skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
basically the mechanism that the Fed uses to keep interest rates low involves creating a lot of new money and using that to buy bonds from other people, manipulating the market for bonds (high priced bonds = low interest rates).

Most of those bonds were government treasuries, but other bonds were corporate bonds - sheets of paper that say I'll pay you back in 10 years - and sold directly to the fed for newly created money. so the corporation printed money and got newly created money in exchange. they just have to pay it back in 10 years at like 2% interest a year. Many of those corporate issuers parked that money in private equity firms, or were private equity firms themselves, if they weren't directly hiring employees for pet projects - the private equity firm would be investing in newly formed pet projects.

All of that has stopped now, as the fed stopped buying bonds and doing the most to get interest rates high. Doing everything except selling the bonds they bought.
This is very cool, hadn't heard of it before. Thanks.
Is the first image under "realistic hands" intended to have six fingers on one hand?
He and I both, apparently!
I remember my friends and I playing tag in a copse of trees which were close enough to swing to and from branches between them. Fell out once and laid there on the ground , breath knocked out of me, staring at the dappled light through the trees...

In my 50s and I still smile when I think about that day.
I think you can apply the author's thinking to also looking at how our societal and economic outcomes relate to our circumstances of birth. People want to delude themselves into believing they succeeded from "hard work" where others were lazy rather than recognizing that had another seed been planted in your place and nurtured with the same resources (or lack thereof) it'd probably have equal chances of having surpassed your success as it would have of having withered in failure.
In my opinion, roles directly threatened by LLMs are coodinators, client managers, etc. People whose job depends entirely on "soft skills" to interact and giving vague summaries, status updates, and assigning tasks.

A chat bot that scans Jira, accepts phone calls, and runs scrums can't possibly be any less reliable than some of the people I've worked with.
That 2016 phone couldn't be protected from Spectre family attacks without a ridiculous performance penalty.

What is the point in "security updates" for a CPU that can't be made secure?
Sympathize with view in article. But straight things can be made from crookedness. Classic example: Single cake. Two crooked children. Greedy. But rule is one cuts; other chooses. Perhaps argue that humanity stripped. I think not.

Of course, meta-problem: how to ensure that is technique? How to ensure exploitation of technique: "you cut" (because I know you can't cut straight).

Still, meaningless for technocrat to feel "annoyance with the recalcitrant human element, which eludes their total mastery". Behaviour such as this is roughly modelable.

First-order planning is "Here is a plan that will work if all will abide". Second-order planning is "Some will not abide. Here is a plan that will work given that". Third-order planning is "Some will not abide. Both the plan and compliance with it will alter the conditions of the plan. This is how the plan works given that." ad inf.

You can hew great stability out of the unstable: A logical network reliable to some degree out of an unreliable physical network. Nothing is perfect: not knowledge (you can only reach some falsifiability), not networks (you can only get some reliability), not even logic or mathematics (since the proof is subject to our human fallibility).
OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text
Could you just be specific about why the first example brought up doesn't apply, instead of letting the other person put themselves out there to advance the discussion and finding little details to accuse them of bad faith?

The idea that forgetting that Google failed horribly with Google Video before buying YouTube is a "smell" of bad faith is weird.
Really depends on your use case if you are constantly piping various files from one app into another - android still has that down fairly well. Browser > NewPipe > VLC for instance.

If you are more focused on the curated ecosystem Apple does it much better.

I mostly use Android because of my work flow but I do not think many people in the grand scheme work like this.

Give iOS a try you could be plesantly surprised with it.
i hate to be that guy but it's not hard to learn. The tools are just from a different era where expectations where... different. However, even in my day BIND was avoided in favor of other servers like that one by the qmail guy.. can't remember his name.

this comment reminds me of one of my favorite Dilberts

old guy watching Dilbert at his computer: you kids today and your fancy graphical user interfaces. Back in my day all we had were ones and zeros ...and sometimes we didn't even have ones.

