skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those unfamiliar with UPI:

> Unified Payments Interface, commonly referred to as UPI, is an Indian instant payment system as well as protocol developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in 2016. The interface facilitates inter-bank peer-to-peer (P2P) and person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions.[1][2] It is used on mobile devices to instantly transfer funds between two bank accounts. The mobile number of the device is required to be registered with the bank. The UPI ID of the recipient can be used to transfer money. It runs as an open source application programming interface (API) on top of the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS),[3][4][5][6] and is regulated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Indian Banks started making their UPI-enabled apps available on Google Play on 25 August 2016.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
Here's the hard sci-fi explanation for all those clumsy robots we have in fiction: they use early generation generative methods!
Hi HN, I'm João – Passionate Software Developer Looking for a New Challenge
Hello Hacker News community,

I'm João, a software developer and system architect with a deep love for technology and innovation. Here's a bit about my journey:

Software Development: I've had the pleasure of defining system architecture for PASMO, leading a cloud migration at Bosch, and enhancing DevOps practices at ARTIDIS.
Project Management: I coordinated the €4M 5G-Mobix project, founded my own company, SEPTAGON, and led a talented team working on a digital pathology product at ARTIDIS.
Community Involvement: I run a monthly tech club for kids at my coworking space and actively participate in blood donation and reforesting efforts.
Technical Skills: My toolkit includes Golang, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, and ArgoCD/Workflows.
Innovations: I developed a digital pathology annotation tool and implemented cost-saving logic at Bosch, which significantly reduced SMS update costs.
Philosophy: I'm driven by a passion for technology, continuous learning, and empathetic leadership. Parenthood has also profoundly shaped my approach to work and life.

I'm thrilled to be part of this vibrant community and look forward to connecting with like-minded individuals. Feel free to ask me anything or share your thoughts!
Most courts will see a contract from anywhere and enforce it (Super Generally)

Most courts will see a contract + an enforceable undertaking from the country whose laws it was signed under and see that as roughly enforceable.

Doesnt mean always.
But toothbrushes are ultrasonic. I can never find mine.
they clearly are completely different groups who only party and fuck around together
Developing nonfree software is not worth it.
They don’t want him in the office to prevent espionage or sabotage. I’m sure you can think of other potential negatives, too.

Contrast this with the presumably US situation of a reported Google firing by email, instantly gone forever, can’t even say goodbye to colleagues.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40944098

The (nation-)state you work in matters a lot.
Hypersonic dual-mode ramjets are not suitable for 'general' applications. What makes them 'dual-mode ramjets' is that a single engine can work at both supersonic and hypersonic speeds. It's still a ramjet and so needs another means to get the engine/vehicle up to supersonic speeds.

As sibsling notes, maybe it could go into SR-72 or similar penetrating ISR platform is a reasonable guess. It might go into some sort of missile carrier (the carrier gets the expensive reusable dual-mode ramjet, so it can launch missiles with cheaper disposable scramjets directly at hypersonic speed?).
Rule 110 can be specified with a rewrite system, also known as cellular automata: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3248. Cellular automatons have a correspondence with contextual grammars: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis5110/notes/tcbook-lang.pdf. Each is equivalent to a Turing machine, another way of saying that there is a program for it which can be specified on a Turing machine with the usual Turing machine instruction set for writing, reading, and erasing binary digits on a tape. This usual program can then be "compiled" into a rewrite system corresponding to the instruction set for rule 110.

The reason rule 110 is said to be Turing complete is because someone went through the trouble of specifying an instruction set for rule 110 so that other people could verify that it would be possible to write programs with it. This is not the case for the people who claim that they are computers. They always leave the instruction set undefined which makes their claims hard to believe.

I personally have no problem with people who think they're computers but if they're not programmable then I'm not sure what the point would be of calling themselves computers.
The Rise of Formula E
There is too much morally infused overinterpretation of Capitalism going on. Owners and workers have diametrically opposite interests which no law or moral judgment could put aside.

What one party perceives as a fair wage is nothing but profit dilution for the other side.

Remember, the only purpose of a business is - given money - to make more money. If you can't help them with that, either by being dirt cheap or have some marketable skill, you're literally useless and part of the Capitalist overpopulation... a class people who serve no use in the accumulation process.
Or simply they have very little local physical currency and it was printed decades ago and it might pose as an embarrassment, so they don’t want it seen by foreigners.
Hackers Steal Text and Call Records of 'Nearly All' AT&T Customers
> Until there is a system to easily weed out the people that go ballistic when being laid off, cutting off access is completely fine.

