skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a founder who run into this issue as well in the past. Stripe kicked me off for no reason and with no warning, and my startup almost died.

I started OpenPay to help make it easier to move from Stripe to another payment processor if they kick you off. Feel free to email me at ankit@getopenpay.com and I'll get you set up for free.
... sorry, this sounds to good to be true.

Usually it works like this (forced to use macOS at work and Windows from time to time for special software): One installs some software from trusted websites (VSCode, VLC, Firefox, etc.) on macOS/Windows, and then when one just wants to get some work done: Update-PopUps, yay. They annoy the hell out of me, especially because there is no unified system for macOS/Windows. Break my flow, wait for download, privilege escalation, installation and starting again. Thank you very much. This happens multiple times a week especially for packages like VSCode, VLC, Office, Outlook, Firefox, KeepassX, Calibre... packages which you don't want to be outdated, ever. It is f*cking ridiculous that I have to take care of this BS in 2024.

On my Linux boxes I login and work. Updates have been silently downloaded and installed for the packages and/or flatpaks and everything is up to date, no annoying update-popups which break my flow and I know that I have the latest version of all software especially security sensitive packages.

At the end, you can pick your poison.

Having integrated/working package management with silent updates is one of my killer features of Linux/Flatpak. I want to set it up one time (automatically) and never have to think about or deal with it again.
Almost nobody think Ryobi is the best, and almost everybody agrees they’re plenty good for a non-professional toolkit.
Their edition is based on this. That does not mean it is faithful to it. For instance, if they followed their guideline, their edition modernized the text with modern US typography and conventions. See https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste...
It definitely has no data about roof shapes.
This comment is why people hate tech bros.
HuggingFace Space Secrets Leak
So only a mind is capable of something making signs that are either true or false? Is a properly calibrated thermometer that reads "true" if the temperature is over 25C incapable of being true? But isn't this question ridiculous in the first place? Isn't a mind required to judge whether or not something is true, regardless of how this was signaled?
From your link

>The first example of a statutory police force in the world was probably the High Constables of Edinburgh, formed in 1611 to police the streets of Edinburgh, then part of the Kingdom of Scotland. The constables, of whom half were merchants and half were craftsmen, were charged with enforcing 16 regulations relating to curfews, weapons, and theft.

That sounds a lot like businesses working with government to secure their property.
It's not hard but many don't want to let go of YouTube or Gmail for some reason.
Ah, good to know. I already have some idea to prevent that in the future. Thanks for the heads up.
if companies are held liable for LLM provided info, we will begin to see appropriate use
To also be fair: can't imagine these researchers weren't also just having a good time. Sounds a lot like they were just doing fancy LARPing themselves.
Some ISPs try to block traffic that looks torrent like.
FYI. Ryobi has nothing to do with Home Depot. It's owned by a Hong Kong power tool manufacturer, and used to be Japanese (in fact, Ryobi still exists as a tool manufacturer, just not the power tool division)

Probably the reason they're not in any of the hauls is because they have a reputation for not being very good, and are harder to sell/fence...
Oroboros eating its tail
It's interesting to see a paper talking about how SMR are seemingly unfeasible in reasonable time when we already have plenty of small nuclear reactors being built somewhat in series: nuclear submarine and aircraft carrier engines.
Show HN: Chess Twist
I continue my experiment of transposing classic games onto an irregular grid. I've previously released variants of minesweeper and checkers. And now I'd like to share my variant of Chess.

Chess can be a pretty punishing game, but I thought this was nevertheless a way to make it even more challenging by making it trickier to anticipate your opponent, even though both players still have the same information.

From the playtests I've done, that challenge is pretty compelling.

It also seems to be more fun at 2 people, where both players keep surprising one another.
GPS trackers with SIM slots and cell radios have been available for ages, and easily enough found for purchase that I don't think mentioning them here adds meaningful risk. AirTags distinguish on Apple's UI polish - including the care for stalking mitigation - and platform integration, rather than their basic functionality.
As a former SF resident, I'm glad the brewery will be revived. It's an icon not only for SF but for the craft brewing industry in general. But really, you gotta admit, Anchor Steam tastes like pine tar.
> What is the difference between a google map style application that shows pixels that are "right" for a road, and pixels that are "wrong" for a road?

Different training methodology and objective and possibility to correct obviously wrong outcomes by comparing it against reality.
How to fail an open source community
Is there any good alternative to google voice? It's the only google service I haven't been able to replace yet.
I think that’s limited to the US. In Thailand, kids ride motorcycles from a very young age, and don’t exhibit the crazy driving on that they do here. I think if more families drove motorcycles, it would no longer be considered cool or extreme, and that behavior would disappear. It reminds me of the high drinking age situation in the United States. When people here start drinking, they end up in emergency room, which is not the case in Europe, where they have a much lower drinking age.
I’ve been getting weird results for a while: somewhere around the end of the first page of results or beginning of the second I get results which have nothing to do with my queries. Instead they look as if someone entered geoip result for my ip address as text of the query. Maybe those are some LLM experiments and that’s part of the prompt now?
I wonder if this was intraoffice politics.

