skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primary source:

https://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/2022-12/ing-051/in-...

With some context:

Our initial conversion follows a certain pattern: the evil that we acknowledge and try to uproot from our lives does indeed leave us, but we would be naïve to think that it will long be gone. In short order, it comes back under a new guise. Before, it appeared rough and violent, now it shows up as elegant and refined. We need to realize that and once again to unmask it. Let me put it this way: they are “elegant demons”: they enter smoothly, without our even being conscious of them. Only the daily practice of the examination of conscience can enable us to be aware of them.

[EDIT: the reason I can't reconcile the next bit is because I was confused. Ignore it.]

The next paragraph cites a nun who became a heretic (on a rather abstruse piece of doctrine). That's really a problem in that she was a TV personality, for a group of conservative Catholics who push a culture-war approach that often puts them at odds with the Vatican, especially the comparatively liberal Francis.

And I'm not quite sure how to reconcile that. I'm quite certain that Mother Angelica did examine her conscience quite closely. In many ways Mother Angelica was quite inelegant, and rather outspoken. Perhaps she was listening too closely to an "elegant demon", but I'm not sure if any amount of introspection would have revealed flaws to her.
No app that would be banned from app stores is likely to be successful in the long term.

Without revenue in it, and influencers on it, only few would jump through the insane hoops to sideload an app nowadays.
ChatGPT got 6 of my 50 Xmas Trivia questions spectularly wrong
Please don't drag me too hard if you disagree with the "correct" answer I provide.
> this would seem to imply that the court has decided that Sam and his parents have non-tainted assets worth more than $250M,

What I think it actually implies is that the surety given is a condition described by 18 USC § 3142(c)(1)(B)(xiv) and not 18 USC § 3142(c)(1)(B)(xii), and that people forget that (i)-(xiii) are examples of options, but do not limit the discretion provided by (xiv).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3142
That really makes me wonder if these people have ever followed a rich person's trial before. They all get special treatment. They even get special incarceration.

Do any of them deserve it?
I'm not gonna do it! Someone else, please!8-))
> Be ethical. This is the most straightforward

That is probably the hardest piece of advice to follow. The temptation to cut corners in subtle manners can get really strong.
He stole like 10 billion dollars from his customers. Not sure how much of it he managed to subsequently destroy vs. successfully convey to other people, but does that matter?
Parent is not saying to keep him in jail because he’s “extra guilty.” They’re saying keep him in jail because he can’t pay bail. Basically treat him like everyone else.
Not much. It just has its own button on the home screen (iOS) and behaves (mostly) like a native app. A browser bookmark would work as well.

Miniflux is designed to work well on a small screen with touch input. So the fact that, unlike some other options, it doesn't have a native app is not too much of a limitation.
I'm sure it is possible to defeat an ankle monitor in some way, but I really doubt simply knocking it off will work (not to say you can't knock out off, but that this will be detected & interpreted as an escape attempt). The police aren't stupid.

Reading about it a bit, it seems many of them are simple to remove (not sure what kind of monitor SBF is wearing), but that indeed, it will be detected immediately.
A lot more enlightened than we give them credit for? Perhaps more enlightened than we are today?
This reminds me of when (attributed) Ernest Hemingway was asked to write a short story with six words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_wo...
I read the original version first, some ancient copy checked out of the library. When I re-read it a couple of years later, the book was different than I remembered. It was only years later that I discovered why.
> You can, for example, manipulate people to pay for something.

> How?

What's the point of pretending like you can't answer that question yourself? It doesn't make your position seem stronger; quite the opposite.
You're right, it looked completely bogus to me with things seeming to do the opposite of what I configured, until I read your message! The problem with UIs is that people can't refrain from distinguishing themselves by doing something different from what seems intuitive to most, just because they can. And that results in the current web and interfaces...
>which are restricted to their own site and don't explicitly say anything untrue

What's so great about implicitly saying untrue things?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(propos...
I use Reeder but as a client for Feedly.
McDonald’s opens first largely automated location
Hi, I'm the author of this article. I'm grateful for the positive comments! I plan to explore FALCONN (pointed to by gajjanag) and the beautiful article of Bartosz Ciechanowski pointed out by lgvld.

My original motivation for writing this was to explain (in a follow-up article) an ANN algorithm I published in 2010: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/1.9781611973075.94

I never wrote that up (as a non-academic article), but the fact that people like this article is a nudge for me to do that.

