skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agree. And because of this, any fantasies from tech of easily disrupting education look rather naive … almost like they’re still in the mindset of the student trying to prove their intelligence.

It seems then that the technical challenge is certification/assessment. Here, AI could play a role. If a machine can interactively and dynamically have a “conversation” with a person, that is randomised/unique and responsive to the student, all to assess how much they understand a topic, that’d probably do it. Combine it with a certain degree of oversight and random checking and provisions for review/appeal from “actual experts”, and you’d still have something that should scale pretty well beyond the university monopoly.

An additional factor is the importance of cultural/mainstream perception. There’s a lot of “hacking” or gaming of the university assessment system, especially if you contrast the reality with the lofty and important goals of education and edification. I’d be interested to know how many, having gone through the system, really put that much faith in the quality of the “certificate”. I’ve certainly heard stories of some people/institutions wishing to also look at high school or secondary college results because they’re less likely to be “gamed” (though I have no idea how common at all this is).
Please don't start this hellish, repetitive flamewar up again. The ongoing SBF hellthread is bad enough as it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Their culture of "works for me" attitude makes most stuff they care irrelevant to the rest of the world.
An early Samsung phone had a small bug. When you tried to dial an invalid emergency number, the home screen was briefly visible.

I discoveted that, with a lot of tapping at exactly the right time, I could launch the marketplace.

With a lot of tapping at the right time I could trigger a voice search.

I then told it to install an app which disabled the lock screen.

With, again, a lot of tapping at just the right time and place I was able to launch the app and get into the phone.

Led to my first bug bounty (a new Samsung phone!) And my first million view YouTube video.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/03/new-bypass-samsung-lockscre...
All valid, but the thing that stood out to me most besides useCallback being weirdly inlined—and this is more important IMO—is how awkward everything around labels is. Surely there could be a base labels component that just takes `data`, or at least doesn’t require so much ceremony around the vanilla interface.

The Svelte and vanilla examples are almost identical, but the Angular example looks much more like I’d expect, which strongly suggests (to me) that this is an Angular library with support for other uses bolted on as an afterthought.

That’s all fine, but it probably won’t get much non-Angular adoption if there’s no further effort to make it feel somewhat more idiomatic in other environments. Even if it looks quite nice otherwise (which at a glance it does!).
How were deposits fraudulently misused on Terra?

Sure, it blew up. We should totally criticize Terra for that.

But it succeeded in preventing Do Kwon and everyone else in the entire world from fraudulently misusing deposits.

You wrote valid criticism of blockchains, but you failed to state how SBF could have done what he did on a blockchain where everyone self-custodied.
Congress is not the current administration. I have no idea where this comment came from...

Congress is in session - meeting in person. Why should people be allowed to remotely testify at this point? It's congress - show up in person, it's important.
How many small towns or rural areas have you lived in?

Wait, don't answer that. Instead, tell me how much time you've spent studying rural economies, rural infrastructure, and the development of rural communities over time.
Assange assisted with criminal activity. It would be cool to see it argued in court but somebody seems hell bent against examination.
Ongoing discussion, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33962083
There's a much similar way to get to the same destination as the author:

> If it can't surprise you, it's not intelligent

> If it can surprise you, it can do so negatively

Ergo, the only way to keep your AI from producing a surprising-in-a-bad-way output is to make it too dumb to surprise you at all. In practice, I feel like this means a lot of domain specific training, e.g. an airline-ticket-booking chatbot that is not a general-purpose chatbot who specializes in booking airline tickets, but rather a bespoke chatbot that can't do anything else.
Making a Miracl: Multilingual Information Retrieval Across a Continuum of Langs
Thanks, this video is amazing.
I wonder if future students will just watch weeks of super high quality videos like this for the basic topics instead of listening to bored professors reciting the same slides for the 20th time. Would be a lot more time effective, you'd think!
Starcraft 1 in Korea was defacto managed by Kespa not blizzard, you can look them up, they are a Korean association, they both Kespa and blizz actually had strong spats and disagreements on it, Kespa would run sc1 not exactly like an sport, but somewhat similar to a "teenager's reality TV show" with the backdrop that the teens were playing video games competitively rather than doing wherever competitive reality TV shows do these days

Running esports like actual sports is not really how esports came to be, which is why I very much believe this to be the wrong way to go about it. These days tournament organizers care more of storylines of players battling each other than the actual sport, because that's what's relatable to viewers, humans are hardwired to like stories so now they try to leverage that more than it was done back on 2016 or so
They aren’t top 10 globally or even in the US.

They aren’t a tiny firm, but they aren’t even in the same league as the big companies. Mazars has $2B in revenue and the smallest of the big4, KPMG, has $32B.

They aren’t competitors and Mazars doesn’t even compete for work.

