skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can make infinite copies of Windows BOB, but we haven't made as many copies as we have of more useful software. You don't have to delete it for there to be a selection pressure—you just have to copy it less. Extinction is not necessary, only a difference in propagation rates. You end up with more of what propagates more. I keep saying this and you keep ignoring it.

"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean the guy who never has kids but lives to 120. It's the one who has ten kids before he dies. That's the lineage that ends up dominating the population.
There's a bit of "accentism" in Spain. Speaking with a southern accent will (wrongly) mark you as "lazy", "uncultured" or "unsophisticated" to some people.

I was born in Castile, so I usually speak "accentless" standard Spanish, but my mother comes from Extremadura, just a couple hours drive to the south, and when I speak to her I involuntarily switch to the extremaduran accent. I don't notice it but other people hearing me for the first time are shocked by the sudden switch.

Extremaduran accent has the same aspirated x and s mentioned in the article, so for "This is Extremadura" I'll tend to say "Ehto é Ehtremaura" to my mother and "Esto es Extremadura" to other people. Another curiosity is that many of the original "conquistadores" (Cortés, Pizarro) hailed from Extremadura.
Ironically, Duchamp's arguably most well-known art piece Fountain (the signed urinal) was also his friend's, not his.
I found myself wanting something like this the other day trying to query some BigQuery tables I was unfamiliar with.

With that being said, from my vantage, the value of a tool like this is writing the SQL query for me that I can understand, verify, and reuse.

Since it doesn't look you do that, and only return charts or "answers", you're locking users into an analytics solution rather than a tool that provides flexibility to any traditional BI solution.

Perhaps this is explained by a difference in target audience.
It's worth going back a decade and looking at US plans for Afghanistan's mineral wealth during Obama's first term in office, which coincided with increasing US military personnel in the country to 100,000.

Department of Defense report pointing to several trillion dollars worth of minerals (2010):
https://www.reuters.com/article/afghanistan-mining-idUSLDE65...

State Department plan for "New Silk Road" (2011):
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/cl...

The latter was also about promoting the TAPI pipeline route for moving Central Asian oil and gas directly to the Indian Ocean, a project once meant largely for Chevron and Exxon (major operators in Kazakhstan) exports but which now appears to have been taken over by China:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/china-joint-statem...

China's approach to obtaining deals in Afghanistan appears to be strictly economic and diplomatic; there are no Chinese soldiers in the region.
>>Is there anyone here who can give an example of something fraudulent that is hard to catch?

Someone in control of the checkbook at a medical facility who starts a shell company with some innocuous sounding name (i.e. Smith's Medical Supply) and and regularly submits bills in low enough amounts that they don't raise concerns - which of course is relative to the size of the company - but say you run a practice that has $50M in annual revenues, it would be quite easy to send in bills for supplies that only amount to 1-2K per invoice over a long period of time.

This kind of thing happens a lot, and without actually contacting every single vendor, verifying they are real, and verifying every thing that was purchased, can be very difficult to root out - especially with supplies that get used up, as opposed to hard assets they are supposed to be around for a while.

When the numbers are small enough, nobody even bothers to verify them - even though over years they can add up to a significant amount of losses.

I hear about stories like this all the time - it is pretty common.
Not exactly. The NEL likely pushed publishers to file, but that wasn't what the case was about. The IA lost when they admitted they had no controls in place with library partners - meaning they were not even doing CDL as they themselves defined. And, they had a clear profit motive, the worst of which is linking to BWB (imagine if they had linked to a publishers site for the print copy instead).

The IA playing fast and loose is where the fault lies. CDL implemented as defined could have been an interesting case, but that's not what this was.
I was taught slide rule basics in 8th grade. The teacher had one of those giant slide rules that was mounted above the blackboards. Then in freshman year of high school I got my first calculator (a Bowmar "Brain"). Every now and then I grab one my old slide rules and do some calculations, just for the fun of it.
Isn't that completely contradictory to their supporting free speech mission?

It sure looks like someone has hijacked Elon and Jack and run off with those operations.

Maybe you have to add the year to the search query to find search results from before when Donny got kicked out fairly for serial disrespect.

Become a more effective censorship apparatus.
It's not a POSIX standard, but most implementations of find support "-samefile" as a more straightforward shortcut, like:

find / -samefile /path/to/some/hard/link
Indeed, they failed big time. Apparently some BaFin employees were also trading the shares of Wirecard (and presumably other companies they were supposed to oversee).

There's a pretty good book on the whole sad story: Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth by the FT journalist that did most of the digging.

