skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How exactly do you launder money by buying a super-luxury apartment?

Let's say you are a druglord from Mexico, and have a minivan full with one hundred dollar bills. You want to come and buy a 100 million apartment in NYC. How do you imagine that transaction will happen? Do you think the building developer will just agree to take the bills? And then they'll go to their bank and attempt to deposit it? How will the real estate broker get their fee? In bills too?

Here's the thing: in this country, if you agree to take large amounts of cash, no questions asked, and then try to deposit them at a bank, you just painted a huge bull's eye on you, as far as the US law enforcement is concerned. At a minimum you become an accessory to money laundering.
Hi throwayayes,

I wonder if someone who is both on HN and local to you has a spare laptop. Can you say where you are located, e.g country and city?
I don't get what you mean. Couldn't you equally claim that in companies that avoid leetcode interviews the anti-leetcode people won that political battle. I don't see why one option is more political than the other.
Just wondering, what is c:s? I can't find anything about it!
I forget the details, but I think Nervana also had a library(?) that used this concept before they were bought by Intel.
Thanks, yeah that was sort of my question: what’s the “Model-T” of skyscrapers.
I agree, but I may be biased. Windows 2000 was the last Windows I used for any significant amount of time.
"The data" does not "clearly show" any of that. Particularly there was not even a hint of such evidence until months or years after the vaccines have been approved.

It's not so easy to find the exact age at which the vaccine becomes "net-positive" even assuming a negative effect can be shown at all. Which would also be very minor, on average. Turns out, "healthy 20yo males" don't generally react purely to vaccines.
I'll just be honest. One on ones suck. We all mostly have to do it year after year with managers and it's a huge uncomfortable waste of time.

Having to talk to some random person is even more awkward and a waste of time.

Make it useful and group up 3-4 randos at a time. The best conversations happen in small groups.
I bet the "surrouding style" was itself criticized at the time those older buildings were build because it didn't respect the previous "surrounding style". This argument for tradition doesn't really work if you know history
Can you explain how this happens to me as a non-american? I own an apartment in a multi apartment complex (so I guess that would be called a condo in the US?) and together with the other owners we have an association and we vote on stuff once a year, including anything that causes expenses. Is there some external party that makes these decisions in the US?
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What’s your comparison site for monitors (assuming it’s still up-to-date)? Interested in something that comes close to Retina in PPI, but doesn’t carry Apple’s hefty price tag.

Edit: ah, well that didn’t take much looking. It’s https://www.productchart.com/ for anyone else interested. Looks really nice, thanks!
> The higher resolution music shows itself as soundstage, not details.

Hogwash that doesn’t stand up to A-B testing. What does “soundstage” even mean in this context? Soundstage at least as commonly used is going to be overwhelmingly controlled by speaker design, placement and room acoustics (something that “audiophiles” tend to ignore - it is both the least sexiest and yet most important issue).

Of course if someone tells you are listening to a 192 kHz recording you are likely to perceive it as better - humans are very prone to suggestibility.

Once you are over 35 you’ll also find out that your high frequency perception rapidly drops off a cliff as you age and sample rates at <30kHz are more than enough. It’s a bit sad when you realize you’re no longer bothered by coil wine in the 10s of KHz.
A Programmer Turned an Open Source Tool into a $7,500M Empire
Thank you, was not aware of that. There was no mention on this Wikipedia article that I used to double-check:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Activation

Let's rephrase @endgame's comment as "Windows XP and Office XP were the first versions of their respective series where product activation was mandatory on all retail editions." Point still stands I guess.
CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables: PoC and writeup
How many leaks have you found with this approach?
> If you think the ritual of sitting quietly and listening to music is dead,...

No, I don't think it's dead, and if it's dead, it's not because vinyl is not the dominant format anymore. It's just a catalyst for me, for that atmosphere.

> You said you disagreed, but then you described a gimmick.

As I described elsewhere, vinyl has a unique function for me, and friends I have. So it's not a gimmick, in my book.

> There's nothing about a record that makes you more likely to listen to it with your friends. There's nothing about a CD that says you can't fit it into a pocket in a much larger display envelope.

Some people dig the sound dynamics of the former strongly (which is not me, btw), and I have never seen the latter one.

