skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tether is hard coded to bounce between their float. Tether made a mega fuck ton of money when that float widened and so did all the hft firms. Most of the tether is held by insiders and they can utilize that tether to obtain 100x leverage. You can literally see on chain when the yield widened back in may 11th, that sythetix and other leverage platforms got a huuuge influx of USDT and they used that USDT to purchase more USDT on the low… and guess what? Made a killing.

They are too powerful with too much money and too much centralized collusion to fail on their own. And the US policy still can’t define crypto, let alone police it properly. Only the full might of the US judicial system will make tether fail.
Since tech companies use other tech company's products this implies the tech industry is a speculative bubble.
> If they were humans, a court could deem the outputs copyright infringement

I'm not sure I understand how this is self-evident. The closest equivalent I can see would be a human who looks at many pieces of art to understand:

- What is art and what is just scribbles or splatter?

- What is good and what isn't?

- What different styles are possible?

Then the human goes and creates their own piece.

It turns out, the legal solution is to evaluate each piece individually rather than the process. And, within that, the court has settled on "if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck..." which is where the subconscious copying presumably comes in.

I don't know where courts will go. The new challenge is AI can generate "potentially infringing" work at a much higher rate than humans, but that's really about it. I'd be surprised if it gets treated materially different than human-created works.
The irony burns. I should commute to an office so that the only way I can achieve the quiet I have at some is to climb into a booth smaller than any closet in my home, and somehow that's not a completely-useless office perk?
Startups generally have only very limited (if any) access to money anyway, so making money more expensive for established companies is probably a net positive for folks who are legitimately trying to start real software businesses.
@mrgalaxy So long as the US onshore Dollar and offshore 'petrodollar' remain as the reserve currency of the planet default is unlikely as they essentially control all our planets money and can print more and more, or reduce money supply. It is good to be king.
Money-"printing" creates the need to stash money away, which leads to passive investing since most people who have savings aren't market experts, which leads to perpetual bubbles. There's no option to simply hold money. This investment at least tends to go into profitable things like stocks, but not in a proportionate way. It hardly matters how profitable a company is; you just expect the stock to go up regardless because people are parking money there.

Basically, ridiculous startups and ridiculous corporate projects get funding when they shouldn't.
> his offers to rematch and play even naked are really doubling down. Magnus seems scared to entertain these matches.

It might make sense to have a theory of how he was cheating before accepting a rematch.

Magnus also has nothing to gain. If Magnus loses he looks like a jerk for accusing him of cheating, or an idiot for not being able to setup conditions that prevent him from cheating.

If Magnus wins, he proves nothing since he’s expected to win. All it proves is that the first game was a fluke and they’re ratings disparities are accurate.
Yep. The hiring market has shifted from ultra-competitive during the COVID economic boom to being much tighter and more competitive during this economic downturn. You can't hire at Meta and Google scale without collecting some mis-hires and poor performers.

When the hiring market is tight you might keep them on longer and try to mentor them up to par, but when the hiring market shifts and there are a lot of great candidates on the market it's better to let the underperformers go and re-fill those jobs with great performers who are back on the market for whatever reason.

They're still hiring. This is more like cycling out hires that didn't work AND some collateral employees who unfortunately got lumped into those teams and cancelled projects. Often, the great employees who get "laid off" are quickly scooped up by other teams within the company who need their talent. It's not good business to let great engineers go.
He says what I would say, art is a form of communication. I have a painting of my daughter right here on my wall, painted by her husband. It is realistic, but it is not a photo and no photo would look like it. It palpably contains traces of him in it. No-one else could or would have painted it that way. It is an earthy representation of her by him, neither flattering nor cruel, capturing something very real about her. The person I know. Am I to believe that AI could do all of that?
If you are writing about educated people then you need to use your capital letters consistently and cite sources. It is just a credibility thing.

