skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But isn't it possible to have a local flow of time?

You can use a clock to measure time, but I think it's better to say that matter and energy move through time, just like they move through space instead of saying that time flows, because flow implies time which makes the definition circular.

So I would just say that if you consider any frame of reference you can define time with respect to it. But still there is no real "present" in time just like there is no "here" in space. You can just take any point in space and say it's your origin.
31 Billionaires are worth more than the US Treasury has in cash
I suspect this isn't the direction that System76 is pursuing with Virgo, but Linux is in a good position to take advantage of Arm CPUs. Linux isn't tied to legacy software that only runs on x86 in the same way that proprietary OS's are. This distinction isn't absolute, but given that most Linux software is open source, it's relatively easier to make this transition.

"Most performant" is a tall order. The traditional benefit of Arm has been efficiency, not compute power, but Apple has shown what's possible with their M1/M2 designs.
lol isn't that any course? sure cheaper than full tuition
> the power it hands to a few oligopolistic credit card processors

And the government. In Canada the government suspended the constitution (because that's a thing over there?) because of some peaceful, free-speech protected, protests in the capital and started arbitrary freezing protester's bank accounts. Of course, without any due process (remember, constitutional rights were suspended!).
As I understand it, the main difference between the Chinese room, and a philosophical zombie, is that the p-zombie would be, by definition, a biological organism physically and behaviourally indistinguishable from ordinary humans. The Chinese room is non-biological -- a set of data and algorithms being followed. The Chinese room would be like a p-zombie's non-mind, in a non-human form. The hypothetical object is very similar -- a system or organism, which behaves as if it has a human-like mind, but which does not actually have a human-like mind with a subjective experience.
> what are the main benefits of going fully cashless

One piece of advice I got a long time ago, from a family member in politics: Don't put your groceries on a credit card. Especially if you buy junk food or alcohol. Obviously the same goes for bars, tobacco, strip clubs, gun purchases[0], and lots of other perfectly legal things that you might not want being counted up if you ever run for office.

At the systemic level, the main benefits of going cashless are:

- Being able to track everyone's purchases (for taxation, law enforcement, and in some countries the blackmail of political opposition or assigning "social credit" ratings)

- Have realtime, near-total visibility into the movement of money, for economic management and personal profit

- Being able to cut off individuals or members of a political movement from the ability to purchase basic necessities, if they fall afoul of the party in power[1]

[0] https://www.wlox.com/2022/09/20/gop-ags-call-credit-card-com...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-canada-freeze-bank-a...

[edit]: I should have also mentioned freedom of movement and association. You cannot buy a plane ticket or a hotel room anymore for cash - even if your bank's ATM allowed you to access enough of your cash in a single day to do so. Cards enable the granular tracking of everyone's movement, whether or not that person chooses to carry a cellphone.
I was not talking about Covid, the person I replied to said there would be no possible disease that would justify lockdowns.
Since there's an onnx model this should be possible to export to onnxruntime for web, i.e. a real one click (no installation) deepfake straight on the web.
Insider Q&A: Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity in military tech
I agree it sucks, but iOS's service worker policy gave me no other option. Every other browser is just fine having the timeout running in the background, and I in fact have both codepaths running simultaneously so any other browser can work offline.

Funny that I provide a fully working code sample of how to do what the parent wants, explain the caveats associated with it, and get downvoted because Apple crippled their service workers... ok then, Hackers.
Maybe this is controversial but I'm going to say a dissenting opinion. This is like saying that when electricity came out of the labs and houses became wired with electrical plugs that any person can use, it meant that the divide between electrical engineers and non-electricians has been closed. I mean sure. But also no.

EDIT: also I don't think that electricity is in general a good analogy for this new wave of LLM powered ai, but for some reason i used it here
Indeed, that's what bounded means.
Their 'innovations' often consists of disregarding established (established for a reason, best practises) methods because of Elmos' superiority and NIH complex. He is not an engineer, but an autocrat.

I could start with omitting s flame trench thing in Boca Chica b/c "it would take too lomg", the (illegal) changes to their Fremont paint shop and the resulting fires, not keeping spare parts available b/c of frequent iterations applied during production, skipping brake tests, shit design decisions leading to many broken ball joints on their control arms ("whompy wheels"), the "lets use touchscreens not certified for automotive usage" (resulting in yellowing and seeping glue issues)...

