skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd go a step further and say that many people don't want to be told they're being scammed in the process of it happening.

I've literally spent afternoons resecuring business infrastructure after it was compromised by my boss whom I had already cautioned upon hearing dodgy calls.

And more than once.

I've seen the same thing happen in recordings of people getting scammed, where even if they acknowledge they might be getting scammed, their panic or frustration becomes so frantic that they just refuse to take a breath because the people warning them just "don't understand the urgency of the situation" or some such thinking. For whatever reason I haven't fallen into this trap yet, it might just be a generational thing, I dunno, but I suspect the fact that I meditate a lot means I can see my own thought process from abive, and so far short-circuit any of these tricks ptetty quickly.
Optimum is zero, because if you could wave a magic wand to magically make the amount of accidents zero, it would be a good thing to wave the wand.

The optimum is non-zero only if there are enough costs associated with making it zero.

That's why asking for optimum amount of fraud is misleading. It omits the costs. Once the costs are taken into account (i.e. it is clarified what the question means) the answer is obviously above zero.
Every camera maintains its own blockchain!
Yeah the title should be fixed. It's completely wrong lol.
How much disk space does it need?
That is not their website. https://revanced.app/patches?pkg=com.google.android.youtube

"Alternative thumbnails"

"Adds options to replace video thumbnails with still image captures of the video."
I have a 2020 16in MacBook Pro. I think it's the last generation of Intel chips. I've been struggling to get some of the LLM models like Mixtral to run on it.

I hate the idea of needing to buy another $3k laptop less than 4 years after spending that much on my current machine. But if I want to get serious about developing non-chatgpt services, do I need a new M2 or M3 chip to get this stuff running locally?
Watch this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFIJyWKs1k&t=94s
this is amazing -- thanks. side note: when you want to get more data you can just get the new data, and save it as hacker-news-part-2.parquet - then when you use duckdb / malloy you can read them as a glob (hacker-news*.parquet) - and it is if you were reading one file.
How did you make it? llama.cpp?
Obviously the person on the other side of the bet thought differently.
Agree. I just submitted a thoughtful - and entertaining – article on this subject by computer scientist, Les Earnest. From the sixties onwards, he identified himself as a mongrel rather than allow himself to be classified by any one meaningless and not-very scientific concept of “race”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38907226

> in 1966 I discovered that something very good had happened: the race question had disappeared from the security clearance form. In fact, this question disappeared from nearly all government forms then. I liked to think I helped that change along.

> I have argued that all historical and present racial and ethnic classification systems for individuals are nonsensical and so are the laws, court decisions, computer applications, and bureaucratic superstructures that have been built on top of them.
A low-tech life page that is a newsletter prompt, a sales pitch, and a collection of affiliate links. This website is ironically a lot of what’s wrong with tech.
In a very rough sense, it actually seems more similar to what LLMs are doing than I would have assumed. That might mainly be because they are both attempting to generate more text from an input.
You can train single layer neural nets. Not very useful, but they do exist.

There are certain ANN architectures that relied on, essentially, classical conditioning based on Hobbian learning rules and variants thereof. Kohonen self-organizing maps are an example of that.

Not that such historical systems are popular today, though.
> maybe we'll find a method for "CT scanning" a book and using imaging techniques to reconstruct the text inside without needing to flip each page

YES! Quite literally what's happenening here, albeit in a different context:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/arts/design/herculaneum-s...
What does “liberal” mean here? Are you suggesting that firing him was politically motivated? Was he a Trump (or Biden) supporter?

Because as I’ve said, this is a workers rights issue which frankly I don’t see many conservatives particularly excited to fight for.
I remember pretty rudimentary Chatbots from decades ago that were able to fool someone unfamiliar with them for at least a few minutes. I've even known people who did gag answering messages that were able to fool people into thinking they were talking to a real person - not for long, mind you, but for a surprising amount of time.

It's always seemed a pretty bad basis for deciding intelligence.
I live by the following rule:

If the cause of an issue hasn't been attributed to a business process, then I haven't dug deep enough.

I'm not familiar with this particular incident, but nothing in the post is giving me the confidence that the business process which led to this situation has been identified. Sounds like they haven't dug deep enough
Size
3.3 GB

source: The page that is linked
Their arms industry is not in good shape. They are buying drones from Iran and short-range ballistic missiles from North Korea. They recently touted their "hypersonic" missiles as "invincible" in some very high profile statements, but newer Patriot SAM batteries (which those of us who are old enough associate with, let's just say, something other than greatness) are capable of downing those, as proven by the Ukrainians.

