skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have been gaming since the mid 80's and text adventures were a main feature. Years later and I owned Lost Treasures 1 and 2 then the Masterpieces CD. I topped that with IUB.zip - pretty much everything Infocom.

Jason Scott then produced Get Lamp - I have a coin - which brought so much of that era together.

I view text adventures, be they Infocom, Level 9 or others, as an inspiration to others. A re-release could only be a good thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lamp
Of course we have signing in general, but my understanding was that inserting the PIN was introduced after the terrorism case so that Apple could not be compelled to hack someone’s phone ever again. Requiring user input for this sort of installation has seemed to be a core part of their security posture.

Of course, having phones be updated before users use them is also super important. So maybe what’s going on here is something that only works when a phone hasn’t been associated to a user yet.
Dinorwig in Wales is pumped hydro and stores 9.1GWh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station

Cruachan in Scotland stores 7GWh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Station

Ffestiniog in Wales stores 1.4GWh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffestiniog_Power_Station

Foyer at Loch Ness exists, can’t quickly see how many Wh it stores.

Coire-Glas is proposed and could double the existing electricity storage apparently, which would make it huge, but not yet approved https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-650...

Still, powering a country though a cold dim calm winter is a lot of power; the UK uses around 800GWh/day of electricity, not counting gas/energy for heating. To store a week or a month or a winter of that is not a solved problem.
See also Douglas Hofstadter's review of a GPT4 essay prompted to be written in his voice.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/godel-esch...
https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.html

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts/r...
This takes me back to 1996. It was a dark time for fans of the Mac, but there was some really cool stuff they were doing. HyperCard wasn’t quite dead yet either.

On a complete tangent I lost a fair bit of that summer to the online multiplayer tank game Bolo.
The reality of AUTOSAR and the way forward
I see strongly held beliefs as similar to Odysseus tying himself to the mast in order to hear the sirens. You make a small sacrifice of "true rationality" where you always let the evidence sway you, in order to reach something else you think is much more important.

More often than not this important thing really is an experience of sublime beauty, another prescient part of the story. Not always. But often.
Brilliant way to pre compromise a phone. The victim will never suspect a sealed box
At least in urban parts of the US, I can go outside and learn Jews are not evil masterminds all planning in conjunction to take over the world, and that Muslims/Palestinians are not all brutal terrorists. What saddens me is that so many fail to make the logical leap that 99% of people you know just wanting to live their lives in peace also applies to 99% of people on the planet.
I was expecting it to lean one way or another. A few questions leaning one way or another shows it is more balanced than I was expecting.
I agree with that. Truth has always been problematic and never had absolute certainty. Nonetheless, we had reasonable methods to increase the probabilities of what we know under certain conditions.

There was and always will be limits. However, we understood to some degree at least how to rationalize some manner of probabilities for truth. Locality of information, reputation, the amount of congruent data etc.

So I think we are passing from an era of difficult to truth to potentially and era of impossible truth. And yes, some things were already impossible to verify. However, it just simply becomes substantially more and at extremely low cost to manufacture confusion at enormous scale.
All About CMOS, ECL, and TTL Propagation Delay in High Speed PCBs (2021)
There is a way, of course, of getting the correct hyphen-minus, and that’s by using ‘\-’. Almost all manual pages do this, including manual page generators, because the “problem” (which is just troff syntax) is well known and well documented.
Read OP’s comment again. Mastercard is not a card issuer, they can offer none of the things you mentioned.

The answer to OP’s question, of course, is that Mastercard doesn’t make use of the information it has directly. It sells the information to interested parties like Google and other advertisers. This is the behavior EFF is objecting to.
They have an unopened/unsetup phone (I would assume this feature gets disabled once the phone is set up) with iOS 16 that they own, and someone with bad intentions wants to forcibly update it to iOS 17?

I mean, technically there is an attack vector there, but it's oddly specific, and since the attacker needs physical access anyways, you've got other problems (i.e. someone got into your home).
Say you have $100. You pay $30 for gas, and have $70 left for other expenses. Let's say the oil cartel raises the price of gas to $40. You now have $60 left to pay for other things.

Because you now have less money, demand for other goods and services is lowered, and because of the Law of Supply & Demand, those other prices are forced down.

Now, suppose the government prints an extra $10, and gives it to you. Now you have $80 for other expenses. Your demand for other goods and services goes up, and so because of the Law of Supply & Demand, those other prices go up.

