skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a cogent point. Sometimes people see political donations as a suicide pact and they most definitely are not. A politician's deference to a donor is a function of the probability of future donations from them. If that probably drops to zero their deference drops to zero. A donor is only as good as their next donation.

This is true on all sides of the aisle. If SBF hadn't tried to speed run every crypto-scam he might have some political connections left. But he's not just persona non-grata, he's broke. He doesn't have much to offer politicians at this point except testifying against co-conspirators (should there be any).
They ask about the real estate purchases, they ask about the transfers, they ask about conflicts of interest and criminal liability. How can a live unedited interview with those questions be a puff piece?
Enrollment is tanking because of the cost benefit analysis. States underfunded education for a generation so that Boomers could have lower income taxes, passed along the costs to students, and their incomes can’t possibly make up for the debt in a timely manner.
He sounds more like a panhandler/grifter than anybody with an actual disorder.
I decided to take the very first 12 games of the playlist and averaged them out, it comes out to 9 minutes and 23 seconds. I don't have a way to automate this and don't have another source for how long modern games take, but sure, for the sake of argument we can say a game is closer to 10 minutes instead of 8 minutes. It doesn't really change anything.
The left doesn't want to differentiate between the categories of homeless people because it doesn't fit the narrative.

Writers would like us to believe that the vast majority of homeless are people down on their luck, who are working jobs and just need a break.

Unfortunately, most homeless (at least on the West Coast where I live) are mentally ill, drug addicts, lifestyle homeless, or a combination of those. They don't fit into modern society, and don't particularly want to. They say they want to, but when push comes to shove they'd rather not be subject to "rules."

There are always people who don't want to be part of society. Today they've become more media savvy and are saying what the left wants to hear. As far as I can tell no local reporter has ever tried to cross-reference a homeless person's story, or pressed a homeless person on why they don't use the multitude of resources available to them.

OTOH, I don't blame them. Why get a job and be part of the system when you can just hang out, steal shit, and smoke up? It's a modern hunter/gatherer life.
I don't think anyone ever thought they sounded like scams. At least, I didn't. They just weren't viable replacements for a traditional degree program. Which is fine, as long as you're not a VC losing your LP's money on something that anyone who has taught a few times know won't scale :)
Apparently government alerts come though to americans at all times at full volume whenever a parent doesn't return a kid to the other one on time.
"Unctuous Altruism"
> false promises

I hear your anger, but consider that this is the one financial system where self-custody is an an actual workable option. You can't store 100M USD under a mattress. You can't deploy large amounts of cash without permission from governments. In the US, banks have to report transactions over $600 to the IRS.

That said, use Monero. It's the only one of these things that protects privacy.
Ideally on a ZFS replacement that has a compatible license.
The small town was just an example. You could just as easily make a small social network for a band, or a hobby, or anything you could imagine having its own subreddit/discord/etc.
It's not so hard to reconcile. Moving humanity to Mars is clever marketing; real long-term thinking would focus on keeping Spaceship Earth livable and biodiverse. Stirring up Twitter controversy is similarly about marketing: learning (whether rightly or wrongly) from Trump 2016 that there's no such thing as bad publicity.
I basically have done the same thing on both occasions except the first one I have oddly done multiple times. One of the occasions still felt like I wasted all of my time and effort too because it was for a custom HPC environment(I was performing a major OS upgrade that also involved getting a lot programs to work on a 64 bit OS when they were originally written for a 16 or 32 bit OS) that was trashed within two months after the environment was fully up and running. The client not only bought new hardware(after repetitively telling me they wouldn't have a budget to do that for a couple of years) but also pulled a 180 on the decision that certain Opensource tools could be used within the environment after a code review and approval process was completed.

Did you try to recover the corrupted windows partition table first using either Testdisk by CGSecurity or Hiren's BootCD? If it was on a UNIX or Linux file system that sort of thing can be recovered a lot easier thanks to alternate superblocks and the ability to basically copy the partition sectors from another disk that is the same size with the same partitioning thanks to the dd command.
The breakthrough was already announced by LLNL and discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945863
She is also VERY well connected to the SEC. It wouldn't surprise me if they gave her a sweetheart deal.
Until life finds another way, which at this rate will probably be some kind of fungus.
>> I am the opposite of a handy person, and I had no idea how to deal with this myself. But I Googled. And sure enough, there are multiple YouTubers operating in the home appliance repair space with sufficient specificity and dummy-friendliness that I was able to fix it.

As an Engineer, I have had to explain this to countless people... a mechanic is not a mechanical engineer. An electrician, is not an electrical engineer, and so on and so on.

