skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> find immersion in it to be psychologically rejuvenating

As a justification for the rules people like, I don’t think that’s at all compatible with the frequency with which people actually partake in this, or their lack of concern with focusing on preserving the most valuable landscapes.

> Another dimension may be the sense that the human touch feels, in some sense, irreversible. So one might think we should be conservative when disturbing an environment that has been formed only by natural processes over millions of years

I think this is not meaningfully different than what I said originally: resistance to change, period. It could be different if people had any sort of quantitative model for what sort of preservation our descendants would value, and how to trade that off against our current needs. But in practice no one does this, so it just becomes “don’t change anything”.
Starvation: Anatomy of 'A Cruel, Slow Death'
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240328022654/https://www.aljaz...
I feel like a cross platform Swift GUI would be a great thing for the world. Swift strikes a great balance between ergonomics and performance, and seems to be the only other mainstream language to have absorbed some of Rust's key features around borrowing references.
If you're doing the same job after your promotion it's not really a promotion, it's just a pay rise with extra steps.
I used to belong to a small town credit union that caused a bit of an uproar as sometimes when you withdrew money it would give you a random $50 bill instead of the typical $20s.

Turns out it was a promotion where they were trying to say, "small town bank gives you more" but they forgot to put the banners up before doling out the cash.
In this case, could he be considered a violent economic threat to society? His defense did try to argue that he was not a "ruthless financial serial killer".
That's a completely different conversation from the broad condemnation of protests that affect all farmers based on the premise that farmers shouldn't be able to afford nice things.
> There is absolutely no science published in science journals (not some person's book or "treatment program") supporting the idea of "social media" addiction.

If/when this is recognized in the DSM and ICD, it likely won't use the word "addiction". But in colloquial use, "addiction" isn't wrong. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/addicted

Even the use of the word in scientific contexts isn't as cut-and-dried as you might think. Non-substance addictive behaviors in the context of DSM-5: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3858502/
Your suggested scheme (assuming a mapping from 10 tokens to 10 tokens, with each token taking 2 bytes to store) would take (32000 * 20) * 2 bytes = 2.3e78 TiB of storage, or about 250 MiB per atom in the observable universe (1e82), prior to compression.

I think it's more likely that LLMs are actually learning and understanding concepts as well as memorizing useful facts, than that LLMs have discovered a compression method with that high of a compression ratio, haha.
Almost every single case of embedding I've encountered was buggy in some way.

Explicit composition is much more reliable.
> I'm surprised why this wasn't more years given the magnitude of his crimes and the lives he destroyed.

It's within the sentencing guidelines range for a first offender who exceeded the highest cap on 'amount of money he stole'.

Now, why the sentencing guidelines for stealing $5,000,000,000 as a 'bank' are lower than stealing $5,000 from a bank is a separate question. (The answer is that direct threats of violence against particular individuals are usually involved in the latter.)

A related question is 'Why aren't his parents going to prison with him?'
That's from 1984, federal parole was abolished in 1987 (though people sentenced before 1987, IIRC, remain eligible according to the rules in place at the time.)

SBF was sentenced somewhat after 1987, so those rules don't apply to him.
Far more people are injured or die on the highway outside my office in Texas than in the subways of NY, and there's fewer people riding on the highway.
Yes. He's been made an example of. That's kind of the point: "Tempted to commit fraud on a huge scale and wreck thousands of lives? Consider what we did to this guy."
Appreciate this overview and absolutely adore the mentality of "rough consensus and running code", BAMFs. It's a shame that NIST, who is supposed to use their data to establish security best practices is expending resources to defeat them(though I guess this isn't our first rodeo in this vein); thank you IETF engineers for being sane custodians of actual security.
I believe it's because the `${this.textContent} - ${year}` will render it as `2023 - 2024`. The hardcoded 2023 can be whatever you want as to indicate the start of the copyright.
In terms of "ruins your life", anything past a few years does that.

Speaking purely for myself, I don't feel much difference in the deterrent effect from the punishment being 5 years or 25 years. Either one would utterly wreck everything about my life, and although the latter is worse it's not enough so to change my decisions.
Two credited authors.
Jeremy Howard: AnswerAI, FastAI, Fine-Tuning and AI Recruiting [video]
Why, as a matter of interest? These _really_ big, blatant frauds usually do; see Madoff, Holmes, et al. Like, it's hard to see how he'd avoid prison, certainly in the US.

Other noted fraud-y bitcoin exchange guy Mark Karpelès avoided prison after conviction, but the evidence was much weaker there and they only found him guilty on fraudulently inflating MtGox's holdings (a la Donald Trump); also, that was Japan.

