skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey!

Thanks for listening. The podcast being narrative, I've gotten complaints about the before, but my feelig is there are so many straight interview podcasts out there. If you don't like the narration then there are lots of other alternatives.

Now, it could be that I'm bad at narration. That could totally be true and probably I could improve, but it's a narrative podcast.

All content is available to all patreons. Rebecca bonus episode is not out yet. I should post more details and explanation about how that works but bonus episodes episodes come out on the 15th.

Me not knowing low level stuff is true, so im not sure about that feedback. To me I think admission of my lack of knowledge in an area is good and I'd like to talk about the things I don't know or my vulnerabilities more often.

Again, maybe I do it badly, but I think its good to be ok not knowing something and asking questions about it.
Not really, if they don't trust each other.
is there such a thing as in-flight re-engine-eering?
This is already a rampant issue in software engineering and means that there's an enormous gamut of what "Sr. Software Engineer" means between someone who knows how to "code" and someone who can solve large technical problems at an organizational level.
The solution to that is to make the increasingly intrusive security processes an opt in, not to completely write off anyone who can't reliably keep a particular physical device on their person and working indefinitely.
Because it takes a lot of energy to make synthetic jet fuel from nothing.
True. There's also advertising, which is even more hated.
Hey Walter, want to bisect a Windows bug and a bottle of Crown Royal with my pals and I?
So… Can they clawback the illegally “used” customer funds from whatever schemes were used to keep Alameda solvent? Where did the billions go?
DEXs exist. What you are talking about has nothing to do with blockchains or self-custody.

Again, read primary sources and learn fundamental concepts before vaguely disagreeing.
So.. the data set is licensed under Creative Commons, the source images all have their copyright (so how did they make it into the data set?) but what about images created with Stable Diffusion that uses this data set? Are those derived works? What license would they fall under?
> people of the same age group

Why is this an advantage?
Ask HN: Do software companies tend to hire more employees than needed?
I don't; I drink my coffee from a Camelbak.
FTX is a brokerage not a bank. Furthermore, banks have strict regulations on the kinds of loans they are allowed to give. Also, bank accounts are secured by FDIC.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=qingpeng...

Is great for vs code but emacs and slime works of course.
Do you think this will happen to the airline industry? Happily willing to take the other side of that bet.
Well…: “SBF was the second-largest Democratic donor during the last election cycle, and he told Fong he gave about the same amount to Republicans. ”

https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/29/sam-bankman-fried-poli...
Twitter Dissolves Trust and Safety Council, Yoel Roth Flees Home
Months? I thought it would just go through all the data and verify that the stored checksums match. Even if it fetches filedata more than once to ensure the parity bits are ok, how can it take longer than reading the entire disk a couple times?
So more than any place I’ve ever worked, FANGs have large organizational policies that make using alternative terminals like this more difficult.
Warp does a lot behind the scenes to do its magic. This was being broken by organizational policy enforced config on my dev box.

The warp team went above and beyond to work around those restrictions and configurations, and improved their product as a result.

I really liked that and it earned trust with me.

That’s all I meant. I should have been more clear.
Knowledge acquisition is, in practice, a problem that is not well understood.
From empirical evidence it seems that 1:1 mentoring could be the best system ever found.

With a tech close enough to AGI, it might be possible to have an even better 1:1 mentoring with infinite scale.

There are clearly unknowns and probably unknowns unknowns on this path, but the potential positive effects are too important to pass.
That won’t work, I don’t think. You can’t make the pellets much larger because laser nonuniformities and hydrodynamic instabilities will kill the implosion; there will be no fusion at all. But that’s not a problem, you see, because in a commercial reactor you’ll have a pellet factory making the required one million targets per day, and they will be injected into the chamber 10 times per second, with practically no down time. And each shot will have gain > 100 to get net energy out.
Somewhat relevant, always good to keep in mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Noyce! This is 21st century if I ever saw it, and I tip my hat to thee.
You'd have to be able to get to Vietman or Venezuela. I'm guessing he was being watched like a hawk. They could have arrested him at anytime, but having more evidence before an arrest is always a better position.
You're presenting an entirely new assumption, compared to what most people are discussing: that obtaining a bachelor's degree equivalent education can be done in significantly less than 4 years of full time study. In my experience, I don't believe that to be the case.
Sure we can. Nothing is given. We are very likely on a path of contraction over the next century. Humans are resilient, we probably won't have a full societal collapse, but we might.

If we could pick a World 3 track to be on, which one would it be? Now, what can we do to try to push ourselves onto that track? That's what gets me up in the morning.

https://youtu.be/kVOTPAxrrP4
Okay.

People have successfully avoided fraud, theft, and the tyrannical seizure of their assets by arbitrary decisions of arbitrary government officials.

