skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t get it.

We have the same system in Germany.

If you’re a small business, you don’t pay VAT for the invoices you wrote, and your business customers cannot deduct any VAT when they buy from you.

If you’re a big business, you pay vat and your biz customers deduct that vat again from their own vat payments.

It’s all good and fair, no?

I guess that before, the VAT-paying customers were subtracting 10% of their payments to small companies from their VAT payments, as if the small companies had already paid VAT?

That was effectively a Japan-specific subsidy of small businesses with a hard cutoff at 10k.

I suppose that’s why people are complaining: they would like to keep their subsidies.
Show me a cartographic map of a 5-dimensional universe.
It seems unnecessary thanks to states that passed net neutrality laws.
France increased VAT from 19.6% to 20% in 2014, I think it is supposed to increase again to 22% in 2024.
Not so much killed as being rolled into YouTube Music
We have fiber connecting all islands and one subsea cable connected to Portugal mainland. Maybe the US military have a hidden one connected to North America, but I doubt.

If you give me a domain/IP that is in NA I will ping/trace it and post here the results if you like.
Andrej Karpathy has a series on YouTube where he builds everything up from scratch. He implements a transformer when he builds a GPT-style model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
That just delegates trust to media channels, which are equally as untrustworthy.
This shouldn't be controversial. Finding a job is a sales problem and most people are not good at or trained in sales.

Besides shear numbers, they only look in obvious places. The worst case is people only applying to listings on big sites for remote jobs.
Well, true. AI as we know it today can only be made as a byproduct of surveillance and underpaid labor. And yes... It's pushed forward mostly by for profit companies which have surveillance as their core business model.

But, I really wish the article said more than that. It's an overall bland read that doesn't say much else.
If they are non computable, it would indicate that the universe cannot be modeled by mathematics.
Eliminating a whole class of vulnerabilities is the right thing to do regardless of whether other classes of vulnerabilities remain.
The difference is that rather than altered, they’re generated. It’s a new seeming-photograph that can’t be discovered as an alteration by checking against other photos to play “spot the difference”. Nobody really had this capability before.
French billionaire Xavier Niel to invest €200M in artificial intelligence
They have been sending those for a while, usually it's not a big issue as you can find or convert files in most formats.
I believe it's supposed to be "U.S. Democrats", not "us Democrats".
Claims Swirl Around ‘Sabotage Raid’ on Airbase Near Moscow
https://archive.ph/lyqg5
How can I buy bitcoin, to pay the ransomware if there's no on-ramp?
We got lazy with the internet age. We’re going to have to go back to basic principles again. That means if you didn’t see it with your own eyes, it’s not real. If someone didn’t tell you in person, then they didn’t tell you. Maybe this won’t be a bad thing after all.
IIRC, the NYAG/JPM report from a few years back almost explicitly said "this is totally criminal and entirely fraudulent, but it's too late to stop, because if we do, the entire global financial system will explode"
> President Biden, press secretary Jen Psaki and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy later publicly vowed to hold the platforms accountable if they didn’t heighten censorship.

> These emails establish a clear pattern: Mr. Flaherty, representing the White House, expresses anger at the companies’ failure to censor Covid-related content to his satisfaction. The companies change their policies to address his demands.

From a nonpartisan org: https://nclalegal.org/2023/01/the-white-house-covid-censorsh...

That Biden set up a "Disinformation Governance Board" is wild. 10 years ago I would have laughed and called it Orwellian, and then it happened
I just wanted to highlight it wasn't for just new customers like you wrote but potentially every game in development using Unity. That's a massive difference.
At Ubicloud, we have 100% line and branch coverage that is mandated on every PR (https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud). We also have an E2E test suite that we run periodically and with every commit. We did not really feel like our tests are slowing us down, it actually makes us faster since we have a higher trust to the payload and many manual checks that would need to be done is safely skipped.
"LOL, FTX fail? Sam Bankman-Fried is a genius, you think you know better than him?"
At least on the stock market, assuming the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the expected payout is 100% minus fees.
The chess community is entirely too forgiving. This entire affair should have been over and done with as soon as Niemann admitted to cheating at 16 for profit in prize matches. Chess orgs/competitions should ban him for life and move on, it's not like there's some shortage of other people to play chess with.
This is just not true. There is no competition. Cities have Comcast or Spectrum; they don't have both. #3 and #4 in Wireless just merged. It is literally T-mobile, Verizon, or AT&T. Where would the consumers go to? They all do the exact same thing. And once one competitor makes the switch, they all will, since they all make more money. This literally happened when T-mobile sold streaming as an addon package [0] or when AT&T zero rated DirecTV on their wireless plans.

