skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which will happen during this century

Can we be so certain? I know people who have worked for decades on development in Africa, and they tend to be pretty pessimistic. Then again, a century is a long time, and there are different levels of poverty.
In many cases we see that making effective use of a new technology requires a lot of other changes. Electrification brought large productivity gains to factories, but only after they were re-designed to be more spread out as to compacted around a central motive shaft. IT has brought a lot of productivity gains but business processes have to be changed to make use of it. Likewise, making use of LLMs will probably require some bottom up rethinking of how businesses work which won't be fast or automatic.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-rising-holdings-us-agency-bo...

> the only data I trust is China's holding of Treasuries

- Do you not trust China's holding of US Federal Agency bonds? like Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/FHA/SBA? China holds $1.2 Trillion of these, slightly higher interest rates than T-bills.

- Even at their peak, T-bills only formed <7% of China's USD reserves. You really think China only needed $200 billion of FX reserves and everything else is probably faked?
They are a bank in the EU, couldn’t get around that one.
> I can check my messages when I feel I have time to.

You don't see any utility in getting alerted when you get a text message? Most messaging apps allow you to mute threads, so silencing an active group chat is easy, but you don't have anybody in your life you want to be able to get through to you ASAP?

> Usually I can see when the taxi is arriving. (I almost never call a taxi anyways).

Sure, if you're waiting out in front of the building for a short time. Sometimes ride-sharing / taxi apps have a long wait. Most people appreciate being able to wait indoors, instead of sitting on the stoop for 20 minutes waiting for your ride to come. This is possible because the app will notify you when your driver is getting close enough that you should go outside.
It might be the actual intent of the AGPL, which is why I completely stopped using it despite loving the spirit of how it is used by MongoDB.

The FSF has an example of how to comply with the AGPL (specifically the "prominent notice") when using an AGPL licensed proxy that is pretty illuminating. They recommend you just show a landing page with a big reference to the AGPL on the first request. I'd like to see them do that with an API Gateway.
Someone wanting to cause world wide disruption should start an organization called a
A system. You mean like sending the owner of the flagged transaction an e-mail? Like what happened exactly in this case?

Also, curious about your source that all screening positives are false positives. Can you link to that?
I would guess it's some kind of abbreviation for Aleppo and falls into Syrian sanctions detection.
Yeah, it loads a download windows button too but links to the same sketchy dropbox download link.

I'd be wary of installing random apps nowadays with crypto hacks and what not. I guess I need to think twice before doing so.
How are you stuffing long text into GPT context? Are you doing some form of summarization?
There are far better options, though admittedly not as widely supported as they should be. In Netherland, there are a lot of ways to simply use direct bank transfers. You can buy at a webshop using iDeal, which handles the payment through your own bank. You can send someone a payment request that will simply transfer it straight from their bank to yours. All of these are far superior options to relying on either an unreliable third party, or a slow, expensive payment system using its own wildly fluctuating currency that consumes the energy of a small country.
Stove is the first appliance to get a battery, but not the last
Oh I do work, quite a bit. All the same I wouldn't mind more money, then I might even consider a house!
That looks awesome for RPI home server.
Tell HN: Half of current “Show HN” posts are about AI
We almost need to spin off "AI news" at this stage!
Beyond pricing, what's their strategy here trying to unbundle music? Are they going to release a different music app for every genre? If it's just a classical app, does that mean I now have to use two apps to switch between music based on genre? What benefit is there other than slightly better UX which presumably could be bundled in an existing app.
Wrongthink of any sort.
> Now I understand why Linus refused this craziness in the Linux kernel.

Here's the old post for reference:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20

Also, one for git:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/alpine.LFD.0.999.0709061839510.5...
Poor grammar in my part.

Not only is it possible, it's probable.
Telegram, the free zone for disinformation and conspiracies
MacOS at least has file ID, so there's that.
Maybe we need oligopoly laws in addition to monopoly laws.
> Aampe adds AI and ML optimization to your existing marketing stack, so you can send better messages in hours, not months.

Nice try, buddy.

It is not a "tooling problem", it is a GTF-off-my-lawn problem.
The open internet is a mirage. There used to be barriers against distributing encryption, there’s bans for copyright violations, there’s blocks for adult imagery and revolutionary (‘terrorist’) speech.

There is no such thing as a truly ‘open’ internet and the real internet is open enough that any constructed really open network will be overrun by content no one wants to host, like racist extremism and pedophilia.
WFH is still massive in countries that have all of this.

I live 15-25 minutes from Central London via tube or cycle, so do loads of my friends.

There are effectively zero in person companies despite this.

