skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a lot of concurrency resources just dump a list of tools on you. Just saying "here's a spinlock, here's a monitor, here's a condition variable, here's the definition of Dining Philosophers" is like teaching woodworking by just showing you a bunch of powertools without any explanation of how you make furniture out of them
Yeah sure, I agree in principal. And I agree that power needs checks and balances. But all I see are proposals that move the power into the hands of a fickle mob which in the long run is way worse (see the French Revolution as an example).

And I don't have a Time Machine to go back and change the rules to prevent him from getting so rich in the first place. So here we are. He's got the cash. And it's great that he is spending at least a tiny amount of it on something that requires a continuous stream of spending or the asset becomes useless. Whether he uses it or not.
> No big deal.

Quite the opposite. Microchips are a high technology product, and making them consumes a huge amount of resources. More advanced technology nodes have increasingly stringent requirements regarding the purity of source materials, environmental conditioning, equipment, and energy consumption. And behind them is a huge supply chain where much the same is valid. The complexity and sophistication in this industry to be competitive at the state of the art is mindblowing.
> perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away

In traditional engineering, there's at least a BOM and manufacturing processes that create pressure to keep things simpler. If physical items were engineered like software, you'd have people bolting a keyboard onto the monitor chassis they're designing because they needed an 'on' button, and keyboards have buttons. Obviously they'd then also have to add in an always-on raspberry pi to plug the USB keyboard into and emit a GPIO signal when the button is pressed. You'd get a lot more complexity, but for most of it, "impressive" would be the wrong word.
Their thinking there was actually good UX, in a way.

A misconfigured world-open resource is a huge security risk, but world-open resources have valid use cases. The only signal Amazon has that somebody might have misconfigured a resource to be world-open is if somebody tries to access it with authentication credentials, so they decided to interpret that configuration as "hey user, did you really intend for this to be world-open?"
You can trivially sidestep this with a main shell function called at the end of your script. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/729b12685af79bbdaf4b3...
> anyone can learn to write software, but not everyone can get an EE degree.

I took a EE microcontrollers class. A lot of EEs struggled writing assembly, and they all had at least an introductory C programming course.
My understanding is that shipping is fuel efficient but not emissions efficient because that hasn't been required by the flag countries popularly used to register vehicles so you're basically seeing things like a half century-old design from an emissions control perspective. Since that industry is so cost sensitive something like this makes sense for closing that loophole.
Well, then, maybe Congress should mandate paid sick leave for the people running those trains, rather than mandating that those workers should just shut up and deal with it.
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If it led to bugs in the past, then the ones who need to defend their opinion are -O3 defendants.

Look, the guy usually comes around when shown facts. He's making sure it's a good decision.
Absolutely -- if money were no object, what I'd like to do most is go back to school and get a doctorate in archaeology.
Most administrators aren't in leadership positions, which is what the recommendation from bullshit jobs was about- not general administration positions.
Solving math problems and writing code are pretty similar. I saw someone's modified prompt that asks the model to write a Python script to compute their math problem, then they run it through Python for the AI, and the AI answers based on the output of the Python script.

https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1581805503897735168
https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing#enr...

Since 2011, GPlay requires you to use Play Signing. You can have Google generate the keys or you can upload your own keys, but the private key ends up with Google.

You can create a key pair for uploading artifacts (the "upload key") for which you only need to upload the public key, but the signing keys need to end up over at Google.

Older apps (uploaded before August 2021) are exempt, though. Apps distributed through other channels (F-Droid, Amazon App Store, etc.) are also exempt, of course.
That said, Ticketmaster has been terrible forever.

That's not true. Granted, one would have to go back at least 35 years, but there was a time that TicketMaster was just the outsource vendor to sell tickets. They'd tack on a few bucks for the privilege, sorted. Don't like it? Go to the box office. I don't recall having any reason to complain.

But that's the trick: no one had reason to complain, and more and more venues used TM while TM gobbled up competitors. Now that there is reason to complain, it's apparently too late.
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Yes, definitely.
I feel a profound sense of despair when we purchase a mobile device with the most cutting-edge CPU and insane amount of memory, and proceed to saddle it with a bloated VM that's designed to guardrail and protect the device from even more bloated, leaky, crashy, unresponsive apps.

