skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a diminishing returns problem... If they charge 2.9% + $.30 as their standard pricing, they are only keeping a small % of that as the issuer (Chase) gets the largest piece of the pie and the network (Visa) takes their cut too. If each declined authorization costs Stripe $.25, each attempt chips away at their margin.
Oh, brainwashed or contrarian, it's anybody's guess.
Like, maybe that was originally true, but they have had decades. Numerous times contact has been lost, hardware failed, key people died, etc.

How has nobody at the top ordered a digitization and consolidation of all known code and supporting documentation during that time frame.
I don't see pricing anywhere on the website. Also, you never explicitly say that it is free. This is concerning.
yeah I like them, it's just weird what they pull in sometimes. the ones with my kids often seem to always include the same pictures too, so I always end up seeing this one specific one of my son in basically every slideshow. I wonder if it meets some criteria for being colorful or something.
Get something with Thunderbolt and you’ll likely never notice a difference
In order to do computing involving time zones you also need to get an enormous number of people (particularly vendors of computer operating systems and maintainers of programming languages) to agree. But yes, this does appear to be easier than getting a few hundred political jurisdictions to agree.
The unlikely inventor of the automatic rice cooker
Are things you have learned so far transferable back to C? Can you with your new experience consider yourself a better C coder?
> Ultimately increasing recovery rate across the board means more revenue, which is good for a business.

Not if it isn't ethical. You're painting those with the failed payments who didn't cancel of being the ones in the wrong to justify the action taken against them, but heavy handed payment collection of a SaaS they likely weren't using doesn't sound great to me either. How about just doing the honorable thing that also isn't chasing bad clients?

> If the customer doesn't want the service they have the option to cancel.

Would you take Adobe as a customer, with their infamous cancellation dark patterns?
If you can't rely on the government to legislate in your interest, rebellion is always a valid option. I see the vandalization in this context as the same. When time keeping was expensive you can be sure industrialists used it as a tool of tyranny. There's a difference in embracing technology and being at the end of it.
Hetzner Considered Hostile: A PSA
How do you test if a person knows something?
In theory, this can be expressed in tzdb. Obviously, it will cause problems.

The only really important assumption not obviously present in TZif's data format is that when you go from a local time to a UTC time, there can only be up to two possibilities. A lot of software works on that assumption, for instance java.time.LocalDateTime has a withLaterOffsetAtOverlap():

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/?java/time/LocalDa...

That implicitly assumes that whenever it's ambiguous what 2:30AM means, you can only have two possible solutions (pre- and post-DST). If a timezone were ever to manipulate its offsets so that there were three or more solutions (such as if they did a "fall back" at 2:00AM and then 2:15AM or something), a lot of stuff would be unable to represent that.
I'm pro-choice, but labeling terms like 'unborn babies' as 'weird' for being 'politically loaded' feels like an unproductive distraction. You're just adding bait to a divisive debate rather than contributing any real substance to the conversation.
Abuse reports that are not directed at them...
Early Mentors for Exceptional Students [pdf]
- Use of punctuation characters is a brilliant one! thanks!

- the site is currently completely responsive in mobile and larger screens. The middle area as you've discovered struggles, but only in the Explore page.

As far as the data validation is concerned.. I'm sure you can appreciate its just me testing so the data sanitization is yet to happen.. (Bye bye ngolo)

Thank you very much for playing around with this!
Huh?

How old are you?

"Bro" has been gender neutral for over a decade. Males and females under the age of 25 call each other "bro" all the time.
First, let's not forget that jaywalking is one of those "crimes" that is used as a pretense by police to harass people, usually young people and people of color.

Second, as a veteran jaywalker, my rule of thumb is that if a car has to hit their breaks even a little, or otherwise alter their trajectory, you're doing it wrong. The goal should be smooth movement for all.

Third, just because someone else is jaywalking does not mean you should follow them! Always asses your own path because someone else may be timing it differently.
Ok but how do you know they are abusers? And what is the net effect?
Ortho-Tiles
> Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry -- based on extreme estimates such savings could reduce the total US power usage by over 10% by 2030

The way this is phrased threw me off. It sounded to me like the author was comparing the power use of a more efficient LLM industry to US usage without LLMs and expecting it to be 10% lower.

Looking into the source linked with the claim, it doesn't even hold up when compared against how much power LLMs use today. The linked article raises an estimate that LLM power use could increase 15-23 times between 2023 and 2027, and that by 2030 LLMs could account for 20-25% of our total energy use.

Working that match backwards, the benefit the author is hailing as a success is that we would only increase energy use by say 7.5-11.5 times by 2027 and that in 2030 LLMs would only be 10% of the total energy use. That's not a win in my book, and doesn't account for the Jevan's Paradox problem where we would almost certainly just use all that efficiency gain to further grow LLM use compared to the 2030 prediction without the efficiency gains.
And yet jaywalking accounts for the majority of pedestrian deaths, despite being a fraction of the number of crossings.

