skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol so according to you the money supply can increase 10x but as long as the cost of apples (or things in the CPI basket) is same, there is no inflation. Am i right?

I think you are trying to say that CPI and Inflation are the same thing.
That's a funny way of saying that 'supply and demand meet in Japan' which you can do but decreasing demand or increasing supply. It really is that simple. When supply and demand are allowed to meet, prices stabilize. Otherwise please explain to me why you think that this is the one asset on earth not affected by supply and demand. And you could really use a solid citation.

Thought exercise.

There are 140,000,000 houses in the US. What do you think would happen to the price of each house if there were 280,000,000? If you answered anything other than 'they would still go up for some reason despite many of them being empty and derelict' then we are in agreement that it is a supply and demand issue. Ergo a zoning issue.
When you fall off a horse, do you get back on? Personally I head straight home and refuse to even look at a horse ever again.
Probably just preparing for an NFT release
Tell HN: Cloudflare Enabling Theft of Small Business's Website
A contact of mine Melanie, owner of "Tragic Beautiful", a small business in Australia, is desperately seeking help as a Chinese company has stolen her entire website, and Cloudflare is enabling the theft to continue.

The scam company purchased the domain www.tragicbeautyus.com and uploaded the stolen site content to scam people, using Melanie's trademarked logo, site pics, and text.

Despite Melanie's efforts, Cloudflare has ignored her for 8 months, even as customers continue to get ripped off and leave bad her reviews.

The site appears to be using Woocommerce and Paypal

Without help from Cloudflare, Melanie's business is vulnerable to significant losses.

If anyone has any ideas on how to stop this theft, or has a contact with Cloudflare, please advise!
What do you do that would have you traveling to more than one country a month?
Unfortunately as we have learned from open source software, it doesn't matter if it's write or wrong. The only way to enforce licensing is to litigate.

The decades of GPL violations have taught us the only way to get commercial interests to not abuse copyleft licenses is to force them via the courts, and in doing so dis-incentivize other businesses from violating the licenses.

But it isn't 100% effective by any means, and usually relies on a large commercially successful organization to already have aligned interests in enforcing their GPL/copyleft licenses.

Anything else is just ethics paper fodder.
It’s a sudden expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet. What else would you call it?
I wish they changed the name to something better. Would probably increase adoption greatly if they can come up with a name that doesn’t sound like a porn site specializing in bondage.
I don't live in Taiwan but my impressions - people are a lot more engaged with politics, general political knowledge and awareness is higher, voter turnout is higher - all of these may be as a result of the ever-looming threat of being subsumed by the mainland, but also maybe an enthusiasm for democracy since it's relatively new to the country!

Taiwan has its issues with first past the post voting, quality of news media and control of media (eg by sketchy foreign corporations) and conga line of infotainment propaganda outlets. There's a big economic incentive in reunificiation for some actors which perverts politics and discourse to an extent.

But to be honest.. America is currently a really low bar for democracy in the first place (speaking as someone living outside USA as well)
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That sucks. Where I am in Canada I've never seen PIN-less payment via chip. It's either chip+PIN or tap.
I think you skipped right over 1979 and Cambodia.
They tend to position themselves with the hourglass facing where birds would see it and be frightened away. The red is just for females. Male black widows are grayish brown with a bright yellow hourglass marking. Have not seen a male brown widow.
>I would say being associated with plagiarizing code and breaking licenses is a losing result.

I would say that calling something "snake oil" probably isn't a reference to plagiarizing code or breaking licenses.
One thing that hasn't been talked about much is that P4 kind of gave you lock-in to Tofino given that it was the only switch chip to implement it. Now those concerns have become real with Tofino being canceled. In theory Cisco Silicon One also implements P4 but it's probably not the same dialect and many people don't want to pay Cisco prices.

I also think P4 has been held back by the fact that hyperscalers mostly converged on a "dumb underlay" architecture where they don't expect the switches to provide any interesting features. Then P4 and Tofino came along and P4 has little benefit in that architecture (except maybe QoS which seems to be what Oxide is doing).

P4 may end up being used more in DPUs where hopefully we'll have support from 3-4 different vendors (with different dialects of course).
Yep, diatomaceous earth is what popped into mind for me.
Brainstorming hypothesis: time spent in landing g strips and airport areas leads to contact with fuels. Smelling them for long is not advisable.
It may also be possible that Xi is imagining the revival of china as a world empire that would rival that of the USA today, and this is born of both hubris, as well as egomaniacal desire of "washing away the shameful century".

