skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His father was a paid employe. Quoting the WSJ article about his parents:

"Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried remained by Mr. Bankman-Fried’s side—as legal advisers, one person familiar with the matter said, but mainly as parents to a son who is in deep trouble.

Before FTX’s collapse, Mr. Bankman was a paid employee of the company for almost a year. He joined his son in meetings with Washington policy makers, expanded its philanthropic endeavors and helped connect his son to at least one major investor. And when Mr. Bankman and Ms. Fried visited their son in the Bahamas, where FTX is based, the company provided a place for them to stay."
OpenAI started late 2015. I don't know when they started working on GPT, but GPT-2 was early 2019.

Nearly 4 years later, still no GPT-2 detector?
Continuing the model of "Distrust us every other release, we'll be good to you on the next one" Microsoft operating system model is getting insanely old.

You can have continued progress without choosing the off-release to fist your consumers.
You don't need to use a phone number for google. I don't have a phone number attached to my google account at all due to the risk of sim swapping despite asking my carrier to lock it, instead i have multiple hardware keys and devices + backup codes in a safe deposit box.
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The utilitarian slant is interesting. I can understand why some people think crypto is a net negative at the moment. The set of businesses adjacent to true, on-chain applications is rife with fraud. Thousands of people have died, maybe even millions have lost life savings.

But I ask you an analogous question: what do you say to the people suffering any crime that was aided by free, encrypted communications on the internet?

I'm not using this as a fool-proof argument that the utility of crypto is positive. I do not know the true answer. I think it's positive but I acknowledge it very well could be negative.

To me, blockchains enable the basic human right of having ultimate authority over your own assets. You can choose whether attempting to circumvent your government is worth it. In most cases, it's not. But I like giving all human beings that option.
> Oh, and “finding” a cofounder is not something one does by searching on the Internet.

Why not? I've had serious offers to co-found companies from random seatmates on bus rides between Silicon Valley and Los Angeles.

Frankly, the biggest obstacle I've had is not in finding team-players (with all due respect to everyone reading this, team-players are a dime a dozen; how could any company function if the majority of people in our society weren't team players?).

For me the biggest obstacle (by far), has been, finding people with drive. I mean, think about all the people who struggle to do remote work, how are they going to find the drive to produce when they don't even have a boss anymore?
I moved back to Texas from college without any job prospects and found myself living in my car, relying on Walmart Wi-Fi for internet access.

So, I resorted to a few low-quality hacks.

The first was a QR Code parking app. It worked by just placing a qr code on public parking meters. I marked up the parking from like from 50 cents to a dollar. I kept 50 cents and payed for the parking through the official app with mitmproxy. Someone eventually reported it.

I had to ask my dad for help reimbursing the city—which he was not too happy about.

The second hack of a washing machine was disclosed properly, although no firmware patch was ever released.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29814973

[2] https://shakey.blot.im/reverse-engineering-a-popular-laundry...
I heard someone phrase it as "Your user wants to be the hero of the story" and if the opinions you have chosen align that is a good shortcut to getting there.

Thanks for those other references. Going to go check them out.
This is a minor take from someone who used to play CoD at a very high level (cash tournaments, wager matches, GB/CMG/UMG front page teams). At least from the perspective of games like Call of Duty and Overwatch, I think at least some chunk of it is that the quality of games is rapidly decreasing and it's killing off the fanbase. I remember back when it seemed like everyone I knew was following the CoD pro scene, watching the streams, tournaments, championships, etc. Nowadays I don't know a single person who still engages with that content and the responses I get from them are that they don't enjoy watching the games anymore. The current CoD (MW2 remastered), there are pro players making commentary and tweeting about how much they hate the games design. The person who is probably the single best known pro CoD player Scump is retiring now and he's said in side comments that it definitely has to do with how bad the game is designed. People seem to be losing confidence in these companies that make the games with the biggest esports scenes. Overwatch 2 now has also received quite a bit of negative press. There's probably a good chunk of anecdotal experiences inside my view but this is my take on things.
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This is not correct. Plenty of would-be defendants take deals to testify. Negotiating a deal after you testify is a ridiculous idea and if it has ever happened once, I would love to hear the story.
> AI does not have these and they are not required for intelligence.

I'm not sure that's an accurate statement. One could argue they were required to form intelligence. If so, then one would point out that the AI only exists because of them. ;)

My naive assumption is that any intelligent being that we find will have very similar roots, formed from the need to maintain ones chemistry.
No. All human societies, big or small, authoritarian or democratic, have rules. You derive freedoms from within the framework of the rules. Pretending it will ever be otherwise is just naive.

The question is how much say do you have? In an authoritarian regime you have none. In a democracy you have some. Some is better than none.

