skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not ready to go full AnCap... but I believe Governments role in society is as a Night Watchman, to prevent violence, fraud, and physical abuse (i.e murder, property theft etc)

I would even go as far as expanding the Lockean proviso to its natural conclusion in the establishment of a Single Tax system around natural resources / property i.e Geolibertianism

In short I believe government should be about 1/10 or even 1/20th of the size we have today. Total government expenditure in the US (State Local and Federal) should be no more than 15-18% of GDP, today federal alone is over 25 approaching 30%
I love the idea, maybe not in wiki colors but with some stylization. One concern thought, how can I know how many tiles of each type I will need?
Bigly difference between a few years at camp jail vs. life or decade + at medium or worse facility. Significant white collar fraud that entails a longer than 10 year sentence would likely be served at a medium, not a camp, due to flight risk. I think Do Kwan would get the latter (assuming he is extradited to US, charged, sentenced, etc.).
FWIW Comcast does this too. Just call them every 11 months and make them give you a better price. It’s dumb as heck and I want to live long enough to see them burn to the ground, but it’s one call I will make as it lets us give the only ISP option at our address in Silicon Valley that can actually give us gigabit download speeds (and capped 40mbit upload with a 1.2tb data cap) less money.

If the rep you talk to won’t do it, hang up and call again.
No kidding! What a bunch of joyless grumps. This tech looks amazing and like it will bring mocap to the game development masses.
Toshiba board accepts Japan Industrial Partners' $15.2B buyout proposal
Read this before you start stacking pull requests
I've read this short story about the singularity years ago, written by a scientist from UW-Madison and although the writing isn't great, it has always stayed with me. Recent developments made me think of it, and the premise is precisely that - the group that develops AGI uses it to control the markets and drives everyone else insane through economic disruption, while staying entirely opaque.

https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/g/mcnrsts.html
LMGTFY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20....
In addition to the social stigma mentioned by others, easy availability is a key factor as well. When I was an RA in college, condoms were available for free from our health center. In addition, RAs also got condoms to give out as needed and we stocked them nightly in our RA office by the front entrance. I let everybody know they could ask for them anytime, privately and without any conversation aside from could I get protection, here ya go, thank you, sure thing. The occasional late night wake-up was worth ensuring folks were safe.
GPT needs to be a codec!
Is this an official Valve project?
Technically they have different product lines for everything. I think it’s a situation where it’s possible but not profitable so they don’t do it.

What you’re describing is a lot of work, when there are higher margins elsewhere. Why would a payment processor build a special system just for porn? If it’s profitable someone will eventually create a product.

My assumption is that they looked into this and decided it wasn’t worth it.

I remember years ago the issue of chargebacks is due to shame and people in relationships denying that they ever did it to appease partners. So it’s pretty hard to be in a business that has to fix shame and relationship problems to succeed. If they could do that, they need to release it as a psychology tool.
I assume it's going to be running on their Twitch and Floatplane channels as usual
OCR is hard, but maybe we can make some real progress on it now with modern AI. A context-smart church records handwriting transcriber would be pretty great.
You and all the current replies are focusing on the wrong problem.

Amazon should not be able to retract a book from your device. Why they did it or whether or not it was a good response aren't relevant. It should be impossible.
100% agree on the breadth. However each flavor should learn from what the others have done. Especially if you write about it, as an educational piece vs just documentation, I'm just expressing my disappointment that known excellent solutions aren't part of the discussion.
Ugh. Logging on to a Zoom meeting that the AIs scheduled for us is the hell we never imagined.
How does it compare to the Starfighter?