I think people like that are the reasons why the world isn't at peace. China could've become the next japan. They could've probably overtaken the US that way too. But now, they've "alerted" the eagle, and the US will never let china become a superpower.
Is CD quality audio (16/44) not doable without aptX?
That's a great point. I have no idea, and now I'm also curious. Not quite curious enough to google it though haha
This Book
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3783110M/Implementing_BASICs
Explains how much of it is done
Who know what kind of people visit this site? (Apart from having an interest in technology - particularly IT.)
I flew about 14 years out of my career and I had 2800 hours flying fighters, and was anywhere from surface to 50,000+ feet. This is low-time compared to the people who flew heavies (tankers and transport). My cancer was not diagnosed until shortly after I left the service by the first doctor I visited, but I'd began getting increasingly unpleasant symptoms 5 years prior (about the time I quit flying and went to a non-flying duty "for career progression").
The iPhone and the Apple Newton before it, was stuck with a stylus. Jobs wouldn't release an iPhone that relied upon a stylus.

Multi-touch displays was the key technology Steve Jobs needed to greenlight the iPhone.

Steve was completely invested in electing products that generated an experience the customer valued. This didn't always line up with the technical merits of the product. He subordinated the company to that goal, including holding releases back to hit a specific timing.

Steve said he did this strategy because he had the scar tissue to prove that making an amazing piece of tech and trying to market it, never worked for him.

He didn't create tech. He created relationships to the customer that made Apple billions.
It’s all good if you need something more vanilla there is discord.
Right, you can’t negotiate with them. Agree to the terms or sink/confiscate their vessels. China has thousands of vessels currently extracting from the ocean globally; do we wait until they’ve exhausted global marine stocks? Doesn’t sound tenable.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35815444

https://archive.is/ZKSJq

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/30/china-beijing-fishing-a...

Edit: Force should be used against antagonistic nation states when required, otherwise words are meaningless.
Nobody will use this, it takes too much time and it ruins the art by adding a weird texture.

I understand the disappointment of real artists that the tech bros are stealing their lunch, but sadly it's the way all these things go. Pandora's box is opened, things aren't going to go back the way they were.

Even if an artist manages to completely guard themselves against exploitation by AI, the market expectation for art commissions and work will be 100x higher than it was before AI art in a few years. It's like the scene in There Will be Blood, and the milkshake of traditional artists has been drunk already.
Most likely, yes. Those with a different worldview are cut off from the fediverse and many client apps blacklist those instances that gain momentum from being usable in the client app. For example, Gab.
That is true, and an important criticism of IQ as a measure in general. However, it's not clear that the Flynn effect is relevant to the conclusions of this study. Why do you think it is?
Blockbuster is owned by Dish TV. There's nothing they can plan to do with the brand that gets me excited.
A loan to provide liquidity. QE is the systematic increasing of bond values. These loans will have no effect on bond value and therefore interest rates because they have high interest rates and need to be paid back quickly. They just give debtors enough time to sell a few assets and wait for the situation to calm down.
It's funny cause Brown Widows is literally the first two words but I swear my brain saw attic and garage at the same time and thought contextually Brown Windows makes more sense.

It's interesting how the other words in the sentence shape your expectations for even the first two words.
Money in a fractional reserve system operates not on a push model but on a pull model. You do not 'push' money into the system. Money is created when loans (and corresponding obligations to repay said loan) are created. The increase in supply was driven by an increase in demand. Your model is incomplete. You'll have to work a specific example - how would the supply suddenly triple? Who would get that money? What would they do with it?

> I think you are trying to say that CPI and Inflation are the same thing.

I think you are trying to say that money supply growth is inflation, it is not. Even the rejected Austrian school would agree.
Radar is off or disabled while on the ground
ChatGPT becomes the test taking interface. Go to a proctored environment and get quizzed by TA-GPT in a socratic test about the subject. Humans review the scores and that's your test result.
Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS
Maybe so, but that’s not going to stop people.

The tech industry is full of examples.
How does "Mastodon" evoke that for you!?
I’m actually surprised the brand hasn’t been used for more than it has. Plenty of residual goodwill, far more memorable than “Vudu” or whatever other streaming services are out there. Guess it’s never been worth the price tag (until now?)
NGL when learning Noether’s theorem I thought Emmy was short for something like Emiliano. It wasn’t until long afterwards that I found out that she was a she, and the struggles she had along the way because of that.

