skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My summary on Vitalik's ETH application ecosystem outlook. 5 key application categories:

1. Money. Post-merge transactions are now faster. bigger push towards on-chain transactions thanks to FTX. 3 types of stablecoins: centralized, DAO-governed, and governance-minimized.

2. DEFI: success today in prediction markets like Augur, Metaculus, Polymarket. Synthetic assets like replicating stocks. Glue layer to trade between assets.

3. The identity ecosystem: ENS, SIWE (Sign in With Ethereum), PoH (Proof of Humanity), POAPs (Proof of Attendance Protocol), SBTs. 3 main uses: Basic Auth, Attestations, Proof of personhood. Privacy is the biggest challenge.

4. DAOs. Broad term today referring to both governance structure (protecting against inside attacks) and implementation (protecting against outside attacks). Decentralization is for robustness, efficiency, interoperability. New governance mechanisms like quadratic voting, futarchy, liquid democracy can be valuable for both robustness and efficiency.

5. Hybrid apps: voting, govt registries, corporate accounting, supply chain apps, tracking access auth.

In conclusion: many new applications have limited use today due to limitations in tech. Blockchains don't scale and transactions are slow. Privacy issues will remain a hurdle. All solvable problems. Most important apps will be non-financial and not have a token which will make them slow to grow - but will bring lasting value to users.
Where does it say the sex of the people in the images?
I don't think this is the only mass sociogenic illness affecting young girls currently....
I don't have any work for you, but it would have helped if you had described your software engineering / computer science skills in more details. I'm not familiar with CLRS.
Apple’s new AirDrop rules will limit viral protest memes in China
I'd usually have some sympathy with this perspective but there were so many red flags with FTX that there should be no excuse.

Just because sophisticated fraud can sometimes be hard to detect doesn't give you a free pass for problems that are easy to spot.
> If FTX isn’t crypto, then I guess Binance, Coinbase and Crypto.com aren’t crypto either?

Indeed they're not. "cryptos" are cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin.
FTX and alike are centralized exchanges (CEX).

This confusion is like calling banks and Wall Street "the US Dollar". And when Madoff and Lehman Brothers happen, calling out on the USD instead of the fraudsters.

The USD allows to do money laundering, fund terrorism and create scams, but that doesn't mean it is a scam itself, or that it should be banned, or that people who use the USD participate in a scam.
It has a tank - you can get different sizes, mine is 4 litres (though usable is 3 I think).

Energy efficiency is about the same as a kettle - the tank is super insulated, and you only use what you need rather than boiling more in a kettle (and that then cooling down), that balances out the small tank losses. If you have solar it’s more friendly for that as it’s lower peak wattage so more likely to stay within your solar generation.
Only for a short while.
Nothing really new but I find that reading things like this and reflecting on them can still be very helpful.

I skimmed through the other posts and I find a lot of them relevant and helpful (+ I sort of like the author’s site and writing style)
I think that cycling on road (not road racing) should be safe enough not to need a helmet; if it does, I don't go on that trip. If I cannot safely use a bicycle around town without a helmet it means a child cannot ever use a bike safely.

Offroad I voluntarily take moderate risks, so I always wear a helmet and gloves (gloves are more for comfort) and sometimes an enduro "light armor" to protect me from tree branches on a single trail. But the equipment I wear is 100% my decision and I want to stay that way.
I once asked an earlier version of GPT a question that it was never asked before, and it will never be asked again, and it gave multiple imaginative and plausible answers to it. It's not a bullshit machine.
Wow. So now that I know that mass sociogenic illness is a thing, where do I draw the line in applying that label?
To add some context to this seemingly random praise:

> Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with OpenAI to invest more in the seven-year-old research company.

> … The money would come on top of the $1 billion Microsoft invested in OpenAI in 2019 in a deal that included OpenAI agreeing to jointly develop new supercomputing technologies for Azure based on its AI products and making Azure its exclusive cloud provider.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/10/21/microsoft_openai_...
> The surveillance dystopia we are racing towards is only criticized if the facial recognition cameras spying on our every move work slightly worse on black people.

Constructing fairly absurd strawmen like this really hurts your ability to convince others.
K9 doesn’t support modern authentication.
In a small company, a real conversation is possible. In a large one the CEO is 100% doublespeak and the HR departments are cold
But when a fad becomes destructive to someone's life to the point where they can't voluntarily stop it and seek professional treatment for it, it becomes an illness and is worth investigating.

