skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was a psychiatrist. And the only advice he gave me is that some people look for coaching to help in this regard. I am a bit suspicious about coaching, as this industry sounds super scammy to me, but I'd like to hear if anyone has found success with tit.

Fortunately, I am 100% not depressed.
China's social credit system requires actual recorded offenses to trigger penalties, in particular delinquency in paying fines or tax, not some bank's AI inhaling and rating your Facebook account history.

The "Social" in the name is nothing to do with social media.
Penn Jillette made this argument, about this specific scenario, 20 years ago. Privileged people have an obligation to stand up and defend the oppressed, because they can afford to, but the oppressed cannot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/36lg/penn_jille...
I wish this wasn't the case. Lack of tax on jet fuel and massive taxpayer funded subsidies for airlines is why a flight is £20 and rail is like £100. It's just ridiculous. But people like their cheap flights so they won't vote to not destroy the planet.
Yeah — C would be ok as a build system language if it was easy to: invoke & manage subprocesses; build & manage dynamic dependency graphs; and, easily work with file metadata.

Or... work with me: Make does that, well enough.
AML : Anti Money Laundering
Pirate streaming for iOS tricked App Store Review to get approved
I think he specifically mentions non technical folks.
How is Apple allowing this under the vendor’s Apple Developer account?

We were forced to release our app with the Gov agency’s account to ensure there isn’t any confusion (3-4 years ago). And I kind of agree with that policy (as you can already see from some HN comments)
It feels like we're gradually slipping into a dystopian nightmare world, predicted again and again by sci fi writers for decades, with no real strong opposition. There's the EFF, I guess? But advocacy groups don't seem particularly powerful or influential. I can't even hope for a "it'll get worse before it gets better" scenario. A world with normalized lack of privacy seems unlikely to suddenly care about it again. Perhaps we've been left behind by the cultural tide, and our values will die with us.
That's true for some, but there are many countries with visa-free travel to the US.
> But don't use the standard mathematical symbols for operations that don't have the standard mathematical behaviour

Well, we call a different operation "+", and there's a decent chance that either wraps a uint_max, or triggers arbitrary undefined behaviour when it goes past a limit, or that it maps to a floating point operation where x + 1 == x for large x. That's not especially like "mathematical addition", whatever you have in mind for that definition.
The latest Acquired episode makes a pretty strong case for Ballmer, implying that he led the Microsoft move to own all enterprise software, not Gates.
Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search
There's a long history of persecutions of Jews in Europe. They found Poland relatively liberal and settled there. Germans chose Poland to make it their graveyard. Poland is not immune from antisemitism, but there is also a long history or Poles and Jews living together and Poles helping Jews during the Holocaust. Poland was also used as a route to transport tens of thousands of Jews from the failing Soviet Union during Gorbachev rule when Israel set up a resettlement programme.

Antisemitism has always been used by those seeking to gain power through ripping up the society to shreds and it was not and is not limited to Poland.
can you pull a dirty pipe move?
I was wondering that too. Trek, for example, has the batteries in a compartment that is part of the bike. What happens in that case?

And since you work on this stuff let me ask you: who makes the Toyota Camry of ebikes? In other words, who makes the it-just-works-and-its-fine ebike for people who don't really care about ebikes? I've thought about getting one for commuting to work but every time I've started to look I get decision fatigue and give up for another year.
Honestly we as consumers might have been better off with Microsoft’s vision of a Windows computer in each home acting as the hub of digital life and monetization through purchase of hardware and software instead of our current model where the hubs are large centralized services and monetization is through ads.
It's already very difficult to avail banking if you don't carry a smartphone. I have a very inactive social media and I am working towards reducing my dependence on smartphones, at this point my most viable option is to move to another country that hasn't "modernised" their banking infra.
These things are not window managers you can just port to a different display server. They are themselves display servers equivalent to xorg.
I'm in that same boat. My guess is it's going to end up being just like having no credit previously. The advice is to open a credit card and use it a little bit every month and pay it off entirely to build up your credit. They will recommend creating social media accounts and posting a little bit regularly so that your social media credit score can build.

I'm afraid we are building ourselves a tech dystopia, not the bright future that most of us have thought.
Ballmer was there when Longhorn/Vista happened.
Most consumer devices do not take 40 cells. Letting average joe play with 40+ amps of current at 48 volts is not a great idea.
you very much do, in probably most parts of the world.
$48 would require some pretty large order quantities and probably low end cells.

https://www.18650batterystore.com/collections/featured-produ...

Currently that is the lowest price I can find for a cell at low quantities, that puts it at $62 to fill the pack which is not too far off. Looks like you would need a 33% discount on those cells to get to $48 which is within the realm of possibility if you purchase in large volumes.

