skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The neuromatch computational neuroscience course also seems quite interesting, though maybe less of practical use.

https://compneuro.neuromatch.io/

Recent research like "Relating transformers to models and neural representations of the hippocampal formation" might make it more relevant though (https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04035v2)

quote from the abstract of that paper:
"Many deep neural network architectures loosely based on brain networks have recently been shown to replicate neural firing patterns observed in the brain. One of the most exciting and promising novel architectures, the Transformer neural network, was developed without the brain in mind. In this work, we show that transformers, when equipped with recurrent position encodings, replicate the precisely tuned spatial representations of the hippocampal formation; most notably place and grid cells. Furthermore, we show that this result is no surprise since it is closely related to current hippocampal models from neuroscience. We additionally show the transformer version offers dramatic performance gains over the neuroscience version. This work continues to bind computations of artificial and brain networks, offers a novel understanding of the hippocampal-cortical interaction, and suggests how wider cortical areas may perform complex tasks beyond current neuroscience models such as language comprehension."
"Child abuse"? Please, give me a break. This is no different to any kid muddling through adolescence and trying to make sense of their emotions as they grow up. Just because it's about gender and sexuality doesn't make it child abuse.
Cash is king. If you are buying a non running classic car and have a tow vehicle and trailer ready you can drive a hard bargain in the moment.

Suggesting laborious bureaucratic transactions over several days removes this common occurrence in that world, along with at many other gatherings of specialists - antiques, pedigree animals, whatever
Yeah, these articles are consistently vague about the energy inputs and outputs of the process.

This isn't even a closed cycle. It uses up potassium hydroxide.

Electrolyzing water into hydrogen and oxygen is more promising, if you like that sort of thing. Once you have hydrogen, you can make hydrocarbons, if you want to. That's good to have as a technology for when we use up all the natural hydrocarbons and still want to make plastics. As an energy storage system, it sucks.
The enemy's gate is down. If a CTO brings the surface area of "built in-house" down to zero while accomplishing all of their objectives, ad infinitum, they win the game.

Obviously, it would be impossible to maintain such an advantage in real life for any extended period of time. However, orienting your team towards that goal gives the CTO a way to quantify risks and costs associated with accomplishing their objectives. Health checks and SDKs are standardized commodities that can be implemented and maintained at a predefined market rate that's always approaching zero. Finding and fixing a bug in your proprietary code has a potentially infinite cost.
I used to work for a bank in the US as a teller before 2019.

You absolutely can walk in and ask for 12K in cash. That amount is normal.

If you’re asking for 30-50K then coordination is needed, and its not because money is not available, simply because youd need to open the vault and that takes time.
I think you are jumping the gun on freedom here.

There are very few remaining instances in the region where people still pay large sums in cash. Transaction costs are so low (and mostly nonexistent) that cash remains in use either in very specialised circumstances or as part of “grey economy” activities.
Will I actually be able to use their phone number for verification, or will it be rejected everywhere? I couldn't even use my (primary, stable, long-term) Google Voice phone number to sign up for ChatGPT because is was categorized as a VoIP number and therefore distrusted.

A primary benefit of the phone verification systems is to force bad actors to burn a costly identifier in order to create a distinct account. VoIP numbers are available quite cheaply or even free from a number of providers. Even prepaid GSM-connected cell phone numbers are sometimes distrusted (see Blizzard's Overwatch 2 phone verification scandal).

Many people also do not realize how much information is available from just a phone number from data brokers. Companies can get the associated name, billing address, and sometimes even near-real-time location data (see the 2017 scandal over Verizon and AT&T selling this).
Because you need a printer, and their competitors are all just as scummy?
It's fine to sell failure if you mark it that. Just nobody sensible will buy it

But doing it after people bought in, well...
> You can't use it to buy a property that way.

Do people in other parts of the world use bank transfers to buy property or what? I'm genuinely curious. Where I'm from it's often a cash transaction, unless it's a mortgage.
I have a Gmail rule set up to forward all of my mail to a Protonmail account as a back up. So I can still perform password resets, etc
If the reason to pull out 1K/day is a 1K/day limit imposed by the bank, then the reason is obviously not to avoid reporting requirements and therefore it cannot be considered structuring.
Average Europeans use bank transfers or debit cards to make these payments.
I have an Epson SC-P600 that prints A3+, with excellent quality (I use it mostly for photos and digital negatives), but it's expensive to use, features questionable design choices (ink pads etc.) requires arcane driver / RIP setups for the best results etc.

A newer model is out (P700) which solves somes issues (like the matte/glossy black ink swap) but is probably more locked down (important if you plan to use for example full greyscale ink sets like the piezography ones).

