skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hunter Biden's little Ukraine-related consulting business related to biolabs

If the Russian defense ministry was a reliable source, Russia might have annexed Ukraine a little sooner. I wouldn't take anything out of state media at their word; I agree NYT can't be trusted, but how is Russia Today better?
it's far more believable than amazon being in cahoots with scammers. whether you think this is "better" or "worse" wasn't really part of the discussion
Interchange fees are capped at 0.2% debit, 0.3% credit. Somewhat higher (~1.2%) for business cards. These caps do not apply to cards issued outside the EEA, nor do they apply to three-party networks such as Amex.

Despite that this displeases the networks, businesses are allowed to elect to only accept a subset of card categories (i.e. they may decide they accept Debit Mastercard only, not Mastercard Credit or business cards). That said, honor all card rules _within_ a given category have been found enforcible (including that e.g. a merchant can't decide they accept Visa Debit, Debit Mastercard and Mastercard Credit but not Visa Credit - Visa are allowed to say "If you accept Visa Debit and Mastercard Credit, you must also accept Visa Credit")

Processors/Terminal providers will add their own margin on top of these, of course (interchange fees are entirely remitted to the card isssuer)
*My employer. Not my company :)
I was going to say exactly this! Just finished a re-read last Saturday.
Sorry, that did not change anything. It's a bit late in Europe now, but don't hesitate to let me know about a beta.
Defacto docker swarm lose race with k8s and one time almost die, and it has much less features than k8s (or even hashicorp nomad)...
But in other hand, personally I don't like k8s because of it complexity, and I really don't like when it used for running only few microservices on 3 hosts xD So my opinion: if you don't have resources to learn k8s and you don't run 100 apps with autoscaling - you can adopt docker swarm. Otherwise, you have to buy k8s from you cloud provider and learn it =\ In case of selfhosted k8s I recommend deckhouse.io or rancher.com

Even more important thing, than chose your docker orchestrator, - this is chose of distributed file system that you need for running stateful apps: I strongly recommend you buy efs or ceph from cloud provider, otherwise you should test next products yourself in your setup: https://vitobotta.com/2019/08/06/kubernetes-storage-openebs-...
They can wipe their tears with stacks of hundred dollar bills :)
Simple solution to this: Never do anything important or give out info on an incoming phone call. Always hang up, find the proper number online, and call back to continue the conversation.
I guess the answer for that nowadays is "USB-C", will all the complexity included with that...
There are probably some plants that grow better in Egypt than any other place. "Comparative advantage" makes you eternally dependent on the benevolence of other nations because wheat is more important than dates. The idea that Egypt has the same negotiating power as the wheat exporting nations is laughable.

In principle, one could attempt a afforestation project in Africa and it would pay dividends over centuries, but the current system doesn't reward longevity or sustainability.
I don't quite understand. Are you saying that Hunter Biden consulted for bio-weapon labs in Ukraine?
> Human intelligence is not general

My intelligence is apparently not general enough to comprehend this perspective. I would say that the goals our intelligence evolved to meet are narrow, but that life (especially social life) became so complex that our intelligence did in fact become what can reasonably be called general. And we went way off-script in terms of its applications. "Adaptation executors, not fitness maximizers."
> Software programmer usually need to solve specific task, not worlds problems. If you go too generalized you will need 10x, 100x or 1000x more amount of time and code.

Yes, I accept this is true, but your earlier claim was much more specific: that using dependencies at all makes things worse. I gave you a specific example (GUI libraries) but you completely ignored it. How does your 0-dependencies theory survive an encounter with that basic example?
This idea that you need a ton of money to maintain self hosted servers is not true. You may have to update to a new OS or software major version at some point in time, but in the meantime things can pretty much auto-security-update for the distribution provided version until you gain traction with your startup.
So. Not an expert, then...
This looks super fun! Reminds me of the "first-person recursive puzzle game" Maquette: https://store.steampowered.com/app/762840/Maquette/
K8s just pushes the problem into the application layer, where every developer must solve it independently. It's not like it solves anything.
My gut feeling is that AGI is more likely to emerge from our interconnected information systems than to be designed deliberately in a lab.