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
Free Software During Wartime
Justin Sun is a free man, and its possible he will remain free if he complies (pays a big fine). SEC charging someone with fraud is not the same as the feds indicting him.
That buzzing in the audio doesn't leave a good impression...
They also send out the receipt emails a few days later than the actual charge, so when they charge you you can't immediately go check what the charge was for. I've found that spreadsheeting everything at the end of the month is the easiest way to do it.
This looks amazing! I can definitely see myself using this if I were traveling since I am bad at planning trips. But I have some questions: Is the database used by Tripnotes regularly updated? And if so, what source(s) does it use to get updates on when, let's say, a restaurant shuts down, relocates, changes something on their menu, etc?
Clickbait title. It would ban some of the ingredients. These snacks would almost certainly just stop using those.
With a mobile phone camera without a suit or markers on the face. This makes motion capture available to you and me without renting or building million dollar studios.
Hot take:

The people coexisting with the thing are representative of a new biological groundstate for humanity. You see them as politically undesirable, but like it or not, the damn thing is endemic now.

Welcome to the new world 'omae. You can live in your bubble, or you can pop it and rejoin with everyone else. 90% of the world even with perfect compliance is not capable of sustainably eliminating the damn thing.

I'm betting that you'll see a trend over the next decade toward ongoing adult neurogenesis to compensate for the destructive pressure of the infectious agent, an uptick in metacognitive traits manifesting in the populace, combined with higher incidence of self-reported mental illness, and associated de-stigmatization.

On the whole, there may be some silver lining to it afterall.
I'd really like to see this applied to 3D world modeling. If a landscape were tiled with a textured material in this way, perhaps it would look more natural.
This is laudable, and it will be good if it had a return on investment by identifying opportunities for improvement.

On a personal level, however, it would only work for me if Mr Narasimhan decided he didn't like the taste of the coffee and changed it; I haven't visited a Starbucks in decades because I find their brew quite unpleasant!
Generative Manim
> Most papers aren't free

That's a separate problem. You pay to submit the paper and then people pay to read it.

I really wish we could expand human knowledge without gatekeepers milking both sides
Yes, I have it set up where I can play the tests manually via the .http file or automated via a test suite. In general, I parse the .http file- each ### represents a new test, next line is METHOD URL, next lines are headers, empty space, then request body. Would vary based on test framework, but for mstest, it looks like this:

[DataTestMethod]
[DynamicData(nameof(GetAllHttpTests), DynamicDataSourceType.Method, DynamicDataDisplayName = nameof(GetTestDisplayName))]
public async Task RunHttpTests(string endpoint, string method, string data){...}

To be clear, this is integration testing, not unit. Testing that certain HTTP requests work, not necessarily that they are correct.
> I doubt this because AI has the implicit biases of the training data and the data scientists who trained it.

The nice thing about fallacies is that they flag all biases equally, so the bias claim is irrelevant when it comes to it calling out errors of reasoning (all of which seemed valid to me, regardless of what I actually believe).

> we ran into an insane amount of issues with market segmentation copy and research analysis hitting various limiters

could be a prompt construction issue, which I've found may require some experimentation

> our product risk analysts basically concluded we need to build our own for internal usage

Well, at the current pace of things, you'll probably be able to run all of OpenAI inside your Mac laptop in, ohhhh... 1 month or so
Against the rich people controlling the machines. But yes.
so live data is coming.
Somebody will for sure create a HN Karma mining bot connected to chatGPT. Just a matter of time.
I don't have a source for this information, I think it's something I remember from looking into this technology years ago. I believe actors are instructed to over-act on purpose, because it's better in the end to ham it up a bit to help the tracking system capture fine detail. If you risk the system losing the fine detail in your expression the end result can look a lot worse and reduce the number of useable takes.
>US wants to ban Tik Tok for the same reason that China bans Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

Except once again, PRC doesn't ban US services, they force them to comply with PRC laws that has onerous moderation overheads. And these services refused back when SV was riding high on free speech, aka low cost moderation.

IMO US wants to ban Tik Tok because they can't implement broad content/privacy rules like in PRC. Whether due to tech lobbying, because it's politically difficult, or it's politically inconvenient - US platforms implementing elevated standards will ripple expectations and costs across global markets where they operate.