Dilbert: you had zeros? we had to use the letter 'o'
There's no issue from a naturalization standpoint with changing employers if AC21 applies. That's the whole point of AC21, facilitating job change. AC21 is easy, as long as the I-140 has been approved, the I-485 has been pending 6 months, and the new job is in the same or similar occupation as the sponsored job, the I-485J should get approved without any issue. Regarding maintaining H-1B status, it's a nice back-up but not all employers will support it - as long as the new employee has an EAD of course - although it's rare that a pending I-485 application isn't approved.
Yep this happened with my last 3 flagged submissions. All on social issues. Really sad because especially first one listed below I thought would elicit good discussions, somewhat tied other issues like affirmative action.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35867458

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065735

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627969
>it qualifies as sponsorship.

Rats. It's gonna be tough to make it past the first screening round with a No answer. Oh well, fingers crossed some good referral action can help. Thanks for the insight.
it sounds like it doesn't satisfy the most critical requirement: allowing sadistic prison employees to torture and extort prisoners in fun and new ways with no oversight

who are they expecting to buy this, Montessori prisons?
Houston is literally a swamp, consider looking at a random street view image of any residential part of the city at some point.

Vegetation doesn’t do anything for humidity, see: Southeast Asia, Subsaharan Africa.

Texas has zero alfalfa production, you’re imagining the desert southwest 1000+ miles away from Houston in an entirely different climate.
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Obviously things are different when speaking about a different species, but when training dogs to herd large animals, you often start training them on something small like goats or sheep. Ideally, they learn what a hoof to the face feels like BEFORE they start working with, say, horses.

I guess my point is that anyone who needs to train safety totally understands how important it is for someone to understand the specific danger intimately
At least they don't have that horrific Bixby Button anymore, though.
If you are interested in the Roman Republic and board games, you should check out Republic of Rome, which has the interesting feature that without some cooperation among the players, the Republic will fall to barbarians or the mob and everyone will lose.
If you want to 'snowbird' like that without waiting for (or ever planning to get) citizenship, you can apply for an I-327 Re-Entry Permit. [1]

You can apply with form I-131 and like $575.

While it can take 3-12 months to process, if you apply more than 60 days before travel and complete your biometrics appointment, you can leave and pick it up at a foreign embassy or consulate. This helps you avoid the presumption that you abandoned your US residency.

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Waze was an acquisition. It was launched by an Israeli company.
Another thing that's jarring is how slow paced the early episodes were.
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Then s/launched/running successful social networks/, which again in this case was your original position.

We have now:

- Long standing critical takes on new social media launches and claimed performance.

- Google as "running ... successful social networks".

You're litigating pedantry in a counterfactual manner. It's tedious.

I've shown this twice, which is sufficient for my tastes.
Of course we told (many times) our 3 yr old son not to put his hand on the stove.

And one day he just had to try it and feel what all these stories were about.
He started crying immediately.
We went to the hospital and came back rather quick. It wasn't so bad, just had to have a bandage for a couple of days.

Some weeks later he does it again. On purpuse.

!!??

I tell my brother and he answers:
"I kind of understand him. Sometimes I want to do it too."
> You can disable any app aside from the Galaxy Store, I believe.

Yes, which is better than nothing, but not nearly as good as being able to uninstall that stuff.
Like most things, speculators soaked up all the potentially valuable names to resell, so not really using the service anyways, and the minimal few that use it realized already it's a ghost town.
Blizzard says that modding Diablo IV can result in a permanent account ban
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Welcome to Jurassic Park
The executive branch of the government has the power to request that content providers who are hosting content that could reasonably be interpreted as dangerous to public health be taken down. And the content providers have the power to say no (or yes), after an investigation.

I don't really see this as some sort of extreme violation of people's first amendment rights, the rights of companies to host content, although i suppose it's a fairly ham-fisted way to achieve your public health goals.
Does instagram give you the right social graph for a twitter replacement though? It seems to me that you want to follow pretty different kinds of people on different forms of social media.
Dogs do lie but also play emotional tricks, this https://koreaboo-cdn.storage.googleapis.com/2017/05/Puss-in-... is not uncommon for young labradors

the fact that animal "lie" means they have a deep representation of others and their needs
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< given that child labour is generally illegal these days and all

In the US that's changing...
You can use the green part of the spectrum for LiDAR. It’s what they use for bathymetric LiDAR.
I'm almost certain that the reason is to prevent people from entering the US as a visitor when pregnant, having a child, and then immediately being able to have the one-day old child petition for the parents. Or having a child while facing removal proceedings. As it stands currently, the child still becomes a citizen immediately, but cannot petition the parents until they are an adult.

