skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you need to access these sites for work, I suggest requesting them sequentially. Generally, people don’t adjust filters until people complain. After you become the number one ticket creator for mundane site requests, they’ll usually bend the rules for you or learn to adjust the policy.

The reality is that people who create these filter policies often do so with very little thought, and sans complaints, they don’t know what their impact is.
> DoJ investigation found.. [banking] business had been used to launder more than $650m between 2016 and 2021 from US fentanyl sales for Chinese crime groups and drug traffickers.

According to the official CIA "world factbook" or whatever that is called: an estimated 3% to 5% of the world's fucking entire GDP is linked to criminal activities.

Blockchains are cool in that they allow to follow the laundering (so it allows for nice blog entries with good looking graphs, which I do appreciate), as opposed to traditional banks where it's all opaque.

But the amount of money laundered using cryptocurrencies is a drop in the bucket compared to size of criminal activities ongoing in the world (btw criminal activities predates blockchain by centuries or millenia).

And don't get me started on the missing billions when "aid" is sent to this and that country. Be it Ukraine or Haiti or whatever: there are corrupt officials and individuals at every single step of the ladder.

My favorite is the US loading a 747 with 12 billions in bills of $100 USD to "help the reconstruction of Iraq" and officially 9 billions of those 12 billions have been "lost".

Yup. Lost. That's official stuff.

So the $200m of the Lazarus group, compared to $9 billion in $100 USD bills: cry me a river.
MMT for Beginners
That's what the influx of shitty NFTs and "tokens" and "chains" are that keep coming up in Twitter ads these days. Criminals just building shitty bags to rip off dumb people while they launder away the profit underneath it.
Way back in USSR days, there used to be this language called Nairi or something like that
This. There is absolutely no excuse for Excel's behavior here. It's been DECADES and they still haven't added a goddamn dialog that says, upon importing data, "OH, it looks like your data contains stuff that looks like dates, are they dates, or are they NOT DATES? Thanks, have a nice day"
Certainly well into 'this can't be right' territory.

Are in game purchases used for money loundering? Like, if you own half the stock in a company you can get a pretty good money cleaning rate.
Meta can and will use every WhatsApp, Facebook or Insta post of every user of the planet, if they think they can benefit from it. They don't care about any data protection laws or ridiculous low fines anyway. Meta is the most evil and powerful company on the planet. Believing anything else is naive. No news here.
Lots to pick up

- bonds are a way to turn central reserves into interest bearing bonds xchangable instruments

- money existed before writing because first writing was accounts
Battle of Blenheim
The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen, if your startup idea is in the "networked product" domain.
I have re-read that book 3 times now, its that good
> only 6 billion bits in humans

A 27-state two value Busy Beaver can implement "Give a counter-example to Goldbach's Conjecture" - if there are none the program never halts. We can recognise that, and say "Oh dear" but it gets us no closer to an answer. Six billion isn't even in the right ballpark, our ability to understand the meaning of every self-acting machine extends maybe to six or seven bits if we're very smart.
Balance of Power – By Bradford Morgan White
Why RAG Struggles with People and Organizations – and How to Fix It
A text about recent progress using local Large Language Model llama3.1:8b to answer questions about a data corpus using Retrieval Augmented Generation and Named Entity Recognition.
Body Roundness Index Instead of BMI
Are you a caretaker of cave systems?
Yeah but even then it would make it to consumers through their customers.

A bit like MS Copilot for Bing / Windows which is really just rebranded ChatGPT. For the O365 version they added a lot of stuff to interact with office but their online chatbot is just the same.
I followed a game engine minor in c++, all I could think was "I wish I was writing in Rust".

Our end result was cool though, we got a Guitar hero guitar working on it and remade clone hero. Fun times.
Its important that anyone reading fiction knows its fiction.

Without that we can run into a situation where a fictional story on the radio convinces the public that we are under alien attack in what could be called a war of the worlds.
That's especially true when they say

"We VALUE your privacy"
HELL YES!

I actually did set my shell to spawn a background task to play the vine boom whenever I entered an invalid command.

Something like

command_not_found() {
pw-play /opt/boom.opus &
}

And it actually improved my command accuracy by a lot. And it was super fun.
>Also, if you care to explain, what' the stack used?

a claude prompt apparently haha
> somehow it's all encoded in DNA (only 6 billion bits in humans, which has to also build cells and their ultracomplex machinery)

One has to be cautious to not assume that the only data DNA holds is in base pairs.