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Another way to think about it. Money is affected by the Law of Supply & Demand just like everything else. Printing more money means there is more money (!), and more money chasing the same value of goods and services means the individual dollar are worth correspondingly less.
Second the Beast Academy recommendation. I'd add, it's the younger version of Art of Problem Solving. The interactive games are extremely well designed from a pedagogical standpoint, the videos are fun and clear, the visuals are appealing, etc. (And I will say, there's a TTS button on the screen so that a kid who can't read can still hear the instructions, which are usually pretty intuitive anyway, especially after the video walkthrough. And the accompanying comics have proven more supplemental than essential for us.)
10 years ago when people still used the term "big data" there was some enterprise buzzword usage around "hyper convergence" that was supposed to make it easy to bring compute and storage together/move compute jobs close to the storage they were supposed to operate on. I guess the idea was something like if you had a map-reduce job, you have some scheduler that runs workers on nodes that are in the same rack/directly connected to the storage partition they'll need.
Part of the reasoning for that signal in particular is its low frequency: 198khz, so one of the best commercial signals under their control that might penetrate through a bit of water at least.
Power companies won’t build anything unless the government guarantees them a profit. Privatise the profit, socialise the losses. Yay capitalism, right?
I mean, have you tried chatGPT’s latest multimodal speech update. The voice generation is pretty damn human like. Again with the right prompt you could definitely fool someone for a while using voice, since that mode is pretty conversational and includes the AI asking relevant, context specific follow up questions.

For an in person, we would need to generate full fledged bodies that probably isn’t happening soon but it’s not insane to think of a mechanical robot under structure covered by artificially generated meat (which we can make now) with a chatGPT brain from 10 years in the future.
I think it's nice I can change "color: red" to "color: blue" and "padding: 1rem" to "padding: 1.5rem" in one place and have it take effect everywhere it's relevant.

You can do this with CSS variables now I suppose, but this very quickly becomes "CSS classes, but with extra steps".
"Today, The Epoch Times is one of the country’s most successful and influential conservative news organizations. It’s powered by Falun Gong, a religious group persecuted in China, which launched The Epoch Times as a free propaganda newsletter more than two decades ago to oppose the Chinese Communist Party."

Enough said.
Wait, what? Client-side scanning is offensive and objectionable, but it has much less potential for abuse. None of us have any idea if and how cloud scanning responds to ad hoc requests from anyone.

As much as I oppose client-side scanning, having a single global hash database makes it much harder for a company to do special favors without anyone knowing.
The studies were only placebo controlled for the initial run of a handful of weeks.

After which the controls were given the mRNA injections, eliminating the possibility any study of longer term issues that may arise.

Though now we have come to see quite a few complications arising that weren’t picked up in the initial studies. To the point that nearly all countries where the mRNA shots were used, aside from the USA, have barred their further use from some, or the majority of their populations.

Have you followed any of this?

For those of us who have, I think it’s caused a bit of reevaluation in many things we had assumed to be largely noble endeavors, public health, things involving placebo controlled, double blind studies as you say, etc.

I think some of us have learned that when there are other factors at play such as profit motives, and large scale social engineering and experimenting it pays to look beyond the messaging of political parties when making medical decisions that have the potential to affect the rest of our lives, or suddenly end them.

I guess it would be a kind of hard cognitive dissonance inducing thing to do though, if even “by accident” the people on the other side who’s opinions you find so objectionable that you’re thinking about wars of separation with, turned out to have some valid points that if you had considered them may have in fact saved you some trouble in the form of heart issues, or lowered sperm counts, or period disruptions, or a host of other potential issues.
> pulled from his cushions

You can see it in graphs of deficits compared with graphs of inflation. The inflation has about a 13 month lag behind the deficits.
LoRa for radio LoRA for LLM refinement
This is for devices before they’re sold. There is no face ID or PIN configured.
Since you didn't post the link, I've just done the same here (US link):
https://www.mastercard.us/public/my-data/dgr-public/personal...
They are talking about physical robots. Replicants/cylons, as referenced in the article. I agree with them.

Sci-fi style androids will definitely be feasible soon. Some of them will be capable of acting like humans, displaying convincing emotions, forming relationships, etc. However, they will definitely not be indistinguishable from humans at a physical level; not even remotely close.

Even AGI will not achieve that in our lifetimes, unless it first cures aging and disease thus extending our lifetimes indefinitely, which I also (sadly) regard as exceedingly unlikely in our lifetimes.
CPI is ok for specific categories but the basket weighting is absolutely trash. That being said somehow healthcare indexing got messed up and it was down significantly which is silly because healthcare never goes down
And where did I say you can do that for everything?

Also you should not care what happens there unless it starts personally and directly affecting you -- just my opinion.