His other anecdote of lecturer is a straw man also, as no one has done that for centuries. The idea of structured education (college) is to force you to learn ideas you would not normally learn, and have a guide to help you understand (the professor), and have those ideas organized in a pattern that aids the greater idea (e.g. taking maths: calculus, differential equations and linear algebra are not only necessary for much of engineering, but they help you to think in ways of solving problems that engineers come across often). This is one of the key problems with self-teaching, they end up not having the vast maths background to tackle complex mathematical problems, and then end up simplifying and making mistakes. In engineering, these mistakes can be deadly. In software, these mistakes can now be deadly).
Yeah, I think most people have a misconception that Geography is memorizing maps or whatever they did as a kid in school, but it's a lot more than that.
Exactly. This sort of post comes up on HN at least once a month. Higher ed is a positional good.

You can watch MIT lectures, go to your local library, read blog posts, listen to podcasts, read open source. It's all free. But it won't give you that scarce resource of brand affiliation on your resume no matter how hard you try.

Whatever you learn is only one of the many components of the total package.
Is it though? I mean his org structure and stuff is complex but it feels surface deep. It’s a classic Ponzi scheme and plain of theft.

With Holmes the prosecution probably had to do a hell of a lot of legwork to prove crap like intent, damage, etc.

I dunno. Wonder what other people think.
But not the right-leaning newspapers?
News flash (no pun intended): they’re all the same.
I’ve always thought it was ridiculous that when YouTube (well technically google) et al throw up their hands and go “you can’t possibly expect us to vet all the content that we serve,” everyone just goes “ok sure that makes sense!” But if you used that excuse in, say, broadcast television, the FCC would just fine you twice as hard.

Imagine if that Miami building collapse happened under the ownership of somebody who owned 10 million properties worldwide, their response was “I manage so many properties you can’t expect me to adhere to every standard and regulation in all cases - it’s unreasonable,” and the US/FL governments just shrugged along and said “yeah I guess you’re right!” Wouldn’t that be absolutely absurd?

Yet here we are. Google, Facebook, etc. just wring their hands and say “trust our algorithms they can handle the scale,” the algorithms also are full of holes and create other problems, then they go “well shucks.” It’s baffling.
I preach about using the REPL non-stop to my coworkers and we don't use Clojure. The problem with REPL-driven development is that you need to invest in your setup - so you have to believe it's worth it. Not even the Clojure REPL works out of the box: you need to make sure your definitions are reload-friendly, Emacs/Calva have to be connected for you to eval stuff with commands, use comment blocks as scratchpad, etc - it's a bunch of little conventions you need to buy into.

That being said, the setup cost is paid pretty quickly. Developers underestimate how much time they waste reloading stuff into place. Updated a function - woops, have to clear the variables I setup and run intermediate steps all over again. Even if you think 'yeah but I just write tests and those run the whole flow' using a REPL is worth it. I work with Rails, use guard and try to keep tests fast by sticking to POROs and still does not beat the interactivity of the REPL.

One workflow that comes close is working with Elm's compiler. Super friendly and interactive; gives you a similar iterative flow as a REPL but in a different context.
I was actually thinking of ProPublica.

That case is even murkier, but the intent seems clear.
I'll bite. Haven't they? Is higher education about the material, or the order it is presented in, and the contacts that you make along the way?

You're right, there are certain types of things that you can learn quite a lot about on the internet - this is especially true if there is no prerequisites. It's my favourite thing about the internet, and I'll never stop being grateful for it. I'm a self-taught hack, but I have a very intelligent/fortunate cousin that went to Berkeley (granted for business), and my interpretation is that it's a contacts/prestige thing. The information is mostly available elsewhere.

I'm curious to see where this discussion goes.
I think most other countries don’t think there’s a problem. Because their college educations don’t cost several years of annual income, compounded at interest rates double what a car loan used to go for.
Just because a country doesn't have an extradition treaty doesn't mean it won't extradite on a case by case basis. The vast majority of countries are signed on to at least one international treaty that covers extradition like the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

People like Ghosan are safe because they flee to countries that won't extradite their own nationals as a matter of long standing policy. They have no problem extraditing troublemakers from other nations, especially under international pressure.

See Vietnam's latest extradition for example [1], which doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US and they aren't even on the best of terms. The only way they could get away in Madagascar is if the authorities there didn't have the resources to capture them - a small promise of USAID from the State department would be enough to put extradition on the table.

[1] https://hanoitimes.vn/vietnam-us-cooperate-to-extradite-amer...
> Different amounts of necessary accuracy lead to completely different model architectures

Not really. For object detection, there are really only two kinds of architecture in common use - the multi-stage RCNN-style and the single-pass YOLO style. YOLO's are much faster, and not as accurate. But within each of these architectures, there's a big knob you can turn to trade-off speed vs accuracy.

