skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider reaching a point where you only improve half of what you improved the day before, say first p for some increment p in English proficiency (hence p/2 the next day, p/4 the next…). By definition, you’ll keep improving for the rest of your life, but will never improve 2p counting from that fateful day, à la Zeno. That’s an example, not a model, which I don’t have.

And certainly you have a point, devoting time and money may clearly help vigorously push the upward trend for longer, but I was just talking about my experience, those relatively effortless early moments. In any event, no matter how much you apply, I think it’s hard to argue that it’s quite rare to find foreigners that moved to a country as adults and sound truly native, and I don’t believe it’s due to half-hearted dedication.
there are two kinds of geniuses: the “ordinary” and the “magicians.” An ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what he has done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians. They are, to use mathematical jargon, in the orthogonal complement of where we are and the working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark. They seldom, if ever, have students because they cannot be emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magician’s mind works. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest caliber

https://www.comesaunter.com/2008/07/mark-kac-on-the-two-kind...
This whole thing is pretty silly, right? The penalties for noncompliance with NYC's law apply to the listing company, not to the board they posted on. If you really think YC companies are deliberately skirting the law, report them to NYC.

NYC does a one-time 90-day notice-and-cure, so you can "effect positive change" with listing YC companies without subjecting them to fines, if that's really what you're worried about.

I don't see what this has to do with HN, at all.
I believe that really depends on (a) how much harm it caused downstream, (b) how much of it is caused by your actions. Per Matt Levine's column today, it's not the whole problem that FTX had sloppy accounting – rather that SBF went around advertising the "sophisticated risk engine" which in reality was crap. This action accounts for fraud.

I don't see you being jailed for your random GitHub project being sloppy. However, if your closed source software that you advertise as 100% safe and secure gets used by a chemotherapy clinic, and then it comes out to be downright sloppy after killing 20 patients you may be accused of fraud. Anyway, not a lawyer so take it with a grain of salt.
This is just the Federal grand jury indictment.

See https://www.justice.gov/usao/justice-101/charging

It is a pretty typical indictment, fact wise. They don't often include the level of line by line detail you would find in a civil complaint. They mainly exist to let you know what you are being charged with, not to make the case to you that you are guilty.

Civil complaints are also deliberately meant to be detailed enough that people try to settle them ahead of time, pre discovery.

If you looked at non grand jury state proceedings, the criminal complaint would look closer in detail to a civil one.

Though I believe they have to extradite here so you will likely see a more detailed version that ends up in Bahamas court, depending on what they/the treaty requires
Alas, it seems I've missed my chance to discuss one of my favorite things: Ruby. If you're a latecomer to this submission like myself, here are three things to keep in mind as you read the replies:

- Many remarks concern the difficulty of understanding "unless" for those with a first language other than English. It may be interesting to note that Ruby was created in Japan, and that "unless" has been in the language since the very first release. [1]

- Matz has a very interesting and famous quote about the principle of least surprise: "it means the principle of least surprise after you learn Ruby very well." [2]

- Computers don't care how programs are structured. Businesses don't care how systems are architected. The canvas does not care how paint is applied. Software engineering is an art. [3]

---

1. You can verify this yourself - check `parse.y`: https://web.archive.org/web/20071109044522/http://eigenclass...

2. The rest of the quote is also wonderful: https://www.artima.com/articles/the-philosophy-of-ruby#part4

3. The article that contains this line has fundamentally altered how I view our profession: https://www.neversaw.us/2022/01/30/the-canvas-cares-not/
RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/hausman_k/status/1602720768965898240
Blog post: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/rt-1-robotics-transformer-...
Tumblr supports them as of May https://changes.tumblr.com/post/683524731509653505/friday-ma...
If you're assuming withdrawing at a safe withdrawal rate you're assuming you're not compounding. You're assuming a safe withdrawal rate from principal/dividends/interest that will, on average, leave the principal constant. Of course, if you're older and are not looking to pass down money you may be fine with drawing down principal to some degree.

So, yes, $2m should probably be modeled at about $80K income per year before taxes without touching principal but without building savings.

(May be somewhat higher with higher interest rates/inflation.)
Would this change though if they were out of reach of the apple App Store? The "ask app not to track" feature is a component of the OS. The only difference is then that Facebook would be allowed to violate the user's consent with impunity, which they can already practically do given the App Store's relative inability to stop malicious software
My preferred features to enable Firefox to be on the user's side again:

0. Delete all promotions/advertising.
1. Delete Pocket (make it a regular optional Firefox extension.)
2. Delete user studies.
3. Delete analytics and other anti-privacy features.
4. Opt out of everything by default.

