skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a possibility that this could be some kind of Dual_EC type of backdoor they are trying to insert under the guise of something "positive" -- i.e. CSAM? As others have said elsewhere, it seems so out of the blue like they were pressured from somewhere, which I guess I default to assuming government. After reading "The Hacker and the State" by Ben Buchanan, it made me even more aware of how much depth and penetration there is of the private-government partnership in the US.
Visualization is a bit confusing in the sense that I can perfectly "see" someone's image in my mind or on the piece of paper, but I cannot draw it that well. It is like a "floating image"? that gives me the person's face in my head, but I if I sit down and try to describe it with minor details or draw it, I cannot.
I don't understand - where does the judgement of what is better (or what "we" care about) come from?

This is simply a piece of theoretical research whether cooperation strategies that we have historically observed in some parts of the world can evolve in a game theoretical model.

Where do you see a comment on whether living in Mongolia today is better (or worse) than living somewhere else?
And GPT-4 will almost work when it is powered by a Dyson sphere and GPT-5 would require more text to train than exists in all the planets of the universe.

All of those things are structurally inadequate to solve the problem in front of them and just make up for it for the same reason ELIZA seemed intelligent... People are willing to believe.

You could put fantastically more resources into that approach and find you're approaching an asymptote. It's the deadliest trap in advanced technology development and it happens when you ignore the first law of cybernetics.

Anyone who's been a practitioner in the software field has experienced that repairing mistakes from a program written by somebody clueless is almost always vastly more expensive than writing it correctly to begin with -- I remember helping a friend "cheat" at CS 101 by stealing somebody else's homework, finding the program was wrong and putting a lot of effort into debugging it and fixing it, never mind changing the symbol names and taking other measures to hide the origin of the program.

It might be my karma, but fixing the program I stole turned out to be excellent preparation for a career in software dev.
That sounds nice, but a singular entity within a government, entrusted with the necessary power to regulate the relevant parts of the market without too much coordination overhead with other government entities, is actually much more efficient at resolving market inefficiencies than the free market. Case in point: production of vaccines.

That's also obvious: the inefficiency in governments originates largely from coordination overhead between many competing entities with overlapping responsibilities. Self-regulating systems like markets do not eliminate that overhead, they just use other means of coordination that trade some of the complexity overhead for a time overhead - instead of having to coordinate a complex set of rules, you now have to give the system enough time to "find" its stable state. But when time is of the essence, an intelligent, singular entity without the need for coordination with anyone besides the entities to be regulated can always outcompete the self-regulating system when it comes to short-term stabilization (though not necessarily with regard to long-term stabilization, but that's not the issue here).
Hah! I didn't search specifically for that, I was searching for bounties in general.

Thanks.
Good point, but equally if instead of this Apple rolled out the ability for them to initiate a scan on any phone for any thing (not a tool for mass surveillance but targeted surveillance) how would we know given Apples closed ecosystem?
You need a force to balance the change in orbital velocity due to expansion or contraction of an expansion joint of a fully connected shell; otherwise, the shell will begin to wobble. The forces would be enormous and tear the shell apart from multiple places.

One solution is for the expansion joints to have infinite range— a disconnected swarm of platforms which is exactly what a Dyson swarm is.
Please don't scrape raw HTML from Wikipedia. They do a lot of work to make their content accessible in so many machine-readable formats, from the raw XML dumps (https://dumps.wikimedia.org) to the fully-featured API with a nice sandbox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox) and Wikidata (https://wikidata.org).
Likely below infinite?
Is that 100% true though?

Some estimate maybe only 10% of Chinese individuals pay tax. Individual taxes account only about 8% of China's tax revenues.

Bulk of the tax burden comes from consumption and business.

I'm all for that. If I make a million dollars but I live frugally and invest my money, why should I pay 50%?

Sure the argument for individual taxes are about social wellness but how do you justify that when businesses are avoiding billions of tax legally.

Make no sense.
I hacked an office phone to run Doom
Go watch some videos of Kern machines. Their demonstrations of drilling through human hairs with a VMC are pretty compelling.

it might be better to say that machine components and coordinate measuring systems have become cheaper, so that high accuracy is more attainable.

Good machines 50 years ago could hold .001" tolerances with care. Most machines nowadays can do that without that much care. Some machines nowadays can hold .0001" tolerances with care, and some can do even better.
If you look backwards to when the income tax was first started it is working
Another use case where this is potentially useful: relocation. I've been rejected for financial things before after international moves, since I have no credit history _in that place_. Income? Doesn't matter. Previous history elsewhere? Doesn't matter.

This is _also_ an issue for self-employed people, contract workers, or...well, basically anyone who doesn't fit the "I stayed in one place and work full-time" mould.
It serves as a cautionary tale. Just keep in mind that whenever some politician proposes a tax only on the richest Americans, and that tax is very very small, it won't stay that way.

