skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scenario referred to in the title, "financial devices that only AI can
understand, that no human being can understand", seems rather silly.

If by "devices" he means automated trading systems, those have been around for decades, they already account for most trading activity, and no human can understand their collective behavior. They are controlled the same way as human traders: by imposing hard constraints on what they are allowed to do.

If by "devices" he means financial instruments, consider how long it took for Bitcoin futures and ETFs to be approved by the CFTC and SEC (the latter still hadn't approved a spot Bitcoin ETF last time I checked, only ones holding futures or Bitcoin company stocks). How likely would they be to authorize financial instruments "that no human being can understand"?
They certainly allow you to learn. I'm able to tell my manager I'll spend a sprint(s) tinkering with build performance or reading stuff that's relevant to our work (i.e. the Goog SRE book).
A) everyone stops tipping across the board

B) businesses have to start paying their staff better wages
I had the same reaction! Before I clicked the article, I was thinking that a bunch of Twitter or Salesforce people were going to jail.
Infinite Monkeys
These two effects are not similar in scale. Fertility across the globe is falling by a lot. Africa went from 6.7 to 4.2 in a span of 50 years. Asia went from 6 to 1.9.

Anywhere but least developed countries child mortality is low, such that fertility replacement level is estimated at 2.1 (vs 2.0 if everyone survived until reproductive age).

We used to have 5-6 kids, with one dying if you were a bit unlucky (statistically speaking). Now we have 2 or less.
SSM is powerful and convenient but very dangerous due to its huge surface area... I personally remove it by default.
> Nobody's challenging DOMA. Nobody's trying to outlaw sodomy.

I assume you meant that the other way: DOMA was the law that blocked gay marriage, which the SCOTUS overturned. You meant "Nobody's trying to reinstitute DOMA."

And, yes, they are. Obergefell V. Hodges is in the crosshairs; overturning it was avowedly the goal of the people who fought hard to get this slate of Supreme Court Justices nominated to the bench, right next to overturning Roe v. Wade.

https://jlsp.law.columbia.edu/2021/01/15/thomas-tees-up-futu...
Is the title the actual article? The only extra info in the page is a semi-unrelated pic.
> Also curious what it means (if anything) in the drop shadow context.

Nothing if the edges of your bitmap (up to the blur's radius) are transparent. :)
Wait why should social media mean less of a platform for our best thinkers? Sure social media provides not only additional platforming, but access to a far broader audience than Einstein could have possibly imagined?
Work from Home Has Reshaped What Americans Buy
Would being tighter with their budgets and reducing headcount give them more incentive to build more useful things?

They built the useful thing already. It prints money. Let them house and feed a bunch of people as employees. Idk maybe I'm missing something
> That's not possible. IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers. Once you change that, you're no longer "preserving existing addresses".

I am uniquely employee number 6100. That field is 32 bits in HR's database. If they make it 64-bit, I'm still 6100.

> That's actually "once all routers and end devices are updated to support them". As the classic spamsolutions.txt says, "requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once".

No it doesn't, it requires gradual cooperation, as the 4.1-compatible hosts will still speak v4 as needed. Same as how v6 stack support was added even to hosts not using it.

> It's more like "not needing NAT" than removing it; port mapping NAT is not a part of IPv4 (it's a hack on top of it), and it can be done identically in IPv6, but few do it on IPv6 since it's not necessary.

Yeah but the goal is to remove it. The feature set of v6, including random addressing, is intended to support p2p applications. The authors of ipv6 did not envision NAT being enable by default. Defaults and intent matter more than technical details here.

> IPv6 has done no such thing; the existing IPv4 blocks are still there.

They aren't there on practically any ipv6 network, despite an optional ipv6 extension for v4-mapped addresses. That's the critical difference vs what I've described.
Real-time image editing using latent consistency models
I would not bet on that.
There is a spiritual successor I can recommend :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_3
2001-09-09 01:46:40 UTC
> 2001-09-09T01:46:40.000+00:00

2 days later...
How do you think login works for almost all network/web services? Very few do anything different. I wish they would, of course. Crypto/signature logins please!
The author isn't describing government censorship, though. He's describing situations where private parties (individuals, colleges, social media, etc.) are using their power to silence him. Now the author is mad, and wants to conflate it with patriotism and national righteousness.

Look at excerpts like this:

> However, as long as human beings retain their individuality, their intellectual curiosity and their scepticism, a common outlook cannot be achieved without systematic coercion — which is what we are witnessing today.

> The perceived power of vested interests and the inertia of democratic decision-making have combined to persuade much of the younger generation that debate is worthless and direct action the only answer.

> So, when the freedom of expression of one group is used to silence others, how is the state to mediate?

