skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What i'm going to describe isn't a solution to a problem the big guys have. They had enough sway with their vendors to get good systems. But for small guys like me, open access to automated systems would have been a god send.

I guess what I don't understand about this is the incentive structure for the vendor.

If the TAM opened by providing small guys with inventory files is big enough, just put a CSV in an S3 bucket or provide an API that's "free until abusive". No need for middleware and you can probably pay for decades of bandwidth before the middleware's cut comes even close to break-even. I work with a few small vendors, and this is basically what they do. No NFTs, blockchain, or other nonsense needed. File hosting+CSV solved the problem over a decade ago.

This part also doesn't make any sense to me:

> After I get enough of these, I can trade them in for a volume rebate. This let's the small vendors get access to effectively what is a volume discount.

The real question is: how many of these vendors even want to work with the small guys?

In B2B, nontrivial volume discounts are justifiable due to a downstream entity's ability to guarantee demand to the upstream supplier. It's a cash-flow thing. If a downstream consumer can guarantee they will buy a certain amount of product, I can take that to the bank (sometimes literally) and invest in growing the business. The reduced volatility and guaranteed demand is worth a 20% discount because it allows me to invest in growth with reduced risk.

Small businesses with JIT inventory and bursty sales are literally the exact opposite of what a small manufacturer wants. As a manufacturer, why would I give a bulk discount to the least attractive type of consumer?! It'd be literally paying for the privilege of taking on someone else's risk... I can understand why my counterparty would love post-facto bulk rebates, but why the heck would I as a manufacturer give them the pleasure of screwing me!?
Having a million dollars puts you in the top 12% of household net worth in the US - while "middle class" is a notoriously loose term in the US, that's upper middle class at least. Median household net worth is around $120k.
In the US market. In Europe it's far easier to find a CCS charger
Except the war in Ukraine has also shown that this is false.
As much as I dislike where this conversation is going ( edit: not this article; just our privacy expectations in general ), I am inclined to agree. Beyond the obvious, as the cat and mouse game continues, people who want to defeat it will need to account for almost inevitable increased number of algo variants and it is unlikely that:

1. They are mutually exclusive
2. They can't be run in close succession
3. They are disclosed and known to the person that tries to avoid them
You asked if people care, the answer is yes and I gave you the why I care.

You also brought up pets and burning trash in India so I assume the conversation wasn't "just talking about private jets".
General Fusion exceeds core technology performance targets with prototypes
Avoidant behavior is often rooted in anxiety and can affect even the smartest and most diligent people. A trained professional is likely to fastest way to address it e.g. therapist or clinician. Think of it as an investment that could change your life.
I bought a used BMW from a dealer recently. Many of the conventional dealers have apparently copied internet sellers' sales model, and are now no-haggle.

The experience was completely fine, especially compared to the last two cars I purchased, which previously made me swear I'd only deal with tesla, specifically to avoid dealerships. The biggest problem was that the online EV inventory was completely out-of-date, so I had to physically show up to browse cars.

The whole process took less than 5 hours end-to-end (roughly 2-3 in the dealership). I paid a fair price vs. other local sales of similar cars. I'm not sure how much of the good experience was due to being at a luxury car dealership vs. them copying off of tesla and other online-only dealerships.
Criminals the security services are looking for are not that smart. If they were, they wouldn't have been criminals in the first place.
They are still better, but no doubt teams of people are working on improving automation to the point where they are not better.

I believe, on a long enough timeframe, every product that can be produced and every service that can be performed will be done by automation/AI/robotics. It's the inevitable destination of the tracks we are currently rolling on. 1. An advancement in automation is made where something can now be done automatically that previously required humans. 2. Those humans no longer have a job. 3. Some of those humans re-train for a job not yet automate-able. 4. Goto 1. This cycle will repeat for generations and generations, probably for centuries. The jobs at the bottom of the skill pyramid will slowly be taken over by automation, and new high-skill, high-complexity jobs will be created towards the top of the pyramid. Humans will constantly be scrambling to get footholds higher and higher up the pyramid, before automation gobbles those jobs up too. The end destination: self-creating automation that can make and do anything. At which point, there is nothing left for humans to do.

