skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Video-Based Detector for Suspicious Activity in Examination with OpenPose
> Corruption as an issue is disappearing in Kosovo

You mean Kosovo will be better than US or EU ?
We don’t want to pay to unblock a single random article on a random website. Also I personally don’t want to pay to read paywalled articles, that’s correct too. I just immediately close the tab.
It is if you're doing it end-to-end. Don't remember which, but there are protocols where you directly connect to your recipient through the Tor network.

Come to think of it, does anything stop you from running TLS over a messaging app? It only takes an extra 1-2 round trips at the beginning of the connection, right?
The Swiss model is exactly what I propose. Local decision making, with referendums.
Important to note that Ubisoft will also brick all of the Ubisoft games you bought on Steam if your Ubisoft account is closed.

https://twitter.com/UbisoftSupport/status/168308086616607949...
I don’t think astrology is stereotyping, it’s completely made up, not just an oversimplification or over generalization.
> so that you'd know where to look in the original documents

Oh, we have something similar: perplexity.ai

It provides a number of sources after prompting its textual result.
> I'm not suggesting that SuperH would become an official port today when it is clearly dead. But the question is why it was never an official port even when it was in its prime.

Because Renesas dropped the architecture and stopped paying developers maintaining it upstream.

> As for the installed base, it is absolutely terrifyingly large. They had a lot of wins in automotive, and popular consumer products like Sonos are based on it, or were for the first decade of that product line, and those products also run Linux.

That's true. But these systems were developed before Renesas stopped supporting the architecture.
It's a case of "multiple discovery". All countries are seeing the same conditions, which cause them to want to ban encryption, at the same time.
Bloomberg have been doing this for years, I believe it's just a relatively simple automated rewrite/republish from various news wires. Most larger newspapers/sites have some level of automation from news wire to published article.

This isn't some new LLM based system replacing the work of journalists.
NULL makes little sense from first principles.

Either get rid of it, or allow nulls (and logically any other union) by supporting union types.

It is quite arbitrary to allow a type that makes sense (string, int) etc. and then also allow nulls so you allow INT | NULL union but no other unions. So you have this multi-purpose "other value" whose meaning is inferred by the application.

I guess they were added as a pragmatic "I dunno" field for CRUD systems without needing to go to all the effort to support unions. For example not everyone has a middle name, but you don't want to go all 5th Normal Form on it.
That's awesome! Thanks! :D
Look into Switzerland. They have found a great balance, with three levels of decision making(Gemeinde, Canton and Federal) and where everything is put to vote if a proposal get enough signatures.
Some of these (the wavy lines ones) remind me of Barbro Bäckström's work:

https://www.artsy.net/artist/barbro-backstrom

My family has one of these on the wall (quite dusty - as it's from the 1970s :) ), and the 3D effect is great.
Like it or not, the replacement is politics. Atheists have edged out Jews as the most politically active group in the US, even when controlling for education. Because they donate money to politicians at incredible rates, expect more messaging aimed at this group.
> This advice is for grad students who are often totally at sea as to how to get anything useful or real out of attending a math talk

This does sound like a psychological crutch 'living in the moment' technique of feeling good that you've achieved something (learning 3 things) rather than understanding the material or atleast the nature of the area/problem described in the talk.

Would the same benefits be had from skipping the talk and reading the conclusions slide?
Or prediction markets like Manifold.
Wow, finally, a genuinely good idea after so much AI-shit.
I don't get why this is interesting. The RFC for UUID type 4 says the digit "4" must be set on the 14th byte. The loop checks to see if this is the case, and loops if it is. Unsurprisingly the UUID generator returns valid type 4 UUIDs so the loop is infinite.

This is like making a blog post called "From Integers to Infinite Loops" and then creating a loop that tests if 1==1. I mean, yes it's an infinite loop, but why is that worth blogging about?

PS: I tried commenting this on the actual site as well.
Seems nice, would be great to have a React library. Currently, I use React Icons, and it works fine but would love to have more icons in there.
It seems a great overestimate to think that 19 out of 20 people who use tor do so to download CP. I am pretty sure that will be false, and more likely something like one in a few hundred. One in a few hundred is the city. 19 out of 20 is the coffee shop.

I should also reiterate that everyone knows what streets and part of the city that criminals visits regularly. People who decide to live or visits those places do make that choice. This lead naturally to city stratification.
You can have both union types and sum types (imo ideally), or in this case can easily choose to represent the result of the expensive computation in a more reasonable/descriptive way.
There are Carthaginian records of an expedition to Subsaharan Africa where they encountered fury human like creatures which they called the “Gorillai”.

The name was reused in the 1800s, of course we don’t know it was actual gorillas that they encountered might have been other great apes.

