skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credit cards are very literally a social credit system.

OH did you play by the rules, well then you get "cash back" on your purchase. Oh you didn't play by the rules, well the 3 percent markup that is on everything purchased with credit is going in the pocket of someone else. You should do better and we will give you some of that money back. Thanks for playing and do remember dont be poor.

Im a very pro capitalism type of person, but our credit, and credit card/transaction system is fucked up on a lot of levels.
If you are in any way concerned about your life's keys being at the mercy of Google or Apple picking up the phone when your account eventually gets locked up ("risk algorithm flag" - good luck!), you should easily be able to understand why a cashless society based on banks or governments as gatekeepers can be just as bad, if not a lot worse.
3 Mbps/household is right about the lower bound for average Internet usage. It's not optimal, especially going forward, but it's fine for now.

Upping those 2G backhauls to 10G is simple and cheap, however.
Superiority (1951)
I'm confused as to what a "cashless card-based transaction" would be.

I'm wondering if they meant 'contactless'. That would fit with the other concept. As long as the infrastructure is up, they may prefer contactless or mobile pay, but what do they use when the infrastructure to accept ANY card is down?

I understand the European chip model is slightly more resilient in this regard-- the idea of not being able to get a live authorization is a little more baked in, and you can fall back to "we expect to settle the transactions a few hours or a day or two later" concerns. I suspect the standard practices go out the window for a long term siege.
For enjoyers of French-Canadian random number generation papers/books, there's also this excellent book on non-uniform random variate generation by Luc Devroye: http://luc.devroye.org/rnbookindex.html
We already have social credit for banking in the US as the poor don't get to have bank accounts. In a twisted way this helps maintain support for cash and non-app card payments for businesses and public services that can't shut out the poor.
Don’t start at the edges, start at the center
The double-backlink at the bottom is amusing - I recognize this bug from painful experience. OP counted each of the 2 links in the other article as a backlink, and didn't deduplicate. But... if you deduplicate, then you are unable to do true bidirectional backlinks to the original caller. You can't figure out 'which' link in the other article is meant.

You need HTML IDs set on each, but they have to be different ID-anchors (obviously, and also because it'd be bad/invalid HTML to have duplicate IDs). So you actually need to track not just the other article but the ID inside the other article, and a way to generate those link IDs to begin with (since you definitely don't want to do it by hand). Gets tricky.
Even that won't protect you from civil asset forfeiture in the US, as absolutely no evidence whatsoever is required.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/dea-seized-a-womans-bag-of-cash-...
> Among them, you! The people in this article aren’t buying them out of paychecks. Capital gains rates are their worst case scenario.

I know that however unless they are selling assets they will still need to pass through as income.

The idea that capital gains taxes are low is also insane. Those are assets that are being sold. Yes they may have started as worth zero when the company was formed but when they sell stock someone else now owns it. The fact we accept the government is entitled to 15% of that asset value increase is frankly insane.

I’d also like to mention that most people on paychecks are not aware of how much they are being taxed as they believe the absurd euphemistically named “employer” taxes aren’t a tax on them directly. Any tax the employer wouldn’t pay if they weren’t employed is a tax on them, regardless of how you name and collect it. Without payroll collection of taxes there is no way the government would politically get away with the extreme high tax rates on the general populations of western governments.
I guess we'll see what the value really is soon.
it may be about safety against cyberattacks
How a "dumbphone" made me better
Wrote this which runs basically instantly https://pastebin.com/ax4eTKMr I hope I didn't make some embarassing mistake, but it seems to match the results of the code in part 2.
You Shouldn't Use VS Code
What's wrong with BlackBerry (and what to do about it) (2010)
Check out the album “The Mollusk” by Ween—supposedly the musical inspiration for Spongebob.
Highly directional antennas mean that the radiation source needs to be up in the sky to be even picked up by the drone.

