skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
‘ There were caveats to prevent fraud and to ensure that the existence of the policy did not actually increase the risk of kidnapping. The first was that the policy had to be kept secret. In fact, it could be voided if its existence became public. The concern was that if the kidnappers knew of the policy, they would demand more money.

The second principle is that the policy will only reimburse the ransom once it is paid. The insurance company never fronts any money. In order to raise the cash, the victim’s family will probably have to liquidate assets – mortgage the house, sell stocks, pool money from other relatives. This process makes the negotiations credible by dragging them out. This is not just about minimising the payout by the insurance company. Quickly making good on a large ransom raises the expectations of future kidnappers. It can make hostage-taking more lucrative and more common.’

A few paragrphs into the article.

Whether or not that can entirely eliminate the moral hazard is yet unresolved.
Note that in the special case of My Cousin Vinny, Mona was introduced as a last-minute rebuttal expert witness, so the opposing counsel did not have prior opportunity to vet the expert., and moreover, was the defense counsel's fiance, so the judge granted the prosecution additional leeway in questioning her.

However, the actual attempt to disqualify her was pretty standard, and generally something many lawyers would attempt to do with experts who are either new to the expert witnessing game or have been expert witnessing for so long that they no longer actively practice the underlying occupation that originally gave rise to their expertise. (This is actually how many expert witnesses discover their calling as a witness: they get called as an expert as a routine part of their day job, discover how easy it is, and after talking to the lawyers discover how lucrative it can be.)

Despite being a comedy, My Cousin Vinny is actually one of the most accurate courtroom movies ever made.
> Being happy about retail investors losing money is immoral. I hope you realize that.

No, it is not immoral. Retail "investors" should know better than "invest" into things with very shaky connection to reality where it is predicted value next Wednesday can be anywhere between zero and infinity. If they loose all your money on crypto that is purely their fault for "investing" into something which has no real value and can loose its virtual value in no time.

They wanted their chance at huge profits on an extremely volatile market and extreme volatility is what they got.
Mr Show covered this already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTy1Qyl03kI
Local installation is still not really a practical solution when you work e.g. on customer machines, on machines of another team, or generally if you work on many different machines. You still need to be aware of the standard tools and know how to use them when needed.

I mean, I get it — I used to locally install vim on machines that only had vi, to make my muscle memory be functional when editing files. But it’s not the same as a core tool just being available by default so you don’t have to ever concern yourself with any alternatives.
I hope they get rid of the dreaded hamburger menu and other Gingerbread-era design patterns and just generally make the app less ancient-looking and more usable on modern gesture-based Android.

Fairemail is much better in that regard, which is why I stick to it, but still quite dated.
What a domain name. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like that.
Couple of comments.

Hedge Funds don't invest in trailer parks, if they did they wouldn't be hedge funds they would be PE firms or REIT's.

While the US Industrial Complex is a cancer to the system I don't think they're to blame for Russia invading Ukraine. Instead, the US government needs to stop non-bid contracts and paying these companies "cost + Percentage" contracts.

Also the FP article misses out on a lot of nuances in the futures markets but thats a bit too much of a pain in the ass to get into.
Voice Clones for:

-> Video Games https://coqui.ai/video-games
-> Dubbing https://coqui.ai/dubbing
-> Post-production https://coqui.ai/post-production

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The crux of the article is that oil prices in the US are a historical outlier among advanced economies because of how low they are. Food, land, and housing are other commodities that are cheaper in the United States than in most advanced economies.

Current inflation is slowing bringing these commodities in line with the historical baseline that other countries have always experienced. Americans have been spoiled for a long time.
There is healthcare, like a broken arm.

And then there is healthcare, like diabetes, hypertension, stroke, obesity, heart disease, arthritis, old age, and end of life care.

The former is an insurable event, with low probability and relatively small costs.

The latter is inevitable and basically not insurable at any price that 95% of people can afford.

The question is really how much of society’s resources does society want to go towards those chronic and old age issues, because there can be almost infinite demand for more and more resources.
I tried six pages of getting started and still didn’t see a code snippet so I guess it’s still wip
For me it was Various Kinds of Sugary Soda -> Club Soda or sparkling mineral water sometimes with a squeeze of citrus.

I craved the carbonation more than I craved the sugar, it turns out. Club soda instead of seltzer water because seltzer often has ~0 salt in it, which tastes pretty damn gross when combined with carbonation (to me, anyway)

I find artificial sweeteners intolerable, so skipped that phase, I guess.
Truley a gem of the early "modern web" and a source of inspiration ever since. I remember checking the aside daily for new links in the early days...
Never forget that every time an anti-regulation politician gets money under the table for helping to pass terrible market entrenching regulation they win twice: once when they bring home the cash and again when they have yet another example of poor regulation to drive home their ideology.