The customers and employees suffer.
Same shit on Windows
Differential equations are way more involved and broad.
The primary benefit of cashless is pretty much just the ability to be lazy. You swipe a card in a reader instead of having to count out cash. That's the major benefit. All things being equal, sure, it's more convenient. But all things are not equal; in my opinion the potential negatives that others in the thread have listed overwhelmingly outweigh the ability to be more lazy. That so many people have the desire to ditch freedom in exchange for the ability to be slightly more lazy is such a disappointing state of affairs and says a lot about society.
C++ should finish the job and deprecate the preprocessor.
Notice how you are downvoted without a single counter argument, in fact all the anti-crypto diatribes in this thread have 0 substance and are just toxic 1-liners which bring no benefit or substance to the discussion. They hijacked an AI-Products thread and derailed it from discussing AI-Products to purely anti-crypto flame-bait.
>Eating out 6x a week, buying expensive coffee and the latest iPhone might pale in comparison to making a Little You

Every time I read this I can't help but think that either I'm delusional, or the person writing it. Are there truly people who eat out 6x times a week? Anecdotal and all, but I don't know a single person who does this.

It would also be interesting to count up the expenses of everything you write here, and compare them to "making Little You", because my feeling is that the amount you would save on these things is a small fraction of what it costs to raise "Little You".
> This is relatively new; previously Visa/MC prevented their merchants from doing this but it changed recently.

Not in all states (and maybe not recently in some of the states where it changed); a class action lawsuit in 2013 changed it for several states, and over time more states have allowed it by (IIRC) a mix of legislation and court cases; it is now at 48 states that allow it (plus D.C.) and two, Connecticut and Massachusetts that don’t.
Just disable javascript like any sane person.
Wikipedia, like most websites, has no use case for javascript whatsoever.
I have no insight into car manufacturing.

But I have a few decades of insight into software development. And from that I can say that it is actually possible that a whole industry can be insanely inefficient without anybody noticing.

So I wouldn't be surprised if the same holds for cars and huge efficiency gains are possible.
The cost is not so much about paying armored trucks, but most banks don't want to deal with small businesses that deal with cash.
> if you withdraw $8k to pay for a motorcycle and hand it to a guy that sells you the motorcycle and then deposits it straight into his own bank account then yes, this is quite obviously tracked.

Not really? As far as they know I could have spent that $8000 on a used car from another guy who then used that same money to buy a motorcycle. It's untracked for all the time it's not in the bank's hands.
"cash" in your pocket is central bank money. Current president keeps the dead presidents good (in theory). In the bank it is merely a promise of money.

Cash can (arguably) mean paper money but there is often a distinction made in capital markets - physical cash is for retail banks.

An applied example of a cash position in finance is repo: You need some short term cash - a simple hack financial markets use to do this in an administrative/credit efficient way is to simply sell (say) a bond (the collateral), receive some money (your cash), then agree to buy the bond back tomorrow for slightly more than you sold it for (the interest rate).
https://archive.is/20230528160758/https://www.wsj.com/amp/ar...
The article seems to argue that the best state of affairs for individuals is for others to be either consistently negative (so they can be ignored by individuals) or consistently positive (so they are listened to and make individuals feel good). That is not only a recipe for groupthink, but also for individuals to stay in denial about ugly truths. I grew up reading the NY Times, the New Yorker, etc, believing it to be sophisticated, and am continually disappointed by articles that just cater to the biases of its readers- in this case, explicitly saying being challenged in their beliefs is bad for their health.
I was an early adopter of (debit) card only, using it for everything in 1999. Your experience has never happened to me, as far as I recall. I don’t think I’ve ever had to go to an atm because the reader didn’t work.
I struggled with this question minus the true financial freedom.

You can get on the Hedonic treadmill, but you will adapt.

You can try to consume the world and become metaphorically obese and empty.

Buddhism and Siddhartha in particular is probably a good book to read on the subject.

From personal experience with this question, the only two goods are self improvement and service to your fellow man.

From an intrinsic motivation perspective. The pillars are autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Having financial freedom is near pure autonomy. So you are asking for purpose (service) and mastery (self improvement). You might answer that differently.
> routers normally have uPnP enabled these days

From what I understand, uPnP took off for a while, but started to become much less common about a decade ago because of the security issues it caused. I think most routers come with it disabled by default now. (If you know of any surveys indicating otherwise, I'd be curious to read them.)

Part of it is that hole punching became a standard feature for new protocols, so the need to forward ports has been reduced.
You can sign up for free. The paid option offers a certificate. That seems to be the only difference.
I was thinking more North Korea style rather than a single person, as in multiple shorts bought over a long period. Can’t say I really know how practical this is versus SEC
Why Erdogan's victory matters for the West
>NIH complex

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Probably cooties, according to current regime orthodoxy.
Related:

Joker: A small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28397893 - Sept 2021 (71 comments)

Clojure dialect written in Go (Joker) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19510165 - March 2019 (1 comment)

Joker: Clojure-like language on GoLang that's really fast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18234088 - Oct 2018 (4 comments)
It's a single one-term course in most universities I believe, but engineering ethics is a required subject for ABET-accredited (the standard in the US) engineering degrees.
BJP brought the Citizenship Act and the National Register of Citizens to act against the minority.

