skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantity is a quality in itself.

In most countries, guns are very strictly controlled. Knives are not. Yet you can kill people with knives as people do.

AI technology is extremely powerful and it can and does enable malicious activities at scale. Scale, previously unthinkable.

As a Research Engineer working in AI (no relation to LLM or AGI), I think that sentient AGI/skynet has a very low, non-zero chance of becoming reality.

But with the AI tech we have today, massive harm can be caused at scale.

The world is far from ready for what bad actors will bring forth enable with the power of AI.
> But all of that is moot unless folks care about it ... all of which finally makes it a people problem I guess?

Nailed it.
Agree color should be used sparingly.
No it isn't. It is labour. In fact it actually an example of something where the distinction between labour and rent is crystal-clear.

If you're a landlord and you outsource the working of the land to a peasant tenant farmer (as was the norm in many places for thousands of years), your cut is 100% rent, as it is only derived from your (violence-enforced) exclusive ownership rights to the land.
Thanks, yeh at some point in the future I will likely release the source code, but it was quite a quick prototype so needs to be polished a little.

Mobile is an issue, some of the web APIs only work on desktop for now.

Thanks for the feedback
Republicans have huge incentives to cut the budgets of these agencies. Again, 90% of the federal bureaucracy is democrats, many are members of the federal employees union, etc. Why wouldn’t republicans want to cut those budgets?

But they have been unable to do so. So what’s your theory of causation for why is agencies are ineffective?
The other thing the bike manufacturers seem to do is bump the year number of the model with no real changes. The. You get situations where the 2018, 2019, 2020 difer only by paint job, then switch from a 2x8 to 1x12 gear setup, and then the 2021, 2022, 2023 are back to differing by paint job only again.

I guess it's them trying to incentise buying new in an industry that's much more slow moving than PC parts.
There is a real trade-off there when the government has direct access to and control of citizens' bank accounts. The idea that the government would know specifically how much we spend, where we spend it, and could deny transactions sounds pretty distopian to me.

With that said, as closely tied our government and the major banks are there might not be much functional difference from power they have today.
Minimum double the cost. Very frustrating as someone with an electric stove that I hate, but it just isn't worth the cost to replace it.
Nobody should be drawing any conclusions from a graph like that, since it provides no useful information allowing anyone to draw any conclusion about anything.

If you do choose to draw a conclusion from this, you’re doing nothing except reinforcing whatever bias you may already have.
Why? They're generally much clearer and well-commented than what a rushed harried sysadmin would write.
Many-body cavity quantum electrodynamics with driven inhomogeneous emitters
When you take a side job, you want to know the actual amount of money you're going to make, right?

The amount before taxes and commute are in the article too, if that's what you're interested in.
The Thames is still very much opaque. Not near-opaque.
They are pointing out that the wage is so low it's net zero and any money made is from tips
The cheap shot from MS about the EU was particularly juvenile. They can't seriously expect a more generous hearing from the bloc that has repeatedly hit big US tech firms with regulations and disguised taxation over the past few years than from the relatively business-friendly UK. They're just hoping to put some kind of pressure on the government in the UK because Brexit makes comparisons between the business environments in the UK and EU a touchy subject right now.

Given that it wasn't even the UK government who made the call here that probably won't achieve much. Would the UK government really change the fundamental rules of the game to override the CMA just because the regulator did its job? Doesn't seem likely. Literally all of the commentary I've seen about this from any source not connected to Microsoft or Activision is taking the view that it was the right call by the regulator.
Frankly one of my most enjoyed jobs was working as a waiter once I got used to it. I was working at a high end restaurant where some wait staff were making $45K+ a year so not perhaps the same situation.

There was definitely a sense of satisfaction not just from serving but also taking a moment to rest after moving your body for a four hour shift. Believe it or not it was a bit of a workout.
Briar developer here. We weren't contacted by the Indian government and we haven't received a copy of the blocking order.