I don't know how many fighters Russia is still selling after the poor performance of its air force during the Ukrainian conflict but, I don't know... given who they normally sell to, I hope it's a lot. Lots of crappy fighters. (not to discount the might of their propeller-driven strategic bomber force, of course)
Technically, any plan that works on a dumb phone works on a smart phone. You don’t have to purchase cellular data.
Here's a potential interesting use case.

A star trek hologram style AI assistant, visible through the AR glasses and powered by an LLM.

It could probably be done with Quest 3 passthru, but that would be impractical to wear around everywhere.
>You are misunderstanding the statement. We are not imagining which hypothetical world we wish to live in. We are making a claim about fraud levels in this world and how they feed into profits.

Then the question should be stated clearly:

"How much effort and resources should be spent to combat fraud?"

The answer is very obviously not "all of the effort and all of the money". Therefore the matter is trivial.
Someone chooses not to invest and you can convince a judge they would have if not for Carta. Could make all sorts of theoretical arguments on damage amounts. Only matters is what you convince the judge.
Radio and podcast company Audacy files for bankruptcy
Does your mac support an external GPU? A mid to high end nvidia card may or may not outperform the M3 GPU at a lower or similar price. You can also stick it in a PC or resell it separately.
I’d expect that if the maker undertook a thorough and well-documented search for the rights holder; then just made it anyway, they’d legally be covered

1) It might be hard for the rights holder to assert their copyright at a later stage, if they lack the evidence to do so at the outset
2) any damages awarded might be mitigated by the attempts to search for the rights holder, especially if the ‘true’ owner was contacted at some stage. Seems more likely they’d be compensatory as opposed to punitive

I know this isn’t the prevailing legal practice, but as a lawyer, the lack of a willingness to be bold in these legal situations has always surprised me

Perhaps the tail risk of being slapped down is just too large

I’ve always wondered about a business model of searching for such works, undertaking a bona-fide effort to find the owner, and then just selling it as your own if one can’t be identified. (Perhaps with a war chest kept in reserve for the rare instances licensing fees are demanded later). ‘Copyright squatting’ if you will
The app already has a price, so I assume this is for a reason.
More to the point, research is valuable for the indefinite future, whereas some particular power generator is only valuable during its operating lifetime.

Powering half of Europe for three decades sounds like a lot until you compare it to powering all of humanity for the next hundred thousand years.
Overlevered in an industry in structural decline.

> Ad revenue has been falling, and Audacy expanded way too much, taking on nearly $2 billion in debt that it couldn't service.
Thumbnails it's just half the battle, generate non-clickbait titles its the other half, I think it's feasible with a little help of AI. But yeah they have a lot of features it seems.
"Yes but based on what you write, you don't know much about geophysics."

Never claimed I did. But you apparently claim you know more and that this article and the scientists are BS, but I just read a generic rant from you and nothing concrete.

"it's like writing an article about how scientists plan to go to Mars in two years"

I am not aware of any scientists who did that. If you are talking about Mars One and co., there were no scientists involved.

And this is what I read in the article about what they are planning - and yes to me it sounds like solid basic research. No promise about clean and easy energy in 5 years for everyone, but reason to do basic research that has not been done before:

"“I and some other scientists who deal with volcanoes were just amazed that somebody had actually drilled in the magma, and got samples of magma,” says Eichelberger. It later transpired that similar accidental encounters had happened twice before, once in the Menengai caldera in Kenya and also at a volcano called Kīlauea in Hawaii. This was proof that it was both possible and safe to drill into magma without causing an eruption."

"The first goal of KMT is to drill into the magma and make scientific discoveries. Starting in 2026, the project will break ground close to the original borehole and drill towards the chamber. It will take around two months to get there, progressing laboriously through the volcanic rocks until the drill hits pay dirt. First and foremost, the researchers want to build their fundamental understanding of magma and the chambers that hold it. “We don’t have any direct knowledge of what magma chambers look like, which is crucial in understanding volcanoes of course,” says Paolo Papale at Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Pisa. The little we do know largely comes from studying lava. But lava and magma aren’t the same. A lot of gas is released as molten rock comes to the surface and is then exposed to the atmosphere as lava, both of which change its chemical composition. “Being able to go into the crust and sample magma would give us huge knowledge,” says Ingólfsson."

They say they don't know much, but that they want to find out.

"and thus never realize how many lies and exaggerations they're being fed."

So where are the "lies and exaggerations"?
He was buying publicity as "The Guy Who Bet $1 Million Against Buffett".
For cases where you might not know which ldd will actually work, I like to use patchelf or readelf to get the interpreter then use the —list arg directly. That way it always actually gives correct results, using a different loader can change the selected library paths even if it thinks it works. One-liner would be approximately $(patchelf —print-interpreter tgt) —list tgt My apologies if the dashes became an em-dash or similar, on a phone.
> I was mute for two years because I couldn’t convey my emotions

That sounds like a weird way to say "mental health issue"?
Science is based upon reproducible observations, not assertions.

