skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only? I never said that. But I certainly have an easier time paying for my dot com domains, VPS renting, computer hardware from newegg, etc with bitcoin than I do with my mastercard debit card. To answer your implicit (if inaccurate) question Mastercard has literally broken itself (via it's complex out of band anti-fraud implementation) with Newegg and I can't even use it there anymore, I have to use bitcoin. The last thing I bought was a super nefarious vertical 2x monitor stand. But sure, project your own nefarious thoughts onto my behavior if you wish.
Some of those limits are insidious because they risk causing people to trigger fraud checks for structuring/smurfing (doing multiple transfers below the reporting limits to avoid them), so by setting low limits they risk causing innocent users to inadvertently engage in behaviours that'll cause problems.
Didn’t they just move that stuff here?

https://x.com/globalaffairs/status/1824819053061669244?s=46&...
"take plenty of government spending" is a funny way to say has plenty of contracts with the government to provide services...

And yeah, when incentives are available, why wouldnt he take them? It's the same way people who advocate for higher tax don't choose to donate more money to the government.
You don't use the object hash as the key directly. You combine it with a value chosen randomly per-map using a function that works hard to erase correlations between the input object hash and the output table location.
Of course it was bad. But the point was about starting wars.

Stalin did start many wars, disastrous invasion of Finland, invasion of Poland, Molotov-Ribentrop pact with Germany and so on.
Sure, tell me the limit that has no fraud detection, so I know how many card numbers I need to steal.
Indeed, but no one is doing that.

In Brazil there's what we call "preventive custody". If you're caught committing a crime, and if there is a risk that you could jeopardize the investigations (by eliminating evidence, threatening or influencing witnesses, etc.), then you are held in custody until the investigation is concluded.

I don't believe you would find something very different going on in any other democratic country.
I worked on this intimately, the level this blog post misses the mark is amusing. It's not my place to go into it, so I'm afraid you'll have to take it on good faith, that this blog post really isn't even what happened, never mind not even really how the tech worked etc. Skylar and Brian who build it are brilliant, and this blog post is super shallow, at least in it's facts about how it worked and why it ended. I don't know it invalidates the post, only that, well, it's not really factually accurate, the guessing is almost flat wrong in parts.
topoBuilder
Thank you. This sounds quite complicated and I understand why.

It’s impressive how much work Apple is willing to deal with in order to protect their turf outside of the EU.
Absolutely, but only very few highway chargers here also accept bank cards and they also operate badly, some have only crapplications, some have app+card but the card tend to be costly.

I call this just surveillance capitalism...
It's the easiest way to test a card, before going to the Apple Store.
Do LLM's generate words on the fly or can they sort of "go back" and correct themselves? stackghost brought up a good point I didn't think about before
I'd say the test is still not quite valid, and more of in between the original "valid" task and "guess what LLM would say" as suggested in another comment here. The reason is: it might be easier for LLMs to choose the completion out of their own generated variants (1) than the real token distribution.

1. perhaps even out of variants generated by other LLMs
I don't really know what "scrubbing" is, but If you add "exact" to seek then it will use exact (non-keyframe) seeks. I think that's what you want? For example from my input.conf:

Right seek 5 # In seconds; these are limited by keyframes
Left seek -5
Shift+Right seek 2 exact # Smaller non-keyframe-limited, seeks with shift
Shift+Left seek -2 exact

Obviously, this is slower. Sometimes much slower (depending on the file).
Cormac McCarthy? Georgia O'Keeffe? Robert Johnson? Plenty of artists excel beyond the urban fringe.
See UPI, FedNow, PromptPay, Osko/PayID/PayTo, iDeal etc etc.
> Just think of all the nonsense you have to deal with in the name of "security."

Well, the good news is that everything you listed is known as a bad idea to both end users and people who understand security (which is, sadly, not most people who implement security policies).

Using 4 or more dictionary words provides excellent password security and you can do the same for all of your security answers too. There's a variety of free and paid for password managers that solve the issue of trying to remember all your secrets (great for backing up 2FA secrets too).

I'm not sure what you mean by "complicated error messages" but I assume it's errors that they expect the user to fix themselves, otherwise they could return a generic nonspecific error and a unique ID for you to provide when you contact support to get help. While it sucks to get jargon spammed, I feel like pretty standard human ineptitude at explaining an error rather than anything specific to security. I also think it's how many people feel about any error message that contains computer jargon (PC LOAD LETTER!?!?).

> I often wonder how they get away with it all.

My thinking (and experience...) is that most organizations are failing at a lot of things at any given time, even if the business overall is successful. Security is just one of those things. I wouldn't be surprised at a small elite organization not following that trend, but any sufficiently large organization is going to have incompetent people doing incompetent things.
Crowdfunding a SaaS Company
What draconian laws does EU apply to foreign companies? Try to come up with examples of companies that don't have offices and legal and commercial presence in the EU.

