skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the theory presented by the poster above is the speculation from media outlets about the charges. However, as of now the charges haven't actually been unsealed and released publicly, so we don't *know* what the specific charges are.

The general speculation around the falsified business records charge is that according to NY law it's a misdemeanor that gets escalated to a felony if it was done with the intent of hiding another crime.

That would be NY PL 175.10

> A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree
when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second
degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit
another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.

> Falsifying business records in the first degree is a class E felony.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/175.10

So, that's the speculation about how a prosecutor would get a felony of the falsifying business records charge (which, I'll reiterate one more time is speculation since we don't yet know the specific charges).

There are other statute of limitations factors that complicates things. I heard one legal analyst claim that the NY statute of limitations is tolled when someone has permanently left the state (which means while Trump is in Florida, the NY statute of limitations clock would be paused). I haven't been able to find a source for that information, so... I'm not confident that it's accurate.

But, while the statute of limitation math can by mildly complicated, but it would be absolutely stunning if the DA fucks it up in a case this high profile.
We had "pre-algebra" in 6th grade (optional) which was more or less foundational algebra, otherwise you took, whatever was the next step. Then in 7th grade you could take "algebra" and 8th was "algebra 2" if you wanted. Graduation from 8th grade required passing "algebra".

Then in 9th or 10th grade you took "high school algebra" which was a big step up from 7th grade Algebra. From there you either took geometry + trig, or geometry + algebra 2 + precalc, or had the option to do all four years geometry + algebra 2 + precalc + calc. Most of these had honors and AP variations that were opt-in.
Ask HN: Imagine an AI trained on every word written or spoken by everyone
I'm guessing China is developing such an AI right now. They have the means and the motivation to capture every written or spoken word of every Chinese citizen. Probably every TikToker too!

Presumably this all goes into a giant, up to the minute training data set.

I wonder what such an AI could be used for, any speculation?
> I quoted the relevant section in another comment ( https://youtu.be/AAZLOygmR78 ).

Your link is wrong, but now I probably know what you watch on youtube.

> I would be sure to make note of who is suggesting that legal approach. The full opinions of the court in that case can be found https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-635_o7jq.pdf

Please make note of it for me, because I don't want to read a 68 page legal opinion just to figure out what you already seem to know.
OK, we've moved most of the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809 and re-upped that thread instead. Thanks!
What we lost with SWF was an easy enough use authoring tool. Sockets or not, whatever SVG can do, is there an authoring tool for it like there was for Flash?

I LOVED Flash - it probably is one of the first software products I actually bought at the student price in highschool. Flash 5 was just magic, I thought.
Lex Fridman Interviews Eliezer Yudkowsky on Dangers of AI [video]
Trump and Capone were both indicted. Though to be fair Capone never lost an election and then claimed he didn’t.
Just slow down and look at it line by line. Take detours to make sure you understand every part.
Since when has the law applied to all the people equally?
Then why was the “especially people hired yesterday” necessary?

Your original comment makes it seem like you feel someone should not have access simply because they’re new. Not that nobody should have access at all.
The alternative is a country where political candidates are not bound by the rule of law.

That juice is not worth the squeeze.
Blink (Chrome/Chromium-derived browsers) is a fork of WebKit but has diverged for many years. To treat them as the same, you should call them KHTML as that’s their common lineage. But that would be obviously absurd.

WebKit and Blink are not the same browser engine.
Who is the political opponent you're referring to here?
Liberty to forget the "without representation" part of that rallying cry, apparently.
No. These things take time. If you’re going to indict a former president who has declared that he is going to run again you need to be totally sure about your case. It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.

Does it suck that it’s taking so long? Of course. Unfortunately, that’s how the system works.
Clapper did not literally perjure himself in front of Congress. He _absolutely_ did not.

It was impossible for him to do so because he was never testifying under oath.

See: <https://www.c-span.org/video/?311436-1/senate-intelligence-c...> for a recording of what I believe is the Senate hearing to which you are referring.

Also consider the following quote from the Congressional Research Service about how the Senate chooses to place folks under oath:

> By statute, any Senator is authorized to administer the oath to a witness (2 U.S.C. 191). Committee rules commonly allow testimony under oath at the discretion of a committee’s leaders. (In practice, most committees rarely require witnesses to testify under oath at legislative hearings. Sworn testimony is more common at investigative hearings and confirmation hearings.)

(via: <https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RS/98-392>)

Now, the NSA's lawyers absolutely _did_ lie under oath to the Supreme Court.

What happened because of that? Absolutely fuckall.