TFA is disenfranchised with the economy and government too! He's hiding it behind some awfully flowery language, but all of his arguments could be distilled as a frustration with liberal progress. Surprise surprise; today's democrats, SJWs and liberal boogeymen feel the same, about different topics, and get equally frustrated over their lack of rhetorical impact. The little insecure tangents he goes on really drills home the fact that this isn't about free speech, but rather his pent-up longing for a world where everyone shares the same opinion. If this guy's "dangerous" intellect was so world-changing, it would be self-evident. But it's not. You don't get to blame society when they reject your personal rhetoric, that's the foundation of democracy. The "free speech" framework around his argument is a blatant Trojan Horse.

Damn me for reading this worthless rag all the way through, just to respond in good faith...
999999999 was on Sept 9, 2001
Not at all. This would be much easier to migrate and support.

Nowadays you have two entire separate stacks, each with their own firewall rules. That's why the first thing I do is outright disable IPv6 because of the potential security issues due to misconfiguration.

The hardware and operating systems have supported IPv6 for a very long time. The problem is that it's a pain in the ass to maintain 2 stacks simultaneously, that's why adoption is so slow.

OS and hardware support is not the bottleneck.
I think it can be both. The few who stand out do so mostly or entirely because they are separated from mass mentality. Maybe a Chicken and egg sort of thing. And then the quote about the difference between genius and insanity comes to mind.

This is the Jungian concept individuation.

Can you recommend any brilliant exceptions that come to mind? Especially in journalism.
Oh hey that’s pretty nice. Thanks for the recommendation. DK never got the credit it deserved but it and arcanum are my top 2
A rocket can't stay on-station for hours at a time waiting for the right moment to deliver the payload. With mid-air refueling, this beast can hover near but out of reach, to produce a threat that may never strike. A nice piece to have when 'negotiating' with a near-peer antagonist.
My title will be whatever the paying market tells me it is. I've seen changing titles for years, from "Flash developers" to "interface designers" to "data scientist". The market keeps changing.

It's okay to change your job title. There is no perfect "anything".
> Humans find can find a way too

Hubris. Philosophically, it is opposed to reason. The story of Icarus is the classic tale of hubris. As a sort of omnipotence with unlimited power, it is irrational precisely because it appropriates a belief in the possibility of transcending physical limits.
The parent's premise was "Why is it illegal to bribe an official to do their job?"

The thought experiment is "What if it was legal to bribe city officials for matters involving their job, explore what would happen."
eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel
Ex EC employee here. Once you're an official, which really only requires patience with terrible web interfaces and fluency in two of French, German and English, it's almost impossible to get fired. It's also possible to take twelve years of unpaid leave and return to the same job!
Yes, and this is why I'm very careful to refer to the work and author separately. Today's J.K. Rowling is a Slytherin. Hogwarts delenda est.
Svalbard is larger than I thought, but not as large as the projection tricks you to: it's 1/6th the area of Norway shown below. On thetruesize.com you can drag Svalbard around and compare it to other countries, it's roughly the size of all of Ireland.
it doesn't have to be political because it's already here, just without the metal arms and cyber-eyes. you're not debating the future since it's now just a standard local / state / national discussion topic.

FAANG tech bros making 600k and on the other side of the city is the largest homeless population in the US. Human street poop and fiber optic connectivity as the two largest challenges in my brothers neighborhood.

should we ban online social media platforms from being used by under-13s?

does google or FB have to pay for ads in Canada? etc etc
Which means the sum of all human experience every two years is the equivalent to what some immortal entity born at the dawn of time would have ever experienced. And we can all share it and it’s so cool!
Related:

Might as well be in this thread on the Monaspace fonts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38210574
This is awesome.

Totally understand the HIPPA challenges.

I'd totally pay her to teach me how to do it for myself. Perhaps she could do it as a coaching or online course type model?

I need this skillset in my life and don't know how to acquire it. I would pay someone to teach me how to acquire it.
That's just the life expectancy metric.
Fig is an abstraction over top of Perforce. Before fig was a git-UI-based tool and it is gone. Mercurial's interface is way better than git.

The fact that Mercurial does not scale to a Google-sized monorepo is not an indictment of Mercurial.
Show HN: Yet another native iOS app for paperless-ngx
Or, maybe, I know people from Donbass and know more about this than you do. Ukraine treats them like garbage. Rape by Ukrainian soldiers is a common occurrence. I'm fully aware of the propaganda, Russia is doing a shit job at actually winning this, and I understand the strategic aspect. The stated purpose of the occupation is moral. Obviously geopolitics will play a role, but this is international conflict. My own country has done far worse things, and pretending to be angry at this when the Gulf War was worse is just intellectually dishonest.
A major update to the recommendation algorithm is rolling out
Can you elaborate? Do you have specific examples in mind?
We still have our stars.
The Ornate Bird Palaces of Ottoman-Era Turkey (2017)
Isn't that just half a hair dryer? Is it for keeping things warm?
It's worth noting that just because an H100 has a higher flops number doesn't mean your program is actually hitting that number of flops. Modern TPUs are surprisingly competitive with Nvidia on a perf/$ metric, if you're doing cloud ML they are absolutely worth a look. We have been keeping costs down by racking our own GPUs but TPUs are so cost effective that we need to do some thinking about changing our approach.

