skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had been to Montenegro, countryside and obscurity is not that far from truth...
Coinbase, a publically traded exchange, was also served a Wells Notice. This is a crackdown on the system.

I would put money that as soon as they can figure out where the hell CZ is, that Binance is next in line.
That's not the worst case, if wise elite brainwashes (manufactures consent of) the population.

Worse is when the elite is not so wise (sometimes plainly crazy), or the elite loses control to crazy people, adversaries. Or self-induced mass hysteria of the population.

The direct "democracy" that very soon will inevitably be enabled by technology, poses great dangers in the situation where masses are so easily manupulateable, and their collective intelligence seems not raising above individual level, but degrading below it for some reason. Violent chaos, lynch courts, etc.
Some of us just reflexively downvote when we see off-topic complaints about downvotes.
In this case, the marketing department was not involved, at least publicly. CNBC is reporting this from an internal email they got their hands on.
I'm also not a fan of the interactive movie genre. It's a weird niche, and I don't really know who it serves.

Two decades ago, I would have generalized it to "console gamers", but I'm not so sure after the God of War / Elden Ring GOTY vote.
My wife subscribed to The Economist but we weren't reading it. I tried changing my address to California, which has worked for some subscriptions because of California's consumer-friendly subscription cancellation law. That didn't work.

I tried doing the chat to cancel. I said multiple times that we wanted to cancel and the person (presumably a person following a script, although they certainly seemed robotic) just kept ignoring that. Eventually I said I'm cancelling, if you charge us, I'll charge it back and took a screenshot of that.

When they charged me, I charged it back. No need for the screenshot, which was mildly disappointing because this was one time where I felt I had proof that I tried to cancel.

We'll never subscribe to The Economist again. If you make it this difficult to leave, better not to start.
His argument is essentially "a superintelligence who is better than us at everything and thinks a quadrillion times faster can do whatever it wants and we are powerless to stop it."

Yeah, I could've told you that.

If we really are going to create such an intelligence in the next five years, then we had a good run, so long and thanks for all the fish. But that assumption coupled with the security mindset he brings to the table (viz. "the only unhackable computer is an unplugged one at the bottom of the ocean") is so strong that the big list of doom vectors he comes up with appears much scarier than it actually is.

In the past I've struggled with intrusive thoughts that the government is going to come and murder me. I could have given you reasonable-sounding explanations for why I believed this. Doesn't mean it's gonna happen.
This doesn't necessarily sound bad to me. The natural language being passed around is effectively an information transfer protocol. Each agent has instructions for how to manipulate and respond to messages, and the publicly-posted final document is akin to HTML source, in that a user's agent interprets it for consumption rather than display it directly.

The only problem is lossyness and hallucinations, but assuming the technology improves such that that becomes a non-issue then having bots deal with formalities and formatting sounds great.
This seems like the sort of thing Terrance Tao or a computer should have solved long ago.
So far he isn't wanted in the US, but in South Korea
I would recommend using something like tonedear.com and practicing ear training mostly. I played a lot of classical music when I was 14-15, my biggest regret is not focusing more on ear training :)

I made a (bad) video about interval recognition and how you can map to songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DILEEOybFQI

In addition to https://tonedear.com, I have used the functional ear trainer app and seen good results.
> 4 seems a little better than 3.5 but not by a huge amount.

Depends on the task. 3.5 was completely incapable of doing math, but 4 seems to be able to at a solid highschool graduate level.
>The documentation for FileSavePicker doesn’t mention the problem or truncate files in the example code. It is no surprise that the default behaviour of not truncating existing files is, therefore commonplace, despite being not what most people want. 5/9

The example in the link in the tweet uses .PickSaveFileAsync(). The documentation for that function is https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.storage.pi... which says:

>The file name, extension, and location of this storageFile match those specified by the user, but the file has no content.

(Emphasis mine.)

And it's not a recent change. It was written in 2017. https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/winrt-api/blame/docs/window...

So it may just be a bug rather than the intention. Though given that the SO question is from 2016, it seems nobody verified the intention was actually implemented since the very beginning.
> How do people determine the "current rate of progress"? There is absolutely no empirical standard to evaluate the performance of AI systems.

I would measure using something similar to Yudkowsky's challenge: "What is the *least* impressive feat that you would bet big money at 9-1 odds *cannot possibly* be done in 2 years?" [1]

Pay a panel of experts to list their predictions each year, including an incentive to get it right, and then measure the percentage of those predictions that fail anyway.

[1] https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/910566159249899520
Probably not today, but I can foresee a future a few years down the line when something like Unity is integrated with a LLM and you talk to it like the computer in a Star Trek holodeck to make a game.

