skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep your revenge fantasies to yourself. I hope you can see that you're being a hypocrite, wanting to counter alleged cruelty by treating people cruelly, which would make you no different from them.
Visa and MasterCard get a lot of hate as they are definitely a duopoly. But imagine they never existed and PayPal or some other Fintech was the non-cash payment monopoly.

Far less things you'd be permitted to purchase, far more random account closures for violating intentionally nonspecific TOS. Worse customer support than we have now and even less consumer protections.

MasterCard and Visa hearken back to a time when KYC was far less aggressive.
I'm chemically dependent on my shoe sole rubber to insulate my artificially-soft feet from all the sharp stones I step over on my daily commute.

Lo, how softe the human body has grown! If only 'twere for more self-discipline, my feet could develop the natural toughness to endure Nature's harsh grip!
It’s most likely because Russian and Steppe jews arrived from the Rhine area after the black plague.
“Cruel and unusual punishment”
Corruption. Same reason the government doesnt just calculate your taxes.
Your description closely matches what is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_s...
Most systems don’t have interesting stable states like Conway’s Game of Life, they either collapse or explode. You can verify this yourself by changing the rules of the Game of Life.

LLMs aren’t simple systems either, they are density estimators pretrained on terabytes of text, then fine tuned with human feedback. The simple fact that the author believes this suggests he doesn’t know much about LLMs.
I think if we adopted the Norwegian system, we would still have huge amounts of recidivism, which could only be solved by wholesale reorganization of our society.
Yup. Startups like GoCardless and government initiatives like UPI are all about direct bank to bank transfers to cut out the middleman by becoming the new middleman.
I wonder if you can make it taste good with some sauces and spices, and maybe air frying it a bit. It doesn't sound all that bad on paper... basically a poor man's casserole?
Ironically, storing recipes never caught on. It's just what people thought home computers would be useful for.
So do "fact"/"faction" and "hostel"/"hospital". Mixing these up would be confusing and incorrect. Seems like a silly argument to make.
>"I look forward to seeing a case against the manufacturer in the supreme court."

Rather than punishing tools let's punish perpetrators - the ones that came up with the idea.
I received the same result, and similarly have strong spatial skills (among other divergences from the archetype). Taking a look through the others, none of them describe me particularly well. The author of the article touches on this when they mention how low-energy and emotionally moderated people find the personality test less interesting, but I would expand this to say that the results overrepresent 'type-A' and adjacent personality types, while the characterizations of those less goal-oriented, introverts, and so on are rather lacking.
Didnt realize people would get so heated about this.

I firmly believe in my comment however I wish I could delete my comment because I didn't realize it was so upsetting to people.

Apologies!
I liked the comparison someone offered in a reply to the post saying "5% of people buy 50% of the houses", which of course isn't because of disproportionate house buying but because most people don't buy a house every year.

To be somewhat fair to the original poster, they do offer a graph further down talking about total lifetime healthcare spending by percentile, which is also somewhat imbalanced and would account for spikes in healthcare spending by individuals due to accidents or temporary sickness. But despite being a better dataset to cite to make their point, they clearly didn't lead with the lifetime spending graph because it's significantly less imbalanced than just picking a specific year and so makes their argument weaker (if also more accurate).
Recidivism is a feature, not a bug. Like most institutions, America's criminal justice system is bent towards self-perpetuation, not problem solving.
The claim in the OP is that they might have been MiTM’ing arbitrary users, I believe the previously reported claims were that they only MiTM’d paid research participants. (Please share some links if you have evidence to the contrary, I’d love to get to the bottom of this.)
Palmer Luckey had this idea of paying prisons based on their recidivism rate. I imagine in such a system creative cruelty wouldn't pay.
I've heard that prisons design meals that use lots or soy in theory to lower agression in inmates which can cause poor health outcomes. Although I've never seen any evidence that men shouldn't eat soy based diets, considering half the world's population uses it as a main source of protein this is probably bullcrap.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/us/soy-diet-is-cruel-and-...
spell out the pitches

I, bII, etc. are chords not pitches. II-bII-I is a chord change. Pitches may go up or down and voices may go away or arrive. They may be part of those chords or not. And there may not even be a root pitch.

Or if you want formal theory, chords are scales [1] and there ain't no such thing as a scale with a sharp I. If you sharp the one it’s a different scale starting in a different place.

The b in bII is not an accidental and bII is how to communicate the chord in passing. I/bII is also possible to communicate a modulation (as would be vii/II, etc. if the modulation is elsewhere).

There are “enharmonics” for chords that aren”t the root of course, e.g. #IV and bV depending on intent, convention, or playability. But #I will be marked wrong on the entrance exam and only raise you standing among an avant guard that isnt accepting new members.

