skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's legal in your country to pay huge sums of money to your politicians in order to buy influence. Ergo the laws of the country and the actions of the government are for sale to the highest bidder.

In most other countries, this would land people in jail, but in the US it's so utterly brazen that you can find the details online. See https://www.opensecrets.org/

Don't forget that the very phrase "Banana Republic" is a result of US corporations that had bought the US govt and gotten them to oust governments in 3rd world countries for the benefit of those US corporations.
Borg/Vorta for encrypted incremental backups to several cloud providers as well as a local NAS. Some files I don't backup with this because they might get changed too frequently.

Rclone (with Crypt command for encryption) for encrypted cloud sync to a single cloud provider. This is for files less suited to incremental backups e.g. large binary files that may get modified like games, movies, phone app backups etc.
The NBA worked just fine when there weren't ads on jerseys, digital ads on courts, etc. This is nothing more than a ploy to enrich the owners and players who already make boatloads of money.
My TiVo has a commercial skip button. It doesn’t work everywhere, but for a show that’s been in your queue for a few days it usually does. Apparently it uses AI to detect where others have fastfowarded or used the 30 second skip button and figures it out. It’s pretty nice for those times when I actually want to record something that has ads in it (which is rare).
Agreed. If anything he protected Binance customers from exposure to this dumpster fire.
Looks like some of the politicians are re-gift the donations to charity.

https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/15/politicians-sam-bankma...
Has Anyone Archived/Backed Up Twitter?
Yeah yeah, twitter sucks, but it's also a time capsule of culture, conversation and memes.

If some dude decided that it should delete all, or certain groups of people's tweets, are they gone forever?

Is there a redundant scraping of it?

I couldn't find a service that didn't link to live Twitter.
Nope, the content is extremely high in quality. And it super personalized to your taste. It's outstanding.

Still a problem we use it though.
Why are deep neural networks not considered statistical ML?
Is this correct?

Question: Is the dissipation of heat and the expansion of the universe in equilibrium?

Answer: To explain, the universe is expanding, and the expansion is causing the temperature of the universe to decrease. The expansion is causing the universe to cool, and the cooling is causing the universe to expand. The expansion and cooling are in equilibrium.
They actually store multiple copies. They even use IPFS to store it over decentralized network.
But copyright is the main issue we don't see many services like open library or internet archive.
Rest in peace Aaron Swartz
Thanks for the shout-out! We're seeing a huge influx of users at the moment due to so many people jumping on the Mastodon band-wagon (where we communicate actively under @tilvids@mstdn.social). It's been incredibly fun building a creator-focused video community with the goal of helping raise edutainment creators up, and eventually helping them move to control the hosting of their own content!
I don’t have any advice to help you fix the problem but I just wanted to reach out and say: everything is okay, you’re a good person, your company is great, and no matter what happens today or tomorrow you can get through it and live to fight another day.
Nvidia BlueField-3 DPU Breaks Cover at SC22
what! who would've guessed that Donald Trump was going to launch another bid for the presidency.
> "Two" is also just a name for the successor of 1. I could also call it "bob" and thus "two" would not be unique, but I don't see the point.

There is no point, because 2 is well defined.

That is also true of the ℶ numbers, but it is not true of the ℵ numbers. That's why, in that case, it's necessary to have multiple names for the same number.

> The fact is that the cardinal of countable numbers is a mathematical concept which has a name, and can be manipulated.

No, that's not a fact, that's what I'm saying.

The cardinality of the naturals is a mathematical concept. It is referred to as "the cardinality of the naturals", or by many similar phrases.

But it is not referred to by the name ℵ₀. ℵ₀ is a name that refers to a different concept, the cardinality of the ordinal number ω. The two cardinalities are equal, but ℵ₀ specifically refers to one of them, conceptually, rather than the other.

