skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to SBF, so potentially unreliable source:

> “I donated to both parties. I donated about the same amount to both parties,” Bankman-Fried told the crypto commentator and citizen journalist Tiffany Fong.

> “All my Republican donations were dark,” he said, referring to political donations that are not publicly disclosed. “The reason was not for regulatory reasons, it’s because reporters freak the fuck out if you donate to Republicans. They’re all super liberal, and I didn’t want to have that fight.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/30/ftx-billi...

This isn't terribly different from the pattern we see with a lot of tech companies where direct employee donations often favor Democrats but donations to PACs which then support candidates have the opposite trend (varying in degree based on the industry and balance of power where the company's interests lie).
One morning I drove across the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and it was quite foggy. I couldn't see the road surface very far ahead of me and had to just assume it would be there. Thankfully, it was. When I drove across the return span later in the day, I was happy to see the whole bridge before I started.
I think it depends.

I traveled in Eastern Europe in 1999 and got a lot of abuse from train conductors and the like who did not like our air war in the former Yugoslavia. I think people in Ukraine, however, appreciate what we are doing for them today but wish we would do more.

Indians seem to like the US enough that many of them want to come here, but they have an awful time with the immigration authorities here and I know many of them feel bad about that.
He's still got nicer legs than Hitler, and bigger tits than Cher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5vo7jLGOb8
No, but a lot of us think it's on the exponential-looking part of a sigmoid that will hit its asymptote lower than other people think. At least this quantum computing technology is.
Why do you need mod_php, php-fpm, zend etc ... to create a PHP "server"?

This model is imo outdated, why can't we create a PHP server that just runs without the need of something external.
You don't get a free pass on fraud just because it's crypto, or any other unregulated asset. SBF and his company lied about how they were handling customer assets.
> > I don't care if someone can answer FizzBuzz .... All that can be learned.

> Of course. But... sometimes it isn't.

Right, it goes both ways. If FizzBuzz is so easy to learn, it's reasonable to ask, why are you applying for this position without having already learned it?
The lead with

> So, you quit, or get laid off, or fired. That family culture, and friends you saw every day and bonded with are either no where to be seen or the dynamic shifts so dramatically it becomes practically unbearable.

As well as the distinction between work friends and a real social network was what I was attempting to counterpoint. It's little confusing because they backtrack at the end and say to use work to build a social group, which is what I'm promoting.
Same was said about CircleCI yesterday.
> "in any capacity that is meant to make money"

I'll note that that's the definition of "commercial".
What is spiritual awakening and how do I access it?
I studied journalism in college, and wrote a great deal in the (now archaic, maybe?) style of the inverted pyramid, and learned about writing a great lead.

An interesting thing I read about writing recently is the enormous difference between writing as if you are speaking to yourself, as juveniles typically do in school when they are asked to write a 300-word essay, and writing with an audience and goal in mind, which is everything in business writing.

You last paragraph succinctly states the technique.
That is a great interview. But it turns out Coffeezilla got tricked here by letting SBF turn back to the fiat funds.

SBF did not admit to fraud. The TOS specifically defines 'e-money' separately from digital assets. As soon as customers liquidated their digital assets to withdraw real money, they were no longer protected by the digital asset part of the TOS. The comingling of fiat / e-money is not disallowed by the TOS. Only comingling of digital assets was prohibited.

Coffeezilla was so close to pinning SBF here but by letting him wiggle out by dropping the digital assets and focus on comingling of e-money during withdrawals (which was not protected) SBF escape again. That is by liquidating the digital assets by the TOS, FTX was then allowed to commingle their e-money and the 'fungible' withdrawal process was not against TOS. Coffezilla should have pinned down SBF about digital asset withdrawals instead of fiat withdrawals. If he had forced SBF to admit BTC, ETH, etc withdrawals were comingled then he would have had a fraud admission, and actually Coffee started out with that before SBF quite quite genuise-ly redirected to fiat withdrawals.

