skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does the government care if a hacker stole money from a drug dealer lol
When I used to drive a lot I'd use a mnemonic to keep the plate in mind in case I saw it.
Why would they buy a government sponsored ponzi scheme

Congrats on Binance for dodging the bullet
> I don't know a single modern (new) location that successfully changed the habits of residents from "more-car" to "less-car".

The Netherlands did that (eg, [1]). It started in the 70s and is still ongoing. There were a modest few "quick wins", but most of the benefit is in the aggregate. It literally takes decades to get to a really different outlook/feel/vibe on traffic throughout a city/region, as opposed to only fixing accident hot spots. It's possible, with patience and tenacity.

[1] https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_Kinderen_Voorrang
> someone who's enriching themselves by letting people trade one "token" for another is hailed as the next Einstein

This is the sad part IMHO. A guy who should be regarded as enemy of the people is instead regarded highly just because they happened to win a lottery.
Only if you are nostalgic for that sort of thing. It's not actually any better to use than basically any other distro I've tried.
Incorrect. They have defeated Saudi Patriot systems in order to strike Aramco facilities and obviously they have defeated whatever Ukraine has at least to some level, which is currently unknown.
Crypto doesn't have fundamentals.
> Apple gift cards [...] from let’s just say dubious sources

Is this where the gift cards harvested from scam operations go?
Dialing 411 is soon to be a thing of the past
Looks as non-promising as before: https://cs.github.com/?scopeName=All+repos&scope=&q=gpt2+tra...
> Consider that the wide availability of crappy low end hardware gave Windows laptops a terrible reputation.

Standard DPI displays are not "crappy low-end hardware"?

I don't think there's a single widescreen display which qualifies as hiDPI out there, that more or less doesn't exist: a 5K 34" is around 160 DPI (to say nothing of the downright pedestrian 5K 49" like the G9 or the AOC Agon).
It has been for a long time.

PageRank was never designed for adversarial scenarios.

It reminds me of KPIs like lines of code - it's only useful if it cannot be manipulated.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
And by how much would that have affected the poll numbers?

Or is this just a glib low effort put down?
That wealth is not “immeasurable”. It’s just hard for someone to understand when their point of comparison is personal finances.

It directly impacts his ability to start new companies, new charities, etc. This is on the scale of wiping out the abilities to create fabs, do infrastructure projects, etc.
Thank you, TIL. I really thought their protocol is P2P
> One of the leading types of child abductions leading to alerts is vehicle theft with a child in the vehicle. Not a custody dispute.

"The vast majority of child abductions are carried out by a relative or close acquaintance of the victim, often a divorced parent who was not granted custody... about 20 percent involved a kidnapping by a stranger or slight acquaintance of the child. In the other 80 percent of cases, the youngsters were taken by a relative (most often a parent) or an acquaintance (frequently a babysitter)."

source: https://psmag.com/social-justice/amber-alerts-largely-ineffe...
I live where tornados are thing, so I want a wake up when there's a warning.
Before I talked myself out of writing my own programming language, I used to have lunch conversations with my mentor who was also speed obsessed about how JIT could meet Knuth in the middle by creating a collections API with feedback guided optimization, using it for algorithm selection and tuning parameters by call site.

For object graphs in Java you can waste exorbitant amounts of memory by having a lot of “children” members that are sized for a default of 10 entries but the normal case is 0-2. I once had to deoptimize code where someone tried to do this by hand and the number they picked was 6 (just over half of the default). So when the average jumped to 7, then the data structure ended up being 20% larger than the default behavior instead of 30% smaller as intended.

For a server workflow, having data structured tuned to larger pools of objects with more complex comparison operations can also be valuable, but I don’t want that kitchen sink stuff on mobile or in an embedded app.

I still think this is viable, but only if you are clever about gathering data. For instance the incremental increase in runtime for telemetry data is quite high on the happy path. But corner cases are already expensive, so telemetry adds only a few percent there instead of double digits.

The nonstarter for this ended up being that most collections APIs violate Liskov, so you almost need to write your own language to pick a decomposition that doesn’t. Variance semantics help a ton but they don’t quite fix LSP.
How does that stop them from negotiating a lower rate, but paid upfront?
I don't think this is a "SV techbro" thing. In the 80s (when I was in college), "hacker" had a connotation of someone who built cool things in software, usually outside the "normal" approach. It was sort of the opposite of what eventually became software engineering - quick and dirty "tricks" that explored the edges of operating system. We looked up to hackers as repositories of esoteric knowledge. Long hair and hiking boots were common.

Certainly, some of what they hacked on might be related to security. Or maybe they wrote little games. Or threw together a curses-based interface to the Unix shell. Or some other cool utility.

