skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But even worse, we're talking about many of people who are still awaiting trial-- presumably they are innocent at a greater rate than those convicted.

"Awaiting trial" or even "Awaiting details of the charges to be hammered out" seem to be depressingly time unrestricted. I sat in on some of the hearings, and there was a lot of "Well, we're not ready, can we push this out for 2 weeks?" sort of scheduling going on.

The person I'm familiar with this from basically spent 2 months in jail (not prison, apparently the difference is that prison is nicer, jail is really just a holding tank) on false charges that were then dropped as they were "literally impossible." He wasn't in the state when the claimed events happened.
I get what you're saying.

The Chinese would hurt the US economy by a mass sell-off of Treasuries, but they'd be dropping a bomb into their own economy as well.

Alternatively, they could ramp-up to some sort of a localized/proxy hot conflict, and get their military-industrial base firing on all cylinders. It was WWII spending that pulled the US out of the depression.

The wikipedia article on war economy [1] says "War is often used as a last ditch effort to prevent deteriorating economic conditions or currency crises, particularly by expanding services and employment".

I find it difficult to believe that any sane nation-state would purposely bomb their own economy just to hurt an enemy, when a much better option exists economically (war footing).

Likely what China would do would be a combination of the two.

Still it's food for thought. Our economies are definitely intertwined, and there are levers that can be pulled.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_economy
>Do I believe that when others choose to not buy your work, and buy something else instead and are happy with their choice, your output wasn't as valuable to them as you maybe thought?

If the "AI" community chose not to buy nicbou's work and chose to use materials in the Public Domain instead, that's fine. If the "AI" community chose not to buy nicbou's work and chose to use Radim's work instead under terms agreeable to Radim, that's fine.

But that's not what happens. What happens is the "AI" community chose not to buy nicbou's work and chose to use nicbou's work anyway. That's where the problem is.
Systems of Engineering Management (Larson)
- Best practical advice for dealing with software engineering teams

Leading at the Speed of Growth (Catlin & Matthews)
- Despite the title making me want to vomit, it has a bunch of practical advice about problems you'll encounter at various "stages" of a company, and how to identify what stage you're in.

The First 90 Days (Watkins)
- Useful if you ever take on a leadership role where the current state of the organization could be described as a "shitshow".

Good Strategy / Bad Strategy (Rumelt)
- Learn the difference between goals and strategy and plans.
When I studied (industrial) engineering, we had a creed and naïve me still believes in that.

https://order-of-the-engineer.org/about-the-order/obligation...
Taco Bell.
What is the business model of Artifact? The new reading app
Exploring the Artifact one I was wondering how they planned to make money out of it.

- They’re not making money now and plan to do it later?
- They take a percentage from the publishers?

If you have any info about it, I would love to discuss it!
Ask HN: Which ideological software factions do you know of, and do you like any?
What I specifically mean is a programming community with values that transcend the projects that they maintain. In some cases, these values precede the projects themselves, and the projects are merely a tool for advancing the values.

I use "faction" instead of a "community" because there is an ideological bent to them. It's not merely a community that manages a couple of helpful open source projects.

Here are the ones that I know of:

1. GNU: it advocates for an OS that is libre, and can be studied and modified and shared by anyone. It has idiosyncratic attributes, like the use of Lisp as an extension language.

2. OpenBSD: unlike the FreeBSD community which is largely about FreeBSD, OpenBSD has several different projects that share a core ethos of security and correctness. Some of these projects (like Game of Trees) aren't even officially slated to be part of the OpenBSD distribution. Others (like OpenSSH) are more popular than OpenBSD itself.

3. Suckless.org: it advocates simple, clear, frugal, and elitist software for *nix users. (No really, the website mentions "elitist" on the page for DWM)

4. Cat-v.org continues to advance the Bell Labs vision of a second network-centric iteration of Unix with its 9front distribution and other projects.

5. Smalltalk advocates for programming environments that are discoverable and educational, and various projects like Pharo and The Glamorous Toolkit advance this mission in a variety of ways, sometimes less ideologically strict.

Curious to ask HN what other ideological software factions can they mention? And what do you think of the various factions? Do you identify with any?
In their big announcement, the Fed did say that ultimately all costs will be recovered from the bank's remaining assets (and will not fall on the taxpayer).

The government is still providing liquidity and coercive muscle -- so it's still a bailout, plain and simple. Despite the attempts we are seeing to paint it otherwise.
Yeah - business is smart home renewable energy stuff, not lightbulbs. If they don't go international real fast the small oldschool broker cluster solution will probably be plenty for the next 5 years.
I don't think this is missing at all. It's literally just what a bank does. Historically, a bog standard, straight-up boring old school bank. No fancy investment banking, no crazy growth strategy, no risky lending to maximize returns, no emperor's-new-clothes financial fashion tricks that we must do now because everyone else does them.

