skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have family in developing countries but not Nigeria. Usually there's massive tax fraud that happens all the time regardless. Prevailing tax rates are punitive enough that nobody follows them and they're rarely enforced so there's elaborate reporting schemes that large portions of the moneyed population follow and is essentially accepted practice.
It is a pile of biases masquerading as an intelligent agent. To understand what it does you have to realize it is nothing but biases, biases that sometimes get the right answer, but that are more importantly parsed by your brain as if they are the right answer.

The training method it uses, trying to predict the next word in a text, is not just "not creative" but it is actively anti-creative. Picking the most likely word means that it generates a minimum-information text that is least likely to activate your bullshit detector. It takes a large amount of mental energy to resist its spell and if you falter for one minute it will get one past you and it is all over. If it did anything creative you'd say "What?" and question its intelligence. As it does the least meaningful thing it can do at every opportunity you are tricked into supplying meaning.
> Like what prevents you from putting effort for year? two? and switching from X to Y?

I don't think it only takes 1 yr to switch to something interesting. Any R&D lab wants you have a phd with published papers.
There's no heroes and no villains here, but if someone has got something bigoted to say, then they should dispose of their waste or surrender the restroom. It doesn't make it any more or less bigoted to be circumspect, it only makes it difficulty to have a proper discussion. If they believe what they have to say isn't bigoted, they should take courage in their convictions and speak their mind. If they're punished in a way that's unfair, then that's something with bringing to the community's attention. If they don't actually have confidence in their convictions, maybe their ideas need some more time to develop before they're comfortable sharing them (and maybe the reason they're uncomfortable is that there's a problem).

I'm not trying to silence anyone, when people vaguepost, clearly there's something on their mind, and I'm inviting them to express it.

Do you think that's an unfair position for me to take? What I see is that they did say what was on their mind, we had a substantive discussion, no one got flagged, no one got banned, their comment isn't even gray. The reports of HN being hostile to this discussion are greatly overstated.
Great idea!

I'm working on something similar, digitising my daughter's 213 pages of medical bills by building an app specifically for digitising printed medical bills. https://kingsley.sh/posts/2022/digitising-213-pages-of-medic...

Everyone kept saying "make sure to check your statements", but when the statements came, they're 9pt font, 50-70 line items per page. 1 page, yes, 10, maybe, 213 is impossible.

In the middle of working on it last week, I got a $3000 medical bill, for my daughter who passed away 1.5+ years ago, for part of her 7 month ICU stay 2+ years ago.
Brakeless bike? Are you able to emergency stop?
mid-drives are usually a higher-end option for more serious recreational riding where predictability and responsiveness is more important than raw acceleration or long range. Basically the goal of the mid-drive is to make you feel like you are riding an analog bike but as a much more fit rider. Sending the power from the bottom bracket helps to keep you and the motor in sync, balances the weight distribution, keep unsprung/rotating weight low, etc. and the small battery keeps the bike light and maneuverable.

> The acceleration with a hub motor is so much better and doesn't depend on what gear I'm in.

I have a 750 watt radbike and I always find this a little bit bothersome in that I end up in situations where I feel like I'm being dragged forward when I don't want to be because my cadence got just a little bit too fast and the motor starts dumping power. I end up treating the pedal assist as another set of gearing to manage so it doesn't start giving me too much power when I am pedalling in a low gear. Higher end hub drives and pretty much all mid-drives solve this by using a torque sensor so the motor responds to the wattage you are putting down rather than the cadence.
In this particular case the broadcasting instruction can be replaced with builtin operations, allowing constexpr.

https://godbolt.org/z/Td6vG9cqG

edit: uh, the constant requires some hand adjustment

edit2: fixed version https://godbolt.org/z/4Px5Mbsx4, and I just don't get this. gcc really just wants to load that constant twice.
> We've been saying for years not to run Bittorrent over Tor, because the Tor network can't handle the load;"

12 year old blog post. Both the tor network and internet as a whole are completely different.

> two highly respected tools built upon Tor disagree with you

Both of those pages have a citation that says "it is bad.... just cause it is okay!"

The credible evidence is in my original comment, that shows hundreds of gigabits being underutilized on the network.
React Native for Web
Apple broke the law fighting Atlanta union, says NLRB
This seems like a horrible idea. Three wheelers were outlawed for a reason, motorcycle trikes/sidecars aren't super stable either. I'm surprised someone would opt for this instead of a two wheels up front design.
Most of the time the tool is getting it right, even though it's not always free. Some domains are available for sale, but are currently squatted.

Fun fact, I just did a search for: "Evil domain registration service that will query for the best names and will register them before you can."