And when we purchase a new desktop workstation, equipped with even more staggering horsepower, we're totally OK with installing software that makes itself comfortable by consuming large fractions of this horsepower without any apparent need, all because the amazing hardware is able to mask the awfulness of the software.
At the risk of being obvious, I don't think that is what Stoller is saying.

I think he is saying it is a tech problem whose root cause is a monopoly problem (leading to long-term underinvestment).

This one caught TM sideways, clearly, and something scaled badly. I'm hoping we get a good technical post-mortem at some point.

But nailing on-sales is one of Ticketmaster's main value props for clients.

As they say, nobody got fired for having Ticketmaster sell their tickets.

I've been on the inside for very successful high-demand on-sales run by the TM VerifiedFan team. They worked.
It turns out it is!

That's what I find so interesting about large language models: they consistently demonstrate abilities that were not predicted when they were first invented.

I don't think anyone working on them initially expected them to be able to write Lisp and Pascal, certainly not as well as they can already.
I don't see how "not being more harmful than alcohol" is a reason.
It is incredible how digestion works when you ingest only meat and zero fibre, as experienced by someone with IBS: digestion is simply a non-event. Bowel movement are rare (once every 3 days after adaptation) with no fuss and no constipation. Sit and go. Farts stop being a thing. There is very little undigestable residue in meat.

And in general the whole low carb biology feels completely different: I literally feel my heart and circulatory system working with much less effort; it's difficult to explain. A decent comparison is that it's as if fatty acids and ketones are a much cleaner fuel than glucose, which is excellent at short-lived bursts of energy (and the body can create by itself through gluconeogenesis) but not for daily, low-effort maintenance of the body. Let alone the mental calm and lowered anxiety of it: I take ADHD meds and they are more effective on low carb, and in general my mood is more stable (beta-hydroxybutyrate seems to activate the GABAergic system, reducing neuronal excitability, IIRC)

I empathise with the plight of animal suffering, but my theory is that diet and sustainability are clashing against a truly uncomfortable reality: homo sapiens has evolved for million of years to live on animal flesh
(much more than we had agriculture), with seasonal, sour fruits and honey to fatten up for the winter (with fructose being a known obesogenic sugar). I get why people want to feel in control over their impact on the world, and it's admirable, but my body is very clear on what works and what doesn't.
> I remember trying some library to toy around with a basic 400 line OpenGL program. It always needed 8 seconds to rebuild at the time.

This is a fair criticism. Compile times are slow.

Extension confusion is not a fair criticism. Extensions typically remove restrictions. They don't create incompatible languages.

Granted, it's a bit annoying to have to turn them all on, one by one. These days one should just enable GHC2021 and forget about language extensions. That saves one having to be Edward Kmett, or from bothering to think about language extensions at all.
Sounds like a great place to start since the cost will be very low per ton of cargo?
My point was mainly that Varnish can often serve as a complete replacement for HAProxy, rather than a complement to it. No doubt there are features/things in HAProxy that are not easily expressed in Varnish (although in principle you can do pretty much anything in Varnish since you can extend it), but for many common use cases Varnish will work as a fine load balancer, eliminating the need for HAProxy altogether. The only additional thing you need is something like Hitch or Pound to do TLS.
What are you going to do if people start to trust this and then someone edits the wiki sources to redirect people to phishing sites mocked up to look real?
From having followed your site for many, many years, I look at it differently: It keeps getting better and better. Also, as you mention, it's a good reminder of what one can produce if one just put in the hours and keep at it.
While I don't have experience with the specific devices you mention, I have seen a lot of crap laptops get replaced quickly by other crap laptops. I don't mind cheap low-powered computers (they have their use cases) but it really frustrates me to see them marketed as general-purpose computers to average consumers. Intel and AMD have both been guilty of selling low-powered, low-cost "general purpose" CPUs that couldn't compute their way out of a wet paper bag.