I'm not certain but I think part of this is that XLA (for example) is a mountain of chip-specific optimizations between your code and the actual operations. So comparing your throughput between GPU and TPU is not just flops-to-flops.
Why we the love Gateway API
Adding to rfrey's comment, in demography "reproduction rate" is the number of daughters per woman.

I think it's from a more general population biology definition, the number of female descendants per female.

Yes, for the long run reproduction rate matters more. Demographers mostly assume fixed sex ratios at birth, making the point moot. But "fixed sex ratios" is no longer necessarily true, now that the sex of unborn fetuses can be determined and semen can be sex-selected.
I look forward to seeing the EU take this on:

> The German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Ulrich Kelber, is also alarmed: On the social media network Mastodon, he described the data collection as "alarming" and announced his intention to pursue the issue at European level through the data protection authorities as early as next Tuesday.

https://social.bund.de/@bfdi/111381793883035665
Great. While we're at it, where are the sanctions against Nvidia, Intel, Boeing, McDonalds? They all worked in Russia and paid taxes, contributing to the war. Are there any sanctions against most European countries? They were buying the gas, oil and other resources which constituted the bulk of government profit and taxes, while perfectly seeing (and ignoring) what's happening. UK turning a blind eye to the source of money of the oligarchs buying all that astronomically expensive property in London? What suddenly makes all of them more innocent than an average Ivan whose "taxes" were either a drop in the ocean in a resource export-based economy or who worked for a foreign company directly or indirectly? The color of a passport?

>Russia is still a democracy and they elect their government

I'll be honest, I have a hard time taking posters like this seriously.
First, my feature branch commit history is always fragmented and unusable. I commit extremely liberally, every few minutes if I'm actively making changes. Why not? If I always squash before I merge, nobody seems my junk, and being able to back up a few steps after coding down the wrong path is super useful.

Second, if I do create a feature that should be multiple commits for clarity, I find it a lot easier to do all my work in a scratch feature branch, get everything working correctly, tests passing, etc., then do a `git merge --no-commit` onto my final feature branch for the PR. At that point I can break my work up into a few different commits, as necessary.
If a copyright holder/advocacy group decided to DDoS IPs engaged in seeding/leeching of copyrighted material, or to to intentionally seed ransomware posing as the copyrighted work... do you think they would get away with it in the eyes of the law?
Escape-meta-alt-control-shift :)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

This is a common counter-argument, and sounds reasonable on face, and is even true in the limit. But we're not anywhere close to the limit. Reminding the dear reader of the actual context clears this point up quickly:

>> One favorite example is the year old video of Tesla FSD attempting to unprotected left turn thru an oncoming trolley car while the center display 3D rendered the trolley car in motion.

We're not asking for Nirvana. We're asking for not throwing up one's hands and declaring that perfect CV is impossible as one mows down pedestrians and trolley cars that one's CV system is clearly capable of identifying. For example.
Consider John Locke. He didn't create the idea of "human rights" any more than any one individual can be solely credited with any accomplishment in history, but I think it's fair to say he contributed a lot to the idea and is suitably emblematic of it. Locke trained as a physician, not as a philosopher. He worked largely as a physician and a bureaucrat. If he was a philosopher, he was an empiricist who wrote more about politics and economics than about metaphysics (to which he was somewhat indisposed). And, he was largely ignored until his writings became useful to American revolutionaries who arguably were again occupied more by the grubby business of politics than by the airy theories of metaphysics. Based on this one example, I would argue that Locke was as much if not more-so a political theorist than he was any kind of metaphysical philosopher and that therefore the claim that human rights is a metaphysical notion rather than a political idea, is weakened.
Well, we are herd animals...
Eh. The purpose of a job is to do the job.

Creating value feels more like the purpose of the business. Google is creating value, and I dont see the problem with them creating a bunch of easy jobs for people as a means of distributing that value
Based on my location? What location? I visited Russia during the war a total of 3 months, different places.
If that was the design, it produced the opposite effect! Lol.

But seriously, there is no grand design. The EU is the result of 60 years of compromises between larger and larger groups of countries which understand that, alone, they count for nothing in the age of continent-sized superpowers.
FDR was very much a racist who was going along with a plot concocted by a wealthy group of agricultural interests to dispossess Japanese-American citizens and immigrants of their farmlands, under the pretense of national security:

> Only hours after the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7. 1941, Austin E. Anson, managing secretary of California's powerful Salinas Valley Vegetable Grower-Shipper Association, was dispatched to Washington to urge federal authorities to remove all individuals of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. In an interview for the May 1942 Saturday Evening Post, Anson told how he drew a frightful scenario for the War and Navy departments, the attorney general and every congressman he could get to listen to him: an invading army coming ashore in Monterey Bay and advancing into the Salinas Valley while Japanese residents blew up bridges, disrupting traffic and sabotaging local defenses.

