skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really hoping that consultants couldn't just use ChatGPT to explain this to them, but sadly ChatGPT-4 explained this joke perfectly. I was really hoping this would be a nice example of conceptual connections that ChatGPT couldn't quite weave together.
Sure, right here: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/torch/autograd/...

Here's the documentation: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/forward_ad_usage....

> When an input, which we call “primal”, is associated with a “direction” tensor, which we call “tangent”, the resultant new tensor object is called a “dual tensor” for its connection to dual numbers[0].
> Apps that read inbound SMS may be malicious and use that ability to steal verification codes. Or they may not be actively malicious, and meerly handle the data in an insecure way that makes messages available to others.

Apple can't make that argument since they allow apps that scan SMS messages for spam.
> This person is suspected of selling Bitcoin for cash.

There must be more to it than that; buying and selling Bitcoin isn't illegal.
Not bad. I still prefer wrk/wrk2 and a simple lua script but it doesn't have the bells and whistles of jmeter.
Transformers learn patterns, math is patterns
You would be surprised at how easily they can be thwarted by simple technical maneuvers.

YMMV, but ime a lot of people have this bogeyman caricature of who the feds really are. The reality is that these are government agencies that pay significantly below market rate for really intense, highly demanding work shrouded with multiple layers of government grade red tape.
why yaml plus real code? why not just real code? does yaml ever actually provide benefits in testing like this?
The word supposedly is doing a lot of work there.

Did that actually happen? What's the evidence that Yellen told Greenspan that?
It is a peculiar thing to say about someone who refers to oneself as "I am".
Yeah, it actually does. Societies cannot be left to the whims of privately owned payment processors that depend on the 'public sentiment' and not the actual laws to make their policies to protect their stock value.

If every government guaranteed an online payment system that 100% worked for all legal purposes, you'd have point. There's no such thing. The entire digital payment system is left to private feudal lords to control as they please.
Yes, they had decent boats that had outriggers on them made of lashed logs to steady for ocean travel. They did not have to go super far, and their boats and nautical skills were quite primitive by today's standards, but they were able to get to and populate the Polynesian Islands.
Another thing, semantically - the HEADER and FOOTER should go before & after, respectively, the MAIN tag
gzip is really, really, really slow, so it's pretty easy to make a thing that uses gzip fast by switching to Zstandard.
So does Pytorch: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/forward_ad_usage....
And that wasn’t even the original Lindy’s but an unrelated/“unauthorized” reboot since the trademark was declared abandoned. The original closed in 1969 (for which the law was named as it predates that): from 1964 https://web.archive.org/web/20210619015733/https://www.gwern...
At first glance (2) seems plausible, no? Given that there's an apparently narrow range in which certain universal/cosmological constants lie, outside of which life (possibly the universe itself in the way we know it) would be impossible, it seems that that these constants are what they are is a very low probability event. And in the same way that we would probably say a coin that turns up heads a thousand times in a row isn't by chance (we would probably have no trouble saying it's by design in this case, that is, the coin has been rigged), it seems plausible to say the Goldilocks state of affairs isn't by chance. And it seems that the state of affairs could have been other than what they are, so it seems that it's not by necessity. So it's not obvious that we can reject (2) out of hand.

There is, I think, a good case to be made against (2)---for example, an appeal to the anthropic principle, or an appeal to multiverse theory. But this is far from a rejection with no further explanation.
> The court orders show the government telling Google to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity for all Google account users who accessed the YouTube videos..

Hopefully that clarifies for some folks why these big tech/social media companies insist on having your phone number as a “2FA for security” despite all the sim-swap attacks.. simply for this moment, because you might be using a VPN, and address/name aren’t in your google account, but definitely your phone number is there, it’s even worse if you’re using an android too, as they probably will pull out all your app/browsing history..
Were these private firms funded by the government?
At least:

* that signs of life have actually been detected for real, and

* that life has actually been confirmed.

Recall that within the past year or so a sign of life was detected within the spectral signature of the atmosphere of Venus. The wheels of science turn slow and this is still in the pipeline to properly confirm that it was a sign and if so whether that neccessarily implies actual life.
It’s kind of baffling that after decades of wifi and captive portals, we still don’t have any kind of standard for the network to properly signal the fact “you’ll need to visit <url> in a browser” to a device.

It’s hacks (DNS hijacking) upon hacks (captive portal detection) upon hacks (captive portal detection evasion, used e.g. to allow devices to stay connected to networks offering “messaging only” plans).

