skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still don’t get the crime.

Well, since he hasn’t been indicted, its all secondhand speculation as to what crime he might be charged with, based on what is publicly leaked, which may not accurately or completely represent the results of the investigation.

That said, the main crime that is expected in the NY case is bookkeeping fraud for the false way the hush money payment was recorded in business records as a legal retainer, possibly with an enhancement related to that fraud being used to cover up another crime (one of the speculations in that regard is that it will be charged as covering up a federal criminal violation of campaign finance law.)

> What is the crime worthy of arresting a president?

Neither the US in general nor the State of New York have a legal principal that being a former President at the time charges are filed creates a higher standard for criminal charges, or arrest based on those charges, than exist for any other person subject to the law. There are countries that have that kind of legal lifetime privilege for certain officials or other persons, but not the US.
On the other hand, a lot of jobs that were supposed to go away exist still, people just get paid less and no one really cares about them because they're not promising to eradicate hunger in Africa, which is also a job that shouldn't exist but still does mind you.

So laugh all you like.
And navigating a software menu (which changes at random times when it updates itself) just to open the fucking glove compartment. What was wrong with a physical latch?
> if you only ever show a user what they’ve already seen

Familiarity and intuitive structure in a low context language is very important. A language syntax is for humans to comprehend. If a new syntax is under discussion, it's probably around new functionality (or sugar). Where is "encourages innovation" in the list of reasons to use any specific syntax? I would say, far down on the list.
The only official earring I'm aware of that was actually written into a NavMC at some point was the Black Pearl for being the lone survivor of a ship wreck.
If we have a collapse there could be a civil war of sorts so wouldn't be long before the power grid goes offline, then BTC will be useless almost instantly. Bullets and canned food will have far more value.
Phones definitely cannot compete with ILCs in the applications that photographers use. Phones fundamentally lack the larger sensors and specialist lenses that allow ILCs to produce the images they do. Yes, phones can blur stuff to fake bokeh, but even very basic things are not accounted for in phones.

What phones can do is replace dedicated cameras for the basic photography needs of many consumers. Point and shoot cameras have gone by the wayside. So have many cheaper consumer-oriented interchangeable-lens models. Many people bought APS-C DSLRs and just used them with the kit lens. That market has fizzled out. For one, most of those people now just use their phones. But even if they don't use their phones, DSLRs from the early 2010s still produce good images by today's standards.

But you know what a smartphone can't replace? My 135mm f/1.8 lens, just to name one. And full-frame sensors are way better than phone sensors. I'd much rather use my Canon 5Diii (from 2012) than my Pixel 6 Pro.

More than that, I feel that in their question to get bigger and bigger sensors, phone cameras have missed the mark with their actual purpose. The Pixel 6 Pro, for instance, has a larger sensor size to get a shallower depth of field. But this is NOT a welcome change when I am photographing pieces of paper and get the wrong focus in my images. The fact that you can't stop down the aperture on the lenses in 99% of phones is a major limitation. And that's just the beginning.

Now, I'm not saying I never use the camera on my Pixel. But I am saying that it's not at all useful for anything I'd use a real camera for.
Two wrong systems won't make a right though. Especially when the wrong systems are getting move convincing at being right.
I'm happy with Heroku for my Express apps. Point it at a repository and it mostly just runs your app. I'm sure it the same for Ruby.

Render is a newer alternative that is popular.
This has been linked to on reddit, and it's being called out that a few 2023 Hyundai models have capacitive buttons and touchscreen controls; Tucson, Ioniq, Verna at least.
Can Engineered Writing Ever Be Great?
Sorry, I saw this on r/OldSchoolCool and couldn’t resist. Despite their hilarious looks these guys were rocking the “future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet” ethos.

Guy on the far right is Thad Starner, he’s in Georgia Tech now (https://www.cc.gatech.edu/home/thad/). He’s holding a Twiddler, a one-handed keyboard (I’ve wanted these for so long in the past, just checked, you can buy the latest version but they don't look as cool).

Guy on the far left is Steve Mann (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor)). Here’s a 2013 article from IEEE Spectrum where he describes the permanent device he wore over his right eye: https://spectrum.ieee.org/steve-mann-my-augmediated-life

I wish I was there!
Have you reached out to Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal? They’ve been some of the few upstanding journalists in media.
Yes. Typing in the search bar seems to be an effective way of calling up a bookmark if and when I need them.
Unlike ChatGPT, and like Bing, Bard makes search queries for extra context before answering.
Of course, that leads to things like this where they can find articles referring to themselves, which also happened with Bing.
Here is a video for live action: https://s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/f1679452821813x8086365...
I've been into software engineering for 8+ years. As any coder i aspired to a faang job. Blew a good chance in my beginnings when competition was not this crazy. Then years passed and later found myself considering how a faang life would've been. I never really managed to discipline myself into faang interview prep. But today i have tons of startup experience, know some good tech, built some products, my passion is strong, and my only reality is that i will eventually succeed with my life plans. We all chase the money, and landing a faang job is a certainty of getting it, but you could regard faang as a false objective. Instead focus on learning how to deal with your life, with your craft, be a little cunning and money has a good chance to follow. It takes time but who cares, enjoy the ride
point taken. sorry
Next to some of the more magic language features and major library changes, this really feels like beige syntactic sugar.

