skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seconded on the bone conducting headphones. I have a little kid, so I need to reliably hear my environment, but it's nice to listen to podcasts or audiobooks once in a while.

Also the bidet. It is so strange that water washing a bum is the exception rather than the rule. In many ways we're still a primitive civilization.
I think it's the excessive precision that's funny.
What would you say is an exemplar of a healthy banking sector?
the place in DL/ML where typing could be the most useful is to keep you from trying to multiply differently sized tensors together. So the irony is that the one place where typing WOULD help DL/ML, is the place where rust is weak in its typing system (dependent types and const generics)
Technical details of this experiment can be found here: https://stevebarbera.medium.com/building-rankobot-with-chatg...
Which makes sense their serving framework has a big python component right now, but most of it is written in rust. Given that one of the lead devs for the serving framework is also working on this, I'd guess they're going to look to remove that python portion.
Below extension will be useful

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
fully agreed. if you look at e.g. California, those European diseases might start to infect the USA too...
As someone who currently performs information risk management for a financial institution, I'll say that private messaging doesn't need to be banned per-se. It's just that all company business is the responsibility of the leadership, so ultimately, business communications needed to be reserved for business communication platforms over which leadership can enforce policy. Privacy is a component of this.

These banks needed processes and controls to ensure their requirements are being met: Records of electronic communication, technical security controls to ensure the privacy of protected communication, approved communication mediums/channels for different classifications of information, periodic reviews on the adequacy of these controls, etc.

Sometimes the restriction of things like WhatsApp, Signal, etc. are seen as an affront to individual privacy. That's not what this is about. This is about preventing a lot of dangerous scenarios, like:

1. Employees at your bank do something evil that's also against the law, but because they used Signal/WhatsApp, no records of the communication can be used as evidence in court.

2. The bank has invested millions upon millions into an information security program. Someone decides to use Signal/WhatsApp to share sensitive account numbers. Signal/WhatsApp ends up with a vulnerability that exposes the information, rendering the InfoSec program protections ineffective.

3. Like #2, but the information in WhatsApp/Signal is super important. The employees who kept it there all leave and/or get into fatal accidents. How will that impact the bank?

4. Your manager starts a group chat for the team via text message and conversations about work occur. Turns out someone in the conversation is involved with a scandal. Because you talked about work stuff outside of the approved comms channels, your personal phone can now be taken and used as evidence in a court (even if they can't pull the encrypted messages from it!)

It's just better for everyone to keep work communications in one place that the company has control over, and your personal device/apps totally separate from it.
I wonder about this. Is ML just plugging together prebuilt blocks because that covers the entire solution space, or are we limiting the solution space to that because that’s the only thing you can realistically do in Python?
Or create a subset of HTTP/HTML, maybe more like HTTP 0.9.

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html
Below extension seems to work

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Ferromagnetism“ is not a blow against LK-99
> Being an expert and being biased on purpose implies acting in bad faith.

That doesn't even make any sense to me. Like I don't know what to say because I can't understand what you could possibly be trying to say.

It sounds like you're struggling hard to create a world where experts need to just shut up while ignorant people get to post whatever hottakes they like. That seems to obviously result in a dystopia of information to me.

> Being biased due to ignorance is not a big deal since in principle no one is going to pay you attention anyway.

Well that's clearly false, since we just watched in real time all kinds of strong hottakes from people who had spent the weekend researching superconductors on wikipedia getting wildly upvoted here and on twitter because people wanted to believe.

IMO that is actually bad because that is how you can delude people and how propaganda can manipulate a population.
The grammatical term for this is - perhaps surprisingly, for this crowd - "parallelism".
Hocus :Focus, An accessible keyboard accessibility horror game
Not available in Canadian app store either.
I think Lex is a very talented interviewer. His questions often seem low quality (to me), but he pushes the discussion in the correct direction. He seem to be e.g. build sentences where after the first part there is a moment for guest to throw in something or for Lex to judge guest reaction. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it, but regardless, he seem to be able to get something out of these guys which others interviews couldn't. Shining example is Stephen Wolfram who seem to be extremely hard to interview.
Why there? Germany has some crazy labor laws, they will be in for a surprise long term.
No, that's just what the outrageous clickbait headline[1] fooled you into thinking.

The banks aren't being fined for using Signal or WhatsApp or any particular technology, they're being fined for failing to keep records of regulated communication they're required by law to present for auditing. Obviously if you use tools that don't keep records, you need to find a way to save it yourself.

