skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What percentage can the investment bank handling the spin-out expect to skim while simultaneously talking up the share price of both Google and the spin-out?
(Rubs hands vigorously).
I think the point isn’t that you (or Cory Doctorow) has to use ublock to prevent fraud, only that one would expect such users to block ads qua ads and accidentally benefit from the fraud protection.
I didn’t realize that, thanks! I’ll definitely give this a try…
You can also keep the 2001-2003 LotR trilogy DVDs in your bookcase and they won't change either
Oh I get the fun of finding loopholes and subverting expectations, but paying someone else to play a game for me... Where does that get fun?

Edit:. I think I get it maybe. I play games to play them, and if I cheat it is to enjoy figuring out the cheat. I kind of get how having an advantage in the game would be briefly fun for the sense of power. But in single player games that wears off quick. My guess is some people enjoy winning more than playing, or the status of gear more than playing to get it. I don't understand that, but that must be it right?
> there are generally two necessary aspects to "getting good": game knowledge and understanding your opponent

At the risk of overcomplicating an astute observation, I'd say that there are actually three aspects: game knowledge, maneuvering, and metagaming. That is to say that the ability to understand your opponent is fundamentally separate from one's ability to effectively foil them.

Iceworld embodies the platonic ideal of a maneuvering test by massively compressesing the total number of possible gamestates into a 3x3 grid of sightlines. The map itself isn't exactly a masterstroke, but it's nonetheless extremely impressive in the way that it manages to avoid collapsing into degenerate gamestates after jettisoning so much complexity.
That stuff still comes with special privileges.

E.g., yes they'll "pay" for compute, but they'll do so at cost. And they're also allowed to deploy a monitoring widgets to other orgs' data centers to find when they're at low utilization, and then argue "at cost" is actually near 0, because the compute resources were just sitting around anyway. And then have the search team agree because YouTube promises to build the new data API search has been asking for forever.

If you ultimately report earnings on the same P&L, USD is just monopoly money you trade around to get things done.
> If a real and thorny problem seems to have a trivial answer.. there's a good chance the trivial answer is incorrect.

Two of my favorite H. L. Mencken quotes:

"There's always an easy solution to every human problem; Neat, plausible and wrong."

"The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake."

And this one:

"Any proposal must be viewed as follows. Do not pay overly much attention to the benefits that might be delivered were the law in question to be properly enforced, rather one needs to consider the harm done by the improper enforcement of this particular piece of legislation, whatever it might be."

-Lyndon B. Johnson
> And why the actual FUCK is @GoogleAds accepting these scam artists' ads for a business that they already have a knowledge box for?! Google KNOWS what the real KIIN restaurant is, and yet they are accepting payment to put a fake KIIN listing two slots ABOVE the real one.

For the same reason a Yelp result shows up as the second item on the page: Google's never (to my knowledge) had a policy against advertising on keywords associated with another firm. It is, in fact, a common way to get out in front of a company that is riding on brand-name recognition; advertising 101.

... but Google is having a recurring problem that users can't tell ads apart from organic results anymore, and if they don't do something they're at serious risk of losing reputation on search (which is in a precarious place right now). My recommendation would be to go back to yellow-boxing ads.

(ETA: If Mr. Doctorow is meaning the emphasis to be placed on "scam artists", as in "Why can't Google tell these are scammers"... I guarantee when Google goes to that page they don't see a scam site. Masking is an old tactic. It used to be the case that Google had good countermeasures against masking, but as of late it seems like something has gone amiss with their ability to detect scams reliably, or volume has saturated their capacity, or it was always this bad and we're just in a media cycle right now... Insufficient infromation for me to be able to tell).
I was hoping to find at least some mention of JMAP [0] in this, but sadly, this is IMAP-only. While I an happy for this product, I'm disappointed at no convergence toward something more modern than IMAP which I've only heard derision towards by implementors.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Meta_Application_Protoc...
Amex: The phone number you've provided for your business account appears to be incorrect. Please correct the number and provide some evidence that you are the same person who registered your business with the state.

