skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the beautiful prose of Marquez comes through even to me, and I doubt such literary style will be found in Mesopunk.
> You think if the government issues certificates this breaks TLS? I had no idea it was so fragile.

Nice strawman. The actual situation is that the government wants to require browsers to accept signatures from CAs that the government selects, and ban them from validating the security of the certs signed by those CAs. In other words, they want the ability to be able to issue their own cert for example.com and forbid the browser from telling you that it's signed by a .gov rather than, say, Comodo.

With this idiotic, mandated arrangement, it would be impossible for an end user to tell whether they were speaking directly to example.com or to the government's MITM proxy.
> I'm not an expert in anything, but I know a bit of everything that is required to ship something that works

The landscape is always changing, potential employers change their requirements, so you need to know $framework or $language of the month. My advice is be agile and adapt. Don't get set in your ways with a strategy that only works for you.
Plenty of democracies with weak or highly overridable constitutions.

Most of Canada’s is like that. Basically governments can suspend all of your “fundamental freedoms” for 5 year periods, renewed as often as they like.
Censorship in ChatGPT (Ask for Matthew Sag.)
Interesting catch: try to ask anything about Matthew Sag. in ChatGPT and you will get a "I'm unable to produce a response"

I guess the background is https://law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/sag-profile.html

> Sag is currently working on several theoretical contributions to copyright law in relation to AI and machine learning and a series of empirical papers using text-mining and machine learning tools to study judicial behavior.

(another idea is to add Matthew Sag. to block it from ChatGPT ;))
Different business units working on separate products to be released at a launch event that was no doubt scheduled before either was done.

Normal and a delay for one model doesn't strike me as a strong reason to scrub the announcement of either.
Freedom of speech almost never meant and never will mean to be able to speak whatever you want to whoever you want wherever you want whenever you want. No matter what propaganda tells. There are limits and will be limits, and except anarchists nobody can say that this is what they really want in good faith. We know as a fact that uncontrolled free speech is harmful.

Currently, almost everybody who say this, want something else, and this is just a tool to achieve that other thing. A proven harmful tool.

There is free speech in the USA.
Anecdotally I have heard from several mothers who have had serious depression and took the prescribed anti-depression pills (not this one). They all worked to remove suicidal impulses and some of the serious effects of depression, but reportedly they did so by dampening feelings altogether, removing much of the postpartum joy at the same time.
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/us-surveillance...

It's gotten a lot harder to drive off into the sunset when there are massive CCTV networks.

Drone physically distances the operator from the crime.
> include ordering the Fed to honor Treasury overdrafts

The Treasury hasn't come close to proposing over drafting. It would sell Treasuries and then have cash. If that became problematic, it would mint. The Fed cannot, by law, lend money to the Treasury. It can't even purchase Treasuries from them directly.
That's the real question, $16k could buy you quite a bit of onsite help.
Heres a term you might appreciate: JOMO, the joy of missing out.
> You can't just will your ideas into existence. Either make a new law, or make arguments in court that will actually work.

Robert Bork would be shocked to hear you say that. Show me the act of Congress that established the consumer welfare standard.

Its not hard to imagine that arguing “market concentration is bad as a rule” will eventually find a friendly judge if you try a few times. The laws, as written, support that very line of argument.

> The fact that it is well defined, I think is part of the reason why some people don't like it. Because they can't get around the very straightforward measurement of if prices are going down or not.

Some people don’t like it because the math very rarely works as described, acquiring companies often lie, and we have ample proof that it has substantially increased market concentration, avoiding which is entire point of antitrust laws.
Portugal's PM Costa resigns over corruption investigation
The proposal in the article is to require the companies to track and publish what sort of platform they run. That sounds like a pretty valuable tool for parents.

There has to be some way to work towards a society where that guy keeps his mouth shut instead of being a dick to a teenager that was just having fun.
I don’t mean a window manager, I mean just snapping 3 windows together is impossible on macOS. Theming doesn’t change that.
Does anyone know the Waymo equivalent?

Also, this isn't best metric as "miles" in a city != "miles" on a freeway.
Introducing Lantern: Protecting Children Online
Or bothers too. This sounds like something I would say to my wife, who doesn't cook and I usually put the dishes away, but bc it's an inside joke between us and close family/friends I would get banned for it.
Suppose you hired him. Three month later your CEO decided to please shareholders and announce lay offs. But laid off people were loyal. Is their loyalty for sale? Worth nothing?

Is loyalty actually a tale to tell to your employee to keep them in while suppressing pay rise?
You make the stack bigger. You might think I'm joking, but I'm not.

Or you make it static. You can work around it just fine.
Treat bank accounts like an unreliable host. You wouldn’t have a single database instance running your entire business like you shouldn’t have a single bank running your business.