And I think there is a precedent. We - multi-cellular organisms - emerged as systems to house and feed communities of single celled organisms.

I think it's likely that our relationship with any future, large-scale artificial intelligence will be like the relationship of the bacteria in our guts with us.
The elitism stems not from solving cutting-edge PL problems, but from making technical decisions informed by engineering experience.

How much of that is justified is up to you, of course.
>That night, I couldn’t help but wonder how his life would have changed if it never happened. I was surprised to see that in the final film, there’s a moment where Ghyslain talks about our meeting, and wonders exactly the same thing.

On the one hand I find it surprising that one would be surprised, I would think it's the first thing one would think. When a life has a big linchpin event it would be natural to wonder gee, what if that hadn't happened.

On the other hand, internet virality is often associated with some silly thing that nobody would ever even have remembered a year later before the internet, so it does seem weird to be wondering how would their life have changed if they never made that jokey video when they were a kid because probably it would not be the kind of thing that was wondered in the past.

I mean stuff that one might wonder about me - what if my mother had not married an American when I was 6, what if I had gone directly into college instead of the army when I got out of high school, etc. are the kind of normal things to wonder about in the arc of a life and pretty much everyone has those, like what if you hadn't gotten married or your parents hadn't divorced or your father didn't take that job in Canada or whatever. Mundane things to wonder about, but there are now some people around who wonder - man, what would have happened if Charlie hadn't bitten that finger, or what if I hadn't made that silly video cause I thought it was cool.
Thanks for linking the text-only site.

Downhill skiing, with all the fancy kit and lodges and lifts, is such a luxury that I'll be happy to see it go. Please let that land go back to more-grounded uses, like hiking for humans, and living for myriad animals (including humans, on a small scale anyway).

Even cross-country skiing has a tech problem; the need at the highest levels of competition to go fast at all costs infects the rest of us, and we buy all sorts of needless things. I grew up XC skiing, and at this point I'd rather keep my winter boots on and go snowshoeing or possibly the broad-ski trail-making; in any case, not using big machines to groom trails, and not establishing infrastructure beyond some cooperatively-maintained warming huts.
Also: repeatability. Can others reliably invoke YHWH to combust beef? Can Elijah perform it under controlled laboratory conditions? Can the other priests of YHWH? If not, perhaps they too should be taken to the brook and slaughtered.
In my city they do, morning until night, about every 2 hours or so, directly entering my living space with no way to prevent (in each case one individual, in different buildings). Addiction.
Because freeloading companies can spend the money that would have gone to training on increased salaries to the freshly-trained employees they poach.
interesting post, but tough to take any security-minded blog seriously when served over HTTP
Yes, this is where the whole lab leak "conspiracy" came from.

The lab was doing GoF research with bat and pangolin Coronaviruses exploring if the spike protein can be modified to enter through the human ACE2 receptor. There are a number of papers from Ralph Baric and Shi Zhengli on the topic with research done at the Wuhan lab.
Cloud66 static sites: Like Netlify but on any cloud
> The analyzed device comes in several versions: Wyze Cam version 1, Wyze Cam Black version 2, as well as Wyze Cam version 3. We learned that, while versions 2 and 3 have been patched against these vulnerabilities, version 1 has been discontinued and is no longer receiving security fixes. Customers who keep using Wyze Cam version 1 are no longer protected and risk having their devices exploited.

Of course, the biggest lesson here is that Wyze knew about these vulns and didn't tell anyone.
>>My view is we don't know yet whether the singularity is possible and have no idea when it could arrive.

The mere fact that evolution happened to stumble upon generalized strong intelligence is evidence to me that strong AI is possible.

We could currently be at the phase of trying to imitate birds to produce human flight. Eventually one person will figure it out when all the pieces are there. When? I don't know.

