skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK is like US, but worse. It seems they only left the EU to push for maximum surveillance, and no one is going to stop them.
Considering Tim Cook's total compensation is about half what Pat Gelsinger's is as Intel CEO, perhaps increasing the compensation will not result in improved performance? I.e., if Cook really cared deeply about being more obscenely rich than he already is, he could have quit Apple and taken his pick of some other, higher-paying CEO position.

At some level of compensation, the only people motivated to pursue it are sociopaths. Are these the people you want running your company?
I feel like having video evidence of a police officer doing something they really shouldn't is neither "mild" nor "disrespect" (although, I guess you could argue that I rapidly stopped respecting the police when I realized just how little accountability there is for these incidents...)
Wow, good sleuthing!!
dang do you have a tool to do that or are you just encyclopedic?
The ISP duopoly/monopoly is worse from a consumer perspective and functionally equivalent from a civil rights perspective. To think otherwise is naive.

In fact, the private sector solution is perhaps even worse from a civil rights perspective.

Consider a prosecutor in Jurisdiction A hell-bent on violating the civil rights of a citizen in Jurisdiction B, and suppose Jurisdiction B is sympathetic to this citizen. This isn't even hypothetical in the USA. Abortion, immigration, civil disobedience, etc. In the corporate duopoly setup, Jurisdiction A can compel the ISP to comply -- either by physically entering the property of the ISP and taking data by force, or by threatening market access. In the muni ISP case, Jurisdiction B says "shove it".

And that's before noting that corporations such as modern ISPs are -- like governments -- also large bureaucracies endowed with incredible power that are de facto impossible to opt out of. Except at least in representative government you have some sort of voice, however small, which isn't dependent on amassing vast sums of cash.
This is a really shallow strawman.

No one has been arguing that NASA scientists are better than private sector scientists. The argument is that having a seemingly-stupid goal that takes a lot of work can spawn off legitimately useful technologies that would never have been targeted by the private sector because moonshots aren't good investments. The theory is that it's a good way to very quickly iterate through many different ideas.
ok. what got me is that the amount is written on the box, not on the lines...
why is this comment grey? clearly the price is determined by the market and if the price is too high it can only be caused by something interfering with the market, a monopoly, corruption or malformed regulation. either advocate for fixing this market or advocate for socialized medicine. there is no inbetween.
Is TFA not a good enough example?
Wow! That's actual begging the question!

The poster attempts to present evidence that credence should be high that China is able to, and would, make bioweapons that are ethnically targeted. At no point does he suggest they have already done so.

That this is insufficient evidence for China's capabilities is likely the more reasonable discussion to have. I don't think they're there yet, and the lab leak from Wuhan shows they're still a bit sloppy in how they handle these things.
you new here? It's common to point out duplicates as stories reporting on the same topic and directing to where the conversation is happening on them consolidating. Posting this 2 days after the news when there's a large discussion about it isn't helping anything. We're not trying to have the discussion split up over days of different posts, c'mon.
I think you're missing what we're getting at. OP was talking about rank and file employees. 99% of people who work at Goldman Sachs don't really give a shit what's good for Goldman Sachs. A substantial percentage actively dislike their employer, but just want a nice paycheck. They are people working a job. Like 1/4 of GS employees are technologists. They don't know or care about how climate regulation affects their business. In fact, a lot of employees jobs are mitigating compliance risk so they literally depend on onerous regulation to stay employed. I'd wager a substantial percentage of GS employees don't even know how to trade stocks.
> "the Federal Reserve has no intention of creating a digital dollar and is not planning for nor working on that project,"

If if that were true at this instant, they could change it at whim.

What is really needed is a constitutional protection of privacy.
Google Authenticator lets you export your entire set of secrets as a QR code. In fact, you can even store them on Google's servers. Though I have no clue why you would do this instead of just printing out the QR code and storing it in a lockbox...

Furthermore nothing prevents you from just taking pictures of the individual enrollment keys and printing those out either.

If you want TOTP 2FA that actually follows a one key per device policy you need to buy hardware tokens with some kind of out-of-band keying mechanism and enroll those. Then your problem changes from "how to stop people from copying my 2FA tokens" to "how to not get locked out of my account when my 2FA key device breaks."
Security features should never be locked behind a paywall. Good move by Microsoft, but why only now?
Highly recommend using the search box, New, etc.
Competition is a good thing and a core tenet of capitalism. If we don't have competition and regulators are wedding themselves to one particular business then that means we have a government sanctioned monopoly.
Maybe it does boast something else. I am genuinely unsure whether being able (after a judge orders it) to unlock encryption, similar to a front door, is a bad thing. I don't like it, it stinks, I'd hate to experiment with things like this and so I'd vote against it, but is it going to end up worse for the greater good? Can't we still just use proper/steganographic encryption when an authoritarian regime gains power, and until then is it better? I can't say that beyond reasonable doubt. That safer society can be argued to be a boast that makes up for it (I'm not saying it definitely is. I'm unsure. Very unsure).

