skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the crime he committed, exactly? Wasn't he simply using a "feature" of Silk Road, ie. if you double-click "withdraw" it prints you money?
What's the difference between a superintelligence and God?
No need for apologies, and given the legal name of the company was ContextMedia Health LLC, I agree.
You can just use the /describe prompt and reverse engineer something you like, or you can have ChatGPT do it for you.
Costs would skyrocket, because of the decommissioning costs they've been kicking the can down the road on.

"But those are fully funded!". Yeah, and I'm an astronaut.
I would strongly recommend reading The Third Reich trilogy by Richard J. Evans. Most people have a rather propagandistic view of the war and this series is easily accessible for the layman and does a really good job at laying out what happened and when and why.
Official CCP position on was Mao 70% right and 30% wrong. There wasn't lack of domain experts per say, rather Mao pursued modernization agendas at aggressive rate, one that traded lives for progress. 4 pests / killing sparrows didn't lead to famines, the bureaucracy trying to hit Maos KPIs did. Which does not necessarily lead to...

>worse outcomes long-term

Contrary hot take. PRC post WW2 traded lives for progress was net good for long-term outcomes. Mao was bad statesman for right goals, he was excessive and did the hard things sometimes poorly, but it was important to do them none the less. The great leap forward killed millions, but ensured PRC also had the highest industrial capacity amongst developing peers after. Cultural revolution broke traditional social structures = 90%+ unified polity, speaking one language. Purging intelligentsia also overkill, but still had STEM priorities right, both nukes + first satellite developed in this era. In aggregate, disruptions setup/enabled PRC to exploit mass modernization efforts, established industrial base, and plenty of fungible bodies within a few generations instead of century+. Add oil on cramming developement atrocities to develop. Incidentally this is why pluralism of India and old practices (caste) etc is holding up development, India systemically couldn't destroy to renew, now it’s dragged down by the baggage causing 100s of millions of avoidable deaths and even more bodies with stunted development - a few decades of prolonged developing world infant mortality and food insecurity adds up. Treating human capital as actual capital is not nice, but it's effective.

Hard to say if this was actually his thinking at the time, but he's also known for declaring: "I’m not afraid of nuclear war ... China has a population of 600 million; even if half of them are killed, there are still 300 million people left."
> If I could change Java then the thing I’d do is I’d make it necessary to declare all exceptions in a method, but get rid of ~~caught~~ checked exceptions

That's pretty much what javadocs contain already
I almost forgot all this nonsense originated at somethingawful. That's really weird thinking back. I still say little jokes I first heard on there once in a while. People playing video games get so mad if you say "Get the power up and win the game!" haha
It didnt make it to the mainland, it dropped off in the sea. But if had made hit land what would the response have to be?
Correct - that was what I meant. I remember the init system debates all too well.
They’ve got electrolytes.
I hate seeing this on hacker news because there is the implication “it’s international news, so something must have happened”. I think the local alert probably has a more limited geographic scope than before, there’s been a lot of push back.
It took more than 25 years form super-computer to phone in the past.

At least as long as you could apply Moor's "law"… (Which doesn't work any more for some time).

[edit: no pun was intended, just noticed…]
More task specific compute pools (like Stable Horde) make lots of sense where applicable.
The tens of thousands being laid off from that ivy league and ones who jumped the, 6 step, multi-tiered interview hurdles to get a job offer, later rescinded, might disagree with that value proposition.
My theory is that a lot of people who had service jobs pre-pandemic switched to white collar jobs during the pandemic (since they were let go from the hourly service jobs).

Many realized how shitty the service jobs are in comparison so now employers have to pay them a lot more or hope they get fired from the white collar job to fill the service positions.
What percentage of candidates would you believe freeze up so badly that they can't program at all?

Over the years, I have seen significant numbers of applicants who couldn't write FizzBuzz, and even one who couldn't sum up the numbers in an array (ignoring overflow). Some of these people had reasonable resumes, and many of them could talk about software development in the abstract.

