skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reverse of this: in my early days in tech support for a major router manufacturer, we were told the CEO would occasionally call in posing as a customer, and agents had been fired for being rude or offering poor support. To this day I don't know if it was true or not, but it scared enough people to think Big Brother was always watching.
Your reply might get me to pay OpenAI to use GPT4 lol
Humanity did not deserve the Frankfurt School.
It's a nice gimmick that gives some positive press coverage.

Only in a very dysfunctional company will this lead to any meaningfull improvement.
Yeah, but you still need alerts to see if your lambda breaks. But yes, the managed solutions save a lot of time and effort.
>Corporations, especially banks, have been co-opted by the government and used for enforcing their whims. This is one example of that.

I think it's the opposite way around really. Banks aren't allowed to fail thanks to their pet government since 2008 at least.
Can you give me more detail about what physical characteristics define a "dangerous youth" in Baltimore?
Ross literally hired hitmen to kill someone who owed him money.

The fact that he didn’t know it was an undercover agent (pro tip if you hire a hit man and you aren’t customarily in ‘that life’ you are always hiring an undercover agent) is irrelevant.

He still required and received ‘proof’ of the deed, a photo of the aftermath, staged of course.

He was even cold blooded with the ‘collateral damage’ of the intended victims family being home when the hit was to go down.

All this was taken into account at sentencing.

The attempt to whitewash Ross into a sympathetic internet hero figure like Aaron Swartz is transparent and wrong.
Just for fun - can one of you rocket surgeons calculate the probability that an AGI already exists and has distributed itself sufficient throughout the internet that it hasn't been detected? How would one set up this calculation and what is the result?
You could do worse, sounds like a retreat. :-)
The delinquents at my high school commonly repurposed Condoms as balloons and had them laying around the school as a prank. And condoms were never free at my school.

Just blow them up with your breath, tie up the ends and watch people get disgusted as you leave them around.

I mean, yeah, delinquents are gonna be a pain in any case but free anything is just asking for trouble.
Any CEO doing this for the right reasons - I.e., to help ensure the product is good - would whip the marketing department right into shape and tell them to keep a lid on it.
LLMs are indifferent to the truth. They just "make shit up", it is true sometimes and other times it isn't.

Truth is the most problematic concept in philosophy, go see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

to see how bad it is in logic and mathematics, go into the social world and I'd say that introducing the concept of "truth" itself erodes the truth.
Same old same old. I don't want a tiling WM, thanks. I'm a big boy, I've been using WIMPs for 35 years, and I can manage my own windows very nicely with a few keystrokes. I don't need a tool to do it for me and fail to read my mind.

I also don't want a bloody great horizontal panel across the top of the screen wasting 1cm of vertical space on a widescreen display. No it does not help if it's visually broken up into separate islands: it's dead to me. Wasted space. Either use it, and you'd better find a remarkably good set of uses for it, or give it back.
OpenAI Confirms Leak of ChatGPT Conversation Histories
A narrow little breakaway state that used to be and/or still is part of Moldova. It borders Moldova and Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. In my city in the US, police have basically said outright they won't respond to a host of petty crime offenses unless there is a severe injury. I was in a blatant hit and run, and police told me they wouldn't respond unless there was an injury, and to just contact my insurance. The obvious morale hazard to this is that there is literally zero downside to running, which basically has resulted in a level of traffic lawlessness that was unheard of 15 years ago. Even with clear dashcam video cops will do nothing.
Fasting is a real option. Sure, not everyone will practice it. But it remains the best way to avoid food poisoning and should be recognized as such. /s

While technically true, asking people to actively suppress biological motivations doesn't work.
Yeah, John Oliver just did a Last Week Tonight on Timeshares. He goes over that in the video. Also there are scam companies that exist that promise to take your money to help you exit your timeshare agreement, then disappear. So you get double-scammed. And somehow this is technically legal?

Link to the Last Week Tonight video: https://youtu.be/Bd2bbHoVQSM
I guess we're ignoring the part where I explained I've been running my own digital library for the public (for almost 20 years now) and how the original article is about digital lending and how publishers are trying to kill it.

But re: building a physical library, most of us (myself included) don't even have the capital to own the places where we live. Buying (or renting) another space is totally out of the question. Tiny libraries (essentially large mailbox size) in people's yards are cool and I've put some books into them before.

Saying "Just build a library." is out of touch. And even if it was a community project (time is money) that succeeded we'd have the publishers come in with legal attacks to try to shut down digital lending.
It's obviously hexagonal (which includes triangular) just by looking at the tiles and the angles of the edges.
> it sounds like you would struggle to define communism if pressed

Having read the Communist Manifesto, I think that description of me is both totally fair and would also apply to Karl Marx.