Believe it or not, most drivers do look out for pedestrians. Some better than others, but another set of eyeballs is invaluable, especially from the actual car that risks hitting you. Unfortunately, drivers do not expect people to cross in the middle of the street. And they never will, generally speaking. People are constantly milling around on the sidewalk, standing on curbs, doing all manner of crazy things, but not actually crossing. From a driver's perspective, a pedestrian about to cross the street typically looks indistinguishable from a pedestrian just doing the normal insane stuff pedestrians do. Then in a split second they go from normal pedestrian to crossing pedestrian, which is often much too late for a driver to respond, assuming they even noticed, unless it's at an expected crossing.

Yes, intersections feel dangerous and risky. But that's precisely why they're safer--pedestrians and drivers alike feel the anxiety, whereas when jaywalking both the pedestrian and car often don't sense any risk at all.
That's what I was thinking - it sounds welcome. I would love if every recurring charge I had required me to recieve a notification to approve it.

I have spent my entire adult life attempting to avoid subscriptions and only use services I pro-actively pay for, which has become rather impossible over the last decade.

Returning to that would be great! Of course, a large amount of SaaS companies would be very unhappy with this - recurring billing on customers who forget about the service is a major revenue source. There's an entire industry built around "not-quite-scamming" people in this way.

Lately I've taken to using whatever credit card I have that is going to expire the soonest, or a virtual card, and then not updating it on customer portals. In many cases, this allows me to use a different card to make a "one time payment" after the recurring payment fails, which prompts me to evaluate whether or not the service is still something I need every month.
> How do you handle the date changing in the middle of the day?

It seems like you would have to do absolutely nothing? Just like you do absolutely nothing to "handle" the hour changing throughout the day. People work overnight shifts. People schedule important events close to and on either side of midnight.
Is this company asking you to do things for them by any chance? The only time I've seen anything like this was when they were leeching free consultancy for a problem they were unable to solve. They compartmentalized the problem into different sub-components and under the guise of advancement in the process, held an 'interview' on them separately and a follow-up for the feedback (i.e. find out the answers). Once they had all the parts they needed, they said the person had not got the job.

Find different opportunities - this one sounds no good. If they treat you like this in the play nice phase, they will treat you much, much worse if they ever employ you.
They've added repair stuff years in advance for the upcoming mandate on right to repair. Funny how they know the path they should take but don't choose to take it until there's a future mandate. Then suddenly it's "out of the goodness of our corporate heart..." and y'all eat it up & make excuses for em.
> But a good graphics rendering engine will do it.

Correlation/Causation: lots of things in graphics rendering work because of observed phenomena. A “good graphics engine” is only as good as the eyes that implemented it. Todays engines still fall short of what is in front of us, and not because of a technical limitation.

> Pretty sure I saw scenes where shadows were purple despite a green sky.

If it’s a stylistic effect then it’s a stylistic effect. But otherwise, purple shadows are literally everywhere. Shadows can have an immense amount of chroma and vibrancy to them, or they can be incredibly cool and muted. It all depends on the context.
Faster is always nice, makes sense. But do you really need WiFi 7 features/speed? I don't know when I would notice a difference (on a laptop) between 600 or 1500 Mbit/s (just as an example). Can't download much anyhow as the storage will get full in minutes.
Thunderbird is housed in MZLA Technologies, an independent subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation and completely separate from the Mozilla Corporation or its CEO's remit.
> But its completely possible to implement an io-uring reactor correctly under Rust's async model, this is just a requirement to do so.

I don't get why people say it's incompatible with rust when rust async libraries work IOCP, which follows the similar model as io-uring?
> It looks like few people only are using Wifi 7 for now.

Machines can last and be used for years, and it would be a presumably very simple way to 'future proof' things.

And though the IEEE spec hasn't officially been ratified as I type this, it is set to be by the end of 2024. Network vendors are also shipping APs with the functionality, so in coming years we'll see a larger and larger infrastructure footprint going forward.
Thunderbird is an email client, not an email service. Fastmail and proton only allow you to connect to their service. Thunderbird can use any IMAP/POP + SMTP email service.
Citation please, about Dropbox training models with customer data?
did you not read https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

"We hypothesize that this decline is due to the fact that current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data."
I think you read my post about that, I don't know if they specifically disabled player shadows because of the anti-cheat system but it certainly makes the anti-cheat simpler. Valorant intentionally has extremely bare-bones rendering to allow for very high framerates on modest hardware, aside from no dynamic shadows it has no dynamic lighting whatsoever, and no alpha transparency anywhere. Things like smoke that would usually be transparent are stylized in ways that let them be drawn fully opaque because it's faster. Regardless of the cheating situation they probably would have skipped dynamic shadows anyway, for performance.
It's not an insane idea for NVIDIA or AMD to build ram sockets and an NVME interface into their video cards. The CPU is shuttling data over the PCI-E bus for certain things.