(Fun fact; after the collapse of MtGox, Karpelès went into business with Andrew Lee, the guy who broke freenode and claims to be the Crown Prince of Korea. The world of weird internet grifters is small and incestuous.)
I may have misinterpreted this comment by thinking you meant that as we squeeze more and more transistors into a small amount of space, the resulting waveforms would start to resemble analog more so than digital.
I didn't say he should get more. I think 25 years is totally reasonable.
Nope, it's Federal. He has appeals coming up though. I have no idea what the outcome could be but there's an opportunity for the sentence to be reduced on appeal. Honestly, this sentence doesn't appear egregious or "being made an example of" so IMO he doesn't get a reduction. But, sometimes you get a sympathetic judge?
All of these hypersonics companies are targeting mach 5 for a reason, which is that the material science hasnt caught up yet. The bet seems to be that they'll either be ready once it is, or they'll be the ones to develop it and start raking in a mountain of military industrial complex cheese.

Not a bad goal, but the thin vernier of 'passenger flight' leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This tech is for munitions delivery first, the meatbag ferry is squarely a side hustle, and I wish they'd be honest about it.
What about fantasy or horror? Maybe it's the whole speculative fiction genre that's dying.
One of the victims at the sentencing mentioned that there were at least 3 suicides.
Banks keep all sorts of metrics on customers, to approve or deny transactions. If someone types their password into bank .ru/phishy.php and never changes their password afterward, that's useful information. If they then try to buy $10,000 of bitcoin in coinbase, the bank algorithm should probably deny it or require more verification steps. I'm not saying this practice is good, but I get it. Also, banks share the same technology like chexsystems, who could use A/B testing for research. It's cheaper than focus groups. For example, if A/B tests show requiring customers to submit their username first, then on the next page it says "Hi Bill! Great day in San Francisco! Enter your password: " causes them to notice the url bar isnt chase.com, thats good tangible info that will save banks from losing customer money.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953
Shall I pull up some comps? It’s not going to be pretty
The Future of Front End Is Already Here
> I will be surprised to reach AGI without nearing the Order-of-Magnitude of brain processing.

I have some theories that this isn't necessary. 1.) Just because the brain is a general-purpose machine great at doing lots of things, doesn't mean it's great at each of those things. Like when two people are playing catch, and one of them sees the first fragments of a parabola and estimates where the ball is going to land- a computer can calculate that way more efficiently than a mind, despite the fact that both are quick enough to get the job done. 2.) While the brain is great at, say, putting names to faces... a good CV machine can do the job almost as well, and can annotate a video stream in real-time.

Combining 1.) the fact that some problems are much simpler to solve with classical algorithms instead of neural networking, and 2.) that many brain tasks can be farmed out to a coprocessor/service, my hypothesis is that the number of neurons/resources required to do the "secret sauce" part of agi could be greatly reduced.
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf

Prisons are good for punishing criminals and keeping them off the street, but
prison sentences (particularly long sentences) are unlikely to deter future crime.
Prisons actually may have the opposite effect: Inmates learn more effective
crime strategies from each other, and time spent in prison may desensitize
many to the threat of future imprisonment.
See “Understanding the Relationship Between Sentencing and Deterrence” for
additional discussion on prison as an ineffective deterrent.

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5. There is no proof that the death penalty deters criminals.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, “Research on the deterrent
effect of capital punishment is uninformative about whether capital punishment
increases, decreases, or has no effect on homicide rates.”
If you get a $990,000 bank error in your favor you should try to stay mum about it, lol.
Justice seems to only work when a case is high profile.

Every day, lazy DAs are giving lenient plea deals for terrible crimes hoping that no one is paying attention. Unfortunately, usually no one other than the victims are.

I don’t know what to blame this on. High case loads for DAs? Reputation grooming so they maintain a good win/loss record? Empathy for the criminals? Simple laziness?
Several others have already pled guilty; most notably Wang, Ellison, and Salame.
And then we will have people complaining about slavery...they already say that prison jobs pay below minimum wage so they are slavery.
It should be linear with no limit.
I've experienced first-hand, that banks have a sort of "paranoia level" value for each customer account.

I've reported my ATM card phished+stolen before. I took money out from an ATM in a bodega in a bad part of town (where the thief was apparently watching me input my PIN through the window); and then, when I stepped outside, the thief mugged me for the ATM card.

Luckily, they only got ~$1000 from the account (= my daily withdrawal limit at the time); and the bank reimbursed me for this.

Annoyingly, to get the bank to do that, I had to file a police report, and give them the investigation number.

I also (obviously) had to change my PIN.

Ever since then, though, my ATM card will no longer work at bodega ATMs in this bad part of town. (I worked in the area at the time, so this was easy to notice.) It also doesn't work for the PoS systems in the bodegas themselves! However, it still works fine in ATMs at real banks in the bad part of town; and at ATMs / PoS systems in other, less-sketchy parts of town.