And before you say that it affects you... I seriously doubt it.
Couldn't the rental car company keep charging the card and the issuer remains liable for further amounts?
Hey OP, thank you for the post. In this work, we are looking at one particular functionality of an OS - memory management. The project started off motivated by trying to extend context length for a project we were working on. The analogy to OSes came naturally as the project progressed and there was growing similarity to the caching and memory hierarchy relation.
Doing it at scale by non-technical people without leaving a trace.
How much you think your house might rent for. It’s a bad metric because people who aren’t in the market are out of touch by quite a bit
Awesome-Text2SQL：Curated tutorials and resources for LLM, Text2SQL, and more
Welcome to watch the sub-project of DB-GPT in September 2023: https://github.com/eosphoros-ai/Awesome-Text2SQL, which collects a summary of the LLM+Text2SQL project for beginners, such as introduction, survey, classic text2sql methods, LLM summary, fine-tuning methods, dataset, evaluation index, practice project! Welcome to watch! we will continue to update!
Most apparel has gotten ridiculously worse than it was in 1999, adjusted for cost.

I have a J. Crew shirt from 1999 I can still wear, which cost $49 in 1999. Equivalent shirt today will be $98, the buttons and stitching will be horrible comparatively and it will die a faded death after a couple of years.

The new shirt, however, will photograph really well online.
This looks good, thanks for sharing. Can you share a little more about where the compute is performed, the transcription and llm? Its a local machine or a machine in cloud? If its local, i assume it cant be used by other people in server? If its on a network/cloud machine, how is the communication handled between discord and the machine? Also what modifications need to be done to do longer streams of audio data?
Another one is the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion ; this is a more mainstream explanation: https://www.healthline.com/health/baader-meinhof-phenomenon

“In short, Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is a frequency bias. You notice something new, at least it’s new to you. It could be a word, a breed of dog, a particular style of house, or just about anything. Suddenly, you’re aware of that thing all over the place.

In reality, there’s no increase in occurrence. It’s just that you’ve started to notice it.”
I don't know how much code you usually read but from my experience seeing coders using the best data structure to solve a problem for other coders to appreciate is very rare, and it isn't rare because they're doing it for the users, it's rare because they are not doing it at all. The bar seems to be 'produces the expected output' not 'best'.
How are people hip when they’re all the same?
That’s the point of integration. They’re generalists who are like technical project managers and bridge the gap between teams.
> Is running a federal deficit and an increase in the money supply the same thing?

No. The money supply will naturally increase as the value of goods and services in the economy grows. (This creation is done by the banks loaning money against collateral, it's a rather complex subject.) If the money supply increases faster than that, we have inflation.

The way it increases faster than that is via the fiat money printing press.

Here's another way to look at it. The US had a net zero inflation from 1800-1914. Everything the current government blames as a cause of inflation happened all over that time period, but no net inflation. From 1914 on, we've had endemic inflation.

Any explanation of inflation has to account for that.

The creation of the Fed accounts for it. It was given the power to arbitrarily create money, and so they did, to fund the deficits. Every other country saw the magic of this, and switched to fiat money and inflation.
> yet be completely indifferent to completely preventable human suffering.

A lot of human suffering is self-inflicted. There's also the point that humans have a higher bar for being able to take care of themselves.

A human can and should defend themselves. A tree or a dog cannot. (and before someone decides to ackshually correct me, we've been breeding dogs for docility for over 10,000 years)

> I will never not find that bizarre.

You find bizarre that people have different value systems? Huh?
Please don’t willfully misinterpret my words.

It is the company’s job to comply with the laws of the country they operate in and I never implied otherwise. This does not mean complying the laws of all other countries where people use the internet.

For example, if you produce online maps and you’re based in China, you’d better be rendering maps that reflect their territorial claims. If you’re based in a neighboring country with competing claims, then those same maps that comply with Chinese regulations could get you into trouble.

> ”… otherwise a company can simply set headquarters in a country with as fewer restrictions as possible”

Yes. That’s how it works. Countries compete in terms of regulatory regime and less onerous ones do indeed attract more business.
A good PM will go a long way to mitigating the problems with lack of generalists, but they can only go so far.

The heart of the problem is that at some point, you need to make decisions and solve problems where disciplines interact. In the end, you cannot really make an informed decision, or reliability solve problems in these situations without some party actually being able to grasp the cross-disciplinary picture.

In the absence of actual generalists, you usually end up with ad-hoc education - crash courses where each discipline tries to educate the other (and the PM), so that they can try to get something hammered out. And this can actually be quite successful - this happens all the time, and works out very often. In fact, this is probably where many generalists (or dual-hatters) organically arise - you get a crash course in some other area while trying to figure out a problem, and then the next time you get tapped because you already have some knowledge, and you find it kinda interesting and the next thing you know, you're a generalist of sorts.

