skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US government does this a lot, maybe not blank checks, but certainly very large checks. The military in particular hands out astonishing volumes of money in the pursuit of pie-in-the-sky dreams.

Outside of blowing stuff up, the NSF distributes roughly $10 billion a year to research. And while a lot of that funding gets redirected back to universities, a healthy amount of it goes directly towards research that all of us benefit from tremendously. Think about how much open source software was developed at universities, funded directly, or indirectly via NSF or similar grants.

One of the problems with indiscriminate spending on science is people who oppose to the spending will attack it. We often see news articles like, "government gives professor $4 million to study of shrimp". Of course, the article is biased, so it ignores that half that that money goes back to the university to pay for "research facilities" or that the research may have direct military application. So people get the impression that there's these scientists out there playing around with aquariums and getting paid millions to do it.
Twitter now lists job postings for some companies
For example: https://twitter.com/vercel/jobs
I think KiwiFarms is a cesspool and I think Null in particular is an extremely crappy human, but despite that I disagreed with the credit card processors pulling them, because they really did have a near-monopoly for online payments, meaning that this could be considered stifling of free speech.

However, I think I'll have less of an issue for it if there's the government-backed means in which to send them money; at that point I think the "it's a private company!" defense would actually apply to the credit card companies.
Clickable: https://twitter.com/vercel/jobs
it's what they do with foodstamps already, is the point. I don't know whether that'll atually happen, but that's the theory.
Whomever comes after us, humans, better know to learn from our mistakes. Not waste time on made up deities, spiritual or material and focus on what really matters. The planet doesn't give two shits about you. You better listen or you too will be gone.
Your money is located somewhere and your recipient has their money located somewhere. The places where your money sits needs to interoperate with whatever "thing" you're using to send money. Presuming that your money sits in a bank/credit union, you arrive at the quoted statement. If your money is paper in a sack somewhere, you can mail it, but it might not make it all the way.
The 'Silesia compression corpus' is the standard (albeit outdated) lossless data compression corpus. The English wiki data set does not provide a fully representative comparison, as it does not include other file types such as executables or structured data.
so someone can just write a script to generate the full image right? since instructions are the same for each pixel. Would make it easier to check your work..

edit: https://imgur.com/a/UO37L1b
I realize that there's a million obvious answers; but as I type this in the part of the country currently roasting by the heatwave in the United States: will something like this ever happen for climate efforts?
Cash isn't recordable in the same way. I don't provide my id with the transaction when making cash purchases.
SMS is easy enough. Sharing with strangers isn't my job.
My first two rules of investing are:

#1 Don't bet more than you're willing to lose.

#2 The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

These are widely known and I make no claims of originality. However, your story about gold market manipulation brings up a corollary to my #2 rule that I do take credit for: Never underestimate the extent to which governments and other vested interests will go to in order to keep markets irrational for as long as possible.
I wish they would include the BPG format from Bellard, even though I don't know if that format is free from any inconvenient https://bellard.org/bpg/

Note that jpg xl is different from jpg 2000 and jpg xr
To add: the easiest way to get up and running is to download the Mac app:

https://ollama.ai/download

Then running a model (e.g. Llama 2) can be done with

ollama run llama2

For Macs with less memory (<= 8GB) you'll want to try a smaller model – orca is the smallest in the "model registry" right now:

ollama run orca
>I suspect the semi-conductor industry thinks it was worth it.

Good example, but it's interesting how the world is mostly dependent on Taiwan and not the US when it comes to semi conductors.
Based on ChatGPT, assuming 10k lines translates to around 30k words, it should take about 3hrs to read it. Multiply that by your favorite factor for read and understand. Split that to a few people, skim parts that are not applicable etc. All in one this seems easily readable in sensible time.
His Sommelier. I cant go into it. (and still this is not first hand from me - just what I heard... so I accept being completely wrong)

And I didnt meant to narrow - it was the more famous of what you states, and thank you.

My money is on tannins, but that is just me...
Nearly everything on the “FBI controversies” page the GP links is dated much more recently than 1976, and it’s hardly comprehensive.

For example, it doesn’t mention the continual entrapment of often mentally ill US Muslims, using informants to persuade and lead them into committing crimes, for which they were then arrested and charged. Only recently has the main target (but not only) of such activity changed to right wingers. We could probably easily add a dozen more subsections to that page from the last two decades. Some were mentioned in these comments already.

It seems to me that television and movies convinced a lot of modern conservatives that the FBI were good guys, while modern liberals have decided they’re good guys simply because they’ve been overzealously targeting their political enemies. But that’s simply by accident, not because of any actual ideological alignment.

