skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chungy is correct though. Bitcoin has absolutely nothing to do with "cracking sha256 hashes". Bitcoin hashes until the correct output is found. There are double hashes, but that is solely to avoid collisions and has nothing to do with determining the plaintext from a known digest.
Most finance rules are quite reasonable and problems can be fixed retroactively. A serious company should absolutely approach their financial controls with the rigor it deserves but the cost implication of making mistakes early on is overblown.

If a company is turning over tens of millions per year and has missed something as basic as taxes then yes, absolutely, pain is inevitable, but it’s both solvable (after all, they’re doing tens of millions in revenue!) and very different from the type of problem a startup might encounter if they are cavalier with their finances early on.

The OPs post is of great benefit because often the key to avoiding problems is going from oblivious to aware… and so while a post like the OPs may not be exhaustive, it does put people on the right path, as it is heavy on the recommendations of getting a professional involved — and explains how to do that in a very accessible way.

How many startups have died because they didn’t know they had to charge sales tax? How many startups have died because they spent hundreds of hours obsessing over operational minutiae before they earned their first dollar?

(I don’t know the OP, but coincidentally I have worked with one of the companies he recommends, and I was very impressed — it’s clear to me this isn’t just churned out content marketing that uses the first Google result for “accountant”)
Yep, I just use Booking.com now, much cheaper and higher quality usually.
For a better GC experience, stop stopping the world and stop sharing mutable state.

ORCA (and Pony language) solved this while allowing selective mutability and zero-copy message passing improving on Erlang HiPE/BEAM by tying objects to a tiny heap with individual actors (cooperative async threads). There is no global locking in Pony except in limited circumstances.

Zulu C4 is an improvement. Schism and Metronome are less pausey but slower overall.

https://www.azul.com/products/components/azul-zulu-prime-bui...

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1809028.1806615

https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_subpage.php...
The site is close to main road and farmhouse. The farmer who owns the field is definitely going to notice the heavy equipment. Assuming the coordinates are right, Google Maps shows that there is a stand of trees in middle of field.
Nope. No "Real-Name™", you see.
I don't think you know what you are talking about. The original use of "trigger warning" was very specifically intended for use on graphic material that could trigger a dissociative episode, for example an explicit description of child abuse or rape.

The phenomenon you are referring to - appropriating the language of PTSD for concerns of politics, taste or personal offence - is exactly why some people advocate replacing "trigger warning" with "content warning" or similar (and not because of associations with gun violence, as OP asserted).
It’s rough out there. Be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and try to remember the people around you are just, like you, people.

We’ll figure it out in time.
2 years ago I started a blog about statistics/ML and how they are used in business, purely to improve my writing and communication skills. I don't advertise the blog, and it's very likely had 0 hits, but knowing it's 'out there' makes me really care about the content and how it's presented and communicated.
It’s common amongst journalists, certainly of late.
I was just thinking that it would be great to do something like seti@home but for an open libre super LLM: Install a client that would help run / train the huge llm and you get Access to the network to do queries. Kind of how napster/Kazaa were at their time.

I would love to work on doing something like that.
Go exercise. Maybe not right this second. But tomorrow when you wake up. You'll feel better. Promise.
AI is gonna shake things up big time, and people are gonna feel the need to get real. With all the tech stuff taking over, we'll prob wanna find something genuine that's not just on a screen… We'll be looking for real-life moments and connections that make us feel alive. Lot of people still keep covid regimen, replacing meetings with zoom calls and consuming news instead of looking after each other
> Not chat, not a web-only form or ticketing system, just plain old email (on the frontend):

Really! I tried several companies to fill taxes for LLC (foreign owned)(https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/11kkkn2/best...) and good luck finding a way to use email.

Chat is so bad for support of first issues!
> what you see in social media is typically so exaggerated and distorted

There you have the answer.

Exaggerated emotions bring clicks and profit. Wonder why so many video thumbnails now show a large face with some vivid emotion on it? Or "XXX reacts to YYY"? Drives revenue.

It's like we're all in a non-stop "Got talent" show where talent performance is less important than judges' reactions.
It would be better to help zero people than it would be to develop the bitter attitude you've developed - this is because your attitude could prevent people from helping!

I feel you've helped too many people, with too little reward, and for that matter with too little progress in your ability to help.

That's not the fault of the people needing help, though, now is it? So why are you characterizing them as vampires?

