skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The visible garters aren’t a clue? Yes the visual style might be similar to Ghibli, in the sense that it’s anime, but see if you can find a shot from any of their films with garters under a skirt. That’s only one of the Krita splash screens. If you look at all of them, the suggestiveness is relatively consistent though not exactly the same from version to version.

Speaking only personally, I can imagine how this image would make some people slightly squeamish if I had it on display at work. I’m not saying you shouldn’t have it on your desktop. You do you. I’m only saying I wouldn’t do it, and not necessarily for obvious or extreme reasons, it’s really just for subtle reasons, but personally I don’t see how anyone could not see the slightly suggestive nature of Krita’s splash screens. Which is fine at home, just not at work (for me).
While corporations aren't as powerful as the government, they use data for more than "trying to sell you something."

Network effects cause society to coalesce around the same large corporations for social media, online shopping, payment processing, etc to the point that it can be hard to function in society without their services. Once their services are used by virtually everyone, their governance becomes governmental in its impact. On a weekly basis we see programs like the app stores, ad markets, search algorithms, and payment processors enforcing opaque policies that close businesses and end livelihoods, all based on an automated interpretation of the data we share with them.
Similarly to how we removed a lot of workforce from agriculture in the last century. The breadth and scope of services offered increased ten-fold and workers learned to add value in different ways in these new areas.
AI is the new Climate Change
> when the crisis deepens

If, then when.

This is the gamble. With JPM getting them for free, the bonds pay out on a long enough time horizon OR if the federal reserve slows or changes direction.
Here’s another, perhaps more pressing problem: people will have to prove it WASN’T them saying something in that Instagram post or that YouTube video. It’s one thing for Joe Biden’s team to debunk a deep fake. Quite another for some teenager to convince all the other kids at school that he didn’t say something embarrassing in a TikTok.
Read about the re-written text layout engine: https://wolthera.info/2022/10/svg-text-layout-for-krita
This might hinder small time criminals and companies at best from finding out who snitched on them. But in an authoritarian regime with state level resources or just a sufficient level of corruption or even just a media corp run by boomers that is vulnerable to phishing, you can't count on discretion for these things. Secure tunnels and end2end encryption are worthless if the endpoints are easy to compromise. The above comment is right that at the very least you should use bespoke hardware that was never associated with you or anyone you know in any shape or form (in addition to the things mentioned on that site). And even then you'd have to make sure that the info you leak can't be traced back to you, at which point it becomes a game of intelligence and counter intelligence. For example, if an organisation suspects their people are leaking info to the press, it could begin to place targeted (mis)information among employees to uncover them. This was done at Tesla last year to track and eventually bust leakers.
This is interesting: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/27/qualcomm_covert_opera...
What rules did the FDIC throw out?
Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4 only apps on Linux
What religion isn't strange?

Seriously, the only reason you think that the religions that you're used to aren't weird as shit is overexposure.
It sounds like the FTS worked as intended, but the holes created in the fuel tank were undersized, allowing the tank to maintain enough pressure to remain structurally sound. You can see 4 plumes of gas venting from the 4 locations of the FTS boxes while it tumbles. I would expect them to switch to long shaped charges, possibly radial in orientation.

It sounds to me that the FTS was triggered automatically by the onboard computer, but that Musk concedes that it possibly should have triggered (or been triggered) sooner:

Musk: Time for AFTS to kick in "was pretty long," about "40 seconds-ish."

On the other hand, rockets have blown up on the pad due to over-aggressive AFTS, so I would imagine the bounds were pretty loose for an initial test flight.
Hard to see how this comment isn't engaging in whataboutism. Original poster is from Ukraine, a country that is, at present, actively being invaded by Russia, not from Middle East or Africa.
He's also saying though that his estimate of when it may surpass human intelligence is much less than he estimated just a few years ago.
I worked with an ex-Mormon guy for about a year or so who was an ex-CIA contractor. He said there are a lot Mormons in the CIA as well and they called it the "Mormon Mafia" (mostly in a joking manner).
So when he'd meet new people within the CIA who were Mormon they would sometimes ask him, "Mormon Mafia?", if they suspected he was Mormon.

This guy did his mission in Russia and speaks Russian... so there you go. He had some crazy stories about doing mission work in Russia. He was almost killed several times.
It's the system the democratic voters have voted to keep.
Sure; but npm packages are much more likely to still be around in a few years than some random startup’s web app. Even the original developers can’t take their own code off npm in most cases any more. And if you really needed to replace a package you depend on, most useful packages on npm have a bunch of good-enough alternatives you can switch to with a little bit of effort.
I was also part of it, even earlier than Mr. Knucklehead. I made it into "true fiction" in Inventing the Future (https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future).