Ground based jammers are physically not capable of doing this. And I'm pretty sure they use frequency bands that do not reflect off the ionosphere otherwise they couldn't talk to satellites.
Well there has been this push forever to eliminate desktop apps in favor of just web apps. Now, imagine we do this crazy thing that most businesses are convinced they need to do and we do what you’re saying, which is make all web apps do page reloads. All of sudden (maybe not so suddenly) computing in 2026 is much more frustrating than it was in 1996 (86?).
My understanding is that people that choose public defender instead of private lawyer in criminal cases have statistically worse outcomes. From my perspective it seems blatant that people with deep pockets are more likely to have better outcomes in lawsuits. I agree that it's an open question on if the new standards for practicing law leads to an increase in poor lawyers.
Can you provide a link to this conversation? I'd love to hear your input or see what you proposed.
This is by design. Mac apps don't leave tons of trash around like their windows counterparts. Only some config files, always in a standard location. So when you reinstall, everything just works. Your data lives in iCloud or the documents folder, and is not meant to be deleted when you uninstall.
I mean, the tmux author kinda did. You can just execute sh inline, or execute external sh scripts. I do this with my config to do some neat things.
I wish I had been given advice like this when I was younger. As an introvert, I've learned my lesson to decline most social events as I got older. In my 20's and 30's, social event was almost a "YES", despite not wanting to participate. Now, it's almost always "NO", except for wedding, funeral, birthday for family members or close friends. I also decline any social company meeting, but I'm required to be present for work-related meetings and standups.
> Are you saying that you would not give anyone else food?

Imagine the point at which my neighbour is willing to riot for food. That means his neighbour is also likely willing to riot for food and so on and so forth. This also means I'm likely willing to riot for food. I am not trading my last couple of meals of which I don't know when I'll get for a thousands or even hundreds of thousands dollars.

The point is if it gets bad enough that people immediate needs are not met, cash or money means very little. No matter how much of it you have, if you are at the point where you're rioting for food, there is likely not enough food for you or your neighbour who also doesn't know when they'll get their next meal.

Do you think there will exist a point at which a person would much prefer food in their hand than even larger sums of cash? My point is that when a food riot occurs is when cash becomes worth less than food.
IBM is a good guess but it would probably be more accurate at this stage to point at anyone that missed the cloud wars and are claiming to be a “multi-cloud manager.”

Definitely IBM, maybe Nutanix, possibly Broadcom. Hell, maybe even Cisco.
This is a common response but it seems to be one of those things that is just repeated over and over that in the end doesn’t even shed light into why china is a problem. And this is what I meant as well, people like being dismissive because it makes them feel better.

Yes, the US has a global presence but it’s because it has to have one, china does not.

The US doesn’t care about Taiwan just out of principle, it cares about Taiwan because in a way it’s fighting to keep all of Asia from falling under Chinese influence.

China doesn’t have to worry about parking aircraft carriers off the coast of California at a moments notice because it doesn’t have to, what’s at stake is in their backyard where they are more than well prepared for combat.

Also, the US has to spend resources projecting power in Europe for many reasons, which only makes it more vulnerable to a conflict with China. Can you imagine what would happen if russia decided to go to war in Europe with full aid from China while the US was also trying to fight an all out war in Asia?

These aren’t some doomsday scenarios I’m coming up with here, just stating that dismissing China the way Americans do is reminiscent of the same hubris that has come to bite other nations in the ass sooner or later.
We are talking about AI, not Xerox copiers. AI today doesn’t come close to the word for word, pixel for pixel copy you are talking about.
This particular study isn't limited to LLMs.

It is about how to test consciousness in a wide variety of things. We have no tests.

People may think their dog is conscious, but we can't test that. We can't even test if other people are conscious.

What about invertebrates? Bacteria? Rocks, atoms, AI, your laptop etc? While somebody might say "yes, no, definetly not, yes, maybe" ... still, no tests.