Darn thing read like an unhinged run-on blog rant.
A breakaway part of Moldova, broadly aligned with Russia and/or the former USSR
ESG as a concept is fucked. Creating a scale for each of E, S or G is challenging. Adding a mixing methodology on top is insane. How many tonnes of carbon is a separate CEO/chairmanship worth? Is child labor four or five times worse than super-voting stock?
I am hesitant to call it fraud yet, but the situation you are describing isn't what the parent comment is talking about.

The issue isn't that it was executed at a higher price than expected or that it was "rounded up" in general. The issue is that for a single completed transaction, in one place (general app UI) it is reported to have executed at one price, and in another place (the data export process) it is reported at a different price.
> If you piss off one bank, bank with someone else; if you piss off every bank, you screwed up.

Everything is a matter of degree, that's not a counter-argument. The issue here is that "social consequences" are a matter of individual relationships, material life consequences are generally a matter of policy. If you find yourself afoul of a banking policy that banks as a group have chosen to take to discriminate against you for lawful speech, you find yourself having material life-altering consequences for your speech.

You are imaging a scenario in which someone is unbanked because one bank rejected them, when in fact the lived reality of the unbanked in the US is that they are unbanked because /all banks/ reject them, or at least all banks they have access to in their community. And it's not as if they've taken specific and directed actions against those banks, in many cases it can be as simple as having priors, which makes it both harder to get and maintain employment, as well as harder to impossible to get banking services. Nearly 10% of the American adult population has prior felony convictions, but once you serve your time it is morally reprehensible to mark you with a scarlet letter that prevents you from getting basic services required to exist in society, like banking.

So sure, someone screws up? Do we damn them forever for screwing up? Is MERE SPEECH enough to damn someone forever? Because that's what we're talking about here. That's the "muh consequences" argument you're making by implication, even if not explicitly.

The way you imagine "consequences" working, is not how it actually works. Your delusion is not reality, and reality is a harsh mistress. We are accountable for the arguments we make and the policy positions we espouse to their actual reality, not to our imagined outcomes.

Be brave enough to just say that you don't believe in freedom of speech, and that you're okay if 10-20% of the population ekes out an abject miserable existence or dies due to their belief system or utterances, because that's the reality of "muh consequences".
That seems like a leap. How do you know who is downvoting or why?

I did not downvote, but my opinion of your comment is at best it doesn't add to the discussion. At worst, it's flame-bait. I mention this only because these are potential reasons for downvote as well.

It's all speculation though, because I too have no knowledge of who is downvoting you and why.
I would created as a Saas with:
- multi language. Default translated using deepL and then a translator can check and review using a WYSIWYG editor.
- alternative html SEO tag for Google.
- Tailwind syntax template
> Merely changing the card number wont work because bank updates vendors with the new card. I've asked but they they have to update vendors, i don't understand why though.

They update vendors because most people who get a replacement card with a new number have way more subscriptions that they want to keep going than they have subscriptions that they want to drop but for which the procedure for cancelling was too complicated to time consumers.
Is your assertion that because there have been other hyped things in the past, that nothing which is spoken of positively will ever actually be useful? Because you're gonna miss some pretty big stuff with those sort of glasses on. You know what else was hyped? Most everything you use today.
Sometimes people use something and are absolutely blown away by it and are excited to talk about it. Not everything is 100% fake yet, I promise.
Cancel culture is just excommunication for heresy with better PR.
Scroll works just fine for me.
> I would argue that if you work for a company like Apple you're basically doing it wrong by not leveraging the campus amenities.

The last thing that I want to do on my off time is hang out at work. It doesn't matter how nice the amenities are -- I have a life to lead.
this looks good, seems useful for hyper local images
Arctic Ichthyosaur Should Not Exist
As far as I am concerned, subscriptions are an unreasonable hassle. You need to keep track of what subscriptions are active and where you can manage them. And when subscriptions are running, a “did I remember cancelling all the stuff I’m currently not using” is always in the back of my mind somewhere. That’s just annoying noise that I can easily avoid by not using subscription services.
The couple of people I personally know that have worked at Amazon warehouses says they're pretty well ran in comparison to other warehouses.

And I know personally that my experience working in a small-business warehouse back when I was young was absolutely garbage. Smaller businesses rarely get any news coverage, but I worked in a warehouse with zero ventilation, no safety training, no safety equipment, nobody trained in logistics, broken and improper lifting equipment, etc. This is par for the course at a workplace with zero outside scrutiny.

