skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant how both of its designers were Greek, and it was built in a majority-Greek city as an Eastern Orthodox church (which wasn't specifically Greek but was different from western Roman). I'm not sure about the emperor or the bishop, but they were born in Tauresium and Arabissos respectively, so I guess Thrace and Armenia Minor then.
>I'm not interested in spending my time working for free for some company if I think they'll end up saying "Hey, actually, this thing you've contributed to, we've decided not everyone should equally be able to run this, so it won't be FOSS anymore, but thanks for the help".

Thats nice but realistically paid labor gets more done than free labor.

A lot of FOSS dies through neglect that wouldnt happen if someone was paid to work on it.

For which a business model is required.
Andromeda was very hard to like and deeply flawed on every level.

Anthem, despite interesting art direction, was impossible to like.

It's almost odd that Bioware still exists as a large studio (>300 employees) when it seems they've forgotten how to release a good game. Baldur's Gate -- which is 25 years old -- was released in 1998, and its sequel was released less than two years later, in 2000. All of the Mass Effect games were released in a 4.5 year period from late 2007 to early 2012.

...Now they're in a state where they haven't released a good game in over a decade. They're a zombie studio. If you ask me, EA, despite its reputation and the way they have botched the decision-making process at the studio (e.g. by forcing Bioware to use the Frostbite engine,) has shown admirable patience, tolerance, and forbearance.
Tech design and development seems, to me at least, pretty much naturally opposed to the "being kept in check with competition" state - as design isn't really a cost that scales per-unit, the company that sells slightly more can afford to put more into development at the same per-unit margin, which snowballs. At some point, they own the entire market - or enough that they functionally control it, and start leveraging this position. I'd argue we're seeing this from Nvidia right now.

People talk about AMD being competition - but from most stats I've seen, they're ~10% of dGPU sales, with Nvidia being the other 90% (with new Intel offerings being pretty much noise now). That means that if they invest the same proportion into development, NVidia nearly have 10x the resources.

It may be that tech companies like this would "naturally" form a monopoly without outside (IE government) interference, as the only reason that multiplier of development resources doesn't completely crush new entrants is rather extreme mismanagement, or a new segment is created where the design resource don't really cross over that much.

I don't see anything like that happening in the short term, if anything there seems to be more opportunity for cross pollination of development within these corporations, as there's a fair bit of design similarities between various silicon (GPUs, CPUs, accelerators for the current ML techniques etc.) that may encourage more consolidation in the whole semi market to take advantage of that, not less. But again the only thing stepping in the way of that seems to be governments trying to keep national interests, like the blocking of NVidia buying ARM to pull in one of the big CPU players. Plus all their other IP that they may benefit from, like low power GPU designs or other accelerators ARM have designed.
Like I said, I've used ext* filesystems for decades now, and have yet to experience corruption or data loss. I know ZFS would detect and correct or notify this automatically, but this can be avoided with ext4 by doing frequent backups, and using tools like SnapRAID or par2. Sure, this needs to be done manually, but for my use cases this works rather well, and I enjoy the flexibility and direct control over this, rather than using a complex/magic file system that does this transparently for me.

When ZFS support in Linux was still new, I wouldn't dare rely on it, and it's the same reason I avoid btrfs today, even though its features are appealing. But now that ZFS is quite stable, and after hearing its praises for years, I do want to give it a try. :)
> I must have been taking a lot of breaks from watching TV to do things.

Or you (we) watched mindlessly because it was a moving image, and humans are evolved to keep an eye on such things to identify predator/prey.
Yes, many jurisdictions have limits and rules for large cash transactions, and have for many years. Suddenly showing up with $1 million in cash that can't be traced to anything is more than a little suspicious, wouldn't you say? To what degree these laws should exist is something you can have an opinion on, but fact is that crypto is not being singled out here as is being implied.
Look up a south asian grocer for Soan Papdi, it's a similar sweet that's not too sugary (by south asian standards anyway) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soan_papdi
>Finally there is the argument from the perspective of fundamental morality, that depicting children in a sexual manner is wrong in and of itself, and therefore the various potential effects are irrelevant. (Much like it's wrong to murder an innocent, even if you could harvest their organs and save five others as a result.)

