skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was just dealing with similar nonsense from BMO Harris bank yesterday. I got this text (numbers changed):

"FreeMsg: BMO Fraud Ctr: 18774352371 Case 19684358 Did you attempt $4.00 at NYTIMES with card x1234? Reply YES or NO"

The 1234 did match the last 4 digits of my card - not the first four, a common trick - but the rest of the message is, as Troy says, Dodgy AF.

They then followed up with a similar email, prompting me to click on a link that began like this: https://ecs01-us.ficoccs-prod.net/2088/en-US/tran_Not_Author...

That's certainly not a BMO domain. Wtf, bank?

So, called them and confirmed the messages were legit, unlike that charge.

And as an aside, this is far from the first time I've had a card compromised while never using it at a physical vendor, and only a handful of large online ones. Once I actually started getting fraud transactions on a card I had never used. I'm guessing access to credit card info is far too broadly available within the bank.
I applaud — for real — your ideas and feelings here. I’ve had similar thoughts my whole life, growing up reading golden age science fiction.

But I worry very much that tools like this will be used primarily to increase corporate profits and reduce money spent on humans, rather than remove drudgery from people’s lives and allow them to do things more aligned with their goals and natures.

E.g., if we make a cleaning robot, hotels will replace half their staff — what will these people do for a living? Work in an AI sweatshop, categorizing images of child abuse?

Old-school science fiction often proposed that we’d be entering a new age of art and leisure, as robots and AI take over menial tasks. In fact today I think we’re seeing AI and robots — in part — taking jobs from humans, and in order to provide entertainment and economic leverage to richer humans.

It’s making me reevaluate all that old science fiction, as it seemed to require an invisible 90% of the population basically working for the AIs so that the AIs can curate a great life for a stratospherically-wealthy minority.
I don't even understand how he could be expected to turn around such a complex beast of manufacturing that has been mismanaged for so long in under 2 years. It just isn't possible even if you burn both ends of the candle.
I remember reading analysis showing that there is a high correlation between the order that comments are posted and how many votes they get, i.e. early comments tend to get most voted. I guess people are gaming the system by commenting quickly. Who has time to read a 10 min article and comment when you can not read it and post a platitude?
I'm not who you replied to, but I think git is fundamentally insane. It's sufficiently opinionated about how it should be used that if you violate certain customs, it can decide to delete commits that you explicitly created. Despite that, it's not opinionated enough to avoid having a ton of subtly different (or effectively the same) ways of doing a thing on the cli. And the cli is an absolute mess of footguns and inconsistent flags.
I'm not sure what your proposed alternative is? If you don't peg the payouts to crypto FMV at the time of the crash, then FTX is still insolvent (because their debts were also denominated in crypto), so nobody gets anything.
The bitcoin whitepaper was written in OpenOffice and it also has double spaces after periods, which doesn't fit your theory.
I think you really have cause-and-effect backwards.

First off, 3D games existed before NVIDIA. NVIDIA wasn't even first to market for making dedicated 3D acceleration hardware.

CUDA existed before Bitcoin and was used for physics and chemistry simulations when it first came out.

> "Compute that does nothing important"

Entertainment is important, so to just toss 3D games aside is asinine. I'll agree that crypto-mining is completely worthless. As far AI, certainly there's a lot of hype around it right now, and we're probably gonna see a lot of AI startups go belly-up in the next couple years, but it's definitely not a fad and isn't going away.

Being highly dismissive doesn't make you cool or edgy, just so you know.
(It's interesting that my top-level comment which makes the point you do, that he was a high-profile target, is sitting at 1 point, while the one that says he is a general embarrassment to the U.S. government is at 5 points.
Maybe, that's true. But this isn't an article about those problems, it's an article about legalizing drugs.

