skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they're trading well under par because they're very long duration bonds and interest rates have moved against them, not because of credit risk. What Levine points out in the linked piece is that per the terms of these CDSes if the US technically defaults you can use the CDS to accelerate repayment of these very long duration bonds and get par back immediately rather than having to wait 30 years to collect. There's little to do with credit risk per se and everything to do with the interaction of the CDS contract and the current low valuation of certain debt instruments.
First demo of buzzy startup Humane’s wearable AI assistant in leaked clips
> You can ALWAYS just put down your tools and walk out the door.

Not if you've signed a contract which says otherwise, which of course would make it not "at-will" employment.

"At-will" applies to both the employer and the employee. Either can terminate it without notice.

"At-will means that an employer can terminate an employee at any time for any reason, except an illegal one, or for no reason without incurring legal liability. Likewise, an employee is free to leave a job at any time for any or no reason with no adverse legal consequences."

https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/at-will-employment...
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Why do people really think this is about the money?

I believe this is one of zhe smartest things he could‘ve done for the future of twitter.

Many others will follow or be gone.
And all these stories will be generated about you by AI bot farms paid for by your opposition
I'm not saying "Sweden is bad" I'm saying "Sweden, like any other government in the world, has a lot of power and they use it".

I used Assange specifically because I think it's pretty clear the lone superpower in the world (the United States) clearly threw their weight around on the Assange situation. It's not a leap (at all) to think a popular VPN provider that (due to the nature of their business) likely attracts the interest of law enforcement from governments around the world - almost certainly including the US - would trigger similar levels of interest at the highest levels of government internationally.

Rape is clearly abhorrent but I think it's pretty obvious Assange had a gigantic target on his back because he pissed off and embarrassed the United States. Any rape investigation should be taken very seriously but when you look at the Assange situation it's VERY clear the aggressiveness and pursuit of that was far beyond what is likely typical in those kinds of investigations.

I think the same would happen in this scenario and anyone who says "oh they're just a VPN provider Sweden wouldn't take it too seriously" is pretty naive.
One day we're going to have a blog post reach the front-page of HN which was written with the help of by GPT-4, if it hasn't happened already. And then it will happen again and again...

I wonder if we'll even see a post almost entirely written by GPT-4. I don't think that will happen (except in a "look what GPT can do!" way), but time will tell :)
Side note that I hope someone at OpenAI is scratching their head over the sudden influx of hot cross bun related queries
I don’t think that’s correct. Many of today’s “barstool conservatives” were 18-29 year olds who voted for Obama. It wasn’t taboo in those groups to say “gay marriage is fine.” I don’t they want that to go back in the closet. They’re upset because the culture shifted and they can’t freely respond to new assertions.

In a way it’s like tattoos. Trump rallies are chock full of them somehow. These folks aren’t clinging to their parents taboos, their reasons for being conservative are different.

(Of course that’s true of liberals too. A lot of the “follow the social norms and watch what you say” people migrated to the Democratic Party over the last couple of decades. This is especially apparent in affluent, highly educated suburbs where there has been major changes in voting patterns without necessarily significant changes in culture.)
This also applies to mate and is very easy to do a comparison test with.
Good leadership is relative, anything that isn't Ballmer is counted as a blessing by shareholders.
“I challenge any of you to outwork me, but you won’t,”

Yeah, sure. Just give them your salary and leave the company, then see.
Workers are often fed up with their jobs also because of manipulative alpha-holes like that one.
The usual argument against spelling reform is that it isn't possible to do it in a way that is compatible with the language of more than one region. For example, in Australian English they have a system of phonemic vowel length. This does not exist in other varieties of English, so the options you have in a spelling reform are (1) ignore the Australians and set spellings that are ambiguous in Australia, or (2) placate the Australians and include their vowels in the reformed spelling system, despite the fact that this leaves everyone else in the world mystified as to why certain words are spelled with doubled vowels and certain words aren't.
"...he suggested that unknown developments in the future might make cast iron strong and safe..."

Of course that proved true - we call it steel - and if you go by the date of Bessemer's patent (after which steel became cheap enough to use on structures), they only had to wait 9 years.
> The headline should use completely neutral and unbiased language. Aim to be factual, not opinionated.

This sounds incredibly dull and lifeless. If you’re writing an encyclopedia, it’s fine. If you’re looking to be acquihired by Bloomberg Wire, it’s fine.

