skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more interesting thing here is the "controlled digital lending" test case that will almost certainly come of all of this.

If they somehow prevail on that aspect and set a legal precedent there, that would resolve a lot of issues for a lot of companies.

For example, Netflix could stream every movie ever, as long as they bought enough DVDs for peak demand. Or those companies that would set up 1000 TV antennas in a datacenter and then stream the signal.

I just hope the IA doesn't get CDL shot down because of this and ruin it for everyone.
Other people are implying it, but to be more specific, the boost in cooling is the evaporative cooling impact of dew.
> "I'm not going to think about consequences when I optimize this solution for myself."

This. There's the clearly overt racism people love to upload/watch on youtube, but I like this sentence how it captures the 'institutional' racism. (I have a hard time conveying this in conversation with friends.) And over time this has created a very deep divide, along race. I'm reminded of an Alan Greenspan quote (that a can't find current, so I'm going to butcher it in paraphrase): beware the possibility that segments of the population will become "reluctant to participate" if the hill is too steep or if they perceive the system is against them, because the system will then be worthless because people will exit. I think he said this around the 2008 collapse.
Ask HN: What tech solution cost more than the problem it initially solved?
Technology involves trade-offs, but unfortunately costs aren't clear until long after adoption. What tech have you adopted in your current work, or prior, that probably wasn't necessary and cost more than anticipated? What would you do differently going forward?
> Now it might happen that anyone who protests might lose their ability to access banking services.

What? Why? How? Did you just make that up? Beyond that, if you lose access to banking services then bitcoin isn't going to help you since you need banking services to turn bitcoin into usable money.
Based on the current gray color, this response has seen quite a few down votes. I wonder why?

It essentially restates the premise of the article, and is reasonably accurate from my experience. ("upset the apple cart" may understate the risks of a "ground up" rewrite, but there are plenty of "bold approaches" that are less dramatic).

It would be nice if down voters replied, it could be an interesting discussion.
More than 50% of people drive to work in NYC? That is completely bonkers.
The national government has withdrawn free transport for children, not TFL
ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF Part 3
But it happily sells GitHub enterprise to the ICE.
Wouldn't saving the hash of the document on some blockchain be a more simpler solution to proving the integrity of a document?
There won't be a materialist theory of consciousness. https://iai.tv/articles/matter-is-nothing-more-than-the-extr...
Twitter’s Missing Manual (2016)
I think it's simply because OpenAI is fundamentally created and controlled by venture capitalists, and the tech they created turned out to be just too juicy an opportunity to not monetize.

I can’t say I blame them, when they realize they are sitting on the technological equivalent of a mountain of gold. What would you do?
> are you really arguing that you can't take the idea from a published paper, understand it and build your own work on it? The FOSS philosophy is the closest equivalent for code.

I am saying that rentier capitalists benefit from monopolies. I am saying that the reality you describe is only available for a very privileged few. Access is not based on a human ability to understand it's complexity, but purely on luck. This is systemic fuckery. It's theft. It's systemic racism and systemic disinheriting when considering the reality of the pre-dominantly white Global North, and it's strangehold on the Global South, as well as the Precariat classes of both the North and South.

What we need is Commons based peer production, not digital rentier capitalism. This is Guy Standing's definition of rentier capitalism:

"…today, a tiny minority of people and corporate interests across the world are accumulating vast wealth and power from rental income, not only from housing and land but from a range of other assets, natural and created. ‘Rentiers’ of all kinds are in unparalleled ascendancy and the neo-liberal state is only too keen to oblige their greed.

Rentiers derive income from ownership, possession or control of assets that are scarce or artificially made scarce. Most familiar is rental income from land, property, mineral exploitation or financial investments, but other sources have grown too. They include the income lenders gain from debt interest; income from ownership of ‘intellectual property’ (such as patents, copyright, brands and trademarks); capital gains on investments; ‘above normal’ company profits (when a firm has a dominant market position that allows it to charge high prices or dictate terms); income from government subsidies; and income of financial and other intermediaries derived from third-party transactions."

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"They assert a belief in ‘free markets’ and want us to believe that economic policies are extending them. That is untrue. Today we have the most unfree market system ever created….

How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others?

Far from trying to stop these negations of free markets, governments are creating rules that allow and encourage them. That is what this book is about."
They redefined the org from non-profit to "capped profit", whatever that means.

They're directly selling GPT 3 even though they originally said they wouldn't release it because of potential bad uses.

They paid MS a ton of money for hardware and got a huge equity investment from them.

And lets be honest here, the easiest and most straight-forward use of GPT3 is generating spam and low quality clickbait. Its the only use case that requires zero effort. The whole thing is built to generate fake but believable text. Its DeepFakes for text.