People just mostly prefer to wake up 5 minutes before they clock on and work in their pyjamas. I don't get it, but I've accepted at this point that I'm just not going to.
I have one hotel hack, that works especially well for conferences when rooms are almost fully booked and prices are high. Book a hotel room with no charge for cancellation. Then, the day before arriving (or even the day of arriving if you're still able to cancel), check for rooms again. There's often nicer rooms that become available at the last minute due to others cancelling, at a lower price.
>I've struggled with how I place a smile within parens, without the smiley inadvertently closing out the open paren

My solution is either:

- let the app handle auto-emoji'ing the smiley by doing {smiley} {space} {backspace} {closeparen (or continue on)}

- use a different paired punctuation from parenthesis when I want/need to close multiple levels and/or use smileys
As of 2023-03-28,

Alibaba's market cap is 245.69B USD
Tencent's market cap is 461.15B (3.62T HKD)
And people ask why we need decentralized payments.

We're building Tools to get rid of paypal/visa/mastercard and other rent seekers.

Here's mine: https://peanut.to

There's lots of other people building useful stuff in the space.

My dms are open if anyone wants to chat
This is a great read, although it suffers from the shortsightedness common to people who seem to lack the minimum mathematical maturity necessary for understanding basic concepts of modern AI, such as how and why it's possible for a hidden vector's state to represent an abstract concept, like, say, an emotion or a belief.

Let's call the inability to understand basic concepts of modern AI "The Poets' Delusion."

In my experience, people suffering from The Poets' Delusion don't understand the scaling hypothesis or its implications.

They don't understand that as we have increased the number of parameters in AI models like LLMs, we're finding these AI models are learning to represent and act on increasingly abstract, subtle concepts, and no one yet knows the limits to such improvements in learning resulting from scaling up model size.
How difficult would it be to pollute the DB with AI generated fake faces?
I wonder if this could be weaponized: Get the PayPal accounts of enemies, competition or those you want to bully banned by somehow "injecting" forbidden words like "ALEP" or "NS" in the transaction.
You're my friend, I'm just looking for the same!
If the merchant used PayPal checkout, then PayPal does all that processing then sends the information to the merchant.
within 72 hours of this tech being rolled out, we'll see "lifehacks" on the web showing how you can spray deodorant or air freshener in enough quantity to confuse the sensor

which will lead to air freshener requiring a special license
Walking = 0 emissions; Biking = emissions spent on manufacturing the bike and transporting it to you + trash from all the packaging it comes in.

Walking is more sustainable.
Given how many acronyms (IRA, ETA) are associated with terrorism it's amazing this doesn't generate more false positives.

Can an accidental space get you banned for "pago por anal isis"?
> "Sidenote: Also Gmail is insaaaaaaaaaanely slow on Safari"

Huh? I haven't seen this. I have 280,000+ messages (> 20 GB) in my Gmail and everything always works pretty much instantly in Gmail on Safari. Never see any slowness unless my internet connection is very bad, and even then Gmail does a decent job of hiding it.

(Don't get me started about Apple Mail on iOS being incredibly slow at loading Gmail messages, however...)
Very cool. Excited to this combined with pix2struct and/or ChatGPTs visual input feature.
For clarity, China de-prioritizes T-bills in favor of US Federal agency bonds which are nearly the same risk but slightly higher returns/interest rates. They currently hold $1.2 trillion in federal USD Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/SBA/FHA bonds.

Higher reward, similar risk, still perfectly reasonable USD FX reserves.
I totally disagree. Change needs to begin with yourself.
Thanks for the compilation! Yes, it's a very small and helpful simple idea.
However, none of the projects you linked is a combination of 100% shell & the UX I was looking for, which is a reason why I've decided to share mine.
Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials
There is a "lowest price guarantee" on Google flights now, wherein they will reimburse you the difference if the flight goes lower in price than if you buy it at that time (through their platform / booking, at least).

To me, this is a signal that Google has used all of its price history data for flights to say "this is a bottom in price", and given they don't want to lose money hand over fist from mispredictions, they're probably right.

I usually set up a price watch on a specific flight I want, then every time it drops, I check if it got the "low price guarantee" stamp of approval and buy then. Even if I'm wrong, I'll get paid the difference either way!
So, the news here is that gun deaths are now the leading cause of death for teens (ages 13-19), but for kids 1-12, cars remain the leading cause of death in the US.

Per https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/12/28/fact-check-many-more-...

> Through age 12, more than 500 more U.S. kids died in vehicle crashes in 2020 than were killed with firearms. But the numbers flip beginning with age 13, and emphatically. For ages 13 through 19, firearms killed more than 1,000 more teens than did traffic crashes.

Historically, car crashes are the leading cause of death for both groups combined.
Count me among the many who prefer the superior UX that PayPal provides.

They're also excellent as a singular source for managing my subscriptions. If I ever forget what I'm subscribed to or want to cancel things, you can do it all in one place with PayPal just blocking further payments from processing from that business.

