skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I got the gist of it right, but not willing to go a second time.

This was specifically about banks and their regulation, and I think it misses the more vague and less accurate sense that financial institutions can remove players and customers from the market basically at will, which would be the reason given by people going to crypto IMHO.

To his point it doesn't fit "debanking", but if tomorrow VISA and Mastercard decide your online business is stinky, holding a bank account won't help you in any useful way.

That's basically what happened with Porn, where even if you had a very tightly managed and stricly lawful business (let's say you produce clay stop motion porn movies), you'd still be kicked off payment platforms.

Sure there can also be interesting discussions about actual bank account closures, but I think it's a lot more of a minority, there's better recourses, and most decent countries will be willing to guarantee citizens can get some form of banking whatever their situation.
It really depends which edges you find rough. Maybe we don't have the same needs. I try to use mostly open source apps and sync my calendar, contacts, files, notes and podcasts via Nextcloud. I use sandboxed Google Play Services for the small handful of apps I need but can't get any other way, everything else comes from the various open stores like F-Droid, Aurora, Accrescent, and Obtainium.
His core point was this:

> But the truth is that celebrating the death of other human beings because we hate them or what we think they stand for is absolutely American.

Remember that lynchings were always justified as a form of revenge, too, whether “protecting” white womanhood or deterring criminals. If we say that a health insurance CEO “hit first” and therefore his shooting is somewhat justified, it’s not easy to draw a line where you can say it’s invalid to apply the exact same logic to someone people are certain raped a white woman, committed a violent robbery, is conspiring to groom a child, or stole an election – once people get a sense of vengeance going, they’ll work backwards as needed to justify an emotionally satisfying outcome.

Even in the most sympathetic cases we should be thinking about how make the rule of law better, not bypassing it.
I'm really a big fan of the technology, but even I have to admit that it can most likely be used for surveillance just as easily as it can be for providing legitimate cell service.

Cellular protocols have a very bad security track record, and this is built on the exact same standards.
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Also, this assumes a similar demographic distribution to identified terrorists to unidentified ones. It's quite possible another class of people are more likely to be terrorists murders etc but don't show up in the data because for whatever reason they're better at hiding it.
The role is in killing off large parts of the federal govt
Nice work from Microsoft Research, including it being open source, and with open sourcing of the training dataset to come (which I suspect will actually be the most valuable contribution long term)
Is this left versus right? Or megacorps and elite donor class versus everyone else? I think this is mostly a story of someone committing genocide level injustices through their job as CEO, which virtually the entirety of the left right spectrum dislikes. Except the hyper rich or politically powerful. Not surprising to see VCs decrying the attack on podcasts and their LinkedIn profiles while saying absolutely nothing about the much larger crimes of the United Health group.
I've used it for French and German (and some maintenance practice in Russian). For German it was really the only thing I used and it got me to high A1/low A2. I was able to have decently complex conversations while traveling where German was our only shared language, so it can work to a point.

I think you realistically need to supplement it with other input/practice but I've found it really good for two things:

1) Just doing _something_ every day. Unless you go to DLI or Middlebury, you're just not going to learn a language in a month even if you do nothing but study it. If you're not living in your target language then it's easy to just not use it at all. Duo at least makes you light up the neurons for your target language every day.

2) For French I've found it's good at covering random blank spots that I didn't realize I had. My wife is french so I mostly learn from conversing with her and I'm at like B2/C1(on a good day). But she's not going to correct me every time I misuse a tense or preposition. So _most_ days on Duo I mostly get everything correct and learn like 1 or 2 new words, but sometimes it covers some grammatical nuance that I wouldn't have thought to go improve.
> Negative linear associations were found between treats intake (pastries, ice cream, chocolate, and sweets) and all outcomes, and between toppings intake (table sugar, honey, jams, and marmalades) and heart failure and aortic stenosis.

Is all I wanted to know, study confirms my beliefs. Back to the pastry shop for me.
It is not useless to research the "obvious", sometimes, the "obvious" can be wrong.

Anyway, the research is about the "why", not a proof that it happens. And their conclusion is that "what determines whether power elicits extradyadic interest is not power perceptions alone but rather the feeling of having a higher mate value than one’s partner". i.e. power => confidence => cheating, not power => cheating directly.
Is anyone playing with the combination of generative AI and OpenCyc?
Very interesting, thank you!

I wonder how Apple thinks about services like this? Do you know if this is using "iMessage for business" or is otherwise blessed by Apple?
In my post, I thought it was clear that I blamed the Napoleonic wars on the French revolution, carrying the resulting damage and suffering longer than that. An estimated 2 million French (more than 5% of France's population) died during the Napoleonic wars, and that obviously doesn't include the maimed, injured, or otherwise harmed.
It would be interesting to see if he's banking on jury nullification being within the Overton window...
You can add a flashlight tile in the pull down menu thing. It's not the same but it's close.
Missing from the complaint is “too much” churn. But then it’s boring and obvious. Too much employee churn is lethal to any company.

