skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How anyone could look at this man's behavior over the last few weeks and not think he was on a fast track to a federal penitentiary is beyond me.

That was obvious, but some of us who have seen some version of this before have been saying he was going to end up in prison when he entered US political donating/purchasing influence since the beginning of 2022; it was clear where this was all going and the hope was that it would take down all the alt scams, but somehow despite not having any BTC it has taken down the entire cryptocurrency market for no discernible reason.

Its the epitome of contagion effect in practice; and while hindsight is 20/20 I fear that the greatest take away here will be missed because of the ire that has been fomented in the media: insiders will use anything to achieve their largess, that regulation is a loosely held panacea when said insiders use influence and resources to grift.

I think he will get a light sentence, relative to the amount of money that has been lost, like Elizabeth Holmes as he scammed a lot of big players/rich people but it will not be the 2 life sentences that Ross Ulbricht, and that is the real point: we have a multi-tiered judicial system with a very clearly established selective application of the Law.
Great potential! Might be the next killer app when applied to production debugging or integrated into automated testing
I've gotten more bots, all three of crypto pump replies, sexy women accounts following me, and group DMs about job offers in Japanese.
New Zealand bans cigarettes for future generations
Flickr Establishes New Nonprofit to Preserve Photography’s History
The point is that their prices are less volatile than the prices of "real" cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Wonder if the stars are accurate. The Sun is missing
It is necessary since they banned the testing of nuclear weapons. Before they would do this kind of research by imploding a cylinder of uranium encasing a hydrogen core with X-rays produced by a "Fat Man" style bomb. Now they implode a cylindrical casing full of hydrogen by x-rays caused by a laser vaporizing an outer layer.

“It’s a big milestone, but NIF is not a fusion-energy device,” says Dave Hammer, a nuclear engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Herrmann acknowledges as much, saying that there are many steps on the path to laser fusion energy. “NIF was not designed to be efficient,” he says. “It was designed to be the biggest laser we could possibly build to give us the data we need for the [nuclear] stockpile research programme.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04440-7
The dynamics are similar here in New Zealand, although here is how I would summarise the problems here:

1. We need gamblers

There is a power distribution of returns. Even in the US the median profit for a startup founder is $0, and 95% of VC investments do not beat their market risk. In NZ the risks are higher and the rewards are less.

2. Founders lack of business skills

Founders start unprofitable businesses and most New Zealanders are poor at marketing. There is also usually a lack of certain skilled employees because the pool of people with a particular skill is often small and the most skilled often move overseas. There is a limited culture of successful startups, and very limited access to experienced founders.

3. Investors are fucked.

In New Zealand investors seem to me to actively sabotage their investments. Cause is probably lack of skills/experience, although it could be misalignment of incentives. Also investment amounts are puny - $100k is a sizeable investment. Infrastructure like standard legal terms is lacking.

4. Limited access to market.

The NZ market is small. We create a lovely tech business, but then sell the business to a US owner because (a) NZers lack skills/knowledge to sell in a large “foreign” market, or (b) a US owner has access to customers, or (c) tariffs or other protections make it difficult to sell to US market (agricultural, Rocket Lab)

5. The easy life.

Founder’s goal is often a business that nets you a few million to buy a holiday home and some toys. Few keep repeatably betting everything to win a unicorn.

6. Real estate.

Property has been a reliable investment. Why do a high risk tech investment (founder or investor) when there is a low-risk easier road.

7. Government is mostly clueless.

Government focuses on stupid non-commercial outcomes. Government is hopeless at encouraging enterprise. Comparatively little red tape compared to many other countries, but still too much (e.g. first employees are extremely high risk due to employment laws).
Ooh very cool, I had never heard of these.

A long time ago I thought about becoming a VJ (as we called them, Google suggests this is not the term anymore). I had some ideas about generating video and how to control it, and I was spending enough time at electronica shows that I felt it would work. But it never went anywhere due to procrastinating and stage fright.

Now it’s all way more sophisticated, back then most people were either doing the equivalent of Winamp visualizations or cutting video streams with some simple effects.

I’d love to try out your app! Is there a mailing list or something?
Linus Torvalds has been living in the US for a long time and is a US citizen. If [1] is accurate, the top Linux kernel contributor is Chinese, and almost all significant Linux contributors are outside of Europe. Arm microarchitecture is often designed in Austin, TX according to friends of mine at Arm. ASML and Zeiss are great, but, as a European, rather than gloating, I look, with great sadness, at the trajectory over the last half century, and see that the number European technology world-leaders has been steadily decreasing.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/
Fusion energy is a holy grail in the field of nuclear power. The claims though out the years have been ridiculous. I think it is just natural that people are skeptical.
Aging is driven by unbalanced genes
correct. about as long as a typical academic research career, with an extra margin thrown in for emeritus positions to be on the safe side. get the boffins' grand kids through college etc. anyway, there won't be grids in 50 years. or if for some sentimental reason there still are 95% of us will be off the failure prone things while making, storing and using our own uninterruptible power safely at home. much sooner really. i can't even imagine being on the grid in 10 years let alone 49. no way then to distribute the staggering costs for what will be the planet's most expensive and complex power plants.

