skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Superdeterminism isn't really local. It requires assuming that certain physical configurations are impossible for completely nonlocal and unobservable reasons (i.e. it's impossible for you to decide to measure this particle that you received from 1 light year away in this particular way, for reasons that no local measurement could ever possibly tell you - defenders will argue that it's "local" because those reasons were created when the particle was and came along with it when it was sent to you, but that's a fundamentally unphysical way of thinking).
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Stable Diffusion sometimes reproduces the large watermarks used by stock photo providers on their free sample images. That’s embarrassing at the minimum, and potentially a trademark violation.
Please enlighten us because from where I stand it definitely looks mostly true.
>And I am trying to make it like a 'scavenger hunt' experience for my daughter, I will put special codes in various places in the programs or on the file system with different difficulty, and I can challenge her to find them.

This is brilliant. I really admire the lengths you go to so that your kids can be engaged. Sounds like this has the potential to be quite fun and exciting.
I'd really like to know how you reach the conclusion of "most families" when we are talking about two ethno-religious minorities, that allegedly were victims of indiscriminate killings, and mass deportations to the Low Lands, North Africa and to the Americas, but end up leaving a gigantic genetic footprint.

At least be coherent.
Whomever wrote this is quite late to the anti-crypto "helpful PSA" grift.
Direct link to the Github repo: https://github.com/usnationalarchives/digital-preservation

A quick search doesn't reveal any hits for "compression", I wonder what formats the National Archives uses themselves. Some compression formats include extra metadata for fancy error-correction, but I'm not qualified to evaluate how useful they are or what advanced settings to employ.
> A "great" con would be something that suckered people who aren't greedy or shortsighted.

Everyone's greedy or shortsighted if you hit the right cognitive levers, which is why cons work on everyone, especially on people who think cons don't work on them.
That code block is neither "simple like FizzBuzz" nor is it in a lawsuit. I feel like we're speaking past each other at this point.
Seems simple enough to start addressing. Don't sue Microsoft, subpoena them as part of your suit against unnamed companies violating the license. Request information on all public and private repositories that were generated in part using Copilot and which contain relevant code from which the licensing info has been stripped.

After all, Microsoft may not itself be infringing so there may not be a cause of action against them by the copyright holders - but there's probably cause against the (unknowing) infringers and they may have cause.
Define progress.

Good luck.
> I don't think the computational approach is an interesting question.

Great, so we agree then!

> No one thinks brains operate like software neural networks

A bold claim.

> (not sure what "pattern marching GPT-like algorithm" means - it is just a neural network).

Yet you understood me perfectly.

Anyway, you are more well read than me on this subject, yet we both agree we are not near general AI.
What you suggest is smart, but it's fundamentally financial friction and people who want to risk money will avoid that friction, usually because they don't understand why it is useful.

What would be much better is if more crypto skeptics had more nuance. Most of them treat crypto like the D.A.R.E program treated drugs - in reality there are a concentrated subset of categories of crypto which have an outsized probability of being extremely high risk, but when counter-shills tell everyone to avoid all crypto, those a bit more open minded are less equipped to make distinctions within crypto.

I say the bad example of this is https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ which is fraught with cynicism and absolutism.

The good example is https://rekt.news/ which keeps track of every hack and exploit while at the same time acknowledging what is progressive about crypto.
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> Illegality of market manipulation. Perhaps it is true that Avraham committed illegal market manipulation (or some other violation of the law).... Let us remember that Mango Markets is an unlicensed derivatives exchange run by a team of US citizens who also held an ICO for their protocol token, which likely qualifies as an illegal security ー do we really want to be tallying up legal infractions in this situation?... Almost everything in decentralized finance is illegal on multiple levels and we are all operating on very shaky ground here.

What a absolutely stupid argument.

Mango Markets ICO didn't allow US citizens to buy tokens, so it wouldn't be regulated as a security - so it is legal. But even so it's pretty easy to argue that the security itself should be legal if certain education requirements about risk are met.

That's a very different class of offense to bald market manipulation for profit.

> Furthermore, if there is any core ethos of crypto, it is one of independence from the authority of the state.

So this piece argues. Personally, I'm all for regulation of financial markets - as someone on HN mentioned "crypto seems to be speedrunning the history of financial regulation".
He isn’t threatening to strip anyone of their citizenship. He is making certain acts crimes if they retain citizenship.
Like a 401k?
> In my view, one of the advantages of cryptocurrencies as the foundation of a separate financial system is that systems are, by necessity, subject to adversarial hardening. In this interpretation, Avraham’s actions act to strengthen the system in the long run.

