skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the allegation is that Block doesn't check, it's that the check is vulnerable to fraud. If Block rolled out a better verification system next week, based on off-the-shelf components, would they no longer be a fraud?
Whatever the size of a pattern you find, you cannot tile the plane with translations (just translations) using that pattern: you need to rotate it. The definition is just that.

So, there are "patterns" (as a matter of fact, the elementary tile is repeated infinitely on the tiling) but you cannot fill the plane with mere translations of one.

See: https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m308-02b/projects...
Mill CPU never existed in silicon, so there are questions to that. But IIRC Ivan said that they didn't do anything that compilers didn't do already for DPSs. He specifically mentioned that they don't want to be like Itanic.
https://archive.is/RW7Wy
Would someone do that, go on the internet and tell lies?
Time to go see an audiologists.
You just use whichever virtualization tool you like. Boxes is one that ships with gnome on many distros, so it is easy to recommend.
Nothing hard at all, I think you just confused a recommendation for a requirement.
Inspecting a powerplant does not grant you any actual influence beyond powerplant inspection. Defining the ethics of AI will potentially let you influence almost all aspects of our lives.
What feels weird that the top comment is by someone who didn’t even know the company changed its name 2 years ago.

Can we do better? HN could be so much better.
Putting out a low-quality report?
I don't know about the US.

In Europe inflation was driven by oil prices in the 70s because industry production was based on oil energy.

Europe switched to natural gas for industrial production.

Because natural gas costs were driven by long term contracts, not the spot market, it did not increas in 2008.

When because of the invasion natural gas costs spiked, despite long term contracts with Russia because companies needed to get out of them and buy natural gas on the market, inflation spiked.
Haha, thanks.

I think:

1. That an AGI which was significantly more intelligent than humans could destroy us if it chose

2. That it's possible that such an AI could be created in the next decade or two, given the current trajectory.

And so, I think we definitely need to be careful, and make sure we don't blunder into the AI apocalypse.

However, there are several further assertions which are often made which are part of the "we're all doomed" scenario:

3. There would be no signs of "misalignment" in not-quite-as-capable AGIs.

4. Even if there were signs of misalignment, that at least some AI research groups would continue to press on and create a mis-aligned super-intelligence

5. Even if we learned how to align not-quite-as-capable AGIs, those techniques wouldn't transfer over to the super-intelligent AGIs.

It's possible all of those things are true, but a) 3 and 5 are not true of biological general intelligences b) give our experience with nuclear weapons, I think 4 is likely not to be true.

So re number 3: When you have severely "mis-aligned" people -- sociopathic humans who end up performing atrocities -- there are usually signs of this tendency during development. We have far more license to perform "what-if" testing on developmental AIs; I think it very likely that if AGI-1 or AGI-2, who are "only" as good at planning as a 7-year-old, have severe mis-alignment risks, that this would be detectable if we're looking for it: that if it's likely to destroy the world, and we try to give it opportunities to destroy the world in a simulation, that it will show its colors.

Re number 4: Many world leaders thought scientists were over-reacting about the risk of nuclear weapons, until they saw the effects themselves. Then everyone began to take the risk of nuclear war seriously. I think that if it's demonstrated that AGI-1 or AGI-2 would destroy the world if given a chance, then people will start to take the risk more seriously, and focus more effort on methods to "align" the existing AGI (and also further probe its alignment), rather than continuing to advance AGI capabilities until they are beyond our ability to control.

Re number 5: Children go through phases where their capabilities make sudden leaps. And yet, those leaps never seem to cause otherwise well-adjusted children to suddenly murder their parents. If we learn how to do "inner alignment" on AGI-2, I think there's every reason to think that this basic level of alignment will continue to be effective (at least at the "don't destroy the world level") for AGI-3; at which point, if we've been warned by AGI-2's initial mis-alignment, researchers in general will be motivated to continue to probe alignment and hone mis-alignment techniques before going on to AGI-4 and so on.

There's a lot of "if"s there, both on what humans do, and what the development of AGI looks like. We should be careful, but I think if we're careful, there's a good chance of avoiding catastrophe.
With the torrent of live service games failing spectacularly over the last several years, the Economist is here to tell you about why making good games is bad for business, that single-player is dead, what a 'live service' is (now and looking ahead to 2017), and the infinite money circle powering some of the sexual predators at Ubisoft.

Also,

> Developers used to finish making a game and go on holiday.

Citation needed? Maybe they meant: "holiday" /s/s/s

I assume 'developers' refers to the people who make the game, as the company can't really "go on holiday". With that in mind, developers used to, and still do, after (nearly dying) shipping a game, get laid off.
Who elected you to do… whatever it is you do? Probably someone hired you because they thought you’d be good at it. Or maybe you were good enough and cocky enough that you just went and did it, and sold the result.

