skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a campaign finance charge.

The bankruptcy guy has to trace the money flows to political campaigns. Judging from his House testimony, this will take several months.

I suspect the pressure will be immense to return funds once the donations are officially declared dirty during the bankruptcy proceeding.

Also, if in fact SBF donated to both sides, then it will be quite simple for politicians to refund the money.
Naive question: Once they get out more than they spend, can they just loop the generated energy back in and keep increasing this exponentially?
Right… they got their education almost for free
The bill says that sale of smoked tobacco products will be prohibited if the recipient was born after 2009-01-01. Just giving them a smoked tobacco product is also illegal if it occurs in a public place.
We also have relatively high living wages. Drugs are not at all difficult to obtain.
Indie Game Dev: Assessing Risk
Britain is A-OK with long term reparations.

Mind you, that's for capitalist slave owners denied of "their chattels" .. not as compensation to those affected.

> the British government spent £20 million, a staggering 40% of its budget in 1833, to buy freedom for slaves.

> That’s equivalent to approximately £20bn today, making it one of the biggest ever government bailouts.

> The cost was so high, the vast loans the government took out to fund it were only just paid off in 2015. [1]

No slaves were apologied to, returned home, back paid, trained for future employment, etc.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200205-how-britain-is-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/12/treasu...
Personally I think you just have the wrong perspective. Increasing enforcement to decrease tax evasion _is_ raising taxes. And affected groups will fight very hard against enforcement so I don't really see why you think that approach is somehow easier.

And you seem be talking about the elimination of tax evasion as if it's actually possible. Clearly it is not. The amount of tax evasion can potentially be decreased through policy and effort and we just need to decide how much we accept. Maybe the current level _is_ acceptable? In any case, some level must be acceptable. What level is acceptable to you?*

*This is a trick question. It's basically unanswerable without knowing the cost of enforcement (which increasing asymptotically as the amount of evasion goes to zero). But it is a reality that everyone should probably come to terms with.
It is interesting to observe that the perception of time changes with zooming in/out. I know the actual speed of the gliders remains the same, but it seems to my eye that they speed up if you zoom out and slow down if you zoom in.

I wonder if this perception has an analogue in the physical world that has relativity as a consequence.
Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won?
An experiment: we repeatedly give a typical work task to both a human artist and a text-to-image AI art generator. Who wins?
But deriding those things one basically knows nothing about makes you look so smart and funny. And it drives clicks and views. In reality, it is just uneducating, shallow and lazy.
I smoked for years, enjoyed the taste and was never addicted. Taste is subjective.
Really happy for these guys. I've loved this game for 15 years.
Didn't they get credit agencies to rank them as premium and not junk though? I think that we know they were junk after the fact.
Well, let's fix that instead then!
It might be reasonable, but highly annoying if you run a, say, sign-up double opt-in or an email-based second factor/OTP. Customers don't like waiting an hour or whatever greylisting period, and so as a SaaS operator you are all but forced to go to one of the big e-mail senders like AWS SES because you don't stand a chance otherwise.
Rust front-end merged in GCC trunk
I'm still hoping it's Paul Le Roux.
I noticed that too, and interpreted it as a sign of confidence. I can't imagine a regulatory group writing something so dramatic without them being sure it's a home-run case.
Easy YOLOv7
I started smoking because my housemates did and continued due to the hunger suppression and the nicotine hit. I also drink coffee, it's not the same rush.
Yes. The leader of an autocratic regimes have to reward the key holders to keep their support. Those key holders might have a layer beneath them where you also have loyalty as the prime driver.

Democracy and the rule of law looks like chaos in the eyes of strongman. " Let some strong iron man rule us, screw human rights". You get: Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Putin, Xi, you name it.

Make no mistake, the tendency to have yearn for someone to fix the country is very human. We can talk about Trump for days, but he was chosen because he appeals to exactly that idea. To be honest, I had misjudged Trump myselves early on too.

We have to be honest with each other: in American politics there have always been a current that strives in the direction of an autocracy. It is backed by some of the most wealthy conservatives, they seem to look at the Russian oligarchic model as an inspiration, it seems. Not illogical, as for those select few people, the law, the trias polica, human rights and those things we collectively obtained after centuries of struggle are just brakes on their quest for more power.

That political gremium is successful in diverting attention from what they are aiming at. People are now convinced they should be afraid of transgenders and Mexicans it seems. Why? Because the support of conservatism is crucial for implementing the overthrow of democracy.

Meanwhile the self-coup on the Witehouse was almost successful. The Republican Party has been taken over by people that don't believe in democracy. If you know you have lost the elections, but instead you declare the democracy dead by telling the people they shouldn't trust it, you have given a very clear signal about where things are heading.