If, by that point, we still have not gotten past our primitive economic system based on money-for-labor and private ownership of the means of production, then humanity will simply no longer function.
I don't think the /s is needed, decentralization of "power" or "authority" has never worked.

Yes it most likely has. It's just not absolute. There's a very strong argument that all of history is supporting data for all societies and governments being on a spectrum of centralized power, with the more decentralized ones being better for the common person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
In a nutshell, he ran FTX like Mt. Gox. He did't know what he was doing but just on a bigger scale than ever.
Earlier this year, used Teslas were selling for upwards of $10k over what Tesla sold them for new, and Tesla kept bumping up the MSRP. It was the worst used/new value ratio across the industry, probably since there are no dealers you could pay a market adjustment to in order to get a new one immediately instead of waiting half a year.

Now that the delivery time for new Teslas is down to a month or two depending on model, of course used prices are dropping like a rock.
In my experience, simply being "not boring" is not enough. Usually for me it needs to have at least three qualities of the following four: pressure, interest, competition, and novelty. If a game is interesting but lacks competition or novelty, I may start playing it, but it's unlikely I'll continue for more than 15 minutes.
"They were so focused on whether they could, that they never stopped to think whether they should"

Putting someone's life in a spotlight without their consent is not much different from being an annoying paparazzi
It took the feds 3 years to indict Kenneth Lay for Enron. You’re going to be waiting a while. Feds get one shot at a case and they don’t tend to lose for a reason.

By arresting him now he can force a speedy trial. Feds are going to gather every single ounce of evidence they can before they go after him.
BTW habitually switching at the same time and place is terrible opsec. It leaks a ton of information.
Nationwide winter storm set to bring everything from blizzards to tornadoes
It's hard to tell what I meant as much time has past.

I think I was responding to [The best hackers I know] are also super terse!

I've spent time in an aggressively terse 1980s/90s codebase (based on VA Fileman, example is [0]). Between single letter variable names and syntax abbreviations, and global scope assumed vars, it was like working in minified JQuery. Aside from NextStep/iOS methodDeclarationsThatTakeAllEightyCharactersBecauseTheyAreIdeDriven, I've never seen a codebase that was too verbose. I think they are few and far between because most people are too lazy to be really verbose.

The best code maintains a close approximation to the mind of a reasonably educated programmer, a mental model of the intent and purpose of the code and what the compiler (or jit, or whatever) can understand. Too terse is too closely fitted to one specific person's mental model.

0. https://www.hardhats.org/fileman/pm/cla_frm.htm
Ok, I've inserted a "(not)" into the title above as a way of merging this information while preserving the original title.
Is that supposed to be an absurd proposition? Because that is something I want. Stuff like advertising should be straight up banned, and it should be considered abuse to get a phone call from someone you have not explicitly whitelisted, especially corporations and governments.

No one should presume they have an IRQ line to your brain and attention. They don't get to interrupt you with bullshit you couldn't care less about.
I mean, you're not wrong, it's just that quitting your job isn't usually an option that is available. I always live with the sword of damocles over my head as it is- space out in the wrong meeting or forget something and I'll get my wish and be fired anyway. No need to rush it. My savings will last 2 or 3 months while I panic and look for a new job that I'll hate just as much. The escape hatch is getting really lucky and being able to make money doing what your passion is- extremely rare- or inherit a fuckton of money- equally rare.

