skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interchange fees are a feature of all major card platforms (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, etc), however the fees have been regulated and limited in Europe, with credit card interchange fee being capped at 0.3% and the total merchant cost for cards generally being <1%. But, of course, that also means that there really isn't free money for any meaningful "rewards game" for EU cards.
Many of the Pegasus attacks are zero-click, so no link is needed. All they need to do is send you a message and you are compromised.

They presumably also configure their command and control to only persist if it is one of the designated targets and wipe all traces if it is not, so even forwarding the attack payload would probably not do anything. You would need to determine you have been compromised and then reverse engineer the exploit so you could replace the command payload with a irreversible bricking operation to do what you suggest.

At that point you might as well spend the $5M-$10M to develop the entire attack yourself. If you are a competitor to Apple spending $10M to completely destroy the $2.7T Apple is literal pocket change; too small to even show up on your financials.
It’s not that the bash script is worse than the installed program. The problem is that the bash script risks installing a malicious program.
That makes a lot of sense! I guess I was imagining that a greenlet system would have a kind of 'light vm' by default, but you're absolutely right that the constraints of Erlang make that a LOT easier in their VM. I wasn't really thinking about the the locality difficulties of managing process resources (or I guess I was imagining that the meta-info collected by Rust would help but I guess it's mostly not runtime).
It would be expensive to make a whole new SoC, but a PCIe USB controller costs very little compared to the price of the phone.

They could have used a 5 Gb/s USB controller for market segmentation, it would still be 10 times faster.
> When I end up in jobs I routinely hear "wow you can do all of that? why are you here?!"

My guess is that this isn't reflected well on your resume. I've done a lot of interesting things and impressed a few people myself, but it's never anything that really fits on the resume. Then when I go job searching, all they see is the BS resume and are rightfully unimpressed.

I don't think there's a good way out. I'm trying to leave the industry entirely, but even that's more difficult than you'd expect.
To claim that Annie Hall has just “some comedy” but does not have the point of being comedic, is bizarre. The very structure of the film is a series of gags. Woody Allen’s initial career was in comedy and in the 1970s he was still regarded mainly as a comedian. Singing in the Rain is categorized as a comedy, and what is Tati if not comedic?

Seems to be that just because these lists lack the comedy that you personally enjoy, you do a no-true-scotsman to simply deny the presence of comedy on them.
Agreed. I think for me, bizarre because the conclusion was so medieval. I get that it is a philosophical essay so reasoning like "I do not agree with punishing family members for the crimes of their kin because I am a civilized human being" isn't really going to point us readers to anything new. But "... because I ascribe to an equally medieval value that the punishment of a crime must include the suffering of the perpetrator" was a shocking, rather bizarre turn that I had not expected.
Are assumable mortgage loans legal in the United States?

Additionally, let's say an individual chooses to use Roam to sell their home and transfer the mortgage. In a normal market, the interest rate is unique to the buyer, but in the Roam market, the interest rate is now on sale as part of the house deal. This will increase demand for the house, and the seller can ask for more money. Presumably, the amount more that they'll ask for will erase some of the savings that the buyer will realize from the lower interest rate. The mortgage payment for a 500k house at 7% is comparable to a 750k house at 3%, but the required down payment for the latter is much higher.
5G panic was absolutely not limited to the US, honestly it's probably more prevalent in France, the UK, and Australia
The charging cables included with MacBooks do not support Thunderbolt. Just USB 2.0 data.

I do have an Apple Thunderbolt cable which supports charging (of course), but it was a separate purchase. The Thunderbolt cable looks similar but is a bit thicker, and has the Thunderbolt logo printed on the connectors at each end.
> The entirety of your post above is comprised of sentences that cannot be tested by science.

I've literally given you a falsifiability test. Most of my sentences are not "claims", only claims can be tested, and all of my claims can.

> Since science is rooted in mathematics and logic, hopefully you at least admit of the possibilities of truths there

Honestly this makes it clear you're not even reading my full comments, because I address this directly. Whatevs, nobody is obligated to read what I write, but if you haven't read it, why reply?

> if you spend some time learning about these things and actually think them through

> the kind of blundered epistemology and philosophy of science folks who haven't studied the topics repeat

Gatekeeping and personal attacks. It takes a lot of hubris to believe that anyone who has reached a different conclusion than you must have not studied the subjects. "Well if you actually thought about this, you'd realize..." has never convinced anyone of anything except that you're clearly not worth talking to.
They won’t get the contract from the OEM if they aren’t known for getting the results the OEM wants. Seems that with qualified people conducting the test they’d be out of business.
> Inflicting suffering on Hitler would have absolutely no deterrent effect, but I think the vast majority of people would do it given whatever confluence of magic and time travel made it a possibility.

"Kill him painfully" polled at 14.4%. Makes me doubt the vast majority agree with you.