I don't think it's true that it is harmless to society, and I don't think we fully understand what the ramifications will be.
I’m going to send this to anyone the next time I hear, “oh no! AI has a big carbon footprint!” The solution isn’t going to be by going back but going as quickly forward as we can go. The only question is if we can go fast enough that our past doesn’t catch up with us.
this is basically the midwit-meme in action:

- uses: cat file.txt | grep foo # doesn't know why or that you don't have to

- uses: grep foo file.txt # knows that's religiously the right way, knows maybe one or two options and that "cat" is bad.

- uses (when appropriate): cat file.txt # knows all the ways to do it, pros/cons of each, can make sound judgements and trades in real-time

all three groups are actually mostly doing nothing that wrong.

if someone or shellcheck points out "useless use of cat", and it's directed at the 1st or 2nd category it's helpful. it's either saying "was that a mistake?" or "did you know that you didn't have too...".

if someone points out "useless use of cat" just to be a pedant to throw rocks at an adult who knows full well what they are doing, not as helpful.

all that being said, if you are in that 3rd category, it's not just knowledge but maturity required not just personal preference alone. the author sure seemed to have a chip on their shoulder. i suspect the truth is somewhere in-between.
This is a hardware fault causing other software to fail. Intel and mainboard manufacturers have recommended workarounds. Customers are not stupid and they know who is at fault.
Too bad Microsoft sold out Americans to China. Microsoft isn't a reliable source of anything related to security.
Can you file a small-claims?

You have nothing to lose, it’s not like they could threaten to stop delivering your packages.
> The hedge funds (usually) discount the expected value by a ton when deciding how much to pay.

That’s called a risk premium.
The article is talking about photographing candid scenes in a public place while blending in, not covert spying.
The precise sequence of events (and cause) doesn't affect the numbers.
Interesting. I remember the i860 getting a lot of press during that era (maybe just a bit later) as an alternative architecture for Intel (that also didn't end up going anywhere). I don't recall hearing anything about this 80170 chip.

Back in 1990 I worked for an ASIC company and there was a local startup here in Oregon near Intel called Adaptive Solutions [1] that was working on a NN chip called CNAPS[2] - they were coming to us to fab it. They only lasted about 5 years IIRC before going under.

[1] The founder was Dan Hammerstrom now at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/profile/dan-hammerstrom

[2] Back Propagation Implementation on the
Adaptive Solutions CNAPS Neurocomputer Chip https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/1990/file/beed13602b9b0...
His studios are in Atlanta, Georgia.
Yeah, being an AI provider is going to be a cost of doing business. Does your spreadsheet have an AI assistant built in? No? Then I'm switching to one that does.

It is not going to be a differentiator.

Every worker will need to be equipped with an AI assistant or the company is pedalling a bike on the freeway.

AI is a tool, like a laptop. Does having a laptop make you special? Nope. But you MUST have it.
For perspective, applying for a coding job 30 years ago used to involve ONE phone interview that lasted no more than an hour, followed within a week by an in-person visit at the site. In contrast today's insanely laborious interview process sounds like undergoing the Spanish Inquisition.

Before the rise of FAANGs, the interview visit consumed between 1-2 hours (if it was a car drive away) and no more than one day (if a plane ride) with absolutely no homework. In-person, you talked to between 3 and 8 people. At most onerous, the discussion might involve a little pseudocode or drawing diagrams on a white board to show you possessed the skills most prized back then -- fluency in design concepts, the ability to focus and reason well, to communicate ably, and to think on your feet. Syntax skills were presumed given that you had a degree in CS and a history of not being fired from previous jobs. References were checked which also filtered out the boobs, so testing your your code fluency was overkill. Multiple rounds of phone interviews were rare; multiple visits happened NEVER.

Apparently these days, your academic and professional track record and references count for zero. Instead, you must show you can generate code at high speed -- as if you were a newb grad who likely might turn out to be able only to pass true/false tests in the classroom.

Do degrees and references now count for so little? Must the number of interviewers exceed double digits? If so, THAT's a broken system.
It's not just Reddit. It's all of social media.