I didn't deal directly with the Kanji, but Fuji Xerox sent quite a few of their engineers over to help. They played on our softball team.
You can actually already buy a Brita-compatible filter which removes PFAS: https://cyclopure.com/dexsorb/

It uses a starch which has been sized to interact with PFAS molecules.
"Cloud" commonly is used to mean, "Somewhere, not here" in terms of where the thing is running or is stored. It's also typically used by the lazy or non-technical.
A verified human can still post lies, I don't see how knowing that a real person posted something somehow makes it more or less accurate or truthful?

Even without an AI force multiplier (we still have farms of content makers for propaganda purposes), we are still wading in digital mess. I don't see that knowing if a real person made it does anything except makes that verification valuable for misuse.

Flipping it on its head, what if a farm of AI are used to spread fact-checked "correct" information? Is that devalued because a real person didn't hit the keystrokes?

AI or person, it doesn't matter to me. I still need to engage critical thinking and work under the assumption it's all garbage.
Not on this level, it’s usually a specific product or service that isn’t compatible with existing regulation.

There is a very big difference between that and seeking permission and being told no and then acting like a 5 year old which is what Microsoft and Activision are doing.
Exactly, everyone is expecting a Toys R Us moment, an Enron implosion, or an FTX scandal, but really, it's going to be IBM. It's going to be Atari. It's going to be MySpace, Digg, etc. It'll dwindle until it's a shell of its former self. And you won't be able to say exactly when it flipped from being alive to a zombie, but you'll know it's just different now.
Can you use something like Karabiner Elements to fuse the two keyboards together into one virtual one? I do something similar on Linux with mice for middle mouse button scrolling since my Ploopy Nano doesn't have buttons.
You just reinforced OP's point with your examples.
A large part of the remedy that Microsoft offered was to give cloud streaming licenses to every competitor for free for its entire portfolio of games. Every single cloud gaming company is wildly in favor of the merger for this reason. Funny how it works - with CMA killing the deal it’s likely that Microsoft will go back to the status quo and keep its IP to itself to increase the barriers to entry
I don't really see what CO2 has to do with the point I am making. It's massively better for air quality to have the coal burnt at a distant powerplant than to have a car burning coal (or fossil fuels) in downtown Beijing.
I am a member, and every actual commandment is definitely public record. Even the temple covenants are (as of recently) public record[0], and those used to be the ones that were held in the highest level of secrecy.

There are a whole lot of people who have their own interpretations of the commandments, and that coupled with our history of secrecy surrounding the temple could definitely give rise to the idea that it's difficult to know what all the requirements are, but it's all online and available to everyone at this point.

Here's the relevant information about the health code[1]:

> The Lord revealed in the Word of Wisdom that the following substances are harmful:

> Alcoholic drinks (see Doctrine and Covenants 89:5–7).

> Tobacco (see Doctrine and Covenants 89:8).

> Tea and coffee (see Doctrine and Covenants 89:9; latter-day prophets have taught that the term “hot drinks,” as written in this verse, refers to tea and coffee).

[0] https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples/what-is-temple-e...

[1] https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topi...
Pretty sure you could just say any family...
Nah, Hinton is already incredibly rich. His first startup was bought by Google for $44M. And Google paid him millions more for a decade. Dr. Hinton is in a rare position of having no reason to work for anyone, not even venture capitalists.
You fundamentally cannot have location privacy with cell service. A cell tower will provide service to a limited physical region. When someone dials your number, the telecomm company needs to know which tower to route your call to. If telecomms didn't know where you were then cell service would not work. Sure, WiFi/GPS can provide more detailed location information and are commonly sent into the cloud and this is a problem too.
Per the article, he had early misgivings — moving to Canada and refusing money from DoD. It’s not anything like your hypothetical.
> Where do you draw the line? What would an appropriate agreement look like?

Good questions. I'm not sure, but that line needs to be drawn somewhere. Thousands of experts should be pouring over questions like these, and likely will.
Yes. New Jersey has embarked on the courageous step of allowing shell companies to issue temporary tags, allowing criminals, cops and others to evade tolls, automated enforcement and pervasive LPR surveillance in New York.
Honest question from someone who’s never used obsidian: Does obsidian have anything like Notion’s multi-view databases?
This reads as if it were a 'The Onion' headline.
It is naïve to think the layoffs were even meaningfully targeted towards unproductive employees.
The most common mistake made when cooking is to apply far too much heat. A pan can easily be accidentally heated past 500° on a stovetop. The only save is that it takes time to harm you and the cause is impossible to directly attribute. DuPont's lawyers now have all they need.
As a former mormon with most of my family in intelligence or military, the Security Clearance reason may be valid but I call bullshit on the language skills reason. Most mormon missionaries will never learn enough of their respective mission languages to actually have normal conversations, as 99% of their conversations revolve around religion. And the FBI doesn’t really have an emphasis on language anyway, that is more of a CIA thing (which also recruits a lot of Mormons). It’s funny how all of the glowing traits that are claimed about Mormons that are cited as reasons to hire them always come from the perspective of other Mormons.