Billions of dollars worth of assets are stored on blockchains.

Unless you have a mathematical argument against the properties of a blockchain, I will continue to believe the properties are true.
That’s not what I was getting at. I’m actually half retarded when it comes to dev.
What I meant was that warp went above and beyond to accommodate organizational enforced security policies that were breaking warp for me.
Do you think crypto is still gonna go survive as an investment asset and maybe go up?
Selling as 'food supplement' is just due to the lack of regulation in the US. It is a drug, and should be labeled as such, but that is not legally possible because it is not approved as a drug in the US. Tianeptine is an antidepressant and anxiolytic drugs used in some countries. Honestly, I would not object too much if they go after those sellers, but this kind of logic leads to the war on drugs and legislations lime the Psychoactive Substances Act in the UK, which is essentially a blanket ban on all psychoactive substances. It restricts everyone's freedom to experiment and improve their lives with different substances.
Portland area-- my partner was up there already and although COL is not drastically lower we've enjoyed living in that area (not downtown for the same reasons we disliked SF).
It’s a statement submitted to the record for a Congressional hearing tomorrow.

Seems SBF won’t be attending after all…
A bit younger here, but back in elementary school we got chromebooks when chromebooks were barely becoming a thing (replacing the rack of netbooks that was normally wheeled into our classroom).

Two things I did that were very fun:

1. School blocked a lot of popular flash game websites. My friends and I downloaded a bunch of flash games and threw together a website that we hosted on our chromebooks using '200 OK - Webserver for Chrome' or something. It was just a bunch of janky HTML and CSS, but we got it working. The school didn't block it because it was on the local network. We handed out slips of paper to our friends with the local IP address of my laptop. At one point someone made a Google Site with a link to the local address. It was a hack, but playing RUN 2 on your chromebook during social studies in 5th grade... man, those were the days.

2. Around that time one of my friends stumbled across crouton, a way to run Linux on a chromebook in parallel with ChromeOS. After a lot of trial and error (didn't know what bash was at the time), we were able to get Ubuntu installed. I remember downloading Blender and trying to do a fluid sim, which was super slow. I was able to render the first 20 frames of a domino and fluid animation using Cycles, which frames I still have sitting on my hard-drive somewhere to this day.

Some of my first hacks, older me is surprised how much younger me was able to get done given how much younger me didn't know.
Exactly. Graduating college proves a level of diligence more so than intelligence or knowledge. This is undervalued. Many of the smartest coworkers I have worked with were the worst colleagues. Intelligence and knowledge is only so valuable if hard work and interpersonal skills are absent.
>..."a few things" - probably less than ten.

Now those are fighting words. "A few" is obviously 3-5, six in a dire emergency.
Check out Apache Superset: https://superset.apache.org/

Originally from Airbnb. Very powerful and flexible OS frontend BI tool
In the absence of consumer protections in crypto it seems the authorities want a high profile trial to send a warning to others and to would be crypto "investors".
New bad actors will replace the old ones, this has all happened before, this will all happen again. Replace SBF with Mark Karpeles and the discourse is exactly the same, except at least back then the critics didn't have a legacy of fraud to point to.
This assumes a lot.

If Alameda executives knew that FTX customer funds were being commingled with Alameda’s then they were well aware their source of capital was from customer money they shouldn’t have been touching. It’s not just that they were given unlimited margin from FTX.
"flush out all the bad actors".

Bad actors will keep on existing as long as crypto is useful, which it will remain for the foreseeable future, specially considering the ever more restrictive personal banking regulations.
That seems more plausible to me too, that we'd actually end up with something "based on actual dinosaurs!", maybe even with "Motel of the Mysteries"-type historical misconceptions baked in, just to make them meet expectations.
You don't need to be spending money on yourself for a fraud conviction.

I was on the jury of a federal fraud case, where the defendants took millions of dollars in customer funds and used it to make bad business decisions and/or placate earlier customers.

It was very clear to us that even though they lived a very simple life (old car, $1,500/month rented house), they wanted to build the biggest company in their industry, and fraudulently used their customer's funds to do it.
AI tutoring and hiring will inevitably disrupt education. A degree is a really poor heuristic of someone's ability to do a job and AI will be able practice mastery learning with every pupil (only moving on to the next subject once the current one is mastered) and precisely identify and drill where they are struggling. On the hiring side I also can't see the status quo surviving, it costs so much employee time to interview and it's done so unevenly with such bias and even with multiple rounds and committees you still get poor signal. This is fundamentally a classification problem. The proctoring and suggested scoring will be done by AI with maybe human review at the end. Hopefully these are opensource and using open datasets so biases can be challenged but I can see this also devolving into proprietary models. Well regarded AIs might give out a (cryptographically) signed certificate that you are x percentile technically and even behaviorally or even going so far as to recommend a specific role and company where you'd fit in the most.
"why hasn't technology disrupted plumbing already? click here for secret thoughtleader predictions"