> By the end of the war, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "farm ownership by Japanese amounted to about 30 percent of their total pre-war farm operations {and} ownership transfers to non-evacuees during and after evacuation has probably reduced these farm ownerships to less than a fourth of the total pre-war Japanese land holdings, including leaseholds . . . ." Few of the internees ever received full payment for their land.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1992/02/02/b...

This was further exposed in Korematsu vs. the US, where it was revealed that the Office of Naval Intelligence had prepared reports showing there was no actual threat, which they then hid from the courts when Japanese-American citizens sought redress through the justice system. Likewise, the FBI had already locked up or was monitoring anyone they thought was dangerous and had discredited all of the key justifications for internment:

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/confession-error-s...
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading...
Ignore all that ANSI stuff, implement escape sequences like you think its easy to implement and then write a terminfo file for that so applications know how to use it.
It's because they forgot the middle step: make the thing worth buying.
> That's a big "if."

Not really. Many home routers used to assign all ports to the first device to connect to the router, and you'd need to setup NAT just for your second computer. Eventually the default settings wised up.

It is much more probable that security defaults will be much tighter today than they were when ADSL initially took off.
If net neutrality isn't the thing protecting Americans from some kind of internet dystopia where data for each service is treated and billed differently, then what is?

There must be some law preventing it, because knowing companies, they'll do the basest things they can get away with, and I'm sure they'd love to do this.

This is what I mean, from Indonesia: https://www.traveltomtom.net/media/cached-resp-images/images...
Just want to reinforce that yes, its discrimination, call it racism or whatever you will, but its not good either way.
Bill Cosby in the same breath as Einstein, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, FDR? Wow.
1. I use it on a NAS system. For years this was vanilla FreeBSD from 10 to 13. A few months back I replaced the system with TrueNAS Core which is based on FreeBSD 13, retaining the ZFS pools from the original installation. This system hosts storage and network shares, services hosted in jails such as databases, build slaves and artefact storage, and Windows virtual machines also hosting services and remote desktops.

2. First-class ZFS support, full NFSv4 ACL support which works with Samba and Windows ACLs and is a massive improvement upon POSIX.1e DRAFT ACLs.

3. No real preference, but ZFS support is (for me) the killer feature. Next are jails and Bhyve.

4. The main lack is the more comprehensive selection of drivers found on Linux. That said, it's pretty decent and I do find the overall quality of the drivers and system as a whole is better than Linux.

5. The system is engineered as a cohesive whole. While other BSDs might be similar, and perhaps Debian was attempting this a couple of decades back with its core design principles, most of the alternatives are lacking in this essential cohesiveness.
> Housing is a zero-sum Red Queen race

Only because we don’t build more. Remember, even the desirable areas like Atherton or San Francisco had near zero populations a few hundred years ago. New places can be built if we allow it.
Interoceanic Corridor in Mexico will move 1.4M containers a year
I bribe police/DA to overlook my other bribes
Marriage license.
It's been improving a fair bit lately. Until a year or so ago, not much work had been done on it.
As someone who got laid off a few months ago, that's sucks and good luck!
It's disingenuous to group one group of trust the experts as proof and the other as crackpot. Both groups blindly believed claims that a new treatment or repurposed drug would prevent covid. In neither case did it work.

I did the scientific way of not contracting coronavirus: isolation. Neither the dewormer or the mutiple experimental shots were as efficacious.
XTTS v2: best 0-shot voice cloning
Ah, here we see the great danger of LLMs, which is that they have the ability to be confident enough to bullshit you completely successfully. I don't think this is clipping edges, although I could be wrong about that, but if all thomasahle was to put the exact above code into GPT-4 and did not go to the source and pull more out, GPT has absolutely no reason to label "z" as "intersectionResult" as it was never used in the rest of the code, same for labelling "v6" as "computationResult", and the guesses for polygonStandard and basicQueue are at best the first stab a decompiler might take, but there's probably a better name than simply reiterating the type.

That's not better variable names; that's better-looking garbage. At least you know you don't know what "v7" is. With the post-LLM code you're having to poke through confident error.
http://learngitbranching.js.org

A couple hours and you'll never need to do that again. I promise!
just use a landline from some phone booth, done. You only need it to create the account, never again after that.
1. Kindle

2. Tabla (south asian drums)

3. Backup, that I use both for daily travel and for one-bag trips.

4. Feet warmer at my desk. Our floor is extra cold and my feet get cold anyway.