skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why would they think about the benefits to society. Corporations only care about their bottom line. Furthermore this article is focusing on corporations reaction with respect to their their shareholders. Shareholders equally don’t care about people getting healthier, they want to know what the company are going to do about potential loss in customers.

I do agree though. It sickening
I was talking with a colleague about this just the other day. We all used to have home labs, because we could get reasonably near to what business used and learn that way. Now, what goes on in is so different, frankly you won't learn much with one.

Obviously if you're just interested then go for it. It's just not practical generally speaking.
Not sure I understand - is this direct to consumer play? If so, you will have no return customers because on avg people buy a car like once every 7 years - bad business
> does't produce emissions that are regulated so you don't have to care about

Unregulated CO2 emissions are a huge problem for the world, and natural gas is part of that problem, regardless of what the law says.
"@HSBC_UK allowed fraudsters to transfer all her savings for a period of 6/7 weeks comprised of c.150 transactions to one external account"

This doesn't sound right, and the Twitter thread is devoid of much detail as to the root cause here. Last I checked, HSBC had a physical code generator that had to be involved in approving transfers, so how were these transfers (150 of them!) actually made?

So, was this actually APP fraud? (in which case - let's not beat around the bush here - it's almost certainly the account holder's fault, but obviously things are less black and white when the account holder is vulnerable). Or was there actually a flaw in HSBC's account security which allowed criminals to gain access to the account?

None of these facts excuse the poor customer service, but there's generally good reasoning that these cases are dealt with by a dedicated fraud team and not by random staff in branches. There needs to be more regulation to ensure that they're staffed appropriately and victims aren't left in the lurch, though.
It sounds like an interesting opportunity for a DDOS / social engineering type attack
Unemployment benefits should already apply wouldn't they?
I have maybe 40 years experience of software development in every language conceivable from assembler to Visual Basic.

ChatGPT4 does 50% of my coding for me. And 90% of finding my stupid errors.

There was a function I had a couple of days ago that had some gnarly SQL in it and it now needed to return two variables instead of one. I just looked at the code and sighed because of the effort I knew it would take to refactor the SQL and the surrounding code.

Then I pasted it into GPT and wrote half a sentence on what the changes were and it spat out 100% perfect version of exactly what I needed.

One of the only downsides is that GPT's data is out-of-date, especially as I'm working under some tools that only really came out since its cut-off. So I often have to adapt its output.
Brain decoding: Towards real-time reconstruction of visual perception
Decoded brain images are page 7 and 8
I asked a supplier who supplies Tesla and SpaceX. They said that there's no way this thing is coming in at under 100k.
Arizona vs. California
Is such code really going to be ported to WASM though? And does it really matter for the string lengths that a typical web application has to process? WASM really doesn't have to worry about legacy that much.
I like Netflix enough but when they announced the price hike recently i didn’t like them enough to continue to pay. So I cancelled too.
> if a company is shutting down, it obviously can't provide severance

Not really true. The company is owned by its shareholders, and they may choose to use funds belonging to the company (after paying outstanding obligations) to pay severance, or they may divide the funds among themselves. If there are no funds, they can choose to invest more to pay severance. Obviously they're unlikely to want to do that, but it's not a case of "can't" but rather "won't".
What's wrong with that?

The AI tool did a bad job and they should try to make it better. But I don't understand the relevance of the comparison to a human translator. The alternative to translating this stuff via AI is not hiring humans, it's not translating it at all.
Bank should have insurance for that and should have paid all the money back to the accounts.

If it turns out that there was no fraud, they could look at clawing them back.
I use Bing AI chat a lot in a simar way i used to google for stackoverflow answers. Only now i feed it with real function names, versions etc in the question itself. It will nicely provide an answer that already has those details filled in and is adapted to my particular context. And then when something is not clear about why that would even work, i keep on asking questions and i learn in more detail how it works. Sometimes i reply with 'but why not use...' and then it replies with 'actually yes...' and improves the answer. Nice partner to have!
First, I don't think LinkedIn would have any ground to stand on. Scrapping the public web, taking screenshots of public sites, posting those screenshots are not violations of copyright or trademark.

Secondly, censorship is almost always the wrong solution. I get wanting to promote peace, but you don't promote something by refusing/canceling any opposition to your idea. If your strategy to promote something is to silence any opposition then your idea probably sucks, and can't stand up to opposition.

Win on the battleground of ideas, not with the tyranny of forced opinion.
Yes, thank you for the correction. Sloppy wording on my part. What I meant was the rendezvous happens over the internet.