But believe me when I say I spend every day trying to figure out a way to do just that (make money on one of my passion projects). If I could live long enough, eventually I would succeed. It's just that I will probably get old and die before that happens, like most people with ADHD.
If you're standing on the inside surface of a sphere with a hollow, you should not experience any gravity. It's pretty important for supporting King Kong's body-weight, normal 1g would be hell on his knee joints.
Just for completeness sake, they do offer a SQLite Consortium Membership for $120k, which I guess includes all their test suites as a selling point:
https://www.sqlite.org/prosupport.html
Why Protecting Tanks Is Getting Much More Difficult
Not to defend SBF or suggest he did anything correct, but isn't that _negligence_? Given that the factors of the negligence benefited their operations, it still may be charged as fraud and he may be guilty in court.
I've heard a nice description of ADHD being both the most under and over diagnosed issue at the same time. Since it's mostly based on self-reporting, it's easy to get on the meds if you want to, or easy to pin on an issue someone may be having, as a quick solution. On the other hand, for various reasons high functioning people will keep on going and try to deal with it daily until they run into some roadblocks. It took me over 30 years to get diagnosed, but really I should've done it in primary school already. (There was minimal awareness then)
Could you elaborate on the bad reaction that you experienced? Which treatment, brand, and daily amount?
No, because then he can invoke his right to a speedy trial (72 days) leaving prosecutors in a spot where they can't use a grand jury to find new charges, have a time limit to get their case locked down, and they don't have time to make deals with smaller fish to testify against the big fish.

"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine"
> Ray said that “one of the most pervasive failures” at FTX’s main international exchange was the lack of records about decision-making. He said that Bankman-Fried often used messaging platforms with an auto-delete function “and encouraged employees to do the same.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/new-ftx-chief-sl...

("Snapchat" - the specific brand - may be inaccurate. I've seen it reported as messages that "auto-delete" without a specific platform mentioned.)
The final step is we all travel around in the exact same black cube on wheels. Can't get bometrics or your unique gait.

Or just not leave home.

I've always thought that surveillance footage gathered using our tax money should be available to everybody. I thought if everybody can access them, they would understand how we exposed we all are as soon as you leave the house.
I think this is true, apologies if I oversold them a bit. The Portuguese one I did was also being built so we had to take detours at time. Sometimes it was unclear, but at the same time there were posters next to the road on how it was going to look soon.
The thing is they've almost always been a small minority except for brief periods in history, and in certain places, that we tend to look at romantically. Looking back to Roman or Feudal estates, they were large operations run by dozen or hundreds of people. Yes, in Roman times there were smallholders, but they were never as efficient or large.

Farming is hard, low margin work.
> If they were, they wouldn't have been criminals in the first place.

What does intelligence have to do with whether someone is a criminal? There are dumb criminals and smart criminals; I'm not sure what the correlation here is.
Tags are limited how exactly? Prompt crafting becomes a case of selecting the relevant tags, and the embedding space will still capture the dataset.

Danbooru is only one such example of well curated tagging and if we ignore copyright there are far more examples. These example just serve as evidence that refining poor labeling is not outside of the relm of possibility as you suggested.
> Disengaged
CEO:
CEO
Jack Dorsey
had
recruited
Mudge
personally.
They
got
along
well,
and
Mudge
has
never
suspected Dorsey
of
harboring
bad
intent.
But
Dorsey, the
high-profile
CEO
of
one
of
the
most
prominent
companies
on
earth,
was
experiencing
a
drastic loss
of
focus
in
2021.
Dorsey
attended
meetings sporadically,
and
when
he
did,
he
was
extremely
disengaged.”
In
some
meetings
—even
after
he
was
briefed
on
complex
corporate
issues
—
Dorsey
did
not
speak
a
word.
Mudge
heard from
his
colleagues
that
Dorsey
would
remain
silent
for
days
or
weeks.
Worried
about
Dorsey's
health,
the senior
team
mostly
tried
to
cover
up
for
him,”
but
even
mid-
and
lower-level
staff
could
tell
that
the ship
was
rudderless
It doesn't seem that Substack is actually doing either of those things here, contrary to the claims in the original tweet.
It's a very well researched book. Shrier is one hell of a good journalist.
Rivian is another insane valuation.