Here’s a list of all major US banks and their auditors [0]. Mazars doesn’t audit a single one and 90% are big4.

In my comment, I wanted to point out that Binance is not doing what a reputable financial firm would do, hire a major accounting firm and have them audit. Hiring a regional firm means they likely went down the list until they finally found an auditor willing to make any statement.

It looks silly to anyone who understands auditing.

My point was also that major audit firms risk dissolution if they are convicted like Anderson was. So there’s no way that a firm is going to risk their $30B+ audit book in exchange for a few million in fees.

Mazars doesn’t have as big a book to risk. And their customers aren’t major exchange listed firms that would have to fire them if they were convicted of fraud.

[0] https://ibanknet.com/scripts/callreports/filist.aspx?type=au...
Using Ubuntu is hell of a lot faster than waiting for such a file system.
I'm sure SBF has plenty of dirt on her as well, and he'll start talking much sooner than anticipated. She will go to jail, definitely.
Sam Bankrun Fraud Chained to the cell block
I love this. The idea that the ones that won't let you go are the ones you should hold on to.
As Jenkins CI was gaining popularity, before they added native support for templating (which I think they have now. At least in their enterprise solution?)and a few other things. I hacked a plug-in together that implemented templates. You’d configure the “template job” like any normal job, except you’d use a variable syntax ($whatever or similar) for any values you wanted the template to use. Then you could create new jobs with only one step “implement template” which had some prompts for the variables used in the template job.

It would rewrite the implementation jobs whenever you saved either the template or the implementation. It wasn’t super fancy or even that difficult to be honest. Just would copy the xml and do a text replace then force Jenkins to reload it.

It was a pretty inelegant and somewhat fragile solution. But it worked for what I needed. It even was the top google result for “Jenkins templates” for a while. I eventually had someone else start contributing bug fixes and I made them the maintainer.
Like this take, feels very even-handed. As an Elon fanboy going back years, I see this wave of hate as temporary, a natural backlash from overexposure. It has a "bullying the substitute teacher" vibe on twitter. He's moving from being an underdog in tech (everyone loves an underdog, and tech people are very forgiving of oddball personality) to an overlord in politics. Rough transition.

Would love to see him pull a Herbert-Hoover-in-WWI and use his engineering mindset to genuinely help people. People are focusing on the short-term (7000 people laid off at twitter! lame anti-woke jokes! what a jerk!), and missing the bigger picture.

Algorithm-driven content is eating the world's attention. It's misaligned by ad dollars (twitter, fb) and race-to-the-bottom viral stickiness (tiktok). Some lucky people have resilient real-life social networks, but a lot of people are stuck at the bottom of a soulless lonely well. Online feeds are a poor substitute for community. Everyone you see is better than their real-world counterparts (can't look away!) and unattainably distant.

Untying twitter from the next-quarter ad spend mindset is a great chance to reengineer it towards connection and away from broad dissemination.
Surprising amount of support for him in some of these comments.
Well, maybe, but humans can live at altitudes with about to half our normal oxygen levels, so maybe dinosaurs would have similar tolerances.
Company Culture around innovation is crucial, and a lot of companies fail to do these simple steps
Does anyone know of any good books to help stimulate idea generation and brainstorming?
This article has some context, including this part about possible penalties if found guilty:

> Legal experts told CNBC that if the federal government pursues wire or bank fraud charges, Bankman-Fried could face life in prison without the possibility of supervised release. Such a severe punishment would be unusual but not extraordinary. Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, an effective life sentence, for his massive ponzi scheme. ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-frie...
It just did. It’s called ChatGPT.
The financial services aspect is something I'm also aware of. That's in a way what I want referring to when I said it has defi benefits. It's another example where the big guys have an advantage, but I think crypto can even the playing field (my main concern there is I suspect it would be legally classified as a security)
I want to be very clear about something that is easy to mistake in what I wrote. I am not endorsing a principle that "all truths are just narratives and we should give up on the idea that some things are objectively correct or not." Rather, I am speculating that the neurological ability to reason about truth is an emergent property of a system which evolved to do something very different, namely to reason about what other people believe irrespective of if it ultimately matches anything you consider to be true.

Once you start reasoning about the fact that its possible for another person to have a slightly different set of facts in their head, you inevitably take the recursive leap of understanding that the version of their mind you imagine has an imagined version of you and so on. Thus we obtain an understanding of others and their actions built upon evaluating nested scopes to as far as we can think. You can say that the top most layer of the stack is in some way privileged, that it is the reality and is treated special in some way. But why add any special exceptions to the rules when you can just evaluate reality as if it were any other narrative scope?

Again, this is all just a guess of how consciousness is implemented. It is expressly NOT a statement about truth literally being up for referendum.