Perhaps Magic Wormhole has an option to forward traffic (if so, IMHO that's not peer-to-peer) but I only meant the process of setting peer-to-peer connections requires packets to travel over the internet and, by default, to a third party server.
You didn't give an example? Unless you mean the hypothetical at the top of searching for terrorist organizations? In which, my point against that is that scope of data returned should be considered. And I fully expect if you are sending money to a terrorist organization, that will not be "protected speech," despite money being fungible for speech...

That is, the fact that so few accounts were hit by the warrant shows to me that it was a better warrant to grant. If you are wanting it codified that size of result list should be a consideration, for example, I would support that. If you are saying we need better controls, I'm all for it. To completely disallow this data, though, feels weirdly misguided. I'm guessing they have already run phone records for all calls to the residence that was burned, such that that is allowed with warrant. Why is the search extra protected?

I'll again state that I'm all for strengthening privacy and security of people. I'm just not seeing this case being the place to make that battle. Nor do I think it is reasonable to make it illegal for police to get the data. If you want the data to not be used, I'd actually rather support making it illegal for companies to store it.
Maybe not on first offense, but after a demonstrated repeated pattern of interfering with emergency vehicles, sure, why not?
The End of Finetuning – With Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
Blurring can probably be applied with a much higher false positive rate than deleting images...
Actually not a dupe: the link above is a press release, whereas the more recent link: https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/b... is a corrected proof of the actual scientific paper summarized in the press release.
I meant that Telegram doesn't display user's phone number and doesn't require sharing a number to add person to contacts. But with WhatsApp and Signal you have to disclose your number in order to talk to someone.
A) yes
B) its a false dichotomy to apply the standards to humans, which perceive, learn, and think, as we do to a software product
Tesla wouldn't exist if Elon had shut down at the 2 month dire point. At least, I recall him saying they were at one point about 2 days away from bankruptcy.

Not surprising though, that Elon would be in the same camp as this Convoy CEO, not likely to shed too many tears over worker concerns.
Elephant dies after her herd became agitated from a dog running loose
What are your thoughts on the politics of California?
I agree. It's really like having a buddy next to me, helping me out. It motivates me too, because there are some tasks that I am so demotivated to work on, but GPT helps me through them.
Where does the tone come from in a microphone? [video]
I'm utterly unqualified to discuss using it in practice but it always seemed like PMEM would have required a fundamental idiom shift away from the DRAM concept.

If you treat it like memory it's always going to be slow memory. If you treat it like storage, it can be very fast storage. If that makes sense.

Software that "treats storage like memory" would end up looking a lot like javacard imo. Or something like Samsung's in-memory key-value database stuff. But it wouldn't really look like a linux kernel allocating memory inside an all-pmem partition.

Difference, in my head, being that essentially the filesystem is an unnecessary layer/abstraction in the middle. You want something that either looks like a garbage-collected runtime, or an in-memory database that vacuums, or LISP collections of object-trees, etc.

There is no point to having a separation between memory and disk anymore, that is the point - "resource allocation is disk persistence" so to speak.

It would have required a big-bang rewrite/second-system that is just not possible with the dominance of the existing RAM/storage dichotomy. Or at least a couple killer apps from large vendors/etc that really outperformed what was possible with RAM.
Why dumb? Because he understands how his machine works? I don't get it.
Clearly they're phoning the wrong people then
He performs the test on an MMLU heavy set yes but then does it again without it to the same results.

Also, another paper on finding general factors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10062

Honestly this seems more validation than surprising revelation.
There was another story a few years ago, which I can't find right now, but I'm fairly certain I remember the details correct:

Someone bought a new house to retire with their life savings. Everything was
arranged properly, and she transferred the money to the bank account the
estate agents told them.

But they never received the money.

What had happened was that someone had hacked in to the real estate agent email
and had sent a fraudulent email, so she transferred the tens of thousands of
pounds to the wrong account. This was discovered a few days later.

Bank said there's nothing they can do; "your life is destroyed but not our problem kthxfucketybye". Of course the real estate agents took no
responsibility either (after all, we all know that the primary function of most people involved in the housing industry is to make everyone as miserable as possible).

(I don't recall if things did end up being resolved after a few years; I'd
appreciate it if someone remembers the article; IIRC it was in The Guardian).
Nail Star on the Coding Job Interview
>The Wall Street Journal noticed a decline starting about 18 months ago ... “We are at the mercy of social algorithms and tech giants for much of our distribution,” Emma Tucker, The Journal’s editor in chief, told the newsroom in the meeting.

The news used to distribute itself instead of relying on others to do that work for them. Now that social media is no longer distributing news and generating hate clicks in the same way, they might have to go back to the old fashioned days of distribution.

Does this mean clickbait will stop being as lucrative? You mean news might need to be relevant and accurate to have value?? Say it ain't so!
I have a couple of things to say about this comment.