I'm not saying the whole thing is nefarious and evil, just suggesting that OpenAI may not be what it seems. There's a lot of odd things going on with it. They should have done what universities do, spin off the technology into a different for-profit company and sell it. Instead of redefining their entire org structure to make money.
I stand corrected, I forgot about LG and Samsung
I would have longed for the privilege of testing into a good highschool when I was young -- let alone some of the best schools in the country. It makes me a little sad to see the call for the system be dismantled.
Brownout detect is way too expensive, aggressive sleep mode: 200nA, brownout detect 54uA.
I just accept everything can be hacked, works both ways. Vendors won't tell you how the chip actually works, dump the firmware and if you are getting paid, photograph and xray the die.
Thanks! It is very valuable with feedback like this, even if in this case we're painfully aware of it. :)

I was working on fixing up that when COVID-19 hit. Now we're trying to stamp out more obscure audio+video bugs (like bluetooth, which can be unreliable). We're in process of hiring a few more people so we can hopefully put someone on caring more for the non-logged in mobile app experience.

You do get a join button once you've logged in. But I must confess it is not a good experience by default. It used to be on the top of the priority list, but then scaling and any video/audio issues jumped to the top.
In general, I'm very happy that I couldn't publish to the Internet unfiltered until long after I internalized "Never say or write anything in public that you wouldn't want to appear on the front page of the newspaper." I pretty much stay away from politics online, especially on anything like twitter that is public--especially any opinions that are nuanced and easily misconstrued.

I do have good professional reasons to be on twitter and I honestly don't have much inclination to have political arguments there. If I did, I'd probably get another pseudonymous handle but even that carries some risk that it could be connected to you in some way.
Start talkin to some lawyers then, be the change you want to see, etc.
If software world managed to create esoteric languages like brainfuck, expect from any military to study a hypothetical spontaneous human combustion pandemic. The exercise itself is useful for learning despite the comical outcome or product.
> since an upcoming Tails update was slated to strip the vulnerable code, Facebook didn’t bother to do so, though the social media company had no reason to believe Tails developers had ever discovered the bug.

Quite bizarre for Facebook to pay for a zero-day exploit to go after a criminal, but the only problem I have with the scenario is that Facebook didn't eventually disclose the vulnerability to the Tails team. The article notes that the Facebook team saw an upcoming update that strips the vulnerable code, but what if the Tails team reverted or delayed the update? The exploit should have been disclosed to the Tails team eventually so they can prioritize accordingly.

If the exploit was eventually disclosed, it's hard to distinguish this from white-hat security research. In both cases, you have a legitimate organization discovering exploits that are responsibly disclosed, just with the added bonus of pursuing a criminal in a short time window before disclosure.
Finally a solution that is not just another two way social media platform. This is going to be my new safe space to better understand racial inequity!
For those sites you want to visit anyway it is often sufficient to use an extension like Nuke Anything (on Firefox, don't know if it exists on Blink-based browsers but there is sure to be something) and simply zap the overlay: poof, overlay and everything in its container is gone without agreeing to anything. This also works on sites like Facebook which insist on you logging in by putting a modal popup in front of the page.
"Staff determined that Quadriga collapsed due to a fraud committed by Cotten. Cotten opened accounts under aliases and credited himself with fictitious currency and crypto asset balances, which he traded with unsuspecting Quadriga clients. Cotten sustained real losses when the price of crypto assets changed, thereby creating a shortfall in assets available to satisfy client withdrawals. Cotten covered this shortfall with other clients’ deposits – in effect, operating a Ponzi scheme. Staff calculated that the bulk of the $169 million in client losses – approximately $115 million – arose from Cotten’s fraudulent trading."
Yeah, or even a quarter sphere since the sun only occupies the southern part of the hemisphere (north of equator).
Some more related info on different algorithmic differentiation approaches in Julia: https://github.com/MikeInnes/diff-zoo
Deep Learning with JavaScript: Neural Networks in Tensorflow.js
There is also a discount code you can use, "42foryou", for a 42% discount.
It can be both. Humans are complex as are human institutions.

Increasing representation won’t happen if we ignore human nature to hire people we know.

Alexis knows Michael, he trust him from a shared history of working together.

Unfortunately, there have not been as many minorities in the settings where these types of relationships are formed. But steps like this will increase that over time.