I fear many Americans live in denial, because it sounds too extreme. We should remember that Hitler did not win the elections in the Weimar Republic. We are getting used to more and more extremism and corporatism, which paves the way to anacracy -> autocracy+oligarchy. But apparently we have to learn that lesson every century. Getting rid of non-democratic elements usually takes lots of blood. The Ukranians can tell you something about that. As do the Iranians.

Keep dictatorship away with a large middle class, education, decouple journalism from corporate interests [1], trias politica (esp seperation of law making and jurisdiction!) [2], consequence culture, keeping wealth concentration in check, making any political donations punishable by life sentence and hefty trade barriers for autocratic regimes.

You see, those are good things for society and horrible things for the few.

________

1) In a case Fox News defended themselves (case of Tuckerson) in court that they could not be convicted as it should be blatantly obvious that they were not telling the truth all the time.

2) See the supreme court of the train wrecks you get when you don't have this in place.
This would be scary if Facebook were mandatory. The cattle still has to go to the slaughterhouse, voluntarily....
And yet if you asked Indians today whether they'd remove this from history alongside English and Cricket being removed, they'd still choose to be speaking English and playing Cricket, in part due to the huge economic advantage given to the subcontinent by the British "invading"
Mapping corresponding text and image into the same vector space is exactly how CLIP and other contrastive learning setups work: Have text and computer vision networks embed input data, and teach the networks to embed related inputs closely and unrelated ones far away. You can train the models on data scraped from the internet (e.g. images and corresponding captions) in a self-supervised way. Like you say it has huge applications for search and is also used by the generative models (to guide a generated image towards your textual input).

BTW it seems that the data2vec is at its core actually just one model, only the input and output parts are different depending on the modality (text, image sound etc.) I wouldn't expect the learned representations to be similar for similar content across modalities. The point of data2vec is to use just one model with a very general self-supervised learning setup for tasks, with the different tasks hopefully benefitting from each other during training.
It doesn’t matter who is at the helm, if you rely on Twitter or Facebook or Google to preserve history then it is at risk. Preserve it yourself or forever hold your peace.
>You're getting identical rasterization performance at a lower cost.

Not that lower if you go beyond the MSRP which most people won't see in stock. Industry insiders are reporting ABI prices for the Radeon 7900 XTX on the shelf to be $100 higher than MSRP, while Nvidia is reportedly lowering the 4080 price by 100$ to meet them in that same $1,100 price-point.

So in the end 7900XTX and 4080 are "the same performance for the same price" if you restrict yourself only to rasterization performance as your only metric and ignore the current bugs the AMD cards have and the extra ML/DL features Nvidia cards offer.

They're still both $1,100 GPUs, far beyond what most gamers are willing to spend on a not-the-highest-end GPU, which makes me think they'll still not sell, as the whales are still going for the $1,600 4090 which is selling like hot cakes while the value chasing gamers are waiting for something much cheaper or buying cards one or two generations older at steeper discounts.
This part's pretty incorrigible: "I have potentially pertinent information concerning future opportunities and financing for FTX and its creditors."
"same with the 7th place[^3]. "

No, that's not the Nim[0].

[0] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim
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According to Wikipedia: "The name was taken from the Fairlight CMI synthesizer which Strider saw Jean-Michel Jarre use on some of his records" - sadly without source.
Congrats to the guys but my selfish hope is this helps spur some life back in to the Real Time Strategy genre -- so good news even if you aren't in to DF per se.
So its a bit like a VPN? Except that you can join specific devices from a multitude of networks?
Hey Elon… What was that about freedom of speech … I can’t quite hear you over the hypocrisy alert airhorn.

Edit: Note for readers. I’m a political centrist not living in the USA and big Space fan and thus a big SpaceX fan. Elon is responsible for some cool shit happening that I really like… but it’s also incredibly hard to avoid seeing obvious negative behaviour he’s engaged in related to twitter and with everyone more angry at him than ever his attempts to be liked in public (the Chappell show thing etc) … I’d like the Elon of a few years ago back, he seemed more focused on just getting stuff done and less interested in reacting to the public perception of him personally…

Also billionaires are a symptom of a broken society. No one needs more than 999 million even with current inflation rates eating up its real world worth it’s still more than anyone could ever use and we should probably just tax net worth over a billion at 100%.
Life is life - nana na nana
Who decides to issue preferred shares? What would stop the founders from having them?
The CBC has a number of articles addressing the situation:

<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fogo+change+island+ferry+site%3A.c...>

Upshot / TL;DR:

The new ferry, the MV Veteran, was built by a Dutch firm, and at least one set of repairs required it being returned across the Atlantic to Europe for an engine refit. Substitute service had been provided by, variously, a sister ship, the Galatea, the older ferry that Veteran and Galatea replaced, MV Earl W. Winsor, as well as a fourth ship, MV Legionnaire, fixed-wing and heliocoptor aircraft, the latter at standard sea-based ferry rates.