I have a feeling being personally responsible for inflicting said suffering may affect the outcome a bit. I struggle to envision any world I'd be willing to torture anyone. Even Hitler.
The fire department now says they were wrong:

> An internal San Francisco Fire Department report said a Cruise autonomous vehicle delayed an ambulance from transporting Davis to hospital, contributing to his death.

> Now, the fire chief says the report was inaccurate in a joint statement with the SFMTA in which they call Davis' death "an all-around heartbreaking and tragic incident."

> "The San Francisco Fire Chief has not attributed this pedestrian death to Cruise AVs," the statement said. "The city sends our deepest condolences to [the] family and friends of the victim."

https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/12/muni-bus-killed-san-franci...
> as usual - long as hell

It's my annual stress test for mobile browsers lol. My chrome just crashed when I opened it on mobile, though these articles are best read with a PC + some good snacks.
Security updates will continue, just not iOS 17.
How the open-source LLM ecosystem and leaderboards work
First, I didn't say "don't give cash to homeless people" because I do have a very different interpretation of being homeless. The view you take sounds like you've been privileged enough to have never been homeless yourself. I promise you will think of homelessness in a very different manner if you ever have the misfortune of being homeless. I specifically modified the comment to call out addicts.

I have on multiple occasions helped someone out that was facing some very difficult decisions because of not having a place to stay. People that are not addicts can be put in making choices that they would never even consider in a normal situation, but we faced with sleeping in a car/street/public shelter, those choices suddenly start to look more acceptable. Even more so if you have kids.
This is probably a dumb question, but how do you dump the photos from your phone to your computer?
The issue was simplicity, time and avoiding uncanny valley. Before "The Goddess of Spring", every attempt at animating a realism style produced a high degree of uncanny valley, at least with human characters.

Traditional hand-drawn animation is also a very time consuming process. If your animated characters have more structure to their anatomy, you have more things to have to worry about when it comes to maintaining consistency of proportions and the "physics" of what your characters can/can't do. A rubber hose doesn't have a joint that can only bend in one direction, for example. When time is of the essence, and in an era where animation studies were small struggling companies trying to sell their shorts, you need to find ways to reduce the amount of work.
This is where the terminology being used to discuss LLMs today is a touch awkward and imprecise.

There's a key distinction between smaller models trained with transfer-learning, and just fine-tuning a smaller LLM and still using in-context learning.

Transfer learning means you're training an output network specifically for the task you're doing. So like, if you're doing classification, you output a vector with one element per class, apply a softmax transformation, and train on a negative log likelihood objective. This is direct and effective.

Fine-tuning a smaller LLM so that it's still learning to do text generation, but it's better at the kinds of tasks you want to do, is a much more mixed experience. The text generation is still really difficult, and it's really difficult to learn to follow instructions. So all of this still really favours size.
Uninstaller likely running with admin privileges or as system. Despite it's huge surface area, explorer is not a super privileged binary on windows and is essentially a userspace program that has tons of open ports to plug in for many many apps. Locking it down like this would likely cause a lot of apps to break. I know for a fact microsoft keeps very close eyes on crash reports of their core apps such as explorer, and if your app causes a fault in explorer and you're registered on windows developer portal you'll get notified of this when they roll out beta insider preview releases.
There is a great article on how the cure for scurvy was found, then lost.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/24149/how-scurvy-was-cur...
Unfortunately MusicGen's output quality isn't strong enough. I applaud Meta for open sourcing it. The audio samples released for Stable Audio show much more promise. I look forward to code and model releases. I built out a Cog model for MusicGen and took it for a fairly extensive test drive and came back disappointed.
> Ultimately it's not your content it's the publisher's content.

This is a dangerous reasoning which leads to such a sad things like TPM.

> When this content is altered without your knowledge who will you get upset at? Because it's without your knowledge and so the only assumption would be it must be the content publisher who did this.

The phone supports 2 sim cards plus Wi-Fi, so if somebody would replace all pro-Lisp articles with pro-Java ones, I just change a connection.
So if Apple gave Ukraine free iPhones but didn't unlock them so they could be used as a part in drones, that would be evil right?

I am pro-Ukraine, but civilian companies shouldn't be roped into armed conflicts. The DoD can buy and operate a satellite communication service from SpaceX and run it how they see fit.
It's a driver intended for use by userspace, not part of the core kernel, so it'd be a better fit on a map of Android subsystems
An 800 euros gadget with USB 2.0? Come on!
Hmm... that's a reasonably priced prepackaged solution. Thanks for pointing that out.

I am tempted to still use VoCore since it appears to run OpenWRT out of the box and I'm really only aiming to support a single device. Hmm..
It's not that they directly WANT to consume as much, is that quality of life is tied to per-capita energy expenditure. Do you WANT to compromise on your comforts to go on-par with India's average quality of living?
LLMs are better at that though. Sure you may not require them but it certainly wouldn't be for a lack of accuracy.

https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-cro...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056
That's existed for decades. It's called Band in a Box. It's also cheezy as hell.
> with the Federal Reserve signaling plans to keep rates high for the foreseeable future.

