skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is ready to pay a bit to keep pretending they have encryption. Must mean the money they get in the back from their user data is much bigger.
We have about 10 other connectors in a separate project at https://github.com/psychic-api/psychic

Thanks for the feedback! We’ll include a demo soon.
We need to do "The Stitch" next

https://thestitchatl.com/project
Such a good way to think of it!
So they send you a bill and you send back a form that says "here is a thing you didn't know about that changes the math".

87% of tax filers could have their taxes filled out by the IRS because they IRS already has all the information.
And how introducing backdoors would change that?
What is database-as-a-service (DBaaS)?
"Would the United States welcome Chinese and Russian nuclear capable installations in Mexico or Cuba?"

There are already NATO counties extremely close to Russia, Poland shares a border
My intuition is that the existence of fraud protection probably lowers the incidence of people attempting fraud.

I'm someone who (still!) believes in the Bitcoin project but I'm hesitant to use it for online payments because if someone rips me off there's no one I can go to for help.
I think something like this would actually make for a really interesting 3rd grade class project, with each student contributing a few pixels.
> Eh... The Apple ecosystem is relatively isolated.

Sure, Apple shipped the first consumer computer that supported Display P3 in 2015 [1].

And while there are several other vendors including Google with devices that support Display P3, Apple’s 2 billion devices is not nothin’.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI-P3#History
I like the use of a tiny device to generate the images. I was wondering whether the energy consumption per image would be lower, but I did the simple maths and it's not the case.

A raspberry pi zero 2W seems to use about 6W under load (source: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/12/09/raspberry-pi-zero-2-... )

So if it takes 3 hours to generate one picture, that's about 18Wh per image.

A Nvidia Tesla or RTX GPU can generate a similar picture very quickly. Assuming one second per image and 350W under load for the whole system it's in the magnitude of 0.1Wh per image.

Of course we could consider that a raspberry pi zero uses a lot less ressources and energy to be manufactured and transported.
And a cant-even library.
Tuberculosis in prisons poses broader problems
So because malicious parties can track us via other means, we should just allow them to start doing it (even more) through our financial history?

Anyways, it's not (fully) about information sharing. It's about control. It's the difference between read access and read/write access.
I view recruiters the same way as product managers. Most are terrible and cause more headaches than they solve, but a good one is worth their weight in gold.

Full disclosure - I am a mediocre product manager. First PM role after 20 years in engineering.
Tangential: those who couldn't care less would be nihilists, or sadists. "Misanthrope" is better reserved for something else. I guess it all just blends together from certain standpoints... it shouldn't.
I remember reading a story like this from the early days of Acorn. The first production sample of the BBC Micro came in, and would crash unexpectedly. Trial and error found that connecting a jumper wire between 2 particular points on the board stopped it crashing, but nobody could work out why it crashed or how that fixed it. They never worked it out and ended up shipping mass quantities of the BBC Micro with the magic jumper wire in place on each one.
Unfortunately, IMAX is deliberately misleading with their branding. In the mid-2000s, they introduced the IMAX MPX theaters, which could be retrofit into existing multiplex movie theaters instead of requiring a new building to be constructed like with real IMAX. The screens are 1/6 the size of real IMAX, they use 2K digital projectors instead of 70mm film, and the image is cropped to the traditional widescreen film aspect ratio. The worst part is that you typically get charged the same amount of money as if you went to see the film in a real IMAX theater. The vast majority of IMAX theaters you see are the MPX ones, and you have to look up special lists to see which theaters in your area (if any) are genuine 70mm IMAX.
But it would probably be better as a containerized microservice with 100 RPC endpoints. Just think how flexible this would be. Even better, 1000 containerized microservices with failover and autoscaling.
It depends on how complex the system you're building is. If you're a 'systems thinker', you naturally gravitate to solutions which boilerplate away all the grunt work.
Craig Wright wins another appeal against Dorsey, Block, BTC developers, et al.
"retail investors" normally refers to individuals at home and T+2 doesn't affect them because they have margin accounts.

