skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt product placement falls under the same rules as endorsement, because there's no actual claims about the product, or preference towards it. They're just showing the object in use/place.

Even if a character states "monster is their favorite drink" that wouldn't constitute an endorsement, because it's simply the mark of a fictional character.

But influencers/actors/etc saying "monster is their favorite" is an altogether different thing, because a viewer would assume that's actually their opinion being stated -- that it's being endorsed "in fairness". [0]

The fundamental problem is deception, and product placement isn't deceptive (it's just hoping you see it enough you'll think it's "common"), but paid endorsements definitely can be.

[0] From the endorsement guide: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p204500_endorse...

Example 6 is about an actor who says a home fitness system is “the most effective
and easy-to-use home exercise machine that I have ever tried.” One commenter asserted
this would only be deceptive if the actor had not used the machine. The example is
intended to illustrate why this statement is an endorsement and is not intended to address
all the ways the statement could be deceptive or who could be liable for any such
deception. The Commission notes, however, there are multiple ways in which the
statement could be deceptive, including not representing the actor’s actual opinions or
misleading consumers as to the machine’s effectiveness or ease of use.
The most amazing psy op I’ve ever seen is this convincing the public that it’s people who use encryption who are the perverts, and not the people who literally want to creep on other people’s private photos of their kids / spouses / romantic partners.

This is exactly the opposite of how it works in the real world.
When I was trying to avoid working on my thesis I wrote FreeBSD Update and bsdiff.
Of course it does not, since I asked it to make it absolutely simplest diagram to give a 10k ft view of where FedNow sits.

For the actual diagram and documentation, the readers are encouraged to view the linked source.
>is there a theoretical reason why we should expect a large language model to be good at sudokus

Because LLMs have shown the ability to be good at many tasks not directly related to language, and even exhibited some crude "general intelligence" traits.

So, some people would like to find how far this can be pushed, and why it works for e.g. a lot of tasks involving abstract manipulation of symbols and logical analysis, but not for a basic enough and clear goal like solving a simple sudoku.
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Linking a quick intro to these 850000 core beasts:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-...

And STH recently posted an article about how they're used:
https://www.servethehome.com/100m-usd-cerebras-ai-cluster-ma...
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36802582
For some reason the last “x4” confused me but then I remembered the z-axis. Then it had me thinking how a 4x4x3 Rubik’s Rectangular Cuboid would work. It can’t be turned 90 degrees on one axis. Anyway, for the next time you have a thesis to avoid, maybe.
For example, Intelius does background checks, reverse phone number lookups etc. One small piece of information can lead to others. As far as unwitting, of course. The wikipedia page says that company has acquired background check companies, a facebook genealogy app company, classmates.com and a "people" search engine company... not to mention all the public databases that are available (criminal records, property records) The've been collecting online and offline data on people for almost 20 years. I'm sure they have data scraped from sites that don't exist any more. Combine that with the current terminally online population and I think it would be surprising to most regular people how much data is out there.
We didn't shadowban them, we told them we were banning them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34916347, we told them why, and it wasn't the reason you've presumed.

When people presume things about moderation, they almost always get it wrong. That's a pity because all anyone has to do to get the correct answer is ask us.

If you see an account that's banned and you don't think it should be, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look. We've unbanned quite a few accounts that way. In the meantime, you can vouch for their good comments (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch). But please don't divert the thread with offtopic noise that is likely to be incorrect.
> If the government wants to tax these transactions - and let's admit it, they do - they'll take it right off the top

the implied alternative being they don't take it automatically and now it's your responsibility to figure it out and pay it? Or is the alternative that you would not pay it if it were not automatic, aka tax fraud?
This font is slightly too messy for me, but I agree that "modern typography" is often too soulless. I'm also hoping for a renaissance of serif fonts - I'm not really buying the narrative that they're not suitable for the web.

Not a big typography expert, but one font I like and try to use often, is Baskerville.

On the other hand, while I love LaTeX, I absolutely abhor Computer Modern. Maybe it's not the font's fault, but rather the fact that by using it every paper ends up looking the same - but it just bores me to death.
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I’m going to lose $30 a month in discounts with T-mobile if I don’t switch to debit card or checking account. T-mobile has a horrible history when it comes to security. I definitely don’t want to give them access to my checking account
I did spend at least 1-2 weeks at the beginning of my thesis solely tweaking the typography. ;)
I did my own experiment on starting to read the article, and, as the author describes, I got the ball color, but not the persons hair color. On thinking about my experience, I likened my mental image to my normal visual image with a fixed gaze (no eye motion), where the vast majority of color and detail is in the foveal field of view (a few degrees). Outside that region, detail and color drop off rapidly. The ball is what I'm looking at, and the person (and their hair color) is outside the foveal region and vague/less detailed.
It would probably be fine. The pressure under water is much much greater than in space. A submarine would be fine in space, but a spaceship would collapse quickly in the ocean.
ACH has had same day payments since 2016. If your bank takes until "next morning" then that's your bank's problem, not ACH's.

https://www.nacha.org/resource-landing/same-day-ach-resource...

