skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read. I wonder what the authors would think of the recent Google "Inner Monologue" AI composite system? The paper mentions often that perhaps giving an LLM concrete references, a perceptual understanding of the environment, and agency in which its decisions affect that environment, could all bring LLMs very close to human cognition. Those are precisely what Inner Monologue provide to PaLM, and the results are certainly worth pondering.
No, what he was saying was that the probability of you winning the lottery is quite high compared to the probability of you existing in the first place. His point was that mathematicians sometimes try to contextualize these very low probability scenarios so that lay-people don't collapse them all into a single "basically impossible" bucket. They're not wrong, but it's not a useful way to think about whether buying a lottery ticket is a good idea.
Be realistic here, are you distributing oss that exists for the sole purpose of money laundering?

I don't have a strong opinion on whether tornado cash should be allowed to exist, but it's obvious that it violates US law.

Similarly if you distribute OSS viruses don't act shocked if people want to harass you over it - distributing viruses is illegal in some places
Battery's DO NOT scale like you claim.

A desiel semi is much lighter than an Electric Semi is. That's why Tesla Semi hasn't launched yet. They are currently trying to change the regulation for maximum allowances on US Roads from 10k to 14k.

The Delta-V on an electric vehicle has the problem that the battery scales more proportionately to weight and range than a desiel equivelent. Desiel gas has a tremendous amount of energy stored so compactly that is impossible to match with electric batterys.
Sure, it's hard to define whay "active" even means. If you go by the churches numbers, at least 60% of the entire state is composed of "active" members.
Over here at HN, users would burn the NYT in effigy if they could, for no other reason because they force you to call them to cancel your subscription.

BTW, I have successfully unsubscribed by just paying w/ Paypal and disabling the automatic payment from the Paypal UI. No, I don't live in CA and do not have any unsub-friendly laws applicable to me.
But it's important to set boundaries, both personally and societally.

Ease + importance means we're going to do it. WSJ or NYT campaigning against something widespread and important seems quixotic.
Can you stop your open-source project from being used for evil?
Tornado Cash has never been for the "explicit stated purpose of facilitating illegal money laundering" but for being able to remain private about what transactions you make on the blockchain. As long as you file your taxes correctly, it wouldn't be illegal to use services like Tornado Cash.

Plenty of people use services like that to move funds from their cold wallet to their hot one, in order to not make visible to the public how much funds they have. Again, as long as you properly file taxes, this should not be a issue.

And yeah, some people do work on privacy-preserving services that can and will be used for bad purposes. Anything involving E2E encryption is usually made for privacy reasons, is this bad enough for you to say the same thing about it? What about things that can be used to skirt copyright like youtube-dl, do they deserve the same treatment?
I solve that problem by transferring whatever money I will need for expenses into a second account whenever I get paid.
> Most of fintech runs on "screw the customer, we have an EULA!"

Thankfully, finance is an area where in most countries the law is actually still enforced and will trump whatever EULAs or ToS you may have.
Don't all debit cards support this? Mine always have, and I've always assumed that was a universal capability.

https://www.credit.com/blog/what-happens-if-i-swipe-my-debit...
I didn't go into detail as to why we needed to take over the project, but that was definitely part of it
No it's primarily an awful Delphi for Windows desktop application that is extremely fragile.

But once you know how to "hold it correctly" it will be your companion for life.

I run it in a virtual machine with all its legacy dependencies like IE. Forget about running it on Wine, it barely works on any version of Windows (lol)
>Perhaps "Tesla Autopilot" can be the first Marketing Lie to vanish from the list: "Almond Milk", "Veggie Patties", "RNA Vaccine"...

I don't care about Autopilot and instead want to comment on some of the rest of your list. What are you going on about?? Veggie Patty is not a marketing lie in the slightest. It's a patty. It's made of plants. That's about as straight-forward as possible. The mRNA vaccines do in fact make use of mRNA; no lie there. Almond milk is a fine name. It's milk from an almond in the dictionary definition of the word. Really struggling to understand what you're getting at here...
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> Very easy to do that when you have a strong army

