skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends if Apple really feels they can run a backoffice banking arm effectively and cheaper than a partner that is already at scale.

Underwriting credit & customer risk, handling edge cases, maintaining relationships with ATM networks, card networks and ensuring compliance with state and federal banking rules is quite an undertaking.

Goldman Sachs did not have scale like Chase, Capital One and others to create a diversified portfolio of clients, limiting their ability to hedge against the risks of a single platform or two dominating their involvement in this market. One bad software update by Apple could flood their support queues, and they can't afford to keep significant staff on hand to keep wait times below an hour (unlike a larger company, who is already staffed up to serve their non-Apple customers).
Empathy-Driven Web Design: Leveraging Human Emotion
Have you ever considered how empathy can revolutionize website design? It’s more than just a creative concept; it’s a game-changer for businesses aiming to forge a deeper connection with their audience.
Not crypto. Bitcoin had a very short GPU phase that spanned for a few months, before moving to FPGAs and finally to ASICs.

Ethereum made a concerted effort to sabotage ASIC mining, and remain GPU minable. Such is the case for all other GPU minable coins.

So no, I don't think crypto needed GPUs.

Related to that, I feel like AI should start moving to FGPAs/ASICs soon.
Deciding who can and can't be a victim is more about other people than it is for the person harmed.

Specifically it's a reality building mechanism where systems that enable harm to occur are shielded from critique in the sense that it renders action against them impotent. Generally, the mechanism is one of individuation of harms. This is most understandable in that victimhood itself is a collective state of being for victims ie: a shared common experience. Share common experiences naturally lead towards systemic-thinking - something we wish to avoid.

What anti-victimhood advocates are doing, whether they know or not, is participating in the creating of a reality where systems which create victims[1] are shielded from systems-level thinking. ie: every case which results in a victim is between individuals.

As a side note: it's incredible weird to participate in a community that advocates for and understands the importance of systems-level thinking but then only applies this to machines rather than social systems.

1. remember that a systems purposes is its consequences
The second photo in that article is of an Israeli child's blood-stained bunk bed.
Why is it ok to kill men but not women and children
In some ways, it's the opposite: Knuth is super practical and any theory is only in the service of whatever is actually relevant to writing better programs and getting answers. See e.g. this older comment of mine comparing CLRS and TAOCP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21924265 — where others may say O(lg n), Knuth will say that a trie search inspects an average of lg N + 1.33 bits for a successful search and lg N − 0.11 for an unsuccessful one.

But then again, as a result of all this work from him, pulling together and categorizing and cataloguing and analyzing all the disparate ad-hoc “tricks” that programmers had come up with, Knuth basically put (this area of) computer science on good foundations and made it a respectable academic discipline. So in that sense he successfully executed a Principia-like project.

To put it another way, the computer programming/algorithms world is generally divided into hackers who derive satisfaction from elegant ways of bending computers to their will, and theorists who are happy to talk asymptotics, treat their problems abstractly as a branch of mathematics, and often never write a single program. What sets Knuth apart is that he straddles both words: is firmly a hacker at heart, but is able to bring prodigious theoretical skill to bear on the area.
When I saw this Twitter thread started by Sam Altman and his own reply to it, I eye-rolled so hard it hurt.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1607482407770554373?lang=en
But managers are?
yeah, if he had found a different set of arguments from the other side, chatgpt would have agreed just as readily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7RmcdHrYuk
It also implicitly requires that you be able to perform an unaligned 32-bit read. On some architectures, this will trap; on many others, it's slow.
I don't know who you're quoting here, but it isn't me.
Bah, kids these days. It's not revisionism. I worked on search quality during the hand-coded heuristic era, 2005-2009. I spent some of that time working on the "navboost" team which used click data to alter the search results. Even by 2007, click data was quite valuable, arguably the single most important component of the algorithm.

The algorithm was hand-coded, sure. You don't need machine learning in order to use click data. You just need a few people to have searched for that particular query before. When someone clicks on a result and stays there a while, it's a "long click" and you boost that search result for that query.
Typically your best bet is going with a provider that already produces whatever item, isn't bespoke to that particular program, and has an assembly line of sorts already set up. However the other problem is they are often built in low numbers to begin with so getting hold of a flight qualified unit will most likely be an issue as well. Also everything is tightly packed together which usually makes replacing something involve messing with a bunch of other items.
I mean if you look at the photos and videos of Palestinian journalists on October 7th - none of them wearing any visible signs that are they with press.
Even though they literally traveled on vehicles with Hamas fighters.
Well it's over four years old, so not really that new.