That said, FedNow is still an improvement over ACH. ACH is fundamentally batch-based processing, they just run the batch multiple times per day now. And all the batch times are East Coast biased, so people on the West Coast get worse service.
Doesn't matter if it was true or not.
I am fairly sure I don’t have aphantasia, but for me there’s no visual component to daydreaming - it’s purely just zoning out and later realizing I’d lost track of time. It’s so interesting to hear about how other people’s minds work totally differently from that.
> Laypeople are not the target audience for this

Why not? There is no reason you couldn't buy a coke with it, with a fraction of the usual credit card fee. It just needs to be implemented.
Chapter 2's The Basic Rules of Hacking are interesting. I always tried to start conversations at Radio Shack. Probably regetting it only half the time, and learned something new every time.

Elsewhere on his site, he's got some great analog digital music. Great stuff if you're into industrial noise and field recordings.
Even some secured credit cards offer rewards

https://www.cardrates.com/advice/secured-cards-with-rewards/
NameCheap is just passing the buck.
I remember when the COVID-19 pandemic first appeared and the R values were announced.

I remember immediately volunteering to be part of locally run trials to test probably suitable vaccine classes already in the pipeline and I remember being an active part of a trial within months.

I recall the planning and the effort spent to bring modern critical path JIT approaches to traditional vaccine development that ran multiple variations of every traditional stage as much in parallel as possible thereby shortening the entire runway without compressing the neccesary time for each critical stage.

I recall having discussions with a world renowned epidemiologist from here in my home state who I worked with as a young student in mathematics some 40 years ago about the quality of the science and the diligence being taken.

History is littered with easily disproven junk science claims by political entities that play to feelings of the masses by saying whatever plays to their base.
Of all the actual misaligned incentives out there, giving someone a free board game in exchange for them playing it and creating a review seems like a great thing. Someone gave you a $50 game and you created a free $500+ video about it encouraging others to take a break from screen time.

I hope no one tells the FTC about paid Amazon reviews, they'd probably have a heart attack.
Yep, their Github says “Download for macOS on Apple Silicon (Intel coming soon)”
I also am no Einstein.
I want to have an idea this fun and useless. I'm always so charmed by things like this.
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Started my last two jobs past age 45. Didn't have any issues.
Time to share my ultimate home instant noodle "recipe"

- 1 pack spicy noodle (whatever brand you like)

- 1 can mushroom soup

- 2x eggs

- Meats (I've used bacon, hotdogs, smokies, pork slices, whatever is available)

- 1 slice sandwich "cheese style product"

- Frozen veggies

Use 1 can of mushroom soup and 1 can of water. Mix it and get it to boil, then put the noodles in. Let the noodles soften for a while. Add your flavorings and meats and the cheese slice when the noodles are soft enough.
Then put 1 egg in and stir it right away so it blends with the soup and thickens it. Once it goes back to a boil add the other egg, but immediately turn the heat down and let the egg just cook in the broth. It takes some experimentation but I can get it to where the yolk can still maintain its shape but is still runny.

When you're ready take the pot off the stove and set it to cool somewhere. Add the frozen veggies at this time and gently stir them in. The heat from the noodles helps cook them and the veggies helps cool the noodles so you can eat it faster.

This is a heavy bowl but sometimes I crave it and it really hits the spot.
How TO guide for cookie consent implementation
Doubling down with mind reading, nice.
While I totally get where you are coming from, I don’t think integration is necessary in 99% of usage. Sure, it helps people build intuition in the field they are specializing in, and for those people it can be invaluable, but having a better way to recall things would solve most use cases.

IMHO the biggest disservice to students in much of the education system in the US (including some colleges and universities ) is the focus on memorization vs focusing on problem solving. The older I get, the more I reflect on how much opportunity was wasted with poor quality teachers who just wanted us to memorize facts and be able to reproduce those facts in tests.

I don’t need to memorize maxwells equations to know that they exist, what they focus on, or how they can be applied to certain problem sets.
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4.5% of the American population is not exactly a “significant number of people”

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html

I’m not saying we shouldn’t do anything for that 4.5%.