All people like Thiel are arguing for is a state of affairs where they make the rules and the rules don't apply to them. It's boring pattern repeated throughout all of human history.
It might be if the person is more productive staying at the Ritz because it makes them more relaxed and that in turn helps them think, or do a killer presentation or whatever.

It's the problem with these policies. They're written open-ended, but there is really a "right" answer and it's whatever the boss decides. Good boss? Maybe they stick up for you. Bad boss? You're going to regret that decision.
Good job, F B I
> I haven’t seen any evidence Alameda itself committed any crime

Three very rich crypto millionaires (or billionaires?) have died mysteriously in the past weeks. One, 30 years old, in his sleep. One in a helicopter which blew (not far from where I live) after a mysterious passenger cancelled his flight at the last minute. And another one who drowned (after having tweeted that "they" were after him).

If SBF has dirt on people, I think there's a very real possibility he got the message clear.
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Individuality: Deleted in the Future?
David Friedman's work on this topic is interesting, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnkC7CNvyI for example.

I think courts would be private as well, and you'd live in a jurisdiction of your choice.

I also think that jurisdictions that didn't enforce court orders from other jurisdictions would be black-listed by those jurisdictions. Furthermore, individuals from a black-listed jurisdiction would be stigmatized in, or barred from entering the jurisdiction that couldn't obtain their cooperation.

There has to be a cost attached to unreasonably uncooperative behavior.
100% of devices will fail, eventually. It is kicking the can down the road.
GitLab is a remote company, 3am is 5pm somewhere.
Nah, keep going. At least watch the first episode through.
Is there any service that presents an elegant solution to managing actual identities on the Internet? If not, it seems like a real problem that needs solving.

I understand people value the ability to express themselves anonymously, but I've also been locked out of legitimate accounts--

If everyone is anonymous nobody can be verified. If everyone's identity is tied to their handle there's no anonymous expression.

If somebody could provide a way to both have and eat the proverbial cake, that seems like real winning proposition in my eyes, something worth paying for...
> If you're using dockerized services (which are a must for NVidia-based CV, since their CV libraries are a dependency hell), you must use some kind of networking solution to communicate.

Eithen the two processes can share memory, in which case they don't need to communicate via network, much less RabbitMQ, or they can't, in which case the hack wouldn't have worked at all.
Then say, “Be frugal with our money.” Don’t say, “Spend our money how you would spend your money.”
I guess I just had my prescient goggles on this morning lol
The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me–without my consent
More on mass fraud in finance.

> was an American fraudster and financier who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff
90% of people just enter their phone number and call it a day because for most people it works just fine (barring simswaps hacks etc)

for the rest there are other options.
It doesn't matter. Everywhere in the civilized business world Jan 1 is a day off and often Jan 2 is as well. Why is someone working on Jan 1 or 2?
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> It would be cool if streaming platforms had embedded item and hero information for users to be able to expand on demand.

Twitch actually has this for Dota now! On bigger streams, you can click on the spells and items to see the tooltip.
Answering it here would take some of the surprise away. But I will say it's totally worthwhile to get one of the puzzles if one enjoys puzzles in general.

The mechanism of the ending seems to be the same in all the 6 puzzles, so you can just get any and see if you enjoy it. Even without it, the puzzle I did (Forest Feast) would have been my favourite out of the 20 or so I did in the last 3 years. The artwork on the puzzle has a ton of small details, which made it very enjoyable. And the unique shape of some puzzle pieces (e.g. a rabbit shaped piece which has a rabbit drawn in the middle of it) added on top of it.
If this was a malicious actor trying to break into Doreen Michele Traylor's phone, it would be a 10/10 effort.
Isn't that the point of enabling multiple methods? So that the others can be used as backups? Or does enabling multiple 2fa methods potentially out you in a situation where if just 1 method is unusable you won't be able to log in?
How to build momentum as a software engineer
I understand this view. Unlike every other reply to your comment I am not going to suggest various 2FA schemes that I would invariably screw-up and just add my voice to yours.

2FA might be good for security, but it's also very ableist.
There is nothing disappointing in skepticism about the importance or value of this work.

1. It is, purely, bomb research dressed up as civilian activity for funding purposes. Everyone working on it has top-secret clearance.

2. It has no consequence for any civilian project. The target that produced a couple of MJ cost $10M. (2.4 MJ is <0.7 kWh.) A real plant would need to feed them in at a high rate. Q is not the important measure. Dollars out / dollars in is the right measure, and everyone is still at exactly zero, with no plausible prospect of ever exceeding 1.

3. Extracting useful energy would require capturing hot neutrons in a "blanket", heating it up, and running fluid through it to boil water to drive a steam turbine. The minimum practical size for such a "blanket" exceeds that of a large fission plant. To collect enough neutrons to be useful requires a huge volume of plasma, as even compressed plasma is very diffuse vs. fissiles.