The late 90s version of me would be flabbergasted that the most believable part of the holodeck is the ability to create elaborate worlds and coherent narratives from a short description.
The key point (often missed by these articles) is that aperiodic tilings do not have a (infinite) periodic pattern. This means that you cannot draw a shape on these tiles and say: "the tiling is based on infinite repetitions of this shape, and only this shape".

Of course individual tiles will repeat, but never in an infinite periodic pattern.

Edit: a novelty of this paper is that their shape is "truly" aperiodic, which means no matter how hard you try, you will end up with aperiodic tiling. Existing one-shape aperiodic tilings had to add constraints on how to put two shapes next to each other to ensure aperiodicity.
I think it's more China having the ability to order a company to do something like this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tik...
Revoking ACH authorization is an effective tactic. The CFPB dictates that if you give 3 days notice, companies are obligated to honor this. If they charge you afterwards, your bank will be more than happy to reverse the charge. To be clear, this doesn't void the contract you have with them, you're simply revoking their privilege to charge your payment method. If they want your money they'd have to take you to small claims. Here is a sample email which I've used many times to great effect:

May this email serve as your notice to revoke the ACH/Bank Access/Debit Card authorizations of both the below primary bank account and debit card, from [company] effective today, [date]

[Bank Name]
Checking Account x**
Savings Account x**
and
Debit Card x**

Additionally, I am revoking withdrawal authorizations from any other accounts associated with my personal information, listed below

name:
DOB:
phone #:
email:

I am also revoking your further access to my banking accounts and have already removed your authorization with the Bank directly.

THIS REVOCATION APPLIES FOR THE NEXT PAYMENT DUE DATE AND ALL FUTURE DUE DATES.

Kindly, I ask that your response to this email shall be confirmation of receipt and you agree it is at least 3 business days prior to any scheduled repayments or membership fee deduction.

Note that in accordance with 12 CFR Part 1005.10(c) (Regulation E) you MUST HALT PAYMENT.

FAIL TO COMPLY and I will submit a report to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Additionally, you will be responsible for any fees, including overdraft fees, incurred as a result of your failure to halt payment
Evergreen:

Ximm's Law: every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon.

Lemma: any statement about AI which uses the word "never" to preclude some feature from future realization is false.
Possibly so, but the man was one of the best salespeople I've ever met. Ice-to-eskimos level, all while being completely genuine. He had a genuine interest in and deep understanding of the customer experience and was easily the equal of any full-time sales staff.

When it came to the areas he wasn't as comfortable in, say the genius bar, he still deeply understood the customer experience, but never tried to do the job if he wasn't able.

Boy, I'm coming off like a fanboy here... It was just a truly impressive and inspiring thing to see as one of the regular employees. If I worked at Starbucks it's what I'd want to see, not some propped-up press tour.
There are also discussions around CapEX versus OpEx that apply here, and depreciating costs over time. There is a trade-off of agility, cost, and maintenance, but the markup on cloud is quite high.
Yuuuuuup, this dude is clearly terrified of unionization.
As I've said for years, the robots don't have to kill us, they just have to convince us to kill ourselves.
..and the consequences: "Witchcraft beliefs around the world: An exploratory analysis [2022-11]"

> Country-level variation in the prevalence of witchcraft beliefs is systematically linked to a number of cultural, institutional, psychological, and socioeconomic characteristics.

> Among the documented potential costs of witchcraft beliefs are; disrupted social relations, high levels of anxiety, pessimistic worldview, lack of entrepreneurial culture and innovative activity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9683553/
> certified mail letter formally request cancellation (which I have tried and failed apparently because I never heard back)

Try small claims court in _your_ jurisdiction. You can then present this in evidence.
The original freakonomics chapter on the topic talks about this as well, I believe.

They said (if I'm remembering this correctly) that there is some correlation to the decline of leaded gas, but the decline in crime occurred at different times in different states- and the states the legalized abortion sooner saw drops in crime sooner.

So if it's just the leaded gas, which changed for all of the US at once, why would there be any correlation to abortion laws at all?
I can’t believe we used to eat toxic snacks when we were younger and think nothing of it
Yeah exactly. It's the same for racing games; at the moment most bots are just allowed to cheat (racing games) or are just very good at noticing everything (cs bots), but they're not "clever" like a person is.

What we really want is a cs bot that actually has some tactics, but can also make mistakes. I'd love to feel like I've been tricked by the bot (ie they throw a smoke out a window for no good reason other than now I know they're in the building, so I approach the entrance to the building, only to be shot in the back because the bot has repositioned; it threw the smoke not to occlude, but to bait me), but also feel like I have tricked the bot now and then (ie being able to tell that the bot reasoned fairly well about what I was trying to do, but that I still outplayed it).
Wouldn't happen to be Cerebral, would it?