The only limitation is that if you day trade, you'll need $25k in your margin account. If you don't day trade or you have $25k, you can withdraw $0.01 a few milliseconds after selling $0.01 in shares
So is extinction, but I'd rather put that off till some time long after I'm gone.
If the probability of something is below a certain amount it should be treated as if it is impossible.
Yes, it absolutely does increase the overall system instability. However, that is at great benefit to the consumer. There are some safeguards in place in the actual FedNow Service, but it is primarily up to the Service Providers to give the financial institutions tools to manage risk. This includes features like liquidity management, circuit breakers, fraud/compliance monitoring, limits, etc.
Was it difficult avoiding using an ESB? I've heard stories about how requirements to use those were listed as an example of an interoperable system in law and then ended up being mandated across DoD for everything.
why is this even worth talking about?
This is a fun point that's one of the differences in the For All Mankind alternate universe. In that universe NASA is allowed to patent and license all technologies they develop in the course of their programs. This leads to a huge NASA budget that, by the 90s, is so large political powers want to raid it to pay for welfare. It also means no public internet (as far as we see) despite there being an extensive network of audio and video devices on the Earth and the Moon. Not sure it's realistic but it's an interesting alternative.
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I think the issue is that they say "open source!" with no further qualification. That's misleading and disingenuous.

I support the use of alternative business models like source available, Business Source License etc. That's fine. But you should accurately describe your licensing. They should have said "source available".
AI is in a similar situation to software years ago were commercial interests are now firmly beginning to drive development. In retrospect it's been true for a while, but the pure research angle we've seen until now is going to change quickly into more of a commercial land grab. Very few people seem to care and honestly technical definitions are pretty meaningless for most people. I've seen posts where people say "oh it's only limiting companies with 700 Million+ DAUs, who cares".

It was only through a lot of hard work and evangelism that software landed on some very common established open source licences. Plus the then lack of interest from big players. They are not going to make the same mistake again, so there is going to be even more of a push necessary to keep AI "free".
>Nintendo has figured out that they can easily outspend anyone in legal fees

so does Sony, didnt help them one bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment,_I....
It doesn't have to be complex though, like it or not.
Governments are more likely to censor threats against themselves over people.
You’re totally right - nothing can really stop a well enough funded smear campaign. In this example, I don’t think Project Veritas was going after her specifically. But it’s literally the only search result for her somewhat-unique name (and certainly the top result when combined with her profession), so it’s the only thing that future employers would see. If there’s even only a single other information source, there’s at least _something_ to compare against when a busy recruiter is doing a quick screening search. Of course these examples are rare, but they do happen.
> ...but with days of delay

Maybe a long time ago, but I get my pay which is supposed to be on the 1st and 15th on like the 13th and 29th or something. Getting paid "two days early" is a pretty common feature with Direct Deposit these days. It is always credited to my account before my actual paycheck technically gets posed.

> maybe charging a transaction fee

I imagine someone would be paying for the transaction of physically handling all the cash, no? Its not like having all the logistics of handling cash to potentially thousands of employees is a zero dollar cost. I imagine its massively cheaper for everyone to pay whatever marginal cost my employer is paying for ACH/DirectDeposit through their payroll app than paying a ton of people to handle and keep track of the cash.
It comes down to profit. Low to negative profit equals no medications. We need to give incentives to manufactures to produce the meds.

Years ago , the Orphan Drug Act law passed by Congress in 1983 incentivized the development of drugs to treat rare diseases. It worked. It has produced numerous drugs to treat rare diseases. They are very expensive but they exist vs not existing at all. If we can get a similar act that would give incentives to manufacture these vital drugs at a reasonable price then it would be a win for everyone.

My first guess would be to have a minimum price that's equal to manufacture cost plus 15% profit.

People are going to automatically oppose it because it will raise prices but the fact is we live in a capitalist system that produces nothing unless it produces a profit too. I would rather have the drugs available that save lives and pay a bit more than not having them at all.
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I don't think this service is replacing cash payments unless I am missing something?
Not only that but the cash swapped for bonds is also a liability of the government, so it is just swapping one liability for another.

What we call government debt is just an operational vestige.
People seem to be confusing composition with journalism. Journalism is what happens before an article is composed, and this system does nothing resembling original research or fact finding.
" it's just a selectively-applied welfare program, disproportionately provided to the people with the best connections. putting a stop to those sorts of "jobs" is not a bad thing."

As long as you have somewhere else to put them...or else they will go on another type of welfare program where they don't have to do any work.

That is the issue here...
I'd love to see a Mars space race between China and the USA. If there's another cold war brewing let's at least only keep the cool aspects of the last one and leave the saber rattling bullshit behind in history...
Just in time before they layoff 5% of the staff.
I have a hard time believing the 10k line shell script didn't have a comment at the top saying what it did.
How convenient. Looks like Pfizer is learning some tricks from those hard-drive companies.
Be happy that you do not know.
> UK is a democratic country

Democracy is a bit more than just rule of the majority (or sub-majority due to the peculiarities of the UK voting system).
And because javascript has real lambdas and lexical closures, you probably lose less studying SICP in JS than you would in e.g. Python.
The concept of “source” is nebulous for ML models. If you have the weights you can recreate a model without access to the source code originally used to train it, and similarly just having the source code without the training data won’t allow you to recreate the model.