Not a huge insight.

But if we could somehow arrive at the answer to how much is too much, it’d be something that can be optimized for. And we’d live in a fascinatingly different world.
His and Ramaswamy's roles will be advisory, and specifically targeting cutting government spending. This is not a pro-government thing except that they both have significant conflicts of interests which will influence which parts of government they suggest cutting and which they suggest leaving more or less intact.
Since corporations are people (but this kind of people who cannot go to prison), those tickets are definitely a good direction.

Although I still think people inside the corporations should go to prison too, starting from CEOs.
Pass and enforce regulations? For instance, it's illegal in the US to put a security camera facing directly into your neighbors bedroom. In you office example, I suspect they have at least the same protections we have in the US about recording in bathrooms.
It's a categorically new experimental regime but it's exactly what was supposed to happen. I think it's an awesome result.
> I do think we try very hard to keep it as guaranteed as possible, if something would happen to stocks as a whole the government is willing to pull a lot of stops

As a matter of policy, the government explicitly doesn't set policy in attempt to influence stock returns.

However, the government does try to prop the broader economy up. Rightfully so, because if that collapses you have people without jobs or rapid inflation. Neither of which are good for society.

It just so happens that stock returns are indirectly coupled to overall economic performance, so a healthy economy (generally) means a healthy stock market.
Isn't a simple possible explanation that people who are at high risk of (or already diagnosed with) these diseases make up a disproportionate chunk of the lowest sweets consumption bracket, simply because they're the ones who are actively restricting intake on advice from doctors?

I'd naively expect most healthy people to fall in the second-to-lowest bracket—they're not actively restricting, but they don't have the pervasive bad habits of the highest consumers.
More power won't help you here, I think: Since this uses regular terrestrial LTE bands and modems, you wouldn't be allowed to use any more in the uplink than a regular phone (i.e. 250 or so mW EIRP).

I could see in-car based Starlink usage in the Ka band, though – the Starlink Mini terminal definitely fits the form factor and power envelope.
I read his Twitter before it was taken down, and his political takes seem kind of all over the place. I would not classify him as either leftist or center / alt right.
Well, if you want to go the dark route, look at what happened to that CEO in New York
I think people assume a lot about the system, based more in movies than real information.
I thought it was a customer?
Sorry for the late reply.

So assuming that you are saying that hiring a hit man isn't violent, but the hit man doing the deeds is:

We are now looking at a definition of "violence" that apparently includes the tantrum of a four year old (physical attack with the intent to do harm) but does not capture hiring killers or the actions of most dictators of the last 150 years.

To be honest this doesn't sound like a useful definition and certainly doesn't match the emotional reaction the word "violence" evokes. What is the word meant for then?
If he ditched the gun, fake IDs and any other evidence he had tying him to the crime and just gave the cops his real id and denied being in NYC recently, it would have made it much harder to prosecute. Without any physical evidence, he just looked like the shooter.
Ah good catch, the most astute reader notices that I'm wrong twice!
> For example, the company itch.io previously identified as responsible for the domain being taken down has publicly stated - perhaps honestly, perhaps falsely - that they requested a takedown of only the one infringing URL. (https://x.com/BrandShieldltd/status/1866200019335794763)

They submitted a takedown to the domain registrar. That means they requested a takedown of the whole domain, because the registrar has absolutely zero ability to operate on a URL level of granularity. They can only take down the entire domain.

There are three possibilities here:

1. BrandShield submitted a takedown to the domain registrar knowing exactly what that meant, and is now lying about it, demonstrating that they should not be put in a position of power.

2. BrandShield submitted a takedown to the domain registrar not understanding what that meant, demonstrating a total lack of knowledge and/or level of incompetence that means they should not be put in a position of power.

3. BrandShield did not submit the takedown to the domain registrar at all, some other vendor did, and somehow no one has pointed that out yet.

Obviously #3 is unlikely given their public statements, so let's just say at this point there is absolutely no reason to give BrandShield any benefit of the doubt and their clients should be encouraged to find a vendor that isn't either lying or incompetent.
Spying on foreign countries for the US gov is not the same as spying on citizens of foreign countries and providing that information to their government
Ah ok, misread your comment then
https://archive.ph/60uiB
What is the definition of violence?
It would have been a thumbnail of a magnet link to a torrent if anything

I'd be shocked if someone used normal social media to distribute something like that. Meanwhile, drugs and warez and pirated content have developed a well known, well supported, internationally censorship resistant ecosystem.

Why would you not use that?
I keep seeing this take, and it seems pretty bizarre to me. Most Americans rate their health insurance as excellent or good [1], and even of the ones that don't, most probably don't support murdering health insurance executives on the street.