This 2017 article discusses then-current issues as well as a five-year history of troubled reliability:

<https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/mv-vete...>
Regular fission plants take 5+ years to construct. So in the next 2-3 years you're expecting this technology to become mature enough to roll out and hook up to the power grid?
Never meant in that way. Do you create it? Got someone to do it for you? Also, how do you pick topics for websites?
Great point. This is the root of so much of the challenge on the internet.

There's a certain techno-utopianism libertarian view that says "absolutely, anybody should be able to say anything". And then there's a totalitarian authoritarian view that says "nobody should be able to post anything unless the Government authorises it".

Most people exist somewhere in the middle, recognising there is a lot of nuance. It's impossible to draw a clear, consistent boundary. So instead we depend on human intervention, and often the humans get it wrong - but it's the best we have.
Everyone's a genius when you can't get liquidated.
Sorry for sounding cocky. I was responding to a "mainstream" part assuming you meant it as an usual industry norm that had nothing to do with what people can usually afford.

I developed products for many orgs and had interacted with many of their programmers and from my experience they all had very decent salaries and absolutely shitty computers. Their orgs could definitely "splurge" for what I spent on that laptop without noticing much. As a matter of fact they spent more on their crappy hardware than I spent on mine due to their purchasing policies. From this point of view yes: I do not give a flying fuck about the norm.

If it is about individual trying to make ends meet I have nothing but respect.
>Build the game really well. REALLY WELL. Amazing artwork, great style, a visual feast. Fun, snappy gameplay. Depth. I'm talking hours of engrossing gameplay. Solid, performant, virtually bug free.

To be honest, this is really all you need. Now granted, REALLY WELL these days means competing with reputably teams (indie and AAA) with a lot of experience and/or manpower, so we're well past the Cave Story days. But if you spend the time pushing your craft and/or finding like minded people, it's not impossible to just focus on this.

But in terms of budget (time and money), your steps are probably the best to make a "good" game actually sell well. Personally tho I want to really try pushing the envelope with my project one day. One day far into the future after I really learn the 3D art pipeline.
Go and the case of the half-missing import
That's Director as in Board of Directors. In this case, "Director of Engineering" probably just means "Manager of managers of engineers".
Right, I meant to ask for Me, as it was after 9x and still DOS, or?
That column could be screamingly funny. I followed the author afterwards but he never reached that peak of hilarity again.
The cost is already well offset with a pack of 20s costing close to $30USD, most of that in tax.

The "smokers are expensive in the healthcare system" argument worked when cigarettes were cheap, but hasn't been true in the last decade.
> Didn't realise these were valid arguments in the face of the Climate Catastrophe!

They're not even arguments.

I'm not saying that people should keep driving.

I'm answering the question "why aren't cars going away".

Unless you think that people just aren't aware that public transport / riding / walking is more environmentally friendly than driving, the only conclusion I can come up with is that people care more about the factors I mentioned than environmental impact (or at least, that time-discounting of delayed negative externalities is significant).

> It's by far the most convenient and quickest to burn coal.

For who? I'm talking about the factors that influence consumer choice, not producers.
You are right. Total brainfart on my side. I skimmed the article too fast and completely misunderstood the approach.
Most people aren't as misanthropic or introverted as this, want to seek out connections with people and find social media useful in that regard.
This type of thing clearly just doesn't tweak me the way that it tweaks some people. I'm not convinced you could end up with a great way of assigning airport codes today, even if we completely started fresh and we assumed no new airports are ever created. In fact, in a lot of cases the weird corner cases are often situations where you can ask "Would it have been better to stringently apply the rule, or to bend the rule for ease of use?". Does it makes sense for London to have a LON code? Hell yeah! I live in London, I far prefer being able to go "Hey, let's just assume I can go from any London airport", because I know that LGW and LHR serve different destinations, I can get to either fairly easily.

It's not maddening for anyone other than someone who wants simple consistent rules. But simple consistent rules isn't the aim, and even if it were the aim, you wouldn't achieve it without serious problems. Let's just What3Words all the airports shall we, that's consistent.
I think that's because they're being charitable.

Not realizing that we can follow other cars is somewhat understandable. Bringing up following tire tracks in the snow at this stage is so utterly nonsensical, it simply doesn't pass muster when considering the ways to parse the statement.

Millions upon millions of people who can be served without having to checks notes solve following tire tracks on the ground... but that's your current bastion for why self-driving is "completely infeasible"

No good deed goes unpunished apparently, because here you are now wearing the misguided nature of our charitable interpretations as a badge of honor.
The chemical profiles are different (hence they taste different) but the addictive component is still regular ol' caffeine.
Or, to continue the war analogy, we need war crime trials and to not accept "I was just following orders" as an excuse.
green movement is an existential thread to nuclear energy
Of course, whether that's a good investment of resources right now is another question.