Either way I’d imagine they’re in their roles for the same reason.
My point was 3 words. Which one do you not understand?
Technically, Trump did ban TikTok in the sense that he filed an executive order on August 21, 2020. But before it went into effect, Biden signed an executive order revoking the Trump administration ban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%E2%80%93TikTok_co...
Yes, if Uber was forced to use the government cab cartel, then it wouldn't be better than the taxis. The entire point is they made taxis that actually work by getting around the taxi cartel.
yeah, one day is not going to cut it. Full immersion requires a lot more time. Also with a single day at once location, you risk being seen as "the special guest" and treated differently, while this kind of thing would smooth out over the course of several weeks.
"For this new analysis, ATLAS physicists revisited its data collected in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV (corresponding to 4.6 fb-1, also used in ATLAS’ previous measurement). Researchers employed improved statistical methods and refinements in the treatment of the data, enabling them to reduce the uncertainty of their mass measurement by more than 15%."
https://archive.ph/RW7Wy
Let’s kill book publishers instead. Free publishing for everyone.

https://laniakeabooks.org/
This. I am definitely worried about the implications of AI, but just like algorithmic advertising and television before it, it’s amplifying something that’s already out there, not creating an ontologically different threat.

The issue is that quantity can become a quality.
Try this:

main {
filter: saturate(7) grayscale(10) contrast(3);
}
I don't think you have anyone to blame if you give your phone with a logged in money app to a stranger who is begging for money.
Banks siding with Silicon Valley firms and not the bank customer is common. Try blocking a vendor that tricked you into signing up. Bank won't help.
It only repeats for a little bit.
I saw this effect directly in Eve Online. In the early days there was a lot of experimenting with how exactly to organize these large groups of players. Some groups tried democracy of some flavor or another, others dictatorship. Dictatorship easily won out in the end.

Most "dictators" in Eve actually end up being pretty good at their job, because it is a cutthroat market, and the most precious currency is players willing to fly for you and they can easily leave to join another group should you piss them off and not take care of them.
Just looked through worldcat and not a single US library has it in the children section. Even the publisher specifies that it is intended for readers +16. Also only like two handfuls of libraries have it in their collections.

Either you have been bamboozled by polarizing lies or you are making up those lies yourself.
While this doesn't look great, it doesn't really seem up to the standards of past Hindenburg reports. Block's main product is credit card processing and point-of-sales, for retailers, and they have a reputation for being the easiest to use and deal with.

I could easily believe that they are not doing their KYC work and that the feds will soon make them do so, but it doesn't really seem to add up to the company being a "fraud".

Which, to be fair, the Hindenburg headline doesn't say, it's "Block: How Inflated User Metrics and “Frictionless” Fraud Facilitation Enabled Insiders To Cash Out Over $1 Billion". Facilitating fraud (by not doing enough KYC, etc.) rather than the company being a fraud.
You're using FAANG too liberally. Accenture is not focused on selling to tech companies, they have existed since forever (they were a branch of Andersen Consulting). Their market is "big companies", any big companies.
> Does anyone know why the big companies didn't scale back their TVC (Temporary, Vendor or Contractor) usage before laying off full-time staff that take an order of magnitude more resources to hire and fire?

> I was under the impression that flexibility was one of the big reasons for TVC use, much easier to scale up or down, akin to cloud computing resources.

I think many companies use them for flexibility, but my impression is that social media companies (of which Google is one) have other reasons, such as protecting their FTEs from the soul-killing aspects of content moderation.
That is entirely on you if you give away your phone to those kids. I would think they would just run away with it
Other services efile for you, why would this be any different
> Solidarity and diversity are opposing forces.

This sentence is close to brain cancer. Diversity means accepting others amongst yours despite your differences, it's the essence of solidarity.

>But diversity is now a secular religion whose tenets are ever changing to keep everyone divided.

What you are referring to is the ever changing propaganda theater of "left" vs right, which pictures a caricature enemy stereotype, the simple minded can easily hate. "Look here a radical transgenderist!" and suddenly the whole concept of diversity is subject to scrutiny.

I think, the lesson you need to learn is not getting triggered by pink hair.
Show HN: API to Generate SQL on Top of Cloud Data Warehouses
Here is the query to create a segment of users who have abandoned their cart in Snowflake.

select * from users where "email" in (select "email" from (select events.* from (select * from cart_events where "tag" = 'added_to_cart') as events join (select "email", max("event_ts") as max_event_ts from (select * from cart_events where "tag" = 'cart_checkout') group by "email") as otherEvents on events."email" = otherEvents."email" where (events."event_ts" > otherEvents.max_event_ts and timestampdiff(minute, events."event_ts", current_timestamp()) > 2880) union (select * from (select * from cart_events where "tag" = 'added_to_cart') as events where "email" not in (select "email" from (select * from cart_events where "tag" = 'cart_checkout')) and timestampdiff(minute, events."event_ts", current_timestamp()) > 2880)))

But can non-technical folks write this query on top of Snowflake/BigQuery?