If anyone reading this works at Google or has a contact there, please put us in touch (contact@briarproject.org). We'd love to know whether Google has received a blocking order, and if possible get a copy of the order so we can challenge it in court.

In the meantime, the app remains available from our website and F-Droid (https://briarproject.org/download). The app can also create a wi-fi hotspot to share the APK with people nearby.
I have written my large share of bash scripts at this point in my life. However, I recently started a new project. I opened up a file and started noodling out a sh script. I stopped exactly because of what you are saying. I then installed powershell. I have not decided if I am going to use powershell, python or ansible yet for this. But as it is gluing a bunch of commands together with some string manipulation and some very simple math calculations powershell seems better for the job in this case.

Bash is also good at these things but it feels like you are using weird archaic tools to get things done. They work very well but the syntax on some of the commands you end up having to use are entire oriley books by themselves. It has its own odd way of doing things. Bash is nice for when you know you can not really manipulate the environment. As it is fully complete and usually 'table stakes' for what is installed. It is just kind of odd the way it works. In this case I decided to start with something that is more akin to what I am used to writing.
Yes, XTerm is my main terminal, it works and it has nice options, especially the popup menus for changing font size on the fly.

>This is one thing i don't get. All that old X stuff

No kidding, if people really read and understood the manual for xmessage(1), you will quickly see it has no competitor in what people call "modern". I use it a lot in many interactive shell scripts.

>But boy are there a lot of X haters.

yes and getting worse and worse with wayland and desktop.org, the bane of X. I use X and once I cannot use fvwm (I use that too) on Linux, I am off to a BSD.
>Quantum Ghosts: Atoms Become Transparent to Certain Frequencies of Light

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-ghosts-atoms-become-transpa...
Sure, but I dont think this excuses Boesing's slimy tactics
Ford's AI-Enabled EV Repossession Plans
If that turned out to be the case, maybe we could have annual "vaccines", which would exist only to trigger anti-viral activity?
All software eventually gets discontinued or you can't run it on current systems without heroic measures. More common and more standardized formats are better but good luck extracting the contents of a 1980s vintage DOS word processing program or any of the zillions of presentation or image processing programs of the era without a huge amount of work--and maybe even then.
Japanese is not hard for English speakers. I bought two lots of minidiscs from Japan and was listening to them before recording over them and my wife was somewhat surprised at how singing Japanese does not sound all that foreign to her. Chinese, in the other hand, really does sound different, and personally I find the sounds of French much more difficult.
> I think we ought to consider a system where the Government or Fed provides the core functionality...

I have been told that the Chinese government own the big Chinese banks. Is this a good or bad thing? (Or am I mistaken?)
> That technique of using a style tag to set a CSS var (--horizontal) then using @container tags to shift the UI is really cool

That sounds like using a feature for the sake of using a feature. Couldn't the same be done with a class on the container?
I read somewhere that gut can only let around 80mg thiamine/day and gut gets saturated over time, so only IM/IV would work long-term.
Generally lower, like other devs in the kind of giant organization that has mainframes.
Yah but you choose a job and its commute time etc. Those are individual choices that arent the responsibility of a commuter. Its like saying i make 100k in new york but i commute to new york by airplane and thus k only make 2k a year
I think you are inadvertently making the point that yes, we should be wary: What if, in the early days of cars and planes, people could have foreseen the worst of the problems that would come of those inventions, and slowed down to think through those problems, evaluate the risks, and find ways to mitigate them?

What if we now lived in a world that still had effective transportation, but without lost lives from crashes, without pollution, and without a climate crisis? Would that not be a good thing? Would that not have been worth slowing down even if it took as much as a couple decades?

So maybe it is worth listening to the risks of AI and taking the time now to prevent problems in the future.
Love the parallels people these days draw between OpenAI and Oppenheimer (ok, the Manhattan Project, but maybe thats part why OpenAI call themselves that, to alliterate)

Especially the part where Sama is trying to gather in one place the most talented, uh, anti-fas?
His cell phone ran out of batteries on the way and he couldn't download the app.

