skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you couldn't obviously use it to launder money

Actually I think it might be rather good for laundering money. Say you sell your shipment of cocaine for bitcoins - you put that in a tainted bitcoin wallet and send that to Bitmex and claim they are nothing to do with you. But actually you withdraw from Bitmex to a clean wallet where you claim the money came from your brilliant trading on that one.

It falls apart if bitmex share all their records with the revenue services but I don't think they do.

In a very non KYC way they don't ask for any proof of who you are. You can open an account for Mickey Mouse and if you send in bitcoin you are good to go.

That said there are probably less regulated exchanges out there for that kind of stuff. If you really wanted to launder large sums you might be better off setting up your own one.
So what you write, is this what the article means? Also the central computer ai in star trek does not have personality but is just a powerful tool.
>self-checkout systems

There's no actual automation in grocery store style self-checkout. All they did was take the same laser scanners that the cashiers had been using since the early 1990s and replace the cashier with the customer (after adding a scale to try and cut down on theft). True automation would be something like the Amazon Go grocery stores where you just fill your cart with items and leave and it figures out how much to charge you. It's the same thing with automated airport parking payment systems - some make you stop, insert the ticket, then insert your cash or credit card (not really automation, just replacing the employee with the customer) whereas other read your EZ-Pass or other toll tag as you just drive through the exit (actual automation).
Yeah, I thought Asimov was all over this long ago. Also see "Machines Like Me" by Ian McEwan for a recent go at sentient androids.
The “guess” part is about forward or reverse. Turn signals are still manually activated.
I like it. People who are obese and/or suffer from hypertension should've taken care of themselves for example.
"KOYAANISQATSI, directed by Godfrey Reggio; photography by Ron Fricke; edited by Mr. Fricke and Alton Walpole; music by Philip Glass; produced by Mr. Reggio; production company, the Institute for Regional Education; sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Radio City Music Hall. At Radio City, Avenue of the Americas and 50th Street. Running time: 87 minutes. This film is not rated.·
What I have come to realize is that the default action for people online, including myself, is often to read/watch and move on. A gentle reminder to give a signal back will push some people to take the time to do so.
How will we know?
Machines won't have I/O bottlenecks, they won't have limited lifespans, won't need to wait for years to reach maturity.

If an artificial general intelligence becomes as intelligent as Albert Einstein or John von Neumann, then the time required to produce a copy would be almost nothing compared to the 20+ years required for a human.

Imagine that instead of talking you are able to copy parts of your brain and sending them to other humans. This is what AI will do... just serializing large trained models and sending them around.

We are no match for an artificial general intelligence.

Imagine competing against a country where once one person becomes good at some skill, then everyone instantly becomes good at that skill. That will be what competing against machines will be like.
at this point after a few years it would be probably very convenient to have a good insurance and a "random airplane" flying into the tower.
> We need to focus on decomissioning coal/gas power plants and combustion motors for transport.

Bitcoin is actively working against that. By increasing the energy demand from the network, it makes it harder to simply stop producing energy. It doesn't matter if miners are directly buying only from renewable sources (as some claim), they are still likely out-bidding someone else, who then has to go to a fossil fuel plant for their electricity.
How not? It doesn't explain it anywhere. Saying "I first heard about Foobar a while back" doesn't imply anything about the reader.

The fact that the author doesn't explain what they do anywhere (except for what you can infer by reading what they say about the product later) does.
I kind of don't care about baggage of the original context; not about who said it, nor under what circumstances it was said. Just evaluate the words on their own.

> to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize

As someone who lives in a country where you can't criticize certain people, because the full force of the government can come at you, it's certainly true.
Of you could toss the carbon you don't want into old coal mines (or just land fill) - why would you burn it and cause more global warming, we should be tossing our used paper into landfill, recycling it reduces the demand for growing more trees (and fixing more CO2
I understand your position if this is the case for you, perhaps you are suffering to a worse version of the self checkout systems I am familiar with.

For instance, for me to understand your problem I would have to know what you mean with "error rate", which I am sure I would not have to ask you if we shared the same implementation.
> My guess is they aim for convergence and it works well in practice but it's still unknown if that's guaranteed to be correct.

I guess you refer only to the computation of transcendentals sin, exp, etc. (because even in native floating-point formats, most other individual operations are guaranteed to be rounded correctly).

I haven't checked their docs carefully enough, but if it is like MPFR, the way they do it is by trading time guarantee for precision guarantee. So they can't predict how long each operation will take (let alone guarantee that it will go fast), so that they can guarantee that they meet your required precision.
> I'm increasingly concerned that the impact of ML is going to be limited.