But, modern chatbot aren’t capable of adhering to the restriction “factual”, and will hallucinate information just as readily as a human witness might during an interview. A few paragraphs of instruction don’t change the basic nature of multi-layer network synthesis. For that, you need a rigorous training and a network of peers ready to check you when you are led astray by your basic nature — and that requires having multiple viewpoints to
mitigate groupthink.

I mean no disrespect, but I hope this project fails.
The day AI starts to write software HN will be glorious. Journalists still have social skills I have no idea what tech workers are going to do.
Haven't you heard? The era of expertise is over! Anyone's opinion is exactly as valuable as anyone else's - in fact, the opinion of someone who is not an expert is _more_ valuable than that of an expert!
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Low/mid waste is mostly just normal trash after it sits for a year or two. Going through the trouble and expense of burying all of it like it's spent nuclear fuel is just wasted money. We spend billions of dollars pretending lightly radioactive material is going to kill someone. Not one person has ever died from handling nuclear waste.
I don't believe that LTCM was insuring anything.

What they were doing is identifying pairs of securities whose values had diverged and they believed would eventually converge. They would short the more expensive one and buy the cheap one. When they converged they would sell the no longer cheap one, use the money to close out the no longer expensive one, and collect a profit.

However usually the reason why one was more expensive is that it had a more liquid market. So people could safely invest in it with money that they might need back quickly. This shouldn't matter if you planned to buy and hold though..at least in theory.

But in the wake of the Russian default, liquidity became more valued. So people sought to get rid of illiquid securities and buy liquid ones. This meant that LTCM had shorted things that were rising in value, and bought things that were falling in value. So they had a loss. And as the shorts got higher, they wound up having to sell assets at a loss to cover their shorts. And now the temporary losses became very real ones, and drove them bankrupt.

However, infamously, their investments made money in the end. They just weren't able to last long enough to benefit from it.
Storage of hydrogen involves components that are all proven. It's just a matter of putting them together. This is the simplest and surest kind of innovation.
It‘s atlassian. If they‘d get this, it wouldn‘t be.
What they are actually doing along these lines is trying to sell “give your affiliates blue ticks” as part of Twitter Verified Organizations (which apparently you pay a publicly unspecified size-based amount for up-front when you apply, but if Twitter decides to reject your application there is no refund.)
It's intentional. One of the biggest threats to authoritarians is an educated electorate.

All of this is part of a larger war on public education in Texas:

Book bans, accusing librarians of stocking pornographic material, pushing radical conservatives into school boards, accusing public grades schools of teaching CRT, passing blatantly unconstitutional bills to force religion into public schools (like the one forcing the ten commandants to be displayed today), and trying to defund public schools by pushing the voucher program for unregulated privatized schooling.
Hmm as always Raymond Chen explains

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041110-00/?p=37...
>TL;DR no, but it will make it bitter...

See, that's where the "no" is actually a "yes" for me. For my palate, bitter tea = ruined tea.
When optimizing load times, it’s usually console that’s the benchmark. PC is assumed to have faster or equal hardware so they optimize for the lowest denominator. Consoles aren’t PC’s but they are very close. They lack some instructions while gaining others. I can’t speak on current gen consoles but older ones like the Xbox 360, only could handle zip format and at a slow pace. You could show a loading screen while you unpack the data in memory or you can unpack on disk on installation saving some loading time, or it’s all uncompressed on consoles leaving the console to load the data as fast as console do.

The issue at hand around install size comes down to the engines, their ability to decompress asset bundles, the fidelity of the assets (8k vs 8k,4k,2k,1024) if no runtime optimization is done. WAV sounds vs OGG vs MP3 vs flac, there’s a lot of shit in those asset packs. You could compress it all like they do, into a folder structure you can index and load from, or you can write that game code to make boss fights cause camera shake, the decisions you make making a game are really all about making the game and little to do with how best to deliver your content.

Some texture formats like DXT are already compressed. Raw PNG’s could have compression. All these things are possible if the engine supports it.
The article seems to assume that regulations, once enacted, never change and impede progress forever, while in real life, technical regulatory bodies update regulations when conditions change. They might change the rules more slowly than some entrepreneurs desire, but when the purpose of the rule is safety, better safe than sorry.
> It's a necessary evil owing to the large English lexicon filled with homophones. The Japanese stick to their ponderous use of Chinese characters for similar reasons.

