skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks pretty cool! What happens if a program attempts a use-after-free? If this is "memory safe" (aside from leaks) then I think it sits in a pretty interesting space!
haven't you ever watched the likes of bloomberg or cnbc? Also, I would expect their figures to have peaked following this episode as the cancellation crew moves in.
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Any release of Libreboot is a good release! Mind you any free/libre software is good software. ;)

While I am still a tiny little bit on edge about the changes to the project in terms of use of binary blobs - it is better to be going this path than to merely be theoretically free.

The old Core 2 Duo Thinkpad laptops are a dwindling supply. That said I still love mine dearly and it is my daily runner. I purchase a T400 from Leah about 5 years ago and it is still going strong!
We have these weird evolving conventions.

We tend to increasingly use chat rather than email for contacting individuals or small groups about something. I guess I assume it's still all archived.

On the other hand, we don't really call people anymore. Certainly out of the blue. Much less talk in person.

But (I guess) if you want to have an off the record conversation you really need to have a call.
> I'm always curious to what extent people in positions like Zuck believe their own bs.

Fully. At least where I worked.
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The cynic in me says that long term habitability of the planet have very little impact on the quarterly revenue of most corporations.

If business school taught me anything, is that the only revenue that matters to execs is the quarterly one.
4 guys do it and it makes us sick. 4,000 guys do it and we call it HN.
Are you really giving up personal freedom if you’re consciously deciding not to do something out of consideration for others?

Usually it becomes a problem because you are infringing on someone else’s personal freedom. So it’s still about maximizing personal freedom in that case.
Without Jobs,

* Woz would have remained an obscure engineer working at HP

* Apple would never have happened

* The Mac would have never existed

* Pixar would have vanished without a trace

* Apple would have gone bankrupt in 1999

* OSX would never have existed
Or maybe we should question whether structuring society such that the only way to be rewarded is by making rich people even richer was really the best plan?

Seems to me like we should reward people for achieving sustainability rather than only rewarding growth.

Maybe it's time to start substituting a bit of competition with a bit more collaboration and looking out for the needs of everyone? Just a thought.
You don't need an LLM to do this. You could use small sets of semantically equivalent words or whitespace. Things like this:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1579101966453858305
I learned a new (financial) word thanks to all this: idiosyncratic - CS's case is particularly idiosyncratic, apparently.
I assume that they are suggesting that free and open dialogue is shared "resource" that is exploited via the choice of individual actors to engage in leaks, thereby contributing to the depletion of a resource that they themselves would benefit from.

However, it's only applicable at an extremely general level, and if you wanted to you could draw a connection between this kind of article and any number of new stories, if you're willing to stretch the terms enough. If it were up to me, comment section etiquette would discourage links to generic Wikipedia articles like logical fallacies, Dunning Kruger effect, or more or less familiar economic concepts unless they had some strong connection to the article.
I don’t know if there are specific signs to look for. I’ve spend a lot of time studying people, their inputs and outputs. There is a lot of data in body language and inflection.

People lie, evade, omit, or exaggerate all the time. For example, talking about things that make them uncomfortable. It’s one of those unconscious things that makes societies work.

This isn’t unconscious for me. I see everything and analyze it logically.

Detecting misdirection is fairly easy for me. When someone is actively lying, they are generally trying present specific body language and inflection.

What happens is they miss something and I see the mismatch between the fake and real signals. It’s very similar to reading a polygraph.

This isn’t a unique ability, most people have it and it manifests as a gut feeling. I’m neurodivergent and I’m able to give more than a gut feeling. I can usually point to what I’m seeing and explain it.

All that said, I haven’t found any general “tells” for good lairs. It’s an art, not a science. It’s one reason polygraphs aren’t allow in court and I don’t use this ability to make snap judgements. :)
i was skeptical. But these four probably do 100 meetings a week each, many about new deals with new founders. They hear a lot of smart ideas and the best of those are going to leak out when the videos are all about trying to sound smart.
What do you win or get out of the attempts to rewrite atrocities like they have never happened in history? What did the victims that died that week do to you? https://imgur.com/a/q8ZIS
From a distance (I don't live in Switzerland and I'm not invested in any shares) this looks like a drowning man (CS) risking to drown its own "saviour" (UBS).
Meh, to a point. Once things crossed a certain threshold of dynamic behavior the state handling became a nightmare. Now, arguably few services needed that much dynamism.
Wait why is that a problem? Nationality and ethnicity are two different things.
And they wonder why we want to replace the traditional banking system.

Here’s a hint: it’s not got anything to do with either “metaverse” bs nor with silly “NFT” JPEGs.