Assuming such an emergent phenomena is possible, it may be the case that artificial NN can learn to replicate truth semantics without there ever being a clear indicator between "made up story output" and "actually knows what this means" output. In contradiction to the OP, despite there being truth, there may not be a "true understanding neuron". A system of not-bullshit may in fact be built on a system of bullshit.
This one? "Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn (2022)"
It'll be irrelevant by then.
X11 has been doing fine in the past few years. I have both my home and office computer running it with dual 4k displays and all appear to be swell.

I use Cinnamon as desktop because it happens to be the easiest to configure for 150% scaling. I think I've tried xfce and some others but ended up with mixed results.
After reading an inspiring story in the mid 90s about someone that collected rejection letters for jobs they weren't qualified for (CEO of a national rail carrier etc), I turned to a life built on a similar idea. I applied for jobs I thought I could do, using mostly made-up resume information. If I was scheduled for an interview I would study like mad every waking hour until the interview. My career was absurdly successful by any measure and I retired rich 30 years early.

The resume is the dumbest blocker in our society. If you can do the job, just write that on your resume along with whatever else you think they want to see.
> Complicating matters, perhaps, was Michael Taylor’s decade-old plea deal over an investigation into a Pentagon contract that he won to train Afghan special forces troops.

I want to learn more about this part.

You have to pretty severely fuck up in federal government/DoD contracting to get prosecuted and need to take a plea deal over some services you rendered (or didn't render properly) in an overseas military mission.

edit: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/defendant-procurement-fra...

ctrl-f for "michael taylor"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-former-soldiers-plead-guilt...
You're pretending that FreeBSD isn't relevant...

You're probably behind a pfsense firewall right now.

You have probably seen someone playing games on a PlayStation 3 or 4.

You've definitely benefitted from the FreeBSD project without even realising.

Have you taken a casual glance at the list of FreeBSD contributors?
Did you actually read the 2009 article?

No where in it did he advocate for abolishing democracy.

His argument, simplified, is that it isn't possible to maximize freedom in a democracy. The simplified reason is because everyone can vote themselves bread and circuses until other people's money runs out.

He doesn't propose a better solution, instead he seems to be in the camp of "democracy is the worst form of government... Except for everything else" and thinks that freedom is maximized by living in frontiers (cyberspace, outer space, and seasteading).

I'm hard pressed to find anything particularly controversial about what he wrote in that article.

It's really strange how much people like to demonize those who aren't in their tribe...
To be fair, that's a standard way of debugging a problem. Cut away pieces of the program and see if the problem remains. Continue until you've isolated the fault.
He's been arrested for extradition to the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33962083
where is caroline?
They were ex US special forces operatives. They knew exactly what they were doing and the consequences of their actions. Nothing unfair or surprising here except that weren't more careful to avoid getting caught.
Right, but incentives are reduced as this becomes less and less likely for any given amount of effort.
The death of rail is sad, period. Watching all the steel for the old rail lines being ripped out of the ground since the 1980s is so short sighted. Obtaining rights of way to rebuild lines will be virtually impossible in the modern world. Well, not impossible, but orders of magnitude more expensive than maintaining existing RoW. Even the large scale removal of twinned tracks has removed capacity that previously existed which makes it difficult for passenger rail to coexist with freight. <sigh>
Honestly, one of my concerns is that a figure like SBF has one similarity with Jeffrey Epstein - both was/are highly connected individuals. I fear waking up one day to the sudden reveal of SBF's "long hidden battle with depression", before a strange last-minute relocation, then another strange event, then...

My gut feeling is that SBF won't rat-out any corruption that goes way up to the stratosphere of US politics, and instead will try to go for a deal, perhaps even help with investigations into Binance etc., however my concern is another time where we don't get true justice (the facts become public knowledge, fair trial, etc.).

Next few weeks and months are going to be interesting, I think.

EDIT: Some downvotes, so just wanted to elaborate: Nowhere did I say that the alleged criminal acts of SBF of JE are "comparable". To say that is an extremely gross and unfathomable misunderstanding of what I was saying.

I am comparing their involvement with politics and political figures (unequivocally), and noting how both have either alleged or proven to have been involved in illegal activity. I feel like it's a pretty important and note-worthy point to make, but YMMV.

However, I understand that my wording could have made that more clear for everyone. I apologise for that. Sorry.
Yea, the whole target bay is in vacuum which helps with the arcing.
So I’m just going to throw this out there … words are deeper than dictionaries. Especially in intellectual conversations concerning abstract or complex concepts, the synthesis of “new” words is pretty fundamental. The line between sentence and word in terms of the composition of elements into new combinations is less clear than a basic language understanding indicates. I call this excessively constrictive lexicality, for want of a better word.
Soccer's history is very interesting, there used to be several competing international or local bodies fighting each other for control over soccer rules and therefore how people "ought" play soccer and therefore power

Blizzard vs Kespa is very much that situation happening again. Now days in soccer the field is the way it is exactly because of fifa's ever present hand
In many cases, I'd agree.

