skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key differences:

1. if you aren't Stanford, trust is hard to gain, easy to lose, and nearly impossible to gain back once lost. One bad placement raises alarms and more than one poisons the well for an entire degree program. There aren't many regional employers per degree program, and national/global employers are a "reach job" for most students. This is something that non-elite institutions know in a visceral and painful way. They are so careful with the few regionally well-regarded degree programs they manage to build. The folly of VC world was obvious to those faculty, and their students (such as me), from the start.

2. if you aren't Stanford, most of your students probably really do need a couple years (at least) of in-person instruction before they are ready for the labor force. Again, anyone who has taught at one of these institutions just knows! Once every 10 years you get the type who didn't really need the degree to learn the material, and you do your best to elevate them past the institution's typical bar for outcomes. But the other 9 years, 100% of students require a lot of real work before they are ready.

In other words, most institutions cannot afford to signal without that signal being extremely accurate. AND they don't have the type of students who don't really need the education. So they educate students and then signal the value of hose students not just through grades but also especially through things like referrals, letters, and so on. But, again, I wouldn't expect a Stanford or UIUC or Michigan grad to understand this world.
well i guess a 100 years lifetime was kind of pulled out of my ass, what i was trying to communicate is that you can I'm theory maintain a nuclear power plant to last for 100s of years but i guess if you'd just let it run without doing anything it would probably run for 30-40 years.

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iaea-data-animation-nuc...

solar is fine for those who can afford it, but workout subsidies and the ability to sell electricity back to the grid it's a crazy long term investment in many places of the world especially northern Europe where I'm from (for hopefully obvious reasons). so different milage may apply elsewhere. i guess we'll have to see if those 40 years are for real and if the companies offering it are even around in 20 years.

wind needs constant maintenance to have a 20 year lifespan, but beyond the 25 years you'd have to replace the whole thing. so while a nuclear powerplant also requires constant maintenance you don't have to treat down the whole plant after 40 years. even the German ones that are closing now could easily have their lifetime extended https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/could-germany-keep-i...

>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 guess what I'm trying to say is that we as a civilization engage in activities that are way more risky and dangerous than the miniscule risk of a serious accident in a modern gen 3+ nuclear power plant. of course we should have strict regulation here, but it's just not that dangerous or risky
Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me
I'm dirt poor. Everyone here should know that.

So my phone has been failing to charge for three weeks and I bought a new phone today and can't get it set up because the old one is dead and I can't get a verification code. So I moved the old sim card on the advice of one of my sons and the codes are still going to the old physical phone and Google says it will send me a link in 72 hours.

Google is convinced I'm trying to break into my own accounts because I can't get access to codes on my dead phone. So I may lose my access to my google account, my blogs, etc.

If anyone has contacts at google and can tell them, yea, verily, Doreen Michele Traylor is a real person who is real poor and we all know her and please let her keep her phone number and her (my full name) google account and get me out of this fucking nightmare, that would be coolios.

Please and thank you.
Those all occurred because users could not or did not read the source code and prove to themselves that their funds cannot be stolen.

Why prevent people from using math to prove their assets cannot he stolen?
AFAIK, you don't need "complete" or "new" here, "the Star Wars trilogy" is fine. It's "the Title/Name something".
https://www.bullseyeinteractivegroup.com/forms/B2B-Email-Mar...
He is not a fugitive. There was no warrant out for his arrest until now.
If FTX had been allowed to stay profitable and grow with external market makers, it'd be possible to fill the hole, but there wouldn't have been a hole to begin with and that ship has long sailed.

Best bet for an ex-con is to bootstrap a crypto-native company anonymously, or a crypto trading firm. Given how Alameda went, more likely the former, but I suppose that's getting harder too.
Seems like the consensus is that the information does get out by the time the black hole evaporates, and probably via the Hawking radiation (there's not really another mechanism), but exactly how is contested and may be untestable.
> "The AI is 'punished' for wrong answers ('I love racism') and 'rewarded' for right answers ('As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I don’t have the ability to love racism.')"

Sounds like we train AIs like German Shepherds.
I mean, who didn’t?
Don't you feel like a moron now?
That’s about fugitives being extradited from the U.S.

Hence the mention of international relations.
I have a theory that some companies have a rage meter on customers on hold. I find that if I yell expletives at the hold music before getting connected to a rep initially, I get connected faster. Usually there’s a brief ring before getting connected to compose yourself :)
> The answer to that more likely has to do with some very broad phenomenon: capital has been accumulating due to increases in energy availability. Human talent (that turns capital into something actual) is plateauing due to slowing of population growth.