Flights could have been maintained for the last two hundred days. Russia has had no sanctions against the West and honoured contracts. It was the West that stopped the flights, denying the option for Russian people to leave.
Please! Ive been very unconvinced by the stuff I've seen so far that used statistics. Ex. the deepest post I saw was still pretty shallow and either I'm missing an implication, or they didn't say anything helpful. Iirc it left off at "if he's 'actually' the player before his rise, he's 1 in a 1000, if he's actually the player he is after the rise, he's been playing poorly"
Well as an investor, what big box retailer is able to compete with Amazon? Walmart and Target all have to keep stores open, Amazon doesn’t. It’s like the Tesla of retail. On the cloud side, maybe azure and gcp are catching up but the pace and mechanisms for launching new businesses at amazon are well oiled, it’s going to be hard to compete.

Burn out culture is changing in many orgs, and the world is constantly churning out a fresh supply of labor ready and eager to jump in and get the job done. On the retail/fulfillment side, the time is coming for automation which will displace many workers. Overall very bullish on Amazon, and more so if they start cutting the fat.
That's not great, but so long as it's clearly disclosed, it's hard to object too much. Being able to disable it is even better.

Too bad it's opt-out and not opt-in.
I mean a number of tech companies are declining in value. What would you need to see happen to consider them "in trouble"? More layoffs?
The problem with that is that Russia is also heavily encouraging citizens to action in other countries (such as attacking humanitarian aid to Ukraine or Ukrainan refuges). Or regular spies.
They've also been stagnant since the 90s
It's literally the opposite of descriptive. Obviously it's not a big deal, but it's an easy thing to fix.
On a related note, since mid-April, the Fed has withdrawn –$140B of liquidity from the financial system:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32929454

and earlier this year announced that it plans to continue withdrawing liquidity from the financial system at the rate of $90B/month for the foreseeable future. The innocuous term for these withdrawals is "quantitative tightening."

There are no historical precedents for quantitative tightening of this magnitude.

It's the first time any central bank has tried it at this scale in a modern monetary regime.
My point wasn't etymological.

The expression "to shanghai someone" doesn't just derive from the city name -- it is the city name. And the term originated at a time when respect by the West for Chinese people was not at a historical high point.
Cut, sort, join and awk can be pretty powerful and fast. If it becomes too tedious to manually write them, you can also use BigBash [1] to convert a SQL query automatically to a one-liner that only use these tools to execute the query.

[1] http://bigbash.it
Different domains of copyrightable material have different norms. The music industry, in response to sampling, has established that even small, recognizable snippets have marketable value and can therefore be infringed upon (there's it's also rife with case law with, in my opinion, bad wins by plaintiffs). For photographic images, collage is already an established art form and is generally considered transformative and fair use of the source images.

I'm not familiar with any The Pirate Bay case; if you are referring to this one [0], it was in a Swedish court and I'm not familiar with Swedish copyright law. However, the first sentence says the charge was promoting infringement, not that they were engaged in infringement themselves. I don't think that's relevant to what I was replying to but could be very relevant to Getty Images's decision, if AI-generate content is infringing, they don't want to be accused of promoting infringement. There's undoubtedly already infringement taking place on Getty Images but likely at such a small scale that the organization itself is not put at risk.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial
> the US has so much more debt now than we did in the 80s that a rate hike of that magnitude would cause too much harm for the Fed to stomach

The Treasury pays interest on government debt. The Fed does not. Raising rates causes the Fed no harm other than (a) risking recession and (b) creating accounting losses idiots politicise. (The same way the Fed's accounting gains as it lowered rates are a useful fiction.)

When the Fed raises rates, it increases the rate the U.S. pays on new debt. Over time the U.S. government's interest outlay would thus rise. But we're nowhere near that being an issue. To the degree it would be an issue, it would manifest as inflation. The specter rates are being raised to fight.
The sad part is higher interest rates will lead to more layoffs
Doesn't it mean 100% of your content needs to be double-checked? You can't easily identify which 2-3% of your content has errors. I'm aware that errors are more likely when the model is less confident of its predictions, but that shouldn't be enough.

