skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blockchain is a perfect tool of government surveillance. They can track the flows of money like never before, while most users think it is completely anonymous. It is the perfect weapon of state control.

There has been hundreds of stories about how blockchain technology has been a boon to investigators trying to track drug, terrorism and illegal porn money flows.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-blockchain-hacking-arre...
I think we both know it’s all lisp.
Proposing new rules isn't making new rules though? I would be surprised if anyone isn't allowed to propose new rules.
This is a good book about the influence of midcentury modern design on TOS specifically, including interviews with the production crew and specifics on all the commercial items the authors were able to track down.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Star-Trek-Designing-t...
I have had a little money stuck with them since they banned US customers to the original site. There has been absolutely no way to transfer the money out of my account, even to Binance US, and I eventually had to just call it a loss.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

If you associate crypto only with shitcoins maybe your twitter bubble is a bit fucked up.
And since when the "open" models are as good as gpt4...
Together, DS9 and Babylon 5 are rightfully credited with innovating the long form series. What the kids today might call "binge worthy."

Their story arcs were known from the outset. Each (main) character has their own hero's journey and side quests. Both had satisfying endings.

Also, officially, Capt Sisko is the GOAT. With Capt Janeway placing a strong 2nd. Though Capt Pike (Strange New Worlds) is quite promising, but only time will tell.

Whereas Voyager has most of my most favorite episodes, esp wrt Ensign Kim, DS9's characters are legend, esp Quark. I couldn't pick a favorite DS9 character (or story), even on pain of death, because I cherish them all equally.
The concepts are still the same, fundamentally. Unless you want to actually understand how to BUILD a synth and not how to USE one.
Facebook Experiencing an Outage
It seems to be affecting both posting on facebook.com and the API
That sounds like a system working perfectly correctly. What is the issue?
That's why I always emphasize that prompt injection isn't an attack against LLMs themselves: its a class of attacks against applications we build on top of LLMs that work by concatenating together trusted and untrusted prompts.
Maybe We Will Finally Learn More About How A.I. Works
BTC =/= crypto at large.

Despite all the bad press, shady exchanges, bubbles and busts, a large amount of BTC owners don't sell, and that alone will drive it's price up. Other cryptos, I can't speak for.
wait, is this even possible? I just presume that all import statements are executed first.
How would you measure entropy signals at astronomical distances?
Actuaries could assume 100% death rate per astronaut per launch, and the large number of non-astronaut employees and small number of launches would lower the premiums a lot.
> especially as government surveillance continues its march towards panopticon

I thought China loved crypto because you get absolute spy power over how every penny of your citizenry is spent, and can then control someone's access to their coins if they speak out against you. Seems like the opposite of what you're describing, no?
everyone? Really?
It's important to note that these aren't isolated anonymous systems. They know who you are when you pick up the scanner and can assess choose to deny service based on how much they trust you. Fail a couple of random searches and you lose service.

It's still financially viable to assume a little extra theft risk here because you take a tenth of the time at checkout and use less than half the person time as regular self checkouts (which use a tenth of the time a manned checkout does). They massively increase throughout in large, busy stores.
Kinda, it's not that it bounces, it's that it passes through and is filtered by it.

For example, passing light through a hydrogen gas cloud will remove some red/IR wavelengths from the end result.

We can measure those missing wavelengths and figure out what gasses it's passed through
This is all political theater legwork done just for one family.

Upside: poor-person debit card use will not subsidize rich-person credit card fees.

Downside: This does not actually help debit card holders. No business on earth will give Debit Card users a discount, it just will, in majority, bankroll rich company profits, which as we all know, has historically had no difference to consumers.

When wallstreet makes more profits, the profit expectation rises, they never hand it back.

This is just continuing to take from the poor but instead of giving it to one rich company, they are giving it to the other rich company.
The Walton family is excited about this one.

Edit: Ooh this was spicy. Looking forward to the Top of HN study outcome link stating the above.
You said

> It's fine, you can always do custom CSS, right /s

Which seems rather excessive when it's a single keystroke to fix
Speed cameras: California's answer to rising traffic deaths?
What might add a lot of fuel to the flame is Israel's spokesperson initially confirming it was Isreal in a tweet he later deleted: https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/171440059899126196...
It’s not full volumetric video. Probably can simulate a few degrees off axis but nothing like what this article shows.
It's not a deep fake. It (ahem) literally doesn't say what's asserted upthread.

