skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely, it's one of the most undemocratic, potentially violative of 1st amendment laws that is out there.

This is from the point of view that money laundering as a law is essentially thoughtcrime. The police state has done an orwellian job of normalizing not privacy, but instead telling the government the reason you are doing every transaction. Then, any attempt to not tell the government is "money laundering".

Of course, if you are the state, the powers of this tool are alluring. Imagine if the state could compel citizens to write down what they're thinking, and compel justifications for everything they do in life. Think of how many crimes we could solve! Think of how many bad folks we can catch ahead of time!
Gasoline in a tank does not burn. Some welders will even weld a tank full of gasoline - it is a safe operation (most welders will refuse to do this, but a few will). The only time a tank of gasoline is a worry is when there are only a few drops in the tank.

The above is simple chemistry, the Stoichiometric air fuel ratio for gasoline has a very narrow range where it will burn. A tank of gasoline will be above this and thus not burn.
I was under the impression that the EU had other regulations related to AI generated content that affects OpenAI and presumably Sora other than just privacy stuff.
I think both views are partially right. Yes, medicine has advanced. There are many areas where the treatments simply didn’t exist, even 20 years ago. There are different people involved with different incentives. However, that doesn’t mean that insurance hasn’t also had a negative effect on quality of care. The example that comes to mind the standard of care for back injuries. Treatment begins maybe with an x-ray to check for fractures, but then NSAIDs. If that doesn’t work, then physical therapy a couple times a week for a few weeks. Then patients may get an MRI a couple months later… after it’s too late to see bruising to the spinal cord. So, there’s almost never direct evidence that a herniation is work-related, and thus it isn’t covered by workers compensation. The path of escalation is designed to reduce costs, but starting with an MRI on day one is decidedly better for patient outcomes.
It wouldn’t help him with any of the rest of this mess, but possessing the illegal suppressor is an easy ‘we can keep him in jail until we figure out the rest of this’ situation.
I get why this is insane but I also get why the law is there which leaves me in a wired spot. Part of me wants to say something along the lines of "make SAR's disclosable / viewable to American citizens or legitimate users" but you can't really do that because the bad guys will quickly exploit any escape hatches like this.

What do others think about this? Because I'm kinda stuck in the middle about them.
I immediately thought of this when I read the parent comment.
is it any wonder that many people doubt "the science" of climate change when governments act so irresponsibly and deceptively? this is truly despicable behavior, i really wish i could expect something else from them.
It means, archivists are gonna archive stuff. What does what you said mean? "Credibility"? Is that some kind of apologetics for lawyers hunting for copyright infringements?
And if the other 29 don't scratch your itch either, then there's a "More" link...
You are incorrect and there is an almost endless amount of evidence that you are incorrect.

In one study they fed rats 90% of their calories from HFCS and they had no health consequences so long as the total calories were controlled to be the same as thr non HFCS group.

The "type of calorie" theory is generally proposed by popular psuedo science articles that appeal primarily to overweight people who are looking for easy answers that don't require them to do something challenging. Meanwhile people on ozempic lose weight while eating junk. Your body doesn't care where the calories come from, all that matters is that you don't eat too much.
It would be interesting to compile the C++ with PGO (it should catch up with JIT)
The difference is after a ICE car burns there is a tank full of gasoline still there. With a EV the battery will also burn.
> I'm quite nervous for the future.

Videos like these were already achievable through VFX.

The only difference here is a reduction in costs. That does mean that more people will produce misinformation, but the problem is one that we have had time to tackle, and which gave rise to Snopes and many others.
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> I've noticed this repeatedly where if I've to move a small sum of money in/out of my country I need to fill 20 letters and 50 if it's a business.

More HN bullshit! Please explain the first 10-25 letters, then we will judge!
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On one hand, I like to think that society is getting trained to recognize AI and distrust it. But at the same time my retired boomer parents are over for the holidays and I catch them watching youtube videos completely oblivious to the fact it's an AI voice and just reading an LLM generated script with B roll for eye candy. Often times it's just stolen auto generated captions from larger creators regurgitated by an AI voice. I'll point it out and they don't believe me that the voice is fake.
My gen thought it would be nukes instead of ye olde fire 'n brimstone. They like scared peasants.