To get a decent quality samsung cell you are looking at $118 to fill the pack.
https://www.18650batterystore.com/products/samsung-30q
Site that only offers 2 weeks for order complaints after receiving? Not a chance, they love money and don't care about anything after item has arrived.
I think the current CEO is definitely a good one. I just wish one CEO would finally focus on making Windows less awful for power users. Let us turn off all the useless garbage and have offline accounts. I'll personally pay more to do so. Give power users the OS they want.

Curious why Ballmer is coming up lately, did something happen with him?
Why would they need a Kickstarter if the product already exists?
Too soon to call on Elon Musk.
The alleged customer talks specifically about the "infinite Battery", which is promoted on that website.

Neither the Battery on the shop nor in the Tweet are that Battery, the "infinite Battery" is clearly a different product and clearly not a product you can buy right now.

If the "infinite Battery" is "launching soon", why was it available to "People" in 2021. Another comment mentioned that in 2023 he replaced the Cells, the same website claims the cells need to be replaced every 3 years, so when did "Victor B." receive his Battery?

I see no way in which these comments are from real people who bought that Battery with their own money and are giving their own thoughts on the product. "Fake endorsements" are a very common tactic on scam sites, even including them makes me not to want to buy anything from such a website.

This is also ignoring their fire safety claims, which I think are very dubious. Specifically because they mention a particular rival brand, which they claim is significantly more dangerous than theirs. With no evidence substantiating that.
Can you explain your point there though? It won't change the fact that you could deliver the same visual quality at significantly reduced bandiwdth cost FOR YOU and for the user. You're making user experience worse (e.g. on less stable 4G/5G links and limited connections), paying more for your egress bandwidth for what? Using an expensive GPU block (with most of its cores idling) to encode slightly faster than a cheaper CPU core will do?

It just doesn't make sense to save a few minutes of encoding time (a one time operation) when that costs you and users money every single time that file is streamed.
Imho you can't really do a zero carb diet that's healthy. Keep in mind that even leafy vegetables have a bit of carbs in them. Low carb is possible and does indeed generally keep your blood sugar levels more stable. But even a meal that's mostly low carb vegetables and some meat still requires insulin if your pancreas has stopped working entirely.

I'm obviously a patient and not a doctor, but from what I've read as a Type 1 diabetic with (next to) no insulin production you have a life expectancy in the order of weeks, no matter what your diet is.
+1 on feeling there's a lot of UX possibilities left on the table. Most seem to have accepted chat as the only means of using LLMs. In particular, I don't think most people realize that LLMs can be used in very powerful ways that just aren't possible with black-box API services as they currently exist. Google kind of has an edge on this area with recent context caching support for Gemini, but that's just one thing. Some things that feel like they could enable new modes of interaction aren't possible at all, like grammar constrained generation and rapid LLM-tool interactions (think a repl or shell rather than function calls; currently you have to pay for the input tokens all over again if you want to use the results of that function call as context and it adds up quickly).

On Copilot, I've been using it since it was public, and have always found it useful, but it hasn't really changed much. There's a chat window now (groundbreaking, I know) and it shows a "processing steps" thing that says it's doing some distinct agentic tasks like collecting context and test run results and what have you, but it doesn't feel like it knows my codebase any better than the cursory description I'd give an LLM without context. I use the jetbrains plugin though, and I understand the vscode extension has some different features, so ymmv.
> I’m more used to this viewpoint being presented when someone who doesn’t work in some area expresses some opinion (hot take) on it. That could be a physicist expressing an opinion on cognitive science e.g. (whatever cognitive science is about).

Seems like your comments are responding to a point in your head without anyone expressing such points. No one here is like the physicist in your example, so I am not even sure against whom you are arguing here.
Deep-Tempest: Eavesdropping on HDMI via SDR and Deep Learning
> People die because of the TSA?

As I said:

> [T]he cumulative delays from TSA "security" have had a much, much larger human cost than the destruction of the WTC towers.

Do try to keep up.

> Your two things fall apart with a ... bomb. Or a grenade[.]

How do you get them past a metal detector? Remember that most explosives are metallic. If your answer is to shove them up your ass into your intestines or down your throat into your stomach, then note that that method also defeats both the pornoscanners and the patdowns and ask yourself why noone has detonated a grenade or blown out a portion of the fuselage with an explosive in the ~15 years that TSA has been using scanners, or the ~9 between 2001 and 2010 [0] where they were "just" using metal detectors.

> A deranged pilot who decides to end it all and crash the plane.

Yep, that's a very real hazard and has happened internationally a time or two in the years since 2001. Locking and reinforcing the door has changed that from a "Alert crew might be able to save the plane" situation to a "Crew have no hope of saving the plane." situation.