Amazon warehouses are at least run by professionals in logistics, have proper safety procedures, equipment, training, etc. As I understand, the 'bad' part is the volume. But at the end of the day, even a well-run warehouse job is a warehouse job. It is physical work.
It follows the same playbook too

> Google Automotive Services (GAS) is a collection of applications and services that automotive OEMs can choose to license and integrate into their in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. For details and access to latest version of GAS applications, reach out to your Google point of contact.
Here again, references and uses of htmx...Man, i really gotta dive into htmx some more...I keep seeing it pop up in so many places (well, at least many places that are showcased on HN, anyway)
Not Enough Fish in the Sea
Imagine what they'll do with a CBDC.
Relativity's 3D-printed rocket fails to reach orbit
What makes science different from everything else?
Where Is the Spring Framework for Go?
How would it look? If I am a state security person with a gun, and I'm asked to invade someone's home, I would expect to get a face-to-face meeting with the person who really believes this is necessary, with the evidence laid out.

If that is too much trouble to ask, then is justice even possible?
True, but they still have the '8 day free trial then £59.99 a year billing' for some apps. My wife installed a design app she wanted to try out, forgot to cancel and was stung last week. For such a high purchase price that feels to me like there should be addition verification step before charging.

Especially since the app was terrible and the reviews were full of people who were similarly charged and unhappy.
Istanbul might not be an awful shout tbh, though if I was wanted internationally and I'd successfully entered somewhere Montenegro I'd probably sit tight for a while. It's a small country, but it's quite nice and you could probably fly under the radar for a while if you kept your nose clean.
I read the entire article, sign up for the launch presentation only to find out only Mac and Linux are supported.
This is not really true. The Chinchilla paper showed that a 4% difference in loss between Chinchilla and Gopher led Chinchilla to blow Gopher out of the water at most tasks, including 30x performance in physics.

Empirically, LLMs have shown to have emergent abilities appear at different loss levels. So, a 10% difference could really matter.
Well Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover combined have almost a $1.5T market cap - so if you think the government is going to put them out of business - you must have a different perception of what the government does than I do...
Technically it isn't deprecated, just discouraged. Note how the page you linked doesn't contain the word "deprecated", and the "alternatives" page linked from that notice states in the introduction that they are considering deprecating it in a future version of Windows.

Given that this notice seems to exist since at least 2012, and neither Windows 10 nor 11 deprecated it, the TxF API will probably outlive whatever software you're writing today.
Not sure what state you live in, but file a complaint with your AG's consumer affairs office.
Altar I March 2023 progress report
That's exactly what we all meant.
You realize this article is about crypto payment processor SpankPay, right?
No problems then.
Space Force Invests in System for Building and Modifying Satellites–In Orbit
Totally false.

It was OK by about 2000, good by 2005-2006.

Then Microsoft threatened to sue, everyone panicked, all the big players did weird phone-like UIs or Mac-like UIs and the little independents who weren't worth suing went off and made half-assed Win9x clones.

Microsoft got what it wanted. It sowed discord, broke up a harmonic community, and drove it to the four winds.

If you've only seen it since 2010 or so, all you've seen is people trying to reassemble the wreckage.
It's not a misleading title, it would be verboten to offer certain subscriptions. Which subscriptions? The tough to cancel ones. There are subscriptions offered today which would not be allowed to be offered.
But a lot of companies could just use it anyway.

Use it now, pay for the consequences later. Not condoning it, just pointing it out.

Things are moving so fast, that in 1-2 months there will be an open source or free version of a GPT-3 level LLM out. At that point they can swap out their illegal LLMs for the free/open one and done.

OpenAI knows this and that’s why they are working so hard in multi-modality - to be able to keep their edge.
You can always put an LRU cache between you and SQLite.

I personally moved from SQLite to a B-Tree based key-value store, and most requests can be serviced in ~500us (that is microseconds). I don't mean a request to the database: I mean a request from the client side that queries the database and fetches multiple objects from it. In my SQLite setup, the same kind of query would take 10ms (that is 20x the time) even _with_ accelerator structures that minimize hits to the DB.

But you can always scale up vertically. You can pay $240/mo for 8 vCPUs with 32GB of RAM. Much cheaper than you would pay for an elastic cloud cluster.
Crypto was a drop in the ocean.

It just not that important.

Something like 3% of the holdings of signature.
I guess if you inherit a timeshare you can just insist that it goes to a sibling. Or, even better, a step-sibling...
These things are insane. I tried to cancel a month-to-month gym membership from a small local gym, and they told me "cancellations become effective on the 1st of the following month" and "require two months advance notice" thereby effectively charging me for three additional months after I gave notice. Apparently, this was all in the agreement I signed, although it was written so unclear, that nobody would even suspect this is how they interpret it.

I told them if you don't cancel it effective right now I am posting this dishonest predatory practice on every social media and review site in town, as well as telling all of my friends I met in here what you are doing, and asking them to please quit in protest. I'll also be doing a credit card chargeback, and a small claims court case to recover the time it takes me to deal with all of this. I will also take action to recover my back membership fees, because they repeatedly failed to maintain equipment in a usable condition, so I didn't get what I paid for. They did concede, and canceled it immediately.
Climate change isn't in dispute. The level of human contribution is heavily disputed, as are a lot of data points and decisions downstream from that.

