skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's a limitation in the setup but it's something I am willing to live with. I can make edits on my computer and "pull" them onto my phone, but not the other way around.

However I think this is a limitation of the app itself more than a limitation of the system in principle. As far as I can tell, the developer decided to only support a couple of the most popular cloud sync platforms. Maybe guess there is no consistent API for that sort of thing in iOS.
Related:

Concerns about Trustcor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33541718 - Nov 2022 (36 comments)

Mysterious company with government ties plays key internet role - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532288 - Nov 2022 (3 comments)

Mysterious company with government ties plays key internet role - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33519020 - Nov 2022 (2 comments)
Nobody cares about the people. It’s all about money. The H1B, etc mostly protects American workers by discouraging offshoring.

The easier path to low skill admission is all about rural interests. We need bodies working farms, we packing meat, etc.
The kind of dark pattern bullshit and anti-usability mess Spotify has become I would rather see Spotify die. Not to mention the “Spotify only” podcasts.

While we are at it we should point out Spotify has no clear ways to export your listening history, playlists etc that you can easily recreate on other portals.

It’s not a fight for equality. It’s an attempt by Spotify to be more equal than others.
But as soon as there's a conversion to/from fiat or anything else in the real world, you have to trust whatever exchange or vendor you're dealing with. That means it's still a system that requires trust. With cash and banks I can go to the legal system to get issues with trust violation addressed. With crypto, I'm up shit's creek with no recourse when the exchange I used gave my tokens away or my computer was hacked with malware. This is not exactly "better" by any stretch of things. For many people it is turning out to be immensely worse.
And also an iPhone has at least 5 years of guaranteed updates
Japan's system seems like Canada's, and basically the opposite of the US's: high-skill professionals easily get 5-year work visas, and can apply for permanent residence (PR) after 1 or 3 years depending on points. Having family members in the country, however, is worthless unless you marry a Japanese national.

Honestly, I don't see why a country would prefer people to bring in all their distant cousins, rather than a bunch of highly skilled professionals who contribute a lot to the economy.
Completely wrong metrics are being used in this study to measure "well being". I'm concerned about attention span, communication skills, critical thinking, social skills, etc. and I'm sure these are also the things most parents care about when restricting phone/screen time.
Interesting, I've seen one guy used the similar method to get a remote job.
Apologies. Wrong comment.
Poppycock. Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece both had plenty of sophisticated bookkeeping and accounting methods — I don’t think you can even point to a single moment in time when double entry was “invented” (just standardized or popularized).

There are many reasons that they didn’t have McDonalds-like franchises, and none of them have to do with accounting. Those kinds of franchises didn’t exist in the modern world until the 20th century; they are product of many elements of modern culture (and modern approaches to business). What the heck would a franchise even do for someone in Ancient Rome? It’s not like there are massive chicken suppliers or industrial-scale bakeries that produce standardized food products to sell. Every restaurant needs to source local suppliers directly anyways. Fast food chains make no sense without industrialization, among many other things (bookkeeping being the least of them).
Oh, that makes a ton of sense. Thank you!
Making the migration in order to find out if it was worth it appears to be quite an expensive test of an hypothesis.
Just based on the usage patterns of crypto as a whole, it's likely that a fair number of FTX's users were involved in human trafficking, opioid dealing, and/or money laundering. I'm not sure how big of a percentage that was of FTX's user base—maybe it was too trivial to matter—but it does make me less sympathetic.
That's a good idea, because no, currently only the node's border color indicates rank, not their position. I could get an even denser data-ink ratio with this...
Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple can publish CVEs in Google's products if they want to fund the work --- and they should fund exactly that kind of work. Meanwhile: it is absolutely not a norm in the technology industry to publish arbitrary internal discoveries.
Ask HN: Have you ever worked with a blockchain company that wasn't a scam?
backstory: I'm sure this will sound familiar to a lot of you. Someone contacted me in response to a HN post I made seeking a role as a product manager. They contacted me for a position at a blockchain company. It was very hard to reach them by replying to their mail. After several attempts on my part, we finally got the ball rolling with Google meet meetings, agreeing on terms, adding me to the discord, etc. I met the team virtually, which gave me confidence that this could be something real. They had an interesting idea and I was keen to work with them to bring it to market. Then they started ghosting me, their discord went dead, they missed their meetings, mail went unanswered, and their front page has the same prominent typos as we talked about fixing in our first meetings. Now it feels like a scam, which sounds like what I've read about with several blockchain companies. I invoiced them but don't really expect to be paid for the time I've spent working for them, chasing them for responses I never got and attending empty meetings they missed.

My question is, should I just blacklist any contact with blockchain companies? Have any of you ever worked with a blockchain company that wasn't a scam?

