skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the tradeoff of accepting credit cards.

Users access to a payment system that users trust because it generally gives them the benefit of the doubt, and they don't face liability for fraud.

Merchants get access to a fast reliable system connected to billions of worldwide users, but are forced to adopt extremely customer friendly policies.

If you don't like Visa or Stripe's terms, don't accept them. Use ACH, or crypto, or whatever else other payment system you prefer, but be ready to have a VERY hard time attracting customers.

I get that it's annoying, I used to do payment tech for a subscription box, and people loved to open disputes when they forgot to cancel. But, it wasn't hard to dispute: we would send a copy of our terms of service showing that they agreed to the charge, and a copy of the shipping showing that the item was sent, as well as a log of all communications and interaction with the client (to prove that they hadn't requested cancellation). We had a script that could package all of this info for the dispute, so it normally took almost no time at all. Sometimes we had to eat the cost because the whole process is biased against merhchants.

The reality is that credit cards are one of the most enabling technologies for the internet. Should it be this way? I don't know. But in the real world, it is, so you can either opt in to the most popular payment system that gives you access to billions of people n exchange for disputes, or you don't.
When you live there you get used to sleeping in daylight.

That's not an excuse to not provide black out curtains at a hotel for international guests, but I guess people just don't think about it.
Which is particularly interesting, because the quality of the buildings themselves have taken a steep nosedive since the 1940s. Something like 98% of all new builds are complete teardown crapshacks. It makes you wonder where the money is going if the materials are dogshit and the labor is incompetent.
It’s not a singularity because the synthetic data generated by the previous frontier model isn’t usually fed directly into the training for the next frontier model - a “discriminator” is applied to select only the highest quality responses. That discriminator could be a field expert or mechanical turk or another model trained to select for higher quality responses (i.e. trained on a dataset of books rather than internet content).

As far as I know, OpenAI has been doing this, using both experts and Kenyan workers as well as their own discriminator models. Unfiltered synthetic data is generally used more for distilled models and fine tunes for a specific use case.
The author, Joe antognini, also has an excellent podcast on the history of astronomy called: The Song of Urania
Biden signed 162 executive orders.

Is Trump somehow different here?
Ask HN: Why are the posts on the "Ask" page so old?
Looking at the Ask page on HN there are posts from 12-13 days ago still there

Has it always been like this or did the algorithm change?
Irrelevant and sounds like a personal attack. They're not in the business of selling domains. They're making a platform for social apps.
I thought merchants not accepting Amex had more to do with high processing fees compared to MC/Visa. Amex is marketed as a premium card targeted at higher income people so wouldn't that correlate with fewer charge backs?
What makes this a rabbit hole? I've looked into it before but not deeply, is it tricky to use in practice for a non obvious reason?
It is one of the most stinky kind of meat available.
Well, that and their amazing logistics. Their annual time table is even connected to the local public transport in major and medium-sized cities.
you can just not listen to the suggestion ez pz next click bait link plz
> unsustainable demand

Scales with population growth, and immigrants don't come to the U.S. just so they can eschew meat. I don't see what's unsustainable about it. Land-use has barely budged. At any rate if the population didn't grow, the demand wouldn't either. As it happens, global population growth is projected to stall in less than 100 years.

Growth in the 1st world means more emissions and land encroachment, until innovation catches up. Electricity is being abated with renewables, but not concrete, ammonia, plastics, etc. There's no free lunch, if we want the juicy GDP growth, that's the price.

> again - the percentage of meat that comes from these conditions is so small as to be virtually irrelevant in the context of the animal agriculture industry

There's the consideration of our own personal choices and options having a place in the conversation, and the other consideration of prescription for improving conditions and/or emissions.
> I think of them as similar to human optical illusions.

What we call "hallucinations" is far more similar to what we would call "inventiveness", "creativity", or "imagination" in humans than anything to do with what we refer to as "hallucinations" in humans—only they don't have the ability to analyze whether or not they're making up something or accurately parameterizing the vibes. The only connection between the two concepts is that the initial imagery from DeepDream was super trippy.
I tried it once, ran out of memory debugging a template error as it blew up my terminal into a sea of jibberish.
This is, like, the entirety of computing. Did x86 spring fully-formed from Zeus's forehead or did people bake in their knowledge of what programmers wanted their programs to do?

When you write programs do you not use heuristics? And tests?
AI Handholding – Techniques that help when coding with LLMs and AI agents
After reading https://ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots/ I compiled a few ideas about how I've been using LLMs and agents (mostly Cline). I hope you find these useful!
Not sure how it works in the US but many countries can choose to deny entry for any reason and my understanding is they don't even need to provide a reason.

If that is the case here then I really doubt the researcher was told that they have been denied entry due to their personal opinions on the Trump administration. This really just leaves us to speculate.
Xbox Adaptive Joystick
> Gentrification actually only affects a very small percentage of people who end up refusing to sell and holding out until they cannot afford anymore.

