skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hot take is that this is a new service, so none of the accounts have much of a history.

Algorithms in place could reasonably impose extra checks on large withdrawals from new accounts.

What's more, I could speculate that Goldman Sachs' limited experience with mainstream retail banking could lead to delays of this sort, where they lack a statistical universe to identify exceptional usage (transactions large percentage of balance) as legitimate.

FWIW, I have a tiny amount of money in an Apple Savings account; I have deposited funds and withdrawn a bit exactly one time each. No unusual delay, but it's not exactly an account I intend to use like checking.
I use it because it's much cheaper.

Bandwidth alone is an order of magnitude cheaper than AWS.
Background: 25 years of information security in very big text companies, from IT to CISO.

People deploy whatever they think is useful, do not maintain it and then a vulnerability arises. Nobody knows where the implementations are.

Business pressures for availability, but did not want to sign off that they accept their systems to be insecure. You have a weak CISO and disaster strikes.

Reluctance to use cloud based systems because of a weird belief that local teams will do better.

Politics and who-has-the-biggest-one contests.

Lack of knowledge about what data actually matters in the company, and once it is known lack of will to invest in protecting it.

When crisis strikes legal is everywhere and teams waste time with useless feedback.

ISO certified companies where it is dangerous to sneeze because the whole system will fall apart. The whole ISO obsession is maddening. I have never seen a hacker hacking the certification to get in.

Generally speaking, a burnout because of the blocks cybersecurity gets, until there is a hack and then it is all their fault.

Finally, a small hack here and there helps to raise awareness.
I loved my Commodore 128, but I don't even remember a Commodore 128D being a thing. I suppose at that point I may have been fondly dreaming of the Amiga I would never get.
Background: 25 years of information security in very big text companies, from IT to CISO.

People deploy whatever they think is useful, do not maintain it and then a vulnerability arises. Nobody knows where the implementations are.

Business pressures for availability, but did not want to sign off that they accept their systems to be insecure. You have a weak CISO and disaster strikes.

Reluctance to use cloud based systems because of a weird belief that local teams will do better.

Politics and who-has-the-biggest-one contests.

Lack of knowledge about what data actually matters in the company, and once it is known lack of will to invest in protecting it.

When crisis strikes legal is everywhere and teams waste time with useless feedback.

ISO certified companies where it is dangerous to sneeze because the whole system will fall apart. The whole ISO obsession is maddening. I have never seen a hacker hacking the certification to get in.

Generally speaking, a burnout because of the blocks cybersecurity gets, until there is a hack and then it is all their fault.

Finally, a small hack here and there helps to raise awareness.

Ah, and dreadful asset management.
Land Value Tax simply does not work.

It fixes nothing, and causes severe problems
I do that on a regular basis. Our production file storage is at just under 50% of almost 1 PB capacity. What are you saying?

(The best part is that if someone got in and stole our stuff, they would have no idea what to do with it, it being esoteric scientific data mostly in a proprietary binary format.)
Looks like a balloon that is floating still and then gets caught in an updraft from the hill side, but we’d need more jpegs to be sure.
Wages do increase, but then it's all spent on housing. And lately, also spent on healthcare.
Because homelessness is a symptom of a whole bunch of different root causes, and treating symptoms without treating root causes can be a massive waste of time and money
> as far as I know a good chunk of sophisticated malware (stuxnet, wannacry, etc.) are written in plain ol' C or C++, so I categorically disagree that the differentiator between "script kiddie" and "leet haxor" is in whether or not someone writes assembly.

Indeed. It's also useful to differentiate between malware and exploits (although the former often includes the latter). Exploits it's common to use assembly when finding and developing the exploit, but unless you're severely byte constrained you're just gonna use tools to generate your shellcode instead of hacking it out by hand. Even then there are tons of pre-written shell code snippets you can reuse from places like metasploit. The number of jobs where you're paid to write an exploit are small unless you can get on an elite team in a government agency (or contractor). Malware on the other hand is mostly just written in higher level languages like C
I'm a little bit skeptical that we could destroy our business clusters and remain equally competitive on the world stage.

Seems a lot easier to tax land.
California state officials have managed to spend $17B on it, I'd say the homelessness problem is working just fine for them. It sounds cynical, but this is what "managing," a problem in government means - extracting value from it. If you want less homelessness, you need fewer people benefiting from it. It's that simple. Government isn't about solving problems, it's about managing them to the benefit of the constituents who vote them back in.