The above paper was the first LSH algorithm which deterministically returns all close-enough points and guarantees no false positives for distant-enough points. I've heard there are also other algorithms with that property published since. If I have time, I would like to one day see how that algorithm compares against the others in Erik Bernhardsson's benchmarks.
That definitely doesn't line up with what I've seen, failurewise. One of my ESP-32s has been running pretty much continuously for 3 years without any trouble. And in the past I've had no trouble running multiple for months at a time. The only failures I've had, across maybe 4 different manufacturers, happened when I did something dumb and unintentionally fried a board.
Their spending has 10x'd since 2010, yet their traffic and scope remains relatively the same. This reeks of mismanagement and overspending. That being said, I more-so dislike their wording they use to gather the donations more than anything else, as I said, it feels disingenuous. I'm not entirely sure what the original parent comment was on about when he stated they were; "biased, corrupt, etc.", but my gripe with the Wikimedia foundation is the profiteering of community-generated content, with dubious expenditures that don't seem to actually advance the wiki itself, via dishonest means (and don't say that nobody is profiteering just because they're a non-profit, I'm sure the money is ending up at least partially in someones pockets). In the same vein, I wouldn't donate to wikimedia for the same reason I wouldn't give money to a broke alcoholic, if the reason you need money is because you're spending too much on the wrong things, that's not really a cause worthy of anybody's money. (All of this being IMO, obviously)
The current implementation of the idea is a Chrome extension. I can imagine non-chromium based browsers to show things up a little broken.
> What do you believe their motivation is for contributing towards his bail based on the consequences they're facing?

The love of a parent for their son. That's a benefit of doubt I'd need to see extraordinary evidence of sociopathy to discard.
Some people may see it as unjust that SBF gets to chill in a $4mm Palo Alto house while some of his depositors may not have houses as a result of having their funds stolen by SBF.
All I can say is wow that’s a way different interpretation then I. It’s not the employee compensation that’s the problem here: it’s VCs dumping billions into unprofitable businesses and then trying to figure it out once they’re a nationwide brand/“monopoly.” Uber, AirBnB etc got as big as they are by breaking the law literally in a lot of places (ignoring regulations with a bad faith reasoning that it’s not the same because they’re an app)

At decent places with a profitable business model the workers tend to generate many times their salary expenses.
This has to be a generational thing. There is no way a deaf person growing up now is not going to be using the internet.
From the quick searches I've done, it seems a lot of people agree with you. Do you have any opinion on whether the 2nd edition is preferable? Either way, thank you for the recommendation!
It's still early to tell but as far as I can see, there's <$2B of customer deposits missing, and even insofar as those are missing, they have been stolen and not destroyed.

The "billions destroyed" seems more likely to refer to the general "destruction" of nominal wealth which, I posit, wasn't real to begin with.
I think that the most important idea of math, programming, physics etc is the idea of fixed points which is predicated on the idea of nilpotence.

Fixed points go by many names like invariance, spectra, diagonalization, embedding, braids etc.

By fixed point I mean something like the "Lawvere's fixed point theorem". https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Lawvere%27s+fixed+point+theore...

I have a braindump on this
https://github.com/adamnemecek/adjoint

I also have a discord https://discord.gg/mr9TAhpyBW
2022 made me rethink my stance. My goal used to be to create as much as possible in the best quality I could muster. Give it all and make it available for free for all on the internet.

Now that everything you write is used to train an AI that will be used to generate the content, I don't feel the need to contribute. Plus they'll use this content for their own commercial benefit. I don't feel the same way anymore about the internet.
Show HN: Box4D – 4D physics demo using Rust and wgpu
This is a little physics toy I've been working on off and on for a while. I originally planned on making a more fully featured game of some sort (I suppose I still may some day), but it turns out that writing interesting graphics and physics algorithms is more compelling than the hard work of polishing an actual product. Who knew?

While there are plenty of good guides for 2D and 3D graphics and physics, there's not much out there for 4D. In hopes of alleviating that, the code here is arranged such that the commits are more or less a step-by-step guide, with comments for the interesting or tricky parts. While I don't think I came close to the simplicity or clarity of Box2D Lite, I hope it can serve as a useful example to anyone interested in 4D rendering and physics.
From the article:

> I’d definitely commented on the JOIN statements during the initial code review
>Phrased another way, we're about to find out if SBF is morally bankrupt enough to take away a huge portion of his parents assets as well.

If he has hundreds of millions hidden away, he could easily ensure that his parents get some of it later to compensate them.

That said, I don't think he will run. His parents are both Stanford law professors and he has an insane number of connectionsand people that owe him favors. I think he will go to court and put up a very strong defense and end up with around ten years in jail at the end of it all.
The Struggle and Strain of Mining “Devil’s Gold”
Mandatory Palestine is a new term that has been invented post world war 2. Back then, it was simply a country called Palestine, as can be seen from passports issued in that era.
That this needed to be said on HN speaks volumes to how shallow we are.
i like your take here. I have this problem with people. If someone says: Can you create a website that describes this process? My first question is what domain name? Then they say, what do you mean we already have our website on ...com? Then I say: You said create a website - that indicates you want an entire website, it sounds like you just wanted a new page on the existing website.
> I don't see why this is newsworthy

Yes you do, that's why you're posting here. As you note, it is completely of a piece with social media bans. It is obviously newsworthy because it now extends that sort of "ideological ban" to a physical space.