If journalists and short sellers hadn't kept pushing (against Wirecard, auditors, and BaFin), Wirecard might have survived a bit longer, managed to acquire Deutsche Bank, and then (with the merged balance sheet) gotten away with it. Mind boggling.

However, I must say, after reading that book and several articles about the whole thing, I am still not quite sure how they could keep up the fraud for so long, what exactly happened there, and who benefited.

(I suspect that crypto firms have taken over a lot of Wirecard's "business"...)
Fun fact: that infamous scene from Jurassic Park featured a real file manager for Unix, known as fsn.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)
If you're making a twitter clone (as Substack is) then scraping the twitter follower graph seems useful. And that's public, obviously.
Good list, categorized across culture, economy, politics, science, technology, etc.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s
Honestly I'm generally less concerned about the real classics, leaving aside in-copyright translations. With 70,000 books in Project Gutenberg alone, that would be 10 books for each town resident just for a single copy of each book.

Personally, I've even gotten rid a lot of my classics from school that were on my shelves at home. I can just download them if I want them.
Move any amount of equipment up a mountain or on public land and say that again.
Can’t speak about Germany for sure, but usual euro way is you don’t need to do taxes at all if you do not run a business. Employer fills it for you. And getting a doing-business-as-individual is as simple as filling a form at revenue service website telling you’re starting a business. Then you get a tax ID to put on your invoices next day.

If you sell as an individual, it’s just you selling random stuff that you don’t need to pay taxes for. Once you do this as a business, you declare it as such and notify the state about it.
Legos were mostly for boys.

I was only a bit jealous as I had a "rival toy" which offered more possibilities: it was 2 round parts with a thin part in the middle. It offered shear tolerance in this thin part, so you have complex fractal like shapes in a X-Y plane by gently bending it to go from 2 to 3 hooks.

You could also grow these shapes in the Z plane by embedding the thin part of other pieces inbetween the round parts, snapping it into place.

I can't remember the name ATM, but here's a picture: http://www.filipiknow.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Pinoy-L...
Many other countries have similar laws. Normally get's solved by buying an existing business...
Edgewood Arsenal Human Experiments
They have released it in beta and people won't just like everyone didn't go to Mastodon. Social media is only as valuable as their users and people won't start from zero when they have millions of followers on an existing platform. Especially not to a new platform that has to go through all the same issues with hate speech, censorship and other subjective issues that really difficult when you seriously think about them. Look at how Patreon randomly started banning users.
Hostile government. But in reality every country does some level of this.
Feels like this article should also mention reflinks.
Someone in a previous comment on LLM research said that according to what he knew about LLM research that we were in a local maximum that no further improvement was likely possible.

I disagreed with him, and this article is evidence that is in favor of my point. If research like this continues to move forward LLMs will improve at a rapid rate.

Different threads attract different groups of people with different areas of expertise. So I will sort of reiterate this topic here as I'm interested. What are most people's thoughts on this "local maximum" thing have we actually hit a dead end? Especially given the proliferation of effort towards producing research like the one showed in the topic here.
There is no investment other than an MoU. Any foreign organization in Afghanistan (in reality Kabul) is operating on a bare bones capacity, and anyone who had the knowhow in Afghanistan has taken asylum, emigrated legally or illegally, or is in the processes of either asylum or emigration.
Many end up painting over the "shine of real wood"

Also in some applications, you don't want real wood - it scratches too easily, to the point where a cheap laminate piece would look better (I have a very nice wood dining table I bought in July, but my cats won't stay off of it)
> Weirdly enough you can mod it to charge with a USB-C PD cable instead of the thinkpad one.

Not weird at all, you just need a 20V decoy board, those can be bought for about a dollar a piece on ali. They obviously won't transfer data. It just so happens that the barrel charger module is in a nice separated large block of plastic that can be hollowed out to fit the usb c socket inside.
It's not particularly fair to single out the Nerherlands here. These operations seem to be more or less allowed to continue in the US and Canada as well. The dutch don't have nearly the standing that America has.
> But with CDL, the IA does not loan out more digital or physical copies than the IA has purchased. The Internet Archive also argues that there’s no evidence this lending has affected the publishers’ profits, which the judge concluded was irrelevant to the underlying legal matter.

This is true. The judge is saying that the legal matter is different from the actual possibility of harm.

Has anyone considered the possibility of bringing a "suit in equity" petition against these companies to provide proof that there are profits lost and then requesting that case regarding the legal matter of copyright violation be put on hold pending the petition? Since the matter of profit loss is the center piece to the argument, why cant there be some kind of conformation of loss to make these kinds of cases lose merit?
> This isn't news // discussed to death // most everyone recognizes

We are not restricted to "«news»" in that sense, and the submitted "«commentary»" also provides information that was not explicit in past sources. // And part of a matter very much alive. // The case has hit the concept of digital lending on the base of physical possession.
Fairey also lied and judges don't love that much. (But the Warhol estate also has a somewhat related case before the US Supreme Court this year.)
Auditors have access to all the financials, but they only audit a statistically significant sample, because it would be incredibly expensive to audit every transaction.