The language of "adversarial hardening" is torturous, and amounts to a tacit admission of failure: that cryptocurrency somehow needs to go through a process of making every single mistake that traditional finance has made and corrected for.

The necessity of this repeated rake-to-face process is not elaborated or further justified.
XMPP, bittorrent, now blockchain. All 3 have the same thing in common that they had high hopes of creating a distributed alternative future for their paradigm. The first 2 fizzled into mostly fringe usage. I guess we'll have to wait and see if blockchain follows the same path, but seems to be going that way
Any civil engineer can explain numerous storage alternatives to you. It is all centuries-old tech, excepting only novel battery chemistries and catalysts.
Well, you can certainly try! I think most of her books are available in English, and they're short (and getting shorter). I read a couple (in French) some time ago because she was already well known in France and I was curious.

She thinks her life is fascinating, as she examines it in excruciating detail, but that doesn't make it interesting for anyone else. At least not for me.

Another curious feature is that she revisits the same meager events in several books. I'm guessing it's because she lacks new material, but her fans must feel at home when they read the same story over and over again.

TFA compares her to Simenon, which is outrageous; Simenon was one of the most inventive and creative novelist of his time (as well as prolific).

When Dylan won the Nobel many people were unhappy, because they thought he wasn't a writer proper. But there is infinitely more adventure and storytelling, and understanding of the human plight in any of his songs than in the books of Ernaux that I have read.

I'm listening now to "Motorpsycho Nightmare"... It's so good!
> Regardless. Agreed that this is potentially a good thing for helping highlight which schools need more assistance.

Is it? There are likely many opportunities best pursued through vocational training rather than preparation for college. Given finite learning time, keeping students out of vocational training to improve test scores on a college preparation test is probably not the ideal outcome.

We should stop stigmatizing vocational training, and skilled trade work. The ACT doesn't test for student outcomes. Improving test scores may be counter-productive.
The physical realm as you call it is the entire reality, it's the only thing you can interact with in an empirical manner. You don't need anything else to create consciousness, it's 100% physics, and would work quite differently if it wouldn't be.

It's actually thermodynamics. As it turns out there is a selection for information-processing structures due to the connection between energy efficiency and prediction. Any system interacting with it's environment has a state that's changed by the interaction, and some of that state happens to be predictive of the future. Turns out how much of that state is predictive is exactly how energy efficient the system is. It's called the thermodynamics of prediction.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3271

But wait, there is more. Thermodynamics actually favors the creation of a hierarchy of dissipating structures. Lightning and fire and both such structures, and also stars that feed other dissipative structures, which feed other structures and so on, as entropy keeps increasing from minimum to maximum. Dissipating a star's energy all at once, going straight to heat death is not possible, instead dissipative structures help the system move from one meta-stable state to another. There is however a minimal cost to maintaining a dissipative structure, it's not free, so the feeding stops at structures that are barely left with enough potential energy to take care of themselves. In fact the cost increases the further away the structure is from the initial disequilibria, the star in this case. And yet these bottom feeders are still thermodynamically favored, there is free energy left to do something. Now however things are different, because the bottom feeders that are thermodynamically efficient, structures that only create a minimum amount of entropy tend to survive and dissipate another day, however slowly. These bottom feeders then tend to evolve toward information-processing, because they wouldn't be able to be efficient without predictive inference. Biology from molecular machines to the human brain are all such bottom feeders, their central tenet is efficiency, in energy and information processing.

Information itself is physical, it's like heat, in fact it has the same properties, it requires a medium to propagate and so on, and you can use the same statistical mechanics to describe it. In fact we are capable of experimentally demonstrating an information engine, an engine that converts information instead of energy to work. Physics now can be used to understand information-processing too.

Metaphysics is only interesting if you are a philosopher and you are trying to speculate about things we don't understand yet. But it's not an excuse for dismissing reality, which is much more interesting than any metaphysical nonsense. Yes, physics can create minds, but that doesn't mean that minds are mundane, material things, it means that physics is more awesome and powerful than we thought. It creates black holes, stars, planets, human brains and all thoughts and dreams we have in them. What's not to like?
> I don't think anybody in the field of Quantum Mechanics doubts that it is possible for Quantum effects to be entirely deterministic.

That quantum effects cannot be deterministic is not only something people in the field believe, it is the majority position. The alternative goes under the name of "hidden variable" theory, and hidden variable theories aren't doing so well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden-variable_theory
You're right about that use case. And the business people are right about their internal use cases. But those are not what I'm talking about.