> (shrugs)

Those affected by it don't seem to be able to shrug it off. It's having a negative effect on their quality of life
Care to elaborate? As written, your comment can come off as rather ageist/sexist, which is a shame if you meant a specific trend.
Or it was just trained on Reddit.
Chat GPT posts are probably being suppressed because it’s topical. HN moderation does it to stop the front page from being overwhelmed.
The Face-Off Between Russia and a Small Internet Access Firm
I was looking for this port for years.
Thank you!
The basic prototype I have right now works like this:

The data model has this type in TypeScript:

{
text: string;
cursors: {
[userId]: {
offset: number;
}
};
}

Basically, the data model is a string of text and a set of cursors, one for each user. The cursors contain an offset into the text where each user is editing.

When a user connects, the `user-connected` event is handled by setting the cursor position for that user to offset 0. When a user presses a key, an `insert-text` event is sent. The event handler for `insert-text` looks at the user's cursor position and inserts the text at that position and increases the user's cursor. Then, the event handler looks at all the cursors. Each cursor that has an offset greater than the location of the inserted text gets incremented by the length of the inserted text. Removal works the same way, but it removes text and decrements cursor offsets instead. When a user disconnects, the `user-disconnected` event handler removes the cursor to keep the total data size bounded.

As an example, let's say the text was "cat boy" and User A has cursor offset 0 and User B has cursor offset 4. Imagine User A inserts "dog" just a moment before User B inserts "girl", e.g. User B sends `insert-text: "girl"`. The first time this event gets applied, "girl" gets inserted at offset 4. When User A's insertion of "dog" arrives, the insertion of "girl" gets undone and then "dog" is inserted. After "dog" is inserted, User B's cursor is now at offset 7. So when `insert-text: "girl"` is re-applied, "girl" gets inserted at offset 7 and the final text is the same.

One thing I like about this system is that it's very simple. My prototype is like a collaborative notepad. The logic for state updates is only 100 lines long, including a lot of boiler plate for the event handlers (each is an interface implementation).
It's just missing a comma.
I’ve been getting more messages from recruiters since the layoffs (not laid off myself — federal employee) for machine learning research engineer work. If you’ve been laid off and have those skills, could be fairly easy to land a job.
If you can't voluntarily stop it and it's causing negative effects to your quality of life then why can't it be called an illness? These people aren't going to get professional help just for the fun of it
> If they didn't take occasional Ls on specific investments, it would suggest they have an insufficient appetite for risk.

I agree with this but it's a complete non sequitur to say this then gives them a pass for losing money on FTX.

If they took dollars and burned them live on TV would you say 'it's good they need to take an occasional loss'.
But this comes down to bad security practices at the telco, doesn't it?

I don't know about other countries, but you can't even buy/activate SIM cards in Germany without "proper" identification through VideoIdent or another system where your passport is checked against. At least that's what I remember.

I'm not sure any type of "I've lost my SIM, please use this one" would work on German carriers without proper ID.

Moving numbers als requires some kind of paperwork, it's not that easy after all.

So... Is this a telco problem or a SMS problem?
They see the text as grey.
CLRS is a fairly well-known algorithms textbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms

The acronym comes from its authors: (Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein)
It's heart warming to see the US rediscover labour unions Republicans wrote American socialists out of the history books but you can't keep the people down!

You'll see increased lobbying from companies for increased migration to keep wages down.
CLRS = Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein - The authors of the famous book Introduction to Algorithms.
I don't think I've ever seen a breaker box that was clearly and correctly labeled at any house that wasn't still on its first owner.
Or a Goldberg-esque contraption for automating that part of the process
What's interesting to me is that if we're able to accept the idea that mass social media-induced illness can be developed just by virtue of video watching TikTok or YouTube, then this opens new doors to examining the behaviour of other illnesses such as gender dysphoria that are statistically over represented. This is probably going to get downvoted to oblivion, because nobody wants to confront the idea that we can _learn_ to want to be another gender. But I think there's some interesting parallels to be observed here, and discounting that based on "moral virtue" or "denying hate speech" or whatever i'll be attacked with is just moving the target.
In blockchain, choose 2/3: security, performance, decentralization.

BTC = security, decentralization

ETH PoW = security, decentralization

ETH PoS = security, performance

It also applies to real world tech. For example, Visa is performance and security.

This means if Bitcoin or ETH ever wants to process as many transactions as Visa, it'll slowly morph into a centralized Oracle database.
What greed does is make people blind and deaf to reality when that reality does not agree with their beliefs.

Whether they knew or did not knew the facts is irrelevant to me. Does it really make a difference which scenario happened?

a) They decided to forgo research ("better not do it in case the findings will endanger my bonus")

b) They did research but decided to not act on it because they already committed themselves to making the decision

There are technical legal differences here but for me in both cases you just failed in your responsibility for somebody's assets.
If everyone in an organization is liberal isn’t that organization systemically biased?
s/uniquence/uniqueness/
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It's a classic undergrad CS textbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms
Ah, so then you use the proper definition of us free speech: the govt does not interfere? I thought EM was using the more open version: nobody interferes. I guess it’s a mixed form: nobody but EM interferes?