ℶ₀ refers to a different concept again. That's the one that is meant to be manipulable.
Even then It still doesn't add up. Are those employees not liking the $400 and eating mostly outside? Or fasting maybe?
By claiming something is a national security concern, the government gains unchallenged power … is this what we want in the US?
This is rather Snow Crash, isn't it? At 5kts, I can't see how it could possibly avoid becoming a Raft.

Gotta run. Got pizza to deliver.
The idea that you can precisely plan out the exact optimal path is arrogant and fundamentally wrong.

What if the friendships made at a community theater help a troubled kid through a rough patch and instead of committing suicide they go on to cure cancer? Not funding the theater would have been very sub-optimal.

Even without far-fetched hypotheticals what’s the point of saving everyone’s life if they’re just going to spend it figuring out how to make more mosquito nets or whatnot?

People are not as smart as they think and it’s important to leave room for serendipity and random associations.
Iterable Delivery Framework: Chipping Away at the Blockers
>This was Alameda CEO https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qvURq4jaUcA

>https://twitter.com/carolinecapital/status/13790363463003054...

I have to admit the tweet is pure cringe, but I can't see anything wrong with the youtube. Most of the answers seem reasonable if you don't try to interpret in the worst possible light and factor in that there's zero context provided.
I'm hoping the defacement would be more contextual and sardonic, like devil horns on people or changing Coca Cola to Cloaca

Privkey QRs would be a bit ugly
This is the key to the crypto scam. It looks like it's complicated, and you have to be really smart to understand what's going on!

But it's not complicated at all.

Buy some crypto. Convince more people after you to buy it too - price goes up. If more people are selling than are buying, price goes down. Time your exit.

In the end, everyone loses - because there's always going to be more money going out (to pay the electricity bills and suchlike) than there is coming in.

If you're lucky, you might be able to get more money out than you put in. But it's pure luck in gambling on the timing, it's not about being smarter than other people.
Underworld USA Trilogy by James Ellroy
the only way you are likely to expedite processing of any bans/robo-blocks is to know someone on the inside of these companies who can try to expedite a review on your account status. that itself is a non-trivial lift.
-- his NYT article was... O.o

"“People can say all the mean things they want about me online,” he said. “In the end, what’s going to matter to me is what I’ve done and what I can do.”

He has also found other ways to occupy his time in recent days, playing the video game Storybook Brawl, though less than he usually does, he said. “It helps me unwind a bit,” he said. “It clears my mind.”

Shortly before the interview, Mr. Bankman-Fried had posted a cryptic tweet: the word “What.” Then he had tweeted the letter H. Asked to explain, Mr. Bankman-Fried said he planned to post the letter A and then the letter P. “It’s going to be more than one word,” he said. “I’m making it up as I go.”

So he was planning a series of cryptic tweets? “Something like that.”

But why? “I don’t know,” he said. “I’m improvising. I think it’s time.”"

..uh.. huh --
> based on his enthusiasm to invest in Elon's takeover of Twitter

Could you explain what you meant by this?
Questions arise all the time when reading about crypto. I sadly don't have a list.

Just reading the thread here though reminded me of one: is crypto traceable by the feds or not? I've seen people very confidently declare both.
replace "crypto" with "tech". That's how much of the world thinks about tech. It's not surprising people get bamboozled in both.
The audio was unclear. What did he say?
> One thing should completely negate the other right?

Make your case? I don't think so. I don't see why entertaining / not - entertaining and danger to society / not-danger to society are have a correlation.
Whatever tech they've got has to be better than the incorrect conclusions the local sheriff made on my brother's accident. They way over estimated his speed by making an easy mistake. They, of course didn't want to hear about that.

In this case I'm not sure software would help, because bad measurement in likely mean bad data out.

It was good to see firsthand that people who you think might be knowledgeable on a topic are sometimes nearly clueless. I don't thing software can make this area worse.
https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award is a good reference if you want to read what the heretics believe about cat and kill and wc -l.
Question: What is the actual point of a generative text model that emits plausible-sounding scientific technobabble?

