skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just saw an explanation for this on twitter. Basically, suppose SBF actually believes in effective altruism, his brand of it at least, and that he is a skilled manipulator. First premise seems iffy, but the second pretty sound, but let us run with it to see where it goes.

Why would skilled manipulator effective altruist SBF do this? He made a big gamble using customer funds to try and keep his business running. This is kind of like his coinflip thought experiment where he would risk the world to gain a second world. His gamble blows up and he loses everything. What's the most effective thing he can do now? Fall on his own sword, discredit himself as an evil charlatan, in an attempt to try and save face for the philosophy he actually believes in.

"No, I'm not really an effective altruist. I'm actually just evil and dumb. Hehe."

I would assign very low probability to this - but it is an explanation that explains, to some extent, his actions here.
> But ideally the comments should be executable, as unit tests

For the kinds of comments that answer the "why", if we could do that, we wouldn't need the actual code in the first place.

> making you read them if and only if you break them.

A good "why" comment is supposed to inform you beforehand, so you can make changes effectively and without introducing extra bugs in the process. Unit tests are more of a safety net.
> it's not open source or anything

GPL3 actually https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum

> In general it looks like the two organizations have a lot in common

Yes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism#History
> But in her pretrial essay, which required her to admit guilt and remorse, Wallace thanked the officers for teaching her how wrong she was to have her son walk half a mile on a warm day in his own neighborhood. From now on, Wallace wrote, "I will continue to grow more as a parent and a person."

This is creepy having to write this. It reminds me of the prisoner of war camp in north korea where prisoners of war were told to write essays criticizing their own position.
I think that both of your arguments against my points reflect a view of "consciousness", as we humans experience it, that is much more binary than I believe it is. (Either that, or something of a misunderstanding of my points.)

Even when we sleep, our brains are still active. They are still processing input and consolidating information.

Even when we meditate, our brains are still active. I don't know why you think Zen Buddhists being conscious during meditations in any way refutes my statements; I think it supports them.

A system like GPT-3 never receives continuous input. It receives discrete input: one prompt, then another; a static dump of training data.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the extant major ML systems do continuous learning. They are given training data when they are first set up, and they may be given further rounds of training later, but they have no ability to actively, continuously receive input and consolidate data.

We do not have the ability to genuinely shut off our brains. Not in the way that we shut off computer programs. And I believe that that continuity is a fundamental prerequisite to something being "conscious" in any way that we would recognize. Furthermore (to loop back to the original topic of "the dangers of AGI"), I have absolutely no doubt that any AI that we could create that lacks continuity would never have the ability to represent a serious threat to us, because all we'd have to do to be safe from it is to not activate it again as soon as we detect trouble.
> SecureBio’s co-founder, Kevin Esvelt, a biologist at MIT, says the nonprofit is avoiding use of its Future Fund grant money for now, except to pay the salaries of the three newly hired people.

I think it's actually two people. When FTX imploded I asked not to be paid if this would mean taking FTX money.

(I'm fortunate that I'm able to do this, and I don't fault my coworkers who can't.)
> Can you explain why free and/or open source is important to you? What sacrifices are you willing to make to maintain free and open source?

Why should you have to make sacrifices for it? If I were demanding an open-source solution where one didn't exist, that would be one thing, but here I (and presumably also the parent) intend just to keep using an open-source solution that works perfectly well for me.
Thanks for pointing this out- I either failed to recall it existed, or didn't know it existed, but it more or less is what I was describing above.
Has someone made a VSCode extension for this yet?
The distinction I believe is made to except the cards where Nvidia does design and manufacturing — e.g. Founders Edition.
> After meeting the founders last summer during their YC batch, I’ve been pretty consistently using the app InFlow, which I described to a friend as “super chill easy cognitive behavioural skill-building around ADHD.” I feel like I’ve made real progress using it.

This blog post reads like an advertisement for InFlow (YC S21), which was roundly criticized for being exploitative of people with ADHD, when it was posted to HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28877003

[Edit: the author has clarified below that this wasn't actually an advertisement, she just enjoyed the app. I'm sorry for jumping to conclusions and overreacting and ranting about it. My apologies for writing all the bullshit above and below.]
> neurodivergents

Can you please explain this?
Try an Evolve skateboard control. Also google problems with those boards. It’s frequently reported to do all sorts of things.

I’m not sure why onewheel is singled out.

Any electric skateboard is equally dangerous.

