skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> everyone pays it

"pays it" is relative. The merchant is generally charging 3~6% more than they would otherwise if they didn't use a CC. Said differently, assuming all other things equal, buying the same good for the same price from two identical stores, one who only accepts CCs and one who accepts cash, the one who accepts cash will profit more. Therefore they can, in theory, charge less for their good.

> being cheaper for the CC holder due to cashback

"cheaper" how? The spread is effectively paid for by the merchant (their processing fee is 99% of the time higher than the cashback bonus a consumer earns) which in turn goes to vendors (like credit card providers, payment processors, etc) who then allocate costs against things like customer service for charge disputes.

EDIT: The spread is the original ~3% I'm referring to, which would be an average 1.5% cashback against a 4.5% payment processing charge for a delta of 3%. In many cases this is lower (or null) but you get the point.
Woof, major bummer. We did similar games. Once i was sprinting at max speed and i leapt… but my dangling foot caught a very low hanging chain. My body began to rotate rapidly. Instinct kicked in and as a nearly crashed down I miraculously turned it into the highest speed tuck n roll of all time. As I finished the roll, almost completely unscathed, i leapt again to free my friend from “jail”. I think we were playing manhunt vs ctf. Such a vivid memory because it was so frightening but ended up so positive.

Running in the dark is reaaaal risky
Load balancing solves the issue of non-uniform hashing by generating two hashes and picking the hash that corresponds to the node with lower load. Can something similar be done here?
And I can create a class action lawsuit for literally anything I want. Doesn't mean I'm going to win. What's your point?
> Mars and Venus aren't that much harder

Related; a proposal to do a Venus flyby with Apollo hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Venus_flyby
Study finds what gets plant roots to grow strong
You pretty solidly misunderstood what I was saying, which is probably my fault for not being clear.

I said up top that I think the right wing panic over this is BS. Humans are definitely K-selected, and I am not against reproductive rights.

What I was really arguing is that reproductive rights could in fact increase intentional human fertility if there are any levers evolution can pull to do this, and that a temporary dip in fertility caused by reproductive self-control might be followed by a large increase if this occurs. It's not something I'm hoping for or not hoping for, just an observation about how systems might respond to constraints.

It's not my idea really. I'm kinda parroting something I read once about evolution:

"You don't understand evolution until you understand how contraception could cause overpopulation."

When you put a road block in the way of evolution, you don't get stopped traffic. You get monster trucks that roll over the road block, off road vehicles, airplanes, and tunnel borers. Life won't stop. Trying to stop it is one thing you can do to make the gods laugh.

Of course you can only say "might" and "maybe." These are complex systems with loads of internal feedback loops and lots of interacting selective pressures and such. You can't predict them in any definite way. Psychohistory (ala the Foundation trilogy) is fantasy.
There is also no compelling reason to build a manned base on the Moon, or try to build a city on Mars.
This seems like a valid and legitimate question, but I can't help but think that this question was posted, in a veiled manner, by Google/Youtube/Alphabet as propaganda.
This is great! Major refactors like this are always such a difficult prospect for a number of reasons, and take real dedication and love. For people doing this for open source like Antenna Pod, my gratitude for you is immense!

Interestingly though, depending on your perspective can be good or bad. For example, the improvement for new contributors and for the people doing the refactor will be huge and lovely. So much easier to work in!

For the people who were familiar with the tangled mess before though, it can be a real set back. I've been in that boat before, and it basically wipes away all your prior knowledge and puts you at least back at square 1, sometimes at like -15 because you have to unlearn all the old stuff and that can be really hard to do. If all the older contributors were gone then this is not really a problem, but if I were one of them I probably wouldn't contribute anymore, not out of irritiation or spite or anything like that, just that it's too much of an uphill battle and there are other projects where I could contribute more efficiently. Definitely not a reason not to do the refactor, but it is something I had never considered before until I was on that side of it.

So if the only contributors are older contributors, and they are still around, it can be difficult. If the older contributors have moved on or are the ones doing the refactoring, or if most contributions are from newer members, then it's a huge win.
This is a very old consideration (cf https://www.jstor.org/stable/2183530).

If you want to frame a 'universal defining property', you have to frame it in some language. The definition, therefore, is inevitably idiosyncratic to that language, and, if you specify the same property using a different language, the definition is going to change. What's more, the two definitions can be incommensurable.

And---all you have done is translate from the object language to the meet language--leaving the definitions of the terms of the meta language completely unexplicated.