As I recall, there was a concerted attempt to distinguish between people who exploited security vulnerabilities (aka "crackers") from people who could quickly build these useful things ("hackers").

I feel like the modern use of hacker (ala "hackathon") is actually pretty well in line with the usage I grew up with.
In the thick of it, illiquidity and insolvency blur. But not after the fact.

As usual, Levine put it best: “the problem is not a timing mismatch, in which FTX’s customers asked for their cash back but FTX did not have enough ready cash because it had long-term but money-good loans out. The problem is that FTX took its customers’ money and traded it for a pile of magic beans, and now the beans are worthless and there’s a huge hole in the balance sheet” [1].

Before one is insolvent, illiquidity and insolvency are circular questions of asset value. After the fact, it shouldn’t take someone more than a few minutes to come to a conclusion. (There is a deeper discussion on the folly of accepting as collateral assets correlated with confidence in oneself. I recommend reading the article.)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-09/bankma...
The last redesign (the mail client, not the calendar) is what prompted me to finally abandon it. Each redesign in Mozilla products, be it Firefox or Thunderbird, seems to make them worse. At that point I don't know of a good GUI mail client for Linux[1]. I'm spending more and more time on Mac these days, where in the case of mail clients I'm using Mailmate and am very satisfied.
Ethereum generated nearly $10B in fees last year. Judging by tech industry standards, its actually undervalued.

Have you guys ever even used any dApps?
Yes. All banks do this. If everyone went to their bank tomorrow and asked for their money back you’d see the same thing.
> it is more difficult to maintain different standards of imprisoning (low, middle and high security) in one complex

This is a solved problem. It's really not hard to segregate the various populations. We do this every day.

> it may be infeasible to renovate an existing building

Likely true.

> smaller prisons spread across the country can make it easier for prisoners' relatives across the state to visit them

Arguably true. Tablet-based video visits have changed the workload on family members. That said, the reduced burden on friends & family that don't want to engage in video visits is significant.
Like any good article about a psychological disorder, it will leave every reader with the sense that they also may suffer from the condition.
It would have cost them plenty of money, which I guess was not worth their (at the time) reputation for authenticity.
On some level it's not even Zuck's fault. It's Jerome Powell's. It's however up to each individual to plan for what comes after knowing 2020-2021 was an epic bubble.
> some people did kind of enjoy it, but there were also a lot of people crawling the walls who couldn't wait to be let off the leash again

And what did people turn to? Social media.... VR...

Sorry, Zuck, not buying it.
NASA? Could a flat Earther actually get anything accomplished at NASA besides janitorial work?
But can they hire at least 1 person who can fix all the glaring user interface bugs on their core web app? The trade would be worth it.
On chain fees are usually not more than $0.50 but if you paid on-chain (regular bitcoin transaction) then you'd be paying that (and have to wait 10 minutes for the confirmation). But most transactional purchases are done on lightning, a layer 2 system, which are virtually instant and very low in fees (like a cent or two).
That quote comes literally from the tweet linked in this post
>> If anything this is testament to the failure of previous solutions to popularize it.

>Maybe. But I'd rather not argue about popularity in a conversation about technical merit. The two aren't mutually inclusive and popularity is a subjective quality. Nothing good ever comes from conversations about popularity and preference.

The popularity is directly related to technical merit of it being very easy to start, both to run and to create containers. It isn't "just" popular, it got popular because it was solution to the problem that near-zero infrastructure skill developer could apply. We have countless example of solutions winning almost purely on having low barrier to entry, and docker was just that for containers.

The previous solutions ignored that, and assumed the target audience is mildly competent sysadmin, not a developer that has no idea what UID is, let alone the rest of ops stuff.

And it got buy in on the other side of the fence too, as now sysadmin instead of installing a spider's net of PHP or Ruby deps just had to install docker and deploy a container.

>> Every solution before that required a bunch more knowledge.

> I'm not sure I fully agree with that. Docker has a lot of bespoke knowledge whereas the previous solutions built on top of existing knowledge. Where they differed was that Docker was an easier learning curve for people with previously zero existing systems knowledge.

Well, you got the point. At the point where you need that knowledge (and I'd argue debugging docker container is in every way harder than just having a process in system) you already bought into the ecosystem. There is no initial hurdle to go thru like there was with previous systems trying to do same thing, even if you end up with harder to debug end result.

Just like with other things, PHP got popular because it was easier than anything CGI related, "just write code inside your HTML", Ruby got popular off Rails and 15 minute blog engine demo, Python being just all around easy to learn.
Are you attempting to imply that it isn’t?
“Civilized” replies need not stroke one’s ego, or to be positive in tone.

Instead of trying to treat the conversation as having value to both parties it became another instant for you to come in and moralize about a situation you don’t understand.