Also keep in mind that even PRC hasn't tried to force of sale US companies due to national security. Require joint ventures / ramp up costs, sure. With Oracle deal out, TikTok can't even operate in US the same way iCloud can operate in PRC.
I'm not sure they really bent over backwards to not be racist considering that of all the possible representations of their customers' use cases, they went with "use our app to move your drug money"
I think she was told to do it on purpose to exaggerate the effect on screen.
You know what is better than a ban? A giant multi-billion dollar fine.

Given that many big tech companies that have been found to violate and abuse the user's privacy, especially US users, it only makes sense in order for TikTok to remain operating in the US they should just pay a massive billion dollar fine to stay and continue their tracking ways until they stop or reduce it.

Sounds like a win-win-win for the US government / regulators, TikTok and US users.
Completely true. One way this has saved me in the past: Audible has an incredibly shady practice where the only way to get books is that their subscription service gives you tokens (1 a month) to redeem books with. However, if you cancel your subscription, your tokens are lost. But, if you subscribe to Audible through Apple, then because of Apple the tokens are retained, even if you cancel.
They prey on people who don't want to rock the boat, don't know that they can try to rock the boat, or are just too busy for this absolute nonsense.

The leadership of any company that does anything like this should be very consciously aware that they're mediocre leftovers of the professional world. Real leaders of real companies don't have to be predatory. It is a screaming confession of incompetence.
What an insult to the actual food service workers.

Complete waste of time that could be better spent improving their conditions.
That’s interesting. I’ve never encountered a brokerage that restricted what shares I could buy. Usually it’s if the share is traded on an exchange it’s fair game.

What kind of account did this?
I've heard of this injoke a lot, but it doesn't seem to have any real core of fun to it, it's just interesting because it's an injoke?
Workout Anytime
I can't wait for them to announce an arm-based cpu board, it's only a matter of time(I keep telling myself)
I worked for a large tier 1 automotive supplier where every new hire, whether you were an executive, salesperson, whatever, had to work the assembly line for their first two weeks.
You say tax and that's how the policy should be implemented, but the real thing the tax would try to capture is externalities. Some of the bad stuff plastic does (I guess most of it, actually) is not included in its price. This is not at all capitalism.
Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs
> refutes your statement

Credit Suisse says otherwise when measured using Gini:

https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...

Of course they are possible not the most trustworthy source given the recent events..

To be fair I don't know how to explain the disparity, the report even says this: "For all other countries, except the United States, the wealth shares of the top groups are expected to be understated"
This is an interesting conversation!

I agree with your characterization of the mechanisms for violence in videogames, and I also agree that if you abstract them a bit, they generalize beyond just violence.

Where I disagree is in your assumption that there is a similar loop "anywhere there is a challenge in a game". Deduction-based games aren't like this (e.g. Return of Obra Dinn). Puzzles aren't like this. Boardgame-like videogames aren't like this. Traditional point-and-click adventures aren't like this (they suffer from other problems though, beyond the scope of this conversation). Portal 1/2 are not like this in its core gameplay elements. Story-heavy, on-rails games aren't like this (though only because there is barely any gameplay to them -- and let me be clear that I think "movie-like" games are a game design dead end).

I do enjoy mindless fun and I'm not against violent games; I just think they are the easy way out for game designers. But I think ultimately making a "good" game goes beyond replacing shooting with some magic silver bullet (AI or whatever): ultimately you need good game design, there's no escaping this.

I don't think it's a coincidence the games I find more engaging are those that break the mold somehow, even when there's no "novel" gameplay element to them. Molleindustria's "Every Day the Same Dream" moved me profoundly, but there's no real tech breakthrough in it. It's just a bog standard Flash game.