BTW remind me what's your take on the US banning Huawei in the US?
But if you already have ssh set up for the target machine, is there any advantage such as speed or recoverability vs scp?
But that’s happening everywhere on every social platform isn’t it? The very act of going along with censorship requests interferes with the politics of a nation by silencing opposition.
Already said in the post you responded to that they lease it. It's publicly available information.
It is used in enterprise, but it's linked to status. Above a certain level, you don't have to explain that you won't be getting the Windows laptop; it would just be disrespectful.
I was living in a small Texas own and the neighbors had chickens. There was certainly some complaints but I sort of liked it. I can imaging the honking nigh be a little much.

I subscribed to Sophia Tung's YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@sophiat
It is about as exciting as watching any other live stream but kind of nice.
And yet, we will probably get all camera software on our phones with unlimited zoom and details. Turning grain in crispy clear pictures. Inpainting, outpainting etc.
In 5 years from now everybody uses it. Everything becomes fake.
At this point, we've all gotten quite used to the "style" of LLM outputs, and personally I doubt this is the case, however, it is possible that there is some, shall we say, corruption of the data here, since it was not possible to measure the ability of LLMs to predict the next word before there were LLMs.

I propose you do the same things, but only include HN content from before the existence of LLMs. That should ensure there is no bias towards any of the models.
On macOS there is IINA which uses mpv under the hood but with a more native GUI.
You can also hold those keys to play normally at the speed set with [ and ], so you can actually play the video in reverse and slow motion or whatever. Be aware that it's usually very intensive on cpu time (and maybe gpu decoding if applicable) since it has to usually go back a whole keyframe and compute all frames between while doing that, which may result in less than smooth playback on some videos.
It’s also the only way I can play HDR on macOS that looks decent (besides the native players like QuickLook/Quicktime/Photos).

I went into a rabbit hole recently playing iPhone-recorded Dolby hdr videos and tweaking all the various mpv settings but nothing really looked the same as in Photos. Iina is closer but also not exactly the same as the native players.
I don't think having nullables can be called a feature as such. It adds complexity to your code and it directly goes against Go's philosophy of explicit error handling and simple types. Of course it's completely opinion based but I think having people handle errors directly instead of dealing with them through exceptions and checks makes for much more predictable code. I'm also not sure I really see the difference that GP does. I think that in a lot of code you're going to do a lot of null checks anyway, maybe even more than how often you'll check if your pointers are nil, but at least with Go you're not risking missing one.

Maybe the Go engineers didn't think about nullables, but I think there is a good chance they simply decided against them for various reasons.
Then why do you think Delta's plane almost had to be seized instead of one of their bank accounts?
>but in democracies the pen controls the sword

Pens are fairly sharp
If the profit margin is 10% then a 10% reduction in total material and labour cost more than doubles your profit margin if you keep your prices the same.

So how small a part of the total is the module cost? Even if you can only save 5% you still make more than 50% extra profit.
If you're on Linux, don't forget to enable hardware acceleration by adding hwdec=auto to mpv.conf. Works with AMD/Intel/NVIDIA.

https://interfacinglinux.com/2024/01/10/hardware-acceleratio...
I guess Apple could afford to buy Oracle.
The cherry-picking is explicit in the article, and the fact that the cherry-picked reasons are given as reasons at all is chilling. As is the fact this is all being dealt with publicly, like some sort of public shaming ritual. The process the Python project has adopted feels like social media hysteria formalised.
Why Large Language Models Are a Commodity Now and What It Means for the AI Space
Is AWS any better, or what’s the solution? Most businesses aren’t technical and don’t need to be in the authentication/security business.
Any newspaper contains significantly more conjecture and guessing that the comment you reply to. It is ironic that the Economist was the magazine from which I learned speculating about behind the scenes actions and personal power politics.

Yet you do not call the Economist reporters conspiracy theorists.

The Economist is consistently wrong about ... economic predictions, which is what GP was making fun of.
> There have files I’ve encountered that for example VLC will play with quirks (color reproduction is not quite right, etc) that mpv plays perfectly.

This has long since been the case, even back in the MPlayer days in the early 2000s.

I'm not really sure why this is the case though, because I believe both largely rely on the same libraries for many codecs.
What's the good word!!
"Busybody ideological crusader who wants to foist their political ideology upon everyone and everything around them" would be my take, are you sure you're clueless as to what was meant by it?
Horrid, but this works.

