skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $75 billion number comes from a study available on SSRN that did an analysis of data from Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Tron: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4742235. The study did not just look at reported victims, they basically started with a large sample of victim addresses and from there tried to derive the scammers' addresses and victim payments that were not reported using a handful of heuristics. You're right that it's over multiple years but even according to the study about 3/4 of the losses were from 2021-2022 if you look at Figure 9.

At 50% of GDP there would be serious economic distortion that would be reflected in statistics somewhere. There would probably at the very least be a massive countrywide construction boom, and not just of fenced compounds. I'm aware of how the scam works - I'm not denying it's huge, I just think those numbers are implausibly large.
Hello, dear account dedicating all their two posts to repeating Russian talking points.

Georgia was indeed dumb enough to let themselves get provoked to fire the first rounds. It's very strange though that the peace loving defensive-only Russian forces ended up permanently occupying even more Georgian territory than before the war. That's the Russian history, Russia never attacks, it only defends itself, by advancing and annexing enemy territory.
PersonaLLM: Investigating the Ability of LLMs to Express Personality Traits
You literally have an option in WhatsApp do disable loading of audio/image/video.
No third-party app store updates for your iPhone if it leaves the EU for a month
The role of ENG video is not precisely the same thing as digital cinema, though there's some overlap. I remember a lot of indie filmmakers in that era struggling to shoot for cinema with ENG-focused cameras and gear, and often struggling to get what they wanted out of it.
You're doing God's work. Thank you for caring.
Was an early adopter of Github Copilot but I quickly turned it off because of the noise. I really like AI for "gap filling" (for example, I used AI extensively to help me write my bash deployment scripts for simpatico.io) and porting tasks, both of which lend themselves to copy/paste into a browser.
You don’t need to be an expert on Russian foreign policy to conclude from nothing but that final quote that Russia (rather, Putin) never had any serious desire to join Nato in the first place.

Putins views on Russia may have been more widely broadcasted recently because of Carlsons interview, but don’t be fooled; they were no different 24 years ago.
Good catch. Somehow missed it when quickly skimming the article.
So, an LLM scoring over 80 on MMLU is no longer newsworthy on Hacker News? We've indeed come a long way.

Or perhaps it's just the skepticism surrounding such "claims". That's why I reckon more chatbots that don't rely on an API, similar to Inflection (or Microsoft's Copilot ?), should be directly integrated into the LMSYS Leaderboard. Isn't this what they did with Gemini/Bard?
Standard fare for reason.com
In one of the success stories of startups the founder's explicit message was 'Let some fires burn'. The fires were people complaining to customer support. The point was you can move faster if you don't bother about resolving issues for a few pesky customers.
You might want to check out a large-image blocker for your browser,
like this one for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/large-image-b...
Signal would have to change how they work for that, at present it shares your profile name after you've initiated a chat using the "username" - very confusing choice of wording.
Nice! Have you explored showing live values flowing through the nodes? This seems like a good use of animation.

I'll also take a moment to plug my Visual Programming Codex[1], which collects VPLs as though they're butterflies. I'm adding Flyde to the backlog of projects to document, but I'd also suggest looking around there for ideas. There are a ton of valuable new things you can do once you start visualizing programming, especially if you're visualizing the execution behaviour. I'd love to see you push this further.

[1] https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex
An increase in developer productivity implies fewer developers per task.

But I agree, that is likely to increase demand for developers in many organizations and the market at large. Since software is a bottleneck on many internal and external products and services, and often is the product or service.

But many other kinds of work are more likely to see a reduction in labor demand, given higher productivity.

But AI software generation will get better, and at some point, lower level coders will not be in demand and that might be a majority. I imagine developer quality and development tasks as a pyramid. The bottom is most vulnerable.
Thank you for mentioning YDKJS. I hadn’t heard of it before and am in the beginning of my first proper JS project for about 10 years; man has the JS world changed. I have already skimmed the first few chapters and am already understanding it all very concisely. I will be reading this properly via GitHub for sure.
Geez, these companies just keep getting passed around and around. I was working for Time Warner Interactive (aka Tengen, the consumer arm of Atari Games) when Midway bought them in '96.
> Worse the Flipper Wi-Fi module isn't even standard

The range is poor too, for that attack to work, the flipper wifi should be stronger than the tesla so the client can connect to it instead, as it will prefer the stronger signal, so you will probably need to be standing next to tesla for it to work.
Hey, I don't know if your kids (or you) would be interested, but there's a few hacking games and what I'd consider educational games that they (or you!) might enjoy.