IMO rather than embittering people against helping others, you should retire from helping ppl that aren't paying for your help. That way, you'll stop embittering and misguiding helper volunteers, whose jobs literally ARE to help people who don't seem to "get" the docs.
I’d say it’s easier to make low effort, nearly worthless posts, which always tend to sound obnoxious if not downright noxious. This is a consequence of social media just being so accessible, and in fact the successful sites cultivate it because clicks are revenue. There are levels of low quality drivel, from the endless topquoting that started on Pinterest, to the know-it-all know-nothing of Twitter, the no-life simulator that is Reddit, and many more styles I’ve noticed. Even HN gets some boring phoned in paycheck comments. Being angry makes you see it more. It makes a reader feel devalued, which perpetuates the anger. The trick as far as I can see is to ignore stupid comments.
It's a little hilarious you consider Godot launching on the Epic store getting anywhere close to enough press that the FTC fines get. The fines have hit every news org, including airtime on CNN and MSNBC. I don't see them covering this bit of news about Godot launching on EGS.

Actually now that we mention it, they got huge bad press regarding the FTC situation twice. They got a lot of bad press in December too for the first FTC fine.

So I'm not entirely sure your cynicism is logical here, Epic isn't doing anything ATM to counter bad press, certainly not to the point an effective PR team would.
I disagree with the other comments. This is a
single frame of video, of which NO context can be derived. Anyone, not just AI can guess at "emotions" or "intents" or "attributions". It's all just weighted guesswork.
This bothers me, but the use of this technology to regrow teeth might be an interesting use case.
I agree with you. The early web was full of amazing opportunities but had trouble monetizing things. Cryptocurrency is the opposite, it tries to monetize everything but doesn't have practical uses.
> I've been running >120k gpus to mine ETH

So when the sea levels rise and destroy my home, I'll know who to blame. Thank you.
That's the point though: not every peer can have all content, it's not a data center with a massive cache. So what's stopping me from using FUSE to make it seem like I've got petabytes of storage and throw the data in S3? Now, I never evict anything from the cache. My node is going to be far more likely to be the closest node to any given user. And so I jack up my price.

There's many variables, but the important ones for choosing a peer are cost and latency/distance. What conditions do you have for choosing far-but-cheap versus near-but-pricey? You can't simply choose peers randomly or round robin because I could just set my prices through the roof and pick up a massive paycheck.
>and has nothing to do with determining the plaintext from a known digest.

So why'd you bring it up?
Here's 'Loury on Murray' for a Friday night laugh:

https://glennloury.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-charles-murr...
Related, this is a worthwhile retrospective of the same war:

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/iconic-images-from-the-...
Credit Suisse is practically bankrupt. Their market value is practically zero now.
The change was that in 1968, the Air Force stopped flying active patrols with nuclear armed bombers. They had bombers continuously in the air carrying live nuclear weapons. A lot of the nuclear accidents were really bomber accidents.

Two in this list were from accidents on aircraft and submarine with tactical nuclear weapons. Tactical nuclear weapons weren't removed until later.
Oh how I wish “Godot as a Library” was a thing in the same way that Unity may be embedded into another project. Dealing with Unity as our AR runtime has not been great.
Storage aside, is the anti glare screen on the 512 GB model worth it?
I think more accurately a normal map automatically scales with LOD. You only need as many fragment shaders as the pixels occupied on screen.
Hey, thanks for 'bc', I use it all the time!
This is a great resource.

The PG docs are generally quite good, but logical replication is one of those things where experience and this sort of resource is invaluable.

That said, I also feel like logical replication is still pretty hard to use. One example, not covered here, is that the status of slots is not replicated to any secondaries. There are solutions for this now (see https://www.percona.com/blog/how-patroni-addresses-the-probl...) but generally the domain of dealing with logical changes is still one where I feel like MySQL binlog has a leg up (though still some sharp edges) in making it a bit easier to work with.
I just want to grow trees on a farm away from people.

Growing things feels right. But I need $$ so I have to stay plugged in for now.
Infections can trigger autoimmune diseases so I wouldn't be surprised about triggering allergies as well. So not the antibiotic imo but the virus
Outside of twitter, things are pretty uneventful for the most part. Every small occurrence of unrest is amplified by the always-on media, and then the memory of which is kept alive in perpetuity by the chattering class online , long after most people forgot or stopped caring.
I remember my childhood days on a farm, working with dry hay. There was so much pollen that my nose was pitch-dark on the inside. Never had any allergies, thankfully.
IMHO, it’s not even wrong … let’s not waste time on it.
I’ll bite.

So, it’s easy to get caught up in the moment, but not aware of any meaningful measure of the state of world. Everything is to me ultimately relative. For example, pretty easy to image world being way better or worse, or for that matter, thing’s specific to yourself.

Seen author post before, so that added to this post to me adds up to saying — reminder: make meaningful positive connections in the present.

I do think specific to author they’ve invested a lot of time building of search service and now future of search for first time in long, long time is uncertain. I personally find that exciting, but easily see how it might be overwhelming too.

