skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with everything else Musk says and does, it's all part of his toolkit to weaponize timely political topics. He doesn't actually care, beyond what he can use to bludgeon or harass people into submission.
I would not be surprised if they pivoted to providing either demo access to their models, or otherwise lowered the safety bar for publishing them given the mostly-positive response to ChatGPT. Just because they see a need/opportunity to pivot doesn’t mean they are actually threatened. It can also mean the opposite.

Previously they were playing their cards close to their chest because they were terrified of getting crucified by the NYT for off-color quotes from their models.
You’re right, it’s even worse than that. When public transit is constantly decelerating, crawling, and hesitating it (correctly) communicates to the riders society’s judgment that they and their destinations don’t matter. That if your trip mattered you would have your own car. It sets a waiting room atmosphere. Public transit is a purgatory for those with nowhere else to be to while away the hours. And pretty soon that’s who your ridership is and what they’re doing there.
What I’d like to know is how much energy is burnt by corporate mandated software running on workstations.

My work computer regularly spends hours heating my room running god knows what scanning and inventory software when I’m not using it for anything. Unless of course one of the desktop people have managed to deploy coin mining software across the fleet. At least then someone is getting benefit beyond room heating.
I keep intending to reinvent my own controller with an RP2040, but life gets in the way, so for the second year in a row, I’m using a Pixelblaze to control the 950 LEDs on my Christmas tree. It’s a continuous string (well, 19 strands of 50 lights connected), put on the tree in a zigzag pattern and manually mapped to a vaguely triangular 2-D shape. The patterns are mostly as downloaded from the Pixelblaze repository.

I’d highly recommend Pixelblaze for getting a fairly complex setup working quickly.

https://youtu.be/hu-RQx_NpAY
Love this line:

> I'm not exactly certain anybody asked for a calculator on their TV, but by this point in time I was now determined to put PCalc anywhere that Apple let me, just out of stubbornness.
How is SBF not considered a serious flight risk? Why is he being treated like some upstanding citizen, above trying to escape decades in prison?
When Starlink works in close relationship with the US army, one can suspect some military purposes [1, 2, 3]

Specially when they get caught red handed like in Ukraine

They then quickly pushed the smoke narrative wich consist of: "US gov please help us fund Starlink to help Ukrainians keep access to the internet, why do you refuse"

Some interesting food: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/30/archives/a-scramble-for-t...

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/df032357-51e7-4635-baaa-f053dcc0c...

[2] - https://spacenews.com/spacex-l3harris-win-space-development-...

[3] - http://www.stdaily.com/English/BusinessNews/202206/4dfa8c1ad...
We've had fast dynamic recompilation since the 1970s. The problem that build systems solve is integrating multiple tools and software systems from across languages, runtimes, even operating systems and baking it down into a small set of commands for a programmer to invoke.
The opening anecdote demonstrates a lack of understanding of how to guess on game shows. Mick Jagger is a perfectly reasonable guess for "An old person whose name sounds like Micklewhite".
>> definitely would have been prosecuted

This government financial regulator explicitly allowed backdating capital infusions. They cooked the books. Not prosecuted. Kept the sweet federal pension.

"Dochow knew that IndyMac couldn't meet its capital requirements and allowed it to record a capital infusion six weeks before it occurred."

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6514493&page=1

And in 1989 Dochow similarly pulled a not-regulate stunt with a failing S&L.

"As federal regulators were preparing a file against Lincoln’s CEO, Charles Keating Jr., Dochow ordered his staff “to cease all examinations of Lincoln Savings, all supervisory acts with regards to Lincoln Savings"'

https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/e...
I would say the rich part is all that matters.

If you have assets to put up equivalent to the cash bail amount or get a bail bond, then no one cares.

If you don't have zillions, then you're stuck in pauper's prison (pretrial detention) like some 800k people.

The US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet except Seychelles.
My guess -- no evidence -- was that was in return for immunity or leniency for his parents. It's the only incentive I can imagine to voluntarily accept a very long federal prison sentence.
These exist. Just pull the circuit breakers for the flight computers. The systems are isolated enough you can remove flight protections without losing flight controls.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72 for a flight computer failure. The Mayday episode lists states some time after that accident, another Qantas flight had the same failure, but the crew knew of the potential issue, so they cut power to all 3 flight computers.
Yup. Still pissed that 1Password removed the standalone option.
> What is the difference between blue and blue?

> The difference between blue and blue is that they are two distinct colors. Blue is a primary color that is made up of a combination of red and green light, while blue is a secondary color that is made up of a combination of cyan and magenta light. Blue is usually considered to be a cooler, darker color while blue is usually considered to be a warmer, lighter color.