I had a better experience lately with (smaller, ink bottle type) Canons, I especially like the easily user replaceable print heads. Drivers and software still terrible.

What are you goint to be printing?
You can always liquidate your account. What you can't do is make it some random branch's problem in a spur-of-the-moment decision; you have to plan it with them.
“ Legal tender is anything recognized by law as a means to settle a public or private debt or meet a financial obligation, including tax payments, contracts, and legal fines or damages. The national currency is legal tender in practically every country. ”
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/legal-tender.asp

I’m sorry my use of the word “legal” in the context of “legally acceptable tender” triggered this response. You’ll have to forgive me: English is my first language.

I will try again:

The use of cash, if agreed upon by parties involved, is legal because it’s a government “backed”/“accepted” item of currency. Tendering cash in this transaction is legal. (You’re not trading a car for $value in meth or guns..)

A gov is now saying, no matter how legal the use of cash is, after a certain amount it is no longer legal.

This is, in my opinion and with my beliefs, an overreach and quite frankly nonsense. It is no surprise, but saddening all the same. That is all.
AS the author says: writing up content you've learned to share with others is the best crucible for figuring out what you really know and don't know. I've found myself following rabbitholes while trying to explain something in a blog post, and pretty soon I either hit excellent examples or counterexamples.
Ask HN: Are you less envious of people with strong language skills now?
It seems that ChatGPT has taken their advantage away since you can now use this amazing AI to make your writing top-notch.
I think there exists a midway, where you rely on the heavily-tested open source solution that implements what you want, and a sprinkle more. RabbitMQ for example is that layer that your 40 lines of code would do, but pays off dividends in good nights' sleep.
Getting drunk every day.
The most pressing issue is the amount of funding wasted by bureaucrats, corporate tax deductions, subsidies to their friends, and so on...

So no...
Sure. (1) it is a global setting so I can't decide if I want it on a per application basis, with Docker that is less of an issue though (2) it is disabled by default, so hardly anyone uses it from what I see (3) I'd like to have it always enabled, also in production, so my code doesn't end up in states that I didn't expect and I get notified.

But that might just be me and/or my particular use case.
To me, it would be fair that she get the punishment that she would get if she did commit such a crime in the Qatar. I guess something like death penalty for betraying the kingdom dictators. Should be ok with her as she was supporting the fact that human rights are ok there...
Your Neighbor's Solar Panels Are Saving You Money
A method for hooking a function without modifying memory protection
password logins are better security than phone verification in many cases.
There are no particles, there are only fields (2013) [pdf]
> How is there a demographic crisis in the east?

Net emigration & a fertility rate of 1.7 is what I’d call “demographic crisis”
Regardless of how small the fee, there is a fee that you are being forced to pay.
>Society treated twitter as something more

No, journalists did. Society at large doesn’t even use Twitter. Their own stats prove this.
Someone needs to OCR all of the GPT screenshots on twitter and bootstrap them into one of these databases.
> Using it via WASM is a strong indicator.

Is there a good way to do that, though? What I think will needing to do properly:

1. You can implement picture/audio/video/document file formats as extensions, without needing to intercept requests/responses (so that save, view-source, etc will still access the original file). (I think some versions of Mozilla have this capability (although some details of the design are not as good as they could have been), but as far as I know, WebExtensions does not.)

2. Extensions can be native codes, WebAssembly codes, or JavaScript codes. (Native extensions will be excluded from the extensions catalog, and the end user or system administrator must install them manually.)

3. Add a "Interpreter" response header, to indicate what to do if the browser does not understand the file format. For example, this might link to an implementation of that file format in WebAssembly.

4. Such WebAssembly programs can also be used outside of a web browser, in local standalone programs. For example, an external program might run the WebAssembly code to convert data from stdin to stdout.
Yes people all around him.
Literally anyone can be Christian, but that doesn't make it a useless tag. It's a linguistic and mental shortcut that has utility despite the relative ease of application.
WHO CARES if it "only has a few instances". I will never understand where people will say that having our right LITERALLY REMOVED somehow isn't eroding our freedom. It simply is, you are objectively less free now.
I'm talking about the table which shows development time in hours, as well as lines of code and lines of documentation.

Come to think of it, I wonder if they counted docstrings as documentation or code?
Because those in power thrive and support corruption at very high levels.

This is for poor schnucks and the occasional scapegoat.
It is interesting to think about what processes a framework can allow to be changed, and what needs to stay.

That said.

I have never been anywhere where the process does not have room for improvement.

But often improvement seems impossible for structural reasons, for a team that is not empowered, where people are checked out, or not forthright due to whatever reasons. And like you say, people go through the motions for the sake of doing it, leading to wasted time and more frustration.

