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Judge’s Ruling Sets Back Law Meant to Fight Money Laundering

"An Alabama judge barred the government from collecting certain company ownership data to help the Treasury Department identify money launderers, and called the effort a case of congressional overreach."

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/politics/judge-ruling-...

[1] https://archive.is/6gOMl
Before my time, but my understanding is that in ye olden days you'd write out your programs by hand, transcribe it to machine code on punch cards, and then submit the stack of cards for batch processing.
I’m not sure why this even has to be said. Is it a standard to update toc without notifying people who agreed to it originally?
Low density doesn’t = nature, it equals car-dominant sprawl, which is what creates the pollution and noise you mention.

Cities aren’t loud, cars are loud.
On the one hand, more power to helping people get free information, but my only concern would be the quality. Say, for example, I want to learn Perl. Should I take the "Perl Programming" Wikibook, or a PDF copy of "Programming Perl, 4th Edition"?
what is that link supposed to demonstrate? Lloyds is facing an investigation. So?

As for "Criminals with LOTS of money do not have any difficulty finding an investment bank to handle money movement" what is your evidence for that? And what's the line between "petty" and "LOTS of money" ?
This includes criminalizing having too much compute power:

"The proposed rule requires U.S. IaaS providers and their foreign resellers to report known instances of foreign persons training “large AI models with potential capabilities that could be used in malicious cyber-enabled activity” to Commerce.

Use a GPU, go to prison?
You're saying the left is just straight up nicer than the right? This seems like kind of a weak take.
I don't see how this proves anything, seeing how "there are no downloadable binaries yet, as the project is still very unstable"
Lattner worked for Apple…
According to whomst, exactly? Do you remember the works of great artists or authors because they have children? Is the work of Nikola Tesla worthless because he didn't fulfil the human biological imperative?
I don't agree with the position, but that's not correct. You have to think of the concept of evil as something a person does, at least partially independent of context. Shooting children with a gun is evil. Aborting a baby is evil. Selling guns is not evil. Not adopting a child is not evil (or not in almost all situations).
By the time of the Amiga 1200, Commodore was effectively already dead. It was a walking corpse.

AGA, the chipset in the A1200, was a stopgap produced because the originally intended graphic chipset, started in 1988, had been beleaguered by delay, in part because of severe underfunding of R&D, and they needed what was effectively a quick and dirty intermediate hack fast.

The "AAA" chipset that was intended to be the next generation, and which had e.g. chunky graphics modes and massively upgraded memory bandwidth and blitter speeds etc., and would've made all the difference for things like Doom, never made it out the door. The project was entirely cancelled in '93, as they concluded PC's would catch up to AAA by the time it'd be finished.

Instead, after AGA, Commodore tried one last ditch attempt and got frustratingly close to getting a massively upgraded design w/3D acceleration, up to 32 bit chunky modes and built to scale from being a standalone system (with an on-chipset PA-RISC CPU) to be licensed for consoles and set top boxes, to a chipset for an upgraded Amiga, with an option to also sell it as a high end graphics card.

[Of course, whether any of that would have saved Commodore was another matter - without a severe overhaul of corporate culture, it was just a question of time; Commodore had basically never, through it's entire existence, even as it rapidly grew in the 8-bit days, been more than one unresolved crisis away from collapse]
How is O365/Exchange/Outlook a mess? As a user? As an admin? Genuinely curious. As an admin, I love O365.
Even if that were to be granted for the sake of argument:

why is it a bad thing to make criminals expend more effort and money?
The solution is similar to WW2. Build disposable ships faster than the enemy can sink them. This would work against most enemies except China can build them even faster
Yes, it's a bit like those paintings of galloping horses made before the invention of short exposure photography showed how horses really look when they gallop. I suppose it's down to laziness - people could go out and take photographs of butterflies feeding at flowers, but no, they just copy a picture from a field guide and hope most people don't notice.
It's always been pretty mind-blowing to me that you can store over 225 bits of information just in an ordering of one deck of cards. A standard way to store data in this way is a factoradic encoding like Lehmer coding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer_code

The python library 'permutation' has some functionality around this that's fun to play with:

https://permutation.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#permutation.Pe...

I found new joy in shuffling a deck of cards, after learning that every (proper) shuffle that every human's ever done has returned a unique deck that nobody's ever held before.

edit: I just remembered a guy who made a javascript demo that encodes small strings into a card deck order: https://jerde.net/peter/cards/cards.html (explanation page linked)
Are you talking Arrow's?
I’m disappointed none of the top comments here mention Commerce’s years-long effort to restrict Chinese access to leading-edge GPUs. The origin of this policy is the simple realization that those restrictions are meaningless if an AWS account gets around them. Argue against that if you’d like, but argue against the correct thing.
Bounding Power: The ASI control problem, public safety, and constitutionalism
1.5 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle miles driven in the USA, so I'm not that that far off (depends on occupancy and average trip length)
> adopting unwanted children

Pro-life people do this literally all the time. Consider how many Christian adoption services are out there, for example.