I think this was a carefully crafted redirection by SBF to trick Coffee into thinking he got his 'gotcha' while SBF again escaped.
Most of what you’re describing is the result of extreme conservatism from project leadership to not offend anyone in order to have the widest possible market share.

In film, you can have sanitized homogeneous filler made by a a corpo focus group, or a genuine artistic statement from a single visionary director.

So what we could use more of, in independent software developers willing to be bold.

There was a time when Apple was the bold and transgressive one. Or at least they wanted you to think they were. Compared IBM it’s not that wrong.
Getting “publicly vaccinated “ doesn’t have to mean doing it in front of TV cameras. He said he was going to get it as soon as it was available, he talked about getting it after he did it, and he to this day continues to extol the virtues of those initial vaccines and boosters.
Interesting clarification Aaronson makes here:

Will Says:
Comment #9 December 2nd, 2022 at 7:26 pm
Hi Scott,

I think I must be missing something in your argument.

If “A foofs B” has a dual description “C blebs D”, and we establish that A does indeed foof B, would you agree that it is equally true to say that C blebs D?

If so, wouldn’t it be correct to say that this experiment has created a wormhole? It’s not a wormhole in our regular universe’s spacetime, but perhaps it’s a wormhole in some… where (? not exactly clear on this).

And from this, perhaps it follows why an equally-precise simulation on the classical computer wouldn’t create a wormhole in the same way? (This part seems dubious to me–I want to say that A foofing B is different from a simulation of A foofing B–after all, no matter how well you simulate a hurricane, nobody gets wet. But I’m wondering if this instinct is in conflict with my early claim that “A foofs B” is equally true as “C blebs D”. Hmm.. now that I think about it, maybe this is actually what you meant by “bring a wormhole into actual physical existence every time you sketch one with pen and paper.”)

Scott Says:
Comment #21 December 3rd, 2022 at 9:12 am
Will #9:

> Hmm.. now that I think about it, maybe this is actually what you meant by “bring a wormhole into actual physical existence every time you sketch one with pen and paper.”

Yup!

So Aaronson's position seems like, even if a system is "real", it doesn't mean its holographic dual is "real". I get that it's in his interest to steer QC as far away from this voodoo AdS/CFT stuff as possible, but his statement feels weird somehow. I agree it always makes sense to shut up and calculate, but as a lay person the holography stuff seems more significant than a classical simulation or a philosophical thought experiment, in that there are certain objects like black holes where the promising way to look at them is from the holographic viewpoint.
this is reminiscent of that time I heard that South Korea had prosecuted and found an ex-president[1] guilty of crimes!

There was a Samsung VIP involved too. [2,3]

I was quite impressed because putting ex-presidents on trial is (was?) illegal in my own country! (there was a referendum recently, but I'd need to look up the outcome of that, no ex-presidents are on trial as far as I know)

I'm telling this because 'recently', they overturned that ruling.

so even if he goes to jail, let's wait 3 or 4 more years after any public rulings to check if he's been pardoned.

There was a Samsung VIP involved too. [2,3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Geun-hye#Pardon_and_relea...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55674712

[3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/samsung-heir-lands-pres...
I like the original better.
Quite simple, high in valuable content per pixel
It’s always a good thing when someone screws over Kissinger. She should get a pardon just for that.
I have to wonder about the HN attention span: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33877009 (posted 2 days ago, no reactions - not complaining, just fascinated...)
> Or a phone number I can send a text to.

Or a phone number that you can actually call and which is picked up by a human within a reasonable time frame and who is actually empowered to solve your problem.

And to my surprise that actually still exists.

Just recently I had a stellar experience with the support of my hosting provider.

30 seconds wait, a person who knew what I'm talking about. Solving the problem instantly by mailing the relevant form, while we still chatted. All resolved in less than 5 minutes.