It isn't restricted to a domain because it can be applied everywhere, by everyone.

It is a way to find effective truth, faith or subjectivity be damned. Whether I believe in radio waves or electricity doesn't enter into it - the cell phone still works.
People of ambiguous sex exist, and there are only two sexes. I suspect you’re more than capable of accepting these two truths simultaneously.
Cycling had a long and dreadful history of doping-related deaths.

The rampant doping in other sports reflects an unwillingness to learn the lessons that cycling learned the hard way. Armstrong never failed a drugs test, because the tests were a joke. The biological passport isn't a magic bullet, but - when seriously enforced - it places hard limits on what dopers can get away with, no matter how devious they are.

Most sports are in denial, because they don't want to endure the painful process of actually rooting out the drug cheats. They have weak, ineffectual anti-doping programmes that are trivial to circumvent, then imagine themselves to be clean because of the low rate of positive tests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlete_biological_passport
Do you recommend any specific external GPU? I had one from Black Magic, it was not that great performance wise.
Here is how to do that on Android: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/#android
You're saying he was lucky to start a bet in 2007 that stocks would go up?
And thus the Bobbit coin was minted
Perixx Periboard-335BL is the one that I found on Amazon, $59. Seems like the same idea but with the mechanical switches. Admittedly it’s missing a number pad.

I owned an MS ergonomic keyboard around 10 years ago and those membranes are so mediocre.

My overall point is that if you’re spending $60 on a membrane keyboard you’re so close to being able to afford a mechanical one that I’m not sure who that $60 product is for.
People know who Satoshi is or was, in that it's the same Satoshi that invented Bitcoin. (But nobody knows who that is or was "in real life".)

But if an agency has access to that wallet, then any transactions would be visible to everybody. Activity on Satoshi's wallet after all this time would shake up the Bitcoin world pretty hard.

I don't know how sudden activity on this known-inactive wallet would accomplish any of those things.
I never disputed that I'm a whiny millennial from a developed country; that's objectively true, and easy to glean in about ten seconds of talking to me.

I don't really see how calling me a "whiny millennial" or having "zero empathy for the likes of me" disproves my point; I still don't think that having broad empathy for the plights of others is a weakness and I don't see how pointing to a conspiracy about the global south really disputes that.

Also, "pathological empathy"? Really? Because I was going to let someone use my phone (on speaker) to call their mom? Give me a break; if I had "pathological empathy" I wouldn't be a yuppie living in the United States buying items produced by dubious labor in China.

I just want to be a decent person, and follow the fairly typical "treat others how you want to be treated". If I were in a position where I needed to call my mom and I didn't have my phone, I would like to live in a world where people help me with that. I don't think it requires "pathological empathy" to want to try and just be a decent person. Yes, in hindsight I probably should have just pointed them to a public phone or a police station or something.

I don't think (and never claimed to) have a "moral highground", whatever the hell that means, I just get annoyed when people brag about how unempathetic they'd be in situations they've never been tested on.
> isnt it funny how we have invented words like "taxes", so that it can be presented as something you want to be graciously given when you want it lowered, rather than you wish to resist someone coming to enslave you, take half your working life away from you, under the threat of imprisonment and your kids being placed with a foster family.

Should we compare taxes to slavery, or to rent? If you refuse to pay your rent, you can end up homeless, and then they may indeed take your children away from you. Many places still have anti-vagrancy laws on the books–even if very inconsistently enforced–so if they really want to, they can imprison you for homelessness too.

Even if you own your own home – you bought it (or the land it is built on) from somebody else, who bought it from somebody else, and so on. In settler-colonial countries such as the US, Canada or Australia, the chain of title almost always ends in a government land grant. So if the government which claims the right to tax your private property (and its inhabitants) is illegitimate, your own title to that property isn't legitimate either. That government land grant was issued subject to the condition that grantee and occupants pay taxes, and nemo dat quod non habet (the buyer can have no better title than the seller). True freehold doesn't really exist, all freehold titles are really a form of leasehold (transferrable leases), with the sovereign state as the ultimate landlord–and if you don't like it, you can always choose to rent from some other landlord instead, aka emigration.

If you are an indigenous person, you may indeed have a valid argument that your ancestors' ownership of the land long predates the existence of the current government, and hence the taxes it levies are a form of theft from you. But if you aren't indigenous, then that argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Samuel Johnson wasn't a fan. He wrote of Paradise Lost: "Its perusal is a duty than a pleasure".

"The confusion of spirit and matter which provides the whole narration of the war of heaven fills it with incongruity. And the book in which it is related is I believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglected as knowledge is increased."
We already caused earthquakes because of fracking and conventional geothermal plants and there is only little energy captured. Allmost everything that is scaled up massivly in reality, comes with its own problems.

