skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. People — individuals and companies — try to game the tax system at least as much as they do pollution regulations, and probably much more so because tax obligations are largely self-reported with only sporadic auditing to catch cheaters and gamers.

> 2. Certain political elements are always trying to defund the tax auditors (e.g., the IRS). We might well ask why that is.

Tax the petrol itself. That works reasonably well in most of the world. No need for complicated individual audits etc.

> 3. Politically, tax hikes are always harder to get through Congress — and to keep in force — than sensible standards for products and behaviors that voters can see are beneficial to them (e.g., pollution prohibitions).

I don't know. We kicked off the whole discussion because the standards you have are NOT sensible.
What excites you specifically as a developer?
Pgvectorscale: Making PostgreSQL a Better AI Database
> Yay taxes!

Well, the RFERL was funded through a CIA front organization, it was mostly an anti-communist propaganda operation. It definitely is/was a "state effort". So yes, taxes.
> And I don't mean the driver was an asshole

Well...
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Encoding is terribly computationally expensive. You wouldn't want to do it at scale for every viewer, the RoI would be poor.

What you can do, is splice in pre-encoded ads and that works okay if done correctly. It's also practically impossible to detect/block.
if you have ever used a 3 billion or 7 billion parameter model you know that they are really bad at text generation, so this will be done in the cloud
>The photos are amazing

Check out other photo essays by Amos Chapple too, he's pretty great (for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34206885).
> Could bad health outcomes, like the high prevalence of chronic illness or obesity, actually prop-up a nation’s gross domestic product by maintaining high levels of healthcare-related expenditure, and jobs?

Classic Bastiat broken window situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
It’s especially funny because I believe it is provably impossible. You’ll have to trust me that I’ve done the proof.
I don't know where the expression comes from, but "the only numbers that need no justification are zero and infinity". Think of it this way, if you found a coordinate system within the universe that goes from 0,0 to 100,100, you'd have to ask "but why exactly 100?" whereas it would be less surprising if the system had no apparent limit and just could go to infinity on any axis.

The multiplicity of MWI is like that: just a maximally extended coordinate system.
There's been a decent amount of work using simplicial complexes and related ideas to generalize graph neural networks, e.g. [0], [1]. If LLMs obey a similar geometry, it could be a promising direction for multimodal models and more principled RAGs with better inductive biases.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.03633

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06333
Reminds me of Vonnegut's line from Jailbird (without the stuttering of the character who uttered it), on the principal cause of a massacre:

"American amateurism in matters of life and death"

I'm a Canadian. As a Millenial of the "just watch a Youtube video and figure it out" generation, and somebody who has watched some things (like housing) get strangled by regulation, I can see the appeal of American libertarianism on a lot of subjects.

But as Vonnegut said: matters of life and death.
Sorry, I meant in terms of GDP (I figure that maps better to ability to make new big investments in this kind of stuff) but I was really not clear.
One shouldn’t conclude that regulations lead to positive outcomes from this. In addition to having a disdain for regulation, OceanGate was doing bad engineering. Projects that follow regulation strictly can fail due to bad engineering too.
isn't any instruction a subclass of inference? and doesn't any phrasing (lexicology) simply translate "down" to the heaviest values which, varying with the fine tuning, are the words that are, consensually and conventionally, the simplest ones that convey the meaning of the original word in the prompt, which should be the least ambivalent/least interpretable (again, fine tuning can broaden the scope) oneS. thus the LLM fulfills the "translated" instructions step by step and comes up with both or either the correct reasoning and answer.

details and technicalities, especially liminal ones, aren't as conventional and consensual as the name of the current set it is to be interpreted in.

so almost all mistakes of LLMs can be blamed on the lack of variety of human translations. multiple translations are only common for subtitles, mangas and manhwa as far as i know, or when some dude or dudette is proficient and passionate in two languages and reads a bad/weak translation of a (usually classic) novel. why the fuck would a human properly retranslate automated documentations or googles dev blog? or books on logic, in any science, books on art and aesthetics and whatnot. technical people don't need to care because, practically, there are no interpretations in algorithms and the rest of the code, except when a programming language does something weird on the (or someones) machine, which isn't that common by design.
> Fun fact: the macOS EULA^ contains a "bug" ...

Disclaimer: IANAL, just someone who's work has at many times involved working alongside lawyers drafting contracts.

As always, the problem most armchair legal "experts" forget is you have to consider the agreement in front of you as a whole (and also in the broader context of the contract's jurisdiction). You can't go cherry picking individual clauses.

In your case, we can easily prove your "bug" claim to be erroneous ...

1. We start with the very area you highlight. There are a number of things I could comment on here. But let's stick to one ... note the references to "Apple Software", note in particular the capital letters. This means "Apple Software" is a defined term.