Presumably the rights God inconveniently forgot to give us were enhanced by our rights as private citizens and taxpayers?

MSG is not a members only club, there are laws about venues which are generally open to the public, and we also have civil court for contracts like buying tickets to concerts.

We will see what a jury of our peers will say. But I don't think progressive snark or bad jokes about lawyers will be in the court arguments.
Useful to know! That's why I prefer setup business in free zones where I do'n need to pay taxes. It's quite profitable for business. I found info about free zones that are completely exempt from taxation here https://yourtaxadvice.com/ . There are so many benefits for business: no corporate tax; quick company registration; possibility to create substance in the country of registration; no requirement to prove the payment of authorized capital to register a company. You can consut with Business Consultants to find out all the details. They also can help with company registration, including licence and rent of shared desk office.
Readwise Reader looks promising https://readwise.io/read
We’re supposed to take the blame for people’s bad ideas too? I have friends who were willing to personally take on that risk who are making 5x my salary at a minimum to own and run their own companies.

Meanwhile, as a senior in a private org, I’m being forced into tech-adjacent roles because there’s no one else competent enough to do the administrative and operational duties required to support the growing volume of work. I hear different, but just as bad, tales from startups. Look, I love what I do. I’d probably work for less if it made sense, but you make it sound like I’m somehow the one holding out for more when the recruiters are the ones who won’t leave me alone, and no one is lining up to make my role or responsibilities any easier, so I’ve gotta admit this is a pretty rich take.
Well one way in which it matters is that destroyed wealth is irrecoverable. It no longer exists. Stolen wealth might still exist somewhere and might be recoverable.

Also is it $10B in stolen deposits?! I seem to be coming across a $1-2B figure but admittedly haven't been following super closely.
What you are describing seems like a list of pull requests for a repo you are familiar with.

(Ideally) short code snippets, discussion about what it solves, reviews possibly with other alternatives, discussions about tradeoffs...
Exactly me, from google reader to newsblur.
There isn't much point to the justice system if a rich dude can give them an iou for bond. Do you think if a poor person got 2500 bond they could give the court 4$ and and a im good for the rest of it?
Thanks for a good news!
I know what I/O refers to, and I have for the last, I dunno, 30 years. Do I know which letter refers to which state? Not a damn clue. I have never been able to remember it.
There are a lot of people building their understanding of this situation out of breathless headlines and misleading tweets. And I think there's an element of something like, "if he escapes, that means he really was a genius all along, and now I feel a little less bad for losing my money/believing in him".
It sounds like a pretty simple integration to write yourself. You can even keep using mailchimp, just with some glue code.
Alameda's ex-CEO tells judge she hid billions in loans to FTX execs
Where are you getting this $2B figure? The claimed "liquidity shortfall" was $8-10B and most of the assets (MAPS, SRM, OXY, FTT) are worthless. I would expect people in the FTX creditors telegram group for example to post about it if there was news that caused the expected value of our claims to increase from 10-30c to 80c.
Ask HN: What language models can I fine-tune at home?
Are there any interesting language models, that can be fine-tuned on desktop hardware?
Well C was my second language. I learned it on an amiga 500. But I quickly transitioned to a 386 (yes i know, a downgrade) but my dad put turbo c++ on it and I never wrote much ansi c after that. A bit for odd embedded targets, but mostly c++ my whole career. So I can write old fashioned c, and I don't start new projects in c, but writing c abi shims for c++ libraries or reading modern c is something I do with some frequency. Learning it would be fun maybe as I've never really used c99 or newer for anything.
Right, so he stole $x and "destroyed" $y. My position is that the theft is real and the destruction is not.
Not to mention that it's not just "be ethical", it's "instill ethics in others, too", because you don't inherit clean software that you then ruin. You inherit ruined software that you can, at best, clean back up over the course of years.
> *Reddit user knome and Hacker News user nwellnhof pointed out the size of this sentence in ASCII and UTF 8 were actually the same, so I changed an ASCII apostrophe for U+2019.

I wholeheartedly approve of this correction. :)
The foundation has around 700 employees (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation), back on the envelope calculation and we have 200k per employee. I think it seems reasonable.
Sigh, no self-hosted alternatives?
Why is so difficult to offer a payed self-hosted license?

Obsidian comes close, but it doesn't offer the full drawing toolbox like Miro.
Added to my bookmarks. Much appreciated!
Pray tell us, which languages do take trust and security seriously, according to you?
Ha just replied to your other comment. I'd trust your $10B figure over mine!
If staying in jail without bail were considered "cruel and unusual punishment", then it would be unconstitutional for anyone to be kept in jail.