Even if the control doesn’t make it easy to over apply brakes, cutting power when going at anything over 12mph is very likely to cause “eating it” if in bad stance. Definitely going to be a problem over 15 if speed wobbles don’t already cause the “eating it”

Braking without proper body posture is a recipe for disaster on an electric board. At least one wheels kindof force proper body posture.
It doesn't make sense and could all be lies, but to try to interpret it: they saw that the money arrived in the "poorly labelled account" and increased the customer's balance. But in some sense, the money never got to FTX and was still with Alameda. Or alternatively, FTX and Alameda commingled funds using the "poorly labelled account" and it was used for whatever payments either company needed to make, like withdrawals. This lack of separation means the balances were never really backed and it was a Ponzi all along.
All you've done is double-down on "lockdowns are worth it", and assigned slurs for those who called them draconian.

The pursuit of being a responsible citizen can cause people to find themselves in the red zone. Pushed by coercive campaigns designed to make you not only think and act a certain way, but also spread the message and attack those who disagree. It's fascinating stuff.

"Dipshit libertarians"? Wow. I do wonder where the line is, if any, for those loyal to whatever lockdown rules are enforced. 100 days at 2 hours of outdoor exercise per day? Or are you the ambassador of compliance, willing to sign on to 500 days lockdown, 9pm curfew, and 5km travel limit from home.

It so happens that one of those "dipshit libertarians" who used the word "draconian", is professor Adrian Esterman. He appeared on TV in Australia many times during the pandemic, encouraging vaccines and encouraging preventative measures. He promoted caution and safety every time. But even he used the word draconian in an interview to say "no, we don't need draconian lockdowns" when asked recently whether lockdowns are needed again.

> "Of course we have more COVID deaths than before"

What do you mean "of course"? If you're suggesting everything that has happened was expected, you'd be wrong. Experts have REPEATEDLY said the virus has surprised us and behaved in unpredictable ways. The increased deaths in Australia this year were NOT expected.

And finally, part of the data about vaccines saving lives, comes from the over-represented numbers of unvaccinated people ending up in hospital. Early on at least, this was repeated often, with the footnote jab "pandemic of the unvaccinated". While the statistic is generally accepted, there are many factors involved in why certain people end up in hospital with covid. You may not have considered that unvaccinated people were more likely to take LESS precautions in general. After all, they didn't bother getting vaccinated, even though they were in the high risk age group. So they wouldn't take precautions with social distance, or hand sanitizing, or reducing social events. Those who quickly got vaccinated however, would be more likely to be cautious - therefore stay at home, social distance, and generally avoid the virus. But was anything like this discussed in relation to higher representation in hospital? No way. Nothing like that was ever discussed because they were so focused on pro-vaccine messaging. All we were left with was "pandemic of the unvaccinated", and a large group-think onboarding of that message, the remnants of which still can be found in posts such as yours.
They were very well regarded--regarded as the best or among the best schools in the country--before it ever occurred to U.S. News to rate universities etc. Wake me up when Creighton and Colorado drop out of the game.
It is not - drug possession is a strict liability crime for that reason.

That said if it is some random retired couple with zero idea what is going on and 10 kilos of coke in their spare tire, as long as they co-operate, most gov’ts wouldn’t prosecute them.
Makes sense, looks like a cool project!

Are you saying you don't think your software could run on a 32 bit SoC? That would surprise me, but you would certainly no better than I would.

Edit:

I didn't realize there was CV involved, that probably uses a lot more resources. Really awesome project, I hope the supply issues get better.
“Gold standard” is funny because gold standards have rarely worked and haven’t been used anywhere for years now.
I know anti-Semitism is popular these days, but blaming the Jews for your road’s potholes is a new one.
DarkReader.org fans can now use Firefox [Dark mode] on iOS
>literally insisting we do something we already did
>I try to just own the fact that I didn't make my explanation clear and visible enough

Exactly, I think this works the best. You don’t have to explain the reviewer’s mistake and risk them misunderstanding your reply for being argumentative, the reviewer doesn’t have to admit a mistake, and your writing likely benefits from additional clarity.
That seems like a less bad version of handing out specific items of company swag ("woo, a t-shirt in the wrong size"). At least you can pick something that's useful to you.
You can if you short out the edge-connector with a coin; ask me how I know.
How about you give it a try yourself and post the results to HN? I would be curious what you find.
Biking a given distance is significantly more energy efficient than walking thanks to the wheels maintaining your momentum and decreasing friction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
No. I don't mind long working hours. Its about dignity. The way he treated twitter engineers publicly is very disrespectful. I am deeply saddened. Now I wish he does not reach mars first. That would set a terrible culture on mars.
Dox yourself or go away?

Edit: paraphrased the parent to highlight how it reads to me
Breck, you can't attack other users like that. We ban accounts that do this.

We also ban accounts that continually post off-topic things and/or try repeatedly to stir up the same drama. I really don't want to ban you, so please stop all of this now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Contact me from your work (non-anonymous) email address, friendo.
Except that these two never worked for Twitter [1]. More gaslighting from Space Karen.

[1] https://www.cnbctv18.com/education/elon-musk-rehires-twitter...
I've never encountered a Python installation on any operating system where `import sqlite3` worked but the underlying libraries were not available.

