skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly useful: midjourney offers image creation via discord, 200 images/10$ or a subscription plan for more. It's great fun and possibly is an easier way to test out the tech.

AI art notes in general:

* this will permanently raise the standard of "programmer art" in prototype UIs, for example.
* I expect large-scale AI image creation social games will take off very soon
* utilities to listen to your conversations and illustrate people's points with poetic interpretations on screens next to you with captions.
* this will/should be integrated with emoji / emoji kitchen-like systems - imagine iterating on a custom emoji-like response in snapchat!
* trademark/copyright wars over input data may ruin this
Doesn't seem strange to me; I'm surprised it got to court.
True, this is the crux of it

If you let all subsidiaries of M/G/A within reach of US courts (including customer data) don't get surprised when other countries treat it as toxic

The US gov would never accept this in procurement, so why should other countries?

On the case in question, it seems the company changed the tender document to take out some (protection) clauses
Those are some great use cases! We already support the sharing sessions with multiple users. You can tap on the copy link to share control button on the bottom right of the emulator page and send it to someone to share your session :)
Hmm. Changed now. Thanks!
Totally true that TestFlight / Play Store uploads are available within 15 min, but in our experience, nobody wants to push to those platform that frequently, and force many upgrades of the app every day, so instead they do nightly builds at best. More importantly, it doesn't help if people don't have the right phone. We would love to help you with this use case, does an emulator in the browser works for you or do you need to install to phones?
Expected value is really a dumb way to evaluate lottery tickets. I can't believe even supposedly good mathematicians use it.

The next dumb way to evaluate lottery tickets is to compare it with other long odds (lightning strikes, marrying your favorite actor). If you want to play along, the probability of you winning the lottery is 10000000000000x more favorable than the probability of you existing in this universe.

Buying lottery tickets is a simple framework.
The upside of winning a lottery is significantly higher than the downside of losing one (per week or per month). So do it.

The opposite is driving recklessly to save a minute of your commute. It has significantly higher downside risks than the upside of time savings. So don't do it.

A lot of lottery-bashing people make 10000x worse sub-optimal decisions in their life and yet pick trashing a lottery ticket to feel superior about their decision making ability.
Also noted elsewhere is that US tech companies are hand in hand with the US intelligence apparatus.
> it's still possible for it to be accessed on the backend by non EU entities.

Why is this the case? Why aren't EU employees who allow the data to leave the EU negligent?
I'm just going to move to GitHub at this point.
> the internet was invented here

In Europe?
They’re population is one of the few which are increasing. They very well could inherit the whole country.
It appears that the keyboard on a computer does not work in the emulator on either Chrome or Firefox on Mac M1.

I think it would be useful to be able to use the keyboard to input text.
>just temporary price increases that will be shrugged off in short order

Fed and most economists state this is true inflation that will last. Adding trillions of money for free during the pandemic is extremely unlikely not to add long term inflation.

Here's [1] the IGM poll of leading economists on it from last Nov.

>"Inflation" is a buzz word

Inflation is an economic variable that has a solid definition, and it's very likely the current (non-disputable) inflation will have a long lasting component. For example, as a result of inflation, there is ample evidence wages have risen from pressure, and wages are known historically in economics as "sticky," meaning they are much harder to lower than to raise. This alone would give long lasting inflation (and has done so historically).

[1] https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/inflation/
Arguably, this is about just as locked down.
Also, it's a sort of "legacy" feature. Earlier versions of the PR UX made it tough to review commit at a time instead of just the Full PR Diff Firehose. (Now you can pull changes apart into commits or "updates" and several things between directly in the PR interface.) Commit comments and those automatically floating into relevant PRs was basically the old UX flow workaround to that. It was slightly less of a niche feature then. Now the PR UX supports those use cases more directly and there's much fewer reasons to use commit comments.
You should see how the EU screws American 'certain industry' companies and fails to honor reciprocity deals. Then add that it is legal and tax deductible for German business' to bribe/kickback to corrupt businesses overseas and man does Europe have a sweet deal without our 'open and reciprocal trade'. Unfair denied access to European markets but open access for Europe in the USA. Overseas company's officials expecting bribes/kickbacks like the Germans give overseas.
The thing about the AK is that it really was designed to be a cheap weapon to put in the hands of masses of soldiers. It gives large squads of soldiers the ability to spray-and-pray in devastating fashion. 7.62x39 tumbles pretty well and under auto-fire, does a decent job of eating up concrete to hit targets behind walls.
This was the Soviet doctrine of ground war immediately post-WW2. This countered the US Western doctrine which emphasized precision, and more limited resources in terms of soldiers and weapons.

So you're right. The AK isn't accurate, and it didn't matter. It does what it's designed to do very well.
> It followed that company A's service qualified as an unlawful transfer of data to a third country because their parent company was located in the US, violating relevant data protection law (Article 44 GDPR).