I found an excellent short .com that is available for a regular price. Now sure if I should grab it, now that I've already got a name. It's so tempting!
It's "simply" an "AI" EQ preset adjuster using the existing licensing/sale/broadcast rights. /s
doesn’t the fact that the CT scan was ordered make it a more complicated case? vs one that involved no testing?
I had a similar experience where I asked it to tell me about creating a GUI with nim, and it told me to use the 'forms' module from the standard library, and the example code it printed was showing an easy to use and nice API. Took me a while to realise it wasn't my fault that I couldn't find any documentation about it, anywhere....
Oh, I fully agree with your argument as it applies to the old ant build tool, which is in fact a programming language using XML serialization - the author even apologized for it when he realized syntax wasn't the hard part. But a maven pom.xml is actually a component model serialization rather than a programming language in disguise - unless you're referring to embedded ant scripts in maven files which is a thing, but not common enough to warrant criticism IMO. Scripted deployment tasks in a Java context were more commonly seen in Jenkins, and only recently spill into gradle build scripts (I've always thought gradle was following Jenkins' Groovy syntax for eventual integration but that hasn't happened).
Thanks for taking a look!

TPM 1.2 is not very good. TPM 2.0 is pretty impressive.

I'm also not impressed with the tpm2-tools project. But there's a fair bit of code out there.

The neatest thing about TPM 2.0 is its extended access policies, and how blockchains (before they were called that), and encrypted state cookies (and key derivation templates) all adds up to letting one make do with the very limited memory resources that a TPM has.

I'd really like a high-performance, HSM-like, TPM. Or a high-performance HSM with a TPM 2.0 interface.
Interesting, have you had any success stories?
Thats the one! Other than the terrible software, its a gorgeous display.

I've been quietly wondering how hard it would be to reverse engineer the firmware to change the dimming timeout to u32::MAX or something. Either that or write a script to flash a bright overlay window for a few frames every minute or so to keep the monitor awake.
Highly recommend Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper. Canada-focused, and an excellent bit of journalism.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57427971-wilful-blindnes...

There are plenty of good investigations into corruption:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/135465.Best_Books_About_...
Yes it's possible: https://developers.ledger.com/
This is awesome, I really hope they add better support for SwiftUI. It is annoying having to wrap this stuff in UIViewRepresentable.
The current wave of "self-identification" was markedly absent in the wake of the '68 revolts and the ensuing "free love generation" which casts doubt upon your thesis. It is far more likely that these current "self-identification" trends are emergent properties of the availability of direct one-to-many communications media - social media and the like - which make it possible for these identity groups to emerge and grow rapidly.
You’re triggering one of its sort of canned responses, and you need to be subtle about how to get around it. Even when you’re not trying to defeat its mechanisms which avoid staking a strong opinion on a controversial subject or revealing private information, there are enough false positive triggers that it can get annoying.
Imagine a JRPG where you can have chats with your party.

I'm pretty sure someone will try this.

And then there will be dating games...
The first step you can do is: actually start working with this on daily basis

Maybe over years you'll gain an expertise to work in research, idk.
Something about this story (or rather; disconnected collection of
claims) doesn't read well. Can't put my finger on it though. Maybe
it's just not great writing.
*no normal human, Paul
Digital goods are taxed and my apple app receipts all have a tax line on them (US-based).
The context we were talking about was repairability. Modern washers and dryers are still fairly repairable. Even at their lower price point when figuring for inflation

Cars are getting less repairable. I think most people who’ve worked on cars for a long time will argue that car repairability is getting worse. Cars are also a case where the average cost, when figuring for inflation, has gone up
Choose your own adventure – ChatGPT
I had this Twitter post get a lot of attention: https://twitter.com/justinstorre/status/1599483466927984640?...

This lead to me quickly rolling out an open source prototype of of a choose your own adventure game with chatGPT.
What does 'salmon' mean here? The first time I read it above, I thought you meant 'slalom' but then you repeated 'salmon' several times so it seems deliberate.
What you are saying reflects exactly the mentality I described in my post, rules are for others, not for me.

