skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who steals money from thousands of individuals for a living won't hesitate to use a botnet either. Cloudflare isn't a payment provider (*shudders* yet), they can't verify transactions, they can only guess at who's "honest". I'm at the losing end of this guess so often as someone who frequently visits friends and family in the neighbouring country they come from, and someone who doesn't have tracking cookies anymore that were set only a few minutes ago, who uses a "non-standard" browser (Mozilla's Firefox), I don't feel like Cloudflare does a very good job at detecting when I'm trying to honestly use the site. At the same time, doing security testing as my job: the customer having Cloudflare enabled usually doesn't matter for us being able to reach and exploit vulnerable pages, it just decides to block you randomly the same way that it does in private time when I'm not trying to break anything. It doesn't properly do the job and it blocks legitimate people based on a gut feeling, and you have no recourse, you can suck it up. Whatcha gonna do, take Cloudflare to court for blocking your access to your bank? Under what law is that illegal? There is nothing you can do; your bank's customer support isn't going to disable Cloudflare for you.

Anyway, no, this guessing game isn't the solution to stolen bank details, the solution is for the payment provider to authenticate the account holder beyond merely entering a public number, especially if they suddenly see a flood of transactions from this one merchant as you describe. They can decide to ask for a second factor: send the person an SMS/email, ask to generate an authenticator code, whatever it is they've got on file beyond your card/account number. Anything else is just guesswork
Across 2023 and 2024 the en route academy pass rate was ~66% and terminal pass rate was ~73%. Of that, ~25% of en route trainees fail at their facility and ~15-20% of terminal trainees fail at their facility. There are ~2 en route trainees per terminal trainee.
Yeah we seem to have rhetorical escalation. Opinions are propaganda, beliefs are narratives, etc, etc. It's a way to devalue messages one disagrees with; they aren't just wrong, they're nefarious.
If you see above, someone is using a second and even third LLM to correct LLM outputs, I think it is the way to minimize hallucinations.
> There is nothing to support this in either writing or programming, at all.

There is no way this is true. There;s 100% chance that no human is productive is uglified JS code.
> That is a subcommittee of the House of representatives- I'm not sure why you didn't mention the House, or mentioned Biden instead?

Fair point, you are right, it's irrelevant, I guess I was just trying to preemptively dispel an association to trump. The committee is bi-partisan, but it did have a republican majority at the time the report was released.

The senate report is of course not the only government report on covid origins.
Most recently the CIA has commented that the virus is "more likely" to have leaked from a lab.[0]

> The virus is not closely related to any known wild viruses that have or were being studied by humans.

The closest known virus is RaTG13, collected by WIV in 2013[1].
WIV took down it's online database of bat viruses on 12 September 2019[4]. Potentially to conceal it's custody of a closer related virus.

> The technology and knowledge to create a working virus like SARS-CoV-2 from known distantly related viruses does not exist- it simply could not be done accidentally or intentionally.

Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance, applied for funding[2] to insert human proteolytic cleavage sites into SARS-like coronaviruses[3].

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9qjjj4zy5o

[1]: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declass...

[2]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-prop...

[3]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363729325_DRASTIC_-...

[4]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349073738_An_invest...
>keep their mouths shut

As they should, particularly the obscene rich who could not have possibly gotten obscenely rich without shady sheningans that _should_ get a CCDI visit. There's tacit understanding that phase of wealth accumulation is mostly over, and if you lie low, keep you mouth shut, behave, you can likely live comfortably but quietly enjoying the misbegotten gains from being fortunate beneficiary of "let some get rich first" period.

>willing to fight to justice

Over what? Peak covid19 lockdown brought a few white paper protestors and negligible shanghai libtard youths coming to the streets. IMO they're unlikely to experience that tier of adversity short of another blackswan event. Many of them are guanxied into comfy enough work opportunities with their parents nest eggs to coast on eventually. I don't really see any particuarly incendiary justice issues to fight over from this cohort except feminists/LGBT and related identity politics, but society skews old and conservative, those cohorts losing fight due to demographics for a long time regardless. They'll be even more quiet, because society is overwhelmingly indifferent to them. Which is not to say against, just not proactively endorse. And with cultural shift west is trending, there isn't exactly going to be a liberal model to follow without rest of country mocking them. Baizuo is a dying breed, west is increasingly not a place to emulate, especially when many international students and diasphora with experience in west is getting CCP pilled after experiencing western dysfunction, exacerbated by anti PRC sentiment.

