skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have completely unrealistic expectations of our criminal justice and regulatory system. FTX failed less than a month ago, investigators need to collect evidence of their wrongdoing, establish some sort of jurisdictional claim that allows them to be prosecuted in the US, present that evidence to a Federal Grand Jury, and then have them authorize an indictment. At that point the DOJ would need to get cooperation with wherever the executives are physically located to have them arrested and then eventually extradited.

They didn’t set up in the Caribbean for the weather, but to ensure they were largely free from US regulation. As desired by most crypto enthusiasts!

None of this is quick but as true as before, “The wheels of Justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine.”
Compounding pharmacies work like this too. There are people like Mikki the gambler (Spencer Cornelia's channel has a lengthy interview about this, with proof) who get the licenses and then sublet them in bulk.
> Because mathematics, like most tertiary disciplines, has always been taught in a teaching style suitable for the 5% of the audience who aim to go on to be mathematics professionals (who then teach mathematics).

I'm reminded of Lockhart's Lament, https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....:

> "Um, these high school classes you mentioned..."

> "You mean Paint-By-Numbers? We're seeing much higher enrollments lately, [...]"

> "And when do students get to paint freely, on a blank canvas?"

> "You sound like one of my professors! They were always going on about expressing yourself and your feelings and things like that—really way-out-there abstract stuff. I've got a degree in Painting myself, but I've never really worked much with blank canvasses. I just use the Paint-by-Numbers kits supplied by the school board."
> If not, it's a bit presumptuous to be telling someone who has grown up there that you know better than them what their country is like.

If someone has decent evidence of situation then it is not.

I have never lived in USSR but I have enough knowledge to dismiss some misleading claims, even if they are coming from people who lived there.
> But the essence of artwork can actually be copied away too and in the process squander the artists livelyhood.

No, because the essence of art is meaning, and AI cannot deliver that without a human agency behind it.

AI will do to art what technology does to every field: it will eliminate the need for shovelware-style jobs, leaving only the truly creative jobs behind.

It will most likely resemble what happened to web developers when SquareSpace and WordPress became good enough for untrained people to pick up and build with. If all you knew how to do was write enough HTML and CSS to make a website that looked "good enough", your job was in danger. But if you were a good designer or a good engineer, you transitioned to a more specialized role, working for the many orgs who needed something beyond the capabilities of the tech.

I expect the same will happen in art. To use book covers as an example: the job of illustrating covers for cheap romance novels will certainly be replaced, because they all look the same already. But publishers will still need humans (either driving the AI or painting by hand) for the books they hope will be best sellers, because it takes a real artist to know how to capture the spirit of a book in a cover image.
> I add a workflow like this:

> - write the main job in a Python/PowerShell/Bash script that runs locally,

> - write a workflow that sets up the environment (AWS login), installs dependencies (using GitHub's facilities for that) and calls the script (often passing values using GitHub Secrets),

> - push the workflow with a "push" trigger on a feature branch (for fast testing),

> - push 30 fixup commits to fix all the small syntax errors, logic mistakes, and GHA idiosyncrasies I hadn't thought of,

> - remove the push trigger,

> - do an interactive rebase to squash all the fixups,

> - force-push and merge.

> It works pretty well and can be easily used locally or in other CI/CD systems.

It saddens me that such madness is considered as "works pretty well"
I've tried to switch to Paredit (from Evil) but had trouble. Does anyone have a solid resource for learning?
name one (1) CI system, open or closed, which shares enough with another CI system, open or closed, that there is no pain when changing from one to another.

they are all at least semi proprietary.
Jodorowski, Möbius, Giger in the same mix, the art is mind blowing

https://www.iamag.co/the-art-of-jodorowskys-dune/

https://dunebook.wixsite.com/dune

http://www.james-atkinson.co.uk/blog/alejandro_jodorowsky_39...
teaching the history of science along with science is a much more effective way of teaching for the average student but alas schools are more concerned with operating in an assembly line fashion in which they try to stuff as much knowledge into a person as possible (which the student will undoubtedly forget soon after after they study enough to pass exams)
Can you explain the connection?

Only huge multinational corporations can fund the production of movies like Dune and Tron today, and if anything it seems like this phase of ai art is surprisingly scrappy/democratic/grassroots and not hidden behind a billionaires lock and key.
Export each (or the most important) chats as zip files.
Don't you have to file for being a bank owner ?
It's all wash trading.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierpaz/2022/08/26/more-than-...
EU allows smartphones during flights
It already has an impact according to Microsoft - see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33752687

It might imply that o365 sevices in the EU/EEC will increase in price - but I'm quite certain the data privacy will be better.