And for the other, anti-monopolistic market authorities, the "boast" is a level playing field.
Typescript's type system is much more expressive than the one the function call feature makes available.

I imagine closing the loop (using the TS compiler to restrict token output weights) is in the works, though it's probably not totally trivial. You'd need:

* An incremental TS compiler that could report "valid" or "valid prefix" (ie, valid as long as the next token is not EOF)

* The ability to backtrack the model

Idk how hard either one piece is.
How do you explain all of the first world asian countries where drugs are insanely illegal, there very much have a massive war on drugs, and yet they have an amazing quality of life there without meth head zombies roaming the streets? Where it's apparent their war on drugs has very much worked?
I'm not trying to attack you, just the idea. (I saw the same sentiment from several commenters) I'm just saying I strongly disagree with publicly questioning a dead man's decision to have kids when the kid still has at least one parent and financial stability. There's plenty worse you can do and not a lot better. If he'd lived to 80 would it have been "perfect"? We can't all achieve perfection.

It's virtually always impossible for almost everyone to be able to simultaneously 1] have kids while you're still young 2] wait until you have "enough" money.

Warren Buffet's quote doesn't make sense, because both "anything" and "nothing" are relative. You can "do nothing" with extraordinarily little money. You can also not be able to do "anything" even with billions of dollars (start an asteroid mining company?).

If you give your kids the moon, you just have to make sure they still have motivation and character, it's still possible. Not everyone who inherits money is a layabout.

I can stop now though, I think we just fundamentally have different opinions on this and probably won't budge much.
How about we de-stigmatize its use so that an addict is able to tell their family members and friends rather than being silent about their addiction?

My best friend (and angel investor / VC) died of fentanyl in SF in 2018. At first I thought it was suicide because I had no idea he was on drugs. What ended up happening is he was prescribed legal opioids for legitimate reasons (he had brain cancer including surgeries), and then never got un-addicted to them when the refills ended, so he resorted to street drugs to avoid going into withdrawal. (and then "oops, fentanyl...")

And he couldn't tell anyone or share that he was going through this with anyone because he was extremely high functioning VC / angel investor.

At a minimum, we need to create a society where "an addict" doesn't immediately conjure an image of a homeless person with no teeth. Or come up with some new "branding" for it (for lack of better terminology). We need to normalize the concept of addiction so it can be discussed more openly and broadly.
That article isnt about Nintendo, only a publisher on Nintendo's store.

The rom thing was only the same rom format. How are you going to tell if it's the same dumps or not? Roms are supposed to match 1:1, otherwise verification hashes projects like redump and no-intro wouldn't work.
>Citizens was problematic. But it says nothing about bribes

Kind of disagree.

In 2016 Sheldon Adelson (a now deceased wealthy casino mogul) donated $25 million to the Super Pac "Future 45". The Pac's main objective was to run advertising against Hillary Clinton. To say that Sheldon didn't have influence on Trump akin to bribery is naive. Fun fact, Sheldon's contributions is one of the main reasons the US Embassy in Israel is now in Jerusalem and not Tel Aviv. (Just a minor example)

Unlimited corporate donations (as a result of the CU decision) and superpacs have been the most significant influence on American politics of this generation.
Not trying to side-step the question, but The FedNow Service
Technical Overview and Planning Guide[1] goes into depth on what is not under NDA.

[1] https://explore.fednow.org/resources/technical-overview-guid...
Pgvector extension now supported on managed DO PostgreSQL clusters
You can make a digital sand mandala [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala
https://www.vivek2024.com/truths/

Oof.
> Then they look for a Discord server.

How? Are there ways to search for discord servers that might have content you want inside of them? Like, directories of discord servers? I'm genuinely curious because that would be very useful.
That's not what first and second degree murder or manslaughter are. The result is the same for the victim, but the specific actions and intentions are different.

Put another way, why is it better if I murder someone because I hate vegans, or meat eaters, or poor people, or rich people, or car drivers or pedestrians than someone of a protected group?

Adding new laws doesn't make them be enforced any better, so I don't buy the "systemic" argument. Either someone is tried and found guilty or not.
Spain did exactly this as they brought back huge amounts of gold and silver from the new world!
The TTL would have to reset at awkward points. Like paying out salaries otherwise you could just wash trade the TTL away.

I just don't see how this is realistic. It is basically impossible to enforce.
Sorry but this is not the definition of "open source", I would argue there is only a conceptual and cultural definition of "open source". What you are linking to is The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Foundation's declaration called the "Open Source Definition".

They are a single organization, that have done a tremendous job at trying to come up with a global and shared legal framework to which people can license code under. They have gone so far to come up with a pretty good definition of "open source", but not the definition.