Everyone else is going to be too busy with the grind like SKR and JP trying to fight for scraps with academic/skilled workforce inflation/overcapacity and eventually accept their lot in life for being statistically mediocre. This is probably where the real discontent will swell, fighting for their share of more materialism. And IMO that's partly why CCP focus very hard to indigenize everything and embrace material model (i.e. not pure profit) of industry - they want be able to drive cost of everything down so masses can buy $20,000 cars that's comparable to a $60,000 car - there's still a lot of headroom of satiating masses with nice things.
> to crash the economy

The quote is “markets will tumble” by which he clarifies that it will be a temporary market overreaction not “crash the economy” like it’s 1929. Those are qualitatively different things.
But...but..but... J hole!
The T is nicer, sure. It's also a fraction the size of the MTA, ass slow, and doesn't run past bedtime. Plus we're barely two years out from when it was often (literally) on fire.

Excuse my jadedness, but at least when I'm in NY the subway will get me where I'm going - and usually on time too
I am interested. Just sent you an email.
I don't know exactly how or what it's doing behind the scenes, but I've been massively impressed with the results Gemini's Deep Research mode has generated, including both traditional LLM freeform & bulleted output, but also tabular data that had to come from somewhere. I haven't tried cross-checking for accuracy but the reports do come with linked sources; my current estimation is that they're at least as good as a typical analyst at a consulting firm would create as a first draft.
I don't think it makes sense? Somewhere there has to be a RNG for that to be true. MOE itself doesn't introduce randomness, and the routing to experts is part of the model weights, not (I think) a separate model.
The offer can be rescinded, those who take it could just be terminated and per the contract they have absolutely no recourse.

It’s arguably an unconscionable contract, it’s so wickedly one-sided.
Here's the thing about DEI initiatives, that many people seem to forget -- it was never about merit (or the lack thereof), it was about competing against racial bias and unfair laws.

The old boys' clubs kept out anyone that didn't look like them. We can debate all day if this was an implicit bias, nepotism, cronyism, or whatever. Take a look at the numbers from the past, take a look at the laws from Jim Crow. People of color and women weren't even allowed to work in some areas or companies. DEI grew out of Affirmative Action to add checks and balances to the practice of only hiring straight white men.

Of course, with human nature at play, DEI has become a way to add a checkmark for a member of historically excluded group. This checkmark may come at the expense of a more qualified member of a majority group -- or it may not. I can tell you as a member of several minority groups, we often have to work twice as hard to get to any position of authority, and even then, people assume we are just a DEI hire.

Now we have immigrant minority groups riding the coat tails of the Civil Rights movement, acting against their own best interest... At any rate, I no longer live in the US, and sitting back with my popcorn. This is gonna be interesting in the long run.
Here is a novel idea. Just pronounce ECMA as a 2 syllable word using classical Latin pronunciation. Ecma becomes just as catchy as Java when pronounced that way. For English speakers who do not know classical Latin, just read this:

Eck-Ma-Script

Here is Eck for those who do not know:

https://youtu.be/cqsDlZAK104

As for Ma, it is the second half of mama. That is actually /ɛkmɑskɹɪpt/ rather than /ekmaskɹɪpt/, but it is close enough.
Your load might grow as your application scales, costing you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murders_by_motor_vehi...
That would be a separate issue, those are not the terms of a buy-out package initiated after the acquisition, but rather wanting to enforce the terms of their original agreements (because Musk terminated them).
Table 5 is stat sig. There’s not a p-value given but the effect sizes are large. The knit place it’s not is the semi-final and final rounds with their smaller sizes.

And table 6 shows blind auditions significantly increased the chances of women advancing from the preliminary round and winning in the final round. However women were less likely to advance past semifinals when auditions were blind. But still a net win.

Gellman is focused on the “several fold” and “50% claims” it made. But the paper shows 11.6 and 14.8 point jumps, which are supported by the paper.
Deep research in chatgpt pro is nice. It’ll go fetch api docs (and github examples) and make your code more correct.

Saved me the headache of manually going thru pages of doc
I don't know offhand what TSLA's stock price is, but I think it's fair to say that the speculative value is at least very high if you believe that Tesla Optimus is at all a viable competitor to Boston Dynamics Atlas. I see much more long-term potential value in that than the car business.

