skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a bigger story to tell than just a number.

Is that $1.8B of revenue? Of profit? $1.8B of total funding in the last six months? In the last ten years?

Here’s $100M of funding for a 6% stake, four years ago:

https://siliconangle.com/2021/03/22/digital-identity-network...

Last year: a liquidity event for early investors and employees, none of which helps the ongoing business but instead lets the founders and C-suite buy a private island / holiday home / mobile home / home:

https://thepaypers.com/digital-identity-security-online-frau...

A $275M loan — not an investment, though you get a good deal if they default! — to keep them afloat?:

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/idme-secure...

The only rung deeper into the hype pit would be valuing them as a unicorn based on a too-big-to-fail government bailout.
Is it even possible with BTC? I mean, how long does the transaction take to completely confirm? 30 mins? I guess if you paid way in advance; or loaded up a prepaid wallet.
Yes, the Democratic party is terrible at avoiding dumb issue traps that are unpopular.

But the public dissemination of these positions is very conservative media driven.

Counterfactual: if progressive media had been as dominant as conservative media is, everyone would have spent the last 4 years hearing about government infrastructure spending and Project 2025.

In reality, you instead heard a relentless drumbeat of easily attackable Democratic positions, with nary a peep about Republican extremes.

So, yes, Democrat fault for having those positions in the first place. But the de facto situation is mostly created by conservative-dominated media being able to repeatedly broadcast those to an uninformed public.
Many businesses and residences typically bag their trash and leave it on the street curb.

The main exception is when a building has a managed trash facility, which is a room that people leave their bags in instead of on the curb.
Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’m not convinced the general public thinks any of those bizarrely specific things.
From my understanding, downloading and running software could be considered a form of conduct or could be considered a form of expression, depending on the intention (e.g. using an LLM to generate poetry would be expression). The latter would put it in a category that is covered by the first amendment. I'd imagine there would be quite an uphill battle to argue that using a specific LLM that has been made permissibly available isn't protected in some circumstances
It is getting less less rare every 4 years.
I did, and tbh, I found her bland and void of any new ideas that weren't already tried in the past 4 years.
this is exciting! the mail app on my mac is the one place that makes me feel like its 1995, in a bad way
Josh Hawley needs to be in jail.
Here's one good use: I looked into leaving the US to become a citizen elsewhere. I have about $15MM in my retirement. I would have to pay a penalty on my taxes for early withdrawal, and be taxed when I renounce my citizenship. In theory I could cash everything out, buy a huge amount of BTC, move to another country (within a week, or quickly!!), and then cash it out in their currency. Of course, all sorts of alarm bells would go off if a normal schmoe like me tried to move that much money out of my investment account, because I'm not rich enough to break finance laws like people worth 10x, 100x or 1,000x more than me can do without going to jail. And I'd be terrified that the other country would OOPS my deposit like in the film Blow with Johnny Depp.
I was in San Francisco a few days ago for work, and it was my first time in the city in many years. There's a lot that I love about San Francisco, but there is something different and bad-weird about it. Never in my life have I seen people pull their pants down to their knees and shit in the middle of the street in broad daylight, yet I saw that happen multiple times in San Francisco. There are people whose job is to just hose down the sidewalks, and it's still very filthy. The hosing does seem to be working though, because the urine and feces smell was not bad compared to cities like New York.

Anyway, I definitely prefer data like the article presents over anecdotal evidence like I've presented, but it does feel hard to reconcile experience with those numbers.
This is a very simplistic take.
There was zero real prospect of that occurring, especially with broad agreement across the aisle that Trump lost.

I mean, there was a whole plan around certifying the results of the election and it's not entirely clear how many people would have gone along with it if things had gone just a little bit different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot
More then one person died. That doesn't happen. What are you talking about?
They can still redact the released documents before releasing them. Many of those already released have been very heavily redacted.
oh darn, i just read the comments
> While testing Jeff’s brain, we found an unusual bug: Jeff would play perfectly fine for a while, and then rapidly stack pieces on top of each other to reach the top, ending the game. The bug would usually happen when the board was starting to get taller and would be less apparent when we reduced the depth of the search—that is, looked fewer moves ahead while considering our next block placement.

Classic RL reward-hacking! You'll often see 'suicidal' agents when the reward-shaping goes wrong, or they converge prematurely after inadequate exploration. (Tom7's Mario agent famously pauses the game to avoid losing.)

> I’m not sure if there are good ways around this. Rigorous testing, maybe, but it’s hard to improve your algorithm by observation once it’s not making obvious mistakes. This is, perhaps, one of the promises of using reinforcement learning without human play training: if your algorithm is able to achieve human-level performance, it’s probably correct enough to continue well into superhuman performance.