> The Chamber explained that a transfer in this context must also be assumed when data can be accessed from a third country, regardless of whether this actually takes place. The fact that the physical location of the server that provides such access was located in the EU was irrelevant.

I think this is an interpretation of GDPR that most companies are not prepared for. You could write an implementation that restricts access to EU data, but if the parent company is not in EU, I guess the implementation could always be changed to allow access. Ergo, GDPR violation?
> Except now, the EU is more or less forcing American companies to sell unaffiliated spin-offs to the EU to continue doing business there.

Isn't that what happened with TikTok?

Both China and the US have laws that force global subsidiaries of Chinese/American companies to hand over data held overseas.
Split-Flap Display BTC Web App
The fun way to check the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Inspired by the old airport terminal split flap display technology. Just a fun web app I decided to build.
Sounds like blatant protectionism to me.

If I'm reading the ruling correctly, the relevant legal standard applied here is completely bogus. They find that it is a violation of GDPR because the parent company could access the data, in principle if they wanted to. It doesn't matter if there are safeguards, technical, or institutional preventions in place.

However, the exact same argument applies to any EU company with any internet connection, and directly applies to any EU company with infrastructure in the US. EU companies could, in principle, transfer data to the US intentionally or by accident. If technical, institutional, and legal prevention isn't good enough for US companies, why is it good enough for EU companies? Seems like GDPR has to also be construed to prevent EU companies from doing business in the US.

If the counter argument is that US companies could be compelled by the US government to hand over data, while EU companies cannot be, that is factually untrue.
2.4 million subscribers according to a Google search. Anyone can build a simple news site and hire journalists. Can anyone get that many readers?
7-Eleven stores in Denmark closed due to a cyberattack
Will this upload to the app store?
I know we're all playing around here, but surely the answer must be that there's a limit rooted in the specific biological/chemical implementation of memory in the brain that our hypothetical "infinitely-long-lived, but forgetful person" would hit before the Bekenstein bound (probably long before) and therefore it's impossible to turn a brain into a black hole via that mechanism.
Seeing how some cartels are moving to legal things like avocados, I don't think you can guarantee you can defeat them just by legalizing drugs.
In terms of mining transactions, the Ethereum proof of stake system will financially punish anyone who fails to attest to honest transactions, and there's no escaping that just because "sanctions". See this post for details: https://0xfoobar.substack.com/p/ethereum-proof-of-stake

I believe we'll likely see other actions taken by US companies, such as Twitter banning the Tornado Cash account, Microsoft deleting its github repositories, the registrar of its current domain name disabling it, Discord kicking it off, and so forth. Perhaps large RPC providers refusing calls involving the sanctioned addresses, though I think that's less likely.

We will also see an escalation of fiat enabled exchanges refusing to do business with users who bring assets from Tornado Cash connected accounts, however there are other developments in the pipeline that will mitigate this, and increased aggression by proponents of financial exclusion will drive adoption as they are a real pain for legitimate actors too, and also these systems are necessary to increase transaction throughput anyway. (eg. rollup protocols on Ethereum, lightning network protocols on Bitcoin)
One can set the env var themselves in main(), many errors are transient, best to capture it the first time.

// use std::env;
env::set_var("RUST_BACKTRACE", "full");
Who is the editor?
They earned it by selling goods to the fort. Costs a lot of money to feed troops.
This is about US legislation and jurisdiction extending to foreign territory and thus conflicting with local legislation and corporations subsequently failing to comply with legislation regulating that market.
Yes, I agree. I believe that technology is like pollution, irrespective of its net utility on society: once it's been invented, it's practically impossible to go back to the state in history where it wasn't invented. Pretty soon it may begin to be the case that the invention of technologies that appear interesting on the surface have unexpected societal effects when they become mainstream, and it will be too late once the data and knowledge has spread to millions of individual hard drives.

In the case of DALL-E and GPT-3, I believe they will undermine human creativity and usher in a new era where fewer people care about slowly crafted skills like painting that require years or decades of practice and patience to master if the barrier to just have the art in front of you in seconds becomes so low.

It might get to the point that people will divide themselves on ideological grounds that AI art is "impure" and attack each other if they cannot prove its origin. I'm not saying that I'm one of those people that would join the pushback, given that a coming explosion in AI art is all but inevitable, but I'm describing what I think the new technology is going to cause the masses to believe - the population that aren't enthusiastic tech evangelists. When the expectations of millions of people are set by DALL-E and the like, I don't think the prospects will be universally positive.