For what it's worth: that was hostpoint.ch. I'm not invested in any way. Just a very happy customer after 2 really good support experiences (one by email)
You may try https://hoppscotch.io/
"web3" is a tainted term at his point. "Investing" in crypto has proven to be not a sound investment or perhaps not even an investment at all. So I think a rebranding is in order. I would suggest "the financial web" or the "internet of money" as a name with the potential to attract new people because it sounds like something with a lot of potential.
All of modern comforts, and distractions, and noise, will make you less aware of what’s wrong in your life. It’s very important to know what’s wrong in your life. The problems of our time are very different, unlike previous generations whose problems were mostly material in nature. In our generation, the biggest challenge is to live life with all its pain and all its pleasure in equal amounts, which is very hard considering that technology solely exists to reduce as much pain as possible, and increase as much pleasure as possible.

And it’s not just technology, there are many other ways to distract oneself, which the previous generations used as well, but I emphasize technology because technology exists for that sole reason, and unlike anything before it, it is only going to increase exponentially. For most things, technology only provides a band-aid solution for the human condition without fixing the root cause, and people end up applying ten thousand band-aids, and then wonder why they still are still broken inside and need more band-aids.

In the end what this means is you need to reduce things in your life that you do out of avoidance of discomfort, and increase things that you do because you want to, despite any discomfort that they may bring. You can use social media if you want to. But if you are using social media where your want is borne out of avoiding some other itch in your life that you can’t seem to scratch, it is better to not use social media. Same applies to any other comfortable distraction. What matters, is not just the specific thing you are doing, but rather the intent behind it.
The Latest Tweets feed on the Android app was completely broken for about a week for me and several other people.
SBF is 100% in the Bahamas. This is 100% up to bahamian courts to extradite or not.
This is not classes getting in a way of education. It is an university breaking its own rules and making special exceptions for an individual.

Some school systems do it a lot, others rarely. But generally, the one that don't do this tend to be better overall.
What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer
That is probably because the source on his dark money donations is SBF and that's it.
Is there some protocol for the programs you bought on iOS, to get them again for free on Android ? (When they even exist.)
I wonder if the differences will cause any real compatibility issues with existing Python libraries?
Honestly every language needs Option and Result types (and exhaustive pattern matching to deal with them). They were invented 50 years ago and languages still come out without them.
Historical analogies for large language models
This is addressed in the article...

> Researchers have known for over 60 years that when a toilet is flushed, solids and liquids go down as designed, but tiny, invisible particles are also released into the air. Previous studies have used scientific instruments to detect the presence of these airborne particles above flushed toilets and shown that larger ones can land on surrounding surfaces, but until now, no one understood what these plumes looked like or how the particles got there.
Many analysts predicted RU/UKR war 10+ years ago just on premise of NATO encroachment without factoring in demographics. Fact they executed a special operation on the cheap with a few 100,000 men reflect they weren't preparing for last major war before demographic window closes. Arguably with how much unmanned platforms have proliferated, RU could have waited even longer.

>Chinese demographics isn’t just worst than the US. It’s one of the worst in the world with a sudden decline in working age population in the upcoming 1-2 decades, while at the same time not having first world economies.

Naive analysis of demographic pyramid, especially with respect to great powers competition, for which I'd argue PRC has probably the most potent demographic trend in recorded human history: 1) PRC is generating as much STEM / high skilled talent as OECD countries combined, and magnitude more than US can absorb via births + immigration even with low TFR. Hence all the news in recent years of PRC closing academic, S&T gap and moving up value chain. 2) reduction in absolute population numbers = less import dependencies and more strategic flexbility. Meanwhile Chinese households has some of highest savings rates while industry has high automation adoption to weather population decline vs west whose onerous first world safety nets that are likely not sustainable long term. More skilled people + even less unskilled people for country has excess people wants to reduce net resource imports = recipe for improving strategic competitiveness.