The UI and UX are great, but I only use it for Apple subscriptions and sometimes groceries. Everything else I'd rather use my Chase card that gives me travel points. At this moment I value that more than cash back.
The guy in question knew very well about the negative effects of lead[0]. The way in which you're right is that under capitalism, the profit motive distorts and chews up any moral precepts of any individual. The machine demands efficiency no matter how many lives it consumes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
So at least the title is complete hogwash
I honestly cannot remember the last time I physically used a card to pay. I think I’ve exclusively used Apple Pay all year… (UK)

Paying with your phone is pretty ubiquitous here.
No. Isn't that obvious? Even a draconian software license, which MIT's is decidedly not, requires a paid legal team for enforcement.
One thing about long aerospace missions like this with huge lead times that always gets me - you can spend years of your life working on a mission, only for it all to fail with potentially years until you can try again.

This is a refreshingly humanizing article, but is also one written from the perspective of a survivor. Imagine if the rover were actually lost. I asked the question "what would you do if the mission failed after all of this work? How could you cope?" to the folks at (now bankrupt) Masten Aerospace during a job interview, and maybe it was a bad time to ask such a question, but I didn't get the sense they knew either. "The best thing we can do is learn from failure," one of them told me. An excellent thing to do, but not exactly what I asked. This to me stands out as the defining personal risk of caring about your job and working in aerospace. Get too invested, and you may literally see your life's work go up in flames.
>despite being generally intelligent, doesn't have human-level intelligence

I think this whole quote is riddled with assumptions in this debate.

What is human level? Is it really a "level" or is human level just a local variant in a space of possible intelligence varieties that maybe could be sorted along one dimension of levels of maybe multiple? Can it be super intelligent without being autonomous at all?

I'm not saying that you're wrong in just pointing out where people ought to have a myriad of different assumptions.
“All You Need Considered Harmful” - most cliche title?
The code repo literally still has default templates: https://github.com/cap-so/cap/tree/main/apps/desktop

From what I can tell, the developer woke up today and decided creating the marketing material up front was more important than actually writing the app.

Next.
Works with Automatic111. Generated 20 512x512 on a lowly RTS 2070S with 8GB RAM.

Prompt: a man

Steps: 1, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 1, Seed: -1, Size: 512x512, Model hash: e869ac7d69, Model: sd_xl_turbo_1.0_fp16, Clip skip: 2, RNG: NV, Version: v1.6.0

Examples:
https://imgur.com/a/UuuT9qu
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072895/
I don't know if that's true. Problematically, I don't know if anybody else does either. The implications are significant either way. Under those circumstances, amping up the emotional impact of the stories being told seems worrisome. But not amping it up has had poor outcomes too, so who knows?
Cant wait for the "multimodal" version that can take a written description and generate meshes
On your next hospital visit for life-saving care, I'm sure you will be comforted to know that nurses (in the US) typically work 12 hour shifts and they're on their feet the whole time.
Not really, "I" can make 2D pictures that look like masterpieces using stable diffusion and didn't invest more than 6 hours playing with it, the learning curve is not that high, and people already have a hard time telling apart AI art than those from real 2D masters who have a lifetime learning it, the same thing will happen with making videogames and 3D art.(Yeah nothing of this looks exiting to me, actually it looks completely bleak)
Same here. I know the kids are dying, some of my closest friends share pictures every day and then denounce everyone who unfollows them for being against their existence. I'm sorry. What do all the journalists and activists want me to do? Odds are I've already done it. Please stop telling me about it, I know. I'm not turning away because I don't care about the kids, I'm turning away because the more we keep this up the less I'm able to care about anything. I just need a break but they make you feel like shit for it. And maybe I should feel like shit for choosing to ignore suffering because I can't keep looking idk. I'm just so tired.

In any case, I thought the place with articles about the intricacies of pointers in C++ would be safe from the politics and dead children. Clearly I was wrong.
Not to downplay everything you said but you really think Charlie Munger led a low stress life?
I don't think it's really that hard to report in a way that is unbiased enough to be useful. Just ask yourself, am I leaving out facts that my political opposite would think are relevant? But even just focusing on facts, however selected, would be better than what we have now which is a news media that decides what they want you to think first, and then reports or buries a story based on this.
This is probably a death knell for Goldman's entire consumer banking division. Ever single one of their products (including the Marcus savings account, which is now the sole remaining one) has been a costly failure.
I think Buffet has at least 7 more years, plenty of time for a successor to rise.
> Value investing is a strategy. Index funds are a vehicle.

Yes, that's correct. They are orthogonal concepts.
I suppose earlier generations had telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, airplane travel, rockets, etc. but yes, the rate of change of technology was incredible, to us anyway, in the 80s and 90s. I guess it remains to be seen if AI eventually evokes the same feelings. If not then it almost feels like we're in a bit of a drought since the smartphone revolution 15 years ago.
Very excited about being able to build scalable vector databases on DiskANN like turbopuffer or lancedb. These changes in latency are game changing. The best server is no server. The capability a low latency vector database application that runs in lambda and S3 and is dirt cheap is pretty amazing.
I'm guilty. I'm just here for the comments. I tend to learn more about the subject that way. And if I find the comments confusing I'll then jump to the article.