1. Instagram (and Facebook) are well known to suppress pro-Palestine voices (can pull up many examples but [0] should work because of that person being named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, clearly having some influence though I don't know her), so this seems like something consistent with what the company is known to do.

2. The Arabic words for "Praise God" have already been made fun of a lot and acquired different connotations by English speakers (like associating those words with a terrorist who is about to bomb some place) so, again, doesn't seem inconsistent. (It's known that machine learning on human language reproduces the humans' biases in the AI.)

[0] https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity-news/bella-hadi...
There aren't many search engines nowadays. Anyone that does not use Google will probably end up on Bing. DuckDuckGo and Yahoo are still repackaging Bing results last I checked, and alternatives like Brave Search or Kagi are still very niche.
"If you see Kay, will you tell her that I love her?"...
> "Alhamdulillah" [...] is used by Muslims nowadays as an alternative to Allah u Akbar, Takbir, or Narai-e-Takbir because those 3 terms have been co-opted by Jihadists.

This is not correct. Almost all of those phrases are commonly used in daily speech and prayers by Muslims globally. No group could possibly co-opt them. They are deeply rooted traditions.
> and the outsourcing companies are under huge pressure to maximise profits and it easiest to achieve at a human costs.
With WhatsApp or Signal, if you want to talk to a stranger (e.g. if selling something) you have to share your real number, while in Telegram you can share just a username.
It seems that Meta probably dynamically trains their MT algo on near realtime discourse to better model linguistic shift. It seems like a smart move, but if you have extremely charged discourse like over the past week, it probably overtrains for inaccuracies.
Should provide something better than COBRA
direnv: Unclutter Your .profile
My friend group uses Signal for cross-platform group texting and the stories feature is super popular. Great for putting up non-intrusive pet pics or memes. IDK the rationale for introducing it, but I do think it's a fun feature that makes it feel more like a WhatsApp/social messaging replacement, rather than just something people download to coordinate protests or sell drugs.
I used to work for a Moodle host that also did custom plugin development.

The Moodle code base dates back to somewhere around 2000 ish, and comes with the baggage of the early days of PHP. The Moodle code is full of "no guard rails" style functions, where you do things like write strings directly out as HTML and write direct SQL queries. Couple this with the 'plugin hub' not really have any acceptance criteria, and you get hundreds (thousands?) of security vulnerabilities.

I think there's been a push to modernize things in the few years since I left, but it's hard to update a codebase that old.
See also Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/texas-v-new-mexi...

https://www.krqe.com/news/environment/texas-v-new-mexico-rio...
Ask HN: Should I put my startup behind me?
I’m a solo founder, bootstrapping a startup called zenshop. I’ve been working on zenshop since late 2019, a good portion of that full time. I have three paying customers, and I’m starting to seriously consider - am I making a mistake to continue building this? Customers of zenshop like it, I think mostly because it’s cheap to run, and easy enough to use. I have built an enormous amount of functionality (apps on mobile, desktop, Shopify integration, websocket updates, push notifications, automations, templating… the list feels nearly endless). There always feels like more to build, more features to catch up to (compared to competitors). I’m starting to feel exhausted from it (I have a high pain threshold… but it’s not limitless). Can I save it? What can I do? Everyone tells me to do more marketing, more sales, but every time I do this I’m also fighting off the feeling of all those features, bugs, all needing my time, I can never get enough time to spend on sales.
This site[0] claims that the use of Alhamdulillah after sneezing goes back to, among others, a Hadith tradition that Allah likes sneezing and dislikes yawning. So, rather different from the Christian use of “bless you”, and I think that a lot of people outside Islam would still agree with the “oddly enough”.

I’m surprised that you hear inshallah less nowadays. It would be interesting to get some hard data on that. Inshallah is the one phrase that has never left even my Arab acquaintances who are proudly atheist.

[0] https://islamqa.info/en/answers/2750/why-do-muslims-say-al-h...
Side by side Git-range-diff
git range-diff compares two commit ranges (two versions of a branch, e.g. before and after a rebase). Its output is difficult to comprehend, though. It’s a diff between diffs, presented in one dimension using two columns of pluses/ minuses/ spaces. Wouldn’t it be better if we used two dimensions and some nice colors?
System Initiative - Open Source FAQ
That's a good source, however the issue that I see is that they already knew about it and kept him on.

You can't say it's okay to use marajuna and then later say, I had no idea he would test positive for marajuna. They should have reasonably known that he would test positive for marajuna.

Maybe it's not a medical discrimination case, but it's definately a case.
Former employees should apply for unemployment benefits. Convoy likely paid into an unemployment insurance program (its normally mandatory).
Messenger feels fair, if an odd choice. I mostly loathe how much effort companies seem to be going to in order to lock in their users to message only with each other.

