skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money quote:

> Regulators then heard the numbers, did a bit of modeling in Excel, and then went into wartime execution mode. Regulators have, of course, not declared this war, because it is a war on the public’s perception of reality, and to declare war is to surrender.

SO MUCH of this drama is really a war on perception more than anything else. Banks being "underwater" on 10 year treasuries is only a problem *if everyone thinks its a problem* and if everyone just goes about their daily business ignoring this story, then after 10 years all the bonds mature and nobody is the wiser.
> A shocking idea would be to prosecute the source of the ill gotten gains, or the underlying crime, rather than imposing these AML externalities on other actors.

Of course. But there's 2 big problems with that from a government's perspective.

1) Prosecuting actual criminals would require hard work: real investigation without having an automatic sneak peak into everybody's finances is hard.

2) This wouldn't give the government any extra power.
Time to switch to Podman
"Taxes are a particular point of concern: state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has cautioned against raising taxes further as New York’s may already be pushing out wealthy residents, who make up an important revenue base."

Doesn't pushing out the wealthy reduce cost of living? I heard NYC has a lot of vacant residential properties held as investments.
I prefer to use the rule, single source of truth. If you have some business logic make sure you always call the same code to run that logic.

That way you're not looking for abstraction layers to do avoid lines of code. You are looking to make sure you don't have subtle bugs that only happen in some code paths. You also only have one place to update as the business rules change.

It's the same as dry but avoids confusion.
> crypto's perennial scams and dumps seem to have created an irrational level of disgust

Said scams have invalidated any good-faith use of decentralized apps and will invalidate any attempt to publically market any related use case. The crypto community could have self-policed itself but it didn't.
I've never had a designer tell me "if x typeface isn't available, fallback to y." Simply fall back to the generic name unless specified.

Why does "Monospace Code" begin with a generic name (`ui-monospace`) instead of ending with one?

(Well done demo, thanks for sharing!)
One thing I was not prepared for was the taxes. My total tax bill comes out to around 39% of my pay check... paying $2k/mo in state/city taxes alone.

Shocking, coming from Germany, where the tax (minus health insurance) was almost exactly the same percentage, but I get a *lot* less for it.
Show HN: GPX library for PHP to work with GPS data
Questions that have been asked as part of a Voigt-Kampff test
What $100k Is Worth in the Largest U.S. Cities – 2023 Study
I may sound pedantic, but in all honesty, Docker has been quite hostile over the past few years in terms of monetizing / saving costs, so nothing would surprise me at this point. I would definitely not feel comfortable saying "for certain". Phrased differently, if the person who is in control says "for certain", vs. some random HN user, I would attach a lot more value to the statement made by the personal in control.
Eh, there is far more at stake then you're giving it credit for. Yea, you can go to India and get someone to write some bullshit, that is far different than having a OAI/Microsoft service telling some kid to neck themselves.

So ya, you're focusing on the low hanging fruit of 'wokeness bot' when the issue of trustworthy and safe model output is an absolutely huge problem that could affect everyone and we have no really good solutions on solving it at this point.
But they don't advertise our relationship in that way.

They say, "Buy for kindle" or "Buy in iTunes"

The contract they advertise doesn't match the fine-print in their clickwrap contract
> Oren Etzioni, director of the Allen Institute for AI, also received the news with skepticism. “I disagree with the notion that a nonprofit can’t compete. […] If bigger and better funded was always better, then IBM would still be number one.”

So, fine, I accept this story is as old as dirt: well-funded startup wants money and power; plays in a zero-sum game against other well-funded companies; sells product with lovely, benevolent marketing copy.

Still I find this comparison unconvincing. IBM is not number one because they lost to better-capitalized (on the right product) competitors.

So, precisely which non-profit unseated IBM? Which non-profit is a disruptive tech leader with a global workforce? I really want it to be true, but it needs to actually be demonstrably true.
Our senses lie to us all the time. What we perceive may have strong to almost no correlation to reality. Can you see in the ultraviolet? No human can. Flowers look completely different. Same goes for sounds and smells.
For me, the main issue was the proprietary software I needed to run un the host computer. I also read somewhere it doesn't play well with Linux.

To be honest, I didn't even consider it before rolling my own solution because it was not immediately clear to me that it was something different from display port over USB
The motivation to develop land and rent it out for more money is already firmly established simply by the laws of supply and demand. Anyone who is sitting on a vacant lot in a city knows they could make more money with it if they could build something more desirable on it. They don't do it because we make it really hard to do that.

Consider San Francisco, where it takes years just to get permission to build housing: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sf-hou...

San Francisco is an extreme example, but many other cities are bad about this too.