If people want PayPal to stop being used, then update your bank technology so the UX isn't so ass. Then perhaps we'll switch.
Maybe we'll finally get a music app where classical

There have been plenty of third party apps built on top of Spotify that have offered this.
Try Switzerland, where literally every tiny hamlet is accessible by public transport.
This guy definitely should have tried to make a plea deal after his first indictment. The feds are definitely going to keep adding charges.

And given the number of charges levied and the seriousness of each one, SBF really ought to be in jail instead of his bedroom.
Surnames often don't mean anything. If mine means anything I don't know it. It's just a name.
edit: Tbh. The more I think about it, maybe it is not such a far fetched idea after all with the assumption that they keys are temporary.

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Eh. Coming from that environment, it would not be that easy for a reason that has nothing to do with technology. The lists that financial companies use are largely known ( some published by US Treasury for everyone to use ) and you can reasonably estimate a threshold most institutions will find acceptable.

However, the issue is political and not technical. OFAC itself has grown its SDN list[1] to 6300 names and that is just one list and the tool has been already severely overutilized ( in my opinion anyway, so take that with a grain of salt ), but if the trend and current geopolitical situation is any guide, this number will only increase.

What I am saying is that you have a big and very variable base to build a key from ( edit: come to think of it - not from:P ) and there is no guarantee and old key won't suddenly become 'hot'.

Here, the answer is to the problem is actually political. Affected businesses have to start really complaining, if they are affected by the requirements. I have no evidence suggesting that is the case ( based on what I saw maybe 20% of transactions face that kind of scrutiny and even smaller percentage is questioned the way the OP is ). Naturally, it does not help that this process is not standardized so every single financial institution does their own thing..

[1]https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...
Stripe does the same BS.
Can you tell us more about the algorithm behind this "bringing together"?
So what's the problem? Handling any kind of payment dispute should be part of regular operations. So, when your payment provider has a complaint, handle it, instead of running to Twitter/HN for validation.
The comparison is useless because it is not considering Motivation.
MTurk economy values volume at the expense of accuracy.
The economic claim is nothing new and nothing unexpected. The computers, AI or not are faster/cheaper than humans at any well-defined task. Emphasis on the well-defined.
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN use Markdown in Comments?
The current formatting options are too arbitrary. Why doesn't HN move to markdown?

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
It is clear that the tax system does not work properly for work from home. All those office expenses are pre-tax for the employer but post-tax for the employee. Makes no sense, they are the same expenses for the same purpose.
If the cutoff was 18 , 21, or even 25 I wouldn't bat an eye. But a cutoff of 19 suggests manipulation of the statistic to achieve a desired outcome.

18 - Old enough to vote, join the army without parental permission.

21 - Old enough to drink and buy cigarettes. Also the age used for numerous firearm purchase/carry laws, when that age isn't 18.

25 - Popularly claimed to be when the human brain reaches maturity, or something like that.

19 - ....has "teen" in the word?
There's too much focus on "monopolies" and the word "monopoly" itself. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was about trusts, which are by definition different companies that work together to control a market. The FTC should be focused on trade, and the size of these companies hinders trade and eliminates competition.

Facebook should never have been allowed to acquire Instagram or WhatsApp. If competition is key to a free market, what distortion happens when rich companies can simply buy competitors, ensuring they don't have to actually compete?

Google should never have been allowed to buy DoubleClick for the same reason.

Some of the others are tougher, simply because blocking acquisitions is easier and more popular than breaking up divisions that appear to be developed in-house. To say Amazon shouldn't be allowed to buy Whole Foods wouldn't raise a lot of ire, but to say Amazon should be a separate company from AWS flies in the face of how many people think things ought to work.
I'm of the exact opposite opinion, I see those two groups as some of the absolute most harmful in modern US politics. I'll take a gridlocked congress over an activist SCOTUS legislating from the bench or an out of control Fed printing trillions of dollars for their banker friends any day of the week, though I suppose the gridlocked congress is part of what enables that behavior
Having no KYC process is "building useful stuff"?
You wouldn’t argue that a hammer “had a pretty good run” and needed to be replaced if the head detached.

Nor a car with a flat tire.

Nor a road when a pothole appears.

The point I’m making is that when the devices are made there are future issue that are both known and reasonable (battery will wear out, network-based security vulnerabilities will be uncovered, etc), but we all recognize that those can be solved (user-replaceable battery, the ability to selectively block network access, etc).

What’s particularly frustrating are the “unreasonable problems”. For example: running photo recognition in the background on a device that does not have the resources to do it without affecting the user. Or gatekeeping old (perfectly functional) applications. Or any of the other cases that are outlined in these threads. In those cases it’s companies intentionally choosing to restrict our ability to use “their” devices and typically because there’s more profit in pushing “their users” to update.
> crypto still has only one valid use case and that is for criminal activities.

