skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benefits that gives them are very much a type of profit.
> Just look at what happened to Greece, they cant control their fiscal policy

Who do you think controls Greece’s fiscal policy? (Before you answer, consider, what does “fiscal policy” refer to, and how is it different from “monetary policy”?)
SoundMind product is fascinating. Is there a risk you become dependent on the device after longer term use and will have worse than pre-soundmind sleep when you have to go without it (e.g. it breaks or any other arbitrary reason)?
How do you know they provide negative value to economy?

Perhaps they would invest their bitcoins far better than the current status quo and create a star-trek style post scarcity economy.
Well, yeah. The moral of the story is that John Henry won a Pyrrhic victory.
The laws that prohibit phone call recordings without consent is orthogonal to any evidence law that might prohibit their admission in a court case. The fact that they're phone calls has no bearing on admissibility AFAIK (please cite case law if you think I'm wrong).

IAAL, not providing legal advice etc.
I just want to add that as popular/cool as Visual Basic became, the first few years it was derided by most “real” developers as a crappy shortcut. PowerBuilder was king for awhile and even Delphi was ahead until VB 6.0 crushed all the competition.
And the result is mass exodus of Hongkongers, especially the younger generation. 110K people moved to UK alone in the last two years. That's 1.5% of population, and UK alone. People are leaving the city faster than back in East Germany before Berlin Wall.

And why people born and raised in Hong Kong have to give way to privileged mainlanders who don't share any culture with us at all?
My comment link has a link to[1]: which is the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists saying

"The Navy shuts down and dismantles a nuclear reactor in Antarctica", "Sometime soon the US Navy will have to find some place to quietly dispose of [...] by-product of 10 years of operating a small military power reactor in Antarctica", "The Navy considered nuclear power particularly suitable for the inland bases, where oil fuel was being flown in over such long distances[...]", "all the electricity for the 1,000 men stationed at the Navy's McMurdo Sound".

McMurdo station[2] "built by the US Navy Seabees".

Army Nuclear Power Program on Wikipedia[3] "PM-3A: 1.75 MW electric, plus heating and desalinization. McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Owned by the Navy."

[1] https://books.google.se/books?id=wwoAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA32&ots=V...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program
Why isn’t debating of the significance of quantum mechanics “real work”?
Isn't it more MSFT money than VC money at this point?
Slightly different. Google Chat logs aren't direct p2p, they are most definitely logged records. Otherwise the messages wouldn't still be there when you log out and back in. However, they are tagged to be ephemeral and self-destruct after 24h.

So how would the law here work? If I delete my chat logs it's illegal. But if I create a feature that helps me delete my chat logs, it's not?

Honestly I have no idea.
LDAC is pretty well established in over-ear headphones now but I think it's still quite rare in true-wireless earbuds? Typically you only get some version of aptX and/or AAC.
LLM stands for Large Language model. Not Language Learning Model.

It absolutely categorizes those patterns as you can ask it for descriptions of things or request things via descriptions. It does identify the importance to humans. Because all of those things are also just patterns about patterns.

Everything an LLM does may be implicit, but it takes a tiny effort to engineer that implicit capability in to something explicit.
I believe those were distances flown, not the takeoff distance. If you look at the photo of the first flight, it hasn't gone very far.
Well, I mean in a sense it's a laughable game that companies and their executives (and their employees) play, isn't it? There's a constant battle going on, and not just a little because of the company's own choices, don't you think?

Company X wants to keep plans and products confidential and internal, yet at the same time, wants to achieve world domination and penetration of its products to all the world's users. Somewhat inevitable to be in conflict, these goals, especially when you start to have on the order of 100,000 people you hire to be able to take over the world.

And I get the frustration, but not the outrage of executives. You created this human-based organization to power your capitalist (in the best sense) ambitions -- don't imagine that you have full control over it, especially if your past actions have created a culture that doesn't trust your publicly stated intentions fully.