Robotaxi is also a pretty interesting bet. I'm skeptical that it'll pan out, or at least that it will ever reach the same level of safety as Waymo without lidar, but on the other hand AI has obviously significantly advanced and been significantly democratized compared to when Tesla first launched Autopilot over a decade ago. More significantly, I see the decentralized rollout strategy as a potentially viable path to beat Waymo to the punch of a full-scale deployment. Waymo might still get there first based on its headstart and massive warchest, but Tesla's strategy is essentially crowdfunding it while using the market to optimize geographic distribution. The downside is that allowing the Robotaxi to be used in arbitrary/novel locations might be significantly less safe and/or more computationally expensive than Waymo's approach, so it's a more uncertain bet than Waymo.
* WPF: Windows-only.

* MAUI: Windows, macOS, Android, iOS.

* Avalonia: Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, browsers.
I was under the impression that this was the pronounciation that sounded like a skin disease.
Fwiw, I'm not convinced Gemini isn't using an document-based objection detection model for this, at least some parts of this or for some doc categories (especially common things like IDs, bills, tax forms, invoices & POs, shipping documents, etc that they've previously created document extractors for (as part of their DocAI cloud service).
Is it absurd?

The choices for both were Science, Math, English, History/Social Sciences and Physical Education, plus did not attend college for the second.

Math is highly predictive of ATC performance. English is a key requirement due the communication-heavy role. Physical Education is linked to confidence which is a strong predictor of graduation rates.

That leaves History/Social Sciences and Science as oddballs. If you did poorly in Science or History/Social Sciences in high school, that likely didn't change in college, so you would have gotten at least 15 points by answering it the same way for both questions.

I'm not sure there was an expectation that someone would get them both right. Rather having different answers get 15 points ensures people answering both the same way didn't which likely would make the test a bit too easy to pass.

This test just looks like a big five personality test mixed with some socioeconomic and academic questions.
do you mean "Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental 02-05"? too many similarly named models
"Something I could for example give to my parents,"

Not for nothing, Andrej's parents maybe different from mine, but I definitely can't send this to my parents.
A problem with downvoting on many sites (perhaps HN to some extent) is that people seem to just use it as a generic "I don't like this" button or as part of an upvote/downvote war to make sure that their preferred comment "wins."
>That's not really an investigation of Starlink but of the use of Starlink terminals.

That won't matter, just like the falsehood that Musk deleted the IRS Direct File program.
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Yes I'm well aware. I have a 65C02 on a breadboard. I have a 6809 on a breadboard. I've seen all Ben's videos.

The *only* advantage the 6502 has is the exposed and non-multiplexed address and data busses, which you can single-step and examine with an Arduino or something.

The whole setup is going to cost you the thick end of $100.

But you can do that just as easily in an emulator.

And meanwhile with RISC-V you can get an ESP32-C3 board with 400k RAM for a dollar or two, or the 1 GHz 64 MB RAM 64 bit Linux Milk-V Duo for $5. And if you wish, run exactly the same programs on a $2500 64 core 128 GB RAM Pioneer. And bunches of $10, $30, $70, $100, $200 boards (and now $400 laptops) in between.

Only ARM gives you similar breadth, but the instruction sets of a Cortex-M0 and M4 Mac are so different they might as well be from different companies.
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> If I were hosting a web page, I would want it to be able to reach as many people as possible. So in choosing between CDNs

I host many webpages and this is exactly it. Anyone is welcome to use the websites I host. There is no CDN, your TLS session terminates at the endpoint (end to end encryption). May be a bit slower for the pages having static assets if you're coming from outside of Europe, but the pages are light anyway (no 2 MB JavaScript blobs)
Do not touch my baby C++ is pretty fast :)

Jokes apart, I guess that not all is procedsing yhere is also IO and other stuff going on here so I would not expect C++ to be critical here for most of the workload.
1. Centralized control by for-profit corporations (and their investors) chasing perpetual growth

2. Algorithms driving ever-increasing "engagement" to deliver advertising

3. Surveillance capitalism
I'm not sure if Discord has options to fall back to H.263 like the open standards world (SIP) does, but that's the classic codec from 1995 and would definitely be usable on the CPUs of the time; if that's still too slow, then there's always H.261 (1988) which is basically "motion JPEG but with interframes".
OCR is not 100% either. Reading order is also fragile, it might OCR the word but mess up the line structure.
Agreed.

Upper and middle class white women have benefitted richly from these policies for far too long.

There’s too many of them in college and corporate America.

Fairness is the goal but…

…there’s been no real uptick in positive outcomes for ethnic minorities or even impoverished white people.

It’s time to dismantle DEI and “diversity-based targets” because it’s a shield that protects disingenuous rich people from having to actually achieve equity and inclusion for the rest of society.

Source:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/06/29/affirmative-...