Discussing it as a monolithic, binary thing that you're either on the right side of or not is counter-productive.
This isn't obvious to me. Why aren't these as important?
This is some very CS high-horse thinking. I work with people who are already using it in ways that meaningfully improve their existing workflows. It isn’t doing anything special to someone who makes a living on computers, but it is doing things they couldn’t do without those people.
Purely from an aesthetics standpoint, I'm guessing its because they have a tendency to form quasi-repeating patterns and long rivers which are generally unsightly (which is subjective):

The long string of horizontal yellow diamonds and upside down blue "darts" in this image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Wa...

Or the red "dominoes" in this image:
https://grahamshawcross.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/13tiling...
So when XSIS (Xerox System Integration Standards?) first started selling MAC address blocks in the early 1980s, I think it cost $1k for 16M mac addresses (168 addresses per penny). So there are only 16M blocks of mac addreses available, and it IS possible to run out, if vendors waste the addresses. I don't know what registration costs from The IEEE right now, but once the equivalent of $16B is spent on mac addresses, we will run out of blocks.

Maybe today they are selling smaller blocks but the MAC is basically divided into 16M blocks (specified by the first 24 bits / 3 bytes) - each with a registered owner or "unassigned") and 16M MACs within the block (the lower 24 bits). That's why you can enter a MAC address into a lookup website and find out who made the NIC (google search "mac address lookup"):

https://aruljohn.com/mac.pl
That's half the story. The other half is that it's under the influence under an antagonistic authoritarian government. If tiktok were a japanese app, this would play out very differently.
Do we know that he was in Montenegro the entire time?
Animal (including human) cloning isn't that difficult.
> Tolkien deserves much more of my money than the author of the cookbook I bought a Costco and never read, but with single purchase they get roughly the same amount of economic value from me.

I think in a thriving society it would be fine for consumers to enjoy a value surplus from the products and services they buy. Having every bit of value a consumer obtains from a product monetized by the producer is a great way to move wealth from the bottom of the economic ladder to the top; it's a society of scarcity and not abundance. How did the popular imagination go from bountiful societies like the one in Star Trek to ideas like "You will own nothing and you will be happy" where you pay rent for everything you use.

It's particularly galling that these ideas are spreading to information products, which would be freely copyable and available to everyone - a public treasure like no other - if not for artificial restrictions on such activities. I remember the "information wants to be free" attitude of hackers in the early 2000s. But now it's ok if we pay per instance for reading a book? Crazy stuff.
Near-ultrasound inaudible remote trojan attacks on voice assistant devices
On the flip side it’s actual useful to have no human customer service in at least domain - mobile service. For example, it’s much more difficult to sim swap a Google Voice number than a T-mobile number, in part b/c it removes social engineering of customer service as an attack vector.
That's almost double the density of Tesla's batteries
I’d like to see them work a month on worker pay, with no access to outside funds, house or car. Get some real empathy going.
> Why should depositors leave more money than they need for short-term working capital in the SVB

> Their managers and shareholders presumably hoped that would be the depositors, by leaving their money in a risky bank earning interest below the risk-free rate, slowly accepting the loss over time. The depositors had no economic incentive to do that though, and they didn't.

That's why the grandparent comment mentioned a large bank buying SVB out. Large banks have diverse, non-business deposits, many of which tend to sit, and not chase yields. People in more precarious positions keep emergency funds in the bank, not in CDs or bonds that they can't easily cash out on a moment's notice, or stocks that are risky. People in even more precarious positions are constantly paying money to the bank at a steep interest to cover their credit card payments. This is really cheap money to the bank (and more easily liquidatable at par than low-yielding bonds), though it has to cover those in the most precarious positions who default.
Yes. And the endowment is also moving off Tides now that it has its own approved 501(c)(3) status.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/26/governance-updates-for...
Totally agree, and than you for posting this. You'll probably get a lot of negative comments from haters, but this is the kind of payment censorship that crypto can solve. The worst thing to happen to cryptocurrency in my opinion was fiat exchanges. It created the ability for the legacy banking world and government to have too much of a voice in something that was designed to be the people's exchange of value. We started losing when actual traditional money was exchanged en masse in a way that was tracked. How is that different than any other trackable digital transaction?
I think a more generous interpretation of his comment would be that "speech protections are only relevant for unpopular speech". Nobody needs freedom of expression to discuss how it's kind of rainy today but hopefully sunny this weekend
I model it as another account in my books. Each subscription has a recurring debit and it gets credited when money actually moves from my bank. It’s a bit annoying if I buy a one-off thing since I have to enter it by hand, but it’s infrequent enough that it’s not horrible.