They won't have trouble seating a jury, and he'll be convicted of 1st degree homicide and spend the rest of his adult life in prison.

1. https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/poll-finding/kff-surve...
The timing was a coincidence. It's unrelated to the release of Bazel 8.
Table 1 in the other paper you cite also has no reference to the number. That's because the number is made up, hearsay, someone's back-of-the-napkin calculation etc.

I'm "continuing to focus on this" because it's obvious the numbers you quoted, and on which you based your entire argument about the 1977 flu, are completely made up and I want you to understand that.

>> That again seems very normal to me, since humans predict the future using the past.

Humans predict the future? That sounds like magic. Are you sure that's true? Are we talking about prior probabilities or palmistry?

Note that it doesn't make sense for a prior to be "your prior" or "my prior". I think that's a turn of phrase that's common in EA circles, where people really have no clue about probabilities or statistics. My advise is to not copy their mannerisms and try to learn about probabilities from a good source, like a textbook or an online course. There used to be a good course on Udcity presented by Sebastian Thrun, based on his course at Stanford IIRC. If you can find it, have a go at it, it's really good.

>> This thread started when you asserted that "every single pandemic and disease that has ever infected humans did not leak from a lab". Exact numbers for the death toll and prior aside, do you at least agree that's false?

Not at all. Besides which the thread started when you used the term "prior probability" without understanding what it means.
Subconsciously, he wanted to be caught.
I blocked whatsapp from contacts, so it doesn't popup the prompt anymore, but I don't even get the "to help you connect ..." prompt either.

when I go to the green "add chat" icon, I just get a list with my whatsapp contacts (not system contacts) and if I add a phone number I can talk to them directly (and/or add them to the whatsapp contacts instead of system contacts).

WhatsApp Messenger
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There was talk on a different thread about potential sale to AMD or Qualcomm iirc
20 won't cover the world; Iridium needs 60-70-ish, and they're flying at higher altitudes, so Starlink would need a bit more than that.

But also: Capacity. The more satellites you have, the smaller you can make the cells they're projecting to earth, and the higher transmit power levels can be (assuming that the satellites are largely power limited), as well as the better the SNR is going to be as you can focus the same antenna payloads on a smaller area.

A beefier satellite with larger solar panels, more antennas, and bigger and reflectors could achieve the same with fewer satellite vehicles, which seems to be the approach ASTS is taking.

But Starlink, as far as I understand, is also providing their "regular" beamformed service using the same satellites, and there you can actually increase capacity greatly with more satellites than strictly required for global coverage (since the terminals can also "point", i.e. you and your neighbor can use the same frequency at the same time, but pointed at another satellite, increasing total data rate per Hz).
I don’t think anything was truly debunked here. Debanking is indeed a side-effect of AML laws and regulators, but as the article highlights, these laws are largely ineffective at stopping actual money launderers. Meanwhile, the vast majority of debanked customers are innocent. AML laws should be repealed entirely. Law enforcement should do their job and investigate crimes, rather than outsourcing this responsibility to financial institutions and effectively forcing them to be the "judge, jury, and executioner."
For anyone reading stuff like this, read Ellul’s Technological Society instead. Optionally followed by “The Meaning of the City.” I haven’t read the manifesto and don’t plan to; it apparently cited Ellul a fair amount and Ellul seems like a saner guide.
AI Boosts Materials Discovery by 44% at Major US Lab
Monoculture was not the cause. From TFA:

"The origin of the Xylella outbreak in Italy can be traced back to a single coffee plant imported from Central America in 2008. Researchers found that the bacterium in the infected coffee plant adapted to thrive in olive trees, setting the stage for the crisis that would unfold over the next decade. By 2015, the disease had spread beyond Apulia, affecting regions across France, Spain, and Portugal. The rapid spread of this bacterium has left scientists and farmers alike scrambling for solutions."
Google unveils 'mindboggling' quantum computing chip
He just happened to be at the right place at the right time with the right equipment?

I know a lot of game hunters who would say that’s pretty much the definition of hunting.
Sorry, I was too dismissive. I'm not crazy about the explanation, but I think you're right.
Check out the PR comments on one of his projects on GH.

> 'Missing Implementation for "Deny, Defend, Depose"'

"Could you clarify:

What machine learning model is best suited for the "Deny" phase? (I'm guessing a GAN for plausible deniability?)
Is "Defend" using a reinforcement learning approach with adversarial training?
For "Depose," are we looking at a classification problem or full-blown unsupervised chaos?

A README section explaining how to integrate this strategy into Halite III bots would be invaluable to the community. Until then, I feel like I'm shooting blanks here."

https://github.com/lnmangione/Halite-III/issues
If you work on "social robotics", just remember that this one of the least concerning of the corporate abuses that will arise from your work.