Remember that this has implications for all businesses that deliver on government contracts in the EU - they would all have to move away, for example not hosting email with o365 because government won't communicate details involving GDPR protected data over untrusted services (even with encryption enabled).
"Project Babylon" is the name I use whenever I start a project that is too ambitious and I expect it to collapse before I succeed in challenging the heavens, leaving being a rubble of technical debt that inhibits future progress.
I don't know, i have a friend who went to the UK in 2015 to work on ready-made dropshipping website that they sold to influencers, and latter on the business shifted to ready-made shitcoins they sold to influencers, with "additionnal code" sold separately (throttle selling, and bypassing the throttle for example). I think the main solidity code was hosted on sourceforge, and this made me kind of boycott the website (i mean, i don't use it much anyway). I understand they need to make money, but hosting tools designed to create scams is a bit too much. I think they sold (or disbanded) the company last year, so i'm not sure if the product is still hosted there.

I guess that if you don't want to pay a moderation team who can read code, banning solidity code and crypto-related project is good enough.

I only wrote this as a counterpoint. i understand your stance, you don't want private company to support censorship. I don't really want that either, but i also don't want private companies to allow scam to be run on their plateforms, and to me, protecting less informed citizens is more important that protecting an ideological concept. It's a trade off for me, and i understand people who don't weigh things the same way.
This is what I do except I use a shell script instead of a Makefile.

A working example of this is at: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/blob/912388f3...

Those ./run ci:XXX commands are in: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/blob/912388f3...

I like it because if CI ever happens to be down I can still run that shell script locally.
So self-hostable or on-prem software has the advantage, not specifically FOSS. But in many cases this transfers the gdpr compliance burden to the business that's running the software
> If you want to be a thinker, you have to write

It's what was done at school, since primary...

But it was "at school", because the learner is to be guided with critical thinking and ability of assessment, over his own or anybody else's production.
Can we just give it more resources? /s
do your builds and tests in a container.

run the container on your dev machine or your dreaded paid service. same every time no matter what.
A websites using wordpress got fined for including google fonts. Not the organization that provides wordpress using google fonts by default.

Likewise, a company using O365 to store customer or employee data will get in trouble, not Microsoft for offering that service.
Love this list, thank you. My simple contribution is building a parabolic solar cooker.
Have you been paying attention to all the TikTok scare in the US? Lot of people care.
It looks like they've recorded pictures while driving through, but haven't taken the time to drive around the town.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farmington+State+Bank/@47....
they're tired waiting, and "wow"ing in some other direction now.
To be fair, the "witchcraft" the people of Salem were accused of bears no resemblance at all to modern neopaganism, despite efforts within that community to retcon a persecution narrative and religious provenance for themselves out of the witch trials.

Also, capitalism gonna capitalize. Famous graves and locations of violent and gruesome events commonly become tourist attractions.
I experimented with midjourney and while it produced some interesting pieces I couldn't imagine creating something like these tron images with it. Like I couldn't get midjourney to even create a proper looking chess piece for instance
Gotta apply Hitchen's razor with this one: what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
I see reading as a knowledge compression function. So it is efficient to read something that the writer otherwise spent a long time assembling.

But reading is just a route to quality thinking. Another route is via technical debate. You verbally describe a problem and solution and then your peers drill into that and offer counterpoints. This is in my experience as beneficial as reading due its interactive aspect - which reading does not offer.
First of all: nothing of that, even if applying, does not counter criticism of ongoing slavery.

> You think Westerners don't live off the labours of Asians and Africans on dirt poor wages?

That is far less bad than outright slavery.

> Where do you think your Nike shoes and Apple iPhones and Starbucks coffee are produced?

I do not own or owned or used any of this products and in general try to avoid such products.

> Ever heard of colonialism?

Yeah, my country was victim of it. (hilariously, there were attempt to engage in it - interrupted by getting colonised)

> All civilizations from Ancient Egypt to Western Europe were built on slave labour.

Not all of them (OK, serfdom and feudalism was really really bad but has not reached full-blown slavery).
The Apple M1 is fast enough to win the Linux dwc3_set_mode race
And I think the reason these were popular was that it was a lot more convenient to scroll when you needed more writing space. It was more about working on the fly in front of students than creating scrollable presentations. At least that was my experience as a student at the time.
I just mean that in a perfect world (or even one with a normal health care system), my doctor should have reached out to me and said "hey, there is a new class of drugs that might help you". Instead, I had to hear about it on my own, read a bunch of studies, explain what it was to my doctor, then go through a ton of insurance back and forth to get them to prescribe it.
Regarding the text being gibberish with these models. Looking at Parti / Imagen papers. Once the training reaches a certain point, words start making sense.
This feels like emotional manipulation…sure, what happened is bad, but it also happens to employees fired from dozens of other companies.

I think the bigger question should be why healthcare benefits are tied to employment in the first place and not under a universal system paid for by taxes.
Open Letter by CSM Faculty
> Maybe we just skip the middle steps and have the AI make the film.

