare system is setup.

Depending on/asking for help from an employer (if they are helping you move) is a good first step though.
This wouldn't be the first ThinkPad with a transparent display. The ThinkPad 755CV/CDV[0] let you lay the screen on a light projector to become an LCD projector.

[0] https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:755CV
By international standards, Google Fi is expensive.

By US standards, Google Fi is cheap.