Back to your country you go!
If you don't commute, you really can't do a job as a server, can you?
"I make about $75 in tips, on average, during a seven-hour shift as a server at Waffle House"

That headline is technically correct, but also really misleading. Also, she only pulls in about $10 an hour in tips? Does that sound really low to anyone else?
USB-C has been great, I now daily carry a 30w pd charger that's basically the same size as those old 5w iphone ones. Works great as a fallback option in a pinch.
> The Continental Congress thought about ending the anarchy of the early years of revolution by getting themselves a Prussian as their new King.

This is basically what happened in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688. King James was unpopular due to being Catholic and a set of unpopular decisions, so the upper class wrote to the Dutch stadholder William of Orange and invited him to stage a coup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_William . Which succeeded without resistance.

This (and subsequent incidents with the Georges) is an important part of how the English monarchy is effectively "leashed" by requiring a certain minimal amount of consent of the governed.
Well if you go aback 6 years bank regulation decreased, make it 15 years and regulation has increased dramatically.

Really you could stretch that back out to 100 years and bank regulation has trended higher, so it'd seem only a very short time scale has regulation decreasing.
TIL about the CNC song: https://archive.org/details/tianchi-v700-ktv-940280
And those algorithms are largely driven by well connected people.
Yep.

Being able to opt into a layer of the internet with identifiable authorship -- maybe still pseudonyms, but pseudonyms registered and linked to real-world identities through at least one identifiable real-world actor -- is a long time coming.

It's not for everyone, but a lot of people who have been scammed by anonymous online merchants or targeted by anonymous online harassment and threats would love the option to step away from the cesspit of anonymity and live in a world where bad actors don't require sophisticated digital detectives to track down and prosecute.
My understanding is that roofs of church naves in the style of a ship's keel are fairly common: https://www.google.com/search?q=keel+nave+roof+church&tbm=is... The metaphor is that the Church is a ship that protects and carries its congregation.
True, but

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
The problem is by size Sony is larger, with more studios and more exclusives. Nintendo is also huge.

Cloud gaming has a lot of competition and they all are companies with deep pockets: Microsoft, Sony, Nvidia, Google, Amazon. They can afford to do what Microsoft is doing if they so choose. This isn’t some new paradigm. This is how this business is run. If it is not console exclusives it is platform exclusives. It is the only real differentiator.
No additional libraries required on Windows (even CUDA). For linux you'll need to install CUDA and onnxruntime gpu lib.
Most doctors would laugh at vitamin supplementation even at pharmaceutic megadoses despite people reporting they feel much better. I have seen both GPs and a neurosurgeon laughing about it.
This is really cool! I'm shocked at the image quality. Thanks for sharing
I understand fake names and phone numbers are included in phone books for the same reason.
Gotcha, makes sense :)
schwab bank is next
LLMs – I won't be fooled again
They used to, but people got complacent. I remember hearing about people hacking keyless entry systems on luxury cars (belonging to some European footballer for instance) in the mid-2000s, by the 2010s I remember hearing about people stealing Fords and cars like that.

In the 1970s Americans were terrified of car thefts, it got very hard to do, then carmakers started slipping.
That seems way too long to reasonably be considered relevant to modern banking in the US. At one end, it pre-dates this country, and the other still pre-dates the start of the gold standard, let alone its end.
I learned chess as a kid. Recently, having read Annie Duke's "Thinking in Bets" I regret not having learned poker instead. I'll spare you the details here and let Duke walk your through it, but poker as a life still for decision-making is 100x better than the otherwise finite world of chess moves.

