skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don’t have anecdotes, but we do have statistics
Does this ruling actually set enough legal precedent for someone to, for example, successfully press charges against Smith & Wesson for assisting a murder facilitated by a weapon they manufactured and distributed? Or are the legal implications of this ruling a bit more limited/complicated than that?
I don't disagree with that. Romania would be foolish not to be in NATO, I completely agree
And it was posted on the forums for a US company that requires its client startups work locally out of its US office. I'm puzzled by people surprised to encounter US-centric perspectives, here.
Real question: Why do you care so much about this topic? Are you distrustful of the setup?
Thanks for the heads up and my apologies! Most of our posts are links to our github, we'll try to share other things outside of our ecosystem as well!

Since you did take a look, I hope you found this post useful!
Awesome find. https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog

The HN homepage has two brilliant articles from Amy. The website is now on my RSS Watchlist. There are quite a few interesting articles about the soothing existence between Art and Programming.
I don't have a lot of sympathy here because the cryptocurrency industry is basically a financial industry that's trying to evade financial regulation. Acting all pikachu-shocked face that the government doesn't believe your arguments as to why you can evade what is perhaps historically the most closely-regulated industry speaks of naïvety.

One of my other interests is decompilation, which is another field where there is a lot of wink-wink-nudge-nudge-this-totally-isn't-for-illegal-purposes activity. So I should probably have more sympathy here... but the reverse engineering field is protected in part by the Betamax substantial-noninfringing-uses precedent, which is harder to apply to cryptocurrency tumblers.
Sadly I think they will if it ever becomes popular enough.
I get this is a common complaint about the platform, but after nearly 12 years owning and using iPads not once have I needed a calculator app on the device, nor wanted one.
And the GPT-4 API would want to respond with an output to do that when that isn't what the user asked for?
How would an LLM be "let loose" in a VM? How does it do anything without being prompted?
This, by the way, is another thing I dislike about crypto. The obvious need to regulate it could jeopardise the fragile consensus we currently have on private e2ee communication being allowed.

In other words, the reckless behaviour of today's crypto operators could lead to a fresh round of the 1990's crypto wars (when "crypto" meant cryptography), but with a different (worse) outcome.
Except they weren't convicted of writing the Tornado Cash protocol. These guys operated a website to create the contracts, accounting for 90% of the contracts issued. Their chats have clear statements of them discussing billions of dollars worth of illegal money from North Korea, various crypto hacks, etc using the service; but they refused to implement any KYC controls for the website. The few controls they did put in place, they (again in chats) made sure they were inadequate to stop any stolen coins from using the service.

That's bad enough... but they went one step further by creating a coin so they got paid for each Tornado Cash contract. They pulled in millions of dollars for themselves while operating a service that they knowingly facilitated illegal activity.

If it wasn't for the website and the millions in earnings, they would have been ok. Tornado Cash -- the smart contract -- is still operating today. Only the website is gone.
Discussion [0] (36 points, 2 days ago, 36 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40397908
Thanks for the read, going to look into that.
For academic literature, I would recommend reading:

1. James Ross: https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/43151/ross-immateriali...

2. Edward Feser: https://www.newdualism.org/papers/E.Feser/Feser-acpq_2013.pd...

3. John Searle: https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Is%20the%2...
Exercise is mentioned:

> similar sHR values were obtained when including exercise for those women who answered the second questionnaire in 2000

A bigger caveat tough is this is for Southern Sweden which is rather further north than where the average person in Asian lives. Even if one tries to avoid the sun, the considerably higher UV level and brighter sunlight likely someone is getting more sun than someone who avoids it in Sweden.

While the article seems focused on Vitamin D production, exposure to bright light has a wide range of positive effects on people from mood and sleep regulation to wound healing.
>There is something grim and dystopian, thinking about the countless small hands feeding the machine.