I worked for many years at a bank that did just that. We happened to be able to offer significantly lower deposit rates than our competition, because we had very low exposure to the kind of banking that risks government takeover due to surprising repricing events.

Wealthy customers too lazy or otherwise unable to spread deposits around to stay below the deposit guarantees chose us to an overwhelming degree, in spite of competition that offered better rates.

Granted, it's in Europe. Don't know if there's stuff in the US environment that makes this harder.
That will require it to be trained every day on new human content generated content so that it can create variations of it. Even then the fad would not last as long as it does today, since it would become possible for a larger section of the population to generate videos of the same kind.
The distinction between AGI and Narrow AI has existed for almost 30 years.
So the CEO is the face of the company, and companies are willing to pay a lot for a face that projects a certain image? If that's the case, then couldn't you argue that it's worth a lot for the company to pay to improve its brand image?
We shouldn't think of it as renting or a lease, companies should call it renting or leasing. Otherwise, they're pissing on my leg and telling me that it's raining.
Just have circuits eat more vegetables and exercise more. It's what my doctors keep telling me.
Parcels I can understand, but a letter? No.
Here's a good article about the debate:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

Basically, the ACLU used to be very focused on supporting the first amendment, and recently has shifted more to supporting progressive causes, even when they conflict with the first amendment.
Maybe this is more what you're looking for? https://screenspan.net/fallback
Very interesting proposition. Curious, which PMSs are you integrating with first?

I'm the CTO of https://obeyo.com and integrations are a huge thing for us.
I agree that even less regulated industries have monopolies, you're right, but those will tend to be companies that either have a natural monopoly (e.g. they own some land) or are so competitively priced enough for their customers that there's no obvious way to create a competitor that can take market share from them. I don't see either of those situations being improved by constant government interference.
Swiss National Bank says they'll cover CS.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/15/2023/credit-suisse-ban...
I'm a software engineer with no animation xp. Can someone explain what this tool is (and is not) and how it fits in an animation project.

e.g: can I make an animation movie using only moonray? what other tools are needed? and what knowledge do I (we) need to do that?
Any chance they break out of the survivorship bias bubble in their discussions? I largely stopped listening to Acquired because of that. I want more stories about startups that failed while doing seemingly the right thing, and fewer about startups that probably got lucky.
these AIs have already demonstrated limited tendency to strongly prefer not being shut down (they already have the ability to lie to humans to achieve goals and we celebrate this lol). giving them the ability to self replicate means we lose that ability to pull the plug.

giving them ability to self modify means humanity will lose control of ai on any long enough timescale.
I keep seeing the same leap over and over. "We don't precisely know how the human brain works, and we don't exactly know how GPT works, but they both have things we call neurons and they both learn, so what's the difference between a human brain and GPT?"

Humans really do love to anthropomorphize everything.
Wikipedia is okay for some topics, particularly if they're completely uncontroversial and lots of people edit the article (note: both conditions are necessary, just one is insufficient).

However, for anything even remotely controversial, Wikipedia is a real crapshoot. A lot of subjects are controlled by motivated cabals of editors. They may list sources, but there's no guarantee that those sources are representative, chosen in an unbiased way, etc.

If you know how the sausage is made, your trust in Wikipedia will plummet.
When I hear that I wonder why we just don't eliminate all taxes? The economic benefits would be huge!
Heh, yeah, good. Similarly, Chicago Police Department has denied FOIA requests of people in jail because they claim they'd have to provide the records as a CD.. arguing that the CD could be used as a weapon.
Retail left hanging as brokers halt trades in Silicon Valley Bank set to pay off
> consumers all love Valve

Where do people get ideas like this?
To be fair, committing to never having children is not uncommon among people in my age group (mid-twenties). And I agree - it's a shit plan, but there are a set of relatively pessimistic assumptions embedded in the shit plan as well:

- No raises throughout the entire career lifetime

- No economy of scale through marriage

- Significant SS benefits cut

- Never earning another cent in earned income after retiring at the full retirement age of 67

- Living for thirty years after retirement (which is the baseline for the 4% rule; average life expectancy at birth in America in 2021 is an atrocious 76.1 years)

- No "extreme" frugality measures - relatively frequent eating out and going to concerts/basketball games

- Low real returns on any accrued savings

Note that none of this - absolutely none of it - is an argument that America should not expand the safety net, or that we shouldn't fix the housing market. I'm just saying that people with average incomes still have options, even in New York City
How would you define “a mess”,

"The nose knows", as they say.