Read the original Bitcoin whitepaper.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
The US government gets to pay x% interest because they can theoretically always service a debt denominated in USD. Every other borrower in USD pays (x+y)%, where y amongst other things represents the risk that they will default.
But The Thing that is going to cost us all our jobs has always been 10-20-50 years away.
Why are calls considered off the record? Wouldn't it be trivial for those to be logged too?
You know the corporate bureaucracy has taken over completely there then. I'd be surprised if they play a big role in the coming AI wars with people making decisions like this.
I don’t understand. Why not Europe?

There are so many great countries/cities in Europe for exactly what you are looking for! And much more. You will avoid all the negative points from China that someone listed on another comment. While improving your life beyond work. 1-3 hours to so many wide destinations from Paris to London, Amsterdam, Oslo, Jerusalem… All while beyond guns you will have same to more freedom. Less crime. On the health side unless you need the best surgeon in the field, you will find overall better healthcare across all level. Education is great to on part with the best (for kids with countries like Norway or Sweden it’s definitely the best. Others are catching up). And I can go on and on with cost of living compare to major US cities, the variety of cultures, landscapes, way of life etc… all packed in a US size continent.

I think if Americans are easy to the idea to leave the US and sacrifice some things, they will find a wide range of interesting opportunities.
Anything else since 1987?
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> It should probably return an error or panic (if free's API allows it, I guess).

Then how would you use it in the cases where you want free to be a no-op?

I think that's half of the point of the allocator.. free shouldn't do anything, certainly not throw an error. You can free the buffer behind the allocator later, or for some simple command line tools you'll just let the OS free memory when the process finishes.

Perhaps some kind of debug message could be OK. Would perhaps be nice if you have some problems with allocation, you activate debug messages related to allocation, and one of them would be "free was called on something other than the last allocation so it was ignored"
Huh? What about his autobiography. Or the movie? I find the Argument that he never "outputted" anything extremely unconvincing.
Can we at HN at-least refer to the author as immigrant as opposed to expats? what's an expat anyways ? why does the western world to get to make these tiers where they are expats but arabs, asians, africans etc are all immigrants ?
For the loser? That's like the mob's take on what practical operational control means.

>My subjective experience as an American was that Democracy is more healthy in Taiwan than it is in America.

Cause why?
The CDC conducted none of the 18 linked studies.
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There are very strict federal and state laws around who can or cannot record phone calls and how admissible they are in court.
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i certainly don't do clickbait. no links to the original or anything. i thought the content was this observation. i'm trying to use whisper.cpp to get transcripts for the older ones.
Everyone has an agenda, even if that agenda is only that they want to think of themselves as a moral person. What matters is whether the person's actions are good or bad.

> Julian Assange had no loyalty to the truth (as has been shown in the years since) and cares only for the “truth” when it’s favourable to whatever agenda he has at the point in time.

He published the truth and spent over a decade in confinement for it. Isn't that enough?
Ask them to name 5 of any gender and the youngest is probably Einstein or Hawking.

There is definitely a gender bias. But there’s also a “people on the street don’t care as much as physicists think they ought to” bias.
You were paid ~150k+ USD in China, from a Chinese employer?
I was initially surprised about this because AT1 notes are supposed to rank higher than equity. It seems that almost no one saw this coming (CS AT1 bonds traded higher this weekend before the write-down announcement), and traders presumed that bondholders should be made whole if equity holders get something.

However then I looked at the information memorandum of these AT1 bonds (e.g. https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/about-us/docs/inv...). Credit Suisse titled their issues as "Perpetual Tier 1 Contingent
Write-down Capital Notes". Note that it's "contingent write-down" rather than the more typical "contingent convertible". The IM also doesn't contain an explicit conversion price or conditions.

Almost everyone would call this a "CoCo bond", even though its terms are exceedingly clear -- if CET1 falls below 7%, a Contingency Event, which is a Write-down Event, occurs, and "the full principal amount of the Notes will automatically and permanently be written-down to zero on the Write-down Date." In other IM issued by other banks I've seen, usually such event is followed by a mandatory conversion to ordinary shares rather than an immediate write-down. I wonder if this nuance was fully considered and priced in the trading of such instruments.
I suspect when you want complex modals and chat dialogs you'll notice jQuery starting to bend under the weight. It can be done, though not as well as more modern, albeit large frontend tools.
Or some of them would would have moved, or not moved there in the first place, or increased the prices of their goods.

Something so cynical about such low expectations. "If we weren't in charge, they would all devolve into savagery!"
I'm Latin American and very, very happy we have China as an alternative to America's tyrannical Monroe Doctrine.