There’s literally whole continents where this isn’t an issue. If it is an issue in yours the problem is not the layoffs.
AT&T Says Hackers Stole Data of Millions of Customers
Airbus is heavily depending Russian titanium. Even with the current tensions they decided to keep buying Titanium from Russia. Money is the only reason why players are not having inhouse solutions. Give it time and reason and any country can get a fuel efficient engine.
You may want to list clearly somewhere which types of digital asset you support, because different industries have different ideas about that.

This only handles images, correct? And not video, audio, Office documents, PDFs, 3D models and animations, CAD/CAM drawings, PCB layouts, web pages, or code?
SpaceX's unmatched streak of perfection with the Falcon 9 rocket is over
On Mac at least is it quite laggy and janky overall, especially when compared to Apple’s Book app.
That's due to tax laws that effectively make it cheaper to compensate healthcare than in cash. Since everyone needs healthcare it's a standard offering.

But you're free to purchase it privately. I've bought health insurance privately when unemployed easy peasy.
2GB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaz_drive
That’s an oddly appropriate username.
> This is going to sound controversial but the best skill you can hone is knowing which complaints to ignore.

Not at all. It's Ford's "they'd still be riding horses".-
I have sympathy with the authors' position, and the "the web should just be documents" crowd. There is nothing wrong with SSR. There is nothing wrong with you having mobile or desktop apps that provide rich interactivity and feedback. But we have turned a document based medium into an ugly monster because we're squeezing stuff in for privacy-invading rent-seekers.

I don't mind people being paid for their work, and I don't mind paying them, but why does progress/evolution need to involve terrible, horrible technologies that break accessibility, privacy and the integrity of the medium? Why can't Google just go build a new technology and leave the web alone? Why are we all marching to the drum of adtech, like there is no alternative?
understood, we will fix that. thank you!
That’s what the TIMESTAMPTZ type does in Postgres, albeit you have to read the offset and do the math. MySQL also allows you to specify an offset. Or for a fun kludge, store them as TIMESTAMP in MySQL (just not past 2038), and it silently casts it into UTC for storage, and then back to the server’s TZ – or whatever the connection specifies – for retrieval.
>That's true, but has no bearing on how complicated the APIs supposedly are. Same with the coherence between applications. That's an issue entirely unrelated to the original claim which was just false.

That's like your opinion, man.

First, it's not the invidual APIs themselves, it's several layers of APIs, and combinations thereof.

In traditional desktop UIs you just placed widgets together in a form/panel, hooked events, and wrote your application - normally all in the same language and with a single bundle of APIs from your lib (e.g. the Delphi API, the QT API, MS's API).

In web dev (I do both), it's an endless layer upon layer of cruft. Even just the browser UI base layer alone has HTML, CSS, JS, the DOM, SVG, Web Components and shadow DOMs, and several other items besides. Then there are the differences and incompatibilities between engines, between desktop and mobile, and so on.

Then there's the pre-processing of all those, JS (or typescript), bundlers stuff like Webpack, minimization and map files, then there are Frameworks like Next/React/Angular/Vue, and different varieties.

We haven't even touched the backend of those, written in the same (Node) or different languages, and with its own layers added.
It does indeed seem to be similar, and viable option, with the difference being that the enum values are specified in a comment. You seem enthusiastic about that design decision/feature, howeever I am not sure about it, it scares me a little.

It's absolutely just a hunch and personal preference but I worry that keeping the enum value inputs in comments might not be great for new contributors and in terms of maintaining the codebase over time, so I think I prefer the approach taken by enumer.
Cruise missiles have different efficiency goals than commercial airliners.
Even at war and cut off from the world the Russian economy is growing. Driving by buoyant commodity prices.

They have tech for civilian aviation in their massive military industry. And just the sheer size of the country guarantees the demand.
Ah, i didn't know they actually moved eSNI out of TLS1.3. it was certainly part of quite a few drafts.

I do find it sad it isn't pushed harder. Companies who need to do interception have legitimate concerns, but they can be addressed.
Do SETI Optimists Have a Fine-Tuning Problem?
The problem is that yellow is much lighter than blue. If you look at a perceptual pseudo-cylindrical color space such as CIECAM02 or (OK)LCh, yellow and blue are not on the same wheel because they exist at different lightness levels.

So the author is correct that there are four opponent colors, but not correct that they can all be arranged on a wheel so easily.