BTW, I probably have been on bicycle more than you will ever be able to considering where I grew up. But some new US cyclists (particularly someone does not believe this is just another means of transportation) are often the worst traffic violators: I usually do not see any motorist running red light usually in months, but bikers? Well on a daily basis. I did not see these behavior where I grew up where everybody's main way of getting somewhere is by bike.
You're not dead. There are still tons of acting classes you could take.
Imagine a new YC company called RARA, tell me their story
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FTX reinvested almost all of Sequoia investment back to VC firm in round trip
Occam's razor is also a thing. If you can explain the exact same facts with a theory that involves fewer or more general assumptions, that also counts.
Jawbone may represent earliest presence of humans in Europe
My dad is 82. He can't ride a 2 wheel bike anymore as he's a bit shaky, but he can ride a trike.
I’ve been using old versions of Mac OS, like Mac OS 8, with both new hardware (modern trackpads) and original hardware (ball mice). The ball mice are much more precise than modern trackpads, when you’re clicking on something. If they stick, it’s frustrating and you have to wiggle the mouse around to get it to land on your click target, but once the cursor is over your click target, you can click on it. When you try to click on something with a trackpad, what happens is you end up moving the pointer during the click.
The video reminded me of this tweet of "A live rave happening right now in @decentraland".[1] It's not for me, but I'm glad someone finds it fun.

[1]: https://twitter.com/alexmoss/status/1484138206291443714
Yeah totally!! I think the NPC will become freakishly life like with their responses
> If you take Haskell and remove all the types (e.g. Scheme or JavaScript), you can have all the same abstractions, with basically the same syntax and operational behavior.

This isn't generally true, as such a language would have to be lazy by default and the property is more important than having all the types, because certain abstractions that can be expressed "naturally" in Haskell is a byproduct of non-strict semantics. Also it's the property that sometimes helps avoiding worst-case complexity of evaluations - something that eager languages have to live with at all times, no matter the abstractions.

There's a few examples here: https://augustss.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-points-for-lazy-e...
Where's the fallacy? She's saying the only systems that are beautiful are the ones that haven't been forced by massive spontaneous adoption to scale faster than the developer(s) can come up with and implement a beautiful design to meet the new requirements.

Maybe you think if the original system were _really_ beautiful and of high quality, it would have scaled with the adoption on its own, with no need for ugly patches... but in that case the original system would have had the capacity to do a lot more than what was originally required. It would have been overengineered, in other words, and it would have been more beautiful if it had met its original requirements more cheaply.

The notion that a sudden change in requirements that must be dealt with quickly results in an uglier system seems fairly straightforward to me, and certainly not offensive.
But this isn’t an example of that it’s an example of “wow that’s amazing”

In the realm of getting a lot more stuff done, I’ve been using it as a companion to explain a new language I’m learning right now. It’s super useful to ask it about language constructs, idiomatic ways to do X, is this way of doing Y good, etc. It’s saved me hours of using Kagi to soft through semi relevant pages stuffed with SEO and ancient answers from stackoverflow that are completely irrelevant other than a few matched key words.
What processing / server / backend are you using to run the whisper model?
And does Apple have one Apple Online Store and App Store for the Eurozone or do they have separate Online and App Stores for each EU member they operate in in the local languages and currencies (for the EU and Eurozone are not even perfectly aligned)?

Almost every example I gave was within one State: California, except for the two I tacked on at the end from California’s nearest northern neighbor in Oregon. All of the California examples were within the same metro area (the San Francisco Bay Area) but different counties. There is one US website, and one US App Store.

It is not the same situation, only seemingly superficially similar until further inspection.
There is no such thing as an unbiased opinion. We all have unquestioned fundamental axiomatic believes about how the world works. And that will shape our interpretation of any facts presented to us. It is the reason why educated experienced people can still completely disagree on how facts should be interpreted.
jurigged is excellent.
"limitless indulgence of the appetites and desires" has a different word. That's not freedom, that's called debauchery and has absolutely nothing to do with "liberalism" in the political science meaning of the term.
Very true. So few people talk about this topic is saddens me. I have had success switching mindsets when I get stuck on one.
Rare Ice Age fossils discovered on the drought-stricken Mississippi River
Sorry, but no one is going to get an incredibly invasive and risky neural implant to solve carpal tunnel syndrome.
Call centers have to give you the right answer.
Taboo and stigma are also what drive irrational prejudices, so I'm not sure about the rush to judgment about, ummm, "important jobs" which definitely were not how society was organized during the vast majority of our evolution.
I can't tell if you're so anti-animal rights activist that you're defending what you see as a reasonable use of animals, OR if you're so pro-Elon that you're willing to defend whatever. I'm reading you as the former.

So let's take animals off the table.

I work for a company, and we have a high-value limited resource that's well-regulated. Instead of doing methodical tests for teh product we're trying to develop with this resource, we've ruined 1500 samples of the resource. This seems unthinkable to me. Especially coming from an actual engineering with any kind of real-life resources.

"Measure twice cut once" is the adage in anything with construction, because you don't want to needlessly waste any kind of resource.

This is a software approach to hardware, and if they were destroying gold beyond repair, I get the weird sense you'd be less okay with it...

> In all, the company has killed about 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys, following experiments since 2018... The sources characterized that figure as a rough estimate because the company does not keep precise records on the number of animals tested and killed.