While it would be nice to have the data set Meta used I think open sourcing the weights is good enough.
To be fair only about half of US ACH traffic flows through the Fed (the other half goes through the Clearing House Payments Company), but the Fed is very much involved (and a critical component of) the ACH network, even if the system is not explicitly a government one.
I think the real comparison is "has the proportion of the population that needs to know how to take care of farm animals gone down?"
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> Quality doesn’t sell as features do

Isn't the linked article a counterpoint as folks are complaining of too many features?

Consumers should be able to find a vehicle that meets there needs. If this isn't happening, then that means the market lacks competition.

> why would someone sell a product for $10 when it can be sold for $50

In a competitive market prices would never go up. In anything, competition should make them drop. The problem is the startup cost to enter the automotive industry is too high. Consider if someone wanted to mass produce cheaper vehicles, even for a niche audience, they need millions (maybe billions) to enter the market. If the startup cost can't be lowered, then perhaps the automotive industry needs trust busting.
Richard Rhodes wrote a classic book about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb
Also, never forget to mention at least once, advocates, activists, experts and lawmakers.
The reality is, supermajority (including me) of people prefer not using cash. Especially up here in the North.

Can’t even recall to ever pulling some out other than some casino entertainment night. I understand all the “freedom” (or whatever one might call it) I’m losing, but the positive sides are much better (never have to care about losing my wallet, much faster transactions, convenience and etc.). Sure, sounds bad on paper, but I haven’t felt any negatives in 10+ years, especially when in practice makes my life easier.
By scrubbing through the duration I haven't found a single error pixel that has been corrected, though. Which is a pity, as they do stand out quite glaringly.
History of Johnson County, 1882. It was reprinted in the 70's, I have that one but it doesn't have the plates in the back.
Couldn't they still use their original strategies for spying if they had a warrant? Just get the phone and install a secret microphone inside, or inside a house or a car. This can be done with cameras, too, though the text on a phone might be hard to read.
> Put differently, we don't show the documents until we first have a signature (and initials) specimen collected from the e-sign participant.

Why would I sign something I haven't seen?

Businesses & government in USA seems to like asking for my signature on a little LCD pad, without showing me what I'm signing. That's absolutely horrible and anti-consumer behavior.

(And yes, I do diff DocuSign-style PDFs before and after the insertion of the pseudosignatures and visible watermarks, or PDFs from before and after a email-print-sign-scan-email cycle.)
> I hate to say it though, but it's also extremely possible it would cost a lot of money with nobody using it because it sucks.

IMO The government should directly be hiring the best and the brightest with the pay to match. I would be more than happy to pay more taxes at my pay grade (or would support higher capital taxes) for free e-filing that's easy, fast, and multiplatform. However my taxes are raised would surely be cheaper than what I pay my accountant annually to file for me.

It's ridiculous to me that government contracting is always expected to cheapen out for "efficiency". Governments should have excellent software and product minds on staff at all times to manage communication and data internally and externally, imo.
Likely because they know they don't actually need a bypass mechanism to bypass most physical barriers.
Except you still see the encapsulated classes when you inspect it in production, and often that is where the bugs appear and need to be figured out.

The ridiculous class strings get particularly hilarious when anything beyond basic CSS is used. Want CSS variables? Now it's even less readable!
Maybe they should have thought about this possibility and started a training program BEFORE they built the fab? Just a crazy idea.
This is the response to the belief that the moon landing was faked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYFMU7XfyzE
Let's say you code defensively. You add some handling invalid input to your function. Because the rest of your codebase never sends it invalid input it's dead code - not load bearing. Until at some point a bug is introduced and sends you invalid input which is then dutifully handled and recovered from. The branch has become load bearing.
I don't think I can blame Valve much for this. They aren't so much taking Nintendo's side as trying to avoid shoveling money into a fire. They know Nintendo's reputation for waging expensive and often frivolous lawsuits and don't want to be on the receiving end. So their options are basically 1. put it up then take it down 3 days later when Nintendo sends them some bullshit or 2. ask nicely first in case there is a small chance that Nintendo is feeling nice today.

Sure, it was obvious that 2 wasn't going to work. But maybe it is still better to shut this down before launch rather than 3 days later with extra disappointment after lots of work has been done.

We should blame the legal system that Nintendo is using to bully others.
Also linked in TFA:
https://fortune.com/2023/07/14/bryan-johnson-spending-2-mill...
Apples and oranges. JPEG XL is a new codec entirely (though it allows lossless conversion from JPEG).
I am not sure why this exist, maybe I am missing something, and it does not seem like there is much value past “hey check this out this is possible”
The Big Dig almost certainly resulted in less bad traffic than would have existed otherwise--and eliminated some really painful traffic patterns like getting to the airport. But elevated 93 which cut off the North End from downtown was just a blight generally even if it took years to get the greenway plan approved.

