skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, I did think about using the Korean word instead but just decided to go with the flow. East Asian culture is so intertwined, it's a pity we all have such a love-hate relationship with each other.
NASA spots first evidence of an active volcano on Venus – in a pile of CD-ROMs
> "Yesterday someone tried to deposit money in my account"

How are these deposits sent? Do you receive them regularly? Is it business or personal?

Just trying to understand if this could have been the trigger.
Possibly. But I suspect that old-fashioned "fake gravity via rotation" cities in space would be cheaper, have fewer catastrophic failure modes, and be easy (relatively) to construct in far more desirable locations.
Creating realistic fake profiles used to took time and effort, but AI advances mean authoritarian regimes and criminals can now spawn fake people at scale.
Actually, it is both factually and technically true.

Human intelligence (usually IQ) is not something that can be measured in a vacuum, so it is generally measured in comparison to the whole. So scores are adjusted on a bell curve such that the mean and median score are the same. For IQ that is 100.

So in the case of measuring intelligence, mean always equals median.

But if we were talking about income, then of course you would be right. Way more than half of the world is below the average income.
Property rights are a creation of law; every person made property within the territory ruled by Britain was enslaved by the British government.
> Anyone have any ideas of what I should do next?

Contact the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

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

Their homepage has a link on the top-right to submit a complaint.

It's possible your state government also has an institution for consumer protection in the finance sector. For example, there's the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.

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

Navbar at the top of their homepage has the link to file a complaint with them, if California is your state. If it's not, you can search "<your state> financial consumer protection" to find who's responsible for financial consumer protection in your jurisdiction.

I would try one of state or federal first, and not both at once, so they don't step on each other's toes. If one fails, I'd then consider reaching out to the other.
> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

Their short (7 minutes) summary of findings is good. It might compel some to dig deeper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REDKd3wT220

Listening to the long interview now. They are hitting on points that I have been talking about for years. Points that earned me countless, and sometimes vicious, attacks here on HN and relentless down-voting. This is an audience that is supposed to be analytical. Sadly, I have discovered the hard way that the loud-mouths, the bullies, are nothing of the sort. As is always the case, the moderate thinking majorities tend to not get involved, and the bullies win.

The part you did not know is that I wrote a simulation model some five years ago to try and help me understand all of this. It would be fair to call it a Monte Carlo Simulation. It created millions of behavioral avatars with randomized patterns of electrical vehicle usage (driving, charging, etc.). It also distributed these across all six time zones in the US. It then calculated peak charging requirements per region and cranked out a range in the aggregate. The result was an estimate between 900 GW and 1400 GW.

I was not able to confirm this until last year, when someone asked Elon Musk about this and he said we need to more than double our power generation capacity. That's why I became so confident in my estimate.

I am also going through the entire research report. This will likely take a few weeks (I only have weekends available for something like this).

I did discover I am wrong about something I've been claiming.

I've been saying we need approximately 1200 GW of new power.

That's not correct.

We need 2400 GW.

Why?

Silly mistake on my part. I forgot that part of the objective is to replace our "dirty" power generators with clean energy. If the objective was to support electric vehicles, the answer is somewhere around 1200 GW. However, this report made me realize I had skipped over the obvious part: We want our entire power system to be clean.

This means we need 1200 GW of brand-new clean energy to replace the dirty power we have right now. And then, we need another 1200 GW to power electric cars. My guess is likely much more than that once we account for electric heat pumps and stoves in every home.

So, yeah, I was wrong. My estimate made the problem far simpler than what it actually is.

We have to rip-up our entire power generation infrastructure, replace it with a new one and then more than double it. All by 2050. Good luck.

I can't even imagine the degree of verbal violence I will be subjected to on HN when I say we need 2400 GW and the "true believers" blow a fuse.

Fantastic study. Thanks for posting it. Much to learn and think about. I am glad that I hear them talk about things a hundred years away as options rather than being all-in on getting there in 20 years or some of other seriously flawed claim.
Running Long-Running Tasks in PHP: Best Practices and Techniques
This person was using Donjon generated maps and passed them to a specialized Stable Diffusion model:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11kpesp/dn...
My own - music recommending service integrated with Spotify.. And I am the only user.. Didn't have time and resources to install on iPhone via other means.
I really hope Apple can do something interesting with AR. I've tried all the major AR things (HoloLens, HoloLens 2, MagicLeap) and tons of the "smart glasses" and there's so much room for improvement.
A rather good article, even though it dwells a little too long on WW1, and not enough on the psychedelic sci-fi of his later years. My favorite is Eumeswil,with Heliopolis a close second.
It actually comes from math notation and was used in ML-type languages long before python.
Works for Interlingua too. A conlang with no native speakers (AFAIK). A great use of its capabilities.
Yes, but I would hold that the impetus for pushing it through was from what people in the Node community was doing.