The demonization of China feels incredibly absurd, like when someone wearing an exceedingly ugly outfit, lacking self-awareness, tries to criticize someone else's fashion.
Recording meditation sessions. I played around with one I borrowed from somebody in 2015 but it was just unreliable for longer 30 minute sessions. It's come a long way in terms of third party software and tutorials on removing artifacts from the data. There is a phone app mind monitor that makes it very easy to look at frequency domain data and make recordings which you can import into tools like eeglab.
Or perhaps they deserve to be treated like adults and decide for themselves what infrastructure they want to pay for.
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> Why would UBS willingly take on such deep exposure?

"Willingly" in what sense? I suspect they were heavily leaned on by the Swiss government.
Absolutely.

If the accusation is "the Chinese government denies it!" the best way to demonstrate the falsehood is by citing the Chinese government not denying it.

It seems pretty straightforward.
Article is too light on details to discuss much but for anyone interested in this issue I highly recommend the podcast "The Outlaw Ocean". While it's not solely focused on ecological issues, the general theme is that enforcement of any laws or treaties in international waters is very difficult. Out of 7 episodes at least 2 or 3 are focused on illegal fishing.
Credit Suisse writes down $17B of bonds, angering holders
Where’s my KeePassXC gang at.
> If the loser does not believe in the validity of the election, it serves no purpose.

The idea seems correct, however, unsure how electronic voting machine comes into the picture, perhaps only in a mental sense, but people have shown that they will not believe in the validity of the election regardless of the evidence presented.
"And such an exciting, frightening shift is a "double-edged sword," Chen said, envisioning using AGI to tackle climate change, for example, but also warning that it is a tool that we want to be as "steerable as possible."

Quite revealing as well as ridiculous. We are circling the drain as a species not because of our intelligence but our stupidity, our unwillingness to learn and change. Clever use of transformers to speed up and improve the quality of output of LLMs is not intelligence, and tackling climate change is not the job for models that tell us what they think we want to hear.
I've never submitted anything to HN, but I think they want you to use the original title of the article, which is what the submitter did.
We got extremely lucky that it's super hard to separate the isotopes of uranium and plutonium that can be used to make an A-bomb from the minerals that can be mined on Earth surface. If it was easier to do every dictatorship and every terrorist group like ISIS would build a nuclear arsenal and the biggest remaining city on Earth today would be probably 10,000 people.

We got lucky with nuclear chain reaction, but who knows what weapons of mass destruction will become possible with further advances in physics, biology, material science, AI. A discovery that will make it possible for a small group of extremists to destroy the human civilization may be the Great Filter.
Neither of those had anything to do with moving people from the countryside into the cities, as far as I'm aware. The Chinese Communist Party is still trying to suppress rural-urban migration (e.g., via hukou).
This is not limited to Google. It’s a tactic used to frustrate the overly excitable Plaintiff bar who enjoys asking for overbroad discovery of records. It has been so pervasive that companies have designed record retention policies more limited than even they want because it cost them so much to go preserve, collect, process, review, and produce in litigation.
OpenAI went from non-for-profit in 2015 to capped-profit in 2019.

So the max profit they’re making is at most 100x the investment they’ve received.

I think they’ll be profitable, ChatGPT is taking the world by storm and becoming a part of everyone’s workflows…
The competing system is BRICS + Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. They will probably transact in gold - certainly not bitcoin. In the West, if there is a collapse of our system, they will make bitcoin illegal. I just don't see it as anything other than a short term speculation.
> Than what?

Optimistic view: the populace wakes the fuck up and demands that the madness stops, and we introduce carbon taxes.

Pessimistic view: the populace decides that any cut to their consumption and lifestyle is unacceptable and gets behind geo engineering in a big way. Next thing we are pumping new stuff into the atmosphere at one place to shield us from the sun, while at the same time pumping in ever increasing amouts of methane and CO2 thanks to moral hazard.

Left field view: A nuclear war wipes out a large part of the population, and the planet breathes a sight of relief.
I’m saying society can only tolerate a certain amount of inequality.
If you destroy evidence civil procedure allows the court to consider the evidence to have been as detrimental as possible to your case. It often means you automatically lose.

That’s for us plebes anyway, how that translates to these megacorps the “justice” system is there to serve I’m not sure.
If he lies about being a liar, does that mean he is telling the truth?
Well, if China invades it'll have even less incentive to maintain anything remotely like pre-invasion. You gave HK as the example. That was only paperwork to get in the front door.
The bathroom drain thing is so true. I documented that in a bunch of cities all the way from Xinjiang to Beijing. I don't get why they don't install u-traps. There were a couple of my hotels that had them, but most did not. This includes someone's home I stayed in.

When I asked a local about it they got very angry, like I was insulting them. The need to save face in China is real. But I get it, "who is this American who thinks they can tell us how to do things?"