Sometimes, criminal activities are justified when all you do is to protect yourself. For example, when you live in a lawless area, and you need protection against bigger criminals. Peaceful countries with overall working systems are just one side of the world.
British Prime Minister Sunak’s Plans for UK NFT on Ice
A throwaway account for this type of comment doesn't exactly give your words much gravitas.
Also encompasses the "cash for clunkers" program and period of low interest rates, both of which accelerated the retirement of older cars for newer (and generally, safer) cars
I particularly recommend satisfactory. Ahh.
Too bad if you don't know what your surname means.
Smooth idea! Have you been able to quantify how much time/stress this might save a coding team like yours on a weekly or monthly basis?
"terrorist" is an opinion or a judgment, not an objective fact. A better term in a KYC context "sanctioned entity" or somesuch.

If someone X is comfortable doing business with/as entity Y but a bank Z is not, it's totally sensible that X would say Y to the bank Z and bank Z would block them.
2% is a healthy level, which is why it's the Fed's target.

The problem is that pegging a currency to gold does not peg inflation. Inflation will still move around based on other economic factors. You will have just eliminated your best tool for influencing it.

If you needed to adjust a currency pegged to gold, you'd have to get more people working in the mines. Which is either not possible, or a human rights violation.
But people make new recordings all the time!

I could listen to different recordings of Canto Ostinato all day, it sounds like a completely different piece if someone else plays it.
Coping with the Pace of AI
For those interested in shaders, check out Shadertoy and try to find really easy to understand ones or code your own:

https://www.shadertoy.com/

For instance, here is a DVD logo bounce animation in Shadertoy:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wdcXRj
Yes. Many years ago I was working on the Isle of Man. I initially travelled from England on Monday morning, returning on Friday evening. I then started buying tickets for the same aircraft flying to England on Friday evening and returning to the Isle of Man on Monday morning, which was around 25% cheaper despite all journeys taking place on the same aircraft.
Using k8s is not remotely the same thing as maintaining your own k8s stack. One is easy (get your feet wet in an afternoon), the other is hard (maybe after a couple months of full-time study you can pull it off).

The vast majority of teams that have enough crap to run to warrant using k8s should not be maintaining their own k8s stack.

In fact, it’s entirely possible that running k8s is so hard that the only players that can do it reliably are the big cloud companies.
It's a fair comment. I don't think it was passive aggressive. It was just straightforward.
And all that money they're paying in interest... how do they argue that those interest payments won't find its way back into the economy and further fuel inflation?
Like strong arming US companies into putting party shills onto their boards? Disappearing CEO's for months at a time? I'm glad the US doesn't have to resort to CCP corporate facism and thugery. We're all doomed if they do.
part of the problem is that they used a definition so large it could include anything that may be offensive to a paypal employee.
Openshift is the new Websphere/JBoss.
My group of (nerd) friends just migrated to matrix after Telegram started with their premium/crypto shenanigans and synthetic free-tier restrictions.

This new chat app is currently bait, but I'm not really lured by "threads", and the switch is a ticking timebomb.

Other red flags:

* Signup with phone number, other apps have proven that it's not universally necessary.
* Not mentioning that the author got equity of the app's company until halfway through the article.
* e2ee handwaving but there will never be proof unless they open-source it.
* Some integrated AI bot thing that nobody wants, could have been a bot API, stands at odds with e2ee, and just sounds like a lame attempt to ride the current wave.
* Mentions signal, whatsapp, telegram, but suspiciously not matrix.org, which AFAIK does have the touted feature to re-encrypt older messages to new members.
Why wouldn't a company want to have a better understanding of who they are hiring? A manager can use them to shape the role, shape the goals, and approach people differently.

Example: If you are a xxTJ "thinker judger" I know that you'll be upfront, may use coarse wording, cut to the chase, and may bulldoze people (I am xNTJ). An "xxFP" "Feeler Perceiver" will internalize words and apply emotional meaning, empathize with people easily & understand people, but be put off by "in your face" types.
>The use of these "sensitivity readers" is a direct result of the adoption of the "inclusion" directive

Then this “inclusion directive” must have been adopted a very long time ago. Someone else has mentioned that this very book was retitled in 1940 due to its original title including the ’n’ word.

One wonders why the apparatchiks aren’t censoring the Daily Telegraph too. The answer, of course, is that their powers of censorship (and indeed their very existence) are largely imaginary.

>"Godwinning" does not really apply even though I did mention the Nazi ...

Err, ok. You mentioned the Nazis and also made another outrageous historical comparison that's hardly any better considered.