You’re also forgetting that the net achievements of the Church committee were basically nil. The government succeeded in destroying lots of records and ultimately was able to continue nearly all the same behavior and worse anyway. Since then we’ve had murders of American citizens, torture scandals, national surveillance beyond anything Hoover could dream. Heck, just a few years ago, the CIA got busted spying on Congress after it began investigating CIA crimes, then lied about it, got caught red-handed, and the perp not only got off scot-free, but is regarded as a Resistance hero.
China is too big for Apple to respond this way.
Is this code for “check out the number of git stars and go ham on the .sh”
Fed launches long-awaited instant payments service, modernizing system
Who isn't hoarding threat data?

Taxpayers fund Gov data collections. About 0% of that is available for the public to protect itself. Meanwhile, Gov partners[1] and major campaign donors[2] get forever access to Gov firehoses.

1] https://www.cisa.gov/information-sharing-and-awareness

2] https://www.cfr.org/report/sharing-classified-cyber-threat-i...
Looks cool. I downloaded it, moved it to the applications directory and opened it. It's asking for Administrator access to install the command line. Why?
> I'm happy to share anything that is not under NDA.

Meta-questions that you quite possibly can't answer: broadly speaking, what parts of this system are under NDA? Why would any part of this system be under NDA? Did any government agencies impose the NDA, or was it private companies? Is the NDA intended to protect those running the system, or is it intended to protect those using the system (IOW, is it security by obscurity)?
This has the "more magic" anecdote feel to it.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
Not as load bearing when you look at the legal limits of cash transactions in countries in Europe. Also not so load bearing when you consider the unconstitutional civil asset forfeiture of the current US.
The other issue is getting through the automatic resume filters. Filters are more likely to give a green light is there are enough buzzwords in the resume. We don't know which buzzwords are specifically looked for, so we need to include them all.
It surprises me because in Canada the Interac e-transfer system has been flawless in my anecdotal cases. Albeit one known issue is reversals allowing fraud, but I assume any non-cryptographic solution will have the same issue.
seems to be better than gpt-3.5
I can easily imagine how stickiness helped, but how did wobbliness?
Hang on, so this is doing runtime validation of an object against a typescript type definition? Can this be shipped as a standalone library/feature? This would be absolutely game changing for validating api response payloads, etc. in typescript codebases.
Pretty much all the LLM libraries I'm seeing are like this. They boil down to a request to the LLM to do something in a certain way. I've noticed under complex conditions, they stop listening and start reverting to their 'default' behavior.

But that said it still feels like using a library is the right thing to do... so I'm still watching this space to see what matures and emerges as a good-enough approach.
Women are superstars on stage, but still rarely get to write songs
Just Obey the Law
Yeah, that's why I asked. Either it's insanely expensive, or insanely cheap!
Not necessarily from the artic, but it's true that ice harvest and trade was at one time in history a major industry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade
Do you expect voters to switch sides of the aisle over this issue? If not, then politicians have no reason not to take industry money. After all, if you have access to all the campaign and other funds without losing voters, then it would be idiotic not to follow the money.
Quoted like someone who has only read the first few words. The actual rules come after that part.
Best Place for A.I. Jobs (New Report Says) Won’t Surprise You
I think it is the result of how these things tend to be taught. At least in my school, all the EE’s and all the computer engineering students had the same first couple programming classes.

Lots of EE’s need to do some programming, and lots of people getting EE degrees end up in programming careers, so it would be a disservice not to teach them any programming at all. In particular, an engineer should be taught enough programming to put together a matlab or Numpy program, right?

Meanwhile, some of their classmates will go on to program microcontrollers as their job.

Writing programs and a product, and writing programs to help design a product, are two basically different types of jobs that happen to use similar tools, so it isn’t that surprising that people mix them up.
As a high school student myself, you are just wrong.
They would have a better product, but they'd be out of business since without lobbying against it, the government product would actually be built.
Today I've added the calendar section at https://nring.info/nurburgring-tourist-drives-calendar/ :)
Upload the correct ones?

There's not a magical fix for this. You have to do the hard work to render captions into something useful.
Further, apparently it's going to start up whenever I log in. Why?
> The problem is that first world labor is totally overpriced and their lifestyle is simply unsustainable.

If labor is too expansive, then nobody gets the goods. This is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.
I can't speak to Venmo/Cashapp, but Zelle does take backs. It's for specific areas of fraud such as the fraudster impersonating a government official/agency, or things like fake not for profits.
Got the email, clicked the link and canceled. That's just too high for what you get and how they treat content creators and stress Google puts them through demonetizing and then requiring people go through a byzantine process. If I'm paying to support creators having those very same people randomly lose their income stream and go through a ton of stress doesn't exactly make me feel good about paying.
Please explain in detail the legal process that allows you to opt out of paying your payroll taxes as you go and instead pay after the tax year has completed.
I did say the same about shell scripting.