Answer: The actual point of a generative text model that emits plausible-sounding scientific technobabble is to generate text that is similar to the training data.
Yep, the Shakespeare text files I downloaded in the 1990s are still perfectly readable on basically any tech device, and have traveled across floppy discs, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, hard drives, SSDs, flash drives, etc. They've been read on laptops, Palm PDA, PlayStation Portable, Windows Mobile Phone, and Android.
I have the exact same fear. That's why I stopped using it.
we should have death penalty with pretty low threshold for white collar crime
Don't you mean convolution in the time domain is multiplication in the "Fourier" domain?
Rewriting as a Computational Paradigm
I think it depends on the circumstances and what you hope to get out of it. If my CEO said something that was technically wrong, I'm not sure I'd even reach out to them in private unless it was actually important. They run the company, and hire people to do X, and while CEOs very likely know a lot about a lot of the different Xs, they often don't really need to. If I knew my CEO would appreciate, and, need to know something, I would tell them in private, but not over the stuff you've seen with Elon. Though to be fair, in some of these cases Elon has asked some of the engineers directly in public first, and then you sort of get what you ask for.

That being said. If I was currently at Twitter in a high value position, I might also take the opportunity to get myself publicly fired. Maybe not in a fashion that is as rude as this particular example, but I'm guessing that even this display is still good exposure in terms of getting promptly rehired elsewhere.

We're in an in-demand field. Most of use exploit it by wearing programming joke t-shirts (again, not the rude ones) in dress code companies where we get away with it as long as we can dress up for when it matters, but I can certainly see why you'd want to get aboard the wave of people getting personally fired for correcting Elon Musk if you had no interest at remaining at Twitter under his leadership.
Well their assets were frozen on Nov 10 by the Bahamas' securities regulator, so I hope you withdrew any money that you needed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/ftx-com-a...
One of the nice things mit radio does is the “track blaster” sub site that lists the playlists of the various shows.

https://track-blaster.com/wmbr/index.php

They archive shows for a week or so and provide a link to listen.

Eg

https://track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=47787
Thanks for mentioning Dave Troy and his podcast!
It really isn’t, crypto has mini enron moments on a regular basis. Any real bank losing $100M of customer funds (or much more) isn’t the least bit surprising. Happens all the time. Sure more people are noticing over time but it’s not done happening.
Bloomberg.com Paywall Not Bypassable?
Since you now can't even read a free article on bloomberg without signing in, I guess that means no paywall will ever work for it?
You should wait for organization support in SourceHut before seriously suggesting it in my opinion.
Either that specific edition is of bad quality or you need to learn how to take care of books better.
You’ll see…
Breakaway separatist republics (with nukes, which brings us to why it didn't work out that well). Think Daghestan, Bashkortostan where there are already problems because of the disproportionate mobilization effort. Some of them are already unsovereign states with all the necessary institutions. There's a reason they're called republics.
The one I have is 2021 XPS 13. May be the 15 model is wired different somehow.
SourceHut also provides a hosted instance at chat.sr.ht which includes an IRC bouncer for paying uses.
You can follow transactions on the blockchain, but the question is if you can tie that wallet to an identity. If the last wallet belongs to a CEX then it's likely they know the identity of the owner due to KYC regulations.

Tornado Cash previously broke that trail using asset pools, but that has been sanctioned now.
> I wish somebody would do a very simple roundtrip calculation for each of these 'breakthroughs' and publish it.

Yeah. Commercial electrolyzers are about 70% efficient right now. So only 30% headroom is available for improvement. There are people with prototypes that claim 95%. It's apparently possible to beat 70% without much trouble, but overall costs go up. If you search for "electrolyzer efficiency" you find discussions of equipment size, cost, durability, water quality requirements, and purity of the output gases. That's apparently a bigger issue in practice than electrical efficiency. The breakthrough story industry wants is "we built a big one, it cost half as much to build, it runs on tap water, and it's self-cleaning."