Requiring a non-dealership EV removes all but a handful of companies. Those are the companies that as sibling commentators have pointed out are delivering EVs in volume.
What are the odds that Bahamas authorities were previously partners in his scheme, and now want to keep him in the Bahamas simply so they can loot the corpse of FTX before anybody else can?
That's not true at all, at least in a civilian context. As others have pointed out, the fact that this is being developed by DARPA means that those legal restraints may not actually apply, which I agree is very disturbing.

First of all, it would be health data protected under HIPAA.

It could also be relevant to involuntary hospitalization, where the current standard is "clear and present danger." In general, you can't be involuntarily hospitalized for saying something like "I'm having thoughts of suicide," but could be involuntarily hospitalized for talking about a specific plan for suicide or actually attempting suicide. The idea that this technology could legally demonstrate that someone is a clear and present danger to themselves is far fetched. I'm not saying the legal system is perfect or even good, but it's not 100% stupid. Judges can and do distinguish between statistical and non-statistical evidence.

Red flag laws/ERPOs use a less stringent standard from what I understand, so it is somewhat more likely (although still unlikely overall, I'd argue) to be applicable in that case.
Do Kwon Is in Serbia
What sound does make a bug that can't be read by a human?

feature, feature, feature
I think both interpretations are true. I think he did think they were so brilliant and novel that they could ignore the rules. I think it's reasonable and probably legally correct to interpret that as fraud (with self destructing messages being strong evidence of mens rea). I think he really didn't intend for things to go wrong. I think he probably thought "we're all gunnuh make it," or "(3,3)" as Levine describes it in today's Money Stuff. I think now that everything has collapsed, he's trying to weaponize his rationalizations to maneuver himself into a better position (nonspecifically, there's no plan he's just trying to see what kind of better position is possible. I provide some admittedly sparse evidence for that here [1]).

In order to lie convincingly, you must first lie to yourself. His method is a sort of "sincere bullshit." That excuses nothing but is necessary for a complete understanding of the story.

SBF wasn't an exit scammer, or he would left with the money much earlier. He wasn't a Madoff character, or he wouldn't have attracted so much attention. A better comparison is Holmes. They were both looking to build an empire and probably believed they would eventually make good on all or most of their promises. This is a really dangerous form of con artist, because they can take in everyone - the greedy who want to ride the hype, the optimists who want to implement the vision, the desperate who need to believe in something, we can all fall for this sort of thing.

IANAL

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33910390
> all fusion "got more energy out than we put in"

I'm curious - given that this is the first time we have ever done this (even with the constrained definition as discussed in this article), how there can be a '"usual caveat" about all of the "got more energy out than we put in" stories'?

AFAICT, this is the first such "story" to have ever happened artificially in history.
While this is true, it is also true that Amphetamine is the Powerhouse of the Cell
There is also a confound in the other direction too, people who need sildenafil for erections are probably less healthy than ones who don't
It just sucks and always has. Beyond saving I think.
I also think the whole concept of a completely free knowledge base where anyone can create articles of extremely varying quality that will be globally searchable is a horrible idea. That kind of system needs an editor to work. Example: if I search for system documentation for a specific system I get various employees' personal notes on how they wrote a oneliner in 2012 to do something specific in that system.
Funny I just was in line at my credit union and caught a look at their balance sheet.

In October they had $281,996,350 outstanding in auto loans compared to $462,003,191 in mortgage loans and $68,035,664 in HELOC.