There should be a filter on HN to hide blog posts that are just technobabble musings with no actionable or definitive information. If I wanted my time wasted I'd troll op-eds in political rags. At least that crap is generic enough that I could have an argument in a bar about it. (or maybe I'm missing the point, and people in SF actually do talk about this shit in bars?)
It used to be opt in until the icloud hacking saga where the public demanded something be done. So it was decided users want mandatory security by default. Almost all of these services provide backup codes you can write down on paper as well.

Sure, some people are going to lose their only device and the bit of paper, but at that point if you have literally nothing to identify yourself with, it's going to be hard to provide a secure service to you.
Madoff's scam was so baffling because his contributions to finance before that were legendary. He practically invented modern market making but his firm and others following in his footstep were wiped out by HFTs.
There’s another view on this that these companies can control their models by just making them not do things. All it does is take text in and spit text out. It doesn’t have access to the “fire the missiles” button, no matter what it spits out. But (potentially problematically) companies sell access to the models so that unthinking customers can hook it up to the “fire the missiles” button.

I could see that setup getting us into trouble down the line with future, more advanced kinds of models.

I could easily imagine a conversation-based web browser clicking a dangerous button on a page, or generalizations of that failure mode.
Elon Musk uses QAnon tactic in criticizing former Twitter safety chief
Fresh installs were the norm in my household. We never bothered with in-place upgrades between major versions of 95/98/98SE avoid cruft.

Windows 2000 was absolutely the OS to have until MS tightened XP with SP2.
>This is why I will not use 2FA except on services where it is absolutely required

Software 2FA just computes a number based on a secret string. You treat the latter the same way you take care of your passwords. That's why it's best to handle them with your password manager. 2FA over SMS is even less of an issue (except maybe with a broken eSIM chip). Physical methods are a problem, so you have to spend money for a backup.
Also given that the big banks haven't been hit hard from this scandal DOJ might go harder at Binance since they probably didnt want to destabilize the economy unnecessarily with pursuing both at the same time (uncertainty around exposure to crypto in the wider market).
> Billions of dollars worth of assets are stored on blockchains.

There is no mathematical proof that they will be worth billions of dollars tomorrow. I mean, I would wager if the original Satoshi wallets wake up and start selling Bitcoin this time tomorrow the total market cap can be counted in millions.

Sure, maybe mathematically there will never be more than X tokens, but no one cares about that. Everyone at the end of the day cares about what they can trade one token for. Otherwise, it's worth less than monopoly money or Chuck-E-Cheese tokens.
I wasn't one of those people, but they definitely had history on their side. Nothing seems to escape prosecution in the eyes of the public like financial crimes.
Statement from Fosshost's Founder
Well, the fact that he's been waging a PR campaign lately is, in itself, pretty damning proof that he's also really really dumb, in addition to being a fraud. That his lawyers haven't duct taped his ass to a chair, smashed his phone and computers, burned any paper he could use to write a letter to a random reporter, and cut the power lines to his house is honestly surprising at this point. They must have explained why he needs to stop talking and stay quiet multiple times at this point; nobody talks their way out of being charged by the feds. And yet, here we are.

Everything he's done since FTX first crashed has pretty much been straight out of the most fantastical dream any federal prosecutor has woken up from in the middle of the night, certain that no defendant on the planet would actually be that dumb.
Are you hiring frontend people?
I mostly agree. The one place I split with you -- and hard -- is that I view the institutions in my life as charities. I am admittedly blessed in that all save one (my PhD school) really is basically a well-run charity.

The only one that isn't public and sparten is not rich amd not elite. All are way more lean than most businesses (<10% of staff are non-teaching, and almost all of those are feeding students or keeping buildings standing/clean/powered... I can name every employee on the Administration floor off the top of my head).

If you really want to make money off the back of education... don't. Build your thing and give it away at cost.

But I do understand why someone who only spent time in places like my PhD school would feel differently and view these places as just another industry. I just don't think they are ready for the fact that 90+% of the market competition is way more lean, way more low-profit, and way more human-capital-intensive than any VC is interested in.
Similarly with 60Hz hum on phone lines in any recent decade. If the phone doesn’t have a filter, which it probably does, you can notch the hum for $20. OP is verysmart. The contractors didn’t know because it doesn’t impact anyone anymore.
I think you articulated what I was trying to express more succinctly but was trying to understand why.
> This time, they're comparing to the total energy in the laser beams.