When you electrolyze water, the dissolved solids have to come out somewhere. Or you have to start with highly purified water, which means a big water processing operation and more operating cost.
> the database that holds them?

But that's completely useless if there's not the software and hardware infrastructure to make the contents of that database readable and searchable. That will be really tough to do.

> and the vast databases of books will be duplicated over and over and over again.

That doesn't happen automatically. Instead of librarians, it will be sys-admins scp-ing shit all the time. And they will totally accidentally delete entire archives at some point. Or forget, and the actual storage medium will degrade.

> I'm bullish on the cloud, if you didn't notice. :)

hehe :)
There's also brutalinks/littr.me/littr.go (single community to more HN like) and lotide if you'd like a similar concept implemented differently and/or by different people.
now we all learn about consequentialism done wrong, yay
Can't say I care too much about FTX's woes. Nonetheless, this article has some janky moments. The author cites an unnamed friend "who is deeply involved in [the crypto] industry" when saying CZ played a master stroke against SBF. Get a real source or at least demonstrate that your "friend" has an opinion worth 2 cents.

Maybe CZ did outplay SBF, but aside from the optics it doesn't seem anywhere that salacious. As was summed up earlier today in an NPR segment on this story "airlines don't compete on safety." In other words, it is in the interest of every exchange that the exchange industry is on the whole viewed as being comprised of trustworthy actors. Crashing FTX doesn't seem an optimal move given the already precarious state of the crypto industry these days.

Speaking of optics, the author also made a nonsensical analogy "more opaque than a dog with glaucoma" when describing the inner workings of FTX. Quite certain they meant cataracts – the clouding of the lens of the eye – not glaucoma, which is damage to the optic nerve.
I’m convinced that companies have have quirks due to internalized organizational traumas that occurred in the past. Some calamity happens, the corporation overreacts and says “no, never again” to the bad thing, and develops practices to avoid it. The people that remember what precipitated the practice move on, and it just becomes a self-perpetuating oddity that everyone mechanically does.

As an outsider joining a company, I find you can actually get a sense of the unspoken history of an organization by all the batshit crazy things it does. There’s always a story about how that all came to be. I’m not saying understanding that will help you fix it (you probably won’t), but it’ll at least give you a chance.
> And there's something about crypto though where the proponents almost revel in other's ignorance. I've had a hard time deciding whether the proponents really understand it (and all of its nuances) or if pretending you understand it in fact part of the game.

You are projecting your insecurity - don't focus on the assholes. Most people actually being productive in the blockchain space want you to learn. You are right to think there are lots of marketers/sellers who don't understand what is going on. Listen to the engineers who are talking about the details on discord and on their blogs, not the idiots on Twitter trying pump their bags.

> In order to play the crypto game you have to learn this absurd set of rules.

This is true - people who are playing the crypto game are trying to invent new rules for how society should operate. This is why some things that happen in the crypto world seem incredibly stupid or useless. People are working with different fundamental assumptions.
Unless the ebook we are comparing to (from the same time period) was a literal .txt file, it is unlikely you will be able to open it on a modern computer without processing/conversion of some kind.
You're creating a martyr that doesn't exist.

I didn't judge the students who go there, or imply such a thing.

My parents both came to this country from a third world country and spent the better parts of their lives working towards their doctorates, so I'm not looking down on people for seeking education.

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My entire point is that the act of paying tuition isn't what makes you 5-10k, going to the school as a whole is.

NYU is a school where according to their own numbers the average student does in fact pay out more than 100k for a 4 year degree after the >30k in aid the average student gets

And so I'm questioning if that extreme level of cost is actually a requisite of NYU creating a student worth more than average.

Do they really need to spend 1 billion dollars more a year than UC Berkley, on a slightly smaller student body, to make students who make near identical salaries?

