skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, I imagine that it would have been extremely effective to have SBF rot in prison for a little while. Things get fixed when rich people suffer. Strings get pulled; favors are called in; the person (or family of the deceased), eyes newly opened to the troubles of the world, advocate for better conditions/treatment; and before you know it, laws have changed and norms have been updated. Magic Johnson and HIV; Caitlyn Jenner and trans rights; any number of organizations and foundations aimed at ending [disease someone wealthy was affected by]; uh, Stanford.
This is so true. I used to notice HP connectors at all the Ultrasound pathology labs I'd go to, they'd engineered plugs for sensor devices to HPIB compatible wiring which worked with nitrile gloves, smeared with Ultrasound goop, at a size anyone could un-do, with knurled screw tighteners. Lots of things about HP didn't work for me but I never yet met an Ultrasound or Xray technician who said their GUI was borked for them.

The market has moved on now but for a while there, if it was on a crash-cart in a hospital or related location, chances were it was HP.
There is an excellent refutation of the Chinese room argument that goes like this:

The only reason the setup described in the Chinese room argument doesn't feel like consciousness is because it is inherently something with exponential time and/or space complexity. If you could find a way to consistently understand and respond to sentences in Chinese using only polynomial time and space, then that implies real intelligence. In other words, the P/NP distinction is precisely the distinction underlying consciousness.

For more, see:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
Of course they did. People wouldn't buy their shit if they'd said it'd give you cancer.

Oh wait. Maybe they would. everything gives you cancer now, doesn't it?
That's the answer to all weird things in US. It makes someone money.
Yep. I keep it as accessible as possible and tell all my friends where it is ahead of time to prevent any slowdowns just in case.
> Maybe his strategy is to be such a fucking idiot that he can pretend there is no way he could mastermind such a big scam.

It's the strategy SBF's father is using too. The current FTX CEO, the one in charge of the bankruptcy, said in front of congress that one house worth $16m was bought in the Bahamas in SBF's parents' name.

SBF's father is specialized in tax laws. And he's on video record saying: "I'm helping FTX with legal matters".

And what does SBF's father have to say about the real estate bought in its name in the Bahamas?

"We weren't aware we had real estate in our names in the Bahamas" (paraphrasing, I don't remember the exact sentence their spokeperson used)

I mean... Once it's recorded, in front of congress, that there's real estate bought with stolen money in your name in the Bahamas, there's not that much you can do...

Besides playing the complete, total and utter idiot.
FWIW personally fine with Apple MITM the verification process.

USB cables available online from any arbitrary retailer could be so wildly out of spec they burn out gadgets, or include some phone home thing.

Of course technologists will scoff as of course they’re the only people on the planet.
Just to pick a random example: creating an SQL database with an index for faster search requires sorting
Good call out, didn't consider an application like that
I don't think most people are ODing from prescription abuse. It is fentanyl. I'd be interested to know how many are being poisoned by fentanyl-laced drugs, vs. fentanyl addicts who OD. Maybe that stat would be too hard to come by?
I didn't say they were compute limited, did I? Still, Pouring unlimited funds on more servers so they can sit <10% idle for best client performance is a great way to light money on fire.

Faster -> more responsive. The client's cores are faster, even on mobile. If that's such a great trade, SPAs are potentially better than dynamic SSR.
Kugelpanzer (“Ball Tank”)
> And only after you probe it to do so?

Did you read the thread where a very reasonable user asked for Avatar showtimes and then tried to helpfully clarify before being told how awful they are? I don't see any probing...

https://twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/status/162515657520253747...?
My understanding is that that's pretty normal, even for normal people. The prosecution asks the defense if they'll acquiesce to a particular term, and if the defense says no, the prosecution decides whether it's really worth it to push the issue.

Defendants often agree to changes like this to score some brownie points with the judge and prosecutor that they can cash in later on when they want to change bail terms, or want to fight some other change in bail terms. It carries a bit more weight when the defense says "we think X is unreasonable" if they haven't said that every time the prosecution brings something up.

> Giving plenty of time to use a VPN for whatever deeds he doesn't want the court to know about...

That's pretty much going to happen regardless. If the prosecution doesn't ask the defense, then they'd go straight to filing a motion. A copy of that motion would have to be served to the defense, and the defense would be afforded adequate time to prepare arguments against it. Practically nothing happens instantaneously in the legal world, barring egregious acts.
I actually think this is a really interesting case.

Reddit moderation is absolutely horrendous and subreddit mods have near complete power even when they go off the rails and start banning people for unsubstantiated reasons. There is no recourse and Reddit won’t do anything about it.

IMO outsourcing moderation to subreddit mods with no ability for individual users to appeal is very anti-user and fundamentally unfair. Worse moderation system than more “centralized” platforms like Twitter or FB.
When Alvin visited the wreck of the Titanic (2023) [video]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (very shortly) to release footage of the wreck of Titanic that was captured in July 1986 from cameras on the human-occupied submersible Alvin and the newly built, remotely operated Jason Junior. Most of this footage has never been released to the public.

