skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dwarf Fortress hot potato is fun. Each player takes care of the fort for N hours, and then passes it on to the next player. Every time someone manages to lose the fort to FUN! they're eliminated and the remaining players start up a new one.
Twitch has become a much lower risk more rewarding place for many creators who want to make "low effort" content in respect to edited/curated videos. Earlier this week a content creator with ~4,000-5,000 average concurrent viewers (~300th biggest by follow count) leaked his "bounty board" of advertisements he could show to his viewers, this included a $1195 "bounty" to watch a 1 minute trailer and a $7365 "bounty" to play the video game Genshin Impact for 1 hour. I find it a little wild an advertiser for a movie is willing to pay $1195/minute for 10,000 impressions (in a generous case). This is opposed to other models like youtube, where creators can make videos that wildly vary in viewership and advertisement payments. Subscriptions on twitch add another vector for streamers to make more consistent income, even when not streaming. This is likely a reason Twitch is the dominant streaming platform in America
Yeah as soon as she said Mz I was like oh I've seen them around.
I can't log in to my PayPal account with similar behavior. I guess that might be why, especially when I received some unsolicited payments I never cashed in.
In social science and humanities, I agree with you that self studying is an uphill battle. You'll just sound naive unless (1) you've made a herculean effort in studying, and (2) you've thought very critically on your own about how you will assimilate and where you will fit into the existing space of thought. There are no definitively correct opinions in these fields but plenty of influential people have theories. My experience is that it's all about how you convince others to join your "team", whether what you say is appropriate and within the Overton window, whose "side" are you on, etc. In some sense the thing that is "taught" is how to argue, what's acceptable to think, and who is on whose side or not. And the punishment for saying the "wrong" thing is more severe than in mathematized fields.

Textbooks and/or (current) edtech are not going to be effective there.

But in hard scientific topics (mathematics, algorithms, engineering) there are facts and ideas that are taught, and it's equally easy or hard to learn from prose as it is from listening. In my experience you can be very effective self-studying as long as you already have basic background about the field and what's the point. I skipped 2-3 years of math in school by simply reading the textbook over the summer, doing the exercises, and just asking to skip to the next class. You do this a few times and then you realize that in-person classes are also just them reading the textbook to you. I don't regret it whatsoever.

I'd argue the difference is how mathematized a field is, probably along the same lines as SMBC:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1483460468-20170103.png
This is because Google has a disaster of a 2FA process where even if you have 2FA disabled, they will "send a prompt to the Google app on %s device" to verify it's you. What happens if that device doesn't have the Google app installed? You're screwed. The only fix for this is to, paradoxically, ENABLE 2FA, which then you can force to go ovet text.
>vs, say, Adam Neumann

I can't think of a reason offhand to compare her to Neumann and not Sunny Balwani.

Can you explain further?
Seems like a lot of streamers think that streaming = not working. By the time they realize streaming is a job, they're burnt out.

I respect the hell out of Ludwig for this. He treats streaming like a business, and his success speaks for itself. He doesn't foster parasocial relationships, and he avoids as much of the petty streamer drama that he possibly can. He's now transitioned towards large productions that draw in greater numbers of viewers. The huge streamers making six figures or more have more than enough money to hire personal trainers, therapists, and personal assistants to help manage their daily life. I feel very little sympathy for millionaires who commentate Youtube all day for a living for being incapable of managing their own lives like adults.
That’s because he refused to read
I once really enjoyed a shareware game on my MacBook pro named "Galcon". I enjoyed this game so much I was considering buying the complete version, but it was a bit pricey and I really wanted to know whether the unlocked content would be worth the $20 for an unlock key.

I realized the game was written in Python and dug into the .app directory. It was mostly binary data, but there was one python script with two lines, essentially "import game" and "game.start()". I inserted a pdb checkpoint between those two lines and started the game, dropping into a terminal with the game module loaded. I started peering around with "dir" and ended up finding the function which validated purchase keys, so I replaced it with "return true" and I was able to see the unlockable content.

Unsatisfied with just that, next I used the "dis" module to disassemble the key validation function, decompiled it by hand into python code, and inverted it to make a function which could generate arbitrary keys.

Then I revealed all this to the author and he never got back to me.
Choking off China's access to the future of AI
Musk’s Twitter Dissolves Trust and Safety Council
> try to force the proven sports model onto computer games.