Google: You've registered ads for hundreds of unrelated businesses. We've suspended your account for fraudulent automated activity, please provide evidence that you own or are acting on behalf of these entities.
Thats an interesting point.

I was gonna argue that AI doesn't exclude VR, but you are right. Employees have only so much energy to expend investigating experimental tech.
How does it ever help to panic, but it's a pertinent fact that smallpox is highly contagious, with true airborne being one among its modes of transmission.

In my opinion there was real cause for concern, with modest probability but very high stakes, not because of the properties of that monkeypox strain in itself, but for what it might have turned into if it sustained transmission on scale in humans and the new-host-driven evolution happened to carry it through phenotype territory closer to smallpox with respect to life cycle and virulence. Virulence levels of a less benign monkeypox lineage would have been bad enough actually, if the virus could tap into properties for effective transmission.

We seem to have lucked out about the evolution (again) this time, and it probably helped that the current version had agonizing symptoms and its transmission was best targeted to a human subpopulation which overall has a lot of healthy respect for epidemics.
Don’t miss Bear Head, the sequel to Dogs of War.

For anyone who’s read Children of Time and Children of Ruin, the third book Children of Memory came out a couple weeks ago.
2023 is the year America takes over Formula One
zfs server where you can only ssh into it with 1 user, and that user cannot zfs destroy, only zfs receive
Probably non-linear video editing and the ability to add somewhat believable CGI gave it much longer shelf life than what would be expected.
So human-level AI, then? ;)
> The right to effective self defence is a natural right

I don't see how that's correct, defending oneself with something natural sounds OK though.
No matter how you slice it, Java enterprise would only cost $180/yr which is almost 10x better than your best estimate

Let's say you have 25 devs on a 5-year project. 5 of them are mobile focused, 5 are windows focused, 5 are mac/Linux focused, and 10 are focused on the cloud/server side of the project.

We'll make the (probably bad) assumption that you don't need enterprise licenses for the desktop app portion. We'll further assume that windows devs use only windows and backend devs use only Linux while mobile and mac/Linux devs use both the systems they work on.

First 2 years (because we get a discount on year 1 maintenance)

$17,000 for 5 64-bit windows professional
$51,000 for 10 64-bit linux enterprise
$37,000 for 5 64-bit mac professional and 5 pairs of mobile for 2 years
$34,000 for 5 64-bit mac professional and 5 64-bit linux professional

$139,000 for first 2 years

Next 3 years (maintenance and mobile annual fees)

$11,250 for 5 64-bit windows professional
$33,750 for 10 64-bit linux enterprise
$41,250 for 5 64-bit mac professional and 5 pairs of mobile for 3 years
$22,500 for 5 64-bit mac professional and 5 64-bit linux professional

$108,750 for next 3 years

$247,750 for project.

Now let's do Java at $180/yr/dev. We'll even throw in IntelliJ Ultimate for 5 years.

First 2 years
$9,000 - 25 devs for 2 years of enterprise Java
$14,975 - 25 devs for year 1 of IntelliJ Ultimate ($599/yr/dev)
$11,975 - 25 devs for year 2 of IntelliJ Ultimate ($479/yr/dev)

$35,950 for first 2 years

next 3 years

$13,500 - 25 devs for 3 years of enterprise Java
$8,975 - 25 devs for year 3-5 of IntelliJ Ultimate ($359/yr/dev)

$22,475 for next 3 years

$58,425 for project

Drop the non-enterprise devs from support reduces Java cost from $22,500 to just $9,000. Dropping subsequent years of the new IntelliJ would cut that cost from $35,925 down to $14,975 reducing our total expenses to just $23,975.