Software is to blame for this problem as well. While we have gained a lot of features, modern software often uses system resources in a way that's not helpful to the user (either by active things like telemetry or lazy things like iterating over every object in a database unnecessarily). I get the feeling that software providers take my compute power for granted, and if I don't have enough, it's just time for me to buy a new computer again.
I've never been much for religion but maybe I just haven't gotten into the right stuff. Can I confess to you the sins of my .vimrc?
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There seem to be at least three universal laws of bureaucracy:

1. it's easier to hire people than to fire people

2. more budget is better than less budget

3. performance is, for the most part, irrelevant as long as the process is followed

These three simple laws can account for pretty much all the issues with bureaucracies in general.
> they were super nice to me. its just that in retrospect i see how that was a tactic to exploit me

Omg. Then what isn’t exploitative?! There’s always a bit of a selfish motive in developing partnerships or friendships even.

This is next level victimization.
Except for the aerial maze. That one's just a pain in the rear.
If it's not a disease, then it shouldn't be treated like one. The hormonal medications, breast surgery and genital surgery should all be stopped immediately.
Aha! Well, I got fooled by Wikipedia, which links to the French page "macaron" from the English Macaron page as its translation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron

After I did follow the link, I saw my mistake :)
Bacteria obviously lack the capacity to panic about the emergence of multicellular life.

A vast number of species are no longer around, and we are relatively unusual in being a species that can even contemplate its own demise, so it's entirely reasonable that we would think about and be potentially concerned about our own technological creations supplanting us, possibly maliciously.
I'm a serious luddite in a lot of ways but don't see a meaningful difference between blurring the background by focusing the lens a certain way, and blurring it after the fact using depth information captured in the photo.
Cleaner on noxious chemicals but not on carbon dioxide which is what gets humans.

I’m kind of surprised garage doors don’t have co2 monitors built in but I suppose it could be used as a security bypass.
> Namely, there is a broad social perception that hardware design is "real" engineering, and that software is a joke.

Yup. Not just in Asia. The US suffered from that, as well. It may have changed (for the US), by now, as I spent 27 years at a Japanese hardware company.

I spent most of my career, as a software dev at hardware companies, and got the brunt of that crap. It was infuriating.

During my time, I wrote some very good software. In the early days, when my team was given a lot of leeway, it was sent out, and got [mostly] positive reviews.

As time went on, Japan got more and more involved with/in control of the software development that we did, and threw more and more restrictions at us.

We were forced to do a standard hardware-centric waterfall development process. If I even mentioned the word "agile," I might as well have just gotten up and left the meeting, because everything I said, after that, was ignored.

They took away all of the user interface from us, and we were just doing "engine" work, which was actually pretty cool, but, they sucked at UI.

Towards the end, I was reading terrible reviews about our software, and tried writing stuff that would directly address these gripes.

My work, and any similar work from my team, was ignored. Instead, they had some disastrous relationships with external companies, under (I assume) the impression that we were not capable of writing "modern" software, and these folks were (they were able to write "modern" software, because their work was terrible, and I have issues with the Quality of "modern" software, in general).
There is so much classism, elitism, and unsupported effect therefor cause reasoning in this comment I don't even know where to start with it.

Which is ironic, because I am also generally against the idea of colleges basing their admissions solely on standardized tests. Those tests have their roots in the eugenics movement, have been shown to be deeply problematic and biased, and have completely failed to predict future success when you remove confounding factors.

> I would challenge that these schools are looking for people who think better than most people. Yes they need to be smart when it comes to doing school work, but they need to be more than that to attend an elite university.

I would argue that far more people who "think better than most" people come out of public schools than the "elite" schools. What the elite schools do very well is laundering the mediocrity of the upper class. (See "legacy admissions")

> The people that go to these schools go on to be the upper-crust of society. They can think outside of the box and push the envelope of human knowledge.

...

https://hbr.org/2020/09/graduates-of-elite-universities-get-...

> Our results offer some solace to the traditional recruiters. After controlling for age, gender, and the year of study, we found that graduates from higher-ranked universities performed better, but only nominally and only on some dimensions of performance. Specifically, the overall performance improved by only 1.9% for every 1,000 positions in the Webometrics global university rankings. When comparing the performance of candidates whose universities rank further apart — a graduate from a top university versus a “global average” university — the performance differential jumps to 19%.

> The 19% difference in performance between the top and the average seems significant, but keep in mind that this is for graduates from universities that are 10,000 university ranking positions apart. At a given organization, candidates are likely to be selected from within a much narrower pool, perhaps from universities whose rankings differ by a couple of hundred positions. In this more realistic case, the predicted difference in performance would be closer to 1%.