Meh.
“He hasn't been convicted of a crime. Why should he be in jail?”

because he’s connected enough to avoid getting jailed again even if he gets convicted
Also, the so-called explanations for unexpected rankings seem very much like "fishing for an plausible-sounding explanation", when "the system is flawed" is actually the more plausible explanation. (note https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fysgqk4CjAwhBgNYT/fake-expla... )
HN should run all headlines through the following GPT prompt: "please rewrite the following headline without hyperbole: $HEADLINE"
It's also why bus stops don't always face the road. When there isn't enough room to fall over when getting up they sometimes turn them to face away.

Another benefit of the doors and walls approach is that trains can approach and bypass at much higher speeds without worrying about the wind knocking passengers or luggage about, and it reduces delays caused by stuff falling on the tracks. Anyone who has been to one of the Shinkansen bypass stations and enjoyed a 200kmph flyby has seen that in action. But even the inter-city yamanote line utilizes them for quicker approaches, departures and bypasses.

Train speeds can almost seem a bit careless in Japan, but I much prefer it to the glacial pace of Australian trains. I am sometimes outpacing the trains on my bicycle in my city, it could be so much better. One difference is speed limits for level crossings. Japan has waaay higher level crossing limits, it makes a big difference.
I deleted my LastPass data a few years back, now hopefully it actually got deleted…
Also interesting: A Tandy Bear Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPYmpf64OfA
Depends on the brand, there are a few around here that aren't so bad. My last (and absolutely final) trip to Stake and Shake, however, their burger patties were so thin you could actually see through them.
Geopolitically, this is a naive position to take.

Why would you let an adversary have an intrusive app that can collect infinite data on your citizens and look into your citizens intimate moments and candid conversations?

There's a reason why China doesn't allow American social media in their market. They know how easily it is to spy on citizens.
I tried shuttle just because of this. Super easy!!! Like, too easy. Like, easy enough to justify making the leap to rust with this.
It's the subscription model. Amazon has used it to build the largest captive audience, and exploits authors as just a content pump.

Authors have to sell where the listeners are. They're on Audible, and that's the problem.
LastPass allows you to delete your account without entering your master password. If their infa is compromised, you don't want to enter your master password to lastpast again it case the hacker planted something in lastpass' client code to snoop entered master password.
MSC3917: Cryptographically Constrained Room Membership
So what you're saying is I can get a selfie with SBF and Elizabeth Holmes in a Starbucks in Palo Alto? Since even though Holmes was sentenced to 11 1/4 years, she has until April 23rd 2023 to turn herself in.
So basically for the non-metric measures, "where you are" matters. Because, hey, a Pint (ounce, gallon, pretty much whatever) abroad is pretty much not what it is back home.

And don't get me started on miles / nautical miles.

But at least now I know there are 36 Bushels to a Chaldron. If only I had a clue what a bushel is.

Bet you don't know how many rods in a furlong?
But you do not have the keys and passwords on that server. Only their encrypted forms. And the master password never leaves your machine(s), the sensitive bits are only decrypted locally.

This is reasonably safe, as long as you're careful with your master password, no different form GPG.
No, they lowered corporate taxes. They raised taxes for the majority (but not all) of the high income workers by reducing the deduction for state and local taxes (which, along with the mortgage interest deduction, should never exist) something the Democrats, who are trying to lower taxes for the rich, want to roll back. If you are a tech worker living in California, it's almost certainly the case that your taxes went up, often by quite a bit.

In terms of the very rich - those who live off of capital income rather than wage income -- taxes were unchanged and remain at the long term capital gains rate of 20%. The long term capital gains rate is perhaps the biggest loophole for the wealthy, and neither party will touch it. Thank Bill Clinton -- another Democrat -- for signing the "Taxpayer relief act" that lowered the top rate to 20%, which is where it sits today.

The GOP tax plan was a corporate tax cut (politically justified by the myth that there is "money sitting outside the US that corporations will repatriate to our shores and invest in America") -- combined with a partially offsetting hike on high earners by attempting to close some loopholes that were carved out for the wealthy, such as the deduction for state and local income taxes paid.