> As the world became more stable over time, the default risk also lessened over time

I think these are both saying the same thing from two sides - the default risk going down doesn't really mean anything in isolation. The implied context is the default risk goes down for the same rate of return (or the rate of return goes up for the same default risk).
He’s the latest example of why many RPGs have separate stats for intelligence and wisdom. He’s clearly not stupid but his lawyers must be sitting at their desks sobbing “stop giving interviews!”
The paper is "Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition"[1].

It documents "lines of best fit" spanning decades, and details the mechanism: the experience curve/learning curve/Wright's law.

Standard methods (used by the IEA, the EIA, etc.) of snapshotting manufacturing technology and extrapolating costs based on the snapshot have consistently wildly over-predicted future costs.

After reading the paper I looked at PV, and I can see how PV prices can fall to approximately a tenth of today's, by means of R&D and manufacturing improvements currently in train. That took about 50 hours, so I haven't looked at other technologies in detail yet.

Batteries and electrolysis definitely are key technologies, but R&D effort is about three decades behind PV in terms of scale at this point.

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1. https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00410-X
First one to flip usually wins.
Let us unchain ourselves from the politics of globalization and then we can proceed forward. Trade shouldn’t be a weapon.
How does self-custody hand control to someone else?
The big problem has been that robot makers want to adapt robots to the current method of making clothing. We need a new way to make clothing that's adaptable to the way robots work. Making a shirt should be easy but robots aren't flexible enough.

A perfect model is 3d printing of houses. Robots can't make homes the way they have been made traditionally. But they can, once the way houses are made was adapted to robots. With the new changes, 3d homes are becoming a reality.

This industry is ripe for disruption since the big companies don't want to use technologies that would make their machines useless but a startup would not care. They can start with any method since they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
I assume you’re saying the way they prevent misuse is because the ledger is public and it’s trackable by anyone who wants to look at the ledger.

If I’ve mistaken your argument then please correct me. I’m familiar with blockchain and have contributed to multiple projects in the open source community back when I saw potential and promise in blockchain tech.
You can't just slap boiling water around the burning plasma in a DT reactor, since you need almost all the neutrons to make more tritium. Water would absorb too many neutrons. The IFE designs use thick showers of liquid lithium or molten FLiBe for this reason.
Is there a zfs native way to create raid0 disks now? On Linux I usually set up a linear mapping with dmsetup, and then point zfs to that. But this hides the native disks from zfs.

I've done that a couple times to make a bunch of mismatched disk fit into zfs's requirement that all are of the same size. The ability to work with a mix of disk sizes is one advantage of btrfs - if you remember to be extra careful on a disk failure and bad shutdown. Plus the ability to dynamically grow the array, but there is work to improve that in the zfs side as well.
These were all lies, per Ray's house testimony [1]. FTX US had no sound financial controls keeping it isolated from the rest of FTX.

[1] https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/BA00/20221213/115246/HHRG...
> manufacturers have already started offering 40-year warranties

A warrantee of that length is only valuable if the manufacturer is a stable business with multiple income streams (say GE) or the warrantee is backed by stable insurance (say Lloyds). Liabilities are supposed to be on the balance sheet, so they are not free to mint.

If there were a long term issue where consumers needed to claim on the warrantee, I would guess most manufacturers would just get liquidated, but the executives and owners will have already cashed out. The same business model gets used for lots of other businesses with long term warrantees - limited liability is very handy.
What language did you finish your projects with Godot and what language did you have to use on itch.io?
Project was months behind schedule and had "six months to go" but the truth was nobody knew. The mpp calendar had all these 4 day blackout periods for loading data. I ended up getting that down to 2 hours but scheduled it between india/USA shifts so all the 4 day periods went away and (literally) months of project time got clawed back.

Vendors wouldn't share code so I broke it, looked at the error logs and wrote my own version of a indexed vector that reordered the operations using a knapsack algorithm and in a way that allowed us to run 50-100 parallel threads. Maybe 500 lines of code.

Knocked some heads together to get downstream systems to start importing data as soon as the first files arrived rather than wait until the end.

CTO (I'd never heard of him, it was a $30B company) didn't believe management about the months of time we'd saved, needed it all explained, was very happy.
The answer to "why hasn't technology disrupted [XYZ]" is always that the problems in XYZ weren't technology related in the first place. The education system, voting/politics, real estate, healthcare... the list goes on. You cannot automate away problems when there are humans and human emotions/motivations/conflicts in the way.

