skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It surprises me to hear this. Have you used it as I described by writing a descriptive comment first then waiting to see its response?

I only noticed it getting good at this after I was somewhat far along on a project, so I assume it requires an overall knowledge of what you're trying to do first.
"Coinbase could theoretically be forced to separate the exchange and broker portions of the business."

Probably the right outcome. And of course they can choose to move overseas. I assume that will be their decision.
US Paychecks Are Outpacing Inflation
> Not a great look, and it tells you that Apple is willing to compromise on their principles to make a buck.

I think they're holding a good balance here. For example, I do enjoy an alert from the burger slinger down the road when they put up a sale - but I had the choice between opting in or not.

Meanwhile, on Android you don't have the choice, all you can do is mute notifications from that app in the future (and lose out on important notifications) or remove it entirely.
Again, super duper not a lawyer, but my understanding is that everyone has copyright protection over their own voice/face/name.

It’s not like a trademark, which you have to file for. It’s assumed protection.

Edit: after some quick googling, I think it’s inaccurate to call this “copyright” — “personality rights” or “publicity laws” are probably what protect people in this case? But overall, yes, appropriating someone else’s name, image, or likeness is illegal.
AI Image Input
Does there exist an AI that can use an image as an imput?
> If you mean fundamentalism in the strict sense of rigid adherence to a core principle, religious fundamentalists act as they do because the core they follow, scripture

I don't like the way many people use the term "fundamentalism". It started out to describe an early 20th century movement in American Protestantism. And indeed, they were all about following scripture–or at least what they claimed it was saying, since other Christians have always disagreed with their interpretations of it. And I don't have a problem with calling them "Fundamentalists", since that is their own term they chose to describe themselves. Nor do I have a problem using the term to describe (ultra-)conservative Protestants who consciously continue the same approach today, and look back on the early 20th century Fundamentalists in admiration.

The problem is when the term "fundamentalism" gets extended to (ultra-)conservative factions within other religions such as Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, etc. None of those belief systems shares the Protestant belief in "Scripture Alone" (sola scriptura). All three believe in the binding nature of extra-scriptural/post-scriptural traditions. So while "the core they follow, scripture" is an accurate description of the basis of the original Protestant fundamentalism, it ends up misrepresenting "fundamentalism" in other religions, and distorting them through a Protestant-coloured lens. Which is why a lot of scholars of religion object to using the term "fundamentalist", and instead advocate using customised terminology for each religious tradition. Hence people speak of "Islamism" or "jihadist Salafism" or "Khomeinism" rather than "Islamic fundamentalism", for example. Instead of "Catholic fundamentalism", people speak of "Feeneyism" or "radical traditionalism" or "integralism" or so on. Instead of "Jewish fundamentalism", we have terms like "Kahanism". Instead of "Hindu fundamentalism", "Hindutva".

And I know by trying to talk about a "core principle", maybe you are acknowledging that for "non-Protestant fundamentalism", the core might not be "scripture". But, just because Protestant Fundamentalists might be said to have a single core principle, doesn't mean every other religion does. Sometimes there is no single core principle, just an assortment of views. People use "fundamentalism" to describe religious views which have a rather hostile attitude towards what we might call "modern scientific liberalism", and whether you have a single core principle or an amorphous blur of many principles is irrelevant to whether you have such a hostile attitude or not
AWS Account ID: An Attacker's Perspective
In other words, anything can be “both-sided”. Great /s.
> An island is not an expanse of land

Sez who (and why)?
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627712
π , numerically, is only as accurate as you approximate it to.

3 can be used as an approximate for π.
Lots of Israelis on here I know..

Kan and Aidode(israeli AI music generation startup) made a duet with two dead singers:

Ofra Haza + Zohar Argov
https://youtu.be/7ND1Pw6QD_0

got 200k play in a few days, not bad for hebrew only. Very convincing.