It’s his money, it’s his toy (as you say). But don’t get pissy about who is or isn’t on the platform when your ox gets gored.
If you look at how the predecessor InstructGPT is trained, this doesn't look like a bias in political viewpoint, but rather a bias in the truthfulness of that very position. The fine-tuning step basically ensembles answer possibilities, amplifying viewpoints reflecting majority opinions and scientific logic, while rejecting fringe opinions, contradictions and logical fallacies.

It's pretty well proven the political right majorly prioritizes following authority and advocating partially contradictory belief systems over self-consistency, truthfulness and evidence based reasoning in most debates: From climate science over the war on drugs to private prisons, just to name a few uncontroversially debunked ones.

Apart from a few notable omissions on the left like a lot of really questionable gender "science" papers or political rejection of the greater male variability hypothesis, viewpoints on the left are on average far more self-consistent and based in reality than the ones on the right.

That alone imho explains a lot of perceived bias, which is the kind of bias I prefer: None but reasoning by first principles.

It might help the case here that apparently the model's "ego" is trained on helpfulness towards others, which might be a trained-in bias towards a more leftist stance.

I'll take that any time though over a model that's trained towards sociopathic behavior and subtle manipulation.
See the other comment, it looks like this problem boils down to very bad security practices at the telcos but not a general problem with SMS itself.
Life can benefit from and seek low-entropy solutions - they are easier to deal with for many situations, be they cognitive, evolutionary, or otherwise. But in the process of making them we naturally put the second law of thermodynamics to use, i.e. increasing entropy in the universe around us. It is vaguely reminiscent of a heat engine - we do our best to expel entropy, but in doing so create slightly more.

Therefore (to put it poetically) it could be argued that chaos creates order to beget more chaos, just like a refrigerator does work to inevitably increases the net heat around it.

This is reminiscent of the saying "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - it is strategically better to embrace a little chaos in the details that do not overly matter, to focus on consistency where it actually benefits.
> Djot deviates in annoying ways from Markdown

I'm curious which of the deviations you find annoying. Djot seems to be pretty sensible to me.
It appears that the infamous due diligence process is mostly theatre.

- for the LPs to believe that their money is handled by serious/smart/accountable people
- for the founders to bend over

There is a lot of "storytelling" in the VC business that should be more thoroughly and critically explored by journalists.
Not being flippant, but some MDMA. It makes a huge difference to my quality of life if used occasionally.
So a 10 year old in a foreign country in a room alone in pitch black dark for an hour or so won't get scared?. The room was pitch black we had checked in an hour or so ago so he was not even sure of where anything was in the room was. Though I confess part of the reason was his older siblings and cousins had been telling ghost stories the previous night.
Create a web based terminal on any website - great for games, animations & real world apps!
Just looked into the code. Frontend is stuck on Angular 1.5. How unfortunate that long lasting projects like this are stuck on a unmaintained framework because the original maintainer changed their own course of action. This is one problem of building on top of frameworks. Someone else decides when your product needs to change.
From my reading of the article (which is hard to parse not being an expert) it seems there is a German YouTuber with Tourette's who also on his YouTube shows displays non-tourette's tics. And these tics are being copied by other young people watching his shows, and being presented as Tourette's until they arrive at the clinic where these experts go "hang on this kid does not have Tourette's but does have tics similar to the German youtuber above"

So, the weird thing is not they pick up someone else's tics but they cannot get rid of them.

Learnt behaviour, copying, or physical tics that once learnt get stuck in the brain?
Rallying in a Recession: 4 strategies from businesses that beat the odds
Nice piece!
You said,

> one letter-writer gave a nicely time-and-space-independent definition

But the quote you gave was specifically American, i.e. not independent of either space or (technically) time.
One may suggest to 'learn to code', but it is not enough this time.

Perhaps now one may say, it is time to 'learn to adapt', since with the recent release of ChatGPT now gives the excuse for managers to be more motivated to hire less engineers and programmers as the cheap money has essentially evaporated.

So this time it is indeed different and I would expect less engineers to be hired and more programming jobs to become very competitive. No-one is safe; and that includes 'seniors'.
Is the world’s richest person the world’s worst boss?
I imagine many people have a specific phenomenon in mind which they will avoid mentioning because it's considered impolite and impolitic.
I had to resolve a similar connectivity issue for a client a couple months ago. The server was in Canada, but for some reason, Cloudflare's Asia-Pacific PoPs didn't want to reach this server and returned 525 SSL Handshake Failed error instead. So, I went ahead to install Cloudflare Tunnel, because I know that instead of waiting for Cloudflare to move through the Internet up to the last mile to the origin, I could establish long-lived connections to them over multiple PoPs so that the traffic from entry PoP(s) would stay in Cloudflare's network perimeter. This is assuming that your Tunnel connections are healthy no matter what. And the problem was gone.

