skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between a mechanic and a mechanical engineer is the latter knows the math behind it. The same for electrician and electrical engineer.

I asked the electrician wiring my house to not put the phone wires through the same holes as the A/C wires. He asked why. I said because induction will put a 60 cycle hum in the phone wires. He had no idea what that was. I fired him and did the phone wires myself.

When I had a house generator installed (long story) the electrician wanted to run the 12V battery charge line through the same conduit as the A/C. I said wouldn't inductive coupling put 120V on the battery charger? He had no idea what I was talking about. I was unable to explain it to him, and just worked with him to change the design.

Electricians know the code, the rules, can figure out the right wire size from a chart, and how to do things without getting electrocuted. Step outside of that, and they have no idea.
I think your wording could confuse people. I am a lead in the context of my company, as there are a few different leads. But each of us is the only lead of our own team.

So if you asked me, I’d probably say “I’m one of our leads”, because the company has several teams which serve different functions. But I am the singular tech lead of my team.

Had no idea that a team would have multiple leads, wouldn’t have even crossed my mind to disambiguate that for you, and I’m guessing that same confusion has happened with others
I don't have up-to-date numbers, but last I checked it was something like 1/4 to 1/3 of homeless qualify as "chronically homeless."

The majority of the homeless are not in the 3 categories you mention. Those who are just "down on their luck" are much more likely to be living out of a car, or in a shelter as opposed to living on the street. They are also much less likely to be panhandling.

So it can be simultaneously true that most homeless are "just down on their luck" and that most homeless you encounter are not.
I would have said the same thing before the twitter fiasco. I'm curious what information and assumptions he's operating on.
> A spokeswoman for Mr. Bankman and Ms. Fried wouldn’t comment on whether they are giving their son legal advice. Their friends, some of them legal scholars themselves, have said Mr. Bankman-Fried’s frequent media appearances are a mistake that could put him deeper in legal jeopardy.
“They want him to protect himself, and he won’t,” said Larry Kramer, a former dean at Stanford Law and longtime family friend. “They’ve decided, ‘We’re not going to fight with our son.’”

From the WSJ:

https://archive.ph/2022.12.12-111902/https://www.wsj.com/amp...
It's good to see this acknowledged. I tried to learn Clojure and appreciated the language but I just couldn't get my vim head around the emacs ecosystem well enough to experience the nirvana.

I may well try again.
The filters don’t do anything and are just for show.
My oldest was checked for ADHD in kindergarten and the ruled out ADHD because he paid more attention to longer sentences. It would be some years before I would learn that he was basically suffering from "bored gifted kid syndrome (TM)" and not ADHD.

He also has some health issues and can't pay attention when he's under the weather.

There can be lots of reasons someone has trouble concentrating at times.
On Twitch, you can never log off
If I invest in something that ends up being a fraud I should not just lose my investment but face criminal liability?

What
Lol, he knew exactly what he was doing. And the investors were just FOMO’ing into it.
Until my bank starts offering an alternative to - screams of terror - SMS verification, KeePassXC currently serves all my needs.

(It also allows unlimited TOTP accounts, unlike things like Yubikey which only support up to, like, 30?)
Binance may "only" be guilty of market manipulation like BitMEX but we'll never know without opening the hood.
>Have you considered moving?
>Living vicariously through my very rural friend's nextdoor is way better than being on my own urban neighborhoods'.

It sounds like you're the one who needs to consider moving.
Abandoned: The Human Cost of Neurotechnology Failure
On this note, I think people underestimate how intrinsically important things like our relationship to our physicality, and face-to-face contact are to us as human beings. Just in the last few decades have virtual worlds/networks/games been seriously present in our lives, and I feel like a wager has already been made that our lives will continue to become virtualized ad infinitum. I think we are starting to witness the human limits of this notion with corporations like Meta pushing virtual shit no one wants, and game companies trying to force competitive scenes unsuccessfully. Video games are rad, and watching them can be rad, but 'esports' feels like a forced experiment.
Nuke is a word that applies to a reactor, a bomb, and someone who works on a reactor equally. Stop with the pearl clutching.

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/ThreeYrsEnergyAva...

Cheap reactors are unreliable reactors.

> 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.

Stop with the broken window fallacy. If subsidizing jobs is important, open a battery or PV plant with the tax money instead.

> and are you seriously suggesting that we continue using natural gas?

Using gas 2-20% of the time with a mean of around 8% produces fewer emissions than opening new uranium mines and only needs to happen whilst the storage industry matures. Your plan entails burning more gas whilst the reactors, mines, and enrichment are built out over decades, then it also entails burning more gas at the end for outages unless you overprovision and build seasonal storage and long distance transmission.
At least you can just encapsulate it in a custom element. Vue has good support there and allows you to "componetize" it with little overhead or development time.
That’s moving the goalposts
It's probably genetic - the heritability of psychopathy is about as big as intelligence or height [1]. And it's propagated because somebody who kills all the menfolk, takes all the spoils, and rapes all the women manages to pass on their genes to an awful lot of offspring.