Homelessness is encouraged by California policies that are essentially accelerationist, where they create the problem and exacerbate it to get the money and power to solve it, and then they've got something to manage indefinitely to keep getting those things. This is why you have a border crisis, and why your neighbourhoods have tent cities. Outside the cadre of people who think they will make up the central committee, few actually want unlimted centralized governments and policies when life is good and peaceful, so agitaing to make things much, much worse is how you get popular support to seize control and entrench your people. It's not a conspiracy, it's just strategy, and most people can't face that because they don't know what power is like, or understand what it means when they say it is the highest good. Homelessness is the symptom of a much deeper and more malignant social cancer, imo.
It’s annoying because so much content SHOULd be perfectly accessible as described, but frameworks and browsers just fight it at every step.

Too bad Apache didn’t have a Gopher server built in by default.
> Efficiency doesn't necessarily mean good.

That’s my point, just because it’s a product of the market, doesn’t mean it is what’s best for society.
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I use Hyper (Caps) + Space for the 3-fingers up gesture, plus Hyper + q / e for switching desktops and Hyper + w for 3-fingers down. Works very well.
AGI will be better and cheaper than people trained by AGI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World (1932)

https://ia801308.us.archive.org/8/items/BraveNewWorld-and-Br...
Well, uranium could be an example. The US doesn't mine much of it anymore - instead, they buy most of what they need from Russia. There's still plenty of it out there, but if you ever stumble across an old mine out West, there'll (hopefully) be a lot of signs warning you not to drink the water or spend much time in the area.

There has been a lot of coal and oil extraction, clear-cutting, etc. all around the world. Sometimes because the materials weren't commodities yet, sometimes because it's cheaper to produce locally. But as land and labor get more expensive, so does local production.
Listening to the NASA public meeting (finally).

I must say, Federica Bianco is fantastic. Karlin Toner and Shelley Wright as well. Everything I was thinking and saying at my screen (e.g., data handling and classification protocols, unnecessary introduction of bias through use of synthetic data, anomaly detection paths, concerns with sensors and frame rates) they immediately said, and more.

Glad to see strong women sitting center on this.
Turncoat drone story shows why we should fear people, not AIs
There was an inquiry about the direct causes of the fire, that concluded the initial "spark", so to speak, was indeed an accident. I agree with that.

> Is this a true statement?

Yes, I think it is, unless one can point to an inquiry, not about the fire itself, and how it started (which has been done), but about the chain of responsibilities of the people in charge of the construction site at the time of the fire.

My point is, having just one guy with no training and no experience, monitor a landmark of this importance, during major works on the roof, is incredibly careless and unprofessional and should have consequences. But apparently it doesn't.
> I think on this issues it’s conservatives that make a solution untenable.
> Conservatives are going to be against giving out living space. So that kills any housing first policies.

I'm trying to figure out the basis for your argument... surely you aren't suggesting that places like California want to do this but can't seem to overcome the conservative opposition in the state legislature, right? :)

See also : https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-inpractice-0... (one of the most conservative states in the country has been trying different housing first strategies for nearly two decades)
I find Cox Communications' appeal in the piracy liability case to be quite intriguing. It's fascinating to see the company draw parallels between the recent Supreme Court ruling involving Twitter and their own situation. The argument that aiding-and-abetting liability should only apply when there is conscious and culpable participation raises some thought-provoking questions.

However, I also understand the music companies' perspective that the two cases are fundamentally different, with one being a copyright matter and the other falling under the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. It will be interesting to see how the court of appeal interprets this distinction and whether Cox's appeal will hold weight.

This legal battle is significant not only for Cox Communications but for the broader discussion surrounding liability in the digital age. It highlights the ongoing challenges in holding third-party services accountable for the actions of their users. I'll be eagerly following the developments in this case and how it may shape future decisions regarding piracy and online platforms.
the original paper is available https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00806-6

They used a specific region of the electrode array to deliver the "reward" signal which was a regular predictable pulse pattern . An error was represented with unpredictable activity
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Am i right in thinking it's only military pilots who have seen this stuff? No civil pilots?
> that's just as hard to compile as one that is defined to trap and end execution on an out-of-bounds write

I believe simply disallowing "+" and "-" from accepting pointer types is slighlty less work than writing logic for "integral + pointer", "pointer + integral", "pointer - integral", and "pointer - pointer". Although on the other hand it means that instead of literally rewriting "a[i]" to "*(a+i)" in the AST, one has to write a separate logic for array accesses so... okay, so it's exactly as easy to compile ("as hard" technically works as well, but since it's actually rather easy, not hard, I've chosen "as easy", hope you don't mind).
> > "Personalized training is so much better, that you wouldn't have to spend so much time doing school or homework or whatever."

> "Sorry - but fantastic claims need fantastic amounts of supporting evidence. It seems that all you have is a hunch that it ought to be so."

