skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your objection to “agnostic” its religious implications in other contexts? It’s a perfectly cromulent synonym for independent in this context otherwise.
Also the enforcers are compromised including SEC chairman Gary Gensler

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/sec-chairman-gary-gensle...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11438875/Questions-...

https://moguldom.com/427483/is-sec-chair-gary-gensler-compro...
> And a sort of naive read on the situation would be to say that if we look at the people who are really strong, they show that inefficient, non-scalable personal training has been disrupted by whatever hobbyist forums or other internet resources they rely on.

I think this absolutely misses the mark on the two most critical factors. Number 1: *exposure to and interaction with a community of peers engaged in personal improvement in the same manner*

I can read Aristotle and Mills and Kant on my own in my living room; but this is not the same as being part of a book club (or a college course) reading these texts and discussing them. Finding positions, explaining them to your peers, perhaps defending those viewpoints, listening to others do the same, challenging them on their viewpoints, etc. These are examples of a secondary layer of context and understanding of a subject that is inherently not replicable in isolated learning.

I have a friend who deadlifts over 750 lbs. Do you think he goes to Planet Fitness and hops on the elliptical for 20 minutes and then goes home? No. He goes to a gym filled with similarly powerful, driven lifters. He discusses training loads, regimens, diet, etc. with his peers. The knowledge transfer between skilled practitioners is critical to master of a craft past a certain point. Sure, almost anyone who lifts for 3 years with even moderate dedication can eventually break 3 plates. But 5 plates? 6? 7? 8?! No, that requires something more: a petri dish for cultivating improvement; a community of similarly motivated individuals.

Number 2: A subject matter expert who can react and interact with you and your peers. Having a SME to highlight what is critical, to deprioritize what is 'cruft', to dispel or correct misunderstandings/misconceptions, to push the depth of the learning/training to a more advanced level; this is a massive advantage that in-person education has over impersonal, technologically-distributed courses.

Sure, some things are easily teachabale over YouTube. One of my favorite examples: Simple mechanical work. I've used YouTube multiple times to supplement my existing knowledge & owner's manual. It's helped me flush brake lines, install oil coolers, replace a water pump, and align headlights. Work like this, that is to say, work that doesn't require a high level of expertise, is easily transferable via YouTube. This is akin to taking notes during a lecture. More complicated work, like... say, dropping an engine, replacing the crankshaft, and remounting the engine is a task that requires a higher skill/knowledge base to perform correctly. I would not trust someone to do that with purely internet-based instruction.

Lastly, I would like to say that I believe scale necessarily diminishes the quality of what is being produced. You cannot teach 4000 students online as well as you can teach 400 in person; and likewise a 400 person lecture is necessarily a lower-quality educational product than a 40 person lecture & follow up socratic seminar.
This looks great, I am excited to take it for a spin.

I really enjoyed your "Why the Book is Free" section.
Yeah, I didn't like that either, so I just quit it and didn't try it again for a couple of weeks.

It has some nice UI/UX features. For power users of Firefox or Chrome, many of the features can be replicated by various plugins, etc. What's nice about Arc is that it's all integrated and built-in.

For example, I had different user profiles in Firefox (work, personal, etc.) so the cookies and search history were separate and also tabs on the side instead of the top.

Lots of these features appear in different browsers; but arguably, Arc is one of the first to include all of them be default in an accessible UI. I think Vivaldi has many of the same features but it has so many features that it can be a little overwhelming. Arc's features are a lot more accessible.
The annoyance for me is owning a printer, not using the usb stick.
Remote

Compensation

No on prem infrastructure and a dev cloud account with very wide guardrails. I didn’t focus on the cloud because I didn’t want to deal with administering servers. I moved to the cloud because I didn’t want to deal with server administrators.

No leetCode/DS&A monkey dance interviews. Let’s talk about your real world problems like adults and I can talk about how I can help you solve those problems. Yes that mindset got me into “a FAANG”

The application can’t be overly dependent on stored procedures and “database developers”

I only work for companies where their value proposition is “you give us money and we give you a service” - no adTech

I value equity in a private company at $0. If you’re not a public company you have to pay me in cash at market value. Yes my unvested RSUs are worth half their all time highs. But at least I can sell them and diversify when they vest.
No but with these exchanges collapsing I keep seeing the argument that it people kept everything in a soft or hard wallet then everything would be OK. I disagree with that premise for the reasons prior. Also in the case of Luna and many others their coins are effectively worthless.
I believe clarifying things immediately and succinctly may be why the author mentioned LLMs. They have the potential to provide this sort of feedback. They are obviously imperfect, but for the sort of questions that many undergraduates get stuck on (code won't compile due to a missing semicolon, etc) they are already a great asset.
It seems you are arguing that the _competitive scene_ exists, which I dont dispute. I was under the impression we were discussing the _ability for a player to play the game as their career_. i.e. The equivalent of a pro sports athlete but for a video game. The players are for the most part going to move to where the money is (and esports are unique in that way, where skillsets are more transferable between games).

