skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iirc there was some coercion component to it too. The set up was the hells angels were gonna kill the dude anyways and told him if they didnt most of silkroad probably get caught/deanonymised /arrested. Considering the other claims of potential corruption, id say that classifies as an existential threat scenerio entirely created by law enforcement to coarce him into hiring the assassins as a "now or never, life or death" of ross and his customers situation.

Not anything damning either way, bit definitely food for thought.
I'm a fairly junior engineer at a subsidiary of one of the big 4. Before that, I was at a well-known big box store working on a few different projects.

The most impactful thing I delivered at my previous company was a script that moved all of our team's data from a self-hosted db to something on company cloud that was a lot more stable. The script itself wasn't very complicated (essentially just mongodump and mongorestore), but it made a big impact on ensuring that our team's dataset search tool would continue to be accessible to regulatory compliance folks. In turn, the regulatory people could use the tool to protect the company from getting fined under CCPA, etc.

It made a pretty big impression on me that something incredibly simple like that could make as much financial impact in expectation as that script did. Now when I mentor interns and newer, more junior people, I always tell that story as an example of how high impact can be surprisingly uncomplicated.
There is nothing in the premise correlated to the amount of the investment.

Suppose I have a net worth of $900k and want to invest $10k each into friends and family rounds of 5–10 startups. The Accredited Investor law in the U.S. makes that impossible today.

What if my net worth was $1M before the pandemic and is now ~30% below that threshold? Suddenly, I'm no longer accredited?! That makes no sense. The boundaries chosen are indeed arbitrary and baseless, designed to restrict access to opportunities for those in the case I describe.

Salary is also an arbitrary rule. One could make $200k/year, spend it all, and still qualify. But if someone makes $175k, lives minimally, and saves 50%+ of that, they are "unaccredited" and are blocked from accessing such opportunities. This also makes no sense.

Irrespective of my salary or net worth, I have enough experience in the tech industry to evaluate and do due diligence on small deals like that. But technicalities like this in the Accredited Investor rule block me from being able to access them.

Risk assessment is a personal choice. The Accredited Investor rule does more harm than good in this country today with its arbitrary pegs blocking access to good opportunities for those that are capable of vetting them.

Guardrails are for highways and bowling alleys. One can go blow their entire net worth on shitcoins and penny stocks and the Accredited Investor rule could care less. There are good and bad investment opportunities everywhere, but this rule is blatantly random and asymmetric.
I got about halfway through before I started skimming. Interminable.
There’s a lot of startups starting in the space offering transcription.

Read.ai - https://www.read.ai/transcription

Provides transcription & diarization and the bot integrates into your calendar. It joins all your meetings for zoom, teams, meet, webex, tracks talk time, gives recommendations, etc.

It’s amazing how quickly this space is moving. Particularly, with the increase in remote work. Soon you’ll be able to search all your meetings and find exactly when a particular topic was discussed! It’s exciting.
Where we have no idea of how expensive or not y will be, or how long it will take to do it.

Like saying ‘The UI will be ready in 6 months if the backend is figured out’.

Also not a realistic projection.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s something. But the error bars are larger than the graph.
A pipeline approval tool (internal at Amazon) that counts metrics.

I was a fairly fresh college-hire SDE1 at Amazon. And I was annoyed, because I'm lazy. Every time I was oncall, I had to manage the deployment pipeline for my teams software- the UI for the tool used by Pickers inside Amazon Warehouses. On Monday, deploy the latest changes to the China stack (small). On Tuesday, check if anything bad happened, and then deploy to the Japan stack (small-ish). On Wednesday, Europe (big). Thursday, North America (biggest). Repeat each week.

And I thought "why am I doing this? There are APIs for all of this stuff!". So I made an automated workflow that hooked into the pipeline system. You gave a metric to look for, a count of how many times the thing should have happened, and an alarm to monitor. If everything looks good, it approves. I hooked it up for my pipeline, and then it usually finished the entire weekly push before Tuesday afternoon. I made it in about 2 weekends on my own time.

And I left it open for anyone in the company to configure for their own pipelines. A few weeks later I was checking if it was still operating normally and realized there were something like 50 teams using it. Then 100. Then a lot more.

The last I heard, it's considered a best practice for all teams within the company to use it on their pipelines. Before I left in 2021, it was running something like 10,000 approval workflows per day.

I named it after the BBQ/grilling meat thermometer in my kitchen drawer- "RediFork". Given the overlap of "people who read HN" and "devs who worked at Amazon", I probably saved someone reading this an aggregate hour or two of work.
I get that it's amusing to make fun of this person for failing to understand what Mastodon does, but I think that kind of misses the point.

If you like Mastodon and want it to succeed, you should understand that if something like this happens, it's fundamentally a UX failure, not a user one.
FAANG bubble
>It isn't obvious, and I'm skeptical both by cases like this and by the lack of domain expertise of a white-collar worker to be able to judge the veracity of charitable activities.