I didn't find the smog to be bad everywhere, though. Beijing was pretty bad in the morning/early afternoon. But from what I remember Chengdu was nice smog/weather wise.
I get what you’re saying. I haven’t seen that example from conservative media though. Most of the narratives I see center around illegal immigration, drugs, drain on social services, etc.
Looks very similar to one we have in Karlsruhe, Germany :)
https://mein.toubiz.de/api/v1/media/6d3f180e-13b0-4346-b142-...
“When did Chamath short Credit Suisse?”

When did you answer this question in your post? If you readily admit that you are incapable of answering that, would you say that if you’d submitted this to HN with the title “Goosy Goosy on the 6.5” you would have gotten… fewer clicks?

What substance is there to this post aside from suggesting a podcast?
From the original Shah Mat!
KeepassXC does the same thing. Once you enter your password, you can unlock with your fingerprint.
> frustrating countless employees who would have needed to refer to the chat message from yesterday about simple CLI commands/instructions etc

The 24-hour auto-deletion is just a default that can be easily disabled, which is what you would do in this scenario. After you disable it, none of the messages in that chat will get auto-deleted going forward.

That setting isn't buried deep in the menus either. You just right-click the chat for which you want to turn on history, and then left-click the "turn on chat history" button. You do it once for a given chat, and you never have to revisit it again, it will stay turned on until you intentionally turn it off.

It helps that when you open a chat with a new chat group/person, it displays in very large text in the center "Turn on chat history to prevent messages from being auto-deleted in 24 hours", so it is difficult to forget to do so either.
If you worked in FAANG and switched to say, Tencent, then yes. More than that.
The fact that calls occurred is sometimes logged in government. They're not typically recorded in general. (IANAL) Of course, if there were such a requirement, people would simply go to the next level of non-loggability.

Historically, written communications were recorded and had to be retained but other forms of communications did not. One of the things that's happened is relatively little of my professional communications is not recorded in some form these days.
I listen, though (or because?) most of the topics are irrelevant to me. I do find it entertaining, and there is at least some insight being shared. I think you need to know what to listen to and what to ignore; be skeptical of pretty much any rationalization David Sacks makes of his ideological views, question some of Chamath's hypocritical moral grand-standing (how does SPAC grubbiness not stick to him?), ignore Jason's insecurities etc. Fundamentally though, they are four well-connected, intelligent people talking about issues that do matter in an entertaining format.
Not a lawyer, but have been in orgs that need to comply with these regs: phone calls are recorded, and meeting minutes are recorded - sometimes with full transcriptions. Anyone "caught" having official conversations in unofficial meetings gets a frowning.

Yes, there was (and still is) always going to be "off the books" conversations. In the UK we're seeing news of our politicians using WhatsApp as a back-channel for comms they don't want appearing in official records. Business is undoubtedly using such technology too.
issues are coming up mostly because of interest based economy and multitude of instruments built on top of it.

IMHO, even if whole banking system will be replaced with bitcoin, interest based economy will be built on top of it and same instruments will be built with similar level of issues
>> I can ask an LLM what 2+2 is and it can answer with 4. That's a discrete
result. So how is this different from human thinking? Where is your evidence
that this is not a similar mechanism?

A language model can match "2+2" with "4" because it's approximating the
distribution of token collocations in a large text corpus, not because it's
approximating integer addition.

We know this because we know that language models are trained on token
collocations (word embeddings) and not arithmetic functions. We know how
language models are trained because we know how they're made, because they're
made by humans and they're made following principles that are widely shared in
academic textbooks and scholarly articles all over the place.

>> Humans infer systems from language all the time.

Humans are not neural nets, and neural nets are not humans. Does that suffice?
I don't know if I can do any better than that. Humans do human things, neural
nets do neural net things, and humans can do things that neural nets can't
even get close to. Like, dunno, inventing arithmetic? Or axiomatizing it? Or
proving that its axiomatization is incomplete. That sort of stuff. Things for
which there are no training examples, not of their instances, but of their
entire concept class.

>> But you hold "intelligence" in too high a regard

Where does that stuff come from, I wonder? Of course I hold intelligence in
high regard. What do you hold in high regard, stupidity?
Lots of people used to go to China for work and could do pretty much anything they want, but since Jinping took over it went downhill fast.

Most people in the expat community I know went to Hong Kong and Singapore instead for the following reasons:
1) Easy to do business
2) Easy to get your money in and out.
3) Low taxes
4) Central travel hubs in Asia
5) Less backwards mindset as these cities feel more cosmopolitan and are interconnected with the outside world

With HK having less and less freedom, Singapore is really the only choice for foreigners to have a decent life quality in Asia. Tokyo could potentially be an option too, but it's really hard to live there due the very different structures in Japanese society and taxes are pretty high.