How do you know? Nothing has been published yet; it’s science through press release. In the past, published papers from NIF have been a real wake-up call after absorbing the misleading hype (the papers are most honest than the folks taking to the reporters).
To be fair, it didn't break or lose data. Just got really, really slow until I let it finish reclaiming space.
Congress has the power to charge people with crimes. If Sam wants to testify that’s his choice, but he can’t be forced to
Behind the Numbers: What’s Causing Growth in Food Prices
We're talking about hackers getting access to users accounts, that's not a Google problem, that's an everyone problem.
Credentials can be tested for through examination & licensing.
Presumably they'll tell the copyright holder that sue them where they got it from, and provide evidence for that, and then the copyright holders will (also) sue the original source.
> 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

I challenge this. In fact I've wondered why people don't devise a test that capitalizes on this.

Some edtech company should make a test - let's call it "the Genius test" - that's so hard it would challenge Terence Tao. I mean, why not? You have the whole world of possible test takers, anyone with access to a computer. If you make the incentives good enough, you can attract a million people to take your test.

So this is your class population; now weed them out.

Include International Math Olympiad questions on there. Partial differential equations. Algorithms. Quantum mechanics questions. Every hard question you can imagine should be on this test.

Then make the reward something like a full ride to an Ivy, or a strong state school, or a group of them.

You'll probably only have a hundred people with decent scores on it; and it will be so immediately obvious that they cheated if you call them up and ask them to explain a single answer, most fraudsters won't try.

Seems like a good model to me. I'm surprise it hasn't been tried.
If I recall correctly, the best strategy for repetitive prisoners dilemma *with communication*, is cooperation though.
Adam Neumann did not even commit a crime. The only "crime" he committed was being such a great salesperson to VCs and getting a ridiculous valuation from them. This comparison is ridiculous.
Automated my clock in and out at work. Quickly realized boss doesn’t really care if I showed up at all. So now i just go to work after lunch.
Regardless of what you think, many people keep a separate boot and data disk and don't use RAID on the boot disk. I never said anything about it being used for backups nor did I said anything about service outages. I think my point- about what other people do since I don't use RAID- is more about the choices different people make in terms of trusting their boot volume's recoverability in times of crisis.
I love Clojure, but the Java source is oddly formatted which I never understood: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/527b330045ef35b47a96...
WSJ did? Citation? They seemed super critical from what i saw.
How to Develop Expert Intuition (2020)
True that is a possibility though I cant imagine pulling off some of these feats without real ability.
That is just your opinion. Those "ways to sufficiently prove your identity" are also ways that identity theft happen every single day. Some people prefer to take personal responsibility over opening themselves up to compromise.

In any case, if you thought that is not acceptable to you, you should not have set up 2FA because the conditions were clearly communicated.
Do you have a way of selling this as a service? PDF interpretation is notoriously difficult in a number of industries.
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> Billions of dollars worth of assets are stored on blockchains.

Nah. As FTT and FTX shows, the marketcap for blockchain tokens means nothing.
For me, the visualization of the board is amorphous and unstable. It also resets about every so often.

However, I’m not sure if this is an experience exclusive to ADHD.
The bank has your consent, and brokerages and exchanges are not banks.
> As an Engineer, I have had to explain this to countless people

Sounds like you're a tech person! I have a problem with my printer, do you think you could help?
Impressively golfed.
>registry hacks that change the location, but this is unsupported.

I am imagining the dire warning next to this prompt. Don't rewire the position of the taskbar or your computer just might catch a virus.
I think you should take your phone to a store which can fix your phone. Googles code doesn't come as an SMS it comes as a notification from the Google app. Almost lost an account to this last week. Turned off 2fa.
A school is simultaneously a community of young adults; a physical campus for them to live; a continuation[1] of a holistic, multi-subject education; a training program for a specialty; an economic, social, and political escape for many young adults[2]; a support system; a means to gaining a visa; and a way to find a partner and friends.

Most people go for at least two or more of these reasons. Even if a school is not ideal in a lot of ways, there are no alternatives that provide even a fraction of these benefits.

The only way that I could see higher education disrupted is by the government. If the government created a non-military service where young adults could work for the government, get trained in a career, while fraternizing with other young adults and getting paid a low but reasonable salary, perhaps that could divert people from university. Of course this would probably be mostly students who come from low-income backgrounds, as this service would not fulfill the requisite status and network building requirements that more privileged students seek. Which, now that I think about it, is also why a lot of low-income students attend college. So perhaps this would not work as well.

[1]: Continuation is generous. Often it's a necessary supplement to a watered down, propagandist, taught-to-the-test high school education.

[2]: Especially young adults who are queer, or who do not follow the political or religious beliefs of their parents.