&([]bool{true}[0])

But at least it allows me to write it without declaring a variable first.
Mac users can get a very nice front end to mpv with https://iina.io

Bonus trivia: Plex Media Player uses mpv as the video player
I believe Vipps in Norway is similar as well
I often make medium-to-large purchases using SEPA bank transfer. The merchant gives me a bank account number, a random or serialized reference code, and a week to make payment. I go to my bank, and send the money to the bank account, inputting the same reference code. Once it arrives (usually within the day or the next morning) the thing is paid. This works for most online purchases that are not urgent and support the payment type.
If it's legal then you must comply to stay in the country is not the same as "if it's legal it's okay."
I was easy enough to fire for my former employers.

You would probably say that it isn't EASY because in the US it is much easier to do. You might not be able to do it immediately without notice period unless the employee does something really stupid or illegal.

You can however fire someone any time when you give them the notice period defined in the employment contract. You might need to give them a warning that they are underperforming first so that they can fix it before you fire them, but after that, you can just fire them.

This happens ALL THE TIME, but it isn't done as a mass/group action. If you have a problem with an individual then the individual gets fired.

Also, in the first 6 months, you don't need any reason and the notice period is shortened to 2 weeks.
> Is Go adding a random seed to each hash map?

Yes:
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/27093581b2828a2752a6d2711d...
Yep, we are actively working on native support.

(I work on PGlite)
Good luck with that. The Philippines has aligned with the US for some time and water gunning their fishermen doesn't help either.

They should try to outsource to their colonies in Central Asia instead.
Not at all. Do you know what it actually takes to get in to those blue collar unions in NYC? It's not at all a "I can just show up, with no experience, and convince a business owner to give me a job" like Glass did.
When one doesnt know how to frame the questions succinctly, a GPT that can structure a vague request into a digestable response... plus - you act like one using the LLM is completely devoid of their own discernment capabilities or intelligence.

When I pickup a hammer, I dont expect it to build the actual house. But when I Intent and WIllfully use it on its designated task, its the same as weilding a GPT/AI - you have to be really specific.

I admit I totally agree with having to debug the code that it generates. But since I know how to goad it into my intent for learning a thing.

Also - I wrote up extensively about using a discernment lattice to attempt to corral the AIs "expertness" as much as possible to keep it on a subject.

I also force it to use, cite and describe sources I tell it to use when I am telling it to be an expert.

https://i.imgur.com/Fi5GYRl.png

https://i.imgur.com/wlne9pT.png

https://i.imgur.com/Ij8qgsQ.png
Just want to say thank you for your contribution. A lot of the wonky stuff made it really funny to watch, but at the same time impressive (for what it was).

Do you have any links to share about details surrounding the project? Would be fun to understand more about the process but as well the work in general.

edit: fixed some weird autocorrects
That is... not a glowing endorsement. I've had more bugs and player failures from Plex than any other media software I've ever used.
Syslog, kern.log, messages, htop, iotop, df -h, ip2ban.log pm2 log, netstat -tulpn
If I used old comments then it's likely that the models will have trained on them. I haven't tested if that makes a difference though.
However, this does reduce the separation of factors, if that password manager is the same one containing your actual password.

Depending on your threat model this may be an issue.
> […] why isn’t Apple more aggressively attacking the enterprise market?

Apple seems to be doing just fine (including financially) selling widgets to 'regular' consumers. They're already one of the largest companies in the world doing their current strategy: what would they gain from doing "enterprise"?

Further: please define "enterprise market".

Are we talking about hardware like servers? Data storage? Networking? Are you talking about ERP solution? CRM? Supply chain management? Business intelligence / analytics? HRM? Payroll? Identity management? Project management?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_software

What are the margins on those things? What are the volumes on units? Do you need a sales staff (perhaps working on commission)?

Apple products seem to already be quite popular and in demand, so I'm not sure what 'going after' another market would get them.
Plenty of Germans are fine with banning public praise of Nazis. You are free to spew the boring old pablum, but most people in the world aren't absolutist like you.

Besides, "political speech" isn't as easy to nail down as you seem to think it is. Child porn is political speech if I want it to be so you're opposed to banning child porn. Good to know.
Related:

Who's Smarter: AI or a 5-Year-Old?

https://nautil.us/whos-smarter-ai-or-a-5-year-old-776799/

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263363)
Given AI’s role in the new Cold War with China, I would imagine the fix is already in. The national security folks aren’t just going to let China leapfrog them in developing this technical capability.
What we're facing here is a distinction between US and BR law (actually, US is the exception world wide, for Brazil law is closer to what you would find in Europe on this matter).

In Brazil, it's not a crime to say what you think. But it is a crime to falsely claim that someone has committed a crime. This is especially serious if you are influential on social media and your statement, even if false, is likely to generate dangerous reactions from your followers.
>the quintessential language model task of predicting the next word?