In California, gentrification almost never affects long time homeowners. Once you pay off your mortgage, your only housing costs are maintenance and property taxes which are highly subsidized thanks to Proposition 13.

However, renters who make up 44% of all California households very often do experience increasing housing price pressures which drives them to move to lower cost (and lower opportunity) areas. Some municipalities have tight rent controls, but most do not. There's a state law which prevents rent increases in older units above 5% plus inflation but that is still an allowable rate which quickly outpaces income growth.

I happen to like some rent controls but I'm not saying that universal rent controls are a solution here. There just has to be some explanation for why housing construction costs seem to grow just as fast as housing prices in general. If housing prices are growing faster than wages and the producer price index for materials then it cant just be construction labor and materials!

What I am alluding to is that there is simply a lack of locations which are able to be developed into new housing. Sometimes that's onerous land use constraints, very long project entitlement and permitting timelines which increases financing costs, local taxes/fees or exactions on development, or some combination of all of these!
Yep, the crowning achievement of machine complexity in recent human history is easily generalized in computational efficacy by effectively markov chain chatbots that were trained on project Gutenberg, reddit comments, and github python and javascript repos.
I see. So the timeline was:

1 Ship broken and delay announced until 2025

2 Musk offers his ship for return before 2025

3 Offer not accepted,

4 Pro-Musk claims the refusal was for political reasons, anti-Musk crowd claims it's not for political reasons but simply to comply with the original plan

Is that correct? If so, both groups agree with your comment, right?
It was definitely there, but the scale of it was different back then and it was decidedly less mean-spirited by the early 2010s. I can remember when I first started using YouTube, I had someone from my city threaten to kill my entire family. A few years later when the 2012 Mayan Calendar Apocalypse was trending, another guy tried to justify his beliefs that it was real by claiming to have “top contacts” in a federal intelligence agency.

You would run into people like that maybe once every few months. These days you are basically guaranteed to run across multiple people like that every time you log on.

YouTube figured it out with comments around 2013 or 2014, but it got a lot worse about recommending videos from low-viewership channels in the last few years, which exposes you to a lot of wackos.
I've done a lot of litigation.. the last settlement I did the federal judge basically sat in her pajamas in front of her web cam all day flicking back and forth between plaintiff and defendant doing her best to talk through both sides of the arguments while trying to keep secret what the other side was telling her. She was very patient, despite how tiring and tedious the negotiations were. She was very actively engaged, though, bless her cotton socks.
> absolutely never underestimate the willingness of government to save companies that should go under

This is my biggest worry. As Musk is now basically part of the government, I wouldn't be surprised for Tesla to be deemed 'of strategic importance' and bailed out by the taxpayer. It's compatible with the privatized profits - socialized losses policy we've all been accustomed to.
Where do they get all this information about things like registers? I thought GPU ISAs were treated like trade secrets?
It shouldn't be too bad. The responses API accepts the same basic interface as the chat completion one.
Maybe, maybe not. This story may be pertinent:

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/olympic-cinderellas-steven-...
And here I was thinking the RTFM days were over...
Out-of-Your-Face AI
It does. There are two endpoints. Eventually, all new models will only be in the new endpoint. The data interfaces are compatible.
>John Gruber from Daring Fireball dug up this anecdote from the last time Apple seriously botched a major software launch

The last time Apple botched a major software launch wasn't MobileMe. It was Apple Maps. Or maybe something more recent.
I mean the problem with this argument is this: nobody in the affected areas who owns property is actually middle or lower class.

Homeowners in areas where housing is totally unaffordable area either extremely wealthy, by definition, because of their property ownership, or they're wealthy enough to pay a mortgage on an absurdly expensive property.

Where housing-as-good-investment is successful is really only in areas where shortages exist. You're not going to harm the middle class folks in Tracy by fixing the housing crisis in San Francisco.
That's possible. Are the feds going after THC/CBD links? Or is it like she was caught trafficking anything?

But good point, maybe that was the pretense for her deportation. A mini Pablo Escobar no doubt.
There is no base load to provide for a nuclear plant if the marginal cost of electricity is close to zero whenever wind/sun is on.

Building nuclear plants to then operate them in load following mode is just stupid. If the things can't even compete economically when you build them at pre-existing sites and run them at >90% capacity factor, how would you ever justify building new ones as basically glorified peakers plants, that run barely half the time!? Why would anyone pay for that?
My complaint is that the idea that the decent drawing experience that we have now was part of Apple's master plan for the iPad is incorrect. They resisted it purposely because the iPad was never meant to be a creative device. The issue wasn't limited to visual art; people who wanted to use iPads for its other major creative application - as a music controller - had to use a number of hacks to break it out of the Garageband ghetto.