And the mean before the 2001/2008 recessions being much higher for the 30 years before.
Many older people I know with smartphones still prefer to sync their photos to a computer with the wire rather than pay money for (or trust) iCloud.
is not beneficial =/= need
It is the century XXI, and the mainstream way seems to be subscribing to Telegram channels whose vibe resonates with you.

Yes, you will be living in a tiny bubble. But at least you do not get to read propaganda pieces trying to derive prefabricated conclusions out of irrelevant small events. If anything large happens, you are going to hear of it earlier or later.

If you really want balanced coverage, choose a source from the other side which is so blatantly propagandist that you can have good laughs instead of grinding your teeth.
I am reading The Guardian for that purpose.

Perhaps there are better ways to consume your news, but I don't know these.
Another commenter pointed out at least 70 students contributed to this font as part of an assignment. I'm guessing that being allowed to add their own emoji for fun in the private use area was part of the deal. Small price to pay for motivating them if you ask me.
I understand how it works, I think you’re missing the thrust of my point. Buying a car for an agreed-on price is one thing. Opaque medical billing where we don’t even know what is covered, let alone what it costs, is very different.
Even in the local Ämtern? In my experience they're the worst offenders here.

For example, Zahlungsmöglichkeiten on these two pages:

[1] "Am Standort kann bar und mit girocard (mit PIN) (ehemals EC-Karte) bezahlt werden." This means nothing with Visa/Mastercard, period. Doesn't matter if you have a direct debit account or revolving credit. If you try to pay with eg an N26 Debit Mastercard, they say "Leider akzeptieren wir hier keine Kreditkarten". This language is basically standard in Berlin. When I responded with "das ist doch keine Kreditkarte, sondern eine Debitkarte" they said "ne, kommt von Mastercard, ist ne Kreditkarte. Sorry."

[2] "Zahlungen sind auch mit Kreditkarte möglich (VISA, Mastercard und Maestro)." They don't differentiate between Kredit- and Debitkarte when you're actually there; the only difference at this location is that they have Zahlungsautomaten that are integrated with the payment processors. This is a perfect example: Kreditkarte here explicitly refers to the payment processing system and not to the way the payment is booked to your account.

[1] https://service.berlin.de/standort/121646/

[2] https://service.berlin.de/standort/121885/
It's the required method, in fact.
This is very nice, but most of that $10k probably pays for certification that you won't get for DIY. Great for hobbyist, but you couldn't sell it for $9500 profit.
Pinecone as a Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock
https://upbge.org
Unity plan pricing and packaging updates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344
How to do that exactly to make the user click and run the application without a second thought?
Kinda. I think we agree on the need to protect researchers. And if researchers are aligned with consumers rather than manufacturers then that's preferable because it's not the manufacturer's property once it leaves the building.

If protection is in place, that alignment will work because manufacturers' declining to be scrutinised won't prevent researches from doing their job. But making protection conditional on manufacturer approval will suppress their work in those cases. And I don't know the practicality of establishing and enforcing this. So I oppose any conditionality generally.
They were required to put in USB-C by regulations; makes sense that they wouldn't actually handle anything more than Lightning could, that's definitely what they'd be using if they were still allowed to.

Honestly the surprising part is that Apple never felt the need to speed up Lightning; really shows how rarely wired data transfer is done on an iPhone.
Maybe it's just my own perception but it is one of the more widespread "out there" belief in France. It's even supported by national agencies, see my other comment.
The only people I hear complaining about the usb transfer speed are photographers/videographers who shoot using an iphone. That audience choses pro models because they have better camera already.

I personally have not used a cable to transfer anything since icloud backups came online.

It should be noted that usb-c on the non-pro models is no slower than lightning on any previous model.
I am astonished that, of all the forms these aliens could have taken, they are a bit like little humans. In some ways Star Trek was right.
>> “You’ll have to hire a contractor to lift the floor panels,” Alex said. “They need to be lifted with suction cups.”

Oh my, the richest man in the world failed to contemplate the complexities of Data Center raised-flooring!

There are a number of elements in this write-up that just seem off -- probably for dramatic effect.
Yes, companies should be punished for creating superior products and earning a lot from selling them! Or perhaps it’s the dumb customers, spending all their money on those overpriced phones using inferior cables! The EU knows much better than the market, they’ll decide what’s best for us, we can’t be trusted to make our own choices!
> Presumably the same product team that decided we didn't need a headphone jack, as we could just buy more overpriced and profitable dongles and cables.