- js.
Old news: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13008
Why do you think a country that isn't capable of properly maintaining tanks is capable of maintaining nukes? I mean, ICBMs are literally rocket science with nuclear physics on top of them.

How can a country that cannot even prevent theft of electronics from their "doomsday plane" in front of the 9th of May parade keep a fleet of ICBMs operative?

In a normal year Russia has a total military budget that is smaller than the part of the US military budged allocated to nuke maintenance. How do you think they keep their nukes ready?

All this is before we start talking about corruption. There is a reason why some Russian military leaders have yachts and/or palaces and US military leaders doesn't have them.

In all fairness, maybe most of the yachts are made of missing winter uniforms (I recently saw Russians wearing Tyvek suits as "winter uniforms"). But if they steal so openly from things that was supposed to be used - why wouldn't they steal even more from things that were never meant to be used?

Before I round up, some hearsay: Some journalist that claimed he traveled throught the former Soviet Union shortly after the collapse (I have forgotten the name and I am in no position to verify it anyway) said that he saw missile silos full of rainwater. And when he asked people said it had already been like that for a few years before the collapse in 1991.

Do I think we don't have to care? Absolutely not. They might very well have a few functional nukes, maintained by enthusiastic crews, sailing around on subs somewhere I don't know (I don't follow the space to closely).

But I am not worried that they will send US back to the stone age at all.
We've had thermonuclear weapons (h-bombs) for a long time already.

Harnessing the energy in a controlled and sustainable fashion is what's hard.
Apple planning to allow third-party App Store alternativesfor the first time
This project has been my go-to example of the absurdity of Electron since its inception. This is a thin wrapper around ffmpeg, which does all of the real work here and is a much more powerful and versatile tool. Why does this ship an entire web browser? Why does this even exist? The world may never know.
I _llooovveee_ these end of year lists of yours and read them every year, thanks for posting them!!

EDIT: And to anyone else who might consider writing one, especially if it has a Books or long-form article list, do it!
And falling rapidly.
I think that given SBF’s assertion that he donated an equal amount of dark money to Republicans, it would be wise to mention the amount of money they spent as well. Otherwise you risk giving the impression that this problem is limited to a single party.

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

I also think the 1 billion figure is inaccurate. In May, SBF said that he could spend a billion between now and 2024. However, he backed away from that quote in October:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/14/sam-bankman-fried-backtracks...

Elon Musk later said that SBF “probably” donated over 1 billion, without providing any supporting evidence. I can’t prove that he’s thinking of the May statement but it seems plausible if not certain. Either way, Elon Musk’s guesses are not proof of anything.

I’m glad you asked for sources. It’s always important to provide them.
Certainly not a "big admission". Apple does not make a secret of its relationships with important suppliers (Qualcomm, Corning, Samsung, Foxconn and so on).

Though TBF it is unusual to have a press photo of Tim Cook visiting Sony! I imagine Sony negotiated it into a supplier contract.
Interesting, thanks! So the low laser efficiency isn't really important in interpreting the importance of this news.
That is a run away fission reaction that ignites a short lived fusion reaction. We don't even talk about neutron populations or k factors in fusion because there is no avalanche effect possible.
Short answer: it depends if any program, scholarship, or anything has a GPA requirement.

Long answer: Of course there is. One bad semester is just one bad semester. Few companies look at grades/scores except for the first job, and if you have an answer as to what went wrong, most understand. I remember people in my program who were in their 5th and 6th year of work for a BA (full time). Some had a hard time adjusting to college life and needed a "redo" year. Didn't harm them in the long run.
The vast majority of people in those countries either go for USD, Euros or are too poor to bother with crypto. Portraing crypto as anything but privileged people's latest hot investment vehicle to become rich, fast, is just plain wrong.
Lucky me, I just sold all my USDC yesterday. Back into old dollars for me for the time being.
Ironic given that 90%+ of fentanyl seizures arrests are Americans smuggling it in.
Just another revolution on the euphemism treadmill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Lifespan
Would you be against the same law if it was about alcohol? (Ban for people born after 2008)
So, it's a liquidity problem, not a solvency one, got it.
How up to date are LLMs likely to be for search? chatGPT is behind by a year or more. How quickly can an LLM be updated with recent content? That would seem to favor Google for the latest stuff.
Laika: The Evolution of Motion Control with Christopher Covel and Steve Switaj
Maneuvering a camera that’s roughly the size of a small refrigerator through a film set with puppets that are 1/6 human scale requires precision, expertise, and ingenuity. In the newest episode of the LAIKA Archive series, Steve Switaj (Head of Camera Engineering) and Christopher Covel (Motion Control Engineer) guide you through the nuts and bolts of motion control and their firsthand experiences of making LAIKA’s Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated features.
It mentions Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia. Indonesia and Thailand have both had recent civil wars and failed peaceful transfers of power. It presumably helps South Korea quite a bit to have a more or less constant US military presence for 70 years. Malaysia seems to be doing pretty well. If you eliminate Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau, and only consider countries that aren't just a single city, it's only behind Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea for East Asian GDP per capita. Average 6.5% annual growth for 50 years.
One of the authors here: yeah, it's very interesting. The flame graphs here don't do a great job at highlighting an aspect of the challenge which is that crypto fans out across many CPUs. I think the hunch that 20-30gbps is attainable (on a fast system) is accurate - it'll take more work to get there.