[1] Bad in the CNBC original, but actually truncated here on HN to remove the explanatory clause. The original reads "Banks hit with $549 million in fines for use of Signal, WhatsApp to evade regulators’ reach"
I take it you've never heard of Amazon? You know, the company this article is about? The largest online retailer in the world? The one that typically offers free two day shipping?
Fabs need ultra pure water and it's cheaper to recycle the water they use than rely on city water supplies. So they need a ton of water initially but once they're up and running they don't need much water after that. Because of this, even a desert environment like Arizona is fine.
> it seems like the law should be updated to match what society desires to be regulated

This absolutely happens. Usually, however, the regulators are interpreting the law in a way that the legislators agree with. In those cases, there is no need for new legislation.
> > Reminds me of fast food employee who simply hands your meal out the window, no greeting, no thank you, no smile

> This is such a weird American fixation.

You appear to be confusing

> They are doing their job like they don't care about doing it well... like the fast food employee that doesn't try to make your experience enjoyable by saying "hi" and maybe "have a nice day"

and

> They didn't talk to me, I'm upset

As applied to the delivery person, it's things like putting the package to the side of the garage door instead of right in front of it (where you'll drive over it if you don't notice it)... and putting it under an obvious overhang if it's raining. The little things, that show you care about doing a good job; they matter.
And that is why so many british businesses incorporate in the virgin islands or cayman.
Agreed. I have a lot of respect for the work they do.

They make some cool merch too:

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/
Extremely convenient in bars and restaurants.
Unfortunately the old American disease of not ensuring competition and instead passing regulation ensuring monopolies stay in power means the "problem" is not actual solved, and is in fact made worse.
Any time a large portion of internet traffic is controlled by a single source it brings problems like this with it. All cloudflare has to do is arbitrarily decide who and who can't use the internet and effectively their word becomes law. Like most things it starts with an innocent premise (e.g. "an easy way to stop bad actors") and ends up extended to any number of arbitrary things. Worse, the argument from privacy advocates rings hollow because defending privacy means you have to allow Bad People (TM). The average drooler using the internet cannot understand the nuance. Even in the most innocent of cases, a bad commit getting merged, can bring down the internet. It has happened before with Cloudflare.

Companies like Cloudflare, Google, Meta, etc are the reason anti-trust law exists. Unfortunately, it appears there is no one with any power that is willing to use the laws for their purpose. The internet in 20 years will be nothing like we've seen before. That's not a good thing.
Amazon delivery drivers make around $20/hr. that's well above the federal minimum (about 7.50) and above all state minimums. it won't make you rich, but it's not minimum.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2022/10/24/how-...

Also, expecting friendly service is reasonable. Expecting poor service because the pay is low is backwards. We should expect better pay.
It'd survive an EMP
You're missing the point - sure a long questionnaire is annoying but the real complaint here is the fact your site's primary CTA is to go straight into a survey that does not mention it will require payment afterwards.

You're effectively holding users (and especially their data) hostage by exploiting sunk cost fallacy, rather than letting the value of your product stand on its own weight.

Here is a recent thread on this exact topic with much more discussion about how user-hostile this is, and how it makes many assume that your primary goal is to collect data to sell rather than to help any individual with any benevolent task.

Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962502
That is true! And the reason why we decided to build this and offer it to everyone - building multi-region IAM is incredibly difficult and expensive and typically not the core competency of an average software company.

Also, very interesting project. I love SQLite and what the community is contributing to it - yours included!
Well... sure. But OpenAI and MSFT have gone to a lot of trouble to build up the mystique around GPT-4 by being secretive about its architecture and publishing papers with tantalizing phrases like "sparks of AGI" and so on. I think this type of thing provides a useful counterbalance.
It's both fascinating and horrifying to see how humans in general and HN crowd in particular work.

The LK-99 shitshow is the most absolute proof of the quote: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Hell even Einstein was no genious, he only invented Terraforming and we quickly ensued to terraform our own planet that was allready formed to us...
Smart update. At the beginning of the pandemic-- the most critical time for Zoom's ramp-up-- Google Meet was only available to Google Workspace users. Their userbase is currently about half of Zoom's, which is a pretty impressive ramp-up. Looks like users have voted with their feet to put it in that position, but that's where intertia does actually make a difference. People aren't constantly evaluating all of their options to see which one works best in case they should switch; they use whatever solution works best when they're evaluating solutions and then stick with that until there's a problem or someone informs them of something better with minimal switching cost.
I've had the exact same problem for a while. Here are some of the sites I've been unable to access (found by searching for "just a moment" in my browser history):

- https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in

- https://steamdb.info/login/

- https://www.zabbix.com/forum/

- https://casetext.com/

- https://namemc.com/login

- https://spinroot.com/

- https://camelcamelcamel.com/

It's really annoying and Cloudflare is apparently doing nothing to fix it as this has been going on for months if not years. I guess Cloudflare just hates the open web and really wants to enforce Chrome/Chromium/Blink hegemony.
Because for this work it's cheaper for the company to hire a new person with a lower starting wage vs. keep employing and paying higher wages to more experienced workers.