I opposed that tax plan and was disgusted by it, especially exploiting the economic illiteracy of the public with the canard about money being brought back to our shores -- the money was always in our shores, it was just the name of the holding company that was the owner of record that changed, but the nationality of the owner of a share of stock or bond has no bearing on where the funds are invested. It is the business for which the bond, deposit, or stock is a liability that determines where money is invested, not the business which holds it as an asset. However almost as deceptive as the GOP narrative to "bring overseas money back to the U.S." was the Democrat narrative that this was a "tax cut for the rich". It was a tax hike on high earners but overall ambiguous on "the rich" as the closing of the loopholes was partly (but not fully) offset by the changes in brackets. My total tax liability went up by about 15K as a result of that deal, and I wouldn't mind that if it wasn't used to fund corporate tax breaks, which again end up being tax breaks for long term capital gain holders and those with tax advantaged investment accounts. There was a lot of deception surrounding that tax deal.
wut?

he was arrested in the bahamas, the bail terms came AFTER the arrest. How the hell does someone breach bail terms before they're arrested?
Attention to power should be given importantance in the design process, especially in mobile devices.
Ethics discussions often involve this sort of idea, although it's usually in terms of life-years.
Page rank and Bing approach is to emulate Google. That mean building infra and indexing capabilities, for which Google has a very long head start. Not to mention, the cash and resources to keep moving and accelerating.

ChatGPT (and the next one and the next one) are different. They are pre-trained models. They are easy to train to specific sets of data.

I would envisage a future where a lot of walled gardens implement chatGPT for internal search algorithms. And, a federated network of these walled gardens could aggregate search by sharing results from models. This would leads to a search layer that is distributed and compartmentalized, and this is a real threat to Google.
Weirdly she's free until she has to turn herself in on April 23rd 2023. Somehow I figured when you got sentenced, to prison, you got taken away to prison. I guess when you are rich, you get some time to do some last things before you go away?
Why do you think it is likely? That's a very strong claim.

> such as bad RNG

How could that be a problem? The attacker doesn't control your passwords. How would you exploit a known IV as an attacker in this context?
Write a one-liner joke by Socrates on the subject of fishing:

>> "Why did Socrates never go fishing? Because he preferred to stay on the dock-trine."

Write a short standup comedy joke about AI:

>> I met this AI the other day and it asked me if I was a human. I said yes, but it didn't believe me. It was like, "prove it."
Apple Back Tap Shortcuts: double or triple tap on the back of your iPhone
The original topic of conversation was:

> Nvidia primarily makes add on GPU's, if I understand their business correctly. Apple integrated a GPU onto its m2 (or whichever chip is used in their studio) that performs comparably to the 3060, and even beat the the 3090 in some benchmarks/workloads. I think that's pretty impressive.

The form-factor of the 3090 isn't relevant.
> Not in a free society with the rule of law, anyway.

How strange to negate mountain loads of evidence with a single religion-like self-defending assumption. Of course you would believe that yours is a society of Law if you actively ignore all evidence to the contrary.
This really does not follow, please explain.
DIY air filter can be an effective way to filter out indoor air pollutants
Netflix Password Sharing Crackdown: Why It Won't End Account Sharing
Not sure that “spinning up a new Ponzi scheme” covers the magnitude of the potential for new crimes here. Somewhat ironic call out of common sense…
Anecdote:

While backporting a new PipeWire release earlier this year, I discovered that it had added dependencies on new Meson features that didn't exist in Debian Stable. User-defined functions would have allowed me to shim those features on the older Meson version, greatly simplifying my work and minimizing my patches' footprint.

I don't know if that situation is common enough to justify user-defined functions to Meson's author, but it was frustrating, and it seemed ironic that a build system designed to solve platform compatibility problems had in some sense become one.
>But I have real questions about exactly who isn't getting this kind of generous treatment.

You've uncovered the unjust nature of the cash bail system as a whole. The efforts being made to get rid of it in California are a huge step forward toward making the system more equitable.
I sometimes have to support Windows machines.

When I Google things for Windows that require 3 bullet-point sentences to answer, inevitably I get a 12-minute video of an Indian guy with an accent that prevents me from watching at 2x audio comprehensibly, taking 6 minutes to tell me how common the problem is and 6 minutes teaching me how to download and install spyware that does what I want and much more.
> He is with his family, living however he wants. Eating great food, drinking, relaxing. Enjoying himself.

i don’t feel a particular need to start paying to house him any sooner than necessary.

we’re all going to be stuck with that bill for most of the rest of his life.
Yeah the gas thing is a whole different dimension to this, that involves absurd domestic politics in Germany. It's actually a little surprising that the State Department let Germany go as far down that path as it did, and didn't stop the pipeline in its tracks back in 2010-2011. Maybe we were still in the "Russia Reset" fever, and were okay with letting Germany spread its wings a bit and build it's own energy policy.

Of course, this admits that these other NATO members are client states of the Americans, which is an ugly (but mostly true!) thing to say out loud.
Just like he was connected enough to avoid ever getting investigated or charged, right?

The "nothing bad will happen to SBF because he's connected" narrative has already been shown to be false, find some new material.
Considering the lack of competition I can't blame them for not trying. Why spend the money? Nobody is going to use Bing lol.
A $3.5B EV Battery Plant Will Convert Millions of Old Batteries into New Parts
If Netflix is going to charge me extra for logging in to my account at my mother's house, I will simply cancel the service.