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At the end of the day no one person can answer that, but I'm highly skeptical and would rather see downward pressure on tuition in the form for cutting off the money faucet that is 18 year olds taking out loans.

If the schools really generate equivalent value to what they're asking, that shouldn't be an issue: richer graduates will still benefit their endowments, better outcomes will still differentiate them, etc.
Right, if you grok the git model then this makes sense. But if you just want to use a tool without learning how it manages state, git is a pain.
At a high level, could a cryptocurrency be used as a normal currency? What would be the benefit of using a cryptocurrency? Is the goal to be used at a large scale globally or would it at best remain niche?

And behind "normal currency" I hide a lot of things that I don't know about. Does it has to be stable? Does it have to follow a real currency like the USD?
I find Matt Levine and his column Money Stuff at Bloomberg precisely so valuable because this complicated dry stuff is explained simply and with a lot of humor. I don't know enough to know if it is over simplified or wrong but it seems correct and is very accessible. It probably won't help you invest in derivatives or understand options better than index funds, but that column is an interesting rare exception to the rule of finance being esoteric and inaccessible.
the ledger is public, so every transaction is traceable. maybe you create a wallet/entity thats not clearly linked to a person. you could probably claim its not traceable with a wallet address alone, you can see its transactions but have no idea who it is. at some point in the future or past you interact with the real world, like say sell crypto and withdraw USD, or start by buying crypto with USD. at that point they link that entity with a person(exchanges generally have to follow Know Your Customer rules), and can trace the transactions to the person through the public ledger.
Humans aren't money-optimizing machines. And we don't watch (or play) sport to watch ads.

Companies can try to optimize for profit, but too much focus on the bottom line corrodes just about anything else the company wants to do in the world. And ultimately, the most profitable companies are usually the ones who make a profit on the road of caring deeply about something else. (Eg, Steve Jobs' - who cared about making great products made Apple into a massively profitable company).

> The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does

A complex system will have a complex mix of goals. Some of those goals will be mutually contradictory. For example, some people in NBA obsessively want to maximise profit, while others are there because they love the game. If you take money out, the NBA dies. But the NBA will also die if nobody loves basketball enough to watch the games!

A healthy complex system will navigate its multiplicity of objectives well. For example, as a human I need food. And I want to get work done today. Maybe I'll take a notebook to the cafe. Or maybe I'll relax at the cafe so I'm fresh when I get back home. I don't let either objective override the other.

The criticism here is that the NBA is letting its objectives simplify. The needs of marketing are overriding the team's choice to have creme colored uniforms. Of course this is worrying to some people.
EU Lawmakers Must Reject This Proposal to Scan Private Chats
In defense of marketing and admin budgets. What would you prefer, a nonprofit where $100 of your donation goes to "providing help" (I don't really know what that means, since money alone can't do anything) or a nonprofit where $30 of your $100 is invested in "marketing and admin" which results in:
- the charity has $500
- there are admin humans around to "provide help" (and you're paying them a decent or even above-average salary because you want them to do an amazing job, right?)
What if they took $60 out of your $100 and turned it into $5,000 (not unheard of if they invest in digital ads to a warm list, for example)

It's counterproductive to insist that nonprofits operate without operations budgets.
In general the ledger of all transactions is public. But it’s like all of the transactions are tied to a random id. So to unmask a person you have to find at least one transaction that identifies the person tied to the id. So you can remain anonymous if you try really hard, but make one mistake and your whole history can be unraveled and known.

In general it is considerably easier to unmask people using crypto than other methods because perfect security is hard (criminals are dumb).
Not in any particular order

1 - Safety, does it handle errors, etc.

2 - Readability. Did the author make it easy for me to read. Includes comments.

3 - LOC. The shorter the better. Too many people overengineer things. YAGNI.

4 - Dependencies. Are they reasonable? Too many is code smell, to me.

5 - Performance, if applicable.