2. All we then need to do is look back and we find the origin of "Apple Software", which is on page 1, the very first clause, 1A. Its a chunky old clause but the TL;DR is its telling you the license agreement applies, both the current version ("Original Apple Software”) as well as any future versions (“Apple Software Changes”) in whatever form they may take ("whether preinstalled on Apple-branded hardware, on internal storage, on removable media, on disk, in read only memory, on any other media or in any other form").

3. Clause 2, as its title suggests, is mostly concerned about "Permitted License Uses and Restrictions". The "how you got the software that is subject to these permitted uses" is, I'd say, largely dealt with in the original definition of Apple Software.
A wire has no such limitation and can be practically "instant" with same-day
settlement if you send it early enough.

A wire usually comes with some hefty fees and as you point out, it is restricted to "banker's hours".

FedNow transactions are fully automated and designed to work instantly 24/7/365. The cost to banks will be a few pennies each to support the system operation.

Banks being banks, some will probably try to add a fee for this initially but I expect competition will quickly reduce this to zero. Debit card transactions are typically "free" now but the real cost to banks is actually more than what a FedNow transaction is supposed to be.
I've locked myself out of Squarespace by setting up then subsequently removing a passkey. Doing so triggered a bug which "updated" the TOTP (that was already set up) and the backup codes. Support was absolutely deaf to the whole thing being a bug, absolutely impossible to report, and I'm sure it'll keep being an issue for years to come.
Notably, he was also warned not to fly too low over the ocean.

“Beneath the waves” was right out.
No. The information is all out there - secret courts, secret judgements, its all been put out there. I don't need to dissect any technical information, to recognise that I cannot know what I do not know.

In case anyone was uncertain about whether to trust what we are told - we heard that the US government was taping millions of phone records from the Snowden revelations.

So, we are told there are secrets, and we are told that there are mechanisms in place to prevent this information from being made public.

You are also free to believe that the revelations are no longer relevant... I'd like to hear the reason.

IMO - the reverse is the case - in that you need to show why Apple have now become trustworthy. Why would Apple not be subject to secret judgements?

I know there is a lot of marketing spin about Apple's privacy - but do you really think that they would actually confront the government system, in a way that isn't some further publicity stunt? Can one confront the government and retain a license to operate, do you think? Is it not probable that the reality is that Apple have huge support from the government?

Perhaps this kind of idea is hard to understand - that one can make a big noise about privacy, and how one is doing this or that to prevent access, and all the while ensuring that access is provided to authorised parties. Corporations can say this sort of thing with a straight face - its not a privacy issue to private information - its a (secret) legal issue!

Sorry, but secret courts and secret judgements, along with existing disclosure that millions were being spied upon, means one needs to expect the worst.
Building a broad base certainly has always been possible, but it just got a lot quicker, is what I'm saying. And that speed leads to tighter feedback loops too.
Using (aka selling) transactions history is one
That's the beauty: If the taxes are set right, then people can buy vehicles 'out of spite', and it's all right.

At a high enough tax rate, the would-be gas guzzlers' contribution to the fisc outweighs their probabilistic homicide.
I remember playing around with that like... 20 to 25-ish years ago.

Back then only pre-rendered cut-scenes could come close to having graphics like that, and I dreamed of the day when games actually look like that realtime.

Kinda ironic that now that games actually do look like that (if not even better), I prefer to play retro pixel-art indie games, which actually put their focus on gameplay instead of graphics.
Since when is a phone number a form of bank identity?
Is it "more disturbing," though, really?

I mean, privileged rich dude who thinks he knows better than experts wins Darwin award, and some people dumb enough to trust him got to go along for the (one way) ride.

I'm not any more disturbed by it now than I was a year ago, and a year ago it barely moved the needle. And then it was only about the 19 year old son of one of the passengers -- even at that age, a child ought to be able to trust his father to keep him safe, and Shahzada Dawood utterly failed on that count.
My last password manager got sold to some guy in Morocco and my passwords put behind a pay wall, and then lost. Bring on the vendor lock in, I’m so done with all that other shit.
See the video about this data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDnW0WiCqNc
You can tax momentum (and/or weight), too.

Basically, tax fuel and tax the car.

But no need for outright bans. Almost any externality you can think of from (big) cars is finite, and thus a finite tax is appropriate.
The philosophy that I have as a parent, and try to impart on my son, is "always do your best, and always do better next time"

It's alright to fail, but when you have the next opportunity, improve.
I've hired a few roboticists and my advice is always the same - if you're a new grad, knowing ROS and having strong C++, ROS, and OpenCV experience will give you a leg up.

After that, the most common things new grads want to work on are path planning or computer vision. These are high-ish demand but usually go to grad students or senior folks. But you can be an excellent candidate by knowing about them and how to integrate and test them. Path planning has several open source libraries and implementations. Do a comparison on several maps. Pull game maps and try em out. Anything. For AI/CV, there's similarly many applications.

