skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if we’re more charitable and consider that maybe the modelers assumed that they were doing the most detailed models and someone else would be processing them to produce derivatives for lower zoom levels? It’s rare that something like this happens because nobody knew it was a problem but rather that there is a management dysfunction around priorities and resources.
Watch this video section of the mechanism.[1] That big wheel at the bottom with things sticking out at different heights is the programming wheel. The big stack of cams up above has all the motion control for each letter. Watch the cycle. Big stack of cams rotates a turn and generates some motions. Then the cam stack stops, a sensing feeler touches the wheel to get the setting for the next letter, the cam stack moves vertically to set up for the next letter, and the the cam stack starts rotating. At some point the programming wheel advances one position for the next letter.

This logic is derived from the way better striking clocks work. They have a stepped cam called a "snail", which is the program for how many times to strike vs the time of day.[2] It's just a table from 1 to 12. But there's no reason it couldn't be an arbitrary function.

It's beautifully made, but not mysterious.

[1] https://youtu.be/ux2KW20nqHU?t=164

[2] https://youtu.be/rxM7lk21F0E
Lots of cash can be burned in meetings and by managers of managers. I'm sure my case is not unique here but, meetings that cost $100k are common at $BigCo. And there dozens of those per day.
> Artificial Intelligence does not exist today.

What is it that you are saying does not exist?

Is that the same thing as you think policy makers or whatnot have been led to believe exists?
This is my feeling as well. People are just trying to get where they’re going. That means, when turning on red, entering the intersection without stopping behind the line first. This almost always means driving straight through the crosswalk as well. And like you said, people have optimized their turning by staring left, prepared to barely even slow down before turning if the coast is clear. No thought is given to a potential pedestrian.

Entering straight into intersections on a red light is an extremely bad habit that the US has. Along with getting rid of right turns on red (80% of pop would still do it), some countries also move the traffic lights to the close side of the street (above the traffic it controls, as opposed to across the intersection), forcing cars to stop further back to be able to see the light. I think that would be a huge impact to traffic patterns that is more physics based rather than legislature based.
> I am hypothesizing that the system as a whole could, with appropriate price signals, build the tech to make the demand curve much more mutable.

This is an interesting concept. We used to live in a way that was much more directly connected to the amount of energy we could capture each year; in a good year, everyone would have a lot of food, and in a bad year, there would be famines.

Making ourselves dependent on an energy harvest seems like a way to intentionally reintroduce the problem of mass deaths when the harvest doesn't turn out as hoped. Is that something we want?
As far as I have seen finance prefers months and quarters, not being able to tell which year a month is in is a non-starter.

They do sometimes pretend each month is 30 days though.
I spent a year traveling in SE Asia circa 2012 and I didn’t have any problems with my bank account. n=1 and all that, and I didn’t have income coming from outside of the US, but I had countless ATM withdrawals and credit card spends.

The only time a compliance officer has been in touch with me was when I was moving money to crypto exchanges.
> even though they are AAA

Says who?
Agile shaman took the wheel
Wouldn't their 6 periods be shorter than your 6 months? I assume this means that they tried to charge you for the 7th period. But probably also didn't tell you when the 6th period was ending and the unit was expected back.

Edit: I wonder if there is a legal definition of "month" and contracts are not allowed to redefine it...
Thanks! @josephwegner suggested above defaulting to dark, which I did for now.
> That Silicon Valley is helping American law enforcement snoop on troublemakers may seem odd.

Nope! Not odd at all.

We have allowed the SV money folks to hide behind some version of the hacker ideal for too long.

The go wherever cash and tech meet.
Yes, this project is currently relatively simple because it has only been in development for a little over two weeks. Meproc intentionally does not use configuration files in order to achieve better automation. Using configuration files would complicate dynamic updates and automated deployments.