EDIT: “why touch grass when you can…”

https://youtube.com/shorts/iOCR73U8t6E
> Discussions are boring when they are simple assertions with no background or detail.

I think I agree. For example:

A simple assertion of the form "It would be more useful if he'd said what he was towing." by itself is boring.

It'd much more be interested why you need to know why someone who said "hey I was driving a Tacoma and needed more towing capacity so I got a bigger truck" needs to explain in more detail what he was towing to you.

Is it so we could have a discussion of how his boat or RV or whatever is or is not acceptable and rational to you? That would be a more interesting subject.

Perhaps you'd like to check the math or google the towing limits or have a discussion about suspension upgrades?

It would make a much more enlightening, dare I say entertaining, discussion to have included on what basis, morality, etc. you presume to have questions about his truck buying decisions and whether they were warranted or ethical. You must have an interesting job to be an expert on this.
US helped France with design. It doesn't make sense to give fissionable material to help country develop nuclear weapons. It is giving them a single bomb. They would need to develop process to produce tons of material if they wanted lots of bombs. The design is the hard part.
I have a tangential question. I remember distributed processing being a "next big thing" back in the day. The idea was that a company could run complex operations by borrowing some power from all their employee's computers. Seti@home proved the concept was possible. So what happened? Why can't I train a random forest across all the computers currently logged into my company's VPN?
Hi Xe, I am an avid reader of your blog. You have fantastic content and come across as someone with interesting opinions that I enjoy reading about.

Thanks for all the knowledge sharing and education efforts you put into all sorts of areas I am interested in (Linux internals, NixOS, Rust, etc.)
Huh. I thought this would be about the Australian organization [0]. Nevertheless, it talks about similar emotions but goes on a different tangent.

[0]: https://www.ruok.org.au/how-to-ask
How does a decentralized network go "down"?
I don't think I could've sustained such an enormous caloric deficit (about 1,000kcal/day!) for as long.

"As long as you don't overeat" is like "assume a can opener." If we knew how to not overeat we wouldn't have an obesity epidemic on our hands. That's the whole reason "don't overeat" is not useful dietary advice whereas "eat lots of cream" is.
Keep meetings as Zoom only. It allows me time to do real work.
I feel like social media where negativity gets more ”engagement” is sort of training us, poorly.
No no you still don't understand. Its not about banning people who discover the jailbreaks. Its the people who use the jailbreaks. Sure some people who discover them may get caught up in the purge, but who cares if in the same thrust you can ban 90% or more of the "toxic" users that aren't helping to find jailbreaks at all.
What about putting those odd invoices that don’t Xero into a shoebox and letting the to be hired CFO deal with them later?
Why Google Is Happy You're Using Adblock[video]
Not just phone support, even places that have a physical presence or storefront are almost completely useless. Many times all the customer support representative does is update a "trouble ticket" on the automated computer system.

I've seen mailed letters from companies that say nothing more than: "Thank you for writing to us about issue ABC, issue ABC has been assigned case number XYZ, we will reach out again within XX days, please refer to ticket number XYZ when contacting the company." Then when you visit the physical bank or government DMV they tell you to go back home and wait to receive your driver's license or debit/credit card replacement.

The local plumber that supports my neighbor has an office about a block from my home yet if you call the number it's routed to some answering service three states away and the plumber never answers any phone calls. Then after work is performed, the plumbing company expects you to pay online and never accepts cash. Good luck if you have a customer service issue with the plumbing job or billing because it takes forever to get a hold anyone that can resolve anything.
The pulse duration is measured in nanoseconds. I don't see (no pun intended) how that's going to put enough energy into anything to damage it.
idle states, and the scam of cryptocurrency happened.
>Not that there aren't bad things happening in the world, that's the way it has always been, but your phone will have you believe that they are more frequent and much closer than they actually are.

Unless of course you're in Pakistan, where a third of the country was flooded last year, you're currently experiencing the largest land war in Europe's post-war history etc.

People aren't okay because the world isn't. Bruno Latour in one of his lectures he gave a few years ago pointed out that we, without doing anything, essentially lost a war to climate change. We can't even imagine that it was completely possible for people two generations ago to have transformed our ways of life, modes of production and so on, so that we could, theoretically now look at the past and see it as a problem behind us. We could literally be walking through a "great climate change war" museum, the way we visit a WW II museum. Instead we're essentially negotiating how fast we drive the titanic into the iceberg.