I am curious on statistics of the marketplace. I confess I've never used it and I'm not at all clear on who does.
Immune system makes its own antiviral drug
This is a great use of the sidepanel API. Really like the idea and how you implemented it. The Firefox equivalent to that API isn’t identical to Chrome’s, and I believe that there is currently no way to trigger the side panel to open programmatically unless it’s in response to a user action. So it may take a bit of work, but would be exciting to see support for FF in the future.

A bit tangential but I was curious what you used to record the demo video on your landing page with those zoom-in animations during critical moments. I’d like to record something like that for some of my side projects and thought your video looked rather polished.
I’m not the commenter above but, something must be done about serial lawbreaking drivers. I see maybe 100 cars per day run stop signs, red lights, speeding excessively, and other dangerous driving actions with no consequences.

There needs to be some enforcement and yes I would suggest suspension if it is found that the behavior is habitual for a driver.
CFPB moves to give consumers control over financial data
> serial computation on a fixed dataset that can be threaded per data point. So if I have 32 data points it's only that parallel

The general rule of thumb is that within a generation, higher clock speed yields better performance per core. If you only have 32 data points, then you will probably get better performance with the 4 GHz 32-core CPU.

> if I'm doing a massive serial calculation does an individual core get to use the full cache

Your single core will get to use the entire L3 cache, but L2 and L1 caches are per-core and so your single core doing the work will not have access to those. So yes, there conceivably could be a benefit due to the larger L3 cache.

On a broader note, these kinds of factors (frequency, cache size, parallelism) tend to be extremely workload-specific and unpredictable, so the only real way to find out what's faster is to measure your specific workload.
You sure it is the bank and not fraudsters?
> selling something

Whatcha selling :)

To coordinate my own anonymous commodity transactions I just use gpg to encrypt a .txt which can be delivered in all sorts of anonymous ways. I can't say that I transact anonymously too frequently though, so the additional friction with this method isn't especially onerous.
Many countries do this for immigration. In New Zealand they say your test result doesn't affect your application. Whether that's true I don't know.
Balfour Declaration
Stuff gets really nasty when you start trying to reason about case insensitive string comparisons. For example, the following might return something different depending on what your locale is:

"π".localeCompare("Π", undefined, { sensitivity: "accent" })

My machine says these are equal, but I've seen cases where network stacks consider domains as different if they feature the same Greek letter in a different case even though domain names are supposed to be case-insensitive.
Related Paper -
(Revealing the structure of language model capabilities)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10062

Albeit focused on a three factor approach.
Whether or not the statistical methods used in psychology can be finessed to show a majority are statistically significant, the foundational paradigms are so weak it doesn't even matter.

"If you deleted a whole bunch of papers from across the literature, though, that would really make a difference, and we’d have to rebuild big parts of the field from the ground up. Right?

No, not really. We did delete those papers, and nothing much happened. In 2015, a big team of researchers tried to redo 100 psychology studies, and about 60% failed to replicate.

This finding made big waves and headlines, and it's already been cited nearly 8,000 times.

But the next time someone brings it up, ask them to name as many of the 100 studies as they can. My bet is they top out at zero. I'm basically at zero myself, and I've written about that study at length. (I asked a few of my colleagues in case I'm just uniquely stupid, and their answers were: 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, and 3.)"
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psych...
It was Iran, at home. The school was not that great so the only material accessible there would have at most been an old encyclopedia in the library.
A good craftsman learns how to use their tools to the best of their ability, including accommodating for their short-comings.

I've seen amazing work come from very simple/inexpensive tools, or even inappropriate tools, and crappy work come from very good tools.

The poor craftsman says "my works sucks because the tools suck", while the good craftsman learns to use what they have.
Probably because C-levels almost always get disproportionate parachutes regardless of performance.
C++ Should Be C++
> I'd also like to note that I have never heard of any dish involving sea urchins.
> I'm sure they exist in the cuisine that you are familiar with

You may have heard about a small place called the Mediterranean.

not a place really relevant for European culture if we except three or four empires that shaped the history of the humanity.

Every country touched by the Greeks or Roma knows how sea urchins taste. You could find them easily [1] in coastal areas of Greece, Spain, Morocco, Lybia, Egypt, France, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus... probably also Ireland. I bet that a lot of Asian and American countries have heard of it also by their own means. Japanese pay astronomical prices for them.

[1] If you know where to look for

Guess the reason why so many people eat them.
How long until a TikTok comes out with a video on how to impersonate a first responder needing to override a car, but it needs to be relocated to the liquor store/gas station/bank needing to be robbed first?
Planes prepare for basically 0 chance of failure.

Most startups fail. And everyone involved should know that going into it.

To operate a startup protecting against all risk will likely guarantee failure in almost all cases.