So, even if Clapper was testifying under oath, I'd expect absolutely nothing would have happened. (Don't forget that this is mostly the same Congress that gave every telecom company that (very, _very_ much illegally) permitted NSA warrantless access to their phone and data networks _retroactive_ immunity from prosecution.)
> HP Wolf Connect uses a cellular-based network connectivity

That answers that.

Prior to reading I was thinking perhaps some custom radio board that worked peer to peer.
I just tried using this, and I'm afraid I don't think it's as easy as a spreadsheet. I don't even understand it!

I started things off, just kept clicking "yes, yes", made a database called "shopping", and now...

I just seem to have an empty page? There is 'id' and 'created_at'.

I can "Add row", which just let's me specify "id", which has to be a number.

There is a button marked "fields", which tells me my fields are "id" and "created_at", but doesn't seem to have any way to add new fields.

I then, at my last guess, tried doing "import CSV". It asks me to choose a field for each column. I don't have any fields yet. I want to make some. Why can't I pick "this should be a new field"?

Anyway, import CSV just tells me 'Syntax error at or near ")"' when I try running it. There are no close brackets in my CSV, so no idea where that is coming from.
All the interaction is broken for me (in Firefox)
SF School district has 55,000 kids in public schools. It is the 6th largest school district in the state of California. They sit behind Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno etc. In addition to 55k kids in public schools, they have another 22,000 kids in private schools. SF has a low number of kids per household, but it's still an enormous school district.
Financial and Political would be my guess. But maybe I just want to tease out an answer...
Talkback – infosec resource aggregator of news and research
>The only orgs that tend to use BSD tend to not want to give back.

Isn't this the main reason they chose it over Linux? Like Sony for the PS?
3CX knew its app was flagged as malicious, but took no action for 7 days
I've seen arguments in the right-ophere that Cohen improperly plead guilty to a non-crime. Which seems like a weird thing for a high-level well-connected lawyer to do.
Ah, how long's that been there? That would've been very helpful in a previous job.
The ad industry would surely figure out some way to load stuff for fingerprinting / user tracking with it. :(
No Trump fan but this is more political/media theater B.S. and brought on by all his many deep pocketed enemies. He surely has tons due to his awful mouth (shut it and do your job like Biden does for the people or Bush did or Obama).

Nothing will happen to him just more lame reality TV type drama that gets ratings.
The cause of liberty will probably be better served if you distinguish aptly between general categories like "citizens" vs tax preparers lobbying against the state providing some margin of built-in tax prep services.

Public defenders do not preclude private defense in the courts, they provide an option for people who don't have other options or don't like the ones they have. Public tax prep would probably work much the same. Mostly this expands liberty rather than taking it.
I really wish we could all move on from the conservative/liberal false dichotomy. I'm neither (or both), and so is nearly everyone else I know.

I think we need something better than winner-takes-all for all elected positions, because it forces you to pick 'the lesser of two evils', knowing that a vote for the person you like the most is really just a 'protest vote'
I note that Google Toolbar had a big RSS ‘Subscribe’ button…
devils advocate: Or you could say the most vindicated.... impeached twice but never convicted.
It’s because you’re ignorant of history. If anything we are closer to morning in America than anytime since 2000. No new wars, massive advancements in hard tech and AI, and the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.

The new American century is being built as we speak by the most brilliant and hardworking humans on the planet, I suggest you not overlook it.
https://archive.ph/OU8vc
> Run locally on browser – no need to install any applications

This seems to be a contradiction. Am I running it locally, or is it running on someone else's server?
While it would certainly be difficult or impossible to find a jury of people who’ve never heard of Trump, I think it’s easy for us online news-followers to underestimate the number of people who don’t really follow news or politics. Sure Trump was a controversial president, but so was Obama and Bush and Clinton and etc - if you only follow the vague shape of the news and not the specifics.
Yes, for WMD, president Obama for weaponizing the IRS. Both ought to be brought to trial.
Burgers and bread loafs compete on all their costs, different competing outlets actually differ in those costs, and people choose which ones to use.

Utilities don't have that. Everyone is stuck paying for both infrastructure and use, so it makes sense to charge them separately.

If each neighborhood had exactly one restaurant that everyone used for all their food, maybe it would make sense to split the burger flipper costs evenly.
Nope, just the most criminal.
Omg I just spent 20 min flipping through these aerial pics and I had bunch of chores to finish. Oh well. Haha so cool:) Is there way to browse for certain cities? Made my night! Lol. Cheers
Oh my god, bendy pistons are ridiculous. Thanks for that.
1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drives were becoming problematically small in the early 1990s, long before apple dropped the floppy drive from the iMac in 1998.