Eliminating the retrospective is the easy choice to avoid that.
Ever commute and have to transfer a couple times?

Every transfer adds quite a bit of time.

Multiply that times 2 for a daily commute, times 220 working days, times a million commuters.
Just reading your comments gave me a pretty good understanding of some Rust concepts I didn't know about, like changing object ownership based on what function is accessing it. Nice write up!
+ F# :: https://fsharp.github.io/fsharp-core-docs/reference/fsharp-c... — only works with unary functions.

+ Hack :: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/expressions-and-operators/pipe — works with any functions, uses $$ for the pipelined value.

OCaml also has a similar thing (@@) but I can't find a good reference page.
> I personally find this utterly unconvincing. For a start, I’m not entirely sure that’s not what I’m doing in typing out this message. My brain is ‘just’ chemistry, so clearly can’t have beliefs or be conscious, right?

Your brain is part of an organism who's ancestors evolved to survive the real world, not by matching tokens. As such, language is a skill that helps humans survive and reproduce, not a tool used to mimic human language. Chemistry is the wrong level to evaluate cognition at.

Also, you can note the differences between how actual neurons work compared to language models as other posters have mentioned.
The hassle is quite important as 1) It limits the business models it can be done through and 2) It means the business models you can still launder it through are much more noticeable.

It's easy to launder $2 million selling gold bars. It's much harder to launder $2 million through a car wash without red flags showing.
How is the analogy of this tool, rendering markdown in the CLI, has to do with uploading markdown files to a cloud service? Seems out of scope.
It seems somewhat short sighted if Elon really plans to turn Twitter into a WeChat like he has mentioned. Though he throws so much crap at the wall and very little sticks so who knows. It just feels like if you are going to keep the space then it makes sense to just mothball a few/parts of kitchens instead of trying to get a megar return by selling it off.
> our own separate payment networks called Maestro

You mean Mastercard's brand?
Yep, i'd return it, because it doesn't do the thing you bough it for anymore. (EU)
very hard to undersell just how bad this is. Now every action on your application it running database queries.
Not the original poster but I also have a monochrome laser printer from Brother. I find myself printing anywhere from 500 to about 3000 pages per year. I find it paid for itself in the first year. I also have one of the "professional" network scanners for digitizing. The printer I got is an MFC with duplex automatic scanning and a flatbed. Occasionally Costco will drop the price by $100 and you get a pretty good deal. Starter toner cartridges are good for about 1500 pages.
True, but print shops are harder and harder to find. I live in Berlin and the closest print shop is almost 2km away.
That's probably SF thing. Generally corporate America swears by Steelcase.
I'm sorry, English is not my first language, but I don't think "affliction" means "disease". I used it as a "cause of persistent pain or distress", which I still think the OP has, given that he/she admitted to crying while writing a blog post (you can read his/her other posts to see that it's a bit of an obsession with Musk).
I went down the same rabbit hole after my epson WF-7620 ran out of ink in 9 months and only printed 100 pages at most.

Gotta have 11x17 printing and scanning for control panel drawing packages
> I would argue that people just use their bank account for such large payments these days.

Yup, and now they are _forced_ to. Its a single point of failure. One which the government conveniently has control over.

I'm surprised the HN crowd isn't grasping this more clearly. Backups are important.
I think there's a large degree of variance here: I've been in places that would have struggled to hand over $1000 in cash, since they might have had only 2-3 times that total on hand for the entire week.

That was in a small town, but that's my point: anecdotes about being unable to withdraw money are more about logistics than a banking collapse being hidden from the public.
I'd like for the metadata to exist in memory tho, in almost every app, I read that metadata within the rom itself, I don't want to be fetching that external file each time I need to display the about box.

What we could do is just not expect the #xxxx #f0 DEO2 bytes as magic number, so you can just ";meta POP2" at the start. That wouldn't "use" anything, I mean, in its current state, it doesn't really occupy a port, vectors can always be overwritten, even if some day the #f0 device does become something, we could immediately write the same vector with another address in the reset vector.
> Which has a grain of truth to it, just no nuance.

I see it in action all the time. In the small, parents know that kids are sloppy with money given to them. When they earn the money, they suddenly get careful with it. In the large, politicians play on the "tax the rich" theme because that means someone other than the bulk of voters will be paying the bill.

> free market fanatics

This sort of thing discredits your postings. It isn't necessary to be a fanatic to study economic history and see how well it works. The evidence is pretty compelling - far more than a "grain" of truth.
Muahahahaha! They are one with the rich and powerful...
Judge's (paraphrased?) quote: "But the law still expected investors to 'act reasonably' before acting 'on the zeitgeist of the moment', he added."