What's interesting is that the cost for x/crypto on these system classes is prohibitive for serial decoding at 10gbps. I was ballparking with 1280 MTU, you have about 1000ns to process a packet, it takes about 2000ns to encrypt. The fan-out is critical at these levels, and will always introduce it's own additional costs, with synchronization, memory management and so on.
Where's the content here? Clicking around, almost all event pages only include an abstract or a Zoom invite. There aren't even any specific papers mentioned in most cases, just a suggestion to email the organizers for a video recording.
No paywall: https://archive.vn/LfPUw
The usefulness of popcnt, et al, in cryptography was known at least as far back as Alan Turing. It wasn't 'kept out of' ISAs, if for no other reason than not all computer manufacturers were (are) American, so the NSA wouldn't have had much leverage to keep, say, Ferranti or Hitachi from including it in their computers.

The legend you're probably misremembering is the one where the NSA approached Seymor Cray at CDC while he was designing the 6600 super and 'suggested' that if he included a popcnt instruction in the ISA, the NSA would certainly look favorably on purchasing some. He did and they did (quite a few). This story is also possibly apocryphal.
Heh, amazing. I love when stuff like this "works out".
I do not live in the US, but your comment is not meant to be positive, right?

> In fact, I don't think anyone really has oversight of local police departments except possibly for local voters.

this does not feel right at all, especially with all I read about the problems with the police and the lack of accountability of the actions of individual police officers. I do not feel confident in directly overseeing something as complicated as a police force. What do you do if you feel the handling of your police force is inadequate?
So by your argument we should act as if people with e.g. Dissociative identity disorder, are completely healthy, just because they "identify" as somebody, and we should not judge their identity ?

What about clinical cases of people who identify as Hitler ? Should we label that healthy in the name of progression ?

I'm sorry but I cannot be convinced that a condition where you want to mutilate your sexual organs and change through surgeries (to whatever) is healthy and normal.
High taxes and laziness. This is why Europe is a museum and China/India will dominate the future.
Energy is conserved in the universe so there is never any net energy gain.

See how pedantic and not helpful that is?
Has anyone tried passing logs into chatGPT? I had thought it would be especially effective here.
And your prior interpretation (at least how you wrote it) is completely consistent with what's described in the article.
I would hope that 'compliance with the law' is not 'completely orthogonal to the VC space' but I've seen an awful lot over the years.
This is a good point. Journalists get dinged for trying to pull out the truth. Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview with SBF seems like a case in point.
The idea here is adaptive traits becoming maladaptive over time as a situation changes. So you develop a coping mechanism that, temporarily, is better than not coping with the situation you're in, but as either the situation changes or becomes long-term, it ends up disrupting your ability to engage in higher-order functioning or pursue "happiness" or "meaning" in your life.

The fact that stuff happens in life that makes you suffer is something you generally learn to deal with early on, and most people can handle a bit of suffering, but where things get challenging is when the "second order" stuff stops you from being able to see the goal you're shooting for, the light at the end what makes the suffering something you were able to tolerate.
It's a very old lab, and replacing them isn't cheap/easy.

You don't need to use efficient lasers to get the scientific results they're after - other people have already very accurately measured the properties of modern lasers, so we can predict how they would perform without having to actually use them.
That's a matter of what fits better with the structure of how you think internally, and not necessarily that there is an objectively better way for self-documentation.

For example, I can totally see how imperative-first would mess up people with neurodivergant brains.