And:

5. Fix autoplay blocking so that it actually works.
6. Add blocking for modal javascript windows and slide-overs.
7. Disable "referer" entirely by default.
> When you should know it's criminal, "just following orders" isn't a great defense.

That's even true in the military if you're given illegal orders. It's called the "duty to disobey".

It's not enough that employees "should" know what's illegal and what's not in an exchange -- companies need to be held criminally negligent for employing people who don't know.
Ah, well I stand corrected on that point. My other points also stand.

I've also speculated elsewhere that perhaps Apple could open source binary analysis tools, or at least present some sort of public-facing service to scan binaries. They could manage the semi-opening of their platform themselves, if they wanted to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32170848
Well, then hopefully you can understand why developers don't want to pay the largest company in the world for restricting their freedom.
Sure, you can prevent it, just hire journalist to vet every story.

It's not cheap, and we're not paying for HN -- so yeah, we get what we pay for :)

And even when you hire journalist, they are then skewed towards allowing click-bait and false outrage articles, because that drives user engagement.

And it's hard to find a to finance journalism without revenue being linked to user engagement (whether ads or subscription).

It's kind of sad, because low credibility news stories is why many corporations are careful about how they communicate; indeed the advice the PR department can give you is often to not reply -- because replying keeps to story alive longer, even if it is all false nonsense outrage over nothing.

</rant>

I have no solutions, it's hard to change incentives for journalism in a capitalist system, and while "independent" state-sponsored media (NPR/BBC) may be complement, we probably don't want to rely state-sponsored media :)

It's not much, but we can take comfort in the fact that this is not a new problem: click-bait is as old as newspapers; I'd even dare to wager we can find cave paintings exaggerating the size of the game that was hunted.
I played Simcity 2K and apparently completely forgot that "disaster" sorry lol
No. I have 5 Gbps fiber at home.

I don't really care about the bandwidth of mobile internet as long as it is minimally usable. If I'm not at home or work then I'm out living my life, not stuck to the screen.
Sometimes it's because they don't know it will break in 5 years. They weren't anticipating exponential growth and when they started, the i32 range was a thousand times more than they needed. Ten more doublings later ...
Up until recently (healthcare reasons) the Adams were basically doing just that. I guess they won’t need to sign/sell little dwarf artworks for DF donators anymore though
Most systems don't have a Y10k issue: year numbers are variable-width already. Forcing a fixed-width 5-digit representation is creating a Y100k issue.
presumably

Isn't the answer to your question buried in your assumptions? For example, you seem to assume the rate of comsumption of unique IDs is static.
Great on you for supporting his endeavors!
> Also, the `for` operator definitely predates the `map` function

And `CAS/Compare Accumulator with Storage` definitely predates `if`, still you are most probably using the latter.
I had this happen a few times. My response is, you have to pay for 3 years at the rate. It does not mean you work 3 years, you are paid for the contract,6 months,etc.

What happens, I had two say no way, one said yes. The two said no way, you move on.
This is mainstream media being sensationalist per usual. This is what the original Coindesk article wrote.

"They appeared to oscillate between dejection and defiance, at times holding their heads in their hands and clasping their hands. Bankman-Fried’s mother audibly laughed several times when her son was referred to as a “fugitive” and his father occasionally put his fingers in his ears as if to drown out the sound of the proceedings."

It definitely sounds more like a stress response.
Oh. Wow, you are right. I honestly just read the definition in Gallian wrong, and then, even as I was typing it, I swear I thought it said "ba + bc = b(a + c)". What a crazy experience of confirmation bias by me.

I obviously agree that a human is extremely effective at explaining that "equals" is symmetric and not the same as "implies". I'm just arguing that the task also can be done in prose to similar, if inferior, effect.

I did agree however that because math has so many gotchas like this, then no textbook will ever disclaim all potential sources of confusion like the example by GGP. And so our discussion boils down to the tradeoff between the price and time investment of taking a class vs. the increased difficulty of self-studying. And how different people assign value differently to each side of the tradeoff, which I claim is the root of our disagreement.
It’s useful enough to produce significant net energy if they continue with the gain scaling that ignition allows.
Some extra tips:

Keep access logs, both when a service receives a request and finishes a request.
Record request duration.
Always rotate logs.
Ingest logs into a central store if possible.
Ingest exceptions into a central store if possible.
Always use UTC everywhere in infra.
Make sure all (semantic) lines in a log file contain a timestamp.
Include thread ids if it makes sense to.
It's useful to log unix timestamp alongside human readable time because it is trivially sortable.
Use head/tail to test a command before running it on a large log file.