That said, DOTA 2 is a large part of the current "esports" wave of payout-driven hype trains. The International was an unabashed marketing play to drive interest ("It drew attention due to its staggering $1.6 million USD prize pool, the highest prize pool of any single esports tournament at that time." [1]).

[1] - https://liquipedia.net/dota2/The_International
He will go with the "it was just a joke" defense
From the larger context:

> The corporation tries to program the chatbot to never say offensive things. Then the journalists try to trick the chatbot into saying “I love racism”. When they inevitably succeed, they publish an article titled “AI LOVES RACISM!”

Except journalists are behaving like white-hat hackers here- these will get abused by someone, better to have it out in the open earlier, like mathematicians breaking your bad crypto and telling you about it.
> How do you do this in a way that respects the idea of property rights?

Sounds like a good question from the French aristocrats. :)

Whatever the answer to your question is, the aristocrats say we'd better step on it.
How/why is this dated December 13, 2022?
I remember a lot of people strongly believed that SBF would never get in trouble because he was a Democratic donor, and that this was all part of some vast corruption scandal.

It turns out not everything is a conspiracy.
From what I see technology has definitely disrupted higher education. Textbooks, worksheets, and report cards are being replaced by Khan Academy, MyLab, Canvas. Teachers are doing less teaching and delegating more tasks to these services: assigning online modules, quizzes, and resources to help students (and this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as some of these online modules are really good).

I predict that very soon we will have AI tutors like ChatGPT, and then entire courses will be automated in technology. We already have "100% tech" online schools with one teacher per 100+ students or no teachers at all; but with AI tutors, I expect these schools will become much more effective, much more popular, and ultimately much more prevalent. I don't believe that the traditional school system will be replaced or that any public schools will become online-only: in-person learning is still necessary for many students, as are factors like free lunch and mandatory socialization, and AI will never solve those issues. But I do believe that fully-online learning, which is already rapidly growing, will start to grow even more rapidly.

And this isn't necessarily a bad thing either. Frankly, many people's public education system sucks because of lack of resources, and I don't see any alternative way that it can improve, because of lack of resources. For the students, a good AI tutor can be much more helpful than a teacher (and much more patient). For the teachers, it may be harder to get a "traditional" general-elective teaching job, but maybe instead they can teach small focus groups in special classes, where the teaching is much more fun and interesting, but also harder to automate. The state of education in modern society is awful and this has serious consequences (see: recent elections); a low-cost, effective teaching solution would be a huge benefit to global society.
> This is idealism. It just so happens that resources are much more efficiently acquired through more peaceful means in this age.

Ah right, this is why slave owners have voluntarily freed all the slaves in the US? The french revolution was about aristocracy voluntarily giving up their privilidges? In Britain Parliament asserted it's dominance over the monarch through peacefull means?

In each case, idealistic people rose up against tyrany and cut some heads off
Before ignition, very little science had been explored in the "burning plasma" regime. Now that ignition had been figured out, an entire new field of experimentation has been opened up.

https://www.llnl.gov/news/three-peer-reviewed-papers-highlig...

In particular, the original article talks about magnetic compression hypothesis being a byproduct of white dwarf simulation. With this new regime, they were able to apply the same ideas to fusion, resulting in the breakthrough.

With ignition being a regular thing in laser fusion going forward, I suspect many groups will have some slightly varied approach or some technique improvements.

If you're into fusion and lasers, there's a lot of areas that are still ripe for magnitude leaps.

- Laser power, timing, materials, and cost

- Metallurgy of the target canister

- Construction of the target and perfecting it as you mentioned

- Absorption of energy

I believe the NIF will focus on #2 and #3 as of course they focus more on making the "boom bigger" rather than making it cost effective of useful. IMO another group (startup or otherwise) will step in as an actual project in this space.

One area to innovate here is to use a different fuel mixture that doesn't produce neutrons. We wouldn't need liquid lithium/lead, breeding, or any of the complexities people very commonly complain about.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion

It's entirely within the realm of possibility that the technique to achieve ignition will open the door for 5:1 or 10:1 q with neutron-free fuels.

Even a total Q of 2:1 or 3:1 is a huge win, and that's within a magnitude of the modern tech.

--

Something I want to mention here too - the easiest aneutronic fuel mixture available is H2 + He3. It hasn't been explored too much since He3 is hard to come by on earth (though you can mine it from the moon!).