I'd calculate these for LispWorks, but they don't even provide that option at all. If you forego maintenance entirely, you're still stuck with $115,000 the first year and $40,000 for the remaining 4 years of subscription to mobile meaning your absolute minimum here is $155,000 and exceeds even the top-end budget for a Java project. If you turn out to need the Enterprise version for the non-backend devs and want maintenance, that cost goes up to $267,875.

The difference in money is enough to provide every team member with a new $4,000 laptop year 2 and again year 4 OR to increase their yearly bonus by $1600.
It's amazing how quickly you can make something that works with the EPS32 and Arduino, but for me, since this is for learning I feel I'm not really learning too much since so much is abstracted from you. As far as I know you just can't reasonably do bare metal programming on the EPS32.

So for the simple project I am doing right now I'm using a 8051 microcontroller (AT89S51), mostly because it is super cheap to buy locally but also I am forced to deal more with the details of how embedded applications run. But it does feel like learning 8051 is not too relevant today.
Cultural stagnation + technological advances. Home theaters and special effects haven't really improved in 20 years, at least they have not at the rate seen from 1980 to 2000.
I'm curious, have you never actually seen this happening? Like, for one, it's not "abnormal = gay", it's "feminine-gendered terms = gay".

For example, sitcoms used to do this all the time. You'd have two big buff contractors or whatever talking about some work they did, and one of them would say something along the lines of "Hey Frank, that's real cute." Then they'd both realize what was said, get real uncomfortable, the canned laughter would hit, and they'd both stand up, brush themselves off and change the topic hastily.

I understand it's pretty subtle, but jokes and insinuations like this have been a regular part of (at least North American english) culture for a long, long time now.
The one that really boggled me recently:

>hey siri, play Chet Baker Sings on the Apple TV

>playing the best of chet baker sings on Apple TV

>Siri, play the album “chet baker sings” on Apple TV

>playing the best of chet baker sings on Apple TV

Those are not the same album…and only one of them is saved in my library, the one I asked for. It failed repeatedly, too. The only response Siri would produce was to insert two new words to my request and then serve that.
There are way more egregious ones. I searched “fedex tracking” and the top link was a .in URL. I’m American
In Australia the Reserve Bank publishes the average cost of acceptance by card type.

As of 2019 the published rates are 0.5-1% for Visa and Mastercard (lower end for debit, higher for credit) and 1.4% for American Express. They are basically all dropping over time, not going up. This includes terminal rental, monthly fees, etc.

PayPal charges 2.6% plus a fixed $0.30 fee for domestic + another 1% for international. Stripe by comparison charges 1.75% domestic and 2.9% international. PayPal still charges this fee even if someone funds it from a much cheaper bank account or their PayPal balance. BrainTree, a subsiduary of PayPal for many years.. charges 1.75% + $0.30. Go figure :)

PayPal also has a fairly good anti-fraud measure that many others lose out on in that it does not let you submit a payment with a credit card associated with a PayPal account, without actually logging into said PayPal account.

PayPal has historically always had quite a high percentage, operating off brand I think and owing to easy integration options.

I'm sure there is some more complexity here I'm missing but in general, PayPal fees have always been significantly higher than the competition in Australia.

Also worth noting unlike the US, in Australia we have totally free transfers between all australian bank accounts - same system, every bank, 0 fee. So Paypal here is really only used primarily as a merchant facility for your website. The inter-person payment part has a much lower use rate than the USA.
Oh, it's for a thing called "money".
Ask HN: How would a proportional voting system change the American politics?
And associated political spectrum, if similar to the Australian system described here [1]

[1] https://i.redd.it/l9pbiv3fm4ka1.jpg
Because they're incompetent. Literally just a week ago a report (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/godaddy-hacke...) just describe how GoDaddy is simply incompetent with security. This is in addition on having one of the worst customer support of all major registrars.
Suggesting that people shouldn't invest because of the current product and not because of the potential future product, is silly.

"automated calculators", are calculators not insanely useful, especially earlier on in their history?