There is no ethical way to build robots to which humans are meant to, or predictably will, become emotionally attached.
it's impossible to do it safely. open source model for kids!? without moderation every 'hacker' would like to get access. imho, the only option is to sell support as a business to someone else. with payed subscription it could survive for some time. but obviously not for long without new robots ans subscriptions. more interesting would be to have this sort of chatgpt for kids. with some basic robot control like flashing lights. then it would be possible to have several small and big manufacturers making mechanical robots and contributing to common software development.

another proof for 'robotics is hard'...
what is this actually useful for?
Actually, I've gotten some great results with image2text2image with less than a thousand words. Maybe not enough for a video, but for some not too crazy images, it is enough!
Exactly. The only difference is the layers of abstraction.
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It's not as crazy as it first sounds. In the lower frequency bands assigned to LTE and 5G (600/700/850MHz) that are meant for rural base stations are essentially limited by line of sight when talking about traditional base stations.

A 100m/300ft radio tower can see about 40km, just one order of magnitude less than the distance to a Starlink satellite. We know phones can reach base stations at least twice as far away as our theoretical 100m tower because of quotes about the ranges of base stations on mountains. The rest they likely make up with better beam forming and relative lack of reflections when communicating with a satellite overhead
My CEO has been letting the AWS bill go unpaid, apparently not understanding that our entire business and all of our IP will simply vanish if our S3 bucket gets deleted. Zero backups of any kind

I manually pulled a backup of everything but jeez, not good.
I have this book and used the ideas from it to create a synth using 12 GI AY-3-8910 chips for a total of 36 voices. Might have been 25-30 years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instrument_AY-3-8910
> including the fake ID he used at the hostel

I've stayed at that place multiple times, though years ago.

They did check ID, but never copied it.

I wonder how they knew it was fake.
Could it be that the type of sugar used in the soft drinks is different than the type of sugar used in baking and where the body processes them differently?

Yes, I'm questioning if high fructose corn syrup is worse for the body than table sugar. From everything I've ever seen, that tends to be the case.

Or could it be that the non-fructose corn syrup artificial sweeteners are having more of a negative impact as people do not limit their in-take of those beverages since there's "no sugars" or "0 calories"?
Eagle.cool is a cool application! I can think of a lot of things you could track beyond image assets. I have a few friends that work in the prop industry and they have always talked about wanting a way to track props across productions.
This is wildly unrealistic.

Many people have not been bent over by insurance, but that's the less confusing part of this post.

Almost everyone who has been bent over by insurance will still find someone who assassinated another dude guilty.
It is absolutely true that LLMs do not know when to stop.
>including the person she took the screenshots from.

who is that in the thread please? I can't find them
I still don't get how he knew where the guy would be
Perhaps AI will help with procedural generation of environmental details within a pre-built game world. This way the AI isn't burdened with generating the whole scene, but only the clutter of objects and textures - things that usually take a long time to build by hand.

For example in Train or Truck Simulators, I see examples where someone has put effort into making that farmhouse in the distance nicely detailed, but other times it's just a simple structure. If AI were tasked with "distant details", the whole game could look more polished.
That smells like the start of an attempt to get around Nvidia import restrictions
> but the result is not naively going to understand the level of reality the script is going for…

We can already get detailed style guidance into picture generation. Declaring you want Picasso cubist, Warner brothers cartoon, or hyper realistic works today. So does lighting instructions, color palettes, on and on.

These future models will not be large language models, they will be multi-modal. Large movie models if you like. They will have tons of context about how scenes within movies cohere, just as LLMs do within documents today.
They do, when built properly - if the city just builds a few random patches which don’t connect anywhere useful it works about as well as it would if the roads were a random mess of gravel, highway, and “coming soon” signs.

Two other notes: people don’t survey bike traffic and often underestimate it because bicyclists are quiet and take up far less space. Similarly, small business owners famously underestimate how many customers walk, use transit, or bike because if they personally drive they assume everyone else does, too, and it’s a tempting target for blaming every problem on because it means they don’t have to change any of their decisions. This has played out multiple times where I live where it’s the bike lane conspiracy scaring away their customers, never Walmart or the pandemic, even if other businesses blocks away from the bike lanes had the same problem.

None of that says your city can’t have done something stupid, of course, but I’d look for harder data rather than trusting anything “everyone knows”.
Thanks, I just searched for Perforce time-lapse. I will find out more about it, more food for thought.
Do gamers buy the intel cards? Are they good or are there speed/compatibility/driver issues?
I must have gotten confused by "which only got better after they [...] embraced an emperor".
I was thinking something along those lines. Basically every pet will die before its owner, perhaps in tragic fashion.

However, parents who shelled out $800 recently may not appreciate that.