skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a case to be said about factor analysis (which IQ is based on) is the AI of the 20th century. It was the most powerful statistical tool of the time (just like deep learning is today), needed a lot of data, increasing the data increased the accuracy, and if you used biased data, you got biased outcome. 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. This is because you can effectively train your AI with terabytes of data, but with factor analysis, if you do that the biased results you wanted, will probably become statistically insignificant.

This leads me to believe that the scientific racism behind intelligence testing was quite deep. And the people behind this pseudo-science were as intent in making their racist “discoveries” as the people behind ChatGPT are in making sure their model doesn’t reflect racist views.
> It uses the same tone that SBF uses when characterizing the situation as a complicate mixup instead of what it really is, deliberate fraud using customer funds to increase leverage.

That's because describing it as "deliberate fraud" would require evidence of intent that they don't have. I agree that it's likely the case, but I wouldn't expect a journalist to state it as fact at this point.
well he has no more money to give, so of course they are happy to arrest him now. they just didnt bother investigating the fraud until after it collapsed for some reason..
This makes no sense. You don't give equity to your clients, you give it to investors in exchange of their money. Do not confuse the two.
He's fried.
That's not how banks work: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Ah, I see we both have a more similar view than I thought!

I really should be storing some codes for my password manager somewhere…
"SBF was a major Dem donor, so no investigation"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591822387267665921
Just to clarify: this is about the maker of the stop motion film about Rudolph. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was originally created in 1939 as a book for the Chicago-based Montgomery Ward department store:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer
He says "most employers" don't care about getting back stuff mine does.
Same. On a Pixel no less.
This is a very good question. They cannot and do not.

On/off-ramps are a huge topic and we have a lot of work to do to make these ramps as permissionless as possible, should we want to allow humans to decide for themselves whether or not to comply with (potentially) tyrannical governments.
Librarian's Letter to Google Security

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32304320
I was working during high school for a non-profit in the 90s. They had machines that were on the end of life-cycle. One had a hard disk that was making huge noise similar to circular saw. I knew from experience that this sound probably comes from the resonation of the mechanical metal disk on top of the hard disk, and it can be solved by pushing the disk in just slightly. And it worked.

Another one was during high school as well, as an exchange student. In the computer science class there was a certain network game, and we were joking about high scores. So I checked out the score file format using hex editor, and created a tool that was able to modify the high score table.

When in the university, I needed to graduate soon, as I was heading to Silicon Valley. I had one weekend reserved to do a major statistics assignment. The assignment had to be done using a certain MS-DOS based tool, created by the professor. I had planned to use university computers to do it, but my electronic key had expired. It was not possible to extend the key during the weekend. It was possible to get a license for your own laptop, but even that required somebody to give you the licensing key, and that was not possible during the weekend. So I started my assignment by cracking the licensing for the tool. The licensing was based on a challenge, that was based on random number. Fortunately for me, the random number seed was the time (in seconds). So I put the machine to work for the first night, and it was able to brute-force the right challenge by resetting the system clock before each trial.

Later years one hack that I was proud about was creating an entry in the Linux drivers for my digital camera, and I submitted it as a patch as well.

Not a Windows guy, but I was working on a server software that was also ported to Windows. We had a weird timing bug that we knew approximately how to reproduce, but it was so rare we could not do it, and it was happening only with production version, not debug version, and only on Windows. We did not have a core dump (or whatever that was called on Windows at the time). So I created a framework to start the server, execute the operation on the server, and use Windows facilities catch crashes and save the core dump. With that framework I was able to find and fix the bug.

My latest proud hack is a system for time lapse microscopic photography. I have a lab microscope, and I mounted a Canon DSLR on top of it. An Arduino is connected to the camera through remote shutter port, so I can wake up the camera from sleep. I had to create the shutter control hardware on the Arduino from a remote shutter button. The Arduino is also controlling a stepper motor, which has a Lego wheel on, which on turn has a caterpillar track, which in turn is controlling the zoom on the microscope. This allows me to control the Arduino zoom. Then I have created custom keep-focus software, which uses images from the DSLR, and calculates how close the image is to the original, and tries various adjustments to find where the focus is closest.
Yes 11 years is a long time to be imprisoned however I think it was in the low end of what she could have gotten which is why people say she didn't get a long sentence.
In the US if you are under 135 percent of the Federal Poverty Level you qualify for a free Mobile Phone with internet service. I am surprised Canada does not have a program like that
"Yet" is the operative word. Many banks were insolvent in 2008, or have we so quickly forgotten the lessons from the housing crisis.
My local library actually lends out hotspots, unlimited data, no charge. Its an amazing service that would be amazing to see spread around to all libraries.
I am morbidly curious as to exactly what scale (in dollars, rack space occupied, term length, wattage and bandwidth commits) of colocation contracts they really got into. And in how many places.
Oh yeah, and how exactly do you imagine this going ?