Some students had to see Gore's doc three times in one week. I only showed this to my students once.

https://archive.org/details/thegreatglobalwarmingswindlefull...
Delightful! I was especially tickled by the "WIN . INI" card for Chapter 9.
Python is good for beginnners. Javascript ain’t.
A young guy wearing a mask in Altoona would stand out. He probably would have been better off not wearing the mask in that case.
Glassdoor shows:

Medical PPO (All states) and HMO (CA only)
Aetna PPO
Aetna HMO (CA only)
Kaiser HMO (CA only
This reminded me of Herbert's manifesto on how he makes music.

https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?t=3890
Cattle produce extreme amounts of methane, which is a far worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. It might be ethical for the cows, but not for the climate unfortunately.
Every dip shit claiming this was pro are now quiet.
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> On premise in my opinion needs a dedicated team managing hardware and leverage solutions to provide that as VM's/Containers/etc to teams. Another team focused on OS level security and base image, then your dev teams can effectively focus on their app and leverage the automated tools provided by the hardware and OS teams.

Exactly. At which point, you’re essentially reinventing a cloud, usually not very well. If you have access to really good people you can pull this off, and that’s why you see so many people on HN doing the “who needs cloud” flex.

But the reality is that for most companies, managing non-trivial amounts of hardware is not a core competency, and they regularly shoot themselves in the foot by trying it.
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In some places. In others it isn't law, but your insurance company will put it in the contract and so the courts will side with the insurance company denying claims if you violate it. Some places have a different law, and some insurance companies have different things in their contract.
In some programming languages you can inspect functions, either by reflection on the bytecode or as in Picolisp:

$ pil +
: (de blepis (x y) (+ x y]
-> blepis
: (car 'blepis)
-> ((x y) (+ x y))
> last release 2017

feature not a bug

> does not work on Windows

ditto
Much more likely is that self-reporting is notoriously unreliable and "paycheck to paycheck" is a state of mind.
So the basics:

- quantum physics are real, this isn't about debating that. The theory underpinning quantum computing is real.

- quantum annealing is theoretically real, but not the same "breakthrough" that a quantum computer would be. Z-wave and google have made these.

- All benchmark computations have been about simulating a smaller quantum computer or annealer. which these systems can do faster than a brute force classical search. These are literally the only situation where "quantum supremacy" exists.

- There is literally no claim of "productive" computation being made by a quantum computer. Only simulations of our assumptions about quantum systems.

- The critical gap is "quantum error correction", proof that they can use many error prone physical qubits to simulate a smaller system with lower error. There isn't proof yet that is actually possible.

This result they are claiming, is they have "critical error correction" is the single most groundbreaking result we could have in quantum computing. Their evidence does not satisfy the burden of proof. They also only claim to have 1 qubit, which is intrinsically useless, and doesn't examine the costs of simulating multiple interacting qubits.
At least recently, there are enough photos of this bird that any tag-swapping would have been noticed.

Might not be true back in the 50's/60's/70's though, although back then there would be far less reason to do any swapping.
The middle ground seems to be allowing SARs (which are analogous to tips to police officers), but not requiring banks keep them secret from the customer. The bank could decide to do so, but also could decide not to, like any other speech.
Sure!

It's QR-based, so customers create an account, load money onto their account, then show their QR code to vendors who scan it to charge their account. We also provide plastic cards (think: gift card) for people who don't want to use their phone but we see 80%+ of people interact completely on their phone/online. We have an app and website (same codebase, Quasar framework) and for in-person payment (entry, bar) we provide iPads with connected CC readers.

My best advice is this: your hardest challenges will not be technical in nature. The hardest part is the equipment, dealing with customers, hand-holding the festival organizers. I don't say any of that as some gross thing or bad thing, just reality. In fact, I think I've succeeded larged based on the in-person aspect (We travel to the event and are on-site for the event) and being the "I have all the answers for your festival payments"-person. Rolling with the punches is a huge part of it.

The whole thing runs on AWS Lambda with a postgres DB from Neon.tech. I'll be honest, it's incredibly over-architected, the whole thing could run a a couple (or even 1) servers as a traditional NodeJS app without issue (and with less complexity) but I used this project as learning experience and a chance to try our some technology I was interested in. Lambda is incredibly cool and I think I might have one of the best use-cases for it (incredibly spikey load: no traffic for 9 mo, tiny traffic for presales for 1-2 months, 1 month with higher sales, then 1-2 days of the event with crazy sales) but the debugging story isn't the best. SST makes it 10000x better than anything else I've tried and the developer experience is bar-none for writing lambdas but all the other crap (CloudFormation, logs, monitoring, etc) is so much overhead. If I was writing this again today I'd probably look at something like NestJS but I won't let myself re-write the code (again) without a pressing reason and if I need to spend time anywhere it's sales/marketing.