Color spaces are three dimensional geometries, attempts to reduce them to two dimensions are always wrong just like every 2D map projection creates distortions.
Singapore's banks to ditch texted one-time passwords
Yes, and then we Europeans make peanuts compared to the Americans. Maybe the two have something to do with each other?
There are also streams available on Internet such as https://radio.garden/visit/yanbian-korean-autonomous-prefect...

I do not know how they relate to what is broadcasted on AM/FM for the general population, though.
Won't someone PLEASE think about microsoft???
I have trouble understanding how people work for such big companies. Of course if the scale is 1000 employees "the company" cannot care about you; it is an institution not a bunch of people anymore. There is no upper layer to blame, the structure and scale themselves are the culprit.

I decided against that and work in a small company. Work-life balance is nice, we are friends and we all care (at least some bit) about the company itself. That is, because "the company" is us.
This can be tackled by excempting certain domains from decryption, which is actually part of why eSNI is a challenge for companies who do this kind of decryption on their own computers.
It's a hypersonic thruster, i.e. 5 or more times the speed of sound. Far too fast for civil aviation. It's probably even too fast for "safe" manned flight. This is the speed at which the air ionizes around the vehicle. It's like flying inside a fireball.

The first use that comes to mind is a hypersonic cruise missile or unmanned bomber.

Intercontinental missiles are also hypersonic, but their re-entry vehicles are gliders with limited maneuvering capabilities.

The Russians have developed and used hypersonic air-to-ground missiles in Ukraine, the Kinzhal. It is very difficult to intercept a missile at these speeds, and almost impossible if the missile is maneuverable.
This has re-launched research into this type of missile and propulsion system.

Russia is ahead in this field. The USA, China and France have carried out various experiments (mach 5 to 25), but do not really have combat-ready hypersonic weapons.

One of the great difficulties of hypersonic flight is that you generally need one engine and one stage per flight regime. The majority of demonstrators operate according to the following scheme:

- a rocket or aircraft propels the vehicle to supersonic speed, so that it can start its engine.

- The vehicle accelerates to Mach 5. The vehicle starts its hypersonic engine and detaches from the supersonic stage.

- Climb to the edge of space.

- Descent and acceleration.

- Detachment from the hypersonic engine and final gliding approach. The fireball moving off at mach 20 kind of approch.

The engine shown here would enable to have just one engine for supersonic and hypersonic flight, greatly simplifying the vehicle.
The fact that it's an engine and not a rocket is important, as it means that the thrust is much longer and can potentially last for the whole flight. At these speeds, it's largely the engine's thrust that makes maneuvering possible, and this is what distinguishes these vehicles from the hypersonic glider/reentry vehicle found on intercontinental missiles.
Tbf that one was counted as pilot error IIRC, but never a good idea to kill your customers. The few non Russosphere SSJ customers pretty much all going bust except for CityJet who dropped them from their fleet citing reliability issues probably didn't help either
What's the Best Seat in the Game Left, Center, Right?
I think the 'foreigner' bit makes it reasonably clear that the article will describe something quite different to life as a starving North Korean.
> I live and work in EU

What a coincidence. Me too :)
EU accuses Elon Musk's X of misleading users
Damn that's crazy, almost like they're completely different and applying the features of one to the other is apples and oranges. ;)
Half for a cheeky answer.

The air is part of the fuel and onboard fuel hydrogen or some other thing to burn is the other half.

Really at >Mach 5 you'll be there fast. At Mach 5 NY to London in 54 min. Mach 10 it's 12 minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent-process_theory
> assuming you're entitled to something more than their free offering users get

I explicitly wrote "[same] limits as what these free databases offer". So there is no additional entitlement by taking payment.

> And at $2 per month, credit card processing eats a big chunk of each payment up front

You are over-indexing on a specific way to take payment. It could be loading 50$ on your account that is being deducted 2$ a month - Like Fly does it.

Re. fraud risk, accounting etc. I think your assessment is completely opposite to the reality. The following is from a Fly newsletter:

> Charging a credit card prevents most at-scale abuse. Abusive users are surprisingly loathe to pay even $5, and it's really difficult to keep fraudulent credit cards working over time. And when we run charges, we get really interesting Stripe data about the trustworthiness of a charge that we can use to restrict the platform.

Fly has the business model, xata.io apparently has the budget to self-finance this. Why not just combine it?