4. Compressing the plasma with superconducting magnets could increase density, but then the neutron flux through the smaller surface area of the chamber wall would destroy it that much more quickly.

5. The hot neutron flux would also quickly weaken the structural parts required to contain the enormous forces exerted by the electromagnetic coils. Superconducting coils would impose even larger stresses. No research has gone into identifying a viable material, in decades, despite that none is known. After a short time the reactor parts would all become weak and (also) fiercely radioactive. Repairs would need robots not yet designed.

6. Civil fusion would require a large amount of tritium, which no one knows how to make economically.

7. Steam turbines cost a lot to operate, regardless of heat source. No other generation method relying on such steam turbines -- coal, fission, geo -- is today competitive vs. renewables. As the cost of renewables continues on down, they get less competitive by the day.

Fusion is intrinsically interesting, just not for power generation.

One company, Helion, is trying to make a fusion device that does not emit many hot neutrons. However, achieving conditions for this process, D-3He, is even harder than for D-T fusion. They hope to breed their own tritium, which would eventually decay to the 3He they actually need, but it is not clear how they will produce enough. (Fun fact, 3He loves to turn back into tritium.)

If they cannot, but they do get it working, it might end up usable for outer solar system exploration, which is difficult to power.

This "milestone" provides exactly zero meaningful information for the magnetic confinement fusion that is the only avenue being pursued for civil power.

Fusion offers no prospect of "unlimited free energy". It offers instead very expensive energy, or possibly none at all. We already have access to unlimited free energy, and need only build out the solar, wind, and maybe tidal systems to collect some as it goes by.
It's clear that caffeine is detected through a colorimetric reaction (the murexide reaction), consequently old-school hackers will use a Spec 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectronic_20

2700 dollars for a single-wavelength colorimeter? That's madness!
Some people did in fact do that. But others felt it was immoral to give oneself a fake title.
Billy Baldwin: Retweet if your pronouns are Boycott/Tesla
Still amazes me how many fanboys he has.

The dude has successfully run some companies. Yes.

He’s also a gigantic narcissist. Womanizer. Workaholic. Liar. Edgelord from hell. Blah blah

But he does xyz things that I like and/or I wish I was rich!!

sighs
Globalization promotes inter-dependence. That's all.

In a way, it's like chaining yourself to your trading partner. Now, you have to be very careful who you chain yourself to. Is it a stable democracy that shares your values, or is it some authoritarian hellhole with a tyrant and maniac in charge?
Hey it worked for the UNIX epoch, till those guys retired.
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I was half-joking, but in general I think JS gets more shit than it deserves. That project you linked is interesting, but it also makes me wonder...... why :')
Not sure if satire…but they arrested him due to a pending extradition request by the US.
6GW initially with the expensive part done for upto 10GW, €28 billion, and 2030.

That is insane. They're building a FOAK project for less than NOAK nuclear reactors like Hinkley C in less time and it will be generating at higher capacity from day one than new nukes manage for their first decade or so of operation. Nice pro wind factoid.

More power, sooner, with low enough O&M that you could build another one with the money you saved just during the time it would take for another EPR to be built and come to full power? Sign me up.
She was in charge a hedge fund. Hedge funds are allowed to trade badly and lose money. It happens all the time. There is a VERY high bar for negligence. Alameda Research was also located in the Bahamas. Did Alameda even have outside investors? It was basically SBF's family office. Caroline isn't likely to be liable for much unless she knowingly conspired to commit crimes.
Regardless of what it the actual reason for the strangely timed arrest in Bahamas, he can now take the 5th for any future committee hearing and it would be perfectly normal for someone who is under indictment.

This guy had a big mouth and poor motor control over his tongue. Who knew what he would spew? Maxine is relieved, is my opinion.

https://www.pointoforder.com/2013/05/22/taking-the-fifth-bef...
As an aside, what if the “administrative apparatus” is as important as the academics? In SaaS companies, are sys admins and security engineers less important than the product developers? How important are the networking staff or the staff that handle backups? In higher ed, the administrative apparatus includes a myriad of critical functions and basic infrastructure such as advising, career services, mental health counseling, the registrar (course registration, transcripts), food services, the dormitories, building maintenance, cleaning services, IT, campus police, and on and on. Large universities are basically small cities.
That doesn't sound like..wait I was thinking of Steve Baldwin.
If you think atlassian tools have no value you haven't been in software development for long.