Here is my, crappy, "marketing" website: https://grubbux.com/
Powder keg?
I wouldn't call that "incredibly expensive". Certainly for what it does, there are many other software packages that cost more.
> there were enough AI'esque artifacts that one could confidently conclude it's fake.

And yet, you would not have known how to recognize those artifacts without "OpenAI's decisions to unload a lot of this before recognizing the results of unleashing this to humanity".
When a case is brought to court, they have to outline the methods used to determine the perpetrator. Why is it okay to do that for things like murder and other crimes but not for banks?
Great extra detail - thanks
I see your point. Sorry about that. Your given example looks very cool. We'll try to do something like that. For now, you can see the results here: https://gist.github.com/coralblocks/21523d73f460924874685f11...

Or on GitHub: https://github.com/coralblocks/CoralBench?tab=readme-ov-file...
>They will remain behind in LLMs

The latest Gemini version (1206) is at least tied for the best LLM, if not the best outright.
They're all big donor candidates. That's how the system works unfortunately. Bernie was the exception and the DNC actively worked against his campaign in 2016 and 2020. The DNC also uses "superdelegates," in their primaries which allows them to put their thumb on the scale incase the people want to elect someone the party doesn't want.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sa...

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/04/politics/bernie-sanders-2016-...

Superdelegates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate

"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating."

- Boss Tweed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed
What about Europe/Japan/Australia/NZ? They don't care about AML? This is really a stretch.
the ability to invert a function sounds crazy to me. I never imagined that was possible
What is the incentive to divulge the information if they don't have to? Customer service? "We're the one bank that will tell you why we are dropping you as a customer"?
I think that would be an exception rather than the rule, to be honest.

I think though, that if you are in the position of doing serious critical reflection about this stuff, which is in my opinion necessary for being in a position of discernment wrt this stuff, then you are privileged. This is the idea I wanted to convey.
Such a huge ask, I think that most of western society is not in a state to be able to fulfil it. Especially in the US and UK (but probably many others), we've become so polarised that there's some kind of perceived honour in opposing the other 'side', regardless of your own actual opinion. If we needed to fight for suffrage today, for example, I don't think there would be a "vast majority", just two roughly equal sides taking opposing views for the sake of it.
Low refresh rates. 50Hz for European TV (PAL), 60Hz for American (NTSC).

On an LCD, each pixel lights up and illuminates constantly without flicker. On a CRT, an unrefreshed image immediately fades away.

For desktop computing, the minimum ergonomic standard refresh rate was usually 70Hz. Even that was an eye strain over prolonged usage. I remember using 85Hz on my 1990s Eizo CRT.
Mass shootings in the US don’t even make the news any more. I don’t think that’s true in most countries:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...

547 so far this year. If we had equal justice for all in this country, this CEO shooting would have barely made local news, maybe.
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He didn't recognize his daughter for the first 2 years of her life and angrily insisted the child wasn't his because he didn't want the distraction of parenthood. Emotionally developed people don't behave like this.
Fine, I'll bite:

- You keep stating that UHC "provides healthcare" (paraphrasing is mine). That is a ridiculous thing to interject into the debate: UHC can be described as paying the bills, but they are not actually providing healthcare in any real sense of that word.

- Because they do not actually _provide_ healthcare, it is very reasonable to ask why they need to spend billions on what essentially amounts to clerical work. We know they spend a lot of overhead on finding ways to _not_ pay for healthcare, which is one way that they could reduce this overhead if they were so inclined.

- It is obscene that in addition to massively overspending on providing this clerical function, they manage to still profit somewhere north of $14 billion dollars. That money, and the overspending on clerical functions, could have and should have been spent on paying for healthcare.

- No single individual should earn a compensation of $10 million dollars; but it is especially wicked to earn that amount of money, essentially, while there are unpaid claims. I won't start ranting about capitalism in general here - the CEO needs a paycheck too - but it's just absurd to think that they alone provide $10 million dollars worth of "value" and it's immoral to provide that compensation _in lieu of paying for healthcare_.

- You keep saying the CEO is "competent." From what I can see, his primary competency seems to have been increasing (or at least, holding steady) the amount of profit that UHC earns year over year. That is to say: he was competent at making sure UHC did not substantially pay for more healthcare. Another way of looking at that is that he was uniquely competent at increasing (or at least, holding steady) the amount of human suffering caused by UHC in exchange for those profits.