If you find yourself going to logs for time series data then it is definitely time to use a time series database. If you can't do that, at least write a `/private/stats` handler that displays in memory histograms/counters/gauges of relevant data.

Know the difference between stderr and stdout and how to manipulate them on the command line (2>/dev/null is invaluable, 2>&1 is useful), use them appropriately for script output.

Use atop, it makes debugging machine level/resource problems 10 fold easier.

Have a general knowledge of log files (sometimes /var/log/syslog will tell you exactly your problem, often in red colored text).

If you keep around a list of relevant hostnames:

cat $hostname_list_file | xargs -P $parallelness -I XHOSTNAME ssh XHOSTNAME -- grep <request_id> <log_file>

This needs to be used carefully and deliberately. This is the style of command that can test your backups. This style command has caused multiple _major_ outages. With it, you can find a needle in a haystack across an entire fleet of machines quickly and trivially. If you need to do more complex things, `bash -c` can be the command sent to ssh.

I've had an unreasonable amount of success opening up log files in vim and using vim to explore and operate on them. You can do command line actions one at a time (:!$bash_cmd), and you can trivially undo (or redo) anything to the logs. Searching and sorting, line jumping, pagedown/up, etc, diffing, jump to top of file or bottom, status bar telling you how far you are into a file or how many lines it has without having to wc -l, etc.

Lastly, it's great to think of the command line in terms of map and reduce. `sed` is a mapping command, `grep` is a reducing command. Awk is frequently used for either mapping or reducing.
What Elon does with his time and money is his own business. What are you doing to help humanity get to Mars beyond scolding the person who is arguably the greatest single contributer to humans in space of the past 20 years?
I’ve always thought a social api built on email as the transport and mailing lists for organization would be ideal. The infrastructure is there and scales.
I've read on the /r/gamedev subreddit of people succeeding with even just doing cold-call emails to popular twitch streamers. Someone recently posted a breakdown of how many streamers played their game after he sent out emails, and he seemed to get around 5% turnaround.

There's a guide that was posted to this subreddit a while ago too, that gives what you are looking for I think. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/m74fcj/guide_to_ma...
Because applications needed the illusion that they had exclusive control of the frame buffer. Not saving the hidden portion of windows would have required the windowing system to have an incompatible interface as that would require a means of telling the application that it should redraw its window.
NIF never was designed to be a power plant or have anything to do with power generation. This is something most commenters don't appear to appreciate. It's an experimental facility that, when distilled to its simplest explanation, lets us study things when you squish them really, really hard. It turns out, fusion is one of the things you can study when you squish stuff really hard - and one of the big challenges was controlling how you do the squishing (which turns out to be pretty difficult).

There are lots of other problems that NIF also studies that boil down to "what does this do when we squish it" that have nothing to do with fusion or energy production. Aside from the weapons program applications, there are experiments that take place there in materials science, understanding extreme environments ("what do these elements we believe sit in the core of Jupiter act like at those pressures?"), etc.

TLDR: Think of NIF as a lab for energetically squishing things. It's not a power plant, it's not a prototype for a power plant, it's not a pre-prototype for a power plant, etc. It's a lab for basic physics research. It's about as close to being a prototype for a power plant as a test tube in a lab full of hydrocarbons is to being a prototype of an internal combustion engine.
I recently uploaded my vacation photos to flickr, my first time using it. I have to say - very nice site / app. I uploaded 900+ full resolution photos for free. Way better than insta or facebook, two apps I use so seldom that they are not even on my phone. I will likely pay for the pro version, not bc I need it, but bc I would be happy to support the company.
If that was true I wouldn't see the same store chains in every city. There are some really minor differences, but mostly you see the same basically wherever you go in USA, in Europe most stores are different when you cross a border.
The Surprising Connection Between Watches and Espionage
> Only Singh, Bankman-Fried and a few other top FTX and Alameda executives knew about the exemption in the code, according to three former executives briefed on the matter. A digital dashboard used by staff to track FTX customer assets and liabilities was programmed so it would not take into account that Alameda had withdrawn the client funds, according to two of the people and a screenshot of the portal that Reuters has previously reported.

If you want to see what you should never do as a software engineer if you like not being in jail, this is it.

