skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created an Amazon account when Amazon was pretty new and just sold books. Ordered a few books and then forgot about it. A couple of years later, when Amazon got popular I tried to login again and it did not work, so I wrote them an e-mail and they said it had been deactivated because of inactivity but now they had restored it. Different times.

When Amazon got really big and dabbled in the ad business I deleted it, so I don't have it anymore. Only created a new one when the pandemic hit.
>How does an author receiving money for something they wrote 50 years ago incentivise them to write more?

Receiving money for something you wrote 1 week ago doesn't encourage you to write more. It's the knowledge that you will receive money for next thing you wrote that incentivizes you to write more. And a 50 year payout should obviously provide more incentive than a 6 month payout.

There's going to be a point of diminishing return where adding extra years doesn't provide enough extra incentive to justify the cost, but I haven't seen any convincing evidence that 50 years is over that threshold.

The same holds true for copyright extending past the author's lifetime. Especially if an author is older, the knowledge that their children will benefit is certainly an incentive.
I don’t see why most people in America would expect to be able to afford drivers. Labor is and has long been famously expensive.

A lot of immigrants will have drivers/maids/cooks in their country of origin, and then come to the US and have to do their own laundry/cooking/driving/etc.
> Thanks to climate change and exploding deer populations, ticks are expanding their ranges—and carrying diseases with them.

We’ve had our first run ins with ticks in our suburban Chicago backyard recently. They were never an issue before, and never literally just outside the door. I’m sure the unseasonably warm start to the year is to blame.
> It's one of those "the risk goes up the longer it's attached" type things. I presume it looks like a bell curve.

These two statements contradict each other.
Do you think removing people’s options will result in less exploitation or more?
I've been 'designing' websites since about 1994, and I remember being very excited when the major browser(s) started supporting background images, so that my webpages didn't have to have the same flat-grey background that every other webpage in the world had at the time. I also made one of the first 'starfield' backgrounds, and was simultaneously thrilled and annoyed to see other people start using it on their webpages.
The fundamental mistake of software engineering here is not when the
"scooter" updates, but that it updates at all.

Not everything that uses electricity requires an embedded computer
connected to the internet.

We could ask the question as: Give me a list of good reasons
why a scooter should be connected to the internet?

We might get answers like:

The built in map or GPS needs updating

The pricing list for hire needs changing

The battery monitoring software has changed

Every one of these reasons, and many more, have nothing to do with the
operation of the device qua scooter. Everything it did yesterday it
could do equally well today.

The problem is modularity, specifically the poor coupling and cohesion
of subsystems within the design. Everything in our list relates to something
other than the function as a scooter; like navigation, payments, telemetry.

In a properly designed system these have to be seen as essentially separate
systems with diverged functional requirements. Each could operate and update
in its own way if necessary. The default behaviour of the 'scooter' system
should be to keep operating as a scooter, regardless.
I believe Tokyo requires demolition after a certain amount of time or ownership change right? Not entirely sure, and Ive also seen some info that suggest real estate has appreciated in Tokyo lately.

Point being maybe its demographics and regulation, with a cultural attitude that jives with it and even explains the regulation to demolish, but not attitude being operative.
I've been an advocate for Firebase and Firestore for a while — but will agree to all of these points above.

It's a conceptual model that is not sufficiently explained. How we talk about it on own projects is that each collection should have a conceptual security profile, i.e. is it public, user data, public-but-auth-only, admin-only, etc. and then use the security rule functions to enforce these categories — instead of writing a bespoke set of conditions for each collection.

Thinking about security per-collection instead of per-field mitigates mixing security intent on a single document. If the collection is public, it should not contain any fields that are not public, etc. Firestore triggers can help replicate data as needed from sensitive contexts to public contexts (but never back.)

The problem with this approach is that we need to document the intent of the rules outside of the rules themselves, which makes it easy to incorrectly apply the rules. In the past, writing tests was also a pain — but that has improved a lot.
Ask HN: What are you using to host your email?
I use the basic Google Workspace Business plan to host my email, but the price is increasing from $6/month to $7.20/month in a few days.

I also want to get away from Google services as much as possible.

Right now I'm considering using Amazon Workmail since I use AWS for a ton of things, though I guess that would put me in the AWS ecosystem.

What do you use?
This is also my experience with Toronto (and Athens and Barcelona and numerous other cities).

I’ll stand for a half hour in the rain before I take another Toronto cab.
great points. bar examiners call what you allude to a 'character and fitness assessment.' all bar applicants must subject themselves to one regardless of any other application requirements.
this is what I do, not just that, but when I sleep, i let my server 'sleep' as well, where the LLM 'dreams' (trianing / updating a sliding LoRA) to consolidate information that popped up a lot throughout that day. What this involves is looking for the top n documents / articles / content that match the kind of stuff we've talked about. This means it adapts and specializes to domains we happen to be working in at that point in time.