Iomega's Zip and Jaz drives came out in the 1994 and 1995 and were pretty popular for a while until CD-R and CD-RW drives became cheap and reliable enough in the late 1990s.

Perhaps the DTP shops were complaining about the iMac dropping the SCSI port which all Macs had had up to that point for USB, obsoleting their existing external SCSI peripherals - scanners as well as various external drives.
I think that's an "Am I the Asshole" situation, and you are getting it wrong. BSD is niche, especially in scientific computing.

Saying anaconda is worthless because its maintainers don't expend a ton of effort on making your particular niche more convenient is the actual toxicity...
Issues i had with (Free)BSD:

- different partitioning scheme, wants a primary partition for it

- old style filesystem, tried to run it in a VM, run out of inodes when installing ports.

- in the good old days, OpenBSD had the best documentation.
Could their behavior towards legitimate email from small-time outfits like this be useful evidence in an anti-compete lawsuit?

Alternatively, some kind of class action?

(Asking any lawyers in the room)
> Most countries immunize declared candidates for parliaments or the presidency

I don't think this is true factually, and even if it is, I disagree that it's a good policy. But even if I thought it was a good policy, it isn't the policy we have in the US.
My understanding from legal eagle on YouTube is that the payment was done illegally. Both in terms of taxes and in terms of how you are allowed to spend money on campaigning (she was hushed to aid the presidential campaign)
In a sense, any prosecution of a political figure can be considered political. But what's the alternative? Treating political figures as immune from criminal prosecution? What would that mean for the rule of law? And what would that mean for our expectations of our leadership -- who, if anything, should be held to a higher standard as model actors for our society and our children?
We used Weavite and Elastic in prod. Felt that Weavite was not yet prod ready wrt deployment ( sharding , clustering is murky ).
We went with ES's dense_vector field which is serving us well.
> Why hasn't he been indicted of bigger/harsher crimes already?

I think that's a perfectly reasonable question. The basic answer I'd give is that the bigger/harsher a crime is the longer it takes to build as a case.

The bigger or harsher a crime is, it usually has more protections and requirements in order to prove. It takes longer to gather the relevant evidence, longer to put together a theory of the case, and longer to button everything down and present to a grand jury.

It's kind of like asking why it takes developers longer to build the biggest/coolest features in a video games. It's a lot more work!

This was also a question that came up quite frequently when the first Jan 6th defendants were charged. The first wave of defendants were charged with things like "trespassing" and other fairly mild charges. A lot of people were upset about that. But they just came first because they were much easier cases to proves and make. Eventually more serious charges such as "assault with a deadly weapon", "obstructing congress" and "seditious conspiracy" were later charged and convicted in front of a jury.

So, I generally wouldn't be surprised to see the easier/simpler cases come before more complicated cases. That's not to say that he will be charged with bigger/harsher crimes. Maybe the facts won't bear those cases out, and they won't be charged. But the ordering doesn't seem like it should be particularly surprising.
Hi there, is there any integration guide on the frontend?
This is just a carrot version of the NCLB policy. Public school administrators already push teachers to focus on low performers. Teachers hate it because the rest of the class stagnates from not getting attention and the low performers often don't improve much because of serious home-life problems that teachers can't fix.
The need, actual long term use of a tool like this, whether or not this a potential dark pattern tool, the high potential for bugs/easy misuse causing unintended things to happen.. I havent thought too hard about it but something along those lines was what came to mind as I looked at the repo. For sure some of my thoughts are probably wrong, and i may be too harsh
> A lesser known book that is far more scholarly and worth of your time is “Liberty’s nemesis: The unchecked expansion of your state” by John Yoo and Dean Reuter. I also do like the more polemical “ Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment” by Andrew MC Carthy If I had to name the scandals, there’s 1. IRS Scandal that’s so well

I prefer politico-legal advocacy books where fewer than half of the authors are war criminals, but that could just be me. (I also prefer such books where none of the authors are Federalist Society members, but I’m a bit more flexible on that than the preceding preference…)
We are using dense_vector field that Elastic Search offers and it's scaling quite well.
Related; others?

Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34840039 - Feb 2023 (178 comments)

IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34764952 - Feb 2023 (201 comments)

IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34462122 - Jan 2023 (247 comments)

IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32753099 - Sept 2022 (408 comments)

The IRS could be on the verge of changing the way Americans file their taxes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32550841 - Aug 2022 (17 comments)

IRS will study free tax filing options - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32502321 - Aug 2022 (25 comments)

Why do Americans have to pay much to file their tax returns when the IRS knows? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30267361 - Feb 2022 (22 comments)

The IRS has a big opportunity to fix the way Americans file taxes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177289 - Aug 2021 (12 comments)

Lots more, for those who want pain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34840480
> how all the forces of the most powerful government in the world and its intelligence agencies, which are the largest, best financed, and since 9/11 least restrained in the world can't prove the liberal claims

It's not the job of all those intelligence agencies to do that. This is a law and order question, which must be handled by the legal system, not the NSA and CIA.
Came here to say this. It was also coming out of a Java applet world which was along the same lines.
> The iPhone was famously one of the last devices to drop support for Flash

Isn't it the opposite? iOS never supported Flash, which helped kill it once iOS gained popularity.
I know about the architecture and the inner workings of GPT-2 and GPT-3 models, as well as the math of transformers. No one outside of OpenAI knows exactly how GPT-4 works.

And I have not been talking about the risk of GPT-4 but later models which could use a different architecture.

I have also taught people to code and solve challenge math problems.

(It seems you are so confident you know more about AI and human cognition than pretty much anyone among the 1000+ people who signed the petition, including 2 Turing Award winners, >10 AAAI Fellows, as well as many engineers and avid practitioners.)

I hope you’ll notice how similar the behaviors of some cognitive mechanisms of these models are to human cognition.

An airplane can fly, just with a different manner & using different mechanisms from a bird.

Are you 100% confident we will not have AGI in the next 5-10 years. What would you bet on that?

I’ll stop here.
Potentially angering millions of people is not a compelling reason to not pursue criminals through your legal system, of course.

> He literally won half the country ...

Well that's not true, no matter how you slice it, or which election you look at.

In neither did he win more than 50% of the vote (2016 it was 46.1% of voters, compared to 48.2% who voted for Hillary - and in 2020 it was 46.8%, compared to the 51.3% for Joe).

And while that sounds tantalisingly close enough to half, it overlooks the fact that in those two elections, respectively, only 59% and then 70% of eligible voters (or 54% and 55% of age-and-citizenship-eligible-but-not-registered) actually voted.

So that means that you're looking at less than half of roughly 2/3's of the voting population -- a demographic that in turn is only around 3/4 of 'the country'.

He literally, therefore, won about 20% of US citizens, or 25% of eligible voters.

> ... his rallies ALWAYS have huge turnsouts.

That's neither true or compelling. Garry Glitter and Elvis used to have huge crowds.
I think at this point it’s probably easier to list european countries where you still can’t easily e-file.
Heavens forbid you have a foreign sounding surname, though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_sca...
Actually... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/31/hillary-clin...
Something like that. Since interacting with the model is the best way to learn how to use it, a good course could just put that experience on rails to direct the student's learning towards optimal ways to use the chat bot.
Interesting idea to compare the absolute value by simply not doing a float comparison.

I see they do a bit more than that now. Wonder how much time that saves.
Battle of Karánsebes (1788) – when Austrians fought against themselves
It stuck around for a good long while, fortunately; I recall using it to run a Minecraft server for my friends as late as 2012 or so.
So the question is, do we in future even need specialized models or will GPT4/5 outperform anything else? If general models can perform well in niche domains, it'd massively speed up adoption in companies.
Related:

Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8827887 - Jan 2015 (3 comments)
I'm not even sure why. Even if the IRS prepared an "initial statement" for you given what they have more than half of the US would (still) have to hire someone to come in and fix everything. I did an IRA backdoor this year and accidentally overcontributed my 401k, my previous years state taxes also contained an error that had to be rectified; my taxes were an absolute mess.

Who tax prep should be worried about is people who want taxes to just be a bill with no exemptions or write-offs. They usually fly that flag under "simplify the tax code".
It's not that hard to do, but I think this is lowballing. If you want a talented programmer to do something for you, you should be willing to pay them $150/hr. And I'm assuming this is more than an hour of work.
Browser can’t mediate raw socket connections.
Discouraging Litigation – Counsel vs. Client Perspectives on Fairness
You're right, you don't want conversation. Sad. I'm the one laying the cards on the table while you hold the true secrets no American knows close to the chest.

If I sound hostile, it's precisely because you're saying nothing of value. There's nothing of substance to disagree with.

America is tearing itself apart? Yeah. Why? Who fired first? What are the actual facts of this former president? Your analysis is micron deep but you're acting like the smartest person in the room.

I wrote articles, essays with summaries of news debunking bullshit claims on the internet, blending facts and personal opinion, mainly as a way to communicate with my parents to counter the misinformation they saw day in and day out on the web and in fox. They could never rebut it, they just stopped reading because I was typing "lies".

So I have zero patience for people who cast stones and act smart without putting their actual thoughts on the line.
Old coal mines can help the climate