Fraud can be easily detected if one employee is committing it. Fraud is substantially harder to find if two employees are involved, specifically 2 employees involved in internal controls.

For instance, if you have a policy that all checks paid over $10k require 2 signatures from corporate officers, it’s easy to catch a check with one officer forging the name of a second in order to siphon money to his 3rd party shell company.

But if both officers make a shell company, they can post the check as usual, and the check would pass auditor checks unless they looked into the specific corporation being paid, which may be out of scope if it’s a relatively small transaction.

Ultimately, you don’t need assurance that the financials don’t have fraud, you want assurance that they’re materially correct. Whether the company lost 10k to fraud or waste or incompetence is almost irrelevant for the investor, because the company has 10k less money. Obviously they’d prefer it not be due to fraud, but the impact on the financials is more or less the same.

Source: am a CPA
Libraries have always curated their collections, someone is always going to disagree with what was trashed, but that’s what the library of congress is for not various independent institutions. So no this isn’t removing knowledge from human memory.

That article is extremely slanted, but it’s hardly describing some new phenomena. Library shelf space isn’t free and people keep printing new books. Similarly libraries need to do renovations etc. With ~125,000 libraries in the US alone some will be vastly worse than average no matter what your criteria are.

So if you expect all libraries to save thousands of old boy’s life magazine from the 50’s they are going to need to give something else up or you’re going to need to write a huge check with some stipulations. The same is true of books from the 1700’s, there wasn’t any particular value to the books that were trashed even if a few where more memorable.
Salesfore asked me to implement a sorting algorithm (final round) for an intern position and I said I wouldn't because I just couldn't. It was after other multiple questions.
And then the store doesn’t have half of your items so they replace the hash browns with fries and refund the milk.
I recently wanted to look something up related to Mesopotamia. Well into the weeds of scholarship. The only transcription of the text I wanted as far as I could determine was in a book written in the 1930s of which there are only a handful of copies. A local university library had it thankfully. The author died half a century ago.

While it would technically be legal here for a library to copy one of their copies for archival purposes should it finally disintegrate, the knowledge is on the precipice of being lost. There's absolutely no justification whatsoever for that book still being under copyright.

I doubt harms like that were even considered at all by my own government here in Canada when the copyright term was recently extended 20 years. For some reason when people think copyright they think pulp trash of the last few years. Maybe copyright should only be a few years then?
You're starting a bit late: the "Tea Party" movement was already doing the lack of civility thing well before Trump. And the "Tea Party" movement was just thinly-veneered racism, prompted by electing Obama. So maybe we could re-write "the decline of civility" as "the re-emergence of racism".
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was part of his plan, though. If he appears technically incompetent in a public fashion, it means his opponents are likely to underestimate him. As Sun Tzu said, when you are strong, appear weak.
There's no such thing as too cold, only incorrect clothing. If you have sufficient clothing you can be quite warm at any temperature.
The focus on NYT best seller type stuff is relatively recent. Now, libraries spend large amounts of their budgets on those types of books.
Of course you blindly throw out 30% of the resumes -- you want to filter out the unlucky candidates. :P
Russian Foreign Policy – Russia and the Rise of the Rest
Oh, I realize libraries sometimes get rid of books.

I thought you were suggesting they somehow got paid by someone for destroying books, when you said "have been pulped (literally, this is a source of income for libraries)". I may have misunderstood.

But sure, libraries get rid of books. Eventually the shelves are full, there's no way to get new books without getting rid of some old books. I don't understand what y'all are suggesting the alternative would be. I suppose expanding storage space forever, if you had the budget, could be an alternative.

But very old books that, say, have not been checked out in many years, are _not_ deemed by experts to be of particular value (you started out wanting experts determination of value to be the _only_ criteria for selection, right? I don't think it should be the only one, but I do think it's one component), _and_ exist on library shelves elsewhere in the region)... don't seem worth spending storage budget on to me. budgets are limited, any money you are spending on storing books nobody needs or wants is money you aren't spending elsewhere. The most challenging part can be last one, making sure at least some library in the region keeps at least one copy, involving cooperation between different libraries. They work on it.
> I hate installing apps on my phone

That is why I do not have Whatsapp, Messengar or Insta in the first place. Using them through web browser is not good experience as well.
TAPI is a pipe dream (pun very much intended). It's been a Pakistani national security goal since the 1990s. As such, it's not surprising that Pakistan's closest ally announced their interest.
Plenty of things aren't necessarily evidences. Just because you have access to account statements telling you you got a bunch of money coming in from person X for provision of service Y and a matching contract doesn't mean that the contract has been fulfilled or that the service was worth the money.