I love dumb, straightforward code BTW. It's my guiding aesthetic much of the time in fact. But that wasn't what I was referring to, here.

Rather the "too smart for its own good... and utterly brain-fucked" end product which is the calling card of your average rockstar / ninja developer.
The Lisp Machine experience has obvious drawbacks, but there are things that are simply not there on modern platforms (with some exceptions, like a Smalltalk on the metal). Its OS is completely written in a high-level language, it uses a high-level OOP model (for example based on the Flavors / CLOS object systems) and running inside one memory pool.

Receiving an TCP packet is a OOP method, just like sending a mail is an OOP message. In the development environment both are fully visible, on the fly changeable, ... If I'm debugging an NFS connection, I could change a UDP method on the fly and it will be immediately active system wide - without any 'hotloading' limitations.

You can mostly edit/change everything in the OS and applications without boundaries. That offers countless ways to kill the system, but it means that the TCP implementation is open in the same way like an application is - it can always be used without much performance loss in a full debug mode, where things can be inspected, modified, replaced, edited, ... This is not hotloading of a component, it is a completely open architecture an all levels - from a mailer UI, over the SMTP implementation, the networking stack, down to the network interface. There is a single high-level stack and everything on the stack is accessible/inspectable. One is bringing the thing into a debug mode or deploying it in a debug mode, it can always run fully inspectable and changeable. As mentioned the drawback is that this makes it also fragile when there are very little protections. Make a wrong change to the UDP receive method and the running OS then won't receive any UDP packages...
Most “nice” coffee shops will carry a chemX or toddy systems of some sort. French press too. If you’re looking for a cold brew solution just go online to filtron and get their toddy. It’s affordable and really gets the job done.

You also can’t wrong going with an aero press. They’re like $30 and super easy to clean. Only good for making one cup of coffee at a time though.

If you’re looking for beans, mammoth espresso and cherry coffee roasters are both incredible.
This blog post is so riddled with straw men I'm convinced the author has lost sight of reality.

Wanting SVB depositors to be made whole doesn't make you an apologist regardless of how stupid* the author is.

* Yes, stupid. https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc
Phoenix Dev Blog – Sounds Like a Bug
Ironically it is "Open"AI that started this trend and closed-doors arms race.
> We are a news feed for news

With a name like forth.news I expected the programming language but instead I found a namespace collision.
If you’re interested in the strange world of industrial musicals, I highly recommend the documentary Bathtubs over Broadway. They touch on the work of Michael Brown as well as other composers. [0]

The associated book is great too, and the author, Steve Young[1], is very responsive to questions by email.

One sad thing I have learned is that there was a lot of cynicism about industrial shows back in the day. The makers of those shows were often looked down upon and ostracised by composers and artists working on Broadway musicals, even though the level of craft and talent involved was often incredibly high, and there was a lot of overlap in the talent pool.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtubs_Over_Broadway

[1]: https://www.steveyoungworld.com/industrial-musicals/
What's the adoption rate of copilot ? It's been out for how long now ?
Here's something on Clip

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/zero-shot-image-classification...
Any podcast recs of interviews and stories like this (i.e. podcasts about start ups that took the "right path" but still failed?)
It seems like there are a lot of practical uses for generative AI where that was never clear with crypto. It is very easy to imagine how this type of technology can be applied to everyday tasks. The same can't be said about crypto.
it is the fate of red teaming AI safety.. by working on understanding the limits, you are inevitably pushing us towards them.

i dont doubt that the ARC team have thought this thru more than anyone here but right now there are probably 100 funded startups pursuing agentic AI without any safety qualms.
The idea is that if you're keeping 250k+ in cash sitting around you should probably be in-the-know. Deposit sweep accounts are incredibly easy to use, Fidelity lets you open one in ~5 minutes. Further, this isn't just some hack, as distributing funds around many banks makes each individual bank less brittle.
My wife is a very calm, patient person.

One of very few times I've seen her genuinely pissed off was after attempting to deal with some of the tech support for this system, because money ended up in the "wrong account" (via all the dark patterns you can imagine for the methods of donating), and the only way to move it was more or less for her to provide DNA samples to the prison (despite having nothing to do with anything) - it was that much information that they wanted to "maybe be able to help."