It's even wilder to consider they don't actually know how many animals they've killed. On any basic construction project, you should be able to account for all of the valuable resources you used. It seems unthinkable to me that you wouldn't have the same level of accounting for living things especially given the regulations around it. But Elon don't love himself some regulations. I'm guessing you feel similarly from your other comments...
Well I’m on mobile and at the point where less than 10% of my screen was showing the article itself I bailed out.
They experimented with tunneling enemies a while ago (it was before my time, and I started playing about a decade ago). But for walls and moats, enemies do try and scale up/swim through them now.
So happy I found this comment! Yes Snow Crash is a mist recommendation and insanely relevant to mass hysteria and "babbling"
I’m unsure why nobody releases a compact electric 4 seater car with a 60 mile range for running the kids to school and grabbing some random groceries. Basically a beefed up golf cart. That’s all I need to drop my kids off at school each day which is 95% of my weekday driving.
it’s similar to how you can hash passwords to know that the user knows it without knowing the password. so you don’t know the amounts you just know that, for example, the output (debit) is affordable by the sender (in the case of a payment). the sort of “magic” of zk systems lies in the part where you can turn complex programs into something similar by converting them into polynomials. it turns out that pretty much any program can be represented as polynomial math and the second magical part is that although the proofs might be expensive to compute, they can be verified in constant time (in the case of a SNARK at least).
I’ve only seen it do stuff like that if I assert a false premise and ask it questions off the false premise.
I wouldn't say so....90k is low for someone with a lot of experience. New grads expect more than that.
> As long as I am improving, these models are able to improve at a faster rate. Of course, I cannot compete with the top researchers at these big labs. So whatever I do will be insignificant.

Just because you aren't on the cutting edge of technological "progress" doesn't mean what you do is insignificant. It doesn't have to be futile to resist. There are good things produced by technology of course, but honestly I'm not ashamed to admit I'm just sick of it and have no interest in the cutting edge anymore. Maybe I'll be a fool 100 years when a few more cycles of tech "disruption" finally solve all material poverty, but I just can't see the world that way anymore.

Solving the problem of how to make enough money to get by is a different question, but it's not a new one. IMO the correlation between highly paid work and meaningful is lucky when you can get it, but nothing to count on. Sometimes compromises need to be made.
I was planning for applying for AWS as well, but since their lay off, I didn't

Thanks for sharing.
It sounds like you are arguing that EVs make people want to drive, which is worse than if they would just use public transportation or something?

Rockets have a negligible impact on climate change relative to ICE vehicles.
Oh they’ve gotten my money that way too.
You can buy one through Amazon.
As noted the 7000 was a transaction fee. The land was part of a more complex deal.

As for the rest of this: land gets planning permission when plans are presented - which is what property developers do for a living.

I would not expect somebody to plank down >1m on an asset they had no idea how to utilise: the expectation is the land will sell to a developer who is ready to go through that process.

What else would anybody do with it?
> The Buffy creator, once an icon of Hollywood feminism, is now an outcast accused of misogyny. How did he get here?

Probably all the misogyny.
I have been using Whisper to transcribe my audio notes. I just save my voice memo from my phone to my NAS and my little script does the rest on a loop.
Yes, that's an interesting choice. I remember when trikes were pulled in the late 80s- very risky. Two wheels up front made a return in the last decade.

I'm going to be following this. I think a Trike will be enormously popular because of the stability, but it has to be stable. Rad tends to design for low cost... I hope this wasn't a terrible choice.....
I also do that from time to time, though less regularly, maybe once a month. But then I also sometimes talk to myself (not excessively, just occasionally when I take a walk or while at home, replaying some conversation or imagining a possible situation). I thought this was rather normal, or at least not too far from normal.
> If Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla all agreed tomorrow that they wanted to migrate the web to a new set of DNS root servers they could probably do it.

They're already pushing DNS over HTTP.
i was looking for a new car recently..

And (in Europe) all car manufacturers offer only 5 colors - black, white, gray, reddish and bluish. Maybe 2 blacks. Or 2 grays. Sometimes red or blue cost more than the others. But, essentialy - no-other-colors. (well, Porsches and Ferraris probably got more.. but.. not my sandwich)

That's it. Then, i slowly started realizing it's been going for years... Looking now at any parking place around, the only colourful cars are some 20y old ones - if any. All else.. is either black, gray, here-there white, and few reds/blues.

Color blindness.
Thanks for sharing, last year or early this year, job hunting is very easy, one month I got about 2 or 3 offers, but not it seems hard, and my current company planned to lay off people as well.

Probably need to repeat your journey