You're going to ask to see a cartel boss and tell him you have $10B in untraceable money, and you need a small army - you're willing to pay 1,000 men - $100,000 for the next 10 years ? They will most probably start to torture you to know where the money is, before you finish these words.

That's a fun mental exercise btw - imagine you have $1B now - let's say illegal money you need to keep. How do you proceed ?
I'm sorry, I work as Creative Manager—so usually that means designers (for either content or UX) or various other roles like motion artists. But no new positions at this time—still recovering from some cuts.
"Okay.

People have successfully avoided fraud, theft, and the tyrannical seizure of their assets by arbitrary decisions of arbitrary government officials.

Billions of dollars worth of assets are stored on blockchains.

Unless you have a mathematical argument against the properties of a blockchain, I will continue to believe the properties are true."
Yea you're right of course, I was being glib. Glad it worked out in the end for you. For the record I don't think RabbitMQ was overkill, I think it's just way too much overhead to work for something like sending frames of video (which I think is the moral of your story). Anyway I'm guessing this was for a school project and you won't have to live with it so it's moot.
This is his intro statement to the Congressional Committee. One wouldn't expect that it has much new, and given his role as "repo man", it wouldn't be focused on SBF's specific crimes, but on what he can do now to clean it up. But the tone is absolutely damning and it's clear that he is saying that illegal shit went on.
My wife uses one that was 1/3 the cost of my iPad Pro and has no complaints. What you say about memory leaks may be true, but I’d be willing to bet short of reboots around software updates and despite many hours of daily use, I’d be willing to bet that she has never actually rebooted the device in the 3 years she has owned it. So your experience about it requiring reboot is in our experience, false.
With data on raid6 you should be running metadata on raid1c3 or raid1c4, not raid1 nor raid5/6.
Losing access because someone stole your account is even worse because of how much access a Google account gives someone.
I’ve returned to B/X (with a splash of BECMI) and AD&D. 5e is already a money sink for terrible releases that require way to much time to make playable or just lack real content over all. Add to that having to buy the books all over again on DnD beyond because character creation is a nightmare due to all the crazy perks that adjust stats everywhere… just way too much cognitive load and financial sink for something that is supposed to be relaxing.
A guy who quite likely stole billions of dollars can't prove he donated money to Republicans and we should just trust him?
You're inferring that; I was referring to the income you can make in blue collar work. There are jobs that do not require a bachelor's degree equivalent education. Many young adults drop out of college (or never start) in order to take such a job.
The account 'dang' often replies with a list of links and then produces some generated response with the topic as a seed. Given the frequency of responses this person would need to be using Hacker News full time.

@mods Can we get this account checked please?
How Elon botched his war on bots
It's strange how as soon as criminal money starts going into campaign funds, we all get up in arms about how corrupt and awful pay-to-play politics is.

The same political conflicts of interest exist, regardless of whether the funding comes from a carbon Super-PAC, or a crypto con man... But you wouldn't be able to tell that from any of the blatantly partisan rhetoric around it. It's all very "We're not mad that campaign funding works the way it does, we're mad that the other guys got more of it."
Yeah ZFS does some sort of block level hash table magic. Very IO efficient for what it's doing.
>she only controlled Alameda, and not entirely

This is most definitely a hot take.
Given that he's been arrested, I guess America is not that fucked?
> if you want dinosaur-like creatures, you're basically talking giant flightless birds.

That would only cover theropods. There are a lot of other dinosaurs.
Hadn't heard of that idea. That's pretty smart.
IIRC Adam Neumann’s infraction was owning many of the properties leased to WeWork for above market prices. IANAL but that’s not a crime as long as he was upfront with investors about it, even if they never bothered to read that page of due diligence.
For a deep drive, read The Chickenshit Club:

https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute...
This base signaling of “minimal viable education” should really lead toward an assessment creation tool that would capture (and then reduce the necessity of) - the massive redundant labor of assessment content creation by educators. A significant portion of the content taught has been assessed a million different times. Much of that assessment content is locked up on static documents making reuse laborious. So - solve the educator’s pain point by allowing me to create an appropriately tailored set of assessment items instantly, curate items rapidly, and proctor the assessment immediately. US states spend something like 1-2 billion/yr on standardized testing. If(!) the veracity of the assessments can be established, move onto chopping the legs of the college board in an innovator’s dilemma situation by providing a lower cost ‘minimal viable education’ credential. Try to reduce the cost and necessity of low value higher education by reducing the perceived value of their credentialing abilities.
>if we don’t use it we lose it

Awfully similar to Socrates’ reasoning against the written word.