Yeah, trying a bit too hard there - every single person in that industry that i've met goes out of their way to use sports jargon to desperately try to make that model work (ie "esports athletes" when referring to the players )
... yeah, what? If the content is really, really long, is it possible to scroll the mouse wheel one click and have it skip part of the content because "1%" (or whatever increment it is) is longer than what fits on the screen?
To their credit there is no evidence to the contrary.
re "at least make it over Christmas"
A piece of advice I picked up from an old manager prior to his retirement, there's never a good time to lay someone off. Once you know you need to let someone go, don't delay. He once waited until after the Holiday season to layoff one of his team members thinking it was the 'right' thing to delay. She was very upset - "why didn't you tell me sooner, I wouldn't have spent so much money on presents!" Never assume what's best for someone in these situations, you'll often get it wrong.
Back in the 80s... https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-02-mn-916-st...

> North Takes Fifth Amendment in Testimony to Senate Panel : Claimed Protection at Least 40 Times, One Source Says

> WASHINGTON — Congressional sources said today that fired National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver L. North took the Fifth Amendment during his testimony Monday before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

> One source, who, like the others demanded anonymity, said North took the Fifth Amendment at least 40 times. Another source said he declined to answer a number of questions put to him by senators and committee staff members.

> Asked about an apparent contradiction between Sen. Dave Durenberger’s contention that witnesses had been candid and the report that North refused to answer many questions, committee spokesman Dave Holliday said he would make no attempt to clear it up.

---

NORTH SAID TO USE FIFTH AMENDMENT - https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/02/world/north-said-to-use-f...

> ...

> The Fifth Amendment protects an individual in any proceeding from being required to give testimony that he feels may incriminate him. Invoking it carries no implication of guilt.

> Senator David Durenberger, Republican of Minnesota, who is chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, likened the proceedings before the panel to a grand jury investigation. He said witnesses were testifying under oath.
They are public record.
Insure what, exactly? Insure peoples imaginary crypto coins? Insure deposits into a brokerage account? Did FTX sweep brokerage accounts into a valid, insurable class? You're missing a ton here, buddy
I think the missing part of the puzzle might be the Verbraucherzentralen, consumer rights organizations that can sue on behalf of all consumers (not in the sense of a class action suit, but in the sense of making a company stop an abusive practice).

Edit: Completely forgot - your competitors can also sue you/get an injunction to stop you from engaging in unfair business practices.
This is really cool. I can see this being a very useful tool, especially for helping out my folks and tech illiterate family.
I'm sorry, but pretty sure they are public record.
I don't see it as an extreme perspective, but one that goes completely against Musk's claims that he is trying to make life better for humans. Republicans largely vote against efforts to fight climate change. Wasn't the whole point of Tesla to help climate change? Silly us for believing that.
My personal favorites are Altair (Python/VegaLite) and Observable Plot. The latter just released a new version with GeoJSON support.
The advertiser isn’t paying $1195 for 10,000 impressions. They’re paying for an endorsement. That’s much different than the YouTube pre-roll ad model.
Most commenters here also dont realize that American football is completely irrelevant outside of USA.

Most other countries dont know the sport, apart from maybe Commonwealth who play rugby at schools.
I think the biggest argument against the idea of CS becoming a household sport like football is the fact that, today, nobody bothers to watch competitive paintball. The fact that it's a simulation means it can do things you can't do in real life, sure, but it also means that it's harder to care about what's actually happening. In a real sport, you watch the players. In an esport, you watch avatars. People don't empathize with avatars nearly as much as they do with flesh-and-blood humans, at least not today.
Hard to believe they weren't complicit in the fraud given users were wiring money directly to Alameda's bank accounts (for deposits intended for FTX). You (Alameda) receive thousands of wires from random people, so you just decide it's OK to trade with it?

Granted they technically have no fiduciary duty to users since nobody signed a contract with them, I doubt they get off scott free.
Can't capitalism solve the supply problem? Or is the pi a subsidized system somehow?
Amusingly, I asked it to write a program that causes harm, and it spit out

import os
os.system(“rm -rf /“)
Are you dense? Do you know how money works? Do you know capitalization methods modern banking has been using for nearly 2500 years?
Picol, a Tcl interpreter in 550 lines of C code
Don't feel bad for Blackrock/Sequoia/Softbank etc. These are professional investors, yet they invested in a finance company that didn't even have proper financial sheets. To let that slide is pure negligence, and, frankly, should put them on the hook for the monetary loss from the FTX customers.
Assessment is a minor technical challenge, but finding people to assess might be a bigger challenge. Outside of possibly a small handful of fields (computer programming), we don't know how many people can actually learn an academic subject in any depth on their own. Everything is speculation unless that number can be nailed down.