The only reason the internet hasn't gotten significantly worse is because we DID have net neutrality for a while, and they knew it would come back once Democrats had a majority on the FCC.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/eff-confirms-t-mobiles...
It will relaunch as part of Google+ in 2025, along with a competing add-in to gmail that you have to pay to remove.
> there tends to be something holding the chronically unemployed back that is blindingly obvious to everyone else, but that the unemployed person either doesn’t want to see or can’t.

This is true in my experience as well. The only exception I can think of was a very smart guy (Phd) who had severe autism and really struggled to speak with other people. It's just hard for him to make that conversion even though he is well aware.
> Space Force chief says commercial satellites may need defending

"... so, I'll need a bigger budget to help with all that defending. Let me assure the committee, that I'll use some of the money to create a space defence drama of some sort, so it becomes obvious how much that money was needed... .... which will feed into next year's budgetary proposal.

PS if anyone on the committee needs a non executive board membership in an up and coming enterprise, grab me after this meeting. K?"
We're living in age where military base layouts are leaked by fitness trackers. Top secret battle maps leak onto Discord video game channels. Not even as an act of spying, just by accident or carelessness. I just cannot accept that any truly massive secrets could be kept sealed for long. It's the same reason the Area 51 conspiracies are bunk.
The problem is that they'll use the opportunity to schlep a bunch of non-security related stuff into the update as well. That's the thing that really bothers me about these, that you can't say just the security patches and hold the telemetry/marketing/spyware/adware/crapware/malware/etc.
Me too. What a way to go.
> ...isn't a solution to memory unsafe languages and libraries. If anything the massive amount of bugs found via fuzzing should scare us as it is likely only scratching the surface of the vulnerabilities that still lie in the code

Yup. For example, the Linux code for its relatively new[1] io_uring subsystem was so memory-exploit-ridden that Google disabled it for apps on Android, and entirely on ChromeOS, and their servers[2]. It is insane that this is how easy it has been for a person to break into Linux.

[1] released with kernel version 5.1 which came out in May 2019

[2] in June 2023: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_uring#Security
All Tomorrows: Billion Year Chronicle of Myriad Species and Fortunes of Man
This is the most confusing visualization of linear algebra I've ever seen.

Sure it looks cool, but mostly because it looks magic, which is the opposite of what's you're supposed to do when illustrating mathematical concepts…

The typical textbook illustration using 2x3/3x2 matrices is much, much clearer than this 32x24 … 64x96 mess. The 3D idea is interesting, but why spawn such an insane amount of elements in your matrices?!
The game Carlsen lost against Niemann was very different though. Basically Carlsen lost while playing in Carlsen's style of chess, which a a very different type of loss than some blunder loss or opening loss.
Must see video for anyone interested in the topic, from someone explaining how to do these monetizations tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4
> The argument is not that the internet would suddenly die

From honest/informed actors, you're correct but the FUD campaign during the repeal was incredibly dramatic and exaggerated.
Same. Simple app that I use to listen to a sleep podcast because I can't listen to the Patreon feed on Spotify.
Doctors are specifically selected and trained to act and think according to clinical guidelines and published best practice. Critical and holistic thinking is discouraged, you can't have both.

Are the above commenters saying Tiktokers are stupid, or moms are stupid, or that the combo is stupid?

Moms kept the human race going strong for all of history. Have doctors accomplished that much in comparison, that they should be held in higher regard in society than mothers?
> President Biden, press secretary Jen Psaki and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy later publicly vowed to hold the platforms accountable if they didn’t heighten censorship.

https://nclalegal.org/2023/01/the-white-house-covid-censorsh...
Like the Ukraine battle maps that get posted to Discord?
Any good ways to read the article without a subscription?
That claim sounds completely plausible to me. What part seems wrong to you?
What gas does it sublimate into?
The goats fighting fires in Los Angeles
Loved "Altai" and "Q", the historical fiction they produced (under that pseudonym and "Wu Ming")!
The graph axis isn't the only problem. The word "toast" did not drop in usage by 40%, Google's dataset shifted dramatically towards a different genre than it was composed of previously. I've been in conversations with people trying to explain those drops in the 70s, and no one (myself included) realized that it was such a dramatic flaw in the data.
The thing to remember about Bitcoin, et al, is that it's decentralized.

Sure, the code base may be gate-kept by a small clique of developers, sure, the mining may be largely done by a handful of coordinating mining pools, sure, you may need specialized hardware only manufactured by a couple of shady foundries, sure, all of the money may enter and exit through one or two exchanges pretending to comply with various money-laundering laws.

But the scam, the scam is beautifully decentralized.

In a normal scam, there's one or two people at the top who will eventually cut and run or go to jail, and the entire pyramid collapses beneath them.

Bitcoin? There's no one at the top. Anyone can just jump in and start scamming, and they'll grow and grow until they maybe reach the top and implode, and then without missing a beat a new group of scammers will be ready to take over even as the last undergoes a very public trial or a very quiet disappearance.