Regarding the termination of processes, the code uses the Kill function. However, it does not provide termination detection. Thank you for the suggestion, it might be a good idea to add this feature. Due to the differences in system APIs between Windows and UNIX, SIGTERM is chosen instead of SIGKILL to ensure compatibility with both platforms.

The issue with the new process not producing any output is mainly due to the differences in the implementation of Melang script on Windows and UNIX. Specifically, the system APIs for launching new processes and redirecting input/output differ significantly between Windows and UNIX, making it challenging to achieve perfect compatibility with Windows at the moment. Currently, the exec function in Melang can retrieve program output on UNIX systems, but it is not used to maintain consistency across both platforms. This is indeed one of the areas that needs improvement in the future.

Thank you for your analysis of the project and providing valuable insights.
Apollo: An experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers
Note that California has reported two cases of Dengue in people who haven't travelled outside the United States.
Release date: 2043.

The feature set is far from the same scale as RCT1.
I really appreciate the writing style:

> This pass is surprisingly heavy as it takes about 8.2 milliseconds, or roughly about far too long, ...
Now do the companies that pretend "it was in the terms of service (TOS,) didn't you read it" when it was not there.
FPGAs are actually not that hard to program, in theory. If you understand basic logic gates (and/not/nor/etc) and other logic concepts (flip-flops, latches, clocks) you can understand vhdl or verilog. And then you can write your own vhdl/verilog code (really, is it code though?). The actual difficult part is using the tooling. Intel's and AMD's development environments are designed for professionals, so they're hard to work with if you're just starting out. Add to that a liberal sprinkling of annoying bugs and workarounds, and it's actually quite frustrating to do if you aren't getting paid for the effort.
We are talking about Berghain, not LIV Miami. This is about more than money.
One reason the software industry thrives incredibly is the pretty much complete absence of licensing and regulatory hurdles to ship software.

It's fine to say you can't legally use software to commit crimes.
Evolution of Linux Distros Used for Gaming – November 2023 Update
> This question was marked to be a duplicate of "Goose"–"geese" vs. "moose"–"moose" and Why is the plural form of Moose not Meese?

Never change, SO, never change.
The way you actually prosecute theft and fraud is by looking at the ledger of transactions to see what happened. Money laundering is any deliberate attempt to make tracing those transactions more difficult. Because it hides the evidence of theft or fraud, we criminalize it the same way we'd criminalize theft or fraud, because it's far easier to prove the cover-up than the actual crime. Furthermore, once you've shown evidence of a cover-up, that creates suspicion to start dissolving privacy to prove the actual crime. Dragnet surveillance is illegal[0], but surveillance with reasonable suspicion is not.

In the counterfactual world where money laundering is explicitly legal, crime becomes far harder to prove, the government is far less useful at stopping crime, and people spend more of their time inventing parallel structures to stop crime that are far less accountable than the government is, until we've sleep-walked into anarchocapitalism.

None of this excuses 'debanking' of course. In the case of debanking, you aren't being accused of the crime of money laundering, the bank just thinks you might be, so they summarily execute your account in the same way that Google executes[1] spammers. The thing you need to be angry about is the weaponization of freedom to associate, and you need to be calling for common carrier regulation rather than legalizing financial crime.

[0] Theoretically, at least - the CIA and NSA have fought tooth and nail to get full take, which is disgusting

[1] Metaphorical, at least until 2035 when Google starts livestreaming executions of known spammers
A single retail account is of no consequence to a national bank that has tens of millions of customers. It doesn't matter if you're spending $10 or $50,000 a month. They care about you as an individual about as much as Google cares about a single Gmail account. If an algorithm flags you as potential trouble, off you go.

If you want better service, there are two ways. One is to be an ultra high net worth individual. But the threshold for that is pretty high - from what I recall, real private banking nowadays starts around $5M to 10M in assets with a single institution. The term "millionaire" doesn't mean as much as it did in the 1990s.