How incredibly arrogant of you.

(I suppose you think being called out on your arrogance is also “uncivilized”; once more you would be wrong)
Another example: AI research
Does this number match the debt on Alameda's balance sheet?
I don't know either Steve, Mark or you, of course - but this sounds like a broken dynamic where boss's preference of one person (sitting next to Mark, probably mentoring him) pushes another, Steve, to show his fighting side.

Yes, Steve should have kept things honest. But being the boss, you need to be careful not to pick favorites and to treat everybody in a similar fashion. People are very touchy about how they are treated within the "tribe".

Also, if you identified the issues both of them are bad at, are you all solving them? Being "terrible at merges"... how does that even work? Isn't that kind of an important skill? As their boss, their know-how is your responsability too, are you solving it?

Sorry if I have misjudged the situation, I obviously don't know it first-hand, so you will need to see for yourself if the above is true. There were just too many red flags (for me) in your comment to let it pass... And the reason I see them is that I have misjudged colleagues in the past, and wish I had known better then. Ah well.
There was a comment thread recently on HN where someone noted that the user-profile to the comment they were replying to stated that all of the comments were AI generated. The reply from that account was something to the effect of "accusing your those you disagree with of being bots is counterproductive"

The whole thing was a bit surreal.

[edit]

Found the comment:

> ... As for the typos, I strongly believe little mistakes are what makes humans human. Insinuating other users you converse with online are bots is kind of a bad faith claim that derails political discussion[1].

[edit 2]

At the time of this edit, the most recent comment by this alleged bot is, somewhat ironically:

> This reads like a grade schooler trying to plagiarize something with his first thesaurus. I am disappointed by AI every day[2].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324313

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33530723
China is scrapping plans for an SLS-like rocket in favor of reusable booster
How do you start a Tesla with small bets?
Then your comment doesn't make sense to me. If you designed programs in haskell then you designed them using concepts from category theory.

Category theory isn't just about how haskell works. You use it to design your programs. Haskell is basically a category theory framework.

I would say you didn't get very far then if you didn't come out of learning haskell with the realization of how you design programs with CT.
This is less true in self published romance, btw. My wife saw almost 3x that many book reads/sales (Kindle Unlimited pays nearly as well as a sold book) in just two months of her first self-published book. It's kind of higher than expected but there's decent number of few romance self-published authors out there making good money, often in the six figures, in their first year. In order to do that they often write 4-8 books during that year though, writing fast and building giant series is pretty much required for romance.

My wife also has a day job in marketing, so she utilized that knowledge for market research, writing to market, learning what types of self-promotion works, and promoting aggressively, so that helped a lot as well. Also me being willing to do pretty much all the housework while she focuses on getting this off the ground (not doing an amazing job, things are slipping, but at least we have clean dishes :).

I like to write also, but just silly humorous fiction books (I've yet to actually publish one also, but hopefully in the next year or two), and I'm not expecting to be anywhere near as successful as she is. For me that will likely always stay a hobby (it's competing, and often losing, to my other dream of making games, anyway).
Binance Walks Away from Deal to Acquire FTX
> I am concerned about their near new monopoly. But alleging that Binance is involved in these money printing shenanigans is simply baseless.

Can I ask why you are concerned? That they start charging more fees? Isn't crypto decentralized where you don't need to use anyone and it doesn't matter where you live? I don't know a lot about how all this works but isn't the point of crypto that you are divorced from any sort of authority?
Their website has been taken down (marked private): https://www.alameda-research.com/
When you commit you're sharing with your team and future team. I think it's fair to have a set of agreed guidelines around that. What if you wanted to put all your commit messages as "cnity did it"?
Previous related thread, now pushed down the stack:

FTX’s financial black hole leaves Binance balking at rescue plan - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33535161 - Nov 2022 (353 comments)
I think it's meant to help other readers of the post.
IBM Unveils 433-Qubit Osprey Chip
A newer thread now has the top of the stack:

We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33537821 - Nov 2022 (15 comments)
The ultra-wealthy have controlled the country for longer than you have been alive, so if they'd wanted socialism, you'd be living in it. The ultra-wealthy also paid Glenn Beck to convince Americans that there was a conspiracy amongst the ultra-wealthy to oppress the ultra-wealthy, so the best way to stick it to the ultra-wealthy was to remove all limits on the activities of the ultra-wealthy.
Ex-Facebooker here too, also during that time.

Zuck's response to Covid definitely had upsides, particularly (as you mention) the continued payment of contractors even though offices were closed. There were downsides too. The "Don't worry about perf" also meant you couldn't get promoted that half and there was no recognition for better performance, which sort of sucked for people whose projects had come to fruition (where they reap the rewards of impact). Hypothetically you could get recognized in H2 2020 but in reality it didn't really work like that most of the time.