I can argue all day everyday about how CDs can accommodate much better sound but record labels and the strive for reducing studio costs ruin the format by stone-wall normalizing these things in the name of loudness, and how analog sound paths sound warmer, and you don't need resolution to love some audio, but I have no time for that, at least today. Let's only say that I'm an ex-orchestra player who's listening to both vinyls and CDs for more than 30 years, and know some stuff about sound.
I don't know where you are in the world but in the UK we were constantly reminded that obesity, immunodeficiency, and old age were the biggest risk factors for worse Covid outcomes.

In fact when the prime minister (quite a fat man) at the time caught covid and became quite ill he started talking about how people should lose weight to increase their odds of a quick recovery
Tbh, it sounds like it might be about not wanting to connect that bad. Because if you want to connect really bad (for romance, business, friendship, or what have you), you learn very quickly that one-to-one connections are not something you dispense with.
Are transformers not already very specialized to the task of learning from sequences of word vectors? I'm sure there is more that can be done with them other than making the input sequences really long, but my point was that LLMs are hardly lacking in design specialized to their purpose.
I think the concept you might be looking for is "piecewise differentiable".
>so Control+# will just send “#”

You can get around this with Ctrl-v

Like typing, at a shell prompt:

echo "<ctrl-v><ctrl-#>"
1 the amount of deflection does depend on ejecta which.... depends on your target. Different target, different ejecta. Btw, in my own research I have to deal with balancing momentum to measure the amount of ejecta so Im quite familiar with the concept

2 what part of this design is novel? We've already landed on asteroids, presumably its easier to hit them instead (since you don't care about matching the speeds)

I dont think they were interested in "asteroid defense" at all [1]. Space weapons race is roaring and this was an excuse to spend money on it on a nominally civilian project.

[1] given the literally astronomical odds of an asteroid hitting us, this is the last thing we should be worried about. CO2, nuclear weapons, desertification, men's sperm counts are all far far more likely to do us in
The influence of the medium on the mastering process is one reason I participate in a little bit of vinyl.

Listening to an EDM track on vinyl vs Spotify is an entirely different experience.

Could you 100% perfectly reproduce this experience the way that I subjectively prefer via the medium of 192/24 digital mastery? Sure. But, no one does this.
Vinyl is a collectible or a niche product that appeals to some people, like me. It's priced as such. I don't see how it could go mainstream. I think the author mistakes his own bubble for the "main"
That has been already figured out for about 20 years. You don't regularly use Windows any more, that's why didn't take notice.

The custom representation for that icon is "an arrow pointing into a half-opened folder".
I wish more would *boldly walk into a volcano*.
I find the fundamental problem with this sort of server setup script/config management is that they inevitably get quite personal. Nobody really wants to use another devs and when you try to allow for a lot of customisation they tend get byzantine and complex.

That said I still think it's worth sharing. If nothing else we can all usually cherry pick nice ideas from each other.

I had an entirely private set of Ansible roles I'd cobbled together that I started to put in a more shareable state a couple of years ago. It has little overlap with what you're putting together, but I do think you might find the way it separates personal Ansible config and the main project roles into separate directories (and thus different git repos) useful.

I really need to dust off my project and get it to a releasable state this year [momod](https://github.com/adrinux/momod).

I assume you've come across the many similar projects like [Sovereign](https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign), [Mistborn](https://gitlab.com/cyber5k/mistborn)
and [HomelabOS](https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS) to name 3.
Promising 3000 jobs and only getting acquired for $10m makes me think it wasn’t that much of a win at all.

If they did any kind of due diligence, surely they’d have to know how much they’ve raised or what their revenue looks like, and $10m is very low for a firm that “should” create 3000 jobs
The obsession people have with “consequences” is really weird. The point of civilization is protecting people from negative actions that can hurt them, letting people die of easily preventable outcomes is 1. heartless, and 2. very bad for society.

It almost seems like risk-averse people resent those who take risks for having more fun sometimes. Smoking, drinking, and drugs making you not able to get healthcare at all is next level Puritan shit
Same for me. I can certainly understand why someone wouldn’t like Ballard’s novels. The plotting isn’t necessarily memorable. But there’s something unique in the combination where both the physical landscapes and the characters’ mental landscapes are simultaneously tormented and transformed.

I often think of the TV producer in “High-Rise” driving back from work to his apartment building, his mind taken over by the alternate cosmos inside the building as he moves through the parking lot. It’s a strong image for me. But I’m sure other Ballard readers have completely different touchpoints in the same work.
I hate python for big software systems as much as the next guy, but for whatever reason some people are quite productive with it.

