skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ACH has many of the same consumer protections as credit card networks. The window is 60 days instead of 90 days and the dispute outcome is always in your favor—merchants cannot respond to the dispute or win.
Not to worry, all the ways governments discriminate is exempted from this law, like with most EU legislation (e.g. GPDR). By exempted I mean governments, the executive, NOT courts, are the arbiters of this law. This may be a law, but like the GPDR, it has nothing to do with judges (although the justice system is exempt).

This means in practice: all of health care, police, immigration, housing, unemployment, all judicial cases (will we see divorce cases decided by AI ?), child custody (in fact everything with any connection to minors, e.g. schools could let AI come up with punishments), ... can and will be decided by AI, on the authority of the executive of the country alone (ie. a minister dan decide by himself) and that only violates this law if the (executive) government decides to convict itself.

It'll be the same as under GPDR: ever more government data sharing (e.g. if you don't pay your insurance bill, it's now added to your tax bill. The big difference being: you can never go to jail for not paying an insurance bill, but you can be imprisoned for not paying a tax bill). Any mental health care treatments, even from decades ago, are next-to-guaranteed to be brought up in divorce or criminal cases.

This is the problem I have with GPDR and other "data protection" legislation in the EU. Everything I'd consider critical information ... needs protecting, not from Google/FB/Amazon/Apple, but from the governments of the EU! And these laws achieve the exact opposite!

And no worries: this makes a team of "up to 25 FTE" responsible for policing an entire country ... obviously any complaints will be dealt with promptly!

In other words: even in the private sector, they intend to use this law as a weapon against Google, Facebook and Tiktok, and against whatever-the-current-minister-hates company, like huge international companies, but it is utterly impossible for these national AI authorities to go after any normal-sized company.

"This will make the EU more competitive worldwide". The authors of this law clearly have a bright future in other forms of comedy!

In short: glad to see all "high risk" AI usage is now dealt with.
> ...he has a much better general view about science and engineering that the successful programmer very likely lacks...

Likely false. He is in a brutally demanding 1mm wide x 1km deep niche specialty. And the programmers he is exposed to are in a similar, adjacent niche.

I you interpret my "what aspiring programmers need to know" as "to do their jobs as programmers" - well...by definition, the successful programmer knows that (implicitly or explicitly).

If you interpret it more as general education requirements for young people these days - then I'd suggest a biologist, a climatologist, and a civil engineer.
Yeah. Operation Paperclip is a thing. It's really weird to take a Nazi and say, "Hey, could you shoot us to the moon please?"
What is this "accuracy" you're talking about? Between the scheduler hanging over a process's head, ready to yank away its compute time for milliseconds between the syscall to read out the HPTC or the CPU cycle counter, and the process actually writing the timestamp into a variable/in-memory struct, reading the HPTC from the underlying hardware also not being super accurate, and the CPU cycle counter being influence by frequency scaling, on a bog-standard machine the highest precision you can reasonable expect is on the order of 100µs or so.
you lost me at css and typescript
Anticaking Agent
Presumably the metabase instance also has credentials to access some databases, some of which may be have enough privileges to also get RCE on the database machines (as well as messing with the data they hold).
Shopify Replacing Laid Off Workers with AI
I have deployed it in the chat mode and I can't count the number of times it was giving me lectures on what is appropriate to say.
Most of the comments below are about the tech. Is no one concerned about the privacy concerns that the government now has easy access to all payments made through this?
Maybe we should "just" build this in space. ;-)
The Tron analogy is quite a stretch. It's only the dematerializing and rematerializing that fits, and since the character is never duplicated, even that isn't the best.
>> The tone of the course materials about justice and power are sort of gross to me,

Which is:
> The focus of the course is on text, which is at the traditional heart of the humanities. We study how text appears and is used in computing, and how computation has changed the experience of text. Most of the text we deal with daily is on the Web. We trace the development of computational text from the early days to today’s Web, as a lens to understand computing’s impact on the world. We will address directly how early computing biased towards supporting only certain kind of texts for only certain kinds of people. The Web was created with a bias towards America and Europe, men, and most strongly, towards English.

Each section of the course will teach about computing, explicitly including programming, in the frame of justice. How was computing created, and for who and what purposes – both explicit and implicit? What computational skills, knowledge, and insights support critical study of the impact of computation on our lives?

Strange thing to be grossed out about, but hey..
I’m not a physicist, but it seems like they’re a little magic, in that they’re so far from our normal experience, since gravity is proportional to the inverse square of the distance, and the distance to their center of mass is relatively very small, so you can get an extremely strong pull relative to a normal object of the same mass. It seems like even a very small black hole falling onto things could snowball, unless there’s something that counters that? Do black holes lose material/get less dense/evaporate under certain conditions?
I recommend taking a look at a similar project I've implemented: clickhouse-obfuscator.