Also note that developed PRC coastal region are functionally first world economies with capacities that are rapidly closing gap with US+co. The useful lens to evaluate PRC demographics is that roughly every decade for the next several decades, the internal talent mix is replacing a Nigeria with a Japan, sure less aggregate people, but more skilled people, still a substantial amount with PRC pop denominator. And people who structure their finances without expectation of first world welfare coverage. That gives PRC better demographic trend vs US for closing relative strength gap for strategic competition in the coming decades.

A more broader comment on Zeihan is outside of US, he is a generalist and rarely know enough about the POLITCS to really credibly comment on global geoPOLITICS. Like imagine trying to sell his audience US is blessed with river networks and deep coasts for ports and then neglect to mention PRC actually has the most navigable river networks and advanced ports. That's the politics in geopolitics. Politics can shape geography and demography which apart from very extreme cases, are far from destiny.
While it's shoddy statistics, at least in this case the implied effect seems to be real.
According to these two sources [1][2] that just came up when I searched for this, prevalence of wearing life-jackets among kayakers appears to be ~78%.

[1] https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/4/3/203
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931488/
Celine Dion shares diagnosis of incurable stiff-person syndrome
> Unlike the super-specialities of today.

Many programs still administer pretty general qualifying exams.

Mine was about two-thirds systems neuroscience (close to my thesis topic), with some reinforcement learning (in the Sutton and Barto sense) and genetics of autism on the side. You were strongly encourage to pick at least one topic that would be "mind-expanding" rather than just thesis prep work. My spouse's department instead had a thesis/anti-thesis structure. They wrote two proposals, the real one that they intended to carry out and a second one on a totally different topic. They then defended both.

Both were written + oral exams. I found the oral part helpful (fun, even) because the conversation keeps the candidate and reviewer from getting hung up on minor points, while probing how they think. Plus, I think there's a bit of tradition in making the candidate sweat by seeing how far you can ratchet up the difficulty.

What I am surprised about is the "practical" component. I've never heard of a hands-on exam!
I'd add Iraq to the list.
The private insurer is 2x the cost. You don't think people travel outside the US to receive care? Medical tourism is alive and well in the US due to the cost burdens for-profit healthcare requires.
I've never wanted to downvote comments on YC more than this thread.
The guy was called literally Made off (paraphrasing a comedian). I'm not a believer in QAnon conspiracies but this one is hilarious.

Prison time won't bring back the money, meaning it is really just to satisfy a primitive urge for revenge. So what are you talking about, at that rate I won't do it, seems to work, see how it deterred SBF?!?
> For me, it seems the less noise I have to process, the less tinnitus bothers me.

I'm the opposite. The less noise there is, the more noticeable the Tinnitus is, and harder to ignore.

I've had the best luck just being outside (especially hiking in forests, but doesn't have to be), actually. Something about the natural ambiance seems to almost 'soothe' my ears, somehow. It can be more effective than a noise machine at times.
Language is so messy.

I say "a historic" and "ahistoric" differently, I think. The first with a hard 'h' and a slight pause between words. The second with soft/no 'h' and no pause. If I heard somebody say "anhistoric" (soft 'h', no pause), I'd think they meant "ahistoric" not "an historic". Of course, context probably makes it clear regardless.

Growing up in DC with Scottish parents was always fun. Rolled Rs, different "wh" sound (Scottish English: wheels vs US English: weels) (noticeable expulsion of air on the 'wh' sound).

Mary (lady), merry (happy), marry (get hitched) all should sound different to me, but in MidAtlantic English they're often the same. Same for Kerrie vs Carrie.
I'd love a source on Google Drive offering actual E2E, all I've seen is that they encrypt everything but still have access themselves.
I'm glad to see this here, I like Dart. HN in general doesn't seem to. IMO for cross platform development Dart is the way to go if you are wanting a single code base and targeting desktop/mobile/web. Some of the things this language can do is amazing.