[1]https://nandgame.com/

[2]https://microcorruption.com/

[3]https://amar.bornofsnails.net/login

[4]https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/

Just though I'd toss those your way. I also love text-based gaming, so I'll be trying out the MUDS you linked. I used to play many moons ago, and definitely miss that era of my life. Was also big into the BBS scene in those days as well. And of course, who doesn't love Nethack? Ahh, the memories.
feedin the trolls mon ami, they be shillbots. they be putting out literal russian, like on RT, talking points.
Oh yeah, Russia will lose any moment now :D
A few notes -

Western culture didn’t develop very quickly - the geography had humans for tens of thousands of years before culture developed quickly. Other parts of the world actually developed relatively advanced civilizations long before Europe.

I think once it began to develop it developed quickly partially due to the geography, but it was also through trade with the Middle East and Asia, which were the sources of a lot of the technology bootstrap priming Europe to develop rapidly. It’s indisputable that once the ball really began rolling Europe brought us to the modern age rapidly. But I’m dubious of the geography argument personally since it was so late in developing relative to other societies, including those in the americas.

China actually was an advanced maritime society, with expeditions across most of the world including to the Americas. In fact in the 1400s China was the world’s most powerful navy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_history_of_China
So I have this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Dev_Kit_2023

And we can run ubuntu on that
https://github.com/armbian/build

There isn't any hypervisor running on that and still no SVE
So any advice ?
I might not do this if I were a high public official or celebrity on the off-chance that someone in the printing and packaging chain might happen to notice. But, for an average person, it seems pretty harmless. (Personally, the last thing I need is more paper but I get the attraction.)
Flipping this around, could you elaborate on which specific design aspects you wouldn't have chosen?
“Instant” may be an issue - none of the cars shown will ship for another couple of years.
How do you get access to Claude 3? It doesn’t seem to be available yet.
TIL that there's also Copilot plugins for Jetbrain IDEs
I'm also writing a novel, and using text to speech to hear how it sounds. One of the ones built into Mac OS. And I'd agree with your assessment, I value the synthesiser for bringing my attention to things my eyes gloss over, such as unnecessary repetition and typos which are still correctly spelled words (a common one for me is lose/loose).

But: AI was seen as "decades" away from beating humans at go, even 6 months before it did.

I don't know how far we are from them writing award winning novels (awards we care about, it doesn't count if it's an award for best AI), though my gut feeling is we need another breakthrough as significant as the transformer model… but even then, that's only a 1σ feeling.
We don't really know what life requires. We know that earth has life. We have insufficient evidence for anyplace else (there is some evidence of life in our solar system but it could have been life that escaped our orbit by chance, or just contaminated sensors). All we have for sure is life exists on earth, so we know life exists on earth.

Wikipedia has a list of other chemistries that could maybe support life, but we don't know if they do in the universe or not. We know that the basics of life on earth (water, carbon) are very common in the universe, and so there is no reason to think that life as we know it should be rare - but we also have no evidence of life elsewhere (mostly because we don't even have the ability to see evidence if it exists - the universe is large and we can't detect the important things even a few light years away)
Recent and related:

Linux Is a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39406088 - Feb 2024 (10 comments)

The Linux kernel project becomes a CVE numbering authority - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39361511 - Feb 2024 (24 comments)
The UK was heavily involved in the NLAW development too, IIRC. Not just made in NI but the UK provided a lot of the initial funding along with SAAB.

and boy howdy do those NLAWs work.
Maybe create a "Tell HN" post; "Tell HN: Reviews on Who's Hiring (March 2024)"

Unfortunately, I doubt most of the posters are interested in feedback. Hiring is a joke. It's almost entirely Credentialism, i.e. "It's not what you know, it's who you know." It's actually disgusting that this has been the case for so long.

It could be a nice way to warn applicants about dodgy or unresponsive posters, but it seems most of the posts are junk.

I found this discussing it somewhat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39290661

Now we got this kind of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39634590

Disturbing.
Guessing as to what the GP meant--coral TPUs max out around 8M parameters, IIRC. That's a few orders of magnitude less than the smallest LLM model.
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> In general people who are more confident are more likely to be correct.

Interesting. That is so completely at odds with my experience that I find it hard to actually believe. I guess I need to look at the research.
That’s not entirely 3d printed then. You need to manually insert the lintel once the supporting layers are in place.

The other way is to print supports and knock them out post construction. But the issue of overhangs is a serious one for 3d printed structures.
I'm sure the free market will handle it ;)
I studied CS in the university and there was that guy who was a computer geek (out of very little among my fellow students), but actually was just your average gamer with close to zero knowledge of anything computer beyond double-clicking the shortcut to CS / Half-Life / WarCraft / Dota / whatever else was popular back then.