> gun control

Most people who oppose gun control would argue that it costs more lives than it saves.

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Please don't straw-man your political opponents like this. At least get to know what they actually believe, before arguing against it.
This is sort of the suckless approach. Most (all?) of their projects are customized by editing the source and recompiling. From their window manager, dwm:

dwm is customized through editing its source code, which makes it extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which isn't known at compile time, except window titles and status text read from the root window's name. You don't have to learn Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X resource files), beside C, to customize it for your needs: you only have to learn C (at least in order to edit the header file).

https://dwm.suckless.org/
Once you get to XSLT 2.0+, it is a programming language, just a very verbose one. I did a lot of XSLT/XQuery back in mid-00s, albeit not in web frontend context (we used it for code generation).

Unfortunately no browser has ever supported anything past XSLT 1.0.
Here's what Chinese train factories look like for context https://www.alamy.com/180326-shijiazhuang-march-26-2018-xinh...
> A lot of right wing ideology requires being okay with cognitive dissonance from compartmentalizing opposing views meant for different scenarios

You're not wrong exactly, but you just described human nature. All of our brains work that way by default. It's much harder to see for your own side, of course.
How is the inverse any more consistent?

Save the children, at any cost! Unless they're still in the womb, then feel free to murder them.
It has that.
Mind-blowing AI alert! Deepfakes are so good, they enabled a $25 million scam in real time on a Zoom call. Plus, researchers found AI can now link fingerprints from the same person – that's HUGE for forensics. This isn't just cool tech, it's a major cyber security shakeup – think twice before trusting what you see online.
Varda's drug-cooking Winnebago will be remembered as a space pioneer
Isn't this obvious? Coffee and drugs either. Even if drugs were harmless for the health they could probably be prohibited because of the sudden changes a society will experience.
Discord's voice codec, which seems to be based on Opus, delivers surprisingly high-quality audio even at lower bitrates. Additionally, its integration with Krisp for noise filtering enhances its performance, making it one of the best voice chat services I regularly use. This observation comes from my experience of frequently using voice chat over connections with high latency, where Discord has consistently presented the fewest issues. Ironically, this efficiency somewhat diminishes the appeal of boosting a server for improved voice quality, which is both unfortunate and amusing in a way.
Safire has had, for about eight years now, a working plasma fusion reactor that stays lit for hours on end. Helion does not.

>> the only naturally occurring plasma hot enough for fusion is in the cores of stars

Plasma that is artificially created is still plasma, not unlike how fire that is artificially created is still fire.

That plasma can be manipulated magnetically does not change. The Safire plasma has self-containing magnetic fields. Helion's plasma does not have this.
'Dune' Fans, Here's a Documentary That Will Blow Your Mind
C# 1.0 was, to a significant extent, Delphi with a Java-like syntax (which is no wonder given who designed it), and WinForms is so much like VCL, often the only difference is the presence or absence of the "T" prefix.

By now C# is a much more powerful language, though.
the same applies to both sides of the political spectrum
Yes, I'm well-aware of the genesis. In my opinion, .NET + WinForms stack was a better Delphi.

And if I remember correctly, it could also do the "fill the form with data" trick.
Windbg; it's free and doesn't require any setup to do this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

(Working out how to patch such that I wouldn't crash the system if a process happens to call that API while it was in a half-modified state was also a fun problem...)

I dug out the details on the bug I patched, and it isn't the same as this one; it's a race condition with timeouts on waiting for keyed events, which I believe isn't applicable in this situation as there are no timeouts.
I had to laugh out loud.

In the butterfly lifecycle, the caterpillar lives its own life, but then at its end shrouds and digests itself, to the point where only the rudiments of the nervous system persist. Then the butterfly itself grows out of this reduction of self to an egg.

In the face of this astonishing life-death-life-cycle, we're complaining that butterfly wings should be depicted in their natural orientation?

Butterflies are awe-inspiring, frightening and amazing. But not mainly for their pretty wings.

Every living thing dies - yes, even us. But perhaps these words will persist in the internet archive, as dead wings sit in dusty drawers, to one day inspire :)
Observable is from the same creator as D3 (Mike Bostock) and D3 has been a core component of the Observable platform since they first launched their notebook product back in 2018.

I don't see Framework changing things there - if anything the ISC license should make it a better partner for D3.
> It rendered WW2 soldiers as black

To be fair, a large number of WWII soldiers _were_ black. Not many of those black soldiers served in the SS for Nazi Germany though, which was the issue with what Gemini was producing.
I hope this does not swing back harder in the other direction.
Nearly all of California's reservoir's are above their historical averages
Yep years ago I worked on a web application that was made with "classic" Active Server Pages. Each page was a self-contained .asp file. To make a new page, you copied another page and changed it around.