And just to caricature even more, boo-hoo, my problem is that the media got told my huge company is building a phone, but we're not. Cry me a river. It's the greatest injustice humanity has ever experienced.
Should certain crimes be taken less seriously based on who it happens to more often?

The problem with the rape of men is it's never taken seriously or seen as a non-issue because women are raped more often, case in point: your comment
I was at Facebook shortly after this. Zuck was very present in internal comms, regularly posting on the internal Facebook and holding a weekly Q&A. To me it felt transparent and authentic, and I felt aligned with company strategy.

This email was famous, the clickbait subject gave some people a fright, but overwhelmingly people were strongly aligned with the sentiment and spoke about it in a positive way.

Now at another big tech co and I hear from my CEO and CVPs via mainstream news instead of internal channels. I feel very little connection to the culture and have no idea what our strategic direction is.
Right, it's hardly seems problematic. Just the usual cliche. I mean besides changing the world, I'm sure his employees are giving 110% and thinking outside the box and totally being transformational.
Tesla has been disingenuous in its marketing of FSD. FSD is not full self driving. It's barely self driving at all. New Ford, bmw, and Subaru cars have equivalent self driving capabilities to Tesla.

Tesla cannot make a turn at an intersection. That is not FSD.
There is a documentary called Countdown to Zero which makes this point about nuclear bombs.

The film advocates getting rid of all nuclear weapons, which may be naive, but they make a good point: all that you need to create an atomic bomb is a few million dollars, a talented engineer and physicist who would keep their mouths shut, and enough luck not to get caught.

The BoM is essentially:

* HEU: buy it on the black market, high-6/low-7 figures. A lot of fissile material went missing during the dissolution of the USSR, North Korea has productive uranium mines and enrichment capabilities, etc.

* Decommissioned artillery cannon: militaries sell these after rendering them inert, high-5/low-6 figures.

You could make a jury-rigged Bomb by re-commissioning the cannon, capping it with half of your HEU shaped into the end of the barrel, and then firing a slug made out of the other half. That's not as simple as it sounds, and it wouldn't be very efficient, but you would end up with a bang and a lot of fallout.

I think there was a cult that tried it at some point - maybe Aum Shinrikyo? Thankfully, they weren't lucky enough not to get caught.
I interviewed a number of CS profs who worked at DCL in the 60s/70s/80s including H George Friedman, who was one of the few CS dept people who gave PLATO a try and built lessons for his programming students. Also, a full BASIC emulator was written. I think a FORTRAN was too. And definitely a LOGO environment. But as George told me, DCL looked down on CERL. DCL was an IBM shop. CERL was a CDC/CYBER shop. Oil and water.

And it's not about PLATO trying to "gain acceptance" at DCL. Other than George and maybe one or two other profs, nobody was interested. And CERL had its hands full with departments all over campus, and over 1000 terminals all over campus and as far away as Hawaii and Delaware, using the system.

I'm not going to engage anymore with you. I've said my piece and we're done. Good day to you.
TJs also sells Nutella filled bamba
Anti-recruiter prompt injection attack in LinkedIn profile
So did CS officially fail now?
The new technology that claims to solve every single problem of blockchains
The US is in the fortunate position where doing the right thing serves their geopolitical goals. That does happen sometimes. All the more reason to supply Ukraine with a lot of weapons quickly.
And as long as we remember the likelihood/probability of things happening given the context.
Is it though? Who knows how Google has crafted their language and legal loopholes to "technically" delete your data in one way while retaining it in another? And that doesn't even get into things like PRISM.
Yes it is. Try talking to some older folks about the customer service provided by some very large American department stores, ~60 years ago.