It effects human people trying to host a generally accessible public website. Since HTTP/3 using QUIC cannot establish a connection to a site without a cert the public cannot access my hypthetical HTTP/3 website unless I get a corporation to continiously approve of it (ie, letsencrypt).

Distributing my self signed CA chain to the browser mechanisms appropriate for it for every random person around the world that would try to load to my website is not realistic.

For now HTTP 1.1 is still supported by all browsers. But it won't be long till it is phased out "for security" when it no longer makes profit-sense for megacorp browsers to support it (ie, none of their services require it). And when that happens it will no longer be possible to host a website without corporation permission. That's bad.
And yet is also uncompetitive.
This looks really cool and solves my major gripe with something like Hasura, which is the duplication of data.
Same here, my friend. Hp Microserver gen 8 upgraded with a xeon e3-1265L-v2.

I am hoping for a good successor (ECC, enough bays, not too fast but cheap enough) to come out.

It would be nice to have a nice little server which consumes 15-20 Watts.
Why don't we put some cameras down there and figure out what happened? You see all this tech about wave-based power generation and cameras are ridiculously cheap.

It's crazy that we have 24-hr surveillance on landfills and junkyards but don't consider it important to monitor critical ecosystems.
Can you please demonstrate? There are 4 sentences and maybe 8 or 9 statements in there.
Yes, it was both before and after his administration. That isn’t even the complete list.
After the rant, the very least you could do is to educate us about the tool that allows us view codegen and "layout".

>>> Very typical for today's world where javascript coder counts as software engineer.

Oh, hello software engineer from yesterday's world.
I'm not sure what this is supposed to show. Marx being famous for his critiques of political economy is not the same as Marx famously using the term political economy in a certain way.

Political economy as an area of inquiry took off in the late 18th century--in no small part due to Adam Smith--and was already very well established before Marx was born [1]. Absent evidence to the contrary it seems questionable to assert that Marx's use of the term was anything other than the common use of the time.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=political+econ...
Well late, yes clearly - but grift? What's he selling exactly?
This is happens a lot with Russia/Ukraine. Some expert will open a thread on Twitter and regurgitate common knowledge from 4 months ago.
With Web3 you get the benefit of knowing that nobody will ever view your content again.
A good question indeed.
I agree with you for the way in which “great” is used as a measure of quality. But ”great” can also be used as a measure of size and/or impact, e.g. “Sir, your investment proposal contains a great deal of bullshit.”

In that sense, web/3 might be a called a great con.
>If it was emitting an entire meaningful product, that would be something else. But it’s emitting nuts and bolts.

Take a single C file or even a long function from the leaked Windows NT codebase and include it in your code. See how happy Microsoft will be with it. They spent millions of dollars on their legal teams. Eroding copyright protections will harm the weakest most. How many open source contributors can afford copyright lawyers?
Wait I might be out of the loop here, why's the 401(k) a con?
"The Producers."

And, yes, classic.
Avraham clearly is not skilled in public relations. Perhaps there is an element of nihilism, not in his wallets actions but in his willingness to surrender to the mob.
My mouse scroll wheel isn't "smooth" so it makes no sense for it to be smooth for me.

> sudden line-jumps

This is definitely something needs to get used to. But the biggest advantage of non-smooth scrolling is that it starts and stops instantly with zero overshoot, which is what I hate of smooth scrolling.

To be more clear, I actually use all three types of scrolling, for different scenarios.

I manually drag scroll bar for finer control, and it has no suden jump issue. I also use auto-scroll (middle click) for super quick scrolling (which is kinda like smooth scrolling).
> Do you have any problem buying airline tickets now? Do airlines have any problem selling them to you? Of course not; this process is already efficient and optimal.

I don’t know about optimal, there are middlemen everywhere.
Torrents are still going strong and quite useful if you need (say) a movie or TV show that's legally unobtainable in your country.
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This of course, the Chinese are already doing, and have been for some time. They didn't need any US incentives. The point is to keep China behind the curve; China's intellectual and industrial resources aren't infinite weighed against North America plus Europe, etc. Given Chinese aggression in the South China Sea and renewed promises of war against Taiwan, support for Russia's invasion, and their declared intention to greatly expand their nuclear forces and military power, limiting tech transfer to them is just prudent on the part of the US and Europe, however unfortunate. This logic is obvious whether you like the US and Europe or not.

After WWII the Brits gave (or licensed) jet engine technology to the Soviets, but regretted it soon enough. IBM lent support to the NAZI regime before (and to some extent during IIRC), which in retrospect probably wasn't wise.

