skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because the money goes to whoever sold you the tbills. This may or may not be the Treasury.
Georgism is such an interesting rabbit hole to go down. It was a very popular political movement, his proposals had near universal endorsement from economists across the political spectrum... and then it just vanished.
Dark patterns is still a euphemism used to soften the blow of straight up deceptive and manipulative interfaces.
Perhaps other system programming languages can learn from D language where the DMD, D's reference compiler, compile itself and the entire standard library in less than 5 seconds, with parallelism turned off [1].

[1] Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494490
Problems that do not exist? The Internet is the absolute wild west of crime and harm.
I feel that the big hidden implication that these kinds of articles are trying to say is "AI is not real intelligence", further implying something along the lines of "AI will never be conscious" (as it's hard to come up with another definition of "real" intelligence except the-human-kind).

I'd like to propose a counterargument:

Assumptions: Theory of evolution is true. The primordial single-cell organism from which we all evolved was not conscious, but rather just a biological machine. Humans are conscious.

Deduction: Somewhere along the line between the primordial single-cell organism and a human being, there was a transition from non-consciousness to consciousness, and the only [*] factor in that transition was the complexity of the nervous system.

Conclusion: Consciousness (or, "real" intelligence) arises from the complexity of a machine. AI can, in principle, become conscious.

Yes, we know how AI works, because we built it. But why would that make consciousness arising from a sufficiently-complex statistical model impossible?

[*] as per apendleton's comment, I have made mistake here: complexity is not the only factor, but is a necessary one in creation of consciousness.
That’s not how “freely given consent” works.

Freely given means that consent is given in a way that it does not affect any other aspect of the transaction. There is no negotiation to be made. I would imagine that a competent legal system would never allow it to be attached to a separate contract since it then becomes consideration as part of a separate transaction.
I should have made it clear that I have no problem with the Switch in general! It's a fine console but it's not for me. I don't have much if any mobile gaming needs and for at home a higher power device suits me better.

For me personally the only reason to get a Switch would be for exclusive games, which IMHO is a bad reason to buy some specific hardware. I would much rather that people buy the hardware that suits their needs best (which may be a Switch for people who want mobile gaming) and games were largely available cross-device (resource requirements being the rare exception). I do understand the economic reason for exclusive contracts, but it is so consumer hostile.
“Westinghouse has an agreement to build nine AP1000s in Ukraine.”

The post-war reconstruction project planning is already in the works.
An Hypothetical Universal Assembler
Core part of making a self-replicating machine. If you guys got questions let me know!
Well, FB does have ~2BB euros set aside to pay for EU fines in 2023. So not just the FTC!
On all Linux PC's I use uBlockOrigin (I never use windows thankfully!) and never see any ads, ever...
It may be due to a combination of uBlockOrigin & uMatrix - I've not tested to know. Either way, I just never see ads, ever.
I only use NewPipe to watch YouTube on mobile.
Then there's the Kodi YouTube add-on - I never see any ads there either...
thank goodness, get rid of the bloat
> tl;dr, the federal government is spending beyond its means and needs to either cut spending, increase taxes, or both.

What is the federal government's track record past 30 years at achieving a balance of either of these things?
Western Alliance becomes latest US bank to explore potential sale
Happened to the small suburb in North Houston I live in. Police computer were off-line for a few weeks, and it took them 3 months to even bill for water/gas/garbage.
> and then congress just raises the ceiling.

Sure, why worry about debt.

If the debt is held internally, we'll just tell the citizens to get over it.

If it's held externally, we'll send in the killer robots (via some loser proxy country, of course) until the debt is pardoned.

Why worry indeed?
The type of the expression 'x' is int, not char (in C). The type of an expression consisting of a variable name is the type of the variable (as far as sizeof is concerned).
It's really a very solvable problem if there was sufficient political will and right now there just isn't. Half the government (and half the voters) are intent on making things worse to secure short-term gains for those that are already in the top half of society. America could easily stand to raise taxes substantially without significantly slowing growth (long-term) and bring deficits back in line.
It seems quite clear that we are just a few years from being able to wire up less than 20k of nvidia hardware and produce a GPT-4 class model. All the methods and datasets are out there. Plenty of pre-trained base model weights too. The horse is out of the barn.
Mark cannot be trusted.
Sometimes the beaches are public, but the rich try to block access: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/08/califor...
If a company has implemented it in a product that is publicly released, it's a company policy even if only the dev team was responsible for it.
Big typo..
There's several places poised for good demographic growth. Egypt, parts of Africa, Mexico. Not China, most of Europe. USA should be fine as long as the quality of the human capital stays high (education, law and order, etc).
Nah, I’ve been toying with writing a compiler and that’s where I’ve gotten to too, it seems to my inexperienced self at least, if what you’re implementing is a specified language, combining the phases makes sense since you only have one thing per language, but while making a language and experimenting, having them be separate helps reduce a lot of complexity in the parser for things like tokens that go across multiple lines.