I do think AI could be successfully employed in text adventures, or games where conversation with an "agent" was a core gameplay element. Imagine being able to Voigt-Kampf a replicant in an hypothetical Blade Runner game! (no, not Westwood's, which had a sucky VK implementation).
i like to call it the "stupid singularity"
Sure, there are a few things. That's why I qualified my statement. But they're necessarily going to be minor things, not the larger persistent problems that only become clear once you've spent some real time working.
I don’t read any of these regularly, but the Apple One subscription includes Apple News+ or whatever it’s called and that lets you read NYT, WSJ, LA Times, and quite a few others…only works in the Apple News app though. That’s the annoying part — you don’t technically have a subscription with them, so you can’t comment (if that matters to you). It’s more comparable to RSS feed access, albeit with no ads and full fidelity articles.

Honestly, I prefer it to their own apps, and the price + cancellation policy is WAY better.
the event starts at 27th min
Repairable Framework laptop gets an AMD Ryzen CPU option for the first time
Clearly they need repairable and upgradeable servers.
I would love this, but also it would be way more expensive to tile, because you can't manufacture a consistent sheet of tiles. No two sheets would be alike!
The federal government originates mortgages? TIL
Guess what, the whole point of crypto is that it's easy to hide

The opposite: hard to hide (thanks to blockchain) but also impossible to confiscate (assuming you did it right or don't cave in).
Definitely.

The issue here is that we have a chemical which is deemed dubious enough when it comes to human safety than it is banned in the EU, but food companies would rather keep using it above any of the safer alternatives to save cents on the dollar instead of protecting the US population.
You've hit the nail on the head. Ten thousand simple, bespoke, hand-crafted tools have the same complexity as one tool with ten thousand facets. The real velocity gained is that this one tool with ten thousand facets is mass produced, and in use widely, with a large set of diverse users.

I don't know a single person who's been responsible for infra-as-code in chef/terriform/ansible who isn't more or less in love with Kubernetes (once they get over the learning curve). Everyone who says "it's too complex" bears a striking resemblance to those developers who happily throw code over the wall into production, where it's someone else's issue.

> Understandably, though, that would feel like a defeat to someone who truly enjoys building new systems from scratch (and we need those people).

Exactly. Building new systems from scratch is tons of fun! It's just not necessarily the right business move, unless the goal was to get the front-page of HN, that is.
Or is it actually due to something like Operation Choke Point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
Oh there we go, modular GPU add in boards. Heyoooo!

And they support other stuff!

I wish the framework site was up, as I want to see what this specification looks like. If you look inside an Asus Zephyrus or whatever, the cooling setup needed to support such a thing in a thin laptop is mad. The 13", for instance, has a pancake sized 2D headspreader + liquid metal TIM, which very much goes against repairability. The 16" is a wall of heatpipes. I wonder how framework is addressing this.

EDIT: specification is here, but down at this moment: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay
Networking issues and even hardware issues are very unlikely if you can fit everything into one box, and you can get a lot in one box nowadays (TB+ RAM, 128+ core servers are now commodity). MTBF on servers is on the order of years, so hardware failure is genuinely rare until you get too many servers into one distributed system. And even then, two identical boxes (instead of binpacking into a cluster, increasing failure probability) go a very long way.

It's a vicious circle. We build distributed multi-node systems, overlay software-configured networks, self-healing clusters, separate distributed control planes, split everything into microservices, but it all makes systems more fragile unless enough effort is spent on supporting all that infrastructure. Google might not have a choice to scale vertically, but the overwhelming majority of companies do. Hell, even StackOverflow still scales vertically after all these years! I know startups with no customers who use more servers than StackOverflow does.
You're right. You can't reason someone out of a belief that they never got to via reason to begin with.

But teaching how to reason is possible.
// disrupted social relations, high levels of anxiety, pessimistic worldview, lack of entrepreneurial culture and innovative activity.

Perhaps this was your point anyway but this sounds like a very modern set of problems. Perhaps religious history of "battling" witchcraft and demonism can be understood as societies having witnessed a similar set of social issues brewing and looking for the root cause.