If the rule stays, then US citizen children can be left with no adults in their life legally able to raise them in the US. On the other hand, if having a child in the US becomes an automatic ticket to citizenship, there will be a significant increase in children being born for this reason only that may be neglected, and people who want to overstay and are willing to have a child are basically guaranteed the ability to do so.

Another side effect if removed would be that the US border folks may be unwilling to admit pregnant visitors even with very legitimate reasons, because they know there is nothing to stop them from obtaining a green card if desired.

edit to clarify: even without this rule, you have to have entered legally, so just illegally crossing and immediately having a child wouldn't work--you would have to enter as a tourist or otherwise.
>I just don't mess with DNS often enough

That's the root of all this, we only deal with DNS when something breaks, and it rarely breaks.

If we did DNS all day every day it'd all be super clear and concise.
The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
I’ve never seen that before and am interested. Can you post a link to those instructions?
I think that’s a bit of a tech bubble. My non-tech family and friends all do the vast majority of their computing on mobile.
I tried it during the first week and just found all of the posting to be unbearably milquetoast. I understand that people have a problem with some of the more extreme elements of Twitter, it's a reasonable concern. But the last thing I need is an aggressively Disneyfied algorithm picking posts for me.
Yes, but you don't do that. The cells themselves do it. You only trigger that mechanism and you do it by opening and closing specific ion channels in specific patterns.
> Does anyone who works in this area have a sense of why PPLs haven't "taken off" really?

Why should they take off? At least for me personally it's not clear what the use case is, and this website answer exactly none of my questions.
I think a key strategic weapon that Meta has that no other social media will be able to match is its existing userbase on FB and Insta (i.e. basically all of the 7B+ human population). This can indefinitely be tapped as an audience for Thread content creators and advertisers.

Whereas most social media apps have the cold start problem (the stars need to align such that creators and users show up at the exact same time), Zuckerberg has solved it for Meta.

Threads doesn't need to be a hit on day 1 or even 100 because it has the existing Meta user base that counted on to consume Thread content (whether they like it or not).

For example, I have a FB account but am too lazy/old to sign up for Instagram but I did/do see a lot of Instagram reels that are converted into FB reels - particularly as Instagram reels was starting to take off. I am sure when it is monetizing those views for content creators and advertisers the converted reels get counted.

So while the power Instagram/Thread creaters will likely only push/consume the content in the corresponding app, Meta has the unique platform level ability to push the content to users of all 3 apps (i.e. FB/Insta/Threads).
Would it be realistic today to make a commercial website only available on an IPv6 address?
Or would the website lose too much traffic because of that?
Llama2, when fine-tuned, can be better than GPT3.5

Source: a trusted coworker
Alaska Department of Public Safety[alaskan ransomware /S]
I also played WoW and learned a lot. I was leading a guild and was a raid leader in a somewhat semi-competitive environment (we were competing with other guilds on our server for first kills). If you want to learn how to be a team leader in a highly competitive environment where people fail, things do not go as planned, and you need to improvise, where stress comes into play when you fail for the 27th time over the last 4 hours, then you can do it there for free. You learn how to make hard choices (you may need to replace a friend with another guildmate if they are holding the whole team back by failing game mechanics, etc.), how to lead a team, how people behave in stressful situations, how to keep the team together, and how to keep morale high, etc. So next time you see a kid playing WoW with others, don't underestimate the learning experience he will get there.
Another very concrete example, during the Trump administration, USCIS revoked it's long standing policy of giving deference to previously approved H-1B petitions when adjudicating extension petitions with the same employer. This was a significant reason for the above-referenced explosion in RFEs. Soon after Biden took office, USCIS reinstated the policy and RFEs dropped significantly.
You don't appear to have read what I wrote very carefully. The problem is that they fill most of the article with a general discussion of politics, making the article mostly about general politics.

People are naturally going to flag such an article.
I had hit the rate limit a few trimes when it was new, but never since then. I think the limit has been either removed or vastly reduced from that experience. I don't see any of the people I follow complaining about it either.
>So, exactly as with google trying to sign into google's account?

Massive difference though. Samsung tries to trick people to use it by not being up front with what account it is and what it is for.