"Sanctions" are means and a way to stop something. The West ended Nord Stream 2 by March of 2022; the company went into insolvency, fired its workers, had its pipeline decertified, and was sanctioned into the ground.

Politicians use this sort of language regularly. For example:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4227533-trump-campaign...

> Trump campaign calls on RNC to ‘put an end’ to future debates to ‘train our fire’ on Biden

Is Trump proposing blowing up the debate venue? Obviously not.
I feel like buzzword bingo in conferences is unavoidable.

The three easiest ways to get someone's attention in a title are: being a well known speaker, talking about a giant project, or talking about a trend.

As much as there is value in "tricks to avoid false negatives during CI" it just isn't as catchy.
> Sometimes it’s also called “fauxpensource” because the money-making part of the business looks surprisingly a lot like SaaS — the customer pays per unit (user-seat or some usage metric) and consumes the software as a web application or API.

That's not quite what that is. Fauxpen source is when a software license doesn't meet the Open Source Definition but goes out of its way to resemble one, or is even intentionally falsely claimed to be one, in the hope that people will incorrectly consider it to be one.
> I can distribute revenue from my business between different types of collaborators, without incurring in paying 120% in taxes for having "employees".

I'm always fascinated when people come right out and say that the primary use case of crypto is evading laws and taxes.

The strangest part is that using crypto doesn't actually exempt them from the law any more than using a bank account to wire money around. There's just something about crypto that makes some people think it's a safe haven from legal oversight.
One of the example songs actually makes the user interface slowly morph into a sort of demo (!!!!), wait for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHFSrxlouh8

PS. Demoscene is by far the best thing to ever come out of computing, as a whole.
1066 was just another guy coming to claim the throne. You wouldn't say a company was abolished when it gets a new CEO, and you shouldn't say a country is no more when someone claims the throne.
DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Solve the Climate Crisis
IMHO people prefer tools to have plain and unadorned names, especially when in the case of a tool to manage content, which is likely to be used many times a day. Boring is the new sexy!
That’s the thing. Cryptocurrency and blockchains (at least thr way the Bitcoin protocol works) provides for an “easy” way to verify transactions in a low trust or even no trust environment. However most if not all transactions you engage in need some level of trust. You want to trust that the hotel has a room, the car is not a lemon, a house is not condemned. Putting these transactions onto the blockchain adds nothing to the trustworthiness of these situations and whether you get what they say you are buying and since a lot of advocates push “code is law” the finality of the blockchain will mean you have no recourse. You bought the nft of a house. The house being in ruins is not their problem. The blockchain is the sole source of truth, not reality.

Society should probably be a high trust environment and if it isn’t we should work to fix that.
Wait, why didn't you use these examples:

> You don't get to decide what to put into your body and smoke weed. You don't get to make a choice about your pregnancy and have an abortion. You don't get to not be a chattel slave in 1840.
FWIW, these architectures tend to follow the org or business entities (there must be a catch name for that phenomenon).

Solving a balkanized, poorly integrated services often goes through restructuring the business teams and realign them under a single umbrella. I see it as the poster child for "solving technical problems through social solutions"
Careful, or he'll set Roko's Basilisk on you!
Neufert, The Architects Data.
> In authoritarian states this is probably a net good. In the rest of the world this is a harm.

Most of the world is authoritarian and that's if you consider that the Western world is not.
do those footnotes include your software crashing from an unknown opcode when it gets automatically moved to the e-cores while executing vector instructions ?

-vicuna
And yet from that (great) reference: "If you're waiting for me to say something about Juno Reactor, Hallucinogen or Infected Mushroom, the truth is I find their music to be middle of the pack. I understand they are very popular and they were the introduction to the world of Psy Trance for a lot of people so they win a lot of hearts and minds through first impressions. But the scene is massive with thousands of labels and artists around the world, and I find their contributions to be very ignorable. They aren't a good representation of what's actually out there."
Seconding this, absolute killer! Saw it live at Revision 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BRNBuf_MhI
I'm still don't understand. The opening of the article seems discussing about consumer end use cases. But then H100 comes to the discussion.
So TensorRT SDK is targeted to the end user usecases integration or not?
Because the USB Consortium is partially made up of the same companies that make garbage cables.
There's nothing to debate. Everyone living in society benefits from taxes paid - food inspected, fire service and toll-free roads provided, and so much more. Evading taxes is theft of service from everyone.
Seven Tenured HBS Faculty Speak Out
really? Is a meter of water shallow flood?