That being said, this is the first one that I’ve read that has slightly touched on one of the major reasons: Mormon nepotism. The Mormon Mafia talk in this article may sound like a joke, but it is very much a real phenomenon. If you hire a single Mormon, and that person achieves a position of influence in your company, you will wake up some day to the realization that there are now hundreds of Mormons...and they all had a say in hiring each other, and they all give glowing reviews about each other, and they all end up in the same organizations, and they all get promoted in lockstep with each other. The Mormon Mafia isn't an FBI thing, it is a real phenomenon that happens in a lot of different places. I got a great job out of college primarily out of Mormon nepotism. I got fired after leaving Mormonism for the same reason.

A good way to prevent this from happening is, not surprisingly, a general anti-nepotism practice: don’t allow people interview candidates from their alma mater. 99% of these asshole Mormons that try to create Mormon Mafias within companies went to BYU, and 99% of the people they want to hire at the exclusion of others also went to BYU. It works surprisingly well for non-Mormon nepotism as well...never underestimate an HBS grad's tendency to think other HBS grads are the bee's knees. Don’t let them have a say in their hiring.
Plenty is out of date on it.

They also still link to https://prxbx.com/email/ from https://prism-break.org/en/all/#email, which doesn't consider https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
notorious for over-simplifying any topic

My last employer we managed money for community banks. I actually created the system that generated interest rate shock reports that showed the impact to a portfolio of fixed income assets for interest rate shocks of -300 to +300 basis points.

Nobody thought interest rates would go +300 bp in such a short amount of time, especially in the short end of the yield curve.

Banks essentially have 2 portfolios. Their loan portfolio is where they take the risk and it goes up and down with the traditional business cycle. Their fixed income portfolio is supposed to be almost no risk.

They were whipsawed by the fed that lowered interest rates so quickly that it forced banks to buy longer-duration securities to just find any kind of yield within the regulatory constraints they were allowed to buy. Then the fed raised interest rates even more quickly causing staggering losses in the "almost no risk" fixed income portfolios of banks.

Expect a lot more banks to be taken over even with the emergency backstops the fed has put into place. Look what the Fed did:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

In 2008 the Fed flooded the economy with $2 trillion. In 2020 the Fed jumped up and flooded the economy with an additional $7 trillion. In September 2022 they started taking that money back (which incidentally led to tech company layoffs). As of March 2023 they removed about $600 billion. Then they suddenly put over half of that right back into the economy when SVB failed.

It's impossible to predict or even appropriately react to what the Federal Reserve is doing.
No, it had a rubber ball in it at the introduction.

I even have a paragraph or two in Inventing the Future about how we brought a box of spare mice to the NCC, since the balls would get dirty from all the people handling them.
I believe that is wrong. If you keep your money as cash or in a bank deposit then you lose several percents every year because Western governments maintain a certain inflation rate. But inflation is basically stealing from everyone who has cash or bank deposits. You had 100 dollars and next year they become equivalent to 98 dollars.

Cryptocurrency is different. No government is able to steal your Bitcoins by printing some more colored paper.

Yes today there are issues with volatility, but conceptually cryptocurrency is better than fiat money for the reason written above.

But if you like getting robbed every year then of course continue using fiat money.
#[non_exhaustive] didn't get stabilized for downstream use until several years after Rust 1.0, which probably is why it isn't super commonly seen in the wild still, but I think the standard library has been using it since 1.0 for things like `std::io::ErrorKind`.
I always just assumed that somewhere in the banknotes lifecycle those serial numbers are all getting written into a database… I kind of assumed that based on examples where the government was able to trace where large amounts of cash had come from and what it got spent on when doing major crime investigations or things like DB Cooper and how confidently they proclaim that none of the cash (that wasn’t “lost” and then found by various searches or the public over the years) was ever spent. I assumed it was probably part of obligatory regulations to do with money laundering or something equivalent and thus they all had to do it.
> They become zombies and collapse gradually, and then suddenly

From an information perspective, that makes tracking it over time more relevant, not less. But of course also means it's a lot more work.
Refact.ai as a free copilot alternative
Not legal.

