skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am no longer convinced that even that is enough when the relationship is not even close to symmetric. Network effects, psychological manipulation via ads, sunk cost fallacies, bait and switch etc. all mean that companies have so many options to pressure users to agree to terms that they don't really want to. Yes, if everyone acted rationally that wouldn't work. But people are not rational beings. And you certainly don't can't make others whose choices influency you act rationally.

So ultimately when it comes to company-user relationships nothing short of making some rights including privacy inalienable will prevent this shit. That's why we need laws like the GDPR and similar ones in other regions. Because corporations have shown again and again that if there is a profit to be made of abusing users they will find a way to get away with it.
>LTCM lost $4.6B in investor funds. [...] All of these situations are obviously somewhat different, [...] biggest financial frauds/scandals in history.

LTCM shouldn't be in that list because that wasn't fraud. That hedge fund had a flawed math model of volatility of their holdings when a cascade of events got triggered by Russia defaulting on their bonds. LTCM losses were magnified by their over leveraged positions.

A bunch of PhD traders lost their wealth and got their reputations tarnished but it wasn't criminal activity.
What self promotion? I mentioned my company simply to add context/credence. If anything I'm calling out my own industry when I otherwise should not be. I make money from dirty managers... When they are clean there's no money to be made.

Also, my target audience is not on HN.
Alameda just non-maliciously gave their own account special privileges on their own exchange, non-maliciously front-ran customer orders, non-maliciously traded on material nonpublic information (their own exchange listings), non-maliciously used their ownership of their exchange to strike trades that caused them $400mm of losses in one of their multiple KCG-style algorithmic meltdowns, non-maliciously stole billions of dollars from their exchange's customers, non-maliciously lied about Bahamas residents being senior to all other creditors so they could withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars again, non-maliciously "hacked" their exchange wallets to steal additional hundreds of millions of dollars from their creditors, and non-maliciously prematurely unlocked hundreds of millions of dollars of FTT and sent it to binance to dump.
i've started doing some yoga recently and in just a week i'm feeling a new flexibility in my back muscles.

so i started yoga cos another friend of mine recommended it after i 'seized up' my back suddenly..it happened like innocuously me trying to pickup something from the floor..i can feel a pull and im like oh shit this is gonna get worse and i cant move properly for a week kind of thing. and it does. i blame it on potatoes and cauliflower cos i seem to get it a few days after i eat them dishes and lot of sitting and reading and programming. luckily it does go away in a week or so and im like as if nothing happened. but going thru it feels like im bugg3red.

cycling alone doesnt cut it i guess.
Who first thought of the notion of Polynomial Time?
Two things stuck out to me as not very good arguments in this article.

One seemed to be that different moderation standards make a coherent experience impossible. I think this is a fundamental difference of the fediverse. There is no one experience, and that's a feature not a bug.

I think it also makes out that by banning other instances outright, instances will be largely disconnected. I think this ignores that, more or less, people agree with what is acceptable and what is not. And if they don't largely agree, maybe those groups of instances should be disconnected.

I think it also assumes that this disconnected experience is somehow opaque to users, when I think it's pretty easy to figure out that you're only seeing Toots from your own server. I think that's also not a bad thing. Again, if you set aside the idea that everyone has to be on the same experience, viewing the same content, the decision calculus becomes easy. Are you happy with the depth and breadth of the content you're seeing? No? Then move instances (which is easy).

My other criticism is about legality. The US has section 230 of the telecoms act, which basically allows internet companies to moderate their websites, without having to be responsible for what is posted there by users. Basically, the argument that the law will somehow sink the fediverse ignores that we made it this far. The web was allowed to flourish, in part because what you say online is largely your responsibility, not the responsibility of the sites that host the content (with a few exceptions). I'm not sure how Mastodon meaningfully changes that.
Also, typical lead-free solders oxidize in air at their soldering temperature much more readily than near-eutectic Pb-Sn at its respective soldering temp.

That oxide film tends to interfere pretty badly with wetting of surfaces being soldered. In other words - it's much easier to end up with a "dry" joint - even with adequately increased temperature - unless better and/or more flux is used.
I programmed a bit of ARM2 on the Archimedes personal computer around 1991. Coming from the Amiga 500 and 68000 assembly it was relatively easy to program on the ARM. Everything was 32 bit, only general registers and more of them. Also very nice that all instructions had conditional possibility. It was also insanely fast at the time even with only 8Mhz CPU.
I actually don’t even know if I can sue them because I couldn’t find out if binding arbitration clauses in contracts for consumers are legal in the EU and Germany ;)
FTX has stocked up its ranks with former CFTC officials

This is regulatory capture. If you think it's bad for crypto, wait till you see how bad it is for the agencies that approve our drugs.
Instruction fusion can fix some things, but RISC-V also allows for both compressed and extended-length instructions. In general, they've been very careful about not wasting any of their limited encoding space.
But that's basically all medical science before the 20th century
I assume that some of those at least could be fake. Not easy to know it.
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Regulators should have acted against crypto years ago. But these agencies have been walking on eggshells because the conservative Supreme Court is inclined to take away much of their enforcement powers. A lot of crypto money has flowed to mostly Republican politicians who support turning the SEC and FTC into hollow shells.