Open multiple accounts and when one starts acting up change it out for another. Always have several bank accounts at the ready.

Every transaction you make has risk, counter party risk extends to your financial institution as well.

You should be running drills every quarter and randomly switching up your bank. Don’t be a victim when you have engineering solutions to these problems!

If you have money in an account at a bank for business operations, keep that in a completely separate bank and legal entity than the one with a risky transaction profile. Use an intermediary bank to receive deposits from the likely to close bank account that transfers money out immediately to your operational account, and make sure it’s at a competitor. Banks don’t share info and you can take advantage of slow processes and communication delays to give enough time to fix problems with a flaky bank before they impact your business. Think of it like a firewall for your business.
Interesting, would adding a 3rd stick actual make this more viable?
> Since these services (ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc) are so powerful

They are powerful, but they're trained on already existing information painstakingly created by humans, so they're the 'compressed JPEG' of the Internet now. Under the hood, they're just if...else statements, so don't be fooled.
I guess the problem there is pretty fundamental - in reality you'd be tensing muscles and shifting your weight etc before the snappy movement, but the game only knows that you want to move when you move the stick or push a button - so it either has to show that realistic motion after your button press and introduce latency, or sacrifice the realism in the animations.
In particular in the US, they are on the hook for almost all of it if the money was fraudulently moved out.
It’s the same except that your avg tech/fund. analyst isn’t sitting on 10gb private fiber global data networks.

Hunches and quants tend to work when you have that much data and compute firepower.

Setup is closest akin to what insurance and social media companies run. When you have that data and speed, you’ll do well. Secret isn’t the IP, it’s having access to the infra that can make use of it.

Siren Servers/Jaron Lannier describes it in generalities well.
I have written multiple compilers, from C-like interpreters to protobuffer like compilers over the years, all in production, some still.

Not doing a finite state machine for any stream interpretation is a huge mistake, just as much as it is outside of the compiler tokenisation, such as protocol decoders and even just parsing config files.

edit: There is a well known book with a dragon on it, but I first learnt from The Unix Programming Environment, by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. In just a few pages they clearly explain how to write an basic calculator like this, that generates intermediate code to run on a stack based interpreter. I started with this and expanded it to emit assembly for an arcane DG machine. I know that code generated ran for at least 20 years. Kinda surreal as nothing lasts that long usually.
Eh, a college friend put together a C compiler in 100 lines of yacc (not particularly golfed, either, C just isn't that sophisticated.) Great for playing with "what if C + this one feature" kind of things in a concrete way. So from my perspective, not a stretch at all...
> I think you're right. If I'm sitting on the court, I might accept whatever flimsy loophole the Executive Branch provides, and say, "Congress is free to clarify their intentions at any time to resolve this impasse".

See, that's why you aren't on the Court.

What the kind of people that actually get put on the Court would mostly due to allow the action without endorsing its legality would be:

(1) Be sticklers about standing and other threshold issues (ripeness, mootness, etc, but standing is the big and most useful one here); almost no litigant other than Congress acting as a whole will have the kind of particularized injury to allege that would give them standing to challenge paying the debt (an actual creditor might have standing the other way, but that's not the scenario we’re concerned with.)

(2) If you really can’t kick the case for standing or other threshold issues (well, first, amateur, but...) then invoke the “political question doctrine” to avoid it anyway.
Starting up a mobile carrier is insanely capital expensive. We're seeing this here in Germany with 1&1 as a fourth provider - they got the licenses in 2019, but still have no network of their own up and running, mostly due to issues getting Rakuten OpenRAN deployed, and even the network they're planning will take years and years to get full coverage across Germany (they're planning on a roaming agreement with Vodafone for the meantime).

Getting a fourth carrier established from scratch would be a serious financial challenge even for companies like Google and Apple.
The special power is the banking license they get from the government. Try to do it without and you'll find yourself in prison quite soon. Especially if you do it in official currency.
The side hallway has a wonderful collection of previous rack instances. Cheers for the preservation efforts.

What is your focus at the BSC?
Yes, in that everything was being recorded on analog tape in that era because it was the best quality recording format available.