This was usually a sign of poor phone screening, but it always blew my mind.
co-ed sports leagues
My memory is vague but I seem to recall hearing of NK missiles heading in Japan's direction a number of times in recent years. Is my memory correct? Does NK just get free reign to fire missiles towards other countries?
Is it inflation adjusted? And even more, purchasing power across a wide range not included in inflation calculations adjusted? Because consumer spending can be at an "all time high" for things that could have been bought much cheaper 5 and 10 years ago, including basics.
If option #3 doesn't apply, then yeah, if he'd stayed still and not touched it for 5 years, he'd (probably) be fine. IANAL.
> I research far right extremism professionally

Please elaborate. This is a common claim among "disinformation experts," when what they really mean is they occasionally browse /pol/ while telling themselves it's an academic exercise and they're obviously better than everyone posting on that "cesspool."

If reading /pol/ for hours a day is enough to say you "research far right extremism professionally," then I'd posit that every one of the most active users of /pol/ is more of an expert on it than any pseudo-intellectual making a spurious claim to authority based on their "professional expertise." By that metric, nearly every one of your "research subjects" is more of an expert than you, so if we want a fair assessment of 4chan, we should probably ask someone who uses it genuinely rather than sanctimoniously.
Yeah it's a pretty US centric thing. People here run to the doctor for every little thing and then complain about the price of healthcare and how it's so hard to get in to see a doctor.
The communist body count is largely based on incapacity that led to famine.

The white nationalist made genocide an efficient industrial process. Just look how little time they needed to nearly eradicate the Jews.
except that person(s) you gave and received the cash from know who you are.
For weeding out the people who haven't wasted weeks of their lives studying leetcode problems so they can get a job writing CSS. Duh.
That’s Apple Pay, not the wallet app. The wallet app just shows a collection of cards supplied by the system and apps.
The author finds it a readily apparent axiom that a vastly superior intellect cannot be controlled by a vastly inferior intellect.

Generally, that seems valid to me.
this so called AI just wrap search results and formulate an "intelligent" like text.
this new hype around data compositor systems aka "AI" chatbots is laughable, reminds me the social media era when everyone thought it is some form of invention, in reality it was no more than integration of existing technologies followed by endless marketing spam.
it sad but that's all they are doing, modern technology is more about psychology and marketing than anything else
Sometimes I go to In-and-Out Burger and I see hiring posters on the front door.

One year ago they offered $19/hr starting pay.

Today the poster says $22/hr.

Something is up.
Even that's tricky, as moving from $7/hour to $15/hour means you lose things like SNAP/Food Stamp benefits, jump from a 10% to a 12% tax bracket, etc.

Edit: Perhaps the ~$13k standard deduction is a better example line than the tax bracket. Just stating the wage growth isn't outpacing inflation as much as it might appear at first glance.
> Especially when the only interface is via Discord!

I hate to be one of those guys who bandies the term "UX" around, but yeah, that's terrible UX.

I'm willing to put up with it for v5, though. My local install of SD just doesn't measure up, at least not at present.
Strongly disagree. These are 3 sets I just generated with v5 using the following simplified version of your prompt: "interior of a future-brutalist megastructure, comic pastel style, sci-fi robotic architecture, 70s".

https://imgur.com/a/cGgz9nl

MJ does really well with simple prompts.

Specific words and phrases that accurately translate what you want into the latent space are way more important than complex prompts.

If you've played around with MJ much you'll know what I mean. Some words and phrases overpower everything else in the prompt. I've found that good MJ prompts are very vibe based.
I'm in control of myself, thank you for your concern. Perhaps you should reread that comment, I think it may have escaped you. Have a good day.
what's outrageous is that it has become acceptable to attack men, especially younger men, who are literal incels, on the basis that they haven't managed for some reason to secure any partners

it's borderline psychopathic to demean people on that basis, to the point they become defensive of the fact because of the added stigma, and like in this blog they try to carve a space for themselves out of the label rather than denouncing the injustice of its usage
What'a the average grade of a single human CPA?
Dismissing someone of Roamer's stature in his field of expertise has to be peak HN.
This is almost a daily occurrence.