They were right. I haven't missed the headphone jack once. Bluetooth earphones are cheap and easy to come by, if you want premium sound you can buy an expensive set. The headphone jack was outdated and not needed. If you REALLY want a wired set, a dongle is <£10 from apple or <£5 from amazon. This is a stupid complaint.
I don't see the same outrage for hundreds of privileged telecoms providers that also see at a higher and greater level of detail the same thing Elon was looking at, even lower level sysadmins.

He's in charge of Starlink and it doesn't make any data privacy claims to prevent him from even intercepting data if he wanted to.
There are a lot of things to dislike here, but it's particularly unbelievable to me that Unity would try to retroactively apply this change to games that were in development or released before the change to the licensing model. I've never worked in the games industry, but in every field where I've worked, that would be a company-ending poor decision.

Imagine Sony suddenly trying to impose a per-playback fee on all existing and future factory-produced Blu Ray discs.

Imagine Lockheed spending 5-10 years developing a jet fighter, then a year before it's finished, TI tells them that there will be a monthly usage fee for every TI chip used in the aircraft.

Imagine a retailer spending hundreds of millions of dollars to roll out a new Fujitsu point-of-sale platform, then a year later Fujitsu says they're updating the license terms to require a flat fee for every customer transaction. Or worse, imagine that the Fujitsu platform runs on Windows, and Microsoft tells the retailer that the Windows licensing terms have been updated to require a per-transaction fee for every Windows device that has point-of-sale software installed.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm completely failing to see why any business would continue to use a product that requires a long-term commitment when the vendor has acted this way.

Is it a last-ditch cash grab to appease Unity investors? i.e. do they know that it will kill their platform, but they're hoping the tail end of Unity-based games[1] will generate enough licensing fees to recoup some of the investment money?

[1] i.e. games already released, but still for sale, as well as games still in development but too far along to switch to another engine.
>they refuse fractional scaling

Huh? I'm using Gnome instead of MacOS because I can choose the size of the text and the other UI elements. On MacOS, the only choices that aren't blurry are 100% scaling and 200% scaling, but Gnome lets me set the scaling to an arbitrary value without blurriness. (I had to fuss with Emacs and my web browser to get them to be non-blurry when the scale factor is something other than 100%.)

Are there stupid design decisions in Gnome? Yes, but I've found Gnome to be usable with a little research (i.e., on how to set keyboard shortcuts for switching between apps instead of the "activities view").
Your objective points were addressed. Any response to your subjective point "Everything about this screams X" would itself be subjective and not conducive to productive conversation.
xlsx is zipped xml. it might actually work. your profession must be very weird, though - knowing about git merge conflicts and not knowing how to use excel sounds like an empty venn diagram.
I’m seriously impressed at how much effort was put into developing aesthetically interesting ITTS screens for so many DCC releases. Some of them are genuinely good examples of artistic expression within a limited medium, and it’s a shame they were never seen by consumers despite being there the whole time. Seems likely that a machine capable of ITTS output was in the pipeline, perhaps even on the verge of going into production, but was canned due to soft sales of the DCC format. If DCC had come out a few years earlier, perhaps, it might have been more popular as it was quite capable, even though it was always destined to be a transitional medium.
I think much grief would have been avoided if microprocessor architectures, from the get-go, had separated data and instruction.
I've worked with enough toxic codebases like this. It seems to rub off :)
Interesting. I did not know that about Animal Crossing. It sounds like that's because the last person is remote? I'd ideally be trying to resolve that quirk by using VPN (plus proxy-arp?) to put all the switches on the same VPN despite being geographically distant.
It's difficult to detect sarcasm these day so please excuse me if I misunderstood your comment. But Apple is notorious for extorting disproportionate money for features that cost much less in competing products, such as memory and disk storage, and also for straight anti-customer behavior such as making most key parts irreplaceable by users so they have to stick with whatever specs they got. The only thing "I trust Apple with" is that they do their best to maximize profits.
In some sense machines are taking over reading as well at least partially, and therefore it is imperative that we learn to read, not just let machines read for us.

An example would be reading a post on Facebook which was originally written in a foreign language which we don't understand. Therefore the machine must read it first, and then translate it to us so we don't have to read the original, which we couldn't do anyway.
> running llamacpp with half the layers on the CPU and half the layers on the GPU

How do you do that? Could you please provide a link if you have it handy.
DBeaver is nice, but Sequel Pro is hard to unsee.
Yeah the only people i've talked to that are grousing about cabled transfer speeds is photographers and videographers. Those people are buying pro phones.
People who never developed a game on a large team like that don't know that there's nothing, nothing at all, stopping you from going crazy and doing crazy stuff. Often, it's a hack disguised as novel. Blueprints aside, even just doing hacky systems is allowed. Since it's C++, there's no stopping you.
VARCHAR is a bad sign
By chance has anyone who's used DataGrip also used Sequel Pro snd be able to comment?