I imagine this is because SQLite is VERY easy to bundle with Python itself. So on some platforms the OS SQLite is used, but on others it gets shipped as part of the Python installation itself.

It even works in WebAssembly via Pyodide!
Sure, I'd do it.

- Most companies are deceptive.

- Musk is truly a visionary.

- When the dust settles, Musk's companies will probably be professional environments and highly profitable.
Spot on. You explained it perfectly how I feel about this.
Heck, even KDE is unfortunately losing features (requiescat in pace, Desktop Cube, I'll never forget you), the days of a PC being very P may not last too much longer.
The important thing is that colors in a book should have more to do with content than markup.
They don't know Cyber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor#2011_hacking_incident

Posers.
Is a leet code question just one that has an obscure clever answer (like use 3 pointers to process the array in time O(n) ) that doesn’t really use broader knowledge of CS?
I mean, for what it’s worth, I’m not being serious :).
Extracting Subset of Common Crawl Data on Laptop
Each Common crawl monthly data consists of ~100 TB. For some use cases, we don't need entire data set. We just need a subset of the data.

In this post, lets see how we can extract sub set of the data from our laptop itself.
That's from the chat at the end, and I'd hardly call that "angry and adversarial", just exasperated -- and naively assuming the person they were talking to cared that "Anthony" had been giving them the run-around for 2 weeks.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ligma

When your boss is a middle schooler
They mention it once... and cover a lot of other things. So while I agree with the linked threads, this doesn't really read as an ad for InFlow any more than it reads as an ad for CBT or Intuniv.

My impression.
For now. I mean, I work for a UP and a lot of the presses are financially stressed. Universities have been cutting subsidies for years and sales are fairly weak right now. There's a lot of pressure to publish more trade-like titles for a more general readership, and less of the specialized academic stuff. As far as 'keeping American literature alive' goes, I think smaller commercial presses like NYRB are doing just as much as we are.
I repeat: if phosphate was so expensive as to make a significant portion of the material cost of a LiFePO4 battery, then we would have long since starved for lack of crops. Relative to food, batteries are an extraordinarily expensive luxury good.
Easier said than done. Amazon is a top-down org, where each pod's (aka pizza team) work is planned 12-18 months in advance through their OLR process.
Character limits & the number of applied policies are all publicly documented https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_i.... Im not aware of any evaluation complexity limits and have never run in to that sort of problem in my ~10 years of dealing with IAM.

I expect you ran in to this sharp bit "You can add as many inline policies as you want to an IAM user, role, or group. But the total aggregate policy size (the sum size of all inline policies) per entity cannot exceed the following limits." Calculating the sum would be a pain as a user.
If apple was security minded, it would allow you to manage the apps on your phone.

For a simple example, you should be able to know what sites apps are communicating with, and prevent some or all network traffic including deep links.
Can netflix be included as a faang? Where does Telsa fit?
Has anyone tried using a forum/bulletin system in place of slack? I'd be curious to hear how that went.
I'm an ex googler, and I am furious.

If I was still at Google, I would have posted this shit on memegen making fun of the Play team all day.

They should be ashamed for handling customers like this.
> low tech solutions that provide periodic distractions, such as pets, kids, or other time sensitive responsibilities

The problem with those is that the frequency and randomness of the distractions makes is that the very possibility of being distracted by them prevents me from doing any work at all[0]. Unless I structure my environment to isolate myself from such distractions for extended periods of time, certain types of work (including all software work) just don't happen.

--

[0] - Like, why I'm up and on HN at 3AM now? Because my little one woke up and can't decide if she's going back to sleep or not; in case of the latter, I need to react quickly, or else she'll wake up her older sister and we can all kiss rest of the night goodbye.
Why Do Forbes' Top Tech Investors Bet on Vector Databases
> And he was way more crypto than he was establishment.

Not sure about that. He was meeting with the chairman of the SEC and was a top donor personally to the Democratic Party.

That screams "establishment".

How many crypto bros can meet with the chairman of the SEC?
My point was most people do cargo cult and that's bad, no matter what. And the notion that you have to go to space to know the earth is round is flawed, as I tried to illustrate using several examples that didn't necessitate traveling to space to infer that the earth is not flat.

After all, Eratosthenes was able to calculate the circumference of the earth with approximately 0.5% margin of error[0]. Since they didn't have rockets in 250 B.C, it should be clear that there are other empirical methods to test these hypotheses.

To reiterate, cargo culting is always bad. If you don't have a reason for what you believe, then there's a chance your belief is flawed and it would behoove you to research your question and prove to yourself the validity or invalidity of your belief.

[0]: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_geodesy/geo...
> They must be incredibly jealous of all the successful note taking apps (Notion, Ulysses, Bear, Craft). Evernote were first, and blew it. No other way to describe it.