You work with two loud, tenured professors who both believe a certain thing that your advisor thinks is bullshit, and your dissertation or post doc publications become about how Steve and Mark are wrong. Suck it, Steve.
Corporations looking at gen AI as a productivity tool are making a mistake
What's your definition of "correct" then? If a system is "accidentally correct" the majority of the time, when does it stop becoming "accidental"? You cannot trust any system in the way you want to define trust. No human, no computer, no thing in the universe is always correct. There is always a threshold.

I do research with LLMs all the time and I trust them, to a degree. Just like I trust any source and any human, to a degree. Just like I trust the output of any computer, to a degree. I don't need to verify everything they say, at all, in any way.

Genuine question, how do you think an LLM can generate "bullshit", exactly? How can it be that the system, when it doesn't know something, can output something that seems plausible? Can you explain to me how any system could do such a thing without a conception of reality and truth? Why wouldn't it just make something up that's completely removed from reality, and very obviously so, if it didn't have that?
> That seems like a learning cul-de-sac, sort of like trying to learn a city only by following turn-by-turn directions and never looking at a map. You're going to have no idea all kinds of things are even there.

But you do walk the streets. Sometimes learning this way lets you deliver on stuff way faster, even if you don't understand the whole.
It's worth keeping in mind that 'low cost' PV comes from China (which makes 80% of the global supply of PV cells) which is run predominantly on coal (60% of their electrical energy) and China continues to build a GW coal plant approximately weekly, and incidentally, a new GW nuclear plant about monthly.
FAANG is pretty easy to get into as long as you do the following

* Grind out leetcode medium and can do those well

* Know your way around some fundamentals - i.e if you understand how React works under the hood and can code in raw Javascript for some advanced features, you will be fine

* Have industry experience where you demonstrate self motivation to solve problems, or show off your personal projects that actually get use.

I used to work at Amazon, and have 200+ interviews under my belt. The three most common causes for non inclined decisions are

- inability to reason through coding problems. Most of the time, getting stuck is really not even a big issue, the bigger issue is if I give you a hint, and you are unable to comprehend what is being said and then reason through it to arrive a at a solution

- experience falls into "I show up to work, do what Im told, go home". I.e no critical thinking being demonstrated

- any of the tech that you talk about is very superficial. For example, following common practices for training ML models with pytorch isn't you having knowledge of ML.
What things do you work on that have meaningful consequences for failure? Woodworking? LLMs indeed might not be for you! I write code and there's zero consequences for failure as long as I don't push it in version control...
I'm so tired of these job search sites not respecting the search terms I enter. What is a good way to web scrap them so that I can do my own offline filtering.

LinkedIn is the worst. Microsoft inserts their own "Promoted" jobs that don't contain the words I search for and the job title is very generic.
If you use it with domain you own, you can just point it to another email provider.
I don’t like what you said but I agree anyway.
"OK, I have a gun and I'll go get my stuff myself" is not illegal to say and 100% gets police to show up. Source: tried it more than once
An AI tool for predicting protein shapes challenges science's need for proof
> decoupling the global PRNG into several independent ones

Given this is 2020, I'm guessing you probably already solved this one, but this is something I had to do for a concurrent fuzzer I wrote recently.

Basically my solution is to make SipHash the PRNG. The way this works is you make a tuple of your seed and any other information you want to hash (at minimum, a "channel" number, so you get different streams of random numbers, and a sequence number). You hash the tuple and increment the sequence number and return.

Because it's literally just a hash function, it's easy to reason about its properties: same input in, same output out. As long as the hash function is high enough quality, you avoid bias in the output even when the input has low entropy (thus why I chose SipHash).

There's an Apache-licensed implementation here for anyone who cares. My implementation has streams inside each channel associated with hashable objects, just to make it easier to subdivide the channels.

https://github.com/StanfordLegion/fuzzer/blob/master/src/det...

https://github.com/StanfordLegion/fuzzer/blob/master/src/det...

https://github.com/StanfordLegion/fuzzer/blob/master/src/det...
If I tell you what I did and tell you what I got, you have the information you need, I think.

‘I selected spell check and the application crashed’ is sufficient in many cases - and is a bug report.
I had assumed both — greater volume and also lower temperatures. The more qbits you are trying to get to cooperate, the less thermal noise you can tolerate, so the cooler you have to make it.