Note: I'm not knocking chess per se; just trying to provide context and contrasts with poker.
Waffle House customers aren't traditionally known for being big spenders.
The (american) thing of paying pittance to waiters because they get tips is weird. Why do people think this is OK? (Apart from the obvious justifications of people who pay virtually nothing for labour)
> He doesn't outright lie, just heavily implys things and frames his articles in a misleading way.

Sounds like Scott's methods on neoreactionary and eugenics stuff.
May First in Stamps: Penny Black,Columbian Exposition,Antonín Dvořák,Livingstone
That new chipset would have a chunky pixel format similar to mode13h (1 byte per pixel, indexing a color palette - and a lot of other chunky pixel formats from 4 pixels per byte up to 3 bytes per pixel).

There are even hardware-compressed pixel formats mentioned (on page 6) which provide 6x and 12x data compression, which looks quite similar to today's block-compressed texture formats (more details are on page 123).

(also 68030 and 68040 CPUs were still competitive with 386 and 486)
Loneliness Is an Epidemic in America, Writes the Surgeon General
You have to have a gas backup in cold climates. You can't just dump NG. -22F is the limit for useful heat production from a heat pump.
There needn’t be, but there is.

I worked with a software system, globus, that allowed self-signed certs and trusted exchange and it was so difficult to find staff to get it set up.

One of the really frustrating parts of PKI is the unnecessary cost. I, and a few friends, negotiate our own certs and have been going well for many years with the same certs (knock wood), but all the widely accepted protocols require a third party and those third parties charge quite a bit.

And I don’t know any commercial CAs that issue perpetual client certs, which is what I want.
Isn't this called a "narrow bank"? Maybe I'm mixing terms but I've heard the idea.
https://archive.ph/hi3LY
Yes, concentrating all the power and all the risk in a few giant banks that also tend to do risky investments as well seems like a terrible idea for both customers and stability.

Canada has a system like this, although it is very well regulated and hasn’t so far blown up. What it does do though is give very little competition or choice to the consumer. The Canadian bank oligopoly is only slightly less horrible than the Canadian telecom oligopoly. Both are as anti free market competition as you get. It looks like the U.S. banking system is headed the same way.
A written constitution isn’t even worth the paper it’s written on unless the people and institutions of the country are in the habit of actually following it. Britain follows their unwritten constitution, established through centuries of tradition, better than many countries follow their written constitutions.
I am a non-native English speaker, fwiw.
You could also argue that the main reason bitcoin was adopted by those who bought it was to get in on the ground floor and have the unfair advantage themselves.

Bitcoin hasn't solved corruption or unfair advantage, it just moves it out of the hands of the few politicians and bank executives in charge to the few running a handful of mining pools.

There are still people pulling the strings that can, and have, changed the rules along the way. Even the magic number of how many bitcoins will ever be produced can be changed, that limit is no more real than the gold standard that was killed with the stroke of a pen.
> When I added that to my tips it came to a little over $660 — or $12.24 an hour.

Author then deducts all the things that apply to every job - taxes, commuting, etc. and concludes she makes a take-home $9/hour, which is still above federal (and North Carolina where she is working) minimum wage. Of course, living wage is much higher than that in Asheville where I believe she lives [1].

And to those wondering, yes Waffle House does offer insurance and a few other benefits [2].

[1] https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2023/03/02/ashevill...

[2] https://www.wafflehouse.com/careers/
I hope this will also help to advance the research on Lewy Bodies Dementia (also correlated by mis folded alpha synuclein
https://archive.ph/PQ7Ad
>who elected Microsoft?

citizen: I want to paint my house blue

mayor: I unilaterally forbid you from doing that, on the grounds that blue houses look unsightly

citizen: that's undemocratic!

mayor: who elected you to decide painting your house blue?
The information age was inaugurated with a single question, a revolutionary act, like the starting pistol aimed at Ferdinand, or Martin Luther nailing his thesis to the door. The answer to this first question still unfolds. Very early on everything was known except for what it implied. Wholly modern concepts like unprinted characters and substitution compression were discovered in those first few years. The inventors of the these early devices could not foresee the centuries ahead of them, but they understood full well just how profoundly they had just changed the course of human civilization. The question was .-- .... .- - / .... .- ... / --. --- -.. / .-- .-. --- ..- --. .... - ..--..