With a land value tax we are basically telling landowners that they aren't allowed to build and also they will be taxed for not building. Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!

A land-value tax would be a lot more reasonable if we allowed people to do what the tax incentivizes them to do.
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, newspapers, television, and auditoriums are filled with people that fill the world with pleasing sounding and utterly incorrect, or misleading, content. Humans are very good at convincing others their lies are true.
That dollar amount doesn't account for the cumulation of depressing feelings that come every time you receive another scam. I think it makes us feel less cooperative in general and maybe even makes us less likely to try to help others.
> I'm still amazed that Apple invests so much into every other bit of hardware on a high end phone, yet always gives you the bare minimum amount of RAM they can get away with.

Advanced hardware makes bullet points on advertising to sell the device; giving the bare minimum of RAM accelerates the device planned obsolescence, so that user will be forced to upgrade sooner to the next model.
Okay, weird bit of pedantry - pretty sure that if a math test asks you to ‘calculate the product of 127 and 954’ you wouldn’t get many marks for answering ‘about 100,000’, but feel free to staple a copy of the dictionary definition to your exam paper and see if that works for you.

But sure, let me clarify it to: you can’t calculate a precise NPV.

You can only estimate one.

Which, when we are trying to do things like ‘calculate the total assets a bank has’, makes the net present value of their assets a not very reliable number to use.
As an insomniac who doesn’t live in Germany, I’m jealous!
So dope! I’m also planning to extend the usage, checking other business scenarios
the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35167791
>Growing up my friends and I believed it would remain cheaper than other states due to the hot weather

Interestingly, Arizona in particular is famous for its "snowbirds"; Canadians (and likely those living in the northern US states as well) tend to buy houses there to get more than 4 hours of sunshine in the winter.
The real innovation will come one someone uses a Generative AI to make something, and then use a predictive AI to rate it's accuracy, making it go again until it passes the predictive AI.

Basically a form of adversarial training/generation.
> ... this won’t work:

> <span aria-label="nineteen ninety-six">1996</span>

Why won't that work? Is that a bug in screen readers or not allowed by the specifications?
It can be exact and self-consistent, you can teach the rules of mathematics . There are some things that are provably unprovable but thats a known fact.
> Neural networks is not an early concept

No , but the first MLPs from the 1960's famously couldn't solve the XOR problem , they threw a hidden layer in there and fixed it, and now we're in the 'how many layers can we jam in there' phase.

My point being although neural networks are not new, they keep adding fun new things to it to create novel new features.
I'm sure this is a great project worthy of HN front page reporting but if it can't run python generally,it ain't python.
He was more or less fired as CEO of Paypal IIRC, but I'd be hard-pressed to call it a failure either way. Overall I'd say he's done quite well but the world is full of people that were great in one venture and then failed miserably in another.
> Smalltalk is so succinct and has simple syntax

There is an interesting aspect in there - the simpler and easier to do complicated stuff, the higher the odds of NIH syndrome: while nobody would try to reinvent the wheel in Java or C#, I've been tempted to reinvent partial wheels for my very own needs that squeak and wobble in very specific ways in such languages, just because it's so easy.

It's something in the same line as seeing traditional design patterns just vanish when the language syntax has features that make their implementation trivial. You may need a library for, say, observers in C++, but they are so easy to implement in Python or Smalltalk that you'd feel no need to use something pre-built for that.
And SVB were one of the banks lobbying for that amendment. At the time they were falling close to the $50B limit themselves.

So they certainly would have known at the time that being subject to the stricter regulations would have hurt their profitability.
My point is, if your bank goes bust, how long will it take you to get your stocks or shares back?

Supposing whatever caused your bank/broker/custodian to go bust was also causing the value of your bonds/stocks/whatever to drop and you wanted to sell asap. How fast do you think you could do that?
It's hard to evaluate these numbers, without full access to the decision tree and source dat) they are working with.

One very common mistake people make in evaluating NYC living costs is to work with rent statistics provided by ... high-end real estate brokers. For example in an another Bloomberg article that the story links to:

The median rent on newly signed leases last month was $4,095, down just $2 from January, according to appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

Everyone in NYC knows this just isn't true -- a very large portion of NYC tenants live in either rent-stabilized units, or in units not listed on the MLS system that these brokers work with (and from which they get these numbers from).

Not surprisingly, these brokers have a vested interest in propping up the idea that "you just have to" fork over $4k a month for rent in NYC.

Now, rent stabilized units of course aren't exactly easy to get -- and you may not want to live in many of these units. But on a strictly factual basis - the true median rents in NYC are far lower than the numbers provided by these high-end brokers.