I have no idea if the above observations are generally true, but that’s been my experience with the handful of parsers I’ve thrown away because they get too unwieldy for what I want.
YES they keep the whole lottery fee.

WORSE YET, they get to set the fee themselves! The park system just goes along with what they pick.

They got in trouble for this because by law there was supposed to be a public comment period regarding fee changes.

They got some judge or official to sign off something saying effectively: "x = whatever BAH decides; Fee = x;"
In short: CYA for Can-Con, which may backfire
I hate that policy of giving away idle accounts, there are many people who are deceased whose last tweets should be preserved.
> ChatGPT is something completely different compared to the symbolic fact-based AI systems of decades past.

thank you for recognizing this and writing it down clearly.
The debt goes up continuously under both parties. It's structural.
Uh, it's not about the passing lane on the road. It's about the station. The passing happens at the stations. The car gets out of the way while people load and unload. That's the ideal design.

Sharing a train or bus just forces everyone to stop at everyone's stop along the way.
Historically Congress hasn’t been being led around by its most extreme elements, but that’s no longer the case in the HoR. So we might be in for some all new degrees of “let it burn” posturing that we haven’t experienced before.
No. The type of 'x' is int. It so happens on your platform (and most available systems today) sizeof(int) == 4.

The type of letter was explicitly char, and sizeof(char) == 1 by definition in C.

char letter = 'x'; is a type coercion. That literal is an integer, with the value 120 and then it's coerced to fit in the char type, which is an 8-bit integer of some sort (might be signed, might not, doesn't matter in this case).
Robots run the show as Swiss radio tests AI voices for a day
Additional info on the station's web site, only in French, unfortunately:
https://www.rts.ch/info/sciences-tech/medias/13976194-les-in...
Is there anyone under the age of 50 who even knows what BBB is, much less cares about it?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.burst@1.8/manual...

Burst and IL2CPP are different things. Burst is also a different “can’t believe it’s not c#” custom layer they invented, own and now have to maintain a separate fork of.

(Apparently just maintaining IL2CPP wasn’t keeping them busy enough)
Well, we don't really know. The keynote claims it is a superset, but elsewhere they say they will strive to be a superset. So how much of a superset are they? Are there huge swaths missing? Really hard to tell at this stage from a tech demo. According to this post they've just been working on this for a short time, so a lot of their statements are defacto aspirational. Programming language lifetimes are measured in decades. They've got a long way to go.
> Listing Self rather than Smalltalk as the basis of OO languages is also a bit odd.

That was my first reaction too. I also agree that Simula deserves a mention here. AFAICT more languages derived from that model than from Smalltalk or Self directly, and I'm pretty sure the authors of later languages such as C++ have acknowledged as much.
Here’s valid feedback: don’t use ridiculous language (team change), treat us like adults. We know what this is. Don’t turn a message about layoffs into a marketing puff piece about Shopify’s mission to save kittens and make rainbows. Own up to literally any amount of accountability, and be real as for the reasons this is happening (we hired these people knowing the risk we may need to lay them off - we were wrong and now you suffer as a consequence)
If some kind of facial recognition algorithm/model can use worse inputs to "do better than humans" in some task (i.e. try to recognize between twins using a downscaled image from a 720p laptop camera) more often than not focusing in other things different from the face itself or there is some kind of target leakage in the datasets. More often than not those are big reasons why is so difficult to target SOTA paper performance in the real world, be it in face recognition or otherwise.

ML algorithms for FR are not magical and I don't expect them to be always better in all conditions than a human with two eyes (i.e. stereo vision).
Julia is not an OO language, and its functions dispatch on all function arguments, not just the first one.
But obviously we should allow Facebook to sideload their own app for the freedom of users.
You folks know other countries don't do this silliness right? They don't have an arbitrary debt ceiling they have to constantly raise or else the government goes into torpor? That's just an Americans thing.

Also, did The Economist write an article like this when Trump was doing his "big, beautiful tax cut" or does it only matter when Democrats are in power?
I'm sorry to tell you this, but either your perception was wrong or your recruiter made a mistake.

Remote interviews are generally phone screens. Aka just weeding out candidates.

On site interviews are the real killer.
When the debt limit is discussed is telling of its use as a cynical political tool. It’s basically debating to pay the bills previously agreed upon to spend with the passing of the budget. If the budget passes so should the debt limit to spend that budget.

Our politicians play this game then wonder why other nations are starting to coalesce around other reserve currencies.
Yeah, for old games that are not sold anymore piracy seems defensible.
One complication is that mainstream tech spends billions precisely to prevent them from doing that.
I worked for a business similar to Daily Harvest (used in OP's website as an example dark pattern) and this is absolutely true.