I was in a similar situation and extremely irate at first when they said refunds were not an option, but fortunately it appeared to be an issue with their automated scheduling system. Once talking to an agent they were able to link me to a provider that same day.

On the whole, it's actually been a pretty good experience over the last year. Trying to get similar counseling/medication locally was an absolute nightmare at the time... with Cerebral, everything happened super fast and the counseling I got seemed on point (ADHD/insomnia). They quickly pause/resume for when I'm out of the country traveling, no unapproved charges so far.
Because there's a difference between the benefit to the whole society and the benefit to a particular person. If one person can set up things so that resources flow to him without him contributing any value in return, it's great for the person, but bad for the society. Some regulations work exactly in this way. It's great for certain people occupying profitable positions, and if it's less great for everybody else - well, sucks to be everybody else, tough luck.

"Capitalists" are just people living in the system, and some of them would seek such positions if available, and love it if they successfully occupy them. Those are the people that think it's ok to demand money from people singing "Happy Birthday to You". Why wouldn't they love it? Yes, it's not good to everybody else, but it's good for them.
Instant wire transfers such as the ones availible in Europe and the ones coming to the US with FedWNow will finally solve the chargeback problem.

That is you cannot chargeback the wire once it's sent so better make it a worthwile wank.
And he may have been desperately on the run after the crackdown on everyone else
I got the run-around one time when I tried to cancel my membership at Planet Fatness. After my evil twin got me in trouble at the gym I made sure to bring along my 6′3″ son and my 300 pound probably-autistic and foul smelling friend (also offended by my evil twin) for backup and had no trouble canceling “our” membership.
If you receive a ChatGPT-generated message, it's only fair that you respond with another ChatGPT-generated message.
The cheaper way is to paint a housefly on the urinal. Netherlands showed it vastly improves aim.
You can just hike your way around the border
That is a naive/odd way to look at RD spend and factory building - especially when without it one goes the way of horse carriages.

Although since most businesses have long ago slashed their R&D for short term stock gains, it makes sense from a corporate american perspective despite being naive.

Is it conceptually different than saying "I lost 10K this year; I put 10k in a 2-year treasury note."
It's about causing your competition to waste millions of dollars in compute time and power doing something unproductive.

There is not a huge pile of excess TPUs laying around for people to use. Any strategic advantage can quickly compound and put you well ahead of others.
You're right, I jumped to a conclusion although I still don't think the comment is very constructive
I'm not really sure this view of things is accurate. If anything, prostitution is far less accepted elsewhere around the world, unless maybe you're talking about Canada or Europe. East Asia, India, SEA, Middle East, Africa? Don't think so.
100% agree, especially if it is industry specific specialty software. Seen so many applications that have processes that only make sense to the people that developed it and are at best tolerated by the users that have no other choice than to use it.
Credit card companies should have special handling for recurring billing. You should just be able to tell them “I don’t want to pay this bill anymore” and put a stop to it without having to get a new card and a new number.
I'm quite proficient in Python and Django (main tools I use daily).

Yet I find myself asking ChatGPT every now and then "hey how do I do <foo>", where <foo> is something I last needed to do a year or more ago. I can recognize the correct answer but don't need to search docs/net for it.

The reason this is faster (for me) than Googling or using Dash/Zeal is that the answer is already in the context of what I'm trying to do, whereas if I'm only looking at the docs, I will probably need to go through several pages to get a complete picture.
Alternative flippy way: I fight for your right to say your opinion, and for my right to call it stupid.
Often if you sign a yearly contract that includes a discounted monthly rate, if you cancel it before the end of the year, you have to pay the remainder of the contract remaining.
Fortunately I gave them my PayPal because they randomly signed me back up for $4.50 a month after I cancelled. I opened a dispute with PP and they set it straight.
> I'll also be doing a credit card chargeback

Maybe you would since it's a local gym, but if it's a national chain credit card companies won't even let you initiate the chargeback whatsoever.

I had to go so far as to completely cancel my Amex account to get Lifestyle Fitness to stop billing me. American Express utterly refused to either chargeback, or deny future billings. To the point a new card number issued didn't even fix it. I was quite happy to sign a waiver that I'd take all liability.

This was after moving states, calling to cancel, and them saying I needed to fly in to cancel in person. Outright scam that the banks help enable.
A good classic modern example of this is emulated graphics mods for Breath of the Wild: this is probably the most well-known recent 3d game that went with very noticeably stylised & simplified character models, likely in part due to the limited hardware. It's also a game with excellent art direction. Now people have modded it to make it more like other AAA titles & every single mod I've seen looks absolutely terrible in comparison to the original. Because they're completely forgoing art direction for something approaching realism. The former should always be the priority.