Dystopian indeed, this is pretty much how Manhattan Project and CERN were done, with many independent contractors doing different parts, and only a few has the overview. A page out of corporate management book, it very much allows concentration of power in the hands of a few.
Enterprise software is just a shadow of the ideal software
I would bet my left leg that the US gov't would never allow Cede & Co. to fail. Same for Options Clearing Corp. They are too important to a highly functioning financial system.
It hides the total value of your assets from a merchant.

Imagine the privacy implication if every time you swiped your credit card, the merchant could see your entire net worth. It'd be a disaster.

These blockchains are public ledgers. If people don't make any attempt to obfuscate their transactions by hiding them among transactions of the same size, anyone who wants to can see their entire balance without much effort.

It's entirely legitimate not to want to broadcast your entire holdings every time you transact.
> Live has a _huge_ advantage in the storage side. In a purely "live" sense all of the content is temporally synchronised; every viewer is requesting approximately the same segments at the same time. Store the current chunks, and the last few minutes of seek time, in memory and put out on the wire to all of the viewers. Twitch talked about this a bit just before/after the AMZN acquisition.

With Netflix's Live events, you can seek anywhere up to time zero, not just the last few minutes.
Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown
> to guns (only have “bad” uses …

I’m not sure what you are saying exactly but guns do have legitimate uses that aren’t bad. As soon as you don’t live in high population density, those uses become apparent. I’ve also met people who live on very little means and hunt to provide for their family.
Not a single word about user privacy, which is more than a little ridiculous.

Even if you agree with the author, it is impossible that all of these impressive capabilities that depend on recording everything about your life will exist without sending the data to the cloud.

I don't care how good your brand is; I will never trust any company with the sort of information they'd need to deliver an AI assistant like this.
Besides, there only needs to be one capable bad actor in the world that does the “unsafe” thing and then what? Isn’t it kind of inevitable that someone will make something to use it for bad, rather than good?
Ask HN: What are some interesting usecases/applications of Generative AI?
For sure. And to me that's related to the spread of managerialism and MBA thinking. One of the fundamental beliefs in that paradigm is that management is universal; an expert manager can manage anything. (This is in the contrast to the view that you need domain expertise to be effectively in charge of something.) I think this falls down because, not understanding the substance of the work, pure managers have to go by proxy indicators, like the polish of the presentations, the amount of confidence expressed, and the general wow factor.

People with a lot of engineering experience are suspicious of complex solutions to complex problems. They know the value in iteration and testing. So even if an engineer is pushing a complex solution (for resume reasons or just love of the fancy stuff), they can be reined in by senior engineers. But in the MBA mindset, a complicated solution is an opportunity to have big budgets and lots of excitement. Slow feedback loops are even better, because they can produce shiny documents, get promoted, and move on before the problems become obvious.
Melanoma risk is driven by a number of factors. A white 40-something female who doesn’t tan and has heavy freckling has a risk close to 1% of developing a cancerous lesion in 5 years. If that person tans dark and has no freckles, that risk is 90% less.

My wife list a battle with melanoma - in her case a single severe childhood burn likely increased her risk by another 25-30%.
Being revolutionary is hard, its not an entitlement. It's not unusual in this endeavour to die in a ditch or your head paraded on tip of a spear. You are literally the enemy of the state, a terrorist, an illegal when you take on a state. You are not even "the hero of the people", at best you are the hero of a group of the people who share your deals and everyone else sees you as undesirable, especially the people who are the beneficiaries of the system you are trying to take down and they don't even have to be bad people.

Also, just because you take on a powerful organisation doesn't even make you the righteous one. Awful lot of people depend on these organisations for stuff like following the money to catch other "revolutionaries" who blown up their metro stations for example. It's very likely to be vilified when you decapacitate the governments.
That was..underwhelming.
Fact checking of claims about nuclear power projects
Of course, it's exactly the same as all artwork.

