skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the 'original' 2019 video by Tom Scott called "This Video Is Sponsored By [redacted] VPN" where he explains most of the reasons listed to use VPN by ads is useless:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

And then a few years later with "My robot double sells out (so I don't have to)" he did a follow-up listing useful reasons (geo-based content, better prices on vacation sites, etc) which was sponsored by NordVPN:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlQuTRSmzc&t=6m25s
I don’t believe the idea that they would lose their moat. That’s like saying, any product you can copy has no moat, it’s not true at all.
For once, as someone with 0 stake in this whole affair, I quite like he's explicitly spelt out the details he has.

Specifically the sections "Leaner is better", and "Flatter is faster". Other sections are quite relevant and well written IMO.

Also, reading between the lines, Metaverse gets mentioned just twice. I guess they are going to go slow on that? And Oh, "In-person time helps build relationships and get more done" tells me WFH at Meta will be a thing of the past.

Edit: More content.
"If they are good at being ruthlessly selfish for themselves they might be good at being ruthlessly selfish for the company as well."

Makes me wonder if the opposite could become fashionable: "I trust myself to fly without the golden parachute, you might want to make that part of your consideration". At first glance that sounds quite compelling to me, but on the other hand, would I feel safer or would I feel less safe with a Taxi driver who does not bother putting on the seat belt? I think my answer would be less safe, event though a part of me wishes to be one who'd feel safer.
Heat pumps are super common, in the southern US I would be willing to bet you can't build a house without one, even geothermal is a heat pump.

I don't get what this startup is offering. Heat pumps are common and readily accessible, I can walk into lowes and buy one today and they can arrange a contractor to do the install. It'll be a lot less expensive this this setup.

If your business plan starts with "X is rare and hard to find" and X is actually extremely common, you're not going to be successful.
> For a brief time they will work

The generated 'thank you for your leadership' message was amusing. If it's all fake, then what's the point?
Take a look at Mullvad for a VPN done right. Completely anonymous usernames, randomly generated, accepts cryptocurrency or cards purchased anonymously at a physical store with cash.

One concerning issue is the Swedish jurisdiction. The nordic countries are better at privacy, but Sweden is a 14-eyes nation. But I can't say it's better or worse than NordVPN's... Panama.
Indiana almost made π 3.2 [REPOST]
MotionEyeOS isn’t as easy as a Windows installer and is probably only as secure as you make the rest of your network, but as a main Windows user and occasional *nix, the various guides weren’t too hard to follow and it’s been fairly reliable.
And he got it wrong. It was fueled by the fact that SVB has many startups keeping their paid-in capital in SVB accounts. The startups got word to withdraw money from their investors. This made the bank run particularly swift, since all of a fund's portfolio is withdrawing at once.
I wouldn’t say that’s even remotely feasible.

Sure, regulation would help here but your examples are of regulations that have existed for absurdly long periods of time and would not be able to be implemented in todays society from scratch.

It’s nearly impossible to take something away. People get accustomed to a certain way of doing it and disruption just means political upheaval when we’re talking about something being banned by the government.

As a hypothetical, think about applying the same laws as in the Middle East to US citizens and how likely it is that anyone would wear a head scarf that wasn’t already doing so.
I honestly don't remember a lot of VR hype but I've never been much of gamer so maybe I wasn't paying much attention. Various organizations, including the MIT Media Lab, have been playing around with VR for a long time but I don't recall VR being particularly notable in the dot-com runup.
I can't get over this part:

“Just imagine: I'm responding to you in Ukrainian and omitting about 60% of the letters from the words, but ChatGPT understands what I am saying and provides an answer in English,” he wrote in an email, offering an example:

Mirgorodchenko: h m n s Antn, m f ukr. im dev w cplsy.

ChatGPT: I think you are trying to say: "Hi, my name is Anton. I'm from Ukraine. I'm a developer with cerebral palsy.
They are saying, "We are going to make our existing managers work harder, make the existing engineers deliver more because the $22 billion in profit we made in 2022 wasn't enough. We should consider how we can sacrifice more to make even more profit."
Maybe the future of the first line of healthcare will start to use AI with the assistance of a specialized nurse to follow your health overtime and only fall back to a real doctor when a real problem occurs.

This could elevate a lot of problems we have with our public healthcare(Canada).
"I think mostly we are actually on the same page."

Agreed.

I think the problem facing analytics is that the ideal solution and ideal business require fundamentally different products.
If you have a decent home theater setup it makes a very noticeable difference in both picture and sound. Good bluray and 4k bluray releases often have lossless audio codecs, and currently no streaming service has this. Although, sound differences might be more due to mixing differences. Streams tend to mix in a way that prioritizes the 5.1 sound still sounding good to people using the lowest common denominator setup.