And consciousness in this particular proposal deals with whether or not it "‘feels like’ something to be the target system".
It is not going to take off if it is not significantly better, and has browser support. WebP took off thanks to Chrome, while JPEG2000 floundered. If not native browser support, maybe the codec could be shipped by WASM or something?

The interesting diagram to me is the last one, for computational cost, which shows the 10x penalty of the ML-based codecs.
On my phone it's under settings > location > location services > wifi/bluetooth scanning.
Not to mention pigs can eat lots of different types of food including your foods scraps
Fixing Intel's Arc Drivers: "Optimization" & How GPU Drivers Work [video]
I don’t know if you can just copy the files over. It seems you also need to make the USB stick bootable?

There’s dozens of guides on doing this on a Mac, they all seem outdated. I found a tool called WinDiskWriter on GitHub and it was the only GUI tool that worked.

Suspect there’s more to it than just cp. There’s wimlib too for handling the larger files on the install ISO.
Shoot. Back to the drawing board
Why don't they just use RFC 6238 TOTP?
Verifying Hardware Security with RTL Simulation
Almost certain when EV charging apps get embedded in carplay.

On a flip side - having one app instead of 10 would be nice…
(Author) Thanks for the feedback! Yes, there's still a network load balancer involved — we debated whether we should include the last section of the post but decided it's still worth writing out. The idea is that the load balancer doesn't need to directly connect to the running machines / containers, but instead just a much smaller set of `modal-http` service pods that translate HTTP to function calls, which lets us deploy and service big apps a lot faster. :)

Writing a good network load balancer is very hard and we don't intend to suggest that it's our forte. We very much defer to all of the existing systems literature on this (and a couple papers like Maglev are in the post.)
World Community Grid uses BOINC, and is back up and running after finding a new home.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

I set it to run on a few cores of all my different machines. Keep it below 50% of the true core count, and the fan and heat increase is negligible, and science still gets done at a good rate. I've been a happy participant for years, and am glad they're still around, contributing to our mutual net benefit.
> Is that an argument? Because the open air drug markets exist in places that had drug use in them they are OK? How does B follow from A?

> The point is that open air drug markets full of human misery, and usually unsanitary and violent conditions, are bad, and we should not tolerate them as part of our society.

Anywhere drug addiction is pervasive is full of human misery, unsanitary, and violent conditions.

"Not tolerating" isn't a solution.

The concrete solution you're actually proposing is prohibition, which not only doesn't solve the problem, but makes the problem worse. It makes it harder to provide sanitation solutions such as needle exchanges, and it makes it harder to provide solutions to violence such as security presence.

> My comment is just pointing out that having them in places where people are trying to live normal lives and raise children is bad.

And no one disagrees with that.

The problem is, prohibition just means that people trying to live normal lives and raise children now live in a neighborhood with more violence and more unsanitary conditions that is less visible and harder to avoid. Your "solution" is not solving the sanitation or violence problems in any way, it's making both worse.

If anything, concentrating drug sales into specific areas makes the problems more avoidable for parents, because they know exactly where the problems are and can avoid those areas.

And, if you're concerned about children, surely you'd support programs to help families with children move away from violent and unsanitary areas. I'd certainly support that. That seems like it would actually solve the problem, unlike anything you've proposed.

> The fact that this kind of thing will exist anyways isn’t a counter-argument any more than the argument that porn will always exist and is legal means it has to be allowed on billboards.

It's tiring to continuously explain to you the differences between the analogies you keep proposing and the discussion at hand. Analogies still aren't a valid argument. Please make an effort to talk about the actual situation we're talking about, instead of bringing in various unrelated situations.

The difference in this case is that removing porn from billboards doesn't make the problems of porn worse, while making drugs illegal does make the problems of drugs worse.
This is an interesting attack surface. Can you extend the risk out a bit? Assume that you have a vulnerable supermicro IPMI now exposed on a public interface. It has no IP address, and is presumably issuing DHCP DISCOVERs in an effort to get an IP. How do you reach the IPMI device to exploit it? What additional access do you need to get there?