Now, don't get me wrong. Google would probably do the same, but in this case they don't have to - because it is their OS. It is trivial to skip the google account if you want but it actually has its place in android. A samsung account on the other hand just makes things objectively worse, and at every turn they dare they try to get you deeper into their dependence, always trying to trick you into depending on samsung for the same stuff google already does for you (if you went that route).

How you can compare the two boggles me.

And even if the shady practices doesn't bother you and you feel like they are equally bad, then both of them are twice as bad. Why on earth would I want to use one I didn't have to?

And above all, why would I tie my android experience to one vendor?

> Again, same for google's apps which people think "come as a part of android", but in reallity they arent?

Really not the same, but yes, google bundles crap too if that is your point. Samsung is way better at making crap though. Regardless, who should be bundling crap anyway? The OS vendor or the hardware vendor? The hardware vendor is more than fine to write apps directly related to hardware features but other than that they should just fuck off.

> As if google doesn't use telemetry?

You think it is ok if Dell installs telemetry on a Windows PC? As much as I hate google what samsung is doing doesn't compare.
> And yet you can't do the things on a modern phone that you could on that computer from 15 years ago. At least you can't do it nearly as easily because of artificial limitations.

This may be a con for enthusiasts, but these artificial 'limitations' are exactly why Apple has been successful with the mass market. 15 years ago, computers were plagued by drive-by downloads, malvertising, and other crap. People in the early 00s spent millions of dollars paying repair technicians to uninstall toolbars, adware, and other junk software they were duped into installing.
I disagree.

The CLI is inherently a super-user oriented interface. The CLI needs to let an experienced user be as productive as possible.

If you need a pretty UI with everything spelled out, you should go on GitHub and find a GUI that someone built on top of the core tool. But dumbing down the core tool is not the way to go.

The --help message should be good, and the man page needs to be good, but the tool itself should favor power and productivity over handholding someone who doesn't want to Google a how-to.
I recommend LLM users leverage the RAG technique
Last numbers I saw, Twitter DAUs have held pretty steady. What evidence do you have of a "slow death"?
Freetown gets more rain in one August week than my town (Scottsdale) gets in a full YEAR
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They want to discourage birth tourism and “anchor babies”
Houston ISD Turning Libraries into Discipline Centers, Getting Rid of Librarians
Any one of those are things they might do, quickly and easily and with little practice. All of them, or even half?

They're not doing them. Any of them. If someone made such extraordinary claims, reasonable people would require extraordinary evidence.

I've provided quite a bit of corroboration to the idea that they're not doing any of it. Sure, my case is circumstantial, but I think that's permissible outside of a criminal courtroom, where the accusation is "non-crime, doing it like everyone else" without so much as the hint of slander.

You're all nuts. Nothing said on HN outside of a very narrow focus of technology should ever be taken for granted.
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My first thought was to give my 17 y/o niece a cash fit. However, I'm wondering if there is something better that holds value but can also be an introduction to financial literacy and investing.
> ...As people leave, the value of the network goes down so even more people leave...

But, i would posit that there is a rhetorical currency exchange at play here. The "value" that one might assign to a silo like Facebook or Threads is not the same "value" one might assign to various software stacks and/or networks on the Fediverse. Like, its not enough for me to state that they're different/like comparing apples vs oranges. I mean, for example, if I only have a single kid/offspring, does that mean that i have not grown the "value" of my family, because i have not maximized my partner's reproductive capabilities, or resorted to adoption to extend that, etc.? That's sill of course. Well, i assure you, the intent of networks on the Fediverse is NOT the same as the goals and intent of silos like Facebook, twitter, threads, etc.

I think @unshavedyak stated it great with their comments, but this is my favorite of theirs: "...So many people think we need another Reddit and Twitter. Many of us however are looking for exactly something not Reddit or Twitter..."
> that they know and like (regardless of how much they claim not to).

I assure you I genuinely do not like what Twitter has become. The lack of viable alternative doesn’t change that fact.
Divorce is my first guess.
Apple is the only manufacturer that still sells a phone today with an actual physical button. It is hard for me to give that up. Also it is very small and slim. Barely feel it in my pocket, not to mention the nice feeling aluminium on the back.
Toward the Hippocampus for AI
Heh, heh, this sux change it.