This means while we might both struggle a little with a task on day 1, day two we're both much better at it. Better yet, because the LLM can fetch articles and papers itself, we track what we're accessing the most, indirectly measuring what skills we're weak in, we can always generate a highly relevant corpus to try capture the required capabilities.

I know the LoRA is overkill from an information / skills only point of view, but it also flavors the personality / kind of stuff it likes chatting about a bit from day to day, and I just think that's neat.
It’s why I am focused on how this kind of technology gets “offline” and into locally run models. If I can buy a top of the line MAC in a few years time with something in the vicinity of half a terabyte of unified ram, and run this kind of model on my own hardware, it would be a powerful force multiplier, an a genuinely empowering tool… as opposed to having to rent it from someone in order to remain competitive with everyone else forced to rent it.
Your legal team is holding the door open for the day they decide to start tracking.

They probably won't tell you that, tho.
I get annoyed enough when it is a normal startup. I turned my computer on at 6:28 today, because I knew I had a 7:30 meeting I needed to be join - I was a minute late and that was normal startup. It is even worse if the computer did an update the day before - even though the computer was off for 15 hours and so there was plenty of time: there is no option "install updates doing whatever reboots needed then shutdown when done". Instead I have to sit there staring at a update screen while it does whatever.
Should we regulate to prevent jobs from being replaced? Wouldn't that make us less competitive with countries that aren't willing to artificially cap that?

I'm not against AI regulation on safety grounds but I'm not convinced it's a good idea to try to use regulation to preserve jobs. That feels like it would have much more damaging longer term consequences.
Well first there was a human programmer who made a lot of non-programmer jobs obsolete -- plenty of people complained but they just had to re-school themselves.
My car tells me it has an update pending when I start it up; it then allows me to choose to update now or to schedule it for later - defaulting to 2.30am - the dialog includes a warning that the car could be unusable for an hour or two.
You're confusing the tech/innovation with the uses. I agree with you that not respecting, or rather assuming, a user's preferences is a bad UX mistake. That said the tech is also used for content control without which streaming of shows and films would be impossible to contractually happen. It is used to protect your bank account. It is used in a myriad of ways that are much less visible than just picking a language or showing targeted advertising.
My undergraduate degree is in Economics. Here's my $0.02 on this topic:

You can divide the field of Economics into two branches, Microeconomics (the study of how prices and produced quantities are determined in an individual market, for example the market for cars) and Macroeconomics (the study of the overall economy, particularly concerned with overall price level and employment level determination).

Microeconomics can be subdivided into partial equilibrium (the "ceteris parabus" assumption, no feedback effects from related markets) and general equilibrium (incorporates feedback effects from related markets). Macroeconomics is then just general equilibrium microeconomics for all markets in an economy + the market for money (MV=PQ equation from the blog).

Most of (partial equilibrium) microeconomics was developed by a handful of engineers in the mid 1800s. The math is pretty simple, just differential calculus really, and there are only a few variables - supply is determined by marginal production costs in a production function, demand is determined by individual preferences subject to a budget constraint (income) and the presence of substitute goods.

General equilibrium microeconomics came 100 years later and required far more advanced math - the Brouwer fixed point theorem and convex set theory from topology. It was a pretty remarkable achievement. But almost immediately, mathematicians working in economics started finding problems. In a nutshell, the conditions required for an equilibrium to exist, to be unique, and to be stable were incredibly restrictive and almost certainly never met in the real world. If you want to see the math behind this, search for the Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theorem (Debreu was one of the people who developed the original general equilibrium model).

Macroeconomics developed alongside microeconomics and much of it was developed before the math behind general equilibrium micro was known. Macro adds the additional complexity of markets for labor (which have several unique qualities vs the market for goods) and more importantly the existence of money (traditional micro models are all barter models). It also adds a time dimension (traditional micro models are non-dynamic equilibrium models with just a short term and long term distinction). Even the most advanced macro models today are still extremely primitive in their assumptions - money is treated simply as a token like any other good or as an advance constraint, time is treated as discrete, etc.

Note that I am talking about the core models themselves here. The presence of "market imperfections" such as externalities, monopoly (pricing) power, and asymmetric information (all of which are ubiquitous) have long been known to render the models useless even if all of the impossible to attain core assumptions were met.

TLDR: The most advanced economic models all make assumptions that are never actually satisfied in the real world and the math to try and resolve these issues is completely intractable.
You can do it in python but one has to dig into how python do reference counting and how that interacts with threads.