But (as the very short article hints at), caring at scale was very much a top priority for the top management at those companies. And they had large staffs of "career" employees devoted to that task.
Perhaps I'll start shitting out gold and we can go back to the gold standard.
The Bitwarden docs warn users about the exact risk this article talks about. https://bitwarden.com/help/unlock-with-pin/
The claim was you'd make 1/5th. Which may have been a wording mistake. I'd believe maybe 20% less in general--which may very well be fine for many people if that's their preference.
Exactly, which is why this headline is misleading and the complaint will probably fail. It says:

"Like Mr. Pichai, other key Google employees, including those in leadership roles, routinely opted to move from history-on rooms to history-off Chats to hold sensitive conversations, even though they knew they were subject to legal holds"

So what? That isn't deleting chat records, it's opting not to create them in the first place. Unless there was some unusually specific court order telling them they were mandated to generate new evidence specifically to convenience the plaintiffs, or the judges decide to create new obligations via case law, Google will simply point out that they aren't under any obligation to forcibly record every employee conversation about a topic from the moment a lawsuit is filed that might involve that topic. Their obligation only extends to letting plaintiffs do discovery over whatever documentary evidence was already created.
Then you probably don’t do science in 2023.
Isn't MSFT a VC?
> why would you let your card leave your sight?

That's the status quo for how those transactions work in the US.

> When could they take a picture, how could they even use the details without our PIN, the whole system isn't buit with trust because that woudl be stupid when it comes to money

The average person with no training can remember 8 uniformly random digits, and an hour of training bumps that up to 20 -- more than enough to recall a credit card and its PIN, even ignoring the immense amount of redundant information in how those are constructed. Plus nearly invisible video feeds are a reality. Plus pass-through broken credit card capture systems are a cheap reality, and one that claims untold billions of dollars at US gas stations, and many multiples of that amount at european ATMs. Any system that depends on the secrecy of those digits is fundamentally broken, and our payment system does, so it's fundamentally broken. The only reason it doesn't appear that way is that most people don't try to exploit it, and most of the rest leave enough breadcrumbs that after enough 10s of millions of fraud they can be arrested. The remaining few percent of fraud is baked into the prices you see and the taxes you pay.
Oddly, commenting on the age of an account is likely a larger indicator of losing, not winning, an argument.

You're typing your responses on a computer bought with money from investors that ended up with you. Do better.
US companies need to comply with an even more complicated tax structure (due to the existence of state and city taxes). The only difference with the EU is they need to show it in the upfront price, rather than only in the final billed price.
Because some debates are like, "Given the proposition 'x or not x', is x true?"
Criticisms from this article:

>Bitwarden does not warn about this risk…… Bitwarden takes little effort in communicating the risks of choosing a short low-entropy PIN. Currently there is very little information to be found about the PIN in Bitwarden documentation

Bitwarden's help docs on using PINs: https://bitwarden.com/help/unlock-with-pin/.

>Warning: Using a PIN can weaken the level of encryption that protects your application's local vault database. If you are worried about attack vectors that involve your device's local data being compromised, you may want to reconsider the convenience of using a PIN.
> GNU parallel wants to treat it like a requirement of using the software

I have never felt this, and that is not how FOSS works. By definition, they cannot restrict how you use the software. Thus, the citation request is just a request. Hypothetically, you could slander and ruin the author's life (the extreme polar opposite of a citation) and still freely use the software.

This is no different than an author asking users to retweet, post on reddit, etc. Certainly it may be annoying to some, but it does not restrict how you may use or fork the software.

