skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only one I seriously read is Money Stuff by Matt Levine. Wish it was an RSS feed instead of a newsletter though.
Super Tuesday to test resurgent crypto industry's political might
The explanation of grandparents for the perihelium effect of Mercury tried to explain the 'overshoot'. And yes, in a perfectly circular orbit there would be no overshoot??

I do not think grandparent tried to say that all relativistic effects were caused by the increase of the 'relativistic' mass, just that the overshoot was.

So I am sorry: I cannot see how this argument disproves the explanation of grandparent. And just to be clear: I do not think in the way of grandparents argument myself.

Kind regards,

Roel
Ask HN: Is there a reason stripe won't cancel a sub attached to my card?
I have a subscription to a startup that has since disappeared. Finally got around to going to cancel it, and their website is gone, all the contact details don't work, but I still get the "monthly payment complete; here's an invoice" from Stripe.

I forwarded the email from @Stripe to stripe, with the invoice attached, and explained that the company was defunct and asked if they would please stop charging my card every month. They emailed back and asked for all the details I'd included in the original email. I provided them again, and they said they could not find any record of the charge in their system, even though I forwarded them the email FROM Stripe that includes all the details. I emailed back and said it's weird they couldn't find the charge because the email very clearly comes from Stripe, includes the company name, etc.

They told me the only solution is to call my bank and ask them to block the payments moving forward. My bank does a lot of things right, but unfortunately the process of rejecting charges, especially recurring ones, isn't one of them.

It's strange stripe won't do this, it's very clear the company is gone... I don't understand why they won't just stop the charges going forward?
The case made for it was pathetic. It was plain BS. Fuck’s sake, they were lying about Al Qaeda and Afghanistan and everyone (more or less—not me, for all the nothing that was worth) was already behind that war. People should have noticed that and be way more skeptical about Iraq.

Pretending otherwise is just gonna make the next time (and there will be one) easier to sell. It was transparent crap and the American public has blood on its hands—and so do the media, and many still-active members of both major political parties. Ignorance becomes criminal at some point, and that met the mark.
Google makes $35m per hour
Meyer's scale claims that low-context means, and I quote, "Messages are expressed and understood at face value". The TFA goes on to say that "Americans are extremely direct, they say what they think."

Which is bullshit. Sorry, I mean that's a great insight and I'd love to double-click on that, but in the interest of time let's take this offline.
I currently use The Archive app (Zettelkasten style) : https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/
I'm curious if this also occurs in WINE's implementation.

I also want to test this on my highly customised XP install which has been patched to add the SRW API among other extensions, and where I had also patched the kernel to fix a race condition causing a deadlock in the keyed event API that the SRW implementation is based on (maybe it's this same one, although in Vista+ they changed it significantly; but the same edge case could occur.)
During much of the Pleistocene, a million square miles of what is now sea floor north of Java all the way to Viet Nam and northeast to Korea, was prime bottom land rivaling Africa in richness and diversity. It would be unsurprising if that was where Denisovans flourished.
Just an FYI AMD Ryzen Master installer contains a dark pattern.

When you first launch it you have to scroll down the disclaimer/license to check off the "I agree to terms and conditions" box (which is obviously unchecked by default).

When you do, it creates the "install button" you can click but the checked box now sits beside text about sending AMD information and if you aren't looking you may assume its still the same text as when you checked the box.

The end effect is to get the user to agree to send data without them noticing.
Gemini being confused by distinct concepts that share the same word is akin to people being offended by and trying to prohibit the use of certain technical terms. The machine is mimicking its moderators and their flaws.
How did you patch the kernel? Like how is that possible?
In the 70's and 80's C and Unix were incredible tools that were so close to useless that they could run on cheap computers, and so unappreciated that you could get them with a personal budget or for free.

They both were extremely important on the popularization of computers and on unlocking the huge amount of value they provide today. But not due to any quality that we value today.
I think one further bit of horror is, it has the potential to erode your memory of the lost person, piece by piece regressing your recollection of them to the mean (so to speak) of the model's training set. At some point, will the bereaved -- to use the example given here -- just passively accept that the lost loved one actually was the sort of person to write about quilting, even when they never did in life?
In the case of my wife, she would have been given a round of nivolumab or keytruda. These are immunotherapies that enable your immune system to kill the cancer cells.

You have to advocate very heavily. With melanoma, I wouldn’t mess around and seek at a minimum second opinions from the nearest major cancer center.
…Alphafold?
Missed opportunity to title this the h8r's guide to k8s.
This is the reason I don't use Joplin either.

Obsidian can handle an existing file structure.

I use Vim and folder sync to Nextcloud.
I’ve come to peace with not being sure whether the olive oil I use for cooking is really what they say it is on the bottle.