(edit for clarification: errors are not always something like "[UNINTELLIGIBLE]", where the system knows it doesn't know; they can also be misrecognitions that the system believes in with high confidence.)
Ok but I'm talking about your client application sending multiple network calls at different times. How does the server prevent that? It doesn't.

In order to prevent the frontend from doing that, I have to be sure to enforce usage of another layer. Devs need to use fragments and relay and not just fire off their own ad-hoc graphql queries.

Which is interesting, and thanks for sharing. I would move toward implementing this on any graphql project, especially an inherited, network chatty graphql project.

But I still prefer keeping the frontend really dumb and just sending the data it needs, that has been identified.

Most of the time a REST or REST like API endpoint is sufficient, and it doesn't matter if you overfetch some data, you avoid extra graphql layers (now enforcing fragments/relay, extra resolvers, potential performance issues, multiple schemas and access concerns).

I like GraphQL but it seems like a lot of overhead for little gain for many projects. One project has 3 different graphql schemas. Can't be exposing the whole tree to every user type.

I can see why frontend devs would like it though (need this data, probably already available), but a REST or REST-like API is more enjoyable for me unless I'm building a framework or on top of a framework or a client that needs ultimate ad-hoc query ability where it really shines to me.
As a dad that is the responsible thing to do. To make matters worse, the new recruits will get mediocre training compared to their Ukrainian counterpart.

Relevant articles:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/20/russia-sends-army-...

https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1572571676524838915?...
I get the impression that there's still quite a bit of overhead involved in talking to PostgreSQL that you don't get with SQLite. A SQLite query is pretty much a C function call that works directly with data structures and local disk.
Has any OS offered introspection so that you could determine such things at runtime?
How does Namecheap know what I'm doing inadvertently? They know I have the wrong-sounding name and the wrong passport perhaps.

What they don't know is where I live and to whom I pay taxes.

But hey: you can't ban all people in Russia from a platform without banning loads of people not in Russia too, right?
Hmm the title made me believe this was to fix the use-and-throw-workers culture. Didn't realise it was about fixing tooling. Wonder if anything else was done to fix the disregard for wellbeing and safety?
Each account is insured up to $250k, and you can open as many accounts as you wish.

Source: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/faq/index.h...
"Se peut-il rien de plus plaisant qu’un homme ait droit de me tuer parce qu'il demeure au-delà de l'eau et que son prince a querelle contre le mien, quoique je n'en aie aucune avec lui?"

"Can you think of anything funnier than a man having the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the river and his king quarrels with mine, although I don't with him?"

Blaise Pascal, Pensées, circa 1660.
You are free to use whichever terms you prefer.
Japans declining population is surely influenced to some extent by their fiscal policy. I don’t think being near as low as it has for them has been a huge success?
> [Founded in 1807,] Wiley has been publicly owned since 1962. While the company is led by an independent management team and Board of Directors, the involvement of the Wiley family is ongoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley_(publisher)

As far as their being part of the publishing industry, it suffices only to say that they sued the Internet Archive.
But does it tell you it's using GA?
Really interesting, I can see ton of potential uses.

2 questions:

1) how does it compare to state of the art FOSS solutions? I'm seeking about DeepSpeech or Vosk

2) would it be somehow possible to associate timestamp to the words recognized? That would be amazing for things such as audio editing or skipping to a particular location on a video
As someone else noted, that statistic may be inflated as it is illegal to speak out against the war there, but the 30% of russians are decent enough and deserve sympathy.