Is it related to anything more useful?
Depending on how the vaccine works this is normal because the mechanism is infecting you with a low dose or weakened version of the virus, in simple terms.

>If a layman said this I would have dismissed them as a conspiracy nut

Should make you think about how most of us approach the problem, right? How often are we told a truth and despite not knowing anything about the topic we dismiss it as nonsense? If you're an expert in some niche field you'll know it happens all the time.
it's not statistical model. Unless the implication of the word has lost all meaning. The post shifting rampant in the discussions of this field is something to behold.
"I feel like I'm struggling to be able to retire comfortably by retirement age despite feeling that I'm well ahead of a number of my peers."

Same here. I don't know how most people will be able to support themselves at retirement age. I feel like there will be a massive collapse of the system.
15 years of management experience. Oversaw the reduction of personnel expenditures by 90%. They'll do fine.
What the heck is the market for this stuff? I'm repulsed by it, and I've asked around. None of the people I know who eat meat are even vaguely interested in this either. I mean sure a cow gets slaughtered but the alternative being presented, with vats of barnyard-alien-maniamal (yes the lab grown franken-meat industry has gleefully stated culturing human meat is a goal) hybrids twitching and gibbering in their nutrient-piss fluid goo...

It's just dehumanizing. Maybe that's the point of this industry.
Thank you - I had read that portion of the docs but for whatever reason that part of it just didn’t click. For some reason it made me think I could only use some special subset of env vars that were prefixed with ASPNET_CORE or similar
Well, if the Big Injustice you think is being foistered on the world is that an ultra-rich asshole has somehow temporarily managed to escape the burgeoning controls on freedom of speech, well, I'd like to tell you I don't think the problem is him, it's the machine that's controlling the speech...
*empiricism

What we have, right now, is enough to turn many things in the world upside-down, and we only owe it to human and legal inertia that this is still not absolutely apparent yet, unless you're following what's happening.
> 1. The government requires banks buy their debt and hold it as reserves because it's considered the safest investment.

It's not just the banks either. In most Western countries, the pension funds are highly incentivised (usually through law) to purchase government debt in some form.

This is also part of the fuss on the ESG investment bill that Biden recently vetoed. The intent was to ensure that pension and fund managers were focused on their fiduciary obligation first and foremost, and any ESG, DIE, and SDG agendas secondly (or thirdly, or lastly).

Why do this? It's financial repression[1]. By channeling private funds into government debt or agenda-driven endeavours, it allows the government and those endeavours to borrow at much cheaper rates than they should be able to.

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[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-repression.as...
The Java module system is a problem on Java as well. They defined "module" in the narrowest terms possible (API visibility) without addressing any of the modularization problems Java developers have to deal with every day, so we end up with another layer on top of the layers of third-party dependency management systems, package repositories, and runtime class loaders that we are forced to use to have a semblance of a working build and deployment toolchain. They could have expanded upon this foundation and came up with the equivalent of Cargo or go modules, but instead they created this n+1 standard that 90% of developers either ignore or disable.

I'm sure it works for OpenJDK though.
When asked "Who is Sticky Ricky?" You must respond "Yo momma"
Google Bard Waitlist Parody
I'm not a premium subscriber
RNA molecule uracil found in asteroid Ryugu samples
The injectable polio vaccine does not stop the transmission. It only make the virus not attack the nervous system, so you don't get paralysis. This is good, but it's impossible to erradícate polio with it.

Once a country has no polio cases for a long enough time, they switch to only injectable version. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule
Seconded,

Q: Mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all?

A: "Sticky Ricky"
If your business is making good money, I would assume you have an idea that X amount of work could yield Y amount of growth. For example, if you've been able to grow a business to $100k, surely you can keep growing to $200k or $500k with the right strategy/team.

Is that position you're in? Or are you bleeding money and barely scraping by?
I expect both are being managed at the highest levels.
You are forgetting all the risky investments short selling and swaps.
Ally is at 3.6%.
Don't be extreme: that only happens if you talk sharply at a school district board meeting out of concern for your child.
Some DSLRs have function of combining of multiple frames together as well (I think Nikon D500 and latest Olympuses as examples).