My belief is that, once my bank had to pay out an theft-insurance claim for the account, they labelled me in their internal systems as "at high risk of being a victim of future theft" (a.k.a. an "easy mark") — and this then bumped up my account's "paranoia level" to protect against future theft. So now, my bank, when being asked to authorize any ATM transaction, will reject the transaction if the business making the request has ever been associated in their systems with fraud/theft claims (even as an intermediary); or if the business has a high rate of refunds; or doesn't have enough history; etc.

In other words, the bank seems to internally assign businesses a kind of "credit score" for authorizing transactions; and a transaction is only authorized if the business's "credit score" exceeds the customer account's "safety threshold." My safety threshold was increased, so low-credit-score businesses can no longer interact with me through the bank.

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It should be clear what I'm getting at here: failing an internal-red-team phishing test, should bump up a given customer's accounts' fraud-risk safety threshold.
How much Bernie madoff got?
> Theresa very real case to be made that had there been stronger support from Jewish community as a whole that this may well have actually ended up being the outcome.

Maybe. I honestly don't know enough to say one way or the other, though I do know enough to say that most countries closed their doors to Jews during the Holocaust specifically, and I'd be rather astounded to discover a country that was willing to absorb millions of new people. E.g. I don't know anything about the Kimberly
plan except reading Wikipedia just now, but it seems like it was vetoed by the Australian government? Ironically, there are signs from European countries in the 1930s telling the Jews to "go back to Palestine".

> Through exposure to these stories people develop a perceived connection with essentially no direct physical basis in reality. More succinctly - a person's perceived connection to the land depends almost entirely upon their exposure to certain cultural stories.

Again, I'm probably not the best person to ask, but I couldn't care less about this specific land itself. I wouldn't have minded Israel being located somewhere else.

I do live here though, that's my connection to the land, as well as the connection that 9m other Israelis have to the land. We're not going anywhere.

(And neither are the Palestinians! If both sides just accepted the obvious reality that neither side is going to disappear, we could just divide up the land and sign a peace treaty already.)

> Be they the descendants of immigrants, direct immigrants, or the descendants of people historically living in that area

But, if I'm understanding you correctly... that's true of literally everyone everywhere. Everyone is a descendent of someone who at some point came to that land, and in many cases that's even fairly recent. Including many (though not all) Palestinians.
No, it was 20 years + 5 years, to be served consecutively, so the total term is 25 years.
Lying is a form of violence and so is stealing. Not physical violence mind you, but violence nonetheless.
I wonder how many of those will actually be served... one way or the other.
just signed up for computer vision and image processing related topics as this is what I'm specializing in for my Master's

The interface to sign up was very painless and straightforward

I signed up for a 2-week periodic digest

The first digest comes instantly
and
scanning through the titles alone was inspirational and I'm sure will provide me with more than a few great papers to read over upcoming years
The bibles are a scarier proposition. Churches can make political contributions to Trump under the disguise of buying supplies.
I am not familiar with this crate, but I am with Rust, here’s my take:

Copy is a specific thing in Rust, it means that if a type implements the Copy trait, it can be copied via a memcpy, that is, it’s like a “shallow” copy as opposed to a “deep” copy.

So they’re not “copying without copying”, they’re letting you treat a non-Copy type as a Copy type, in my understanding.

> what if it’s something that doesn’t have a static lifetime?

The read me says it requires static content so the answer is “you can’t do that.”
What do you believe Sam would do if granted a shorter sentence, assuming they believe they've done nothing wrong? Who should carry the burden of re-offense without remorse?

People make mistakes, to err is human, and forgiveness should be provided to those with the capacity to change (ie harm less). Compassion is important. But if you don't believe you've done anything wrong, can we not project future potential outcomes? Prison duration is a risk assessment of harm reduction.

EDIT: Prison should still be about rehabilitation and treating humans humanely, to be clear.
> There’s still a tiny bit of unsafe floating around various dependencies that we plan to remove throughout the 0.5 release cycle

I'd love to see what these usages are, and what motivates this. I understand that sometimes people reach for unsafe too eagerly. But the std is full of unsafe and drawing the line there sometimes seems like a line in the sand.
Did something happen in rust that made the copy state thing work? Or was it just "huh nobody thought of this before"?
High, generally. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and US sentences are an outlier in terms of how long they are (they’re not the longest, but the whole picture is kind of shocking).
>> I'm pretty sure I have a "drunk memories" brain and a "sober memories" brain

A pet hypothesis of mine is that maybe some of the brain chemicals act like an extra input to the neural network, and can be associated with various behaviors or memories. Lets say there are 5 of them which would create a 5 dimensional "chemical space" you're operating in. Certain things can be remembered and associated with regions in this space. Being anxious, depressed, afraid, or whatever could be temporarily "cured" by shifting you out of the current region in this space. Which chemicals work would depend on your specific programming. This might explain people who have a fear response to positive emotional situations (they were traumatized by someone that otherwise gave them positive emotions that release certain chemicals). Just a weird hypothesis - I bet it's been researched but I haven't looked.