Root on another device on that public network would do, you could forge the necessary DHCP responses to get it configured with an IP address of your choosing. Non-root on another device on that network might also work, if it fails DHCP and self-configures on a 169.254 address, assuming it does that.

Is there an obvious way to exploit such an issue from beyond the public subnet?Every attack I can imagine would be blocked by either inbound firewalls, or a failure to reach the IPMI as an unexpected device on the public subnet. I suppose that it would be a possible risk if you have a DHCP server on that public subnet issuing IP addresses to all devices, but that seems like a larger risk anyways. Server networks should be static assigned or static DHCP in all cases.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4975715
> The fact we accept the government is entitled to 15% of that asset value increase is frankly insane.

That capital gains rate - and again, that’s their worst-case scenario here; tricks like the Thiel Roth IRA article I linked elsewhere in this thread - pays for the education, healthcare, protection, etc. of their workforce.
I agree with you I meant reputational risk and the amount of output per level of input. It's hard to be as hungry once you've 'made it' or at least, your drive changes. Arguably at that level you can have more impact as a mentor of a large number of domain experts doing great work rather than trying to becoming one yourself.
Well yeah the project is in its infancy. America doesn't just plop down military bases in places either. They build influence first. Then maybe down the line it's "we'll forgive your debt if you let us build this port for our navy" or "we'll build you a nice airport and allow you access to it if you let us use it for military purposes"
It would be interesting to know what low strength people usually die from. One example where muscle mass would reign supreme would be in fall related deaths.
Strength helps balance and helps prevent a fall in the first place. It also helps catch a fall.
Strength training also strengthens bones so that would help you avoid a broken hip.
Then if you do break a hip, your extra muscle mass and strength will deplete but not to the point where you're now bedridden.
It's money in the bank.
I often read this, and I'm not sure I agree always. From the final user point of view, sure, give me a known language and don't make me learn a new config format for each program. 100% Agree.

But, now, let's go with examples from another view point:

Let's say there are different levels of support teams in an infra, and you (root) make a custom tool, so other teams can run something (and only that thing).

And that thing, has a config file. I don't want to give sudo to lua, I want to give sudo only to my tool.

It's like if we say "Don't provide the final user with a User Interface, just let them connect to the database as admin so they can do everything by themselves"

In this case, doesn't apply (sudo tmux == sudo bash).

Or another point of view:

tmux is 981K on my system, adding... lua? for the config, could increase it's size by maybe at least 30%? It's not the same to add an scripting lang to a 230GB game, than to every little tool.

Depending on context, an scripting language is ok. However, not always as a rule of thumb.
The facebook community reporting creature is trash. I've never had a successful report go through.

Someone selling "account recovery services"? That's totally allowed by FB!
If you are a native speaker, maybe go into technical writing? Or, if you have the eye for it, design?
I've seen around 1-3% on non micro benchmarks, real applications.

Aee also this benchmark from Phoronix [0]:

Of the 100 tests carried out for this article, when taking the geometric mean of all these benchmarks it equated to about a 14% performance penalty of the software with -O2 compared to when adding -fno-omit-frame-pointer.

I'm not saying these benchmarks or the workloads I've seen are representative of the "real world", but people keep repeating that frame pointers are basically free, which is just not the case.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-frame-pointer
http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/nsp_rah-telepathy.php says the "Mental Telegraphy" is from Expanded Universe, and includes a copy of Twain's text.

I haven't reread Heinlein for decades and don't remember the reference. An archive.org search of the book wasn't fruitful.
You're right, though it becomes hierarchical once you have multiple Dockerfiles inheriting from some base image (which I did not articulate in my original comment).
Not that readable.
Bloodbath for the auto industry.
What I prefer about cash is that it enforces a different attitude towards money. If you have a pile of notes or coins and watch them diminish, it definitely changes your attitude towards spending versus "present a card, and at the end of the month, you'll get a statement." Yeah, online banking and notifications get your finger closer to the pulse of your financial state, but it's hardly the same experience as "there are no more notes, spending must stop now."