The key for non-PhDs is to know the existing stuff well. Even if you're a PhD, you'll spend less than 1% of your time doing anything interesting / researchy, and will mostly be using existing codebases for everything. Very few research-primary positions exist.
Usually the bank charges a wire transfer fee, which may cover the risk premium.

Also, the government recently required banks to recover Zelle transfers. I imagine this costs banks money?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/payments-ap...

> Lenders on Zelle are also now required to implement a tool that flags transfers with risky attributes, such as a payment to an account that has never transacted on the Zelle network, said Chance. He said Zelle has seen "a step-change reduction" in fraud and scam rates this year but declined to provide details.
Also like a mystery box in Mario.

Congratulations on your new ear.
If you learned SQL before Go, you'd know the pattern works just fine and is arguably a good sanity check.

BEGIN;
INSERT INTO ...
COMMIT;
ROLLBACK;

It is not some kind of Go-ism. The Go database/sql package actually executes ROLLBACK in the SQL engine. Check out the error returned by it.

Perhaps you mean learned SQL in the context of languages that consider a failed rollback an exception? In that case one needs to be careful to not rollback, else be stricken to handling the exception, which programmers seem to hate doing.
You could tax momentum as well. (Or as a short-hand, tax fuel and tax vehicles by weight.)
RFERL is a propaganda outlet that was established by the CIA as a weapon against the Soviets during the Cold War. [1] And in 1948, just before this all started kicking off, the Smith-Mundt [2] act was passed which prohibited the government disseminating propaganda domestically. That act was then repealed in 2013, because reasons.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act
Regulations is a scary word for rules.

Can you imagine a world without rules? Awful.
Lacework Is by Fortinet
My bank allows me to send wires without charge.
The term of art is an alias or proxy identifier, and you specify it in your banking app (which should have strong identity controls around it; also, a confirmation email or SMS OTP is sent). At least with Zelle, when you add a new contact to make instant payments from an email address or phone number, the app will surface the first name of the deposit account owner so you can confirm the person you're sending funds to is who you intend to send funds to. Passing around long account numbers for funds transfers is poor UX. Consider Venmo is a photo of someone and their Venmo handle, similar with TransferWise.

https://fastpayments.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/2021-...
The other famous apps in this format are TeuxDeux and Tweek.so
Retina means high pixel density, not high resolution. And there are very few standalone displays on the market which can be called “retina”, unfortunately.
I share your pain, switching between English, German, and French is really, really frustrating…
When doing propaganda, subject selection is the key factor. If you want to do a smear campaign, you just do honest reporting, but only of the things about your target that are negative.
As long as corporate structures are set up to pit people against each other, the cynicism will be hard to abandon.

I understand that corporations rely on people collaborating and working together to generate output - but the onus is on corporations to set up the right structures, not on employees.
Who do you think this presentation is geared toward?
Actually now I'm thinking that there are probably quite a few developers with Macs + Android phones.
Great investigation and excellent production value!

Brings back good memories too, as 10 years ago my first contribution to lichess was to improve the PGN notation for disambiguation. [1]

[1] https://github.com/lichess-org/scalachess/blame/master/core/...
> what about the saying that goes: "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?

I think it's a lot more important to decide who you want to trust.

The problem is that there are a lot of small apps that end up being scams. Or they end up selling their software to scammers. Or they just don't have the ability to properly secure their system (LastPass).

Apple has kind of made a name for themselves as a big company that cares about privacy and is serious about security. And they don't have the reputation for totally screwing over their customers randomly like Google.

I can see a lot of people making the pragmatic decision to just keep trusting Apple instead of figuring out which other company to trust as well.
Some people had extremely bad relationships with their parents. It's difficult for them to accept rules of any kind.
I don't know if they will. It is highly unlikely. But theoretically, it is possible, and very well within their technical capabilities to do so.

It's also not as complicated as you make it sound here. Because Apple controls the hardware, and thus also the data passing into attestation, they can freely attest whatever they want - no need to truly run the whole stack.
Falcon 9s have 2 failures and one partial from 354 launches, so they're proving to be an extremely reliable vehicle on the scale of rockets. The current model is 289 of them and has a perfect record so far.

That's substantially more successful than Soyuz which crashed a lot more and killed someone by parachute failure and crew by depressurisation (and another crew escaped the exploding rocket by launch abort system and another abort subjected the crew to a 21G descent) in the early days and is still considered one of the safer rockets ever (Soyuz-U, the rocket, had 22 failures out of 786 launches, and Soyuz, the spacecraft on top, made 153 missions).