[0] Or if we're being fair, the thirty-six years since the last US aircraft bombing in 1988.
What does McKinsey has to do with it?
I can only speak for myself here but with AI/LLM augmentation I'm capable of achieving a lot more and in areas where previously I'd either have to have a lot more learning time or enlist the help of peers. It's near impossible to measure but for software development my output at at least the same or higher quality is at least 2-3x across several languages I wouldn't otherwise have considered.
For those complaining on this topic it’s stated on the site that there is an API available, which I presume means you don’t need the app.
Personally I think this is a really nice design and I’ve been hoping for something like this for ages.
yeah github renders markdown, graphs and data tables in notebooks which non technical PMs read.
Thank you. I kept reading AI/ML and couldn’t figure out how more data would help…
It is truly amazing/awesome how many tiling compositors there are in the Linux universe!
National Instruments IO Trace
I agree with you. I think the only solution is for politicians to stop being soft on crime by funding police, prosecutors, courts, prisons, and rehabilitation services (rehab for both criminals and addicts). In addition the various tax authorities need to be empowered and funded to investigate tax fraud of all kinds and if caught then people need to be sent to prison rather than allowed to buy their way out of a sentence.
Also to be fair, many people would prefer death compared to being what seems to be almost paralyzed.

If there is an experiment that has only 5 % chance of success, many will take it.
No.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...>
Please share more.
Leo Apotheker, Rick Belluzzo, Stephen Elop...
It's easy to look like a genius when your company engages in sleazy, underhanded business practices and becomes a near-monopoly as a result. Stac, the paying off of Ziff-Davis publications, etc.

Ever since Bill Gates snookered Ed Roberts , Microsoft has had
'flexible' business ethics.
Sure, if you're using it to memoize a calculation.

But triggering an api request having side effects is 100% incorrect.
maybe you need glasses
I immediately thought that they'd also start selling the newly acquired data in some form, since nowadays it seems that everybody wants to be in the spying business.
My bank has recently started asking, from time to time, in the banking app for me to grant permission for collecting additional data. Thanks god for GDPR... IMO, banks should not overcomplicate things and should keep things simple for users.
> 13 digits in a card number

I think you mean 15?
I found this recently too - encoding my video using either AMD or Nvidia hardware encoding resulted in poor quality. But what's the reason for this?
See my other comment, I don't deny that. By "figured it out," I mean that the general principle of physicalism versus dualism seems empirically established based on all of the tests we've done in cognitive biology. That is not to say that the general theory cannot be improved via further research.
Well, I'm glad for you, your belief in institutions outweighs any historical truth. Must be nice.
They are not talking about that, they are trying to catch money laundering and traffics etc. And using that as an excuse to suck all of people data for marketing.
Steve Ballmer is basically the co founder of Microsoft.

He came on a little later but Bill moved heaven and earth to bring him on to run the company with him.

He was given and incredible deal so he could be effectively an equity partner.

Steve Ballmer is underrated and did an incredible job and is to be credited with the success of Microsoft as much as anyone.

He’s one of my computing heroes.
Fun stuff!

I'm struggling to see how it's a manifesto instead of a design spec. I was hoping to learn the perceived advantages of this architecture. (With a lot of brain power I could probably figure that out, but I haven't had my coffee yet.)

Regardless, it's an impressive amount of work to spec out a ternary computer, although I think the Russians did it a long time ago.

EDIT: I did a lot of work with an expert system that had ternary logic (1=true, -1=false, 0=uncertain) over floating point values so I like the concept. I'm just not sure it extends to general computing.
I love how one competitor completely disparages his mouse:

- Can it be considered intelligent?

- No, it's absolutely dim. It will solve, I hope, a particular problem. Outside of this environment, it's useless. He's only following a set of instructions that I told him to do.

I bet that these days, that person would be a lot more enthusiastic: it's artificial intelligence!
He was there when 7 happened as well.
"Mainstream" (as opposed, to, say, amateur SSTV) video broadcasting, aka TV, is definitely very obsolete and too elitist in implementation to even get me "onboard". Not a second of interesting content per day for me there. But you know that you couldn't have written this comment without a computer? Regardless of its form-factor...
I guess it depends on your measure. Personally, the Ballmer era represents Microsoft going from being "the" software company to just another dying giant that wasn't relevant to me. I used fewer Microsoft products in 2014 than I did in 2000 when Ballmer took over. Sure, they expanded the product categories they competed in, but any company with that kind of capitalization could have chosen to do the same.
Yes AML/KYC is ineffective.

But the solution isn't to increase the surveillance, that won't make it more effective. It'll just add noise that makes it even less effective.

We should change path and move away from the dystopian nightmare, not towards it.
Pgstream – Postgres replication events with schema changes
If you’re still using social media after e.g. the 2016 Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Twitter Files, etc, you kinda deserve this. You’ve been warned multiple times.
That sounds more covering the issue rather than addressing the root cause.
> jack welch ?