But, Helion has patented a way to generate He3 from H2 fusions. We don't need to mine He3 to achieve neutron-free fuels, just need to transmute it from seawater.
Factorio, TIS-100, and Bike Shed Painting Simulator.
This is good for Crypto. Seriously. Because SBF is probably going to help the US make their case against Binance and that will flush out all the bad actors. Many coins will go to zero. The entire ecosystem will wither and die, but if Crypto survives it will be because there is some fundamental value to it besides digital beanie babies.
she isn’t listed as owing money to FTX like many of the other executives so she’s in a better position to cooperate than the others
The paradox of light goes beyond wave-particle duality
You can absolutely find video tutorials on all the hobbies and daily stuff you list, and in most communities you can find groups that will teach you informally for free or in a slightly more structured way for a nominal fee. Where formal credentials exist, they tend to be based on observed skills (like a culinary arts degree or certification as a sommelier). I'm not sure the demand for MOOCs is there for most hobbies.

There are some exceptions for hobbies with a well delimited body of knowledge (eg birdwatching)
I've had pacman and ext4 zero a whole bunch of system files on a forced shutdown during updates.

Reminded me of XFS back when.
That didn't work for Shkreli.
> anyone else think it makes congress appear weak to still be allowing people to remotely testify?

Not really. Not being compelled to testify against yourself is also one of the most important rights this country has enshrined.
> The natural order, for millennia, has been that when a greedy bastard meets a peace-loving activist, the greedy bastard takes the peacenik's stuff and then kills them

> Capitalism's greatest success is as a sociopath-containment vessel.

So the capitalist plantation owners were convinced to give up slaves peacefully and the civil war was for nothing?
> Blockchains mathematically prevent the misuse of deposits

Depending on the argument I hear that the ledger is anonymous or not anonymous.
Yes. They’ve lawyered up after “Airborne” was marketed as developed by a teacher to prevent the cold, and subsequently sued.

Now, they say “developed by a teacher” and use social media influencers to make or imply health claims.

These companies make millions ripping you off. People don’t take blood pressure meds they need, but drop $75 on CoQ10 and cod liver oil.
> Most of the capturable value in education is signal of acquired knowledge and other factors.

IMO, this is an extreme bias in the Ed VC community and explains how they managed to flush so much cash down the toilet. In no particular order:

1. Tech focus. Most SWEs do not need a CS or even SE degree, and even if you do need that knowledge it really can be learned by hacking at things alone in a room. This ranges between "a lot less true" and "hilariously out of touch" in a lot of other fields.

2. The startup founder set skews toward the "independent learner" type.

3. Within VC/founder world, it's often actually true that university was for networking and prestige. This is one of my huge "you are so close to understanding how unreasonably BS your world is" pet peeves. Not everyone graduates from Stanford. The majority of college graduates attended colleges and universities that you've never even heard of. There are several thousand of institutions of higher education in the US. How many can you name? Sometimes I really want to say to EdTech founders/VCs: "just because you are incompetent and survive on your fancy Stanford degree despite knowing nothing doesn't meant that's true of all College degrees." (But not you in particular, of course, and this is just my inner narrative frustration... I don't mean it to be an attack on anyone in particular.)

Most students really do need years of in-person learning that does not scale well.

Most institutions provide very little signalling value.

Most of higher ed is completely misunderstood by a set of Standford grads gambling with more money than most institutions have in their endowment.

And I'm highly suspicious of counter-narratives from anyone who hasn't taught Calc II at the branch campus of a state university system.

American institutions of higher education, particularly the non-elite private ones, have been capturing value from actually teaching people useful things for two centuries. It's hard, it won't make anyone a billionaire, and we should get back to the old model of doing things not-for-profit in an unscalable way and without federal debt subsidies. Where by "capturing value" we mean "updating aging buildings and paying faculty enough to live a normal middle class life", not "supporting a massive administrative apparatus" and certainly not "buying yachts for LPs".

edit: various typos. Typed while in a meeting (about this very topic, as it happens)
Not my experience at all. For a lot of people with money, that would be some combination of exhausting and boring. Why bother?
As much as I think cryptocoins are stupid, to compare a literal child rapist and someone who ran a crypto exchange (even fraudulently) is completely beyond the pale.
Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Couldn't find a reference for that specifically, but, damn, girl.

> me: how do I signal my genuinely sweet and feminine nature on my dating profile? should it go before or after the section on wire fraud

https://caroline.milkyeggs.com/worldoptimization/index.html
I don't love having an Engineer title but it's the reality of the workplace in the US at least. Software Engineer and related are very, very common. Now even some colleges and universities have degrees in Software Engineering.
Even in countries where college is free, students do typically give up several years worth of annual income in opportunity costs
The idea that speech from anyone should be self-censored because of unpredictable or even predictable responses by others is ridiculous. If that were the standard, no speech would be allowed at all, and even if it was, the rules would be easily gamed and weaponized to prevent people from talking.
> There is ongoing work to integrate ZFS into the Linux kernel

Could you paste a link to it, please? As far as I know, all efforts now are around ZoL which is not included for legal reasons.
> If i was committing ~9 figures worth of fraud,

If you committed a billion in fraud, you probably wouldn't be shitposting on Twitter or giving interviews that made a prosecuter's case easier, either.