I don't get what you're arguing here. The white collar worker lacks the expertise to "judge the veracity of charitable activities" therefore we should...

* fly over to africa so hey can dig a well and find out first hand whether it's actually doing good? Leaving aside the massive amounts of resources needed for this endeavor, there's no evidence that the same unqualified white collar worker would be qualified to judge what's happening on the ground

* not practice effective altruism, and donate to whichever feels the cutest and/or is in vogue?

* when we're 18, choose a random field and hope 18 year old self is qualified to figure out which field would do the most good?

>I mean, maybe if we had flush teams of water quality experts in every state with the time and expertise to judge whether water supplies are safe. But as it is, a team from Virginia Tech had to high tail it to Flint during their water crisis based on the reports they heard about lead levels there.

I'm baffled as to why you think sending a team from virginia tech was the best course of action here. Google maps says that such a trip would take over 8 hours. Assuming the "team" had at least 2 people, then that's at least 32 man-hours for such an excursion. At median college graduate wages that translates to $880 in travel time alone. They couldn't have crowdsourced water collection and had it delivered via courier (maybe $20/package) to their campus?
Pressing "t" switches to "Theater mode" and shrinks the player to fit inside the window. You should be able to see the like button and other content normally after enabling.
So, could somebody tell me optimal graphic?

Thanks in advance!
It sounds pretty good, this is my first time hearing about it but it looks good. Even if it does detect that they are separate entities talking, how does it label it in a way that's helpful/useful for you? I guess it comes out as 'Speaker 1', 'Speaker 2', etc in the end? And you can find/replace the speakers with the actual people?
Just a tongue in cheek way of suggesting the vehicles are worth less than the sum of their parts.

I don't know that there's a HN bubble. Devotion to ideology seems to be kept in check by people known for their work who'll occasionally come down off the mountain.

what's the difference between a bubble and a point of view? Is my BoF meetup biased because we're sticking to certain subjects?
I wrote a data integration between two internal, siloed tools at a major ISP. This let me build security alerting on social engineering attempts and successful compromises. These se campaigns were using information from other corporate and gov data breaches to access accounts that had not been setup with pins/passphrases, and going for quantity over quality for targets. Anyone was fair game to them and if they couldn't steal money then they'd resell the access and PII to even more unsavory types for identity theft. At the time, if a caller had the account holder's PII, they'd be able make limited changes to the account. Unfortunately, those 'limited' changes were things like forwarding phone or email service.
They did pool the data eventually and the alerts continue to be used today to identify compromise and lock email/phone to prevent them from being used for bank fraud. The reduction of financial fraud on normal people was significant. My work kicked off a ton of other initiatives to prevent other avenues of compromise as well. I went from working customer compromise investigations in the scale of thousands a year to a few hundred after implementation. Having clear data of malicious access that couldn't be ignored prompted those initiatives to be seriously funded and maintained. Moving from reactive to proactive on these was very satisfying.
Why do we need to assume that it’s always 5D chess? It usually is what it looks like - a man who strategized himself into a corner and is now flailing.
Hydrogen still produces NOx; it is purely the effect of high temperature on atmosphere, the higher temperature the worse it is; so it still needs catalyst and rest of the emission control clown car
> I can keep answering this question over and over again in different ways, but I'm not sure how to make this simpler to understand.

The lack of understanding is all yours, as you've managed to conflate the developers with the users of Lemmy - is it really just them on this alternative to Reddit?

I also wonder why the hostility within a network goes up as the hate speech goes down, it seems counterproductive.

> Think about the last time you were curt with someone - do you believe that it is indicative of your general attitude, or indicative of your attitude because of some extenuating circumstances?

If you were their lawyer or their dad I would understand this need to come up with an excuse, but you're not.

> Can you please collect some other issue threads on the same or a similar topic that you believe establishes a pattern of behavior?

I could try but I already have evidence of hostility that backs up my claim, why would I start working to satisfy a different claim that you'd like to make on my behalf, presumably for your benefit here, when I asked you to back up your claim but you've provided nothing? That makes no sense.

There's something like 10 days to respond to a comment on HN so you can still do it.

> you claim that their lack of alignment with your idea of "free speech"

You mean, the standard idea given by those who support free speech? Yes, that idea.

> makes this not a federated project

Reddit also has servers that talk to each other but won't allow others to join its network that it doesn't control, it's not considered federated either.
I still can't get over the fact that so many rich people invested in this thing and joined the board despite anyone with the scientific knowledge to understand what Theranos said they were doing knew it was a scam.