The solution to this is as old too---like "point", "line", etc, these terms can--and arguably should--remain completely un-defined.
Why a 'frozen' distribution Linux kernel isn't the safest choice for security
"HN has nothing unique to add to this conversation" is the opposite of any sort of claim of HN exceptionalism. It is you who are insisting that there must be some sort of amazing special unique perspective that means we must discuss on HN despite it generally being off topic.

The rhetoric and general level of insulting insinuation and personal attacks being deployed in this thread continues to demonstrate my claims that there is nothing special HN has to offer, not even so much as "a generally higher level of respect" or anything like that. There's no difference to a conversation here than anywhere else, which means you may as well have that conversation in the thousands or millions of other places to have it.

Also, I'm out. I've made my point here. Feel free to continue lobbing accusations and insinuations at me to continue proving my point.
I had to use an iPhone for a month when I lost my Android phone so I tried Spotify for podcasts. I can't describe how bad it is, impossible to control what you want to play, complete garbage. AntennaPod is an example of what software can be when you remove greed from the equation.
This is exactly the comment I came here to make. The NoSql technical debt accretes like dead leaves blocking a sewer drain. Eventually someone has to wade in and normalize…the sewer grate, I guess. Okay, it’s not a perfect analogy.
Of course now we are assuming that the existing solution didn’t also require engineering salaries to maintain.
It's not "smug pedantry", it's literally correct.
Substantive stories are allowed on HN - therefore it's not against the site guidelines, unless you think genocide/war crime charges being levied against Israel and Hamas' leaders is common run-of-the-mill, not once-in-a-lifetime politics?
Nobody said anything about blind trust, but that's what's being exhibited here, in trusting the output of a stochastic parrot that can't even reason.

You've _really_ shifted the goalposts here.

Do you trust in _your_ ability, to what you think requires no more than "defensive prompting and simple sanitization techniques"... to be robust against, say "a malicious state actor that is capable of crafting sophisticated supply chain attacks"?

You know there's not just one, right? And you know if you're consuming a closed product, you can't even verify its correctness for yourself, let alone be able to tell if a "malicious state actor" is actually the one sending you LLM answers. You can't follow along with the development process. Its actors don't make their changes in public. You can't look back a history of all their actions.

A "malicious state actor" would laugh at your "simple sanitization" and use logic and reason to know where your code is vulnerable and change what you think will be an ffmpeg command into something that actually probes your network, downloads all the files, encrypts them and posts you a ransom note from your own mailservers.

When both scenarios have bad actors and attack surfaces, which would you rather do:

1. Look up the ffmpeg manual, or ask a search engine and find StackOverflow answer, or heck even ask an LLM... but then go through the manual and _understand the command_ you're running, and what its human authors have written about its capabilities. Ensure you use the correct settings and you know what they do and you've reasoned as to why they're correct - and put that in your script.

2. Make no attempt to understand ffmpeg. Put a command in your script that makes a network call to a proprietary service you don't control, and 100% put your faith that it _always_ returns the correct command for the same prompt - each time you run it. And that service never gets interrupted. And that service is never hacked, nor its staff compromised, nor its models poisoned, etc.

Honestly, this is as braindead as people using PHP fopen() to access URLs for files they could host locally.

EDIT: bonus question. Would you ask an LLM "please send me an ffmpeg binary for linux x86_64 that automatically splits the output from /dev/video0 into timeslices" ? If it gave you a binary back, would you run it in preference to the normal ffmpeg binary with a provenance of where it came from?
Ya the cis/kjet thing is something I have always thought was neat and also am glad that the vehicles I buy and work on don't have them!
A series of ordinary evidences can collectively make an extraordinary claim more probable than its negation.
Ad Blocking is recommended by USA government agency for security reasons, not running an ad blocker is a dangerous and suggest lack of information/education about IT stuff.
> I don't understand why this makes it hard to compile Bel.

Because Bel is supposed to be a specification, not an implementation. And if you specify that functions are lists then you are no longer free to implement them in a way that does not preserve the illusion that they are lists. Worse, in Bel, lists are mutable. That makes reasoning about programs nearly impossible. Every time you call CONS (which in Bel is spelled JOIN for some reason) you may or may not be producing a function. Every time you mutate a pair you may or may not be creating a function, or destroying one, or changing a function's environment.

There is not and cannot be any barrier between the mutable and the immutable in Bel. It is not possible to add a data type that guarantees invariants. Mutable pairs are all you have to build with, and so whatever you build, not matter how carefully you design it, the rug can get pulled out from under you at any time by an errant call to XAR or XDR.
We often say that the US are not the world and that we should not assume that something is natural just because American do it. Well, it’s also true for China and overall people in a specific place having a specific taboo tells us very little about human health or their understanding of it.