This is often called HDR.

The issue with combining images together is that it works for static objects well, but if things move -- it does not. So low-noise digital sensors still seem to offer much better results.

And certainly, startup-time (or app selection time) + focusing speed, is simply unmatched by phones compared to DSLRs or mirrorless with phase focus detection

I do think that Denoising images with AI/ML will be common place even in open source Image processing tools like Rawtherapee.

So DLSRs having APS-C or full frame sensors with lower megapixel count will do well if images are post-processed (or in camera processed) wit these AI tools.

In fact, I was thinking that buying a used DSLR from 2012 circa for 150$ bucks -- will yield similar results as a 2K camera or a 1k smart phone.

Phones are easier to transport/carry. That's has been their reason to take over the lens+camera systems.

But I think camera makers can make photo gear fashionable again :-).
I am working on some ideas in that area :-)
Pretty much all of them were considered pretty ironic when they were new.

...at least by everyone I knew who was a customer or an employee of Sun. I can't speak for Sun's marketing department!
Everything you type into your text editor is a subset of "random string of UTF-8".
F Shell ( “bash and telnet and command-line” for OS Symbian S60 3rd and S^3)
As a curious vegetarian (which at this point must be a lot of their prospective market), the bovine serum is a dealbreaker.
A few years ago, the authentication/authorization story was quite tough to configure in this setup. Did things change recently?
To me, this is definitely a major safety hazard to rely on voice command. If you just get splashed and in a stressed out voice you ask for wipers and your car might not understand you.
Imagine you run a small regional bank. You have marketing and operational expenses you need to cover, and you also need to be attractive enough to depositors to keep them from leaving to your giant to big to fail competitors who have explicit state backing. You’re required to buy from a very limited selection of assets that have government approval, especially government debt.

Interest rates for short term debt are at 0%, at these rates you will run at a loss. Your only choice to keep your bank competitive is to find any yield at all, so you buy long duration treasuries. Yes you take interest rate risk, but your bank is able to operate for another day.

Of course the flaw in this story is that the interest rate risk should have been hedged, and it wasn’t. But viewing this as a straightforward story of “banks greedy, government good” is not reflecting the realities for regional banks.
Rider is pretty much the only decent option for me, if Linux is a requirement. However not even Rider supports .NET Hot Reloading (Edit and Continue), because Microsoft hasn't implemented runtime support for it in Linux. Doing so would probably work against their vested interest in rolling in Visual Studio subscriptions. Yet EnC is a significant timesaver for my projects, to the point where I find it hard to work without it.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/12409

So the most efficient C# development solution for me is going back to Windows and Visual Studio. As they want it to be.
>People expect searches for factual information to be inaccurate probably 1 in 10,000 times.

It's okay they've recently cooled this off with google's 'answers' or whatever they are called that are placed on top of the results which are almost never right
Can't you generate the compiled model as part of the CI/CD?

Also maybe you might find a benefit from splitting your context into multiples. I am considering this option for one of my code bases
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/14/fac...
> algorithms have a time complexity of Ω(n log n)

If you don't understand how this is a human construct for human cognition and information processing, I don't have a way to explain it to you. I would recommend reading more about number theory and philosophy.

Reading about number theory helped me understand these concepts, and I recall having a similar resistance to the ideas at the time. Specifically set theory and "zero" as a proxy for the empty set, and "one" being the set that contains the empty set, etc...

Math is an imperfect mechanism for representing the physical realm, invented by humans for that purpose. It has truths that are only true in the mathematical realm and have no bearing or representation in the physical realm.

As an example, I suspect you'd have a difficult time pointing to a physical "real" example of the square root of negative one. It's called the imaginary plane for a reason.

> gives the impression that it is building fantasy castles in the sky

That's exactly what it is, as most mathematicians will tell you.

That doesn't imply however, that it's not useful.

Imaginary numbers (to continue the example) are quite handy for dealing with signal processing, among other things. Which doesn't change the fact that they are a human invention - one that stumped societies for hundreds, if not thousands of years (the Greeks struggled mightily with square roots for this reason, for them math and philosophy were not separate things). We only really got past it by inventing the symbol i and tossing all the gnarly stuff in it like a waste bin, because most of the time for practical applications it's factored out.

> absolute and objective truths

These are most appropriately the realm of religion, not of physical sciences.
Raining is a well defined, tangible, indisputable thing. The properties of having beliefs or opinions or material interest or consciousness are not so universally defined as to be in the same category as rain.