But I'm sure that it is possible to create machines with strong AI. We are living proof of it, it doesn't matter that we are made of molecular machines, we are still machines.
There is a fad since the pandemic of people looking for a debate when there really isn’t one, a controversy when there isn’t one.

People like that for instance want to have a discussion going on all the time about ivermectin, they don’t really care if it is effective against COVID-19 but they feel powerful when they can get something on the agenda and keep other things off.

Journalism about blockheads has gotten this way. You even see articles in the New York Times that say things like ‘I’m not sure if there really is anything here but when great minds like Paris Hilton and Will Smith are buying into Bored Ape Yacht Club I can’t just ignore this.’

I suggest next time you write a blog ask ‘Do I have something to say or am I just afraid of missing out?’
I think the answer depends on the use case.

Spreadsheets are for general purpose compute. They are glorified calculators, and aren't meant to replace databases, even though some people seem to use them to store lists of records.

Databases are for storing and accessing (linked) records. In the latter case (mostly CRUD) applications tend to have separate views for result sets (rows of records) and single records (eg amazon search results and product pages). This is a better visual data model than a grid of cells (which general purpose database access tools such as AirTable seem to insist on).

I have started building something like AirTable with a 2-pane view but never finished it. Not sure if there's a business case for it, but it sure is fun to think about.
Terence Tao’s Tips for Mathematical Problem-Solving
My PS5 will randomly steal the input from my LG TV's internal smart apps. My Nintendo Switch does whatever it feels like doing at random.

Frankly I find the technology to be a total mess, and there's no way to debug it.
Well of course second-hand bong smoke is not going to be safe if you as a non-smoker sit in a hotbox environment lol

Just like the second-hand smoke debates twenty-thirty years ago
I keep repeating like a robot: read the book Superintelligence. Then it's very clear this is happening.
Unprotected Russian soldiers disturbed radioactive dust in Chernobyls Red Forest
As a current Starlink customer, I can assure you there's plenty of market outside of the "nearly ubiquitous". I live just 30 miles from a small city where the average home is served by 400Mbps cable, yet until Starlink came along I was stuck with Hughesnet, which is reminiscent of a particularly high-latency 56k dial up connection. There are a couple thousand similar households just in my county.
You don't have to render the whole page to a pixmap at once; it's very reasonable for a display-list representation of the page using a font atlas to be a tiny fraction of that size, maybe 8 bytes per character, and a GPU shader can render the RGBA pixmap from a spatially partitioned display list on demand. 2144 characters of text on my 1920×1080 display extrapolates to 17152 characters on a 4K display, which would be 140K of display-list data. 0.14 MB is a lot less than 31MB.

(You need additional display-list items for things like the #ff6600 bar at the top and the #f6f6ef background, but those occupy insignificant space even compared to the 2144 characters. The Yahoo/Y-combinator logo and the arrows also add a little bit.)

Of course #notallpages are mostly text, and many of them will require intermediate storage for large photos, <canvas>es, or screenshots of faked Tweets.

If you're on a smaller computer you might render one scan line at a time from a display list consisting of strings rather than individual characters. Those 2144 characters are in 29 lines, so the display list might be under 3K, and a 400-pixel 1-bit-per-pixel scan line is 50 bytes. If you're generating PAL this way you have 64 μs to render each line, which is about 1000–6000 instructions on current microcontrollers, and you can maybe manage 450 color pixels, another 2K or so of raw pixel storage.
I always liked diskonaut, since I can use it anywhere (remote computer ssh is mostly where I live).
https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut

It's in Rust, which I don't code, but it is if anyone cares about such things.

It works fast, is easy to use, and looks pretty.
Do you know if the original order was from Reolink? If I had to guess, that may have been a questionable reseller, I've seen several cases in which it looks like you're ordering from SomeCorp as fulfilled by Amazon but once you get into the actual order process it shows up as some other seller that was in the "Buying Options" list.