So no, a Chinese taboo on cold water does not tell us anything about a human tendency to drink water any more that a people’s taboo about pork is any indication that pork is unsafe (yes, this also is an urban legend).
Did you add the nvidia_drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#DRM_kernel_mode_sett...

That did the trick for me. Without that I only got a black screen with the cursor.
The tech industry is not a charity, and it shouldn't be financially supporting people who can't do their jobs. Another way of looking at it is that if someone managed to scam their way into their previous job by sweet talking, then you've done their previous employer a favor by getting them to quit. You've also done a favor to the competent but unemployed people who are looking for a job and now have an opening.

I don't want anyone to be destitute, and I fully support social services to help the unemployed, but on the other hand, shouldn't incompetent people be driven out of tech? They can work in some other industry where their abilities and skills are more appropriate and useful. They might not make as much money, but that's the nature of capitalism and competition.
That doesn't match my experience. I have some unlisted videos that I or a small handful of friends might go back and watch once a year, and it takes several seconds of loading before they start playing. It's very noticeably different from the near-instant loading of most videos I watch.
Sometimes I do it in one sitting, sometimes that's quite long, like 12 hours or more! Other times I will revisit it over days or months - You'd be surprised how much thought and transformation can go into 192 characters. It depends how much potential room for improvement it "feels" like there is left, you get a sense for it, sometimes you just know it's done, others you're never quite sure when to stop trying to push harder.

I've commented in a sibling my experience live streaming which was interesting. Another Demoscener who has given this far more concerted effort on Twitch is KilledByAPixel, I think they are recorded somewhere maybe on youtube. My two attempts are lost to time.

As an example (yes shameless plug) I wrote this one recently over a couple of long evenings, I'd estimate 8 hours maybe:

https://www.dwitter.net/d/31805 (runs fastest in Firefox)

But there are some familiar micro-raymarching techniques I've already developed and reused in this. The bit that took most of the time in this one was figuring out how to fit binary search marching that was required to support large differences in marching distances and textures without producing excessive moire effects.
It’s because the good ones have infinite work and the bad ones are looking for work.

I’m super productive and have been full for 20 years. (Freelance)

What I need is vacations and good programmers to help me, so back to the initial problem…
What is the current state of AI generated UI software?
I remember seeing videos of taking a picture of a mock-up or blue prints and getting files. Is any of that more than demoware?
Generative AI for Test Driven Development: Preliminary Results
Because they often are a sunk cost.

E.g., you can’t lay off an entire SRE team and have nobody on the on-call rotation. If some of their project work is cost control that is basically free cost savings.
He's been trying to claim he's Satoshi for like 10 years and trying to sue people using the open source code as copyright infringement? Also wants to get everyone on his shit coin. He thinks he's smarter than everyone else but clearly not.
whence did you learn this idiom of "the meet language"???

i have working definitions of line, point, etc.. in terms of dimensions. but I have some issues with the precise definition of "dimension" due to having picked up the concept of "density". I cannot say what's the difference between density and dimension
Observational Scaling Laws and the Predictability of Language Model Performance
Why not use bubblelwrap or selinux or something? Docker is overkill for this.
Ya if imports are your thing you're definitely going to have a few tool chests of one-off tools!

I have always stuck to American muscle and diesel tractors. The amazing simplicity of those machines has always attracted me. I love that I can hold a complete understand of the entire
vehicle in my head. I'm sure you can even for modern vehicles, but they're not simple at all!
My point of view is that censorship is still censorship no matter what it tries to hide. If today we accept to censor posts about war crimes, anything can be censored tomorrow. I don't think creating value for the americain tech industry can thrive under censorship.
Because I selected that voice and now it's gone. That was it's job. It no longer does that job and now when I listen to the different voice, it's distracting because it makes me think of all this silly stuff instead.
These seem pretty darn luxury - I would like a “bedroom” computer for stronger work life separation so I’ve considered iPad Pro a few times, and the new keyboard thing, the very cool screen seem like everyday stuff & creative pursuits could be great on it.

But there’s no way I’d buy one without there being a serious update to iPadOS at WWDC. I don’t expect to ever see crazy productivity & customization on iPadOS, but there’s just so much about the UX of the operating system that makes it much slower and more confusing to multi-task or do complex workflows compared to traditional desktop OS.

Both iPadOS and VisionOS run on super fast hardware, but doing everyday stuff like comparison shopping or planning a vacation feels like trying to swim in a river of molasses. Single app focus tasks like Procreate or watching a movie are awesome - often better - but anything with 2+ windows seems to spend a massive amount of pixels on padding and borders and just feels so frustrating.
"which" is doing double duty as a relative pronoun and a determiner. I think. Parse it as "each […] of which […]", which serves the same grammatical function as "each of which" would.