We launched our Audiences feature to solve this problem for non-technical users who still rely on the data warehouse. Here is our YC Launch

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHo-castled-build-audiences-on-your-data-warehouse-without-sql

As we talked to more developers, we realised that many are trying to build products on top of their data warehouse for their customers or internal teams. But there is no easy way to make the data warehouse accessible to users who cannot write SQL.

To solve this problem, we are launching Audiences API, which enables developers to build products that generate user segments on top of data warehouses without SQL and then sync them to external destinations like Google Ads, Salesforce, etc.

Here is how the product will look once integrated with the Audience API.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yocbTTr-twU
Did the Government Start a Financial Crisis in an Attempt to Destroy Crypto?
This is only going to be remotely effective if the workers aren't aware he's CEO. Heck even the franchise-owner is going to have the store cleaned probably, ask his friends to come by and compliment the store.
It means reinventing the wheel is going to yield a square. But not just a square but a new and exciting square where many people who once had money no longer have money because it was transferred to another pool of liquidity and those poor souls still left outside in the cold will not be made whole.
I sometimes think that the absence of experience is an issue.

Many of these Jurassic-scale disasters are ones that make me wonder "Were there any adults in the room, when this decision was made?"

I suspect the answer is frequently "No."
Processes like that work for bespoke things like the mars rovers and satellites. But for a mass produced product you will quickly run into a scale and storage issue. Ford is planning on making 150000 F150 Lightnings so around 400+ per day. With ever step expected to be completed in a couple minutes you are going to have to track tens of thousands of videos clips per day and store and archive them. Then for recall work you will have store the videos for around 15 years. The cost to maintain all of that infrastructure and storage is most likely not worth it.
> One former customer service employee estimated that 60%-70% of the accounts they reviewed during a typical shift would have more than a dozen linked accounts. Another two former employees estimated 40% and 75%, respectively.

I don't think this necessarily means that 40%-75% of the accounts on Block's books were fake (as I took it to first mean from the summary). Could it just mean that the accounts that were set up for review based on high risk activity were predominantly fraudulent (as they should be)?
I read it as "Cthulhu" on the first pass.
I think that's how pretty much all of the high-performance desktop & server CPUs operate now.
> I'm not sure any of the fundamentals have changed in 40 years

Really? He's holding forth on GPT and similar technologies. Those represent dramatic changes from the state of the art 40 years ago.

P.S. what makes you think I haven't read his work? I certainly haven't read all of it, but the significant portion that I have left me...underwhelmed.
Was it even possible to write Transmeta-native code?
Yeah, but don't just let him work in the Seattle suburbs, drop him in random Starbucks around America. Let him work a shift in St. Louis.
Why even make any statement? That would seem more suspicious to me.
How does it with with a stylus on Windows since Fall Creators Update?

Since that update, and in Windows 11, styluses scroll, rather than select/mark in my experience.

Do you know of a web browser which allows a stylus to work as it has since Windows for Pen Computing?
Congress is also being lobbied by TikTok. I've noticed three main opposition points here.

- It's to protect US tech giants

- It's Sinophobic

- Privacy laws for all tech would be preferable

These all deflect from the reason there is a hearing today: Concerns regarding the handling of US user data by a large company with ties to the Chinese communist government.
https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play
That is a great job - well done from a grateful Nigerian.
Title is accurate to the piece, but the article itself is sensational garbage.
Their work is certainly disruptive but there is no way to tell the world that the emperor is naked that is not disruptive. We seem to suffer bouts in collective delusions and eventually one has to snap out of it.
I think it should be possible to build a sentient AI, but it hasn't been done yet. What remains to be seen is whether our current techniques will be suitable for making that self-retraining process efficient, or if we'll need to find better math to use as the basis for it. Part of what makes the brain so useful is that it fits in our skull, and is fast enough to learn in real time.

But, either way, I think that's what's on the line for people who disagree about how to use the word "intelligence." They mean it as a synonym for sentience, and the people arguing against them are using it differently. Before we can evaluate the truth of an argument, we should first agree to use words the same way.
What a fantastically enjoyable read. I really want to understand how this question arises and what's actually being tested and invented in coming to the solution to this. And, side note, this is absolutely going to be the strategy I use to paint one of my office walls.
HN ranks newer comments near the top for a few minutes so everyone gets a chance at visibility. So don't worry, in a few minutes I'm sure my amateur take will sink down to its rightful place.
Did Hindenburg ever reported Fraud and Scandals by Credit Suisse?
It's not good in absolute terms, but when you look at their headcount… wow
Thanks for the submitting my new website! I'm the creator -- well you know that since we chatted on twitter! I was going to submit it here once I have some analytics results up. Right now I figured it wouldn't be of super interest.
until the machine needs to run or think and "characterize sets of data" won't make it.

being able to answer based on a probabilistic assumption is not that great in general, they do it fast on a frozen knowledge base, it can be useful, sometimes is surprisingly good, but not that great in general.