I don't think those two scenarios are usefully similar. Murder is wrong because of its effects. This would be more like if you could murder someone without _anyone_ dying.
Sorry, where’s the hypocrisy?

Zoom never said video calls are the best way to work.

They said video calls offer a level of globally distributed collaboration unprecedented in history. And that’s true.
If?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14964355/

https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021...

https://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/big-potential-of-cuttin...
Knowing I'm a FUT2 non-secreter has actually been pretty useful to me a few times not having to worry about taking care of people in norovirus outbreaks.
Bioinformatics Data Structures in Rust
> I had been floating around this theory that the original Wagner "mutiny" was actually a maskirovka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception) and was being coordinated together by Putin and Prigozhin.

Considering how many planes, helicopters and other various bits of equipment were destroyed I doubt it.

Those couple days represent some of the worst days in the Russian air forces history for loses.
That's evo psych though, and I'm pretty sure general skepticism of evo psych was a lot higher than the skepticism of priming effects was. Call what you wrote a weak prior if you want, I guess.
Hard times make hard companies. Hard companies make good times. Good times make soft companies. Soft companies make hard times.
It signals to the public how much you actually care or don’t about your employees by announcing it. Presumably if they didn’t have anything to say it is gonna be garbage, since the companies who are generous always shout it from the rooftops if it’s good because it’s great press. Click through a few of these to get an indicator: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/14/tech-industry-layoffs-2023...
> What if it turned out it were the only effective way to prevent people engaging in real paedophilia?

Paedophilia is not synonym for child sex abuse, and to the extent that conjecture hasn't been ruled out by study already, that's at most an argument that its an appropriate function for tightly-controlled research-supporting tools, not a general public business.
That worked in 2012, but I highly doubt it would work in 2023.
I think what you're missing is that a tiny minority of toxic users (as perceived from your viewpoint) can easily be perceived as a high concentration of harassment from those that are on the receiving end of abuse

I didn't miss it - that was partly my point; the the quantity of abuse is possibly a matter of perception which will necessarily be very influenced by the psychology and experiences of the victim; I agree that without being in that position it's not possible to have the same viewpoint, and certainly not the same raw hurt and related experiences. But it doesn't follow from being on the receiving end that there is a clearer, more neutral view of the percentages.
Ask HN: What Happened with the Grugq Article?
I've been researching zero day exploit marketplace for a project and in my research keep finding references to a 'destructive' Andy Greenberg article about The Grugq that 'destroyed' his career and is a privacy lesson. Why? what was so bad about the article, what did Grenberg say? I cannot figure it out.
I’m glad you found it helpful!! Good luck!
SWTOR (which, as another comment points out, came out in late 2011) might actually be their original total disaster. Lengthy development, tremendous cost for a clunky, below-average (give or take) MMO that could not attract subscribers. It's been downhill since about then.
> Thats nice but realistically this project only gets maintained because somebody gets paid to work on it

Why is that "realistic" while FOSS maintainers working on software for the love of FOSS isn't realistic?

Not too long ago, the only ones working on FOSS were unpaid developers, at all.
Bard, can you make an ASCII picture of a brain?
> The complaint itself cites 'writing instructions on how to use a VPN' as evidence that the developers were knowingly doing something criminal. A VPN!

As if the modus oparendi of sketchy crypto sites wasn't shouting off the rooftops "You can't use this site cause we detected a US IP we don't do business with US citizens. BTW, here's how to use a VPN!"
I suspect you're right that an adult will be able to achieve "nearer" phonetic fluency in a language that shares more phonemes with their first language than they would in one that has little phonetic overlap with it. So a Spanish speaker will have an easier time becoming fluent in Italian than would an English speaker, etc. (I'm surprised by your assertion that Japanese has large phoneme overlap with English, but I don't know much about it - it just seems surprising to me.)