Its a car not a boat. Unless you are an offroad vehicle, do you really expect cars to be crossing anything bigger than big puddle of water?
Any comparision with the Redhat one + "Extension pack for Java" that was the main way to go for Java in VSCode?
What's the mystery? Bitcoin doesn't need actual dollars to prop up the price. Unaudited virtual dollar IOUs like USDT that can be issued out of thin air will be sufficient.
If the computer could test on a loop like the parent comment suggested, every single machine built in the last decade has enough memory bandwidth to test >40Gbps. No need to write to disk.
You can use pkg-config for this!

I'm not sure if a lot of people are using pkg-config manually but you can do it easily. If you have a pkg-config file for the library it will handle the flags for you.

I guess a build system would handle this for you also.

Even for "hello world" I've found meson to be useful, and it's only two lines of meson to get "hello world" to compile. I would prefer this to manually compiling by calling "c++ main.c++ -o hello" from the shell.
> If you think that's a crime you are delusional about the uses of money.

If it wasn't a crime, why do you have to use cryptocurrency for it?

Or is your definition of "crime" more abstract, not a literal interpretation of the law?
> Under the law, the cameras will issue warnings for the first two months, and then for the first violation for driving 11 to 15 mph over the speed limit.

I had heard of this law but didn't know it only tickets if you're 11 MPH over the limit. It will be interesting to see what effect their presence actually has.

Also, will they have 2-month warning periods if they install cameras in new locations, after the initial rollout? If the purpose is to give people warning, then that would seem appropriate.
> Am I just terrible at opsec

I divide my digital life into two realms. Pre-Snowden and Post-Snowden. Pre-Snowden I did not know about opsec or how valuable it was. Post Snowden I am more careful and regularly spin up new handles so that I do not have a single repository with all my info on there. There are types who prefer to use the same handle everywhere but overlook the risks of doing that.
What do you use instead? confyUI ?
Caldigit's Thunderbolt cable which comes with their dock has lasted much longer than that.
Hahahahaha yes I realized it was a bit stupid as I was writing it.They only mention having 24pin interfaces, not testing though I don't see how they could do one without the other, or how it would support 120w passthrough without those pins being connected! But it's AliExpress! One of my favorite online stores, but you absolutely have to always double check what you buy.

Still, more trustworthy than buying more niche electronics from Amazon imo.
I'm reminded of the cognitive ease part of Thinking, Fast and Slow.

The theory is supposedly we pay more attention to what we are reading if it's a bit hard to read. Was there any such idea behind lowering the contrast for these?
diffusers also has example usage for TensorRT in the Stable Diffusion context: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/85dccab7fd280c...

Seems those particular examples were submitted by NVIDIA employee too: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/commit/9d44e2fb6600...

Shouldn't be too hard to adopt to other similar pipelines if you've used diffusers before.
Except for the fact that this doesn't work at all in practice, it makes perfect sense.
I found it interesting. Why not market your product by demoing what it can do? I'm not going to buy a CT scanner but if someone else does I don't mind it.
Swype (Android keyboard) and Lightning Launcher (Android launcher).
This is great, but a lot of people think it will be a Intuit or H&R Block "killer". It won't. People don't pay for the "expert" tax prep, they pay for the hand holding. I have worked for HRB corporate for years and have seen countless people with simple W2's that happily pay $100+ per year just to have an office to go to, to shake a hand and talk to a person about their past year. As long as there are lonely elderly people, these businesses will always be there.
ishkur's guide is a really awesome resource for discovering electronic music.
If you'd like some of the classics:

* Megademo by RSI (1989): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3119

* Mental Hangover by Scoopex (1990): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1472

* Enigma by Phenomena (1991): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=394

* Hardwired by Crionics & TSL (1991): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=981

* Jesus on E's by LSD (1992): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=5265

* World of Commodore by Sanity (1992): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2938

* State of the Art by Spaceballs (1992): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=99

* Desert Dream by Kefrens (1993): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1483

* How to Skin A Cat by Melon Dezign (1993): https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3539
Wow, and I thought C++ was complicated!

Seriously, interesting discussion. I think I'll stick with physical instruments!
>If your criminal organization is also the government then it's a bit easier than what you describe.

The real estate part is, the rest isn't.

And without the financial incentive the benefit becomes unclear. Presumably spying, but you're either hoping to randomly get a high profile target or needing to trawl through a truly massive amount of data for some unknown potential benefit.