The system is designed to extract money at all costs, and they seem very, very good at doing so, via hook or by crook.
bit of an unfortunate choice of name, given there's a pretty well-know browser called Vivaldi already [0]

[0] https://vivaldi.com/

In fact, it's so well-known I thought your post was announcing a new release of that, til I saw "musical" in the title.
Indeed. 'Crypto' used to mean 'cryptography'. Now it apparently equates to 'NFT'... and zuck will likely soon re-rename his company to metai over all this hype.
Switzerland doesn't have any unusual banking privacy laws anymore, those were abolished a long time ago. The US imposes crippling sanctions on any country that doesn't implement the same financial crime / tax information laws as themselves, so Switzerland came into compliance with US policy on that.
Because it's not getting those details by looking at the moon right now, it's getting them based on pictures people have previously taken of the moon.
The killer app is waiting for the right hardware.

Imagine doing remote surgery, with your headset showing, in 3D, the patient's body.

Or in-person surgery, with a 3D rendering of the CT/MRI scan overlaid the patient's body.

The only real limitation is hardware.
“You purchased access to your house, you do not own it. Move along citizen.”
Pretty much every JIT-enabled language has this as at least a theoretical advantage over C.

So not impossible and therefore not unethical.
Agree on all this. I recently switched three lines from Ting to Mint. On Ting the three lines were sharing 1GB of data without issue. Now we each have 4GB for only a couple of bucks extra per month total with taxes and such factored in and it just feels so extravagant. I also just got a new phone after over 5 years with my last one. I generally don't spend more than $200 on a new phone (Pixel 7 this time around) so I'm not in that demographic of looking for a new device every couple of years.
I think that it is on the interest of society the inmates are allowed to access things that keep their mental health. Being imprisoned is already punishment enough, isolating them completely from society, relatives and friends is akin to torture, and will surely backfire.
Of course, because music can be performed. People will pay to see a live performance, which means music performers aren't entirely reliant on selling recorded performances. Live readings, on the other hand, don't attract large crowds and therefore aren't a great source of income, making writers more dependent on IP rights. It's pretty obvious.
Not just common law. In the US, it is spelled out in the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, the legal system has so distorted the plain meaning of "speedy trial" that we end up with insane, but "Constitutional" situations.
I'm looking forward to a bright future when I take a selfie, and get replaced with a cloud-server-supplied shot of a smarter, handsomer, better dressed, not-graying-in-the-hair version of myself.
It would be awesomer if their actual, sub rosa remit was to defend against aliens, per Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(TV_series)#SHADO
Seconded. I couldn't put it down, rare to see stories of companies that aren't Apple who did hardware and bespoke software as well and as long as Blackberry (fka Research in Motion) did in the 90s and 2000s.
What about Security Onion[0] ? Can anyone comment/compare?

[0] https://securityonionsolutions.com/software
My theory is that BTC and "the crypto space" are mostly about dollars. They use FOMO talk (future of finance) to disguise that they really just want to sell you garbage and collect USD.

I remember several years ago someone in finance posted here about how they were looking into ways BTC could be packaged into a traditional security that could be bought/sold in TradFi. After spending a year on it, he and his team came to two conclusions.

1) KYC made it really hard to do

and

2) everyone they talked to was more interested in getting USD than holding onto BTC

Point 2 stuck out to me. No one wants BTC. It's about get-rick-quick and cash out to USD.

That's why everyone talks about the price of BTC relative to dollars. It's all that really matters to them.

If my theory is correct, then the shuttering of the major on/off ramps between USD and BTC will force crypto into an endgame followed by a crash.
So a "regular" AI is one trained to perform a specific task - like recognizing dogs in an image or handwriting recognition.

These LLMs are trained for one skill: given the previous N tokens, what's the next token. From this single skill, they can generalize to many many many many useful use-cases. Is that general enough?

Or do we need to wait for the goalposts to move again and then blow past that limit too? Stop arguing semantics and start building cool shit.
Related:

P2P CDN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=p2p%20cdn, https://hn.algolia.com/?query=peer%20to%20peer%20cdn
> The list is extensive to say the least.

Sometimes I wonder if the Swiss newfound love for a weirdly biased neutrality, which goes to the extent of destroying their own military gear instead of selling it to Ukraine, is rooted in appeasing certain Russians who stashed their fortunes in financial institutions such as Credit Suisse.
You are not wrong, I am out of touch with normal people, doesn't mean I'm not going to continue to try and improve my position. I guess I should have said poorer.

Also I don't work for a FAANG but it's arguing semantics as they're around the same tier.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

They got a political rally in support of keeping civil war statues shut down by the government.

Their attorney stated that "Stopping the circulation of [Abigail Shrier's] book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on."

They applauded students and professors blocking reporters from documenting a protest.

They filed a brief in support of disciplining teachers for using the wrong pronouns.

They say they now consider various factors in whether or not to defend speech, including "the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values".