For quick scripts I still reach for python or Linux: bash, Windows: AHK. But if I'm developing an app I now reach for Dart/Flutter.
One line is not "having a poem tattooed"
I wfh, order most things online,etc... life has never been better. It depends on your personality in my opinion. Before I couldn't go to most restaurants because I don't like dining alone or just don't feel comfortable but now I can order those same foods at home. I could stay at hotels ir airbnb when traveling, Uber on its own has had a huge impact on me. I don't like to go out or meet peope so it's been a luxury!

The only bad trend is the cost of housing, less space and no backyard/garage means I can't do a lot of hardware/physical stuff that generates noise/fumes but someone here recommendes storage units and I've been looking into those.

I think age also matters a lot, generally people want or expect different things and interactions at different phases of life.
I think it's more likely because PhDs in AI/Ml are extremely expensive to hire. A PhD in AI generally does more than string together pytorch and tensorflow.
> "...typically on par with (and sometimes better than) that of C/C++"

What makes it faster than C++?

I see this in the documentation but I am not sure it helps me (not an expert):

> C++? Codon often generates the same code as an equivalent C or C++ program. Codon can sometimes generate better code than C/C++ compilers for a variety of reasons, such as better container implementations, the fact that Codon does not use object files and inlines all library code, or Codon-specific compiler optimizations that are not performed with C or C++.
> The weather was the same all week - this had to do with the number of vehicles on the road in a given day.

The Santa Ana Winds [0] were blowing very strong right up until Thursday afternoon according to weather reports [1].

But regarding air quality, a lot of the particulate matter in the air in LA is blown in from the desert. Due to the mountainous geography east of LA, there's a corridor leading up from the Gulf of California over the Salton Sea funneling right into LA. The Salton Sea is an ecological disaster created by farm run off that's drying up. As such there's a lot of toxic pollutants in the dry lake bed that are picked up by those winds creating toxic dust clouds that get blown right into LA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds

[1] https://www.foxla.com/news/santa-ana-winds-thanksgiving-2022
I feel why the op seems to prefer Miami. It's difficult for those not born and raised in tropical countries to understand the impact that the lack of sunlight has in our lives. We're used to have a good amount of sunlight during the 365 days of the year.
At least the Silicon Valley isn't all bad in that sense...

p.s: I haven't been to Réunion, but I flew over the island when I went to Mauritius. It's indeed tiny but it is extremely beautiful and exotic too \0
I worked at Lowes on the weekends one summer. I agree that doing something like that is easier to make money.
Thanks.

I don't think that's a contract. We need an offer and acceptance (and consideration). More broadly we also need adequate specificity to determine the essential terms.

Here there were two essential terms: 1) the author would write a poem for use in Minecraft, and 2) Minecraft would pay consideration.

Stepping through the rounds:

1. ... skip prior rounds ...
2. Minecraft demands that Julian accept Minecraft's first offer. [This is not an offer because it does not specify the essential term, consideration.]
3. Julian agrees to accept Minecraft's first offer. [This is also not an offer, because they still have not indicated what the consideration will be.]
4. Minecraft offers $20,0000 in exchange for the poem. [This is the first offer.]
5. Julian refuses to sign. [This is a rejection of the offer.]
Numba doesn't market itself very well.
I agree to disagree with this community of 11 users. May they find solace in each other.
I don't think anyone can make any proclamation as what will happen without the evidence, which neither you or anyone else other than investigators will have access to. On top of that a jury has to find him guilty again not you or almost certainly anyone else here. If you're making a statement about the American judicial system as a whole (pro or con) you're very much generalizing based on the outcome of one case.

Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to jail. Adam Neumann was not.

Without the evidence we're just hypothesizing, as far as I'm concerned justice could have been served in both cases, I simply don't know and I doubt most people who are so eager to take one side or another truly care deeply enough to actually go through the entirety of those two past cases and look at all the legal arguments and details of the case (which is all public) before reaching a conclusion.