Finally, there's the fact that NYC is one of the few cities where one legitimately does not need to maintain car at all (easily a $6k-$10k savings every year). The article simply mentions "transportation" but completely glosses over this crucial distinction between NYC and other cities.
> Can we build something that knows everything that has been documented and can also synthesize and infer all of that data at a level of a very smart human

The word "know" is doing some heavy lifting there, as is "synthesize" and "infer".
> Is that a serious question? Do you have any experience with war beyond Call of Duty?

Yes, it is a serious question, I can confidently say you will not get drafted as US citizen.

For you to get drafted it would mean US and Russia are at war.

If that were to happen then conventionally US would destroy everything Russia has outside its borders very fast. (way too fast to get you drafted).

At which point it either turns into MAD and we're all dead or Russia accepts defeat and stays in its borders.

So relax, nobody is going to draft you, you might still die if Putin resorts to nukes tomorrow if he has a bad hair day.

> Are you aware that Russia is a nuclear power and has stated very clearly that it will respond with nuclear force if its territorial integrity or existence is threatened

Yes, but outside nuclear force they're a joke.

Also, although I do see Putin wanting to commit suicide, I don't see the rest of his leadership wanting that whatever they may say.

> And it even possesses hypersonic missiles, which the West does not have

Yes, 'hypersonic' missiles that are regular missiles launched from a MIG that is already hypersonic... it's a very russian solution that NATO can replicate easily. Intercept the MIGs or destroy their air bases and they're no longer a threat. Range is also limited.

Russia does like to brag a lot about everything but when push comes to shove they're proven to be extremely lacking, same as their army, I wouldn't view them as a viable threat.

Last thing to think about, what's the intercept percentage in ukraine on russian missiles?, 70-80%?, do you think US with current tech could get that to 100%?, if so, wouldn't that make their nuke threats useless?, it's still something to worry but not MAD level anymore.
Because most reasonable people don't cavil about self-evident boilerplate.
crypto's perennial scams and dumps seem to have created an irrational level of disgust for the entire crypto industry. I believe this disgust has overwhelmed rationality and curiosity.

I think there is some merit to what you say. I will certainly allow that "guilt by association" as a heuristic is a Real Thing in my mind, and all the scammy crypto-crap has put me off on anything involving "crypto", "nft", "web3", etc.

It's not just that though. It's still the case that, to date, nobody has presented me with any use-case where "crypto" in this sense really enables anything that can't be done another way. So far the best use-case for crypto still seems to be "buying drugs online in a vaguely pseudo-anonymous fashion". Oh, and conducting ransomware attacks, if you're into that sort of thing.

That said, I will take the following to heart:

but you haven't taken 30 minutes to read up on zero-knowledge proofs or stablecoin growth, or you haven't taken an hour to create a wallet and try products like Maker DAI, ENS, Compound, or Uniswap, then perhaps you aren't actually that curious, and/or you're letting your disgust of crypto scams get in the way of rational inquiry into crypto technology.

and commit to spending some time this week looking into these things, just to see if there's something there.
Literally just ask it to do it. I've been asking ChatGPT just now to write me a bunch of bash scripts I've procrastinated doing. Holy crap that thing is pretty awesome!
then you havent looked
> effectively negates the protection offered by credit card networks

This behavior for smaller companies will likely result in fines from Visa, MasterCard and other cards. You really are supposed to treat charge-backs like you would losing an arbitration if you are a merchant. I've watched many a merchant do shady things around charge-backs and find out the hard way (I used to own an MSP, was enlightening). Most of the time it was trying to sue someone after losing, and then getting their case tossed because the judge treated the suit like they were reviewing an arbitration... and most of the time the merchants were actually in the wrong (as in selling defective goods, not delivering services or over-charging).
FreeCAD is looking into a default Assembly Workbench
"Building assemblies is a core operation in CAD. FreeCAD doesn't have a default assembly workbench but has numerous add-ons. The need for a single default assembly workbench has come up many times over the years...

So let's talk about it again."
It seems the company is slowly trying to make users pay for it. Not too long ago it was free for companies, then they made companies pay to use it. Now they're making people pay to store images.
In the next few years I would be surprised if they didn't introduce a new way to monetize it, leading up to removing the use of any docker executable at all without payment.

Many will come to comment "that's absurd, and you could just use an old executable you already downloaded prior to them halting it's circulation", etc. But I do think the writing is on the wall here with Docker continually getting greedy.
If they don't monetize the use of Docker containers in general by making users pay to run them, they have other options like spyware and ads - e.g. install telemetry in the base of the system somehow to sell the personal data they receive from all images*, etc.