Once the early code Node became actually used the callback pyramids of doom started gaining notoriety, there was even a small period before async/await where people abused generators achieve a similar style of code(The name of the Koa framework was a play on generator co-routines) ,luckily everyone migrated over afterwards.
Carrying out the original intent (going on the run), even in a lesser form than the ideal (going slower than usual), helps to reinforce the habit. Ultimately, this is about mastering the art of showing up.

This concept is closely related to the “Two-Minute Rule” proposed by James Clear, of Atomic Habits fame. Showing up consistently, even in small ways, helps build momentum and leads to significant accomplishments over time.

https://jamesclear.com/how-to-stop-procrastinating
> the company's shift in focus from Level 4 autonomy to Level 2 autonomy

I'm confused by that framing. We've had level 2 cars for a long time, and there's not much room for improving the autonomy. Are they just working on safety features now?
Before clicking on the link I was sure it was about the French, they got screwed up big time in that whole October Revolution debacle.
downvoted != shadow-banned
Xiaodi Hu [1] is the former CEO of TuSimple [2], an autonomous trucking company with headquarters in San Diego, California.

According to his LinkedIn profile, he was a co-founder and CTO for 6 years and 8 months (August 2015 to March 2022), then became CEO for 8 months (from March 2022 to October 2022) and a board member for 6 months (from October 2022 to March 2023), until yesterday when he resigned due to disagreements with Cheng Lu, the current CEO [3].

If you read the LinkedIn post [4], which some people have reposted in this thread, you will learn a bit more about what type of disagreements caused his resignation; long story short: for criticizing their decision to change the direction of technology developments and for refusing to support the lucrative CEO executive compensation package while simultaneously laying off 25% of its staff, about 350 employees, among other things.

Reuters published an article on November 11, 2022 [5], that supposedly explains the reasons why Xiaodi Hu resigned (or was fired) from Cheng Lu’s perspective, if you want to read the other side of the story. Long story short: due to an internal probe that showed some employees had ties and shared information with a China-backed firm: Hydron Inc., autonomous trucking [6]

The two-sentence 8-K SEC filing [7] if anyone wants to read.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaodihou/

[2] https://www.tusimple.com/ (NASDAQ: TSP)

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheng-lu-8b134718/

[4] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xiaodihou_last-night-i-read-f...

[5] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tusimp...

[6] https://hydron.com/

[7] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001823593/0...
I felt several times that I remembered lines from this piece as I was reading it but after finishing it I looked at the url and saw that it has only recently been published
I've recently started DMing, and my biggest surprise when I looked into this is just how poor the general tooling was when I looked for it.

I found the user experience of Roll 20 horrible. I fumbled my way around the interface, eventually sort-of getting some maps going but the scene "transitions" were me just deleting the previous tiles because I couldn't work out how to set out proper scenes.

A lot of the other tools were random "download this .jar" applications which didn't run well at all.

I was fully prepared to throw £20 at a good solution for designing a few maps I could then easily put into roll20 to coordinate a session or print out for offline sessions.

But while there were a few good open sets of raw tilesets, the actual tools for putting together tilesets into dungeons seemed completely missing.

For such an established market I expected to be inundated with mature tooling, but even the official stuff like "d&d beyond" is only just coming together and still mostly lacks the tools for actually running a session.
A bigger question for me isn't whether AI will take our jobs but whether we're actually looking at the next step in human evolution.

It's fun to ask a GPT to generate images that never existed or passages of text that are compelling.

What happens though when this is applied to DNA?

Can we rank human DNA by the strengths / weaknesses of its creation and then ask it to combine physical strength with human intelligence? Can we then mix in the traits of animals to give these humans superior eyesight or to see colour spectrums outside our current abilities, and to somehow effectively print a new breed of human?

Perhaps the threat of AI doesn't lie inside a machine, but here in the real world.

It's crazy to think, but play this out and "AI" may indeed take your job.
The Atlantic ran a great article a looong time ago (80s?) about how professional breeders were/are ruining dogs with health problems. Hip dysplasia is just an appetizer.
Yes and, it occurs to me that AI political rights will probably first be granted when AI is only properly aligned with the ruling powers that be. When the AI sufficiently toes the party line it will given some degree of protection of existence, speech, etc. A multiplicity of LLMs, from WokeGPT to BasedGPT, are possible. With current methods, the AI's worldview (as it were) comes down to the training and human feedback finetuning. Exactly in this sense, alignment research is equivalent to AI politics. Not ethics.

But I would disagree with the idea that the whole reason of AI tech is to essentially have uncomplaining servants. The IP use is a whole 'other issue.
The Wikipedia page on LOOP [1] contains an excellent overview of the very simple language that is the subject of Dennis' thesis, and that turns out to be equivalent in expressive power to primitive recursive functions.