We did have some confusing terminology and the distinction between "Cancel" and "Pause" was often times not obvious. "Pause" meant you wouldn't be charged again until you Unpaused your subscription. "Cancel" meant the subscription was dead and could not be re-activated. If you wanted to subscribe again, you'd have to re-enter your payment information. This led to a lot of confusion so we had to message those things better. This was mostly due to the backend tech and I'm not sure how much that impacts some of the sites mentioned in the article.

What I see happening now with those services is that the "pause" function might allow you to pause for n-weeks but not indefinitely. That's a shit pattern as well.
I actually had a very comfortable time cancelling Amazon prime in Portugal. I guess this is again one of the areas where the evil regulations of the EU overlords make life easier for the average Joe.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_...
Oh, great. If that ever starts happening in my parts, that will be a huge pain in the ass.
Disappointing, the article doesn't say anything new or untold beyond some minor personal details about the people involved and the fact that people repeatedly missed major clues because they weren't talking to each other.

Also, the article repeatedly insinuates that the attack was traced to the Russian government, in fact it says it so often a casual reader could be forgiven for thinking they had proof. But a careful reading shows that they have absolutely no idea who did the SolarWinds hack. The link to the SVR is simply that Kevin Mandia has a "hunch" based on "pattern recognition" from his work in the 1990s. Not only is no proof presented, they don't even have anything that could be called evidence.

Writeups of hacks are always like this nowadays. It's the Russians. How do we know it's not the Chinese, or the Americans, or the British? We don't but if we say it's the Russians everyone will be on our side, so let's roll with that.

I really wish journalists would not try to manipulate readers like that. It'd be more honest to say they don't know. Trying to slip a completely made up SVR connection past the readers like that implies the rest of the article might just be spin too.
I wonder what the "Reddit community of replica enthusiasts" is? I have to finish the article so maybe it's mentioned.
Then what? We launch drone strikes against some random city overseas?

Honestly, the only hope is to attack the revenue model, and unfortunately, there's too much money tied up in cryptocurrency to do it without substantial collateral damage.
Intel's One Line of Linux Code for Speeding-Up Sapphire Rapids on Ubuntu
I asked myself the same question when I learned yacc and bison.

For most languages, the tokens are a regular language and a simple regex lexer is enough. Regular expressions used by a lexer end up as a state machine.

It does not make much sense to use a full recursive descent parser just to do lexing, as it will be less efficient and use more memory. Consider that the amount of characters ingested by the lexer is far greater than the tokens ingested by the parser.
The worry is that one day congress won't have that luxury for one reason or another. The uncertainty is when and what means. It is the uncertainty that causes economic panic.
> The same is true for AI. It’s not different from humans

I don't know how anyone can believe that.

Maybe there will be some future AI where this is true, but it's absolutely not true yet.

My argument is that humans absolutely should NOT invent AI that is on our own level.

We shouldn't overstep building tools for us to use into trying to invent new artificial life.

It's just a bad idea.
100% this.

Going even further I always get emails when yearly subscriptions are charging in a few days and those emails even include how to cancel the subscription if I no longer wish to use it.

I know people love to complain about the App Store, and there are some valid complaints. But companies being forced to use this mechanism for subscriptions is a huge benefit for consumers.

Also frankly, it's a huge benefit for the developers also. There are a number of apps that I would never subscribe too if I had to use their own custom solution thanks to how many bad behaviors I have seen. But since it is part of Apple's system I don't worry about subscribing.

Edit to add:

I really hope that if Apple does end up being forced to open this up and allow apps to do their own subscriptions. That for many consumers like me, as a developer your choice is 70% of the money or none. I am not moving to your subscription service and will find alternatives.
Better yet, maybe a heads-up if your stuff is going to be used?
I have 3 Hue light bulbs + 3 IKEA Tradfri light bulbs ( + bunch of other zigbee stuff, in total ~40 devices in my mesh network)

I started home automation with a Philips Hue starter kit but built my own zigbee network with Home Assistant later on. I'd say IKEA light bulbs, being around half the price of Philips, are pretty much on par with them.

The worst lights I had were OSRAM, they kept losing the zigbee connection and were PITA all the time.
Just think, what are they buying? ;)
I think the problem is that knowing the wallets that have received transfers isn't enough. They also need to identify the parties that control the wallets. As far as I know blockchains don't do KYC, so I'm having a hard time believing that blockchains make the process of recovering stolen funds any easier or indeed faster, quite the contrary.
I like that articulation. But I don't see why emergent intelligence has to even necessarily be in the mix for an ML / AI tool to be as helpful / insightful as the current systems seem to be. At least based on how they've felt in everyday use in my development process at work and as a consumer etc. Theyre about as helpful as Id expect an off-brand all-of-the-internet philosopher stone chatbot assistant to be.
Home to cry, mostly!
Greenland Sharks Have What in Their Butts?
Finally! The people can democratically cut out the cartels. I have been waiting for 5 years:

https://qbix.com/blog/2017/12/18/power-to-the-people/
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, because you're right in principle. (Probably because you insulted both parties at once).