But also the bitrate alone should tell you something. You will typically get around 15-20 Mbps for 4k streaming, and often lower, though Apple's service apparently will occasionally hit up to 40 Mbps. 4k discs have a bitrate of around 128 Mbps.
Oh here we go again. “Everything rust can’t do is an antipattern” is not a valid argument. Tuples for instance are a library feature in C++ but have to be a language feature in rust. Plenty of other useful things that C++ can do and rust cannot.

https://youtu.be/gOdcNko2xc8

https://youtu.be/tiAVWcjIF6o
They're saying that they will keep the information private, but I'm wondering about whether GPT will uphold this standard as well.
The old Steam Box program tried to solve many of the problems with PC gaming you describe. Common performance targets with prebuilt boxes that just work. You don't buy a computer, you buy a Box.

I do think the Switch is a competitor to the bigger players, though, but only for certain games. There's a huge market out there that just wants to play some fun, casual games, and doesn't care about the latest Call of Duty. This market is the reason the mobile gaming industry is worth hundreds of billions and why Nintendo remains a success. The Switch placates the needs for many people that would've otherwise bought an Xbox or Playstation: it's better suited for gaming than a mobile phone and less expensive and "gamer" than the alternatives. It being handheld also puts it in a unique position that Microsoft and Sony are trying to compete against with their mobile game streaming services.

To me, Animal Crossing and Pokemon are not that dissimilar to Final Fantasy and Call of Duty. These games could be ported to the higher spec'd competitors but they remain exclusive. It's interesting how "I've got a Switch and an Xbox" has become relatively normal but "I've got an Xbox and a Playstation" hasn't. Nintendo has done really well convincing its customers that their funky tablet somehow lives in a category of its own.
High-res image reconstruction w latent diffusion models of human brain activity
Making up lots of vocabulary that divides insiders from outsiders.

I was interested in Scientology as a microcosm of society around the time alt.religion.scientology appeared in the early 1990s. Scientology documented everything about how it runs, even management is scriptural, and only Hubbard could write scripture so it is like a specimen that's been fixed to a microscope slide.

Since then renegade "Free Zone" Scientologists have put all of his writings online so it is very accessible.

Dianetics is the Sequences of Scientology in that it is a long, windy, and nonsensical book that selects for people who are perseverant readers who are impervious to critical thinking. (Like one of those Nigerian scam emails.)

Hubbard's hypnotic language is demonstrated in his Philadelphia Doctorate Lectures where he not only mentions the hypnotist Milton Erickson but uses Erickson's techniques extensively. (There is no record of Hubbard meeting Erickson but Hubbard and Erickson were both highly active at the same time in Arizona and I think Hubbard must have sat in on Erickson’s lectures.)

(That is, that weird ramblely kind of writing is by no means innocent but it is misparsed by many people's minds and helps create an altered state of consciousness.)

Hubbard's most satanic (in opposition to conventional Eastern & Western religious ideas) works are Introduction to Scientology Ethics and A New Slant on Life. The first one describes an elaborate system of punishments that are applied to anyone who violates group norms and a system of evaluation that guarantees you will violate those norms by accident. The list of "ethics conditions" is folded so the positive conditions come first and a person who starts reading at the beginning and doesn't go all the way through will miss the batshit crazy stuff. The second describes how a Scientologist is supposed to disconnect themselves from anyone who disagrees with their spiritual journey.

Something Scientology shares with the EY cult (as well as the LaRouche organization and the third international) is the proliferation of front groups. Scientology has Narconon, Criminon, The Way to Happiness Foundation, and many others. The EY cult has "effective altruism", "rationalism", "longtermism", "AI safety" and probably those parties Aella used to run.

It's a typical path that a coercive group makes multiple 360° turns. "Effective Altruism" seems designed to attract morally weak people but seems rational enough at first. I mean, it seemed to make sense when Bill Gates insisted on funding only international NGOs that could prove the value of what they were doing.

Once, however, you are funding "longtermist" organizations that are concerned with imagined problems on the way between here and the glorious future that we've turned all the planetary mass of the Milky Way into Dyson spheres there are no results to measure!

It is like the technique a stage hypnotist uses of putting volunteers through a number of screens that rapidly selects the most suggestible and/or likely to go along subjects. Both in the short term and long term this process expels the trouble makers and leave behind the potential Manchurian Candidates.
I am not related to them, I'm just a user of it. But Mullvad.net is the only decent VPN. (They're the one Mozilla chose to provide their VPN infrastructure)

They've been audited
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/22/vpn-server-audit-found...

I have no financial incentive to vouch for them. But what do you care, I'm just a random guy on the internet.
At least somebody is trying to get it right before they ship
It's very common in Europe for there to be no Door Close button.
>Library and client code

I assume parts of the "full stack" are still closed source then?
I'd love to learn why they have a mix of Go and Rust. Did they initially use Go and then migrate? Do they use Go for some things and Rust for other things? Have labor market dynamics played a role (lots of Rust devs from crypto startups becoming available)?

It would be great to hear from their CTO on the rationale.
ops remark that russians have a brainwashed slave mentality is plain-as-day racist. you saying that its harsh but true is also racist. you saying that being russian is somehow a lifestyle choice also makes it very hard to take you seriously

> As somebody coming form such a nation and lived during such times, I have unfortunately quite a bit of experience in this regard

rest assured you are not a special snowflake
I've lived in a LCOL my entire life and really made actual development money by going remote. I've done it for so long and the wage disparity is so great I will likely have to leave the industry if remote dries up. Owning a home does not permit me to move around the country and I'm not going to do staff level engineering for under $150k (and that's the lowest I'd ever go). Far easier to just go work somewhere else in a different field because at least then I'd be starting from the bottom with no memory of the past.

Remote work seems to be more difficult to get these days with all of the applications coming from people thinking it's an easy meal ticket. I've gotten most of my jobs through my network. Who knows how long that'll last. Pair this with the general apathy of doing coding interviews and other song-and-dance nonsense to get a job and this current job I have may be my last in the industry anyway. When skills are not valued over CS brain teasers the shark has been jumped.
You might want to provide evidence for "usually".
I don't spend much time worrying about AI ethics, but bringing AI close to patient interactions and record-keeping in healthcare seems grossly premature and irresponsible. There are countless brilliant applications of AI and the last one we need is a mediocre automated transcriptionist that distances a doctor from their responsibility to engage with the patient and can bear no accountability for error.

This is a task that perhaps can be supported with AI some day, but there are fields that deserve the application of a mature technology, not the gold rush rush game of integrating today's hottest thing.
Since making that, Tom Scott has done sponsorships for NordVPN (but has always avoided the exaggerated claims from what I've seen).
Why they heck does an American use the word “bespoke”? It’s freaking CUSTOM, Mark, we are Yankees, cut the shit.
Um there is dictation tools which are HIPPA compliant?
I'm not disagreeing on the principle. As the sovereign of the land, of course you're going to prioritize yourself. The prioritization you're talking about does not come in as giving an advantage to the domestic worker, it comes in the form of hostile treatment of people who are here on work visas, and has been living here quite a while.
There will be behaviors smaller models won't be able to mimic, though. So sure, fine-tuning advantages will be rapidly copied, but huge models that require large data centers won't. Economic incentives are still aligned with companies going through the path of larger and larger models.
I had always wondered where the "placebo" myth came from, because I've been in so many elevators where the door close button obviously works. Great article!
If the provider wants to use the extension for patient care, the extension maker must be prepared to enter into an agreement to comply with the HIPAA rules.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...

> If a covered entity engages a business associate to help it carry out its health care activities and functions, the covered entity must have a written business associate contract or other arrangement with the business associate that establishes specifically what the business associate has been engaged to do and requires the business associate to comply with the Rules’ requirements to protect the privacy and security of protected health information.
If you look at the output of your compiler many unnecessary loads/stores. Vectorized code in particular still comes out lacking even with intrinsics

In fact, you can benchmark openssl's assembly vs openssl's C: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/aes/ae...

Granted, they aren't using intrinsics in that code, but a sufficiently smart compiler shouldn't need intrinsics
I hear there's a dirty secret that more and more companies are doing this to make things like Netflix that block VPNs "just work" though their services. Not sure how true this is or how widespread, though.
The trick is to pass down previous syntax nodes so that you can continue consuming input (via top down recursive descent) but build the syntax tree bottom up still.

This is exemplified in the two definitions of `parse_add_addexpr_cont` in the article.
Mozilla/Mullvad seem to be liked well enough. It's what I use, but I am doing it for geolocation issues and occasional scraping, so I am less concerned about logging/security.
The federal government caused the problem first though.

The federal reserve denied inflation was real for so long, signaling to everyone that it was safe to buy US Treasuries, then suddenly and aggressively started raising rates.

And wasn't it the federal government regulators who are responsible for ensuring that banks are not taking on excessive risk? Are they not to be trusted, and must every depositor perform a deep-dive due diligence on their bank and continuously do so in order to make sure their money is safe while deposited in a bank of all places?