So yes. I am clear. 1. People hire friends and people they have a history with. 2. Many people’s social circle looks more like them than the rest of society. 3. The funnel of qualified people will be smaller if we lean into that reality. 4. Increasing the diversity of decision makers at all levels will instead leverage that tendency to broaden the funnel and provide opportunities to more people thus strengthening meritocracy.
Sorry, lots of commentary. The IA lending is premised on the idea that a physical book can be lent an unlimited number of times. Public library lending of e-books is premised on limited number of lends with most lends (Libby/Media on Demand being the most common of these, but there are other programs as well that work the same such as 3M's digital library offering). With Hoopla, there's a per-lend charge that takes place.
This article mostly ignores the larger picture. Winning the COVID-19 fight by itself is not "winning". The real win is to minimize the total number of deaths (or perhaps adjusted life years) and general misery.

We have a lot more information now with which to project the benefits and costs of locking down to various degrees. It's all a guess, of course, but it's becoming clear that the costs of locking down are quite harsh, in terms of collateral deaths, etc.

Being smart is not "losing one's stomach to fight".
When America fixes copyright to be life of the author only, I will agree with your concerns.
Because self-driving is a strategically critical element of any car company that wants to survive once it becomes obvious how to do it.

This means that anyone doing self-driving needs to be a manufacturer in order to avoid getting squeezed on terms and profitability. And vice versa. A partnership won’t cut it; one company of the partnership will get screwed and the thing will go nowhere.

That’s why having both is critical, and I think this point is not fullt appreaciated.

Waymo is the strong party in a negotation with any manufacturer, and the manufacturers know this.
In full sun panels can get up to ~150f, but they are not going to be that much above 77f ambient at 9AM.
No, they do check for double-spends, but the transactions you reverse are now in the shorter chain and no longer exist in the history when you follow the longest chain.

Say for example you have these blocks:

b1 <- b2 <- b3

And you have a transaction t in b2 that you want to reverse. Then you build another chain starting with b1 like so:

b1 <- b2' <- b3' <- b4'

Where you double-spend t in b2'. The miners thinks that both b2 and b2' are valid. When they choose to switch from the b2 chain to the b2' chain, it will seem like all transactions in b2 and b3 just disappear (unless included in the other chain of course).

Does that make sense?
Four newborn exoplanets get cooked by their sun
Understanding Digital Signal Processing, by Richard G Lyons. It's one of the most accessible books on the topic since it's aimed at undergraduate juniors.
Presently working through Harvard's online Abstract Algebra course and adjunct to that Bartoz's notes on category theory and some type theory.
Light behaves as both a wave and a particle. This goes well beyond human eccentricities. The universe does not care that our simple brains want to model it simply.
I've been using a System76 Darter with Pop OS for over a year now, through, I think, four releases. Everything about the hardware and software has been wonderful. I decided to abandon Apple MBPs due to software regressing in both design and implementation, and the execrably bad hardware design decisions lately (touchbar, butterfly keyboard, greatly increased fragility to obtain marginally lighter and thinner cases).

For similar specs, the Darter was far cheaper, (and, in fact, 32GB hasn't been available on an MBP until recently). And System76 support is stellar, for both hardware and software.

I have been using Linux for 20 years now, and the System76 hardware/software combination is the best I've experienced. Wifi just works. Printing just works. Power management just works. I have not yet found myself diving down Stack Overflow and google rabbit holes trying to solve obscure configuration problems.

Apple is turning into 90s-era Microsoft and System76 is turning into early 2000s Apple. Which is terrible for Apple customers, and great for System76 customers. System76 is focusing on extremely polished hardware/sofwtare integration. Now their hardware is not in the same league as Apple's -- they resell someone's hardware. But the integration is excellent, and they are starting to design (and manufacture?) their own hardware. They'll get there.

The one thing that Apple still has over System76 is integration with all of their other devices and services. I still have an iPhone, and I still have to have an Apple computer for syncing it, and managing my iTunes media. But for day-to-day computer use, and for software development, System76 is what I use.
It's a Haskell style language for the Erlang VM.
This thing is dead silent. I have hard-coded the fans to run at around 1600 rpm (I think they redline around 12-14k rpm)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHz_AIWMc_E
Threat reporting systematically underrepresents threats to civil society
> use neutral tools like email

Email might be a neutral tool, but not using a tool like LinkedIn is worse because you're restricting your hiring pool to immediate connections. For all its warts, LinkedIn allows job seekers to connect with a wider range of jobs and job posters to connect to a wider range of potential candidates.

The answer isn't to double down on a "it's not what you know but who you know" world.