Also, it's fine to wish the Russian soldiers actually fighting ill but even people with bad opinions deserve life, to some degree. Making many of them fight likely to their death is horrible and you shouldn't wish it on anyone.
This is a good point - the issuer of Tether (iFinex?) could burn USDT that they hold without paying out to currency. I'm not sure how holding Tether would benefit the issuer of Tether, though, since anytime anyone transferred USDT to the issuer they would expect a cash payout. So I guess my statement "USDT is backed 1:1" should actually be "circulating USDT is supposedly backed 1:1 by USD." Any "burnable Tether" should be subtracted from the Market Cap to find the actual "backed Tether."

I don't know of any way to find how much USDT is held by the issuer of Tether (or their coparties) and how much is held by other wallets at any given time. I suspect that calculation would require a significantly greater knowledge of the blockchains that USDT is on than what I have.
(Please allow this light-hearted deviation which might be considered in poor taste)

Or we could build giant dueling death robots who decide wars 1-on-1 instead of pointlessly wasting human lives like in classic Sci-Fi schlock Robot Jox [0]:

> Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, mankind is decimated and the surviving nations—the American western-influenced Market and the Soviet-Russian-influenced Confederation—have agreed to outlaw traditional open war. In their place, disputes are settled with gladiator-style matches between giant robots operated by pilots called "robot jox" [...]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Jox
Or even more cynically, if you are old and rich and run a country and theres lots of young, poor men wondering why they aren't rich then maybe sending them off to die in a pointless war has some upside for the ones who can escape service via their connections.
We used to be able to have data driven civil conversations. Well folks, getting to the truth isn’t easy or comfortable and sometimes feelings will get hurt. But is that a reason to shy away from the truth?
World economic forum?... source aside.

What is GDP growth? Well construction is a component. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-from-construc...

Size doesn't matter but I can imagine 300 years from now where we have concreted from Toronto to Vancouver to Miami. There's 50 billion people living in north america and GDP is still growing because there will always be something to construct. No idea if that will ever happen but it illustrates that GDP growth is always possible so long as this option is possible.

GDP INCREASES!!! after terrorist attacks or natural disasters. Something is destroyed and you need to construct a new one. This is new GDP created. How about that war economy? Yep. Bombs contribute to GDP.

So yes, the economy will grow forever. GDP growing forever is a requirement of the system. The exception will be only if something large enough will break the system.

You could declare martial law and anyone on the streets without military approval is to be killed as a saboteur. The economy and GDP dies. Obviously government is the key place that can break the economy.

>This animated video explainer by TEDEd and the World Economic Forum inspects the arguments for going 'post growth' in order to save the planet.

So the proposal is that government steps in and intentionally breaks the system 'to save the planet'

Now I'm not going to comment on the need of 'saving the planet' that may very well be necessary, but if they are wrong it's a dystopian future.
“ai artist”. how does one qualify as such a title i wonder? simply running an “ai art” tool and producing “art” or?
Select N+1 is a fundamental anti-pattern of relational database usage. Reducing the latency per round trip doesn't change this fact.
The US can't be forced to default. They can literally print money.
I am seeing companies really start to feel these rate hikes and the corresponding market moves. I can’t tell where we are in the correction but it is definitely not at the start. I just hope it’s somewhere close to the middle.
What is @tptacek’s relation with fly.io, and how did he change it?
Anyone know if it is possible to output IPA using this?

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

_________

EDIT: Based on list of languages in the tokenizer code here, doesn’t appear IPA is supported:

https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/5f8d4bcc254d4f3e833d3...
exactly, if the average CO2 footprint in rich countries were 2T/year instead of 10T/year, it would be sustainable, but currently it's not
It's worth pointing out that the problem, in this scenario, is for the creator (ie, the human running the algorithm). They will need to determine whether a piece might violate copyright before using it or selling it. That seems like a very hard problem, and could be the justification for more [new] blanket rules on the AI process.
Can we change the title to "fight employment" ?
I'm really new to pip, but does this look ok?