The problem with conspiratory talk is that while one person may fully not intend on action, it could inspire and/or manipulate others into committing acts. The blame is shared on all for conspiring and creating that environment where acts can emerge.
imagine using a chrome browser extension to do anything involving money/finances
Tech literate folks, especially authorities, need to be so careful with what they get the public scared of. Get people scared about reusing passwords or not setting up 2FA. Warning folks about fringe concerns like juice jacking does nothing to meaningfully improve the safety or privacy of the general public, it only serves to get clicks (scary new thing! find out!) and desensitize people to warnings about real threats.
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This is a good viewpoint. You actually make me feel relieved. I used to worry about human jobs being taken by AI. Now that I think of it as something like cars, I can see human life will be much more convenient as long as we go through that transition.
Show HN: Monch, a tasty TypeScript parser-combinators library
You can't eat your cake and have it too: Either you are the only party controlling access to your accounts – which then necessarily includes the possibility of losing everything – or you don't, in which case somebody else does.

This isn't a tradeoff unique to cryptocurrencies: Cash works exactly the same way (qualitatively, if not quantitatively, in terms of the risks of losing access to it) – if you store your life savings under your mattress, they can be stolen easily or burn down together with your apartment.
same. my local drop off is one day a month at the local prison which is ~25 minutes away. and commercial store that takes items for recycling is twice that distance.
> Cade Metz is the same hack who tried to smear Scott Alexander. This guy is the personification of journalistic malpractice.

He didn't "smear" Scott Alexander. That's just the hit-job framing pushed by Alexander's fans, who were mad he didn't write a puff piece and they couldn't just make up rules on about stuff on their websites (e.g. about using people's self-disclosed real names) and have the rest of the world be obligated to follow them.
It’s not AI. It’s us.

We can choose to make it more equal. We can choose to even things, and to work less.

It’s us using the AI to do things.

Let’s stop pretending like our hands are tied. We can build a better world if we want to. Don’t give me excuses about how everyone else will do something so then you have to do the same.

Take responsibility for your own actions.

Don’t fire people that you can replace with AI. Instead, re-train them to use AI to make your business better and for everyone to work less.

Be creative, be visionary, be disruptive and be compassionate. Care about people over money.

Mother Theresa said: “if you want to change the world, go home and love your family”

Maybe this time, if you want to change the world, don’t replace people with AI. Do replace their work, but keep the people and find them something more human to work on.
Great question! Besides improving usability, the key feature of the EVA database system is the query optimizer that seeks to speed up exploratory queries over a given dataset and save money spent on inference.

Two key optimizations in EVA's AI-centric query optimizer are:

- Caching: EVA automatically caches and reuses previous query results (especially model inference results), eliminating redundant computation and reducing query processing time.

- Predicate Reordering: EVA optimizes the order in which the query predicates are evaluated (e.g., runs the faster, more selective model first), leading to faster queries and lower inference costs.

Consider these two exploratory queries on a dataset of dog images:

-- Query 1: Find all images of black-colored dogs
SELECT id, bbox FROM dogs
JOIN LATERAL UNNEST(YoloV5(data)) AS Obj(label, bbox, score)
WHERE Obj.label = 'dog'
AND Color(Crop(data, bbox)) = 'black';

-- Query 2: Find all Great Danes that are black-colored
SELECT id, bbox FROM dogs
JOIN LATERAL UNNEST(YoloV5(data)) AS Obj(label, bbox, score)
WHERE Obj.label = 'dog'
AND DogBreedClassifier(Crop(data, bbox)) = 'great dane'
AND Color(Crop(data, bbox)) = 'black';

By reusing the results of the first query and reordering the predicates based on the available cached inference results, EVA runs the second query 10 times faster!

More generally, EVA's query optimizer factors the dollar cost of running models for a given AI task (like a question-answering LLM). It picks the appropriate model pipeline with the lowest price that satisfies the user's accuracy requirement.

Query optimization with a declarative query language is the crucial difference between EVA and inspiring AI pipeline frameworks like LangChain and TxtAI [1]. We would love to hear the community's thoughts on the pros and cons of these two approaches.

[1] https://github.com/neuml/txtai
Nicotine is wonderful. 2mg and 4mg lozenges are readily available, you don't have to take up smoking to get it. It's excellent for many, many things: cognition, focus, appetite control, positive habit formation, etc.

Addiction is literally its only downside.
I mean he was one of the first to use backprop for training multilayer perceptron. Their experiments showed that such networks can learn useful internal representations of data[1]. 1987. Nevertheless he is one of the founding fathers of deep learning

[1]Learning representations by back-propagating errors
Best counter to workplace discrimination: more workplace discrimination.

Get an authority involved if you have proof.