However, with anything that remotely smells like it's close to the technology field? Any clarification you might get, is probably 10 years out of date. At best.
For certain values of engineering steps.

Scaling up Qplasma from 1 to ~1000, and scaling up operating time from a microsecond to a megasecond are just two of them.

I have a feeling there is still some science to do.
I switched jobs recently and took a step down in title. My pay increased and the team dynamic and management is decidedly less toxic than my previous job, so... win overall!
They were not clean. They admitted their guilt and made deals.
I skimmed the entire document and didn’t see any new information and in particular i didn’t see any evidence of a particular crime that could be pinned on SBF, other than negligence. (I’m sure he’s guilty of many crimes, i just didn’t see new evidence in this document)
That's how Object Oriented Programming works.

It's also how our brains work. Existing parts of the brain remain, they just get overridden here and there by new layers added on. Sometimes the original rat brain takes over. If you've ever gone into a blind rage, for example, that's the rat brain asserting itself.
I used to play games for free at the local internet café. Not sure how the system locks work today, but back then there was some special software preventing you from using the computer unless you had paid for access. I read somewhere that there was a keyboard combination, I think it was Win + U, which brought up an accessibility screen. From there you could click on a "Read more" link and it would open up a browser and bypass the lock!
What I found funny about that kind of attitude is less the conspiratorial mindset but more the weirdly gullible perception of the world of crime.

People who are willing to be bribed generally tend to lack integrity and loyalty, so if you ever think that handing a corrupt person money is going to protect you once you turn from an asset into a liability with no leverage, stay out of that world. Which is probably what SBF thought too, which is why he was a really shoddy political operator and white collar fraudster with a very short lifespan.
> No one in ed-tech has built a tool that gives that confidence. Online universities have no pre-existing weight, and it is trivial to imagine hiring someone to do the work for you (this may now also be possible in university, but until that becomes a widespread notion it won't matter for this problem).

State schools have a really unique potential here. There are many now that will confer an on-campus bachelors diploma for 100% remote degrees. The coursework is equally rigorous, administered by a single professor with small class sizes, and the exams are proctored. Any attempt at cheating can be easily snuffed out in this environment. MOOCs are a dead end in terms of providing this. But a state school is a respectable degree and I really hope they’ll extend this to STEM subjects soon.
My proudest hack was completing my bachelor in 2 years instead of the usual 3 (The Netherlands). I could just enroll into 3rd year courses. I told my study advisor this. He told me that it could not be done with a very stern face. I told him: I'll prioritize my second year courses over my third year courses, deal? He reluctantly agreed. He told me I'd burn out. He was wrong. Well, at one point I almost did but that was because I did 6 months in 2 months for fun (done that for a whole year, it'd be 1 year in 3 years). I realized that 2 academic years per actual year was my comfortable study rate.

He gave me a graduation speech where he expressed his surprise as no one had done it for a very long time.

Meanwhile while putting stuff like that on my CV (including stuff like cum laude, TA, teaching as a web development bootcamp instructor, some actual programming experience, hall of fame with computer graphics engine building). No one cared :')

Other than Facebook (3 years after graduation), no one interviewed me at a FAANG. No cared about my big achievement that I'm proud of. People don't get it. You think it's only possible in 3 as if it's a set in stone rule (people at my uni certainly believed it) and you defy that and succeed! The disbelief on people their faces. And I shared my exploits and other students were able to do it too! The sheer rebellion of it all! Yea, it was fun :)

For anyone in uni, you can most likely do it too.

The fact that no recruiter or hiring manager at any hip company I wanted to work at cared, it made me bitter for a few years. I really wanted to work for a big tech company for those few years. In truth, I wanted that because I wanted to earn some good money while being fully immersed in the tech world and just focus hardcore on tech. I never got that opportunity (other than FB, which I failed). Focusing hardcore on tech, I did get that by simply studying at VU

Instead, now I work 4 days per week and am mostly working remote living my life as a digital nomad. That's my hack to the question "how do you become rich right now?" If you're single, work 4 days per week and travel. I'm on a Western European salary, so it's doable but I'm not making any savings. Like I said, it's a hack.

And if you're like "we meant computer systems!" Well, it wasn't specified, so I could hack my answer ;-)

I played a lot of hackthebox.eu and I realized that: hacking is a spirit.
I'd love to see a TV spectacle of him pleading the 5th in an orange jumpsuit.
What? Wherever you put your goalpost, my goalpost was always wanting to see this guy convicted and imprisoned. That's the goalpost that actually matters when you're talking about the prosecution of criminals.