I was talking about the telegraph this whole time.

Its not about bad people using the AI. The AI is potentially an agent in the discussion as well, and we don't yet know to what extent and what that entails. We know everything except the implications of what we are doing.
Yeah, obviously it does matter if there is literally no competitors, but that's not the case here. There are competitors in the space already.

One major difference between how the US and Europe views monopolies is that most of Europe tries to prevent even the formation of them (exceptions apply), while the US tries to prevent "dangerous" monopolies, while allowing monopolies themselves.

It could be useful to shift the perspective if you're used to the US one, when looking at decisions made by European agencies like the CMA.
I agree and don’t verify every account in my feed, just the ones I follow.

But I don’t need to verify every account. I’m not making life or death decisions so if someone retweets real lebron or fake lebron I don’t care.

It’s definitely likely that subtle parodies go over my head frequently.
this is pretty cool. What data sources does it connect to now?
Maybe we will look back and see it as quite timely that Nolan's biopic on Oppenheimer arrived when it did.
My experience is that the managers themselves are the ones driving this behaviour. They either don't even know who are the best engineers in their team, or they know and assign all the work to them.
As a depositor, you might be better off.

As an investor, I presume you’d be better off with the current situation, even when there are occasional hair cuts.
- dingledork, 2023-05-01
Two times i bought back the salvage title for a car that was damaged but otherwise in good condition including a Mazda that had been hit by a deer and a Honda that I rolled. Funny enough, both of those cars got totaled again pretty quickly.
You keep insisting there is a solution here - aka, that this is a solvable problem. Aka, that there is an ‘end’.

That is what I am pointing out is fundamentally naive and impossible.

There is no possible state here where there is a system that is fundamentally incorruptible and fair, because that isn’t what people want, need, or how people work.

Even some options you mentioned (autonomous agents) wouldn’t produce such an outcome, but would just be a tool of despotic behavior (and probably worse than most) as they would
be inevitably manipulated or compromised because you don’t seem to understand the nature of the actual problem.
> I never said that the US is or isn't a positive net on the world: I said that spying isn't evidence of your point. Because by your definition no country is positive net on the world.

Spoken like a true devil's advocate. Apparently you have no opinion, you just want to refute mine. The fervor with which you scrambled for evidence to only tangentially counter my argument suggests me otherwise, but oh well.

If all you want is evidence that the US is currently not a positive net for the world, you just need to look at the work CIA has done. You won't find anything comparable on any other country. And the fact that every nation has secret services means nothing. It's how powerful those services are and what they are used for.

By the way you realize that other countries being bad doesn't make the US any better? If nothing you're helping me prove that NATO altogether is a band of criminals, which I might have to thank you for, afterall.
By what measure has it been decreasing? I never heard of laws being removed or sunsetted just new legislation added on top of existing framework. Maybe some of it counteracts existing laws but the complexity is the problem. Or maybe number of regulators? What was the last time a regulatory agency was disbanded rather than a new one added (e.g. consumer protection bureau). Or number of employees in regulatory bodies, or budgets. Its tough to find a metric that says regulations have decreased.

I think the regulations add a false sense of security. If it's highly regulated like the financial industry people just follow the regulations and think that's enough. Investors don't care and assume correctly any mess up at the bank with be bailed out. Less regulated industries tend the have more savvy buyers because you know there won't be a backstop
Probably his course, all in pytorch.

https://fleuret.org/dlc/
https://archive.ph/YPCZr
> That probably means this vulnerability exists in some other wallet implementations which is concerning…
AWS and EU data transfers: commitments to protect customer data (2021)