* I know this may not work directly as I've stated it, just giving the flavor of idea
Well… there was that time I broke the law in New York and bought $80 of ripple because I liked their technical vision and then…. Ripple turned out be a scam.

When brilliant people like Jimmy Kimmel and Paris Hilton are talking about something though, you really ought to take it seriously, no?
Stop giving democrats a pass for doing nothing. Look at how ineffective Buttigieg has been on rail safety re: east palestine.

Tribalist myopia enables this status quo.
> we can easily imagine a scenario where patient consent is obtained and the extra computational analysis provides life-saving insight

In the US, the HIPAA Privacy Rule operates independently from the HIPAA Security Rule, for good reason. On their own, patients can do anything they want with their own data. But in the context of medical care, patients can't consent to having their personal health data processed in insecure systems. It is the same ethical reason that employees can't waive their rights to OSHA safety rules or why you can't consent to sell yourself as a slave. If you could waive security rules, then every doctor would include a waiver in their intake forms, and it's a race to the bottom. So unless OpenAI has a HIPAA-compliant data security infrastructure, it's illegal and unethical.
I'm not sure if there really is any difference between milking the taxpayers by SpaceX or Boeing/ULA/NG/AR.
Yes, i meant for the "how things should be", the comments i meant were those backwards compatibility which is the root of the problem and AppImage is just a workaround for it.
Is discussed at the end of this thread
If you go with their AMD servers, you'll get ECC RAM which would be the main sticking point for me. ECC memory will be €5.50 extra on their €37 Ryzen 5 3600 (6 core, 12 thread) 64GB RAM server. Even at €43 with EEC RAM, it's still a great deal. It even comes with 2x512 GB NVMe storage.

Yes, non-ECC RAM is an issue, but that's easily upgraded on their AMD servers.

For €63 you'll get a Ryzen 7 7700 (Zen 4, 8 core, 16 thread) box with 64GB ECC RAM and 2x1TB NVMe SSDs. Google Cloud's N2D-Standard-16 with 8 cores (16 vCPU threads, Zen 2 or Zen 3), 64GB ECC RAM, and no storage costs $550/mo. Yes, it's may not be a perfect comparison, but it's also 8x the price - oh, and Google will charge you $0.085/GB for bandwidth that Hetzner throws in for free. Even Google's Spot Pricing is more than double the cost.

I do agree that non-ECC RAM is an issue, but if you're willing to go with AMD servers, it becomes a very cheap issue to fix.
I will anxiously await my check for $0.25
Founders at Work. Just gave me a good sense of how near death and growth are just part of the game. But also tipped me to decide to move to SF Bay Area.
The button needs to say "rent" or "lease". A "buy" button should not result in a rental.
I know this is going to sound like a stupid question, but does MuseScore run versioning control? Like can you use
$sudo apt-get install musescore=4_0_2
as you can with other packages like Tenacity or Dolphin?
That might be still a bit less evil than letting a single private company control it.
No lies were told. It'll be difficult to trust any other platform like that anymore. Microsoft is really despicable cornering the dev market (github, killed atom in favor of vscode, etc...). I'm glad I switched to apple after +20 years using windows products.

OpenAI, on the other hand, will basically destroy any openness from companies. Now, it'll be every company for itself.
How are people in Arizona thinking about climate change? Does it seem rational (for people planning to live at least a few more decades) given the current state of science?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Arizona
UK Treasury Is Spending £75k to Bring Back Each Older Worker
After Silicon Valley Bank, scrap the bank deposit insurance limit
What's funny is that until now, many couldn't conceive of a distinction between Bernie bros and Democrats.
Could not agree more with your post
Face detection is the kind of thing I'm talking about, but to me Google Photos is the gold standard right now.

It can automatically figure out that certain groups of photos constitute a particular trip to a particular destination. It can group by objects. All photographs of food. All photos of pets. Etc.

You used to have to meticulously manage photographs yourself, into albums or folders. Carefully manage the metadata and tags. But it feels liberating that you don't need to anymore.

Being able to do this offline would be important, for those who don't want to use the cloud. That is where DigiKam could come in.

Maybe NextCloud/OwnCloud will add these kind features.
Here's an alternative to a model for truth. There is no truth, only power. Suppose we completely abandon logical semantics and instead focused on social semantics. Instead of the usual boolean True/False variables and logic relations, we'll have people valued variables and like/dislike relations. I system entirely for reasoning about the amount of pull and persuasion is present without ever circuiting down to any ground truth reasons. In other words, a bullshit reasoning system. Can ordinary truth reasoning be jerryrigged out of this system?