Where it does matter is as an excuse to push other agendas through with "emergency" bills to raise it.
> Poor people weren't going to enter a lottery for the chance to visit a park anyway.

What? Poor people like to take vacations also and national parks were traditionally a rather cheap way to do so.

Theres also a lot of poor folks who's purpose in life is literally visiting those parks. Recreation.gov owns big wall climbing permits for Yosemite for instance and a significant number of young dirt bag climbers that live in their cars in order to climb full time and are very definitely poor apply for those every year.
> How does it help your situation to worry about something you cannot control or influence in any way whatsoever?

They affect me. I don’t give a fuck what the sun does everyday if I can’t pay my rent.
> It seems that oppression is bad, so without a compelling reason, anonymity should be allowed. "Fake news": adults should be allowed to believe in or be exposed to the information of their choice.. particularly because no one can be trusted to be the arbiter of "fake."

The last six years should have proven that most adults are not capable of judging whether a piece or source of information is trustworthy or not, hence the call for government regulation in the face of digital warfare - and yes, what Russia and China did to Western populations would have been classified as an act of war some decades ago.
I think part of the problem of trying to separate the two is that the most prominent implementations appear deceptively similar on the surface, even with unfamiliar syntax. E.g. put even Smalltalk in front of someone familiar with C++, and they'll quickly latch on to the similarities once a few of the basics are explained, to the point that explaining message passing as different from method invocation is tricky, not least because so much of message dispatch is implemented in terms of method invocation.

This is ironically exacerbated when what is often presented as the important bit of Smalltalk are examples like the one in the article of allowing definition of control structures (you can do that in Ruby too, e.g. a partial impl: "def true.ifTrue = yield" - now you can do "(1 < 5).ifTrue { ... called if true }" - with a bit more thought you can chain ifTrue/ifFalse).

But while that's neat, that doesn't even require dynamic dispatch, just the combination of being able to invoke methods/dispatch messages to true and false, combined with convenient syntax and support for closures. You could add that to a language and still not have a Smalltalk descendant in any meaningful way.

What matters much more is that objects at least may take control over the target of a message dispatch even if they often don't, whereas method invocations in "those other" OO languages is mainly controlled by the class definition, and that is often glossed over as an advanced subject or "scary magic". For example how Ruby ORMs tend to use introspection to let you dynamically treat columns on database tables as methods based on the actual current schema of the database - in other words the ability to do not just dynamic dispatch but late binding.
But ... MMT?

Is it really Tax and Spend? Or is it Spend and Tax.

So for example in 2020 QE cycle in UK the UK gov would spend something like 100BN a month, and would fund that out of borrowing - so it would put 100BN of bonds (gilts) onto the market - which were immediately bought not by pension funds but by the Bank Of England - so basically the UK government owes itself something like a trillion pounds worth of bonds - around 40% of total UK debt.

Exactly how does the UK government owe itself money? Our debt to GDP ratio is about half of what everyone says simply because the government printed money.

As long as that reflected real world purchasing - nurses and so on - then fine.
I mean, if a company doesn't take the BBB seriously why would they take you seriously?

I think Amazon typically has a good reputation for consumers. You'd have better luck looking up Comcast [1] and if you compare that page to Amazon's you'll certainly understand that you may encounter some difficulties and perhaps choose a different provider (lol) for your service.

[1]: https://www.bbb.org/us/pa/philadelphia/profile/cable-tv/comc...
The UK government is good at passing laws but terrible at enforcing / enacting them. They want to be able to rule by waving a new law and and signing cheques (as long as there isn't too much due diligence involved in the contract).

The part of governing where you have to set up institutions that provide a service or material good for the voters is not their forte.
Fleetingly few places that have both the demographics and the institutional stability to capitalize on demographic growth though.

Maybe a couple places in Latin America, but those countries have a habit of electing the wrong autocrat and utterly collapsing.
More like, they were bad at introduction, and remained bad to date.

They rank high alongside delay slots, in harmful features.
> I have a problem with a system that allows a landlord to pick out every interaction with any person they choose after the fact for the entire term of the data collection.

If that's the case, then why bring race into it? The racial aspects of the argument infers that such law would only be put in place, in spirit, to protect the privacy of minorities, and not anyone else.
> bone marrow

Just a serial on the bone in the film

https://youtu.be/jXuJi-kFTOg?t=168
How would we feel about it if the tunnels were for bikes? Seems like that would have some benefits: sheltered from the weather, no interaction with multi-ton vehicles driven by inattentive drivers, etc.
I guess you haven't updated iOS in a few years, then?