#satire
Better how? And by what measurement? What are you gaining from info overload opposed to ignorance?

You say you fundamentally believe in one over the other, but you haven't made the case for info overload, and have even made some points against it (hypnosis, futility, etc).
There is also the router made in partnership with OpenWRT, the OpenWRT One. I’m using one right now and it has been very stable just on the RC builds for this release for a few weeks now. This is the first actual release supporting this device. The device itself is pretty nice with a JTAG header on the board so it's pretty clear that it is a hacker-friendly device. Haven’t needed to use that yet though…
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Still irrelevant to my comment that you replied to; it belongs in a separate thread.

Noone suggested cheap suicide drones can replace the F-35 in general. I did point out that the military has a weak spot in economic asymmetric warfare using drones against it. This has been manifesting for over a year now, with commercial shipping in the Red Sea/Suez. You're quite aware of that. The military has more than one mission, and air(/sea/satellite) superiority with China in a hypothetical Taiwan war is not the only scenario.

> Funding for the F-35 program will not be cut; if anything it will increase.

Clearly the tech lobby's interests compete with traditional defense contractors. Supposedly they are now competing for the same (possibly shrinking) overall defense appropriations. If that is not the case, then defense spending will continue to bloat.
wikipedia page for "Hot to Trot", besides Bobcat Goldthwait, has Virginia Madsen, Dabney Coleman, and the voice of John Candy.

Released in that dead zone known as late august, in 1988.

0, zero, null!!!, percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 22/100 on Metacritic.

Nominated for 5 Razzies - of course, they didn't "win" any.

Don't think I've ever seen it on TV.
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Hope this stays up, possibly the most important news to appear on HN today. Edit: Flagged off in 3 minutes...
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That's weird to me. I have no personal emotional attachment or ego around my work, but I do it for 8 hours 5 days a week. It's the single thing I do the most besides sleep. Seems a very relevant question to ask to get to know someone.
I'm annoyed that I have to assert this, but I wasn't even aware of Elon Musk's tweet when I posted this. I found the entire site fascinating for entirely non-political reasons. I didn't know this information was publicly available.
> not uncommon for a single person with residential fiber to have more bandwidth than your small site hosted on a 1u box or VPS.

Then self host from your connection at home, don't pay for the VPS :). That's what I've been doing for over a decade now and still never saw a (D)DoS attack

50 mbps has been enough to host various websites, including one site that allows several gigabytes of file upload unauthenticated for most of the time that I self host. Must say that 100 mbps is nicer though, even if not strictly necessary. Well, more is always nicer but returns really diminish after 100 (in 2025, for my use case). Probably it's different if you host videos, a Tor relay, etc. I'm just talking normal websites
The people listed do not include seem to include DOGE
I used to read SA to stay informed.
I thought they used to aggressively ban users on custom clients. They even got rid (years ago) of their API for non-bot clients. AFAIK they are currently against their terms of service.
from the Hot To Trot Wikipedia page:

"In an interview in 2011, Bobcat Goldthwait said that he got the script for Hot to Trot and wrote "Why would I do this?" on the cover, to which his manager responded by writing a dollar sign"
> Elon Musk and his unelected minions at DOGE have forced out officials at the Treasury Department and illegally shut down US AID – a program which, among other things, helps feed and provide medical help to starving and desperate children all over the world.

Pfft, among other things
You are arguing against no one. The person you initially replied to explaining RRR obviously isn't talking about RRRing bowling balls specifically. They are explaining the significance of and how to interpret the common way it's taught to reduce unnecessary production and consumption.
Reality. Plain and simple. As reality changes the "protected groups" that we thought were essential to society become a drain on it. Teachers are an excellent example as they have been deprecated for my (and most living persons') lifetime.
USAID is a key plank in the US overseas propaganda and regime change system. If moving further towards oligarchy [0] involves shutting that down and promoting global stability then it may well be worth it. Indeed, it'll be interesting to see if any evidence is uncovered that operations funded by it were also influencing the US. It is hard to see how they could operate without spreading domestic misinformation, we live in an era where communication networks are global.

Although given all the attention that Elon attracted its way it'll probably have to rebrand even if it does survive the Trump administration. It'll have the same problem as the National Endowment for Democracy in that too many people will know which names to keep an eye out for.

[0] In practice the US has always been quite oligarchic.
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I don't see why they would do that. The whole point of training a model like Gemini is that you train the model - if they want it to work great against those different categories of document the likely way to do it is to add a whole bunch of those documents to Gemini's regular training set.