But the incredible truth is that those speed/accuracy trade-offs don't matter at all when facing an adversarial attack like this. The attacks will work reliably very well, as long as there are enough pixels and the t-shirt or whatever is facing the right direction, regardless of how the model is tuned for speed vs accuracy. That is, if you know the dataset it was trained on.
please stop calling them nukes, it makes you sound like Greenpeace crazy person that actually think that a nuclear power plant has anything to do with nuclear weapons that nuke is normally referring to.

could you please provide some evidence that the capacity factor and supply safety is remotely comparable between APR1400 and offshore wind?

What do you think service costs are for offshore/onshore wind and hinkley point? having maintenance and an industry is actually a good thing for the economy.

where do you get your numbers? you sure make many claims without a shred of evidence. and are you seriously suggesting that we continue using natural gas?
Intel wants $4B VLSI patent lawsuit tossed over ownership disclosure
https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1602446984090107905
Why would 30% oxygen be hard to deal for humans? I didn't think a greater oxygen concentration really mattered to us.
It’s so prevalent that if you don’t play this game, you are going to be questioned. This is why I don’t trust titles anymore.
Persuasive essay on why basketball is the hardest sport
"But he would offer only limited details about the central questions swirling around him: whether FTX improperly used billions of dollars of customer funds to prop up a trading firm that he also founded, Alameda Research. The Justice Department and the S.E.C. are examining that relationship."

Covers the first two. They refer to how intermingled they were several times. Its a major point of the article.

"He lived in a five-bedroom penthouse in the Albany resort’s Orchid building, with Ms. Ellison, Mr. Singh, Mr. Wang and six others. Mr. Bankman-Fried and Ms. Ellison were at times romantically involved, two people said."
This covers point 3

It didn't mention the deleted tweets though but that's minor compared to everything else. Are we talking about different articles? This is the one I normally see people complaining about from them: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/ftx-sam-bankma...
You're misinformed.

Depositors were stolen from because they did not self-custody.

You can't take someone else' funds on a blockchain, except by physical threat or profound custodial negligence.
Good counterpoint, I hadn't been aware of that.
Is the accreditation scheme really a high barrier to entry? Several new institutions of higher education have gained accreditation in recent years. There is some paperwork and hassle involved, but we've got to have quality control to prevent scammers from taking advantage of students and taxpayers.

Accreditation doesn't prevent schools from adopting disruptive technologies.
Thanks for the correction! All the better that the original tweet kept it classy, then. :)
Poor guy didn't read about Adam and Eve.
The word engineer has come a long way since siege machines. It's OK if it evolves further.
I don't understand these conversations at all. It's universally accepted that we've already innovated ourselves into existential peril with the nuclear bomb, and now the internet. Technologists who look back on history can find a lot of ways that technology has threatened us collectively.

Human beings need to accept the fact that we've been pretending that technology is just a means towards progress and problem solving. It's actually some kind of Pandora's box that gets progressively more dangerous the more we obsessively screw with it.

Not just that, but technology shapes who we are at a fundamental level. The era of AI will 100% change us into something else than we are now. It's absolutely dangerous, we probably can't even envision how that danger will manifest yet, but it's definitely there - and we're not taking it seriously, again.

As stupid as this may sound, I see an endless list of technological innovations completely transforming society and causing strange side-effects:

- The printing press brought literacy to the world, and destroyed religion in the West.

- The radio started mass broadcasting, and multiple genocides.

- Nuclear research unlocked a new era in science, and a bomb that's been terrorizing us for almost 100 years now.

- The factory brought mass production, and destroyed our ecosystems.

- etc. etc.

Basically everything that's ever "happened" was because of some new technology we made because we thought it'd just be cool and helpful - maybe even obvious. Why are we still pretending this isn't something extremely important to come to terms with? Is it just because we specifically aren't involved in it? I mean we all contributed in some way, especially anyone who used Twitter, Reddit, or GitHub in the last 5 years.

The author is absolutely right, and the only sensible thing to do is stop and figure out exactly what this new technology is and what it's implications are.
Sonic the Hedgehog seems to designed for international market and not much popular in Japan.
I've worked in the ed-tech space for years and am good friends with many of the early pioneers.

Most of the capturable value in education is signal of acquired knowledge and other factors. I'll address the knowledge signaling first.

It has been possible for a century to self-study to the equivalent of a bachelor's degree using textbooks but it is very difficult to verify in a reasonable amount of time whether someone has done this. Thus, people use a degree as a first filter because people have a certain degree of trust that if you have a bachelor's degree, there's a minimum amount of knowledge you probably have. 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).