[1] see Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept.
I think the government should be held to a higher standard when applying the law than a random Joe Citizen. Governments should be more like "don't be evil" than "intentionally find every underspecified law and stretch it to its limits to make people's lives worse".

This seems like the latter.
International Olympic Committee Creates Olympic Esports Games
How does that article add to the discussion in any way? It's just repeating the same infographic that's in the stackexchange post, and is seemingly making the same mistake of rounding off "Selling, marketing, and administrative" in financial reports to "sales and marketing".
Automated job posting is apparently an “AI bot war” who’d have thought! sure it’s annoying but so is click bait.
> What stops a big bank from doing whatever it is they do?

All over the world you're seeing local competitors trying to usurp them now that everyone is carrying a smartphone and can just install a free app to make or receive payments - the most advanced are UPI in India and WeChat/Alipay in China, but Japan has PayPay, the European countries have all kinds of local systems based on phone numbers that are extremely popular (Swish, MobilPay, Vipps, Blik, etc) and often funded by the banks who don't want to keep paying the duopoly.

Eventually these will merge or ally into global-scale competitors.
> Imagine being the product designer for this stuff:

Somewhat related, but the two architects I personally met, both were the unhappy kind: one was designing casinos, and the other prisons. It's like a real life Far Side cartoon of some sort, both doing exactly the opposite of all the things they learned in school.

Same for the chefs here I guess "Ok, remember what you learned in culinary school? Do exactly the opposite and you'll be just fine".
This is really useful thanks for sharing. My students and myself tend to waste a lot of time annotating clusters and have not found a reasonable solution yet. This will be fun to try.
Nonsense. It can't predict everyone, in particular it won't predict special relativity bring violated.

In addition you haven't addressed the main point here which is that when some people say "can predict" they mean "in principle it can predict" whereas other mean "can predict today with currently available technological means". Regarding the former: yes it can. I already gave the example of one such prediction, but here's another one: all particles niches have stringy modes in their spectra. Regarding the later: maybe, but thats a problem with our technology, not with the theory.

I feel this conservation is going in circles already.
I don’t think it’s that easy. You’d have to be able to tell which direction a signal game from which requires more than a cheap, small, and simple antenna.
Onavo isn’t paid, it’s just a “free” VPN app. There’s no paid participation, you just download it.

https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/facebook-pul...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-remove-data-securit...

Edit: Typo.
Isn't this comment self-contradictory?

You're saying that we should have less HFCS and more fruit and vegetables....

but you're positioning this against the medication that makes people stop craving HFCS and start craving more fruits and vegetables?
QuickSync and its variants are the secret weapon of the N-series. They make excellent Plex servers.
They call it a monopoly on violence for a reason.
Aka the PayPal Mafia
Nice idea and well implemented, but the puzzle seems too hard/abstract for me to understand. I can't really get a grasp of how to convert the first visual that looks like "ponauJ" into something that made sense of "Number two ___". Maybe if you could get the solution once or twice, it would be enough to teach me how to play it?
You need so much active cooling it would fall over if mounted on a vertical a lot.
It is a collective action problem.

If you offered someone end of life healthcare or 500k for the grandchildren, they would probably choose the 2nd. If you offer them them healthcare or $1 for 500,000 random children they dont know, the will take the healthcare.
I've heard that the DX with Svelte is among the best out of all web libraries/frameworks. Curious how it went creating this UI.
Absolutely.
It's not vacation, it's punishment because you did something wrong.
You broke the law. Time for prison.
NASA Could Ask SpaceX to Bring Home Stuck Boeing Astronauts
The difference between Apple and IBM is the latter lost control of their platform and those who inherited, arguably Intel and Microsoft, had no interest in exerting absolute control. (If they tried, it likely would have backfired anyhow.)

As for Apple, their openness comes and goes. The Apple II was rather open, the early Macintosh was not. Macintosh slowly started opening up with early NuBus machines through early Mac OS X. Since then they seem to be closing things up again. Sometimes it was for legitimate reasons (things had to be tightened up for security). Sometimes it was for "business" reasons (the excessively tight control over third-party applications for iOS and the incredible barriers to repair).

As for the author's claims about their workings being a mystery, there wasn't a huge difference between the Macintosh and other platforms. On the software level: you could examine it at will. At the hardware level, nearly everyone started using custom chips at the same time. The big difference would have been IBM compatibles, where the chipsets were the functional equivalent of custom chips yet were typically better documented simply because multiple hardware and operating system vendors needed to support them. Even then, by 1999, the number of developers who even had access to that documentation was limited. The days of DOS, where every application developer had to roll their own hardware support were long past. Open source developers of that era were making a huge fuss over the access to documentation to support hardware beyond the most trivial level.
It’s too slow. If it were built into my composition tools - as I’m sure it, one day, will be - I might, but I can compose at even a phone’s keyboard faster than I can direct my browser to chatgpt to prompt, review and copy it.