There's still a long future in front of us for SpaceX to screw it up by skimping on things or run into some very bad luck or unforseen issues, but at least as it stands now, pointing at test launches going bang, when they're weren't ever expected to not go bang, and calling the production rocket unreliable is not well supported.
Track the latest updates here: https://kling.run
Arguably we're seeing bad engineering by OpenAI leading to their superalignment team quitting and raise the alarm.
being "English only" also indicates that in order to have GPT level comprehension you need to use the real thing.
The Mitsubishi Mirage might be a small car by American standards, but it seems quite a few weight classes above Kei cars.

(I don't know about erikw's claims about small cars being illegal in the US. So I don't want to express an opinion on that.)
Russia also has Novorossiysk on the black sea which is a bigger port than Sevastopol anyway. Putin had planned to move the black sea HQ there but then got a leasing arrangement with Ukraine. Was apparently still too expensive though.
Not sure this is accurate - a lot of devices have been culled from receiving future updates with these releases. This is not anything new this year, I get that, and I don't really mind not getting the new AI features, but having devices that will stop being supported and which can't have any other software installed because of being locked down is really not a fun situation to be on this side of.

The old Macs can still install Linux/Windows/ChromeOS Flex. iPads/iPhones not so much.
I will never understand why people prefer to sell their private data and pay to spend their own money rather than just use cryptocurrency.
> simply use them to forge messages attesting to be running software on hardware that you aren't

Well, your messages have to be congruent with the expected messages from the real hardware, and your fake hardware has to register with the real load balancers to receive user requests.

> RCE

That’s probably the best attack vector, and presumably why Apple is only making binary executables available. Not that that stops RCE.

But even then you can’t pick and choose the users whose data you compromise. It’s still a sev0 problem, but less exploitable for the goals of nation states so less likely to be heavily invested in for exploiting.
If you have a "Private Compute Cloud" setup anyway, you could give users the option to run the model there.
What are you talking about?
They tested a prototype.
It failed.
Anyway, they built a full size thing based on the prototype that failed.
They charged a lot of money to unsuspecting rich guys.
Then, eventually it failed, just as the test suggested it would.
I cut my teeth on POV-Ray. It hasn't been updated in some time but being able to code scenes has a lot of advantages.

For product design I use OpenSCAD. Maybe POV-Ray made this style of design popular.

A couple weeks ago I decided to use Blender for some 3D print modeling. I needed to make a wheel cap for my son, who had broken his. Although I love Blender I was disappointed when I wanted to update some things later in the design phase. Blender has some destructive editing that caused me grief. Perhaps you could avoid this with some additional mastery of the tool.
+1, though sometimes it's useful to know the runtime variant & version to implement workarounds for implementation quirks or polyfills.
What is the purpose of restricting it in the first place? Are there enough people out there streaming dozens of videos for Nvidia to care to milk them?
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I very, very nearly migrated to a full Duckdb solution for customer-facing historical stock data. It would have been magical, and ridiculously, absurdly, ungodly fast. But the cloud costs ended up being close to a managed analytics solution, with significantly more moving parts (on our end). But I think thats just our use case, going forward I'd look at duckdb as an option for any large-scale datasets.

Using ECS/EKS containers reading from a segmented dataset in EFS is a really solid solution, you can get sub second performance over 6 billion rows / 10000 columns with proper management and reasonably restrictive queries.

Another option is to just deploy a couple huge EC2 instances that can fully fit the dataset. Costs here were about the same, but with a little more pain in server management. But the speed man, its just unbelievable.
I like the RP2040
I REALLY wish I could use this FedNow service, but I simply can't figure out HOW to do so.

The FedNow service just went live in July of last year. Banks are still working to implement and test the new protocols and build it into their customer apps but it should be coming "real soon".

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/21/fednow-is-finally-live-in-...
I'd like to have a smarter Siri though. Guess I'm stuck with an idiot who can't even understand the word "bedroom" anymore (though it worked fine until a recent update)
> Let's say analysing customes paperwork to schedule some shipments from overseas and it fails to let a shipment in because it misclassified or worse, lets it it but being it on the shores under certain conditions leads to heavy financial penalties?

The company that decided to let ML models make critical decisions of that sort. Not whoever built the base model (if it's another party), or the engineers.
unfortunately Apple's own model is GPT 3.5 class which is way less intelligent than GPT 4
See also: FireWire, iSight, Retina, FaceTime, etc.
I am not sure if there's any public data regarding that.

But it has been estimated that the illegal market of cheats is worth about 100 million.

Many cheaters don't even intend on playing against legitimate players, looking for so called "hack vs hack" games.

At some point CS2 didn't really act on cheaters for a while and it got really ugly.

Anti-Cheats do work, there will always be ways around it but as long as these alternative paths are inconvenient enough to prevent a consumer from buying the cheat then it works.

Without Anti-Cheat modern competitive games are unplayable.