I think it's quite true that in large projects you can't possibly have a generalist who actually knows -everything-. But it's also quite possible to have a good bench of dual-hatters (or dunno... 3-4 hatters), who can go a long way to relieving issues.
Truth has been a struggle in humanity since the first two people communicated. Even the Christian origin story involves deception and distorting fact. Propaganda and scientific mass deception are modern concepts but extend back over a hundred years. In modern times the assault has become pervasive and persistent, and to an increasing extent automated and personalized at scale. The very nature of truth has come into question and the idea of personal truths has become weaponized at extreme scales. Generative AI just improves the quality, scale, automation, and personalization dimensions of an endeavor that is as old as humanity - manipulating people to act in a way that benefits you at their own expense by warping their perceived reality.
Reminds me of this 1956 clip from the show I've Got a Secret with the last living eyewitness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4
D-separation still works for cyclic graphs, it just can't rule out causal relationships between variables that lie on the same cycle. And neither can any other functional-form-agnostic method, because in general feedback loops really do couple everything to everything else.

More rigorously: given a graph G for a structural equation model S, construct a DAG G' as follows

- Find a minimal subgraph C_i transitively closed under cycle membership (so a cycle, all the cycles it intersects, all the cycles they intersect, and so on)

- Replace each C_i with a complete graph C'_i on the same number of vertices, preserving outgoing edges.

- Add edges from the parents of any vertices in C_i (if not in C_i themselves) to all vertices in C'_i

- Repeat until acyclic

d-separation in G' then entails independence in S given reasonable smoothness assumptions I don't remember the details of off the top of my head.
There's another project that's an interesting read at https://www.homebrew8088.com/.

It uses almost all commodity 74xx parts, except for a 486-era keyboard controller. If you use the NEC V40, a 186-style semi-integrated CPU, you don't even need a seperate interrupt controller or timer component.

Yet, it will run an off-the-shelf XT BIOS (or this BIOS) as long as you run about 10 instructions to configure the V40's onboard peripherals to live at the right ports.

You can add a DMA controller, but you don't need it unless you want a floppy drive or Sound Blaster.
Would you rather see a colorized picture of your grandma or a color picture of another woman?
Mechanical sympathy. And conventional low-latency systems do that as much as possible - binding all sorts of layers. When you're picking the first few bytes of the packet and semi-parsing it, you don't traditionally and conventionally have that go through some vtable and perform dynamic dispatch to find the right parser or whatever. It's all plugged into everything monolithically.
Long before this election though.
Show HN: CodeSpin - Code generation framework and tools using OpenAI APIs
Thought I'll share this early. I've been using it quite successfully over the last few weeks. In fact, most of codespin itself was written using codespin; and that helped a lot in refining the functionality.

Next step would be to a) Add examples, b) Add tests. I'm working on a documentation website for code-generation best practices. Help wanted. :)

Happy to answer questions.
If you're still interested in this, Tom Davies (Geowizard) has done the straight-line crossing in a couple of different countries and posted videos, both of some of the planning and logistics and of actually doing it.

Two of the most relevant are walking all across Wales in a straight line (which did involve trespass on some farms) and dribbling a soccer ball the entire length of the Hadrian's Wall path.

He calls these "straight line missions". Maybe it will inspire you to try some form of this sport, or maybe you'll just enjoy Tom's experiences.
So it's just a connected humidity and temperature sensor...?
> You don't want to impact their service, period. No calls, no truck rolls.

From my experience this is absolutely not true. Comcast had zero issues intentionally crippling my internet connectivity because the modem I owned only supported DOCSIS 2.

I received letters for months that I needed to upgrade my modem to support a “the best speeds”. Then I didn’t, and my speed dropped to less than a megabit per second.

I could have waived it off as a coincidence, except a couple of months later I was telling the story at a happy hour and it turns out the exact same thing happened to another guy right around the same time.

Comcast does not care if you have a shitty experience. They don’t care if you call. Me not upgrading and calling support about it is just the cost of them doing business.
For most merchants/terminals, only amex cards tend to send level 3 data.
> CSAM client-side is that it is more secure and private than them doing it server-side.

What can be more insecure and not at all private than scanning user files using user's computer resources? Server-side scanning is impossible if E2EE.
Well, no one has any idea of how ad hoc requests are made to turn on your phone when it's off. Logically, if someone's intentionally turned off their phone they desire it to be off.
I used to enjoy playing lightgun games with my SO on the PS2, so was devastated when new consoles seemingly no longer had light gun games. Thankfully, the oculus quest 2 has pistol whip etc. Would be interesting to see how those are processed/calculated in terms of target acquisition; do they use the little cameras in front to extrapolate positioning?
It seems you can’t see the comment I’m replying to because it’s been flagged and hidden if your settings are set that way – I am not talking about your article, I have no problem with it!