The core issue is the hobbling of promising hardware because it doesn't fit the platform owner's vision.
There is the same number of hours of daylight, but near the poles you sleep through a lot of those hours in summer. So you experience far fewer hours of daylight.

Another mind blowing thing about the equatorial sun is seeing it above you! Where I grew up, the sun is never higher that 30 degrees.
I dont have the answers for you, I just know that if they charged 400$ a month I would pay it. It seems like a different model to me. I never use o3-mini or o3-mini-high. Just gpt4o or o1 pro
It is. Even more horrific is the number of people agreeing with everything happening. On linkedIn, I see educated people defending any silly or barbaric measure Trump can come up with.

One could hope that this would act like an electroshock for the US and that they'll review their check and balances after Trump's mandate. But I'm not sure this country has the critical mass of sane people to make it happen. Scary.
Both commands work in either I believe. I've been using both since my FreeBSD days and now I use Debian Linux with no change.
Another in this vein is "pgweb" for PostgreSQL, just need a binary to run its web interface.

https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb
Wait until you try high speed rail in China. They're 10-15 years ahead of Japan.
Microsoft should really disable Windows 10 PCs or at least open source the OS if they aren’t able to secure it.

It is pretty unethical to create a giant population of non-updated internet devices to spread malware and act as ddos nodes.
This is completely cultural and has little to do with "genetic similarity". People have been eating monkeys since forever. Monkeys that have the most human-looking gazes.

Same with dogs.
China would like to have a word.
No, they specifically looked at changes in income. Incomes go up before housing prices go up.
Show HN: AI Chats Unable to Solve Easy Coding Problem
I needed a bash script that, given a path, would detect empty directories. More specifically, I wanted the script to only list the highest parent directory (in other words, if there were no files anywhere beneath parent and within parent's subdirs, then just output the parent).

I figured this would be quite simple, but since I was already working with a AI chat, I gave it a prompt with the rules and objective. After 30 mins of so, I switched to DeepSeek, thinking it would output a solution on the first try. Nope. Not even after more than 90 minutes of back and forth with debugging.

I was very surprised. As an aside, I solved it on my own in a simple two step process:

Step 1: Use find $dir -type d with the sorted output input into an array.

Step 2: Set parent to 'start'; Iterate the sorted array and continue the loop if the array_ele was a child of parent - otherwise echo $dir and set parent=$dir

Easy Peasy. But quite surprised both AI chats struggled to find a solution in bash (I limited the AI to bash).
Newsweek, Scientist Banned From Entering US Over Opinions About Trump - Minister

https://www.newsweek.com/french-scientist-banned-us-entry-me...

> The arrest continues a reported trend of temporary visa holders and visitors being detained by U.S. border officials on their way into the country amid heightened immigration enforcement under the Trump administration and concerns that free speech is no longer a defense when it comes to legal immigration status. // [...] U.S. authorities saw these messages as "hate and conspiracy messages," which prompted an FBI investigation that was later dropped. However, the researcher was sent back to France. // CBP's move to deny entry to a foreign national seemingly solely based on their opinion of the president, rather than necessarily expressing ill will or intentions to harm him, comes amid increased scrutiny of those entering the country. // Legal permanent residents, along with those on work-based visas, have been questioned, detained and even removed from the country in recent weeks, including two German tourists and a Canadian woman trying to renew her visa at the southwest border. // Immigration attorneys have begun advising clients to ensure their social media profiles are free of criticism of the administration and images that could be seen as inappropriate or in support of ideas that do not fit with current U.S. foreign policy.
But at the same time it'll write me 2000 lines of really gnarly text parsing code in a very optimized fashion that would have taken a senior dev all day to crank out.

We have to stop trying to compare them to a human, because they are alien. They make mistakes humans wouldn't, and they complete very difficult tasks that would be tedious and difficult for humans. All in the same output.

I'm net-positive from using AI, though. It can definitely remove a lot of tedium.
Intel and AMD GPUs have public documentation and open source drivers.
With nearly all DBaaS, and _especially_ Aurora, as TFA mentions, the storage is also on the network, so it's moot.
Much too quiet here on HN on this post

Science underpins technology, people.

If you want to see the US rapidly lose its place in the tech world over the next decade, this is a great way to go about it.
Don't know if it's me, but this is really funny.
And those who care about the truth.
Trump Floats Idea of U.S. Owning Ukrainian Power Plants as He Pushes Cease-Fire
I don’t know why, but I’ve found AI assistants to be less effective recently. They’ve just been outputting slop for me.
what is with hacker news and comments like this. I once complained about the dmv being innefficient and like ten people came out of the woodwork telling me to check my privelege.
Where do you draw the line? Do you think dung beetles have emotions? Not being snarky, I just think it’s a difficult idea to pin down.
If you're in the habit of breaking down problems to Sonnet-sized pieces you won't see a benefit. The win is that o1pro lets you stop breaking down one level up from what you're used to.