But almost anyone who has a bank account should at least be able to get a secured credit card
I suspect the point is that we're trapped with the knowledge. You can't opt out of nuclear weapons.
https://archive.li/uLc9a
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I think 80% of complaints about capitalism are complaints about the fundaments of economics. Audience is scarce, network effects are scarce, advertisers are scarce, quality contributors are scarce, brand recognition is scarce. How do you acquire all of these at enough scale to make a compelling product and sustainable platform? I don't see how ActivityPub actually does any of that. I can very clearly see how venture capital and/or short-term shareholder value are actively harmful.

I think there's two avatars I'd look at for having "solved" most of this. One is Craigslist. They don't really occupy the same place in the world they used to, but they scaled by orders of magnitude without changing their core identity. And they did it because Craig Newmark was content to walk away with $100M and his reputation in tact rather than chasing every penny. The other is Wikipedia. Probably the single most valuable thing on the internet and operated purely as a non-profit. A non-profit that rakes in like 10X it's operating budget in donations. Neither of these do everything right, but they work. And they do it with a very centralized framework for operations that sets clear boundaries in which their volunteer contributors can operate. I really see that as a more promising goal. We need a fully non-profit internet. Ones that set really clear and explicit guidelines for usage and are beholden to their mission above investors. But also, organizations with publicly accountable leaders who set policy and stick to it. And leaders who can still run their orgs like a business with a tech team, a marketing team, accountants, HR, lawyers and all that jazz.
I miss the days when Blizzard games (Diablo 3, StarCraft 2, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, WoW...) ran on macOS. Sadly that seems to have ended with Overwatch and Diablo 4 (though it may be possible to play Diablo Immortal on Macs that can run iPad games.)

I also miss my macOS Steam library before the 32-bit apocalypse.
That’s one incredible flex. If only I could have half your productivity while procrastinating.
New Project Turns Project Gutenberg Texts into Free Audiobooks, Lifelike Voices
I wonder if that also applies to game reviewers or let's play YouTubers.
While I hardly think it's a "bribe" in the case of board games, I think it's a perfectly reasonable line in the sand to require people to disclose if they've received any compensation for reviewing a product, even if that compensation is just getting a free copy of the game.

I mean, it seems a bit silly to focus on board games, since they're generally pretty cheap, but I've seen videos on YouTube where people review multi-thousand-dollar TVs or computers, and it's unclear if they purchased the item or the company sent it to them.

Even if it's subconscious, I think it might be hard to trash-talk an entity that just gifted you something that you could easily re-sell for several grand.
Apple is clearly entitled to not provide iMessage in the UK if they feel that the extraterritoriality of a UK law will hurt their interests in other jurisdictions. That’s not anti-democratic, unless you think the UK rules the world.
>You said 80% of blah blah

Huh? Did you LLM-like hallucinate that part?

>No one lost this ability

You'd be surprised.

>Making generalizations is bad, it's weird you would openly propose doing it.

Making generalizations is the cornerstone of understanding the world, and the basis of science. The alternative is taking each element of larger clusters of things and behaviors as some unique snowflake, and never learning any greater lesson ("missing the forrest for the trees").

>You're claiming statistics have less value than limited personal observations?

Merely claiming? This is reality 101. Anything you can directly observe is more real than some third or fourth-hand statistical "knowledge".

>You also used the phrase "forced-fed" as a manipulation tactic to make people think whatever you mentioned after it is bad.

Or, you know, I used it to accurately describe the way statistics are created, manipulated, promoted, and used to paint all kinds of pictures state and private interests want to promote. Which is how they got their place at the worse end of the scale after "lies" and "damned lies".
Because "an eye for an eye" leaves everyone blind.
Thankfully, the site is no longer available via clearweb, so we can just take its characterization by its harshest critics at face value, rather than having to actually read it ourselves and make up our own minds.

However, I do find it strange that the site now only being available through Tor--and thus not showing up in Google search results or being easily browsable by "normies"--seems to have been enough to assuage the people spearheading its deplatforming, since Tor should pose little of an impediment to those capable and willing enough to IRL harass and SWAT people (the purported real reason KF exists). It's almost as if their real concern is people being able to google them and find a site that comprehensively documents their bad, and perhaps illegal, behavior.
This doesn't even seem like you were trying to not sound affiliated.
A "sans serif clone"? That phrase is utterly meaningless. I also wasn't calling it monospaced, just pointing out that there's precedent for the choices made here. It's a fine typeface, not my cup of tea, not even close to what I think of when I think of Swiss typography, but regardless of your obnoxious and unfounded opinionated take on it, regardless of my feelings on it, it's still a fine typeface. You can't even communicate what you don't like about it, just rant about corporations for some also unintelligible reason.
> Then we would live in a high-trust society, like the United States and Europe used to be 100 years ago.