The news this time is that government used the J-Alert system to mass broadcast to everyone in Hokkaido to announce that, instead of coming down in the sea of Japan, it might come down on the land. NHK is reporting that it might be a new type ICBM which I guess might be the reason for the general alert this time.
Yeah well passion is not the same thing as desperation to get just any job to pay the bills with.
Is "robotaxis" the word we're going with here? Because that sounds more like it ought to be the name for a subfield of robotics relating to optimizing the physical arrangement or orientation of robots...
Humanity has never had to deal with global echo chambers where individuals who are mostly harmless on their own can come together and feed on their common rancor.
Did they though? It's cool to make fun of the little dictator and his regime, but if his little missile just flew past and into the sea, they can clearly hit the land if they wanted. Now, if it landed short of land, then let the jokes fly. The teasing for leaving your putt short is brutal.
This is a common complaint but it is really not on the same level as advertising for trash like Candycrush.
Spend Monero on physical goods via particl.io?
The surprise at someone being single seems to be exclusively about looks. I've never heard something about someone being single and being being shocked and saying "but he's so interesting/charming/charismatic", the surprise factor seems to be almost exclusively about physical appearance. If someone is ugly but very charming, and it is revealed he is perpetually single, it never really seems to be a surprise to most people.

This seems to support the commonly, tacitly understood notion that looks are the most important factor, everything else is of relatively ancillary importance. I'm not implying that other factors aren't commonly regarded as also important, but they're never given the primacy of deterministic impact that it seems that physical appearance is.
> They went to the landfill homie.

Do you have evidence?

Also, whatever happened in that case, there are industry statistics about battery materials and they clearly show that most batteries do not end up in landfils.

> I can not agree that the problem with regulation/legislation/lobbying is just double more harder.

Setting regulation as such it gets you the outcome you need, is not doing it harder, its doing it correctly.
No they're not. They are all hiring like crazy
GPT Agent to Collaborate in the Browser
Pointing out that an action makes one look desperate is not the same thing as looking down on a person.
I'm not sure the toothpaste thing is really about loss aversion so much as it's about minimizing effort. Throwing a tube away, opening the box of a new one, unscrewing the new cap, putting it down, and fiddling with the the aluminum or plastic cover on the new tube so you can take it off while your hand is wet is so much more effort than just squeezing the old one a bit more so you can get on with your night and go to sleep.
Seems impossible to tell without comparable data on humans. I'd assume 99%+ of all miles are still by humans? Unless you have that base rate who knows.
> New we have the problem, that version 1 cannot work with the files of version 2.

Oh yes, that surprised me recently. I have both installed on my machine, and some file associations in the OS still link to version 1. I didn't expect v1 to flat out refuse to work with a file saved from v2.
> Maybe consciousness is just what it feels like

What is the it that does this feeling? What is the medium in which feeling is felt?
right

distributed transactions that can assume fast and reliable access to some shared memory are interesting but really the easy part of the problem

"scale" means going across large physical distances where neither low latency nor high availability can be assumed, so not in a single datacenter where nodes are connected by infiniband or whatever
> I don't know if I have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone at this time.

I mean, do you enjoy pair programming? Would you enjoy "pair programming with benefits"?
It won’t start with Timmothy. It’ll start with John Cena or Donald Trump. You’ll get to play with virtual celebrities. Then domain experts, like tennis camp with Serena Williams. Or story telling with Steven King. Or Fortnite with Ninja. And it will slowly find its way down the popularity slide to friends.