Ultimately the criminal is to blame for the crime. Law enforcement can’t be everywhere actively preventing people from sending money to shady actors, as much as we try to build systems to that effect. Hopefully the FTX collapse is a reminder to both American parties to beware “innovators” bearing gifts, and for SEC to better use the powers they have (for now anyway).
What I don’t understand about all these doom and gloom articles of the end of tech is that net employee counts are still up compared to 2018-19. Would we have seen all these articles if over-hiring hadn’t happened? No we wouldn’t.

News companies get paid by getting attention. Reframe everything you read by someone who’s fulltime job is to make news and you will see a whole lot of these articles a whole lot differently.
> What appears to be called for is increased acknowledgment that the people who discovered them also, in some cases, held morally reprehensible views

Every one in history held morally reprehensible views the Wigs, the Nazis, the Commies every one.

If we spent all day reading about all the morally reprehensible things that where done in history we would never do any maths as we would be doing history. Obviously there is more history than can be known so what is the point?
+100.

When during a job interview they ask me what was the size of my team, I invariably say something between 2 and 5, and comment that a larger team cannot be efficient. At least, in my practice a larger team was never efficient as a team, and I helped split teams as they grew past this threshold.
Let's say for the sake of argument Euclid owned a slave. Does that invalidate any of the derivation of geometric proofs from the 5 postulates in Euclid's elements? No. Ok. Does inserting an acknowledgement that Euclid owned a slave just before the QED of each proof provide any helpful or useful context for geometry? No. Ok. Are we better off if everyone tacitly moves away from ever learning or touching classical geometry in order to not have the connotation of "slaver maths" following them around? No.

You seem to have missed the core idea of math and science, and confused it with one of those other human endeavors subject to being in and out of political favor. So allow me to clarify. Science and math, above all else, is an ideological commitment to the premise that truth does not derive from authority. The validity of Euclid's elements does not derive from Euclid carrying a certain clout in a mathematical establishment of prestige. Relativity did not supplant Newtonian physics because Albert reached a certain level of control within the ranks of the Royal Society. Pointing out the views and beliefs of scientists and mathematicians which have since fallen out of favor maybe detracts from their respectability, but their work wasn't built on the authority of their institutional respectability in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethean_science =>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analy...
How do you know there aren't many other bets like this on their sheets?
How is that remotely close to what I was pointing out? Property managers spend, borrow, steal tenant security deposits for their own personal gain. Consumers are harmed whether they like it or not and when it comes time to move out, they lose their security deposits to BS reasons and just give up because it's usually not "worth it" to hire an attorney to go after a company for the equivalent of one month's rent.
If only these calls for regulation from the two persons in this interview, could have been heard on time. Most interestingly, and as it's obvious from the interview, regulators were watching these children playing and only poking gently.

At correct time: https://youtu.be/2ozjiX1E7ZA?t=25
From a business ownership POV that's bad management and bad for the business. Shouldn't the owners optimize by getting rid of such management?

FWIW I know the answer: management typically goes unchecked which is a huge problem. Managers vote themselves money and leave owners with the downside risk. Boards tend to be toothless rubber-stamps. Doesn't mean I have to like it (as an employee or a shareholder).
Coinbase has to be the biggest winner here. Despite some odd stories about Armstrong past couple of years, they appear to act like “adults”. BTC and ETH are not going away for awhile.
I agree. I’m curious for those who are still there, what percentage is looking for new job.

It’s like he is deliberately sabotaging
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That was a fun one to do in IT class back in secondary school. That and Doom LAN games.
These things don't go to a single system. The signal is optically split at the
ends and there are big racks of transceivers, each transceiver deals with a single mode. With 55 modes you are looking at dealing with 27 terabits or 125 terabytes per second on any given system.
The whole ecosystem for car sales in the US is rigged, and not just dealerships.

I had a surplus car, researched “fair market” value for private sale versus selling it to a dealership. I was closing up an estate, getting rid of it easily, but fairly was the goal.

It was a 2013 Subaru Impreza with 149,000 miles that I’d have to clean up for sale to a private party, I opted to unload it as a sale to a dealer. Trade in value quoted at three sites (kbb, edmunds, carfax) was $3500. Private party sale was $4100, retail sale that a buyer would pay at a dealer $5200.