Personally I prefer using processes rather than threads, with a worker pool and a message bus rather than shared memory. That solution has its own drawbacks (and a bit more overhead), but you don't need to worry so much about memory issues. Processes also seems a better match for crawlers since the number of processes will be fairly constant and the work the processes do is fairly independent.
Property tax is not land tax.
I've lived in an area that has dog ticks (not the Lyme carrying ones). I've pulled dozens of ticks off myself. I've never once had one attach, always caught them in time.

I got into archery during covid and would haul a target out onto some grasslands and shoot. My buddy and I would pull half a dozen ticks off ourselves at the end. I'd find ticks half dead on my car dash the next day.

We bought "tick pants". Pants coated in some chemical that does something like this. Tuck them into our boots.

No more ticks.

Clothes coated in this drug seems like a good alternative to actually consuming the drug in my opinion.

Also I've been trying to spot a tick in the wild before it grabs me and have never done it. I want to see a "questing" tick, ie one that is holding on to the edge of a blade of grass with its arms out trying to grab something.
> (translation: we want another data point to track you)

Wasn't it more of "just confirm the data we slurped from one of your friends when they allowed us access to their contacts. we already have your number, we just want it official from you so we can move it from the dark profile to your main profile where it is absolutely already being used to track you, so why not?"
It's a significant R&D investment for sure, but it basically boils down to building a modern interface to talk to CAN-bus driven hardware from high-level software, and providing that data, along with audio/video output and user input, to an Apple smartphone.

If you do it right, the effort should be re-useable for an improved Android Auto experience as well, not that I know if anything like that is in the making as of now.
Broken or broken in your use case? I recently left corporate development for the start up life. As I recall we had to disable our VPN for the majority of development use cases, from package management (gradle), robotics comms, all the way down to running third party unsigned software (I received a stern email from security for downloading Apple’s OpenAPI package).

Our security chain was so deeply embedded in every part of the OS that I was constantly trying to figure out where the failures and slow downs were coming from.
Cubans in eastern city of Santiago protest blackouts and food shortages
Answer the original question.
MoonBit Weekly Update – 03/18/2024
Not as bad as:

How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35927413
I'm also in the position of feeling regret over selling stock to diversify that I would have been much better off holding on to. Even though I understand why logically I shouldn't feel bad, it feels like I made a mistake. I assume Kahneman and Taversky could tell me the particular mental bias that makes this happen whether you sell and it goes up or hold and it goes down, i.e. it feels more like a loss because you already held the key to the gain. Loss aversion maybe?
Migration out of Africa may have been driven by first glaciation of Pleistocene
Probably the most objective standard for becoming a lawyer that there is. More objective than the hiring process and law school and college admissions, especially when many of these are de-emphasizing standardized testing.
If it's about remember a name - b/c it was given by choice; so that's ok.
Good point... for such conditions they should probably use CV90s or something similar.

https://www.baesystems.com/en/product/cv90
I think this will only end when the gamers start boycotting Microsoft.
People change due to criticism all the time, it really works. If criticism didn't work we wouldn't have so strong urges to do it, the feeling to criticize others is something we evolved to have.

Criticism might not change people the way you want however, it is like punishment vs rewards, you can change people by punishing them or rewarding them, both works to change people but in different ways and often punishment makes the person resent you so you should do it sparingly.
You really should be using ayncio. It's a perfect fit for your usecase.
For people worried about jobs. The last diagram showing the big increase in overall market size is the big 'leap in faith' about the future.
Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, new study shows
The only issue I've seen is, that some apps -- Proxmox, Jitsi Meet (via jitsi-openid) -- fail to authenticate against Keycloak. Sometimes. Sometimes clearing cookies helps; sometimes not.

But the weird thing is that this failure happens only on one computer (running MacOS). I have another, with synced settings & extensions & ublock settings (running Linux) and there it always works?

For a normal, public site, I've not seen any issue.
What you're doing is bad-faith arguing. There's a clear difference between someone doing something in a very limited capacity and a company that's basing their entire revenue on the same thing.

For instance, me recommending to a colleague some off-the-shelf painkiller or someone without a medical license doing this through an app are not the same thing.
I think that using peoples’ inability to factor in the depreciation of their cars is a form of exploitation in this case. Uber and Lyft are profitable in part because they assume no maintenance or repair risk.

Edit: “out of all their options” reveals the point here: the minimum wage exists so that, in theory, there is a cap on the things that people have to do to put food in their mouths.
I think it has to do with her views on math being related to her other creative interests - saying you could compare a mathematical theorem to a poem, for example.