This meant that when you wanted to change something on all pages, it was a PITA but not always terrible because tools like grep, sed and awk exist for Windows also.

The nice thing was, you could make a change on any page and know that it would only affect that page and had no (or very little) chance to introduce bugs anywhere else in the system.

I wouldn't recommend the approach, but it wasn't all bad.
These LLM models are just glorified parrots. Why are we even expecting them to display non-trivial insight about complex moral dilemmas? They're going to get things totally wrong and say a lot of silly stuff about the Nazis, that's just normal. No reason to act offended over it or demand 100% "Safety" from answers you might not like.
They were equally overlooked back at the times that doctrine was promulgated. Byzantine emperors did a lot of nasty stuff, much of it with the approval of sycophant patriarchs.
Overhaul – RT London Bus Overhaul Documentary – British Transport Films – 1957
Biological Neurons vs. Deep Reinforcement Learning
We should be regrowing cartilage.
AI safetyists have already called for airstriking """rouge""" data centers, don't play coy and pretend that your worldview stops at KYC for infrastructure.
Second this. I love beer and hate alcohol and lately non-alcoholic beers (specially of blonde types) have become very high quality.

Just avoid the over-industrialized ones, like you'd do with normal beers.
> Most people who oppose gun control would argue that it costs more lives than it saves.

They'd be wrong.

There's been no significant gun incidents | mass shootings, et al. of any real note in Australia since uniform gun regulation was introduced (matching the unregulated states and territories to those with regulation) following a world record breaking (at the time) mass shooting.

I'm in Australia, I have licenced weapons, my neighbour shoots ULR targets at 5,000 yards.

Gun regulation is great when properly implemented and it has demonstrably saved lives in this context.

You'd be correct to argue that uniform USofA wide simple clear evenly applied gun regulation would very likely be impossible due to the extreme difficulty of getting all states aligned and pulling in the same direction.

That's a different argument about a different challenge though.
It is limited and depends on the browser used to print the document. The most glaring missing feature is CMYK colour.

I’ve just set up our publications to use PagedJS, and with a fair amount of hacking I was able to set up a baseline grid. Hyphenation depends on the browser implementation, which is OK for English in recent Chromium. The new text-wrap property has also been helpful. Hanging punctuation is only supported in Safari if I remember correctly.

But being able to produce nice looking PDFs from a markdown document, with automated endnotes and table of contents, is a much nicer process than going through InDesign, and I also say this as someone equally comfortable with both. And the result is good enough for our purposes.

Here is an example: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/LA...
The Acorn Archimedes was never serious competition for Commodore in that space.

I remember - as an Amiga user - cheekily pitching software upgrades to Acorn to help address the massive shortcomings we saw in RiscOS compared to AmigaOS. Even ca. 1996, a couple of years after Commodore's device, we were still smug about how much better we saw the Amiga as being.

We were willing to accept the hardware wasn't bad, but the Amiga userbase never really considered the Archimedes in the same ballpark as an overall system.
The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming (2017)
When I see AI take an large existing legacy codebase and rewrite it perfectly then I will believe that
I'm guessing dynamic pricing wouldn't give more money to the employees who have to work harder during busy periods. They're the limited resource not the food.
the CPU temp can do that, but your typical desktop air tower has a lot of thermal capacity. if it took 5 seconds for the fan to react, that wouldn't be a big issue.
Yes [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_iteration
This is going to follow me like the post about the person that hates fake window shutters
It's pretty consistent if you don't believe a fetus is a child.
Markets are about information processing. The information set is huge and price update has bandwidth limitation. GPT-n like systems perhaps can increase that bandwidth by orders of magnitude. That is in some sense "seeing the future".
And Twitter/X accounts.

I have had a lot more things fixed in Windows or MSVC from nagging devs on there than from reporting through any official channel.
impressive that it works at all, but WAY too laggy to even think about playing
Margins are too low, unless we experience some sort of 3d printer like revolution for clothing it's likely to never catch up
I think you’re right, but I want to relate a story where the agile team leader decided that devops meant “developer operations”, or in other words the development team.