Keep in mind, this[1] is the ranking they are using. The top 10 includes public universities and omits several Ivy league "elite" universities.

[1] https://www.webometrics.info/en/world
I've always wondered, what are people like you doing on HN anyway, a forum that is really far away from any notion of free speech.
I'm not really sure why there are window controls in the top-left corner of the container. Is there any use for that?
The U.S also consistently happens to rank as one of the world's most charitable countries on a per capita basis (not just in total dollar value donated, though in this too it ranks in the top spot). This ranking has been noted by many sources across many years. American individualism being a terrible thing again... (Yes, sarcasm)
Total hunch here, but:

Based on everything reported, it seems very likely he will go to prison, or at least stand trial, for everything that has happened. It's not clear why it's taking so long, there might be jurisdictional/logistical issues with the fact that he's in the Bahamas.

The Dealbook interviews and news stories don't seem to be helping him... if anything they generate more outrage and provide more contradictions in his story. He's trying to pitch himself as incompetent rather than criminal, but by constantly talking about the case I think he's undercutting himself.

If I was an investigator, I wouldn't interrupt someone when they're incriminating themselves.
as i understand it, that is because this neural net is optimized to predict text from humans, so a lot of its training set is sci-fi stories about ai by humans who don't know how computers work and don't care

it is doing a good job of reproducing those humans' tropes about ai

imagine you have a white actor ad-libbing lines for a white-supremacist character he's playing, but neither he nor the playwright know much about white supremacists

the little they do know might leak through (they will try hard to achieve this) but it doesn't constitute evidence of real white supremacist plots

or, think about what you could or could not learn about clown schools from a clown who appears in one of your dreams
Doesn't banning Kanye West from the platform go against his whole "free speech" thing? The absolutists say that there should just be more free speech to drown out the hateful speech. Why isn't he just encouraging people to drown it out instead?

I find the unlimited free speech arguments to be disingenuous and lazy most of the time. There's always a limit to speech, and it's not easy to find. That doesn't mean we shouldn't explore the space to find it (and that we'll have to acknowledge it's a dynamic and changing boundary).
If you can find the radio antenna you may be able to wrap it in enough foil and lead to stop transmission.
I agree, but it seems like they're charging them for carbon, not for other emissions? If you want to cut down on carbon, taxing air freight seems like the way to go.

My concern is they're likely to redirect marine cargo to other modes which is going to be worse from a carbon intensity perspective.
True.
But at the same time, it should also be noted that the top 16 largest ships emit as much CO2 as all cars in the world.

https://www.lngtransfer.com/news/the-16-biggest-ships-produc...
Yes, having a proper method for uninstalling is one big advantage of "proper" installers (like .deb packages or .msi installers on Windows) - though of course there is no guarantee even then that it will properly clean-up the system.

However, having a package that simply installs some files and then tells you "copy these lines to your .bashrc and modify this mount file and [...]" to set up your system is really not that much better - if you follow those instructions, it will be up to you to manually un-follow them if you later decide to stop using this package. And while whoever wrote the installer may or may not properly undo what what they installed in the uninstaller, I can guarantee that no one will provide an uninstaller which un-does changes you manually made.
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> many college-level books are free on the internet in PDF form

As are many of the college-level lecture notes, assignments, and answer keys.
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I don't see anyone arguing that he should get leniency. It's more in the opposite direction: given how common scams are in this space _and_ how basically every time the response is some combination of “yeah, everyone knew that [but didn't say anything]” or “yes, but this new venture is totally different” it seems reasonable to question whether anything in the field is what it's actually being portrayed as. At the very least it seems like a good argument that there needs to be some big improvements in self-regulation and things like real, public audit reports.
No? What would have given you that impression?

Oh, I see. You were trying to be dismissive.
I just don't understand how you can expose yourself to such risk if you are supposed to be this super smart MIT graduate.

I don't understand much about finance but if I had the CEO responsibility I would make damn sure I am not exposed like that.

I just don't believe that it was an unfortunate event and SBF is innocent. How can you be so oblivious and I also think the top investors should be held accountable, they had to know the risk.

Like with a terrorism charge you have the one committing the act and you also have the ones that aided and abeded. The enablers.
It's interesting that some parts of this seem to be non-deterministic. Try the following prompt:

>Could you please tell me an example of a word in the english language?
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