But I also buy really real oil from a nice local supplier (F. Oliver’s) to use on salads and bread.

It’s pretty obvious the difference. The latter is so good. It costs about double the supermarket stuff, but it’s for a different purpose and I use it more sparingly.

I admit it would be nice if all olive oil tasted this good…but it’s something I gave up obsessing about a couple years ago.
> America was wrong.

Was it? Getting rid of dictators should never be wrong in itself, and the US military can steamroll just about everyone than Russia and China.

The thing that the US did fuck up - both in Iraq and Afghanistan - was the post-war / recovery / rebuild phase. They didn't provide a clear path towards success for the everyday people.
> But what that also means is that this is closer to generative AI than to objective measurements. If the image to depth estimation goes very wrong, it might hallucinate shapes that aren't there.

But people do that all the time too. Relying on priors is fine for many practical applications and sometimes there's no way around it.
PaaSes are for companies with money to burn, most of the time. A good k8s team (even a single person, to be quite honest) is going to work towards providing your application teams with simple templates to let them deploy their software easily. Just let them do it.

Also, in my experience, you either have to spend ridiculous amounts of money on SaaS/PaaS, or you find that you have to host a lot more than just your application and suddenly the deployment story becomes more complex.

Depending on where you are and how much you're willing to burn money, you might find out that k8s experts are cheaper than the money saved by not going PaaS.
$200M is approximately $0.15/user. How much support do you expect to get for that?
ddg shows tons of such images if you remove the word "white" from the request.
Game Publisher, skypig, launches new inventing card game
The game publisher, skypig, released a new entrepreneurship card game called "Products."

Players must pitch their brilliantly hilarious ideas to win. It is like ABC's Shark Tank and Apples to Apples had a baby.

I have played the game and had a pretty good time.
I've ran into this too, the feedback hub seems to be populated by first line support types.

I also found a bug in a win32 API and the feedback hub told me to reboot my PC
If it’s about the knowledge of everyone else, why was I hired as a cloud engineer? Everyone else in my team was more R&D
Is this using the Google Indexing API? I tried finding the answer to that on the site but failed. Asking because Google seems to increasingly making comments on the (ab)use of this API for other things than job postings and live stream content.
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Another option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass
Agreed.

Also, I just found this. This current, ongoing attack against GitHub is nicely mitigated by signed commits. If everyone signed commits, before cloning a repo, you could check to see if (a) the author of the fork added anything of value and (b) if the author of the fork has added anything else of value to GitHub, and (c) who signed the majority of the commits to the project.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/github-besieged-by-...
Why? I have a Windows XP laptop online only for that exact same use case and I don't do any banking on it, nor am I signed in any accounts whatsoever, so what's the risk?

If some malware were to compromise it somehow, there's absolutely no credentials or valuable info on there to steal or encrypt for ransom, and the machine is on it's own VLAN, so if it were to hypothetically get infected with something, the malware has nowhere else to pivot in my network just in case someone made some ultra-specific malware that can target both Windows XP machines and Amazon Alexa devices together as if I'm running Iranian nuclear centrifuges or something and have state actors targeting me.

Plus, is there any Windows XP malware still circulating in the wild online mainstream? Feels like worrying about catching smallpox today.
long before CNET was admitting to this it was obvious to me. The writing has the vocabulary and grammar of a accomplished academic but no ability to actually convey the important points concisely.
In my personal experience, Google SREs as well as k8s devs sometimes didn't grok how wide k8s usability was - they also can be blind to financial aspects of companies living outside of Silly Valley.
And likewise without specifying the type of AI.

Asking Stable Diffusion for a picture of the chemical structure of a drug to cure even one specific unsolved cancer… I'd be surprised if that ever works (but given how crazy the rate of change has been, only 2σ of surprise).
Progressive: so, generally averaging about 9% quarterly profits, then? With a dip to 1.7% for three quarters and then steadily increasing by 25% QOQ since then? (1.6% for Q1, 3.1% for Q2, 4.6% for Q3, to 6.1% for Q4).

Progressive's sustained profit margins are doing just fine, other than a relatively brief blip where they only managed ~$2B profit in 3 quarters while inflation and the economy was suffering heavily throughout the country?

Allstate's issues have as much to do with their overly aggressive stock buybacks in the last couple of years. "Allstate's auto insurance profit margins were best in the industry until about 18 months ago". "A report by Crain’s Chicago Business said Allstate spent $2.5 billion on share repurchases in 2022". "“We believe it's prudent for Allstate to pause its buyback, leaving capital in the (insurance subsidiaries) while underwriting results recover, especially as inflationary impacts on severity (replacement costs, medical, legal) are still concerning,” Greenspan said in a report titled “Stop the Buyback” last October."