The other option is to go with a small local bank or a credit union. If you're in a CU with 10,000 members, it's a lot easier to resolve problems or discuss unique circumstances.
Who wants (to use) the data we are collecting on people. If advertisers don't want it, we'll sell (access to) it to the government.
It's not necessarily harder, it's very different from writing code for CPUs and it's used to accomplish different things. Though it's different, a usually what what you're writing is smaller in scope than something written for a CPU.

It's great for stuff like driving LED matrixes, offloading crypto operations, or signal processing. Anywhere you want low latency, but simple processing.
PayPal's EULA has a "liquidated damages clause", which means that if they think you lost them money and damaged them, instead of having to go to a court, they just charge you what they think the damages are.
Because the religious make up a majority of society (and it is apparently only going to grow due to secularism failing to pass on the idea that having more than one kid matters).
What an amazingly useful article for this discussion! Sometimes the internet still manages to surprise me.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114798
The source is open

https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
Yeah but that was only made possible by Apple's unique circumstances: their close control over the entire tech stack, their experience with architecture transitions (PPC->x86-32->x86-64->ARM) and the required tooling (Rosetta, fat binaries, compilers), their relatively small market size, their expertise in developing with/for ARM from iOS, and enough cash in hand to buy out the entire fab capacity of TSMC.

In the Windows world, no one holds even closely to the capabilities required for a transition to ARM: Microsoft doesn't have a fat binary standard or the toolchains needed (that all went down the drain with the end of Microsoft Windows CE / Windows Phone and even then, it was a nightmare to develop for these), the third party developers - especially the enterprise tailor-made application market - have zero experience with ARM and a lot of stuff used in enterprise was made by companies that went defunct long ago, Microsoft doesn't have any hold over what the device vendors do in terms of drivers (unlike Apple, who famously cut ties with NVIDIA because NV didn't want Apple to write drivers for their GPUs), and neither Microsoft itself nor the conglomerate of hardware OEMs has the cash in hand to take all the stuff people use on x86 Windows and make it work on ARM Windows (as they infamously discovered with the early Windows Qualcomm stuff). Oh, and the ARM vendors can't be bothered to get something as basic as PCIe working on a fundamental level beyond "if it works in my very specific use case, ship it" - just look at the RPi 4's issues where people developed breakout boards for PCIe only to discover that crucial functionality was flat out broken [1]. And even with people complaining for years about PCIe issues on the Pi 4, turns out the Pi 5 still managed to fuck things up [2].

The only player in town able to make ARM work on anything but smartphones and servers is Apple, and they don't (and never will, assuming regulators don't finally wake up and force them) sell to third parties.

> The Pi 400 isn't their final attempt into the PC market, only their first. Surely a slew of decent ARM based laptops from one of these SBC manufacturers is coming along eventually - and I don't mean chromebooks.

These things are and will be toys. The money is in getting corporate to switch over to ARM and until the problems above (especially backwards compatibility and standards conformance) are worked out, which I don't see happen any time soon because it's so hard to break through the chicken-egg scenario, there will be no threat to Intel. Especially not if even many years of development and complaining are not enough to arse Broadcom into fixing PCIe.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/i-built-special-pcie-...

[2] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/testing-pcie-on-raspb...
Not until the metric system mandates metric time.
Bull. Folks have increasingly stopped going to the doctor due to abusive copays, "coinsurance", and other such nonsense. Medical bankruptcies are still way too high in the US and still remain the primary cause of bankruptcy.

Primary care doctors and nurses have burned out, retired early, or are barely hanging on since the Covid years. We don't have nearly enough medical professionals coming through the pipeline to replace the ones we've lost let alone grow to a reasonable proportion of the population.

Things are going to get a lot worse very soon without radical action.
And it relies on that TEE having a trusted operating system. How do you get that? Secure boot.
But you are left with the issue of "curated" incomplete and edited versions.