And you will protest it. Just like my MIL hates Facebook and thinks calling is so much more efficient than texting. But the younger generation will find this as natural as TikTok.
This was also the premise of the Battlestar Galactica prequel "Caprica." The father of A.I. created a digital copy of his recently deceased daughter based on her digital trail from life. The copy struggles with her existence in an artificial environment, initially being unaware she was in one. It was interesting how they tied her existence into the eventual rise of religious monotheism and the emergence of the Cylons. Underrated show.
NK's rocketry program advancing at rapid rate. Look what where NK is, if they have to do flight tests, they're not going to fly over PRC, RU or SKR due to geopolitics. Sometimes they're sensible and do lofted trajectories into sea of Japan, but every once in a while they need to overfly some land for proper tests, and JP is what's left. Historic grievances a bonus. Extra bonus JP can't test/overfly back without landing in countries above. Geography of missile tests gets interesting, India has to do it over ocean where foreign sigint ships can gather data, US/RU/PRC all have large empty regions to test inland away from prying eyes.
> consistent falling prices would be deflation, which tends to be economically disastrous as it rewards doing nothing

I hear this all the time, and I see little evidence that it's as strong an effect as everyone says.

Cars, computers, and phones are all deflationary (at last in normal times). And people seem to buy them just fine.
They don't raise mortgage rates, they raise the rates at which banks pay each other for overnight loans. But this tends to affect all other rates indirectly, including mortgages. They've only got one tool and it's a giant sledgehammer. From the looks of it they're trying to crash the economy, but avoid wrecking it so badly they can't start it up again.

The Fed can't do anything about housing supply. Mostly it's zoning regulations preventing it, lower mortgages to bring out the buyers might help a little but even when the market was roaring we hardly built anything.
Show HN: FilterBadRecruiters – Check Gmail for 3rd party recruiter domains
FilterBadRecruiters is a Google Apps Script that processes new messages looking for unwanted email from known third party recruiters. When a match is found, a reply is sent informing the sender that the message is being reported as spam and will not be read. The script then logs matches to a spreadsheet and updates a pie chart displaying what percentage of these type of messages were sent from each domain.

The script fetches the list of known third party recruiters and the contents of the email reply message from URLs specified in the script variables. You can easily modify these URLs to point to your own data or use mine.

Features
* Searches your gmail account for messages that meet the search criteria, looking for sender domain matches against a list of known bad third party recruiters.
* Searches the email headers of messages not matched to a known recruiter for a string indicating they were sent "via" a known shotgun approach mailing list service.
* Applies a label to message(s) that meet the criteria, reports the message(s) that meet the criteria as spam, sends an automatic reply, and outputs details of the message to a reporting spreadsheet,
* The spreadsheet is created if it doesn't exist.
* Messages that do not match the criteria are cached so they are only checked every six hours. However, if the number of new known recruiter domains or via domains change from the last time the script runs, the cache is cleared so that all messages in the search range are checked for the new domains.
* The reporting spreadsheet also contains a chart tab where a pie chart displays what percentage of all the logged messages were sent from each domain. You can take a look at my reporting spreadsheet on the link of the readme on github
* The script can easily be customized by changing variables to do things like use a different list of known bad third party recruiters, a different canned reply, or a different search range.
* When run, the script creates some variables in the user section of the built in script properties that are specific to your user account. These properties include the current version of the script you are using and the identifier of the spreadsheet in your Google Drive folder once it has been created.
Mathematicians find hidden structure in a common type of space
> Does NK just get free reign to fire missiles towards other countries?

As long as North Korea's regional neighbors and the United States do little more than condemning the launches, yes. We know these launches pose a risk to civilians on the ground, but little can be done to stop them short of bombing the launch sites. And bombing North Korea would be an act of war, and the consequences would be unpredictable. [1] There are rumors that CYBERCOM has been able to stop North Korean missile launches in the past with covert cyberattacks, but whether that's true or not would be classified. [2]

If the U.S. wanted to respond in kind, it could launch a missile from a ship in the Sea of Japan. The missile could be programmed to overfly Pyongyang, and crash into the Yellow Sea. Though China would probably deploy watercraft to recover the missile's debris to study its technology, if it doesn't detonate.