Guess what, you're smarter than this dude.
It is a nice read about Qatar and covers diverse topics. What I found interesting cause I did not know is that there is such a thing as islamic economics, which is trying to avoid the inequality between creditors and debtors and also derivatives and gambling:

> So the obvious way of doing this is simply various types of share participation where rather than making a loan, a bank takes a stake and then the person receiving the money from the bank has the option of buying the bank out progressively like it’s essentially an equity-stake type model.

Would that work in the west?
Can you please explain why it violates the second law of thermodynamics? I thought the 2nd law would only apply if you are reversing the reaction, i.e. CO2 -> C + O2 , whereas we are simply moving the CO2 underground.

To me the critical measure would be how much energy the CO2 needs to be compressed to get it underground.
> There is some paperwork and hassle involved

There is a LOT of paperwork and hassle involved. Also years of time.

It's enough of a hassle that some new institutions have found it worth their while to buy out a bankrupt school that already has accreditation rather than starting the process from scratch.
He didn't actually... did he?
Given how the DMCA works and the liability involved, why would it work any differently?
These are two separate hearings. He agreed to testify before the U.S. House (Tuesday) and refused to testify before the U.S. Senate (Wednesday).
What was murky about ProPublica? I thought SBF started a fund dedicated to pandemic preparedness, and ProPublica received a $5M investigative journalism grant from that fund (unrelated to crypto or financial regulation).

Did I miss something?
You might try reading Fox News sometime. It is fascinating to see what they choose to completely ignore, even big news, because it does not fit their agenda. Be very careful getting your news from a single partisan outlet however, if you care to be well informed.
Well, it didn't take a year or two.[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33962083
Open sourcing the game opens the possibility of different groups changing the game in different ways and directions to optimize it for viewership and entertainment, the fact that it is open sourced would lead to different groups optimizing it in different ways and creating competition in these niches

Mentioned elsewhere is the case of Kespa vs Blizzard. Kespa would run starcraft Broodwar like a reality TV show where the entertainment of thhe viewer would come first to demerit of the competition (think added randomness into the game state), whereas Blizzard would strip the reality tv angle and randomness and focus near soly on the actual sport/competition angle rather than optimize viewer entertainment
The vim/evil-equipped distributions go a long way toward helping with this.
I was located in Sydney Australia, trying to fix a literally showstopper bug in the signal processing of the bank of Land Mobile Radio base stations that were being used to coordinate the stage management for the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics. Less than 24 hours to go before the final dress rehearsal, and the production company was preparing to spend megabucks to pull all the radios out and replace them with a different manufacturer's, unless the bug was fixed in the next few hours.

I ended up hacking the radio firmware to bypass the signal processing and stream the raw received samples from London to Sydney. I hacked a radio in Sydney to feed the London samples into its signal processing, then streamed the resulting samples back to the transmitter in London. I now had an LMR base station running in real-time over the Internet, with the radio hardware in London and the signal processing in Sydney. I was able to attach a JTAG hardware debugger to the DSP in the radio running the signal processing and find the bug. From there we did a firmware release and uploaded new firmware into the radios in London. Our radios stayed in and handled the stage management for the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics.

Edit:

The customer must have been happy with the outcome, as they ended up using our radios for the Sochi Winter Olympics two years later.
You'll be happy to hear that the US holds wealthy people to account all the time. You'll be sad to hear that that's only true when their victims are other wealthy people.
I used a Monte Carlo simulation to pick my health insurance plan
Doesn't that depend on the field of study? There is a fairly straightforward path for a motivated student to self-study to the equivalent of a Bachelor's degree in mathematics. But how would that work in, let's say, history? I took a fair number of history courses as electives and if I had just read books and watched videos I think I would have come away with a really skewed and incomplete education. Class discussions with instructors and peers gave me a much better perspective on many topics.
Wouldn't you want it to be "dependent" on whatever the source of the data is?
I don't think Serenity has a set purpose. No one is going around calling it a viable alternative to Linux. That's ok though. In the future, who knows what will happen to it. There is no need for it to have good support for baremetal at this stage.
Alameda Research Borrowed FTX Customer Funds Without Limits
We never had a BTRFS event on OS drives that didn't result in total loss of the OS. We have finally removed it from the last server it was put on.
Reminds me of a video I recently watched of a crew of 4 women rowing across the Atlantic in a tiny little boat, taking continual 4 hour shifts for 3,000 miles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYHamnHqU8