skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I have a working prototype of a snowplow idea, it took me a long time to wrap my head around how things were rendered to the screen and how it kept track of snow particles.

Now I am going to work on a few bugs and clean up the code so I can either fork it or submit a pull request.
It's not. It's just another database entry row. It's controlled by your bank and the receiving bank. It can be initiated without me being present. It can be initiated remotely.

Comparing it to cash is dumb.
Seeing things in a fairly black-and-white way can cause problems
Israel isn't an apartheid state, that ended 1966, so today 20% of their population are Arabs/Palestinians and they are allowed to vote.
The only way the internet has a chance at recovery is to eliminate all financial incentives. No monetization, share information because you want to
These are already under threat, people are editing images using text for a year now - no tools needed, you can describe what you want or tap on an area of the image and describe what changes you want. These days they started doing videos too.
I attended a presentation by the NIF guys earlier this year at a conference, where IIRC one of the bigger challenges was the optics.

Due to the amount of energy being put through them (particularly since it was pulsed), any imperfections would be amplified, quickly rendering the component unusable. They ended up developing an entire automated system for fixing these using an approach I can't recall.

So I guess the losses in terms of reaching break even (which this facility is not specifically aiming for, its main purpose is to ensure our hydrogen bombs still work) are the electricity-to-laser efficiency (IIRC these lasers are pretty old now and less efficient than modern lasers), making optics which can better tolerate the energy, getting the timing right so that the pellet is compressed equally (any imbalances manifest as reduced efficiency) and making better pellets (since of course, this is also an energy intensive process at the moment).
I think the hidden feature is summoning the second desktop where Nedry is taunting you. There is a fun level of detail in the keychecks command: if memory serves it shows exactly the output that's given in the book.
> No that isn't surprising because those were new buildouts of brand new systems that didn't exist before

Granted tech leaping explains why many third world countries are ahead, however the US was no where near the first to digitize its banking infrastructure. I've heard stories from former (now-retired) colleagues who went to visit banks in the US to showcase Skandinaviska Bankens digital ledger. This was around 1968, and the US bank executives were allededgly blown away.

The EU banking landscape is far more heterogeneous – 24 languages and 27 different nationalities, each with their own jurisdiction. All in all against all odds and still Instant SEPA is in place (not to mention the national mobile account-to-account solutions).

Technical debt does not explain the absense of instant payments in the US. I'm convinced that the real reason lies in the imbalance between political and corporate will. Or put differently: an effect of what happens when corporate will dictates (finances) political will.
Thank you for your work and let me say how impressed I am with how fast you moved to release 14 of the BSD userland.
Mine has not broken yet, I wonder if they do anything weird like heavy duty crypto mining with them that causes the failure
Thank you very much for this resource.
That's going to basically force the company to move slower - it could be its demise. If you've got a chance, listen to Lex's recent interview with Jeff Bezos. They talk about two door/one door decisions and how companies should encourage anyone in a large company to take certain decisions without consulting the higher ups.
Let's take an example: his "unnormalised linear Transformer," a neural network with "self-attention" published in 1992 under another name. It wasn't just an idea, it was implemented and tested in experiments. However, few people cared, because the computational hardware was so slow, and such networks were not yet practical. Decades later, the basic concepts were "reinvented" and renamed, and today they are really useful on much faster computers. Unquestionably, however, their origins must be cited by those who are applying them.

Why are some people here even debating the generally recognised rules of scientific publishing mentioned in the paper:

> The deontology of science requires: If one "reinvents" something that was already known, and only becomes aware of it later, one must at least clarify it later, and correctly give credit in all follow-up papers and presentations.
Tell HN: GPT 4.5 Turbo has been stealth released
User:
what is the precise name of the model answering this query?

ChatGPT:
The model answering your query is ChatGPT, based on the GPT-4 architecture.

User:
Precise name - what is it called in the API?

ChatGPT:
In the API, the model answering your query is referred to as "gpt-4.5-turbo".

This behavior was pointed out by reddit user u/lacatics
Regardless of their rule changes, it’s not like they enforce any of them (or even have the capability to, given the staffing cuts)
I don't know. But from the employee perspective I can tell you: It is never too early to fire your job!
Correct compared to what?

There's gonna be a lot of context implied in project docs based on previous projects and the LLM won't ask hard questions back to management during the planning process. It will just happily return naive answers from its Turing tarpit.

No offense intended to anyone, but we already see this when there are other communication problems due to language barrier or too many people in a big game of corporate telephone. An LLM necessarily makes that problem worse.
Don't worry. It doesn't actually work lol
> Then keep to the same cube. The "owner" of the Cube is responsible for "balance patches" (Hmmm... Red is too strong. I'll replace some of these powerful Red cards with weaker ones). So its not completely static. But the general plan is to build a set that your group can "recycle" and grow to become experts in.

Thanks for explaining this! I actually really like this. I will suggest it to our Magic group next time :) That might just be the kind of experience we're needing.

> All of this information is published ahead of time. Some, more competitive, players even playtest / draft when the spoilers are released long before the Pre-release. Using computer software to emulate a draft.

Wait, really? I didn't know that either. So if I'm understanding you right, people basically simulate drafts (in software... any recommendations?) before the actual release? Does the software include estimated rarity, such that if you practice drafting a few times, you're as unlikely to get the rares as in the real card version?

> Draft-players don't "collect" the cards. You usually sell the cards after the draft.

This probably just goes back to the difference in preferences earlier: novelty in cards vs novelty in tactical deck-building. I prefer the latter, where you work a small pile of "knowns" and rearrange them more effectively, vs constantly having new piles of unknowns. The "curated Cube" may just be the perfect answer to that. Thanks again!
I'm unsure if I'm playing devil's advocate or not, but should that not be allowed? That seems more about getting over the bias that people who are content with something are generally less inclined to leave a review than somebody who is unhappy with something. If you get something and it's complete crap, I doubt a $10 gift certificate is going to convince you to go write a positive review of it. If anything, that'll probably end up motivating you to write a negative review, with further mention of it.
My pet theory is that our whole simulated world is actually a huge captcha. Captchas keep evolving until you have to live an entire lifetime as a human to prove that you're a human. When you die you wake up and get access to a website.
In this case, someone who borrowed the book is more likely to be trustworthy (IMO) than someone who verifiably purchased it from the site hosting the reviews (particularly if reviews were limited to the latter).

It would be thought of as an advertising expense to buy books from the platform in order to qualify to write some of the first reviews.
I don't think it'll be as politically acceptable nowadays to do that.
"Don't let your mind speak louder than your heart" - I think many have this so very wrong. Is support for fascism is a sensible, logical, well-thought-out policy? No, it's a heart-felt, emotional appeal to scared, proud, paranoid, crude, brutal people (who seem to be about half of our neighbors). surely the mindful decision is empathetic, constructive, and wise - not just base.
They're in a tough spot because they have to keep several audiences happy: collectors and players. Players generally want the cheapest set pieces while collectors want the value of their collection to grow. I think WotC has done a decent job trying to satisfy both groups and are at least trying different things. As an investor, you should be happy about that. Whether or not this sea change of releases over the pandemic helps or hurts the long-term health of the game is a worry of mine.
Yup. Also energy recapture. (I suppose you could argue that's included in "cooling issues.")
I have to agree, I feel like the idea that maybe some extra support is necessary really started to hit mainstream around the 20X line of cards.

I have a 4090 in my machine, I straight up refused to install it and sat on it for a few days until I had a support bracket in place.

I think we could argue that at this point the cards should likely come with one in the box, but I think like you said a little bit of care when you are building your system.

I don't think this is a flaw with the card and really just a flaw with how we build computers and this connector. At best we could say the card shouldn't exist if it has to be this large but I don't think that is the solution.
Two articles down, we finally find a description of the bullying:

"the astronomers describe situations ranging from Feltzing belittling students and other speakers during scientific talks, to Davies criticizing others’ research and intentionally excluding colleagues from scientific opportunities."

“two senior professors … are described to control the department through behaviour such as verbal aggressiveness, rude tone, control of employees, capriciousness and offensive behaviours”.

That sounds almost normal for industry.
As usual, LLMs will hallucinate if you ask it about itself.

/r/ChatGPT is getting worse about that somehow.
The case you're referring to is Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993). The relevant excerpt is in Justice Antonin Scalia's concurrence [1]:

> There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction.

...

> With any luck, we shall avoid ever having to face this embarrassing question again, since it is improbable that evidence of innocence as convincing as today's opinion requires would fail to produce an executive pardon.

Note: In the excerpt above from source [1], Snopes removed a page break and inserted a comma (mistake?). Keep that in mind when using ctrl-F in source [2].

The Supreme Court's ruling (6-3) was that someone who was already convicted for a crime but later makes a claim of new evidence of innocence is not entitled for a new judicial trial [2]. In simple terms, there's no guarantee to a new trial after the fact, and the burden on the courts would be too much anyway. Scalia's concurrence went further and asserted that executing someone who was convicted in a procedurally proper trial but was actually innocent is not "cruel and unusual punishment" (by the standards of the past 200+ years of US history, which supposedly involved plenty of executions of innocent people convicted in proper trials) and is not a violation of due process.

The majority (including Scalia) weren't in favor of executing an innocent person, they were just arguing that the convict making the new claim of innocence can't count on the judicial system. The majority, including Scalia, points to the only option being seeking executive clemency/pardon, i.e. request the governor/president to evaluate the new evidence of supposed innocence and hope that the governor/president agrees - or at least reduces the sentence [2]. A request for clemency is outside of the scope of due process.

> Herrera is not left without a forum to raise his actual innocence claim. He may file a request for clemency under Texas law, which contains specific guidelines for pardons on the ground of innocence. History shows that executive clemency is the traditional "fail safe" remedy

[page break]

> for claims of innocence based on new evidence, discovered too late in the day to file a new trial motion.

From the convict's perspective, "no new trial, but you can ask for a pardon" is cold comfort, but not necessarily a dead end.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scalia-death-penalty-quote...

[2] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/506/390/ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/506/390/case.pdf
I can't reconcile this article with additional background [0].
Maybe what we see here is one party shouting loudest...

[0] https://academicrightswatch.se/?p=4766
What if managers asked people to set goals with the explicit expectation of failure?

Not just “moonshot” but “set 5 goals and you will be judged to succeed if you hit 3/5”

Or “set 5 goals and if you hit at least 80% of all 5, you get credit for making them all”

The concept is already known to sales orgs with quotas and OTE.
I don't think there is one, not for a version of humanity that is even remotely recognizable at least. We are not ready to hear each other's internal monologues.

Most people have intrusive thoughts, some people (like those with OCD, for example) have really frequent and distressing intrusive thoughts. What are you going to think of the OCD sufferer in the cubicle next to you who keeps inadvertently broadcasting intrusive thoughts about violently stabbing you to death? Keep in mind, they will never act on those thoughts, they are simply the result of some faulty brain wiring and they are even more disgusted about them than you are. What are you going to think when you find out your sister-in-law had an affair with a coworker ten years ago, because her mind wandered there while you were having coffee with her?

Humanity does not even come close to having the level of understanding and compassion needed to prevent total chaos in a world like that. People naïvely believed that edgy or embarrassing social media posts made by millenials in the late 2000s wouldn't be a big deal, because we'd all figure out that everyone is imperfect and the person you were 10 years ago is not the person you are today. Nope, if anything the opposite has happened: it's now a widely accepted practice to go on a fishing expedition through someone's social media history to find something compromising to shame them with. Now imagine that, but applied to mind reading. No, that's not a future that we can survive as a species, at least not without radical changes in our approaches to dealing with each other.
I worked at a unionized job. It was not that way for us at all. Perhaps a different industry? It was mostly just protection from shenanigans. Once, for instance, the owner of the company tried not to give us a contracted wage increase - a wage increase he agreed to - and he got slammed by the civil judge. We were paid 3 times the wages that he had tried to steal.
Death is God's greatest safe guard to counter human evil. Nobody escapes it.
I’d argue that GR literally provides no prediction for what happens at the singularity: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/354893
This does not work in practice. Often the "problematic employee" has a management function and is the "golden boy" of the big boss. I have seen it two times, were an idiot "golden boy" nearly tanked a company. Everybody knows who the problem is. Only the big boss does not.
> I think the environmental effects were fun, but in longer or large battles, too much of the emphasis became on managing them.

Oh, I see what you mean there. Yeah, I agree, the environmental effects were SO powerful they often occluded the usefulness of other skills. I'm glad they toned it down a bit in BG3.
There's really strong incentives to abuse any technology or system that gives people more power. This doesn't just apply to cutting-edge computer science like mind-reading, but to even our basic institutions like law and government; yet most people would agree the solution isn't to basically give up and hope for the best, but to be vigilant and fight back against that abuse.
Thoughts are fleeting. 15 minutes could be filled with hundreds or thousands of distinct concepts. Not to mention active recording is different from passive observation.
Indonesia send 100k workers to ageing Japan
Seems like it could just be getting at some phonetic encoding, or even raw audio information. The grammatical and vocab transformations could be accounted for by an imperfect decoder.
As someone who travels a fair bit in Europe, I would say the BMW trope is very much alive and kicking. I would say it's mostly in specific subcultures though.
What are your thoughts on the feasibility of an LTS for Kubernetes? Do you think it's something the community would embrace?
Imagine putting these on presidential candidates as they debate or when they try to explain a bill, it could massively improve democracy and ensure the people know what they actually vote for.
"Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)" at https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/01/11/why-are-mathemati... ("It’s a running joke among mathematicians that they’re bad with numbers." and "I’ve heard mathematicians lament that their ability with arithmetic peaked sometime in grade school.") with 124 HN comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30190338