Python, no way. Now you have to start pip installing dozens of packages and then you run into dependency mess so then you reach for some tools to manage multiple environments and suddenly you're a few hours into what's become a project when all you wanted was to run a script.
I like to make sure the "why" is documented, but it's hard to get people to care about that.

I remember a former client tracking me down to ask about a bug that they had struggled to fix for months. There was a comment that I'd left 10 years earlier saying that while the logic was confusing, there was a good reason it was like that. Another developer had come along and commented out the line of code, leaving a comment saying that it was confusing!
Do I need to? Not really, but I certainly want to. I absolutely hate waiting and there's no reason why it cannot be done as fast as my internet speed allows.
Why hasn't a non-profit build this before?

If Intuit can build a system and charge for it, it should be entirely possible to build it as open source, software, and it's the kind of think that some non-profits would probably go for.

THe IRS will have a slightly easier time building a system like this, as they can pre-fill some of the data that they already have, but it should still be possible to at least match Intuit here.

It feels like this is an area where competition would be a good thing. The IRS's system might be good or it might be bad. If the job was done by NGOs, you could have multiple systems, all learning from each other's successes and failures, and users would choose the one that is the most intuitive. Maybe a better idea would be to give taxpayer data to non-profits (after user authentication and consent, of course.)
"It runs Stable Diffusion" is the new "It runs Doom".
No clear evidence that meditation or mindfulness makes you happy
Cigarettes are a great example. Because while there are more restrictions on how to advertise them, limits on where you can smoke, and age restrictions on who to sell to, they are still perfectly legal to own and overall legal to sell to the right people.

I don't personally care if they set more restrictions, but I'm not really a fan of outright banning something that an able adult chooses to partake in. Which seems to be how so much of the conversation goes on the topic.

In any case, I still don't believe that games are so addicting as to be compared to Cigarette's nicotine. I a dealer changes the rules too drastically and maliciously against my ability to have fun... I leave. And that's why many mobile games outside of the absolute top money makers tend to be short lived. They aren't just a casino holding players hostage, they compete with other games and even medium, and like any game it can be hard to hold attention. Some may not even go in with the intent to hold the player attention for more than a few months.

>Granted, there are good and bad developers and publishers. I play a ton of Paradox games, and I'm generally happy with the balance.

of course. It's the same even with old school PS1/N64 titles. But I suppose many people aren't knowledgable enough in those games to know which are good/bad, and assume all are bad.
maybe this function?

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeChat/blob/4d34a5005c67bc494...
> I think you might be missing the point of the story. To my understanding it could have easily have turned from a rosy past to a grim presence and it would have worked all the same.

I think _you_ might be missing the point of the story.

It "could have" but it didn't: the story was about he'd been punishing himself for 18 years but Really It Wasn't My Fault.

If it was about a situation where he found out 18 years ago a benign situation wasn't, that could teach a lesson about misunderstanding history. Here, everything else is overshadowed by the fact that "You can change history", where history is how he paralyzed a women by driving recklessly.
I do use it, and yes, its a lot better than the old. Thanks!
When the majority uses vulgarities, how does not using vulgarity make one a muppet? I’d also consider the Muppets rather avant-garde for their time, so maybe you mean it as a complement as in Gonzo, Fozzy, or Beaker (or any other pathetic Muppet).
Tupac certainly had some fairly high ranking civil servants, lawmen and politicians as enemies, or at least detractors. His parents were both considered political extremists, and the FBI kept a very thorough dossier on him, as he was considered a threat to the political establishment in the same vein as black civil rights leaders in the sixties and seventies. His death was convenient at best, a conspiracy at worst. It's not surprising that the investigation was cursory and left to go cold.
looks like it's there: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/no-more-secrets#default
This is totally wrong,

Where we are today is a result if the work that IBM did not related to the space program, the work that was done for the space program, and the work that was done because of the space program.

The scenario you're describing only has the first one, but not the other two.
I'm sure that'll be fixed by release. You know what they say about premature optimization.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799739.
But it isn't? At least, not for productivity uses. You will have to have your keyboard and the external battery with you. Which is a surprising amount of junk to carry everywhere.

I can almost see this being ok for waiting room and flights. The waiting room, though, you will not want to lose your situational awareness. Odds are high that someone is going to be calling your name. Not necessarily walking up to you to get your attention.