>> "Will remove every single infiltrator, except Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs: Amit Shah" [1]

Archive.org snapshot of now deleted tweet from BJP official account [2]

[1] https://indianexpress.com/elections/will-remove-every-single...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190520193044/https://twitter.c...
Zig has shown the true power of constexpr in being able to provide a powerful construct that generalizes well.

After sum types (and pattern matching), constexpr is the next great language feature that will be everywhere soon.

I would love for Rust to fully adopt constexpr.
The light/heavy thing definitely is noticeable on an acoustic, especially if you're fighting five other instruments, and body shape and construction has a huge influence on the overall sound; in a bluegrass parking lot scenario, there are definitely less and more appropriate guitars to be using, and the heavier the strings the better, but overall it's a question of volume, with a bit of frequency consideration in terms of where you've got the best chance of cutting through the overall din.

Your fingers are still the biggest factor.

Electric, the whole point of it was to relieve the player and the luthier of all that headache and allow them to focus on the music, negating any tonal need for large strings. It's only a factor in the sense that if you're an acoustic player most of the time you will prefer the heavier feel, but if you mostly play electric it's silly to play heavy strings, they don't bring anything extra to the mix.

Your fingers etc
We created the internet and in a few short decades we created tools that made all information on the internet useless.
Seems to be working well in Australia. They change batteries in 5 minutes using a fork lift, versus the ~20 minutes it takes to fill a truck with diesel.

https://www.januselectric.com.au/
No, it doesn't support markdown and it doesn't do analysis of headers/page numbers. It's mainly aimed at making academic PDFs better for reading and annotating (especially on iPad-like devices). Hoping to start charging for it at some point, but I'm still trialing it...

Some users have expected it to "unwarp" bad scans, it also doesn't do that unfortunately. But that's a much harder problem to solve...
Will Twitter shut down in Europe?
You probably can't test drive the self driving feature though because it only works on about 50ft of road in Nevada. Hence why you would look it up on youtube, only to discover that no else was able to use it either for the same reason.
Some discussions about that in case anyone is interested:

Babashka Babooka: Write Command-Line Clojure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261010 - Jan 2023 (14 comments)

Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33909241 - Dec 2022 (42 comments)

Babashka Clojure nREPL as a system interface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33761877 - Nov 2022 (23 comments)

Clojure Scripting on Node.js - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32339979 - Aug 2022 (33 comments)

Ad-hoc ClojureScript scripting of Mac applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779353 - Jan 2022 (8 comments)

Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28982952 - Oct 2021 (27 comments)

Using Clojure in the command line with Babashka - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353476 - Sept 2020 (36 comments)

Babashka: A quick example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382381 - Feb 2020 (16 comments)

Babashka – A Clojure for the grey areas of Bash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22254793 - Feb 2020 (65 comments)
Will have a look at Moonsharp. Thanks.

I got around lua so far, but bindigs seemed easy and a friend just chose it over integrating python just recently, so it seems to be getting some traction again, especially in tools and such to get a first step beyond a purely graphical UI.
I have honestly not seen a more egregious case of "premature optimization". Who the fuck cares about 1% extra performance on something they are doing on the interactive shell? (And the answer wouldn't even change if the performance difference was 100%.)

What an utterly useless thing to get pedantic about.
what about this ?
https://twitter.com/vijaygajera/status/1662850993086943232?s...
I'm constantly fiddling with the volume when listening to extremely dynamic classical music. Not at all what the composer intended.

My high school biology teacher likes to tell the story of a King Crimson album -- Lark's Tongue in Aspic, I think -- that he and his friends listened to for the first time in the 70s that's quiet for such a long time that you don't realize it, so you've probably turned up the volume really high when it suddenly blasts you. He says he fell over in his chair and loved it. That sounds awful to me.
22% reduction in traffic emissions without quality of life decline is possible
CPR's true survival rate is lower than many people think
That lady's book is super expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Illicit-Money-Financing-Terrorism-Twe...
At the root of this is something I'm constantly saying to other members in my research lab, arguing with reviewers, and passionately teaching my students:

datasets are proxies, measurements are fuzzy.