So the question is honestly not why people are concerned but why they're not more panicked, why we're still sleepwalking. If we had sirens in our cities going off given our ecological situation alone, not to mention all others, we'd be running for the shelters like people did during the Blitz. Something that could have been a passing problem in the past has transformed, through inaction and lack of attention into something that threatens entire civilizations.
To be honest, I have been blogging https://anonstick.com since 2017 and I still maintain that habit until now. My blog is mainly about javascript and backend node.js. I feel confident talking about the topics I write about in real projects. And can shorten the time when participating in the interview. Gain experience in the project and then rewrite. That is the purpose of imparting to those who are new to the profession.
One factor might be the increase in binge drinking during the pandemic, which I suspect fuels at least a certain fraction of anger and bitterness, along with the post-alcohol depression effect, in conjunction with economic and related stresses:

> "Using data from a national survey of U.S. adults on their drinking habits that found that excessive drinking (such as binge drinking) increased by 21 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic..."

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/01/covid-related...

Exercise and a healthy diet can benefit one's state of mind, in contrast.
> Go outside and it's more or less the same as it has always been.

not true. many more outdoor billboards and LED billboards everywhere you go. giant screens held up in the air making 'IRL' feel like one big ad without the ability to uBlock it. very trashy and hard to get away from depending on where you live.
yes, you would be eligible.
Horizon: Zero Dawn was so compelling (to me) because of the outright horrifying plausibility of a gassed up tech CEO, convinced that software safeties were infallible, unleashes the consequences for their hubris upon the whole of humanity.

Ted Faro was a horrible human being blinded by delusions of grandeur, but he wasn’t “evil” - he was even convinced he was saving humanity by ending the threat of both war and climate change.

I don’t see GPT itself as representing a new Faro Plague, but I do see a lot of wannabe Ted Faros making the decisions at the top.

If LLMs come even close to achieving their short-term potential, we’re unleashing a bigger destabilizing force on the world than the smartphone/social media combo - and the world of 202x seems blatantly incapable of absorbing that level of disruption.
Ask HN: How would you create a new better Internet?
There has been some discussion going on here about how the net has become very spammy and full of auto-generated content. Would it be possible to create a new net without these problems without resorting to human moderation?
Ya, thats kinda (rules aren't clear) not allowed in the US because of air bags. Apparently if the airbag went off it would blow up since its unable to expand (?). Or something.
Relevant:

- https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ai-markets-for-lemons-and-th...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34169051
How much is selection effects and negative feedback? As online discourse gets worse, calm and sane people are more likely to drop out, leaving the extreme people to argue online, making the discourse worse …
> The problem was finding funding to pay for the operating expenses, megawatts of power, so it never got off the ground and the hardware has been turned off and decommissioned. Such a bummer.

You ran 120,000 graphics card to mine ETH and didn't end up with lambos or like... ether.. to donate to the professor along with the hardware?
A frequent aspect of poor performers is putting their energy into building a victim identity over of their actual job responsibilities.
In my not so humble opinion the bigger problem is the inherent complexity and opacity of billing. If buying your communication and entertainment services were similar in complexity to buying your groceries few people would have issues to resolve. If you want apples and beans the price is apples + beans and nobody pays 15c an Apple today and $7 an apple next month.

The current model makes money due to lack of options and attrition where fewer people are willing to threaten to switch the 4th time or jump ship every year. Some pay more than reasonable others jump through hoops like trained seals. It's not the best model for anyone.

Support dollars are better spent on actual problems instead of such self inflicted wounds as billing complexity.
I haven't tried it in four, but trying to get an animated model in blender into godot in 3 was a total mess. You needed to configure the animations in a very specific non-obvious way and there were a ton of gotchas.
That's literally some of the worst code I've ever seen. Since that's sort-of what you were attempting, good job! It appears to be a misaligned instruction sequence (but I know better since I read the github).
> Using negative values would only complicate things

how so? as it happens computers handle this automatically when using a signed 32 bit integer. It's easy to implement because there is literally no extra work.

> In 99.9% cases there will be no need to keep track of the epoch just like the current computers don't look before 1970

so then why would you not suggest using unsigned 32 bits and going straight to 2106 that way?

I think you need to take some time and get comfortable with both 2s complement and modular arithmetic to understand the right trades for a solution to 2038 and why creating yet a new date standard of 2020 isn't a better idea than what's already been done and several other things that could have been. There are a lot of other gotchas and design decisions. That's why what I suggest is somewhat tongue in cheek and not a serious proposal. But it's objectively better in all criteria than starting again with 2020 (or 2000, or ...).

I leave you with: https://xkcd.com/927/
Batches need to be reasonably sized. Llms are usually trained for a single epoch. If you just average the gradients once, it will be awful.

The main problem I believe is that you would need extremely high bandwidth. For a 100B model you're looking at 400GB of gradients you need to send each batch. There's a reason why super fast networking is used.
Linux Foundation (LFX) runs mentorships at other times of the year. For example their "spring quarter" is March - May.