Dealer puts new tires on it lists for $9999 and suddenly the three sites list “fair market” retail at $11,000, trade in at $7000 and private party at $9000.

Same VIN entered, same mileage, suddenly the car on the lot is worth more when owned by a dealership according to KBB, Edmunds and Carfax.
Still, do you need to do 0-60 on 2.9s in your 3 tonnes tesla ?

There is a whole spectrum between 0-100 in an "infinite time" and 0-100 faster than a supersport car of the 90s
> Having several years’ worth of experience at a trading firm does not make you a geniusーthe top tier of such firms hires well over a hundred new employees every year.

Renaissance Technologies hires less than a dozen new employees per year...
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Inventory. Good point. Brands use dealerships as captive clients of their new cars. Then they can claim that had "sell" X cars of this model yet, when in fact are pushing dealerships to buy a percentage of those cars as requisite to keep the brand image.
This is simply not true. Their liabilities are in dollars because their customers wired them dollars.
The US did impose rationing and did impose strong government control of production. Factories were told they would manufacture for the war effort or they would not manufacture at all. Production of automobiles was shut down, for example. There was nothing like this in the US experience before or since. However, there was enormous slack from the Great Depression to be wrung out, so US GDP increased by about 50% (!) over the war. Even as women flooded into the workforce, US unemployment fell to the lowest rate it has ever achieved. This was on the back of tremendous deficit spending. Nearly everyone expected the economy to fall back into recession after the war but instead things continued booming (albeit with significant inflation in the immediate postwar period.)
Software is central to Ukraine‘s successes in war
Using a fez (or fes, if you prefer) as a logo for a "Fast, Effective, Simple" framework named "Kemal" is kind of unfortunate/ironic. Kemal Ataturk actually abolished the use of the fez [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat_Revolution
Interestingly, AMD64 has had signed pointers since the start: valid 64-bit virtual addresses are always derived by sign extension, even when the actual virtual address space is smaller than 64 bits. This avoids compatibility issues with future implementations supporting larger address spaces.
> In addition, as ice continues to melt as a result of global warming, the findings suggest hikers—and researchers—may want to keep their eyes peeled for even more remarkable finds like Ötzi.

They are explicitly saying global warming which is the term du jour.
You missed the point. Yes, it's unscientific, (well, not entirely - the attempts given knowledge at the time were very scientific, claims of success weren't) but the historical context about how chemistry evolved is still valuable. The whole idea of why it didn't work is scientific information.

We didn't learn alchemy. We learned about alchemy.
At least you're Germanic then, back to the roots ;).
an enormous amount of our economy is based off gaslighting and manipulation

they can blur the line between honest mistake, gross negligence, nepotism, corruption, and thievery, enough that people who will applaud beating up a shoplifter for taking 20 dollars of junk will say "oh but they have nice suits and went to Stanford" about someone who gave 75 million dollars for magic beans.
Contrary to popular belief, the last paragraph is not always the full conclusion.

I was referring to this:

> In addition, as ice continues to melt as a result of global warming, the findings suggest hikers—and researchers—may want to keep their eyes peeled for even more remarkable finds like Ötzi.

Which is in the prior paragraph.
Sadly, no.

A team of one has zero coordination overhead.

A team of one also cannot have multiple experts gathering to solve a particular problem, where their combined set of expert knowledge matches the problem best. The one person must be a jack of all trades, and necessary a master of only a few, due to humans' limited lifespan.

(I'd say it's a bit like a multi-threaded program: very often one thread is not enough, but only a few threads can do varied but coordinated tasks. Massive multiprocessing only works when coordination between peer threads is not required, and usually they do the same embarrassingly parallelizable thing anyway.)
Right. Tying it to "global warming" though seems disingenuous to me.
Yeah. Nah.

https://www.apra.gov.au/register-of-authorised-deposit-takin...

If you sign up to be an authorised deposit taking institute, you actually have to adhere to that!

It varies by jurisdiction. But if you think your model is that of a bank in one to register as a bank; MAYBE YOU ARE A BANK
Storing money in PayPal was a colossal error, which has been the case for at least ten years now.
Ruse? This is easy.

Rewind and remember all that was promised with the vaccinations. The effectiveness. The long term safety (without *any* such testing). Remember the comparisons to other historic vaccinations by professionals well aware the mRNA technology was new and relatively untested. The Covid jab !== The Polio jab. Not even close.

Remember how masks were required. Then remember the news that most masks are ineffective because the virus is smaller that what the masks can stop? How did we not know that? Why do some continue to push masks, even the ones that are effectively useless?

Remember the guy (i.e., Biden) who talked down the divisiveness of others then shamelessly said, "It's a pandemic of the unvaccinated" forcing an unnecessary wedge between the citizens. For what? To get a jab that does perform as promised? To wear "government sanctioned" masks that don't do anything?

