skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sam Bankman-Fried is a uniquely terrible example of ideology, given St. Petersburg: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-bankman-frie... and https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-250

(and, y'know, being a fraudster who temporarily pulled the wool over the eyes of the regulators not just the charities he promised money to)

Also: is SBF really the central example of alignment in your head, and not, say Yudkowsky? Because Yudkowsky is my central example, and he's the exact opposite on all counts, wanting us to go slow and explicitly saying that humans are terrible at reasoning properly when they allow themselves to think "ends justify the means": https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K9ZaZXDnL3SEmYZqB/ends-don-t...

Likewise, there are plenty of examples of misaligned non-general AI, and have been since at least the 80s when it was GOFAI and databanks rather than neutral nets that led to new legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/35/enacted
> it's comparable to about 100k invested

When investing you typically can retrieve your original investment at any time.

> £6k for the first 90 days
> Let's be conservative and you can get 7k/year out of this book

Keep in mind the author doesn't make that money, but rather, is paid a royalty. The author said they've earned more like $1100, and they expect around 1-2k a year, not 7k: "I am hopeful that in a couple of months this might lead to a passive income of $100-$200 per month for a while."

> author says it's more or less evergreen

No, they acknowledge the book likely has a shelf life: "...with all things in the tech world I imagine someone will write a newer book on the same topic in the not so distant future or perhaps some of the technologies mentioned will update substantially and my book will no longer be up to date"
Those island bus stops must count as some of the worst design I've ever seen. Stupid beyond words
Try using the example with WiFi off. The counter increments when WiFi is turned back on. OP is misleading.
Barney Frank Pushed to Ease Regulations After Joining Signature Bank Board
> […] but there is no way to verify that macOS doesn't have any exceptions that might still bypass network extensions.

Sure there is: you connect the system to a managed Ethernet switch and do port mirroring to inspect what traffic goes over the wire:

* https://community.fs.com/blog/port-mirroring-explained-basis...

* https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_mirroring

If it's encrypted we may not know the exact contents, but you can't conceal IPs.
You can translate this to any kind of regulation.

Want cars not to explode when slightly rear-ended? Why are they so expensive now? Where did the car businesses go? Let's create car security companies! Why so expensive still? ...
> Someone demonstrated that the leading system flagged multiple members of Congress as dangerous fugitives and that was the end of that.

That's not a question of ethics, it's a question of the model performance.
Don't know what's up on your machine but I just tried it on my Lenovo laptop with Win11 and it definitely works. I can type on the keyboard while moving the mouse with the touchpad and clicking it too. Maybe it's a specific Surface 8 touchpad hardware limitation.

Have you tried tinkering with the touchpad sensitivity setting? Mine is set to medium.

https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-disable-touchpad-while-ty...
May.

May not.

No one knows.

But let's pretend this is a finding and we haven't just wasted our time.
You're doing the same as everyone else.

> Then I mentioned transfer, oh-oh. Now we're going into transport protocols and not just moving bits no matter the means. Incredibly frustrating and ironic given the context.

How is it still happening. Did you read the post? Do you see the irony?
Maybe they were just early to discover a long standing Linux bug in memcpy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095609

:p
Russia has a nearly unbroken 150-200 year history of tyrannical government (sometimes in just the classical sense of power vested in a single individual, but often in the more modern sense where oppression is added to that). Sometimes there have been rebellions, but always the end result is the same in Russia: power resides in a single individual. Most other countries, east, west, and other, put up more resistance to the kinds of power structures Russia historically has had.

It's not projecting to postulate that maybe, just maybe, Russians (in aggregate, individual exceptions likely exist) are just okay with that.
Yes exactly — a lean, bootstrapped startup is a much "safer" bet, but also has much more limited upside potential. There are still a few unicorns out there that took that path, or switched to being VC backed later in the game!
And the key thing here is that all boxes except two gets removed, not only one.
They're different though. Encryption is just one application of cryptography.
Well the power structure has never changed bar a short period after USSR colapse than people gladly elected another strong man who shifted back to the same arrangment that was in place for centuries. You have a figure head (Tsar, General Secretery etc.) who holds all the power and appoints regional managers to rule a particular area. The expansionist agenda is always the key to the ideology.
Is there a point to those giant touchpads? How do people tell where left and right click are without looking down? Personally I think the death of real mouse buttons is the worst laptop UX change in the last 20 years, even beating out chiclet keyboards.
Also the ISO is also very averse of patents. They will probably not standardize anything patent-encumbered. They would probably require invalidating the patent first before accepting it in the standard.

Having said that this is the first time I ever heard of methods on enums being patented, what a ridiculous patent. It's a good thing then that C++ doesn't have methods, it has "member functions" :).