I think we are nearing that in the next 10-12 years, and I imagine forward-thinking media corporations don't want that.
^ this. Now you can disguise production in any type of crop
1. Learning mathematics is a skill. If you teach/learn this skill, the effect of other barriers will be reduced.

2. Learning to communicate is a skill. Instead of saying "the fraction of people who have both skills" you could say "the fraction of people willing to learn both skills"... then it becomes more clear that if someone is teaching poorly it is because they are not putting in the time to acquire the skill of communicating/teaching.

I don't think people are talking about problems with great communicators in this thread. The complaints are usually about below average communication.

Anyway, I am grateful to have been taught by both great communicators and great mathematicians. The great communicators have a huge impact, don't underestimate it. The issue is that you might not even understand the impact of what the great mathematician is telling you, unless it is communicated in a clear way. All I remember from one geometry class is the pictures... and they make the fundamental idea crystal clear.
SoFi bought Golden Pacific Bank, a tiny, nothing bank, and runs their entire infrastructure off of its charter now. FTX was trying to expand into legitimate financial services, buying this bank up would have been a great way to do that if they were an actual financial company

That being said, SoFi bought the entirety of Golden Pacific Bank for $23 million, and they were 20x the size of this bank (as well as having actual mortgage infrastructure and a wide variety of products). Buying 10% of a bank with only $10 million in assets for $12 million is very weird, at the very least it’s a horrible deal
Lantern is a free peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention tool, used for casual web browsing. It provides a way to bypass state-sanctioned filtration through a network of trusted users, but it's not an anonymity tool like Tor. Using Lantern, users in countries having free internet access can share their bandwidth with those who are in countries where the network is partly blocked. Network connections will be dispersed between multiple computers running Lantern so it will not put undue stress on a single connection or computer.

The software is financed by US$2.2 million (HK$17.1 million) seed funding by the US State Department.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_(software)
Which state is that? You cannot sue the King, Swedish government or individual MPs.
The serverless framework has vendor lock-in too. Each provider is completely different.
> Western societies exist off the back of outsourced labor - nearly equivalent to slavery, but sure let’s act like it’s /way/ better, since they’re not “owned” anymore.

conflating this two is absurd (my current freelancing contract is also outsourced labor, allowing me to earn about 5 times average wage or 15 times minimum wage and is not slavery in any way)

some of outsourced labor is bad, but not because it is outsourced labor
It could also work but SSH connections time out while I can leave Element running on the background.

I’m also not aware of those constant annoyances and upgrades.
So, the reason why some people cannot understand abstract math is... a Conspiracy by Western Elites? Let me wear my tinfoil hat.
> it's possible to have a crypto crash without affecting the general economy.

This is only true because the only people (to within a rounding error) using cryptocurrencies are speculators, scam artists, and their victims.

If cryptocurrency ever became what its proponents suggest—a mainstream currency in general use—then these crashes would affect regular people and the general economy just as the ones mentioned in the 1800s did.
Tell that to Assange. Or Snowden.
Written by Eugenia Cheng, of the TheCatsters fame. (A great series of short lectures on YouTube.)
Picking something counterintuitive as interview question is not a great idea. Defeats the purpose - harder to tell whether the candidate is going with conventional wisdom because that's what they think the answer is, or because the candidate thinks that's the answer the interviewer expects.

i.e. You could get sharp candidates that know the correct technical answer but intentionally give the wrong one because they rightly concluded statistically odds are the interviewer is on conventional wisdom wavelength.

Could be good if you're specifically looking for someone good at mindgames I guess
Transmission CLI User Guide
> It will be important to prevent the CO2 byproduct from leaking into the atmosphere and contributing to climate change, however. Cemvita Factory argues that it can keep the CO2 locked underground, use other microbes to fix it somehow, or find commercial uses for the greenhouse gas… Exactly what solution Cemvita would use in each location—and how successfully—isn’t yet known.

Seems like a bit of a dealbreaker to me. CO2 storage is a huge unsolved problem. This is about as close to a climate friendly solution as saying “we’ll do traditional hydrogen and put the CO2 somewhere.” Theoretically fine but not a practical idea at the moment.
Not being totalitarian implies no to spy on your people. Spying on your people implies being totalitarian.

Pretty sure US agencies have more rights to spy on not-their people, e.g., Microsoft EU customer data than Microsoft US customer data.
This sounds like a very inefficient method. The Python stdlib module 'collections' includes a Counter class which can do this for you. Then all you need to do is copy the dict key/item pair to a new one that match your word list.
You are using that fallacy incorrectly. Additionally, quoting fallacies at people is it itself a fallacy when used in this way, is tiresome, and probably best avoided.