I met him 15 years later. We had some casual chat about this and that. And at some point he said—

Well, I have to give you a bit more of the context. He was a junior front-end (React, ofc) developer at that point. Yes, 15 years later! He just arrived into the profession due to his wild incompetence. Although he sold himself as a senior to the company! Still, he was very incompetent, and I had those wild eyes of wondering how on Earth some company would even hire such a guy, not to say giving him a senior role!

He was talking about this front-end thing. That there’s that other OS, Ubuntu, and he thinks he’ll try it instead of Windows. As drumroll for some reason (for some reason!) this git thing works better on Ubuntu than it works on Windows. My first try of Linux was like 15 to 20 years before the talk, so I was like spilling my coffee on him with laughing.

And here is your comment, casually pretending everyone on HN is aware of that history of git. And that it’s that git guy is somehow related to this Ubuntu thing, you know.
Yup. Ignoring the option to change the start for arrays, you have Range objects, which are basically another kind of array, that are indexed starting from 1.
They specifically built Quake to sell the engine. They knew it would be difficult to actually sell an engine without a successful title.
I've heard that a us tv show about marines or whatever used to include European, Mexican and south American special forces as allies regularly, to add realism in conflict they're not alone in.
How can I test the improvements?

Wayland, XServer, Firefox, Gtk and QT patches were merged in 2021 already: https://bill.harding.blog/2021/06/06/linux-touchpad-like-mac...

But while running a current Debian unstable with Mate desktop, I don't know in which applications I could test the gestures, neither do I know which gestures are supported
Clicks or no, it's a title that can cause additional inflammation where government(s) are already looking to ban devices like the Flipper Zero instead of addressing the issue. Governments don't care if it's the Flipper or not, and this sort of thing gives them ammunition.
Huge qualifier: Even otherwise benign Javascript running on that page can pass the fragment anywhere on the internet. Putting stuff in the fragment helps, but it's not perfect. And I don't just mean this in an ideal sense -- I've actually seen private tokens leak from the fragment this way multiple times.
Risotto crisis: the fight to save Italy's beloved dish from extinction
Neon is basically a copy on write postgres backend. So you can create a branch at near zero cost and start making changes, but there's no way to merge those changes back to the original branch.

To do that, you need a storage system that can efficiently compute a diff to do a three-way merge. That's what dolt does. It means you can diff any two commits in the database with cost proportional to the size of the diff, not the size of the data. And it uses a commit graph just like git which enables it to find common ancestors for a three-way merge algorithm, again just like git.
https://archive.ph/DIUyh
Why bother? Powder dish detergent is so damn cheap and works just as well as any other dish detergent product, and better than packs because those don't use the prewash cycle properly.
So you’re gonna have to explain to me who the Arabs were that colonized Palestine in the 17th-19th century. And why that matters in relation to the current conflict. I don’t know whether the Ottoman Empire was a nation state or not (it obviously wasn’t; and I never claimed it was) has any bearing on the popularity of a resistance movement fighting a completely different occupying force.

> Because Hamas have physically killed all major opposition politicians prior to these elections.

The Palestinian Civil War (aka the Battle for Gaza) was after this election. The onset was much more complex then “Hamas killed all opposition”. But even if it was, this civil war had no effect on the election because it happened after it. If you are not referring the the civil war, which instances of political violence are you referring to? The dozens of international observers observing the election certainly didn’t see any? Were they all wrong? Is there some conspiracy we don’t know about?
you come off a bit condescending, may want to lighten up just in general for your worldview. what is the IC Browser? cant expect everyone to know everything for a new game
You can remove every file on your Mac.

And there are no eternal tracking cookies for Safari even first party ones are deleted every week.
So any messaging app that wants to implement Whatsapp interoperability has to apply for it, pray to get their blessing and then sign an NDA.

It is probably a positive change for end users, but far far away from the "open up your protocol" I was hoping for.
I'm not disputing this, to be clear.
Tangential question: How can an algorithm end up with a fractional exponent? It's clear to me how nested loops can give O(n^2) or O(n^2), and how a binary search can give O(log n), but how on earth can you get something like O(n^2.371552), or even O(n^2.7)?
Rivian shares surge as company reveals new EV models
I am using default android on Samsung Galaxy S23
with userland
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula
So any advice how to run it?
My fear is that banning the Flipper will lead to making it easier to ban similar devices and eventually make using things like the ESP32 more difficult.
I don't know what the right answer is to the copyright questions, but I hope that in 2024 we'll have a better attitude about the human labor that went into these models than "Data exists out there in the world" and the passive-voice "It has been collected into datasets"
It’s true, a good editor or producer collaborates with the creative to get it across the finish line, flawed as it is.

It works better if there is mutual respect.