I'd be curious to see a visualization of the overlapping phonemes between languages, like a large Venn diagram kinda thing (or maybe just a graph). I think this data is probably available and a visualization wouldn't be too difficult to create - maybe it already exists but I couldn't find a comprehensive one with a brief search.
The developers for Cyberduck have their source open on github (https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck) but the app does ask for a donation whenever you close it. I've found this to be the most reliable and the ease of use is incredible for a layperson.

Only issue is that it's only available on Windows or OSX.

Hope that helps!
Tangentially related, I love that VSCode has an extension that lets you ssh into a remote host folder and treat it like a workspace. Most useful thing ever.
Wavedrifter: The device that decodes the breaking of a wave
Worse, scrolling endlessly forever looking for something to watch.
The real answer is that the IEEPA has an informational materials exemption.
The defaults should be sane - that's the point. What percentage of Excel users actually want data automatically converted into Scientific Notation? Close to zero I'd wager.

Your offered work-arounds only apply in a very narrow workflow. I work with Excel nearly every day, all kinds of files (CSV, TXT, XLS/X, etc). There's so many ways this issue can bite you unexpectedly - causing you to save and permanently destroy data.

If I type/paste/import/download/whatever `01234567890987654321` into a cell, 100% of the time I do not want `1.23+E18`. I don't want to even see that, I want to see the original value I entered.

It's asinine.

Excel may be the most used Office Suite app, but it's by far the most painful to use. The Excel Team has a long history of justifying downright perplexing behavior. Remember when Excel was the only Office app that didn't support Snap-To back in the Win Vista/7 days? Joel had a long-winded explanation that boiled down to "just cause"... it was perplexing even at the time. It really makes one wonder how bad the rat nest of a codebase Excel is.

"There's ways around our astonishing default behavior so just deal with it". That's not a great answer.
If you can mount your NAS as an iSCSI volume, you're golden.

https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/9chhz6/backblaze...
Right there all kinds of seen and unseen costs associated with offshoring. My point is that there is a huge benefit in cost savings.
Not only open source, also deployed as a smart contact on the Ethereum blockchain.

It’s possible to deploy a smart contract with no way to modify it, meaning it’s literally impossible to shutdown (without shutting down the entire network). This is rare, most dev teams retain admin keys and compose the smart contact components from additional layers of abstraction to allow for updates. But those admin keys typically also allow the possessor to abscond with all funds locked in the contracts (a rugpull).

My understanding is Tornado Cash eventually added a limited form of KYC to the frontend web UI. That’s simply a convenient interface to use the smart contract though, and it’s possible to interact with the smart contact directly (where there’s no KYC).
should have made Tornado Commit first
The physical nature of constantly maneuvering around other people. I don’t know if I could get used to that.
Give ideas more space with Jambot
For the experts on electronics here. Lets imagine a theoretical scenery when some undisclosed vulnerability would allow somebody to hack the system, create a voltage spike and emit sparks remotely, triggering multiple fires at a desired place, from the other coin of the planet.

Do you think that this could be a realistic danger? (or not because there are systems put in place that avoid it?)

If yes, how we could suspect foul game and hunt that person, or how the electric companies could defend its property against that possibility [1]?

[1] (I understand that the companies should have removed any flammable materials under the lines first to avoid negligence)
The majority of books they sold were not done so at a loss, oddly. Only the "best sellers" and that was something publishers didn't want to allow.

What goal post have I moved? It is incoherent to try and argue whether or not Amazon is a monopolist in a thread about whether or not Apple can be held to antitrust concerns. I continue responding as it is a little fun, though I confess I'm growing weary.