Look at the number of people on HN asking if certain comments were written by GPT-3; they seem to appear weekly. I don't think implying that you didn't actually write the comment you posted will be taken very well by some people outside of an insular circle like HN once the general public becomes fully aware of AI, and could very well grow into a well-known insult if there ever comes to be a rift in opinions around AI art.
Correct, but not everyone knows this case. So to put an even finer point to it - context matters a helluva lot.
Does npm still create 10000 directories?
Yeah. It's especially heinous because they released it alongside a cherry-picked subset of "smoking gun" leaked docs that actually discredit their a priori conclusions.

They're saying "we know our readers are too gullible to check our claims".
Europe’s worst ever drought: in pictures
For contextual reference, The Battle of Red Bank:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Red_Bank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_(soldier)

Hessians were German soldiers who served as auxiliaries to the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.
How on earth is "the US is able to demand personal data of EU citizens without due process" a fishy premise?
Good to hear. A few years ago, there was a team advertising on grow/ for Fuchsia & Rust (for networking stuff I think), and they advertised in Waterloo but when I inquired, the posting went away and I was told they weren't actually hiring at my site. shrug Maybe it was my bad breath.

Other than that... Fuchsia was the thing that was rewriting all my work from scratch and killing everything I worked on (Chromecast on Home Hub, etc), so... :-)
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Don't you just... commit fraud instead of "ending the trial"? Just because they can't charge your credit card doesn't mean you don't still own the company money, right?

Genuine question, I don't know how it works with credit cards. But you can't "cancel a contract" by voiding a direct debit authorization (where you allow a company to charge your bank account directly) and expect everything to be fine, so I would assume that also applies to credit cards?
US resident here. My employer pays for Tailscale, so I can access company-specific services like 1Password without having to log in with weird IPs. I'm currently in Seoul and was using a coffeeshop's wifi hotspot. This may answer part of your 'how do you do it?' question.
The NSA and the CIA have been at that for decades. But of course people like you believe it is and has always been fully in their right.
Seems like this could be a next big thing the same way NFTs were a big thing: a big speculative concept to help separate gullible rich people from their money.

I predict that any company selling this as a service will have extensive legal language in the contract protecting themselves from any liability claim if the promised benefits don’t appear.
https://computerhistory.org/profile/steven-k-roberts/

>Prior to Steve's life as a technomad, he owned a consulting engineering business in the Midwest and published three books on microprocessors and industrial control system design.

That alone could make you wealthy, if he also invested in the field he could be super rich.
https://archive.ph/HdrOB
Sure, they can champion their own citizens' rights on issues of where and how data is stored, and prevent American user data from being sent offshore in Europe. That would be ideal. :)
> What "needle"?

Honestly, anything a voter has to work to find out.

> On my side of the argument, there is the almost unbroken record of moderate/liberal Democrats defeating progressives in primaries, and the recall of leftist politicians in (of all places) San Francisco.

Then they should attack those ideas in their ads, in their stump speeches, and write lots of strident op-eds about them.

> ...and the recall of leftist politicians in (of all places) San Francisco.

> The party rejects this stuff, because ordinary voters reject it...

IIRC, that recall was led by people from outside the normal party structure.
This is great stuff. Resemblance with academia and academic writing is recognizable.

However, I would have expected more tools to guide the process. NLP tools instead of writing exercises here and there.
Right, and the goal of this sort of ruling is to make sure that those EU-based engineers have work and get paid. It has nothing to do with consumer protection or privacy. If it did, EU companies that have servers in the US would be banned from processing EU user data for the exact reason spelled out in this ruling.
You'd still need a supply chain of raw materials. The winning strategy is to form a mafia that seizes scrapyards and landfills.
Ridiculous. E2E encryption leads to a loss of freedom, privacy, and control because it empowers exactly the kind of people who want to take those things away from you.
US cloud companies can be forced by the US government to spy on European citizens. That's the reasoning behind this ruling. Are you not aware of the NSA spying programs?
OK, you passed the yokogao test. Now take a crayon and draw an X on your cheek.
Thank god at least some government has the sense to take steps to protect their country's sovereignty. All the US has to do to regain trust is to stop using BigTech for spying on other countries. To begin with, it can start by creating laws and regulations like the GDPR (or better) and move on to breaking up the monopolies of BigTech.
I’ve heard of interviews where a different person shows up entirely but claims to be the original person.

Why use deep fakes when you can just not and get the same result.
New AI tools let you chat with your dead relatives
That’s like saying you have a limited amount of muscular endurance per day. It’s true, but it’s completely trainable. Meaning just like you can go from barely able to run a mile to being able to run an ultramarathon, you can do the same thing with your willpower. But unlike running a marathon, training your willpower will yield real, life improving tangible benefits assuming you can correctly figure out how to apply it for your benefit. Maybe a poor analogy because running an ultramarathon requires lots of willpower :)
Maybe it would have been a good idea to have two names for unwrap, one which would mean "I'm certain that this value will always be okay", and another which would mean "I'm taking a shortcut because I'm writing a script or just want it to compile for now". Maybe a longer name like "assert_valid()" for the one where you're sure it's okay. That might make it easier to find the places where shortcuts were taken and forgotten.
I'm 47 years old, decently educated, and can honestly say I'd never heard of this war and thought this was a great read.