I guess SF had the "advantage" of an earthquake to eliminate its issue.
I've been fascinated by this recently. Could you wind up better off, even getting exposed with a fraud scandal.

We always assume it's a tragic tale, and we're seeing someone crushed into a rock bottom state. It seems in many cases they still end up ahead of where they would be.

I even wondered if that would happen with Theranos. It's possible she's even ahead now of where she would be without fraud. I tend to think a lengthy prison sentence is never worth it, but if she had got off easier that would be a different story.
First off, amazing tool and thanks for doing the nix community a favor!

If you could expand more on the architecture of the tool I'd be very curious! Like what goes all on from parsing Hydra builds to getting a useful package versions DB and what were the challenges while building it? Also, how are you merging all the nodejs packages (nodejs_20, nodejs_18, ...) into one “nodejs”?

I'm also in the process of building something very similar (didn't know the idea was that popular haha), but I'm not parsing Hydra builds but the output from `nix-env -qa --json` to get all the package versions and it's proving more involved than I anticipated (:
They definitely don't have all that information. That was my point.
Aside from playing devil’s advocate, do you have a sensible reason why it should be this way versus another way?
Has anyone used llama2 and can share comparison or impressions against ChatGPT?

Another question, unrelated. What do they mean Microsoft partnered with them, didn't they partner with OpenAI? Are they playing both fields now?
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Exporting and Analyzing iOS Screen Time Data Using Python and InfluxDB
This is apple we're talking about. Some times magnificent, other (most?) times unable to get out of its own way, especially when it doesn't have a process for X. And anything that involves saying anything in public...

Obviously they think their silos of secrecy are a net positive, but really I wonder. I do consider them the greatest, or one of the greatest execution machines in business, but I also think that's despite themselves.
Based on the rants I've gotten from barbers, taxi drivers and the like when I've told them what I'm working om, there does indeed seem like there is a widespread dissatisfaction with capital G.
Google demos “unsettling” tool to help journalists write the news
IRS auditing targeting has been at the explicit behest of Republican controlled Congresses. That is, they were told to stop/reduce targetting high net worth individuals, or face even further cuts to their budget.
There are interesting angles to this. Newsrooms started shifting journalists over to contractors a while back because of risk from libel lawsuits, even if defendable. Gawker and Peter Thiel started this trend.

This contractor shift paired with the revenue pressure from the internet’s impact has made journalism a real tough industry.

I wonder how LLMs writing news would impact the contractor/libel situation. I could see it freeing up resources to then pay w2 journalists worth protecting for bigger stories. Or maybe LLMs writing the controversial stories and seeing who gets sued in that situation.
>I put the damn thing in quotes for a reason

I don't remember when Google stopped honoring the "..." convention but it's very annoying
How does this address the privacy concerns? OpenAI could still accidentally provide your data to other users, they could retain, sell or misuse it despite agreeing not to, or a rogue employee or an intruder could do so, or they could be forced to do so by a court order, etc.
Poland shares a border with Kaliningrad, but not the Russia proper. this is much like how Russia is very nearby to Alaska, but not the US proper
No. The weights encode recorded parameters they don’t encode essential components like hyperparameters or modules without recorded parameters.
Automating your communication between Visual Studio Code and ChatGPT
Hi there ^^

In case anybody wants to have a bit of fun, I created a Visual Studio Code extension able to send multiple documents source code and evaluation errors to ChatGPT. It's a (well?) working work in progress.

It's far more powerful than Copilot from what I tested since you can send errors and multiple documents at once.

It gives some contextualization to ChatGPT by giving file paths and some project info (name, languages, etc).

It communicates with ChatGPT via a browser extension, using WebSockets. The server in on VSCode side. It handles multiple instances of VSCode by creating satellites when a server is already running which then acts as a proxy to relay messages to the browser extension client.

The screencast is not up-to-date and I don't have any influencer vibe, sorry for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahn28-NKD8Y. This shows an example of a code handled fully in VSCode and auto-corrected by ChatGPT.

The repos:

- https://github.com/ivangabriele/openai-forge-vsce
- https://github.com/ivangabriele/openai-forge-browser

The VSCode extension:

- https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ivangabr...

The browser extensions:

- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/openai-forge/nnppe...
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/openai-forge/

There may be a few bugs. Hopefully the code is not-too-bad for a first draft.