In this case, because the random number generator's decisions are unaffected by your actions, you can use the clairvoyant oracle trick, I think. Just record games, and then do your DFS planning over the entire game with the known sequence of blocks; this then represents perfect play and is a benchmark for your actually feasible algorithms.
the only reason the ban came down was AIPAC was not able to get them to ban or silent ban pro Palestine sentiment and voices like facebook etc do.They were wary of it before but suddenly a bill banning gets passed in days something that normally takes months
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>why does the US operate at a deficit?

are you talking about a trade deficit (the US operated at a trade deficit virtually the entire time it grew from 13 former colonies to the post WWII economic colossus. Lending money to a growing economy so it can turn around and purchase the equipment you are selling which it will use to be more productive is the secret sauce of a growing economy)

or are you talking about a budget deficit? many countries around the world operate with budget deficits; "socialist" governments generally have higher deficits as they spend to maintain living standards whether the economy justifies it or not. The size of the deficit (they will grow all the time) does not matter, what matters is "as a %age of GDP".

none of this, btw, has much to do with monetary policy, the maintenance of the currency.

"strong" or "weak" currency really makes no difference. The strength/weakness of the currency how the books are balanced after the fact of what has happened in the actual economy. A country with a strong currency will find imports inexpensive, and will have trouble selling its goods, and citizens will be incented to buy imports. A country with a weak currency will have difficulty importing goods, but will have less trouble exporting. It's the currency that balances these books.
fair point, its just not common, thats why i said 'kinda' giveaways.
It's just a symbolic order, won't actually lead to anything important being released because the agencies have the authority to reject whatever they want. Many of the files have already been destroyed anyways.

See:

Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed
to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency,
or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and
subject to the availability of appropriations.
Perhaps … except for the "believe it or not, straight to jail" part of the proposed law?
Yeah, it's true. Old games like gameboy and NES tetris (either flavor), and the Atari arcaee machine were one piece at a time random, and not particularly evenly distributed either.
Thats deflation, which makes for a poor tender, albeit attractive asset (less of volatility)
There’s a difference between mocking the general function of government employees and specifically calling for violence against individual engineers.
I think they were making a joke about "liquid" assets, i.e. oil is liquid.
That's easily the plan. The more there are competitors or enemies, the more he can point his finger at something real not faked.
What do you call someone who bought a pizza with BTC last year? Paper hands? Shouldn’t they have hodled and not had pizza? How can this be a currency.
That's still shares of a company, isn't it?
These 5 people are our employees. We pay them with our tax dollars to assist in delivering services to ourselves and our fellow citizens. Unless secrecy is a distinct function of the service they deliver, I expect their names to be public. Transparency and accountability is owed to the taxpayer, if that's not acceptable to people then they are free to lend their talents to the private sector instead.
An actor can emulate the communication style of judicial decision language, sure.

But the cost of a wrong answer (wrongful conviction) exceeds a threshold of ethical use.

> We try prompt engineering techniques to spur the LLM to act more like human judges, but with no success. “Judge AI” is a formalist judge, not a human judge.

From "Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37451642 :

> From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038440 :

>> Awesome-legal-nlp links to benchmarks like LexGLUE and FairLex but not yet LegalBench; in re: AI alignment and ethics / regional law

>> A "who hath done it" exercise

>> "For each of these things, tell me whether Gdo, Others, or You did it"

AI should never be judge, jury, and executioner.
I believe patio11 probably does this to satisfy his own ethics rather than as a strict necessity

Edit: and I see downstream he has an answer
The I will write spurious comments without fully understanding the situation club?

How many people here think they could write a direct tax filing program that doesn't cost 10+ million dollars?

What I would like from the comment sectection is how would you implement this system more effectively not a bunch of NPC elon bad comments.

What's the purpose of these whining comments? When will chatgpt replace these people or has that already occurred?
The debates on the amendment make it clear that Congress believed the 14th extended to the children of outright criminals.

Indeed, one of the Senators (Cowan) against the amendment feared millions of invaders who settle as trespassers leading to a loss of control over immigration due to the amendment.

It is simply impossible to read the debate and argue that Congress' understanding of the amendment didn't include exactly the group people today are trying to exclude.

https://www.justfacts.com/document/1866_birthright_citizensh...
how do you differentiate this from your own rightwards-shifting views?
We could introduce g-strings instead.
These weren't that hard to find, so I think probably a lot of people know about them, even though I didn't:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NFA/comments/n4dpm7/the_atf_outlawe...

https://ideatransfuser.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/from-lobster...

https://fourwheelinsider.com/toyota-hilux-united-states/

You can't possibly be unaware of the Waco mass killing if you are confusing the US electorate with the general public.
If he frees up a significant fraction of budget while making the government better and more effective, and not doing anything illegal or wrong, then yes, I'd be happy to eat my words!