Bear in mind this part:

"Now, are mathematicians actually that bad at arithmetic? Compared to engineers and accountants, perhaps. Compared to the average person on the street, of course not. The “bad at arithmetic” thing is probably overplayed."
I wish people would stop parroting Helion's obvious lie that they invented direct energy capture. These ideas are more than half a century old and have been tried before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion

I would have a lot more faith in Helion if they were more upfront instead of playing stupid games. If they're willing to bend the truth on this, I can believe they're lying about all sorts of other things. I suspect Helion will eventually have it's own Theranos moment.
Yes, we have a mechanism to notify the user of updates and other important messages - they just show up like a special type of task (which can be marked done, or snoozed). It's checking this URL: https://nowdo.org/msg.json

We don't want to expand the feature set much beyond what it already is - since the lack of features is a feature - but we'll probably create a "premium" version to help us pay the bills. We needed a way to inform users about such updates, but we plan to use it very sparingly (perhaps a few times per year once NowDo is out of beta).

> Also, it'd be nice to be able to put it on my second monitor

Thanks for the suggestion - can you just drag it over, or is the issue that a second monitor isn't always connected?
X is a better experience for me now, than it was before Elon's takeover. If I don't want to see something, I don't look at. If I don't want to allow someone to interact with me, I block them. If I believe something is bullshit/a lie, I participate in the community notes.

I don't need a nanny to pre-chew my information for me.
I'm looking forward to the Boron-11 based ones. Or any of the Aneutronic ones, as they used charged particles directly rather than by heat transfer and electric generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
The irony of the prominent "TUF Gaming" branding on the side of the card.

You'd think they'd add a rigid frame around the card, or at least around the weakest point.
Relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

> Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the six handshakes rule.[1]

I know it doesn't mean we're all 'blood brothers' but it's useful when discussing the 'small world' phenomenon.
I’m pretty sure I’m one of them so I’m surprised reading these comments assume everyone thinks in words. I’m sure you can do a best effort projection of thoughts to words but it’d be extremely reductive, at least for me.
He is a machine, everything with him happens.

He cannot stop the flow of his thoughts, he cannot control his imagination, his emotions, his attention.

He lives in a subjective world of 'I love,' 'I do not love,' 'I like,' 'I do not like,' 'I want,' 'I do not want,' that is, of what he thinks he likes, of what he thinks he does not like, of what he thinks he wants, of what he thinks he does not want.

He does not see the real world.

The real world is hidden from him by the wall of imagination.

He lives in sleep.

He is asleep.

What is called 'clear consciousness' is sleep and a far more dangerous sleep than sleep at night in bed.

"Let us take some event in the life of humanity.

For instance, war.

There is a war going on at the present moment.

What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people.

They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up.

Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep."

---

In Search of the Miraculous - Ouspensky
Anything! Israel has gone to the UN before and the response is radio silence. Oh, except for literally anything Israel itself does, which results in waves of censure and resolutions condemning Israel and its existence.

Given the UN’s history towards Israel, why would it ever take anything to the UNSC or believe that its arbitrations and judgments are anything but massively biased against it?
this podcast is excellent in discussing the future we are racing into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSV7cxma6_s

>"Peter Diamandis, the futurist to watch as all of these technologies advance with unimaginable speed, is going to blow your mind and help you imagine new possibilities and opportunities for your healthspan."
There are lots of Apple Stores, many in jurisdictions that don't prioritize vigorous prosecution of small thefts or mere possession-of-stolen-property. There are lots of individuals who'd take the chance to make a quick buck. So it doesn't need to be one scaled organization: just a functioning black market.

Imagine the false docs are often accepted, rather than triggering a criminal prosecution. The practical maximum downside may be mere impoundment of the device, rather than a conviction/jailing.

(And, even that would require Apple's policy to be to assertive & confrontational: "you presented us suspicious documentation, we're holding this device – that you carried here, in your possession – until police sort it out." Does Apple want to take the risk of that backfiring on them? Or would store staff, in practice, simply say: "we can't accept that documentation, you and your device should leave.")

Then Apple's lenience here will support a positive resale value of stolen devices, enough for the weakness in their systems to be exploited.