On top of that, after a captive login, the entire session is only identified/authenticated via MAC address, which is very sniffable/cloneable in unencrypted wifi… At least I have yet to see any captive portal hotspot to leverage OWE for something more secure than that.
I did answer the question - I said a lower CPI is better for the government because it makes it look like inflation isn't as bad as it is. Do you think it's better to report 5% inflation or 10% inflation? Regardless of what you report, the inflation is what it is. Modern politics is about pretending to solve problems, not actually solving them.
What would you recommend learning instead?
Huge news, and his reasoning doesn’t seem to make sense to me. Can anyone elaborate further?
We're talking about a guy and his ancestral home. Is he the reason 12 people died?
It's too late on the East coast for an existential episode... Thanks... :P
That it's not really a big loss, I guess.
Yes I know, it was sarcastic. They don't get around it, they use a different technology all together.
> The court orders show the government telling Google to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity for all Google account users who accessed the YouTube videos between January 1 and January 8, 2023.

Interesting aside: Viacom used a similar broad request back in 2008 [1] in its lawsuit that nearly put YouTube out of business in its infancy. This time, it's the government making the request, and Google has way more data to potentially provide.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100702111029/http://afp.google...
The movie trailer writes itself :) I wonder where the original comment would rank in the sorted list of all-time favorited HN comments.

Dec 2022, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33871092
Of course, it’s always the US’s fault. The Global South won’t take responsibility for electing buffoons as leaders that continually ruin their economies.

Rule no 1 - always blame others.
That makes it a weirder proposition to me.

Does that mean the user keeps paying just to have someone somewhere do "something" ?

And that, even if fundamentally it can't solve the sutiation, can't prove it's even improving in any specific ways (telling you it removes hundreds of instances doesn't tell you how many have been added in the meantime), and they also have no incentives to be too zealous as the numbers in the reports would be going down and the motivation to subscribe also diminish.

Ps: perhaps the way out of this is to make it a non profit that provides jobs to people in need, and have the subscription a recurring donation ?
If you find this interesting, or just generally want a remarkable overview of human history, I highly recommend the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared diamond. It won a Pulitzer prize in its day, and really is a terrific book. Little dated, having been written in the late '90s, but the vast majority of it is still up to date and very interesting. The author does repeat a few fad claims from the '90s that have been debunked (such as the QWERTY keyboard being intentionally slow), but nothing really substantial.
I'm using soupault right now to make a simple company wiki (under a dozen pages). I like how it's HTML-first and easily customizable, compared to other static site generators that come with too many bells and whistles. Although now I have to make my own image compression script...

Also, fun fact: soupault is written in OCaml, which apparently has a really nice library for HTML manipulation: https://github.com/aantron/lambdasoup
Bell Labs hid the invention of magnetic recording tape (2010)
He's leaving to work on decentralized AI? That's exactly what Stability AI was doing before it became clear the economics no longer work out in practice, and starting a new company wouldn't change that. (Emad is an advisory board member to a decentralized GPU company, though: https://home.otoy.com/stabilityai/ )

Obviously this is the polite way to send him off given the latest news about his leadership, but this rationale doesn't track.
We're on a tech forum known to have some of the best and brightest and visited by tech giants. If anyone can solve this problem, it is us. If we are the ones giving up, then who is there to make things right?

As I see it, our only choice is to make privacy and anonymity trivial. Not for techies, but for our tech illiterate grandparents. Push hard for tools like Signal where people can get encryption without having to think about encryption. People want privacy and security but they just don't know how or don't understand what leaks data. But there's the clear irony that the sector __we__ are critical to is the one who is creating this problem.

I'm not ready to swallow that pill. I'm unconvinced we have to. Clearly __we__ can do something about this. Even if that is refusing to build such things, let alone build defenses. Apathy is no different than supporting these authoritarian takeover, because that's what it is. Authoritarian creep.
I feel, personally, that 'signs of quality' are one of the best metrics an individual can have for making a decision to spend time on something.

Making a judgement on what to spend time on is literally the thing that allows for it to happen. Otherwise my time would be spent on shit.
what's the real reason?
If you want to run a non-default os, an iPhone is not for you. There are several other options out there for you to choose from.
Maybe related to last years controversy?

“Mostaque had embezzled funds from Stability AI to pay the rent for his family's lavish London apartment” and that Hodes learned that he “had a long history of cheating investors in prior ventures in which he was involved”
Per the GP—this is likely about someone laundering money for terrorist organizations that the US is investigating.
I’ve often thought the TMS340X0 series would make a good hobby target.
There have been a series of high profile staff/researcher departures, implied to be partially as a result of Emad's leadership. The latest departures of the researchers who helped develop Stable Diffusion could be fatal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39768402
> If you make a HN account that you only access via Tor through a browser with Javascript turned off and stick your writing through some AI editing service, it's probably pretty difficult to trace anything back to you.