Really to understand that this is in addition to other offering. Of cause you can not expect to get an enterprise-grade Postgres instance for 2$ a month. But what Xeta claims to offer for 2$ a month should absolutely be possible, and enough for a small database that runs rudimentary analytics for a small-scale blog, etc.
I think for some actors this is very true.

I spent a long time doing stuff in community theatre and I realised there were a number of different types of actors who approached the craft very differently but could turn in equally great performances. Some seemed to be able to simply put on a mask, behave in a particular way and then switch out of it. Others would get every much into embodying the character and needed to spend time thinking about backstories and motivations. The later approach seemed to be quite exhausting when the character was quite dark or troubled.

I have no desire to ever act, but watching the process was always fascinating.
> Next-token prediction cannot handle Kuhnian paradigm shifts

The training datasets contain and reflect human imperfections, including implicit mistakes (which could not be fully extracted in the refining work because ambiguity), and failures in practical logic. Most probably many hallucinations are just the evidence that LLM intelligence or capability to solve (a less controversial way of say it), is actually quite aligned to the way humans think.

I think this is key for new knowledge generation, this could be the "secret sauce" behind the non-deterministic ouput we see when we feed the same prompt to a LLM and we get different outputs, I think is what "allows" the LLM their "generative" vein: a inherent, implicit mathematical structure well hidden in the human substract present in the datasets, that creates a way out of the fixed paths, not merely a recombinatorial behavior, but a true generative behavior.

Hence, the generative AIs we already have, could be the very evidence of the LLM technology being capable of generating new knowledge.
I wonder where Embraer fits in your picture.

The Ukrainian aircraft industry was indeed interesting, but it was all about cargo planes. An-225 was a magnificent device, but it could not serve as an airliner. Neither could An-124. BTW both were designed back in the USSR times.
Loyalty is lock-in, lock-in makes the one locked in more vulnerable, and more vulnerable means less power, and less power means less compensation.
If you remember back in the day when we just had MSAA and nothing else, it was horribly slow. “Just render more pixels” turns out to give you poor efficiency. Better efficiency = you can spend the cycles doing something more interesting.

In other words—if GPUs were powerful enough to just push more pixels to the screen, then we would still use these upsampling techniques anyway, save a bunch of computational power, and then spend that computational power improving the graphics in other ways.
Sounds like a skill issue.

Joking aside I know, personally, business owners who have consistently acted with integrity and managed to maintain a successful, profitable business over the course of 30+ years, adjacent to the real estate market, surviving 2008, etc. so it's not like they've never faced had time or tough competitors. In that time they have never had layoffs. They've had to cut pay and reduce benefits in lean times, but providing gainful employment is a core value (above profit!!) and it has worked.
So we started out with the idea that unions are good for software developers, and now it’s about how you can’t eat software anyway and society should really value someone else? Yeah I get it…
300+ successful launches in an 8-year span is incredible.
> The fact that the parent comment is so upvoted is a reflection of what people dream of, not reality.

I can see that being the case among software developers. On the other hand, the organization I work for is so far removed from that world that my employer doesn't make any claims on most IP. If I decide to write a program to automate a task, the source is mine to do with as I please. They don't even lay claims on much non-software IP, stuff that ordinary businesses would lay claim to, since the attitude is more akin to the IP being "carpenter's tools" than the product of the job itself. (Granted, working in the education system helps on this front. The definition of restricted IP is rather narrow when the expected outcome is to share knowledge.)
You can use PL/Python to make API calls outside of the database, you just don't need a separate service to interact with the DB to orchestrate all your ML stuff, only endpoints.
> the best way to get the full force and fury of a billion dollars arrayed against you is to suggest unionization

Even if you didn’t personally think it’d be useful for you, that should make you reconsider?
you are right, it's only images in the alpha-version, we should make that clearer. we are working on the integration of audio and video next.

thanks for the feedback!
> A 2014 UN inquiry found evidence for "systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations" and stated that "the gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world"

I don't think having access to luxuries detracts from the danger he was in of being in a country where public executions take place for things as minor as 'fortune telling' or watching South Korean movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_North_Ko...
Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters
Intuit's AI gamble: Mass layoff of 1,800 paired with hiring spree
This is such a wonderful idea, congrats.

There is a real usecase for this in some high security sectors. I can't put complete info here for the security reasons, let me know if you are interested.
I make enough money, I’m happy in my position, I feel like my employer treats me fairly. Why should I want a union?

I also have nationally strong’ish labor laws.
Any push-based service would be vulnerable to this, wouldn't it? The medium doesn't matter if somewhere in the chain someone stores the message (in public).