Definitely sketchy behavior on Amazon's part, never dealt with the selling side there so no idea if this is sellers gaming Amazon or just awful market platform in general.
I wish they went into more detail about how the rendering happens. Compiling Doom to WebAssembly via Emscripten and running it in your browser is great, but it has been done before countless times. Taking the output and plotting it as a time series in Grafana...that is incredible.
Original post from Bitdefender is here. [1]

Note that the V1 is the only one that is still vulnerable. V2 and V3 have been patched. But the main lesson here is that Wyze will not tell you when they learn of vulnerabilities, so you should assume any Wyze device is potentially compromised. Pretty disappointing, but I can't say I'm surprised!

1: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/labs/vulnerabilities-identi...
SHOULD Grafana run Doom?
Hahah, that's a great story. Sometimes situations like that make me feel the opposite way, too, because I know for a fact that I've said/done some unbelievably stupid things -- so all an AI would need to do be beat me would be to be less stupid than that!
Thanks, this is definitely what I was looking for. It shows how insanely unbelievable the whole thing is.

> HQU rolls out a world model roleplaying Clippy long enough to imagine the endgame where Clippy seizes control of the computers to set its reward function to higher values, and executes plans to ensure its computers can never be damaged or interrupted by taking over the world.

So the crux of this is, powerful enough AGI will conquer the world as the most elaborate reward-hack imaginable. My knee-jerk reaction to this is "so why did you let it open arbitrary outbound connections?" but I know that the singularity fanatics will equate any kind of communication channel between the AGI and the outside world to a vector of transmission that will be exploited with 100% probability.

So, what if we have Turing-test-verified AGI but it's unable to escape? Does that preclude it from being AGI? Has the singularity not happened if that's the case? I think this is the most likely outcome and the singularity doomsayers will feel silly for thinking it will take over the world.
that number 2 is some next generation criminality there!
Some of the comments here are cruel and missing the entire point.

Well yes, as you're slowly reading this entire case, with the prior knowledge that he is getting scammed, and having all the time in the world to find the mistake or red flag in his actions, sure enough you'll find it. How very smart and vigilant you are.

But as the article already explains, those are not the conditions in which a scam happens. You don't know you're being scammed. The person sounds helpful, exploiting your inner desire to be cooperative. There's a sense of urgency, which disrupts calm and clear thinking. It was a very sophisticated and well prepared scam, which increases trust and makes you glance over or "forgive" small oddities.

Ironically, the fact that some of you chose to criticize somebody showing vulnerability is very emotional behavior, not rational behavior. Perfect candidates to be scammed.

By the way, are Americans still logging into online banking with a username and password? That's it? Please tell me that's a joke.
>> AI is not capable of explaining why it makes a decision that it does.

That's not true for "AI". It's true for a particular kind of AI system, which are collectively known as "black box" approaches. Deep neural nets for example, are a "black box" approach because they can't explain their decisions, as you say.

There are other AI approachs besides deep learning. Recently, a system based on Inductive Logic Programming, a form of machine learning for logic programs, beat 8 human champions in the card game of Bridge:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/29/artificia...

In Bridge, players must be able to explain their plays to their opponent, and the AI Bridge player in the article above, Nook, was specifically designed to have this ability _and_ play better than human champions.

Btw, lest this is perpetually misunderstood:

AI ⊆ machine learning ⊆ neural networks ⊆ deep learning
Why are these documents a paid product? Are there other ways to access it? I figured standardization documentation would be free to encourage adoption.
I'm not knowledgeable about statistics and studies like this in general; do you mean this is a "green jelly beans cause acne" [1] situation, where you test for many hypotheses and one of them turns out to be significant?

[1]: https://xkcd.com/882/
Maybe you should invest in a locking door so you will be able to prevent these people from entering your living space to smoke cannabis?
I read somewhere that the Russian government prohibited USD/EUR withdrawals once the sanctions started. Cash should still be good though.
Interestingly, the Waymo vehicles do actually have a screen on top, though I'm not sure what they're planning to use it for. Here's a photo [1].