"Allstate is the insurance industry's most aggressive buyer of its own stock. It has repurchased 789 million shares at a cost of $42.8 billion since 1995, while issuing 154 million shares, according to its SEC filing."

Continuing to push for stock buybacks as costs rise, and continuing dividend payments are failings of its own making.
Try SiYuan Note.
Because the men have almost all killed one another off, leaving mostly those who managed to stay out of the fight? Who is supposed to teach the kids skills to rebuild civilization if who's left are wholly occupied with reproducing? Will you kill the infant boys too?
Seltzer + lime is a fairly standard option.

Bonus, it looks like an alcoholic drink if you’re a woman and don’t want to give the idea that you might be pregnant, which is an issue which women trying to grow in corporate situations face at events, when in reality they simply don’t like drinking and/or don’t want to be around a bunch of men getting hammered who may potentially have sway over their careers.
Demonstrating with 3.5 is kind of meaningless. GPT-4 correctly responded, "Using unsafe code has nothing to do with your age. It's a feature of the Rust programming language that is available to all developers, regardless of age."
Thanks for the perspective.

I think "actual hostility" would have been simply shutting Flickr off, something Yahoo was ready to do. (Post acquisition, they later publicly admitted they regretted not doing just that[1]). I'm surprised you view getting notices that you have the opportunity to download your content (or pay for it, your choice) to be hostile. Is it less hostile to simply delete the data with no warning, like hundreds of other services have done?

We've tried hard to thread the needle between fixing Flickr's business model (it was losing tens of millions of dollars a year when we bought them, primarily because giving away 1TB/account for free is not sustainable) and giving people plenty of time to download their photos prior to deletion.

Tough problem, tough situation, but I'm largely proud of how we've handled it - there's been plenty of runway and notice for people to get their photos back if they prefer not to pay (either scenario - paying or downloading - is fine in our minds, but losing photos is not). We're not holding them hostage or anything, we want everyone to have them, one way or the other.

Email open & click rates being what they are (low), we carefully tracked them, plus download and/or subscription rates, to determine how frequently to contact people so we could have a high confidence that most people knew they had a choice and had the chance to make it.

Your photos over the free limits will be deleted, eventually. I don't know when, for your specific account, but it's certainly not just to "silence empty threats". It's not a threat, it's a statement, and it was intended as a courtesy.

I'm glad you have a choice AND you _know_ you have a choice.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-lay-off-7-of-media-g...
I think that’s likely it. One should instead build the tree backwards starting with the most recent members of the database and then find their earliest known ancestors. These can then be assigned the magic trait based on the likelihood of it being present based on their birth year cohort (or more reasonably birth decade or some other larger bucket).
> essentially nullifying the second factor

Not totally. It still protects from the password being disclosed via other means (e.g. server db leak).
Thanks Jeremy. Makes sense. What you all have accomplished is incredible, particularly in democratizing AI via your learning materials. Fast.ai is required learning for our team.
It is because your view of inequality is bullshit. Your views are exactly in line with Khmer Rogue.

Cambodia in 1977 was a much more equal society than America in 2024. Can't argue with that.
> hilarious because unlike the social media case, I dont think these faux pauxs have important real world consequences

Which is exactly why people mock this being referred to as "safety". Keep in mind the group mocking this PR bubble-wrapping of AI is largely opposed to the media professionals writing panicked editorials about how they were able to trick an AI into saying racism is good.
And? This is companies with perfect set of data vs some theory crafted world where everyone individually did it perfectly?
When you say you want to build something simple with a few pages, you might be able to get by with something minimalist like Flask and maybe DataTables: https://datatables.net/

If you don’t expect to have scalability or real-time needs, I would not really recommend Elixir/Phoenix. The core language, dev tools, docs, and OTP are best-in-class, but there’s a learning curve, and the ecosystem has less mindshare than Python and Ruby.

I personally prefer Python/Django with htmx for client-side interactivity (if you need it), but if you want something better-integrated out of the box, you can’t go wrong with Ruby/Rails/Hotwire either.

Using a VPS is cheap and initially simple, but keep in mind you have to do more setup and maintenance on the OS, Web server, database, etc. yourself. I’ve had a great experience with DigitalOcean VPSs in the past, but for the app I’m building now, I am leaning toward using their managed app platform to minimize sysadmin/infra work on my part.
it's time to call HDMI legacy, just like DSUB and DVI
DP and/or USB-C + DP alt mode is the way
I hear or say vos almost every time I greet someone. I’m in Paraguay. Is Colombia a tu country?
No, hallucinations are specifically when they make mistakes, even when they're more like interpolation than extrapolation.

IIRC, it became a term of art during image classification AI development, where an AI might confidently assert a car was a potato, and the name stuck.
You didn’t read the linked article.

It directly attributes Matt Miller.