Granted, it's quite possible I was taught about this in some very dry history class in high school while I was barely paying attention to the teacher. But I think it's safe to say this isn't a war that comes up often in popular discourse of US history.
It isn't enabled by default. But, if you click on the keyboard icon on the control bar to the left of the emulator, you should be able to use your keyboard. This is something we plan to improve.
There's basically nothing I'm totally sure of, but I do know the probability of my existing in this universe is 1.
Between Buchanan's questionable sexuality, and the Mormons and Slavery, it is little wonder the Civil War was not far away.
A computer is just a physical phenomena, so computability is also trivial. Just put the physical computer into the right start state, then wait. :-)

Of course, the mathematical formalism is a more useful way to think about computing (and I argue, protein folding).
That doesn't mean that it's closed to non-residents.
I assume the WTO will get involved to clarify and the safegards required to operate in Europe will get rather well defined. Lots of powerful interests involved which should get this sorted out eventually. Much uncertainty until then.
This quote reminded me of learning chess as an adult as well:

> In the paper Acquiring Skill at Mental Calculation in Adulthood, Neil Charness and Jamie Campbell say that middle-aged people perform as older ones do, but if they practise, they perform more as younger people do. If speed is valued more than accuracy, the decline in ability is obvious. If accuracy is valued more than speed, the decline is less obvious and maybe not even very pronounced.
This is a great point, and you are absolutely correct about extracting signal from noise.

But not this kind of data!

There might be some useful signal in the points you describe. But it will be extremely difficult to extract, because first you have to sense it ($$$$ -- what is a pet hair to a robot?), then you have to turn the sensor data into something parsable ($$$$ -- how do you determine if this thing the vacuum picked up is a pet hair?), then you have to do the hard data work to make a link between these physical world things and a signal Amazon actually cares about ($$$$ -- OK, they have a Shih Tzu. How can we improve product recommendations with that?).

The time of a sensor fusion/robotics person/statistics person at Amazon will not be spent on any of this, not for many years. The data that Amazon does not need these robots to collect, such as zip code, other devices on the LAN, purchase history and login time, and so on -- there is enough low-hanging fruit there to occupy every newly minted PhD for years. The opportunity cost of a statistician working on this robot stuff for an hour outweighs the benefit by an order of magnitude or more. The opportunity cost of a robotics expert, this is even more true. Robots run into stuff and break in the warehouse every single day; for a company like Amazon, that is millions of dollars.

I do concede: they will definitely collect and store it. But it will be a very long time before any of this data is used in the name of evil. On the other hand, if they make the robot good at cleaning your house, they might sell a $400 robot to a hundred million people.

I totally agree with your point, though, and will offer an Amazon-flavored extension of it:

Look at how Amazon gets YOU to freely give them data to digitize your life. They want you to sign up for digital statements on the ChaseBank Silver Plus Amazon Card. Why? They lobby against data-protection legislation. Why? The ebook app wants location data from your phone. Why? They want you to purchase PS4 games on Amazon, instead of on the publisher's website. Why?

The robots thing is easy to understand for us because we are morphologically similar to Amazon robots. The rest of this stuff, though, is the real low hanging fruit. And there is enough of it to occupy every single $200,000/yr data science PhD being graduated -- for now, and for a long time coming.
This is so awesome, thanks for sharing! I am happy that the "~10% perf hit" intuition is reasonably close to what the data shows. What is the right tradeoff? I am not an author of widely popular regex engines, so I'll leave that evaluation to more qualified people.
Well the Web if you prefer.
That seems to be the trend. It makes sense, people who choose a laziness born of pessimism are probably not virile enough to raise children.
Surprised to see this kind of thinking here though; if you are an engineer who is good at solving problems, you should raise children that are also good at solving problems. Point them at our climate/sustainability/energy issues.
The American government tolerates this and other things besides (e.g. lax NATO contributions) so it's evidently not that big an issue?
A friend of mine needed a chainsaw to chop up a tree branch in her yard. She told her dad she was going to Harbor Freight to get one and he emphatically said, "NO" and bought her a decent one.
It's not protectionism. The agreement with the US parent company allowed them to access the data!

> A included clauses in the offer that stated, among other things, that it will not access, use, or disclose customer data to any third party, except as necessary to maintain or provide the Services, or as necessary to comply with the law or a valid and binding order of a governmental body.

So it is a transfer of data from EU control to US control. Very clearly.