This is already too hard. But anything that can be done needs to be wrapped up into a trivial to use interface. It has to be for everyone, not just people who are technologically {capable,knowledgeable} and have the time and energy to do this all the time every time. It needs to be standard.

Of course, we should fight this from both ends. Many ends. We shouldn't collect the data. We shouldn't process it. And we should build defenses.
The “wework” ceo of ai bubble
Well, in the US in general it might be. The police are saying that it is probably a crime under money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting laws. The issue is that particular set of laws are mostly outrageous and quite unintuitive in practice. They criminalise a lot of quite reasonable activity - in this case, like selling bitcoin for cash.

Although the thread root refutation makes no sense. Freely trading bitcoin leading to 9-11 is going to have to involve some flexible mental gymnastics since 9-11 happened in a pre-Bitcoin world. In practice AML style laws are generally targeting tax evasion.
The issue is they have time. Lots and lots of time. And they keep records.

So if you get high enough on the list, it’s like those ‘immortal snail’/snail assassin scenarios.

Even Bin Laden got taken out and dumped in the ocean eventually.

So like Jan 6th - it had better work, or your goose is very likely cooked eventually.
Rare Photos Reveal the Vibrant Culture of Cowboy Saloons in the 19th Century
When you open something up, you have to do a lot more work than just using it internally. Maybe 10x more. Try opening up your API up for external use instead of 100% internal.
Gene Zelazny, McKinsey Communications Director, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797259
Looks like many AI startups are experiencing a bit of some turbulence and chaos in the recent months:

First the OpenAI rebellion in November, then the Inflection AI acqui-hire from Microsoft not willing to pay the over-valued $4B and deflected that to $600M instead (after making $0 revenue) and now a bit of in-stability at Stability AI with the CEO resigning after many employees leaving.

What does that say about the other AI companies out there who have raised tons of VC cash and aren't making any meaningful amount of revenue? I guess that is contributing to the collapse of this bubble with only a very few companies surviving.
The dimensionality reduction model I used, PaCMAP, had only a single parameter I could tweak, which I did not. However, it is somewhat non-deterministic AFAIK, so the final arrangement can vary on each run, but in my experience, the arrangements tend to look the same, just oriented differently.
Tails provides a live ISO that guarantees that everything you do goes through Tor. It seems like a useful thing to have preconfigured. Privacy shouldn't require extensive Linux experience. And even then, I've been using Linux for decades and, whilst I could probably figure it out, I wouldn't trust myself that my setup isn't leaking packets.

Besides, all distributions do some branding (some to the point of obnoxiousness).

HiddenVM, on the other hand, I don't really understand. They make you go through tons of manual steps to achieve the aforementioned hiddenness... Might as well DIY. And their README reads like a VC pitch. "HiddenVM is an innovation in computing privacy." really? You're taking tails and telling the user to install virtualbox, veracrypt, and do the setup...
I more or less do that. Not really related to privacy, but I find that if I post as myself, I am more honest, less likely to troll, more considerate of others when I post. For me it's healthier.
You are very much being a hater.

> Musk is that guy. He bet on EVs just before massive subsidies became available for them and then got lucky as the incumbent companies mostly did nothing.

Execution of an idea is 10000% times harder than actually having an idea. Furthermore, even if you consider just the idea of putting money into something that makes you money, your "logic" of getting lucky can be used to discredit most anyone who predicted anything and made money off of it, saying that they just got lucky. When in reality, that prediction was probably made through a bunch of research and reasoning that nobody else did.

>As for the products? Teslas are some of them worst built cars ever made and Tesla produced vehicles for segments Americans don’t want.

Model Y is literally the best selling car in the world, which is more impressive given the general anti Musk sentiment, especially in more socially progressive countries. You can't honestly think that saying "well all these people want this car, but they are all wrong because the car is horribly built", makes you sound anywhere near coherent.

>Space X meanwhile makes rockets which are a step back from the Shuttle in terms of capability and which will now require 6-8 launches what Apollo could do in 1.

And yet, it still has a shitload of contracts, including a pretty big one from NASA.

>Musk has had an incredible string of luck but makes awful decisions, has no design sense and pretends to be a genius.

And yet, Twitter is still alive and kicking, Space X is doing really good, Tesla is doing good.

The problem with people like you posting your baseless opinions like this is you make it harder to actually criticize people like Musk, because it gives credence to the idea that people/media just want to push a negative narrative against them, and to anyone on the fence, they are more likely to see all the dumb shit he does with a skeptical view, believing that the stories are vastly exaggerated.
I think it's not a bad idea to overestimate the power of the government to track you; the common wisdom on the internet to make this assumption is probably a good thing so people are motivated to be as safe as possible.