Also C++ allows user defined operators on enums, which feels somewhat adjacent.
"$Recently_failed_company insider says employees are angry with CEO" is one of the least surprising headlines ever.
Yes, to potentially 2k a year in passive income: "I am hopeful that in a couple of months this might lead to a passive income of $100-$200 per month for a while."

And the author acknowledges it may come to an end: "...perhaps some of the technologies mentioned will update substantially and my book will no longer be up to date"

Also the author doesn't see the money, but only their royalty (after the initial advance is covered, which it hasn't yet)
it will directly cost all of us, except those who have no bank account. its unsustainable and wrong.
Go to packages.ubuntu.com (or the equivalent of your favorite distro), download the packages, transfer them to your offline computer, install there. The requirement for dependency resolution does make it more of a pain than it is in Windows or MacOS though (where dependencies are simply vendored in the installer)
It might be the same mixing, but a different mastering.

On mastering it is completely usual to have extra compression/limiting, some light EQ and even extra "color". It is supposed to be subtle, but that hasn't been the case for quite a while.

Mastering is also when you get the final "bits" that go into a CD, so you need two different mastering sessions to get two different sounding CDs.
PDF of the manuscript available here: https://oa.mg/pdf/mediterranean-diet-adherence-is-associated...
Pixel by Pixel (2009) [video]
When Kobo Reader removed a feature that let you share a quote as a picture, I got really mad and made an app to do just that. Been using Quottable for 3 years! https://www.jessejojojohnson.com/quottable/
There's some slack with just guessing randomly when you're down to something like three candidates for who someone might be. Some of the definite hints get very obscure and a normal playthrough will probably end up using a bit guesswork.
Important Clarifications and Apology Regarding Kagis' Pricing Update
I received this early this morning. No corresponding blog post.

I’m surprised they ask me to sign back up and pay another month in order to get the Early Adopter flag. All the paid months that I was an actual early adopter don’t count? Nah, I’m done.
Fair enough. But consider this: If you're pressing 1000 units at a time, you probably don't have the budget to have separate mixes for each media. There is plenty of stuff edited by small labels (ex. transcending obscurity) on a tight budget.
How hard can it be to keep a many-to-many mapping between account ids and skin ids, and then make a way to transfer those between accounts, potentially for some fee? Steam has had it for a decade without any issues.

The game publisher still has the final authority on whether a skin is displayed in game or not, and no blockchain is going to change that.

The reason Riot doesn't do this is that it would reduce profits. If they would make more money otherwise, they would be doing that already.
1 USDC == 1 USD
I am still undecided if quality has actually dropped, or if culture has just gotten more consumerist and we use "everything is poorly made" as a trope to justify more consumption.

For example, when I bought my home 5 years it came with a Washer and Dyer in the basement, these were not high end units, and I fully expected to need to replace them. However getting large appliances out of my basement is a pain in the ass, so 2 years ago when the dryer broke I was faced with having to get it out of the basement.

You know what I did instead, I watched a YT video, bought a rebuild kit on Amazon and spent a Sunday afternoon fixing it myself. Cost me about 5 hours of time, and $75 in parts. Been working fine since.

In the "old days" the expense of the item required them to be repaired as a large appliance would be a big purchase. Today because of the efficiency and automation in modern manufacturing the cost of a large appliance may be higher in real terms, if you looked at it from something like "per hour of average labor to buy" it is very cheap, to the point that paying a repair person to spend 2 hours + $75 in parts to fix my dryer likely exceeds the cost of just buying a new one down at Lowes.

In the end I dont know of quality has dropped or if things have just gotten cheaper to make....

Same with news... Information used to be very expensive to disseminate. Printing Press, Books, etc. as Technology has increased the cost to disseminate has dropped to the point where information flow is basically free today.
The thing that is often de-emphasised in the presentation of the problem, in order to make it seem more mysteriously paradoxical, is that the presenter knows where the car is and this knowledge is always used perfectly. If the question always ended with "remember: Monty knows where the car is and will use this information", it would be more obvious.

Imagine a universe with many simultaneous Monty Hall clones playing at once in many studios, where Monty doesn't know and opens another door at random. If that door has the car behind it, Monty and contestant are both shot in the head and the studio burned down and erased from all records. This bloody culling of branches of the probabilities is the same as effected by giving Monty the knowledge and telling him to act on it.
That was a new spin to the explanation that I didn't think of before.
Yes, with "Land Bank" being a big thing now, with people just buying up land and holding it to simply fight inflation, things are just going to spiral out of control one way or another.
In another comment, OP explains the framework uses websocket to send and get values from the python functions you declare.

The python functions are NOT executed on the frontend.
What is often unknown is that the ear <-> brain interface is not one way but two ways. That means that the brain actively changes physically the mechanics of the ear for better hearing in a feedback loop.
Therefore all sorts of "freakiness" can influence our hearing.
I love the Monty Hall problem because it's so unintuitive that even Paul Erdos struggled to believe it for a while.

> Vazsonyi ran the program 100,000 times. Erdos watched the results of the simulation. The simulation results indicated that by switching, the odds of winning are indeed two out of three. Finally, he was grudgingly convinced that switching was better. He did not like it but seeing was believing. He could not argue with the results.

Apparently he later called Ronald Graham and explained to him that he finally heard a proof of the problem that made perfect sense to him, which he explained to Graham. Graham said he didn't understand the proof at all, but was happy Erdos understood where he had been mistaken.
> Unless there is service disruption I find the bus is at least twice as fast as walking, typically a lot faster.

Anecdata, but I can say the opposite is true in central London (London Bridge to Liverpool Street, for example) during rush hour. The bus takes about 20 mins on a good day, and I can walk it in the same time.
1. Changing your mind gives you the opposite of your original choice. << once you get this the rest is obvious

2. Your original choice gives you a goat 2/3 of the time and a car 1/3 of the time.

3. So by switching you get a car 2/3 of the time and a goat 1/3 of the time.
Ask HN: Which US bank for multi-currency accounts?
Hi HN,

Just wanted to ask some feedback from you since we are an (ex)-SVB customer who used their multi-currency accounts.

Which bank do you use for multi-currency accounts? What are the fees and fx-rates typically?

We are looking for an option but it seems many of the major banks do not offer currency accounts that are registered in the US.
I had to re-read several paragraphs to make sure my eyes weren't failing me. It seems either AI generated or needlessly extended, to the point where reading has become a chore. I gave up halfway through without understanding much of *how* they are able to return if the fisheries are still closed.
Related:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35104866 - $3.3B of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35112336 - An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35108298 - USDC Down ~10%

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35108711 - USDC depegs as Circle confirms $3.3B stuck with Silicon Valley Bank

Seems the depeg recovered after ~2-3 days, it was below 1 USD from Friday until Monday and seems to start to recover when the federal government announced every depositor of SVB would be made whole.
For me the hangup was always the hidden rule: host won’t open a door with a car. That is unstated and remains unstated even in modern discussions of the problem (see Pinker’s “Rationality”). Once explicitly states the outcome becomes intuitive.
The MacBook Pros really haven't changed since moving to Intel in 2006/2007. The most important change lately was the touch bar, which has been scrapped.

Moving to ARM is a nice upgrade but it is not a revolution: Apple has been using iOS on ARM for about 15 years, and iOS is mostly macOS, and the Rosetta/transition has already been experienced when going from PPC to Intel.

The new macs are great, but just logical/technological upgrades, not innovation.
No such thing as a cost center in business. It is an idea that comes from “C-suite nonsense”. Either someone provides marginal value above their marginal cost or they don’t.
What really went wrong at Silicon Valley Bank
https://archive.ph/N6URR
Apple trackpads fail at handling very quick swipes (when I want to quickly scroll through a list), something all other touchpads handle just fine.

Granted, I configured the trackpad so it handles taps like clicks. Quick swipes quite often get misidentified as taps instead.

Fuck me for daring to violate the One Apple Way(tm) I guess?
I like the analogy; but why do you think this is true?

What are the skills that are necessary to make better use of AI for art (that will cause a non-skilled person to lose interest)?
I disable tap-to-click on my devices because every manufacturer seems to have this problem.

For me that's no inconvenience - I click from the bottom of the touchpad, so I'd be performing an actual click anyway. I guess some people tap near the top?
You forgot to add /s.

Thanks but no, replacing a bunch of code as strings and then relying on some code _not_ compiling should be left in 20th century for good.
You're a bright young thing from an aristocratic Roman family, burning with entitlement and ambition. Your cursus honorum means you have to accumulate experience before you can run as senator or other high office of state, so you accept a post as governor of some far province.

You get there, and it's all very underwhelming. The place is even filthier than Rome, sometimes little more than a village built with sticks. Food and weather are atrocious. The locals can't understand you, and you can't understand them without going through some local translator you may or may not trust. There is nothing interesting to do except adjudicating the occasional squabble between neighbouring tribes. You are too far from the action in Rome to keep up with the political winds, and you know people are forgetting you with every passing day. Your troops are bored and restless, corruption and moral decay are everywhere in your ranks. You're increasingly paranoid and fearful for your life - if one can be assassinated in Rome, where it's full of people at all times and eventual scrutiny is inevitable, think of what could happen here in the middle of nowhere, where nobody is watching...