At the time I wouldn’t have cared anyway. I was bombarded with so many names of people through equations, experiments, etc that I didn’t care if they were a man, woman, or carrier pigeon. I just cared what the result meant and how I could use it. It’s only after the fact, long after I left academia, that I started to see these people as humans with real lives and stories.
Does everything in their power to ban multi-unit housing and density increases: Surprisingly from the NYT. https://youtu.be/hNDgcjVGHIw
To the extent that all people are considered philosophers, the claim that person X is a philosopher is meaningless, and therefore is a statement that is not worth making. Just as I do not constantly go around identifying myself with, "human, primate, born on planet Earth, circling the star Sol, in the Milky Way galaxy..." Those statements are true but provide no useful information to anyone distinguishing me from anyone else.

To the extent that "philosopher" is identified with the practice of philosophy as discussed and practiced in philosophy departments, it is a meaningful identifier. But also *SHOULD NOT* be applied to most scientists. For similar reasons, the historical theological roots of early scientists does not make modern fields like chemistry into branches of theology.

As for science distancing itself from its earlier foundations, there is nothing ironic about it. In fact that act is essential to how science as a field operates. The purpose of a scientific education is to indoctrinate the student with the norms, values and knowledge of current scientific paradigms that will allow the student to operate within, extend, challenge, and hopefully improve those paradigms. Exposing the student to the details of outdated approaches only to explain why they became outdated is an activity of limited use, and therefore we strictly limit how many such examples students must learn. And even for those we do not explain previous ideas in detail. What purpose is there in explaining to students who must learn inertia, Aristotle's ideas that all things naturally come to rest? Why would we bother explaining the history of attempts to find mechanisms for and explanations of Noah's Flood to students who are about to learn about the Ice Ages and that Noah's Flood didn't happen?

The first clear description that I know of for this process comes from Thomas Kuhn's book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. At the time he was a physicist who had developed an interest in the history of science. He implicitly assumed a shared context with the reader. People who have mastered a hard science generally have that context. I have that context, and found the book delightful.

Unfortunately after writing that book, he spent a lot of time responding to creative misunderstandings of his work from philosophers who lacked that context. I found little value in those criticisms, or in his responses. Yet another example of how I've found a lack of value in philosophy as practiced by philosophers.
Interestingly the protest in Hong Kong was triggered by a Hongkonger who murdered his girlfriend while they were vacationing in Taiwan.

Taiwan was in negotiations with Hong Kong to extradite him and the protestors were afraid of the implications.

In the end, a much stronger National Security Law was passed after the riots and the murderer still walks free.
All those immigrant tech workers in the US are assuredly adding more to the economy than they are taking. (And yes, they are immigrants on the path to US citizenship, not expats.) Your argument makes no sense.
First, I agree your list is a better source, though India offsets the Asian countries you mentioned.

As for populations being irresponsible, please feel free to explain your reasoning behind this claim, since unless I am missing something, it’s missing from your comment.

Again, if it’s so easy to not do X then getting even small countries that are democratic should be easy; obviously not, in fact, this has nothing to do with countries and everything to do with cultural norms, or the lack there of.
Thanks for the feedback. For example, the US Congress really could use some of the technical bureaucratic competence I hear Taiwan has. US institutions are in post-WWII lows right now, which is like a moist, dark, sugary place for attracting larger-than-life-personalities to no ultimate good.

As one smart guy wrote, there's three kinds of power: tradition, institutions, and personality. My coralary: weak institutions attract strong personality.

See the other conversation re: China & Taiwan below. It'd be a shame to see a good thing go away.
You wouldn't even need to try to break it. The goal of the model is to learn patterns and pass tests against the training data. Given that these images are expected to ned up in training sets, then eventually whatever technique is being used here will fail to thwart the training process.
Is it? It seems incredibly forced to me.
comicbook.com has seemingly come out of nowhere and I’ve been seeing it a lot now. Without an ad blocker, the site is cancer.

Is CBS on some kind of promotional kick / rejuvenation?
Do you always hire a COO at some point to manage your retail? I get overwhelmed by the time I have more than one retail store per city.
I think we're fundamentally talking about different developments on two fronts. You posit a machine that's (1) a simulacrum of consciousness that (2) reduces drudgery. That's all great. That's what I would call an ideal scenario. What I see evolving is the opposite.

Bing already appears to have a nasty personality. Whether it's simulated or not may not matter if it chooses to simulate Clippy. Simultaneously, the driver now is finding tasks that formerly required creativity to be replaced by AI. Not PowerPoint or boilerplate code, but art and creative writing.

I don't know anyone who wants AGI to handle all our productivity and creation, but it's clear that that the companies developing AI believe that that's where the money is. Just like no one wanted the old WWW to become a dumpster fire of meme porn and people yelling at each other, it just evolved that way as a result of racing to the bottom. There's no reason to think big AI won't do the same in the literary, artistic, and scientific spheres, while also developing malevolent personalities. The incremental incentives for people to train those types of models are already there, and the capacity to do so is coming online with alarming speed.

