skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tornado Cash is a document, published on github

I think this misunderstanding is causing the confusion: Tornado Cash is also a running service which North Korea used to launder money. That’s what was sanctioned, not the source code – if Matt Green wanted to run his own copy he’d be free to do so but no doubt would want to limit it to his students unless he really enjoys spending time in court. The guy who was arrested was specifically charged with receiving funds so it seems likely that the charges are going to be based on him personally receiving a cut of the transaction fees the NK ransomware ring paid.

This also seems reasonable in the larger context: they must have situations like this frequently where they know funds are linked to criminal activity but haven’t yet identified every person involved on either end of the transaction. They can say account X is verboten before they can identify the true owner.
Students using adaptive curriculums got up to 11% better in math tests
Ah! thanks, I'd been using 'zig --help build-obj' vs 'zig build-obj -h'.

And just to say the WebAssembly support is amazing, well done and thanks!
Hmm but is leaving your data with Microsoft much better than with Google? I'd say no.
I almost never comment here anymore but, well, here we are.

Says something about software people that we find such fascination with recursion.

Also, I can't help but reflect on a brilliant quote from Community:

"Stop being meta. Stop taking everything we do and shoving it up its own ass." -- Jeff Winger

With <3
Human perception is not fully accounted for. My speakers used to crackle right before my cell would ring. Could be something like that. Just because you can't imagine that someone's account as being real doesn't make it not so.
these numbeo numbers are not % spend

you realize salaries in SF are astronomically higher than in Portugal, right?

the income inequality is indeed smaller in Portugal, but that is a different issue, absolute numbers wise Portugal is clearly a lot poorer than US

US doesn't have millions of people in jail for minor drug offenses, where did you get this nonsense from?
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Wait-- so Algorithms, Data Structures, and Complexity is out of date?
> Because what you're doing here definitely smells of agenda pushing, especially because you seem to have no relationship whatsoever to the Stanford community, yet you seem to have very strong opinions about what they should be doing.

Yeah, I thought that list was really stupid (to the point of being amusing), and that's where it would have ended if you hadn't rushed in with the vigorous agenda pushing, defensiveness, projection, etc. I also get the impression you're probably also conflating me other others.

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I'm getting from your posts is that you're from the outside looking in, and what you see inside makes you really mad (or I guess, amused?), but otherwise you have no real relationship to Sandford or academia whatsoever, is that true?

I'm a literal dog on the internet.

Honestly, you seem to be the one who's "really mad." It feels a lot like a police apologist who insists it must be "just a few bad apples," and everyone must also understand it that way as well.

> As a professor who didn't get to eat lunch until 4:00 yesterday because people were in my office until that time asking for random help...

So, in other words, based on your example, there's a decent chance they'd be open to help, at least a little.

> I can easily see how an English professor would not have time to do a grammar and spell checks for for the whole campus.

That's a weird bit of black and white thinking, and seems to be based on the assumption that one must be totally closed to outside requests for help or open to helping literally anyone with any trivial thing.
You are correct, but just some additional information:

Those cookie banners are illegal under GDPR, btw.

Real "Legitimate Interest" does not even require consent, and you can't claim that tracking or marketing is "legitimate interest". An example of legitimate interest is keeping your address in the records after a purchase, or storing a receipt for accounting reasons.
Most recycling facilities already sort everything with better success than 99% of humans can.

And also like you said, most things are not commercially viable to recycle, so a lot of things people put in blue bins ends up in landfills anyway.

Humans should only be used for a very rough split of garbage - e.g. separate yard waste from other trash, and that's it.
That's quite high isn't it? Where does one get $25.80 per thousand impressions?
Glad to see a Zig Build for Raylib.
I am using Zig to compile most of my C stuff now as I learn Zig. This makes Zig much more attractive to anyone considering learning it.
It's easier than Make and CMake for me.
I've always wanted to buy a copy .. but other books end up getting my attentio instead
What's the difference between a photo I generated with AI vs , say, one I edited using Adobe's AI-driven toolkit?

This is a great debate and the right answer here for Sony (and everyone) is to have an open dialogue with creators and consider new sorts of categories and classifications so that we may revel in the spice of life – instead of letting it undermine/destroy the indefinable nature of art!
Wikipedia seems to say Treasure Island is the world's largest natural island in a lake on an island in a lake. Not sure which source is right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island_(Ontario)
From 2 days ago (119 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532479
> To provide a clearer example: A US based hotel chain would be free to rent a room to the developers for a vacation, but not for a meetup to work on Tornado Cash code.