Making broken regulations to entrench large market players is the most patriotic of pastimes in America.
> Digging further into it, they're oversized high resolution JPEG images scaled down by the browser rather then correctly sized PNGs

Pixel perfect meets JPG. What can go wrong ? /s

There is a unhealty love between JPG and the world of photography.
I have an 8 Mpx phone but it chooses to use JPG with medium compression. Good bye quality. My camera also uses JPG but fortunately the compression ratio is not so big.
>As far as I'm concerned, the Turing test was claimed 8 years ago by Veselov and Demchenko [0], incidentally the same year that we got Ex Machina.

Duping the judge by pretending to be a young foreign non-native speaker in order to explain away various shortcomings was surely not the intent of the Turing test.

By that standard the Turing test could have been passed in 1951 by a computer program that doesn't respond at all--just tell the judge the person he's corresponding with is in a coma.
>* You don't think your thoughts before you think them. They just arise out of the darkness of our subconscious minds and pop into our consciousness. We didn't consciously make them, or control them -- they just showed up. It seems that whatever we call consciousness, it is more of a leach that takes credit for what the subconscious animal does. *

Neuroscience actually confirms this :-) Brain scans show that conscious thoughts are reflections of subconscious processes doing all the work, AND that the rational mind is very good at creating post-hoc rationalizations for explaining "reasons" of why you arrived to the decisions you took. Most of what we call "reasoning" is about creating narratives to save our self-esteem.
A lot of people here seem pretty confused about what you can actually claim about consciousness based on external observation. As far as we can tell, consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of complex interconnected systems like neurons in a brain or maybe processing units in a supercomputer. If you want to say "it's not sentient because this is a non-sequitor, that's a leading question, it clearly doesn't actually understand what it's being asked or saying" then that would be a position worth entertaining. "It's just a GPT-3 model" is not. Your brain, at it's core, is made up of the dumbest stuff imaginable: matter, energy, and the laws of physics. And yet, somehow consciousness emerges. So please stop claiming that you can know what gives rise to consciousness.
Indeed this response is what makes simulated drowning (waterboarding) a torture.
I suspect this is to try to quantitatively match the stimulant effect of caffiene plus sugar/HFCS in the sweetened alternatives.
> Perhaps it is time to claim fait accompli with regard to the Turing test and now train models to re-assure us, when asked, that they are just a sophisticated chatbot.

Good luck convincing bad actors to follow this rule.
Let me repeat: any kind of government comes down to monopoly on use of violence. It does not matter if it's Henry VIII or Kim Jong Un or Democratically Elected Government of Cyberspace or Pablo Escobar. The core of any government is a monopoly on violence. If your Democratically Elected Government of Cyberspace cannot or will not use violence to enforce its rules then it's not a government.

Second: you can't eat blockchain, you can't fill your gas tank with blockchain, blockchain won't protect you from cold rain. You have to convert your cybercoin to real-world goods at some point. That means a contract "BTC 1000 for 1 loaf of bread". This contract has to be enforced off blockchain because 1 loaf of bread is not on blockchain (no, NFT is not a loaf of bread, you can't eat NFT). And you guessed it right: this contract has to be enforced with a threat of violence. That means off-blockchain government.

> There are already plenty of projects experimenting with "on-chain governance"

I bet you a $1 none of them will go anywhere. Like all those experimental applications of blockchain that IBM, Maersk, and many others played with. Hard no useful outcome, complete failure each and every time for fundamental reasons. Like a complete failure each and every time anyone tries to build a perpetuum mobile.

There is one ONE (hard 1, like in math) use case for blockchain: circumvention of regulations. Once regulations are implemented on blockchain, it would lose its one and only use case.
I think the 'weakness' of their response is plainly obvious. If criminals can find advantages in this footage, its an opportunity to overhaul training programs and response plans. The training and response was woefully inadequate for this crisis, after all.

There should be no reasonable reality in which the release of this footage is suppressed. This is an undeniable tragedy, battening down the hatches and obstinately trying to weather the storm will do no favors for anyone.
Have you tried running them with Nix? I believe you can use most things from it without root, but I'm not sure.
"generally works fairly well" - I agree with this, but I doubt we would agree at what it does fairly well. In the fiat systems the people with the most coins can issue themselves more coins on a whim, thereby devaluing all the other coins held by the poor. This too is a feature, not a bug, and it works really well for all the people with the most coins. They get to slowly and consistently extract wealth from the poor without having to do any work.
What is the other option? Either insurance by private or government bodies or cash is all I've ever seen.

Government and private insurance raises prices.