Also, our ancestors didn’t survive alone in the jungle, they survived in groups in the jungle. Humans are social creatures. A single human wouldn’t get very far in any environment.
I had this happen with a cheapo android phone ages years ago, where the battery drained beyond 0% and the charging circuity wouldn't recognize it. Sent it for repairs and it conveniently came back with a dead battery again due to the long shipping time. I ended up stripping the wires out of the charger (the USB end, not 120v), and connecting it directly to the battery for 30 seconds or so. This bypasses the charging circuitry in the phone and got it up to a few % so that it would turn on. Surely this can go very wrong but it was my last idea.
It's not as difficult as those who think they are elite would have you believe.

Here is my common lisp setup easily adaptable to clojure: https://blog.djha.skin/p/developing-common-lisp-using-gnu-sc...

My thoughts on emacs versus vim and a better approach to trying to get them to be useful for things like common Lisp and Clojure: https://blog.djha.skin/p/emacs-users-im-okay-i-promise/

The main idea is that you don't need an IDE. Most Ides just copy and paste stuff for you into the repl, believing that you're too stupid to learn the commands inside the repl yourself and so they'll do it for you and you'll just learn a bunch of hotkeys. As if learning the hotkeys was easier than just learning the commands. I don't mean to offend anybody but this never made sense to me. Just learn the commands, then you can use the commands from whatever editor you want without having to relearn a bunch of hotkeys switching from emacs to vs code.

Being a VIM person, I imagine you're pretty comfortable in the terminal and so will not have a problem just using the repl in one window with vim in the other. Then I just have a few plugins to make it easier to copy and paste between vim and the repl.

I will say this, getting an LSP client for Clojure does help, but between that and syntax highlighting I'd say you're good to go.
Never said anyone was. I just said I like a no trouble device even if it means limited options in exchange for that reliability.
Wow, wish I thought of that 24 years ago.

Also, check out mxroute.com for SMTP/IMAP needs.
Writing a first-gen PSX (Playstation) game, NASCAR Racing, we had an in-house physics engine that needed the physics thread to run on a constant 30 Hz. PSX SDK didn't have pre-emptive multi-tasking. Sony US "checked with Japan" who said we were out of luck.

Then I remembered my old Atari 8-bit programming days and the vertical blank interrupt (which there was on the PSX, but we couldn't run all the physics in the VBI time allotment). What we could do though, was to use setjmp/longjmp to switch contexts between threads and then hack the vertical blank interrupt to save off the registers from the main thread, longjmp back to the physics thread, which would then restore the registers of the main thread and longjmp back to it. Bingo, 29.94Hz pre-emptive two-threading (which was all we needed).

(I don't recall if we actually used setjmp/longjmp or if we just stored away the PC register to return from the interrupt and monkeyed with it to return from the interrupt to the physics thread [as if it was interrupted at the start of a cycle of the engine] and then return from there to code that would restore the registers and make it appear to the main thread that it was returning from a VBI.)
I had a similar experience about a decade ago with an online rock-paper-scissors vs. computer site. I quickly figured out the pattern and was able to win a few dozen times in a row (late night) and got bored, but it was a very intriguing exercise.
So now I’m wondering who else will SBF take down with him. There is a pretty good chance he has knowledge of similar situations in Binance or Tether. This should be an interesting trial.
> We need to control our own numbers at a sustainable level.

That's not at all what GP said IMO
Thanks for the word "anemoia." I learnt it today.
Yeah this is a fair take too. Riot seems to have been largely successful in this approach with Valorant. Blizzard tried with Overwatch but imo they tried to push an overly structured approach with too much top down control way too far.
They exist, and there’s usually a mourning period when you have to truly grapple with understanding things really are harder for us.

“a failure to cultivate habits of discipline” is an _outcome of ADHD_. Executive dysfunction is preventing the cultivation of habits, not to say it’s impossible but they’re usually connected.

A useful trick here is to accomodate the lacking parts of the ADHD brain, with external consequences and external timekeeping.

External accountability and consequences such as a gym buddy (who you don’t want to let down), or needing to get your work done to get paid (so you can eat).

And external timekeeping is critical because we are time-blind [0]. Whether it’s a calendar, setting reminders, etc.

“People with ADHD know what to do, but they can’t do what they know.”

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JowPOqRmxNs
I want to say it was in the $100 to $200 range ($200 to $400 inflation adjusted)... though there may have also been an academic discount on that.
At one company we had a policy that you could have any title you want but it had to reflect your work and not provoke mockery. The example of the latter was "Sure, you can have cards that read 'Software Wizard' but what will happen if you show that card to a colleague?" There was only one person whom everybody else agreed was a true software wizard and that person just wanted the title "Programmer" -- actually they didn't want cards at all.