The United States didn’t even “trust” Black folks enough to allow them to drink from the same water fountain, live in the same neighborhood, go to the same school or be part of the financial system as late as the 60s.
Please re-read and reconsider the context of my post. This reddit-tier "must seek to contradict and attack others" behavior doesn't do anyone any good.
> might be hard to trash-talk an entity that just gifted you... ...several grand

Yes, especially if you want companies to follow suit.
> LLM's aren't statistical in the sense of memorizing percentages of words that come after other words.

Agreed, in that LLM's are an improvement beyond Bayesian models[0].

> I suppose they're statistical in the sense of learning how to mimic what they've seen, but this includes some very surprising emergent abilities as well.

Your point of "mimic what they've seen" is what I mean by being predictive statistical models. And yes, there very well can be surprising, even emergent, output given depending on the training data set.

But to refocus back onto the original question the article presents, which is could an LLM somehow produce solutions to a problem category which has no solution with mathematical underpinning, is a bit fantastical IMHO.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics
oh man, another one of these "science/peer review is broken" type articles. without peer review, you have the equivalent of whatever is popular on twitter or other social media. Or total crap instead of possible crap.... Peer review is far from perfect but the alternative is even worse, imho. I think this is especially so in the hard sciences, but i will concede the point to the author that peer review is not as useful for social sciences as being a firewall against bad/wrong results.
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Listen to the speech in the room, based on hot topics generate a set of pictures for tomorrow.
I had a similar question about the vast number of "coming soon" sections and that led me to wonder why you would choose to submit this link at this stage of the specification's lifecycle

Would it be accurate to say you're trying to get broader adoption of this idea, but currently the only implementation is in your group-income repo?

I ask that with an especial emphasis on the zero knowledge password system which is currently undocumented but, if I'm understanding correctly, also unimplemented? https://github.com/okTurtles/group-income/blob/3e50642ab8866...
Marvel and Lucas Films need to justify their acquisition cost.
Cheese???
It really is a context and frequency thing. For example:

users.map(u => u.lastName)

Nobody is going to have any questions about what 'u' is here. Do that in a codebase that has a 100% consistent and very frequently used User type, and it starts to feel quite reasonable to just use 'u'. It's as familiar as Apple π.
Everyone’s getting payola from Big UNO: https://www.vulture.com/article/uno-taylor-swift-beyonce-why...
Somehow, at some point in the last few months, I found myself reading a portion of a mid-1960s Federal Register that included capsule summaries of various small-bore enforcement actions the FTC took against misleading advertisers in the prior year - stuff like (and I’m making up illustrative examples here), say, a department store in Kansas City that put out an advertisement that omitted key information about a sale, or a hat-maker in Miami who lied about the origin of the materials he used.

I loved it! I thought it was great that there was a federal agency focused on pro-consumer stuff like this that otherwise falls between the cracks of modern life. I’m glad to hear the mission of the agency remains intact.
Interac is a company formed by the big banks in Canada to link all their networks and help insure we have uniformity. I believe it started as a way to standardize ATM machines and has grown to a bunch of other things and is largely why Canada was able to so quickly and completely adopt chip and pin and tap to pay literal decades before the US did.
It was motivating a few years ago, when I started to see all these references to Engelbart and better thinking and whatnot, but after testing a bunch of projects that amount to nothing, get abandoned or in a state of eternal coming-soon walled garden building, where even some of them already closed (Roam Research, Athens) it got tiring.

And I still don't have that promised knowledge-tool-of-the-future in my hands, just some hype with note graphs, prolix bloggers and their 'creative mentation', yet none of the implementations (not the concepts themselves) have proven to be any sort of breakthrough, or usable enough, where commercial last-generation notetaking and journaling tools managed better at a certain point.

It's time to get real, folks! If they can't deliver on their promises, they don't deserve our attention. I'll stick with what actually works, even if it's not as flashy. Rant over.
>FTC warns influencers over failing to properly disclose free board games

This is so partial and tip-of-the-iceberg of what things influencers don't "properly disclose", that it's beyond stupid to single out.
Apple and Nintendo "apologists" are cut from the same cloth: they're people who understand how business works and reject notions of having one's cake and eating it too. Personally I hope we get more of these people in the future.
>The Sony Ericson phone being in Bond is not the same as a phone review saying "you should buy this"

Yeah, it's worst, because it's a psychological manipulative tactic.
Yeah, exactly! If Sony gave a free review copy of their new TV, and I spend my entire review trash-talking it, then Samsung might say "oof, let's not give this guy any review copies".

I think stuff like this is inevitable to some extent, humans gonna human, but I think that the viewers of the video have the right to know about these potential conflicts of interest.
It's July, they just needed to put a voice interface on ChatGPT, it'd easily help them sell more pro licenses as well. I'm not a conspiracy person, but this just seems so obvious it feels like there's something else going on here.