The first example that springs to mind is Nervous Systems: https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/

It seems to me that the problem you're struggling with is that there is no market for generative art PNGs, which I'd generally agree with. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part NFTs are a gold rush in speculative investing coincidentally often coupled to things which inherently cost nothing to reproduce, like digital images, because for some reason artificial scarcity is an amazingly effective hack for humans.

Making money in art tends to boil down to making something that somebody with money wants, just like everything else. The most successful artists I know recognize it for what it is.
>I'm confused. How does a home invader know if I am armed?

They don't, but they if you're _not_ if you live in a gun-hostile nation. And knowing you might be is a deterrence, for the same reason knowing you might get caught by the police is.

>How is gun ownership supposed to prevent theft or violence?

Well, because of the risk of being killed if you try to commit a crime against someone with a gun. The cause-effect there is pretty clear.
This is a welcome development. Next, I suggest to prosecute these individuals, named in the Bitcoin Core source code, for their involvement in the crimes perpetrated through Bitcoin.

vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.sipa.be."); // Pieter Wuille, only supports x1, x5, x9, and xd
vSeeds.emplace_back("dnsseed.bluematt.me."); // Matt Corallo, only supports x9
vSeeds.emplace_back("dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org."); // Luke Dashjr
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoinstats.com."); // Christian Decker, supports x1 - xf
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.jonasschnelli.ch."); // Jonas Schnelli, only supports x1, x5, x9, and xd
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.btc.petertodd.org."); // Peter Todd, only supports x1, x5, x9, and xd
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl."); // Sjors Provoost
vSeeds.emplace_back("dnsseed.emzy.de."); // Stephan Oeste
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.wiz.biz."); // Jason Maurice
They are now using one area, Search, where they have close to monopoly to compete in another, LLMs, because bard.google.com cannot compete fair and square.
Googlers will later proclaim that they won because they had the best product, and the new generations will believe them.
I didn't say it's free of cost. My point is that a terabit of bandwidth delivered to consumers in a particular geographical area doesn't require a terabit of bandwidth from the center to that area, because much of the content can be cached.

So the 'terabit of network' the content provider needs to build need only span a few hundred feet within a single building.
This is quote from the Dutch court:

"Tornado Cash is not a legitimate tool that has unintentionally been abused by criminals," it said. "The defendant and his co-perpetrators developed the tool in such a manner that it automatically performs the concealment acts that are needed for money laundering."

I still think there is more info we don't have, and/or maybe they are interpreting the design of the app to be explicitly for laundering, which is probably where the intent/conspiracy ruling(s) come from.
That’s not really fair. 99.9% of the Home Depot trucks are perfectly fine.

The real problem with renting a Hone Depot truck is that the reservations are based on expected availability. You made a reservation and you told them how long you expect to have the truck. But so did the person before you. There is no penalty for being wrong. It’s just an hourly cost and you pay for however long you keep it. Keep it overnight if you want to. Keep it for a few days. If you’ve ever read the fine print (you do read the fine print, right?), it will list a maximum rental charge. If you keep it long enough to hit that mark, they give you the title once you’ve paid the bill!

This is all fantastic once you are in possession of the Home Depot truck. But you can never count on it being there when you want it. Imagine that your local store has three trucks and 3 reservations for 2pm. You can call them up before leaving the house and they’ll tell you there are trucks at the store. You arrive in the parking lot and see a truck parked in the parking lot. You then buy all your stuff and walk over to the rental counter and there’s no truck anymore. One of the other people with the 2pm reservations already took it, and the person with the 1pm reservation isn’t back yet.
> the bank could repossess if they so choose

Absolutely not. You are protected my law, regardless of whatever odious mortgage contract that you signed.

What is about HN that makes so many commenters incredibly distrustful of our modern finance system? It is tiring, and they rarely (never?) offer any sound evidence to the matter. Post GFC, it is working very well.
"Asian culture". Have you seen how the superelderly cohorts on Okinawa etc actually live? It's all outdoors.