[1] https://www.wallpaper.com/transport/waymo-division-autonomou...
I have a vague recollection that id studio (id software's tools package for making games in their engine) has neat collaborative texture painting tool that runs in the game engine. Lots of artists can be in the game level at the same time, running in the game engine, painting bits of the level. It was one of the features that came with the MegaTexture tech around id tech 5 or 6. I don't know if it was a real thing that devs used or just a demo, but the notion of collaborating on art creation live is great. Its good to see the idea coming to the web.
I'd be surprised to find any commercial keepers using polystyrene. Migratory bee keeping is rough on equipment, and at scale I think woodenware still makes the most sense. I'm not in that community, but everything I see in Bee Culture and online looks like polystyrene is firmly in the hobbyist realm.
> The trajectory of progress gives evidence that it is in fact possible and likely

100% disagree. In fact, I'd argue that the opposite is often true, where you see initially a fast rate of progress that results in diminishing returns over time. It's like estimating that a kid who was 3 feet tall at age 5 and 4 feet tall at age 10 will be 10 feet tall at age 40.

I have very strong skepticism of any sort of hand-wavy "Look, we've made some progress, so it's highly likely we'll eventually cross some threshold that results in infinite progress."
Added:
Smokers can reduce their nicotine intake by 50%!!!! Just by mixing the tobacco with weed.

Smokers regularly light a cigarette every hour on average. With Cannabis, that might just reduce that to once every few hours!
As they say, resumes are marketing documents. Any “rules” are more like guidelines/conventions, they can all be broken given a good reason to do so, but if you don’t have a good reason it’s best not to.

To more directly answer your question. Your resume can go to two pages if, after you’ve VIGOROUSLY edited your resume down for clarity and concision, it ends up over one. People will hold up some number of years of experience or another metric, but really you can have two if and when you can seriously justify every word on the page that takes it past one.
I do not agree with the author's analysis - the impact on supply and demand are enormous, and the 1% number does not matter.

Effectively, the wheat buyer in Egypt (and other importers) needs to pay high enough prices such that:
1. Industrial wheat consumers in Europe/US and elsewhere substitute wheat with other products, making more wheat available for exports.
2. Previously untapped stocks get exported instead of stored.

Is there enough wheat worldwide? Yes. The question is what price Egypt needs to pay to secure its supplies, and if Egypt can afford to pay that price.

More details for the interested:

Ukraine exports around 20 million tons of wheat each year. https://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?country=ua&commodity.... We have to assume that Russian wheat will continue to be exported - there is no way that countries like Egypt will sanction Russian wheat. In the worst case scenario Ukraine will not ship any wheat for a year due to port closures and destroyed infrastructure, so the world loses 20 million tons of wheat exports.

There are two ways to solve the issue - by increasing supply or rationing demand. High prices help with both.

Supply solution:
1. Increase physical supply: It is not easy to source this amount of wheat elsewhere, especially not within a year. Most wheat in the northern hemisphere was planted last fall, meaning higher prices will not trigger a supply response for 1.5 years. Argentinean and Australian farmers can still increase their wheat plantings, but this will not be exported until November 2022 at the earliest. At the same time, the Ukrainian exports are missing right now.
2. Draw down global wheat stocks: Higher prices can make previously uneconomical exports profitable, pulling wheat from every available storage. The backwardated futures curve that helps with that - it makes storing wheat uneconomical. Stocks everywhere will draw down further, which means that wheat prices will remain elevated and susceptible to any further supply shocks (bad weather).

Demand destruction:
High prices destroy demand for wheat. Human consumption is relatively inelastic, meaning higher prices have little impact on consumption (and catastrophic consequences). However, wheat is also fed to animals or used for ethanol production, where demand is more sensitive to prices.

Source: Working in wheat trading.
Yep. Their related product wizfile uses the same trick for fast search by filename/path. Obviously doesn't work for non-local file locations.