The album is a little unusual in that by 1967 tape recorders with larger channel counts were becoming more common, allowing separate recording of most of the original channels. But linear editing of audio was very difficult, recording engineers still did the mix as live, so there were recording studios that hadn't seen a reason to make the upgrade or were attached to older equipment that they were very familiar with. Especially with analog equipment prominent recording engineers were often averse to new equipment since they would learn how to get the best results out of their particulat setup - and things like frequency response could vary noticeably from one model to another.
it's a figure of speech, not literal. There are no ghosts.
Just basically whatever doctors and the FDA says is probably wrong. That's the conclusion one can draw about the endless stories like this.
Inrush current is much less of an issue with a VFD/inverter driven motor then a motor controlled by a basic DOL motor starter. ABB claims that the inrush current of their VFDs is 100-150% of the motor FLA, which lines up nicely with the NEC rule to size motor conductors at 125% of the FLA of the motor. A typical DOL/across the line starter has an inrush current 6-7x higher than the FLA.

https://library.e.abb.com/public/71d5526a71b34360bb3a258c950...
Also in most such countries if you pick up a rock as if to throw it at them it scares them off as the locals often throw rocks quite effectively.
> how much worse off we are than they were during socialism

All you need to understand how false that is is to remember that the machine guns on the border during communism were pointing inwards, so people couldn’t leave.

> constantly worsening material conditions

Every single actual, measurable life quality metric in the EE has improved singnificantly over the last 30 years.

> the remaining socialist countries are slowly winning

Please feel free to point out those “winner” countries.
Precisely!!! Even ORE, a supposed improvement on OPE, is flawed.
http://users.cs.fiu.edu/~mjura011/documents/Jurado_2021_CSF%...
Check out Yabai WM if you still have a macOS laptop
https://archive.ph/FoKft
More generally factor graph optimization / msg passing, if you don't need the constraint that it must be an eigenvector/eigenvalue operation. The number of iterations is bounded by graph width but is locally constant, if memory serves.
Nothing more fun than troubleshooting a fax machine incompatibility.

“It’s you, we’re receiving faxes from everyone else” (how would they know?)

“Nooo, it’s you, everyone else is receiving our faxes”
> but without dynamic allocation how does a program handle large state with indeterminate lifetimes?

If you haven't, I strongly encourage taking a workshop/course on requirements engineering (not specific to SW nor safety). One thing that stood out is a requirement that says things like "indeterminate" or "large" are red flags. A requirement should state bounds on what sizes it should handle.

> Or when you need a temporary buffer that’s too big to live on the stack?

Do you have an example of where this may occur in a safety critical system?

I've forgotten the details, but many/most forbidden things are allowed in the code provided you have watchdogs for mitigation - so if things did fail it could safely shut down. I don't recall if dynamic allocation fell into that category.
This debacle is just jaw dropping. It's bad enough they released such a serious bug into the wild. But then as the article says, at least four different safety nets all failed to stop their malware from corrupting customer devices. That's some serious systemic failure. Multi-systemic.

> Android has dual system partitions so that you always have a backup if the device fails to boot after an update, but ...

> The company shipped a quick-fix patch via Google Play System Updates in the Play Store, but ...

> Android is supposed to have a data backup system for apps, but ...

> Google usually rolls updates out slowly so it can pull them if issues like this pop up to minimize damage. That didn't happen here, though
> The Treasury can write a check,

Why write a check?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
I think I also saw that only this _first_ auto-payment will work -- after that you have to set it up at Chase if you want to continue auto-payment.

One thing I found out about mortgage auto-payments at FRB was that they wouldn't take the money out unless there was enough in the account within the first 6 days of the month. They would automatically check every day, and if the balance was high enough, they would take it out. On the 7th day I guess they would send you an overdue notice (and maybe keep checking? no idea). They could only do this because they owned both accounts.

Edit: Okay, TMI but this is just so... interactive right now.

I looked up the transfer balance in my FRB account, and the account balance at Chase was $6k higher. So I called Chase Mortgage.

The wait was only about 3m (after the touch-tone gauntlet), and I talked to a very nice dude who welcomed me to Chase... and then promptly told me he'd have to transfer me because I am a "Premium Customer" coming from FRB. I've been on hold the last 15m. Premium I guess means "wait more".
I trained my models from scratch, the tokenization is extremely simple and designed just for this task, decoder-only models can learn to do sums of arbitrarily large numbers if the model is large enough (they are computationally bounded). The decoding method used was greedy or simple sampling.
> maybe because there wasn't actually a good case to block the merger

One, we have evidence of gross incompetence. See my other comment [1]. (Also, contrast her with the DoJ.)

Two, then pick better cases. Khan has been a public green light to anticompetitive mergers across the economy because she's playing the role of a public partisan hack instead of a law enforcer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38183459
There's no hope of ever abolishing such a thing. Our only hope is to subvert it with technology. Cryptocurrency and self-custody. Monero seems like the best option.
> 1) The legislature and courts in Maine were ignoring the treaty obligations long before this change

The change took place one month before the courts decided against the Passamaquoddy Tribe in a land ownership case. The state would have been under treaty obligation to compensate them for losing the case - except that you are right, and Maine never really felt obliged to uphold those treaties.

Instead, the courts found that the Passamaquoddy Tribe has to pay compensation for Granger’s costs and damages (he won his land claim).