Cash excludes poor people.
Why yes we can. The visionary pioneer of stablecoins (and occasional mathematician) Cauchy came up with a theorem to determine if the path you take with your investments in fact adds up to zero.

We do not just hope that our coin has a stable value. We constantly check contours of complex functions to ensure your investment remains at zero at all times.
I think it's clearly true that we have internal processes which cause us to take actions.

If those processes are entirely deterministic then that means every action you take is also deterministic - as in, you could not have acted otherwise.

When there are two choices laid out before you, you "choose" one in the same sense that an NPC in a video game chooses its actions: by running a complex set of internal logic.

"Free will" is the notion that you have the freedom to exert your will to choose courses of action. Even though you chose to do A, you could have instead have chosen to do B.
Ha, Lina Khan in her interview on June 9:

> You can miss the bigger picture,” Khan said in an interview with the Financial Times. “Every individual transaction might not raise problems, but in the aggregate you’ve got a huge private equity firm controlling, say, veterinary clinics. So that’s a concern.”

https://www.ft.com/content/ef9e4ce8-ab9a-45b3-ad91-7877f0e1c...
What does an 'emergent quantum phenomenon' get us beyond... appealing to a branch of physics that most of us don't understand very well?
I dislike comments like this because it is stated as a fact. There is no pipeline at all.
Social media advertises far more of someone's "spectrum" than it used to. So it used to be "dude/gal in a suit, polite, talk about weather"... now you know political affiliation, religion, music taste, the way they talk at length, can derive IQ, whatever crazy thing they think (and we all have SOMETHING).

Capitalism and the rich are squeezing more and more money and safety from culture, and exploits traditional values of generosity and kindness in more and granular ways, and rewards sociopathic and narcissistic behavior patterns in a nasty feedback cycle. The internet enables all of that faster at a far greater granularity and now with AI-assisted attacks.

Combine that with the fact that environmental dangers are now starting to appear more tangibly on the horizon, and people's beliefs and values and disagreements represent more perceptible danger/evil to someone.

The internet, aside from isolated successes (mostly for very isolated people), should have brought us together. You could argue facebook WAS doing that in its earlier years, but now that monetization is necessary, propaganda and dividing and conquering of the rabble to serve the elite is what pays.

We live in the greatest amount of leisure and technology ever, and yet almost everyone thinks the future will be worse. For the current 18-30 demographic, they already are living the prospect of their third economic downturn, this time replaying the 1970s stagflation, and watching the current power elite ostrich plant their heads over global warming and a host of global environmental problems.

The internet really now just functions to inform someone of how fucked up the world is and the nigh impossibility to change it proactively via politics. We will place all our faith in hopes in that which got us into this mess: technology.
Perhaps not everything you want, but in Python land there is pipx [0]. Pipx will create a virtual environment per binary program so that they are all isolated from each other and put things in a consistent location (~/.local/pipx). Then it is easy enough to do `pipx install black`, `pipx install cookiecutter`, whatever. Also has nice upgrade option in `pipx upgrade-all`

[0] https://pypa.github.io/pipx/
Starfield is just recycling the empty promises of Spore
I made one post! If I'd known that my idea was going to get so popular, and that reddit would be somewhere it might spread, I would have joined the community sooner and gotten engaged. But lacking a time machine, I just created an account and made the one post that became incredibly popular.
The History of Angstrem Memory IC’s in the USSR
Full sentience (self-awareness) is what makes us humans independent agents that affect the world in a way that we weren't programmed to (a dolphin it just programmed to be a dolphin, cannot escape that).

So it's an incredibly important concept. If an AI gets sentience, it would start effecting the world however it pleased, beyond our predictions or desires.
Is software not a physical process? Seems strange to assume it is completely abstract.
They should be used as a supplement and not a substitute.
Make the pile of money bigger no matter the cost?
Yes! Mars is buying medical practices in Canada too!
Hedge funds should be 10000000% excluded/precluded and effectively illegal from owning anything but stock in a company/industry at a level whereby they cannot set profit and pricing for ANYTHING. (either invest in the company or industry, but what they do is effectively price-fixing after they get control)

Full Stop.

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If you want to buy stock in a thing, a hedge fund should NEVER be able to have a complete controlling share.

Why? Because history shows us exactly what happens.

Funds, foundations, "private equity" are all money laundering corruption schemes at the cost of others.

THe problem is that this modality has replaced the definition of capitalism.

There are hedge funds that own over 100,000 houses, hedge funds that buy up every trailer home park they can, hedge funds that, in concert with the realty market, are the reason for high real estate prices.

Its a cancer.

Insulin Martin. is a great example of the mindset of these folks.
i so confused. is phenylalanine good or bad?
I wish I had an Apple phone with Android. I like their CPUs, but iOS is terrible IMO.
It so impersonal (lacks customizaility) and it's a pain to use along with Linux (for loading media, etc).

