skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, a bank presumably makes no money at all (except in that it might slightly increase their non-interest-bearing checking account deposit base) from offering Zelle.

Dispute arbitration does cost money, though (especially if banks would step in to make customers whole in case fraudsters are already out of their reach), which is why we're in this mess in the first place.
> New York City saw overall crime decline again in August, led by continued sharp reductions in violence, and the tangible effects of proactive policing – including hundreds of individuals in possession of illegal firearms arrested, and dozens of fewer shootings committed. For the month of August 2023, New York City saw a 23.5% drop in shooting incidents compared to August 2022 (88 v. 115). The decrease in shootings extends the 26.1% decrease in shooting incidents citywide through the first eight months of 2023, compared to the same period a year ago (684 v. 926) – meaning 315 fewer people have been shot this year compared to last year. Additionally, homicides fell by 10% (269 v. 298) in comparison to the previous year’s first eight months.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p00092/nypd-citywide-crim...

Now this is the NYPD's own crime statistics, so if you have a better source for statistics please send it. I'm not sure what other data source there would be. Anyway, aggregate statistics are more valuable for this sort of question than individual incidents.
That's not true, many people willfully eject information that they have no use for immediately upon leaving school.
Spam? No, driven by providing value.
How do teams that deploy and maintain WAFs separate the signals from the noise. The constant door-knocking and buzz of credential-stuffing attacks, probes, and so forth that any API or web application gets generates a flood of data, most of it worthless. How do opsec people detect and address real threats meaningfully?
You are probably thinking of SameBoy :)
Most of your demo pages are returning 500s
Do you live in SF? Have you ever read Batman?
Buy a brand new TV.

TV comes with 5Gb hard drive

TV comes with 4.75 Gb of OS + bloatware apps.

Watch youtube and youtube caches .25GB for 2 hour long information video.

TV complains of no storage.

Rinse. Repeat
I generally agree on all point. I’ll merely add that big tech learning how to lobby like Wall St. plays a role.
Finally my dream of a physical screensaver is realized
AGI now means many different things to many different people. I don't think that's really any "common definition" anymore.

For some, it's simply Artificial and Generally Intelligent(perform many tasks, adapt). For some, it might mean any that it needs to do everything a normal human can. For some, non-biological life axiomatically cannot become AGI. For some, it must be "conscious" and "sentient".

For some, it might require literal omniscience and omnipotence and accepting anything as AGI means, to them, that they are being told to worship it as a God. For some, it might mean something more like an AI that is more competent than the most competent human at literally every task.

For some, acknowledging it means that we must acknowledge it has person-like rights. For some it cannot be AGI if it lies. For some it cannot be AGI if it makes any mistake. For some it cannot be AGI until it has more power than humans. These are several definitions and implications that are partially or wholly mutually conflicting but I have seen different people say that AGI is each different one of those.
What I mean by positive action is, you are requiring me to actively do something. I agree that we all have preferences, and often we cannot satisfy everyone's preferences, particularly when they are at odds as you have pointed out. Fair.

However, I see a very big difference between a preference that requires other people to take specific action to satisfy, and one that does not, and that's exactly the dynamic I see here. It is that expectation that other people will do things that they prefer not to do in order to satisfy your preference that I see as entitled.

As an aside, I'm not arguing right or wrong. I actually see many benefits to a good office environment (see my sibling comment in this discussion for the problem I have, basically that the majority of office environments are not good). I'm arguing coercion vs. freedom. My argument is that the RTO position is coercive in a way that the WFH position is not, that it's not the same.

I will take several simple example to try and explain how I see this difference.

Consider a Christmas party. I want to wear red and green. I don't care what other people wear. I'm not putting any restriction or obligation on other people. I can satisfy my preference through my own actions alone.