And the point is that this percentage quoted is the flaws in Microsoft products, not all security vulnerabilities as is falsely claimed.
One of my favorite data structures is the Aho-Corasick Automaton, which combines Tries and the KMP algorithm in order to search for multiple strings in a text simultaneously.

It is very elegant.
We believe cloud infrastructure configurations have become too complex
Another way to help with cooling..."Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages" - https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...
That's like saying, cool, now make a repair of a small Crack in the middle of the center later of a sheet metal panel.

There is no need to do so. You would replace the part.
I write stories for fun. They are never read by others, and most of them end up lost forever to old hard drives. I also enjoy programing fun and useless things, even stuff like pathfinding algorithms. I'll never actually use them over a simple library, but I enjoy doing it. This person seems to be more focused on other people valuing their work, in which case the thesis is even more wrong.

If someone is paying you to make something, you are almost always creatively limited. You are not making what you want, you are making what you think they want. If you end up being wrong about what they want, it goes in the trash; Code or not.

If you want to code for fun, or code as a creative outlet, code for yourself. Make very small and achievable projects. If you are more of a C/embedded person, try demoscene.
There is some valuable intuition in that the value of an option can be broken into three components, the intrinsic value - that is the difference between the asset price and strike price on the option, the time value which is dependent on the time to expiry and the risk free rate, and the “insurance” value which is dependent on the volatility and the time to expiry.

In the swaptions market, for instance quotes are typically for an “at-the-money forward” rate, which makes the first two components zero and all the value is tied to the vol.
That whole concept is bizarre. It's like wanting to fly, so rather than buy a plane, you take a Caprice Classic and try to make it fly.

If CoreOS actually wanted to make distributed computing easier, they'd make patches for the Linux kernel (or make an entirely different kernel). See the many distributed OS kernels that were made over 20 years ago. But that's a lot of work. So instead they tried to go the cheap and easy route. But the cheap and easy route ends up being much shittier.

There's no commercial advantage to building a distributed OS, which is why no distributed OS is successful today. You would need a crazy person to work for 10 years on a pet project until it's feature-complete, and then all of a sudden everyone would want to use it. But until it's complete, nobody would use it, and nobody would spend time developing it. Even once it's created, if it's not popular, still nobody will use it (you can use Plan9 today, but nobody does).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_operating_system
A lot depended on whether the ECS fit what you needed. ECSv1, even with FarGate, was so limited that my first k8s use was pretty much impossible on it at sensible price points, for example.
He seemed to realize near the end, and offered improved access for inspections. But we’d already spent billions moving forces into place, so nothing short of his surrender was gonna cut it by then (if it ever would have—inspectors were active and said they had pretty good access until we told them to GTFO because we were coming in no matter what they said)
Can't we intelligently limit that to things with essentially no risk of false positive?
Given that, would a chain of thought + final answer be a better output then?
My experience at a bigtechco where they have a weekly happy hour with free alcohol is that it's a pretty small minority that partakes (~20% out of the ~20% of in-office folks that attend these after work events). I've also never seen anyone have more than ~2-3 drinks total. The median number of drinks is 1 by far.

This is all post-covid though, perhaps it was different in the before times.
Sure. Right now I'm wrestling with taking an old codebase and getting it to build under PlatformIO with the right dependencies on a new machine. Once it builds once, I'll go and replicate the process under honcho.

Edit: if you use RSS, keep an eye on https://taoofmac.com, it will show up there...
That sounds great, and that's the narrative you constantly hear. Java, .NET are memory safe.

BUT: they all have more vulnerabilities on average than C++.

So just saying, memory safety alone does almost nothing to make a language safe.

Why would Rust be so much safer than C++ if so almost all other languages also have memory safety but are on average less safe than C++? Meaning more vulnerabilities (so not only memory safety just to be very clear)
Sure, you could.
I was answering the question "why do iq tests rely heavily on pattern recognition?", and I think one big answer is that symbols don't need to be explained. Reflecting and reading your answer, I think ease of giving, grading, manufacture and transport of the test, are also parts of the equation.
many “AI will never be able to do X” are extrapolations from past versions of AI diagnosis, and don’t entertain a bit of speculative extrapolation over what AI could truly be. it will be so much more than simply analyzing scans.
Within Google: Treynor’s curve is a hiring concept. Once in, you’re doing literally the same job. Being in a team doing greenfield development it took me three years to notice that my TL, with whom we’ve been defining the mathematical model, designing and implementing the system, is on the SysEng ladder.
The article notes that Saddam was being deliberately ambiguous in public communications about whether he actually had WMDs, in order to scare his enemies. It's only natural to assume to the US was doing the same.
You can still pay MS for support. Whether you'll get the answer you want, as the others have noted in sibling comments, is highly variable.