[1] Note that North Korea did bomb the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong back in 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Yeonpyeong?uses...). Two civilians and two soldiers were killed, and a number of people were wounded, but the shelling did not trigger a conflict. North Korea also sank a South Korean warship the same year, killing 46, and it didn't cause a war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROKS_Cheonan_sinking?useskin=v...).

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-mi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/north-korea-mi...
Well, by this logic it's way less ok to be capitalist and imperialist
Ah bless. The person who waded in to deny that there was any moral panic amongst the book-banners and explain that the real problem was doctors being evil orgasm-denying psychopaths for performing the operations their patients demanded wants to talk about awareness of facts.
We do use the output of a "normal" search algorithm to feed our LLM context :)

Did you use Expert mode for your search? Only Expert mode is GPT-4 and its code quality is vastly superior to that of the default mode.
Damn, you're right.
And no matter if copyrighted, openai will steal it and resell it.
In regards to whether simply leaving the jurisdiction is grounds for tolling the statute of limitations, see 18 USC 3290, which is a one-sentence law reading:

No statute of limitations shall extend to any person fleeing from justice

It can be reasonably argued that leaving the country after having committed the offense is fleeing from justice. I'm not aware of any supreme court ruling on the matter though, and I am not a lawyer.

Edit: Thanks for the link!
For making the interview time fun for the interviewer.
Nothing? To this day, I don't understand the concept of "library management" and Lightroom as a tool. Might be simply because I'm neither a photographer nor a digital artist. In decades of doing all kinds of ad-hoc, amateur, one-off works, the amount of photos and designs I collected is entirely manageable with default filesystem tools (explorer.exe) - or Linux shell, or Emacs, if I feel like being fancy.

In fact, I seem to be developing apprehension towards any kind of domain-specific "library managers". I tolerate game launchers/library managers like Steam or Origin or whatever, but that's only because it's the blessed way to legally buy games without having to purchase physical objects (CDs, DVDs, ...). But other than that?

For images, in the past I used ACDSee; these days, I use IrfanView. Both have some library management capabilities. I don't use them. Same is the case for music - it's fine of the player wants to provide virtual collections based on metadata, but if it tries to use them to abstract away the file system, I'll throw it out and look for a replacement. To date, I don't use Calibre for dealing with my Kindle, because every time I checked, the app was 90% about library management - meanwhile, all I actually want from it is the ability to convert between ebook formats.
Bitcoin chose a certain set of tradeoffs, and other coins choose differently. It has its advantages. There's no need to project such negativity onto other projects for making different design choices.
> Self-Debugging with code explanation consistently improves the baseline by 2-3%

I’ll admit that I only have had time so far to read the abstract, and I’m not sure what their baseline is, but a 2-3% improvement doesn’t sound like a quantum leap forward that you’d expect from the title. Heck, I’d think that’s likely within expected sampling errors.

I’m not sure about others’ experience and, while I keep reading articles showing impressive seeming examples, my few forays into attempting to get ChatGPT to write code were actually completely useless. Even with follow on prompts to correct itself.

The other day I asked it what covid case fatality rates were in 2020. After all the various opinions at the time, I was curious to see what it was pre-vaccine. It would alternately tell me that it couldn’t give me data for 2020 because it only had data up to Sep. 2021, and then give me wildly varying numbers.

Is this a Rocko’s Basilisk trying to lure me into a false sense of security… haha.
I actually enjoyed Caprica more than BSG, since the worldbuilding was so much richer and more interesting to me. Particularly the roots of the conflicts between the colonies and the eventual rise of the Cylons. It felt like it was a better paced show overall, again imo. Though I did enjoy BSG, too!