Same with picking a supplier - there are processes in place that try to assess quality, speed, price, effort, etc, but in the end it's humans making decisions, humans with bias and the ability to lie and make untrue statements as to how they made their decision.

Then there are the usual money laundering techniques, eg art dealing. You could easily spend a few million $$ on art for, say, a big office. And the VP's niece might be an artist that can demand that on the open market.
But why did those develop in Europe, instead of, say, China?
Study: ChatGPT outperforms MTurk by 3x at 1/20th of the cost
Tesla to build Shanghai factory to make Megapack batteries
It's the wrong take-away to say all regulations only hurt small sellers. Do you want to give up regulations on child labor, or worker safety, or foods and drugs? If not, how come, considering it all hurts only small sellers?

The problem isn't the concept of regulation, but the follow-through on loopholes. By doing away with regulations you'll decrease quality of life for most people. Instead we have to find ways to react to loopholes in a fair way. It's not impossible, we've done it before, see the previously-mentioned examples!
Unless jarvis comes from something older. Jarvis may be a computer name from early scifi. Disney might not own it any more than they do "Thor".
This of course sounds totally stupid to us and we are right to criticize Twitter for blocking crawlers because a request is a request is a request.

But I’m pretty sure Twitter under any ownership would take measures to stop what they consider “api abuse”. Twitter is notoriously horrible when it comes to being reasonable about it’s api. Let’s not pretend Elon did this…
No, nobody can and that’s the point. Except the flaw in your thinking is your applying what happened in the past to the present. Nobody has every automated a human brain before, they mostly automated muscles away. This time is different so therefore you cannot assume that since a welding robot didn’t destroy the world that AI won’t. Automation and AI are not the same and we should quit calling it as such.
I suggest not engaging in hyperbole.
> seems useful

How so?
Apply the same logic to any kind of asset. Why should real estate, ownership of land, or any other material posession be inherited through generations? Why not let it revert to the public domain upon the death of the owner?
Most of my Ikea stuff I end up customizing in some way. Got a giant toy box drawer - cut a big hole in it and it's a perfect litter box enclosure. Hung a Kallax on the wall, and used my own brackets to line up with the studs. Have Besta cabinets in my kitchen and living room, and used my own hardware.
> Really? 5 years? That seems really harsh. Is it all business failures or does it have to be due to mismanagement?

There’s a big difference between bankruptcy and business failure. Plenty of businesses fail without entering bankruptcy, they’re wound down responsibly and their creditors are repaid in full.

If a company fails due to bankruptcy, then it means that people who lent money to that business are out of pocket, and end up paying for the failure.

The whole point of “limited liability” companies is that the owners and management are shielded from creditors in the event of bankruptcy (hence the “limited liability”). So a five year ban (which is true in most countries) from directing another limited liability company is reasonable, it don’t prevent your from running a business, only from running a limited liability business, because there’s now evidence that in the event of failure you’ll leave your creditors high and dry.

Ultimately the privilege of running a limited liability company, where the state promises to protect you from your creditors if things go wrong, is just that, a privilege. If you prove yourself unable use that privilege responsibly, then that privilege is temporary taken away. To be clear, the privilege removed is protection from creditors by the state, if your business fails. You can absolutely start another business, it’s just that the state won’t protect you if you fail.
There was something like this with bonds pre 2008 but it didn’t work out like you suggest.

Rating agencies were, and are, paid by bond issuers are rated a bunch of synthetic real estate backed bonds as very safe. But then on top of that, certain of these bonds were insured—-notably by AIG. However, AIG just rubber stamped the ratings and ended up going bankrupt when the crisis hit.

The real mismatch of incentives is one layer deeper than your comment suggests. An insurance company CEO can do very well for himself underpricing insurance. The business grows as premiums roll in and he collects a bunch of bonuses. When the SHTF he could just resign and collect his golden parachute.
I don't see where I imply that supply is fixed. I don't think that makes sense even from a VC point of view, since the company they fund is itself another manufacturer or producer of goods, thereby increasing the supply.
Curious, this seems like a good place to deploy AI tooling. If I’m involved in internal controls, I’ll know what the auditors look for.

If an AI can augment the auditors to find more suspicious transactions such as to companies with no employees, or conflicts of interest - I could probably find more fraud.