I think the fundamental problem is that if you're sitting somewhere bored, maybe at work, maybe elsewhere, you can consume some media about a hobby, and you can make an online purchase of some gear for the hobby, but you often can't actually do the hobby.

It's dumb, but I will catch myself watching a ten minute video on synthsizers while I'm at work, but I would never whip out a synth and spend ten minutes playing it at work. But it's the playing it that actually satisfies the desire. Consuming media just increases it.

It's a dumb loop but it's really hard to get out of because:

1. The activation energy of doing a hobby is always higher than the energy required to just consume media about it, or even buy gear online for it.

2. We're often in environments where it's impossible or inappropriate to do the hobby (work, in line at the DMV, etc.) but where we are able to consume media or make purchases.
Satoshi could have chosen a 0 BTC subsidy in the blocks he mined. Or he could have burned all the BTC he mined. But he chose to do neither, leaving himself as the biggest BTC owner ever.

Other coins have been designed in a way where the founders can only obtain coins by mining them in very small quantities or buying them on the open market (mostly by fixing the block subsidy forever).
This seems be a pretty straightforward application of reinforcement learning.

Breathless Vice headlines like this are one thing I will not miss at all from them.
It depends on which products we're talking about. China now is like Japan was in the 1970s-80s. Japan had a reputation for making cheap, shoddy products, but it was actually rapidly moving up in quality.
I just watched a few videos and it’s seems obvious it’s all down to cherry picking and confirmation bias on the part of the owner. I’ve no doubt the owner believes the dog is deliberately constructing sentences, but that isn’t what’s happening.
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https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/mamba
No one on this site has a large enough sample size to speak authoritatively about the quality of consumer-oriented UPSes.

In my home right now, I have an APC (Schneider) Back-UPS Pro 1000, Tripp Lite (Eaton) AVR550U, and CyberPower CP1500PFCLCDa.

I purchased the APC in April 2017, the CyberPower in Nov 2020, and the Tripp Lite in Sep 2021.

The APC was originally for all my IT gear but for some reason that load caused it to cycle to battery at random times. I replaced it with the CyberPower which works fine with my IT gear. Meanwhile the APC works fine with my AV gear where I re-purposed it.

Both of those are still on their original batteries which I test every 6 months.

The Tripp Lite I use at my desk and I also test it every 6 months, but last month the power went out and the Tripp Lite immediately shut down. The battery had failed w/o warning and the Tripp Lite battery-monitoring is apparently useless since it still thought the battery was good when power was restored, but an actual load test proved otherwise.

When I replaced the battery, the Tripp Lite had a cheap Chinese battery in it. I replaced it with a Duracell (manufactured in Vietnam). I've had less trouble with non-Chinese UPS batteries.

Another fun thing: Tripp Lite has reused the model "AVR550U" for three different UPSes all which use a different battery. Turns out my version uses the quite common APC RBC2 sized 7Ah battery.

Which is all to say: I've had a lot of UPSes over the years and you can't make any claims about any single manufacturer. They all manufacture a range of models and none of us have any actual data about failure rates. The best you can do if you have the expertise is to take one apart and evaluate its design and manufacturing quality.
I really enjoyed this and it has lots of great lessons.

One small point though. I noticed this paragraph:

“From a certain perspective, software is inherently designed to be modified (why else would it be called "software"?). This makes developing software fundamentally different from building houses. After all, nobody would say after constructing a building, "Let's knock it down and rebuild it! The same structure but with 30% less steel and concrete!"”

It’s odd to me the author doesn’t see the connection from the instance of the software and the code. In this example, the instance is the house and the code is the blueprint. Code and blueprints change ALL the time. So I think it is false to suggest software engineering is somehow different from other engineering disciplines. I’d say it’s exactly the same but with a whole lot less ethical considerations, largely due to reasoning like above.

Great read, I just had to point that out though.
I love this mystery and I’m so grateful for it.