Yes, more qbits also take up more space, but I hadn't thought of that as a major factor — but it certainly could be if they are physically large! Overall I think the bigger issue is cooling.

The article mentions error correction as an alternative to increased coherence among the qbits. Perhaps what that really means is "to increase meaningful interaction among qbits, make it as cold as you can, and then error correct until you get a meaningful answer." My intuition is that they are both a battle against entropy — the need for error correction will also increase exponentially with the number of qbits, simply because the number of possible combinations increases exponentially.

And the even larger outcome of all this is that if this intuition bears out, quantum computing will have no fundamental advantage over conventional computing — which also has an exponential cost for a linear increase in bits, for computations such as factoring large numbers.
So you agree that LLMs are intelligent?

https://thegradient.pub/othello/
I went to read a bit more about this - as this was something I was only vaguely aware of: https://theconversation.com/the-racist-roots-of-american-pol...

It seems there were police in the States before the Slave Patrols though.
> A criminal can sell your Macbook if they like, but if they steal from Apple itself? Oh man there will be hell to pay.

Where do you get the idea that there will be "hell to pay" if you steal from Apple itself? People regularly run out of Apple stores with tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise and never get caught.
More than half the employees have been let go in round after round of layoffs for 6 quarters straight.
It's hard to imagine commercial SMRs being built to the same standard as marine propulsion reactors, or receiving the same level of investment in ongoing maintenance.
Who knew adding indexes could be so simple but also so neglected?
Thanks for trying it out.. that's all super useful.

Location adding: I noticed the same thing today, too, and will make that UX more obvious with a spinner..

Sign-in: I'll see if I can reproduce that problem.

Clarity around pair-ups: are you wondering how it figures out who to suggest to you, etc? the mechanics of being connected? (it's typical mutual opt-in mechanics fwiw) or what happens after that? I suppose it could be any of these but I'd love to know what was unclear.

Thanks again!
Ah, unstable connections! It's good that you've noticed me of this performance matter. I'm going to look for improving this issue.
Thank you so much for doing this. Sublime and moving in a way only things that are novel and required a ton of effort can be. Visualizing over time and seeing this gave me an interpretation of sunrise as removing shadows, and sunset adding them, gave me goosebumps.
it's a joke. Obviously, when you're a compiler engineer, creating a progress bar is not a great demonstration of your skill.
Google-Whack as I knew it.

Where you tried to find only a search with one result.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack
Study suggests dark matter may have collisional properties after all
> Let's say I'm a cobbler and I make shoes. New efficiency gains in China mean that the exact same shoes from China can be bought by my former customers for below the cost of my production. Who would continue to buy shoes from me at my necessarily higher prices? I can't sell them to China. I can't sell them anywhere as China sells the same shoes everywhere. I already have more shoes than I need and I can't use the shoes for other things. Even if I could, it would be cheaper to buy the shoes from China than to make them myself.

In order to make this paragraph work, you're assuming that your customers, and you, are producing things that are valuable to China. (How else are you going to pay for their stuff?) This already contradicts your premise that Chinese superiority will mean you and your customers have nothing valuable to do.

If you don't want to start with contradictory premises, the most that Chinese superiority can mean is that you and your customers can't afford to buy Chinese products. That really can shut you out of consuming Chinese products, but it can never shut you out of consuming what you produce yourself.
> these findings provide an unambiguous signature of a dark matter behavior that exhibits collisional properties in a very energetic high-redshift cluster collision.

ooh, what if dark matter _used_ to be much more self-interacting, and now isn't? iirc, "high-redshift" means it's very far away from us, and thus what we're seeing is pretty old...
Not really applicable to Linux kernel bugs, but I have a story of it being much harder than one would expect to convince my ISP (a generally cool company, as opposed to some behemoth telecom) that their payment system would allow me to pay them essentially nothing, but their system recorded it as a payment in full.

I pay my ISP using a method where I use an app on my phone to scan a QR code and I can then pay with my credit card (and get associated rewards).

For reasons of maximising my rewards, I decided one month to try split the payment and pay a small part with one credit card, and the remainder with a different one.

I opened the app, scanned the QR code, changed the default payment amount to about 10%. A moment later their system says “Thank you, paid in full!”.

I send customer service an email explaining that there is a flaw in their system which has allowed me to me to underpay.

Them: “Don’t worry, we can see you’ve paid us.”

I reply: “I really haven’t, you need to escalate this to someone technical over there to investigate this further.”

Them: “I can confirm you’ve paid.”

Fortunately for my ISP, I’m a good person and they have a presence on a local forum, I PM’d one of the reps on there who based on their posts was possibly one of the founders.

And he responds saying something to the effect of “thank you very much, I have no idea why customer service didn’t escalate this” and goes on to explain that the payment app evidently did not respect a flag in the QR code which should prevent me from editing the payment amount and he had fixed their code to actually check the incoming amount.