Even if we had no other goal than becoming an intergalactic species as soon as possible, we might still benefit from working on other things first.
My claim to fame is that I dealt with SBF and Nishad to get some Python code for their api client merged in, the first non-FTX committer. I coded up a lot of the api functionalities that were missing. They never gave me a tip. A couple years later when I pitched for investment they declined it as they "were looking for more volume".
While dunking on previous Twitter staff when they enacted that very precise policy (some moderation actions were shown to be reach limitations in the Twitter Files nothingburger).

Don't think because Musk can construct grammatically correct sentences he has any kind of coherent vision for Twitter.
Google reader wasn’t competitive with other emerging social experiences. That google+ also wasn’t competitive is besides the point
> Our society expects the government to Lead

If that were the case we would let leaders rise up to take the lead instead of calling on representatives to carry our messages to the central meeting place. It may be your dream to be able to sit back to not have to speak with your representative frequently – and fair enough, democracy is unquestionably hard work! – but that sentiment is not at all reflected in the democratic societies that I'm familiar with. Most definitely not the USA, which HN is skewed towards. American society as a whole is quite clear about the importance of hiring public servants to represent the people, to not have rulers take over. There is no liberty held more dear. Indeed, there are always outliers who don't align with the rest of the society. Hence why we have government to clean them up. Unquestionably there are Americans who don't believe in, or at least don't wish to participate in, democracy, but the individual does not a society make.

There are societies that do expect leaders to take the lead. It is not an unheard of concept and you might even stay it is historically common. But those are not democratic societies.
Because to be criminally liable for something requires both a) actually doing something that is against the law and b) doing so with intent (i.e. you knew what you're doing is against the law and you did it anyway... because you thought you will not get caught or just didn't care). It is then up to the prosecution to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that you actually intended to break the law. (With the exception of strict liability crimes, which are limited in scope to minor infractions and things like drunk driving or statutory rape.)

You can still get sued in civil court of course, but that's not the state trying to put you in a cage and so the standard goes from beyond reasonable doubt to most likely.

If you're a coder coding shady shit for your shady employer, you most likely know you're doing so and there's typically some trace or record left. But coders are not investment bankers and in fact may not even know anything about investment laws and regulations. And it's completely unreasonable to expect them to know. I worked on many projects, including medical and education... if I had to question and investigate every executive decision impacting my work then I wouldn't get anything done.
With the price of smartphones these days I'm betting a lot more people use work-provided devices privately than before. You don't always have a choice between Android and iOS in those instances.
While this may not work for tablets (?), the vast majority of laptops have a setting called two-finger scrolling that lets you use two fingers on a trackpad to give scroll wheel inputs.
Thanks for reminding me of Terminate and Stay Resident :)
What do you mean vague?

OKRs were used for pivoting Intel from being a memory company to a processor company in a super short time frame. I believe they were quite successful.
Improving the State of Debug Performance in C++
Firefox Android, ok.
If you want them kept for posterity, upload them to (archive.org)[https://archive.org/]

Just create an account and upload them. Create a collection called `historic transport photographs` and they will live on.
That's code rather than software.

Just because you copied the cookbook doesn't mean you now own a restaurant.

Especially in compute-intensive activities such as neural nets/ML, capital is very much a factor.
I know everyone hates on zuck but dorsey is worse. he is the kinda guy who talks the talk but as soon as he is in the position to walk the walk he fucks it up. everytime and afterwards he is crying and building sandcastles on how to make the world a better place after just drop kicking it.
Whichever prosecutor allowed the criminal foudner to flee the country after he was convicted, that prosecutor should be in orison.

I look forward to the day this chinese criminal fucks up and interpol catches his commie ass.
Jack Dorsey responds to Twitter Files: there were no ‘hidden agendas’
The german word is "Waschbär". As you may guess, that translates to "wash bear".
The Juicero juicer:
https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/
Yeah, I don’t get it why people speak about it in past tense. It’s still a great service, it still has great content (better than any other TBH) and you’re not the product — it’s a service you pay for, and there are no ads.
Think different. Exactly the same as all your colleagues.
Holding the title "director of X" doesn't mean you're necessarily on the board of directors.
Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network
So people in China cannot own physical property?
So in Jack's model, as far as I understand it, a bad actor could dox and post a bounty on someone's life, lose or destroy their key, and no one in the world could delete or block this information?

Do I have that scenario correct?

Counterpoint/question: Isn't this already all possible on TOR? Would ease of access make Jack's proposal more dangerous?