skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am looking for books which are for complete beginners but goes on to intermediate level, hobbyist and practical book where I can try out the concepts. Can you please recommend books for me?
The Balrogs (Sindarin for ‘Demon of Might’; Quenya Valarauko) were Maiar (“Ainur of lesser degree than the Valar”). Other Maiar were Gandalf, Sauron, Melian. Gothmog and “Durin’s Bane” are the only two named.

Basically bad Maiar.
>Different card schemes support different "payment kernel" parameters and have different certification requirements.

Those certification requirements are one of the biggest hurdles because they can change quite often, and unless you are a high-volume gateway, there may be no leniency for you, making simply refusing the transactions cheaper than processing them and being fined.

The digital cryptogram requirements for visa caused some major engineering expenditures for a few payment processors I'm aware of.
I believe the person you are replying to was making a joke about the effectiveness of camouflage clothing.
This is a NIMBY induced problem. If upward construction had been allowed, this wouldn’t be the case.
Welp, there's the answer to the question I asked 6 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37601847
How to Read Manga
You don't.

YC teaches people how to run startups. There are other ways to learn how to do a startup.

But I do suggest watching some of their videos or reading some on their articles. Their approach and attitude helped me realize I'd rather join an early stage startup than run one.
A need for open source splitwise alternative
In undergrad we had an alumni, who had climbed the ranks at Bombardier, come and talk about aircraft and engine evolution. They are 100% trying to make them as cost-effective as possible and fuel economy is a huge driver for that.

The challenge is that not only is there a huge upfront investment into a new unconventional airframe, with the associated risk of failure that you point out, but if you are successful you're now going to be completely retooling and retraining everyone since no one has experience mass producing airframes like this. For that kind of investment... you'd better have a pretty damned good cost or efficiency argument.

Apparently a 747 has a cruise L/D of around 17 and an A340 is around 19. The U-2 is up around 25. There's not a whole room left between what we've got now and gliders as far as L/D goes, so the only place really left to try to improve is the engines themselves... and modern high-bypass turbofans are really marvels of squeezing as much energy as you can out of a (relatively) lightweight piece of machinery. We build the hot bits in those engines out of, literally, magical single crystals of crazy alloys to be able run them as hot as possible to maximize their efficiency.
Sudden Career Change (He coulda been a programmer)
Firefox wouldn’t need to go away.

Firefox could just be consumer WebKit while also being developer and bleeding edge WebKit for non-Mac users.
What do you define as as decent? Do you want to own a car and own property?

Uk, you're looking at 50-60k GBP in a 2nd or 3rd tier city. London you'll want a bankers salary plus if you want to live in zone 1/2.

EU same applies. Around 50-60k EUR.
The worst part about Europe and the UK are the lack of 30 year mortgages. Tier 1 cities you'll need way more.
Ah yes, that great goal of governments... To reduce the options and freedoms of their subjects over time instead. Great
For POS payments, usually only the device account number (DPAN) is shared with the merchant. Even the name is usually redacted, similar to contactless and as opposed to chip or magstripe payments.

All of the additional details mentioned in the article are only shared when you pay "online" – but that includes scanning a QR code on your phone and paying in Safari or an App Clip, which is something I've seen in a few restaurants these days.

That way, the restaurant gets as much as they ask for, which can include your name, your address, and your email address. I think this is usually displayed on the payment sheet, but it didn't really register for me the first time I used it in some restaurant. Now I make sure to ask the waiter for an actual terminal to tap or just give them my physical card.
I’ve owned a car in Brooklyn for more than 10 years and find it basically nonfunctional to drive in a lot of Manhattan and surroundings. The idea of driving in for dinner from NJ makes my skin crawl. I have family in NJ and Manhattan, and go through the Holland Tunnel frequently. Sometimes it’s fine. Sometimes it’s hell.

The random chance of winding up in standstill gridlock is just way too high. I can’t even count all of the times it has taken me over an hour to go like five blocks. Every time I’ve had the bad idea drive to the office to get a head start on an after-work trip, my mind is blown that some people actually do it every day, by choice.
I live less than 40 miles from the city, my commute via public transit is 20 minutes in a car, a 15 minute ferry across the river, an hour train ride to
grand central, 15 minute subway downtown. It is 2 hours on good day door to door to go 40 miles. Thank god for work from home but it is not surprising that people choose to drive when a lot of peoples commutes look like this. And yeah like you say driving sucks too, bumper to bumper traffic most days people would happily avoid given a better option.
That's not quite true. He was contacted by a manager at a firm that did not buy Acacia, accurately surmised they were in play, and bought in.
can this be self-hosted?
Adwaita is - I believe - closely tied to Gnome. SwiftUI (obviously) already has bindings for macOS’ window server. Not sure what this project gets you on macOS that you don’t already have?
Yep, this is a problem I’ve encountered several times. Even if none of your own code has unhandled throws, you’ll inevitably get crash reports coming in from fooLib throwing an exception somewhere because the moon was in the wrong phase.
ASML? (but that is not agricultural)
Show HN: An agent for live video sales calls – Fluidworks
At Fluidworks, we're building an AI agent to conduct live video calls for sales demos and onboarding sessions.