Same rep a few years later was able to resolve unstable Spotify streaming issue I reported by getting Akamai to fix their DNS resolution to use the PoP on my ISPs network as opposed to the one on a different ISPs network which was throttling their peering link.
To be clear, Spotify is a _global_ company, and there is no excuse for this.
Libera Chat is a fork of Freenode. The later still exist, but all communities I know moved to Libera.
Better! Still 200km out, but better!
I put my Logitech MX keyboard in the bag with few other things and one of the keycap broke off. Completely my fault. Since the key mechanism was intact I have told their support what happened and asked if they sell replacement keycaps and got completely new keyboard for free.

Great support but I was left with mixed feelings since I still had almost completely working keyboard and I think the experience would be better if they would send me just the keycap.
So what do you think a "calmer" situation in the region will look like?

Specifically -- what concessions should be Ukraine be forced to make in order for you to feel -- safer?
This isn't the reason why. Spotify has been a major player in the U.S. music streaming market for a long time. They have their own offices here, and these kinds of decisions are surely made domestically.

The reason for this is simply incompetence. They were given the order from leadership to discontinue Car Thing to cut costs, and they are given a short deadline with no options for extending or unlocking the hardware. Spotify's Lawyers don't see any way out of that issue, and also see liability for having discontinued a product so quickly and with such short notice, so they recommend to the Accounts team that Car Thing customers can opt-in to a refund, and that should indemnify Spotify from any disputes.

So the Accounts team gets this new recommendation from Legal, with an even tighter deadline than sunsetting Car Thing, where customers are entitled to refunds on-demand if they bought one. Requests come in immediately, and there is absolutely zero process in place for actually issuing refunds for this, so the Accounts team works directly with the Finance team and figures they can just wire refunds directly to customers, which the Finance team is happy to do if they are provided a spreadsheet of account/routing numbers.

Nobody in the process of making these decision has any understanding of the risks, they just move to actualize what leadership asked them to, doing as little work as possible to meet the deadline. The result is refund requests arriving before any refund process has been established, and so the process is invented on-the-fly without any regard to best practice.

Tl;Dr: Discontinuing Car Thing was a hastily made decision that was announced before the company had done due-diligence, and now they are dealing with a disorganized response.
No, the difference is in what parts of the OS are in what privilege level and address space, and how they communicate with each other. It has nothing to do with the shape of teams building them. If someone is building a filesystem or a network protocol for the system, then the difference between that person implementing a server for a microkernel or a kernel module for a monolithic kernel is purely a low-level-detail technical one.
That's true.

The facts in my comment remain though. Can't raise ask for him for something that doesn't exist.
The third edition (at your link) is interactive, each chapter is available as a Jupyter notebook. Though to run it on Google Colab (where it is available by default, but you can download it) you do have to log into a Google account.
It's been interesting watching the reactionary rally against dairy over the last 10 years. Watching laypeople with zero scientific background write editorials on nutrition-adjacent topics is always a great workout of patience.

One of the more bewildering things I see is comparison of mammalian milks to plant milks... despite the two not being even remotely comparable. Plant 'milks' are just going through a lot of effort to take generally decent foodstuff (oats, nuts, etc.) and watering them down, massively reducing the nutritional density and content. The macro and micro content of things like oat milk, cashew milk, and so on are next to water because that's basically what they are. They're made by leeching a tiny amount of these legumes and grains into water, often artificially fortified with one or two vitamins. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to compare the nutritional profile of cashews with that of cashew milk and that of cows milk.

> But that talking point masks the reality that milk is only so convenient and affordable because the USDA, with taxpayer dollars, has made it so through intensive, sustained investments.

This is a really weird assertion to make when dairy has been a massively important staple of advanced societies for thousands of years, and continues to be in places like rural India, Turkey, Central Asia, and more. It's also not necessarily off-base, but that's because it holds true for all foodstuffs in the modern US. Because of how large our societies have gotten, the affordability of goods is directly tied to intentional prioritization of their supply chains by the organizational arm of society (government.)
Fast acceleration from instantaneous torque delivery is going to increase the chance of breaking the friction barrier between the ground and the wheels. changing that torque delivery curve is going to have a huge effect on maintaining grip. driving habits absolutely have an effect on tire wear.
Why is there no dark matter here?
Corporations might jump on it fast if the bill excludes them from liability.

Alex Jones "gay frogs" memes can only keep plastic dumping discussion untouchable for so long.
You are correct that we usually do that, however for Ulysses we made an exception and transcribed the print exactly, so there are no changes from the print edition. (Except for whatever pre-1929 corrections we brought in based on our research.)
How often does it tell you things you're glad to know but wouldn't have thought or known to ask about?