We know that secondary factors like inter- and intra-strand interactions or DNA-histone interaction encodes information as well.

A good analogy is a book. While it is made up of individual letters, the combinations build to words, which build to sentences, which build to ideas, which can interact with other ideas (sometimes in other chapters!) to create a complexity beyond just the combination of letters would suggest.

That's not even getting into the temporal aspects of DNA expression.
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I think what you mean here is that you are grateful that spreadsheet applications exist.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet
Have to weakly agree here. But a very important point is missing, github actions. It is a pristine example of vendor lock-in.

Also the interconnected pr references by #prnumber across many repos will make it very hard to keep track of future development in any foss github alternative the project moves to.

So until git-bug etc., mature enough to include everything in git itself, or people start using gerrit, email patches etc. which are all non-trivial compared to github prs, giving up github is harder than giving up google search.
Wow interesting! Swiss have also one of the highst gpd per capita. And the university EthZ beats most of other European universities.

The thing you mentioned is not unique to Swiss Germany had it as well. But I think still you have there more people who study...
As a young kid i had an airfix model of a CL-215, painted in the yellow and red livery, i thought it was the coolest plane ever.
Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation
I guess it has failed to remove all the bullshit I have been pasting.

> An error occurred: Failed to fetch
Great article.

This is why am not too excited about elections. Both side promise a lot but execution is lax. While credit is due to Biden admin for infrastructure and Chips bill, his handling on forgiving student loan was a mess.

It was a one time shoddy fix. May as well make all loans the Same - based on risk, be discardable and the punishment is credit score ding if it’s not paid.

Non-dischargeable loans are a drain on the economy.
> 6 billion bits in humans

~750 megabytes (unit conversion via google)
Crypto is much easier to move around and, with some effort, convert into harder to follow cryptocurrencies.

Very few people will be their own bank.
Part of the ideas behind the EU’s “very large online platform” rules. Basically saying that if your platform gets big enough where its basically important infrastructure, that then comes with responsibilities.

I would welcome some rules and regulations about this kinds of stuff. Can you imagine that google wakes up one day and decides to kill gmail? It would cause so many problems. It’s already impossible that even as a paid gmail user you can’t get proper support in case something goes awry. Sure you can argue they can decide what ever they want with their business. But if you have this many users, I do think at some point that comes with some obligations of support, quality and continued service.
>Medical. AIDS drugs are in good shape. Diabetes may be next. There's been real progress on some kinds of cancer. Even obesity can be cured.

Would disagree, we have possibly regressed. We have more gizmos (like diabetes monitors) and diagnostics, but no real cures and a significantly more sick people.
Is there a reason you don't specify the data type when importing or if it is a frequently used data file format automate the import using VBA specifying the correct data type?
Show HN: FormLite – Turn Your Plain Google Forms into Typeform Interface
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You're assuming that the ending is already written and the long term value of LLMs is already known.

Someone not using them could get left behind if LLMs turn out that to have a consistent multiplier effect on productivity. That person also may not actually care about being "left behind".

Someone not using them could also save a bunch of time and effort if LLMs don't pan out and don't add a meaningful value over the long run. That's not to say they don't add any value, LLMs could be relegated to the role of a much better predictive text engine that gets used regularly but isn't itself a large enough gain to leave anyone behind for not using predictive text.
Growing up, people with the surname Campbell often got the nickname soup or soupy.
> Hypocritically being silent when China forces Apple to adopt RCS and has countless regulations on what they can do.

He recognizes China forcing Apple's hand (not the EU) when it comes to RCS, and since China is a large market, and Apple is mostly/generally a hardware company, they want to sell hardware there:

* https://daringfireball.net/2024/02/eu_rcs_imessage

Gruber is not a fan of RCS because it lacks E2E encryption:

* https://daringfireball.net/2024/07/att_data_breach_rcs_ios

When I read that post, I didn't necessarily disagree with Gruber on the encryption front, I just think having a better base for 'cross-platform' message that didn't involve third-party software (Signal, WhatsApp (and having to use their infra)) was still worth it—even if unencrypted. Gruber wants the features of RCS but also encryption:

> Ihnatko is right, but only if you believe that carrier-based messaging should remain the baseline. I do not. And it’s also a U.S.-centric viewpoint. In most countries around the world, platforms like WhatsApp, Line, and Facebook Messenger serve that role, as the baseline “everyone has it” messaging platform — and those countries are better for it. I prefer iMessage, personally, for multiple reasons, but iMessage is fundamentally limited from serving that “everyone has it” baseline role by Apple’s decision not to ship an Android client. Eddy Cue doesn’t lose many arguments but he lost that one. All of the effort spent pushing Apple to support RCS would have been better spent pushing Apple to ship iMessage for Android. And without a supported iMessage client for Android, that role ought to go to WhatsApp, not RCS. WhatsApp is free, secure, and works equally well on all phones.