I watch it less and less these days anyhow; their library (apart from their original programming) is a lot more barren than it was five years ago.
If the ESP32 chips will always be close to each other, you can use ESP-NOW to have them talk to each other without the need for an access point or wifi network.
Compared to Rails, django will feel like fastapi

Imo
It’s a death to the part of the web with information to drive ads. It’s a rebirth of a web before everything was crazy ad driven.
If you're going down the rabbit hole of addressable LEDs, a great resource is this community-maintained spreadsheet that has a lot of addressable LED info on it called "Addressable LED Controllers, Drivers, and Related Products & Projects"

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10pHG7_VIVltyqJK1Y0T5...
> these have proven to be the most successful

Hindsight and all that...
I see a lot of people mentioning bitwarden around here; is their actually a technical reason to believe they are better than Lastpass or any of their competition (have they like open sourced all their stuff?).

There’s very little room for failure and learning in the online password safe field, so I generally assume these companies are in one of two states:

* has unknown bugs waiting to be revealed

* out of business
There’s also one at Dublin, many major Canadian airports, Bermuda and Aruba.
There's a free tier with ads which I don't mind since they're non-intrusive (I honestly can't tell when the last time I noticed an ad was, and I use it daily).
My criteria were all based on the ways the business owners behaved in initial consultations. I'd break them down as follows:

- Do they have a clear roadmap for the custom software and/or website, with reasonable expectations as to features and price, performance and value for their business?

- Can they communicate their business logic in a way that I can translate into software that will help their productivity, and shows they understand the potential limitations or even drawbacks to automating existing manual processes?

- Do they pay on time? (I always begin by billing hourly).

- Are they personable and involved with the employees and the business on a day to day basis?

- Do they have a roadmap for growth that they're willing to share for the sake of future-proofing the systems I'll be engineering for them?

Almost all the work that falls into my net starts with web deaign. And I hate doing web design, so my initial inclination is to set a very high price and try to refer them to companies that can assemble a template store or a turn-key solution. My go-to response to new clients is that I'm too busy but I'm happy to look at their current stack and give them my 2p of advice for free. 90% I will not take as clients. There had to be something ineffable beyond the above requirements.

That said, I'm able to turn down work because I've been established long enough and have enough retainers to not need new clients. In earlier days I lowered my standards when I needed money. But I eventually fired a lot of clients who didn't meet the above criteria.

As to how I got the business in the first place, it's always been word of mouth. Additionally, I get calls out of the blue every couple months from people who've seen work I've done - I usually sign websites somewhere in the fine print.

To your question, yes, this is mostly retail and service stuff. One current client is a small law firm. A couple are food industry - a sushi manufacturer for markets, a local ice cream truck that turned into a national brand. One little shop in the pet industry that became a regional name.

Basically I just became the person that people who've worked with recommended to others because I was serious, forthright about what to expect, and diligent. And none of that was what I wanted to do with my life. That just pays the bills, and I'm happy it gives me the time to work on my own crazy projects.
When it comes to password management, trust should not even be a thing.

https://www.lesspass.com/
Im curious what new crimes you think SBF could commit to the detriment of the public before trial
Most services allow you to enrol two or more security keys, so you wouldn't need to overwrite one.
( thanks for all you (plural perhaps) do )
Maybe this is terrible logic but I would never trust an app that had 120 reviews and what appears to be a single person as the app owner with all my passwords.
This attitude is why a poor person will effectively be put in debtors prison and no one bats an eye. It requires "someone important" before people think maybe it actually happens.
This is part of the new Cold War and you can expect this kind of Red Scare thinking shaping US policy in the decades to come.
I've used Pixelblaze for five different projects now and I'm extremely happy with it. My projects are all 3D-mapped LED sculptures and Pixelblaze is extremely easy to work with compared to some other controllers which only handle the data for you but leave the signal/pattern generation up to you to solve.
I'd still rather not let anyone have the encrypted versions of my keys/passwords. If the software is compromised then it's reasonable to consider the encrypted data can be brute forced with some time.

I'm not here to argue the merits of encryption. I understand it very well. I'm only considering my own levels of comfort and need to trust a 3rd party as well as pay a recurring fee to store my keys/passwords.
How is the LastPass encryption badly implemented?

In your other comment you claimed it was "likely" to be badly implemented, but here you state it as a fact. What's up with that?
Of course 25% is bad. The original post talks about how that compares to other digital products (games and apps) which are almost all at 70% for creators. There’s nothing special about audiobooks that can justify Audible’s percentage other than the fact that they have a near-monopoly.