Presently, our agent can:

- Engage with customers during live video sales calls
- Follow scripts crafted by the sales or onboarding teams
- Demo software functionality in real time, interactively
- Address inquiries and provide demos
- Present slides based on queries (currently static, with plans for dynamic integration)

Our roadmap includes:

- Integration as a Zoom/Meet app
- Enhancing demos with studio-like cuts

Something interesting we figured along the way is that sales teams prefer AI agents to skip small talk, but customers appreciate it. Adding small talk has increased customer engagement by almost 60%. Despite a small sample size of approximately 75 live calls, with 40 including small talk, it's an intriguing observation.

Explore our demo videos showcasing the AI agent trained on Salesforce:
https://youtu.be/HCESj7kywbw

We’d love more feedback from anyone who might be interested in our tool.
Really I kinda don't care. The problems of fossil fuel emissions are urgent and will also burden the working class more than wealthy. In this instance, we're talking about the 10 square miles of the US that is most densely packed with public transit. But everybody needs to start feeling this heat soon. EVs are much better but there's just an insane among or driving infrastructure that should not be necessary.
There are commuter rails that go from NJ to NYC
Has anyone ported Previous to iOS? Would be a pretty fun emulator.
> Bechtolsheim "immediately" acquired Acacia option contracts when learning of the pending purchase by Cisco, which earned him $415,726 in profit when markets opened and Acacia shares rose 35 percent on news of the purchase.

Seems like a relatively small amount of money for a billionaire to risk jail for.
Waku, "The Minimal React Framework"
I have a UK pension with UK stocks that regularly trade sideways for roughly 5-10 GBP per share.

Those stocks reliably pay out a dividend every month and is very much in he reach of the working poor.

I make more monthly income out of my UK pension than I do from stock buy backs.

This is how the stock market used to work in America before the 80s.
I've never seen a Democrat (for all the points where he wasn't flirting with switching sides, which was never that surprising) who so consistently looked like a foe to cyberspace & emerging culture.

Supported radically extended surveillance, internet kill switch, advocated absurd authoritarian acts against WikiLeaks & everyone anywhere in the blast zone including drastically extending the espionage act. A hawk at every point. A main architect of DHS.

There were many good things about Lieberman, but he consistently made me terrified, was someone who I nominally saw as having similar values who made enormously wrong judgement calls and bold incorrect loud proclamations that could not have been further from what I felt or what I wanted from the party I had I had trusted.
In the article they mention "gantlet" - do they mean "gauntlet"?
ADHD Stimulants May Increase Risk of Heart Damage in Young Adults
Hardcoded DTBs are still prevalent because ACPI is a fudging mess that has no business being codified further in any standard. Anyone involved should focus their effort on a modern replacement; maybe something WASM-based, because at least that would have a chance of including a well-delimited API and runtime.
This sounds a little vague. Do you have a citation I could learn more from?
Gruber is wrong.

Many bank-specific wallets also use device account numbers. Storing full credit card numbers and the associated cryptographic keys on a device's application processor (like many wallets on Android do, both Google Pay and others) is a big no-go, and even for secure element based solutions like e.g. Apple Pay it's a big advantage being able to lock the number for a lost/stolen device server side without having to reissue the associated physical card and vice versa.

> do card issuers actually have payment apps? my bank doesn't

They've been somewhat popular regionally, especially in countries where Google took their time with rolling out Google Pay support in, or for regional payment schemes that aren't supported in Google Pay. (They're only possible on Android; iOS hasn't traditionally supported the necessary APIs, until very recently when the EU forced them, and still only offers them there).

I don't think they ever were a big thing in the US.
Japan is not a high trust society. Japanese people are highly suspicious of other people, including Japanese. Japanese people are extremely concerned about how they are viewed and judged by others; the conformity is a desire to be accepted in society, and such trust and acceptance is not freely given but instead quickly taken away. Among my friends from Japan who have left the country, this is by far the most oppressive social more that they feel compelled to follow. And among those who have moved to Japan, many feel that learning the social rules and earning that trust was a significant accomplishment, and a handful want to preserve that exclusion because of how much effort it took to make themselves part of society.