So - yes, I stand by my original statement that the population would have been far better off if he were not running the company, because he was carrying out a fundamentally immoral function in society. All of the insurers should be non-profits; in fact, every aspect of our healthcare system should be non-profit. Or at the very least, regulated to only earn a tiny amount of profits. Because there's no way around it - profit in the medical system is always directly tied to extracting more money from a population than it takes to provide that care, and I view that as utterly immoral.
> it needs a compilation step, and I don't want that

That's such a weird requirement, maybe because I'm used to writing Go code in my day job. I work on some React webapps on the side and there's no way I would miss on TS, typing is just the only way to write code that you can actually refactor. Granted you get some of TypeScript safety for free thanks to `// @ts-check` and friends, but it's the bare minimum.
In your OP, you wrote that this ternary computer is really a "first step" towards a completely different dataflow-based architecture. The main page of your website proclaims some sort of revolutionary "Third Millenium Computing", with applications to AI and "research on algorithms", whatever that is supposed to mean.

>The mainboard obviously knows how much RAM is present and performs a translation to the first available low address.

How exactly is this done in hardware? I can't figure it out, so you must be the expert on that. Unless it's like a separate microcontroller doing div/mod in a loop to convert between the bases for every memory access, it couldn't be that, right? Right?
Back in 1997, if you brought a Pentium 2 [1] you didn't just get a single chip with all the cache made by the same process. Instead, the chip and the cache were made by different processes, tested, then integrated into a 'cartridge' you plugged into the 'CPU slot'

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_II
Because banks don't want your house to burn down and insurance to refuse to pay out - if that happens almost everyone will declare bankruptcy and the bank is then out the money they loaned on the house. Thus banks will do some checking before letting you get a loan. When you buy a house the fine print (several pages of it which you are supposed to read before you sign) will say things like this because the bank demands it.
For somebody who uses Wolfram Home, it’s incredibly expensive.
Measuring DevEx, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement
Effects of Stress on Memory
Even if you're not into saving the environment, the oceans are absolutely disgusting by this point and I wouldn't trust anything fished out of it.
When the jurors can't agree, for whatever reason, you get a hung jury.

A judge needs cause to remove a juror. This includes a juror refusing to deliberate. In the specific case you bring up, it would be hard to prove that the juror is refusing to deliberate (i.e. "not being forthright") compared to just differently interpreting the facts of the case or the law or disagreeing with how the law should be applied.

It is the purpose of voir dire to weed out jurors with a preexisting bias in the case. You don't want to remove jurors after the case has started, as you run the risk of running out of alternates (there are probably state specific laws on how to handle this without requiring a mistrial though).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_jury
I completely agree when it comes to personal accounts, but the restrictions required to avoid extending credit make such accounts impractical for any realistic business purpose. You can’t, for example, allow the customer to write checks.
You learn a lot by what isn't mentioned. Willow had 101 qubits in the quantum error correction experiment, yet only mere 67 qubits in the random circuit sampling experiment. Why did they not test random circuit sampling with the full set of qubits? Maybe when turning on the full 101 set of qubits, qubits fidelity dropped.

Remember macroscopic objects have 10^23=2^76 particles, so until 76 qubits are reached and exceeded, I remain skeptical that the quantum system actually exploits an exponential Hilbert space, instead of the state being classically encoded by the particles somehow. I bet Google is struggling just at this threshold and they don't announce it.
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Most likely a water heater. Those explode and can level a house. Propane tanks are almost impossible to make explode - though a leak may start an explosion it typically isn't actually the tank.
>It could easily be a brigade by the left-wingers

I am surprised that more people don't know this type of brigading to influence public opinion. Left-wing brigades are orchestrated on private Discord servers. Smaller right-wing brigades are orchestrated on private Telegram channels.

The left-wing brigaders pretending to be right-wing CEO-killing-supporters could have gotten away with it if they had limited themselves to populist MAGA spheres.

However the Ben Shapiro fanbase are boring middle of the road pro-capitalist/neocons who would never support killing CEOs. Pretending to be his fanbase was their fatal mistake.
What's important is what we learned about society's appetite for political violence against the upper class. What isn't important is the actual actor.
Now, this is really make other countries nervous. Basically, existing cryptography technology is in danger.