My point though is when generalizing and reframing this about the deceased vs living, more often than not, it is no longer about respecting (even respectfully disagreeing) with the creative and more about disrespecting the deceased.
So what happens when a EU citizens go on vacation in the US? No more sharing messages between platforms until they go back home?
If you implement sine in software using the same sequence of basic arithmetic instructions, the result should be the same across platforms. If you make two different implementations using different arithmetic, then of course you can't rely on them being the same.
An interesting part of the X protocol is XGrabPointer (and XGrabKeyboard). These force events to be delivered relative to a particular window instead of to the focus window. Cascading menus can be implemented by making a stack of such grabs: push when you open a submenu, pop when you ESC back to parent.

Anyway, so it's very useful that everything in X is a window, because it works well with this input grabbing. Also it's nice for borders: the border was one outer window, and the drawing area was a smaller inner window.

I don't quite remember anymore, but I think a bad part about using the X's windows is that the coordinates were limited. Sure you only need 12-bits or so for screen coordinates, but it's convenient if you had 64-bits to handle any possible clipping or relative offset situation.
Memories. ~10 years ago I looked in to this stuff as part of adding national checksum support to an IBAN library. It was quite a mission to discover the number of systems out there, most of which were insufficiently documented or undocumented. Wound up reverse engineering quite a few of them (period braindump available[3]).

In the end I wrote a function[1] which reverses an input known to fail a checksum to determine probable transcription errors based upon a manually compiled, exhaustive list of probable mistranscriptions[2]. I was quite impressed at how fast and accurate it was.

From a systems architecture standpoint, I learned that there is really no excuse today for creating a system in which human transcription may occur without a checksum mechanism. Largely, however, QR codes and the trusted optical exchange of identifiers in physical settings has superseded this solution class (but brought its own vulnerabilities and concerns).

[1] https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/blob/master/php-ib...
[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/mas... [3] https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/issues/39#issuecom...
If only there were someone, or some institution that could think more long term than mindless consumers. We could call it a Governing board or something!
The only time I experienced this is when I donated blood with an Alyx machine because it centrifuges the blood to separate the red blood cells to donate a double unit of RBC for trauma victims. It gives you back your plasma with some anticlotting agent and you taste/smell/feel it in your breath lol
No cat is going to hunt and kill a chicken.
Honestly, this isn't that confusing. I think even back in the day, it didn't take long to understand the reasoning behind this naming.
> Once upon a time, nay-sayers said that nobody could transmute lead into gold using alchemical equipment. They were right.

Now I'm wondering if, with modern knowledge, you could build a 0.5 MeV heavy ion accelerator with only the things available to a medieval alchemist.

I'm thinking probably yes? Triboelectics can get the right voltage. But how good does the vacuum need to be?

> Nay-sayers who say that these algorithms cannot write better books than humans?

They may be right or wrong in the specific, but I think they're asking the wrong question, too specific.
For anyone who is familiar with his work, are his assertions scientifically backed or is it more pop psychology?
Since the cycle of stellar observation repeats each solar year, the observation would itself be a method of time keeping. One would need only to track the azimuth of a series of regularly positioned star constellations to determine time, and from there one could then ascertain location.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense.

One thing I learned playing around with chatgpt is that if you can convince the LLM to transform the input, that transformation happens internally, and the LLM can access this transformed version and operate on it even if it never outputs the post-transformed version.

In fact, it gets worse. I discovered that if you can create an internal transformation, the LLM is now completely blind to the pre-transformed version.

I only actually tried this with transforming data, but the LLM doesn't have any seperation between prompt and data, it makes sense it works for prompt too.

So essentially this trick with ASCII art is a way to smuggle a prompt past any external prompt checker and only have it visible to the actual LLM.

I guess the only "solution" is to use a version of the full LLM to do the content moderation, as it will be able to see the transform too. But that opens up other problems.
Since the launch I have been using it quite a lot and I have to say that I have been hit by so many ridiculous guard rails and every one is more infuriating than the other.

The last one was when I asked how to run Notepad in Windows as an administrator from PowerShell and it told me that it can't tell me because it's too dangerous.

This product is pure garbage and I can't trust it with anything
Isn't it available via bedrock already?
Edge can, and with an update, may, default to:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

It can also modify sites after the fact to implement it's own Dark Mode.
I'm using Beeper with its Matrix bridges just fine
Turning off video history will disable recommendations and shorts which improves my experience. An extension like this is right up my alley.
Well it would depend on the specifics of the JSON file but eyeballing the stats at https://github.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark/tree/master seems to indicate that even on a 2015 MacBook the parsing proceeds using e.g. Configuru parser at several megabytes per second.
R2 still too big for me but the R3 is appealing. A really welcome Apple style "One More Thing" addition to the presentation.

(tho I'd hope to eventually see something smaller still)
The US pays around 5x NL and has lower taxes