> Meta knows this, and clearly smells the opportunity. Does Apple?

* Ibid

Google's E2E RCS is a proprietary extension, and I'm not sure how telcos can implement E2E given things like CALEA in the US, so E2E may be stuck in the realm of the non-telco (unlike SMS and RCS, which are telco-run).
Summarization is a reductionist approach to things so I’d say that negativity is expected.
"Legacy food companies like Campbell are pivoting to gain a larger share of the snack narket"

What is "legacy food"??
Although I disagree with the GP, neither of your arguments are fully thought through.

> Plants feel distress too, we are just happily ignorant of it; not too different from people who are happily ignorant of the fact that meat doesn't just appear in the grocery store.

Yet meat introduces an additional, unnecessary layer of suffering while also increasing the amount of plant suffering (you need far more than 1kg of feed to produce 1kg of meat). If everyone ate only plants, the amount of plant suffering would decrease. Unless you go to the absolute and define any amount of suffering as fully equal, this argument is not a defense for meat production.

> While I cannot encourage it, ceasing to live and reproduce is the best way to reduce the suffering you cause to other life forms to sustain yourself, and reduce your resource burden on the planet, and if that's what you value, not doing so would be defined as hypocritical.

Again, you're taking the absolutist route that reducing the suffering of animals isn't worth anything unless it fully eliminates suffering. Incremental improvements are worth it, because they still reduce suffering. This is the "you want to improve society, yet you take part in it, how curious" argument in disguise - and it's pretty disgusting to apply it here.
By "primitives" I mean properties natively understood by browsers, e.g. `padding-left`
Rust, Zig, Odin, Nim are probably the most popular. It's also not surprising IMHO, most software is created to scratch a particular itch of an individual. Also specifically for programming languages, LLVM made it possible for individuals to build their own pet language with relatively little effort
but still get competitive performance and target platform coverage.
> Data shows that children in Europe are spending on average €39 per month on in-game purchases.

The source they give for this is: https://www.videogameseurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/V... , which says this number is actually:

> Average spent per month (amongst all parents of children who spend in-game items)

According to the same source, 18% spend, 76% don't, and 7% are unknown. So excluding the unknowns, that's an average of 7.5€ per month.
Gotta love "progress" as the ultimate goal. Ignore how you got here, whether you made a wrong turn, or even if you're happy as-is and don't need to change. Just keep pushing forward and moving around the deck chairs!
No, I'm not referring to the "nested" mapping type, but nested in the sense of JSON object structures.

The "nested" mapping type, in addition to its limitations, comes with a huge performance hit, and is therefore not usable as a general-purpose way of representing arbitrary nested structures.
I tried it out, didn't worked
Thanks! I never go to Bing but I probably will now.
> america is in an active state of war with NK

Hypocrisy and delusion are powerful weapons against the uninitiated, but we are initiated, aren’t we notepaf0x90?

WW2 never ended and Russia is still at war with Japan as they never signed a peace treaty.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-japan-peace-treaty-ukraine-in...
It hasn't got the same level of cross compatibility though. I can just copy a BASH script from some x86 machine and it'll run just fine on an ARM processor.
Do you have a source for 'My favorite is the US loading a 747 with 12 billions in bills of $100 USD to "help the reconstruction of Iraq" and officially 9 billions of those 12 billions have been "lost".'

Your numbers seem a bit off, but it is definitely an outrageous incident.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jun-13-la-fg-mi...

"This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins. But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash — enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things."
Needs audio input and output, so that we can de-bulshittify political speechs on the fly.
Google will reliably index dynamic sites rendered using JS. And other search engines do the same. There's really no good reason to do this if you want to be indexed on search engines.
I highly recommend "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries, which offers good insights into building a successful startup through continuous innovation.
facepalm Thank you. That was not pedantic at all, I made an early morning mistake.
Legacy (food companies) not (legacy food) companies; I think?
I remember as a young kid, it was the closest I could find to the Sea Duck from Tail Spin.
Logbookd – SQLite Backed Syslogd
Hack is pretty awesome, but it's difficult to build from source and find doc on. (Like a lot of Meta stuff, it's not well abstracted and maintained for external consumption and it's missing pieces and support materials.) In a lot of ways, reminds me of other tools without nice build processes like nix, bazel, klee, perl's cpan, istio, and samurai (ninja build's twin). Downloading binaries from the internet maybe convenient but aren't suitable for all uses, esp. distro packaging.