The 5090 is going to be US$3-4k(?) when it comes out. So at that price a lot of things could be achievable.
How are you different from Flexpay.io who's been doing this for years?
Depends on how naive the conversion is. If you consider DST while making the conversion that’s not really a problem
How do you calculate the balance of positive an negative externalities? I think this is the sticking point. You could put a price on the negative externality from gasoline carbon. How does that compare to the positive value people get from goods shipped with that gasoline: consumer satisfaction, jobs, ect.

If we look at all the externalities, should we be subsidizing it or taxing it? This is the challenge with adjusting for externalities.
MrBeast Investigation
Ironic that you're also professing what to sell right above and that you're also doing it on HN.
It kind of ignores the core asymmetry of capitalism, that those with the capital are the ones with the power. Nobody can do a background check on a company to see who they laid off or fired before they work there.
replying to the wheresyouredat article:

>>OpenAI launched o1 — codenamed Strawberry — on Thursday night, with all the excitement of a dentist’s appointment. Across a series of tweets, Sam Altman described o1 as OpenAi’s “most capable and aligned models yet.” Though he conceded that o1 was “still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it,” he promised it would deliver more accurate results when performing the kinds of activities where there is a definitive right answer — like coding, math problems, or answering science questions.

it seems to me like they nerfed the regular free ai model to give me imperfect replies on my benchmark consistently while the o1 model nails it consistently. before the free model would, depending on the day, give me more accurate replies to my benchmark .

thus widening the divide to make the o1 model look more useful. openai can do whatever they want and thats fine but all it seems to me they did was make 01 look good by comparison by nerfing the free product.
> I'm not sure it's a useful conversation to say "Hey, someone else has it worse."

That's wasn't the point of my comment. The point was the $125,000 severance package. You have someone making $40,000 a year getting laid off with little notice and no money to live on. That's bad. Then you have someone getting laid off but the company is giving them another $125,000. To the extent that that's bad, it's something that most folks could never dream of.
>I cross where ever when it is safe and convenient
Neuralink-equipped wageslaves mind-projecting into robo-octopuses, traversing the storehouse-grid with the aid of their many-suckered appendages. Navigating via implicitly interfacing with the warehouse's AI overseer.
Thanks! The irony is not missed on me. I think I have the dates internally in the article metadata, just didn't set up my Hugo templates to display it. TODO!
You can judge the truth and falsity of its output without caring a whit about how it produces those outputs.
What, you mean you can't go and buy plutonium at any corner store?
We're used to hearing some kind of identity behind voices -- we unconsciously sense clusters of vocabulary, intonation patterns, ticks, frequent interruption vs quiet patience, silence tolerance, response patterns to various triggers, etc that communicate a coherent person of some kind.

We may not know that a given speaker is a GenX Methodist from Wisconsin that grew up at skate parks in the suburbs, but we hear clusters of speech behavior that lets our brain go "yeah, I'm used to things fitting together in this way sometimes"

These don't have that.

Instead, they seem to mostly smudge together behaviors that are just generally common in aggregate across the training data. The speakers all voice interrupting acknowledgements eagerly, they all use bright and enunciated podcaster tone, they all draw on similar word choice, etc -- they distinguish gender and each have a stable overall vocal tone, but no identity.

I don't doubt that this'll improve quickly though, by training specific "AI celebrity" voices narrowed to sound more coherent, natural, identifiable, and consistent. (And then, probably, leasing out those voices for $$$.)

As a tech demo for "render some vague sense of life behind this generated dialog" this is pretty good, though.
Maximum Independent Set on Unit Disk Graph
And mentioned several other times since the paper came out in 2023.

The most comments are the 270 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34280239 from the MIT press release at https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-cas... .

There is also "Cracking the Case: Science Solves Ancient Mystery of Durable Roman Concrete" (2017) linking to a 99% Invisible piece at https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cracking-case-secret-... .
Long support length? For money!
Would the CEO resigning or getting laid off, make your situation any better if you were one of those laid off?

Feels like a weird hill to die on, and more like a crabs in the bucket mentality that doesn't change anything in the grand scheme of things. In the end I'm still unemployed and whatever happens to my ex-CEO doesn't change my situation one bit.

As I grew older and experienced my share of layoffs, I stopped caring about what happens to those responsible for me getting laid off, as my energy is better spent on improving my situation and my life instead of ruminating how Krama vengeance would make me feel better.
I haven't used it, and can't speak to it being "top notch", but they're advertising it as a fully fledged endpoint product that even includes some things like FIM (File integrity Monitoring), which are usually only available as expensive add-ons or additional modules with traditional security products like McAfee.