Everyone has their own standards but for me "not a scam" means that it delivered value to customers on par with a normal startup that doesn't have blockchain anywhere in its name or offering. i.e. if it is a blockchain shoe company, is anyone actually wearing a shoe they bought from them that they sold and shipped, like a non-blockchain shoe company would deliver.
Humans weren't originally growing meat to eat, either. We were catching it - which puts an upper limit on both the amount of the meat eaten, and on how fatty that meat it.
I’m old enough to remember the Microsoft monopoly. 2022 Apple isn’t like that at all.

Back in the 90s, telling someone to just buy a Mac, was a joke. No one had macs, besides schools, but even those went away. Apps simply didn’t exist on Mac. Files couldn’t even be transferred between machines because the floppies were formatted differently. To not use a windows PC, was an actual burden.

Now let’s compare to 2022 Apple. You don’t want an iPhone, get an android. They’re literally everywhere phones are sold, and you can even egg them for free with a service contract. So what do you lose if switch to it? FaceTime? Um… okay. What popular apps aren’t on android? I honestly don’t know. Even the built in iOS apps, have equivalents that are often even installed on iPhones. Everything else is the web.

There’s no lock in.
Ironically, it's a kind of (figurative) colonialism where a ruling class is imposing their culture and quasi-religious virtue structure on other languages and cultures.
I'm waiting for Stable Diffusion / GPT3 level goodness for stuff like this. That will be amazing.
Seemed vaguely like how the brain does it. You think a thought, and somehow your brain conjures memories that are semantically related to that thought. That sounds a lot like a nearest neighbors algorithm on a language model embedding vector to me.
I think you've avoided the original commenter's point completely. Facebook is a net negative to society. There is nothing you can do to improve FB products when the primary mission is to be an addictive ad machine.
> Normally you wouldn't be able to lose more than you've left as collateral, but they weren't like other customers

Market prices aren't continuous, so you cannot guarantee that you can close the customers position at the point where they are wiped out. So a cryptocurrency casino that offers margin to users cannot guarantee that they won't just suddenly be insolvent.

They also accepted magic beans as collateral no just their own FTT but all manner of other dogshit where there couldn't be a realistic realtime market price.

The key point is that these bucketshops end up as the counterparty to their customers trades the net result was that FTX itself was essentially long all manner of illiquid scamcoins and massively short Bitcoin.

This complicates accounting for the total loss-- if you deposit $1000 but then turn it into $100k worth of "bitcoin" using trades with 100x leverage-- though the bitcoin never existed it was just an entry on FTX's books-- and then FTX implodes what the amount lost? Arguably closer to $1000, but right now the figures about FTX all use the highest number. But the customer didn't actually lose that full amount-- it was just a fantasy.

A lot of the dialog about the fraud at FTX centers on diverting company assets for personal/family use-- which indeed doesn't appear to be good, but so far that doesn't appear to have happened at a scale that they couldn't have operated out of if not for the fact that the entire business itself-- basically selling people paper assets which weren't even backed by meaningful collateral-- was fraudulent.

And this is an important distinction because it changes what risk people should be looking for... The 'crypto' ecosystem is highly volitile at best-- full of garbage that is sure to fail. Business offerings that aren't provably implosion proof will almost all eventually implode.

Compare to your typical US retail brokerage-- margin is available, but 2x leverage at the absolute most, highly controlled, regulated, and risk managed, riskier assets either can't be used as collateral or count far less. The assets and customers are diversified (and when they become less so, leverage is further reduced), and there is industry provided insurance mechanisms to backstop. In the crypto space things are massively more correlated, unregulated, customer are all over the world so there is seldom any recourse against them, no one has every (AFAIK) gotten in trouble for manipulating a cryptocurrency market, and instead of 2x leverage _20x_ is common at these casino services (and 20x isn't even the limit).
Agitprop
But fly.io also isn’t charging a premium over the base infra cost (are they? I don’t see fly Postgres on their pricing page)
Sure, if they're buying...
Smart or not, he clearly made some unethical choices.

Compared to the alternatives, Jane Street doesn't exactly select for street smarts. (Nor does MIT, to be frank.)