Also, where she talks about how she sits and works at a computer but that's not where the real work happens. The real work can happen when she's doing something that allows her mind to wander, like cleaning, but her mind is still working in the background.

Sounds like a creative process to me.
The fentanyl crisis should serve as a warning here. Precursors can be made in labs elsewhere and smuggled in and assembled in a lab of nearly arbitrary quality if a hostile nation state was motivated. Perhaps $20k isn't enough but $20M is tiny for a government sponsored program and more than enough to cause catastrophic damage.
We can't unless the whole world agrees to. It's simply impractical to limit your own progress when you have foreign adversaries not doing the same.
"The moon does not affect bodies of water. [description of how bodies of water are affected by the moon]" lmao fucking nerds, man.

So, hypothetically, if our blood or CSF had a different mass-slash-density than our bones, and our skulls were further from the earth's surface than the rest of our bodies, they could conceivably be pulled more-or-less strongly than the rest of it?
>Our US legal team said that we need the banner if we have visitors from the EU, not if we're tracking them.

This actually makes sense - because if you didn't have the cookie banner then some fucking weirdo would come to Hacker News and make a self righteous post about how you're "tracking residents of the EU without their consent and abusing them" (even though you're not). Instant karma. Next thing you know these weirdos and their mob are reporting you to their government and you're dealing with government inquiries and more legal expenses trying to prove your cookie-less web 1.0 site doesn't "abuse people."

The banner placates them.
Why would you even use a taxi for that?
There seems to be a decent public transit connection. It costs $2.90 for that trip.
GPT-4 was trained on reddit posts...
You can run a water chiller, but managing condensation gets tricky.
In order to protect skin on your face from acne or wrinkles I think it preferable to sleep on a pillow
Steal has a bit broader meaning, e.g. 'to steal a kiss', taking without permission.
You can schedule it for the middle of the night. You can manually do it whenever, but it takes 30+ minutes.
Price controls are bad in textbook economics but they can actually work well in certain circumstances. See Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy” and Galbraith’s “The Theory of Price Control.” This is the problem with supply and demand as the master theory of everything, it leads people to be overconfident theorists and ignore evidence.
how is Murk Zuckerberg any less foreign/hostile to me as an american compared to tiktok owners? Neither of them care about me in any way beyond selling me stuff and making sure I don't talk about the things their masters don't want me to (palestine in US, other stuff in China)
> they are made to sign things which essentially reduce their rights...

But not as much as you might think. Consent under GDPR only applies to what you were informed of when you consented, and you're allowed to revoke consent (with prospective effect) at any time.
UI seems smoother than Trello or Wekan (on my rather slow machine). Though maybe it's because the demo board doesn't have very much data compared to what I have on those other two. And maybe it has fewer features thus far to bloat the frontend.
How do neural networks learn?
There are still projects out there which won’t hit 20% or even some %, if the bottleneck isn’t code gen (for example). So the part with"all" can be wrong, but beside that 20% is a good number.
Are you 100% confident that you don’t do anything which could be construed as tracking by a hostile regulator? Even the official EU sites that host the relevant regulations have cookie banners, explaining (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice....) that they can’t otherwise do basic analytics or interface persistence.
"being very very thorough in its various settings. "

Perhaps that's the key. I don't have time for that, linux just works, though of course some apps aren't available at all on linux, hence the windows boots.
I was going to ask for a reference to support this (although please provide one if handy), but the search term “catastrophic forgetting” is a great entry into the literature. Thanks.
It never ceases to shock and amaze me that, since bats are mammals, they literally turn mosquitoes into milk. One bat can eat around a thousand mosquitoes a night!
i agree with your first point.

chiming in only to add that judges are not elected in every jurisdiction. in many, they are appointed by the executive and approved by the legislature.
I know I regularly update my Linux desktop but keep dismissing the upgrade prompt on my Android phone because no way I am going to do what it wants after it so rudely interrupted me.
I get no overlay on france.fr
It means your proof proves something.

Whether it's something you care about, or even something that should be true at all is out of scope.
Differentiable Euler Characteristic Transforms for Shape Classification
In some places farms already pay LVT like real estate taxes. Their real estate taxes are based on the value of potential farming operations on the land.
Presumably, the AI would have access to just do all the git and web server stuff for you.. The bigger problem I see would be if the AI just refuses to give you what you ask for.

Person: I want A

AI: Here's B

Person: No, I wanted A

AI: I'm sorry. Let me correct that... Here's B

.. ad nauseum.

Or alternatively:

Person: <reasonable request>

AI: I'm sorry, I can't do that
Most investors are "institutional investors" which is a fancy way of saying they represent large funds on behalf of others. There are serious principal-agent problems that align incentives away from responsible long-term management.