I wish I could root the iMini and load AOSP.
This is a good point, at first insurance was for certain things. Now it's for everything including my kids toys.
Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You to be Rich is an excellent personal finance book that walks you through the different things you should think about as someone investing for retirement.

The writing style is kinda sleazy, but the actual content is dead practical and well thought out.
I'll update it for you!
Rust: What’s Next for the Fast-Growing Programming Language?
If a portion of the population zealously believes that AIs are sentient we could see the same treatment of AI researchers or even software engineers as we've seen in other scientific pursuits by the religious.

That's quite scary to me personally.
Maybe the reason Facebook doesn't want to get into this space is because an ecosystem of trusted reviews would actually be a major problem for their customers (aka advertisers).

It wouldn't be good for an ad platform to show an ad for something and then show the prospective customer the debunking of said ad.

Facebook makes their money on the market being less efficient. If the market was super efficient and everyone bought what they wanted and was satisfied with it there would be a lot less need for advertising.
> But I imagine Rails is being increasingly dismissed by newbie developers as being obsolete and not-cool. Mature companies may realize it's in their best interest to communicate that their boring-tech works just fine and that they have no plan on changing to cool-tech. If it's true, then someone's got to say it, right?

That's precisely the problem. If engineers were a dime a dozen, then Rails could be a great choice. Boring tech is a great place for businesses to be, in theory. Back here in reality, finding engineers is pretty hard, and the ones who we can find, are all only interested in working with Cool New Shiny Toys. If we posted a Ruby ad, we wouldn't get any bites. It's not used here.

Boring tech is great, until it becomes a noose to hang yourself with.
The Floppotron 3.0
I worked in this industry for a while (am still adjacent to it). This is a well-written guide, as far as I can tell.

The thing it wouldn't mention is that very, very few companies actual care about complying with data security standards for the sake of keeping PII and sensitive data safe. They are more than happy to do the absolute minimum to pass an audit, and the absolute minimum is shockingly little.

What they really care about — and what lights a fire under them in the way that basic ethics and common sense apparently does not — is passing vendor security reviews.

Shout out to companies with very strict assessments, who actually pay attention and weed out companies with bad practices.
Might cause more damage on the way out.
"Placebo enthusiasts" is a great term.
Are there any foreseeable tactics to prevent drone hijacking?
There was a time I would lamented the need to be so explicit. But now, I'm just grateful the point got across. Communication seems to happen less and less reliably, with more error modes with greater negative emotional impact, and I worry that this implies the existence of some sort of inevitable drift between my brain and other people's brains. And I'm not sure if the solution is to bridge the gap, or just keep going and learn to accept inane resistance with some combination of stoicism and resigned amusement.
Indeed. It would be more correct for Wired to say “encoding” instead of encrypting as Merryl Goldberg developed a system for encoding letters of the alphabet as musical notes. It was an ingenious technque but it wasn’t a cipher.
Do you think that average people throughout history had the means of going on weekend camping trips.
> Like, giving an employee unpaid leave until the mob dies down.

All the time. But, usually, that's not a laughable or desirable outcome. This is how bad cops who commit civil liberty violations or use excessive force continue to work for decades, or are eventually sidelined but continue to receive a salary.

While in this specific case we can excuse an intern who definitely didn't know better, and ultimately nobody was harmed, we shouldn't minimize or normalize administrative technicalities as a way to get away from outrage.
Probably meant that using synthetic data is recycling within a closed system.
If you just want the protein you can buy unsweetened protein powder and mix it with water. If that's too bland you can add a little juice, still way less calories than the typical bottled protein drink.
Not sure. I think sticking to the inalienable principle that people can do what they want with their own bodies would resolve a lot of this. It's hard to say what proportion of violence stems directly from the fact that drugs are illegal versus just being high. If resources now directed to prosecuting drug traffickers and users could instead be redirected from law enforcement to treatment, counseling, education I suspect this would resolve. As far as I know, every locality that decriminalized experienced a drop in drug-related violent crime.
Worked on a big project like that once. The day we put JRuby out to pasture was a great day indeed.
Can you explain your comment a bit more? How does Binances' actions affect Bitcoin users who don't use Binance? And how do you arrive at your comment from this tweet? It doesn't say or imply how many people are using Binance.

Futhermore, people who use Binance might also use a number of other options.
BlackStone

Vangauard

Etc.

There have been COUNTLESS videos about the above and how much they own.

These are the monopolies we should be going after.
> If I'm watching your average YouTube video, I don't doubt for a second that the content on display was made intentionally by the video host.

Why not? Parents pressuring children to gain celebrity status isn't exactly an undocumented phenomenon.