This would be equivalent to saying that "Freedom" is defined by the US Constitution or the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms. It is not, those are both examples of a legal definition of freedom, but neither are the sole authority for the global and cultural concept of "Freedom"
I've never understood how DocuSign mitigates the risk any more than both parties signing a PDF in Preview (or similar) and exchanging via email. Doesn't the email part validate that you are the person signing the document?
> It's everybody's responsibility to make a safer world.

> project zero researches vulns in their competitors and responsibly reports them.

I agree. Project Zero is a talented group.
Apollo CM and LM had the Apollo Guidance Computer provide very advanced digital fly by wire for the time. (in fact I think it was one of the first DFBW systems). Later DFBW research on F-8 Crusaders started out using the actual AGC as well, interestingly enough.

AGC was also one of the first machines to use integrated circuits (to keep it light, no doubt) so you could say that the apollo program also advanced computer research by quite a bit.
It's true that America is very far behind now but they're also the ones who started creditcards all the way back in the 1950s.

Anyway I have a theory: big countries are too far up their own ass to notice or care what the rest of the world is up to.

Compare a small, international oriented country like the Netherlands or Denmark to sleepy provincial Germany.
5% is still in the realm of cashback rewards, I use my Citi Custom Cash card to purchase gas and receive 5% back (it is cheaper this way even though the credit price is usually 10c higher per gallon)
It is called EBT and it already exists and the thing is people demand this for welfare payments all the time.
There are some things that uBlock Origin does not do, to prevent some fingerprinting. For example governing canvas and timer precision.
I absolutely love this movie. I grew up watching it on VHS and coincidentally bike by the setting of one of its major scenes daily. There is that brick courtyard that currently sits between Google and Wharton. In the movie its a outdoor dining area, and Sidney Poitier says, holding the car phone in Martin's Karman Ghia, "Martin, It's your mother". And then they realize they're not with the NSA. Anyway, they've added a floating firehouse there now, and the road looks a bit different, but I love how similar the view is there now as to when the movie was filmed.

I really do love this movie, it's really well done all around.
Want to know where batteries are going? Look at their ingredients
T + 2day is ridiculous. T + 1ms is also ridiculous (speed of light and all.)
The FBI was created in 1908. Since then, we've invented airplanes, interstate highways, and the Internet.

The US is far more connected than it used to be. It is much harder to treat everything as a matter for individual states. At the very least, state institutions need to coordinate -- exactly the kind of job for which a federal institution is ideal.
I’m in no way taking away or doubting your technical skill or knowledge. I’m saying according to the guidelines at Amazon and as far as I have seen at any other large tech company, it isn’t how you advance your career past a mid level developer.

I’m saying that you have to continuously demonstrate and document a history of showing that you can deal with increasing amount of scope, impact, and ambiguity to get promoted or do well on behavioral interviews at your next job.

From your description, the problem was well defined (we want to be able to do $x), you designed the solution. That’s not how “ambiguity” is defined according to the leveling guidelines. Being able to solve “complex” problems without help is L5 level behavior. That’s what you are describing.

> I understood what needed to be done because I understood what we were actually solving, I built the prototypes and showed that it works. The two actual SDE3s we have treat me as an equal and everyone else asks for my opinion and listens to me.

The difference between an L5 and L6 is not subject matter expertise either. There are plenty of areas where I have more and deeper subject matter expertise than L6s or L7s and I’m called in to talk to and advise customers based on my experience.

Have you read the internal definitions of “impact”,”scope”, and “ambiguity” as it pertains to the leveling guidelines? Your manager if he is decent should be able to help you.

I understand your frustration. But “what got you here won’t get you there”. It’s not about technical expertise.

My contact information is in my “About” section. From there we can exchange internal usernames.
How to get voted out of office immediately.
As a founder, some of the federal and state software for registering in various states, workers comp, etc and the estimated tax process as an individual is surprisingly decent. It's not great, but the state and federal level stuff is generally ok.
India’s local geopolitics are much too complex for that string of ties. Canada is almost our twin and the UK had very similar interests and despite the ocean between us has essentially the same neighbors.

India’s necessary relations with China, Russia, and the Middle East are just complex and it would not fit and be a major shift in power for it to align closely with American interests nor does America want to put itself in that position.
> We serve Llama on 2 80-GB A100 GPUs, as that is the minumum required to fit Llama in memory (with 16-bit precision)

Well there is your problem.

LLaMA quantized to 4 bits fits in 40GB. And it gets similar throughput split between dual consumer GPUs, which likely means much better throughput on a single 40GB A100 (or a cheaper 48GB Pro GPU)

https://github.com/turboderp/exllama#dual-gpu-results

And this is without any consideration of batching (which I am not familiar with TBH).