One could fork GNU parallel to remove the copyright, and let the democratic public user base vote on whether they care enough to use your fork, or if they think you (or the other author) are an asshole, etc.
The remediation is human and pw/pin policy: make sure users pick a good pin and that they're not using it anywhere else.
Keyboard and mouse are the opposite of efficient - they are an extremely slow interface. Let's say you saw a person and want to transfer his image from your brain to a computer - how long would that take with a keyboard and mouse. An efficient brain computer interface should be able to do it in a second.
It isn't an attempted dunk on US Navy nuclear, it's an attempt to say that humans failed to run a nuclear reactor in Antarctica, why think one will be any easier on the moon? The crew is way more expensive, spare parts are not available, tools are not available, there's no bulldozers or other way to move 12,000 tons of contaminated rocks away from the area like they had to do in the Antarctic, plus solar is so much better these days than the 1960s and the moon has no atmosphere to get in the way of it.
Why Credit Suisse ‘Coco’ Bonds Are Causing So Much Anxiety
The average engineering shop doesn't have what it takes to safely machine fissile material. It's actually quite hard - unless you don't care about irradiating and poisoning your workers, and possibly risking a squib explosion.
> I will never be Japanese because my skin is white.

for some reason i find this statement kind of strange... are you saying "japanese" to mean "fit in as japanese" or "japanese nationality"?

> and as long as you speak English without an accent, there is an assumption that you are American.

n=1 but this has not been my experience....

> and speak fluent Japanese

without accent?
Less true than it used to be. Here's Stanford's duplicate diploma ordering portal.[1] It's a big deal, there's a lot of verification, and it costs at least US$100.

There's an easier way.[2] "But now it's easier than ever to purchase a fake copy of your diploma. At Same Day Diplomas, we provide high-quality copies of your college diploma. Our products are crafted to match the design, seals, and color of your university's diploma."

Which is why it's become much harder to get a duplicate real one.

There's online third party diploma verification, and it probably works about as badly as most other online credential services.

[1] https://studentservices.stanford.edu/diplomas/how-do-i-order...

[2] https://samedaydiplomas.com/blogs/news/oops-i-lost-my-colleg...
Is this based on political experience there?

My view from the outside was that it's really similar to climbing the ladder in a corporation, mouth all the platitudes but only suckers believe them.
The Atlassian engines stalled long ago but somehow they continue to defy gravity. Bitbucket is years behind GitHub. The last time I used it, it was extremely unreliable. Jira is an ugly and laggy mess. Confluence is crap.

How are they still alive?
It's listed there ... as "owned by the Navy" and "The PM-3A was not operated by the Army, but was under the NAVFAC (Naval Facilities Engineering Command), the shore-based power division of the US Navy."
Finding the right balances is hard but the fundamental perspective is that the relationships matter, not the work.

You have two important partnerships- the extremely extremely important one with your wife and child-to-be, and the extremely important- less so than with your family but still extremely important- with your team. Both are going to need attention and support.

All relationships- marriages and teams- are unique and there are lots of templates and patterns that work for some and not for others. My suggestion would be to start with your wife and work together on what she is going to need and what of you she can spare- and then go to the team with- here is what I will be able to bring, let's talk about what else this team is going to need. The team is small but still larger than the pair in your marriage and there may be more capacity, capability, generosity than you are currently aware of.

I personally have been in multiple of these places- on a small team with a leader who was needed elsewhere (for triplets!); in a wonderful marriage with an incredible capable wife who wanted both lots of babies and to succeed at work and needed me for a time to lead at home; which then took me away from teams that needed me but then were able nevertheless to succeed with more targeted contributions.

Prioritize the relationships, not the work. Good luck.
Much ado about the obvious.

I don't use BW's PIN. Using a loong passphrase.

If others want convenience with 12345, it's all them.
Nothing in the existing research suggests this to be the case.

It is important to understand, we don't help you to fall asleep. This isn't an insomnia device. We increase the efficiency of deep sleep specifically, and it is most effective on people who already have lower/less deep sleep.
”Repeat the task, with a more pleasant bedside manner.”
Google security vulnerability requires toggling option that no longer exists
If the US gov collected taxes in BTC and funded its budget in BTC and borrowed its loans in BTC and paid that interest in BTC,

Then the US gov would have the ability to control the circulating supply of BTC.

Think of it this way, BTC caps out, then the US gov HODLed 50% of all BTC for an uncertain amount of time (call it a decade). The rest of the world starts to take risks accordingly and make investment strategies based on “no possible inflation, because BTC”.

