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Re:US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:27AM (#49145488)
The problem with this idea which is common in some circles is that most of the businesses involved are commodity or lowish margin. They likely got built either with government support or before the current margin's were a thing. Becdause you can't make a high enough ROI on building a new competitor your seeds will likely die in barren soil never having germinated. In today's markets the likely result will be increased business going to China, India, Vietnam and the like. If you're talking about banking then the worst possible scenario at a national level is that you're borrowing money denominated in a foreign currency. The adventure after 1929 was a result of deliberate policy to liquidate and let it burn.
Re:Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication b...
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:58AM (#48833618)
Maybe so when you factory reset the device that it sets the admin to something you can maybe read off the label? At least that way the random attacker needs physical access to your space.
Re:How H-E-B Became Texas' Most Beloved Brand (2024)
on Saturday June 27, 2026 @11:02AM (#48698891)
I go to Texas to visit family and a visit or two to H-E-B is usually a part of that. They operate great stores, they treat their employees well (several family members have worked there) and they have great products. I love my local grocery store where I shop but H-E-B is pretty much next level.
Re:Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic d...
on Thursday June 18, 2026 @10:10AM (#48585650)
Is the new Outlook client a JS/Electron app?
Re:Squillions – two books about money-laundering
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @12:23PM (#48372383)
I don't understand what is meant by "hardly possible with crypto." I've been hearing that for a long time but I've also heard so many stories about theft of crypto assets and seizures by government. In the US that seems to have slowed to near nothing with the current administration but it doesn't seem to be a capability issue. Or maybe I misunderstand you or the situation?
Re:Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:59PM (#48251459)
Make the police officer like the Doctor pay for their own insurance.
Re:I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @10:53PM (#48175115)
I'd love to hear of any currently available commerical C compiler which has that level of issues. I would bet you'll be hard pressed to find one. C compilation is a quite thoroughly solved problem. In any case please provide an example.
Re:I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @11:59AM (#48123642)
I wish I believed that they have to go to the FISA court for much of anything any more. Instead they go to Palantir and the like which simply buy the data and aggregate it. Very similar to the process of money laundering. And for the data that can't be bought there's the five eyes work around.
Re:Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
on Sunday March 29, 2026 @09:57AM (#47563193)
p is not p-hacking. p-hacking is when instead of making a hypothesis and then looking for a correlation instead you look at the data and see if there are any correlations to be found. The problem with the second is if there are lots of possibilities it's much more likely that you will find a spurious correlation. That happens because the sample distribution is not the population distribution. And in fact in complicated data sets it's more likely that if you look at everything that you'll find spurious correlations than not. In social sciences these days people often register their hypothesis before running the study to prevent p-hacking and reduce the possibility of spurious correlation.
Re:Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green (2025)
on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:55PM (#47546021)
Uh, I think they didn't use WW2 surplus anything when they build Oak Ridge and Hanford before the end of WW2. I also think given that those two plants were key bits of the Manhattan Project that they didn't cheap out on anything. And the color dude was in fact hired by DuPont who built those two plants and adopted his theories because they increased measured factory productivity and safety. Lastly the OG dude in the article was not an engineer. In fact he was an art school dropout who was very interested in color. So no on the no.
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:40PM (#46980597)
Or is this PM and executive management aiming for the no and low code users? That would fit the zeitgeist especially in the tech C level and their sales pitch to non-tech C levels.
Re:A lot of population numbers are fake
on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:45AM (#46812636)
I suspect they'll just replace the old recommendations with new ones.
Re:Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923)
on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @11:45PM (#46451384)
Supposedly this is a roman a clef about Jesse Livermore's career. There's a lot of stuff in this book that makes sense of markets in ways that pretty much no other investing book I've ever read does. Some what I remember are bucket shops, tape sense, marketing campaigns for new stocks, risk of ruin (Livermore went bust over and over), and what amounts to compulsive gambling.
Re:Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
on Sunday November 02, 2025 @12:18PM (#45791832)
None of this is about an end user in the sense of the user of an LLM. This is aimed at the prospective user of a training framework which implements backpropagation at a high level of abstraction. As such it draws attention to training problems which arise inside the black box in order to motivate learning what is inside that box. There aren't any ML engineers who shouldn't know all about single layer perceptrons I think, and that makes for a nice analogy to real life issues in using SGD and backpropagation for ML training.
Re:How Well Does the Money Laundering Control System Work?
on Thursday August 21, 2025 @06:38PM (#44978966)
C'mon, moving money is not a crime but moving money that has been illegally obtained is a crime (drugs, prostitution, illegal sports book,...) as is concealing the source or target of money sent to terrorist organizations and yes it makes certain things harder than they used to be for the rest of us.
Re:GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the wor...
on Saturday August 09, 2025 @08:56PM (#44851865)
And even if it's not locked down hard how do you separate the signal from the noise with all the ai generated blah blah blah.