This sounds very wrong to me. Do you have a source for the idea that sanctions apply based on the purpose of the transaction, not the identity of the entity making it?
I’m not sure that such browser extensions resolve websites from accommodating users with eyestrain/headaches. At the very least, a website with a shrill design should be compatible with the browsers’ reader modes, and the website in question isn’t.
Thanks!

The winner wouldn't have been my first pick against some of these. However, some have a "generated" quality to them, but that is probably the expectation of being fooled again, or heavy post.
I'm not saying you can't, you are of course free to do whatever you want. I'm saying it doesn't make much sense (to me).
"Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught in a race to deploy as quickly as possible without adequate safety measures, and what it would mean to upgrade our institutions to a post-A.I. world."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ

A very succinct quote from this presentation, by Yuval Noah Harari:
"What nukes are to the physical world... AI is to the virtual and symbolic world."
Are the freedom of speech absolutists out in force on this one? If not, why?
Ask HN: Why are meetings necessary before evaluating a service?
It seems that more and more Saas companies insist on you booking a meeting with them prior to being able to evaluate or purchase the service.

Why is this necessary? It seems like this would cause a lot of potential customers to bounce.
You might be able to understand what a convolutional network "is" without calculus, but you'll be woefully unequipped to ask even obvious questions like "what if we put Fourier transforms around the convolutional layers" (a cursory search suggests it provides the expected speedup but is for some reason not a standard thing to do?). As someone outside of the industry, I'd also imagine any effort to explain what NNs are actually "learning" (or I suppose dually, how to design network architectures) is going to have a lot of fruitful overlap with signal processing theory, which is heavy on calculus, linear algebra, probability, etc.
> despite citing no sources and just brushing aside my counter arguments by saying I'm wrong and repeating its arguments.

Sounds similar to debating people that on places like Reddit
People are nice? But most likely they want a good relationship with me in case they get problems. Also they benefits from being able to tell their customer they support the project.
Pretty sure the license means you do not have to pay royalties, not that you are disallowed from paying royalties
I'm not making an argument against it, I'm just saying I already spend an insane amount of my money subsidizing kids, and the US already has pretty good policies for this.
Wonderful progress but.... It says for enforcement that "failure to comply with the law would result in a charge of deceptive trade practices" should the company not provide farmers with "parts, software, firmware, tools and documentation."

How enforceable is this? John Deere could say no, we're not going to provide any of these to Colorado since they are an Illinois company. Colorado would have to go after John Deere but.. who would be the focal point of that enforcement? John Deere retailers?

It's possible they might just pull out of Colorado... I don't see how Colorado could enforce this against a company HQ'd in Illinois.
That's good to hear, how does it work in practice? Is it basically running the same training as from scratch, but with only the new data, on a separate machine to produce a new version which is then replacing the old production version? Is part of MLOps starting a new training session each week, checking if the loss function looks ok, and then redeploying it?

I still think of how humans work. We don't get retrained from time to time to improve, we learn continually as we gain experience. It should be doable in at least some cases, like classification where it's easy to tell if a label is right or wrong.
Not by Matz, but there are paid versions of Ruby out there.
You probably already know about Dogme 95, but for anybody who doesn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95

I can imagine more ideas of purity like this emerging as a consequence.
I disagree. A bad situation can be ignored, a catastrophic situation cannot. This inevitably leads to revolutions.
> Statistically, humans fair better with a rich tapestry of relationships

correlation is not causation
Ask HN: Why are HN users so against Bitcoin?
I understand the crypto-currency market saw a sudden increase of capital which lead to scams and fraud. While this is terrible, but this is a side-affect of new technology, even something as old as email, still has this problem. People even today get scammed over email by bad actors pretending to be the Government or some other entity.

I'm not talking about crypto-currency at large, but just bitcoin.
But is the last lake on an island?
No, I never found something that was even close to that smooth, convenient, and efficient, and geared toward screen-collaboration first.

What everyone else offers is collaboration, as an extension of screen 'showing' (virtualized projection), which itself is packaged only as an extension of a teleconference.
I made an online course over a 6 month period and then did a little over $40k in revenue the first year. It’s slowed down quite a bit now. Haven’t decided if I’ll do it again or not. It was quite a bit of work, and having a full time job and young family, not sure the money is worth it.
I built a Charades-game [1] for both iOS [2] and Android [3]. Launched last year and just recently got to around 2k a month, some months like December are of course better than let's say September because of holidays like New Year etc.

It took about 10-12 months reaching those numbers, and I'd say we still have lot's of room for improvement. It's also very low maintenance, but highly scalable. What I do is basically localise the game to as many big languages as I can, and then throw some ASO on it and hold my fingers. Haven't spent any dollars at all on the marketing otherwise.