It is described here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/tree/master/program... (implementation details, usage examples, and the motivation for the approach).
I once took a sheet off an A0 flip-chart at my dad's job, and tried to make the biggest paper plane i'd ever seen. It didn't work at all - it was too flimsy, and just collapsed. The paper would have needed to be thicker as well as bigger!
This sort of system has a kind of built-in storage. It can overproduce steam for a while, if needed, even if that level of steam production is not sustainable in steady state. This is nice for countering some short-term variability of other renewable sources, particularly solar.
Why audio is better than VR
Oh! Which side menu are you referring to? I've tried both Firefox and Chrome on Android and couldn't reproduce it...
I feel like the author spent more time photoshopping Kevin Flynn graphics than determining if Tron is actually an appropriate or useful metaphor for this concept.
Tell that to the Mexican government.
My problem with the current IAS systems is the state storage. It should not be needed! Instead, the IAS tool should introspect the systems it's managing and build the necessary state on the fly.
We issue separate read-only credentials for database access fortunately. Still doesn't remove the risk of all the data been exfiltrated though.
Sounds like audial daydreaming, where white noise would be perfect for triggering almost any memory of music depending on the fluctuations of frequencies. Staring at the static on an old TV does the same thing visually if you look at it and relax your focus.
St. Pauli, a World War II Bunker Turns Green
So you are disagreeing with one word I used, but not the concept/idea?
Would rephrasing it without the word you are afraid of help you?
I can do it for you. :)
I've used this with my nephew and can confirm it's very awesomesauce
Otherwise, failure recovery requires robust storage. Upon startup, you just wait until your timestamp ticks over, and then you know you're not re-issuing any UUIDs.

With a pure counter-based system, you need robust distributed storage and you need the machine to reserve batches of IDs via committing writes to the robust distributed storage. Otherwise, a disk failure may cause you re-issue UUIDs.

Though, seeding a thread-local AES-256-ctr or ChaCha20 instance via getrandom()/getentropy() is probably a better fit for most situations. If you need sequential IDs for database performance, seed a simple 128-bit counter using getrandom()/getenropy(). If you're going to need more than 2^40 unique IDs, then use IDs larger than 128 bits.

Assuming getrandom()/getentropy() is getting you a high-entropy seed, it's easy to size the IDs to bring the probability of collision much lower than the probability of background radiation flipping a bit and breaking your equality test between IDs. If you're not running redundant calculations and/or on radiation-hardened hardware, it's difficult to argue against randomized IDs.
What do you mean ethics? Of murdering people? I am to this day baffled by American people justifying the use of nuclear bomb and try to make it sound like it saved people. Stop!
Just frigging say we did it and we won the war simple as that.
Team America: World Police (2004)

Lisa: Promise me you'll never die.

Gary Johnston: You know I can't promise that.

Lisa: If you did that, I would make love to you right now

Gary Johnston: I promise I'll never die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aplSQGHPmvI

Lisa Secures Commitments from Gary to Never Die.
First: Congratulations on your success! This is very exciting, and thank you for sharing your journey with us.

Question: How do you mitigate the risk around unlimited requests? It seems like only a matter of time before you get a client who starts asking for an astronomical number of designs. For example, what if a design agency hires you for all the product designs for the clients? Is there anything to prevent a bad faith player from essentially using their single account to provide your services to a large group of clients?
Added to cart, thank you!
Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue is down 50% and cash flow is negative
Even a new vessel need new plumbing to connect it to the vacuum pump (or pumps, sometimes you need one to to go from ambient pressure to low pressure and another to go from low pressure to very low pressure) and the pressure measuring device(s) and also sealing the holes where the wires go (I guess they have some sensor inside the vessel connected to things that are outside). So a brand new vessel means restarting all the seals from zero.
Test Driven Debugging
The best way to reach dang is email hn@ycombinator.com
Emergency deployment late Friday afternoon (by EU time, at least), the best way to end a week :)
I’ve always appreciated how Svelte keeps things as simple as possible without sacrificing capability, and how that results in more productivity and enjoyment in building. Really this is a visual layer over that to make it even more approachable.
There's no such thing as a simple web UI - discord is on all platforms desktop and mobile, they would have to duplicate a lot of work. It's a neat hack they recognize that generative AI is essentially conversational (or to go the other way, a conversation is essentially an iterative walk through possibility space).

EDIT: I don't know what you mean by having a discord account and a midjourney account, you log into billing by granting it access to your discord account - only one username/password is necessary.
With properly managed encryption, it shouldn't matter to which cloud (yours or theirs) the data goes to.
Okay but when you see that why not just take 30 seconds and update the comment?