Behold, the power of decentralization.
Intraframe compression where each frame is individually compressed is barely used any more outside of movies and other professional nonsteamed production because it barely compresses the resulting video. Most streaming and consumer video cameras use interframe compression where you get a full frame every few frames and the rest are moving pieces of that around. This video by Captain Disillusion [0] goes over it much better than I can and any time the video is edited it goes through that process again of creating I-frames P-frames and whatever new homunculus frames are invented to further compress video while maintaining quality.

If you just cut away to the original clip and didn't have any modifications like motion graphics over the top of it you could in theory pass through the original video with the same compression and signing without too much drama but any modifications over that or presenting it as picture in picture would be a big difference as now you need to have both the original frames with the added graphics on top.

[0] https://youtu.be/flBfxNTUIns?t=139
This is the sort of thing where I am very curious to hear what happens if you fine-tune an uncensored version of GPT4 on some memory exploits like this along with the vulnerable code and ask it for more.

It seems like it ought to be really good at this and I am suspicious that people in the know are afraid to talk about it publicly because it's too good at it and once people start weaponizing LLMs for this purpose we just won't be able to use memory unsafe code anymore.
It applies to all regulated gambling devices in a jurisdiction that has that rule. Virtual dice/card decks must behave like a fair version of their physical counterpart. And they basically all have that rule because Nevada has it. Every manufacturer wants to sell in Nevada and they only want to make one version of their software, so even if some places doesn't have that rule it's highly likely that the game still behaves that way anyway.
It's literally impossible for him to cheat in the exact same way. An online cheater tabs out to an engine to see the move and act accordingly. You simply can't do that in an in person match with a crowd of people watching. Hence why there’s talk about sex toys - people are trying to come up with some way that some sort of signal could be sent to Niemann while he was being watched by a crowd of people, without a single person noticing. It’s an entirely different level from tabbing in your browser to an engine while sitting at your computer at home.
As long as the architecture satisfies Popeck and Goldberg, why shouldn't it?
FFS.

How do I subscribe to Podcasts on an Android phone now?
There were Google Podcasts?
Perhaps. I don't quite remember fully, but I was indeed watching that stream.
Is Rust in practice a memory safe language when you're doing tricks like decoding huffman-decoding huffman tables into buffers? It seems like once you optimize for performance this much, you're liable to turn off bounds checking here or there.
A fate worse than death. (Joke but I was a heavy Google Music user before it suffered the same fate).
Facts. I'm in logistics (last-mille) and there are lots of players but also lots of demand.
It might bring down all the bridges the internet helped build. Also, it will make the world more centralized, having to trust more on big names and institutions. As a libertarian, this is the opposite direction I’d like the world to go in.
Original title: “Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music“
The premise of the piece depends on making a connection between BBY and the US. I'm not sure it works.

> In the American context, my personal view is that Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presided over Bust Out 1, Barack Obama orchestrated Bust Out 2, and Donald Trump kicked off the lulz period, which we are now squarely in. I mean, how can you understand Trump and Biden as anything other than lulz?

Those BBY bust-outs were its leadership sucking the company dry. How did Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump suck the country dry? I'm not saying those leaders were effective but rather asking the more specific question about the connection between those administrations and the BBY serial vampire syndrome. The article seems to be saying that wealth/vitality was somehow sucked from the US into the leaders themselves or their cronies. If so, name names. Or at least offer a single example.

Instead, the article ends up with a much less interesting message. The US is going down the tubes and has been for a long time. That's a very old idea that may go back to the country's founding. It doesn't offer new insights. It doesn't open new perspectives. It just riles people up for a time. It's the kind of thing that politicians looking for new slogans to congeal a base of support turn to in campaign speeches so they can portray themselves as the only one who can drain the swamp.
Material captures coronavirus particles and could transform face mask efficiency
I have an old friend who is Jewish and whose father survived a NAZI concentration camp in Poland. He was basically an infant when we went in.

He naturally hated the NAZIs and the German nation of the time, but he maintained a lifelong deeper distrust and probably-bigoted hatred for Poles (and Slavs from that part of the world in general) because it was Polish neighbours who put him in there, and he saw plenty of enthusiastic Polish accomplices.

Germans back in Germany or on the western front could often claim plausible ignorance of what the NAZIs were up to with the concentration camps. Volunteering in an SS militia in the lands where the bulk of the extermination of Jews was happening is another form of evil entirely.

The holocaust is the most horrible crime of the 20th century, probably of all of human history. Being an accomplice to it, even just in thoughts and ideology, is repugnant with no excuse.
This is the most infuriating attitude, and the reason you can't reason cryptobros out of their delusion.
Dolly the sheep’s legacy lives on: CRISPR cattle and cloned camels
Are you implying that Tether isn't shady? Because it's obviously a huge scam.