Tangent -- Ruby takes a lot of inspiration from Perl.
Serious question: What's with all the meme frogs on the vim video thumbnails on YT? I must be too old to understand the internet, but I thought that was some kind of hipster skinhead thing. Is vim the official text editor of 4chan now?
Julia is not a good choice to replace lua because its runtime is at least 60MB. It is also very slow to compile. LuaJIT would be a much better choice since it is very small and very fast.
That's all fine until the lawsuits start and a judge or arbitrator decides for them where their principal place of business is if they don't choose one.
Luckily they evolved feathers and manage just fine.
He's quite petrified of court for a journalist.
For Americans: The Fiat Panda was a two door hatchback (five seats, but good luck...) launched in 1980. It was slightly longer than this at 3.3m.

Not only was there a 4x4 option, but in 1990 an electric version was launched, which became one of the first mass produced car EVs - it weighed 1150kg and had a 14kW electric motor.

The current version is a four door hatchback, and still quite popular in some European countries. Perfect for driving around small Italian streets.
iPhone 14 Crash Detection gets man to wife's accident before ambulance
Is this really true? How does it actually work? You donate $5800 then give them a call and ask for a meeting? I assumed that would take a lot more.
FreeBSD, Linux, and I
Wow that takes me back!
Vs. the traditional solution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capon#History
This isn't for power plants, this is to model the efficiency of the second stage of a stored h-bomb in place of periodically exploding them, which we can't do anymore due to the test-ban treaty.
Venus is great! Come visit! Stay at the beautiful Hyatt Floating Resort! It's got everything you want - Earth temperature and pressure, lots of solar energy to power your every whim, beautiful sunrises and sunsets.

Just don't visit the surface. It's really, really nasty down there.
This is accurate for non-dark money.

Interestingly, if we take SBF at his word that he donated equally to Republicans in dark money, he would be the fifth largest donor to Republican candidates.

https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/3720141-here-are-the...
One more step towards getting away from dirty fossil fuels.

I just hope we have enough time to see it implemented at scale (ie, powering entire states/cities/towns/municipalities, swapping infra in place).

I also hope the O&G industry doesn’t attempt to block this with fake science (ie, decades of climate denial, greenwashing via “recycling” campaigns).
So it should be 16, not 15 or 14? And should the age of consent match it? Since kids are so mature and responsible by that age.

Edit: Oh, and they should be able to sign up for the Army at that age, too? The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 because of the absurdity of drafting teens into a war when they can't even vote on yet. I would have preferred the opposite solution - raise the draft to 21.
in rem cases have the best captions
Thanks! I had forgotten about that aspect.
Flavour Wheel for Maple Products [pdf]
Or this is the distillation and resynthesis of available humanity.

These aren’t statistical word salad, they are statistics in inter-relational contexts.

This mulching of statistical knowledge with the resources of the entire learning set is an impressive tool.

We should not take it too seriously in this way.

The way it should be taken seriously is through directed work (fix my code, manage my digital resources, perform remote work.)

Good luck!
I understand that. And it makes sense. Speaking for myself, there are other things that I also find are harmful to people who are either young, impressionable, or both. I seem to be in a bind here, using the person who I was during that period of my life (Tumblr using) as a measuring stick for how I see things today. There are clearly some faults with this.

The thing is that, if I were to affect my beliefs and moral coordinates as an expectation on social media and the channels of public discourse…I would have to settle on just a message board. I’m using message boards as just an example of a possible solution where the desired control is there minus federation (which I don’t care about).

If we all were to affect our beliefs and moral coordinates as expectations onto social media and online discourse…what would come about?

This is a conflicting topic to me. I’m aware that I’m speaking into the void here now, zimpenfish. I don’t expect you to respond or read where I’m going with all of this but you’ve got me going now.

All in all I just think that there are some issues present online that will not be solved online, necessarily. On one side are the real life matters relevant to society and our well-being. And then there are things like “open standards”…and then there’s everything in between that connects the two.

I think the message board idea is a fine one.
The guy is a thief who defrauded millions. His hubris is what got him in this situation.
the ruby keywords?
I always wonder when I come across a text like this what a lightweight process is. Is it different from just a thread? Or is it a type of lightweight/virtual thread?
I agree with this particular aspect but it is long gone. I do not see smokers harm anyone but themselves now. Alcoholics on the other hand ...
> fairly expensive targets

The targets are only expensive because they aren't produced at scale yet.

They are the exact kind of thing a machine could churn millions of per day out, and then use them at the same rate.

Even if the targets were made of expensive materials (eg. platinum), most of that platinum could later be recovered from the reactor wall, so it still wouldn't be very expensive.
But more often it's useless. If you're trying to communicate with someone who's clearly not using the dictionary definition, it's probably only good for detangling their actual usage, aka meta-argument. In this case, certainly, you did not address the substance of their argument with your objection about the definition of "profit".

Also, I don't know what dictionary you're looking at. These all seem pretty money-focused to me. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/profi... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/profit
Real Engineering recently made a video that covers fuel needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzK0ydOF0oU
And not one mention of their most important feature: Colorways.
See https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/106966/how-many...