The highest rate in 1913 was 7%. Today the lowest rate is 10%.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of those little dots you see is a solar sail or a rocket that you manufactured out of MANY more bits and pieces of other high tech and raw materials that you mined and refined and assembled from multiple solar systems of planets covered in mega-factories and mazes of conveyor belts and drones and cargo rockets with warp drive!
https://www.irs.gov/refunds

Check your refund status. If you haven't received it yet then you might be a victim of tax fraud. Or the IRS is reviewing your return for possible audit.
It's unrealistic to expect people to hedge online comments about complex topics (like the one in question here) to the extent required to preclude "yes but" and "well akshually" type comments that complain about the lack of nuance. Yet despite these expectations being unrealistic everyone expects comments they disagree with to meet them.
> Unless the individual truly responsible can be identified when something goes wrong, no one has really been responsible. With the advent of modern management theories it is becoming common for organizations to deal with problems in a collective manner, by dividing programs into subprograms, with no one left responsible for the entire effort.

I was quite literally thinking about this exact problem at my organization last week. This quote is older than I am.
I’ve seen a major preference toward Rust for NIFs in Elixir land because of the guarantees. People like their BEAM guarantees and exiting the BEAM without strong guarantees feels risky.
Toyota pioneered the "Toyota Way", which is now known as Lean or JIT manufacturing. JIT is famously susceptible to disruption from natural disasters. Over the short term, between disruptions, JIT tends to be more profitable than the alternatives. Over the long term, the market rewards companies that can handle disruptions. Basically, to answer your question, the market is punishing JIT MFG and rewarding resilience. Companies are watching it happen and learning from it. One indication of this is the current increase in inflation. Companies are switching from 1 month of inventory to 6-12, which is making suppliers scramble and driving up prices.

I am by no means against government intervention. Companies have short memories, and market forces will force eventually pressure a return to JIT. But now is the exact wrong time to intervene.
> Fusion doesn't have to be big.

It does, actually, with neutron producing fuels. The problem is that volumetric power density is limited by the areal power density limit on the wall of the reactor, and by the need of a sufficiently thick blanket to absorb neutrons. The inferiority vs. fission is roughly (thickness of fusion reactor blanket)/(diameter of fission reactor fuel rod). This is independent of any details of plasma confinement.

Something like ARC has much higher power density than ITER, but it's still very inferior to fission reactor. ITER's power density is just so incredibly bad.
> The C++ standard allows compilers to assume that loops terminate.

Technically, it doesn't, but it requires programs to make forward progress, which is defined as either terminating, calling I/O functions, accessing a volatile variable or performing an atomic or synchronization operation. Infinite loops that'll eventually do one of these are perfectly valid C++ and don't have to terminate.
Great for whom? Wall St. or the common American? Like I said, their interests don't necessarily align. Sure, maybe stocks were up (usually, not when Trump was threatening to shut down the government if he didn't get his wall, though), but that didn't trickle down to everyone and is far from a total picture of the economy. Also, your article doesn't support your claim. Schumer was praising Trump for being tough on China for the sake of being tough on China, not for managing supply chains well.
Untreated ADHD, depression etc. might also contribute to low performance.
Beyond that, it is bold to claim "low IQ" without even demonstrating it.
I don't think many people are interested in learning and thinking deeply regardless of intellect.
Back then a new PC was so exciting because upon first boot you noticed it was significantly faster than the machine it replaced. I haven't experienced that from new computers in decades now.
No more frontend than running a basic subject recognition on a photo.
This one made the front page of HN : What It’s Like to Be a Diagnosed Narcissist

https://www.thecut.com/article/what-its-like-to-have-narciss...

It made me realise that some people are wired differently. You can't interpret their actions with the same framework you interpret yours.
Plastics have actually experienced a pretty significant shortage this year, with resins and other components being hard to source[1]. Polaris, for example, would build their entire vehicle except the seats, then build and attach them once the plastic resin for the foam became available[2].

1) https://www.ntotank.com/blog/resin-material-market-shortages...
2) https://www.wsj.com/articles/supply-chain-bottlenecks-drive-...
Yeah there are plenty of openly available peer-reviewed publications that you can learn just as much from. Here are my favorites:

[1] Technical Debt tracking: Current state of practice: A survey and multiple case study in 15 large organizations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016764231...

[2] The ML Test Score: A Rubric for ML Production Readiness and Technical Debt Reduction
https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

[3] The Most Common Causes and Effects of Technical Debt: First Results from a Global Family of Industrial Surveys
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodrigo-Spinola-2/publi...

[4] Identifying self-admitted technical debt in open source projects using text mining using text mining
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4...
> Need to let people raise prices to encourage slack in the system.