After a decade+ of BTC HODL policy the US gov decides to release 5% it wouldn’t be “printing BTC” but it would still certainly be “quantitative easing” and the extra supply of BTC would result in very much the same inflation as we see today.

There is no scenario where the largest governments of the world cannot directly control the supply of circulating money! (Which is the only money that really matters).
everyone knows laws dont apply to The Klepts
And yet, it's legal to make a phone call and discuss these matters for hours. Lawyers talk on the phone all the time, for exactly this reason.

You could require transcripts and recordings of all conversations, just in case something pertains to litigation. But this is an obviously bad move from privacy, ethical, and efficiency view points.

The question is whether we want to allow written media which have equal footing / similar properties to phone calls.
neuroscientists and sleep doctors?
I don't have a side in the whole crypto vs fiat war but I do wonder why HN is so anti-crypto (maybe it's just classic position speak). Re the "people who held significant amounts of bitcoin from early on would become billionaires by having provided zero value" - isn't that true to people who held Google stock very early on? what was their value?

Also, I would say inflationary token vs deflationary token is not clear what is better because it is actually highly depends on the time in history. lot's of things changed in the last 100 years and we might be entering a world where there is no need for inflationary token - For example let's say the earth is over-populated and there is going to be a decline in birth and total population - this on it's can mean we don't necessarily need an inflationary token as we don't need to build more infrastructure, buy more things and so on....
There were already smartphones like BlackBerry and Danger. None of them were "the iPhone".
Unless blocking brutes by IP, this creates a DoS to legitimate users.
China is what's called an endemic corruption environment, the government can't just make things happen even if they want to.

At best they can focus on the life threatening stuff like baby formula and the rest is left to the market.
It's perfectly possible to build a chat system that never creates any logs or recordings. Their chat system doesn't make recordings and then immediately delete them if you're chatting "off the record".

Now, plaintiffs lawyers will presumably try an argument like yours but if they succeed it's not obvious why it wouldn't immediately require all meetings of all employees to be videoed and recorded in perpetuity (as a company like Google always has hundreds of in flight lawsuits), nor is it obvious why that wouldn't extend to meetings where all the participants are in the same room and thus don't need a video call at all - perpetual 24/7 surveillance.
> Resident Alien - I think that’s how USCIS calls people who do intend to stay but not immigrate

Resident alien is a general term (not specific to the US) for someone who permanently resides in a country without citizenship; it is also an IRS tax term for someone who is either a permanent resident alien or who meets the “substantial presence test” so that they are treated as residents for tax purposes.

A permanent resident alien is another term for someone with a green card, which is for people who intend to (often, already have) immigrated before they qualify for naturalization.
choosing a sex partner is stealth eugenics
Precisely. I think people should consider the "v4" in "ChatGPT 4" as more like "0.4 alpha".

We're very much in the "early days" of experimenting with how LLMs can be effectively used. The API restrictions enforced by OpenAI are preventing entire categories of use-cases from being tested.

Expect to see fine-tuned versions of LLaMA run circles around ChatGPT once people start hooking it up like this.
Jira. Who else has the complexity of Jira?
The reason why we have a human court system is that Judges don't have to be naive readers. The justice system doesn't do the:

"Oh darn! You got me in a technicality! Not recording isn't the same as deleting!"

Instead the judge is going to ask if it was obvious the information was required to be preserved and if it was, then why Google did not preserve it.

"Ah but there was nothing to preserve because..." is not a clever retort, it's a fast track to a contempt charge.

If you are under a hold, you are under a hold.
Literally all of those layers including the VP could be replaced right now.

All those jobs do is push emails rewording other emails to other people pushing email.

I feel like eventually every company will have a single a figurehead that’s fed instructions but believes it’s original thought and is told by the AI what a great idea they just had all day long.

A bit like the Captain from Wall-E.