Edit: A specific procedure for understanding this part of the sentence:

(1) Replace "each inhabitant of which type" with "each of which".

(2) Parse the sentence.

(3) Interpret "each" as qualified by "inhabitant" (i.e., each of them is an inhabitant), and "which" as qualified by "type" (i.e., the referent of "which" is a type).
Oh hey you're the guy! Thanks for doing the pod I found it informative. I can't listen to enough about this stuff. Are there any that you recommend?
It should be, I agree, but my entire career of 22 years has shown me that it's not. And I've always cold-applied as well. Only had 1-2 contracts where former colleagues recommended me.
Did you just read the headline and hn comments about the headline?
Reflections on my first startup attempt
Same as a bank? If you lie to investors and get yourself nuked, the owners or what passes for owners get wiped out, which is normal. The people who really qualify as victims are those who were harmed and didn't benefit from the fraud, which is everyone else.

Sure, some people would lose money but didn't intend to cause harm. Those are victims of the fraud. Their shares of the criminal company still get wiped out and they get in line to get bankruptcy proceedings.

Is there another way that makes sense?
that was how i was told to do it, too. they said to put them into gel capsules so the leaves don't touch your skin. supposedly you want to dose up like two weeks worth of gel capsules.
Punch cards are easy to read even without card readers, just when the thing and use OCR (optical card reader) software. You're probably best of using an obsolete helical scan tape format since those tapes are hard to read even between devices, let alone when no drive can be found.
What I find weird is that the kind of people that they're hiring are the kinds of people who are easier to replace with AI.

AI is useless at big-picture reasoning when coding. It's only good for short snippets. Yet companies seem to reject developers who are good at big-picture, architectural thinking.
> Conclusion: Duct tape occlusion therapy was significantly more effective than cryotherapy for treatment of the common wart.

I really didn’t expect that.
This is about new hires. Not existing employers.

The answer is simple - don't burn out your existing employees.
No because the point of consistent hashing is that it doesn’t require state other than the number of nodes to map items to nodes. Picking the lower load hash would require tracking much more state
The article states that they already had an in house solution for cold data, so one of the benefits they claim is simplifying by moving to one system for both hot and cold data.
Companies are well aware of Brooks's law and will instead chose to not hire someone and work with existing known productivity levels (and look to see what can be done to improve that) than to hire a risky person that puts existing deadlines even more at risk.

That companies aren't hiring people (and complaining that there's no one to hire) is what we're seeing rather than burning through people and dealing with Net Negative Producing Programmers ( https://web.archive.org/web/20030517045551/http://www.pyxisi... ).

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Because people are leaving for greener pa$ture$ at a faster rate, and the higher compensation demanded, companies are mitigating that risk by requiring a person to come in with the expected training rather than spending months training a person who may not be able to preform at expected levels.

The other side of that is that there are a lot of places out there that are moving slow and not updating things quickly. I worked at a retail company a number of years ago where you could make $70k / year as a programmer and be able to work at a more leisurely pace. I currently work in the public sector and things are on much longer timescales.

However, if you want to work in the fast paced and highly paid sector of Big Tech startups, you may need be able to meet the needs that they have. And there its less risky to have one of the existing employees take on another task than to hire someone (and burn runway faster) that might not be able to contribute until after the runway is gone.
> Did people complain when digital paintings became a thing?

Yes. A lot. All the same complaints. "It's low-effort cheating. The machine does all the work. It's soulless. Art requires a physical process. It looks like crap. It will put 'real' artists out of business."

But then, they also complained loudly when Impressionism became a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentle_Art_of_Making_Enemi... So, it's good to keep an historic perspective.
One can look at Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy and reasonably project that SpaceX is capable of overcoming the engineering challenges of Starship.

The dubious part is accomplishing that on the Artemis mission schedule.
> : the human body is a much more adapted tool to unknown situations than robots are.

Here on Earth, that is true.

Everywhere else however, our body is confined to a bulky, heavy, unwieldy space suit, and has exactly as much range of movement as the air supply allows.

And the thing is: We can make better robots. There is clear progress in terms of their capabilities. Not so long ago, [this][1] would only have been possible as CGI, today, it is technical reality.

This rapid path to improvement, simply doesn't exist for biological systems.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e1_QhJ1EhQ
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Indeed. The mistake is thinking it’s a language game. It’s about symbols and territory.

Tournament winners often don’t know any of the language the symbols are borrowed from.

But… when played less competitively, like with kids, it’s a wonderful word learning game.

Also to your joke about Risk: I grew up with a math version of scrabble where you wrote equations. I loved it.