Edit: if even 30 seconds
> It sort of blows my mind that they cannot put a simple web UI up given all the resources they have at their disposal

Of course they could if they wanted to.

They think it's good to have the whole community on their discord channel, so people can see what other people are doing to inspire new users.

I'm not on it myself, so I can't comment on whether it works.
It sort of did until the first Dot COM Bubble burst. There were also "Enhanced CDs" with both audio and data on them, and lots of other such gimmicks.

It is telling to note that whilst one can still read the CD and LP inserts, WWW sites like http://www.friendsoflive.com and http://www.noangels.tv have long since vanished. So I suspect that the world has got past this being a mainstream idea, learning how ephemeral it turns out to be in practice. After all, what good is "collector stuff" if it just ups and randomly vanishes out of the collection after a few years?
There was never a time when WordPress was the only easy way for even a non-technical person to create a blog, they just did a great job marketing that that was the case.

I spent a very brief time as a contributor to WP internals (not core by any means but a handful of contributions) and not only do you need a lot of internal knowledge to do anything outside of point-and-click, like you said, a lot of the core folks had never worked on any other large software projects, didn't do anything outside of WordPress, and had very little desire to make sure what they were doing was sound from a software engineering / code quality standpoint. It's a pretty great example of the big ball of mud / spaghetti code cliche.
I found it interesting working out what the different sections were on my own. I can't write shaders, but it was enough to roughly judge which parts were ground, sky, and sphere, and where the ground included the shadow. I didn't spot the ambient occlusion or lighting on the sphere, though.
Thank you for the "non-VC backed" part. Good to remind people that innovation can thrive without VC worship.
this is great, but I would argue the biggest issue with infrastructure as code is this:

the structure and syntax for AWS is entirely different from Azure is entirely different from GCP.

Instead of abstracting to CSS, I would argue modeling what Bytecode did in java for multi-operating system, we should do for infrastructure of code.

That way, you could easily replicate in different environments, free yourself from vendor lock, and have readability/re-usability all in one.

This is what I want from infrastructure as code and I have yet to see it.
I'd venture the difference is being a professor vs. a practitioner. To profess is to talk and teach and expand the opportunities of the discipline by lodging the ideas in peoples minds. A practitioner is someone who actually does something, but it doesn't really scale much past their own ability to physically do it. They have a practice. One plants, the other harvests. Such a good question to pose though.
I speak only ever about men. I am one, I can comment. I look around at us and I call it like I see it.

edit: Not that I don't have thoughts about other genders, and gender in general. In genderal. I even sometimes find it politic to share them. But I will never hesitate to point out men being men. Particularly my fellow whities.
I could be wrong (and often am), but I am seeing updates related druid client authentication.
I wrote a book! It's not paying for my summer house yet, but it's been very exciting to have people buying a product that I made for myself, not for any other client or employer.

The book is called "Insurgent Marketing" and can be found on Amazon if anyone is interested: https://www.insurgent.ca/p/book
Probably because most of the users are men?
There appears to not be that much diversity in facial structure, body types, clothing styles, color, sex gender identity, ethnicity, setting, perspective or culture in the human beings present on that page.

This leads me to question the AIs training biases and capabilities to generate truly representative art depicting the human experience with the tool.

It also represents author biases, of course.
It makes more sense when you realize AI Safety is about the safety of the companies making AI from competitors.
This sounds miserable!
As if the 'plot' of Avatar wasn't already entirely derivative of earlier films like Dances with Wolves and Fern Gully, it turns out they ripped off their visual aesthetic from Roger Dean as well. James Cameron should be ashamed of not giving credit to the earlier works who so heavily inspired his.
The word "phubbing" sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me

That aside, married people who spend time on their phone instead of with loved ones, it would make sense they would be more susceptible to damaging their marriage because of the lost high-quality time
We need regulations requiring mandatory watermarks on the outputs of troll bots
You can do that through abstraction. You “include” your Terraform Azure Provider or Terraform AWS Provider. At the end of the day, your module needs to know what it’s interacting with but not the higher level of abstraction. We have done it at my work to make it cloud agnostic just in case we need to go to another CSP
I had "invented" that independently for shape based interpolation needs I had in early 2000.
Midjourney output is:
- 70% depictions of conventionally attractive women, often with unconventional / unrealistic body proportions
- 20% run of the mill fantasy book covers
- 10% everything else (including some really cool and interesting images).
Be humble. Have a willingness to learn new perspectives and accept you don't know everything.
Well, it depends on the language. Some are quite good at restricting programs so that it is not possible to execute arbitrary code.

Take a look at https://propellor.branchable.com to see how Haskell might be used.