I suspect that if Deng Xiaoping were alive, he would say that it's Xi who stopped thinking about the long run, and got much too excited about China's mixed progress, provoking a backlash long before it was strictly necessary; and well before China had really caught up with the West. To quote the I Ching: "Fox gets its tail in the water." Which refers to the animal crossing a stream with tail up, but dropping the tail when its front paws hit land - too soon!
> Another political strategy is to blameshift all the bad effects onto the virus itself, which is exactly what you're doing.

What’s up with this “you are like this and that”? What’s with the accusations and insults? What’s your problem? Take it elsewhere!

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On topic, we’re diverging on the word effect. I am using the word effect to mean “something that the illness is known to do in certain measure” – an effect of the disease on the population. You’re using the word effect to mean effect size in a particular study. It’s an understandable divergence.

Just to make sure: I am not saying. That the grades dropping. Is caused by post COVID cognitive impairment.

I said that it was interesting to think about how you’d design a study so it would control for such an effect.

I see studies about cognitive impairment on the individual level. I see studies about this and that on a population level. I see lots of people saying there’s no connection. I don’t see how they know that.
I wrote it, it's just an opinion piece on my personal blog. No grift; what do you think I'm doing, selling the post as an NFT?
It depends on how you define "right answers". We could be talking about policy making based on objective truth, which is testable and is grounded in reality.
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Such a system likely still results in higher damages payouts - even after the judge has reduced the jury’s amount - than leaving the issue of damages entirely up to the judge would; which may go some way to explaining why average damages awards (even if we only consider the final amounts after all appeals are finalised) are significantly higher in the US than in other common law countries.
> Science is perfect

Science is a process and it is never complete. You are confusing a process with the results of the process, which are by definition imperfect. What makes Science good is that it's results are fundamentally imperfect and tainted, and that it respects that.

When you go around saying 'science is perfect' you disrespect its core principles.
There's some hyperbole in there - eg. "They are functionally useless as currencies outside the realms of criminal activity" might be more accurate (if less entertaining) rewritten as "Their use as currency is dominated by the criminal sector".

But most of it seems at least arguably in the ballpark. If you really believe it's all "demonstrably objectively false" that should be pretty easy to demonstrate, so feel free to expand. Unless you're mainly aiming to "signal to your tribe"?
The article isn't about LaTeX. It's about an alternative to LaTeX that will have instant preview.
Shouldn't there be the possibility for civilizations to join forces?
Internal comms are notoriously open, this kind of post would be a welcome contribution for explaining XCheck to a general audience outside of the integrity org. I don't know what kind of confidentiality agreement they signed but mine would have technically prohibited discussing this. Not only that, it's not time limited in nature, it applies "at all times during the term of my Relationship with the Company and thereafter".

I wouldn't expect Meta to actually do anything about this blog post but I wouldn't have felt comfortable posting it.
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Can I agree with him about everything with the exception of Bitcoin? It’s less illegitimate than central banking.
What makes it not simple like FizzBuzz? You will not be able to come up with a reason why this one single function is copyrightable, but a FizzBuzz function isn’t. It’s one function in 15 lines of code. Get 1,000,000 developers to implement that function and you’re not going to have anywhere near 1,000,000 substantially different implementations.
If we try enough permutations then we might eventually reproduce either Office or Windows source code. Then MS will take notice.
I have a friend I help out who does this type of thing. We're currently working on some ART-13 Transmitters, which were used in WWII bombers and feature a then-secret technology called "autotune" which is a mechanical way to pre-set all the knobs to known positions at the flick of a switch. It's been quite an interesting journey.

BTW: Autotune does NOT actually tune the antenna network for maximum output, etc.
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Not just that, companies like Blizzard save millions in server costs.
Well, read up on what existed before the 401k in the US, and how retirement works in Europe for comparison. You're betting on stonks going up and then switching to bonds and safer investments closer to retirement, hoping that the caprices of capitalism won't wipe your savings when you need them. Except: https://nypost.com/2022/06/09/401ks-drop-amid-market-turmoil...
I think this happens a lot with famous images since that image will be in the training set hundreds of times.

Even if deduplication efforts are done, that painting will still be in the background of movie shots etc.
I’ve taken a similar path. Have always been super anxious at work, left my job. That was almost 2 years ago. I’m finally getting to the point with self awareness and emotional awareness that I feel I can return and succeed.
I'm not sure I understand your meaning; I don't think I know what definition of "illegitimate" you're operating with.