(after running the command for setuptools)
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: pip in /Users/xxx/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages (22.2.2)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /Users/xxx/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages (65.3.0)

----
after trying whisper installation:
× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [20 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/xxx/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 363, in <module>
main()
File "/Users/xxx/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 345, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(*hook_input['kwargs'])
File "/Users/xxx/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 130, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return hook(config_settings)
File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 154, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(
File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 135, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 150, in run_setup
exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals())
File "setup.py", line 2, in <module>
from setuptools_rust import Binding, RustExtension
File "/private/var/folders/lj/7x6d3dxd3cbdtt484k6xsmyh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-ieaydl8r/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools_rust/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from .build import build_rust
File "/private/var/folders/lj/7x6d3dxd3cbdtt484k6xsmyh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-ieaydl8r/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools_rust/build.py", line 23, in <module>
from setuptools.command.build import build as CommandBuild # type: ignore[import]
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools.command.build'
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

error: subprocess-exited-with-error
I'm sorry you're experiencing this. You have every right to be fuming mad. You don't deserve to be treated any differently, and I'm really sorry that you are.
Okay this is super impressive. I just downloaded Whisper and fed it a random flac file I had handy and it did a really good job. Also impressive that it works on my weak CPU:

A 3m07s flac took 5m to transcribe:

$ whisper --device cpu 'BLACKPINK - BORN PINK/01 Pink Venom.flac'
Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language
Detected language: korean
[00:00.000 --> 00:10.000] Blackpink
[00:11.000 --> 00:14.000] Kick in the door, wave in the coco
[00:14.000 --> 00:16.000] 팝콘이는 친게 껴들 생각 말고
[00:16.000 --> 00:19.000] I talk to talk, run ways I walk walk
[00:19.000 --> 00:21.000] 힘 감고 팝 팝 안 봐도 척
[00:21.000 --> 00:24.000] By one and two by two
[00:24.000 --> 00:26.000] 내 손끝 두 하나에 타면 아지은 중
[00:26.000 --> 00:30.000] 갓 자쇼 지금 화려해 T makes no sense
[00:30.000 --> 00:32.000] You couldn't get a dollar out of me
[00:33.000 --> 00:38.000] 자 오늘 밤이야 눈톱을 품고
[00:38.000 --> 00:41.000] 미혼을 뺏음 down
[00:41.000 --> 00:43.000] Look what you made us do
[00:43.000 --> 00:47.000] 천천히 널 잠재울 파이어
[00:48.000 --> 00:52.000] 잠이 날 만큼 아름다워
[00:52.000 --> 00:53.000] I bring the pain like
[00:53.000 --> 00:57.000] 디스탑, 팽팽, 디스탑, 팽팽, 디스탑, 팽팽, 팽팽
[00:57.000 --> 00:58.000] Get em, get em, get em
[00:58.000 --> 01:00.000] Straight till you don't like
[01:00.000 --> 01:01.000] Whoa, whoa, whoa
[01:01.000 --> 01:03.000] Straight till you don't like
[01:03.000 --> 01:04.000] Ah, ah, ah
[01:04.000 --> 01:05.000] Taste that, pink venom
[01:05.000 --> 01:06.000] Taste that, pink venom
[01:06.000 --> 01:08.000] Taste that, pink venom
[01:08.000 --> 01:09.000] Get em, get em, get em
[01:09.000 --> 01:11.000] Straight till you don't like
[01:11.000 --> 01:12.000] Whoa, whoa, whoa
[01:12.000 --> 01:13.000] Straight till you don't like
[01:13.000 --> 01:14.000] Ah, ah, ah
[01:14.000 --> 01:15.000] Blackpink and Amo
[01:15.000 --> 01:17.000] Got it by the smack ram
[01:17.000 --> 01:18.000] But rest in peace
[01:18.000 --> 01:19.000] Please light up a candle
[01:19.000 --> 01:20.000] This the knife of a vando
[01:20.000 --> 01:22.000] Messed up and I'm still in saline
…SNIP…