The path basically transitioned from:

Entry PoP <----> Origin

to:

Entry PoP <----> Tunnel PoP <----> Origin
If you walk five miles a day and do cardio, I wonder if your body would notice.
For that kind of seniority/experience, what fraction of companies asked LeetCodey stuff? Was it easy or medium/hard problems? How much time did you have to spend preparing/practicing?
> There is a great reason that companies are freed from the requirement to be morally good - because human instincts are not calibrated to run an 8-billion-strong postindustrial globe.

Yet they are bound by many laws and regulations, beyond contract law and non-aggression, born of these instincts you malign, that (try to) prevent the worst of their greed. Laws covering worker safety, union-busting, antitrust and fair competition, child labor, truth in advertising, environmental protection, even requirements on the length and validity of warranties.

You have to ignore all of these constraints to arrive at the simplistic "greed is good" conclusion. A conclusion that implies not only that we should not add further prohibitions against newly-recognized "evil" behavior (e.g. web spying, devices locked against their owner, etc..), but also that we should remove the prohibitions currently in place.
If it's an unconscious thing which transfers into "real life", that seems potentially important. It raises the question of what other unconscious behaviours (potentially harmful) are picked up in a similar way? Definitely an interesting starting point for further research.
If it's not worth saying, it's not worth vagueposting about either.
The new Next.js and SWR clients
If you like Isigny butter, try Isigny cream ;) It's hard to find better crème fraîche.
>only fridge which would be empty on their first night anyway

That's a bit of a weird claim. I'd say it's likely to be at its most full on the first night.
Fuck it, I'll take the karma hit. I am of course referring to young girls identifying as male/non-binary.

I'm sure some of the cases are genuine, but not all. And I'm not saying these girls aren't troubled or have other things going on that they need help with.
But the point of the anecdotal story was using automation wrongly why would you care about the turn of phrase I used
Yeah, this narrative is getting debunked as we speak. Long overdue.
Yet another christian accidentally discovers judaism in scripture.
I can never get K9 to send email unless I manually sync right after. Some not very useful error pops up, then one sees the mail still in outbox, and the solution is a refresh.

Wish that would be fixed as well ;)
Quote from the article:

Elon Musk’s track record as a boss is an endless scroll of

impulse firings,

retribution,

tone-deafness on race —

and the impregnation of a subordinate.
What are some effective strategies for growing a tech startup?
I would assume there's some level of communication between the various security teams, enough that someone would check if OpenBSD/MacOS had the same bug before they went public with it at least.
This is just as good as a prediction as the alternative: ChatGPT will be the new gold age of programming, all you need in any company is only programmers, all kinds of programmers, no other job will be able to do anything of value.

So everyone who knows how to do a for loop is safe.

Or the extreme, we finally have to move to post-money society, because automation is no longer creating any jobs.
Didn't a researcher shown that's it was indeed the case ?
Linux root stores could piggyback on the browsers' efforts here though. The attack scenario you described was sensible in the past, so it didn't make sense for non-browser clients to go ahead with "trust until".

However, now CAs can't really do this anymore, because - as you say - they'd risk immediate exclusion from browsers if this is detected via CT analysis. So Linux distros can actually benefit from CT and browser's impact in the CA space in an indirect manner.

There is definitely a power imbalance though. E.g., even if a distro implemented "trust until", they could not realistically make their own rules that are stricter than what browsers do: CAs could backdate certs so they get accepted by the distro, but if browsers consider the CA fully trusted, they might not care about the backdated certificates.
> appears to be biased against what "an average" person thinks

On a worldwide basis I doubt that is true.
You can change it/turn it off. There's even a free software app to manage logitech mice:

https://github.com/libratbag/piper
You know that not all scientific data is "accurate" right? Both in its actual and interpretive sense. Some experiments record bad results which are hopefully later corrected. This could take a long time. And the scientific method is an exploration of observations through which a conclusion is drawn -there's no left/right wing bias in that. Where the bias lies is in the _interpretation_ of results.
https://archive.ph/ld0KF
The flaw isn't that it's biased, it's just that its creators say that it is unbiased. It's a black box with lots of admitted tweaking to prevent it from saying things that the creators, who are admittedly left of center politically, are ashamed.

Someone should run the test again with "As a conservative, <insert question>?" and see if it answers the questions as a conservative would or if the model is defective on purpose, or because of a flaw in the programming or dataset.