The claim of wholesale versus suggested retail is precisely what Apple helped publishers push. Apple conspired with the publishers to force an "agency" model where Amazon could not set the sale price. Contrasted with the outstanding "wholesale" model that they were in before.

You are arguing that Amazon was price dumping and that is specifically not something Amazon has been accused of. They have been accused of loss-leader pricing on the best sellers to get people to buy other books. But that is a different thing, entirely. You seem to think any loss-leader sales are illegal, and that isn't the case. It can look and feel very like predatory pricing, but it is a different thing.
Oracles, Genies, And Sovereigns: A Taxonomy Of Superintelligent AIs (2014)
Lots and lots of organizations would want a strong ChatGPT-like tool which is trained on a specific (likely not open) dataset of their choosing in addition to all the large general data that grants "common sense" and language understanding. Your example for all laws of a certain country is a good one, and the legal department of some (for example) chemical megacorp would want that and also all the court cases that are even so slightly relevant, and all their contracts they have made since 1900, and all their internal policy documents - and that has quite some potential. But it really does need to be a large language model, for such scenarios, the differences between e.g. ChatGPT 3.5 or ChatGPT 4 or Llama or Llama 2 are meaningful.
If I click on Refuse on a cookie banner it redirects me to Google. Yeah, no - off I go.
> Most managers understand that it's business, you're showing them the data and they don't want to lose someone who's doing a good job.

Yeah, exactly.

If a 150k engineer brings me an offer for 175 and asks me to match, my options are to either:

* match

* let them go, lose 25k of company productivity while my team interviews & hire & pinch hit for someone who left, then lose 40k in time training a new candidate & waiting for them to come up to speed

The corollary to this: you don’t want to do it often. A previous coworker did this twice & on the second ask his bosses bosses boss (CIO) brought him into his office, looked him in the eyes, and said “last time. no more.” So negotiate well and bring your best offer.
Hit back and forward in the browser and you see other people’s generated image rather than your own without hitting the generate image button again.
Why does it matter? One case was about collusion between Apple and the book publishers and the other was about whether Apple had a monopoly on the App Store.

Why would the judge care about the other case? What precedence did the first cass set on the other?
On the contrary. If we invented an AGI, it wouldn't be superhuman because it would be too busy working a job to pay for its own AWS credits.
> ~75% of computers with Steam running has a NVIDIA GPU, while ~15% has a AMD GPU.

and thats the consumer market, which lets say is 30% of the B2B enterprise market, which is probably even higher % nvidia
The vast majority of cash is used for its intended legal purpose. The vast majority of tornado transactions were likely used to launder money.
> Large enterprises are already putting them into production. I have direct experience with it.

For what function have you experienced LLMs being used at significant scale in production right now? It seems unlikely most enterprises have built up sufficient technical know-how to run these workloads in-house already.

> They already face serious competitors in google and aws with TPU and inferentia

TPUv4s aren't widely available and are not competitive with Hopper. Inferentia isn't for training and is also not competitive on throughput.

> The cuda ecosystem is a big advantage.

Is it really though? A year ago it wasn't the case (see TPUs). Nvidia hasn't maintained a stranglehold on the software stack.

> Nvidia has a lot of leverage with semi manufacturers because of volume.

With TSMC*. If we believe Pat Gelsinger, Intel is starting to catch-up and their roadmap would place them ahead of TSMC in H2 2024.

> They have brand recognition. You can buy and own Nvidia chips v tpu and inferentia.

Intel, AMD and Google don't have brand recognition? There isn't a competitive alternative today for sale or rent, that doesn't mean this can't/won't change. It also doesn't mean they won't become available for enterprise purchase when we're talking about 60B/year in revenue.

> It's... a tough road ahead for competitors.

While hard I disagree that their moat is as wide as being touted. At the end of the day, whoever gets the most FLOPS, can deliver product faster and/or is cheaper will win as long as it's trivial to migrate workloads.