Colleges and college degrees are first and foremost a social signal. There is no tech substitute to being part of an elite closed group and having a name-brand degree hanging on your wall. It's like asking why can't tech make Louis Vuitton bags more accessible to the masses.

On the other hand technology has absolutely disrupted learning. Information and skills are more accessible today than any point in history. Fewer disciplines need formal structured education and credentials. Ultimately technology won't "fix" the higher education system, but simply make it less relevant in the practical world.
A jocular saying is that, in England, "everything which is not forbidden is allowed", while in Germany, the opposite applies, so "everything which is not allowed is forbidden". This may be extended to France—"everything is allowed even if it is forbidden".
How many people are watching American football on Twitch? Does that mean it's dead? You can't just pick one metric and decide that's the important one.

LoL might be technically older than SC2, but surely you would agree that SC2's heyday came a long time before LoL's, yes? My point isn't to compare them and say one is better than the other, but to say that SC2 is further along than LoL on the same curve. In other word's, LoL's future probably isn't "bigger than soccer" nor "totally dead", it's "chugging along with a small steady player base and a few hundred people playing it professionally, but not filling arenas", which is where SC2 has been for 5+ years.

edit: as for investment, I think Blizzard's "sponsorship" amounts to letting them use the logo. Certainly they're not paying for things like professional caster studios and advertising, like Riot does.
> I've grown an ability to say the hard, uncomfortable things

An underrated employee with a superpower every org needs.
Clojure has so much boilerplate to get started though. It is a shame that it requires so many incantations when it makes fun of Java's verbosity.

I have moved to Common Lisp and it is much simpler and saner, while having the same REPL driven development.
Hardly anybody wants to self custody. It's the literal reason banks got started. If blockchain can't even solve the most basic use case of the financial system, it's not going to replace it.
Architecture Notes: Database sharding explained
They'd make their own 3He by also doing DD fusion. It's properly a DD+D3He concept.
A PE doesn't operate a train, so why is it ok for them to coopt a term, and not others?
This article is from 2021 so I'm not sure why it's being posted again

Last-Modified: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 04:23:25 GMT
It may be useful to expand proctoring centers, and provide online universities where many exams are taken in-person and a lot of the grade is determined by assignments that can't easily be faked/cheated (e.g. randomly-generated questions, projects)

Universities have pre-existing weight and "old money" recognition, but there's nothing inherently more "reliable" about them than online. A lot of people cheat in college, a lot of people take courses with inflated grades or courses which teach old concepts, and then have to learn everything again when they get their first job. It's absolutely true that if someone has a degree from a reputable college they very likely know their field, but if someone has an degree from a "reputable" online college then they also very likely know their field.

It's not fair that in order to prove "acquired knowledge" you need to pay over $10K per semester and travel to an expensive college. It would be nice if we start to see people from online universities succeed in the workforce and build great things, then online degrees would likely be accepted more.
DivestOS Mobile: A mobile operating system divested from the norm
I wouldn't think about it in terms of minimum and maximum values. I'd use "a handful" to emphasize ideas like this:

- The number of items being quantified is small

- You could make and understand a list that included them all

- I don't know the exact number offhand

But what counts as a "small number" varies depending on what you're talking about.
If you use a different definition of higher education -- not as a college degree but truly incredible learning on a variety of topics, I think the disruption has already happened. Youtube has completely changed how I learn. The most amazing videos on philosophy, quantum mechanics, psychology -- it's all on Youtube.
There's no direct evidence that Epstein was murdered.
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/ftx-s-inner...
> why have the past 50 years of technological change had so little impact on schooling?

A variety of fun reasons. First: it _has_ changed over time. I had recorded online lectures, grade books, course registration, etc. 20 years ago. The pandemic has sort of been a punctuated evolution for instructors, and IDK if we have any sense yet of how much will stick in post-pandemic education.

Second: the cost of education is sort of a feature. Biologists and economists use the concept of "signals" -- actions you might take to indicate your fitness as a mate, or as an employee. Getting into a highly selective school is then very valuable, and the return on education relies in part on school selectivity. If thats the case, we shouldn't expect the price to go down much over time at the elite schools; they control access to a valuable commodity that only goes up as population grows. A technology that allows a school to teach 10x the students would be disastrous for signaling.

Third: the cost of education at many (all?) state schools has been subsidized, and over the past 100y has been an a downward ratchet. Every time a recession devastates a state budget, the unis take another budget cut, but only rarely see subsequent increases. Often these cuts come at the same time the uni itself is showing record enrollments. Faced with a loss of funding and strong demand, school presidents take the action economists predict and raise prices. Which means, even as students are sent ever increasing tuition bills, the actual cost to deliver instruction is not so high, and in many cases going down. And since the return is so high on education, student take the offer they are given.