Sometimes all you can do is shake your head.
The author probably used some non open-source bits when building the thing.
The lock in unfair. We are unfair because you get better performance by not allowing the lock hold time to be extended by context swap. As a result, we always unconditionally release a lock when an exclusive acquire is release or the last shared guy releases. Then we go find people to wake. In this gap the lock can be stollen. The threads that steal all look like exclusive guys.
My overall rule of thumb is that in the presence of any exclusive acquires you can never assume a shared acquire is compatible with any other shared acquire. A second shared acquire might wait for the first acquire to exit. We do this for example, so a stream of readers don't starve a writer. This is another case like that but somewhat less obvious.
I have no idea if the owners will attempt to fix or take the view that you're trying to assume something we don't guarantee. I'll admit that this is a kind of strange case. You could obviously queue a wait block and the in progress waker will sort this out. Could well get a performance impact from that.
I tried to explain this general rule of thumb to you this morning when you contacted me. I could not understand much of what you said.
It's not that people don't care about privacy tbh. But they do indeed care about convenience, so when they're presented with the artificially created choice of corporate surveillance hell vs privacy-enabling options that are by and large put together by a few enthusiasts with meager resources, it's no surprise what the end result is.

But make no mistake - we could, as a society, invest heavily in developing privacy-first platforms and software, and have it all. I can't even say that we choose not to; it's more that representative democracy is not particularly representative in practice, and mostly works as a form of veto.
Bornbir attacking and doxxing baby bump subreddits using generative AI
The company has a blog post defending their behavior that is clearly AI generated:

https://www.bornbir.com/blog/bumps-groups-reddit

"In conclusion, Bornbir's journey is a poignant reminder of the impact of online bullying"
An argument in favor of this viewpoint is the treatment of sectoral/sympathy strikes (and other important solidarity tactics like sectoral boycotts) under the Taft-Hartley act: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act

People think of the NLRA as a legacy of the New Deal and therefore inherently pro-labor, but conveniently forget that the deal was changed by a bipartisan alliance of corporatists over Truman's veto.

Sectoral/sympathy strikes were historically the backbone of union power in the US and remain so today in jurisdictions with strong unions. Legally protecting ineffectual strikes but not effective strikes traps labor in a local maximum, where there's just enough to lose to disincentivize going for more substantial gains.
Yeah, it's crazy how different things are now.

My neighborhood dates from the turn of the century. The houses that date back to the original days of the neighborhood are easy to spot, because they're built up on a berm about 3 to 4 feet higher than the street level. This is because when they were built, the street was just a bunch of mud and horse manure. The standard house design would dig out a half under grade basement, piling the excavated dirt into a berm around the house to keep it above the surrounding muck.
Right, but they both cancel out.
Cool! This was one of the tools I considered to help get the open-access textbook to its print version (to be published later in 2024). Since I was using Hugo I went with some custom CSS that gets enabled during the PDF build phase and website2pdf to handle the generation: https://github.com/jgazeau/website2pdf

Open-access textbook: https://www.utilitarianism.net/

Open source: https://github.com/whyboris/utilitarianism.net
> How? You’re hiding a ton of complicated work in these 2 words

DNA sequencing has been following a Moore's Law style curve. It is cheap and easy now.

> > AI will develop a custom therapy

>

> This statement suggests you really don’t know what you’re talking about with regards to AI.

>

> AI doesn’t develop treatments magically. Work needs to be don’t to curate a dataset of treatments and diseases, BUT even then AI can’t create new treatments for existing untreatable cancer as we don’t have any data to go off of.

No one is suggesting it can. AI is very good at pattern-matching. There is a cookbook of techniques here:

1) Create a phage which is very good at injecting into a specific type of cell

2) Create antibodies which can latch onto a specific type of cell, virus, or cancer, so the immune system can attack them

3) Create a vaccine, which is much the same as the above

None of these are hard in of themselves. What is hard is that there isn't a virus called "AIDS" or "flu" or "cold," but a very, very large family of viruses. Ditto for cancer and bacteria. This is the exact type of pattern matching problem ML excels at. Curing a specific virus isn't hard; what's hard is because of all the variations. That kind of adaptation is exactly what ML excels at.

Once covid was sequenced, the actual creation of a vaccine took -- literally -- a couple of days (of work by the world's best scientists). What took much longer was validation, regulatory approval, getting manufacturing up, etc.

> You’re too cavalier in hand waving away the real work by saying things like “AI will do this. Ez. 2 years”

You're attacking a strawman here. Step zero of this process will be:

- Collect a dataset of bacteriophage DNA and of bacteria they're good at attacking (this is a massive undertaking)

- Something very similar with DNA and antigens (much of this exists / has been done, but was a huge undertaking; see "protein folding")

This is a few years in itself. That's when we can start to begin training an AI. There are many other similar-sized steps along the way. "AI will cure cancer" doesn't mean "AI will cure cancer tomorrow." However, I can see all the steps along the way, and no fundamental hurdles.

It's like the Apollo Program or the Manhattan Project on day 1. Yes, it's a major undertaking, but there's every reason t believe it will work. That's exciting.

So far, aside from calling me an idiot, no one in this thread suggested where the flaw in the above lies (and none of the comments suggested the poster had any understanding to do so). I responded to your comment since it was closest.