Thing is, I checked my twitter feed for the first time in a month, and was recommended Alex Jones, so I can predict how well DOGE is going to work out pretty accurately.
i will vote for whichever party reforms entitlements and raises taxes, especially less distortionary taxes like on inheritance, property, and consumption.
It was probably always a game. Explaining the difference between downloading the weights and using the website hosted in china is beyond our collective scope of interest/attention, and that's probably a bit worrying. The Crown would call Franklin intellectually bankrupt but here we are.
> Been quite a while longer since there was war inside the US than war inside inEurope

Maybe you need to look up why the EU exists in the first place. Way back when it was called the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). There haven't been any wars between member countries since it's foundation, so I think it's working pretty well, actually.
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its not that people around the hate America because it is giving out the aid.

it is because America's military industrial complex and decades of forever wars caused unimaginable death and suffering to people around the world (+add ~15 Trillion in national debt borrowed on behalf of taxpayers and transferred to Lockheed and friends, with absolutely nothing to show for it).
Have you ever heard of X dot com?
Reddit has been in a state of hysteria for the past couple of weeks. You’re right that the overall leaning hasn’t changed much, but it was never this crazy, even during Trump’s first term.

It’s a nonstop barrage of nazi labels, overblown news, and comments that “hint” at more direct involvement and violence.

It's so weird that I've even started to doubt whether most of those comments are from real people.
5 names are causing untold damage on the federal government. It isn't "doxxing" that we all know about Fauchi because of COVID.

These aren't low level federal employees doing menial work with the Medicare claims.
Maybe they put the cart before the horse. I understand some countries in Africa are having wonderful success with e-wallets. Perhaps El Salvador should have started with e-wallets before crypto to acclimatize the population.
You still have to explain the magic bullet impossibilities, fully intact bullet on the stretcher, Oswald as known CIA asset (CIA reports show this), etc.

None of this is really explainable by the official story.
The numbers are collected by the police, so somewhat tautologically, if they are too understaffed to collect police reports, crime stats go down.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/mark-zuckerberg-pi...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-elon-musk-uses-his...
Not for nothing, but I applied a couple of years ago with similarly almost-perfect but not-customer-facing app experience, and all the other qualifications they were looking for, and was rejected with no followup, not even an initial screen.

Normally I wouldn't care, but it sticks in my memory and has soured me on applying again, because I don't know how I could get any closer to what they're asking for without literally working the job they have posted. It makes me think perhaps the posting is not accurate or complete in some way.

I was hired for a similar role with a better salary within a few months, so I don't think it was something fundamentally wrong with my application or resume. Though, granted, the market was different then. Maybe I somehow totally biffed the three or four questions they asked.
I wonder what volume of all transactions it represents. I've used Swiss Franc this year but it's a fraction of a percent of all my transactions.
I think its good, but humorously waiting for the conspiracists to shift the goal posts so we can spend the next 50 years talking about the "documents the fed shredded"
Unfortunately, hard disagree. There are input "fuzzing" methods, and I know because I saw them operating in person.

And that would still be in the realm of "robotic" behaviours. We're beyond that point. Hearthstone is a game where bots will do everything in their power to fake humanity, even display intentionally toxic behaviors, like using certain lines in certain scenarios specifically known to mean to aggravate you (hovering cards that will get lethal next turn back and forth followed by Priest's Hello) or even straight up roping.
Hey man, I'm a Japanese speaker, so I use ChatGPT for proofreading expressions. There's no dash in Japanese, so I'm not sure how to use it properly. Sorry if I got it wrong.
Steam Deck succeeded where Steam Machines flopped because of nearly a decade of advancement on the Proton compatibility layer, so the catalog of eligible games is orders of magnitude larger than it was in 2015.

When Steam Machines re-launch with the current generation of Proton compatibility it will be an entirely different story.
Strictly speaking there is a strong suggestion backed by forensic geneology as to who it is, but the Police haven't confirmed it. But for most people it's Carl Webb and not a spy or something more exotic and the ID is enough.
musk holds TS clearance but not SCI
Xcancel.com works great
I didn't get that impression from the original exchange, I got it from the thread I am responding to involving Aaron Swartz being given as a counter-example to the last point, and inferring why somebody would use Aaron Swartz as a counter-example.