[1] https://yangmeistudios.com/games-and-apps/charades
[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/charades-what-am-i/id159211843...
[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yangmeistu...
They’re over Being Real
> I have spent a lot of time since my wife’s death trying to make sense of this paradox. In the high-tech, evidence-driven world of contemporary medicine, it was a dream that led a physician to conclude that my wife was dying. How was that possible?

Here's a sobering hypothesis: it is not unheard of for nurses and physicians to be murderers and to target their patients. I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but this claim is choosing to trust a physician who is alleging that patient-reported dreams are a predictor of death.

I call bullshit.

My wife has been helping her father care for her 104 year-old grandfather. He lost his wife, my wife's grandmother, several years ago. He has dreams and hallucinations about his late wife on a routine basis ... and we're starting to think he's never going to pass.

So if my doctor told me that my wife has less than 24 hours to live, based a dream that she reported, and then it actually happened... I think I would demand an autopsy to confirm it was the cancer. Could have been coincidence, maybe the physician was telling the truth ... but call me skeptical.

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
The website was just updated to say that Sony removed the photo
That uses the API as far as I’m aware.
I get it now.

Americans think "communism" is an icky political thing that Soviets were coerced to like, unlike "freedom and democracy (TM)", worthy abstract ideals that all Americans (nay, all Humans) should rightfully worship naturally and organically.

It's pretty amusing!
Oh I wasn't aware of bare hull. That would actually be pretty cool. Always thought of building my own boat, but the hull part of it would be a deal killer.

But yeah. Most likely better to just buy a "used" boat if you want one of these new models... and save $100k!
Márgarét, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

– Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1880
Neutron activation will make things radioactive?
The apps have over 250k installs you can see on the Marketplace listings
the latest southpark season (S 26 currently) episode 4. was a legend of an episode for anyone interested
how often do your workers crash? i rely heavily on sidekiq and don't think I see this very often, if ever.
Not sure why one would need to make a distinction between small islands and not-small islands. Islands can have rivers, e.g. Thames in Britain.
No offense, but you sound like one of those pushy parents. If she enjoys it then she'll figure it out on her own. Why does it need to be forced? I too was writing code at that age and managed on my own, all I needed was an Internet connection, a warm home, and food on the table.

Like other comments say, forcing it is a surefire way to kill any interest. And giving your daughter autonomy over her own learning is a very valuable lifeskill.
Just as a reminder: The original stated task was to protect against "untrusted intermediaries" and "patchy network connections", and in particular to make "sure that the *intermediaries* haven't added, changed or removed any posts in the feed." … which can perfectly well be done with simple signed, timestamped, indexed posts and having the reading client app check the signature and post indices.

In contrast, this here, which is the only thing the blockchain struckture really adds:

> The signer (malicious or not) can resign an old message & effectively overwrite a previous message

… is a rather radical shift of the goalpost, as the only capability the blockchain really adds is to protect against modification not by untrusted intermediaries (which was the purpose and which would already be covered without a blockchain) but by the legitimate owner/editor of the feed.

In other words: The only thing the blockchain adds is that it makes it impossible for YOU as the user to edit YOUR OWN posts. I'm not sure that's something most people in the social network context (as opposed to, say, a financial transaction ledger) would see as a feature and not an anti-feature.
LinkedGPT uses ChatGPT API and is still free. ChatGPT API is cheap
We recently launched LinkedGPT, a Chrome extension for LinkedIn which allows to write post and comments. Normally when we use API's, we try to charge for this, but we found ChatGPT API to be relatively cheap.

We launched without a paywall even when some competitors have one.

This is a game changer.
That’s true, I’ve only run up to 30B. My understanding was they’re limited to a context window of 2048 tokens based on their training and stuff like llama.cpp has an even smaller input context. You can quickly run over that if you’re doing things like appending a result set to a complex prompt. But if others have working examples of using LLama models with large prompts, I’d be interested to see them.
I guess the reason of Amazon's stock going up while Google's stock going down might be that no one expected anything from Amazon/AWS in generative AI space yet, while everyone already expected Google to launch something like Bard for search engine and when launched, it was not as per market's expectation that had priced the value already. Also, Google has a potential of losing large search market to Bing and thus losing the revenue. While Amazon with this launch does not have the same story, it might (or might not) help them to gain more market in a new space but might not lose the existing ones, at-least not the major revenue source like search for Google.
Essentially every statically typed language contains runtime errors that can be costly too.

Erlang was designed to achieve 9 nines of uptime. It achieved this without static typing across very large applications. The fact that this is a regular occurrence with Erlang disproves the idea that a lack of types is fundamentally unsafe.

Static types are most useful with monolithic application design. They counter your massive ball of code growing too complex and the complete lack of introspection at runtime. They attempt to handle the problem that any error crashes your entire system.

Erlang uses a different approach.

First, it uses safe datatypes. You aren’t going to crash because you chose a 32-bit integer and rolled it over (something a type system won’t actually help with). This is maximally likely to corrupt user data without even raising any flags. Integer rollover has actually killed people (famous in the Therac-25).

Second, it uses all immutable data, so data sharing is safe. Also something types don’t help with. This is also a maximal risk of data corruption. Incorrectly mutating data has also killed people (also in Therac-25).

Third, it is functional. Toys reduces passing around giant balls of mud. Those balls are unusable disasters unless you add some types. Functional programming with immutable records means that a program can’t accidentally change the types of incoming data. Because the pattern encourages separating data and mutable state, the most common typing accidents are simply avoided.

Erlang is designed with concurrency first. This helps to keep those balls of code even smaller and further reducing the chances of typing errors. And of course, combined with immutable data, we eliminate another set of errors typing does nothing about and that have caused massive damage and probably deaths (a deadlock causing a NYC blackout leaps to mind).

Finally (I probably missed some points), Erlang is designed expecting crashes to happen. Few runtimes are capable of anything close to the elegant Crash handling of BEAM. Instead of fearing crashes, you understand they’re inevitable and embrace them. This means that you are prepared for not just an occasional type error, but will also elegantly handle null exceptions that plague most of the most common statically typed languages.
I’ll bet, the dreambooth paper is really magic haha. Is this your project?
AI judge changes it mind if you close its judgement and click it again. First AI won. Then I accidentally reopened it and I won.

lol
Nintendo Switch SNES controller?

Otherwise personally my daily driver is PS5 DualSense
Thanks. I'm trying. I can't choose to believe that it's going to be ok, so I'm trying to go for a simultaneous and contradictory "nothing really matters in the big scheme of things" kind of nihilism, coupled with "enjoy every day and fight like an enraged chimp to survive". Trying to avoid useless fretting, and channel all the worry into productive activity toward humanity's survival.
I sincerely meant they're adorable! Why would I flag them, dang? >=T
> But it’s an unfortunate and limited perspective.

Well, if something that is not prepared with authentic ingredients is authentic to you we have divergent opinions.
Lowercase m - milli. Uppercase M - mega.
>> But now, suddenly, it's highly likely the problem will be cracked within a decade, and it will be done by corporate R&D teams, by means of scaling up the transformer architectures.

I'll counter that. In the end we need AI that can do training AND inference on edge devices out in the real world. A good (and possibly profitable) example would be robotic pets that can learn (even to understand words) and interact with their owners like real animals, but don't need to go to the vet or eat and poop. Big companies relying on huge compute resources are not even aiming at this type of thing. They're too busy using their "scale" to even bother looking at smaller but interesting methods or solutions.
How do you get enterprise customers to feel comfortable depending on a project run by a very small shop? Like, how do you assure them that their operations will not be impacted if something were to prevent you from working for a while, etc?
To address my own silly questions, yes, one should use the new fixed buffers described in this document: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/wiki/io_uring-and-networki...
What geographic region?
Lots of obsolete humans a bit chafed in this discussion.
Can tell it's AI generated from the weird looking pinky on right hand side of the photo, looks like it tried to do a thumb there instead. Stellar faces and eyes though.
The official contest rules are here [0]. There is actually very little in the rules restricting how the image is created; technically it doesn't even say it has to be a photograph, although that is clearly implied. The rules mostly cover usage and legal rights.

0: https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/ope...
a great tool to test the water with Shopify's Storefront API without having to purchase a Shopify plan!
Composable, customisable, self-hosted AI architecture: meet the Cheshire Cat
So it's a "business management platform", but for pest control businesses ?
>As an AI, I cannot make judgments or take sides in a debate.

Not what I was expecting to hear from an AI judge!
What a get for this artist though.

They've refused the award, but the recognition at having been offered it and then revealed their process is likely worth more in the long run.
The works by Richard PoE, Billal El Harousse and Yi Han really struck a tone with me.

His post suggested that he had won the overall award, not a sub-category.
Avoid these irritating semantics by insisting that "in a lake" be the final prepositional clause in any of these examples. We can all agree that a landmass surrounded by fresh water is an island, right? (And that lakes are uncontroversially fresh water by definition?)
My guesses:

1. Hate for the energy waste

2. Thinking/realizing that it has no significant benefits compared to classic currencies

3. Hating that they missed out
Remarkable things about Battlefield Earth (2012)