No, the Federal government is more like an arsonist who set fire to a building, then showed up to rescue the people inside, taking all the credit, and then shaming those who noticed the smoke and escaped on their own before they arrived.
People are always scared of competition.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

This is Tom Scott's 'original' 2019 video called "This Video Is Sponsored By [redacted] VPN" where he explains most of the reasons listed to use VPN by ads is useless.

However a few years later with "My robot double sells out (so I don't have to)" he did a follow-up listing useful reasons (geo-based content, better prices on vacation sites, etc) in which he was sponsored by NordVPN:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlQuTRSmzc&t=6m25s
It's like Amway, people get into the EY cult and it takes over their life, they are trained to talk like EY to drive all the "normies" away, isolate them, and make them easier to control.
Never forget though, Auditing is only proof that it was secure at the moment of the audit. That applies to all VPNs and services.
Perfect Privacy. VPN chaining, setting so your IP address always changes to be the one closest to the server, no logs (audited), stored in ramdisk, unlimited connections and bandwidth because they don't even know who's connecting.

Cons: it can be slow and have issues with disconnects sometimes.
The ocean is really big and its teeming with life.

As earlier responses have noted, this is an exceedingly common misperception. It further fails to acknowledge harms done.

Estimates are that upwards of 90% of all marine animal life has been destroyed largely by human activity.

Vast fisheries have utterly collapsed, notably Grand Banks cod off Newfoundland, sardines off California, orange roughy, and more. Surviving fisheries are hugely impacted, often with both far fewer and far smaller individuals than in historical records.

Records and understand themselves are exceptionally limited, as major scientific study of the oceans dates only to the mid-20th century, after which much of the harm had already been done.

A fascinating trivium is that there is more oil floating in tankers over the oceans than there are fish swimming in it.

And, as myshpa noted, the deep oceans tend not to have much biological activity. Fish (and plankton) aggregate near continental boundaries where upwelling provides essential nutrients. Sunshine and water alone are vastly insufficient.

Map of global fisheries / fish stocks: <https://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/fisheries-an...>

State of fisheries: <https://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-2/fisheries/state-of-fis...>

Notably this map showing sustainable- / over-exploitation status: <https://worldoceanreview.com/en/files/2013/04/wor2_c3a_s52_3...>
While Silicon Valley and the venture capital ecosystem don't come out of this looking sterling, it seems like this crisis was precipitated mostly be the financial mismanagement of a single entity, combined with exogenous factors in the U.S economy. There is clearly a lot of interest among some parties on trying to place blame on the tech ecosystem as a whole. Of course, SV is not blameless, but I think a lot of the characterization here is biased overall.
I used to work in a hospital and one thing that was already tough was when doctors would copy massive (multiple page) notes that were mostly boilerplate, probably stored as some template in the EHR. After seeing the same note a few times, you started to learn which page to scroll to in order to view the relevant section for the patient. I would hope this system only generates clinically-relevant text for that patient, usually only 2-3 paragraphs for a standard consultation.
Wasn't PageRank for instance a pretty novel creation?
AI-generated SEO spam is here regardless of what Google does. But they don't also want everyone to stop using Google Docs because it lacks features that are definitely coming to Microsoft Word and every other competitor.
Regulations didn't change. The fund they tapped to protect all depositors exists since the financial crisis of 2008. To avoid another global meltdown.
This is kind of ridiculous. The depositors at SVB were bailed out to save all the other regional banks. Obviously they were happy to get free money but life would have gone on if they didn't.
How much money are each of you taking home each week?

If you are not the technical person, your job is to make the technical person rich.

If they are only working on weekends, that's a result of lack of success for the non-technical cofounder.

Good luck.
But you see the same benefits if you buy. As a renter, your rent goes up every year, but a mortgage is locked in and safe from inflation, rate hikes, and market volatility for 30 years.

Renting _this year_ may be cheaper than buying _this year_, but renting for a lifetime is always more expensive than buying unless you move constantly.
The "bottom line" is that such poorly-researched, context-free articles are written to get you to click (see the NYT example), and then something contextual to NYC (crosswalk buttons) get generalized to the whole nation. And then, true or not, people think elevator close buttons don't do anything.
I am glad it wasn't needed. I was also offering significantly better terms and not even making much profit at all.
That's true. Good point.
All the risks that SV takes, and the one that nearly bit them was putting their money into a bank that bought US government bonds. Reality is stranger than fiction.
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The thing is, 1/3rd of games ends with the audience member picking the car. So, probability collapses to 50% in 2/3rds of cases.

It's a completely different problem than the Monty Hall problem, which can never end in the car being discarded.
The story would be even more compelling if the author referred to himself in the third person.