It's not the worker's fault they can't learn the new tool (they absolutely can learn it). It's capitalism's fault for valuing workers only for the cost of their labor and nothing else.
I'm a novice at ml, would the performance benefit here be large compared to wonnx or the onnx bindings?
I am not sure myself. The past two decades have shown that banking is a sector which needs to be tightly regulated and bankers can never be trusted to not do utterly stupid things if there is even the slighest hint of profits. Honestly, I would be fine with the banking sector being nationalised at this point at least for the retail part. We are already bailing out banks when they fail so let's be coherent.

It's entirely technologically possible for central banks to take over retail banking at this point and Brazil has demonstrated nicely that taking over payment processing would be a net improvement for everyone. Honestly, I don't understand why we haven't done it already but I suppose entranched interests are partly to blame.
I test drove a Tesla in early 2022, and was set to buy one. I am no longer interested in a Tesla in the slightest. The reason why is Elon Musk's behavior. Not a single person in my friend group wants a Tesla now.
A set of hieroglyphs for a formally designed and recognized language that is in use to communicate is one thing. Endless bits of arbitrary clip art is another.
To be fair, free speech is pretty huge though
And it’s constantly under attack even in this day and age
Pre-Trained Large Language Models for Industrial Control
>Unsurprisingly, highly regulated sectors like banking where entering is extremely hard display cartel like behaviors. There is no incentive coming from the competition so why would anyone lower the net interest margin. In this context, I think a windfall tax somehow makes sense. Then

I'm not sure what the banking market is like in Italy, but in the US it's trivially easy to find banks that pay close to or above fed daily funds rates[1]. Sure, your average main st or wall st bank might still be paying 0.1% interest, but there isn't exactly lack of competition either.

[1] first result on google: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/best-high-yield-int...
Which is rather amusing, as my partner, a Chinese national, is regularly hounded to register, despite not being eligible to do so (and in fact, would be committing an offense if she tried).
> When outsiders heard about this, they were often indignant. Who is the company to tell me how I spend my vacation?

They're the employer and get to set reasonable conditions for employment, that's who they are.
If you could lose 10-20 lbs of fat (and don't just mean, you have 10-20 lbs of fat left), then tautologically it would be healthier if you did lose the weight. The degree to which it makes you healthier is debatable, but that extra weight isn't making you more healthy (outside of people that are very underweight).
Is this perhaps just sour grapes from TSMC because they actually need to train the new workforce?
"We know this" is one side of the coin, and "citation needed" is the other.

The many claims about these systems and their emergent behavior need some rigorous investigation. This is one example.
Safety is all edge cases. That's especially true of cars; we all know that 99% of the time we can drive with our minds on other things. Our whole transportation infrastructure is engineered toward that end. We can't just handwave away the edge cases, because that's where all the harm happens.

Your heuristic for allowing them where they're demonstrably safer is not a bad one, but too limited. Even if they become equivalent in deaths-per-mile terms (something not demonstrated, and something not currently demonstrable given how opaque and secretive these companies are), other factors matter.

And your fantasy of a world of self-driving cars is a little too fantastical to me. Are current self-driving cars better able to avoid hitting a small dog that runs out into the street? It's possible, but I would doubt it. Will they get and remain there? Again, it's possible. But it's also plausible that some manager's spreadsheet will decide that the lawsuits from owners of dead small dogs will be cheaper than better sensors for a billion self-driving cars.
I agree that it should be obvious, but a lot of people seem to be under the misapprehension that we've got sapient AI out there. I suppose those people aren't reading a lot of journal preprints, but articles like this might trickle down to them eventually. You never know. And this one has a title that is just short enough that it might sink in.
>Shareholders of the bank suffer

Won't someone think of the poor bank shareholders? /s
As to UPS. It is weird. Now, I mostly don't pay attention to which service I'm getting stuff from. Mostly because I don't have the option most of the time, I'm getting it from the service the seller is using.

A while back, I did notice that USPS was by far the best option in the area I was in. They were often faster and had fewer problems. Now, it's pretty much all the same. I never have any major issues with any of them.

Regarding the Zuckerberg/Musk thing, I think it's just mostly an artifact of it being completely fucking bizarre. Two middle-aged billionaires are about to throw down in a fucking cage match. I believe people are mostly rooting for Zuckerberg because he seems to be able to actually fight whereas Musk has strong "street fight/smarts" vibes. The kind of guy who says he doesn't have "conventional" training, but is secretly really competent because of reasons.
In How Asia Works[0], they contrast how Malaysia tried to modernize by jumping straight to high-tech steel factoris with how South Korea modernized by starting small – basically by making shitty cars – then scaled their way up. Turns out the latter simply works much better.