Burning some coal?

Not a problem. But allmost every human burning coal on a massive scale? That is bad. Same principle could apply with taking energy from the crust. There are forces at play, we simply do not understand yet.

"The team will also measure the temperature gradient as the solid rock transitions into magma. One of the big surprises of the earlier, unexpected encounter between drill and magma chamber at the site was how rapidly that occurs. “The theory was that you would go through solid rock and into what is called the brittle-ductile boundary, where the rock would be starting to get a little bit softer and more elastic because of the heat,” says Ingólfsson. That was expected to occur over hundreds of metres, but, with Krafla, it was just a few."
Wow, the precision he's abke to operate it at is great. He can even type at a speed that is tolerable. I see finger-peckers type slower than that.

Great stuff.
Yes, you can set the temperature to 0, then they should be deterministic.
Mine crypto, send to charity. Folding at home?
On your CPU, you should be able to leverage the same AVX acceleration used on Linux and Windows machines. It's not going to make any GPU owners envious, but it might be enough to keep you satisfied with your current hardware.
There's a lot to be said for building little villages all over the north state to support the amount of forestry that needs doing these days, which is quite a bit. The state says it wants to do preventative cutting and burning on a million acres per year but so far has been doing something between .1% and 1% of that goal. There's no money in it, so the state would just have to pour in the funds. But that's no different to the way everything else is paid for in that part of the state.
Given the fundamental truth that "everything is tax fraud" would it actually make it easier to identify crime by making it easier for criminals to open bank accounts?
I'm not a banker, economist, or active investor. All of the advices I have received even from most economist are going on long investment and diversify using index fund. Most even comes up with charts of how it significantly outperform hedge funds, private market investments, and other things.

It makes me wonder, why are rich people still investing in hedge funds? how are they still getting clients given all the data saying that most index fund outperform hedge funds?
I wonder why fuzzing is not more popular, even in software.

Almost all people talking about software design put a lot of emphasis on testing. I think a bit too much sometimes, but that's another subject. Where I work, we have budgets dedicated to testing, specialized teams, most customers want some kind of test-related document but I don't remember hearing about fuzzing even once.

For some reason, fuzzing is tied to security, and I don't work on security-critical projects, so I guess that's why no one talks about it. But it doesn't have to be. All projects need some kind of robustness. Even when it is largely inconsequential, like in video games, players get annoyed when their game crash.

But it is not even the best part. The best part is that when you are fuzzing, you don't even have to write the tests! The fuzzer uses its engine to get to the paths you didn't expect. The problem when writing tests, besides me not enjoying it is that you only test what you think about testing, and what you think about you probably also thought about when writing the code, and it is most likely the part you got right (flip that around for TDD, but the problem is the same). That's why ideally, you shouldn't write your own tests, but it is not always an option, and fuzzers do that for you.

A short fuzzing session could be a standard part of CI/CD frameworks, like all tools that go there: linters, tests, coverage, etc...

The fuzzer I use (AFL++), while doing a good job, is, I think, a little cumbersome for anything but parsing files. This, I think, could be greatly improved. And they tend to use rather primitive genetic algorithms. Newest advances in machine learning could certainly help here.
The habit of accumulating books is one I find stress inducing. The best decision I made over the years is to give away most of my books except for a few non-technical books and some old comics. There's less clutter at home, less baggage occupying room in the mind, and less stress telling myself that I have to make time to read those books because I paid for them.
Is there a requirement to make this scan history available to the government?
I resonate with a lot of this.

1. Identifying and shaping positive feedback loops is so under-appreciated. As true for the spiral upward of exercise, healthy diet, good sleep, etc. as the downward dynamic you describe.

5. Absolutely. I used to say that cigarettes were my most reliable friends. Always there for me; always made me feel better. I imagine you've seen the idea that addiction is a consequence of loneliness/isolation. I think that's probably taking it a bit too far, but I'm sure that feeling belonging and love protects against it to some degree.

4. Doesn't work for me either, at least for a certain kind of addiction. One year on Halloween I had been sugar and refined-carbs free for months, had a fun-size Butterfinger at work, and then had a pint of ice cream that evening. Same thing with cigarettes.

It would be a good book. Let me know if you want to collaborate on it.
It’s in the page you linked under set(). Combined with the properties at the top of the documentation page, to make the cursor a crosshair you’d call NSCursor.crosshair.set(), after which it’ll remain that cursor until something else changes it (so for instance, you’ll need to call it whenever the cursor enters the relevant view since e.g. crossing window borders will change the cursor).
Maybe practically everyone "in America"
Are they required to store the scans for some period of time?