How to you invest millions in a medical/science company and not ask some impartial third parties if they think it is legit?
Of course you can. As early as 2012, Michael Snoyman has written a book about it, Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod. Yesod is an old web framework by now, but it's not even the oldest. Happstack is even older than that.
Twitter already allows the chronological timeline, though they seem to reset it back to algorithmic after some time has elapsed (or something I'm not sure what conditions reset it and it feels non-transparent/shady.)
How would Twitter demonetization work? No ads shown above/below the tweet? Have no ad above the fold when bad tweets are detected?
Any good software solutions that can do the equivalent for windows? I have systems that end up hanging at black error screen due to some kind of system restore/failure. The only way I have found to reboot them is with human intervention using a keyboard.
Complexity is probably in generating timelines. A clone that works for let's say 100 users would be doable maybe in a day or two.
It seems that openjdk is fine: https://reactiverse.io/es4x/get-started/install.html#graalvm...
The argument is really simple. To restate:

Why should I trust my (or other people's) ability to act to maximize long term good when I (or other people) aren't smart enough to avoid landmines like FTX?
I'm not confident that they will get it right, or that they will apply it fairly; reducing the reach of the boss's tweets won't go over well.
That is a strangely aggressive response - I'm not claiming every single ev is pmac but many are. What sort of motor do you think a Tesla model 3 uses, for example?

Even considering that, induction motors also have an efficiency curve which is the point I'm making. If you care about efficiency motors have a sweet spot. Sometimes you care a lot about that, sometimes not.
I wonder if elder abuse is correlated with younger people "having their lives to live".
Jazelle DBX: Java bytecode in some ARM hardware
What if we put out enough deepfakes that they get desensitized to it and just stop believing stuff on screens altogether?
Ironically, sharing that would actually be a violation of company policy.
That is insane. For some reason, airplane pilots have very strict rules about how long they can be in the cabin, how much they must rest, and similar stuff. (Also, they have checklists, plenty of checklist, but medical doctors don't like checklists.)

Even bus and truck drivers have a more sane maximal shifts restrictions.
Nope, it's not like that in any way at all. AI aren't children, they're a technological artefact a group of people assembled, with no more moral dimension than a toaster. The people who would be the targets of Stable Diffusion-generated porn, depictions they did not consent to, they're actual people who's privacy would be harmed. Technology is an artefact of the society that produced it, and is shaped by it's values. This is not the symptom of any sort of problem.

This type of technological fetishism that holds that technology should be developed for it's own sake and that the well being of society is secondary should be discarded. Technology should be developed to make people's lives better or to expand our understanding, not just because it can be. That's how we end up with the proliferation of harmful technologies of no benefit.
I don’t buy it.

- Academics don’t publish results that aren’t sexy. How many people like you ran the same experiment with a different set of benchmarks but didn’t publish the results because they confirmed the obvious and so were too boring? How many times did you or your coauthors have false starts in your research that weren’t published? You’re cherry picking just by participating in the perverse reward system.

- The complexity of the data analysis sure makes it look like you’re doing something smart, but in reality, it’s just an opportunity to cherry pick.

- These results are not consistent with what I’ve seen, and I’ve spent countless hours benchmarking VMs I wrote and VMs I compete with. I’ll believe my own eyes before I believe published research. This leads me to believe there is something fishy going on.

Anyway, my serious accusation stands and it’s a fact that for large real-ish workloads, VMs do “warm up” - they start slow and then run faster, as designed.
She did get into Stanford. Not sure if that's a great proxy for talent, but I'm guessing she was somewhat strong academically.
Is Musk actually unraveling in front of our eyes here? This sounds like pretty disturbing behaviour even for him.

Can Twitter survive this? If the infrastructure people leave, can Twitter stay online?
What even is "if let ..." in Rust? What is the purpose of it?

need_explicit_dep_target = true;
if let DepArgumentRequirePath::NotNeeded = need_explicit_dep_argument_path {
need_explicit_dep_argument_path = DepArgumentRequirePath::Missing;
}

I am currently trying to translate "simple" Rust code to C but I am having difficulties.

https://github.com/RustCrypto/formats/blob/master/base32ct/s...

Where is `threshold` and `offset` coming from?
How come running `cargo test` in directory `base32ct` actually tests nothing (I get 0 everywhere) despite there being some test code? Messed up `Cargo.toml` file? sighs

Lots of mysteries in Rust, at least for me.
or maybe the internet archive?
I've discovered that if you tweet the name "Michael Griffin" + "Elon" (or "Musk"), nobody will see your tweet organically unless they search for it directly.