Runtime: 1hr 21min
Core-JS maintainer complains open source is broken
> He got there the same way most white collar defendants do

To be fair, blue collar defendants also get much better (financial) terms in the federal system (and often no cash component) than in state systems. The main distinction at work that makes SBF’s case not what people have been trained on by media and common experience is not of wealth/class but of federal vs. state system, when most experience with bail is state not federal and most media portrayals are of (often distorted pictures of the) state systems.
Highly recommend this read. One of my favorite novels of all time.
The image of a slider also works on the other dimension: at any point in time, you're somewhere between auto-pilot and highly focused awareness.

AI, or maybe seemingly intelligent artificial entities, could deliver lots of great opportunities to observe the boundaries of consciousness, intelligence and individuality and maybe spark new interesting thoughts.
>The only time you need to consider a client-server setup is: Where you have multiple physical machines accessing the same database server over a network. In this setup you have a shared database between multiple clients.

This caveat covers "most cases". If there's only a single machine, then any data stored is not durable.

Additionally, to my knowledge SQLite doesn't have a solution for durability other than asynchronous replication. Arguably, most applications can tolerate this, but I'd rather just use MySQL with semi-sync replication, and not have to think through all of the edge cases about data loss.
Who runs intense workloads at high performance on a laptop? There are cloud servers for that.
Should You Use char, varchar, or text in PostgreSQL?
Did you read Mindf*ck? Fascinating book. I'd be so so angry about Brexit after reading it if I'd been affected.
> It's not the AI we must fear, it's the people.

Consider that AI in any form will somewhat be a reflection of ourselves. As AI becomes more powerful, it essentially will magnify the best and worst of humanity.

So yes, when we consider the dangers of AI, what we actually need to consider is what is the worst we might consider doing to ourselves.
>It's just cornstarch.

That is not true, and TFA refers specifically to metal oxide nanoparticles that are used as anti-caking agents
I like sqlite as much as the next guy but it's built-in datatypes are limited.
Things like arrays, UUIDs, geometry stuff, JSON, etc.
Sure you can store more advanced stuff as blobs or text but then you have to mess around with deserializing it in the host language and you lose the ability to query it directly in the db engine.
Data will only be allowed to pass to a certified accessory

Theoretically it should be possible for a cable to spoof the ID of what it's connected to though, right?
The idea share the same goals with svg design. easily adapt on various screen size while maintain the image quality.

inkscape and friends has decent support to svg. html and css layouting are the simple things.

you can export it as single html files to read it offline.

just open a browser. the layout and responsiveness simply maintained.

no need to install new apps and trapped into apk hells.
The whole Apple playbook these days: charge everyone a troll toll in the name of safety
I think it's more like we shouldn't put a upper limit on the number of nuclear weapons we hold because the Soviet Union/Russia may not adhere to it.

We were able to (my understanding is fairly effectively) negotiate nuclear arms control limits with Russia. The problem with AGI is that there isn't a way to monitor/detect development or utilization.
Write Python Endpoints in SvelteKit
I always disliked that saying, because i'm never in it for the money. Money often follows, through paths I could not imagine when starting the adventure, but it was never the goal.

Following your interests and going on weird adventures/side-tracks outside your comfort-zone won't make you very rich, but you'll always have enough, and a life that is fun.

It helps if you don't care to much about collecting useless stuff: Travel light!
A script kiddie can connect GPT3.5 through its API to generate a bunch of possible exploits or other hacker scripts and auto execute them. Or with a TTS API and create plausible sounding personalized scripts that spam call or email people. And so on - I’m actually purposefully not mentioning other scenarios that I think would be more insidious. You don’t need much technical skills to do that.
> Again, it’s crucial to recognise that this is not an AI having an existential crisis. It’s a language model predicting what should come next in a sequence of tokens... but clearly a language model that has absorbed far too much schlocky science fiction.

How do we know there is a difference? I can't even say for sure that I am not just some biological machine that predicts what should come next in a sequence of tokens.
Very interesting, I'd like to see more concrete citations on this. Last I heard the training set for ChatGPT was static from ~ mid-late 2022. E.g. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/.

Is this something that Bing is doing differently with their version perhaps?
I don’t mean to be a bummer, but walking around a Walmart in a lower income area shows you just how bleak the situation is in the United States.

My wife and I recently went to a Walmart near a “not good area” and it was depressing. Just about everyone was overweight. Many were hobbling or needed the use of the electric scooters. Looking into their eyes often resulted in a near zombie stare that went right through you. People looked at Walmart’s relatively low prices in desperation and despair as they mentally tried to grasp how they’d be able to handle the bill for the mass produced garbage they were trying to buy to save money (compared to fresh meat and produce). My wife and I paid for our stuff and headed to our basic SUV (one of the nicest cars in the parking lot) and you could see rundown cars on the edge of the parking lot with blankets up to block the sunlight (aka homeless people).