But look, the big problem with Facebook is twofold:

1. Apple's "do not track" feature really cut the ad business off at its knees. You can support that on privacy grounds but that shouldn't obscure the issue that a platform being able to do that while maintaining that benefit themselves is actually a huge problem (and it makes a big case for Apple acting anticompetitively);

2. (This is the big one) Zuck has no vision for the company. That's the core problem. Assuming pandemic growth would continue (as he claims) isn't the problem.

This first took form in response to the spread of misinformation in the aftermath of the 2016 election, Facebook decided to try and determine objective truth in posts. That's never going to work and never going to make anyone happy. Controversial topics get amplified. But labelling misinformation treats this as a content problem when it's a user behaviour problem. It's your weird uncle posting articles about chips in vaccines. The content doesn't matter. The behaviour does.

But here's the big one: Facebook has long viewed products on two axes: audience and medium. Twitter, for example, goes to a large audience. WhatsApp, small audiences. Medium is essentiaally this progression: text -> image -> video -> VR -> AR. It explains the purchase of Oculus and fits with the metaverse.

But there's literally no business case for the metaverse. Nobody wants it. Phones are convenient. Wearing headsets isn't. If we can ever build AR glasses (and that's far from a certainty) then maybe that might work but there are significant technical problems (eg matching focus, true blacks).

So 11,000 people got let go today because of bad decisions made at the very top that they had nothing to do with and no control over. Sure Zuck has lots a bunch of paper value but whether you have $100 billion or $30 billion, you're fine.
I'd probably suggest --force-with-lease just to be sure ;)
These guys are not actually rocket scientists, what they are doing is not complicated.

It would take minutes to hours to figure out the state of things at FTX.
Nice, it's on Flatpak as well.
My observation, which also applies to finding a SO, is to get out there and do a bunch of different things, and it will find you.

You cannot read a book and find your calling, though it may give you ideas about interesting things to try.
Independent ponzi schemes FTW!
I always liked the original G3 in particular, the bold blue colour and the huge “G3” on the side really make it stand out. Then they toned it down for the G4 (grey, no big letters), and did weird not quite successful evolutions like the mirrored drove doors model that didn’t improve upon the original.
Machine-learning for designing nanoarchitectured materials by dealloying
Related site with overview of broad research vision and additional papers:

http://www.neurosymbolic.org/index.html
yes; actually it's pretty cool because it shows you docker containers running on your system too and lets you manage those if you have any.
How did so many people get crypto so wrong
Down 77% in a year. This makes it the worst investment of any asset class by far.

In 2020-2021 you had all of the biggest names in tech and VC who were behind this, and it just blew up in everyone's faces. You could not have done worse. -75% in a year is worse than even the 2000s dotcom crash. Worse than 2008. You would think people would learn their lesson or at least be humbled by this.
The boards literally say Heathrow T#, I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
we don't have fusion power on earth (except for bombs) so why could we magically create it (and launch it) in space?
The problem is that it has badly named commands
It does coincide with the first wave of labor organizing, however.
If iD drags their feet on approving the tracks,
then Mick is in trouble.

If the contract were instead structured payment
on delivery, then iD is in trouble if Mick delivers
substandard work.

Thank you for stating this so clearly and succinctly. There are a lot of simplistic "should have had a better contract! should have had a lawyer!" etc type comments here.

Aside from extremely trivial stuff (and maybe not even then) contracts and lawyers aren't perfect magic armor for either side.

You still need both parties to act in relatively good faith or somebody is going to be screwed over to some extent.
Have you heard anybody say anything positive about Horizon Worlds?

If you believe that Superbowl commercial for Horizon Worlds is representative of what they think the market is it for people who feel like they are over the hill, the best is behind them, and they can recapture what it was like to live back in the day? (Is that you Zuck?)

I am very interested in getting a VR headset to help with some 3D GFX development I do, I like the Oculus hardware but I nuked my Facebook account a long time ago so it's not for me. I game plenty too but I try only to play games that are fun. (I am a little vulnerable to grindy RPGs, my son will smack me if he catches me…)
But is it compulsory to be so Manichaean? Have you really never seen someone (or group of people, or company) behave well in one context, and badly in another?
Honestly not sure if search engines are the future at all, at least for commercialisable content.

More and more I find myself searching through moderated social media like Reddit or Facebook Groups/Marketplace for product recommendations or local services.

Gave Kagi a go, but it seemed to be even worse than Google for what I tried.
Would bet there are still quite a few of these found in recording studios across the world.
If there's snow plus freezing rain it won't slide off even at an angle.

If France doesn't get much snow, then sure, sounds like a good place for this.