Michael Griffin is an important person in Elon's real (non-mythical) history that he'd probably rather you not know about,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
If one of the guys who was selling children into prison (cash for kids) was able to get on to house arrest before 85%, I'm sure she will be able to find a way.
Most people who aren't allowed voluntarily surrender weren't granted bail to begin with because they were either ruled a danger to the community or they were deemed an excessive flight risk. Plenty of "low level" criminals are allowed to turn themselves in, read enough cases on https://www.courtlistener.com/pacer and you'll see it's not unusual.
HOI is some damn dystopia on its own.
It's not as if people aren't trying to do that: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264

I tried out this notebook about a month ago, and it was rough. After spending an evening improving it, I got everything "working", but pyannote was not reliable. I tried it against an hour-ish audio sample, and I found no way to tune pyannote to keep track of ~10 speakers over the course of that audio. It would identify some of the earlier speakers, but then it felt like it lost attention and would just start labeling every new speaker as the same speaker. There is an option to force the minimum number of speakers higher, and that just caused it to split some of the earlier speakers into multiple labels. It did nothing to address the latter half of the audio.

So, sure, someone should continue working on putting the pieces together, and I'm sure the notebook in the discussion I linked has probably improved since then, but I think pyannote itself needs some improvement first.

Sadly, I think using separate models for transcription and diarization ends up being clunky to the point that it won't ever be polished, no matter how good pyannote might get. If you have a podcast-like environment where people get excited and start talking over each other, then even if pyannote correctly identifies all of the speakers during the overlapping segments and when they spoke... Whisper cannot be used to separate speakers. You end up with either duplicate transcripts attributed to everyone involved, or something worse. Impressively, I have seen pyannote do exactly that, when it's working.

At the end of the day, I think someone is going to need to either train Whisper to also perform diarization, or we're going to need to wait until someone else open sources a model that does both transcription and diarization simultaneously. Unfortunately, it seems like most of these really big advances in ML only happen when a corporate benefactor is willing to dump money into the problem and then release the result, so we might be waiting awhile. I'm trying to learn more about machine learning, but I'm not at the point where I have any realistic chance of making such an improvement to Whisper. Maybe someone else around here can proven me wrong by just making it happen.
Hammers are, like, sooo unsafe though!
I reluctantly agree, and I'd cite the cases of North Korea and Pakistan.
I believe you misunderstood my comment.

If I was facing a jail time, I would NOT have kids till there is clarity. But I guess that is the difference between me and …
This seems like an arbitrary distinction; in the end, there's not much difference between having a tweet be removed and having it be "deboosted" until nobody sees it.

I think that Musk has realized that his free speech absolutism conflicts with his goal of increasing profits. So now he's trying very hard to find a compromise.
I find some irony in that some 20 years ago, while there were pure-html web apps, eg. web-chats using <meta refresh...>, there were also java applets (remember the <applet> tag?), which were fast and used common inet-family sockets. I believe, they were mostly booed because security and privacy concerns. The applets were small (bytecode, so no interpreter required) and allowed using same language (statically typed) for both frontend and backend. Now, instead of making them more secure, we have xmlhttprequest, web sockets, node and typescript or webasm with minified and obfuscated scripts. Well, evolution paths are often curly.
You've got a great point that she has proven to have a skill for social manipulation, I wonder to what degree that was specific to convincing old powerful men to invest and projecting the 'Steve Jobs' mysterious tech guru image in public — It would be interesting to see how her charms work in a women's prison. Like, she did it for years during public appearances and at work, but will she keep using the fake baritone, around the clock, for ten years?

It would make a great movie, like a better reprise of "Shot Caller" feat. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
Thanks for sharing.. While we can admire & protect many aspects of nature, there's no reason for us to take other animals as our role-models..
You're completely right, maybe a software developer's total contribution to the bottom line can be conveyed with a few snapshots of context-less code. Maybe every complex problem humanity faces today has an equally easy solution. Maybe nuance and being methodical is for chumps.
its all ephemeral
Very interested to see how this goes, especially in SF. SF is a city filled to the brim with crazy people, homeless, criminals, drug addicts, and a hell of a lot of people who hate tech for what it has done to the city's cost of living. And these groups have lots of overlap. My intuition is that giving everyone in the city access to highly expensive toys from the tech industry with no human oversight is a recipe for disgusting, broken vehicles that nobody will want to ride in, but I'd love to be proven wrong. Hopefully those geniuses over at Waymo have already thought of a solution to this.
We have to make adjustments when coordinating anyway since local time anywhere outside sea level needs relativistic corrections to derive global time, so might as well also periodically introduce another adjustment factor based on changes in the rotation period of the earth…
Congratulations on taking this to completion and announcing here! Love your approach to this!
Spoken like somebody who has never had a "Can you help me get my microsoft wifi [Spectrum cable internet] to make sure my gmail [person@icloud.com] doesn't send my retirement [tax refund] to the hackers" type call.
An overview of Iron Flow Batteries for long term grid energy storage [video]
That's essentially why I posted this; it shows what happens when (some) people outside the HN crowd try to join the fediverse.
Thumbnail also looks... interesting
What do you use to orchestrate firecracker?