The scalpers can absorb the rising prices until the desperate companies no longer can afford the increase. That will cause the market crash, which is not good for anyone.
I think government should regulate that space so that businesses engaged in scalping could no longer purchase nor sell the chips.
Honestly, this is deeply concerning. Apple shouldn't be in a position to be able to police what photos we take. If I'm a teen and I sext with a partner, does that mean that in the near future, our messages/photos will be flagged and reviewed for "child porn" and forwarded to police enforcement? That's horrifying and incredibly unfair to young people exploring their sexuality in a completely consensual and normal way.

There's nothing wrong with taking pictures of yourself nude and/or sharing these with whoever you want. This goes towards territory that I find deeply uncomfortable.
There was a nice easter egg in the installer there that i discovered. Much like how if you repeatedly click on one of your characters in the game they start to get annoyed, the sound card test did the same thing. "IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS"
Tweaking EMM386.exe and your config.sys and autoexec.bat..
It’s so sad that almost nobody knows or uses SPARQL…
> There was a point in time where the absolute best dollars/performance ratio was the AMD 386DX/40, which ran circles around the Intel 386DX/25 and 386DX/33, but was priced the same or less.

I remember when the best price/performance was a 300 Mhz Celeron A that you could overclock to 450 Mhz on an inexpensive A-bit BH6 motherboard. Paired with a 3dfx Banshee, and I remember being able to build a respectable gaming rig for under $600.

These days, $700 will barely get you a GPU, even at MSRP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8055HIDm1A

Learned a lot from this fighting game community creator, Core-A gaming, video about community, and even tho I can't say it changed my life, it did change the way I see a couple of things forever.
Some fascinating developments going on at this Socialist magazine, where the staff was just fired for trying to organize.

https://twitter.com/lyta_gold/status/1428011761635143681?s=1...

Let the reader understand.
> Toyota won't sell as many vehicles. So what.

Thousands of employees lose their livelihoods as factories shut down?
There is a contingency plan for that. According to the core team.
That business model is already taken, most larger contracts are won that way. Somebody founds a special-purpose company for that exact contract, gets bids of their own on the subcontracts and then submits an offer. After the project is paid, money is split up, company founder gets an appropriate share.

However, this is also the usual way that the government and subcontractors taken advantage of in bidding processes: Submitting company wins, collects payments, pays founders, but doesn't pay subcontractors, doesn't perform all of the contract, hires unreliable subcontractors and when shit hits the fan just goes bankrupt. That is why there usually is a "good standing" requirement in the call for bids that excludes new, small or government-contract-inexperienced companies. Or puts liabilities on the subcontractors, who of course don't like that.
Because they induce a demand that might otherwise be satisfied by a different currency.
Is the message supposed to be that these types of contracts are universally good, or just in this case?

Presumably the financials of the would-be signing party should be considered.

A party with good or bad financial standing could take equal issue with such a contract, and the one in bad standing definitely should be willing to give up more.
> Its like saying 'I wish he hadn't told they story down the pub, the pub is a terrible place to tell stories as it is too noisy and I find it hard to follow with everything else going on'.

More like 'I wish he hadn't told the story at the pub in small snippets over 4-6 drinks'

Twitter, unlike pubs, has intentional systems in place to interrupt medium to long-form communication. It was designed to be a bad medium for telling stories, so chaining a dozen tweets is a frustrating experience for both the author and the reader.

It's obvious why people still insist on using Twitter for telling stories: Twitter is a massively popular website, and the author will lose some percentage of readership if they link to an external blog. Ideally, Twitter would recognize that this is now a major use case and would add UI to support long-form communication. In the meantime, it'd be nice if people shared Twitter chains via threadreaderapp or authors used screenshots of the Notes app. Using a medium designed for telling stories would be even better.
For the purposes of the C++ standard, looping forever is not a side-effect. Only I/O calls, volatile accesses and atomic/synchronization operations are.
Intel Details Sapphire Rapids Xeon at Architecture Day 2021
You'd need 30 of them. And upload them iCloud.

I guess the neural part is a bit of a blackbox, im not sure if theres a way for external parties to verify its legitimatcy.

But again, any change to would go noticed.
This does seem to be a pretty bog-standard usage of a CI/CD tool. I must be missing something.
iOS is closed source and builds are not reproducible by the public. You have zero control over what is running on the iPhone. It is also extremely challenging to go through each executable and firmware on the phone to probe for backdoors. Sophisticated backdoors won't be apparent even if you had the executable data dump for every iPhone system.
In what browser? I tried Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on Windows, and Chrome and Firefox on Android, all without being logged in, all without issue. I was able to view the full thread in each of those 5 situations.