I think talking about what people would do if everything was handled for them is sort of dodging the issue, but one thing that's clear is that people not at least engaged in understanding the mundane labor they're trying to avoid are going to have an incredibly hard time being situationally aware and competent to correct things if or when that work is subtly or not-so-subtly undermined by a system they rely on which no one can debug or fully understand.
Again, as a fair-to-middling organic language model, my only opinion is that, a PIN, as currently implemented in Bitwarden and described above, leaves Bitwarden users open to a form of exploitation that can be categorized as a downgrade attack.

Presumably, a better implementation would be fine.

You are free to keep using Bitwarden's PIN implementation, but it will still be open to: downgrade attack.

This is because Bitwarden's security, as described in this article, is open to: downgrade attack.

This is not an emotional term. It is no more laden with implication than observing that #F00 is 'red'. You are free to keep using #F00, just don't call it blue.

Donwgrade attacks are relatively straightforward, and ease-of-use features, such as PINs, are a traditional place to look for them.

I have no opinion on this matter other than that it implies that Bitwarden can be configured in a manner which is insecure, and the specific form of insecurity is: openness to downgrade attack.
Happy to take that down. I don't know what else to call code that doesn't work, suggestions?
Release it anyhow!
I have to give it to Unsong, but that's a hell of a long favorite. My favorite bit in Unsong is the chapter where God gives an answer to the problem of evil, but there are so many other good bits in there too.

Meditations on Moloch is fantastic for sure. I also really love Universal Love, Said the Cactus Person. Oh, and Idol Words, a more recent one that I really liked.

I like Scott best when he's doing that particular weird brand of fiction he does, where he mixes sci-fi and philosophy and religion and kinda mashes them into a cool new thing. Unsong is the longest example of course but he's released lots of cool little one offs in that vein through the years.

Some links:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and-i-show-you-how-dee...

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/idol-words

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/04/samsara/

https://unsongbook.com

https://unsongbook.com/chapter-71-but-for-another-gives-its-...

If you can think of any other examples of this kind of thing from Scott that you like, post a link, I'm sure there's some I haven't found yet.
1 - Does such direct promotion actually work? My vague impression is "poorly, at best".

2 - How much overhead cost (especially legal & bureaucratic) does the promotion create? Note that politicians getting to congratulate themselves on being yet more pro-marriage is not a benefit for society.
The article shows how other people were mentioned in the 2022 prize who built on her work.

It sounds like she should have been awarded the 1957 prize too:

> In his Nobel lecture that December, Yang told the committee and guests how crucial Wu's experiment had been, making a bold statement that the results were due to Wu's team's courage and skill. Lee would later plead with the Nobel Committee to recognize Wu's work. Oppenheimer publicly stated that Wu should have shared in the 1957 prize. Segrè called the overthrow of parity “probably the major development of physics after the war.”
> Of course the PIN can be brute forced.

There’s no “of course” about it. Every place I can think of having used a PIN in the last decade has not been susceptible to brute-force attacks, due to the PIN being stored off-site (e.g. payment card) or in a TPM (e.g. Windows Hello), and a few incorrect attempts triggering blocking of the payment card or PIN or whatever.

If you think carefully about the description of this specific feature, and where and how it’s running, then yes, you’ll probably realise that the PIN will be brute-forceable. But people are probably used to the idea that PINs actually aren’t susceptible to this kind of attack.
It's pacman with old men
"Tribal knowledge" of airplane hijackings was why 9/11 worked initially.

People sat still because a "standard" airplane hijacking meant going to some odd airport while a bunch of "freedom fighters" got their 15 minutes of fame and then everybody on the plane got safely released a week or two later.

Once people realized that the 9/11 hijackings instead were suicide runs, the "tribal knowledge" broke and people didn't sit still anymore (see: the fourth plane on 9/11 or the shoe bomber).
All property is imaginary.

It also turns out to be useful in often helping human beings coexist relatively peacefully and sometimes negotiating mutual interests productively, so like a number of things that don't exist until enough people agree to conduct themselves as if they do, it's probably a good idea in general.

Intellectual property has some distinct characteristics, but it's fundamentally the same.

And assuming entitlement to any available data for ingestion into a training set without a moment's regard to the labor and agency of the people who produced it has things in common with the ethic of a thief who, coming upon your stuff, decides that if they can take it, it's theirs, society's construction of property be damned.
Not surprising. I recall the story about the Miles Teller being taken to the hospital due to getting rashes while filming Top Gun Maverick, they found tons of chemicals including jet fuel in his blood.