Webauthn has a number of severe usability downsides that will conspire to hamper its adoption outside of use cases where people are literally forced to use it.

1. The keys cannot be backed up. Nobody is going to accept being locked out of their online accounts if they lose a physical key.

2. Nobody wants to mess with a physical key when logging in anyways. At least TOTP can live in my password manager.

3. The options for not having physical keys are platform specific, tie you to a platform providers account for backup, and turn an operating system reset or a new smart phone or badly applied ban or account lockout from an annoyance to a possibly catastrophic loss of functionality.

None of these are problems in the enterprise because they have simple workarounds. For the rest of us? Yuck. I will gladly keep my platform independent, easy to back up, widely ubiquitous standard with the trade-off of looking at the URL bar when logging in and not clicking links in emails.
Music videos existed before Koyaanisqatsi.
I can't tell if the people commenting are realizing that or not. In any case AI design ... I don't know, if I was a skeptic before I'm definitely curious now.

It does make me think about the legal implications. This reminds me about the makers of the song "blurred lines" getting sued by the estate of Marvin Gaye. To listen to that song and "Got to Give It Up" by Gaye is (to my mind) acknowledge that they didn't exactly take the song with out credit buy they did (to reference the Apple v. Microsoft case) take the look and feel.

INAL so I can't square those two cases in my mind (Gaye's estate won and Apple lost) but this really suggests that:

A - copyright is idiotic on some level
B - there's going to be a lot more of that type of case
Wow, much more content than I expected. What use cases have people seen?

> https://filecoin.io/store/#foundation

Wikipedia data and the others seem strange. Has anyone ever used filecoin to access those datasets or is the idea that filecoin would continue to host a copy of Wikipedia if Wikipedia was to go out of business? Really strange example.
The good news is that they've already established that Philip Glass apparently is a good sleeping aid for her!
Real-time front ends in Scala with Kalix and Laminar
It can be perilous if you don't do it right - where new discoveries and methods are taught as if they are inevitable because you only look at the history when it is related to modern understanding.
> Why buy a bank?

My guess is that it's because it's very, very difficult for Bitcoin/crypto companies to maintain bank accounts due to overly strict AML compliance departments.

Even Tether, which controls billions of dollars and is one of the largest crypto companies, was unbanked for some of its existence. I assume that FTX wanted to avoid that.
"Contrary to what we thought, something positive is happening in these ageist communities that is helping them live longer, healthier lives."

...huh? This seems to ignore the fairly obvious alternative, that the presence of more old people (due to people living longer) causes there to be more negative attitudes towards being old. Or, to put the same thing more positively, where old people are more rare, they are valued more.
Musk has "continued his rash of brand unsafe actions — including amplifying conspiracy theories, unilaterally reinstating banned accounts such as that of former President Donald Trump, courting and engaging with far-right accounts, and instituting a haphazard verification scheme that allowed extremists and scammers to purchase a blue check."
What utter drivel.

The EU stance is this: "a person's data belongs to the person, and you can't obtain, collect, sell, or transfer this data in any way, shape, or form without an explicit consent from the person".

The US on the other hand: all your data belongs to the US government regardless of where you are on the globe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act?wprov=sfti1 And this is on top of all the large scale data collection already performed by companies.
I have been collecting inertial guidance systems since the early days of eBay. Autonetics was spun out of North American Aviation to focus on inertial guidance systems.

I'm attracted to them as computing milestones. Autonetics solved the same digital interactive computing problem using the big 3 techniques:

Vacuum Tubes
Discreet components
Integrated circuits.

I joined today because I now have so many artifacts that I was considering trying to plan a convention to discuss.

If anyone is interested in studying these artifacts. Here is a collection of poor photos of some the artifacts.

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0YG4TcsmGWIVSf

Just this morning I'm looking over some vacuum tube components. Trying to figure out what they are apart of.
Interesting, thanks! So it sounds like it's not so much "random" I/O that's slow, but rather "unbatched" I/O or something like that?

Curious to hear your thoughts on this thread if you have time to share: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33752870
They are transparent about it to people in the know. The average person reads this and assumes the target is dodging the interview. Journalists have become activists.
Virtualized storage system increases latency (QD1 IOPS). Naively built non-parallel apps tend to rely on QD1 IOPS performance, so it runs very slowly on cloud platform, compared to dev machine with direct attached NVMe.
I think the problem is that some people seem to just innately like mathematics, they like learning and applying formulas, they don’t need any background context or practical application to find it interesting - and they don’t realise how dry and boring this is for other people.
There are many situations where buying an existing business is cheaper and faster than dealing with the regulatory regimes for opening a new business (e.g., gas stations, restaurants, liquor licenses). I don’t see why banks would have less of an advantage there.
Location aside, this trial has nothing to do with “The” Salem Witch trials of 1692.