Edit: One of the other responses to the parent post provided this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-dependent_memory
They sold some. Not strictly speaking the same as using any but there's a decent chance some code is running on the machines.
mmWave is way to finicky, where even a human body can block the signal.

What I saw a lot of buzz about a few years ago was 5G NR-U, where 5G was standardized to run on the ISM bands (same bands as WiFi) so you could basically set up your own 5G network just like Wi-Fi. I'm not sure what happened to that, my assumption is the 5G patents are just way too expensive to justify the hardware set it up ad hoc like that compared to WiFi. Whoever is developing DECT these days may be way more willing to lower prices since they don't have a bunch of telcos to gouge.
That is a big difference. You can live a pretty good 15 or so years if you get out at 60. Considering that his parents are well off he will inherit some.
More and more nitrogen keeps pouring into waterways, unleashing algal blooms and creating dead zones. To prevent the problem from worsening, scientists warn, the world must drastically cut back on synthetic fertilizers and double the efficiency of the nitrogen used on farms.
Because we all know who SBF is by now
You realize with this comment you are supporting the conspiracy theories about real old money bloodlines from Europe controlling the US, right?
Agreed, in that the crisis of replication[1] show that science is a religion in @talldayo's sense

[1] https://www.news-medical.net/life-sciences/What-is-the-Repli...

Surely this is due to scientists becoming postmodern since truth becomes "influence of ideology in maintaining political power", so then they loose objectivity, to make themselves look better, and publish whatever does that

@nickpsecurity may like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysEc8SdDLAs Which is by one of the most published scientists in his field, and is great

But my main thought would be that these issues are almost entirely irrelevant to the Christian narrative. Genesis is about our relationship with God. If it was about the early formation of stars, or the universe, then it would be unintelligible and useless information for thousands of years -- how would we then apply it in our lives, even now?

The Genesis narrative does place the main events and their ordering, in a big bang narrative, which is extremly improbable to occur by chance -- light, darkness separated out, earth, oceans, plant life, other life, humans. Particularly when compared to other creation narratives -- for instance the Aztecs believed the earth was devoured by tigers, then the next earth created by a snail going around the sun too slowly and being hit by other animals

If there was an argument to be had, I would say it should be on why there is such a highly improbable level of similarity between the two narratives

But personaly, I would say, Genesis, on our relationship with God, and the state of mankind, is very succinct and impactful; and to me, moving outside that to generate side issues is an argument that doesn't need to happen

If fossils or old earth are true, then we have an awesome God. If they are not true, then that is fascinating aswell. The bible is not affected

Anyway, thats my two cents
This is really cool. My mind goes immediately to what sort of functions are being used to encode programming knowledge, and if they are also simple linear functions whether the standard library or other libraries can be directly uploaded into an LLMs brain as it evolves, without needing to go through a costly training or performance-destroying fine-tune. That's still a sci-fi ability today but it seems to be getting closer.
Longtime mac users definitely have a preference for apps that are not only native, but designed to be good citizens of the mac desktop by abiding by its UI conventions, feature progressive disclosure of power user features, etc.
Are these campaigns even effective?
I recall people very confidently saying he would never be prosecuted for his political ties.
Ross Ulbricht tried to have someone killed. As far as I know, for all of his idiocy, SBF isn't accused of actually trying to end anyone's life.
It is absolutely worth remembering that much of the commentary on this site is written by some of the most gullible people on the planet. Aside from SBF-Biden conspiracy fans you also have your anti-vax guys, your climate denial guys, suckers for the latest superconductor scam, people who are still falling for a giant astroturf campaign by the fission industry, blockchain believers, and much much more.
Phonk - JavaScript scripting for Android devices
Blockchain, or cryptocurrency? Be aware, those are not the same technologies. Blockchain is working fine on its own. There are some projects and usages which are predating the cryptocurrency-terms. The versioning-system git might be the most well known project with this bubble here. But it's also disputed how blockchainy git is. So to name something else, the smart home standard Matter is using a blockchain for managing their certifications or legitimated devices, something like that.

With cryptocurrency on the other side, the most "legit" usage case I've seen so far, is hybrid-NFTs, from DC Tracing Cards. Where you get physical cards, and an NFT alongside it. Not sure how successful or scammy this is, but considering trading cards are an established semi-legit business, I would say this kinda counts as real world.
I was thinking the provider would install 5G access points inside the building yes. For this the limited penetration is a real benefit because it means you can place more access points without them interfering.

Of course the network would not use a VPN but MPLS or something.