Things are not good over here.

Edit: I didn’t directly address your question, but it’s all tied together. People are drugged up and just trying to get by. For many Americans, day-to-day life is nothing short of a nightmare.
https://litestream.io/ does streaming replication to S3 (or similar service). With this, you probably have better data durability than a small database cluster.
Kremlin spied on activist's Telegram chats
Imagine where consumer electronics could be if they didn't have to be designed for the lowest common denominator.
That was done by exploiting developer mode, and was fixed by asking the user before any data transmission is enabled. The only thing that is allowed "blindly", and hence the most dangerous, is charging. No need for any racketeeri-- sorry, Apple-controlled whitelist.
Ask HN: Accelerator Entity Type?
Are accelerators generally structured as a Fund or a Company?

I'd assume they are structured as a fund, but a 2% management fee doesn't seem like it would cut it to pay for all of the staff of an accelerator.

Does anyone know the specifics of how an accelerator operates? Thanks
People also forget that freedom of expression isn't a license to go spreading harmful material that hurts people or undermines the values of democracy itself.

>Guarantee of rights and freedoms – section 1

> >1. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

>...

>The rights and freedoms in the Charter are not absolute. They can be limited to protect other rights or important national values. For example, freedom of expression may be limited by laws against hate propaganda or child pornography.

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-righ...
Ask HN: Where are all the stateful posters? Tell us what you're working on
Stateless tech is great fun. If it fails you rebuild it and everything is (mostly) okay again. Frontend and app tier containers, network devices, even compute hosts. There's lots of posts about these.

But state (and loss of) can be nightmarish and we mostly want to avoid it. We outsource database hosting to cloud providers, avoid touching SANs, hand-wave away schema change and rollback considerations when talking about our CI/CD pipelines.

Where are all the HN posters working on these things? I want to hear from you!

What are you working on?

If you write firmware for SAN arrays, how do you sleep at night with that sword dangling over your head?

Do you keep working on stateful tech because you love it or because it pays better?

What's the best and worst thing you've experienced?
My solution for banning any speech is that the rules have to be nearly unanimously voted in, and voted in for multiple (maybe 3?) presidential administrations. Things like banning the shoutout of “fire” in a theater. Some laws need to be low pass filtered.
No — they’re interested in how as explored through power dynamics, not how explored through technical analysis of the pretense used.

The latter is uninteresting; the former interests the public who is concerned by inequality in our legal system.

No amount of screaming “but the pretense type checks!” will be a useful or interesting answer to this discussion about social class.
> The question is simply where the line gets drawn.

And that's one which people who consider themselves ardent defenders of free speech frequently miss. I mean, the linked article concludes with a quote insisting that people's speech should "stop short of demanding that the offender be punished or required to make restitution"... earlier in the piece the same author is quoted criticising "campaigns of vilification" and people being "pressed to recant" as the sort of speech which violates principles of liberalism.

That's absolutely drawing a line and putting a whole lot of non-violent, First Amendment-protected speech the wrong side of it, in the style of Popper's paradox-of-tolerance but with the line for what liberalism shouldn't tolerate in a slightly different place. In general, I'm quite amenable to their argument that publicly vilifying certain people in certain ways for things they've said is harmful to the pursuit of science, but I can't see any qualitative difference between that and the argument that certain people ranting about certain minorities might be harmful to individuals (and by dint of its effects on those individuals, also to the pursuit of science). The latter argument has a better evidence base than the argument that non-violent picketing of Milo Yiannopoulos puts the benefits of science at risk, and I don't think the slippery slope between disinviting Milo from Berkeley and fatwas against people accused of blasphemy is any steeper than that between being intolerant of fatwas but also intolerant of bullying and racism.
damn that looks really slick. i had no idea anyone cared about fan noise in the windows/linux laptop space. how is the keyboard?
Yes. Its a deadly combo. Tons of cheap opioids flowing in from Mexico made with Chinese chemicals. There is no way to stop it. Flood the EU with tons of cheap fentanyl for a fair comparison.
So long as every one else also know this
I do not agree with the OP's apparent presupposition that age somehow invalidates truth (without even giving us so much as an alternative and a basis for accepting it). However, the law is incomprehensible without morality. What on earth could you possibly take the law to be in the absence of morality? The natural law is the basis of morality and morality is the basis of law which is the particular and concrete determination of it in especially in matters concerning the common good. Yes, there is such a thing as immoral speech. Slander is an obvious example. Lies. But what should be subject to the law? That is a prudential question. And the 1st amendment is interpreted to some extent according to more or less prudential considerations.
Maintainer of Dokku here.