Partly due to the popup spam on any major media outlet site, even wikipedia with its constant nagging for donations.

Downvotes: Not sure why some HN readers are upset by this comment, I don't have time to read every article or to skim. Especially at work. Reading articles on mobile hurts my eyes, it's easier to get an understanding via comments.
An AGI system will eventually eclipse all software. Think about it - at first you can tell it -- Create for me an accounting software with an exact replica of Quickbooks ui/ux. First gen: Sure, give me a minute... 10th gen: Why don't i just do your taxes, no inteface needed at all.

This one AI will be able to do everything you ask it, or give you any interface you desire, should you need one - even creating a real world-like interface inside 3d/vr systems.

It's kinda depressing - the first to succeed in AI (assuming they don't kill us all), will become the top company in the world (if not the only company we need at all, because nobody can compete at all, by the time the next competitor gets to AGI - they'll be 50 generations improved, and it's just a runaway loop of self-improvement.
No, but I'm subscribed.
If I can get all of my data out of S3 for $30, then whatever the cost is for an enterprise with 1000TB, it must be within reason.
Many servers start up, load a ton of data from storage into RAM, and then happily serve that data for a long time. The latency of the server when starting up before it can service its first request is entirely based on the throughput of the data load.

Often these servers will load 128+GB of data into RAM (crazy, huh?) and even if you have 1GB/sec it's still two minutes for the server to start up.
I've been attempting to do something like this, but realized quite quickly many things need a video. e.g. Writing out how to change the furnace filter just made no sense (the layout of the furnace makes it really tricky) but a 1 minute video just did the trick.

I like the structure laid out here, gives me a good idea on how to start on something that would work for me.
> I assumed everybody was familiar with the classic Dr. Seuss story "The Sneetches"

Dr. Seuss is not really part of a Dutch or Swedish upbringing. We do get a whiff every now and then but the Sneetches? Nope.

> You state that women shying away from the right is evidence of fundamental sexual differences

You mistake correlation with causation. I state that women on average are more liberal leaning while men on average lean more towards conservatism. I did not state why this was so, only that it is so. As to why women on average lean more towards liberalism I suspect it does not have much to do with your statements about 'the right' but is related to the fact that women on average score significantly higher on the agreeableness and compassion scales than men do [1], two traits which are more prevalent in those who tend towards liberalism [2].

On the subject of 'the right' having adopted 'anti-women positions' I´ll state that it depends on your political opinion as to whether those positions are 'anti-women' or not. The fact that there are plenty of women on 'the right' who do not agree with your claim should give you cause to doubt the absolute veracity of your claim - unless you also insist that women on 'the right' are somehow not informed about what 'the right' has in mind for them? If you think it through a bit you'll find that it is your own (or your own community's/your own group's) political bias which informs this statement. Simone de Beauvoir [3] made a statement in a 1975 interview [4] with Betty Friedan [5] which clearly shows what I mean:

“No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one… In my opinion, as long as the family and the myth of the family and the myth of maternity and the maternal instinct are not destroyed, women will still be oppressed.”

A woman of conservative persuasion most likely considers that statement to be proof of the authoritarian and revolutionary bent of these liberals or, to restate this in your terminology, 'the fact that the left has made a point of adopting anti-women positions which make them unappealing to all but the most self-sabotaging'.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/

[2] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/59220106.pdf

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir

[4] http://www.sandrineberges.com/the-home-a-philosophical-proje...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Friedan
DepolarizingGPT
The one thing that I think has changed between now and the last time there was a major conflict is that the internet exists.

I would put it slightly differently. News has been more democratised - and we can argue whether that's good or bad - but people are more and more compiling their own version of events rather than relying on a tiny handful of elite journalists at prestigious institutions to compile it for them. There are also now a lot of English speaking Arabs online, which means their voices are heard more and more often.
>Plenty of breeds are hypoallergenic

Hypoallergenic dogs are literally a lie, there's no such thing.

https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/1...
I have to ask which AMEX. I used my Platinum overseas quite a lot (they give all AMEX cards free to US Military) and never had cause for complaint.
Two years and two roommates, they literally only spent their time in our shared room when they went to bed. 95% of waking hours, they were in communal area or classes. Myself, on the other hand, I liked my window and full room for half the price. Although we really need to figure out the communal area for society, because bars, parks, and cafes in the US are not even close to cutting it for how communal people are in college.
In the US, that situation has dramatically changed in the last 3 years or so.
I've been wanting to hack my espresso machine and get some feedback from the status LEDs, but I'm just using a SwitchBot to push the button [1] to turn it on. I use a smart wall plug that I use to turn it off. (It has a push button to toggle on/off, so turning it off at the wall means that the state never gets out of sync.) I also avoid the SwitchBot cloud app by communicating with the device directly via Bluetooth. YOu can also get cheaper alternatives on AliExpress.

[1] https://us.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot
Sounds that way!
That was before Apple had however many card customers they now have.
Why Hamas built so many bomb shelters and tunnels but literally 0 of them were used to protect the citizens?
It’s literally the opposite of what any other government in the world would do.
Nothing in this article denies any of this. Not sure what your point is. Everything is political.
I've had the Apple card since it was launched and have had one or two fraudulent charges, they were trivially easy to resolve, everything occurred via iMessage for Business.

I don't mean to diminish your negative experience, but it's not universal.

> The card itself was just not competitive in terms of rewards. The UI/UX of the app and the deeper integration into the Apple ecosystem was nice... (if a bit confusing) but when I moved over to Chase I found myself not really missing it at all.

The Apple rewards were quite a bit more generous than my previous card. I just looked at the Chase CC landing page and the rewards didn't look any better than my Apple Card. Which Chase card did you move to?
> but this has the feel of a site converted from flash with the same elements and emulates the flash site as close as possible

To me, this feels more like university lecture powerpoint, complete with white text on dark blue background.
Nice app! How did you source the sounds? Are there permissively licensed tabla and santoor samples somewhere?
I didn't really know the answer to that but I found this online: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-reheated-coffee-tastes-ba...

I do know that while I love espresso I don't have a particularly "discerning palate" (many of the lighter roasts that seem to be so popular among fancy coffee shops taste far too sour/acidic for my liking), but even I can taste the grossness of coffee that has been sitting on a hot plate too long. It just tastes really "burnt", bitter, and acrid.
32-Bit MCUs Handle Heavy ML Workloads on Battery-Operated IoT Devices
Another relevant bit of info from hospital accidents: hand-offs between shifts are known to increase the risk of a mistake in care and are part of the reason nurses and doctors work such long hours.
When the prose is excellent, the genre and theme don't matter.
Indeed, there is some theocratic elements[0-2] in what drives the pogrom and extermination of a people through periodically “mowing the lawn” and sustained land theft at massive scale.

[0] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/john-hagee-hitl...

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230605-the-israelis-...

[2] https://jewishcurrents.org/the-gops-plan-to-build-the-third-...
ChatGPT is agreeable, not principled.
Yeah, in my experience it's actually FASTER because I was already doing high res gens, and that required 2 or 3 passes previously.
Interesting, Dreambooth or Lora would have take 10-20 minutes in general
First, we're talking about the state of the technology and what it can produce, not the fundamental worthiness of the approach. Right now, it's not up to the task. In the earliest phases of those technologies, they also weren't good enough for for professional use cases.

Secondly, the number of hobbyists only matters if you're talking about hobbyists that develop the technology-- not hobbyists that use the technology. Until those tools are good enough, you could have every hobbyist on the planet collectively attempting to make a Disney-quality character model with tools that aren't capable of doing so and it wouldn't get much closer to the requisite result than a single hobbyist doing the same.
I was being more broad, but yeah, I generally agree. It also has weakened the voice of a mainstream narrative from western powers (particularly the US gov).

Actually, and this is an aside, one of the reasons there's been such dissonance from western countries on this issue is the US' power has had a marked decrease since the Iraq Invasion. An invasion that was part of a long tantrum response to another atrocity. History repeats itself.
Payment cards that only have a 0.125% fee? Are you talking about a debit card or a payment / credit card?
This would be a lot more pithy if it weren't in the comment section of a post that showcases exactly how they were likely able to make 1.6 cheaper, and open sources the underlying tech.

There couldn't be a more perfect rebuttal to this theory than the post you decided to leave it under.
Reminds me of my favorite George Carlin bit[1]:

Here's one they just made up: "near miss". When two planes almost collide, they call it a near miss. It's a near hit. A collision is a near miss.

[1]: https://www.quotes.net/mquote/35854
Sure, but would they all make the same error? Either there was no error or they all inherited it from another source or Matthew and Luke inherited it from Mark.

There is some evidence in Matthew that it could have originally been written in Aramaic.
Uber Isn't Profitable yet but Is Getting Closer; the Antitrust Case
So weird. Would make an interesting novel, I guess?

Reminds me https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29434.Self_Made_Man, where a woman journalist spent a year pretending to be a man to write about it afterward.

Hell, I did that in a MMO and nobody cared, lol.