A previous title in the same franchise (Wind Waker) was also lambasted on release for it's alternative art style & today has aged considerably better than most games of that era.
> a director at Deloitte earns $340k, according to Glassdoor

This in no way undermines your post, broadly. But narrowly, these are sales roles. Two people with the same title at Deloitte can make vastly different incomes depending on their production.
> Those people had checklists of irrelevant requirements, slow response times, almost certainly pressure to select "certain" vendors (i.e. those who threw money into lobbying the right folk)

That last part isn’t true in my experience, but that makes it harder to solve: every procurement officer I’ve worked with has been very scrupulous about not favoring a vendor but they’re operating under rules for things like fairness and security which are hard to comply with. A huge company can hire a room full of people to document how they’re complying with everything but a startup is going to run into exactly the problem you described. The big guys all support this since it has the effect of limiting options without actually being illegal — who’s going to argue against risk reduction, right?
Disagree. Experiencing something yourself is a whole nother ballgame from being told about it. "You can't tell people anything" [0]. Recognizing this applies to oneself shows intellectual humility IMO.

[0] http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
There is an interesting history thesis that the Inquisition and the Renaissance are actually two faces of the same phenomena: the rise of the idea of nation-states and institutions. That is, power and authority sourced in something impersonal that survives the person vested with it. It's one of the pillars of modernity, and we take it for granted enough that we erroneously view the Medieval period and feudal structures in that way. By the early Renaissance, Inquisition courts became meticulous about following court procedures, evidentiary processes (such as they were), and documenting decisions.

That's not to justify the Inquisition, but rather, it isn't as if how we do things now is all that much better.
Wait, don't play fast and loose here.

I defined a loan. because you said:

>The bank is quite literally writing multiple loans.

I was establishing that Coinbase is also making loans.

Then, I said

>Coinbase is doing the work of abstracting that process into a single instrument (Coinbase earn)? Because that’s securitization.

Because that (pooling multiple loans and sharing the proceeds of those multiple loans with lenders) is securitization.
My experience with Nissan is they will do the former, but dealerships will not do the later. With Honda it was the opposite, the dealership would always ask to perform repairs I had no knowledge of.
I assume the side effect of this happening is that everyone's rates will go up.
i don't fear this stuff. at the end of the day if the digital world becomes detrimental to my health i can just call up my ISP and cancel my service. good luck rotting my brain when you have no internet connection to my house.
I suspect Quebec has similar issues - it’s not the same as Canada outside the francophonie. I suspect it’s closer to Germany than Canada re immigration.
Ask HN: Why isn't score notation used much in music software nowadays?
Are current music visualizations better?
From the DOJ link above, first paragraph:

DILKINSKA was extradited from Bulgaria yesterday and will be presented before United States Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn later today.

<https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...>

She is in US custody.
Imagine you are an ML consultant with an activity tracker installed. The company is only going to pay you for the short fragments of time you are typing the source code and launching subtasks, but not for the duration of those tasks if your activity tracker shows no activity on your side. I had a client who wanted to negotiate two rates - one for the active part and another one for the training time part (barely covering AWS costs). If you think this is rare then you might be well-insulated from the market.
> It made me consider the potential danger of a direct propaganda spigot from the Chinese government to today's youth.

What does everyone here think will happen on TikTok when the PRC invades Taiwan? TikTok will be a flood of "don't get involved", "The West caused this", and other PRC state propaganda immediately.
I'm not sure I see the point of this, unless it's just for PR.

Working a half day per month will tell you very little of importance in any workplace. And, if you're the CEO of the company and all of the other employees (and especially management) knows you're the CEO, working that half day will tell you exactly nothing.
Apple allow you to press cancel immediately after sign up and the account will remain valid until the 8th day.
That's not a car!
Immigration fuels Canada's largest population growth of over 1M
It turns out most individuals will give up democracy if they think they have a shot at becoming king.
I tend to agree, with a caveat. If you have a family Apple account and one of your family members has a subscription, you do not have visibility even though it is your credit card getting billed. So for a complete picture you have to log into each of your kids' devices to see if they have an active subscription.

It seems to be done for privacy reasons, but I don't agree with how they handle it. I should be able to see all charges going to my Apple account credit card no matter which sub-account originated them.
So you're in favor of government force as long as it's government force you approve of. You're in favor of the big ebil gummint deciding who banks must have as customers. It would seem that the free market you free speech absolutists seem so enamored of would correct for that and cause a bank/credit card processor to be formed to service your needs. That it hasn't happened would seem to speak volumes about not merely the social acceptability of your actions but also the market's acceptance thereof.

And you still can't shout fire in a crowded theater.
What's irrational about my skepticism exactly?