Dokku does support both Kubernetes and Nomad as deployment targets, so it's not strictly single-server (though app builds currently are).
Not if they load the robots with Bing chat
Nobody is calling for anything remotely extreme as your post seems to be hinting at in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
From the perspective of someone who sits in the middle with a leaning to the left, it looks to me like the left doesn’t have problems with others holding differing views, so long as following those views doesn’t result in the harm or impediment of liberty of others.

Nobody is saying it’s wrong to be be a conservative or republican, they’re saying it’s a problem when e.g. religious fundamentalism worms its way into legislation, because the unavoidable consequence of that is reduced freedom and harm on a mass scale. The constitution defends the rights of those who choose to adhere to religious guidelines, but it does not extend to enforcing them on those who chose otherwise.
Godwins law strikes again.
An iPad with a keyboard
Yeah, this is what they can give me. Microsoft people offered us high profile people for free.
I have sympathy to both sides of this problem because the truth is, ALL the GPT do this, and what google botched was the message. I don't understand why it wasn't a similar share price plummet in Bing, OpenAI when the lies sold as truth surfaced there.

In part, and I know this is 'blame the victim' I think shareholders truly are dumb, if they thought it was AGI and some god given uplift to the cloud-mind: it was never going to do what they wanted, and rather than 'Google erased' I'd say google communications/marketing erased: they really didn't prepare this package for release well.

Too much infeasible community expectations on something which was incapable of doing what they wanted.

No matter what the $100b is gone. I'd say the buyers at the bottom picked up a bargain btw.
> I'm not sure if people will be buying smart headsets due to cost of living struggles etc.

Apple, especially with the iPhone, has positioned itself as a "luxury" technology brand and benefits from exclusivity. I would see the launch of a consumer-friendly well-designed VR/AR headset from Apple with a premium price tag as a boost for them.

What better way to say how well you are doing in the economy than by wearing Apple glasses.
I know it's not the same as opiates, but a crappy dentist in suburban Illinois once gave me a Vicodin prescription after a root canal. I was so confused
There is no true scotsman. Doesn't mean we can't have truth
SQLite — works 80% of the time — every time.
>What's the point of arguments as to whether this is sentient or not? After all, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck...

My big counterpoint to this is that if you change the 'vector to word' translation index, it will do the same thing but spit out complete gibberish. If instead of 'I feel pain' it said 'Blue Heat Shoe,' no-one would think it is sentient, even if the vector outputs (the actual outputs of the core model) were the same
Was Merkel responsible for the movement of refugees within europe? I don't think it is that simple. The structure of power within Germany is also such that she simply was not able to allow or disallow the moevement of refugees into Germany...
But for a lot prescription meds is the gateway drug to cheaper stuff
I mean I do put a lot of work into getting bad fit candidates out of the pipeline as early as possible (ideally before they speak to me or anyone else).

But the most important thing I can be doing is getting good fit candidates hired — that is how I contribute to the company mission. And I accept that means talking to some number of people who aren’t seriously considering my offer. I take it as an opportunity to change their mind or failing that to experiment with the questions I ask. Over time I become a better interviewer because of those opportunities.

Every interview has the chance to end with me hiring the best person we’ve ever hired. The upside is so high that the downside is worth it.

I can’t get upset at people who interview when they’re not serious about changing jobs. I do it all the time myself and encourage everyone I work with to do it. Can’t hold it against anyone who does the same.
Going from 2 sticks to 4 sticks on my threadripper drastically improved thoughput so yes, always a good idea to max out the channels. I'm just happy I still have 4 more to fill but I probably won't need that much extra memory for years to come.
Also, Europe doesn't have a fentanyl crisis because we have cheap, pure heroin. The Afghani-Europe heroin pipeline is so old, tightly organized, and efficient that there is little need for an alternative.

By comparison, shipping heroin across the Pacific is costly risky business, because it's easier to detect and seize. Hence the need for fentanyl which is orders of magnitude stronger and can be created in impromptu labs.

This gets particularly dicey for every "party drug" users in the states, because a white powder that would be relatively harmless is subject to accidental cross-contamination. [edit based upon reading comments below: Yeah, if you live in the US and your friends take coke or ketamine, you should have Narcan.]

Opiate users are addicts but they're not stupid. Nearly all greatly prefer reliable heroin to the risk of OD'ing. Hence why fentanyl hasn't become a thing in Europe. A reputation for killing your customers is bad for business.

Bonus question: Why does Europe not have a methaphetamine crisis?
I'm making the argument that all brands of EV charging network should charge all brands of EV. Anything less is backward, primitive, and simply dumb infrastructure.

In Europe, Tesla charges Tesla drivers less for charging and other drivers more. Tesla also has membership pricing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y33AArvMUQ

Other charging networks also have brand specific deals and membership pricing.