Perhaps when he was actually still at GE, but after his retirement, it is now know that GE did all sorts of 'sideways accounting':

* https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releas...

So he is no longer viewed as highly as he once was:

* https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/vqr30e/jack_...
It was no longer needed, because of the war effort. Roosevelt didn’t say it would never again be needed. Roosevelt created it, and in ending it he endorsed it. There’s no indication that he would be opposed to re creating it future, but he opposed having a (temporarily) useless agency operating when not needed.
Maybe 3 orders of magnitude more people have tried same techniques but couldn't succeed. So yes, it is still genius.
The definition of “acceptable” will just keep shifting
If you want browser-friendly video, look into HLS, simply MP4 with faststart is not enough. Plenty of ffmpeg snippets around.

Care to share what the site is?
Developers are the seeds in your garden so I believe his laser focus on "developers, developers, developers" while now a meme is spot on.
This seems the opposite of what I'm asking. I am not asking how biological processes can be modeled by silicon based computers, I am asking in the general sense how one cannot say that biological machines compute just as silicon based computers do.
"I am assuming that the reader is familiar with the terms metric, metric space,
topological space, and compact set."

On behalf of the math-declined folks, I wish math articles had subtitles, references, and definitions built-in.

I wonder if a browser extension for Greek letter definitions would be possible?
Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
Not sure how widely known this is, but recent studies have shown great, sustained results for type 2 through dietary interventions using wholegrain oat (as it contains beta-glucan):
https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/html/10.10...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221479931...
What stops you from doing that in any battery operated device?
From the Apollo 12 journal, Alan Bean is directing Pete Conrad out of the hatch for the first time from the interior of the lunar lander.

> 115:16:39 Bean: Doing good. You're headed right square out the hatch. You'll have to bend over more, though. (Pause) Wait. Wait. Wait. Oops. Come forward a little. Move to your right, you're...There you are. Now go. You were getting that little... (Pause) You got to kneel down a little more. (Pause) Well, I'll push you (down) if you don't mind. (Pause)

I had never made the analogy to a child leaving the womb before I read this.
That "Downstream impact" metric sounds like a big yikes. Massive incentives to game that metric and before you know it you've got 10 projects all claiming credit for some theoretical downstream impact all of which are actually just canabalizing existing revenue. Like, Amazon is doing $5Bn of revenue selling tide pods, the Alexa team make some claim about people's likeliness to order tide pods via the Alexa and before you know it Amazon is still doing $5Bn of revenue selling tide pods but they've got a $2Bn cost centre of overpaid enginers designing hardware that lets you order tide pods.

I wonder which way this splits for Amazon though, on the one hand lots of people already have Alexas and so you've got great brand recognition when you want to sell your Gen AI doodad. On the other hand, your Alexa brand is trash, everyone knows its basically only good for timers so maybe no one will take them seriously when the Gen AI version comes out.
If it isn’t embarrassing then it’s not self-deprecation, it’s just virtue signaling humility
Show HN: I automated car service reminders
All that comes to mind is that he is now surpassing the net worth of Bill Gates, to a large extent because when he left Microsoft he said he would keep his Microsoft stock positions.
Is this really worthwhile? We already see that there are huge bot networks on social media that effectively hide from automated scanning with fake activity, made even easier these days with genai. The only way to combat this is for social media to have KYC(which at this point, I support), but that just offloads the problem on to social media.
You could start with this: https://crt.sh/ocsp-responders
why would you ever use a credit card if you have funds available for purchase on your debit card? especially for small purchases like gas, seems like an unnecessary way to build up debt.

EDIT: I was unaware of all the below listed advantages for using credit cards, especially about % cash-back opportunities, no idea if my bank also supports something alike. Anyway, thanks, I have to investigate/rethink how I pay from now on.

EDIT2: I just learned my country does not support cashbacks, not in any one of the banks.
Even if a piece of information isn't informative on an individual basis, it might provide improve the performance of a model that combines it with other inputs.

You don't need to posting about doing crimes for your FB profile to be useful for risk assessment. Your connections or other posts (e.g. about how some emergency means you're suddenly short of cash) could contribute to an elevated score.

The proposal doesn't go into much detail about how they imagine it will work, but it sounds like they're just saying that a statistical model (based on a larger set of data) would be more useful than a set of rules based on a tiny set of inputs. This seems entirely reasonable.

Here is the relevant paragraph:

Input data for MSA platforms should incorporate not only transactional data, customer static data and internal reference lists, but also other dynamic behavioural customer information where proportionate to the risk (e.g. device ID, IP addresses). Using an RBA, input data may also include data from reputable external, publicly available sources, including information on company structures, Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBO), and watch lists, as well as complementary sources such as market data and verified customer social media accounts. Finally, FIs should establish robust data governance and quality control frameworks.