Growing up we had DB Cooper and Deepthroat - interesting and compelling stories but those guys are famous only for being anonymous. They didn’t really do anything special.

But satoshi…
Ask HN: How does one navigate the music industry?
I only know the tech/telco/military organiztions. I am trying to reach a retired music performer that was married to my biological father. He passed away long ago and I only met him a couple times without being told who he was to me. He was not allowed to talk to me but was allowed to perform one song. Searching the web I can only find fan mail sites that all seem to belong to tabloids and other nefarious entities. How does one reach the official handlers of these people? Unfortunately all her kids are also celebrities and the one I was briefly able to reach stopped communicating with me when I brought up her dad. I am not emailing anyone here, just looking for generalized information about this. Maybe biographers? Pursuing this is probably a poor choice on my part.
If you're wondering what the Radcliffe Wave is like I was, from the article:

> A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way's greatest secrets: An enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun's backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars along the spiral arm of the galaxy we call home.

Tldr: the clouds both look like a wave and move like waves too (analogized to wave-like motions in stadiums). Which is pretty neat. They speculate it's because of gravitational interactions.

More: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07127-3
Brazilian modders successfully double RTX 2080 memory from 8GB to 16GB VRAM
> nobody gets anything.

The argument is that equity should get nothing, and the crypto-holder's assets should be adjusted for current value... just like how cash-holder's recovery would be adjusted for inflation.
Yes you can, companies have deals with ISPs for individual real-time mobile and home browsing data. If you pay enough it has real names, otherwise it has person id and household id along with other data that makes it easy to associate with the real person or household.
AI and non-living tissue will make the problem "supposedly" go away... :D
Anesthesiologist here; you're right.
Here is every mention of Heather Heyer on their podcast with recordings and transcripts.

https://nasearch.online/search?page=1&q=Heather%20Heyer&sort...
It doesn't seem to have hurt Japan and I'm not sure it's the same. The train company doesn't own the entire town so it's not remotely the same as "company owned town". Even if the train station owns a grocery store there are 4 others in the same neighborhood run by other companies. Same with office buildings, apartments, etc....
I mean, I'm a 3D gamer myself and I'm happy we have GPUs. Just being realistic about their importance. I am fully aware I'm burning kilowatts of energy so that the leaves in Red Dead Redemption 2 look beautiful.
At least historians understand the implications of a biased source and consider those positions in that context.
Just to re-emphasize, because I think it's really poorly understood: most "anonymized" data is a few additional data points away from being re-identified.

Data re-identification was already happening in 2006 (just one example below). And now there's exponentially more data available to use for this purpose.

>We apply our de-anonymization methodology to the Netflix Prize dataset, which contains anonymous movie ratings of 500,000 subscribers of Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service. We demonstrate that an adversary who knows only a little bit about an individual subscriber can easily identify this subscriber’s record in the dataset. Using the Internet Movie Database as the source of background knowledge, we successfully identified the Netflix records of known users, uncovering their apparent political preferences and other potentially sensitive information.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf
There is a lot of money on the table for Backblaze or any other party to organize more user friendly software that fills the gap between sync and backup, preferably both. Dropbox syncs my iPhone photos and all machines seamlessly. Compared to Backblaze, my backup storage, I’m paying $ 11 for sync software that works and does iOS photos. The other $ 1 is storage and backup. Pretty clear win for software.
Great article.
I was wondering where I read the same idea weeks ago, and I found it: https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/handwriting-shows-unexpect...
evidence please.
Nobody worth listening to cares about Leica camera bodies independent of Leica glass. There is no alternative to Leica glass.

I do not own any Leica equipment myself, but I'm not blind.
It sounds like OP works at or is an ISP.
> Reddit has really turned...

Next time you have a free weekend, pop into some estate sales and flip through people's old magazine collections and piles of hobby crap. You'll find a few people with well worn items and a sensible collection (people who had enough time to really practice the hobby) and many wealthier people that spent money aspiring to commit time they never made while collecting the most featured and esteemed baubles.