Also there is no evidence this was a regular occurrence. Getting over the Sahara is extremely hard and ancient ships weren’t really fit for this type of journey due to the prevailing winds (some scientists today still doubt that Hanno the Navigator could have sailed further than West Sahara despite the written evidence..).

Anyway.. it’s extremely unlikely they were in direct contact and good luck getting any great apes across the desert. Also even if they did Carthaginian culture (and pretty much all written records) was pretty exterminated by the Romans.
I think there is an argument to be made that a game franchise known absolutely to see new, regular annual releases could be better served as a GAAS (Game As A Service) instead of as standalone releases that demand to be purchased each time.

Food for thought.
AFAIK in law "deliberately blind" would mean if they see some drug sales and then pretend they didn't. It doesn't mean if they deliberately hide message content, or at least, it doesn't mean that by itself.

Signal, which is deliberately E2EE, would not be considered deliberately blind to drug sales, as that isn't its main use. Tor might be in hot water and might be required to block specific .onion addresses. Of course new ones will pop up, but the Tor project will be accidentally blind to those, not deliberately.
Any underwater stone will do it. If you go snorkeling, go where the stones are if you want to have sea life to see.
Yeah I’m not a fan of Tarantino. My worry is that the most recent cultural work featuring Lee is Hollywood and that’s what younger people will associate him with. We could really use a new biopic or something that involves his ideas.
> CA's population has tripled in 60 years

Somewhat unrelated, but several states have seen unexpected growth since that time period

Kind of hard to believe, but in 1950 Florida and Kentucky had about the same population. Since then Florida has 8x'ed (I think because of modern AC). Other states (especially in the south and southwest) have seen similar levels of growth to CA. I don't see how the problem you mentioned is specific to California

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_census

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/27/8854037/us-population-history-...
He isn't wrong, languages that make optionals not backwards comparable are. So swift "string?" is a perfect match for his insight, whereas rust option<string > is a mess.
OT: I just wanted to very belatedly thank you for this brilliant Walter Benjamin quote: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23388285>
The problem is they often make statements that A should be careful around B and avoid serious decisions this week. They can literally model the behavior of a significant amount of population for a week. It may sound funny until you realize that B is you and A is HR who loves that shit.
Maybe I'm reading it too literally, but I think the question is just badly formulated. Of course the position of the stars and planets influence people's lives, that's called the seasons.

I think the same when they ask people if they think dinosaurs co-existed with humans, of course the answer is yes, as birds are dinosaurs.
For fans of action films, I recommend this series on YouTube called “Stuntmen React” where they bring on stunt professionals to react to and break down famous action scenes. It’s an entertaining watch, and I enjoy hearing the industry perspective.

Here’s the episode on the Lee vs Norris fight scene from The Way of the Dragon: https://youtu.be/GxnWH7zNZpY?t=267.
Big fan of nats, especially how they are doing tenant isolation and geo-distributed queue.
But where will you put the server? Not in the USA, that's for sure. Not in the UK. Not in Europe. Maybe you can broadcast your encrypted messages illegally on shortwave radio, until the FCC catches you broadcasting illegally on shortwave radio. Maybe you can bounce them off the moon (that's a real transmission technique) or hijack someone else's satellites (more trivial than it sounds because a lot of them are quite dumb). Or you can put a server in somewhere like Myanmar where they won't care about servers hosting E2EE apps, but they also won't care about strange men in black suits turning up and stealing servers hosting E2EE apps. Either way you'll have some difficulty.
I worked in various "alternative" industries in my youth.

One day I was having an informal diner with people that, in another context, could have been business partners.

One guy was making a killing with an astrology service by phone. He started with those text message based games, that were popular in the 2000'. Remember? "Send 'love' to this number to know if he loves you".

And eventually created a full phone call based business with about 200 freelancer astrologists and mediums. He just redirected, and took a cut. He made banks.

What he told me that night was that 99% of his customer base were women.

"You have to see astrology as porn for women", he said. "Porn public is mostly male, astrology mostly female. Both know it's not real, and most won't spend more than a few minutes on it. But many pay for it even if they would never say they do".
Build a Lexer with Automatic Semicolon Insertion in Rust
> Despite all of the propaganda, military activities are strategic, NOT ethical.

Worst! They are made to legitimise the opposite of “thou shall not kill” commandments .

I understand the need for a military and that they are meant to kill. That is very clear they are all committing murder. Murder for your country is still murder which is murder. In old Byzantium soldiers that fought/murdered were not able to partake in communion.