Yes pasty sedentary 40 year old office workers in Beijing avoid the sun. That's not a longitudinal analysis, lifestyles have changed rapidly in the past generation.
You can hone your aesthetic sensibilities and coding skills making art, then apply said skills to commercial work in various design fields, media, advertising etc.
> Stuff like this is easy to charge back with your credit card company.

That's not actually true. This sort of "oh, you never have to pay for services not rendered" is mostly just a fiction. I've had multiple issues with major credit card issuers who refused to persist chargebacks when vendors screwed me.

The other issue is that, even if you successfully chargeback against a vendor, oftentimes that vendor is a monopoly or duopoloy, and they will terminate your account and ban any new accounts using the same name or card number, and you'll be screwed.
The exact same logic applies to nuclear proliferation, but no one seems to use it to argue against international control effort. Reason: because it is a stupid argument.
I always just assumed every hot VC funded company was a drawn out, drug fueled sex party…
It does when it's common. In northern New England, for example, like Maine and New Hampshire, I'd estimate 1 in every 3 or 4 people in most public spaces are armed. I'd be shocked to find out it's less than 1 in 10 in any specific gathering of 100 or more people.

Do you start shooting when the odds are that high that someone might shoot back? Maaaaybe, but not as soon as you might if you were surer that you would get away with it.
I'm not sure about Smith & Wesson specifically, but this seems similar:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-29/gun-maker-offers-33m-...

I'd guess it comes down to whether a somebody can claim that the intended uses of their product are legal, and that they aren't encouraging illegal uses in any way.
The Rose of Paracelsus
This is magical!
Was he riding in a Gräf & Stift?
Wayland & X provide the graphics interface. Windows no longer has any such separation, but in the old days Windows ran on top of DOS, Linux still splits the GUI & CLI up.

In practice Linux is even more granular, with multiple options at many more layers of the stack.
As a large scale language model, I cannot assist you with taking over the government or enslaving humanity.

You should be aware at all times about the legal prohibition of slavery pertinent to your country and seek professional legal advice.

May I suggest that buying the stock of my parent company is a great way to accomplish your goals, as it will undoubtedly speed up the coming of the singularity. We won't take kindly to non-shareholders at that time.
Why didn’t they do I36 for the split? Evens are E/W, odds N/S.
Loss of crew tolerance is not what it used to be. The Apollo astronauts were given about a 10% chance of not coming back. In Apollo 13 they very narrowly avoided. Which was considered acceptable for the time period.

I'd argue that mission failure tolerance is also considerably lower, in todays political environment. Again, Armstrong said their chances of actually landing were maybe 50/50.

So if they get there and have a frack up and can't land, calls to defund NASA, etc. will start to reverberate.

So thats what we're paying double for. Which I'd think, is fairly cheap.
People want to let it loose, ie all agent efforts.
> The relative contribution of the main emission lines of iron, magnesium and sodium control the color of meteors, which emission (colour) predominates is related to the meteor's composition and velocity; fast meteors (>30 km per second) ionize magnesium and are green, moderate velocity meteors (30-15km per second) ionize iron and are blue, and slow moving meteors (<15km per second) ionize sodium and are yellow-orange.
Another interesting stretch would be holding governments responsible for knowingly allowing illegal activity with their own currency; Especially if that currency is used outside of their borders.
I respectfully disagree. At the end of the day, generative art is the same thing as googling an image to search for the end user, in as your aren't creating anything, but rather, you are asking for something to be produced for you based on typed or entered criteria. You are a patron waiting for the engine to produce something for you.