If it was so easy everyone would do it. It’s not like India wasn’t ruled by a series of colonizers long before the British.
Eh? Tesla's the cheapest I've seen on a per-installed-watt basis, unless you mean solar roof?
Lisp also really benefits from an editor that colourizes ( ) in matching pairs. Even C benefits from colour-matching {} in my experience. I'm surprised it's not more common.
This isn't warrantless surveillance, it's people breaking the law in the open. You can believe tornado cash should be legal but still, be realistic: Most OSS doesn't have tornado cash's risk profile
Open-source SPL Helps Java Handle Files of Open Formats (txt/CSV/JSON/XML/xls)
The fact that it's been done is no reason not to do it again. Even if two implementations were somehow a bad thing, Wolfram Alpha is the closedest of closed source, and replacing it with something auditable is a win for science.
It might not be as realtime as you think, especially if it's buffered. You just need to sync timestamps and buffer for at least the slack in your system. I wouldn't be surprised if it was using NTP/PTP under the hood to sync up system clock time and then just playing back a buffer that's shared across all speakers (or just the channel for that speaker with a timestamp). The actual audio transfer probably gets buffered and only the relative timestamp and simple instructions like "play from this timestamp in the buffer" is actually being used to sync up between speakers. It's probably a limitation of the hardware or the lower-level wireless protocol (bluetooth or wifi) that causes that delay. I'm just speculating though, all of my realtime experience is in hard-realtime scientific control systems.
I'm about half way done and yes, I would recommend it.

I appreciate how she reframes decision-making from being less like chess (i.e., knowns are 100%) and more like poker (i.e., there are many unknowns). That is, decision-making and outcomes are a spectrum (and not binary). In fact, just because you get a good outcome doesn't necessarily mean you made a good decision.

In a way it's humbling, but it also feels healthier (in terms of mental health).

Solid advice combined with entertaining stories.
It’s a little annoying when top comment has nothing to do with the post content and is bad meta joke
>I can't believe you would actually try this dead end argument.

I cannot believe the stunning inability for people to understand that laws are not based on some sort of immutable, objective moral code but are invented by human beings. Do you think Harriet Tubman was a bad person because she helped those who violated the law? Would you have contacted the authorities immediately when you saw an escaped slave, due to their violation of the law?
This would be fantastic for executive assistants
Same here. My debit card is used only where fees make use of a credit card prohibitive. I haven't used a debit card in day-to-day transactions in over a decade at this point.
When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.
> Be realistic here, are you distributing oss that exists for the sole purpose of money laundering?

I am not, and neither are the authors of Tornado Cash. There is legitimate purposes to use privacy-preserving services. As long as I file my taxes correctly, I should be able to use them as I wish.

> but it's obvious that it violates US law

Since they got added to the SDN list, it's obvious yes. But before that, why it is obvious? Again, as long as I file my taxes correctly with the IRS, there shouldn't be a problem with using services like this.
I don't think it is a non-sequitur. The spying is part of the overall defense structure that enables the German export economy to function.

EDIT: It's like saying "This thing you're giving me that allows my whole economy to function, I don't like the consequences of how you're doing it."
The tools, skills, and knowledge required to literally hack open the tractor and physically bypass its authentication will be drastically more transferrable and overall useful.
I was thinking more about devices that can be repaired by changing a failed CPU than devices that have a lower failure rate. I believe STM (and others surely) has a line of "process critical" MCUs that may have additional reliability features but these chips are built in much lower quantity and are much pricier. It's a tradeoff that would need to be evaluated for sure. Preferring external flash to on-chip storage would also help. Some ECC can also be performed in software where warranted.
> If a program can now solve these problems better than most people can, even after studying the relevant subjects, does that mean people should spend less time learning how to solve these problems?

This is a classic local-maximum situation. If you don't train people to solve problems as well as a low- or middle-competence program, then no-one is ever going to develop the expertise that will allow them to outperform the program.
A while back i took both modules, they don’t take long to go through. Module 1 wasn’t any value to me, it felt far far too basic, i was really caught off guard by how basic it is. Module 2 was ok-ish. The lasting change these courses left in me was more appreciation for investing time and effort into illustrations.

I found other resources to be more impactful for me personally (e.g. jacobian / i’d rather be writing).

I liked this model https://documentation.divio.com/ - agreeing with people what purpose the docs they’re writing are for is a big chunk of the problem surface area. Having a model makes life easier. I’m not sure it has to be this exact model but this one seems good enough to me.