There's nothing new to this.
On the other hand, I'm currently dealing with an AMD system which seems to randomly hard reboot every couple of days, as if someone pressed the power button for 5 seconds.

It could keep running for 70 hours, or it could crash twice in 4 hours. Stress-testing CPU, GPU, memory, and storage doesn't invoke a crash, but it'll crash when all I'm running is a single Firefox tab with HN open.

Maybe I got unlucky, or maybe you got lucky. Who knows, really.
The Chip Titan Whose Life's Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold War
Use your spelling "aid". ;-)
Yes, but not every time, because there are certain algorithmic problems I'm just more comfortable with than others, even amongst unseen problems.
Thank the team for the awesome repo. I have navigated gemma.cpp and run it from the first day, it is smooth in my view. So I hope gemma.cpp will continue to add cool features (something like k-quants, server,...) so it can serve more widely.
Actually, I have developed a Python wrapper for it:
https://github.com/namtranase/gemma-cpp-python
The purpose is to use easily and update every new technique from gemma.cpp team.
I am more and more convinced that german companies shouldn't invest outside of germany. It's not just in our DNA to understand the outside world.
The first four are not secrets. The first two digits identify the card issuer, and the next two are the card type. That's how those credit card numbers can show you your card issuer's logo after you type the first two characters.
I believe Satoshi was a cypherpunk and a remailer dev. Cypherpunks had a history of doing things anonymously on the mailing list and even trying to out one another (a sort of game).

Furthermore, as a remailer dev Satoshi was all too familiar with what happened with the penent remailer[1]. He knew such services will become a legal target by the powers that be. This is why Satoshi even said we "kicked the hornets nest" when Wikileaks/Silkroad began accepting Bitcoin.

He knew the powers would be coming.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer
I've had an AMD based home server a decade ago. Connected an HP printer, and it would frequently cause disconnect and reconnect events in dmesg, sometimes ending up in some error state when Linux would just give up trying to identify the device. After trying different ports and cables I eventually, out of desperation, threw in an unpowered old USB 2.0 hub and lo and behold, the connection to the printer was rock solid.
Cisco’s peak was $79 at a $546bn valuation in March 2000. Their year ended July 2000 had $18.9bn revenue

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/ac49/ac20/downloads/...

That’s a P/S of 29 (but one quarter in there is forward looking)

NVDA’s year ended Dec 2023 saw $61bn revenue. All 4 of quarters in there are backwards looking. If you shave off the oldest one (7.2bn) and add on this current quarter (22bn forecasted), you get 75.8bn.

Or a P/S of 26.4.

It’s closeish
This was key for me as well. I tried doing transcription style notes on my computer (I'm a fast typer), and I tried doing deliberate handwritten notes. When I first started actually paying attention without noting I learned so much more
China still has a surplus of rural residents to make work for, I don't see quality being a non-problem until that labor pool dries up (which should be too long). For example, Chinese-made Toyota is still much lower quality than Japan-made Toyota, mostly because the former still relies on less automation than the latter since SOE majority JV partners are tasked by the party more with creating jobs than with creating quality product.
You could start fishing for inorganic items afterwards. All it takes is for you to adjust your expectations of what is to be your favorite! :D
https://soundiiz.com/

https://www.tunemymusic.com/

https://www.songshift.com/

And I'm sure there are others.
And Leica being an overprived status symbol, I explicitly include Leica glass, predates any Sony digital camera by a couple of decades as well.
These court orders might also happen if someone _claims_ that crimes have happened.

The legal system has to come to that conclusion, which requires an investigation.

Yeah it must be an important claim. That's of course completely unacceptable and illegal. But it is one way such warrants could happen.
Searching on google images for "nurse" shows mostly non-white nurses for me. Whether google search it showing "average nurse" or it's been tuned to be diverse, it seems like gemini, made by google, should have already known how to solve this?