I think programmers fall into different camps on this issue.
So giving this a push, that cancels wind forces out..
We normalized and encouraged obesity to the point where even the acknowledgement of one's state of obesity can be labeled as inappropriate speech. There's a growing sentiment that the term 'obese' is a slur [1] and should be removed from our lexicon.

Imagine if the same thing happened in the 60s as we started to understand the risks of smoking - all the smokers got together and decided that the science was hateful and they were being discriminated against. To rephrase a line from the article, using that silly hypothetical:

"In the end, says Flegal, defining smoking by number of cigarettes/day promotes anti-nicotine attitudes and tobacco stigma."

One can't navigate conversations about obesity without topics like "attitudes" and "stigma" being part of the conversation, but I don't think the hard biology of the results of excess fat tissue really cares.

I'm aware this is a bit of a goofy tangent, but hopefully it highlights the silliness of the current obesity discourse.

[1] https://conscienhealth.org/2022/04/obesity-how-does-a-diagno...
Except some of the reforms being discussed by Labour are things like finally doing away with GP's being employed by private practices and instead employed by the NHS.

The last reforms, after the Con/Lib coalition came to power, which split the NHS up into clinical commissioning groups is where a lot of blame has to be put (along with not keeping funding to the level required). From centralised purchasing giving economies of scale, to each CCG doing their own purchasing, and lots of duplication of roles across the whole country.
In the years since this came out I have shifted my opinion from 100% agreement to kind of the opposite in a lot of cases, a bitter lesson from using AI to solve complex end-to-end tasks. If you want to build a system that will get the best score on a test set - he's right, get all the data you possibly can, try to make your model as e2e as possible. This often has the advantage of being the easiest approach.

The problem is: your input dataset definitely has biases that you don't know about, and the model is going to learn spurious things that you don't want it to. It can make some indefensible decisions with high confidence and you may not know why. Some domains your model may be basically useless, and you won't know this until it happens. This often isn't good enough in industry.

To stop batshit things coming out of your system, you may have to do the opposite - use domain knowledge to break the problem the model is trying to solve down into steps you can reason about. Use this to improve your data. Use this to stop the system from doing anything you know makes no sense. This is really hard and time consuming, but IMO complex e2e models are something to be wary of.
Sure, and law varies greatly by region. China, North Korea, and to a degree, Russia have been extremely restrictive for a long time, western Europe has recently become more so and many other places are still relatively free.

My "why" question was intended from more of an ethical first principles standpoint than a legalistic one.

I know that some jurisdictions bury pretty much any online activity in mountains of regulatory requirements. That's not novel or interesting. As I said in the ancestor comment, it's "a sad state of affairs when even personal blogs are expected to be laden with legal documents".
That's 1-not active, 2-doesn't compensate, but dampens
I'm not sure polyglot really matters for Deep Learning frameworks, for inference you can already export your model to a standard format like .onnx and have it run on about about any runtime, mobile and web included.

Sure you can't train your models in javascript with pytorch, but not sure you want to use any other language than python for that, since python already has all the ecosystem
The word "planning" in the quote "with billionaires planning to move humanity to Mars in the near future" is a link to another article: https://aeon.co/essays/elon-musk-puts-his-case-for-a-multi-p...

The top of that article says, "Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars if we are to ensure that humanity has a future."

So the author is giving the exact explanation of what it means "to move humanity to Mars". It's a straw man to suggest that the article author intended it to mean "everyone on earth".

And a million is the bare minimum:

> ‘Even at a million, you’re really assuming an incredible amount of productivity per person, because you would need to recreate the entire industrial base on Mars,’ he [Musk] said.

Moreover, the whole justification for colonizing Mars is supposed to be if a disaster struck Earth. So in a sense you have moved all of humanity to Mars if humans on Earth go extinct.
I think the majority of residential towers in Hong Kong are well over 40 floors. Even in the 1990s I remember most buildings that I visited were already over 40.
Impressive. Am I right that what is really going on here is that the network is implementing the "+" operator by actually having the CPU of the host carrying out the "+" when executing the network?

I.e., the network converts the binary input and output to floating point, and then it is the CPU of the host the network is running on that really does the addition in floating point.

So usually one does a bunch of FLOPs to get "emerging" behaviour that isn't doing arithmetic. But in this case, instead the network does a bunch of transforms in and out so that in a critical point, the addition executed in the network runner is used for exactly its original purpose: Addition.