Ironically, I'd be more comfortable with digital payments if they were implemented through the state than the current private-sector plays. The government has obligations to service all legal customers, so there's limited wiggle room for them to deplatform. Meanwhile, private banks and card networks can be bullied into making some industries off-limits.
If you're ultra-wealthy and want to survive the apocalypse while keeping your status, it's probably better to stockpile loyalty rather than gas-guzzling SUVs in a world where the oil refineries are blown up.

I wonder if the ideal compound would be one that can shelter thousands of people and a massive soup kitchen. When the bombs drop, you're the only person bothering to help others and so you amass followers that you can now use to raid other billionaires that instead spent their money on pools or saunas.

Every litre of water you put into a pool is a litre of water you could be using to supply a soldier to steal some other guy's pool to hydrate more soldiers within a drought-stricken wasteland. Every 500k you spent on a luxury bulletproof SUV is enough to buy 10x the Toyota Hiluxes that can outflank the SUV and pin it in. And the 6x6 luxury SUV is a prime target since anyone riding in one of those has a lot of stuff to steal.

If the rule of law disappears and society collapses, I doubt anybody is going to maintain a pre-war standard of living because the competitive pressures are going to push people to spend a lot more on weapons/violence. The best you can hope for is to become a charismatic warlord, but now you personally have to spend your wealth on providing protection and welfare for the people, plus you have to win against every other person with the same idea.

It'd be cheaper to just pool your wealth together with everyone else in a given area to create a government that enforces certain basic rules, provides for certain basic needs, and allows everyone to stop worrying about killing each other.
FWIW, Anil Seth from the list of authors has been a strong opponent of the Panpsychist view (consciousness is a fundamental property of matter, and everything is to some degree conscious) recently been popularized by David Chalmers et al.
I don't know if you've computed in 96, but computing now is orders of magnitude more frustrating than then.
It’s superior to carplay…
I had this issue with another website (a reddit clone). I tried blocking it on the host, on the router etc. and always found a way to go there. That was a moment I realized that was a sick addiction and not fun anymore.

So I started taking an eye on myself, and whenever I went there I closed the browser and reprimended myself vocally (I said: you went there again. Do not go there anymore.)

After some time I stopped typing the address, I stopped choosing it from the browser hints, I stopped choosing it from the search results.

That was hard, but worked. Even today I do not go there, as the addiction may return (I saw that on myself in the past).

Good luck and... goodbye!
The ultra rich are quick to tell us that they are so busy running their businesses. Either they are doing a lot less than they say or actually don’t have time to play in their bunkers…
An excellent classic
> It seems you also need to make the USB stick bootable?

That’s for legacy MBR boot. It has no function with UEFI boot.

Same for Windows as it is for Linux.
14% longer in mice trails is more than a few weeks. Regardless of if it’s “desperate” or not, there’s worse ways to spend your time than searching for a way to live another decade.
(Author) Yes, that's exactly right
On iOs, use two fingers to scroll through the cookies consent pop up to the Submit button :)
Maybe OP refers to vocabulary search order manipulation [1]. It's sort of like namespaces, but "stacked". There's also the old MARKER and FORGET pair [2].

The dictionary pointer can also be manipulated in some dialects. That can be used directly as the stack variant of the arena allocator idea. It is particularly useful for text concatenation.

[1] https://forth-standard.org/standard/search
[2] https://forth-standard.org/standard/core/MARKER
However, customers who bought their frying pan at Walmart can still buy their canned tomatoes from other stores.
John Mulaney | Venmo Is For Drug Deals[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBpDvCu8yYI