A counterproductive tendency I’ve observed frequently is when an SME is tasked with documenting their thing and they go off in ELI5 mode. So tutorial instead of how-to per the above model. Having that model helps keep those conversations short and productive.
> or extra-judicial warrants from the CLOUD Act

What is an "extra-judicial warrant"?
They must be performed in lock step. Fully agree.
How many of those are engaged subscribers? If you subscribe in January, but haven't opened an email since March, you are still counted in subscriber rolls. But you are unlikely to be monetizable.
Yeah, I've got 9000 reviews waiting for me in my old Chinese Anki deck, at some point you always fall off the wagon. I've changed my mind several times on SRS going back and forth, and my conclusion is that, for language, I think it's better to split your time with 90% on consuming meaningful input and 10% SRS, because learning in context with real content that you're interested in allows you to encode your memories much more efficiently. The problem with pairing available SRS systems with consuming real content is that they don't take into account "natural" repetitions, e.g. when you encountered a word in a movie outside the SRS, so they tend to underestimate how well you know a word. But also since "natural" repetitions are baked into the SRS model via parameters that fit the "average", it also tends to overestimate your knowledge of a lot of other items. Combined, you just have a very inefficient schedule that takes too much of your time for too little gain
>You won't find any Russian propaganda calling for destruction of the Ukrainian cities.

Of course I will; Rashist propaganda has been openly genocidal for a while now: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1643268/Putin-Margarita...

Bucha and Mariupol didn't commit themselves.

>I don't tell you how to spell Moskva, you don't tell me how to spell either.

So you'd be fine with people using names like Koenigsberg, or Theodorichhafen, or Ostland?
Undoubtedly the worst comment on all of hacker news
The anonymity set is the best theoretically possible - everyone in the shielded set. It's the same for zk.money and tornado - the difference compared to tornado is that tornado has fixed amounts.

There's no possible attack to deanonymize the full zero-knowledge model beyond the utilization of always existing metadata - which needs separate solutions for every such system. In practice, zcash doesn't have that many users, so the anonymity set isn't big, but that's a separate issue to technology.

The question which one is better in practice right now is a more complex one. Even a perfect solution like zcash/zk.money is useless if (just a random number) only 3 people use it, and ringct with (again a random number) 100k separate people with roughly equal tx count would obviously win. My estimate is that tornado.cash is the most anonymous. Monero is hard to estimate because there's no way to know how many spent outputs are known to the American government and/or cooperating chain analysis companies. Is it <1%? Then it's probably second best. Is it 90%? Run away.

Last but not least monero can be deanonymized retroactively by quantum computers. Tornado, zk.money and zcash can't - they can be robbed (monero can be robbed too, obviously) but that's a much better failure mode.
I'm just telling you how the sanctions work. That part is simple.

Yes, this could have some complicated implications for compliance with that law. This is why big banks employ thousands of people in their compliance departments. If you're in country [x] and you're transferring money, you have to follow laws on transferring money in country [x].

Now yes, if compliance is hard, observed compliance may be low. This affects many laws on the books, and if it becomes a problem for regulators, they may take further action to improve enforcement, as they did with capital gains on crypto transactions at exchanges.

This has nothing to do with rsync/dropbox.
I see a future where adtech companies operate under a franchising company owned by a holding company, just to avoid making any net profit for any of the individual companies actually handling someone’s data.
Really interesting to me. I built an AI news summarization service around three years ago and discovered Axios as a potential competitor. At the time they were still defining themselves; I still have a (no longer functional) TestPilot version of their app on my phone.

With the polish of their services and the big money behind them, they seemed like an obvious win. It felt like they understood the same thing I did - Bottom Line Up Front is the key to capturing the next generation of young professionals reading the news. But it's interesting to see that they've sold at less than a billion dollars - it seems like their experiments were running out of steam, and it makes sense too with the tech industry downturn that they must be facing pressure to cash out.
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No, it's just that while USSR was a proper country with a diverse and often beautiful culture, the main achievement of post-USSR Russia was selling off things inherited from USSR. Can you quote any other major post-1990 Russian achievements? Of course I'm asking about those that actually exist, not vaporware like the Armata tank, or Su-57, or "Sotnik".
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Sorry, I missed this. Hopefully you'll see my reply.

Lag certainly was a problem for me with earlier pi models as well. The Raspberry Pi 4 doesn't have the lags, or at least I don't experience any. It's actually smoother than my laptop with YouTube videos. And it's quite fine with both hdmi ports in use. Probably not multiple videos at one time, of course.
Sure, and those are what I think are the extreme scenarios. What I’m saying is that nearly all scenarios are not so extreme and not so easy to judge.
Is it really this black and white?

It seems that regulators can change their position at any time. See the recent example PredictIt.
you are correct a foreign government should not rely on another foreign government for government related technologies, but the reason this even went to court is because one company couldn't compete with another for contracts so they played the legal card if i understood the summary correctly. This shows there's a lack of technological capability/capacity within the EU asif its actual rocket science to host computed services. Aslo do you think about your data? because this is a US service and if remember correctly its hosted on M5 both US services. so you using it shows you aren't thinking about your data because this site is a data trove upvotes, comments, posts, etc. The US government could easily subpoena for all your data and cookies related to this site and build a profile.
I believe Jetbrains IDEs do this by default for certain languages, I know HTML for sure.