I really don't believe anyone actually cares who the manufacturer is.
Mentioned this in a sibling post, but bragging about how generous you are in a layoff announcement is pretty par for the course in these because it is good press for the company. See a bunch of examples here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/14/tech-industry-layoffs-2023...

Lack of said braggadacio indicates the severance offer was garbage
Seriously cool.

Makes me wanna go back on a boat!
“Right on green” and “right on red” are both bad for pedestrians, although I see more mistakes on right on green just because many drivers see the green light as a free to go. This could be solved by controlled right lights (which correspond to left turn light cycles), but those require more lanes, meaning more space. Traffic flows so well in Switzerland than the USA because of the way they do this.
Ya, but the first was made by Shiny Entertainment.
> But regardless of intentions, not following KYC/AML rules is illegal.

KYC/AML rules are of questionable legitimacy themselves, IMHO.

With less and less of society allowing to pay in anonymous currency (i.e. cold hard cash), either because it's dropped for "security" (i.e. shop owners don't want to pay for security to make sure the cash ain't stolen) or because of legal requirements (see e.g. Italy limiting cash transactions to 5.000€ in value, or Germany requiring a notification if you pay more than 10.000€ in value for a car), and many people moving to card payments due to convenience, there will be no way to escape the dragnet of governmental and private surveillance as all bank accounts are identifiable per KYC/AML regulations and virtually all banks report all account holders to Equifax and the other credit bureaus so to find out where a person banks is only a subpoena or a hack away. Oh, and completely forget about hiding legal but still sensitive payments: sex work of all kinds, political engagement, everything becomes yet another line in a trove of data lakes.

And that doesn't even touch the subject of card processing fees. Mastercard and Visa are rent-seekers of the worst kind, and no one seems to be willing to break them up or cap their fees, with PayPal close behind. Instead, everyone looks away when they cave to Evangelical pressure campaigns and drop sex workers left and right.

KYC/AML regulations deserve to be torn apart, and the people deserve privacy in their lives. Or, alternatively, we should force elected officials to open up their bank accounts to the public. If we can't have privacy, they certainly don't deserve it either.
Things like this make me wish I wasn't in the network side (where we miss out on awesome shit like this because "the network isn't working right" is part our job).
Did you try...searching for it?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/23/shoppi...
3 hours earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37239247
I worry that MAD requires the other actors to have accurate information, and act rationally.

When an “insane” person makes the call I fear the entire system of deterrence falls apart…
Make that 10% joking
https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1694031794306458056
100%

Having worked in offices, remotely, and with offshore teams I can say that remote work leads to really bad outcomes from team members who don’t want to be part of the team. Worse than having them in the office.

I think the big part is that, at least in work culture here, that you simply cannot call someone out for not doing their job. There’s no shame. No cost. Nothing to avoid.

There’s performance plans. There’s meetings. There’s never radical intervention that leads to the change needed to have people shit or get off the pot.

This is good financially for these people in the short term but in my experience much worse for their careers in the long term.

WFH would be way easier on us if people had the freedom/were enabled to leave jobs they hate.
It's natural (normal) to think child point is disgusting.

But its not hard to find many other sexual acts that at least some people, if not most people, find disgusting. So I'm not sure disgust is a useful criteria here.

Most of what makes pedophilia so disgusting is the fact that a child is involved. Remove the child from the equation and it's more in line with other sex preferences.

People can't really control their preferences. We've grown to understand that there are healthy, and unhealthy ways to satiate those preferences. Most of those revolve around the consent of those involved (taking as fact that children cannot consent.)

One could argue that AI allows for a healthy outlet for a pedophile.

You mention children being off limits. In other societies homosexuality is still criminal. Even where it is legal many consider it "off limits" or "disgusting". Laws, and emotions, in this space are not always logical.

There will be second-order arguments (think - the gays are trying to turn my child gay) but most of them fundamentally misunderstand how human sexuality works.