This is a common and incredibly stupid argument. Note that it immediately implies that oral communication in English and Japanese is impossible.

Early video games didn't have the memory available to render text in kanji and used kana exclusively. This caused zero problems.
> Related tangent: Something I don't fully understand (perhaps I just haven't found a project that facilitates it) is why there isn't a Windows extension (driver?) that allows for native mounting of ext4 partitions within Windows explorer.

Such projects have long existed, but I suspect there's a lack of interest.

It's a difficult technical problem with a narrow usage niche. You need somebody who wants both Windows and Linux, and wants to use the same physical disks. Today, why bother? You can use a NAS, cloud storage, virtualization, etc.
Not to mention the many other varieties of green tea available outside of Japan!
I'm not the creator of redact, but it sounds like you're under the impression that the iframe src is redact.ws in which case I'd understand your concern.

My assumption is that the iframe src would be the local redact server, which would keep things as secure as the package the user installed (though there could be compromises at the network level I suppose)
Even in English, depending on who you talk to, "data" might be either count or mass. (I am solidly in the mass camp.)
Backdoored firmware isn't about updates. It's about rootkit or evil maid attacks that install backdoored firmware that has been signed by the vendor. If you're using your own trust root then a 3rd party can't create a signature, even under duress. Thus there would be less of an incentive to pressure the vendor.

Updates are a separate concern since you'll want them for bugfixes. So they should be reviewable, open source. And then you check the vendor's signature and replace it with your own if you want. At least that's how things should work.
It's a mass noun, per the article. Considered grammatically singular.
The thing that gets me with so much of the ChatGPT writing is how often it does things like:

"In this essay I will..."

"First... Second... Third... Finally..."

"In summary..."

I have knee-jerk aversions when I see those phrases in any kind of writing. Before ChatGPT, those phrases would automatically make me think less of whatever I was reading. Now, it makes me think less of it and makes me wonder if the writer used a LLM to generate it.

In any case, while I agree that these models will have some impact on the Fiverr space and the exceedingly bland PR releases and SEO spam, the central problem of prompting is still applicable: in order to get quality results, you need to know what to ask for. In order to know what to ask for, you need to know how to evaluate the quality of what you get out. And, if you can do that reliably, you can probably generate it yourself without the LLM.

All that is to say, I see use cases as productivity tools and think the emerging field of prompt engineering will become more significant over time. I don't see it replacing a ton of non-Fiverr like jobs anytime soon.
What stops us is that many Universities and departments only count certain journals/conferences as “prestigious” and make both hiring and promotion decisions based on the number of publications in these venues. Even if you’re senior enough not to care about promotions, you will always have students and junior collaborators who need to run this gauntlet.

And more to the point, these prestigious conferences and journals often get the best researchers in the field to peer-review for them, because doing that work (for a prestigious venue) also holds some value in the promotion/hiring process. People like to dump on peer review, scientists more than most, but in retrospect many (some) of my papers have improved through the process of getting those people to sign off on the work.
Time out: We all need a three-day weekend
It works fine with all of them. It's true that some letters are mirrored forms of other letters, but that doesn't leave any ambiguity - the form of the letter is oriented to the direction of reading, so "b" is a B when you're reading left-to-right and it's a D when you're reading right-to-left.
I've been doing web development since before the <table> tag was introduced.

> just install 10 insecure npm packages that each install another 10 npm packages

I still don't understand why companies are fine with this.

At my last job, even principal and staff level developers needed every Windows or Mac application install vetted by IT. We had real time system monitoring on all employee workstations that ate up half the RAM and CPU resources and constantly kicked us off the VPN for even the slightest quirk (including the CPU redlining due to scanning).

But npm dependencies? Nothing. Install whatever you want and push it to production.

This is an S&P 500 company that deals with tons of PII.
Orders of magnitude really don't gloss over huge confidence intervals though, that's just attempting to game the stats.