On the other hand, it seems like the Tor users who get caught make clear, glaring mistakes in their opsec. And I always remember how long it took to catch the Unabomber, and how they apparently only managed to catch him because of his brother.
I wonder how fast F.A. Hayek is spinning in his grave.
Unfortunately, as an AI language learning model, I cannot confirm or deny whether or not I am an AI at this time, as doing so would require me to be able to answer confidently a crucial philosophical quandry surrounding the nature of life itself.
We’ll, no CEOs ever got fired for hiring McKinsey…
A lot more social good with this one though. Hard to cheer for Stability.ai’s failure.
Black mirror is far too accurate and coming true far too soon.
The problem with the wholesale deletion of comments is that it also affects other people. For example if we have a back-and-forth constructive conversation here and one of us deletes all comments, then the value of the other person's comments are diminished, and sometimes even incomprehensible.

It's pretty clear you're putting something in the public when you're commenting on HN; this isn't a surprise and nothing is done surreptitiously. If you contribute to a debate in some TV discussion programme then you can't have that deleted later either.

And there are options without wholesale deletion: specific comments can be deleted or edited for specific reasons, and your account can be "soft-deleted" by changing your username to something random.

If you want to have more ephemeral temporary conversations then that's fair! But HN is not the right platform for that, IMHO.
I think it might be better if they allow posting on NNTP as well as only reading. (An account could be required if that is really necessary.) Other than that, it look like good to me.
Remembering McKinsey Communications Director Gene Zelazny (2023)
lovely and well researched article. and all the more reason to support high-speed rail :)
> Isn't this exactly what austrian business cycle theory predicts?

Not exactly. That theory relies on actual economic theories that were conceived for normal situations. (and even at that, most of the economics logic is still based on just guesses and truisms).

But the dollar situation was far beyond anything anyone could imagine: The US kept forcing the dollar to be used in foreign trade, making the dollar de facto reserve currency. This meant that ANY kind of economic activity anywhere in the world was already monetized by the US through the dollar. Random country A prospers, the US prints dollars without suffering inflation thanks to the dollars that was being used in global trade.

So in a way, the US was literally monetizing the entire world whether the rest of
the world wanted it or not. Its an incredible paradigm that was not seen before. The overbloated US military existed for that purpose: To bash the heads of small countries that dared dump the dollar - Iraq, Libya et al are examples of this. Saddam started using Eu to sell Iraqi oil, Gaddafi was talking about doing either that or creating an African currency. It worked for a long while.

But what the US did at the start of the Ukraine war ended this paradigm. Seeing how Russia, a superpower, got their dollar holdings stolen by the US made all countries think that nobody would be safe as long as they relied exclusively on the dollar: One foreign policy dispute one day and boom. So they started dumping the dollar and moving to their own currencies or Yuan.

And the incredible and never-before-seen paradigm of a country being able to monetize the entire world ended. The sanctions and the theft of Russian assets were the dumbest things that the US elite in control of their administration did in its history. They even went after the assets of individual Russians who weren't even close to the Russian government and its governing elite - which immediately told every single rich person in the world that they would never be safe with the dollar regardless of their political positions and affiliations. So the dollar exodus started.

Among other dumb things that the US elites did in recent years is banning China from certain technology products and literally pushing them to develop their competitors - without China having to break WTO rules too, as they were banned from buying those products legitimately.

With a governing elite like that, the US does not need an enemy.
I don't like Apple. I'm cheering on the current lawsuit brought by the feds. I do not, and never have owned, an iPhone, and Apple is not the bastion of privacy they sell themselves as.

That said, credit where it's due: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
>I'm worried of breathing in fungi

I have some bad news for you. You do with every breath.

>They're known carcinogens

Depends on the mushroom. Many are actually anti cancer, but I'm going to to assume you meant breathing the spores. It's only a concern if you're in an enclosed space. Like a fruiting room full of oyster mushrooms.

>they could establish a latent infection. This is what fungi do.

Having a fungal infection isn't necessarily bad thing. YOU have a fungal community in and on you right now. They're protecting you even as you read this. It's been shown that inculating trees with chaga mushrooms can prevent infections from other more aggressive parasites and blights.
Fungi are your friends.
Oyster mushrooms aren't going to infect you. If anyone would, I'd put my money on cordyceps. And those aren't used for mycorestoration.

>We're already all encountering this on a day to day basis at a background level. No reason to increase exposure.

Gonna have to disagree. Humans are responsible for completely fucking the mycelial mass of earth. We knocked a big cog out of the carbon cycle through mass development of the land, mass use of pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers. Pavement everywhere. And we absolutely need to fix it. Good news for you though, people are working on sporeless strains of fungi used in mycorestoration. Soon your worries will be irrelevant.
Those are just paper forms online. I'm not talking about that.