When I asked for the 3 best wood shops near me it replied with a shop that does not sell wood, a shop that does not exist and a broken website of a former now closed wood shop.

Now can an AI train another AI to become "smarter" than it is?

It can't.

Can an AI train another AI to become better at "characterize sets of data" than it is?

It can't.

An unassisted AI is as helpless as the unassisted person, but can't even rely on the intelligence of the species.
They could do something like in Undercover Boss [1] so that employees (allegedly) don't know the person working there is the CEO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_Boss_(British_TV_se...
> I've gone through it fully, not just the tl;dr. It's not overblown. They're not saying Block is doing anything illegal, only Block is valued much too highly.

Hindenberg is accusing Block of committing fraud. That's an allegation of criminal activity.

Block may be overvalued. I probably wouldn't buy it, and have my own beef with how Block operates.
This might be a sensitive question but I wonder if something like this would work in the United States? With all of the fears of election interference why not trust but verify?
Part of the value prop of Accenture is that they employee inexpensive foreign labor. They have 300,000 employees in India alone[0]. If those people are working at $20,000 a year, that's 300,000 * 65,000 = $19.5 billion in yearly profit from those employees alone. And India is a relatively expensive country these days; their margins in Vietnam and Thailand are probably even greater.

[0] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
That's what I thought, but what's different now is that someone's about to make a photo-realistic gaming simulation and shoot a movie in it. From the article:

> “somebody’s going to invest in a [gaming] simulation that’s photo-realistic. And then they’re going to shoot a movie in it,” says one Hollywood executive. “It will happen. And it’s probably not too far away.”
I worked at a small (in Amazon scale - still the largest in the country) home grocery delivery service and everyone pre corona had to spend their 2 first weeks in the warehouse. Everyone had done it, including managers and c-level
That's way too much time. More than enough to allow some disgruntled workers to plan out and execute an assassination of the CEO.
> I just wished one could turn off the colors.

It's not too hard to scrape the JavaScript out of the page. You could figure out where they set the colors and change that part.

I also wonder if you can do that on https://mathigon.org/polypad/8kVqVH2Mor6JTQ

There's also https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/, but sadly I didn't see anything like a github link to the above demo.
> I love the terseness, reusability, and typing of React hooks, but hooks have too many weird edge cases (this article, dependency list, order of hooks, etc) versus class components, whose design was simple and elegant.

You know, I kind of agree and personally prefer Vue (that does hooks better in some ways, as well as has a simple store solution called Pinia that's nice to use), but I have to say that these docs themselves are great.

Even if there is some awkwardness about using React and it needs some getting used to, to be able to use it effectively, I think these docs are definitely a step in the right direction and offer concrete examples! The code is mostly clear, the text explains everything bit by bit - we could use more of that in our industry for sure.
An injunction against the order was granted by the courts, it would have probably been struck down by a judgement even if Biden didn’t rescind Trump’s order. Executive orders just can’t do those kinds of things.
But in one sense this is actually 2 shapes that are mirror images. It's still really cool, but I don't think it is ultimately what we've been looking for. As proof that it's not, we all know that a paper presenting one that doesn't need its mirror image to tile the plane aperiodically would still be a big dea.
Yeah, sure, why not. There's no reason for this to exist and yet, there's also absolutely no reason for it to not exist.

The creation itself is a level of performance art.
Again, the bank account balance is not the point of what I'm saying. See the sibling comment I replied to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35270550
Historically I think they all did around the Christmas rush but probably not so much any more.
> Look at what your local library does now, and you’ll find far much more than ever has nothing to do with physical books or even books at all!

And they're better for it too. My local library has a makerspace in the basement, with 3D printers, multiple sound studios, computers with Adobe suite (and other things) on them, embroidery machine, sublimation printer, and soon to get a Glowforge laser cutter. It's great.

And I have another friend in charge of library events for young adults (20s/30s). She hosts geek movie nights, board/video game nights, "how to adult" sessions (like buying your first home, money management, etc), craft nights, adult coloring, open mic nights, trivia nights, cookie decorating, karaoke, "art therapy" nights (actually one of the more popular ones), etc.

If you're not in the habit of checking the events and facilities at your local library as you assume it's all book related, give it a try. It might not be anymore.
Yeah I am tired of hearing about it. Can’t wait for the hype cycle to die down.
It's still likely 2-5x what the employee is paid. Not bad, at large scale.