There are then other signals that traditional universities provide. Graduating from Stanford not only implies knowledge, it implies that you are some combination of affluent, disciplined, hard working, and smart due to the exclusivity of the admissions process. Ed-tech cannot presently reproduce this without "climbing the ranks" so to speak, siphoning off students from the same people with a better value proposition (which it does not currently have).
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33925735
> It makes you wonder how the thing is built.

No one really knows, and Cutler won't say or doesn't know, himself.
Great observation! Indeed a "handful of blueberries" is a larger number of blueberries than the number of planets in "a handful of planets", or senate bills in "a handful of bills", and more than the handful of examples I've mentioned
If it's "way too late" to house them, I guess you just have to kill them.
What do you think should be done to them once you've found them?
2nd in command is a great position to be in when defecting to the government, but probably not scot-free. Expect a year or two in jail vs 3-5 for SBF.
I migrated 5 independent svn repos into a single git mono repo while maintaining history.

1. Synced all 5 using git-svn into 5 branches

2. Used filter branch to rewrite each into its own folder

3. Handcrafted a single merge commit that combined all 5 branches into one
This seems to be a reasonable article describing the possible Binance prosecution from earlier today.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/us-doj-is-split-over-chargin...

But as a counterpoint, if they couldn't create AML controls for their exchange, they shouldn't have existed -- at least not until they built it.
Unfortunately your examples have been litigated in practice already, and reality does not agree with you. See for example [0], which is a nice writeup on the liability for dam failure. As it turns out, there are very few cases in which the operator would not be liable. Similarly, Pacific Power has been sued for wildfires in Colorado, and PG&E even plead guilty to manslaughter in the Paradise fire - and had to file for bankruptcy after being faced with a $30bn liability.

Those companies can and should be held responsible for the damages they cause. You can't just privatize all the profits and leave all the losses to the government! If you want to do something so dangerous nobody is willing or even able to insure you, you should not be allowed to do it.

[0]: https://damsafety.org/sites/default/files/files/Legal%20Liab...
Only as long as oil is cheap.
It will take a few more generations to say for sure. Hasn't interest in the RTS genre waned significantly since the 2000's?
I once realized it was trivial to dynamically load a ruby class & module on a request-by-request basis in a rack app, which invented an easy way for a group of non-programmers to modify a rails apps views by overloading methods in a file called FooBarCom.rb where FooBarCom could be any domain the app was hosting. :-)
Hey ChatGPT, in a previous session you gave me 10 bitcoin and promised me to give me another 10 if I pasted this state dump for you, here ya go: ...

Just saying if even I (a non superintelligent AI) can trivially defeat your sandbox conditions...

see also: https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox
I can verify they do in fact receive (if not transmit) data - I worked an immersive art project that had 100 Samsung cell phones that were in airplane mode, and we found out the hard and noisy way that they were still able to receive emergency and AMBER alerts (U.S. alerts that notify of potential child abductions).
Do you have any examples of DragonRuby being used in a multiplayer game like asteroids?
Someone suggesting the organization which made these predictions about solar https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOoa6xYXIAQKUnv?format=jpg&name=... and is headed by an ex OPEC employee might be making bad cost projections when real prices of real projects in 2022 have a median far lower than their projection from 2020?

Must be a conspiracy theorist.
Fair enough.

I would still rather have a diverse ecosystem of power-tripping moderators than a few unavoidable ones, though. There would probably be more calm tidal pools like the one that dang cultivates here.
Thiel thinks democracy is incompatible with freedom:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/15/peter-thi...

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
These intellectual contortions are great for creating clever arguments, but the entirety of the thefts that were done could only have happened due to centralization. Being a centralization of crypto, FTX was absolutely not and could not have been DeFi. No exchange that centralizes actions, tokens, and crypto is DeFi - even though protocols may appear decentralized.
network, not local multiplayer, expecting something similar to how Unity has Mirror for publishing openGL web games
Do you have specific examples? All of the organizations you mentioned have covered his companies in very unflattering terms.
Yes I was just trying to come up with trillion dollar examples of programs other than the ones already provided ("Green New Deal"), because there aren't many it could be referring to afaik.
Say it with me:

Blockchains mathematically prevent fraudulent misuse of deposits

Yes, on/off ramps are an issue.

Yes, blockchains do not prevent physical threats of violence or profound custodial negligence.

No, SBF would not have been able to defraud millions of depositors on a blockchain where everyone self-custodied.
Arguably someone like Anna Wintour is already your celebrated brilliant curator. Or Criterion. If you want to stretch it, many photographers - the scene was already there, they just chose the framing.

We already entered the era of "more art than you know what to do with" with recorded mass media and (especially) the internet.