I also tried Internet Explorer 11, but that genuinely froze my entire computer in its attempt to force me to load the page in Edge. I blame that more on IE than Twitter though.
Intel Ponte Vecchio Is a Spaceship of a GPU
New Intel IPUs and Mount Evans ASIC Is Its First DPU Sheds x86
Totally agree with your post. I don't know what your conclusion is, though.

My conclusion is that C lets me do what I want straightforwardly, I still haven't found this quality in a different language (there is inertia, I've only tried Zig for an hour for example and gave up in frustration). Also, to some degree I understand where most UB definitions are coming from and even agree with some of them.

The basic idea behind UB is to give the compiler a free pass (optimization, and not having to detect corruption) if the program has a bug anyway.

In some cases there can be legitimate surprises, when the programmer made some assumptions about guarantees that C can't give and that a newer language (without the historical baggage of supporting some architecture) can give, which might result in the compiler transforming a little bug into something bigger (more dangerous?). An example that I've personally learned at some point is integer shifting and masking in conjunction with implicit type promotion to int (which is signed).

All in all though, while I'm not be the most sophisticated programmer and most of my programms are never exposed to hacking attempts, just anecdotally I've had very, very little headaches from UB.
But people are mad precisely because the CSAM scanning is being done as "frontend stuff".
Thank you so much. Unlike a traditional manufacturing company, we are going to be asset light though which will enable us to grow fast.

We started Enerjazz with the simple goal of solving our customer's problems. We kept talking to customers just like what YC recommends. After living for many years in Amsterdam, I often had to go to many e-rickshaw driver houses in renowned ghettos (godforsaken places) of Noida to fix their chargers in the early days. This is because they did not have proper charging infrastructure and their chargers will often go bad. With swapping, we also address this issue of bad quality power access to e-rickshaw drivers.
Thanks for sharing I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup - I'd never read it before, and it's worth reading the whole thing. It has me reflecting on who my "out group" is.
earth calling ivory tower, earth calling ivory tower

superior RDF triples are like martian language to millions of humans

over
Yes, soon after posting I realised I was referring to Asus/MSI/Palit etc. rather than Nvidia. It means either two levels of auction or the Nvidia chip sale is a % of the end unit sale.
Hardly, those things are parasitic load that prevents the platform from growing and prospering.

They also breed dependence and servitude to the centralized authority, many of which are even designed such that working and earning income puts you in a worse spot than not.

The people in charge aren’t stupid, it works this way by design.
Pitch Black Review, Is the Pitch Black Supplement a Scam?
Though not in English, it was covered in Dutch media as well: https://nos.nl/artikel/2392894-apple-wil-iphones-scannen-op-...

Edit: BBC as well it seems: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58109748
5G in Healthcare: A Usecase Perspective
Your numbers don't seem right to me. For people who want more context than this comment provides, please start here:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/historical-highlights-of-the-ir...

Some highlights:

> 1862 - President Lincoln signed into law a revenue-raising measure to help pay for Civil War expenses. The measure created a Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the nation's first income tax. It levied a 3 percent tax on incomes between $600 and $10,000 and a 5 percent tax on incomes of more than $10,000.

> 1909 - President Taft recommended Congress propose a constitutional amendment that would give the government the power to tax incomes without apportioning the burden among the states in line with population. Congress also levied a 1 percent tax on net corporate incomes of more than $5,000.

> 1913 - As the threat of war loomed, Wyoming became the 36th and last state needed to ratify the 16th Amendment. The amendment stated, "Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration." Later, Congress adopted a 1 percent tax on net personal income of more than $3,000 with a surtax of 6 percent on incomes of more than $500,000. It also repealed the 1909 corporate income tax. The first Form 1040 was introduced.

> 1918 - The Revenue Act of 1918 raised even greater sums for the World War I effort. It codified all existing tax laws and imposed a progressive income-tax rate structure of up to 77 percent.

Also something many people don't realize is that in the '50s the highest marginal tax rate was 91%, for $4M or more. (The lowest was 20% for $40K or less.) So I don't totally see how your comment relates to the article. You can draw diverse conclusions looking backwards.
They still do this to me. It's a widely reported issue, that's been going on for years. It has to be intentional, at this point.
> (c) It's using bounded numbers in the range where the Collatz Conjecture is known to be true;

The input is an unsigned __int128, and I believe Collatz has only been verified up to 2^68.
I thought that RealSense cameras were just ordinary global synchronized shutter cameras with some stereophotogrammetry processor.
You can talk to the network, either through the escape hatch or provided fetch utilities, which tend to require checksums. But you do have to keep the result deterministic.

Agreed on it being a bit too heavy-handed, and the tooling isn't very helpful for dealing with it unless you're neck-deep into the ecosystem already.
this is uncomfortable but true. I see these perfectly organised Notion setups with all the bells and whistles and then I realise that it's about the same work as tending to a medium sized garden