Also, I'm not sure which model was tested, but Llama 70B chat should have better performance than the base model if the prompting syntax is right. That was only reverse engineered from the Meta demo implementation recently.

There are other "perks" from llama too, like manually adjusting various generation parameters, custom grammar during generation and extended context.
> With a unified purpose, it would be enough. The theater would be grand enough. The political pressure to accept would be grand enough.

I suppose they could pull it off if everyone truly bought in, but I don't believe for one second that that many people committed to science and engineering would be as committed and diligent as they would need to be to keeping the lie intact at the time, and I certainly don't believe the commitment to the lie would sustain over time. This goes double given the lack of popular support for doing it.

Further, I am not sure even if everyone at NASA that would have to know it was fake was working with automaton-like commitment to their task that we could fool the USSR with a fake landing given they'd have every incentive coupled with the technological means to prove it was fake.
> If a message can be interpreted in several ways, it will be interpreted in a manner that maximizes the damage.

I'm noticing these more and more at work and everywhere else. Every single human interaction is an attack, a snipe, an attempt to clamber over someone else.

It's deliberately exploited to implicate, accuse and judge in a slimy, insidious way that by nature cannot ever be directly called out. In order to succeed you must become an expert in conniving, filthy, back-handed, two-faced poison talk. Verbal backstabbing is an essential life skill. Those who are honest with their words, who speak in literal terms and expect others to be doing the same, are treated as naive suckers, dragged about and tossed aside the moment they cease to be useful.

I'm slowly waking up to the fact that every conversation is a battleground, wherever you go. Even my own family I can't trust. And it's all so tiresome.
> As a massive disclaimer, a reason to use LLama over gpt-3.5 is finetuning. In this post, we only explore cost and latency. I don't compare LLama-2 to GPT-4, as it is closer to a 3.5-level model. Given the discourse on twitter, it seems Llama-2 still trails behind gpt-3.5-turbo. Benchmark performance also supports this claim:

Well one other massive disclaimer is that the author is "Backed by OpenAI"'s Startup Fund which they failed to disclose in the post.

So of course they would speculate that. This post is essentially a paid marketing piece by OpenAI, who is the lead investor in Anysphere (creators of Cursor)
It seems to be trendy these days to be a "doomer."

It's a mindset where nothing good happens in the world, and no cloud has a silver lining. Skepticism is a default, and earnestness or cleverness makes you naive or a sucker who will get their deserved reality check soon enough.

It must be a horrendous headspace to constantly be in.
> “An IRS direct-to-e-file system is redundant and will not be free – not free to build, not free to operate, and not free for taxpayers,” Plummer said, adding that it “will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars.”

There's no reason why this has to be true. It might be true, but only due to inefficiencies.

The IRS already has code to calculate and validate everything. That's how they know if you make an error on your taxes or failed to report something. All they need to do is refactor it and turn it into an application. That's not a trivial effort, but all the functional code has already been written by the IRS.

My impression is that most of the cost of development for Intuit and H&R is keeping up to date with changes in the tax code (and possibly updating data import methods, since those are controlled by 3rd parties and may change). The IRS already has to do the same data checking and cross-checking and import. Therefore, keeping tax prep privatized is a massive duplication of effort.
There's also the aspect that a lot of the really good packages for dealing with e.g. text or the OS don't translate well to the constraints of embedded systems.

So I could go to all the trouble to have a cascading compilation all in pure c or c++, so the git SHA is written into a given source file, which is in turn built and flashed onto my target device. Or I could use an interpreted language for all the off-the-device operations, completely skip over configuring a separate development environment, and do it all in a fraction of the time.

The only reason I want to be compiling c or c++ for the host is because I'm also writing a driver at the same time, and even then...
BigQuery is ACID compliant and easily handles petabytes.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/introduction
It won't take long before all banks are using it. Once the banks are using it, employers will begin making payments using it. Once employees are receiving digital currency payments from employers, cash will end soon after.
> Mitnick was a hacker hero of mine in my youth. I think I’ve understood his role as jester prior to conviction less as I’ve grown older, but there’s something about the boyhood charm of being so divorced from the potential consequences of one’s actions that is almost unique.

Yeah, I remember watching "Freedom Downtime" as a teenager and thinking how ludicrous it was that he was sentenced to prison for computer hacking, but now that I think about it as an adult of course he should have been. Sure solitary confinment, the specifics of his sentence, etc. may have been extreme and I'd like to think that the court system has progressed in their knowledge of computer security since then, but what he did was still a breach of corporate security. He knew at the time it was illegal, and he just thought he was too smart to get caught.

That idea that we had at the time that it was a "victimless crime" or something was very immature.
I assumed it was one custom instruction set per conversation. Is it really a global setting? (I assume you have ChatGPT plus and so have been granted access to this feature?)