There are better methods of individual targeting and mass surveillance available to the state.
The main sticking point why trad cashflow factors don't do this is probably a lack of a good company credit score system + mechanisms for enforcement.

I've had clients ask whether they can pay large (7 figure!) invoices on credit. Ah... nope. :)
Almost-scaled dot-product attention
I could write more or less a whole book on various demosceners and what they've done since (RTX, Media Molecule, modern tile based GPU architectures, visibility culling middleware in most games, music library used in most games, on and on, ...)
Good, but it doesn't really feature the technique described in the original comment.
The people using it for profit and not giving anything back.
Google Trends confirms it looks way milder now:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
I have been using purify, but it's like 5 years old and seems to be easily detectable by anti-adblockers.

I got several as they went on sale, and am trying AdBlock Pro right now, on the theory that newer and more up to date ones will more effectively anti-anti-adblock.

I found AdGuard Pro in my extensions. Must have been on sale, as it's the pricey "no subscription" version of the product. Will try if the above doesn't work out (I expect that it will)
I think in this case it's because the book is about typewriters and it has nothing to do with LLMs.

I agree it's annoying but I think this particular site has some aesthetic reason to do this.
I don't think you have to use any new drivers to take advantage of it? At least the TensorRT example from diffusers run on my 535.113.01 drivers (Linux).
Proposing a rule in this context is a step in the process of enacting it, not offering up a suggestion to Congress.
I have taken a huge liking to Mill. It is a build tool written in Scala, but it is not only for Scala at all. The author’s blog post is quite informative (https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SoWhatsSoSpecialAboutTheMillSca... ), but the core idea is that a functional program’s call stack maps one-to-one to a build description, where functions are build steps.

Something as simple as

def cSources = ..
def compile() = T {
proc(“gcc”, cSources(), “-o”, outputBinary)
Path(outputBinary) // last expression is result
}
def link() = T {
// similar to previous one, using compile() somewhere
}

will automagically convert this description into a build graph, that can be executed parallel and cached.
I don’t know why it’s surprising. Cryptocurrency’s killer app was always crime, and crime is big business.
Government agencies should only be able to do what congress defines in law.

A great example is ATF abusing the power to redefine what a pistol/rifle/machine gun are multiple times in the past decade. This leads to people who were previously compliant with the law, with prior written approval from the ATF, now are not compliant with their new definition and could face prosecution. All without any new law being passed, all being done by political appointees and bureaucrats.
In my experience, that's always been the standard among Vim--and even some Emacs--users.
Lower Decks is made by people who really care about the franchise. Chairs are just one small example, they get all the small things right to obsessive degree.
don't forget to add the 3 color dimensions. (this may seem pendantic, but when doing feature-extraction, these extra dimensions really are significant)
Does confluence still require you to manually increase jvm memory so it won't crash?
Don't forget to ask them to be a "Mentor" then lay off anyone that they are actively mentoring. Then at their performance review ask how their mentorship is going...
Stop using Java just let it die for the love of all that is holy
IIRC there’s decent evidence that the incidence of anosmia from Omicron is much lower than from earlier strains.
Yeah this just sounds like precompiled headers, except the only part they actually standardized was the name.
Super immunity in bats may pave the way for Covid and cancer cures
I've been buying "test bags" of mandarins every 4 months or so since I contracted it for a second time around Christmas 2021. Yesterday was the first time that I was able to taste any of the background notes you would normally associate with orange flavors. Before it was like just taking a concentrated spray of orange oil to the mouth.

I was so excited I ended up eating half the bag, lol.
RaTG13 differs from SARS-CoV-2 by a lot more than just an FCS
What is interesting in this story that the article misses is not the delusion. Marc's post has copious amounts of dishonesty and while writing, I'm sure he thought of all the ways his vision could harm/destroy society. But right now, he really needs to inject that extra bit of confidence so the markets can rebound and produce just one more Airbnb because he's a bit short on his net worth goals.
raises hand I'm in this group. I finally gave up on mobile Firefox a few years back despite being a user and advocate for many years prior to that. The leadership and product decisions at Mozilla are indescribably bad and have done a huge amount of damage to formerly great product. Desktop Firefox still works ok, although it also suffers from too many bad product decisions.

For mobile I use Vivaldi which is not bad. The adblocker isn't as good as uBlock Origin but is mostly good enough, and the builtin dark mode works really well.