Idris might be a good candidate as well.

https://dhall-lang.org is quite interesting for these purposes as well (although it is not general purpose)
> must be at least as cheap

No, we need goods with extremely long life, even if they get expensive.
OpenAI, Google, others pledge to watermark AI content for safety -White House
FWIW I think this is a good remark. It's just correlation until proven otherwise. I was just saying there are changes in society, one of which is the widespread use of plastics, and there are changes in population health roughly starting along the same time. But indeed, we also started to do sitting work massively, and started using wireless communications etc.

Then again, we also reduced coal use in cities, we burn less wood in our houses, etc.
Currently work at company that was working on delivery drones.

3. Drones kept getting shot down during testing

Not kidding
From a social standpoint, it was though. You could ask a lot of non-expert people for help on Wordpress and get it.
Code zh-tw means the Chinese variant used in Taiwan. The technically correct code for Traditional Chinese is zh-hant.

It’s an entirely separate issue from the flag, but the developer technically should label the languages “Chinese (China)” and “Chinese (Taiwan)” in the dropdown instead, to better correspond to the flags.
They'll use the AI detectors college professors are using to detect AI generated submissions by their students. You know, the ones with a 60% accuracy (at best) that generate equal numbers of false negatives and false positives.
This does not work.

Say I have resource A with property X=1 I define in IAC. Someone comes along and modifies X=2 outside of state. With your way, the IAC tool would see that change and think it was naturally part of the desired state, whereas stored state will catch the drift. And before anyone says “well dont modify outside of IAC” I say 1) that’s often impractical and 2) sometimes automation can modify resources outside of IAC beyond your control.

Also, dynamically creating state creates all sorts of concurrency issues, which is another nice thing about stored state, you can put a lock on it.
Meaning we made our own wrapper for the terraform azure provider. The higher level does not expose those technical details. It just says virtual machine.
I do not get the ego angle, but I am also skeptic of aphantasia. My own experience could be described by either 1 ("no image") or 5 ("perfectly vivid") in any questionaire concerning it - when I imagine anything, there is no image at all, yet I know I "see" something. E.g. I can think of a barn, and there is the mental impression of the shape, the color and so on, yet nothing at all is seen. I believe most of the difference is, as always, semantics: What does "seeing" an image mean internally? Some people who believe that they have aphantasia believe that there should be an image in front of their eyes when they close it - that is nonsense. It does not help that others who can imagine describe imagination in the same terms.

When I think of an abstract idea, the sense of imagination is exactly the same as if I was imagining a picture: there is an impression, but it is not one of the sense but one of mind.

The difference can be clearly seen with the use of psychedelics that do create real inner seeing: tryptamines like LSD only strengthen the internal knowing of mental imaginery (plus of course visual artifacts, warping etc. in the actual visual field), yet the combination of LSD and ketamine creates the famous "free-wheeling hallucinations" in which you enter a perfectly lucid photorealistic 3D dream which you can shape in any way you desire. Tropane alkaloids create real hallucinations which you experience instead of reality, but I have no experience with this. Classical psychedelics do not create hallucinations but only mental imaginery and visual morphing.
That is static - none of it is based on user input so it can be compiled into a static HTML page every time you publish a new post or edit a page theme or anything. There's no reason the system needs to pull that 5 year old blog post from the database every time.
> Our government is just getting a firm grasp on email

Can you elaborate? I don't know what you mean by getting a firm grasp on email. I think even when I was consulting for state government at a time they used email just fine and it was normal and standard. Or do you mean regulatory frameworks?
Hands down the best TV show I've ever seen, and so well matched with Max Richter's soundtrack. Very much looking forward to the last season.
Would be fun if someone made an online game where you try to distinguish AI and human generated art. I'm confident I would do much better than chance, but I'd be curious to see if people can reliably get 90%+
Midjourney gives little control to artists and straight up ignores prompts. You can't customise it with different loras and checkpoints. There's no controlnet. It's tuned to "look cool" not to output what's actually in the prompt.

For example - if you prompt "low poly castle, isometric". The output wont't be low poly or isometric, but something that "looks cool".

This is why people are hyped about the new SD XL. It understands prompts much better than previous iterations of SD and Midjourney. And it can be customised and extended. Can't wait for the full release, Controlnet XL and other extensions.
u/34tlkj45y is a 19 hour old account pushing narratives about Bidens / Ukraine / China.

Low-hanging fruit as spam accounts go. The serious ones will have a longer history and put out longer points.

Make of that what you will
RIP Legend
That's exactly what I mean. They did a great job making people think that if you wanted a blog and weren't a programmer, WP was your only choice.
The soviets were instrumental in starting WW2. They have no one to blame but themselves