Re:Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels
on Thursday August 07, 2025 @09:18PM (#44832348)
Not quite the same thing but some non-negligable percentage of ads I see on Facebook are outright scams which purport to be selling musical instruments at a 'markdown'. First guitars supposedly from the Sam Ash bankruptcy sales linking to an obvious fake site and more lately 'free' giveaways of high end Gibson acoustic guitars. When I've reported them I got the feedback that it didn't violate community standards, but my insta account got perma-banned when I posted the original of a song on youtube from 1928 on a thread which started with a cover from 30 years ago. That was considered spam.
Re:Huawei's star AI model was built on burnout and plagiarism
on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @07:22PM (#44576964)
I'm pretty sure I've seen that openai was complaining about one of their customers doing exactly that a couple of years ago. Yes, here https://aibusiness.com/nlp/tiktok-parent-allegedly-used-open...
Re:Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense ...
on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:31PM (#44567038)
I know this is likely in the pipeline anyway and maybey not covered by this news but now we have the prospect of agentic llms hallucinating enemies and a digital finger on the trigger.
Re:Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate work...
on Sunday July 13, 2025 @04:06PM (#44553232)
American capitalism in the 2020s is no such thing. It's goosing this quarters numbers so the management can get their incentive bonuses and stock and buying buying business advantage from the legislature.
It's all in Adam Smith and economic history.
Re:Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]
on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:13PM (#44538110)
The platforms I've seen live on top of kubernetes so I'm afraid it is possible. nvidia-docker, all the cuda libraries and drivers, nccl, vllm,... Large scale distributed training and inference are complicated beasties and the orchestration for them is too.
Re:Surprises in Logic (2016)
on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @01:43PM (#43764579)
I would have thought that the proof shows this problem is unavoidable. How in your view do we avoid this problem?
Re:You Commit Three Felonies a Day (2013)
on Sunday April 20, 2025 @11:34AM (#43744445)
The feds don’t generally indict unless it’s a slam dunk. That means two things. Lots of people walk and they will go after someone if they have the evidence. As a small investor I’m glad they get at least a few. Insider trading is a kind of stealing where the victims don’t generally even know they’ve been robbed and at the high end the amounts are large.
Re:Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?
on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:26PM (#43483946)
There are laws about this sort of thing that have severe penalties attached. When I was in the Navy handling encryption gear I had to sign a paper that stated that I understood that compromise of the secrets I'd been entrusted with could lead to the death penalty. Are you saying that shouldn't be true? Or shouldn't be true for people above a certain level?
Are you claiming that Signal running on consumer iPhone and Android devices where Pegasys and 0-days are for sale is secure?
Are you claiming that it's secure to conduct classified business on a platform where you can add anyone to the conversation without the appropriate documented approvals?
Re:TurboWarp – Run Scratch projects faster
on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:43PM (#43262452)
This thing compiles scratch to Javascript with a claimed 10 to 100 speedup. Here's a bit from the docs on how it works. https://docs.turbowarp.org/how
And here's the source. https://github.com/TurboWarp/
From the doc and a quick glance at the repo it looks like it's scratch modified to compile to javascript. No surprise that you can't live edit, at least not for now.
Re:LLMs Can Teach Themselves to Better Predict the Future
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:31PM (#43018641)
We're killing millions of chickens in the US mostly so that other chickens don't get the flu. It kills a lot of them and it's making dairy cattle sick too. It's also worth noting that the Spanish flu in 1918 which probably came from pigs killed an estimated 50 million people so it's not like being concerned about an avian flu mutating so that it could infect people isn't a legitimate concern. So no. It's not a cold.
Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works
on Friday February 07, 2025 @04:48PM (#42977885)
I came here to say this. I know someone who had one dose of ketamine for PTSD after a terrible fire. Worked like magic, but being a regular ketamine user is mind altering in a way that isn't good. These days there are quite a few people who are getting ketamine through a doctor on a weekly basis. John C Lilly was a regular ketamine user and his crazy-seeming thinking and writing later in life is an example to avoid and consider.
Re:I don't like Docker or Podman
on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:04PM (#42835194)
It may be easier to run apt-get install or yum install as a user but having done both I'd say that creating new OS level distro packages is a lot harder work than Dockerfiles to setup and is likely to run only on the specific system for which it was built and will need to be rebuilt and maybe modified every time you upgrade the OS. Docker images will run pretty much everywhere and tend to stay stable for a long time modulo security upgrades. Distro packaging is great for managing things that come with a distro where all the spec files are already written. That's likely not your webapp. Plus it's not a layer cake like Docker. That's a huge advantage that lets you leverage the expertise required for the different layers of your app or reuse publicly available base images.
That is actually price fixing and illegal. Not that in the current regulatory environment that there's likely to be enforcement.
Re:The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
on Saturday December 28, 2024 @04:34PM (#42534964)
Here are two papers referenced in the article. This one inspired Bill Benter
https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/decision/1986-bolton.pdf
And Bill Benter wrote this one in 1995 describing his system