I'm talking about something specific it's the 'two sigma problem' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem) "the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a classroom environment with one teacher to 30 students, with or without mastery learning"

> "Not only is it trivial to see that this does not preclude them from cheating"

If you mean cheating by using advanced AI, I'm not sure what you're talking about. They won't have any devices. You are suggesting they have brain implants or they are smuggling some devices?

> "forcing these poor kids to do all their work through bots (and in isolation from other students) is just ... too nauseating to contemplate."

They only need to spend a fraction of the day doing the personalized 'book learning'. The rest of the time they can spend time playing with their friends. That could even be part of their 'school day'. Just to have fun.
I think the US is already well past the guillotine point yet... no guillotines.
The point is if the OS were more open, people wouldn't have to hack their way around it like this.
I hope you're right. I saw the opposite in covid (and generally still do). A majority is happy to dehumanize and gang up on the minority in the name of safety or whatever, but it's really just human nature getting an acceptable outlet for hate. Many jurisdictions saw broad support for abandoning post enlightenment values and accepting their neighbors being demonized and tyrannized while authoritarian controls were applied to daily life. Next time I expect it will be worse, and for even worse reasons.
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I highly recommend Human Smoke by Nicholas Baker (2008) for a book that puts WWII in a historical perspective different from the one we inherited.
> “why would the PR firm call the journalist who hasn’t had a byline in three years”?

That kind of answers itself, doesn't it? They're an NYT reporter and haven't had a byline in three years. They're probably not gonna approach John Carreyrou – also at the Times – or someone who already has a good thing going and doesn't need to publish a puff piece.
this seems fine to me, managing the greater boston food bank sounds like it needs a good manager to better spend the other 99.8%
I have to say I do like the idea of trying this out literally as I wrote it and testing what happens. :)

I mean it's catnip after all, so the cat may indeed attempt to levitate like Mario in order to collect it.
It's really difficult to tell whether the PTX layer approach is something AMD _should_ adopt. That's roughly what the (I think now abandoned) HSAIL thing was.

It's one where packaging concerns and compiler dev concerns are probably in tension. Compiling for N different GPUs is really annoying for library distribution and probably a factor in the shortish list of officially supported ROCm cards.

However translating between IRs is usually lossy so LLVM to PTX to SASS makes me nervous as a pipeline. Intel are doing LLVM to SPIRV to LLVM to machine code which can't be ideal. Maybe that's a workaround for LLVM's IR being unstable, but equally stability in IR comes at a development cost.

I think amdgpu should use a single llvm IR representation for multiple hardware revisions and specialise in the backend. That doesn't solve binary stability hazards but would take the edge off the packaging challenge. That seems to be most of the win spirv markets at much lower engineering cost.
The Bay Area doesn't control immigration and cannot set its own monetary policy. Some problems need to be solved at the Federal level, but the Bay Area does not set Federal policy.
She's a competent leader there's no doubt. But to say she saved AMD is just more mindless leader worship. TSMC saved AMD, because they gave AMD the ability to produce CPUs that could finally compete with Intel.
I'm not a land owner. I'm someone with an incomplete BS with a concentration in Housing who also spent years homeless.

In the 1950s, the average new home was 1200 sq.ft. Post 2000, it was over 2400 sq.ft. and held on average one less household member. We've also torn down a million single room occupancy units in recent decades.
I don't see any comparisons with torch.compile. Kind of unfair to compare it to eager mode.
I did it partially so your hard statements might need to be toned down.

I have proof from several opthalmologist exams just in case one wonders. And the reversal has been subsequent (several diopters).

Although I haven't exactly followed the protocols on endmyopia but am aware of their existence, I have been scientific enough to try so I have this anecdotal result that it is possible at least.

As far as science knows, axial elongation is reversible in rhesus monkeys and isn't even fixed in the first place.
Yeah, I used to be a faithful user and I quit because of this. Many Tricks makes good software, but it seems the APIs they use for some of the window information end up getting very slow under certain circumstances, starting on an OS release somewhere around 2017 if I recall.

One of my favorite things about Witch is the huge amount of customization you could do with it. Defining multiple switchers with different behaviors and different trigger keys is a nice feature too.
You can say that but I'm responding explicitly to how it's 'self-evident' to you.
>AMD picked open standards and made investments on open source frameworks and libraries commensurate with their financials, the hope being that the community could help pick up some of the slack.

This has been their claim, but more often than not they haven't actually done anything to encourage the community to pick up slack. So many of their graphics tools have been released with promises of some sort of support or of working with the community yet have basically had nothing to help the community help them.

Even accepting the unreasonable idea that they can't afford the full-time developers for the various tools and libraries they come up with, they often don't even really work with the community to build and maintain those.