Based on what? The whole test is flawed because of this. Even different LLMs would choose different answers and there's no objective argument to make for which one is the best.
iDeal is working on international expansion, so it may become available in other European places.

The main downside of iDeal for consumers is that it's irreversible. If you pay and then never receive the product, you can't get your money back. While PayPal and credit cards do offer that extra protection to consumers.

So iDeal is really only good for the merchants due to the very low transaction costs.
This is from the company that just made the Apple Vision Pro. I don't see any reason they couldn't do limited forays into enterprise.
Just imagine how different the Internet would look like today if receiving payments would’ve been as easy as receiving email from the beginning.

That it is not trivial for a single person on the Internet to receive payments without a third-party involved, in my mind, leads directly to an Internet that is based on ads and on monopolies:

You can’t make a living posting stuff online on your own private website. Because since you cannot receive money, any value that you add online can never be translated into value offline. So you need to post on someone else’s site, which then acts as a publisher, and has the economies of scale necessary to make taking payments viable. Or otherwise, you need to monetize your content by placing ads, again, using some middleman, who is big enough to be able to afford access to payments.
What you do is have a "family" of hash functions. The random seed value chooses a new hash function. The same properties apply to each individual map's hash function, but each map has a different hash function

Secondary, go map iteration starts from a random position in the hashmap. The order on subsequent iterations is the same, but rotated as a result of the random start index
Can I understand this flow?

I want to buy a CD from Amazon for 19.99.
I click on my bank application (or maybe some QR code on Amazons site)
And that tells my bank app on my phone to authenticate my phone agains the bank
And ask for a 16 digit number that is solely for amazon, 19.99 and 20240812
Streaming or player errors? Plex has basically never failed to play any video I've ever given it, but a bad connection can totally ruin streaming. I wish they would implement pause and allow to buffer.
Sounds a lot like the anecdotes from the early 2000s of soldiers being given tracer rounds to put near the end of their magazines to indicate they’re nearly out.
try celluloid https://github.com/celluloid-player/celluloid
If it has a performance impact, that's not on Windows but the software. Many games are really really badly made software, so that's not surprising.

UAC is the single greatest security improvement Microsoft ever created.
Would an accurate ELI5 of this be :

* Mathematically align the photograph and the lidar point cloud.

* For each photograph pixel, colour whichever aligned lidar point is closest to the camera.

So you end up with one coloured lidar point per photograph pixel?
I have some, BUT they tend to have some hyper-high costs on certain networks, so on unusual trips I still need a companion app to verify the price of one of the few I have plus the option to register, download the nth crapplication and so on to avoid roaming costs.

Just try ChargePrice somewhere in the EU no matter what charger, you'll find for the same charge an enormous price difference, often more than 4x or even 10x from the cheapest to the most expensive combo of roaming and own network cards. It's a jungle.

Thankfully as almost any BEV owner I do need public charging only for long trips, not frequently, for the rest I recharge at home, but this also means many in cities would simply never get an EV.

Than ad the absurd price delta from the BRICS countries, let's say an entry-level BEV, BYD Atto 3, ~38k€ here, ~9k€ in Thailand, same battery and accessories. For where I live there are enough public charger for essentially all destinations in the region, it's not a matter of mere availability, it's a matter of a awful market on them with absurdly different prices for the same amount of energy (and time, because some chargers have ha connection fee, a time fee and an energy fee together and you have to do a bit of math to find the cheapest if you want) while gasoline/diesel vary just about few cents around a region an not more than ten cents in the whole EU united to such incredible price difference for the car, essentially BEV are a sound option ONLY if you recharge at home 99% of the time and run them at least 20k km/year or more. Witch makes them sound for just 10% or so of the overall population. While at BRICS costs, not just China they probably be convenient for 50-30% of overall population.
There's always a new excuse to take away peoples right or aggressively censor things. "This time is different" "It's just an exceptional situation" etc they say every time until the next time.
Happy VLC user here, but might give this a try, I want to find a better UX with the player controls, like a way to pin the controls bar when full screen (it disappears after some seconds), a 10s forward/backwards control, bigger buttons, less bloated settings, less features that I don't use like radio and other stuff.

But one thing that confused me seeing that homepage is that it shows a player UI screenshot, but it says " mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line", isn't just for the command line right? I assume you can install it as an app and it has an UI like VLC. (I'm on the phone rn will check it on my PC later).
There's a strong chance Delta don't have much legal/fiscal presence in the UK. Probably also why they didn't feel a pressing need to pay fines in the UK.

There's a much higher chance that Twitter have a legal and financial presence in Ireland, especially being that it is/was their EMEA HQ.