Auto loans turned out to be bigger relative to mortgages than I expected but maybe my credit union writes a lot of auto loans.
RIP. I used to listen to E2-E4 while playing chess. His music was very entrancing.
You should give Plasma a try some time! It's mature and feature-rich again, like KDE was in the 3.5 days.
tl;dw: It's hard to get SBF to admit to fraud involving Alameda because he can fall back on the excuse that he wasn't the CEO and didn't know what was happening (even though there's every chance he actually did). So the youtuber hit him with a more targeted question: if FTX guarantees deposits are not traded, why were deposits not able to be withdrawn -- where did they go? He gets SBF to admit that they were commingling regular deposits with funds from customers doing riskier things like margin trading, and during the run those riskier users withdrew funds that should have been deposits that were set aside in a separate pool. That exposed regular depositors to risk contrary to what was laid out in the TOS. SBF gets mad and lashes out.
Hmm. No. It's definitely not that.
It can be relevant in the context of "this is how I work best, this is how to work with me best, these are the areas I'd appreciate a little more patience from you on." If you know what ADHD is, someone saying they have it is pretty good shorthand for all that.

That said, I still haven't brought it up with anyone at work because of the stigma around it. It's tiring pretending it's not a problem for me though.

I think you're right that it's a generational thing. More people know what it is, are less judgemental, or know they have it themselves. Also, a lot of people don't see it as about mental health in the same way e.g. depression or BPD is. (Unsure if that's what you were implying though!)
SBF: “I donated to both parties. I donated about the same amount to both parties,”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/30/ftx-billi...
No, it hasn't. Picking a war to demonstrate that the world is not more peaceful is not a convincing argument.

The world has actually become much more peaceful.
Presumably, this is a warning for people building a fresh system. Even if the authors called out a, b, and c for version 1, 2, and 3 (respectively); there is no promise that x, y, and z don't exhibit these issues (or that other versions of abc do or don't exhibit the behavior, either).

This is a reminder to consider our use cases and vet our dependencies for those use cases carefully.
There is strong evidence that ADHD is overdiagnosed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042533/

And of course, there is the issue of drug-seeking - for increased concentration and focus, for fun, or some other reason. And many doctors suspect patients of drug-seeking. Symptoms can easily be faked and are difficult to spot.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3173757/
https://healthland.time.com/2011/04/28/faking-it-why-nearly-...
The end of Woodmann.com (March 2022)
Still 3 years behind at very least of a Tesla. Disclaimer: I own a Tesla M3 but I really, really tried to buy a Ioniq5 before finally buying Tesla.
The one ChatGPT invented maybe? Maybe that makes it easier for it (or maybe not) to implement it.
Several Target stores near me have charging stations now. 7/11 starting to put in some as well. Some companies have put in charging spots for employees. Even our library has 3 charging parking slots.
If you truly believe that he didn’t know what he was doing then he managed to successfully paint the narrative of a naive young entrepreneur. He knew what he was doing.
Hemi driver here. We're planning to trade it in for an electric F-150.

I get the appeal of the Cybertruck and Rivian, but they're completely impractical for use as pickup trucks. I hope they find their niches and everything, but there's no way they'd replace a conventional full sized pickup that was actually being used for truck stuff.
I felt some fatigue from all the mistakes it did, which I noticed after paying fairly closer attention to it's responses lately.
I'm only on Spotify because Rdio isn't an option.
> The object is to diffuse the bomb

I assume in this scenario the terrorist team is trying to plant and detonate the bomb, thereby diffusing its (perhaps damaging, poisonous, or radioactive) components over a wide area, while the counter-terrorist team is trying to defuse the bomb and prevent it from exploding in the first place.
> Can people stop a second with ADHD-as-a-disease? It’s the society that’s sick!!

This is correct! ADHD may stem from a useful set of traits for past humans that were much more active, had to scout things, etc. The problem is we now have a regimented culture that rewards people who sit, perform boring repetitive tasks, and need to concentrate on uninteresting material for long periods of time. This is a well known to be an unhealthy lifestyle for humans.

>Quit your job and live a better life!

I am not sure that can work for everyone. Quit your job and then what?
The loss just on the lasers is 100x (i.e. delivered power is 1% of the input energy). Add in a combined cycle effeciency of only 50%, you're looking at needing a 200x improvement to have commercially relevant "net gain"
Sounds like you just need to find some lighter folk to round out the set you follow a bit.