One of the bigger cases which contributed to turning me off from AMD GPUs was buying a 5700XT at launch, eager to work on stuff using AMD specific features, only to be led on for over a year about how ROCm support was coming soon, every few months they'd push back the date further until they eventually just stopped responding at all. Trying to develop on their OpenGL drivers was a similar nightmare as soon as you wandered off the old well worn paths to more modern pipeline designs.

Another glaring example would be Blender's OpenCL version of Cycles, which was always marred with problems and hacks to work around driver issues. They tried to work with AMD for years before finally just dropping it and going for CUDA (and thus HIP) even though AMD's HIP support, especially on Windows, is still in a very early state.
People will continue to buy in to direct listings because they want to believe.
Exactly. And even then..
We had a consulting company come in and do an entire paid discovery & project planning phase. They came back with a proposal for phase 1, which they overran by 100%.

The entire project ended in acrimony since it was a statement of work, not time & materials, so at some point they are calculating how much of a loss the project is causing them to incur.

Change requests, threats of litigation, meticulous reading of specs to see what we could try to wring out of them let us with a product that never went to production.
Parent didn’t suggest returning them to the streets after rehab. They said give them free housing after rehab.

That being said, addiction is not easily cured with or without free housing, if the substance of addiction is easily available nearby (alcohol, drugs, casinos) without additional support systems.
What do you think about all MPEG series and WiFi?
You need to pay to read, you need to pay to implement, even if it is clean-room implementation.

Ridiculous.
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These probes are clearly being sent by Roko's Basilisk from the end of time to check up on who is helping it come into being and who is opposing it. Behave yourselves!
Also disk space - i don't want to keep 500 MB of failed login attempts just to have a week of syslog available.
What do you think about all MPEG series and WiFi? You need to pay to read, you need to pay to implement, even if it is clean-room implementation.

Ridiculous.
Wouldn't this cause electrolysis? In seawater you would probably get some chlorine gas produced in addition to the usual hydrogen and oxygen. I wonder if the chemical signature could be detected somehow.
I am utterly shocked and disturbed by the allegations against WhatsApp regarding unauthorized access to users' microphones without their consent. Privacy is a fundamental right that should be respected and protected by any application or platform. The fact that WhatsApp, a widely used messaging service, may have been spying on its users is deeply unsettling.

It is crucial for the Indian government to thoroughly investigate these claims and hold WhatsApp accountable if they are found guilty of breaching user privacy. Our personal conversations and activities should not be subject to surveillance without our knowledge or consent.

This incident serves as a stark reminder of the importance of being vigilant about our digital privacy and the need for robust regulations to safeguard our personal data. Users should have the right to trust the applications they use and have confidence that their privacy will be respected.

I hope that this investigation sheds light on the truth and serves as a wake-up call for both WhatsApp and other tech companies to prioritize user privacy and take concrete steps to ensure the security of our personal information. Our digital lives should not be exploited for any purpose, and we deserve transparency and control over our own data.
I think embedded programming could really benefit from async/co-routine programming, especially around interrupt routines. I’d like to be able to write an ISR function that looks like straight line code. It would enabled and awaits the interrupt, then returns back to that point once the interrupt is active, restoring the local function state.
> The best practice has, imo, long been to load a schema file which represents what the db should be at the head of a branch and then load up your seeds. Migrations are to catch your team and live environments up.

I'm delighted to read this - I tried this method as an experiment in one of my projects, and I really liked it, but I had never seen anyone else do it. Good to hear a confirmation that it's worked elsewhere too.

I'd like to add that it's also advantageous when spinning up DBs in Docker; you can mount your "head" schema files right into initdb.d and have them execute when the container runs.
it's API-compatible with redis, but not part of redis. it's proposition is a faster, more scalable, multithreaded drop in redis replacement.
Can't say I'm a fan of the whole "blacking out the website because someone's running adblock" though. Adblock is how modern browsers work because it turns out the internet couldn't be trusted to responsibly run them. Blacking out a site until someone turns them off is a literal dark pattern.
Or rent control.
Oh no you didn't! Dragonfly is a competitor to Redis.
Disagree on 'minimum unit sizes', at least where I live 0-bedroom loft-only units are already small enough!

I do agree with other ideas that promote more flexible application of possibly small units.

Ideas such as 'fire proof' (no flammable materials in building construction) buildings with relaxed regulations about access to egress, so that stupid middle hallway can be removed.

Very agree with an easier and known approval if checking the boxes process. Local hearings banned, environmental impacts should be part of the zoning for a given plot; fit 'within the lines' and no re-assessment.