Fourth: the opportunity cost of faculty delivered education is high. You want a Nobel laureate to teach you intro level physics? Well, every course they pick up is a grant they aren't applying for. Better make it worth the department's time -- every research dollar funds more grad students and PhDs on those important "similar schools" metrics.
Some perspective from cnet:

> But, as with all science, it's good to be cautious and not overhype results yet to be fully analyzed. We have been here before, after all. In 2013, reports swirled the NIF had achieved this exact feat. It wasn't the case.

https://www.cnet.com/science/climate/a-fusion-energy-breakth...

AFAICT, the only thing that's been publicly confirmed is that announcement will be made tomorrow.
> And do not attempt to signal anything in anyway.

Implicitly supporting the status quo is also a signal.
My hopes are on decentralized identity systems via web5 and some kind of PGP-like web-of-trust system.

https://developer.tbd.website/projects/web5/
> All of the BLAKE variants on ARM significantly underperformed Intel (between 20--80% of Intel’s performance) and we believe that this is because the underlying library being used has no ARM-specific optimizations but it does have optimizations for Intel platforms with AVX2/SSE4.1.

What would ARM-specific optimization look like, in this case? I'm not intimately familiar with the Graviton architecture, but I'm guessing their best option would be NEON-based vectorization which can be quite slow relative to AVX (last I checked).
An AI would want to either destroy or enslave humans, not because we're humans, but because we're a significant threat to their goals, regardless of what those goals are. An sufficiently intelligent AI with any set of goals and a desire to meet those goals will eliminate all obstacles to meeting those goals unless we specifically tell it not to. We are such an obstacle.
JavaScript. Ok don't kill me.
I wonder if Larry Levan was the dj playing it at PG?
I don't see this as dealing with the considerable obstacles to inertial fusion. In particular: cost of lasers, size of the system with survivable final optics, cost of manufacturing the targets, and targeting of moving targets with sufficient accuracy.
I haven’t seen any evidence Alameda itself committed any crime, only that they were terrible traders and lost many billions on margin through FTX, who gave them special treatment for collateral. SBF then tried to bail them out with FTX customer funds since he owned both.

I think Ellison will get off scot free since she only controlled Alameda, and not entirely. Her crimes are probably minor and worth forgiving for her testimony. At least that’s my hot take.
You sir have the patience of a saint. Cool hack!
Most recently, it'd had to be how I added event generation upon completion of commands over ssh at https://nudgenotifier.com/ without installing Nudge on the server side.

I look for hostname@ in the streaming stdout of my ssh process and if I see one, in addition to other heuristics, I notify that a command completed over ssh.
I've flown an electric plane. Granted it was only about 60 cm long from nose to tail (and I flew it from the ground) but I can speak to its simplicity, low cost, and ready availability of replacement parts compared to ICE-based planes of similar size. :)
"e" in scientific mode is a shortcut for the "ln" function.

That said, I tested again, and once again copying "1e20" and pasting it into the Calculator works just fine. It's definitely not treating it the same as pressing each key separately. I'm testing on macOS 13.0.1.
Depends on what deal she was offered and what she agreed to. If the feds already had a bunch of evidence against her (or believed they soon would), they may have offered a plea deal (less-serious charges, shorter sentence). If they had nothing, but knew she'd have a lot of dirt, they may have offered her immunity. I'm sure the specifics of the deal (if any) will come to light soon enough.
Those are, I think, unrelated sentences.

"fugitive" assumes he is/was 'running from the law', which I don't believe he is/was.

> There was no warrant out for his arrest until now.

I think there was, if not in the United States then in the Bahamas. From https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-founder-samuel-bankman-frie...:

> FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas after the U.S. filed criminal charges that it expects to unseal Tuesday morning, the authorities in the two countries said Monday evening.
It's not really a big deal, since laser fusion needs Q of 500 to 1000 to actually make sense.
Yeah same here. Directory deletions are excruciatingly slow too.
> Not really. Not being compelled to testify against yourself is also one of the most important rights this country has enshrined.

Congress isn't a court, and he was not testifying because congress arrested him or anything - it doesn't work that way.

He was going to testify - and a lot of people testify in front of congress all the time. But you used to have to do it in person until the pandemic. Now that congress is back to in-person session - so should the people who are testifying.