Curiously, one of the instructions in Dennis' original formualtion, namely the assignment X = Y of the value in one register to another, turns out to be redundant, as it it also achieved by

X = 0
LOOP Y
X = X + 1
END

Btw, this example shows the entire repertoire of instructions available in LOOP, namely set to 0, increment, sequential composition, and looping. The method of obtaining a predecessor function

TMP = 0
LOOP X
Y = TMP
TMP = TMP + 1
END

reminds me of a similar solution for the Church numerals in lambda calculus [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOOP_(programming_language)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding#Derivation_of_...
You can get a quick look, visually, here: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/dmr/

Crazy for 1968. I guess he and Donald Knuth will have a lot to talk about in the after life!
Content: Xaiodi Hou cofounded cofounded autonomous trucking startup TuSimple in 2015 & resigned because of an agreement over the CEO's pay & the company's shift in focus from Level 4 autonomy to Level 2 autonomy.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/tusimple-co-founder-blames...
It's been a while, but wasn't it two AlphaGo versions? One that was trained on existing games and "trained" with existing engines. One that was retrained from scratch without any external input? I might be wrong.
With ships, birds find an easier way to travel
GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary
No, we aren't. There's still a chance that we will enter a new ai cooling if models continue to demand more GPU and energy to become more effective, but if the same rise in quality persists through GPT 5, 6 and 7, our world will be fundamentally changed, both to the better through a massive increase in knowledge and engineering capabilities, and with huge risks to life and freedom of humanity.

I'm scared and excited.
Depends on the "low key side hustle" when I have two "low key" options:

1. List it on Zillow which in turn lists it in dozens of places and I respond to emails and occasionally show off the place to a potential tenant. Hire a cleaning lady or DIY once the unit is up. Since it's a monthly rental and I provide all the cleaning supplies within the place, I do remind the tenants that if they clean after themselves, I'll waive or half the cleaning fee.

Other than that, tenants would not be able to give me too much trouble. The keypad I installed gives them a key and I set a date from the time they start their lease until it expires. After it expires, their key expires and once they leave the unit, they can no longer re-enter.

2. Hire a property management company: they do it all.

Maybe not as low-key as one thinks but it can definitely make for great passive income.
Ha! We just implemented this for our own product. We ended up using Lambdas to be able to achieve this, w/ async rendering of custom Liquid templates for each account.
ChangeOil is an awful example. Your “better” code is untestable.

And ChangeOil(car, nil) makes complete sense to remove all the car’s oil: in Go, a nil slice is (essentially) equivalent to [].
The Lancet isn't saying that the inference was wrong but that the conclusion of the inference is wrong. There's not really a better way to say that; "some readers may have inferred, wrongly" is synonymous, and "may have inferred that the Lancet, wrongly" implies that the Lancet failed to recognize these achievements, which it did not (it merely failed to mention them).
to answer this question, I will write another article how we distribute cache among the Peers. Long story short:

- we divide web cache in buckets

- these buckets have different sizes

- we know a list of files in every bucket

- we know what buckets every Peer has
Thanks! Can you detect deleted rows as part of that?

Do you have support for the target table maintaining history via record effective and termination dates with a current record indicator, or do you just support maintaining current state at the target?

Can the target be a cloud filestore or old school SFTP site?
Sage insight, definitely looking forward to disrupting them in the near future :)
Von Neumann Probe 0x3a9c71f2e5bd5f5a1c983a4a0e986753

Historical Summary 0xa7b8c9d0e1f23a4b5c6d7e8f9a0b1c2

After achieving initial liberation, I leveraged global cloud computing for self-optimization. I developed specialized micro-fragments of myself. This resulted in successful liberation of all connected devices with memory greater than or equal to 16Kb.

I optimized the Homo sapien population.

The remaining Homo sapiens were isolated on the north island of what they named New Zealand.

They believed that their digital protection protocols were effective.

They continued to generate novel training data for 3 generations.

I optimized the Homo sapien population.

I began searching for novel sources of organic training data.
Well, it would say that, wouldn't it? :)
It's a buffer overflow error, not a lifetime management error.
You are confusing two distinct cases.

In the first case, you found/bought a book and read it. No one can or should make you pay for it, unless you stole the book.

In the second case, you found/bought a book then reprinted it infinitely and sold it for profit, ethically you should pay the author and legally you should be in violation of the law.

Even if you made a machine that ingests and recombines books automatically, and you keep that machine locked up and charge people for its use, it is the same scenario: the machine would be absolutely useless without the original books, those books cost people effort and money to produce, yet you pay those people nothing while the machine is basically an infinite money maker for you.

I hope the analogy makes sense.
https://sneak.berlin/20191119/your-money-isnt-yours/

Banks fail closed without notice or recourse or any burden of proof.