Whether you end up with sociopaths in charge depends on whether you view profits as controlling the CEO or CEOs as controlling the profits. IMHO the former view is more accurate: you can reliably predict a psychopathic CEOs actions as that which will increase profits, while if they were actually in charge, their actions should be unpredictable.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-019-0488-z
"Please arrest me so I don't have to testify at the US House hearing tomorrow"

Smart-ish move, tbh.
No, because I want to be elsewhere on a Sunday evening than in front of a computer modifying fstab to bring a production server back online.
People here love to hate the press for some reason.
Ask HN: Do you know any alternative for Placenote?
Hey guys, I'm looking for an alternative for Placenote!

https://placenote.com

Do you know any?
You have to drink enough of it first.
Say it with me:

Blockchains never had a chance. It was designed to be a ponzi from the start. If you took it as something more than that then the joke is on you.
> But you're also saying without that protection, the market would be more consolidated.

I read it as 'the market wouldn't exist at all'. The margins would either be a lot thinner, allowing less experimentation and players or not exist.

YouTube might be paid like Vimeo, social networks might be a lot smaller (say school or town level), and live-streaming for private individuals might not exist at all.
I mix [heavy cream powder] and powdered milk in equal portions to make half-and-half that I can keep at my desk without refrigeration. I keep it in [baby formula dispenser]s so I can shake it up for homogeneity and dispense it without digging in with a spoon.

[heavy cream powder]: https://www.amazon.com/Anthonys-Fillers-Preservatives-Friend...

[baby formula dispenser]: https://www.amazon.com/Philips-AVENT-Powder-Formula-Dispense...
> He was clearly naive and not capable of understanding and implementing the full legal requirements of his business.

Why? Why was SBF naive versus knowing and not caring? He is an intelligent man.
I did the same for a snake game for the TI-83. I didn't think of it as a clever hack so much as it was inexperience; I figured it's how games normally worked. System dialogues like "your battery is low" suddenly became parts of the playing field which was funny if nothing else. My code was slow enough that I didn't need any sleeps or busy loops, maxing out the CPU with my inefficient code just turned out to be the right playable speed which didn't occur to me as a coincidence until much later
Band, range.
‘Shuan Q much’: China’s popular online slang
> It didn’t all go to him buying Lamborghinis

He cashed out $300M at Series B and took a $1B loan from FTX. So yeah, ~10% went to Lambos and the rest of the $10B to his gambling habit.
I think bandwidth hasn't been cheap since up till very recently. Cloudflare's R2 seems like a game changer here, before that you'd be paying a hefty fee to host your videos if you have a decent size following.

There's also the network effect: nobody will find your personal site without some kind of cross-site interaction. ActivityPub and friends try to change that, but I haven't seen it take off yet because nobody seriously considers switching to such a model.

I'm watching what Floatplane is doing for the video hosting landscape; they seem to run a pretty bare bones operation (though they often run into limitations in practice, i.e. routing problems with some networks, transcoding equipment, dynamic quality, etc)
I think the more interesting question is "how does this scale with more laser power?"

Even if the lasers are 1% efficient does it matter if 100 GJ of electrical power results in 100 TJ of fusion heat? I'm not saying this is at all how it scales, but it is the logic behind pursuing an ICF power plant. The fuel gets ignited and heats itself.

Also, for fun, 100 TJ is 24 kT TNT equivalent: slightly more than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Trying to capture this energy released instantaneously would be a fun engineering challenge.
solar is fine in some places for some usecases and yes it's very cheap to add, but we've currently got no viable solution for storing the energy efficiently.
Nah, she is connected and willing to cooperate. No jail time for sure.
Agree that familiarity is important. The "actual readability" you mention I call "communication" in my post breaking down readability[0].

Self-awareness on familiarity is important for any developer to have before declaring code as readable or unreadable :)

https://gilbert.ghost.io/dissecting-code-readability/
Because directly-transmitted light from an LCD screen's backlight doesn't scatter the way diffuse, reflected light from a piece of paper does. It's like comparing a laser to a flashlight.
Can they simultaneously criminally charge him and force him to testify before Congress without violating his 5th amendment rights? I think getting charged criminally does get him out of having to testify to Congress, or at least it should.
If it’s illegal, people are less likely to move from their apartment, leading to less exercise and longer recovery times.
> Human intelligence can be controlled, humans can be locked up.

That doesn’t restrain their minds; gang leaders have run gangs out of prison.