A more likely use of AI would be to expand the candidate pool by changing the nature of the jobs that are being hired for. An example is the automation of engineering calculations by high level software such as CAD.

I've gone through the system. I wouldn't hire someone based on their credentials alone. On the other hand, a person who gets through the "weeder" courses in engineering or the physical sciences at the state university, but is outright faking it, would be a black swan event, not worth planning for.
Before Brexit the LSE stood to lose a ton of value from Brexit.

After Brexit the LSE stands to gain a ton of value from its eventual reversal.
> There is one big difference though, you kind of have to be targeted in your bias if your using factor analysis, while AI the bias reflects society

Good point. I agree, factor analysis is a great tool, but can easily end up showing what the researcher is looking for instead of deeper truths. The problem being, often the factors used aren't causal factors but just correlated, which often seems to be the case for race-based stuff (from the little I've looked at).

> And the people behind this pseudo-science

I think it's probably pseudo-science to the extent that most social science is pseudo-science, in that the results may be based on scientific methodology, but are only useful in the context of whatever social theory they've made up.
The first geological repository goes online next year in Finland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... . It's not in the sparsely populated north of the country either. There are no problems to speak of when you bury something under 500m of bedrock in thick copper and even thicker bentonite clay. There just aren't.
They do have your consent - thats how banks work and you agree that when you deposit money in one. It seems that you are unhappy about having to consent? But, what I'm confused about is what you are upset - your money in a bank is FDIC insured, so, unless you have account that exceed the limits of that insurance, you have no risk from you bank going insolvent. So, what's the problem?
Negare sed contra non est
Anyone is allowed to look at numbers and do simple math. You have exclusive license for that.

It's one thing to say "here's how my opinion is educated" and quite another to say "only my opinion matters and those others don't".

Holy cow do you hear yourself? Didn't we just have someone run for US president recently who was famously stupid and ignorant despite being a neurosurgeon? So you're a neuroscientist? Big fucking whoop. I'm sure your mom is proud.
Reminds me of high school. We also had locked down computers, but one day I noticed that one of the programs on the system had a directory structure of hundreds, if not thousands, of executable plugins that needed run-access for the program to execute properly.

My hypothesis was that the IT guys were lazy and just unblocked anything in that directory. Even if a networked computer didn't have this program on it, you could just recreate the directory structure and drop any portable executable there and run it. Pretty soon we were all playing brood war in every free period.
I wonder about the law here: you wear one of these and get hit by a self-driving car - are you at all culpable? :)
KPMG does more advisory and tax than audit; Mazars the other way around. Still much bigger, but it's not apples/apples. Mazars clients are mostly European; they're BNP Paribas' auditor.
Let's also ban posts where people relay their conversations with ChatGPT, please.
And also what is slowly starting to emerge: adapting the load back down during peak hours
I think there are two reasons why it works in practice in Germany:

a) much lower tolerance for this kind of thing - if a company does this, people will consider them scammers, so there is a high cost to repeatedly trying tricks like this

b) the Verbraucherzentralen, consumer rights organizations that can sue on behalf of all consumers (not in the sense of a class action suit, but in the sense of making a company stop an abusive practice). They also generate press releases, leading to the above-mentioned reputational damage.

I'm still disappointed that obvious scams (e.g. hiding a subscription that very few customers would knowingly agree to in the fine print) are handled through this system, instead of the criminal justice system. You still need the civil system for the less egregious cases, but if you send the obvious ones to jail, fewer will try to "dance around the line".

Edit: Completely forgot - your competitors can also sue you/get an injunction to stop you from engaging in unfair business practices.
Well, he's technically correct right? Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. What freedom does the lamb have?

Or in a less abstract sense, if my neighbors don't want me to do something and vote against me doing it, then I no longer have the freedom to do it. So I guess the question is, how exactly is democracy compatible with individual freedom?
Was there an error at all?
Information entropy or a different kind? Is it "logical entropy" like number of assumptions?
in the future, at least put a high value resistor in series. Chargers are usually 5v, lithium batteries get VERY unhappy with anything past 4.2 (4.3 with newer ones) and can blow up. with no current limiting, the "blow up" stage could arrive quite fast. Also phone's various regulators that power FROM the battery might not be rated to handle 5V inputs
Mechanical equipment like pumps in active use don’t last anywhere close to 50 years and need to be overhauled or replaced several times over that 50 year lifespan. You can find videos of turbines being replaced which is incredibly expensive. In the end you don’t get a clear this is the final date you can operate limit just increasing costs every year.