Of course, just like any other technology. What else could be the case? I don't see this as a point of concern. Is it overhyped - yes (salespeople gonna sell); is it still useful in a number of applications - also yes.
According to the comment section of the second link. VW will dominate the European market. China already has their own low end EV market. That leaves Tesla to dominate in North American and in the high end EV sector of China.

The foolish idea that Tesla will consume all ICE manufacturers is just wishful thinking.
>Those burger flippers are compensated poorly because you need a lot of them to run a restaurant that serves cheap food. If you had a way of increasing their productivity 2 fold you can afford to pay them twice as much. I said afford.

McDonalds made $11 billion in 2019. They employed 210,000 people. They therefore made ~$52,400 per worker in profit.

A $10 / hour burger flipper makes ~$19,500 per year.

Those burger flippers are compensated poorly because of labor market competition. The value they provide only puts a ceiling on what it is possible for them to earn for their job to exist.

The actual prevailing wage is determined by, frankly, how desperate the low skilled pool of labor is. If unemployment goes up, that means greater desperation. If public sector compensation goes down, that means greater desperation. If social services are cut that means greater desperation. If overseas workers in a country that practices chattel slavery starts taking orders, that means greater desperation. If prison workers start getting in on your industry, that means greater desperation.

All of these things mean wages go down.

This all has absolutely fuck all to do with automation. It is largely about power.

The Roman empire also had mind-bendingly high levels of income and wealth inequality and they weren't exactly automating everybody out of their jobs. They were a society built on the selective application of extreme violence.

Automation does provide the perfect excuse for paltry, declining wages though, largely because it's nobody's fault. If I were an industrialist I'd for sure be gently guiding the pointy pitchforks in the direction of the robots while I outsource, use prison labor, lobby for reining in public sector wages/pensions, cutting social services and gorging myself on gargantuan profit margins. I'm squishy and they are not.

The other useful aspect of the automation narrative is that it plays well with outsourcing. Americans don't see the labor intensive factories that leave its shores in search of more impoverished, cheaper, possibly even slave labor.

What they do see are the factories that didn't bother offshoring - the ones that required a small amount of highly skilled labor to maintain automated production lines, where the headache of offshoring wasn't worth the hassle.
Of course not (tho when baking bread I do find the smell of the yeast on it's own to be quite unpalatable). My point is that I don't expect to find yeast in the ingredients list for "meat", and that was simply my initial reaction.

I know it wasn't your point, but as an aside: isn't the "used" yeast slurry removed from most commercially produced beer? (depending on the style, obv)
My company has used ML to create synthetic cancer data to train classifiers to augment doctors/specialists who are looking for cancer. This work has greatly increased accuracy in diagnosis, saving lives. To say it's only for music generation or generating waifus is a bit unfair.
Gaming sites are still letting streamers profit from hate
If you belligerently disregard the the plight of being, poor, minority, lgbtq+, etc in America then sure these are awful behaviors. This is intellectually dishonest, and a bad faith argument straight off of fox news.

These riots piss you off and terrify you because they expose the fragility of your privileged existence that is wholly reliant on the systemic imbalances the protestors have spent their lives under the boot of.

Fighting for ones right to exist without being murdered by police is the argument of blm. Focus on that instead of using the actions of a few to air your racist and classist grievances.

Protesting is a feature of democracy even if it offends you.

Storming Congress to hang the vice president and Trump's other political enemies is an assault on democracy and a push for dictatorship.

Your inability to recognize the difference is extremely concerning.
The only mention of personal tracking is in the introductory section to the article.

The first two apps linked are for... purchasing books from local bookstores.

The third is for critic book reviews.

The fourth is for discussing books socially.

The fifth is for reading books via the Internet Archive.
IA always returns a correct, but possibly useless, result. There are multiple optimizations to IA like Affine Arithmetic (AA) that can produce correct and useful results for wider problems. Also there is always a quick-and-dirty way to increase the precision when the result is deemed useless; this also happens to be a general approach to implement arbitrary-precision math functions.
This was bound to happen and I feel sad.

I contributed my inputs to the discussion threat that raised the issue of "community" branding.

What I said was: keep the current libreoffice as is because that is what it is. Additionally, go and create another "business office" or whatever you care about but leave libreoffice as is.

The businesses behind this move, collabora et al see libreoffice as another "market" they need to acquire. Foss be damned.

During this time, I learned that all the "donations" to tdf are used for "conferences and shit" instead of what as donors we assume it would be used for, "paying developers" because of some stupid quirk, they cannot "compete with businesses" or other nonsense.