Sam Bankman-Fried's statement to Tyler Cowen that he will take any positive-EV bet regardless of the standard deviation of returns, sounds more like a learned-by-rote answer to an on-campus trading interview question rather than a core tenet of a trading philosophy. Professional traders at major institutions (including Jane Street) care about things like Sharpe ratio, value at risk, and position sizing. Not to mention that Jane Street asks Fermi questions in their interviews. I wouldn't be surprised if the average MIT senior with three or more trading offers could proffer the same kind of demonstrations/responses as what you describe.
Maybe someone who knows queue theory could explain this, but if circumstances have driven the length from 6 to 24 months, doesn't that mean it's heading upwards to unlimited lengths?
>> I can't figure out why the media is doing such a terrible job covering this

1. SBF, Caroline, SBF Parents all know all the right people and run in the same circles as the editors/owners of the top publications

2. A lot of other people come down along with SBF, so they dont want to pull the thread. For example, if the FTX money was indeed stolen, then did Dems get stolen-cash-contributions? For example, who else has deeded ownership over the 300M of laundered cash homes in The Bahamas? I think a lot of people want this to go away and they are all friends with the same NYTimes exec circle

3. No one wants to be called anti-semitic, so people are treading very, very carefully around this, even at the expense of justice. No one wants to end up like Kyrie Irving https://www.nytimes.com/article/kyrie-irving-antisemitic.htm... having to donate 1/2M$ for even touching this
Got a demo a few months back, was told Kotlin support (as alternative to Python) is on the roadmap... how soon might that be a reality?
Which is really dumb. I’m learning Spanish now and everything is gendered in Spanish.

And this is not meant to be a political rant - no one could ever call me right wing - but a major reason that Democrats are starting to lose the Hispanic vote is because they are seen as to pandering with crap like this. For context, I’m a minority.
My understanding around how this works (and I might be wrong!) is that Apple tracks a variety of usage on device and your device itself knows which ad to serve, versus say Google or Facebook collating your data on their own servers.

I'd not be surprised to learn there was some level of phoning home though.
Epic hasn't lost. The case remains ongoing as far as I know.
The system is easier to qualify for than other countries, provided you can find a sponsoring employer, but it is also slow and requires that you engage an attorney because it's archaic.
Do you believe it is honest because it's something you want to hear? This is the single fundamental concept that con artistry boils down to.

Whenever anybody says "<something you want to hear>, I can't show you but trust me," the reaction shouldn't be to marvel at their honesty, it should be to smell bullshit and ask yourself what their angle is. I mean even when they're not a known conman and liar who just fleeced people out of billions of dollars. I feel this should go without saying but there are an incredible amount of people still lining up to believe this clown for some reason.
most forms of nondestructive editing
Spike consistent with lock downs

Another lock down tragedy along with permanently lagging academic development in children

We will continue to see more social impact from the worst policy decision in a generation
A big part of what makes the Apple ecosystem so compelling is the consistency and coherence.
> SBF's claim is that Alameda took a margin loan as an FTX customer just like any other customer might, and then lost their money gambling.

Is it normal for margin loan funds to come from customer deposits? For example, if I deposit on Charles Schwab, is the cash held in my Schwab account used as capital for margin loans to other Schwab customers? I would think not (unless I'm misunderstanding how finance works). Like of course the money is probably lent out like banks do, but FDIC insured banks have rules about what types of things they can lend money to, right?

I would think that using customer deposits to make margin loans to other customers would be fraud even if Alameda wasn't in the picture. That's what I fundamentally don't understand about SBF's mumbo jumbo; how would Alameda (or any other customer) take a margin loan out of customer funds if customer funds are supposed to be segregated from FTX company funds? Isn't the admission that a margin loan to Alameda led to the loss of customer funds an admission that depositors were defrauded?
You can scale a Fly app to an essentially arbitrary number of instances (`scale count x`), and deploy in any number of regions (`regions set nrt syd sin fra`). We'll load balance between instances in nearby regions.
> I generally forgive journalists who simply reporting on a story and get it very wrong because they usually report all kind of stories and it’s unreasonable to expect good grip on all the topics.

I generally don't. A journalists job is to report the news, if they don't feel confident in a given domain then they can sit the story out.

To give you an analog, I work on infrastructure, but I don't work on things like AWS policies every day. It generally takes me longer to craft up the right way to restrict a given resource due to that. If I left an S3 bucket open to the public "on accident" I'd expect ramifications from my employer.

That's to say, the onus is on the doer of the work. Now, if news outlets are just telling journalists to give it the old college try on domains they don't know, that's another subject.
You can somewhat detect BS by getting the model to also output the log-probability of its token selection. See https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1581151528949141504 for examples.
Oh, wow that's such a great explanation! Thank you!
Binary size doesn't quite work for the Plan 9 example because Plan 9's compilers are less optimizing than GCC/LLVM, leaving extra size that doesn't correspond to extra code complexity
I don't think any major streaming platform has a way to export your playlists without some kind of 3rd party tool
https://archive.ph/KWpQ8
I spent 15 years helping to build something great, only to be subjected to abusive gaslighting the last 3-5 years. When I quit, I was called irrational and emotional. Same year, 15 people followed my exodus.

I should have left years earlier, but money was good, and change was hard to think about. Fluffy handcuffs.

2 years later, Org still survives. Best guess is they are in rebuilding stage. No love lost.