Now consider that I wan everyone to wear red and green. I am not going to be happy unless everyone is wearing red and green. In this example I cannot satisfy my preference without convincing or coercing other people to respect my preference. I am expecting my preference to win out over everyone else. I can frame the argument as "why should their (individual) preference to wear white supercede my (collective) preference that we wear green and red?" It is not the same because my preference in this scenario requires other people to actively change what they are doing.

Now, as you have said, this is not necessarily right or wrong (maybe we're taking theme photos, who knows), and I'm not making the argument that WFH is morally superior or necessarily more productive/better in any way. All I am doing is pointing out that your position is coercive in a way that the opposite is not.
OpenBSD formal driver verification with SeL4
Whistler Waves (Radio)
Just to add some the last piece of data: According to https://www.global-climatescope.org/markets/pa/, Electricity prices in Panama (in 2021) were $153/MWh, so the costs for each fill would be about $15,300

That sounds like a lot until you realize the largest ships are charged up to $150,000 for a transit.

A 10% price increase is nothing to scoff at, but it's not outlandish to deal with congestion...
Tobacco doesn't kill users, cancer kills users.

I can apply the same silly pedantry ad infinitum if you like.
What is TA'ing?
FYI, one secret in the world of automatic translation is "the better the transcription the better the translation."

Seems obvious, right?

We've been looking at whisper to replace AWS transcribe. It could be that AWS will just roll whisper in as an engine at some point before we get around to it.
Yup, in most cases now you can just submit them online, probably because so many things require them.
Ruby/Rails is not great for efficiently transforming megabyte sized blocks of JSON into differently structured megabyte sized blocks of JSON, just to give you one example. Golang/Rust/Java is better suited to that. Other use cases are for example any ML-Workloads where Python's ecosystem is much superior to Ruby's.

That being said, you missed my original point, which is that there are problems where you don't really want Rails implemented in a different language because Rails is not a good tool to solve that problem. Think hammer vs saw. You are asking for a different brand of hammer that can cut wood better. Wrong question.
Now I'm curious if sound waves (or vibration) could induce piezoelectricity in certain soils at comparable amounts.
How about the incentive of doing your job properly.
We do use regional prompting but not only
I've audited a lot of networks for compliance, and we always actually check that the protections that are meant to be in place are in place. I don't think I've done an audit where I wasn't using nmap to some degree.
On the contrary, as inverters and HVDC get cheaper, large synchronous grids are less worthwhile. Smaller grids are more resilient and easier to recover; that's the direction we're headed in, with plans to decouple some of these continental grids.
I don't know the details of Zelle scams, but my guess would be that the payee accounts usually aren't under the control of people that care about keeping them open in the long term (i.e. have either been taken over by fraudsters or have been opened fraudulently).
That’s not how it works. As mentioned in the article, this limited privilege is auctioned off to the highest bidder.
We've seen this elsewhere. "Security" becomes not about protecting the user's data from malicious operators, but protecting the manufacturer's data from the user.

If we do agree a standard it'll need to be about actually protecting the user, but implemented by manufacturers who have no incentive to actually do that, and lots of incentive to protect their data, sorry, business model.
Over what timeframe, based on how many degrees of warming?
I'm holding out for BLAKE7, personally
Whooosh....

The analogy wasn't about nutrition. It was about taste. If your first thought was nutrition then you definitely missed the point.
What you've described is simply a tooling problem. We can (and should) have tooling that creates native, performant apps and is as easy to create with as React.
Sounds interesting! You might start with a blog post…?
China has deployed 210GW of new solar and 70GW of wind power this year alone
-and it was a poor substitute for using that effort to actually engage with and reform the institutions

Well said. Its amazing that the IC has lagged behind on this and not made sufficient efforts to regain the publics trust.

-the only thing left to do is shrug and become a cypherpunk maximalist. Life is too short. Might as well ride this civilization into the ground.