And I guess saying it is "analog" is a good analogy for this..
> WWII alone was 70-80 million people lost trying to promote the opposite of the COVID response

I'm sorry but this is ludicrous. WW2 wasn't fought for liberty or freedom - the big 3 Allies were an extremely oppressive dictatorship, a colonial empire and US (which interned it's Japanese citizens in concentration camps and still had bloody segregation as something normal, so while somewhat better than the other two, far from a bastion of liberty). Furthermore, they were only fighting as an alliance of convenience because the war came to them (Axis invading/declaring war), the only exception being the UK deciding to finally stick to it's promises, and not sign a peace treaty (and that was very much thanks to Churchill's perseverance, there were enough people who wanted peace at all costs).

The war was to stop and defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan, and to a lesser extent Fascist Italy. Liberty and freedom, or saving the Jews/Poles/Greeks/Czechos/Slovaks were never among the goals, or the war would have started much earlier and wouldn't have waited for Axis powers to declare it.

Also, the vast majority of the dead were on the Eastern Front, civilians and soldiers alike, and the people there were highly repressed before, during and after the war.

And in every participant in the war there was extreme censorship and liberty restrictions (like not being allowed to eat whatever one wants, and not being allowed to have lights on at night, curfews, etc.).
I sometimes wonder if having learned to touch type on mechanicals* has protected me from RSI?

* carriage return used to be huge honking lever
A 737-900, fully loaded and fueled for a transatlantic flight, weighs 70 - 80 tons and takes off at 150 - 180 mph. That's a lot of energy to dissipate in a hurry.
Same. Maybe genres are roughly set, but for me that wasn't even true. I didn't start to get a deep appreciation for classical music until my 20s.

I think the popularity of music streaming services has made it so easy to try and find new (new to them) music, that people continue to discover forever now.
I genuinely thought that the title meant that trying to request comments or positions about ad technologies to IAB will result to basically "I cannot reach IAB", but the content is not that.

Now, on the topic, this basically violates GDPR (anything that would reasonably allow individual identification needs consent and the user must be able to object to it).

Also, I'm not saying the workaround here, but assuming that you still want to use GMail (seriously?) this can still be frustrated (hint: Garfield Mail).

https://github.com/IABTechLab/uid2docs/tree/main/api#email-a...
There are some technologies that are just completely dominated by others. Encoding audio on vinyl seems to be one them. From a pure sound perspective its hard to think why one would want to use a sub-par option (ready to stand corrected if true audiophiles have an argument besides nostalgia / retro feeling = valuing the scratches and jumps of the needle).

BUT. Vinyl is not just the audio experience. Its the tangible artifact: the artwork, supporting information, a physical place in a music library etc. For a period CD's/DVD's provided a limited emulation of those attributes but even those are now deprecated. An mp3 or even worse, a stream is not quite the same, is it.

Maybe what we "need" is a reincarnation of a some sort of LaserDisc [0], with the exactly the same form factor as vinyl but dramatically larger storage (including e.g. videos from band performances or other audiovisual material)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc
Given they likely have everyone's Gmail address anyway, I have no problem opting mine out. I won't bother opting out my other addresses though; I doubt they correlate them all to the same person, since they are all different domains.
> If it can add and subtract it may be able to multiply (repeated addition) and divide? If it can multiply it can do exponents?

It was just a simple feed-forward network. It can't do arbitrary amounts of repeated addition (nor repeat any other operation arbitrarily often).
It was a quicker way of me writing "but hates users being able to track what their members are doing with user data".

The reason my email address for this site is `+ycombinator@...` is that I can track when dang decides to go rogue and sell my email to a Nigerian Prince.

Think of it like sousveillance.
Because he ignored the possibilities of rockers, or because he didn't believe his laws are valid in the planetary scale?
I suspect that part of the title is referring to the section that discusses using different email addresses for different services, so you can tell who sold your email address.
> There hasn't been any damage. No one has been hurt. Calm down and stop being overly dramatic.

We are literally talking about a posting from the CEO of a company that has been essentially shutdown by this change. Other companies have also been placed in this predicament. People will probably lose jobs, at least, and these companies may go bankrupt.
Because remote work was the only work in 2020 and 2021, yet a large majority of businesses continued to function mostly well. Some even exceeded their average results.
One thing the cryptocurrency people do get right is designing protocols for attack resistance from the get go. They do this because it’s money, but people need to learn that everything is money. Personal data, attention, access to boost opinions, etc are all fungible currencies that will get stolen if they are not protected.

ActivityPub is not designed for a battlefield. I worry that this dooms it.