Japanese social groups are extremely exclusive- on the broadest level, foreigners are excluded from some establishments, banking and housing services are sometimes inaccessible to foreigners. And on a smaller level, there are also establishments that do not accept new customers without an introduction, local or not. Such exclusions are an integral part of the culture - the language itself is a shibboleth, you know your place and standing in the world by the language other people use when they speak to you.
Australian native forest regeneration carbon offset projects have limited impact
Right in UB City - my balcony overlooked it on my last trip there. It's such an interesting site to see a greek style mansion plopped on top of a modern building.
We are truly living in a golden age.
This whole thread started with you making some quite confident, and evidence free, statements about genetics. All I did was ask for any evidence for the theories you believe in. Instead you lectured me about cults and openmindedness. I would be openminded if you could give a single piece of evidence that this is genetic and not just environmental.

To be frank, I don’t think you know enough about biology or genetics to know why you’re incorrect, but I would encourage you to find some neutral scientific sources and read those.

Finally, you said “If we reject an intelligent system, then an unintelligent system does the selection.” The idea that eugenics is an “intelligent option” is indeed taboo, because its a wrong and foolish idea.
I had a similar experience traveling in Europe! More than one merchant thought I had “hacked” them initially.
Since first hearing about the Peter principle, I've wondered whether it would work to just make all promotions probationary.
You should try telling all of this to a therapist and see what they have to say.
If they did it for financial gain that sounds like a predictable action, not an irrational one. There’s too much faith in your comment that the Netanyahu government wants to actually stop hamas.

Without hamas, what is the appeal of Netanyahu? He presents as tough on terror. If there’s no terror, you’d vote for the guy who’s good at the economy or something, not the tough on terror guy.
I quoted directly from the source you provided.
Trump has been more routinely advocating and threatening violence with a well-established gallery of Hunnic boogie men to provoke his base.

I suspect this galvanization is a fear response to a contracted race for immunity.

Considering that violence is his response to every effort towards his accountability, lawful exchange of power, and deposition, it follows that he would justify disproportionate violence under even more tenuous pretense.
For Hamas the cause is more important than the people. They were slowly losing support, now after the attack and Israel's counter attack Hamas support is stronger than ever in Gaza, the West bank, the wider Arab world, and even the West.

After all this is over the lost foot soldiers will be easily replaced by eager recruits, and they will have plenty of funding from actors who like seeing Israels international reputation damaged like this.
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I had the same experience as you on a trip to the Netherlands. Ironically, the only place where it didn't work was the Apple store in Amsterdam. I don't know if that was an actual technical limitation, or they were aware that it was not yet available in the Netherlands and so didn't even let me try with my phone and its US credit card.
I agree directionally, but fares only make up 23% of MTA's operating budget

https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics
> Car congestion fees are touted but they are rarely effective

Citation needed. All studies I have seen suggest that congestion pricing achieves its desired outcomes of reducing car traffic and is the most effective way of doing so.
Digital signs in Brookline are collecting data from your phone as you walk by
I think people just keep on doing the same thing they were doing unless something dramatic happens in their life. He got to that point by doing some sort of work, he's going to keep on doing that sort of work until he dies. So many people get to retirement and...they don't really want to stop. Stopping would mean re-evaluating everything, which can be pretty tough on an older mind. Life expectancy takes a dramatic dip around retirement, the change can be overwhelming for some.
Drivers are overwhelmingly funded by urban cores, nationwide, and the data is not ambiguous.

People do not cover the cost of their commuter lifestyle.
Not everything has to be clear and to the point. The sentence's murkiness adds emotion to the text. I'm not a native speaker (just like the writer isn't) and maybe that's why we're not so bothered.

But this comment is exactly what I expected from HN.
There is always a non-zero chance for conception if you engage in sex. That means you (and the other party) have a responsibility to care for the child if you hit that non-zero chance.

If you don't want to (or know you can't) be responsible for such consequences, the responsible way forward is don't have sex. It's really that simple.

I reiterate: Those who consensually have sex and then refuse to own up for their behaviour are worthless people.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-there-so-many-bad-b...

link for the lazy
Most places I've worked require you to be operating at the level you're going to be promoted to before you get actually promoted.
'Minimal' and 'React' cannot be used in the same sentence
Laws like you propose tend to age poorly. RCS is incredibly consumer-hostile (e.g., there is no end to end encryption unless you use Google’s data-harvesting stack on both sides).