But I’m sure for a coming generation with little experience writing it may be faster.
They're on vacation?
but why these esoteric languages specifically? why not C++ with library optimized for vector operations? it would certainly make debugging easier.
Nope. And the Orin is more expensive.
> I look forward to seeing a case against the manufacturer in the supreme court.

Unless a certain 6 of the current 9 justices miraculously find their way off the court in the next couple months, you’ll be looking forward to this practice continuing either way.
Well, we do have examples of modern day cyberpunk tho, mr robot, watch dogs 2, mirror's edge. just the first i could think of. black mirror too. perhaps black mirror is more dystopic than cyberpunk. Anyway.

They're all grounded on a very near future, they have characters who are against the status quo established by some corpos, but i do agree with you on something. The world's different. We've grown affictionated to brands, unions memberships sank (although i guess it is slowly coming back up), we've grown to be more lonely and individualistic people than before. In this context, an old cyberpunk could be seen as "people vs corpos", but all the examples i brought you manage to adapt to the new world and are "people vs corpos AND other people"
You can tell a lot about society about how it treats it's law abiding citizens
My only nitpick with Obsidian (on desktop) which is actually a bug in Electron: the color picker gives "NAN" for red. Mainly an issue when creating large Canvas' and trying to select colors based on other media placed on the canvas/cards. Other than that, very solid and appreciate the fact that we can enable dev tools at any time to debug/hack plugins.
I bike packed this route with a good friend 2 years ago and had an absolutely amazing time. Neither of us were super fit but we managed it comfortably in 4 days (although our route planning left a little to be desired - 90 miles in one day along the Ridgeway was a mistake).

The Ridgeway itself was arguably the most challenging part of King Alfred's way - a couple of large climbs, plus large sections of very rocky terrain made it tough going at points.

Overall though, a beautiful route and I would highly recommend it!
Very informative long podcast that'll answer your questions

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/visa
Willpower isn't sufficient to lose weight.

Uncomfortably for you perhaps, these drugs show that willpower is not necessary either.
They haven’t been convicted yet.
I sometimes ask Copilot for an opinion about something I wrote. I also find it helpful when I am struggling to find the right word, sometimes it scores a direct hit, usually it doesn't, but it is helpful.
I think the two most significant trends described by this article are "ghost jobs" - job listing that companies leave up even though they don't actually have a role to fill - and aggregators and scrapers which gather copies of job listings from elsewhere in order to populate a job board with a bunch of duplicate, potentially stale or filled positions.

Combined, these help explain why people complain of applying for 60 jobs and only hearing back from two of them - most of the listings aren't actually valid leads.

From the article:

> Half the managers in question said that one emphatically ambiguous reason they would keep such job listings open indefinitely was because “The company was always open to new people.” That was actually one of the better answers on a list of very bad ones. A tie, at 43%, went to the next most-common responses, “To give the impression that the company is growing” and “To keep current employees motivated.” Perhaps the most infuriating replies came in at 39% and 33%, respectively: “The job was filled” (but the post was left online anyway to keep gathering résumés), and “No reason in particular.”

> That’s right, all you go-getters out there: When you scream your 87th cover letter into the ghost-job void, there’s a one in three chance that your time was wasted for “no reason in particular.”
Why would you have to? You jam the target, not yourself, then you replay the signal louder (you could also be smarter in how you jam so your signal gets through)
ah, if only people would read the post, so many questions they have would be answered
Your interpretation stumbled a bit.

Emergent is that produced/provided (as a potential) of a system which is greater than the sum of its parts.

Absolutely everything new you can do by arranging a few independent things for an outcome which could not have been achieved otherwise (literally creating potential in the universe) is "emergent."

So driving great distance and speed in metal chariots emerges from our technology for cars.

Flight emerges by airflow physics and the trimtab.

Life emerges by eating and crapping dense energy, propagating the continuity of existential being.
Unfortunately, most of the stuff from this publication[1] is just clickbait and culture war stuff; I wonder why the domain is even allowed here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=salon.com
Blood Test Accurately Diagnosed Alzheimer's 90% of the Time, Study Finds
If you can stab another inmate with a spork in the face, Nutraloaf for a week is better than a conviction for assault.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/health/alzheimers-blood-t...
Nope social security money is not invested, it's just put into general revenue and spent.
Because I don't have their contact.
You're right. This is definitely armchair opinions however what I meant was at scale, OpenAI are able to make their model unfathomably cheap as they have the resources to do so.

If they're running at a loss, it's a great way to take shots at the competition and especially with the added advantage of model capability.

Get more customers onboard, play around with margins as required.
wow what a candid, and humble take! Really impressive. Lots to be learned here.