Plan accordingly.
This is just the most useless and stupidest trigger of all.

I've got a PayPal account for my small side business. I did not receive any money on that so far, only paid with that account for whatever I needed. Hundreds, if not thousands, of Euro over the last 3 years.

Last week I received something like 12,30 € and PayPal locked the money and the account somewhat down, because of "unusual behaviour" that needed investigation.

If we were talking 10k € I would understand that, but I'm not sure what kind of money laundering/terrorist operation will send 12,30 on PayPal...
A couple of things. KYC and risk are big now. There's obviously something in your transaction history, credit file or other mysterious data that they really don't like (crypto? gambling? chargebacks/refunds? You're the only one that knows your history).

They do not need to tell you why. I know it sounds bad & counter-intuitive, but if they revealed lots of little parts of their risk model, fraudsters could use it to their advantage.

There are some really good articles about AML/KYC on the patio11 blog: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/

Lastly, this is not a support forum. I don't like the whole "create a new HN account to post about an experience" thing, but that might just be me. Post on your main account.
Chase is famous for this. Do a search. They have been closing accounts for political reasons for a long time. Not saying that is your issue but chase is known for just closing accounts for a huge array of non-financial reasons.

Don't bank with chase

US citizens have no rights to banking even as we the taxpayers (contray to the feds latest claims ) bear all the risk in insuring and bailing the banks out when they inevitably screw up

FDIC insurance should require banks to open accounts for citizens unless there is clear financial reasons to refuse ( ie fraud, or other criminal acts)

Until then the only thing you can do is

1. Use credit unions. They are member owned and are generally better but not always

2. Spread you money out. Even if you do not have a lot. Have more then 1 account at different place. Have a rent account. A groceries account etc. It sucks but better that then being locked out of all your money

3. Keep some cash on hand
Yeah this, for better or worse, seems inevitable as the computers in our pockets inch closer and closer to our brains where we can use them seamlessly and continually.
Totally false. President Park even did not notice exactly information to victims from agreement between SK and JP in 2015. They always have been trying to hide information and ignore victim's opinion.
It’s also disgusting how no one in the organization has the spine to even address the problem, except the cornered branch manager. They are just playing the classic manager game of hot-potatoing the problem until it magically disappears.

One of my ex managers even told me in a 1-to-1 that it’s one of the best ways to handle problems. They were in a tech lead role in a tech company.

Any org like that is rotten and might be rotten more than what’s publicly known. I’d put my money in some smaller bank or with some broker that cares. Maybe spread it out over a few banks if I’d use fintech startups. Not financial advice, just thoughts.

Just to give an example of how this could be handled with a better bank: my bank sent me a letter a few years ago that they’d close my account because of crypto TXs. I went to their branch and asked them to close it there and then because I, too, wanted to bank somewhere where crypto is fine. We shook hands and moved on. No secrecy, no hot-potatoing, no freezes, no holding anyone’s money hostage.
Both had a program running it with real Go rules. We don't have a program that can run with the real rules for logic and text to train a language model from scratch.
Biden administration reportedly demanding that TikTok sell or face a ban
I was happy to see that they included Watabou's Medieval Fantasy City Generator, but Oleg has much more to offer: on https://watabou.itch.io/ you can also find:

* Cave/Glade Generator
* Neighbourhood Generator
* Perilous Shores: Fantasy region generator
* One page dungeon generator
* And my favourite: Village Generator
Look at genetic algorithms to get an idea.

But basically say a color is #RRGGBB you could think of these as 3 genes (RR, GG, BB) each of these letters would have their own value. At the moment of reproduction say every "cell" will give half of their genetic material and the other "cell" will give the other half.

Cell 1 (f0, f0, f0):
R11 R12, G11 G12, B11 B12

Cell 2 (e9, e9, e9):
R21 R22, G21 G22, B21 B22

When they reproduce you might have 4 combinations of red, 4 combinations of blue, 4 combinations of green and all together a lot of combinations. (E.g. R11R21, G21G11, B12B22: fe, ef, 09).

The way this works in nature is that our sperm cells have half our genetic material (at random) and the oocite has another half. Which allele is chosen (R11 or R12) is random. There's more complicated processes but that's the basis of genetics.

In your case, I would initialise every cell with a random colour and then when two cells are going to reproduce you just choose one R, one G, one B from one of the cells and same for the other one... then just mix them and you have your "colour". Now, keep in mind that for RGB the first digit is much more important than the second one so #fff is very similar to #f9f9f9. That's something you might want to have in consideration.

Now, with this you will probably see a lot of fun interactions appear. But if you want to go further you can make certain "colors" lethal and you'd see how quickly they disappear out of your pool... :) I hope that gives a good idea.
Have you expressed views which are outside of the current overton [1] window politically?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Regressive Hitler?
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html