Most outside recruiters are terrible, we can agree on that. It's a two-fold problem, they give you poor candidates and harm the reputation of your firm by leaving a poor impression of you to them. I'm looking for work right now and had first hand experience of this recently; I don't know if I should feel sad that I didn't get a job that sounded perfect or happy that I dodged a bullet because if the candidate experience was so bad, what would working there be like?
Is that metro NYC or just the city? NYC has a very dense core but expansive low density suburbs. The metro area technically covers four states.
I can imagine the answer to all those questions from IA wouldn't be "because we are a law unto ourselves" as you suggested, but it would be along the lines that following bureaucratic channels during a national emergency to be able to help the public with availability of books, would have been slow and hence counterproductive.

In this country, laws have a interesting way to bend during national crises. I'll keep my fingers cross for that in this case.
While it had been over a century since our last attempt to invade Canada by then, there has always been a certain flavor of American in love with the idea of continuing the doctrine of Manifest Destiny until the entire continent has been conquered.

(Those snooty Australians lording their continent over us, we'll show them.)
Nobody can or ever will be able to read your thoughts, enough with the hyperbole.
It can also have moral consequences if they deleted it.
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Oh yes. I think a sw dev looking at CAD will really like OpenSCAD. Atleast I did. The only things I found lacking was a measure tool and a cutlist generator. Sure, you can write the code with OpenSCAD to echo dimensions but having a measure tool can be really useful. No need to elaborate on cutlist.

And I put my plans in git too!
What would happen if you created a "rabbithole" for webcrawlers? Would they fall for it?
Naked preference for big telecos on display.
This article is all you have to know about the man who is more responsible than any other for the "shut down the world" strategy (which he thought did not apply to him).

Coronavirus: Prof Neil Ferguson quits government role after 'undermining' lockdown.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-52553229
Might want to change your DNS to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8
"Or those companies that would set up 1000 TV antennas in a datacenter and then stream"

I believe Aereo tried just that and failed - https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/06/25/325488386...
I cannot see the "these routines [being] available in the development version of the next SPM release". The development version is a 111 MB zip file [1]. When I uncompress the file I get a big flat directory with 100s of files. Which of those is is the software used in the paper? I have a bad feeling about this. I don't see how the authors are displaying intellectual integrity by not releasing, concurrently with the paper, software for such an important problem public health issue.

ideas are hardly vague.
Hard to understand

The core intuition is easy to understand: brain predicts its observations including observations about itself (proprioception) and acts in a way to minimise surprise. This can be seen as a form of self-supervised learning in the terminology of contemporary machine learning. Lots of people have said somewhat similar things before at a similar level of vagueness. Nobody disagrees that "somehow" the brain learns about the world by prediction and interaction. The interesting question is to go beyond this vagueness: what exactly is the brain doing? Where exactly is the brain minimising 'free energy'? Can I have a testable prediction please?

If read literally, Friston's core intuition is false: people regularly and deliberately expose themselves to surprise, e.g. gambling, watching sports, speed dating. Now there are various ad-hoc fixes to save free-energy-minimisation, which should make the theory more testable, but Friston then has to state clearly which of the many conflicting ad-hoc fixes are in place, and explain how they manifest themselves in the brain! Friston has been confronted with those problems many times, but he basically ignores them.

[1] https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/#software
The military also has access to extreme computing resources that are not available to the general public. If the pentagon cared to develop their own ASICs they could easily dominate the network.
Amazon to ban police use of facial recognition software for a year
I've seen the word "unequivocal" a lot lately too. Makes me wonder about hivemind like trends of word usage.
It's an interesting thing to think about, that someone can make a request to your website and you pay for it.

This is not how the mail works, where someone needs to buy a stamp to spam you.
Fridges (and washing machines and just about every other "long-lasting" home appliances) only last about 5 years nowadays. In the case of the fridge, the compressor fails and replacing it typically costs more than a whole new unit. In the case of washing machines and other appliances, it's the CPU board or the main motor which degrades from heat after about 5 years, and a new one costs almost as much as a whole new appliance.

This behavior is so consistent in new appliances that I'm convinced companies are designing in the failures on purpose, because they've figured out that consumers will tolerate it and because the dearth of actual major appliance competitors leaves consumers no other choice.
I failed Linear Algebra in college because I was more interested in partying, it wasn't essential to my degree (Poli Sci), and I incorrectly assumed I could drift through it and get a C like my other hard science requirements. I am currently working through Friedberg's textbook on it.
Thanks.

I looked at that link but could not find the code that lets me reproduce the results in the paper. Maybe I didn't look hard enough?
And since I've been trying GitHub Actions, I don't know why you would need artifactory, nexus or this aws service anymore. Github offers private repositories, releases, project pages, cicd through actions and Microsoft is offering plenty of deployment options on Azure with AKS or plain Azure Compute