If it were me, I would compare and contrast it's features and support with commercial offerings and see which one you feel the most comfortable with. There's a lot at stake when it comes to security. It's probably best not to let your decisions be 100% about up-front cost.
There's also the built-in "Speak Selection" feature you can enable in the accessibility settings.
> Companies allow things like remote work, which is a perk, but also has a lot of abuse in terms of how much work gets done

Do you mind expanding on this? How does remote work change the standards of how much work somebody has to get down?
>> oxidised, damaged, small, dense LDL

I am so confused. What on earth is a " dense Low-Density-Lipid" ?

Please help me understand whether or not this is an oxymoron?
Personally I have 15 extensions installed. Only four of them have access to all sites, and two of those are because they are not updated to Manifest v3 yet. I didn't say it was impossible for a Manifest v3 extension to have access to all sites. Most will not.
I was optimistically hoping some of the MV3 changes would result in Chrome webstore policy enforcement being standardized, but that hasn't happened.

Sensor Tower (https://sensortower.com/) makes a lot of popular extensions, like StayFocusd https://www.stayfocusd.com/. They seem to resell ad data (in violation of [1]?) and ship likely obfuscated code [2] (in violation of [3]?), but there's no enforcement or even clear reporting mechanism.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/program-policies/...

[2] https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fclients2.googl...

[3] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/program-policies/...
Here is one workaround: if you have to use a Chrome extension, make a separate profile just for that task. Don’t run any by default.
Wow, I didn't even realize you could double-click the CPU graph on the main screen to open that view.
Being able to stay in the country is also tied to employment for plenty of people
This seems like a weird use of Rust.

There is no mention of how much of the codebase is even in safe Rust after all this work so no clear value to the migration?

Frequently when people get their code ported they then begin a process of reducing the unsafe surface area but not here.

The author seems to have little or no value on safe Rust? It doesn't seem evident from reading/skimming his 4 articles on the process.

Interesting mechanical bits to read for sure though so it' still a useful read more broadly.

It's unsurprising that the author would go use Zig next time since they didn't seem to have any value alignment with Rust's core safety guarantees.
You should read Matt Levine's Money Stuff! I think his is the tone I roughly was going for here.
This is super cool! Especially matrix mult getting similar or better perf than cuBLAS! If anyone is interested on other kernels like swiglu, geglu, RMS layernorm, I coded some at https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/tree/main/unsloth/kerne...
Link to your post for the curious?
Stock/cash is not fungible for the company itself. Using shareholders as an ATM is a surefire way to tank a stock, and companies tend to use it as an absolute last resort.
AFAIK there are two ways for this, neither of which is convenient to use: install all extensions from the source (you can unpack an existing crx for it or use their clonned repo if it's opensource) or use a group policy to disable extensions autoupdate and update each of them manually when the new version has something you want.
I belong to that contingent, and I still stand by the assertion that Apple's software is too opinionated, configurability is unreasonably low, and you have to stick to the Apple ecosystem for many thing to get the most out of it.

My primary desktop & laptop are now both Macs because of all the malarkey in Win11. Reappearance of ads in Start and Windows Recall were the last straws. It's clear that Microsoft is actively trying to monetize Windows in ways that are inherently detrimental to UX.

I do have to say, though, that Win11 is still more customizable overall, even though it - amazingly! - regressed below macOS level in some respects (e.g. no vertical taskbar option anymore). Gaming is another major sticking point - the situation with non-casual games on macOS is dismal.
Call of Duty is 200GB
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41937205
New York City is actually one of the few US jurisdictions that DO NOT permit right turns on red as a default rule.
Indeed. Look here instead, perhaps:

https://www.seriouseats.com/best-nonstick-silicone-spatulas-...

But if you’re cooking on a pan that tolerates stainless steel, this one and its smaller cousin are excellent:

https://www.oxo.com/large-stainless-steel-flexible-turner.ht...
I upgraded from the last 16" MBP Intel sold to the first 16" MBP M1 available.

It is absolutely, 100%, no doubt in my mind: the hardware.
I do not really understand the mentioned difficulties with instruction profiling.

Are they saying it is hard to sample the stacks across the boundary? Are they saying it is hard to do so coherently because the accelerator engine is actually asynchronous so you need to do some sort of cross-boundary correlation?

However, they then talk about file systems and /proc representations which have nothing to do with the actual sampling process; only posing problems for the display of human-readable information. Many naive profiling, tracing, and logging implementations conflate these actions to their detriment; are they being conflated here or is it just a generic statement of the scope of problems?
Almost(?) everybody is poorer than Bezos. Pretty much by definition he invests in people poorer than him. I don't claim that trickle down economics are real; it is my understanding that trickle down economics claims something much much stronger than what I said.