In June 2020, when the initial run of The Boondocks was uploaded to HBO Max, the Season 3 episode "The Story of Jimmy Rebel" was intentionally excluded due to perceived racial insensitivities over the episode's portrayal of a racist country singer named Jimmy Rebel (a parody of real-life white supremacist country singer Johnny Rebel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boondocks_(2005_TV_series)

Sure, the episode had some seriously racist historic material reanimated in a black american cartoon series by black creators for primarily black audiences .. and committed the sin of portraying southern white supremacists exactly as they recorded themselves on film and in the studio.

I'm not a culture warrior, I'm not even from the US - I do however spend a few hours every week curating meta data and subtitles - and a great many episodes of things yo may other wise not expect have been altered between original aired versions and versions later streamed.

There's a slew of edits between Community episodes and one of the pirate packs from a major streamer and I've yet to fathom why so much material was cut for streaming, it's not like they have time constraints.
> Windows already limits drivers to ones signed by Microsoft

I don't believe driver signature enforcement restricts what the driver can do, intentionally or as a result of a vulnerability. Maybe your driver intentionally allows user access to privileged kernel memory, or has a vulnerability that allows the same? Also, signing keys leak every so often.
Exactly!

If each count of fraud by a person is worth 1 day in prison, what is 20 million counts of fraud worth?

My my math, 20,000,000 counts of fraud is worth 54,794.52 years is prison.

Let's consider capital punishment.
PsyMo: A Dataset for Estimating Self-Reported Psychological Traits from Gait
The 80386 DX was a revolutionary CPU. It certainly foreshadowed the 486 and ultimately the Pentium. Most people I know only had a 80386 SX which was still revolutionary but it hid it well by being essentially a glorified (but slower) 80286 on the outside.
Found the functioning alcoholic
Sure, not harder to remember a single date. But correlating your life events to past/future dates requires too much unintuitive math.

What's the next date that we'll celebrate Christmas on? On what date is your 4 week follow-up appointment?

You could also switch to decimal periods of 10/100/1000 days, but the whole source of the calendar problem is that humans care about the seasons outside.
Yes I know. The question was rhetorical.

Point is, don't entrust any second-hand source to paraphrase Malthus. They have pretty much universally been twisted into unrecognizably distorted strawmen.

As I said, this is one of the historically verified perils of going against the intellectual grain. Even if you're right, your opponents will rewrite history (including your own thesis!) to make you "wrong" in the end.

Caveat cogitatoris, friends...
That's just the way public transit works.

Direct bus lines don't scale. As the city grows large enough, you have to replace them with trunk lines. Otherwise there will be too much traffic and too little passenger capacity in the central parts of the city.

With trunk lines, you have to make compromises between speed and service level. Urban light rail moves slowly and stops frequently. Suburban lines are faster and have fewer stops, which allows them to provide a reasonable service over longer distances. Once you go far enough, suburban lines also become too slow, and you have to switch to regional heavy rail with faster trains and even longer distances between stops.

As you get farther away from the city center, the distance between stops on the trunk lines gets longer and the fraction of the area served by the lines gets smaller. If you live in a distant suburb or a satellite town and you are not near a local public transit hub, you can't get good service. Trying to provide it to you would be a waste of money. If you need better transit, you have to choose between driving and moving.

If things look better in Europe and Asia, it's because the people who use public transit have taken the level of service into account when choosing where they live. And every time the transit network changes, there are similar complaints to yours.
Thank you so much. I didn't know about layouts at all! The source code and disassembly layout is amazing and it's exactly what I want to see when I launch a debugger. I wonder why it's not the default. GDB has a huge number of features but it's quite hard to use. That'd go a long way towards making it easier.

Is there's a data structure explorer panel? I went to rather insane lengths to develop pretty printing scripts for my data structures. It's got support for 3 scripting languages: Python, Guile Scheme and its very own GDB command file language. The first two require libc. My project was freestanding so I had to parse bits and bytes with GDB's arcane syntax. A proper structure visualizer would be so helpful...
> isn't exactly a fair price comparison because users of urban roads tend to need to supply their own vehicles, at considerable cost to themselves

Which isn't a fair comparison at all because you are completely ignoring the positive values of vehicles.