> General AI can theoretically outperform any human's cognitive ability

There is no reason to believe this because you haven’t defined “general AI” or “human”.
I know her parents would have been colleagues of SEC Chair Gary Gensler when he was still at MIT, that's a large faculty though. Is there evidence that they were more than just colleagues though?
Yes, any lawyer would have told him to shut up. It means his hubris was so great that he thought he didn't need one, or chose to ignore their advice.
> “Additionally, in case of future violations ChessBase is required to pay a contractual penalty to the FSFE for each breach of Stockfish’s initial request for ChessBase to cease its violations of the GPL-3.0. Under the terms of the settlement, this amount will be determined at Stockfish’s discretion.”

I’m incredibly surprised that anyone would allow an unlimited/open-ended financial risk like that.
> Blockchains mathematically prevent fraudulent misuse of deposits

> SBF would not have been able to defraud millions of depositors on a blockchain where everyone self-custodied.

Does the TerraUSD count? People self-custodied, but the blockchain was built in such a way that it went to 0 easily enough.

Was that profound custodial negligence? It seems like blockchains that fail in such a way are a dime a dozen, and the end result doesn't seem vastly different from "$company running $TKN has gained a lot of money, and all the holders self-custodying $TKN have lost practically all their money even though $company assured them $TKN was safe". Is that any different in a useful way from "FTX has gained a lot of money, and all its customers have lost practically all their money which the company assured them was safe"?

Practically every crypto "pump and dump" follows this scheme of a custom token ('blockchain' if you will), a company saying it's not a pump and dump, and users self-custodying right until they lose all their money.

Perhaps blockchains prevent "fraudulent misuse of deposits", but enable "users exchange money for $TKN, which is definitely 100% worth something, and then it isn't", which really seems quite similar to me.
After playing a lot of Tetris Friends, I started getting deja vu. Sometimes, after starting a new game and placing maybe 10-20 pieces, I would think, "Haven't I seen this exact board before?" Eventually I tested my theory through brute force: I would start a fresh game, write down the first 10 pieces, then restart. Over and over and over, until finally, I found it -- a duplicate!

Apparently, Tetris Friends only seeded their RNG once, and there were only a few hundred possible seeds (perhaps 256? I didn't check). So if you got the same initial seed, you got the exact same pieces for the entire game. Tetris Friends also happened to have a highly competitive global leaderboard, where you tried to clear 40 lines as fast as possible... and I happened to have recently learned how to use AutoHotKey. You see where this is going.

I restarted over and over until I got a good seed, then carefully played through a whole game, copying my inputs into a giant AutoHotKey script. Tetris Friends was a flash game, meaning it could only process so many inputs per second, so I had to insert a short delay between each input. Testing/debugging was a nightmare too, because I had to restart until I found the same seed again! But after a few hours, my script made it all the way through a game, and bam, I was #1 in the world.

Felt real good for about a week, until Tetris Friends purged the leaderboard. :^)
They haven't been caught red-handed, but their reserve claims are highly suspect[1]. Predictions that Binance is next are pretty credible in my mind, and the DOJ is already looking[2] in that direction.

[1] https://mishtalk.com/economics/binances-alleged-crypto-audit...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/doj-divided-over...
How do you know that he wasn’t capable of understanding those requirements? It seems just as possible that he consciously chose to ignore prudence in favor of easy profits.

In fact, it seems that he completely did understand the importance of things like separating customer funds between businesses given that FTX claimed to have rigorous procedures around this prior to their collapse. From the outside, it appears that he is trying to save his skin by pleading ignorance.
> How does NYT feel about interviewing him literally not more than two weeks ago and trying to frame him as a super smart kid making a dumb mistake?

If you're referring to Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview of SBF, you're misreading the larger editorial framing of that interview.

The editorial intent was to get SBF talking and present, in public, evidence of whatever he did or did not do. The motivation of that interview was not to provide a platform for his exculpation.

Consider, for example, Fortune's analysis of that interview, which begins [0]

> Where to begin? In a decade of covering crypto, I’ve seen a lot of
> strange spectacles but nothing quite like Sam Bankman-Fried’s interview
> at the New York Times DealBook Summit—a 45-minute display of delusion
> and sociopathy in which the disgraced FTX founder whined, wheedled, and
> did everything but acknowledge his responsibility for the financial
> crime of the year.

[0] https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/12/01/sam-bankman-frieds-big...
Do you have a source for the 100-year lifetime?

Currently a lot of reactors are hitting the 30-40 year mark, and they are running into significant issues with the aging equipment. We are seeing an increasing number of minor incidents, often caused due to manufacturing defects finally rearing its head, or just plain fatigue.

Meanwhile, solar has a 25-year economic lifespan. At that point you can make more money by replacing them with more efficient panels. However, manufacturers have already started offering 40-year warranties for consumer panels, at which point they have a guaranteed 88% power output. Wind indeed has a lifespan of 25 years, which seems pretty average when compared to literally any other power plant with moving parts.