"but how many companies will be willing to jeopardize their reputation by giving their customers incorrect information?"
Yet links to companies doing exactly that.

"carbon emissions" Yet datacenters all together put out 1% of total emissions globally, once again linked.

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The article feels almost like a list of dotpoints which then get elaborated on, regardless of if they are notably relevant, la ChatGPT.
"According to the Christian faith, salvation is both by faith and by works. Faith is necessary for salvation, as it is through faith that we accept God's grace and forgiveness. But works are also important, as our actions demonstrate our faith and commitment to following God's will."

Totally and completely wrong. Salvation is by faith alone through the grace of God alone and the Bible is completely clear about that throughout.

Anyone who tries to be saved through their own merit will likewise perish.
I already saw ml (dall e 2 and chatgpt and gpt3) as impressive.

But I actually played around with chatgpt just today and holy shit.

I never ever talked to a bot like I talked to chatgpt.

Is it perfect? Not at all but I already was able to use it for practical things.

It feels tremendously natural.

This is so close to everything I'm looking for in an AI that it shows all the potential already without much fantasy.

This will not go away.

It will transform every aspect.

I wish I would be in university right now. This thing can explain things.

This thing understands context.

And it's multilingual out of the box.

The coherence chatgpt already shows let me believe that it does create an internal model which is more than just doing basic statistics.

Alexa was great to experience because it showed me already how a voice interface feels like.

But Alexa and chatgpt?

Chatgpt trained on documentation!

Chatgpt / ml like this will be the universal knowledge library the Rosetta stone.

We are experiencing the creation of the Alexandria library.

Let's see how long it will take to combine dall e/Stabel Diffusion, got, chatgpt together with other things like voice synthesis and voice recognition.
As illustrated hilariously in the first episode of Norsemen.
Yeah, the one prominent thing that is missing from NPM packaging procedure is the PGP/GnuPG signing procedure.

Otherwise, it is way too easy to automate the submission.
not really sure if this cloud help, but I have this problem in my work too, and the way I get around it is clickup (clickup.com), I find it one of the best places to put all documents, you can write notion-style docs as well as upload stuff to it, and it stays easy to find + other features of the app. (this is not a promotion).
we also have a resources channel in slack where we share valuable links for blog posts, tools...
Can you spoil history?

The show is in lots of ways built around those three duels, which makes sense given that the elephant in the room of any story about Hamilton and Burr is their ultimate duel.

The first duel, in December of 1778, is between Laurens and Charles Lee, who was challenged by Laurens for running down General Washington's leadership after being relieved of command for his failure at Monmouth. What makes this an inescapable part of the show, IMO, is that Hamilton was Laurens' second and Burr was Lee's. (Charles Lee took a bullet in the duel, but it wasn't apparently serious -- he lived until 1782, and probably died of tuberculosis.)

The second, famously, was between Hamilton's son and George Eacker, in 1801. (Eacker, too, died of TB, in 1804.)

Obviously, the final one was between Hamilton and Burr, in the summer of 1804.
OK, these are valid points.

Are there any bugs open on Launchpad for any of these? If not, and you seem both knowledgeable and opinionated on this, open some! I will happily mark them as affecting me too.

Personally, I run an `apt full-upgrade -y` every day on my working boxes, and I update snaps and flatpaks in the same command, so this never affects me personally, but they are valid points.

I can also write about them and possibly spur Canonical into some action, but I'd need some public discussion of the issues with Canonical staff.

E.g. bug reports on Launchpad. ;-)
Let's ask ChatGPT about this!

> Write an essay about AI chatbots having their "tulip mania" moment.

> The Tulip Mania of the 17th century was a period in which tulip bulbs in the Netherlands were traded at exorbitant prices, resulting in a speculative bubble that eventually burst. The phenomenon is often used as an example of irrational economic behavior, with investors caught up in a frenzy of buying and selling without considering the actual value of the commodity they were trading.