My take, if you want to have a bleeding edge semiconductor industry in your country, first start by trying to build a boring, vanilla, outdated semiconductor industry. If you can do that, then try incrementally making it competitive with global markets. (Yes, this requires tariffs initially to bootstrap the process, otherwise nobody will by your shitty overpriced semiconductors.)

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-how-asia-w...
> Then there are Amazon drivers. They park blocking half the road, music blasting, the vans usually look like they haven't been washed in a month, most of the time it's not even an Amazon marked van, it's just some generic white rental. The drivers often don't have Amazon clothing, maybe just a hi-viz vest, they walk through your grass and plants, lazily toss a package on the porch and walk away.

I despise the company as much as the next person but let's stick with the truth and acknowledge that this doesn't seem to be universally true. At least not in my neck of the woods.
They are only 1% off. They’re trying to say “there are two independent 10% probability events that imply RTSC”.

You can’t add them, but you can multiply 90% by 90% and get an 81% chance of not RTSC, or a 19% chance of RTSC according to this model.
Not flipping the magnet, rotating the sample. In https://nitter.net/VanGennepD/status/1688052003216261120 (the video with the rubiks cube) at around 20 seconds they rotate the sample around 360 degrees and it stays at the same angle. Normally I'd expect it would stay at the same angle of the magnetic field.
> But it comparison the blog makes between religion in GoT and the Middle Ages don't make sense

Why then would GRRM claim his Westeros was "to be strongly grounded in history and to show what medieval society was like" then? A society with the church "broken" by the kings and without any religion to supplant it wouldn't be like medieval society at all!

It would make more sense for GRRM to claim his take is transposing modern sensibilities to a fantasy middle ages world. That would work. His characters are cynical like a modern person would be, rather than like a medieval person. But GRRM is not claiming this as his intent, which is a pity.

> I also don't see how a army with allegiances to noble houses must defer to tradition and religion, how would you then explain a king converting to christianity (or the other way)?

Well, what religion did Cersei claim was the true one then? Kings and queens converted to other religions, they didn't become atheists. And frequently this was divisive anyway, sometimes leading to civil war. And let's remember that Cersei was already on shaky grounds, she was a humiliated woman whom people didn't respect and were stoning moments ago! An already unpopular woman burns down the most important religious building and ascends to queendom on which grounds exactly?

Which gods should the Lannisters pray to, now that Cersei destroyed the Sept? Are they not deeply religious, like in true medieval society?
It's quite common for someone to be just smart enough to be very dangerous but not smart enough to be very useful. Especially when it comes to sophisticated technology.
I mean, devil's advocate here, this tech already exists and the question is do we do client attestation in a browser or pretend remote attestation doesn't exist.

If this gets rejected, would that mean that services that need a "trusted client" simply deprecate their web apps and rely on a iOS/Android app?

I'm not trying to argue in favor of WEI, I just think this doesn't magically disappear if Google doesn't implement in Chrome, it just moves the problem elsewhere. The fight was implementing TPM in the first place.
Exactly. There’s something fundamentally sadistic about American culture, I expect inherited from its legacy of slavery, where customers demand that workers perform a frightened but also “joyful” subservience to them as evidence that they’re getting their money’s worth.
> Gemini is _incredible_ for accessibility

It depends on how you use it. If you want to make ASCII tables, then a screen reader will not have an idea of how to navigate the table. However a simple HTML <table> is well understood by screen-readers. I would contend that properly structured HTML documents are far better for accessibility.
>The people she blocked are not arguing in good faith

You speak on their behalf?
I do think Gemini suffers from a dearth of interesting content, which is interesting because the content you find on there is pretty much exactly what you would expect and the things that feel missing are the things we often bemoan about the web.

If you look at an aggregator like [0] you see 10-15 new posts a day, which actually isn't a bad level of activity. But it's all just people's personal blogs. Which is fine and, again, is probably how it is intended to be. But unless you have a personal connection to these people or happen to be intensely interested in all the same things as them, it's difficult to stay interested in their personal blogs.

Things you don't really find in Geminispace (unless it is mirrored or proxied from the web):

- news or serious journalism

- any kind of social media

- any kind of interactive content

- any kind of multimedia content

Some of that is due to inherent and very intentional limitations of the protocol. Some of it is just due to the community being much smaller (ie, the web has plenty of interesting text-only content that could be on Gemini, but is not).

I still like Gemini and will continue to browse it, and it's important to point out again that it was never intended to replace the web. But I remember to check in on it less frequently now and it seems I am not alone.

0: gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/