I have started using calligra office and it has been a similar experience. Nothing to write home about but still not depressing as libreoffice gets at times.
I dont know, onlyoffice flipped against the "community edition" by restricting features and I feel LO going there slowly because of "early business advanced features" in the business edition that would come because of this change.
That leaves us with calligra office suite which is still holding out but yeah, my money is now on that.
Note: i have been a OpenOffice /libreoffice user since 2008 I think so I have been using it for over 12-13 years.
Drama emperors have no clothes
Like a lot of things, people can remember names of things better than numbers. Genes for example, it’s easier to remember their names lz, wnt, than their associated gene Id number. But like stars and many other things there are too many to give each a unique name.

Naming can make sense, our old cluster was named after orchestra parts. When you logged In you where placed on the lobby. The machines where clustered (violin01, violin02, tuba01) and grouped by function types (percussion were the web servers)

New cluster it’s login01,login02
, the work cluster names I don’t remember...
Hmmm dont see the email.
I feel like there are at least two very distinct notions of "nightclub" (not counting gay clubs), and in online discussions people generally talk past each other without realising they're referring to very different things. I see this happening already in this comment section - the clubs some of you are talking about have nothing to do with the ones being discussed in the article. Let me quickly list the attributes of the two main categories of club:

1) Dressing up in a button-down or a suit or a dress and high heels. Sitting down at tables around $300 bottles of Grey Goose. Pop music, hip-hop, electrohouse. Crowd is mostly straight, most attendees are there with the intention of meeting a sexual partner. You stay for 1-3 hours, mostly talk and get wasted and dance a bit.

2) Dressing in casual clothing or streetwear-oriented fashion with comfortable shoes for dancing. Few or no tables - the dancefloor is the primary attraction. More drugs than drinks. Crowd skews alternative with strong LGBT presence. People are there for the music, which is generally repetitive electronic music, house or techno or DnB etc. You stay for 3-8 hours, mostly dancing and talking to friends, drinking but probably not getting drunk.

This article is mostly discussing the second category, but I'm not sure how familiar American readers will be with this style of club - my understanding is that it's primarily a European phenomenon, with outshoots in some key non-European cities (NYC, Detroit, Sao Paulo, Tokyo to name a few). These clubs are closer in concept to American raves, except at dedicated club venues. These spaces have historically been incredibly important for minority communities (queer, black, latino) also for musicians. They foster the cutting-edge of underground electronic music, which eventually filters down to shape the next generation of radio pop. Berghain, the club mentioned at the start of the article, is the prototypical example of such a venue.

I don't care for the first category of clubs and I don't attend them, but it would be a huge loss to culture if the second style of club disappears. It was already struggling pre-Covid, with many clubs in London doubling as event spaces or art spaces during the day in order to raise more money.
> It highlights how hypocritical and toxic the cancel culture mentality is. And I don't think it will change if they keep on succeeding.

It sounds like you have been radicalized. Who is this “they” you speak of that is destroying your freedoms? Who is the secret cabal? What is the disconnect between you saying: “this guy probably does deserve to be fired...” along with Callimachi, and thousands of others on a public forums saying the same thing? If you would take a moment to be self reflective, you would be able to see that the “cancel culture” is not a “they”, but it is normal human behavior we all share including yourself.
They should have done that in 2012, not in 2021. Incumbents are too comfy.
Bitcoin is not going to be able to scale to the world's population. A more accurate expectation at least for the US is that the financial system is rebuilt on web3. Every day people will be holding stable coins pegged to the USD in their bank accounts. The average Joe will not be able to tell the difference. He can still deposit dollars into his bank account and cash checks. He can still withdraw USD, or use a debit card / credit card to buy things.

We are still in the very early days of decentralized finance.
> I happen to believe that decentralized coins are a horrible idea in and of themselves, even without proof-of-work

Sure, but that is a much different argument than proof-of-stake vs proof-of-work.

With the assumption that having a successful proof-of-stake cryptocurrency is a net good, then what I am saying is maybe our usages of proof-of-work up until the future widespread adoption of proof-of-stake actually will contribute more positively to that end than negatively.
Why spend years gaining programming skills to throw them away? Sure there will be some overlap with "learning to program with more than 2 hands" but at the end of the day a managers skills and responsibilities are different to that of an engineers.
Ah yes, that's true. I was just thinking of that TNG episode with Polaski and the "children" that's making everyone age superfast, and no one is like 'wait, isn't this illegal?'. So I was unsure when they cemented it.
'Amazon embodies the idea that companies need to “maximize shareholder value” - a total falsehood invented in the 1970s by Milton Friedman'

One can agree or disagree with this statement of values, but it is not a dishonest "falsehood".
This could make Rare Pepes real.
It seems you may be asking a leading question in bad faith with the goal of trapping me in a gotcha. If that's not your goal please clarify your question.
And here as well, their official brand resource center
https://en.facebookbrand.com/
Show HN: DatoRss the simplest RSS search engine ever made
For those reading this I would like to offer my own experience.