That, or I have a plugin running in the background for years without me noticing.
It's frustrating to hear crypto twitter talk about how the contract is neutral and "just tech". It marginalizes the fact that there is active governance of the code and smart contract. People are in control of these things and their objective can be misaligned with society. Nothing guarantees that the tech is neutral.
I use OpenBSD on my daily driver laptop and a few other appliances. It's great, but depending on the features and software you need, might not fit your usecase. No bluetooth, no Linux compatibility layer, no WINE, smaller selection of ports, no PCI passthru... A lot of the Linux-targeted embedded and FPGA toolchain software is either unavailable or not straightforward to build on OpenBSD too.
Well, if you knew it was easy, why ask? A request like that implies you think it can't easily be done, which is why you excluded someone you thought I'd want to name up front.

I'd love for you to be optimistic! But it's unclear why you're not, beyond a perceived failure to convince other scientists. That means virtually nothing though. The position of these scientists I named is "the temperature wanders up and down, most of it is natural, a bit of it is artificial, it probably doesn't matter much". Of course you can't convince climatologists whose entire career, funding, labs, and self-identity are pegged to the idea that climatology is of critical importance. What would they say exactly? Oops, sorry guys, we realized we made some mistakes and there's no real climate crisis, stand down, false alarm? They could never do that! The social pressure to only ever ramp up their predictions and never down is overwhelming in that sort of role.

So the people who need it to be true due to their prior commitments are the last people you should care about whether they're convinced or not. It's people who are new to the topic, neutral, or who have taken the "climate realist" position despite the strong social pressures not to, who are worth paying attention to. And if you do, well, they make a lot of good points. The end result is kinda unsatisfying though. You can't feel good about saving the climate by doing tokenistic things like buying offsets or going to marches, if you come to believe there's probably bigger environmental problems out there.
> So you're saying that we should get rid of reputation systems because they can theoretically be used to deny people services?

If you read my message again you'll see I was complaining about the opaqueness and non-appealable nature.

> You can already see your report and fix any errors.

Clearly you have not gone through that process. It is nearly impossible.

> If your Experian Medical Score™ is 500, and all the details (eg. past medical bankruptcies are correct)

The concern is about the case where it is incorrect.
No one denies that there are also environmental factors, lead is one very well-studied example.
Buying a single $1 lottery ticket is fine. But I see people in gas stations etc. who look like they are spending a very large fraction of their disposable income on lottery tickets. People asking for "$60 of X" when they look like they make $50K a year or less. That's fucking insane and if they make 10000x worse decisions in their life it must be like putting their fingers in the electrical socket.
Spaced Repetition for Mathematics (2021)
It's not that much cognitive work each time, but it adds up quickly and I have more important things to spend my cognitive energy on.
The linked Treasury doc references Executive Order 13694, which has its own wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13694.
> if you're never going to get money back, why invest in the first place?

That's a question for tomorrow's (hopefully larger) bag-holders, not today's.
Watched a few, not really my style. Thanks for the suggestion though.
"The main four risk factors are; antibiotics use in early life, insufficient omega 3 and 6 in the body; disruption of gut microbiota; irregular circadian rhythm. "
Interesting, what use case do you have in mind for EAs?
True, but had Lincoln not changed the course, there would have been no office to which to be elected. It makes a pretty good point for people, as a popular democracy, not necessarily knowing what they need to have a country.
Yes, and Discover (which owns Diners).
Alternative reading: investigative authorities don't want you using this mixer, and encourage the use others for...reasons.
A prioritized queue of stuff to learn may be a better solution than staring at "over 9000" things to review. Such a queue would mean you simply bite off as much as you can chew every day and don't perpetually fall behind, assuming the priority queue has a small degree of randomness and is recomputed daily based on the decay rate of all modeled facts. Do you agree?
Fred Wilson is also financially incentivized to make you believe that he has your best interests at heart. This is no different from a monorail salesman telling you need a monorail, because he sold them to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum! That put them on the map!

I'd rather hear from the people that took the investment, especially the ones that crashed and burned.
Have a look at this article by Michael Nielsen: https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics

Old HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895613

Or this one: https://cronokirby.com/posts/2021/02/spaced-repetition-for-m...

Hasn't been on HN before so I just posted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32390730
11 was the perfect number, please bring that back.
Same with how I use my credit cards specifically to keep my credit score. If the playing field was different (laws and standards) credit cards would not be the necessity they are today.