In lines, this is right out. You can't walk while using it. The explicitly are not supporting you moving through a large room, as I recall.
> focus on the goal instead of a million tiny details.

This attitude is why my 16 core machine with 100Gb of ram feels about as fast as my Windows 95 machine felt 25 years ago. It's why software seems to scale with the computers that run it.

GP: Read SICP. even if you don't end up writing any Scheme, you'll be a better programmer for it.
Show HN: Spends
> I suspect that US readers will, on average, baulk at this level of government oversight and the idea that big brother sees all of your income

No. Most US readers are aware that the US government already collects this level of detail, and are frustrated that we can't get access to the information the government already has and instead have to painfully collect and provide the information the government already knows.
I definitely appreciate your hard work, and good luck going forward.
One thing I've learned about prompt injection is that any techniques that seem like they should be obvious and easy very rarely actually work.
Not dissimilar to /r/place[0] - which gets messy.

[0] https://new.reddit.com/r/place/?screenmode=preview
Not sure it's even useful to call it a "transaction" at that point, since nothing has been transacted. It feels like the difference between updating a value in-memory and committing a value to the database. Maybe you can hide the latency, but that hasn't removed the need to actually do the transaction, eventually, and now you have the added problem of managing consistency.
No, the UK is a democratic country that is voting to reduce privacy.

A massive company in a foreign country affecting the laws of your own is anti-democratic.

Democracy doesn't mean privacy.
it's basically the same thing, but uses a more concise spec for writing the schema (typescript vs jsonschema)

In the end, both methods try to coax the model into returning a JSON object, one method can be used with any model, the other is tied to a specific, ever changing vendor API

Why would one choose to only support "OpenAI" and nothing else?
Interesting, now we've gone from bluetooth pairing PINs to USB pairing PINs.

Of course the attack here is then to replace the keyboard USB cable with the evil one.
I'd rather obey King George than you.

> Concepts of rights as in the Bill of Rights are specifically created to protect the minority from the irrational, dangerous majority

They're not meant to protect the rulers from the citizenry, even though the rulers are a minority. In our form of government, they're meant to be representatives of the popular will, not a special interest group. What you're talking about is monarchy.
I received W-2 wages in cash in the military. I suppose I'm old.
for those following that link to the first page... all the images are dead, they were hotlinked.

read the end of the thread to get an idea about it: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/172374/?offset=27000
It also depends on where the bottlenecks are.

More platinum group metals and gold might not make a big difference on Earth.

On the other hand decadbonization requires metals like nickel and cobalt as well as methods for producing steel that don’t release CO2 in the atmosphere. Trouble is it is still hard to be terrestrial sources.
The Federal Reserve is a private company with a chair that is chosen by the President of the US with advice and consent from the Senate, and serves a four-year term. There is no term limitation for this office.

The reason the US government has a national debt is because that debt is owed to the Federal Reserve, which is a private bank that loans the US government money and that sets the US monetary policy.
You're completely misrepresenting my quote by cutting off the "and sell it" at the end, that's incredibly disingenuous.

MIT license restrict commercialization. Is the MIT license not open source then?
The hope is that banks open it up for their consumers to use. Log into your bank app -> send money to friend's bank and it will all happen over FedNow under the hood.
I built a simple and ugly website that generates AI news based on updates from frameworks and libraries, and content that is trending on reddit/HN using the OpenAI API. Yes, it has ads.

Some things that I've learned so far:

- The AI is too gullible. If I ask it to write a short summary of an article, if the source article is trying to shill a product or service, the AI will replicate the salesman discourse. I tried adjusting the prompt to see if I could make it more critical of content that it is analyzing (by telling it ahead of time that the post might be trying to push a product/service).

- Costs are ludricously low. It costs like 1 cent per 15 articles.

- My next experiment will be with local news. I'm building some feeds with public information from my town (the town's hall official news, the legislators weekly meeting notes, weather reports, waze, etc), and based on that make it generate news items. The thing about it is that its sources will be (nearly) primary - it will not copy content from other journalists (apart from the official prefecture news, which I will need to tell the AI that will be biased towards the current administration). When analyzing the local records, it might be able to catch shady stuff that regular journalists would not notice. Imagine feeding some buying orders from the town and asking the AI ("is something illegal going on here" or "are any of these items overpriced?")

- I see a risk/opportunity for infinite content generation. Example: generate 50 headlines for articles about the Kardashians. The next day, ask for more and provide the last 200 headlines, to make sure that no repetitions occur. It would flood search engines with almost random content. I think that something like that could be useful to fill "holes" in wikipedia, though.

The site that I built is https://dev-radar.com/
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China’s Semiconductor Ambitions Fuel European Brain Drain