Cruel and unusual punishment does not apply here, and isn't really clearly defined regardless.

I personally agree that not holding him is good fwiw.

However, it also is horribly inconsistent. People who are guilty of driving while black, or non-violent drug offenses, or so on, are given much less generous treatment when it comes to unsecured bail, and when it comes to evaluating if they're a flight risk.
On Androids I have this problem all the time. It's a combination of bad color and bad text - I don't know if iOS forces the color OS-wide, but the text is app dependent.
Lets go !

After decades of open-source software, finally we have open-source CPU.
What would knowing them help? I wouldn't trust anyone I know with storing all my passwords
1000 purchases.
100 complaints.
Change something because 900 people didn't tell you they were ok with things?
That makes sense, but shouldn't impact the decision of the court, since he's presumed innocent.

I'm totally game for working for a more equitable society where everyone gets to live in dignity even if they put their money into bad crypto exchanges though. Let's definitely do that, regardless of what happens in this case.
check out the boards made by Quindor. Very solid, very affordable. https://quinled.info

His videos and blog posts are super helpful too!
If I see an HN topic I don't care about or consider a time waste, I just don't click on it, let alone comment about what a time waste it is.
I think it's a shame this post got so little attention. I think this is the first time I've seen this much writing on NixOS in a mainstream tech outlet.
FYI, missing a second dash

git log -–reverse
Every company that has salesmen paid on commission.

> measuring results is difficult

And the better job of that a company does, the more profitable it becomes. Companies have a very strong monetary incentive to do an effective job of that.

> CEO compensation is a terrible model

Is it? Executive bonuses etc. at Boeing crashed along with the MAX crashes.
Yep, that's ideal. Sometimes, though, this can be hard to convey efficiently when there are multiple conditions. ToolTips can help.
> capitalism has optimized for the most money possible flowing through the system.

Right, and I don't think anybody on Earth considers "most money possible flowing through the system" to be a synonym for "the best system". My loose definition for "optimal state" in this conversation is something like "as many people as possible are happy with the state of affairs". That is not always the best definition, but when talking about streaming services or taxi models I think it's a good one.
Wow, props to IL for doing this.
Idiot here.

I think this field of study has wild potential.

How do you get one of these to learn a function. And further: learn to combine functions from individuals to accomplish a task?
I really like miniflux, but I really wish it had a weighted post ordering rather than a simple chronological ordering. I posted a feature request about this earlier this year[0], but the gist is this:

If you subscribe to some feeds that post 100+ times a day (like a major news outlet) and others that post only once every couple months or so (like many personal blogs), you'll never catch the latter because those posts are always drowned in a sea of the former. Reddit deals with this problem by weighting posts from each subreddit you subscribe to so that your frontpage contains content from as many of your subs as possible.

All I want for Christmas is for this idea to get some traction. Hoping to make the time to hack on this myself Q1 of next year.

[0]: https://github.com/miniflux/v2/issues/1493
It is sort of funny. Historical myths and legends of were not controlled in the same sense that modern fiction is, so you had various sets of stories — King Arthur, Greek pantheon, etc, where the canon is really more of a suggestion. Events can be jumbled around to ignored, new characters can be introduced, the Lancelots of the whole thing stick around but some of their aspects are pulled forward or pushed back.

And then of course modern stories are generally single-source and totally controlled (other than comic books and that sort of thing).

And one of the major authors who sort of bridges the gap… his method seems to have been “well I’ll just run that whole historical process in my head, with the various characters and groups recording their legends and myths!”
Oh absolutely. My view is that integrated automatic cleaning must be part of the system design. Such a system would be a huge pain if it was not self cleaning.
I used Nuklear quite a lot [1]. Was a pleasure to use, skinnable which is great for videogames and pretty performant.

1 - https://executionunit.itch.io/smith-and-winston
> Criticizing progressive speech codes is carrying water for the other side

Wow. Do you realize how dangerous that attitude is for humanity? There is not a political, religious, or moral philosophy on this earth that should be beyond criticism for the inside or they outside.
> People are upset that he is getting special treatment.

He's not, and the perception that he is comes from a misunderstanding of the systems involved, which is why the descriptions of how this is supposedly special treatment or surprising tend to include as the foundation multiple layers of wrong assumptions about how bail works in general.
He operated a Ponzi scheme, so yes, he did in fact destroy billions in wealth. What is the evidence to the contrary? The fact that FTX destroyed billions in wealth is not relevant to this trial at all. It’s whether or not he intentionally and maliciously defrauded his customers.
Exactly the same setup on my machines. Works fine and can be integrated with any other sync programs as needed. A flexible and robust approach to RSS.
Newsboat is also a great option, for those who prefer a dedicated RSS app.
Corrected link: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Lawvere%27s+fixed+point+theore...
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