Seems I was right in that inference, given other responses to the thread since.
> I dislike cryptocurrencies as much as the next guy

Is this really the general sentiment on HN?
1. The baby in this analogy is not defined objectively. Both sides disagree about which is the baby and which is the bathwater. I can see both sides here. For example, I think USAID is doing a lot of good work all over the world, but I also don't think a country with such a huge deficit should be spending money like that. Put on your own oxygen mask before you help those around you.

2. What type of actions/behaviors would lead you to believe this is being done in good faith? That seems somewhat hard to demonstrate when the other side almost universally assumes you never do anything in good faith.

3. This is the fault of our government structure since always and specifically our Congress over the last many decades, which has ceded more and more of the actual running of government to unelected civil servants who technically fall under the umbrella of the Executive branch. If we wanted to prevent things like this from being done, we should've had an actual civil service ala the UK, which although it falls under their Executive branch, it is not unilaterally controlled by it (e.g. the Civil Service Commission prevents the PM from just doing whatever he wants).

As a secondary note, oversight in this case seems somewhat hard to achieve, given the usual problem of "who watches the watchers?" If you think some part of the government is performing poorly and that this is systemic, who do you trust to provide oversight that might not themselves have ulterior motives to preserve the status quo?
Well, yes. Japan as a nation is a net creditor. Net creditor don't generally struggle when paying back their debts. The question of where the money will come from has an obvious answer. If the US was a net creditor then the story would be completely different.
I can look up every single public employee in my area, and find out what they make. It's not hard to find out where they live. It's called government transparency.
The recurring theme is people will keep explaining why bitcoin has failed and will fail. And bitcoin will keep hitting all time high.
Yes. A "digital fiat" currency, basically. It could potentially incorporate privacy features from cryptocurrencies or replace digital payment providers. Or be a ginormous waste of time. I don't really know enough to tell you which one.
I wonder why none of the libertarians are out on the streets aginst an unelected foreigner taking reigns of the government.
Unfortunately reflection as currently proposed is insufficient to implement string interpolation.
https://chainsec.io/failed-stablecoins/
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise via a hand exoskeleton
Check out YC cofounder matching: https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching

I met quite a lot of ambitious people in there. Many don't read the forums. Tech people get 1-2 emails a day, probably more if in the US. Non-tech might have to hunt a bit, but it's a good idea and you should get some responses.

I love the idea, love food (did a food startup for a year), and love the enthusiasm. But sounds like you're on the opposite side of the world for what's not a remote friendly idea and I've got too many commitments at the moment. Best of luck!
It can work as a day-to-day currency, but it compromises the decentralization that is key to Bitcoin's usefulness as a store of value:

+ By allowing 8x larger blocks (unless it's even larger now?), if in widespread use with full blocks, the blockchain would be 8x larger. Bitcoin's blockchain is already the better part of 1TB, though you can still fit that on a cheap SSD. Imagine if it were 8 and growing fast.

+ Because BCH uses the same hash algo as Bitcoin, but is much less popular, it's at risk of 51% attack.

+ Because there is no pressure on block sizes, fees are very low, which means that as halvings continue the block rewards for BCH will get extremely small. This will result in hashrate continuing to decrease, putting it at even greater risk of 51% attacks. Bitcoin's high fees allow it to remain profitable for miners even without inflation. Miners have to be paid to keep the network secure, and that's either going to come from tx fees or from inflation. BCH aims to have neither and that puts it at risk.

And anyway, there are much better solutions for day to day payments, such as Monero and Ethereum.
I finally got around to watching "The Internet's Own Boy" the other day. He told his girlfriend as they were driving by the Whitehouse that didn't want to accept the plea deal and plead guilty "because felons can't work in that building" [the Whitehouse]. Oh, man, how times have changed.
Definitely. I'm not saying the word 申請 itself isn't used in normal speech, but more that the pronunciation of 請 in normal speech would sound more like an e. So I would rather teach people the normal way people would pronounce words and not the literary form, since as I said before, I also do want to stay away from Standard Chinese as much as possible and teach Written Cantonese. It will take me some time to continue to extract the essence of the language and document it at the core level. Once I've extracted the language it could (and should) be used to create full literary writings in Written Cantonese, and not need to use nor ever learn Standard Chinese. If my target audience is to speak to Cantonese people specifically and not every single person of any Chinese language in existence, then writing in Written Cantonese is enough for my purposes and goals.

I definitely appreciate the feedback :). Thank you!
Ah yes the bureaucratic red tape of going through democratic institutions. Authoritarianism is always faster.