Singh will definitely get prison time as well, though I'm sure all the higher-ups in FTX are trying to point fingers to get deals. In the Madoff scandal, 2 of Madoff's programmers were sentenced to 2 1/2 years each. In this case, Singh has much more culpability as a higher-up (not to mention a pre-collapse billionaire).
Where does Washington get elves from?
Still just randomly deciding I said solar?
I guess it's a poem. I like it
Same with sequences in Oracle. They don't participate in transactions. Looking at the gaps between "consecutive" IDs shows surprisingly interesting behavior.
This one of my favorite talks. Means has other interesting talks as well. The one about 3 mile island is pretty good too.
Lol. When Coindesk is bringing more nuanced news reporting than CNBC, you know things are whack.
According to the book Hatching Twitter and the YouTube channel ModernMBA[1], Jack was very careful of cultivating his public image to the point of public deception.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DudWfJXHN9g
If it’s a C-corp, then the corporation will have to pay income tax on its profit. If it’s an S-corp, then the owners will have to pay income tax of the corporate profits even if they do stay in the corporate coffers.

Unless there’s another way you hand in mind?
Reminds me of the parable of the Mexican fisherman: https://www.kevincsnyder.com/the-mexican-fisherman-amazing-s...
Why? If 169m were born during that period and 100m lost their lives because of British policy, then it still means that 100m lives were lost unnecessarily.
This thread is amazing.. thank you both for sharing!
This reads like a stress response to me. I don’t think realizing your child is probably going to live behind bars for the rest of your life and your family will never recover is something you “man up” through.
I offer this as a service. Typically when there’s a big acquisition and an audit of the codebase is needed, I gather up a group of developers each paid about $250/hr to go through the codebase and conduct audits looking for any red flags and giving an estimation of existing technical debt.
“nuclear power is already virtually free”

What? Cost is THE problem with nuclear energy.

You must have some bizarre way of framing things to make today statement - you should at least tell us what that is since you must know that you are making a controversial claim.
> I doubt they'll end up with liability, but I do hope they at least recognize and think about how their actions enabled this whole mess.

Singh is going to jail. He was an executive, not just a low-level employee, and was a pre-collapse billionaire. I have no doubt the evidence like this will show that he knew what he was doing was willingly fraudulent. Madoff's programmers each got 2 1/2 years.
Why would anyone believe we’re in a new era of geopolitical instability?
you may want to consider why you're taking OPs comment about Elon Musk personally.
Canada, like the US, has its own health care crisis. Wait times for medical care seem surreal.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/british-columbia/...

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-paramedics-...
If 32 bits lasted 10 years, 33 bits would not last 20, as engagement is not a constant. If we look at the last 10 years, presumably there were a lot more posts in the second 5 years than in the first 5 years. I don't know what Reddit's actual user/engagement metrics show though. Certainly if they got to a stable point where they had approximately the same activity going forward as they have going back then it would, but that's not usually how social sites work.

That said, it would still take quite a while to get to 64 bits.
Does no one use the X11 select/single button paste? Hell I like it so much I get irritated when I go back to windows and have to use (fake exasperated tone) four extra keystrokes to copy and paste. But jokes aside it is annoying as hell to use windows copy/paste after the sublime X11 experience. this is mainly because it takes 2 or three aborted paste efforts before I get it right.

Why did it not paste?? I know I selected it, go back and select.. still nothing, ahh yes I am on windows go back ctrl+c exasperated sigh, back again, ctrl+v exasperated sigh.

X11 has it's problems but primary select/middle button paste is one thing it got right. some others are point to focus, don't raise on click, tiling window managers and the compose key.
If it is domain that you are going to use for something that would not be easy to change it is a good idea to not only get it for 10 years, but also every year add another year so that expiration is always 9 to 10 years out.

That way if there ever is a big price increase sufficient to make you switch domains you've got at least 9 years to execute the switch.
Then I confess I really don't know what your point is, beyond telling us you have bad roads? Surely there was a point behind that. Was it not "look how little we spend to have a good life"? Well, then noting how much everyone else is spending for your benefit seems responsive, no?
Berlin right?
I do hate to sound like the neckbeard that I am, but what about RSS? Doesn't it fit the bill as far as the three principles?

> Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.

> Only the original author may remove content they produce.

... these are the same point? but RSS addresses them both by the fact that content can be hosted on blogging software running in one's basement.

> Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

... accomplished by having a choice of a variety of RSS clients.

RSS also, by being significantly less efficient at spreading information, seemingly would mitigate/eliminate many of the more harmful aspects of a single-platform publisher/feed aggregator like twitter.