Completely lost in non hebrew speaking world (99% of the world), and just as impressive I think.
Copilot X will include that capability.
What? You can ask chatgpt to make a joke about men and it will comply. Ask it to make a joke about women and it will stumble over itself about discrimination and harassment. It can't fucking handle anything that can remotely be contrived as controversial. It fucking sucks for bodies of work with multiple viewpoints. It will literally only explain the "correct" thing and tell you that everything disagreeing with correct thing is wrong.

That's the definition of wokeism.
Ostensibly, yes.

But in practice, Chuck Norris compiles his own personal fork of Linux by hand.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110818104209/http://dearandroi...

[2] https://snipe.net/2009/07/16/if-chuck-norris-had-designed-li...
The problem is fines dont work either since it's just one gov dept fining another.
The price of energy dropped continuously and exponentially from 1873-1973, and ~1973 is the start of the "great stagnation".

The price of energy recently resumed its exponential cost reduction, but only for those who have access to solar energy. Hopefully those cost reductions result in price reductions for the rest of us soon.
Twitter to label tweets that get downranked for violating its hate speech policy
Wow, that is supposedly a straight news article?
Apple is not the only significant company in Cupertino.
AskYourPdf is a great AI tool that turns your document into a chat interface allowing you to ask questions and receive answers from the content of your document.

It saves and allows you to export your chats. Its a great tool for those who work with documents frequently.

Https://www.askyourpdf.com
Why don't we just build DAC plants in the middle of nowhere, where energy is super cheap?

Like we can use geothermal in places were no human civilization exists, or solar in otherwise barren desserts. Yes it is still going to be expensive, but DAC can be done anywhere on the globe, so why not take advantage of this and seek places with very cheap energy sources?
Bad comparison. Ballmer launched Azure, Surface, Bing, Xbox and Office on iOS and Office365. He was also the one go all-in on the cloud and to start the shift towards embracing Open Source. Pretty much everything that people attribute to Nadella either launched or started under Ballmer.
AI helps cyclists work out how much to eat during the Tour de France
I was similarly confused when officially sanctioned GitHub project chose to use a non-github.com domain for their things. But then, we're talking about Microsoft in the end here, who are famous for changing domains every N months at least, particularly when it comes to authentication services.

Remind me, how many domains do you go through again when authenticating with online version of Outlook? Last time I looked, they send you through something like 4 different domains. And emails from Microsoft seemingly are on purpose sent from as many different domains as possible.
Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons
Conflict is part of relationship. The less you spend time with someone, the less intimate it is, not more.

What you seek is the benefits of relationship without any of the drawbacks. But they come as a package deal.
AKA "sticky sessions"

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appl...

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/enable-sticky-sessions-in-hapro...

https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/load-balancing/#session...
Practice makes perfect (particle detectors)
The irony of telling someone to stop giving an opinion. You can smell it. You can taste it!
side note:

What a beautiful blog. Clean design. Great graphics.

More importantly: The lack of Javascript is refreshing. Loads instantly. Works with js disabled too (other than the top-left graphic)
Same thing on my mobile Firefox. I actually went back dozen times, thinking to myself "did I really make this many fuck cards?" before realizing what's happening.

If you're gonna hijack the back button for the purpose of your app, folks, at least make it eventually go to the previous page. Don't make it circular.
Musk tries media blitz to win back Twitter advertisers
As our banking and financial activities move online, it’s worth remembering that the #finance sector is the second most attacked target in the #cybercrime world.

Revolut's been hacked, Citibank US, Wellsfargo, Bank of America, & all the rest. And now the crooks don’t even need a getaway car! Whether you’re using an online bank on your cellphone, trading #forex online, even planning your family budget, using an app, your money is at risk!

This week’s blogpost tells you how to stay safe. Read it!

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> If I was an associate at a VC firm I would jump ASAP

Probably good advice if working at a tech company. Perhaps not such great advice if you’re in VC and want to stay in VC. Things like firm loyalty, length of tenure, etc are all valued much more in VC than in tech companies.

If you try to pull the “switch jobs ever 2 years for a pay bump” trick in VC, you’ll never end up climbing the ranks and will remain on the bottom.
At the extreme risk of judging taste;

The main reason(s) that this was not impressive were

- Drake is VERY easy to imitate. He's little more than a Lil Wayne impression himself.

- "The Weeknd" here definitely sounded like an imitation of the Weeknd, I'm fairly certain that if I wasn't told in advance, I would be like "something is way off, bad day at the studio? Not actually him?"
Isn't using a credit card instead also going into debt to buy groceries? What's the difference? Either way, aren't you not paying any interest if you pay it all on time?
If ethics are the driver, how does France feel about China’s neocolonial expansionism, its geo-ethnic concentration camps and its insistence on terminally annexing a peaceful independent democracy off its shores? And if we’re talking about hypocrisy and reliability, what about China’s hypocrisy and naked lies in diplomacy (decades of promises to reform with zero intent to follow through) and its opportunistic all-spectrum IP theft-by-coercion?

How does France feel empowering and collaborating with a functionally-totalitarian centralized government operating on Han ethnonationalism which sees the existence of large democracies as a threat to its internal affairs (all Xi Jinping Socialist Thought For International Relations global PR campaigns notwithstanding)?

I’d think that even if commitment to those principles turn out to be French agitprop, at least France remembers how it goes to let that kind of governance complex rise to (near-)hegemonic power.
Russian military's review of tactics that work for Ukrainian forces
I can tolerate them on written articles cause I can just speed read to the point but videos are a different story.
> Also that no country is at the same time a continent.

Weird. Why not?

> Are Aussies taught that their country is the actual continent?

Why shouldn't they be, when it obviously is? I think most of the world, not just Aussies, learn that in school.
Shouldn't it say "The Fuck" in many of these cases? "Fuck off" is ok but "Get fuck off" is weird.
Says somebody who has never driven, never seen and never read a review of the cybertruck.
I consider the App Store in iOS part of the core user interface. (As mentioned in my top-level comment, apps can't be installed or manually updated without using the App Store.)

See https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/22/apple-announces-more-ap...
See my reply to other child comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615479
Show HN: Job Board Reserved for Humans Only
I think it sort of depends on what you want.

Every time I deploy a service it goes down for anything between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. When I switch indices, the entire search engine is down for a day or more. Since the entire project is essentially non-commercial, I think this is fine. I don't need five nines.

If reliability was extremely important, scales would tilt differently, maybe cloud would be a good option. A lot of it is for CYA's sake as well. If I mess up with my server, that's both my problem and my responsibility. If a cloud provider messes up, then that's a SLA violation and maybe damages are due.
English has ~1 bit of entropy per character. Replacing a character with a similar symbol adds ~1.5 bits to that character (there aren't leetspeak substitutions for every letter, so I am being a little generous). Random symbol insertions between words adds ~5 bits per ~5 characters (10 numbers, their shift-codes, and the punctuation, average word length is ~5). If every letter of the password is randomly leetspeak that yields 50 bits. If symbols are inserted between each word (average of ~4 in 20 characters) that yields 70 bits, which is barely greater than the 68 bits of entropy per second equivalent of 300M TH/s
Can't one stick a recording device between the headphone and phone?
> this is an infinity percent tax rate

Only if you consider just one year of it, though, unless I'm missing something. You eventually get to deduct 100%, just takes five years.
seems logical in that you can train on more poses/colors/shapes/angles/lighting conditions. but also we could assume that there's a more direct/elegant improvement than using a generative model?
Not sure I understand this post.
It doesn't matter for this hypothetical scheme. It'll always be one or the other outcome, and you will thus look prescient to one half or the other half of the victims. Each day your pool of victims cuts in half but you don't care which half it is. The scheme works regardless of how often the stock actually goes up or down. At the end, there will always be one victim who was given exactly the correct series of predictions by you ahead of time.
The SEC has no power to decide that crypto shouldn't be allowed. That would require legislation from congress. Legislation that is not forthcoming. The SEC is currently doing an end run around this fact by saying that it is a security (which is explicitly legal) but that it can't be registered (which effectively means nobody can sell it). It is a naked power grab by an unelected bureaucracy.
How can we stop the CO2 that plants store from leaking back into the air?
Another spy, Lord Baden Powell, hid maps of enemy installations in a drawing book while pretending to be a naturalist (which he was).

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-founder-of-the-boy...
Unrelated, but I want to know why is it most used in ebanking/epayment?
Yet another self-inflicted wound the Congress of old men do to make the US software industry even less competitive. I would argue this is political because the tech industry is a convenient target at the moment, full of young people who tend to vote against the ruling party. That, and legacy industries don't care too much about R&D anyway.
I think we're in an in-between stage--at some point, it'll be within reach for people who want an uninterrupted view of the night sky to catch a ride into orbit and just look out the window up there.
This story is INCREDIBLY interesting on a lot of levels.

Here's one level: Paul Grewal, the 'head lawyer' referred to in the underlying articles, is a former United States federal (magistrate) judge. He was the judge who oversaw part of the Apple v. Samsung patent cases, some of the biggest technology cases litigated in history.

In other words, he's basically as respected in the legal community as you can possibly imagine, and he made the controversial move of exiting the judiciary to go back into private practice. And now he's clashing with an administrative agency in a public, confident, perhaps brazen way.

Coinbase essentially hired the absolute best person to challenge the government on this point. It's sort of like wanting to hire a good basketball coach and hiring Michael Jordan, or something.

It's very interesting to watch from the sidelines, because not only is the legality of crypto at stake, but this guy's amazing career feels at stake, too, like he's betting his name on this.
Dynamic machine vision with retinomorphic photomemristor-reservoir computing
> Those were the best hours of blissful bewilderment.

What a fantastic alliteration to describe his state of mind :-)
> Heck, you can buy VIX for CDS... let’s think about that for a second... that’s a mortgage, packed into a portfolio

Are you thinking MBS maybe? CDS is credit default swap, has nothing to do with mortgages
I want to recommend this route so much.

Alas good wifi cards are extremely hard to procure and to fit to boxes. You can maybe get someone to sell you a $200+ AP-class wifi6 board.

Then you need some way to actually put it in a computer. Many are oversized mPCIe. We are starting to see some m.2 but it's rare & again they're likely to be oversized. Some have crazy power requirements, like having teo lugs to provide 5V on.

This is by far the worst served aspect of personal computing & it's such a shame. I with the adding card market existed. And many how great it would be if USB chipsets could be reliable AP. Maybe they have gotten better, but after years of religiously buying everything Alfa made & trying to see how good an AP it'd be before falling over, it feels like a relatively simple ask that would make the world of difference (lots of modest sized APs everywhere) is so unlikely to happen. For no good reason that I can tell.
You presume these people can afford a car payment, insurance and the gas. And they don't have a suspended license.
How does one traditionally make devils?
Apple’s first store in India is now open
no joke intended, that rocket flew over my cabin and knocked stuff off the shelves.

one earthquake did that about three years ago, had it not been for the subsequent hardening , i would have lost my preserves to a rocket.
Ha, sorry, 'they' there meant the listings, not GP. Isn't English wonderful.
Gensler has publicly said “everything other than Bitcoin” is a security.

https://cryptoslate.com/sec-chair-gensler-confirms-everythin...

I'm not saying Coinbase has to agree with that decision, but it's a little silly they're posturing to the public like they're unaware. It's not exactly a secret.

If they disagree then going to court is probably their only move.
I have not used Windows at home at all. I always liked Text based interfaces and at home went from DOS/DESQview to UN*X. But these days I have surrendered and use X most of the time.

But I think M/S only cares about Corporate Accounts, which is where the big bucks is. If I remember correctly, Corporate Windows builds do not have any of this crazyness.

So, I guess this is just to squeeze as much as the can from private people and to get private information they can sell.

Due to this, I have recommended my relatives on old Windows machines to move to MACs. I would suggest Linux or a BSD, but I do not need the headache of training/supporting them :)
The bjp is descendant from the rss and is basically its replacement after it was banned, thats why I said what I said.
at the very beginning del.icio.us had a hierarchy operator: anything tagged "foo/bar" would internally also get the tag "foo" as well. i ended up pulling it out.

for finding untagged things, i had "system:untagged" automatically added if the items had no tags because mixing inner and outer joins was a nightmare in mysql.
I would think that most members of the LGBTQ+ community in most parts of the world are shunned out of their traditional familial and friend circles (neighbous, classmates) due to their perceived abnormalities.

This would force them to actively seek out friends (perhaps facing a similar situation to them) and value them more due to them already knowing what it is like to be without them.
Not quite- Sales tax from sales by customers in California is being located to Cupertino. So if a customer in Fresno bought an iphone, that tax is allocated to Cupertino. Other states assess tax differently.

After that fresno customer buys an iphone and pays the tax to Cupertino, Cupertino gives apple 35% of that tax back effectively lowering their sales tax rate.
Tesla is going to win on cost. They keep driving down the cost to manufacture EVs. That will bring down the selling price as well. Legacy auto makers offering EVs won’t be able to compete on price with Tesla without huge losses.

If you bet against Elon, you will lose.
Misconduct involving police is described in the passive voice. The pinnacle of which is "officer-involved shooting".
More and more, I don’t think the powers that be are going to fully roll out this technology without the simultaneous rolling out of the “high tech panopticon” described by Bostrom. Because make no mistake, this technology is indeed a “black ball” as Bostrom describes it.

[1] https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
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Is there no class and dignity anywhere anymore?
They're lumped in with Research and Development, which in another more traditional context might make a bit of sense.

If you build a factory or apartment building, you don't get to expense it all at once because it's a capital good and instead you depreciate it over time, taking the expense little-by-little. This kinda makes sense, because it's assumed that you started with (often borrowed) all the money to build the factory, but it's just a one-time expenditure. Then you get ongoing revenue from it, which is offset by the ongoing depreciation. It all works out.

In the IP world, you could think of drug development the same way. We spend $1B to develop a drug, and then get income from that drug down the line. Same deal, conceptually.

The main point is that there are two clear phases: 1. spend a big pile of money to build something, then 2. get income from it. In phase 1, you have a plan for how to fund all that from the get-go. Often just a huge loan. And there is no income to pay taxes on. By the time you get income and need to pay taxes you'll have plenty, because you're not still paying to build the thing.

But then with software it starts to break down. Following the same model, you'd raise enough money to hire a bunch of devs to build your software ALL THE WAY DONE, finish it (like a factory), FIRE ALL THE DEVS because it's done, and then start collecting income from the software. You funded all the development up-front, and then by the time you're getting revenue there's plenty for profit and taxes. In some ways, LARGE companies do roughly do this.

But of course we know that's not how startup software really works. For the most part, development is an ongoing effort that never stops, and in the startup world you don't get funding all at once up-front, you raise money as you need it, as you go along. You're not going to raise $1B up-front to build an ml-blockchain-chrome-extension thing. You spend a little, see how it goes, maybe raise a little more and get a few more customers, add a couple of features, raise a little more, etc.
Totally autonomous systems are extra work. Putting it where there are qualified workers to run and maintain the system is easier and creates jobs.
I feel like from an information theory perspective there is a lower bound on how little we can write to get a sufficiently specific spec for the AI to generate correct code.

This example seems like almost as much work as just writing the code myself. I think English is just too fuzzy, maybe eventually we will get a language tailored to AI that will put more specific limits on the meanings of works. But then how is it all that different from Python?