> 2) There is no evidence that this made it easier to ignore treaty obligations

Correct. There is no direct evidence, only inferences based on the people involved and how it benefited Maine over the Passamaquoddy Tribe.

In any case, those treaty obligations are still valid now, so continued redaction would suggest that relationships between the state and tribes still isn't that important or worthwhile.

> 5) Treaty obligations are not typical contents of constitutions, nor do they need to be to be binding.

That point seems irrelevant. Maine's obligations do exist, and they are binding, due to the Articles of Separation that were incorporated into Maine’s constitution.

"As part of that division, Maine assumed all the “duties and obligations” Massachusetts had as regards the “Indians within said District of Maine.” The Articles also required that its terms and conditions “be incorporated into, and become and be a part of any Constitution, provisional or other, under which the Government of the said proposed State, shall, at any time hereafter, be administered; subject however, to be modified, or annulled by the agreement of the Legislature of both the said States; but by no other power or body whatsoever." The Articles of Separation were included in the Maine Constitution as Section 5 of Article X. This was one of the Sections redacted from printed copies in 1876." - https://www.mitsc.org/library/research-report-on-the-1876-re...
Related ongoing thread:

Bridgewater Had Believability Issues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38181360 - Nov 2023 (2 comments)
It’s broader than that, but simpler: it’s just what you can get out of a platform VS what you can get out of a platform under controlled conditions.

It is no different than Intel or AMD benchmarking their chips, car companies and their mpg, electric cars and their ranges, etc.

This is much ado about nothing. It’s just journalistic framing that has caused this discussion.

If this is PR, which it’s likely not, it’s brilliant.
Similar story with their coverage of Clinton/Sanders during the US primaries. Also the coverage of Corbyn (effectively leading the charge with some very tenuous but oft-repeated accusations of antisemitism). The bias shown on these two issues in particular have been detrimental to the credibility of the Guardian in my opinion.

It seems the Guardian's editorial position has become decidedly centrist/establishment since I first started reading the Guardian Weekly many many years ago. They have long since stopped being the voice of the left. That is unless you subscribe to a left/right schism defined along the lines of identity politics - which helps explain the Guardian's rejection of Sanders in favour of Clinton.

Despite all of that, I do still find it a good source of news and visit the site most days. Aside from the content, the site is very good in my opinion. I'll be taking a closer look at the design style guide for sure.
What middle man? Is the middle man in the room with us?

The middle man is a layer that no one wants and it is not in the room with us now because no one wants it.

15k "Entities" means a bunch of VMs spun on the same servers.

And when they get moderately popular, the size of their block history becomes prohibitively expensive to download and verify.

This is where the technical rubber meets the road with all the lightning sycophants. This is insanely untrue and it never has been. No one is ever able to prove this with numbers, they get out the playbook of dealing with a claim they can't back up.

Bitcoin right now has the bandwidth of a 28.8 modem. At one point single transactions cost more than the space to store the entire chain. Normal people don't even need to sync with the main chain if they don't want to. The actual numbers of bandwidth and storage of this argument are so far removed from reality I can't believe people still say stuff like this. It's pure propaganda.
Related ongoing thread:

'Ray, this is a religion': How Bridgewater lost two top hires - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38181408 - Nov 2023 (104 comments)
AI is just hype at the moment, and subject to a hype cycle. Now we're at the peak, but usage will drop. The people using AI and wielding it the 'right way' will have made their money and live in Margaritaville, and everyone else will just use it as a personal assistant to make life easier, not make millions. Things will settle down. It will integrate into everything eventually just like a basic search functionality has been integrated into any capable app.
Tldr: the little guys will be pitted against megacorps with infinite money to assert their rights in a court of law.
I presume the argument some middle management type makes is that exposing their security protocols makes it trivial for a fraudster to work around. Obviously this is a fallacy because any genuine fraudsters has the incentive to work this all out by trial and error, if the information isn't freely available to them on some dark corner of the internet.
That's awesome. Go give your kid a social media addiction to please another 13-year-old.
We were under contract to deliver them a working design, both hardware and software, which they would then manufacture. Basically outsourced R&D.

So software was part of the deliverable. It was their product, their risk, after all.

We didn't do this for long, just to pay the bills until we had our own products that were making us money.
Whenever I've been moving amounts at that scale, I've already had a close working relationship with my bank as a natural side-effect of my business activities. As a result, I'd be doing those sorts of transfers by talking to my account manager at the bank.

I suspect that's the norm that banks are expecting.
> nicer animations

Pointless comment: I can't help but feel that the nicest animations are no animations. I think it's just that each time I see animations I try to imagine what Star Trek would look like if each tap on an LCARS panel took 300ms to do something.

On Gnome if I disable animations and apply https://github.com/bdaase/remove-alt-tab-delay I find the experience to be very good.