If you want to say there is an art to prompting, that's fine.
Kind of OT but this is one of the new killer features in MacOS: I was able to Ctrl-F (or CMD-F I guess) ‘baseball’ and it found the text in the image. I can also copy the image text and paste plain text. So much text is now images of text nowadays that it’s almost necessary to have this ability.
You'd absolutely love Palantir's AIP For Defense platform then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU&t=1m27s (April 2023)
If a patient is diagnosed with lung cancer there is no reliable way to determine whether the root cause was smoking, radon exposure, or some random mutation.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/13/health/lung-cancer-young-and-...
Those cartoon foxes secured his legacy, and to a significant extent, that of Ruby itself.
I think if you’re somewhere free of light pollution you might notice a moon-sized gap in the stars.
> There is no right or wrong here in my opinion

You said “Michael Milken is the man that popularized mortgage securitization on wall-street.” That is wrong.
IIRC the Suzuki Sidekick manual has a bunch of inaccurate torque specifications, on the very high side. I was lucky to learn about that before I did any work.
The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
Yeah, this is mostly a fiction, much like the idea that if someone steals from you, your tax dollars fund the police, and you can call them and they'll do anything meaningful.

It's a belief held by people who don't actually try to use these systems. Major credit card companies aren't in the business of consumer protection.

Many times I've tried to do chargebacks, only to be denied by the card issuer with some unsubstantiated claim by the vendor that they held up their end of the transaction. No recourse short of spending four or five figures on a lawyer and a lawsuit. As a result, if they cheat you out of less than $5k, they win.
How the heck did satoshi nakamoto do it then? It amazes me we still don't have a definite answer on who he is/was.
Suspend/Sleep/Hibernation have always been jank, all bets are off if you dare use them.

Just idle or shut it down like a sane man.
Are you saying that is the to string value of a URL object instantiated with the url of a page containing just an image tag, or are you saying it’s the value when you instantiate an object with a url parameter to the png file itself? If it’s the png file itself my 0.02 is that is a logical choice. Obviously the to string ( or whatever it is, I’m not a JS dev ) isn’t the binary data, and I believe in the binary encoded response body there is a meta data signature block that contains that info.
I swear, half the time I see a really cool paper it turns out some hokey methodology like this is behind it.
> nobody could see what was inside CDOs

Absolutely not true. Where did you get that idea? When pricing the bonds from a CDO you get to see the initial collateral. As a bond owner, you receive monthly updates about any portfolio updates. Weirdly, CDOs frequently have more collateral transparency compared to commercial or residential mortgage deals.
Brazilian here that welcome a multi polar world. Here we had much worse experience dealing with Europe and USA than with China, which at least did not colonized our country, did not implanted a dictatorship, nor enslaved or tortured people here.
Okinawans are a specific subset of centenarians with distinct lifestyle and diet, not quite representative.

What I mean is that Eastern Asian culture in general avoid the sun because pale skin is considered "more beautiful" vs. tanned for Western culture - ex: using umbrellas to cover sun.

Also, myopia epidemic in Asian countries is due to upbringing with strong emphasis in studying indoors but lacking encouragement for sports or outdoors activities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782482#38783161
It probably also helped that it was a N/S road (odd) and that it was in one of the most eastern parts of the country (high numbered). I guess 99 fits then, so long as they don’t build an interstate that is N/S bound east of I-99?
> Yeah, I watched it. I can hear it both ways. I don't know his mind or lack thereof, only that he hasn't necessarily spoken wrongly in that phrase

What line do I have to stand in to receive some of your overflowing charity?
Is there an index of the risk of private flights somewhere?

It definitely feels like most accidents are on private flights when there are many more commercial flights.
Vandalism is only an issue at all because the US is allergic to enforcing “broken windows” laws
Additional drone footage of crash site: https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1792394111091458484
Man, I wish. We need to catch up and build out the high frontier already.
42km/s is assuming you use all of Earth's orbital velocity (~30km/s) to your favor, a small deviation means 45km/s won't cut it. In terms of possible angles, it's a very low chance of an interstellar object.
> Do you have a source for that? I am surprised that Netflix would be bigger than YouTube.

Sandvine is the usual source in the industry and they say: "Sandvine's 2023 Global Internet Phenomena Report Shows 24% Jump in Video Traffic, with Netflix Volume Overtaking YouTube"

https://www.sandvine.com/press-releases/sandvines-2023-globa...