Yup they did. Blew it when they didn't add 2FA. I emailed them repeatedly in the early years asking for them to add it citing risks of having all my information in a note taking application with poor security -> no replies. Then they got p0wned hard. Luckily I had my data out of their systems by then.

See screenshot of emails at https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/15930599365060894...
Remember when Evernote was the shit?
Oh how the mighty have fallen
The leverage is the difference between valuation at most recent round and what a more boring company performing the same role in the market would have as a public market cap.

The difference between those two values represents a gap that has to be closed before you're on steady ground, and the gap widens at a higher-than-normal rate because of the growth expectations of the VC money.

Anyway, that's what it looks like to this complete outsider. Companies full of very capable people, pushed to do desperate things, and to do those things quickly. And, like the churn of leveraged Wall Street finance, there are plenty of people who live for the froth of it all.
Yep. If Nvidia can sell their datacenter cards (not even full servers) the revenue is basically 10x for nearly equivalent silicon (>$12k direct b2b price vs $1600 through retail channels per card). All they have to do is switch their semiconductor orders to the server chips and for the 8x servers build some interconnect boards.

The reason you can’t find 4090s is because Nvidia no longer cares about retail consumers.
The author of this article comes off as incredibly credulous... Apparently FTX was "brought to its knees by an old-style run on the bank" - what about the massive fraud Bankman-Fried and his management were committing?
good engineers and good companies both know good engineering skills transcend technology and domain. switching is very much possible.
Okay, so I read the article. So a few thoughts

1) That's a "Meta study" which is a good thing usually, meaning it summarizes results from numerous other studies.

2) Just because one meta-study says something doesn't mean the topic is defacto decided and over. Many controversial topics have many meta-studies.

3) Notice I said since I graduated college in 2010 autism incidence went up 50%. The study you referenced ENDS in 2010. Have the diagnostic criteria changed AGAIN for 13 more years?

4) This article didn't say "We disproved there was an increase in prevalence of autism." They said they couldn't find evidence of that. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

4) We already know for a fact that various stressors including pesticides in utero (or pollutants such as PFOAs which are now in everybody's blood in utero) can contribute to autism. Any research that finds no increase/change in absolute rates of autism at all is highly suspect. Also this article seemed to suggest that all countries had the same prevalence of autism, which would be at odds with very different pollution profiles of different countries.

Maybe in 10 years the rate of autism will still be 1/44, but if it's 1/29 I'm gonna be even sicker of this "diagnostic criteria" stuff. It doesn't seem that hard to get around diagnostic criteria if we really want to -- just make a standardized test and give it to a large sample of children of age 10 (and never change the battery) for 5 consecutive years. The test could be facial expression recognition, theory-of-mind questions, etc.
In Turkey right now, where there are stray dogs everywhere, not only cats. Dogs are typically extremely well fed (I'm seeing a magnitude more fat stray dogs than skinny ones, which comes as a first for me) and they are treated really well by locals. Saw the same in the muslim city of Harar, Ethiopia. In Turkey, dogs are very congenial and will easily follow you/people around for a while if you choose to interact with them, yet they know their place and don't seem to try to enter buildings. Not a bad deal for them. Religious culture isn't determinism and you shouldn't generalize from either minor details from the Quran or contemporary Arab countries, which aren't representative of Muslim cultures through time and space.
Once you've lost your cool you've also lost.... so take as much as you can!
I wouldn't call a neural net an algorithm, it works distinctly different from what is usually meant by that.
So it appears you don't understand what a donor advised fund is, and how that hides the way the money is used. Charities have strict financial disclosures on how their money is used, with the one exception being donations they make to a donor advised fund like the Tides Foundation which can be directed to be used for anything, and there is zero transparency on it. I can look at Gleaners Food Bank for instance, and see how every dollar is spent. That is not the case with Wikimedia because of their use of dark money vehicles.

And that's why they are known as dark money vehicles, and that is why they are not in fact just like any other donation. It's a black box, there are no required disclosures to donors other than the fact the money was given to Tides, which is actually not covered under their mission statement either.

Also, stop trying to compare 501(c)3's to Walmart, it's silly and hurts your case.
No, I don't think I will.
Who will I take my Konica III to now?
There is no non-wireless version of the Zero 2 (at least as far as I'm aware). The board OP posted has never been available for purchase for $7. Even the 32 bit armv6l predecessor cost $10 at launch

And either way, as my previous post points out, the Amazon price history has never dipped below $40.
This is what’s known as a joke.
I don’t really agree. The author mentions many books, methods, and apps and that just happens to be the first.
He was in Delaware court today for unrelated reasons, though coincidentally with judge Kathaleen McCormick who would have presided over the Twitter trial. I don't think she allows people tweeting from the witness stand.