That's a pretty helpful defense for celebrity endorsers of FTX, I should think.
Need the stable diffusion of this tech, asap.

Watching it pretend it can’t do something is cringe.
So those 1000 lines of code (your prototype was 100 lines and this was 10x that) would still have been a week tops, right? That doesn't seem too bad a price to pay for scaling potential, even if in hindsight it wasn't needed. You can't always know in advance which features you are going to need and which ones are superfluous.
If you look through those they are almost all about people forgetting their password or losing whatever they are using for 2FA: that is exactly what I'm worried about!

In my particular case, I am happy with my 2FA setup for Google (three security keys, across multiple locations) so I think that category of lockout is pretty unlikely.

And I've already lost my keys once in my life, about 20 years ago.
> cleaning toilets on submarines

I don't get it. All US submarines are nuclear. Serving on a nuclear sub is an honor granted to few. Sure, you'll get to clean toilets sometimes. So what? If you join the Navy, you want to fight wars. Since WW1 wars were won with machines. Artillery, machine guns, tanks, airplanes, ships, submarines. Submariners in particular pretty much won the war in the Pacific. If the US gets into a war, especially one with China, the subs will make a huge difference. And maybe it's because of them that the US will actually not get into a war with China.

A sailor on a nuclear sub makes as much of a difference to the war fighting capability of the US as a Seal, if not more.
Yeah it's like the old snark about investing. It's being easy to make a million dollars. Just start with two million dollars.

The gross thing about this stuff is it's predicated on the average person not being able to do the engineering and accounting calculations to realize it's all lies.
Very few (if any) Apple stores will accept that amount in cash. A lot of stores and businesses (also the likes of Carrefour and Albert Heijn) have been phasing out setups needed for cash payments. Even if you find a way to pay cash, it will be on a separate (long and slow) queue or they will need to exceptionally call their supervisor to handle the payment.
And when you need to write something without it, and you write garbage what then?
In my fifties I realized I don’t deserve to suffer.

Eventually that led to realizing I don’t deserve to be unhappy.

And that to giving myself permission to be happy and healthy.

To be philosophical about it, Saṃsāra factors out of both sides of the equation.

Good luck.
I think consumers should be more worried about this. AM radio would still be a useful way to get information out during a major emergency. The US Government provides AM stations with special generators and transmitters that have been rad-hardened. Until a better solution for emergency communication is here, we need to maintain AM radio.

See the IPAWS system, for example: https://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/ipaws/eas_best_practices_...
It's an invalid falsification.

The input to chatGPT is a textual interface, the output is letters on a screen. That is the exact same interface as if I were chatting with a human over a chat app.

Your getting into the technicalities of intermediary inputs and outputs. Well sure... analog data seen by the nueral wetware of human brains IS obviously different from the textual digital data inputted into the ML model. There are very different filters and mechanisms at work here. For sure.

HOWEVER, we are looking for an isomorphism here. Similar to how a emulated playstation on a computer is very different then a physical playstation... an internal isomorphism STILL exists between hardware and the software emulating the hardware.

We do not know if such an isomorphism exists between chatGPT and the human brain. This isomorphism is basically the crystallized essence of what cognition is if we could define it. If one does exists it's not perfect... there are missing things. But it is niave to say that some form isomorphism isn't there AT ALL. It also niave to say that there is FOR SURE an isomorphism.

The most rational and scientific thing at this point is to speculate. Maybe what chatGPT is, is something vaguely isomorphic to cognition. Keyword: maybe.

It is NOT an unreasonable speculation GIVEN what we KNOW and DON'T KNOW.
> I was more in mechanical engineering so perhaps this is less common in AI oriented papers

No, you got it right. This is EXTREMELY prevalent in modern AI/ML papers, to everyone's detriment. In the majority of interesting cases, reproduction is only possible with the original code.
It depends on how they got their income in the first place. My family are dairy farmers and frequently trade cattle at local auctions. This is still a cash based society (rural Ireland), it does not take many heads of cattle to make up 10k, many other deals are done informally (e.g. my grandfather buying cows from a neighbor without auction) with a value that is of that order. The money may hit a bank account if something more formal needs to be bought (insurance, new machinery etc) but those are not all that common.

As a child I would always remember my grandfather carrying (at least in the house) large rolls of bills.
Why does it matter what I "need"? Why is it any of your business what I do with my money? I should have the right to spend it how I want, it's mine.
"Bizarre how the EU is penalizing everyone in order to 'make it harder for criminals to launder dirty money'."

This likely affects a number of people that is so small, that it's irrelevant. Not sure it makes sense to say that such a law that effects a tiny number of individuals is penalizing everyone.
what model you got? at that price it sounds great