It may also have a larger usable context window, not totally sure about that.
If you have a pasta machine, they're not hard to make. I'm fractionally Polish, but culinarily Italian, and my wife is also fractionally Polish, but also culinarily Polish.

Making them together been a wonderful blend of our respective kitchen skills and a lovely project for a mud season weekend day.

Finding the farmer's cheese is usually the hardest part. Folks in the northeast can pretty much count on finding it at a Market Basket. No idea where you'd start looking in San Diego. Boston area folks who aren't already aware should know that the Polish store and the Polish restaurant in Andrew are both amazing.
This is definitely a huge factor I see in the mistakes. If I hand an LLM some other parts of the codebase along with my request so that it has more context, it makes less mistakes.

These problems are getting solved as LLMs improve in terms of context length and having the tools send the LLM all the information it needs.
Thank you for replying. Oh wow :| I'm sorry to hear that you're homeless. I wish you could live in a country with the required social safety nets to keep that from happening and hope you are safe.
I guess it isn't that surprising. Both constructed languages and natural languages are man-made and do the same thing, it's just that they were developed by different processes.

Conlangs also tend to be based, consciously or subconsciously, on existing natural languages. As I understand, Esperanto is largely Romance language vocabulary with Slavic language grammar.
Isn't a collage a creative work?
Questions over rows of brand new Teslas filling random parking lots [video]
Still not much methane compared to cows. Also, methane doesn't persist in the atmosphere nearly as long as CO2 does.
1. Property tax is not land value tax, and "high property tax" does not behave at all like a quasi-land value tax even if land value is a component of the property tax.

2. No, it specifically makes sprawl very expensive relative to density, and economic decisions are largely made on a comparative basis. LVT makes it free to increase the density/productivity of your existing lot, while taking ownership of another lot (more area) introduces a huge new tax burden that you have to put to very productive use very quickly.

It's way, way cheaper to increase density than sprawl under LVT.
yea, all right is working on is fixing this shit for ya. feel safe already, just like I did in 2016-2020. those were the times… now I am already starting to feel safer too, it is unbelievable :)
> I am not the source of the common meaning of the term,

The accuracy of your claim regarding common meaning is being disputed. You might notice that well over half of the quote you pasted from Britannica is referring to totalitarian, not authoritarian, regimes.

Nowhere does it say anything like "the term authoritarian regime is commonly taken to imply".
I don't want to hide the arrow. I WANT to know what channels to avoid just by looking at the thumbnail. It's a feature, not a bug.
Which is why the mess of American healthcare won't be fixed anytime soon.
Along with D
theres lots of ai other than llms
Nobody is forced to use them. If they really want an audience swayed by arrows, I don't want to be part of their audience.
To learn where in the world Guyana or Myanmar are, all you need to work with is maps that are aligned so that North is toward the top of the screen.

Just like to learn algebra, you don't need to solve equations upside down, or to learn to read, you don't need to read upside down. These variations don't speak to the semantics of the main activity whatsoever.

If you know where every country is from doing spaced repetition and someone gives you a world map upside down, you will easily find a given country; you can mentally rotate the map then.
Isn't it generating in the browser using webgpu?
Would have preferred the more standard "octopuses", but at least it's not the incorrect "octopi"!
LBC, Diplomatic row erupts after French researcher expelled from US for expressing 'a personal opinion' on Trump

https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/diplomatic-row-french-trump...

> [...] Following his detainment, it's reported that his professional and personal equipment was reportedly confiscated, and the researcher was sent back to Europe the next day.
Ya, I followed a similar path; it quickly became something habitual, and I realized that I couldn't avoid the preachy political crap from even people I would otherwise probably align with. It felt like I was chronically checking it, and nearly always being bombarded with messaging about what I was supposed to be mad about that day, whereas if I'd not been on the platform I probably wouldn't have regularly fluctuation intense emotions about irrelevant issues.

HN is kind of a bad habit, but it's just a forum to me, I don't follow people, people aren't following me, I don't need to be signup up in order to find out what's going on in municipal government, it's just discourse about common interests if that's what I want. I can get a weekly digest and I know that's quite enough if that's the relationship I want to have with it, and everyone sees the same content.
No idea, but they are probably order like the front page (perhaps with other gravity?).

If you want to see all of them https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew
There are hundreds of Cliven Bundys.

The insistence on othering what clearly isn't an alien experience for our own society is annoying. It's also a bit dangerous, considering how the, "Just swoop in and merc the bastards," produced the Bundy approach; disrespect for the complexity of dealing with militias leads to tragedy.
houses are assets, and the fed prints money.

when you print money the dollar loses value and assets are worth more dollars.

this is pretty basic.
our government is intentionally inflating the currency at 4% a year.

houses prices will always go up then.