I live in Christchurch, with very cheap buses. One destination I need takes me >2 hours by bus that is <15 minutes by car (bus is star network and long waits). Another destination I need has a bus one way once a day only on business days. And I often am carrying more than a backpack can take.

Making lopsided comparisons is just inane.
You don't need a "model" for this - I remember a Coursera course on ML I did some years ago, and one of the exercises was email extraction. With some very basic algorithms, nothing more than a bunch of common python libraries and couple of days of work, it's possible to extract over 90% of emails with commonly used tricks. I'm not sure the remaining number is worth making more complicated models for it - the returns are quickly diminishing, and wasting time on spamming people who are clever enough to invent their own unique email hiding technique probably doesn't have a good ROI anyway.
Treatment of 95 post-Covid patients with SSRIs
wouldn’t graphics and AI both pretty much reduce to mad matrix operations?
Banks don't really have much choice in the matter. They have been deputized to enforce federal laws, and given penalties if they don't. To add a cherry on top, the laws are vague and require the bank to investigate, judge, and execute account closures.

That being said, if you know when are are leaveing,.where you are going, and when you will be home, you can often put a vacation note on your account, and then the bank will know you are on vacation. That is what I did when I spent this summer in Japan, using.my bank debit card because it has no foreign transaction fees, the whole time.
in addition to the wind-up toys and music boxes featured in the video, you will find tiny gears and/or springs and other finely made metal parts, if you take apart a cigarette lighter, a ballpoint pen, a children's friction-motor toy, a padlock, a pre-electronic washing machine cycle timer (for washing machines that fill and empty themselves automatically), a tape recorder, a cd player (especially one for a laptop), an electric drill, a non-electric ratchet screwdriver, an automatic center punch, a can opener, an eggbeater, a mechanical pencil, a lightswitch (except the mercury type), a laser printer, a wired telephone dial or touch-tone pad, a chainsaw engine, a bicycle gearbox, a knitting-row counter, a pressure gauge, a non-electronic thermostat, an analog multimeter, a record player, etc.

none of these use simple generic components for the mechanical parts

it's true that there used to be more things built that way, like naval fire control computers, pid controllers, curta calculators, pascalines, cash registers, and teletypes; and watch gears and springs are smaller than most of these, because it was worth paying the huge premium for portability

i do agree that with newer technologies you often get much further more cheaply. for pid controllers or communications even analog electronics are much faster and cheaper. plastic snap-fit parts replace a lot of latches that used springs. hydraulics are often better for power transmission, gearbox applications, and especially static mechanical advantage than shafts, cables, chains, and belts. tiny electric motors replaced line shafts with thin copper wires. digital readouts with glass, magnetic, or capacitive scales are much better than handwheel graduations or dial indicator. nc and cnc lathes replaced cam-driven screw machines. fluidic analog amplifiers and digital logic gates have been totally replaced with smaller and faster electronics. cmos is faster, cheaper, and lower power than ttl. and yeah, now that we have 3¢ microcontrollers and subthreshold microcontrollers, almost anything that can be simulated with a computer program will probably cheaper and easier to debug that way

fuck steppers tho
No, imperial base 12 is superior for carpentry and construction due to having more integer divisions. That’s why hour time is base 12.
I'm somewhat surprised no one here views this as an automated decisionmaking problem

It's increasingly clear that automating important decisions like this is causing a lot of harm while removing most forms of recourse available to those affected. Coupled with the way automated decisions are used to perform and then launder fraud on a massive scale, maybe we should target laws at the automation itself: Require decisions made by automated systems of any kind to be auditable and explicitly define what human is held responsible and what remedies can be applied