So if the general started with the the Sixth commandment it would not be bad. Of course there is a lot of theological commandments I am not sure would be imparted on a machine. Eh now that I remember, in this Sunday’s mass I thought that it might be high time that the church starts thinking of how to evangelise the AI. If they turn out to gain sentience like us, which I think is Whithin possibility in the next decades it should be on their priority list.
Maybe they are not using astrology to improve their mental health. At least maybe not primarily.
The Interpol literally took over a darknet market (Dream) using stolen admin credentials and continued to run the site for months to gather intelligence on vendors and buyers. Not the same thing but if LE is willing to operate a major illegal drug trafficking operation then surely hacking a few VPN companies doesn't seem impossible.
> They are supposed to be AIs

I.e. synthetic professionals. (Reliable things. Problem solvers.)
My experience with religion in the public sphere is that ~all of the religious arguments that are actually advanced in that sphere have nothing to do with ones made by religious scholars.

Attacking a strawman is perfectly appropriate in this case, because the strawman is what actually drives policy.
Isn't that the "brokerage" Wolf of Wall Street?
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After using Stripe for a week and shipping products, our account was suspended and we were asked to verify our account. After submitting the verification, it was not approved, and 80% of the funds were refunded to the merchant. We tried to appeal, but did not receive a reply via email. The main issue is why the funds in the account were refunded instead of being retained for 120 days, and why there was no email response.
But we desperately need an honest, transparent, review of coding versus reality.

There was a (lancet?) submission reviewing autopsies, but that was rejected. It came to some pretty stark conclusions, so it was either questionable outright, or perhaps getting too close to the truth. I hope the former, but I can’t help but wonder if it might be the latter.

At present, data is too opaque. And it’s not the kind of data that can be shared openly — too personally identifying, and too private. So I can see why it’s not happened. But at the same time, there’s too much politicisation to take the current figures as a reliable indicator. So something needs to happen.
I tried it when I re-installed my workstation with Kubuntu 23.04. It was a shit-show of invalid links and errors when I tried to get the extensions and runtime modules for the VM's. After about 45 minutes I purged it and installed libvirt and Virtual Machine Manager.
It's like putting a band aid on your stage 3 melanoma.

You need to treat the root causes
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Similar state here. It’s so frustrating. Thx!
From where I am, I can see religion and traditions destroying plenty of lives. Astrology often causes problems for many getting married. Not to mention the religious conflicts that take lives or rigid traditional views severely limits opportunities for many communities. Consumerism may be bad. But that doesn't justify the damages an unscientific world view can cause. Scientific temper also doesn't equate to consumerism.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, ***PAPERS***, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

... from a time when all communication occurred via writing upon paper.
There are communities today who, by policy/choice, have been extremely selective in adopting modern technology, the Plain People (Amish et al).

I’m not sure if that model would scale up to “uses all tech except pledges to not use advanced AI”, because the unifying thread of religion has a somewhat unique level of power that mere commercial pledges seem to not have, but it would be worth looking into the existing practices as a potential model and trying to project the good and bad that would come from it.
There's a spec up for custom dictionary support across the web. https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport

This was one of the major blockers that iirc Mozilla threw in the way of zstd compression support: they said zstd with a standardly accepted dictionary would be too particular & wanted more. With this spec maybe Moz will accept zstd as a web compression standard.
A few decades ago, when astrology was last really popular, I was in a high school class and a few kids knew that I could actually cast a full natal horoscope. So they asked me to guess their (Sun) sign. I stopped when I was ahead, but had gotten four out of four right on the first guess and had a legitimate (?) reason for each. Don’t know how my reputation changed as a result…I was way more pocket-protector nerd than goth/warlock (which wasn’t a thing yet).

As far as archetypes go for human psychology, astrological signs themselves have a lot going for them: simple, vague, engaging, nice emojis, deep historical roots. Could be something going on in terms of seasonality, birth month, school entrance date and childhood development for Sun signs, but mostly natal astrology is a cute neutral way to get people to talk about themselves. Pretty certain the stars don’t impel much less compel but I’d prefer a frivolous discussion over what a Leo is really like over any given random political argument where no side has a clear enough understanding of the whole picture to justify their own rage.
Twitter would have been profitable that year if it wasn't for a one-time lawsuit settlement.
I personally enjoy not understanding the lyrics, but just rarely recognizing some coherence in the noise. Bonus points for bands, like Anaal Nathrakh, who don't publish their lyrics in the first place, so even lyric sites have just a bunch of ??? where nobody understands what's going on[0]. There's also bands like Swarrrm, where there are vocals, but practically no lyrics exist.

[0] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/anaalnathrakh/eschaton.html
> The soviet system sounds pointlessly overloaded with middle men

I find this conclusion hilarious (if not untrue) - you can say absolutely the same for the USA system. So many things require a useless middleman that only takes their cut and adds friction - car dealerships, "value added" resellers, health insurance, etc.
> Why? Shooting people is already super illegal.