An interesting connection that popped in my mind is women I've met in life who called themselves witches, or were interested in the concept, or even just dressed every day like it's Halloween - these aren't people you easily picture being close to their family, being married with children, being optimistic and entrepreneurial, etc. You kinda picture them at least absent from those things but perhaps more actively seeking to subvert them (eg: r/WitchesVsPatriarchy - by "patriarchy" they basically mean "everything")

So perhaps the religious history of battling witches is just a limited/filtered understanding of the larger (and necessary) social theme of trying to preserve virtuous, energetic, spiritual, values-driven society, during times they were under attack.

The number of "perhapses" in this comment should make it clear that I am just riffing here, but this is what your post inspired.
Such a controlled trial would not pass ethics review. But for the human side, hopefully we can run statistical analyses to show correlation at least?

I think a mechanism of action in vitro plus a biologically confirmed trial in rats plus correlation in statistical analyses is fairly convincing?
Banks don't know which of their borrowers are insolvent - in a credit crisis, the problem isn't merely that the banks aren't paid what they are owed, but that there's a systematic increase in the perceived default risk of their borrowers on average. Giving money to everyone substantially lessens the overall risk of their loan portfolio. This encourages, of course, more lending.

The rest of what you're talking about is fairly standard economic stimulus and it's not that controversial or unprecedented and has little to do with debt jubilee.

I'm not necessarily against any of this - the point is more that the mechanism proposed (giving money to everyone with the intent of helping people pay off their loans) does not match the rhetoric (GP decrying too much debt and socialism for the rich).
Quick summary for those couldn't watch the livestream/load the website.

- New Framework laptops are available using Intel 13th Gen and AMD 7040 series.

- New 61Wh battery, new matte display option & a Cooler Master mainboard case for $39.

- New 16 inch Framework laptop. Allows you to have a number pad or not, up to you and customizable. If I understood the livestream correctly, there are upgradable dedicated GPUs that connect to the 16 inch laptop.
> pass it off as sufficiently novel or convincing.

IMHO, that's not the central point. It's notable not because it's super convincing but because it's convincing enough to be creatively useful while being incredibly fast, reasonably inexpensive and relatively easy.

AAA game studios have already been able to reach similar (and even better) results for years. It's just super expensive and labor intensive. This demo is exciting because of how it can empower small game studios and even ambitious indies.
I guess it's joke, but I had to try. GPT-4's interpretation of the prompt is "on point":

class ScientistSkillClassifier:
def __init__(self):
self.skill_domains = {
"biology": ["genetics", "ecology", "microbiology", "evolution"],
"chemistry": ["analytical", "organic", "inorganic", "physical"],
"physics": ["quantum", "relativity", "thermodynamics", "mechanics"],
"computer_science": ["algorithms", "machine_learning", "artificial_intelligence", "programming"],
"earth_science": ["geology", "meteorology", "oceanography", "climatology"],
"mathematics": ["calculus", "statistics", "geometry", "algebra"]
}

def classify(self, skill):
for domain, skills in self.skill_domains.items():
if skill.lower() in skills:
return domain
return "unknown"
The one thing this form of AI does not even attempt to do.
Yeah, I guess I imagined he was looking for a whole-picture understanding, not just the customer interactions. But I suppose I was mistaken.
I love Vue 3, but 99% of the reason I love it is the SFCs and not using JSX/TSX most of the time. Vue can't optimize render functions as well as it can optimize templates, and templates are significantly more approachable for people like me who come from the design/HTML/CSS world and want to contribute to the codebase (especially since most front-end devs coming from JS world suck at HMTL/CSS).

Is typing really the main issue there? Working in render functions and TSX is sooooo much more clunky for doing the same basic things, and you lose all the nice benefits of Vue's SFCs and things like built-in class array logic.