They might suck, but they suck substantially less than anything else.
The 2nd is never a day off in the US. The 1st is new years the day, the only official holiday.
> Diesel locomotives are one of those things where the engine can be well over 50 years old and no one bats an eye since it's just not that unusual nor has the styling changed that much to make it obvious

Well hey, look at aircraft. The 747 was only just retired but that's a design from the late 60's.
> Google has, in some cases, started requiring auth codes sent to specific devices, even if you're already using your own configured TOTP 2FA

This exact situation has been such a thorn in my side at my company lately. Does anyone know any way to disable this behavior, even just with Google Workspace accounts?
I’m pretty sure it’s just capacity limits because they’re making them in the UK, not some nearly infinite mega factory somewhere in India Vietnam Taiwan or Guangdong… and they are somewhat limited by upstream chip supplies from vendors like Qualcomm.
Data science is a very open field. Nearly everything we use is contributed by the community. Yet, we don't share our failures with the community for some reason. I think we learn more from failure than from success, so I decided to share how I seriously messed up a recent project.

I thought it would be great to build a forecasting model for the US housing market. HA! I made several big mistakes:
- I started with a vague idea.
- I didn't know if the data was available or easy to get.
- Failing to start over and reassess when I realized the project was going in weird directions.
- The model's objective wasn't directly connected to the way the model might be used.
- I failed to appreciate the core of the problem was effectively predicting the economy, which is a much bigger and more complex problem.

I might not always make a blog post, but I will keep sharing my failures. Because we shouldn't be crabs in a bucket.
I have used btrfs for a low memory footprint raid 0 solution to span drives. Mind you for expendable datasets. It has worked really well, never had failures due to btrfs shall we say -rot.

Filesystem is light on requirements and works really well. Compression works great too.

The only thing I haven't played around with are reflinks.

For critical datasets I apply 3-2-1 backup strategy and use ZFS.
Fox et al trying to paint this as a Democratic conspiracy is how I know crypto's days are numbered.
How could these institutions be so negligient?
I don't personally don't feel that the changes are trivial, since I find that I have a strong preference for the photo over the painting, but that's subjective.

Either way, legally at least, you're right that many places wouldn't consider making artistic changes to be enough. I feel that artists should be free to create new derivative works however. All art is derivative and the purpose of copyright should be to protect artists from unauthorized reproduction, not prevent the creation of new artistic works. Copyright's original goal was to encourage the creation of new works, it's just been twisted over time into something that too often does the opposite of what it was created for.

I agree that it's crazy that they didn't think photo should have any protection under copyright. It shouldn't matter how unoriginal it was, it's still clearly a work of art. It could get a little more complicated when you're talking about a photo of a very common thing (like a popular landmark) where it might be hard to tell the difference between two people's photos of the same thing, but a photo taken of a specific model at a specific time under specific lighting etc. that seems plenty unique enough to me.
Most crime that we have records for to use for studies is committed by men you mean. Who is to say how much crime by women goes unreported and uninvestigated, and therefore has no presence in our statistics.
I agree. "Makes scheduling collaborative instead of a nuisance." Isn't really a strong opinion.

Here's a strong opinion (though not a purple cow): "All scheduling should be done by phone with a physical person." Which is pretty much true for every medical office everywhere.

Here's a purple cow and strong opinion: "All scheduling should be done via blockchain." Since what we really need is an immutable record of meetings... There's no reason for this, but I'm sure it'll get attention (and funding).

I'm being cynical, but altogether agree with you. It's worth being different.
SBF's claim is that the Republican donations were "dark", meaning is funneled through super PACs. These are famously not public record. He states he did this to hide them from the media.
Additionally, bug fixes should pretty much always come with tests. If the software has a lot of tests adding a few additional cases to cover the bug is trivial. But if tests are sparse, it may require a lot more time to figure out how to test that code altogether.

Testing also influences code design. 100% coverage requires planning and forethought and it will inevitably be reflected in code quality. Bugs are inevitable, but not all bugs.
I really wonder about this kind of article. The company I work for has some similar values to GitLab and some different ones. I've learnt something from every job I've worked in, good or bad.

But these values are nebulous concepts. The usually come from what the company already thinks it does rather than an aspiration. As an aspiration they would kind of suck.

My personal position is that you should think about the values of the organisation you work for and understand them, why they're there, where they came from. But don't internalise them, don't have corporate values in your heart. They are strictly limited and they aren't and can't be actually meaningful to the organisation itself because it's not a person. Someone there could still get you fired or do things that run against those values because they feel like it and the organisation as a whole will not protect you just because those values are written.

I've had a little interaction with GitLab and it wasn't good. Clearly some of the people I talked to were not following these values, they were not kind and understanding. But I know people who do work there and enjoy it. The company I work for talks about values a lot, and that's fine, I agree with the ideas behind them, mostly, but I think those talking about it have less control over the actual values and culture at the org than they think.
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Ah yes, because if there's anything we know about SBF, it's that he's trying to tell us the truth.