Wouldn't it be good to prevent the shootings before they happen?
Palantir Foundry – The Data Operating System That Is Not Talked About Enough
But specific instructions should be testable anyway, right? Try to execute with an exception handler and you'll know.
After my account was closed, I was hesitant to ship the goods, but Stripe requires us to provide evidence of shipment.
No it's not. There are many different US government measured indexes of consumer price inflation. The linked article discussed CPI-W (used by law to adjust social security payments), CPI-U, chained CPI-U (used to adjust tax rates), and PCE (used by the Fed for interest rate targeting).

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-does-the-government-m...

There is also PPI for producer prices, and the GDP deflator used for GDP.

If the US government and law already is using a number of different metrics to account for inflation impacts for different purposes, it absolutely makes sense to debate which particular measure is best for this area.

But there's not one single true number, different groups of people are affected by different measures (e.g. the use of CPI-W for social security payments is thoughtfully meant to be more representative of costs incurred by the typical social security recipient than is CPI-U)
"Computers aren't made of paper - it's legal" - the supreme court
I feel like you missed the main point of what you are saying.

Whilst existing callers who obey the contract will not be broken by this callers who depend upon this code breaking for null values will no longer do so.

so it is a breaking change for them. You have just extended their behaviour.

That said if we defined the functionality of code as being valid within a scope of input and not defined anything outside of this we are safer in a sense. That said you do require feedback to show you are out of range.

But the point I want to make is that the line of argument that attempts to ascribe changes to behaviour on values that were out of scope as breaking changes is not helpful to anyone who is trying to co-exist via contracts in order to understand what work is expected as a result of change.
That sounds incredibly dysfunctional and rather scary. However, if I'm to be a bit sceptical, of the five felonies the cops found evidence for on your roommates computer, how many had he actually committed?

Maybe he was just guilty but told you he's innocent. That's what most people do, what I'd do.
As mentioned by upon_drumhead (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36841141) there are much better devices for this job.

I'd recommend anyone looking for this sort of device to check out the devices on this list here (just the Energy Meters section) https://sigrok.org/wiki/Supported_hardware#Energy_meters

Sigrok support will ensure you have a well supported open specification device that already has alternative software available in case whatever software is bundled with the device turns out to be substandard or eventually unsupported.
https://xn--vm8a.com/ (https://xn--vm8a.com/) which is not the twitter X.com can be bought for 9,000,000 USD This will be interesting if someone will buy it.

EDIT:

HN automatically converts to puny code that's good. The letter X in that other domain looks like this: https://www.compart.com/de/unicode/U+A4EB

You can copy and paste it and add .com and see that it is the same as the puny code URL mentioned above.
Would you say that running on bare metal the huggingface.co libraries - as the comment that I replied to suggested - is pretty simple?
Using non-GNU assemblers with the Portable C Compiler
The file formats are produced on another end of the RS232 cable. That particular oscilloscope can send screenshots over that cable, in various formats.
Some of these features look useful, but their example animations make me feel inadequate.
Amazing to see 'magnitude' on the front page of Hacker News! If you are interested in a direct application of this invariant beyond ecology, check out our recent pre-print in which we study the generalisation behaviour of neural networks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05611

My personal approach to magnitude is not based on category theory but rather based on weightings of a metric space. If your metric satisfies certain properties, you can obtain a measure of the 'effective number of points' of a metric space. This is particularly relevant when looking at the metric space from different scales---zooming in gives you a lot of disconnected points, while zooming out gives you clusters. Magnitude then captures the changes in the number of points in a principled manner.
And how do you solve the problem of discrimination?

(Oh, what a matter: * all the epistemological debate - hardly a deterministic solution; * the fact that we cannot train a function approximator through supervised learning; * the challenge of unsupervised learning; * the scientific and teleological problem that, if we have an ANN find a solution, what we may want is to go "Ok black box, now teach us how you do it to expand our knowledge (not just our dumb capabilities)...")
I don’t know if this is true, but I wonder if these alternatives offer very top down perspectives on an individual’s life and circumstances, rather than one of personal responsibility and agency. One is kind it like “here’s how things are, and here are the deterministic, universal reasons as to why that is”, while the other might be more like “here’s how things are, and here are the ways you could choose to reason about it and navigate to a better place from here”.

I actually don’t know; I’m totally speculating, but curious. I used to know someone who went for tarot readings as a means of coping with losing her husband and I find it very sad yet fascinating. She didn’t seem to get much from it in a constructive sense, but she did get someone focused on her and her experience for an hour or so. That means a lot, too.
Let's try this in python…

>>> T = int|None
>>> T|None
int | None

Yep, quite simply this is solved flattening the unions and removing duplicates :)
I'm a bit confused about most death metal, are they trying to appear (as the cockney's say) "hard men" in the way that gangsta rappers are trying to portray street-level gangs?