I was 24 when I got a vasectomy and it was probably the single best decision I ever made. Total cost was $800 (I paid cash) and the total time commitment was approximately 90 minutes. I spent less than 30 minutes on an initial consultation, half of which was scheduling the procedure. Another half hour was spent getting the procedure itself. And finally, you'll want to get a test done to ensure the procedure worked as advertised.

I was never asked 'are you really sure?' or 'what about your spouse?' or 'what if you change your mind?'

Edit - Also, it hurts less than my jaw after a trip to the dentist. More of a mild ache than serious 'pain'
Much of current AI is concerned with optimization and automation. Not something we couldn’t do before, but faster and automated. This is exciting in the sense of being a force multiplier.

But I agree with the sentiment that progress is often driven by intrinsic motivation.
It’s the forward/reverse gear selection that’s missing. There appear to be physical controls for turn signals.
jack williamson's "with folded hands" is a quietly horrifying look at that, all the more so because it takes all the holy grails of sf - unlimited free energy, faster than light travel and communication, and strong ai that obeys asimov's three laws, and crafts a truly frightening dystopia out of them.
You definitely got my attention so I bookmarked you as a comment here so I can find your post later myself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gist.github.com

Learn to live in attention economy with HTTP.
Average trip length is about ~12km[1] (we are talking about Europe so no weird units, sorry not sorry) and 22mn. That's about 33kmh, less than most speed limits within the cities.
What it means is that most car trips are short and slow.

I consider myself as someone who likes to drive. But I don't own a car because most of my trips (done on my bicycle) are done in the city where I know I'm more efficient on my bike than if I was driving. So to me, self-driving cars are of little to no interest because when I drive, it's for trips longer than 100km and at an average speed around 100kmh, and I want to take the wheel and have manual gears.

But when I talk to people that drives daily, they mostly agree on the fact that they hate driving, because their trips are short and slow. But they hate even more "the people", so they dont want to use mass transit.
And for them, self-driving is appealing because it means they can still travel in their private bubble, but instead of having to be concentrated on what surronds them to avoid crash or having issues with the law, they can do whatever they want : sleeping, watching Netflix...

[1] : https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J... Tables 4.22 & 4.23
The Power of Three
Case in point still. The contradictions you make are astounding. What's more astounding is that you are not even noticing them.

> Huge investment firms diversifying into crypto

> this is an indictment of the cryptocurrency community's basic financial literacy

I suggest that maybe it's you who lacks basic financial (and econ) literacy, not investment firms or the "cryptocurrency community"

> You can't just call a speculative instrument a "store of value" because every who bought into it in the past two months has seen a positive return

No, everyone who bought BTC at _any point in the past_ and didn't sell are seeing positive returns. This is the definition of a good store of value. You are conflating SoV properties with volatility. They are orthogonal. SoV is a long-term play.
Dark pattern in canary service cancellation
I think we're familiar with different systems. The worst systems I know require you to hold items in front of the scanner at the end of the store, more or less doing the work of the cashier yourself (though this still has obvious time-saving benefits).

One level up from this is that you take the scanner with you in the store, and so the process of shopping and checking out is combined into one, again here the benefit is time savings.

The best systems I know allow you to just drop your items in a bagging area and it is automatically scanned, and then you pay. Sure, you still pay manually, but paying is a minor part of checkout, and so most of the checkout is automated.

The systems like amazon are another step above that (skipping the presenting and paying of items), but for me checkout is already a much better experience than it was.

The point is not really that we can't do better, the point is that self-checkout is working, and working well, right now.

EDIT:
To get back to the question: is anything actually being automated? I would suggest so, yes. Although maybe its not directly clear, previously the cashier was doing the work of validating that you are paying the correct amount for the correct items, and that you have in fact payed, and so are allowed to take the items home with you. Now that work is shared between me and a couple machines, obviously some of the responsibility, and so work, has transferred from the cashier to the machine, because otherwise the responsibility would completely be with me, and I could take the whole store home with me without paying anything!
There is data from germany? There was a media blitz about low covid infection prevention in ages over 65, but the confidence interval was between something like -130% to 90%, so it's more of a case of missing data
I think it’s getting there... but I also think a lot of the impact are things we don’t see. Top of mind would be:
* autonomous driving
* language translation
* salience mapping
* fraud detection

I guess I’m somewhat on the opposite side of the fence. I see it everywhere... although yes I think Big Bang things are probably a few years off