A sufficiently realistic emulation of humans must necessarily eventually obtain those same properties of humans in order to be realistic. Either you don't think chatGPT is realistic enough, in which case we kick the can down to the next iteration of AI language model, or you are painted into the corner of having to perpetually rationalize your denial with new reasons for why the AI isn't really <insert whatever>.

You couldn't define for me exactly what it means to have consciousness. You certainly couldn't define it in a universally accepted manner like you could define rain. But at the same time you'll insist that chatGPT certainly doesn't have any form of consciousness or sense of self or whatever other nebulous concept, all the while being certain the beings its emulating absolutely have all those things. Sounds like doublethink to me.

How are you so sure it lacks all these things you can't define? What's the difference between clocking in for a 9-5 every day vs playing a performance piece about a character who clocks in for a 9-5 every day and never stepping out of character?

For all I know you are chatGPT. Maybe this is all text generated for a character with these opinions.
The question wasn't about officially sanctioned jewelry.

But thank you for your informative comments.
I think I’m just going to keep buying and driving 15 year old cars until the new cars are an order of magnitude better. I can buy 10 half decent 15 year old cars for the price of new Tesla!

(15 years old is the magic number in MA where the car no longer has to pass emissions checks during inspection)
It's unlikely we can virtue-signal our way out of any problem.

If something costs more, that's a good proxy for that product being more energy-intensive. And where thst isn't the case, the higher cost is likely lining someone's pocket, who will then go on to consume more, thereby generating more pollution.
Extracting the GameBoy ROM from photographs of the die
Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet (1992)
"In this paper, we show both theoretically and empirically, that these state-of-the-art detectors cannot reliably detect LLM outputs in practical scenarios."

This was my finding as well. I abandoned this effort when I found that any created model would be inaccurate on small texts and could be circumvented with a bit of prompt engineering.
It is functional and imperative. Functional does not mean only declarative. There are even functional programming languages that don’t allow declarative style like Rebol and Red.

Likewise declarative does not necessarily mean functional. The examples you mention are declarative but not explicitly functional.

I get the impression people come to these statements because they read something about functions somewhere once. When you get past the vanity and actually read the code it’s just a bunch of functions and no vanity.
SEO manipulation spam becomes AIbot manipulation spam. What's old is new again.
That sounds like the justification I hear from scammers and con artists. No joke.
Have you ever worked on the construction of a skyscraper?

I only ask, because, well, that was my question originally, and, well, because your question does nothing to answer that question.

So, have you? Or are you just another online bystander?
I think that’s more of a prompt problem. It answered in a realistic, and I would even claim “correct” way. You should not be writing a sort by hand in 2023. If you don’t want it to use a library, ask it to not use any library calls. And, of course, ChatGPT 4 gives much better results.
That summerises almost every update on windows 11 doesn't it?

Their image tool that we were using for video snippet is a lot worse. Hell right click context menu requires more work.

Don't get me started on minimum window sizes for some default apps.
The article explains it pretty well, but it’s hard to understand which are the important bits without having done a lot of background research.

The main idea is that bank regulation and fiscal/monetary policy are often at odds with one another. The article mentions the SLR, which is supposed to reduce systemic risk by enforcing minimum capital requirements. Importantly, deposits are part of the denominator—they are liabilities of the bank. So flooding the banking system with cash (e.g. pandemic relief) will force banks to raise capital to maintain compliance with SLR.

The Fed could see this coming and relaxed the SLR requirements at first, but this temporary measure expired in March 2021 and within a matter of months the Fed’s reverse repo had swelled to nearly $2T. Reverse repo can be complicated to explain but basically it is the Fed’s version of an overnight money market fund—we take your cash and give you highly liquid securities and then buy them back at a slight premium tomorrow, so you earn a return for the risk of holding those securities overnight.

To reiterate, the only reason this facility exists is because banking regulations punish banks for holding excess deposits. If that was not the case, then the Fed could just pay interest directly on reserves to set a floor on interbank lending rates.
What is your favorite flavor of jam?
while, yes, you are right, unions do sometimes act against sustainability and the environment in order to protect jobs, they are also much more democratic and therefore much more sensitive to the issues of the people as a whole. when unions are strong, corporations have to be careful how they act. there becomes another factor to consider beyond legality and share price. this creates more accountability, especially when politicians are slow to act. and politicians are always slow to act
Show HN: The Shark Programming Language/Game SDK
A extremely portable programming language and game framework i made from scratch.
I mostly work with Powershell, but dabble in C#. Both omnisharp and the Powershell CoC plugins for Neovim seemed to break often. I've switched to VS Code for Powershell and Visual Studio for C#, as sad as that makes me.
Linux hasn't been a community project in decades. It's basically run by a consortium of the biggest Chinese and American companies. And especially since Linus went away for his vacation-style treatment a few years ago, it's been getting much much worse.