Tools with nice build processes: golang, (free)nginx, beanstalkd, memcached, erlang, elixir, rust, uv, pipx, and pnpm. RPM packages.

Tools with okay build processes: gradle, gcc, clang/LLVM. cmake. DEB packaging. GNU's stuff is more-or-less consistent, but autotools (automake/autoconf/m4) configure scripts are sequential, slow, and pedantically redundant. Haskell is a pain to build from source, because like go, it requires bootstrapping... which is difficult on a new platform; PSA: please don't bootstrap languages without a maintained, functioning, widely-portable, alternative reference implementation.

Tools that need improvement: openssl's configure flags are poorly documented but they're better than they were, ruby and ruby native extensions. conan. A number of Apache's (mostly Java) projects are prone to enterprise overengineering, XML, excessive but outdated features, too many options, and lack of simplicity and sane defaults. JVM (Java and not) apps can be JITed fast, portably, and run securely, but.. there's a complexity management tax and gotchas overhead. Scala footgunned itself going corporate, but Clojure and Kotlin are decent.
"Legacy" modifies "companies."
SimpleX Chat is blocked in Russia and China
https://mastodon.social/@simplex/113137959973971123

https://xcancel.com/SimpleXChat/status/1835063534138396911#m

https://old.reddit.com/r/SimpleXChat/comments/12k1zu0/simple...
There shouldn't be any currency except the us dollar because tourists get scammed.
Without any ability to reason about the known facts, are we better off with LLMs trying to interpolate at all rather than acting as a huge search space that returns only references?

If an LLM has the exact answer needed it could simply be returned without needing to be rephrased or predicted at all.

If the exact answer is not found, or if the LLM attempts to paraphrase the answer through prediction, isn't it already extrapolating? That doesn't even get to the point where it is attempting to combine multiple pieces of training data or fill in blanks that it hasn't seen.
Move over Simple English Wikipedia.
The Kims are likely the only reliable bet for people who would actually survive a nuclear war and the following nuclear winters, if the book Nuclear War by Anne Jacobsen is to be believed. They're the only ones that have built their bunkers deep enough (under mountains) that modern thermo nuclear weapons wouldn't destroy them, and they have years of supplies down there.
The American way is creating problems and selling solutions.
Well ya once each project, e.g. “grad level math”, “k—12 math”, “undergrad math”, “k-12 chemistry”, etc is sufficient they are all fed into a larger more powerful model.

Maybe my RLHF work does make it harder for me to dream, but I teach models math which means a lot of prompt writing, and yet I have not found a way to have the model teach me math I don’t know yet (and there’s a lot I don’t know). It’s fun to play around with, but I still gravitate toward the isolated texts, not the aggregation as too much is lost or averaged in my opinion/experience. But hey maybe I’m overtrained on the traditional learning methods.
Fractran: Computer architecture based on the multiplication of fractions
Indeed, I would assume applications needing untraceability would use XMR
Rust though didn’t gain traction until Mozilla adopted it. I guess we could say individuals always created programming languages but majority are sponsored and paid by orgs/companies.
I would use http://www.blablameter.com/ on posts made by certain team leaders.

It is amazing how someone can write three or more paragraphs of ..... nothing ..... but it had all the right buzzwords which is how they kept their job.
Old people don't innovate? Sounds like an ageist stereotype.
I moved my emails to Proton Mail
> drone bombing land based ones

How do you imagine that a drone will be able to find and damage an underground cable?

This is not Afghanistan, a drone will not live long past China’s/Russia’s air defences.
Everyone learnt -3^2=-9 in middle school… it is a very clear implementation mistake
Excel formulae are absolutely a form of computation, or programming.

While the caret is meant to symbolize superscript, it is nevertheless a completely different notation for exponentiation.

I don't see why 0-3^2 and -3^2 need to be consistent necessarily. Sign change and subtraction are different operations, so they can have different relationships with other operators.

If + worked like you want ^ to work, then -3+2 would equal -5, instead of the more common -1.

^ does work differently from superscript in all apps. The way you write "three to the power two plus two" is completely different.