For the record, being someone's guinea pig is not liberty. Being someone's political chew toy is not liberty. You can think what you want about public health and the mRNA jabs but don't confuse your confidence with liberty.

The fact that many reasonable and intelligent people such as yourself have forgotten so many important details can only be explained by...a ruse. But that ok, just be sure to carry your Covid papers / Covid passport and you'll be safe.
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Nim has `quote do:` with a kind of ghetto quasiquoting as well as genAST (and other things) to lessen the burden, but it is always simpler to write boring code (and better unless you have a burning need for The Fancy).

One way to rephrase objections to "all those parens" of Lisp is that the most common style of using it makes it necessary to "write boring code 'in AST'", if you will, and not even in a very nice, commonly accepted 2-dimensional tree notation.

I always wonder how different the history of prog.langs would be if early on one of the many indent/offside rule based 2-D notations had become popular with "boring code" writers in Lisp and not eschewed by "fancy macro writers" in Lisp.
> Some things explode in complexity when you try to force them to be simple.

do you mean to say iow "simple in the small but when assembled (in the large) is more complex" whereas what we should be aiming for is perhaps "a little more complex in the small but with the benefit that it enables a simpler (and probably more scalable) architecture once assembled (in the large)"??
Yep, that's why you will often find holy wars between American and British cat owners over letting cats roam.

By and large, in Europe (and especially Britain), cats have no real impact on anything.

Even the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reckon cat predation does fuck all to bird populations (in the UK/British Isles) and mostly just culls birds that weren't gonna make it to breeding anyway.

The other thing is that unlike the US, most of Europe has no real "predator" like coyotes that pose a threat to cats roaming. The main threats to roaming cats are automobiles, rat poison, and the neighborhood cat hating sociopath.
I've taught maths at a few universities and until recently taught computing at a university, teaching algorithms etc (and am female if that is relevant!). I ended up recently at a talk at the university where they were talking about decolonising the computing curriculum.

One of the thing that I felt hadn't been taken into account was that as lecturers we are qualified to teaching computing/maths not to teach history/social sciences. I really didn't feel like I should be teaching history when I stopped learning history at school aged 15. The course I was teaching covered Turing machines and I'd feel very weird suddenly diverting into discussing that Turing was gay (but he's also a white male just to complicate things...). It all felt like a massive distraction from actually trying to teach the materials better.

I have to admit that when I was a student, it never really bothered me at all that all theorems were named after men (perhaps Noether got in there somewhere, but I really can't think of anybody else). They just felt like names to me and I was interested in the maths not the history. It had much more of an impact on me seeing female lecturers teaching and doing research.
Why... why are you still willingly using them?
Your C++ debugger let's you redefine an arbitrary C++ class in a running program and the existing program and data is changed. /s
I have a similar association between mountains in Scotland (specifically Munros) and subjects of books - a day out for me where I am walking by myself is probably about 1 audiobook long - (say 2.5 hour drive, 6 or 7 hours walking or more, 2.5 hour drive back).

So I can look at a mountain in the distance and the first thing that might come to mind is "History of Royal Navy", "Human body", "Agents fighting for the Polity/Culture" etc. for maybe 70 or Munros I've done by myself.

I do have specific associations though - such as a spot on Ben Lawers that will forever be associated in my mind with the repo market as I was listening to a book on the GFC. Why? Absolutely no idea, but I can almost hear that part of the book and remember that damp steep mountainside :-)
My impression is that RISC-V is more designed for hardware people to pick extensions to create minimal cores only for their specific use cases, whereas a standard ARM core was designed for software people to have more features built-in from the start.

Aarch64 has many op-codes that take different parameters to become different effective instructions, often in cases where RISC-V would need an extension for one of their counterparts. I think a RISC-V µarch could do the same internally but that would probably require a larger decoding stage.
Also the vw/vh units are fundamentally broken, including viewport scrollbars, so that 100vw is wider than the viewport if there’s a vertical scrollbar and you’re on a platform where scrollbars take space (which is still most desktop platforms), thus triggering a horizontal scrollbar. Long ago the spec had a cumbersome and mildly imperfect solution for this, but only Firefox implemented it, and no one else wanted to so they eventually ripped it out of the spec and Firefox and left us with fundamentally broken units. Then they made new versions of the units to deal with the ways in which they were broken in ways that were a bit fiddly to deal with on mobile platforms, but completely ignored the way they were still completely broken on most desktop platforms. Sigh.

In short: viewport units are always wrong if you can have scrollbars, containing up to about 4% of error (though much more is theoretically possible). It is possible to use them safely, but the trouble is that most places where you actually want them can’t tolerate that error, so in practice they’re almost useless.