Now the question isn't if, it's when. And as Madoff showed us, it can take a very long time, decades even, before it fails.

And predicting the future is very hard, so nobody knows how much longer it'll take. But down it will go because it's inevitable.

And to your second paragraph, that's an oversimplification. Yes, printing Tether helped dampen the fall and prop up the price, but it did not do so alone and it's not as easy as just printing more to start the bull market.

Trying to do that would smore likely just hurry up their impending doom.
Achim from AirGradient here. First of all, I appreciate your openness and I hope the following helps to clarify a few things:

1) All our monitor kits are licensed under CC-BY-SA (and not as mentioned above CC-BY-NC). There was a short period where we had them under NC license but since NC is not truely open-source we switched to the more permissive SA license. We wrote in more detail about this on our blog [1]

2) We are aware that our open-source firmware is currently lacking the quality level we would like to see because we have been very busy with the hardware side of the project. I do hope that in the coming months we will have more time to look after the firmware side and I already had a couple of calls with contributors in the last few days who are happy to help. It's definitely an area we need to improve.

We are currently setting up a focus group and I would love to have people included that might have a more critical view on the project. Please contact me if you would be interested to participate.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/blog/thoughts-on-licensing/
I'm willing to be there are a lot of other GMs who has cheated on chess.com but their identities haven't been revealed by chess.com because they weren't accused by Carlsen, a partial owner of chess.com.
no silly, that's the space shield!
I'd be open to it, but at this point it would highly depend on location and relocation package.
Ask and ye shall receive: What part of Ireland's 'no' does the EU not understand? - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/13/eu-ire...
Except most of the posts pointed out to places like Twitter stayed up with no moderation applied and the worst thing that's happened to Twitter recently is it's acquisition by Musk.
> The US was shipping huge quantities of material aid to the Soviets long before 1944.

And those "huge" quantities were just a small drop in the sea of the total effort. Their significance was more for propaganda purposes than actual military impact.

> And invaded Italy and North Africa years before, if you had any knowledge of history.

If you had any knowledge of history, you may be aware of the fact that the total German Afrika Korps consisted of merely 35,500 soldiers [1], while there were millions fighting on the Eastern Front. And you managed to drag those Africa operations for years.

And Italy was selected as a target for the invasion exactly because it was strategically relevant. It was again defended by a minor German force for more than a year. It wasn't even a distraction for the Nazis.

But I understand the USA didn't want to actually engage fighting Germany and end the war. It was in their interest to let them slaughter each other, regardless how many civilians get killed.

> If you're going to be one of those tiresome "Russia would have won WWII alone!" nationalists then this conversation isn't worth having, but I'm happy to show evidence you're wrong, if you aren't.

I never claimed Russia would have won WW2 alone. What I said is that the Soviets (not only Russia) did win against the Germany alone. The influence of other "allies" war minor.

The USA had its role fighting against the Japan, but that was a completely separate fight. And even there, the Soviets helped the USA, by binding significant Japanese forces on their borders, that would otherwise be used against the USA, and maybe change the flow of war. They even did a similar move like the USA in Normandy, by defeating the Japanese expeditionary army in China. The only difference, they left China afterward, while the USA army stayed in Europe as an occupying force, and is there up until now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika_Korps
Bright Sun Films did a very nice overview of the rise and fall of BB&B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=armRWC8yI-Y
I too often compete in environments where a single confirmed act of cheating bars the player from any future participation. It isn't about the individual, it's about the sport. I think losing access to a sport is a valid punishment for confirmed cheating. In this specific situation, I will admit that being a minor muddies the issue.

* The confirmed cheater is more likely to cheat in the future than a normal player, which in my mind puts an asterisk next to all of their future accomplishments.

* The act of cheating is such a massive act of disrespect towards their competitors, the competition organizers, and the game itself that it merits such a long term loss of privilege.

* Every game has rules. It seems fair to let players and organizers of the game decide on consequences for breaking the rules.

* If the punishment for being caught cheating is low, you are changing the risk/reward ratio for cheating in favor of more cheating. This is especially true in a competition like chess where money is on the line.
PodcastAddict works fine
Honestly all I hope for is for people to stop thinking of crypto as stocks/investments but treat them as currency. Majority of the embarrassing press and downsides of crypto in the past decades have to do with the former.
If an archeologist gets caught trying to pass off an orangutan jaw as an ancient human bone, concedes that he's done so, then two years later announces that he found another ancient human skull, do you really care to waste your time figuring out what kind of monkey he used this time? He's a known liar, so throw his paper in the trash and forget about it.

It shouldn't matter how Niemann cheated this time, or even if he did at all. He already admitted to cheating in the past so ban him and forget about him.
Diagnosing an unresponsive database in a medical imaging application