However, one thing I am curious about is how their VC investor, SignalFire, is ok with this "back to it's roots" terminus. Do they still own the same amount of the company as before?
It's a nice idea, in that the punishment isn't pain, it's the removal of joy. But the whole idea of disciplinary punishment is whack. It's treating the symptom rather than the cause. They're not stabbing people with sporks for no reason. They're having a conflict, and stabbing is the last resort to resolve the conflict. Nobody wants to accept the fact that prisoners are in fact human beings, motivated by the same things every human being is motivated by. If you address those motivations, instead of just waiting for something bad to happen and reacting to it, you'll have less bad things happen. But that'll never change as long as prisons are a profit-making enterprise, and our system of justice and reform is just a punitive treadmill.

(as an aside: bland food won't work well on someone who lost their sense of smell from long covid, and prison populations were heavily affected)
To be fair, we could definitely rule out unqualified people using AI, but currently these tools are driven by pure greed
Left wing company abusing position of power. “Honest results” policy my a*
You sound like my friend's parents who didn't realize until sixth grade that my friend needed glasses to see well in school.

"Just focus your brain on the blackboard! You're not paying attention, that's why you can't see!"

"You should be doing whatever it takes to learn the material, whether office hours or asking fellow classmates."

Dumbass parents didn't think to get their child's vision checked. Amazing how a pair of $60 glasses instantly gave their child "so much more willpower" to become a "star student."
I wasn't assuming malice from you, I was assuming that either too lazy or too self-centered. No malice.

You can't get one in today huh.
I really don’t like unemployment as a metric. If the US economy was a product and I was the product owner for it, it would be the last indicator to check. Underemployment is a much bigger issue since a barista with a PhD counts as employment, but from the user perspective (people living in the economy) there’s not much difference between full time minimum wage work in a HCOL area and not working.
"tomorrow" in the real world is also surprisingly complex.

I once built a calendar and reservation system for a theatre that did movies, theatre, concerts and parties. A party that starts Friday at 22:00 and ends at 1:30 doesn't end "tomorrow" in people's minds, it ends Friday night.

(And a party, concert or movie that technically starts Sunday, 00:15 still has to show up on Saturday night 00:15, because that's how everyone looks for it)
Isn't this basically what gnome keyring does?

I disabled the ssh and gpg functionality of it, and use gnome keyring only for programs that need it to store login information.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring#SSH_keys
Maybe if I want to send my friend $5 Paypal or whatever can do that, but what fintech is actually taking market share from them at merchants?

Maybe it is because I am in Germany, but merchants here only accept cash, girocard and credit cards - online shops obviously have a wider selection that regularly includes Paypal in Klarna, but I wouldn't expect credit cards to loose a lot of market share to them.

So in which geographic regions is this actually the case? Do you have any source I could read on this as I am quite interested.
Imagine being the designer of handcuffs: "Customer requirement is to for prevent effective use of a detainee's hands, without technically violating their rights."

Imagine being the designer of AA missiles: "Customer requirement is to destroy an aircraft containing human being, with maximum effectiveness and minimum cost."

Imagine doing any hurtful thing whatsoever, without the context of why it's being done.

The Nutraloaf is what they give to prisoners after pretty much every other punitive measure is attempted to correct their behavior. If there were a more humane measure, they'd have tried that already.

Edit: Imagine being the writer of a Hacker News comment: "Customer requirement is to bring the maximum amount of sense to a discussion, without violating any of the community's sacred cows."
If you don't stimulate the identity politics bug, for some reason, the idea that the victim is a real person with real rights that were permanently stolen vanishes into the wind, like passed gas that we all politely pretend never happened.
To add context.

Yandex, Yahoo, and Bing displays this correctly.

This is intentional on Google's end.
> My theory, if anyone wants to make something akin to minecraft in the future, is to do just enough, and not too much. Make a game that's delightful as a toy to pick and play around with; and resist the overwhelming urge to add more.

Yup, absolutely. It's very easy to get carried away with just adding more.... stuff, but more stuff isn't necessarily better if it doesn't improve the gameplay.

The game doesn't become better by adding another type of tree or new random building blocks or whatever, only if they actually offer something unique and cool.

Current Minecraft really suffers from this. Do we really need like 30 types of copper blocks?
I have a heart abnormality that shows up as an inverted T-wave on an echo cardiogram. Some physicians will immediately think I'm having some sort of heart attack, though I display no symptoms. It's actually that my heart fills fully and empties fully in a single cycle. I'm not a medical professional, so all I have are laymans explanations, but what it means is that my heart beats less frequently but stronger than the average heart. It was documented thoroughly throughout my time in the Marines and a cardiologist suggested it wasn't a defect. My heart rate remains much lower than other peoples when under stress and my heart rate at rest is only slightly lower than an average persons. When I asked him what all that meant he suggested that I probably won't die of anything heart related, but my body is otherwise normal.