This is something that is drilled into students learning statistics and I can't for the life of me figure out why this changed with respect to ML (best guess is not requiring statistics courses).

Datasets are proxies: they represent the world, but aren't. They should generally be seen as narrow subsets too. Your dataset quality and type matter a lot! Things like medical image datasets also have tons of correlating factors that can easily invalidate all results without you being aware. There are simple datasets we use to prove a concept (toys, mnist, cifar, etc). There are large scale datasets that have internal inconsistencies (imagenet, flowers). There are huge datasets that haven't been properly filtered/deduplicated (LAION). (there are also just shitty datasets (HumanEval)) Thinking of datasets as proxies helps internalize the frustration that literally every production engineer faces (even outside ML and software): real world results are inconsistent with lab results. Dataset engineering is an underappreciated art that is extremely difficult. But everyone needs to internalize that datasets are just a map, not the territory, and your navigation will only be as good as the map (many are poorly drawn maps, often on purpose)

Measurements are fuzzy: Benchmarkism is running rampant in the ML world and it baffles me that a field who's bottomline objective deals with alignment isn't able to align how we evaluate ourselves.
No measurement is perfect, many are far from them. You can train two language models to the same NLL and one might sample well and the other outputs garbage. You can train two image models to have identical FIDs and one samples clearly and the other doesn't. Likelihood also doesn't guarantee sharpness and I can go on. You must think about the limitations of your measurements and know them in depth. This also has seem to have gotten away from us and people just use the measurement libraries and call it that. We've reached a point where ImageNet classification accuracy has decoupled from downstream performance (object detection and segmentation), and things like this are confusing to production people because just taking the model with the highest score doesn't always result in the best performing model for their work (even before we consider things like throughput and memory usage). It is a Goodhart problem through and through.

ML is at a serious point where we've gotten away from our basic stats learning. That's going to pose a real danger to society, not AGI. It's like handing powertools to chimps (who don't know how powertools work), it won't end well. But that is happening because we've shifted focus to meet targets, not to measure our work. Targets are easy, science is hard. Unless we bring these nuances back to our evaluation of works then we are just handing powertools to chimps without any quality assurance.
Not Invented Here. Brought to you by the people who reinvented the wheel.
Correct, counting and indexing are different things. But the "first apple" is an index not a count.
https://www.januselectric.com.au/ uses forklifts to change their batteries. That should be straightforward for a trucking company.
Not Invented Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
I've been using cash more due to the proliferation of sluggish, badly engineered, or dark-pattern point of sale systems.

There are two eateries across the street from each other near me. At both, you go to the counter and order, and they later bring food out. The first has a good system, from Stripe. Big, clear, uncluttered screen facing the customer, with the amount the biggest thing on the screen. When the system is ready to read the contactless card, the contactless card logo lights up, above the screen. The reader always reads the card once it's within about 1cm of the reader. The display immediately changes, by a smooth horizontal scroll, to a tip screen, which needs only one touch on a screen that senses the touch without difficulty. One more smooth horizontal scroll, with receipt options and a big "you are customer #5" display. One more touch and you're done. If I select "Paper receipt", the receipt prints within 2 seconds, and I tear it off and take it. Done.

I'll use a credit card there.

Across the street, another place has a Veriphone systems. This one is much more sluggish. There's no unambiguous indication of when the system is ready to accept a card. The contactless card reader is separate from the customer display screen. Sometimes, when the display indicates it's ready, it isn't. Or it may take several tries before it accepts the card. This is probably "hosted POS", where the POS terminal is a dumb web client and has to wait for an overloaded server for each step in the transaction.

Then the display wants a signature. There's no pen, and a finger touch won't work. Writing with a fingernail is necessary. Then the clerk has to ask if you want a receipt, and they have to do some data entry to get one printed.

I pay cash there.

Walgreens and CVS are even worse. Half the small screen is full of ads. There are asks for phone number, stuff about "reward points", readers that seem to be out of sync with the screen, and printed receipts two feet long, full of ads.

It's easier to order on Amazon rather than go there.
Is your syllabus available online? Engineering ethics sounds very interesting and it's the first time I hear about such thing.
Sadly this is the line that the BJP and their followers have taken. Any criticism from outside India is "western propaganda". Any criticism from within India is "anti-nationalism", "pakistani" or "tukde-tukde gang".
Open Source AI and the Challenges Ahead
I’m talking about when everyone has them when ICE bans are on. Obviously you can live without home chargers these days?
From the article:
"They were placed for safekeeping in the museum’s frigid vaults in Chili, N.Y., outside Rochester."

Please tell me the city was named for the "frigid vaults" - it's just too damned convenient a name not to have been.