So one day you snap out of it. You will be glorious, peasants be damned. You will be a Caesar, you will conquer and embiggen Rome's glory. What are these idiots going to do anyway, with their little wooden sticks? Let's remind them how we got here in the first place! And off you go into unprovoked conflict.
As a programmer, I wasn't convinced until I wrote a short program to simulate it. Then the penny finally dropped...
wow... what a grim approach!
This doesn't do anything for me.

(I understand the Monty Hall problem, I just don't see how changing the number of doors makes a difference to anyone's intuition.)
Wasn't HSBC accused of money laundering for cartel back in 2012?
Another trick is it pinch your nose and try to breath through it. As you aren't really pinching your nose, your breathing is unobstructed. I got in a habit of checking when I would see certain signifiers (like machines behaving in surprising ways) and maybe 1/3 of the time, I would find I'm dreaming.
Also got it. Good they see that the communication lacked a litte. As a previously paying customer it's nice to see that they see they made a mistake.

I understand it's a startup but everything is happening on a really short notice.

7 day notice for pricing update, few hours notice for a live on discord.

In the end I decided it's not worth it for me to count my searches. I don't want to think about it, think about plans. To me it's a clear indication that sticking to Bing API, that does such price hikes is not worth it but I don't see them having a good way forward without Bing.

I am one of these 200 mentioned, and this email did not convince me to resubscribe. Some major changes to the pricing plan would. Or honoring better grandfathering. If it's 200 people maybe you should reach out to the one by one.
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The easiest way to remember.

1000 doors, choose 1.

Host opens 998 doors.

Do you switch?
"Now, SVB, loaded with money, could have tried loaning it like crazy"

It couldn't because that's not how banks works. Banks create deposits by making loans.

When external deposits show up, they show up with the equivalent loan already - to the central bank in the shape of banking reserves.

What SVB did, foolishly, was to do a floating to fixed exchange at probably the worst possible time and at too high a price.

Once a bank's income drops below that required to fulfil its cash letter with the Fed (ie pay the rate of the lender of last resort), it is finished. Hence the FDIC resolution once the cheap money went out the door.

Vulnerability to a bank run comes from not being able to pay the going rate at the Fed.
I like the information point that after one is shown to be wrong you now have new information because they could not show your selected box or the one with the prize so the one remaining is more likely.
from the comments on HN it seems well-nigh universal.
dpkg -i ./some-package.deb works just fine, though if that package has dependencies you have to install them first. The same is true for any program on Windows requiring a specific MS VC++ runtime version, you'll have to get those installed manually if they're not built into the package you're trying to install.

apt-cdrom (https://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-cdrom) exists to solve the dependency problem. You can also use the GUI (insert DVD, go to "software & updates", click "add volume"). If you don't use CDs or DVDs for removeable media, you can manually add the repository directory (`deb [trusted=yes] file:/path/to/your/folder ./`) as well.

You can even apt install software like you would with an internet connected device if you have the offline repository in the same place. Redhat's RPM files should work very similarly.

Most of the time, developers don't distribute raw packages the same way Mac and Windows software is distributed. You can download individual packages from your repository of choice and install them on any machine you like (except for maybe Snap, but there's a reason people hate Snap). The difference is that you're not expected to hunt down every download page to get the latest copy of your software.

Annoyingly, the .deb distributions of Discord and VS Code use .deb files instead of repositories to update themselves. This leads to a very annoying Windows-like "click here to download the update" program flow. Luckily, Flatpak versions are available that handle this for stuff you.
I think their explanation is a lot easier to understand

"When we pick the original box, we know that the probability that the keys will be in there is 1/3. The probability that the keys will not be in the box you originally chose is 1 - 1/3 = 2/3. Just from this knowledge alone, you could decide that you will always switch, since the probability that the other boxes have the keys is 2/3."
Doesn't that patent's claims cover doubly-linked lists? The "auxilary order" could very well be reverse order. Seems like an obvious prior art.
Microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-AI-layoffs
Bootkit Showcase: Real-World Examples of Infrastructure Security Threats
An equity issue would absolutely have solved the problem, although $2bn for 1/3 of the bank would have been a pretty hefty discount.

The surprising thing is that nobody in SV VC circles decided to raise capital to save the bank. Raising capital is literally what they do - and in many cases, they'd encouraged companies to use SVB! (Were there kickbacks for this?)
from what I can tell, it works like this:

- the script is loaded

- check if sessionStorage has the '_swa' item

- if no, then hit the /track endpoint (this I assume is to count unique visitors). Then set the '_swa' item.

- hit the /trackpage endpoint (this one just increases every time)

- On next page load, the _swa item will be set in the sessionStorage, so /track will not be hit again.

That's about it from what I can see.

I think the main point is that the server doesn't do any tracking itself, it just has a number that increases when you hit /track or /trackpage.