Take your time to recharge the batteries.
> Agitprop: portmanteau of agitatsiya, "agitation" and propaganda, "propaganda" - refers to an intentional, vigorous promulgation of ideas.

George Hotz's uses this term in his interesting discussion with Lex Fridman on blocking ads and 'trending' topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIxl0kJmV4&t=8m55s
I admit DD is not the most egregious example when it comes to this behavior.
And then the bully, because for some reason they're still in the school - because you seem to think its "going too far" to enforce the rules in anyway other then mob justice - cries about how it's unfair, and then jumps one of the kids at the bus stop after school.

This is a stupid idea that doesn't scale, and continues the cycle of victimization: the victim gets to take on all the risk of physical retaliation. Maybe the next punch kills someone? It's impossible to know. Now they get to be on trial for murder while everyone declares they "just don't see how little <bully> could have deserved this".
Only when I’m talking to idiot managers.
I regularly get apologised to by customer service people when I have been waiting for coffee of food. Usually something like "Sorry for the wait".

While I am waiting, I often retreat into my own thoughts, mentally processing some difficult problem or trying to plan out a project in my head. When I am thinking hard I adopt a "focus" face with a slight frown with lips pressed together.

The servers must be reading my face as annoyance or anger.

I always say thanks and smile when I collect my order so they know I wasn't unhappy, especially with them.

I guess most people are more "in the moment" and maintain a neutral or friendly face.
What if the real result of "AI safety" is making models like this boring as hell?
For real programs, you should demand that the compiler hoist such checks out of the loop, which may then be vectorized the usual way.

If the compiler can't do that by itself, a library should do it.

The real issue is whether the information about the true size of the memory region involved is available at the point where it is needed. This may come down to how good the language is at capturing desired semantics in a library. Rust still has a long way to go to catch up with C++ on this axis, and C++ is not waiting around.

Rust claims responsibility for enforcing safety in the compiler, with libraries using "unsafe" to delegate some of that to themselves. Users then trust the compiler and libraries to get it right. In C++, the compiler provides base semantics while libraries take up the whole responsibility for safety. Users can trust libraries similarly as in Rust, to similar effect.

Modern C++ code typically does no visible operations with pointers at all, and most often does not index directly in arrays, preferring range notation, as in Rust, achieving correctness by construction. A correct program is implicitly a safe program.
free for personal use, open source, cloud synced, no device limits. and as OP mentioned different server implementations if you want to host it yourself. No idea why people stick to any of the proprietary solutions.
Yeah, tack on another $115 or so for the 1TB of storage. And as a sibling comment mentions, on-demand pricing means it isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison. In almost every case other than a hobby project it feels like the convenience of RDS vastly outweighs the savings of ~$250 you'd get by self-hosting.
Yes, Sequoia, Ontario Teachers Pension Fund, and a ton of other investors were participating in an obvious pump-and-dump scam. Let's not be naive. They knew what they were getting into. They thought they could ride the "pump" up, then "dump" the trash on some other sucker. But the scam blew up faster than they expected, and now they're crying crocodile tears. Boo hoo.

The investors might not have committed any crimes, but they bear some moral culpability for this debacle.

And to be clear I am not defending SBF at all. But on the scale of crimes, what he did is less bad than literally any violent crime.
Well, there’s two different angles here. I also might really enjoy working in AR/VR, but I’m almost certain that heading this way is a catastrophically bad business decision for Meta and will likely lead to worse outcomes for most of its employees.

As for my comment being “lame discourse”, fair enough, but why does that apply to my comment and not the one I was replying to?
> Host it yourself on a free tier VM in one of the clouds, configure a backup solution, and never worry about it again. And you don't need to trust anyone with your passwords.

> Use tailscale if you want to get fancy and keep it off the public internet or go the easy route and install fail2ban and expose it via public IP.

This isn't exactly a slam dunk, considering you now have to be knowledgeable about how to secure a machine that is on the internet and stay up to date with security patches which even tailscale itself isn't immune to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695886
I really hope that in 10 years we don't all have cars, that'll be a mega failing
>But it also (1) helps keep bad content off of the platform, so users aren't exposed to it, (2) lowers the number of human reviewers who come into contact with it, which is improves their jobs, and (3) frees up budget for whatever improvements need to be made to this whole workflow.

I think reading that this type of solution was created, and person who worked on it was laid off, makes me very sad as a Data Scientist.

I enjoy working as a Data Scientist, but I struggle a lot with the field. Lots of jobs are mostly about grabbing eyeballs or selling something. Some jobs are just total bullshit. Even the ones where you're doing something concrete (e.g. keeping a machine running), some days you still wonder if it really matters in the long run.

But with some of these social media safety topics, it can feel like a job has some meaning beyond just shuffling numbers around on an spreadsheet.

So it's disappointing to hear that people with the skills to create something like that are fired.