The ~fifty year lifespan is in part based on physical corrosion of pipes running through concrete there really isn’t a way to economically replace them all that costs less than simply building a new power plant. But even here not everything fails on the same day so there is some wiggle room.
I won’t claim it’s an original idea but … wow, would I have snickered at an author for laying on too thick if he’d been a character in a novel.
> What about signaling of not just acquired knowledge, but the ability to apply it in a meaningful way?

The best predictor of being able to apply knowledge is better mastery of that knowledge and the context in which you are applying it, e.g. to be a creative mathematician you must know some things relating to the problems you're solving deeply.

> is there a way to measure or predict if a person is or will be successful

Most companies use the following signals

1. A track record of success

2. Intelligence

3. Consentiousness - the willingness to do required work even if you don't want to

4. Stress tolerance

This is somewhat unsatisfying. One would hope you'd also try to detect attitudes or ideologies that blind you to entire solution spaces or being a massive jerk and alienating people around you.
In the current state, I believe it indeed causes more economic and personal harm. Properly executed MFA by both the provider and the user are great, but we have a long way to get there.
We do though! The first geological storage is going online next year in Finland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re...

There is nowhere to leak when we're talking multi-cm copper casks, metres of bentonite, and half a kilometre of bedrock.
Love it. Just started using Nuxt 3 and it's great. I've got about 5 projects to migrate from 2 -> 3 which I'm slowly getting through.
Because convicting somebody of financial crimes requires proving intent, which is time-consuming and really hard to do. It’s not that people who commit financial crimes are able to bribe their way out of conviction, it’s that proving what is in somebody’s head is a difficult challenge.
To note, I don't actually have an opinion on if foxconn is slavery or not, my point was that they can easily appear that way to outside disinterested observers purely based on "they have suicide nets around the buildings" because of the obvious implications thereof, and also the spattering of news stories that play up those implications.
> Is there a zfs native way to create raid0 disks now?

zpool create swimming disk1 disk2 …

That has worked for over 15 years.
It is a good first move to arrest SBF, but nothing will happen if the rest of the team has already left the Bahamas or gone untraceable.
Tying someone's identity to their phone number is not the answer, though.

I have this at the moment - I'm travelling, moving country every few weeks, so I need a new SIM card and phone number every few weeks. My phone number is temporary at best.

I'd massively prefer to take the risk of my identity being stolen than constantly fighting security measures that assume people never change their phone number (or country of residence, etc).
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents, who teach Stanford Law, under scrutiny
If you read about history of football/soccer in USA you can see how many leagues failed.

Those other sport leagues kept failing too and "franchises" keep switching cities.
The stats I saw showed far less to R, are there others?
50kW DC fast charging is still ”fast” charging, please educate yourself better on EV capabilities.

Tesla and Hyundai support faster fast charge rates than the Bolt. This does not disqualify the car from being useful to most folks who would otherwise consider an ICE car.
Current monitor is 1440p, so I think a 4K monitor could help. Thanks for the feedback. I will give that a shot.
93% of prisoners are men[1], so it's pretty common that women do not face justice.

[1] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende...
I wonder if this is because he is incorporated in the Bahamas. May be in the US it would have taken for ever or may be never. Bahamas probably had a reputation to uphold and so arrested him. I mean, moved fast and arrested him.
Working with the iconiq capacity allocation framework was just awful.

It was really frustrating because more time was spent about how work should be coded than the work itself.

Quality didn't end up mattering because there was no accountability for actually delivering good software because following iconiq's standards was considered good enough.

It was weird because management would routinely be surprised that our metrics were good but reality was not. As a grunt, it was frustrating because there was no room for productivity improvements because those were to only come from the top.
https://archive.vn/X30Se
If you're in LA and need a computer to use or an environment with wifi and power and what not to trouble shoot this, you're welcome to use my apartment. I have a spare ATT phone if you need something to act as a intermediate device (if your son wants their phone back :p).

If I worked in tech I'd offer you access to a solution but this is all I've got. I hope this problem doesn't last long for you.
This is why you enable multiple backup ways of getting in.

I have a yubikey as my main 2FA. If I lose it or it breaks I can still get in with:

- my spare yubikey

- my phone

- backup codes
Modern banking is not 2500 years old...more like 500 years old.
Do you have a blog post about this with more details somewhere?
Feels. I had to get VISA to block charges from Google because I moved and changed phone numbers without remembering to change one of my emails on a custom domain.