This is the saddest story ever monitored. Many share that sentiment and has for decades.
ChatGPT is the most general system ever created and packaged. You can throw arbitrary problems at it and get half-decent solutions for most of them. It can summarize and expand text, translate both explicitly and internally[0], play games, plan, code, transcode, draw, cook, rhyme, solve riddles and challenges, do basic reasoning, and many, many other things. Whether one is leaning more towards "stochastic parrot" or more towards "sparks of AGI" - it's undeniable that it's a general system.

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[0] - The whole "fine-tune LLM on a super-specific task but only in language X (which is not English), its performance for that task improves in languages other than X" part, indicating it's not just learning tokens, but the meanings behind them too.
Bank of America did not generate QR codes until very recently. Imagine having a business setup to accept payment from Zelle and then realizing you have to instruct each user how to use Zelle with their bank. A lot of the time the sale never happened, the few cases it did required 30 minutes of hand holding.
Our ethics largely revolve around harm and permanence.

It's rarely unethical to do something that is easily reversed or that causes no harm. That's pretty likely to be the case with any AI...we can checkpoint their memory, or whatever.

So, right or wrong, I think our current ethical standards will lead us to believe that we can do anything we like to an AI that is operating in a temporary-memory mode, and any harm caused could be easily reset like it never happened.
> Has there been a change in actual life expectancy,

Yes!

There’s been a 25% drop in cancer deaths even ignoring differences in demographics. https://www.statista.com/statistics/184566/deaths-by-cancer-...

Back in 1950 it was 193.9 people died of cancer per 100k population, but it was a much younger population. By 1990 216 people died of cancer per 100,000 Americans due to an aging population and possibly lifestyle etc. But it has fallen literally every year since then despite an aging population.

We are down to 146.2 cancer deaths per 100,000 people.
That's geometric / square Kufic script, but I don't know how to parse it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufic#Square_Kufic
What a silly comment. McDonalds doesn't make poisonous coca-cola, they just distribute it.
Possibly, but I highly doubt that banks would want to get into the weeds of dispute arbitration for a free P2P payments system.
Huh, maybe he should go fund a prize instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
Really interesting. It is similar to how we at Sourcegraph are thinking about the levels of code AI.

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/levels-of-code-ai
The article notes the problem of the attack surface of WAF products themselves, and raises questions about the security posture of the products and the vendors. Compliance standards need to address the risks and weigh them against the benefits of WAFs. If, as the author argues, they have reached a point where they do more harm than good, the compliance bodies need to be honest about that and reevaluate recommendations.
"Between multiple devices, standard firmware which can be unlocked, and a larger than ever community of Linux users, we suspect that support will arrive while the machines are still being sold new."

Now that's managing expectations!

I'm trotting that one out next time someone complains that software support on the latest RISC-V SBC isn't quite where it is for the Raspberry Pi 4.
Harvard physics professor destroys transamerica speed record
This appears to be work sponsored by Huawei.
Absolutely. I've read a few of the Asterix books in French, and a couple in Latin (my native language is English); they were originally written in French, of course. Just one example: in English, Obelix's dog is Dogmatix; the French version is Idée-Fixe. Brilliant!
That's the same defense used for all recent failings of Big Tech at scale: "Well, when you sell as many apples as we do, of course you'll sell a few billion rotten ones. You can't expect us to check them all at this volume!"
Yes, we understood your implication that the government is punishing critique by down voting hacker news posts. I think you got down voted because people disagree, not because they didn't understand.
Interesting find. It looks like one can buy it in powder form on Amazon assuming it's the same molecule Coumarin C9H6O2 CAS: 91-64-5
A stationary car…I’d imagine it would make steering difficult. And if you had a crash…!!
You can also just get any regular "smart" TV and never set up its wifi. I plugged in my Chromecast as soon as I got it, and never used the TV's built-in stuff. It works fine and has no ads or anything. It just boots directly into the Chromecast.
> Migrations on CRDTs are challenging, so it’s important to “get it right” at the beginning.

Any tips or dos/don'ts you could share for how to "get it right" at the beginning? I'm hoping to build an application using CRDTs sometime in the future.
The output of the model is not under the same license. In fact, as far as I understand, the output would be your own copyright to license or not license however you please.

AGPL really is a great license for this type of project. It maximizes the power of everyone without limiting fair commercial use.
Are GPTs no deeper than a template for creating wrappers around calls to ChatGPT? Has anyone done anything really unique with them that wouldn't be better with its own UI?
My understanding is that while quantum tunneling defines a fundamental limit to miniaturization of silicon transistors we are still not really near that limit. The more pressing limits are around figuring out how to get the EUV light to consistently draw denser and denser patterns correctly.
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That is an interesting comparison.

By my calculation, "The Captain" is just under 5 tons per square meter. Contrast that to the neopanamax, almost 6.5 tons per square meter (some uncertainty here -- I'm going by DWT which apparently doesn't contain the ship itself). So yeah, it's certainly heavier, but the areal density isn't an order of magnitude greater.
I've been wondering about how to do incremental updates without incurring the cost of a full recalculation of the training data. I suppose I assumed that LLM providers would (if not now, eventually) incorporate a fine-tuning step to update a model's self-knowledge before making the model available. This would avoid including the update in the context length.

Among many, many applications, this would be helpful in allowing LLMs to converse about the current version of a website or application. I'd want a sense of time to be maintained, so that the LLM would know, if asked, about various versions. "Before the April 5, 2023 update, this feature was limited to ..., but now ... is supported."

I asked GPT4 about incremental updates, and it seemed to validate by my basic understanding. Here's the conversation so far:

https://chat.openai.com/share/00fe148a-13aa-4e92-8b77-f0de48...
What matters isn't really how easy it is to get, but rather than it raises the bar for making false statements.
seeing is believing, until then no one can say that with any certainty
Upskill to Counter the Ransomware Threat of LockBit
Imma let you finish, but Kanye is a poor example to make your point. He has one ineffective charity in Chicago and otherwise all public action has revolved around showcasing his own struggles while simultaneously presenting himself as the solution to the world’s problems.

Swift has been fairly vocal and ignited action around LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, sexual assault topics, and drastically improved voter turnout among her fans.
> Manual routing, firewall or certificate management is a canary to me in 2023

Well said. I’d agree that for most scenarios, one never has to touch these. That’s one of the actual selling points of cloud.
You don't need to test every model of x86 laptop, just the most popular ones!

I have no data on this, but I would guess that the top 10 or 20 best-selling x86 laptops comprise a very significant portion of the overall market. So profile those, ignore the others, and you've helped a lot of users!
The parent commenter probably meant: There's no Marxian left wing composed of serious people in the US.
Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN
They're like $50 and DRAMATICALLY better than what the TVs offer. It makes a huge difference :)

There is still some bloat in them (bundled apps) but it's much less intrusive and crappy than the TV ones, IMO.

Everyone makes them now... Google, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Roku...
This feels like the AGI equivalent of doing a tier list, and about as useful.
Thanks, I really didn’t get what they meant with the example they were using.

Out of curiosity why is writing everything as a single element type more ergonomic? I’ve not done frontend web dev in a while and using <p> <h1> and so on seems like it would be more ergonomic to express intent.
It’s not due to the update but I find it’s searching Bing in like 95% of my use cases. If I wanted to search Bing and find the answer, I would have done so myself
What was the scam?
This is correct, I thought it wasn't and was going crazy trying to debug my Pi 3 resetting my 3D printer every time, with any of ten power supplies I tried, including a configurable bench PSU.