Similarly, requiring side loading could preclude new classes of devices.

Usually, the laws are written more vaguely for this reason. I think the big change we need to make is to say that anti-trust laws apply whenever N or fewer organizations control over X% of the market. I think N=3 and 75% would be good starting points.

Among other things, this would open up licensing and cell plans on 5G modems.

It would also mean that the google app store and apple app store both have monopolies over cell phone software resale and distribution.

(Google’s “android is open source and supports side loading” argument wouldn’t matter in such a regime, unless that meant that consumers and device manufacturers could reasonably expect degoogled android to actually run android apps and stuff, and that over a quarter of the market actually did so).
If you’re just running a bare metal hypervisor then you may as well just go for a second hand tiny form factor platform. No point paying 15-20% extra for the same specs in a svelte case if you’re not running native macOS.
I don't like this. I like apps with deep linking and sharing via plain URIs.
Passkeys are great(-ish) for authentication, but don't offer identification at all.

It's just not in scope (and I think that's a good thing; the two problems are pretty different, and WebAuthN is already extremely overloaded with features serving conflicting goals).
> The issue is, that many non-tech (and I'm starting to think also some tech) people believe that "AI" is an accurate label, and therefore that they can expect these algorithms to be able to think intelligently.

Until we can define it, I think we should stop using the term 'intelligent' at all. It misleads people precisely because it means different things in different contexts.

If something can comprehend language, solve word problems, get a really high score on the SATs and LSATs and translate perfectly from any language to any other, we could definitely say it is 'intelligent' in all of those contexts. Is it 'intelligent' in other contexts?

Applying a technology that is really good at many things to things which it is not good at and selling that as a panacea is not a new idea. If we want it to change in this instance, we should start at least defining the terms we use so that we can determine the scope of its relevance to any area. Otherwise people make assumptions to their detriment and we can't agree even on what we are arguing about.
Some big tech organizations basically do this without the pay. Essentially in some FAANG corps, you have to prove having worked at L+1 while still at L to get promoted to L+1.

In my biased / personal experience, the veracity of such a bar kinda deteriorates over time and the short average tenure makes most promo processes corrupt B.S. when folks are more incentivized to just quit and join somewhere else for more money.

Also, this process and your suggestion at a "probation" tends to motivate working harder for the window being measured, regardless of how actually adept or well equipped the person is at the level for which they're trying to illustrate competence.
The software he was talking about at the time, and my mother did her master's thesis on the several years before that clip, included Math Blasters, Oregon Trail, and several other Commodore 64 titles. Interactive media like this was absolutely foundational to my entire computing career from typing, to gaining procedural literacy. I'm sorry your software experience hasn't been as rich as my entire educational experience to professional learning software and things like Duo Lingo. And social media and news sites. Where do you think it went wrong and what kinds of products are you talking about? Matlab?
I'm not sure what you are trying to say? If a theory has too much evidence to dismiss it, how can it be a terrible idea? Are they terrible because they don't fit your ideology, or because of their implications about other people, or what is the issue?
The model's weights can be sharded across multiple GPU's. A "common" training server could contain (for instance) eight "A100" GPU's, each with 40 GB (or up to 80 GB) a piece for a total of 320 GB working VRAM. Since they're connected to each other in the same PC, they can communicate with each other quickly enough to calculate in coordination in this fashion. This setup is _very_ expensive of course. Probably in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If you're hoping to run the model yourself, you will need enough money and expertise to rent and deploy it to a server with as many GPU's. Alternatively, volunteers and other researchers will be able to quantize (compress) the model and make it easier to run on configurations without as much VRAM.

If you ran it on CPU it may indeed be super slow, but it's possible it's fast enough for the purposes of running the model rather than trying to train that model. I am seeing (limited) success with the maxed out Mac lineup ($4500) using the beefy M1/M2 line of CPU's.
I’m so glad you picked up on that! It was my goal to encourage folks to let their curiosity lead them through the experience. I was quite surprised seeing a few people sit down for 20-30 minutes straight just to use the app… my thought was the plotters would be the center of attention. Others even asked if I could release the app for them to use later, which I would love to do at some point.
Middle class folks that work in the city don't drive from NJ into NY, and for the few that do, they should get on a train because it will save them money today and after this goes into effect.
One nit to pick — Solidworks is owned by Dassault, a French company, but got its start at MIT and was developed in Massachusetts for many years. I’m not sure where they’re based now, though.

Catia, another Dassault 3D CAD platform that predates Solidworks, is French.
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