> In a similar way, it is possible that AI chatbots could experience their own "tulip mania" moment in the future. Chatbots are becoming increasingly popular in many areas of business and communication, from customer service to healthcare. They offer the promise of cost savings, improved efficiency, and 24/7 availability. However, there are concerns that the hype surrounding chatbots could lead to unrealistic expectations and irrational investment.

> One potential trigger for an AI chatbot tulip mania could be a breakthrough in the technology that makes them significantly more capable. For example, if a chatbot was developed that could convincingly mimic human conversation and intelligence, it could generate a wave of excitement and investment. This could result in a rush to develop and implement chatbots in every industry, regardless of whether they are truly effective or necessary.

> Another potential trigger could be a high-profile success story of a chatbot that generated a significant return on investment. If a company or organization was able to demonstrate that a chatbot had dramatically improved their customer service or reduced costs, it could create a rush to invest in similar solutions. This could lead to a flood of new chatbots being developed and implemented without sufficient testing or consideration of their actual effectiveness.

> However, just as with tulip bulbs in the 17th century, the hype surrounding AI chatbots is unlikely to last forever. There are already concerns about the limitations of chatbot technology, including the difficulty of programming them to understand complex or ambiguous language, the potential for biases to be introduced, and the risk of chatbots making errors or providing inaccurate information. These limitations could become more apparent as chatbots become more widespread, leading to a burst of the hype bubble.

> In conclusion, it is possible that AI chatbots could experience their own tulip mania moment in the future, driven by hype and unrealistic expectations. While chatbots offer many potential benefits, it is important for investors, businesses, and developers to approach them with a critical eye and evaluate their actual effectiveness and value. Only by doing so can we ensure that chatbots fulfill their potential as a useful tool for communication and customer service, rather than a passing fad.
Yeah that's the part of the equation I'm curious about, so they stole "$1.7B" of crypto but were they able to actually get anything they can use out of it or does Kim Jong Un just really want to take part in the pay-to-play bored ape sewer game or whatever.
Short term, the US profits from the war in Ukraine mostly because it can serve its energy needs from its own production, while europe is reliant on imports. As liquifying gas and shipping it over the oceans is expensive, it is cheaper to have geographically sources, which means that Russia is one of the best sources of gas for europe.

The world market prices for gas have skyrocketed, which is good for every country that has net exports of gas, or is self-reliant (USA), and bad for every country that has net imports (EU). The country that has profited the most (relatively) is probably Qatar which sits on the single biggest natural gas field in the world whose value went up rapidly in the past year, and has a relatively tiny population.

The EU was Russia's biggest trading partner, and a cut in relations always hurts both sides. So it hurt the EU way more than it hurt the USA. It's not just about gas, the EU also imported minerals and exported many goods like cheese or wine to Russia.

It's also important to note that war is always extremely expensive, to both sides.

On the level of individuals, there were certainly many people in the US for whom the war had negative consequences economically, but there were also many for whom it had really positive ones, say people working for the oil and gas industry.
I think it is just a ton of loving attention to detail in the sets, costumes, music and performances. Crucially for movies of that era, I think the CGI is also tastefully done and blended with the rest of the film. They didn’t go for much of the kinds of full CG scenes we see in todays Marvel movies you could make an apples to apples comparison for and see the gulf in techniques you get over a few decades, but they also didn’t use techniques like stop motion or muppets that seem aged to us when looking at 80’s films.
I don't see an alternative, at least if processing power and developments in ML continue to improve. Eventually you'll get AI clickfarms where people are just running hundreds or thousands of AIs out of a warehouse trying to scam people day and night. Arming everyone with their own AI bodyguard would prevent a lot of that from succeeding. The other options aren't too appealing e.g. only trusting face to face communication which basically means throwing away the internet and telephones and even hand written letters. Trying to regulate your way out will either lead to a war on AI where you're knocking down doors and arresting people who are trying to do legitimate independent ML research or you are just bombarded by offshore agents in countries with no regulation.