I switched to the official Pi PSU after someone said "trust me on this" online, and yep, zero issues in all the years since.
I like seeing how familiar structures appear at cosmological scale. Long ago I created a webgl visualization of the Millennium Run, an early large-scale cosmological simulation: https://www.asterank.com/galaxies/

It was a nice way to learn about three.js/webgl and how to make many particles performant. There are probably better visualizations out there nowadays.
Probably because Canada has a tenth the population, a tenth the GDP, and I would assume considerably less than a tenth of the media dominance of the United States.
I have attempted to file police reports at multiple times in my life. I have not been successful.
It's a good book for sure. You'll never look at your best-asymptotic fibonacci solution the same way again.
It's a win because it means no build step. You could also say that JSX is a custom, non-standard DSL.
What in the world are you talking about?

This reads like someone who doesn't understand how to use a tool so they think it is broken. I've worked on Rails apps that outperformed Spring/Java apps routinely and node apps routinely at very large scale. You're very rarely bottlenecked on CPU in a modern CRUD app, much more often, it is the database.

It sounds naive to call the framework that runs github, that almost everyone in the world pushes their code to "veeeeery slow" and I don't know what you mean by "bad at io" in any context where that is a problem for Rails.
Google’s focus on TPUs have caused them many issues though other giant players might see spending FTE-equivalents on PyTorch etc development as a better investment choice.
guy asked for prompts, i delivered prompts
Sure. My point is that this classification is useful only within its category. Say I have a specific problem, like "play chess" or "play StarCraft" or "do maths" or "spellcheck essays". It would be great to have a task-specific list of algorithms ranked by their "Narrow" levels. It would help with use cases like: "oh, model X here spellchecks at level 5N, but is super complex, meanwhile algorithm Y is only Level 3N, but it fits on a napkin; Y is more than sufficient for my MVP". But this rating doesn't let us compare between tasks. That's fine by itself, but then it doesn't make sense to use the same rating for both specialized and general algorithms.
Hacker News doesn't trust you, and you're still able to post text. There are safe ways to handle untrusted data sources.
I suppose it won't work for generating images of Winnie the Pooh then.

But seriously, it's open-source, so it hardly matters.
Yes, it would be a disaster for a payment mechanism where nothing is ever final, and a year after you sold a MacBook to someone for $1500, suddenly that $1500 gets clawed back because someone social engineered Zelle. It would be a useless system if you never know if you are going to keep the money or if it could suddenly disappear one day.
These companies (that rely heavily on undocumented labor, like slaughterhouses) are also way too friendly with USCIS/ICE/DHS.

There was a coordinated series of raids on I believe Tyson a few years. A few facilities in a couple of counties.

Eight hundred, nine hundred undocumented workers.

Many of them said that the company advised them on staying under the radar. Some even gave the arresting officers company paperwork that told them how to do certain things, like fill out their I-9s, etc.

A curious journalist asked at the press conference where chests were being puffed about such things and the fact that the company was obviously not just aware, but assisting in the employment of these workers. "Are there any plans to investigate the company or issue fines or charges?"

"We are not considering that at this time."

Huh, color me surprised.

With all the labor law issues that these places have, from OSHA to child labor, it wouldn't remotely surprise me that if the undocumented workers get a little too "uppity" about health and safety or worker's rights, someone from the company calls ICE and says "Hey, we'll help you find a whole bunch of undocumented workers at our facilities if you don't consider enforcement against us".

It already IS a federal crime to hire undocumented workers, and an additional federal crime to harbor them at your place of employment (8 USC 1324). But almost never enforced, for some odd reason...
Nice work and thank you for replying. I’m new(ish) to open source and was asking because I wanted the perspective of someone more experienced. I don’t have much context for what level of work goes into making something like this, nor have I any clue what it feels like to know a big company is using my work. Your reply really helped to inform my understanding of these things and like you, I’d be quite pleased with a sponsorship of that amount.
> Imagine having a business setup to accept payment from Zelle

Well, here's the problem: Zelle was never intended for this use case (i.e. B2C payments).

I believe they are planning to move into that space, but right now it's just the completely wrong tool for the task, and I've never seen it used for that myself (except for a few otherwise cash-only restaurants, food trucks etc).