When it comes to accidents, they are indeed extremely unlikely. However, the figure to look at is the potential damages multiplied by the likelyhood of the accident. When we look at those two together, they are definitely worth discussing.
I see the concept of Hash Diffs here, are you using DataVault modeling for your warehouse architecture?
> What do you expect the AI to answer with when you give it a loaded question that only really asked on a site like "stormfront.com"?

Are such questions asked only on stormfront? The wiki article [1] cites quite a few studies on the subject, including by the APA.

On the other hand, supposing that were true, and only stormfront and its ilk asked such questions. How can then respectable supposed experts claim we are all the same, if they didn't even check?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Test_sco...
In practice, web3 has proven to be more open and composable than web2. I guess in theory web2 could start coordinating with each other. But it just doesn't seem to happen often. On the other hand web3 companies have shown to be extremely interoperable. Whitnessing this was one of the first things that made me go "there's something here".
That link is behind a paywall. Can you give a tl;dr of how this book has been debunked? Or more specifically how it doesn’t put the question of IQ difference between racial groups into perspective.

As far as I’m aware this book was released in the 80s over a decade before The Bell Curve was released, the latter cited research dated after the release of the former, which Mismeasure was very much concerned with. Are you maybe thinking about the brain weight research that Mismeasure is talking about in the early chapters? If so, those were there only to provide a historical perspective. I can assume most readers already knew those research were well outdated before publication (and Gould even says so in the book).
Tell me specifically what is false about this statement:

Blockchains mathematically prevent fraudulent misuse of deposits
Disagree about Holmes.

Seems the investors of FTX never asked for a detailed balance sheet. Companies that FTX bought out were often compensated with significant strings attached.

Holmes at Theranos was giving investors tours of it all working while doing it manually and with more blood behind a curtain.
I mean, it doesn’t hurt that he’s been publicly incriminating himself to anyone who will listen.
Not the one I'm most proud but at least this one I can explain.

I initial did it to help a friend who wanted to customize and sell bycicle bells. since most printing techniques are made for flat surfaces this creates an interesting challenge.
The solution I eventually arrived at involves a pen plotter and a custom fixture. There's actually a article about it here: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2019/bike-bells-with-axidra...

And by the way, the obvious way to produce them would probably using transparent stickers a heat gun an a coat of varnish but where's the fun in that.
>Very disappointed by the discourse in this HN thread. The same old quips over and over.

We see these comments on every science thread because almost all of these people lack the requisite expertise to weigh in on the actual details, so instead they make a high-level criticism to give the appearance of having some kind of knowledge on the subject. Moreover, they think that crapping on things equates to being a critical thinker, and have convinced one another that this is so.
> How much longer will we go like this until we recognize we need massive wealth transfer?

I know this probably won't go over well here, but...

How do you do this in a way that respects the idea of property rights? A lot of wealth is just stuff. Property, houses, cars, etc. Things people simply inherited, through no fault of their own. Some of it is stuff they bought with their own money. Why should it be taken away? "Wealth transfer" sounds a lot like "take from the rich and give to the poor". This doesn't sound in any way fair.

I recognize the problem, but the only solutions I can see that are in any way fair are to increase inheritance taxes for everyone, to tax everyone based on their wealth and use that money to help the poor find housing or get a job, or to encourage the wealthy to give some of their money or stuff voluntarily to those less fortunate than themselves.

I'm not poor, but I'm no where near wealthy, either. I don't think the large disparity in wealth is great for the country, but I don't like seeing people's rights trampled upon, even with good intentions.
> SC0

I knew this was Unixware’s fault.
I think it's more often just counter signaling that one is better informed or more realistic than whoever wrote the press release or media article, which may very be the case.
What's wrong with loading the module yourself? Ubuntu is just a command away to get it running with installing zfsutils-linux.

How's that beyond useless?
I agree with some aspects of your comment, but I don't expect any material portion of the homeless are part of some kind of homeless lobby. People who don't want to be part of society don't want to be part of society and are not going to spend time on Twitter complaining about policy. And people with mental health problems are dealing with those. It's the usual well-off hobbiest crowd that probably represents themselves as representing a diverse group, and does all the complaining.
This case will test whether the US is a country where bad deeds have bad consequences. Over the past decade I have become increasingly skeptical that our society is able to hold the wealthy and well-connected to account, but perhaps this case will prove me wrong.
That's cheaper than staying directly in Manhattan, sure. It's still way more expensive than vacationing in Europe. Hotels anywhere in America are absurdly expensive, as are restaurants.
When I applied for my first job at 18, I got really bored with sending CV's. Spent a few days developing a website that scanned job applications online for emails, then made a Python script that sent out pretty generic applications. It attached my CV to the email too. Pretty handy as a first-job type of deal, but would never use it for anything that requires discernment. I got three offers out of it, picked one of them.