One wag said he wanted the title CFO. We said that would be OK but he'd have to actually do the job, including taking on the liability. He decided to pick something else.

The main purpose for titles was so that when you talked to someone outside the company they'd know who they were talking to "Oh, a VP. This person can sign my contract" or "Oh, a VP. THis is a waste of time; I need to talk to a developer"

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OTOH I have worked in an industry where titles are super important: pharma. That's because you can get a job on a drug program that's already been under way for a few years, work on it for several years, and then move on with it still not approced. The NDAs are actually observed in that industry so you can't talk about your work. So the fact that you had a continuous rise to senior associate director showed that you had been at least valued by your employer.
I released a game in rubymagic back in the day and have kicked the tires on DragonRuby a few times. I love the concept but hate the license.

They give it away for free all the time for game jams, but I think the fact that it’s paid is too big of a barrier for wide adoption. I hope your book does well anyway! It’s a fun piece of tech and it would be a good teaching tool if the engine was free (I’ve been using pixi.js with my kids).
Hold on, people make this out to be like if a disk fails it requires immediate intervention. However if the system already booted it stays up. Who reboots a production system without monitoring it? Also if you boot with a degraded disk are you not asking for massive trouble, because if another disk fails you might end up with data loss which is IMO much worse on a production system than not being able to boot until you add another disk.
Why wouldn't you just put an appropriate level for the destination company on your resume? Or leave the level off altogether if "translating" the title is offensive to you somehow.
The learning cycle is too long. It takes ~10 years to build a reactor, so if you spot a way to improve on costs or safety it will take another 10 years for the innovation to see the light.

At the contrary in renewables the learning cycle is in months so costs fall exponentially.

That's the real reason of high costs in fission, not red tape or public sentiment.
I see how you made this connection, but it's not entirely fair. Guns are a tool with one use - hurting people (in self defense or not, that's the outcome). On the other hand, stuff like ChatGPT has many uses. So I don't think it's a great analogy. Something like 3D printers are closer - you can use them to make guns, but also lots of other stuff.
What about a game like rocket league? It seems to have a pretty strong competitive and streaming scene and it’s mechanics are pretty straightforward to understand (most people can understand “football with rocket cars” pretty well).
"edit": I meant temper, of course
The problem here is there are ways to allow for both but they are labor intensive and Google (and other tech companies) do not like things that do not scale because it cost them $$$, they prefer no customer service and automation using Security as a cover for their poor practices.

In this instance if they need a code why is there not a process to hell use US Mail and send a paper code to the registered address of the account owner? Analog is often the solution to these type of problems
I think in the US you can set it to a lower-than-highest level, but in Canada, they send the kid-in-a-custody-dispute ones at the nuclear incident level (which was also sent out by mistake once).

Nothing sadder/funnier than seeing politicians defend their broken system as it increasingly did broken things.
I find it interesting that this legal letter used the initials SBF.
I think higher education institutions should be non-profit. I do think there are a lot of financial pressures on most small-medium non-public schools that make them operate in a more business oriented fashion and they must do so to stay open.

When I talk about making money I am talking about system utilized by colleges like enrollment CRMs, grading software etc. In most cases the only way those get made and are supported is through for-profit businesses.
For the technical solution, I would focus on getting that old phone some power. Wireless charging, gently pushing the charging connector in the magic direction, swapping the battery, taking it to a repair shop that could reflow the power connector or use some kind of battery emulator.

Google just paternalistically chooses which device they think should be your most trusted one, and then insists that you produce it. No consent, no concern for your actual security model, just pure snake oil that tech-rubes eat up as "2fA sEcUrItY". Any damn time I want to use a Google account from a desktop browser, I get the same rigamarole of having to unearth some discharged tablet and wait for it to charge, just to jump through their nonsense. I shudder to think what would happen if I took the obvious remedy and just removed those devices from my account.
It seems like operating a channel shared between a few people might alleviate some of these concerns.
"I'm forced to use banks because the government won't protect me from criminals if I shove cash under my mattresses." Oh please.

The irony of your ill-informed statement is that if you want to put your money in places where it can't be loaned out to others without your consent, where you should really put it is a brokerage - at least, one in the US, where there are regulations ensuring your funds can't be loaned without your consent, and your assets are protected by SIPC insurance.
The problem referenced above was that the poor people in question don't have devices, so they log in from public or loaner devices. Those are seen as "suspicious" by the algorithms, and without a personal device there is no way to convince said algorithms.

Here is the submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32304320 (August 2022, the letter submitted is from 2021)