I get what you're going for and anecdotally that number doesn't even seem crazy if you're going back through our entire history of coal. At the end of the day that number simply didn't exist though, and any time someone uses a start like that to bank up an argument it's just propaganda. Having a bunch that number should be accurate is very different from being able to use it as part of a larger discussion of what the biggest problems are and how to improve it.
Failing Loudly: A postmortem on quitting my dream job in 4 months
Only ChatGPT will have to read all the junk Google search results in the future when people go directly to ChatGPT anyways.
Yes. Are you saying all the thousands of possible battery chemistries, and all the non-battery storage technologies, will fail? This is what the nuclear stans are saying. Of course speculative (or previously failed) nuclear technologies are sold as sure things.
> Unfortunately the nuclear power plant operator losses money even faster than they are right now.

Note that Ontario Power Generation, who owns all the nuclear plants in Ontario, has a positive net income of roughly 20% of gross, and is building Canada's first new nuclear plant in a couple decades. Your generalization is incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Power_Generation
The flattening is what suggests it. You are free to propose or perform a better analysis. Also, you didn't post the additional evidence.
> But what happens on the weekend when demand for power drops even more?

Umm… generation is taken offline?

Usually Gas and Hydro if renewables are available. If renewables drop then Gas and Hydro are brought back up.
OMG, you made me read his article, and only then realized how ludicrous the "cheapest-to-deliver option" is. I had no idea you can send the CDS issuer any bond! Of course this is just an option for the scenario of "the congress got into a massive fist-fight and couldn't press the `yes` button on their voting machines for three weeks straight". What a hilarious piece of financial engineering.
The funny thing is that I've been doing this for selfish reasons when the $8 blue checks started. Twitter blue subscribers get a boost in the algorithm independent of the quality of the tweet. So if you're extremely liberal about blocking Twitter Blue users, you see better tweets and user experience improves.
The author has refactored their branch with guidance and promoted their draft pr to open last month. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/14034
Not your finance person, but a good way to think about an abstract event like “US debt default” is through two lenses.

1) it’s an event that can’t happen unless a lot of powerful folks take a bath. Odds are good that energy will be directed to prevent it - or failing the ability to muster energy, you won’t care.

2) If the dollar collapses, what asset would you want to hold? Would it make sense to hold that asset absent a crash?
generally speaking, rulers don't care about your consent. they might care about the second and third order effects of consent, but to say they'll interpret silence as consent is to suggest that their knowledge of your consent is a primary driver of their actions -- and that's just not the case.

but no, i'm not saying you should let yourself be steamrolled. anyone in this thread has the knowledge to work around this particular adversarial legislation; to build systems where bad actors have less power over you. spin up a Matrix server. bridge it to Signal or Telegram or wherever else you need to stay in contact with your less nerdy friends. then when bad people try to do bad things to the people around you, point them to that escape hatch you've already prepared.
It's pretty funny that you equate the oppressive actions of an authoritarian regime with what the people want. It's even funnier that you've failed to understand that the whole point of the article is that an authoritarian regime is imposing itself on others.

You contradict yourself but convince yourself you're being rational.

That's the problem with being an unprincipled apologist. You end up compromised.
Anyone who wants their paper to be understood by a non-expert audience can write a blog post explaining the work. Here’s a great example [1]. Papers have become more intricate and technical because science has become more intricate and technical, in some cases because we found subtle errors and exceptions in the more casual early papers!

[1] https://thegradient.pub/othello/
"By replacing the human middle-man with our AI-centric article creation process, we eliminate the potential for bias and ensure that all coverage remains impartial."

AI LLMs inherit biases from their training data and the constraints the model builders added. There's no such thing as unbiased reporting; the usual way that this is attempted is to claim that the "unbiased" position is halfway between the positions of the two dominant political parties in some country, which might look like intense bias to someone in another country.
A writing piece I made on quitting Google. AMA in this thread.
Florida's Mangroves
How Discord evolved from storing Millions of messages to Trillions
> The traditional way is vertically, indeed, but on occasions you had to write horizontally

There's not really a distinction. Chinese was written in columns from right to left. When the columns were one character long, they were still columns.

To distinguish horizontal writing from vertical writing, you'd need a writing sample that had multiple columns and also multiple rows. (Because, as noted above, there's no way to tell the difference between 1 row of 5 characters vs 5 columns of 1 character each.) As far as I'm aware, traditional Chinese writing is fully accounted for by the theory that it was always written in columns and never in rows.

On the other hand, the Taiwanese newspaper isn't making a great case: the "mixture of approaches" used in the headlines are a couple vertical headlines going top down, and several horizontal headings, including the primary headline "Michael Jackson、arrives!", which all go left-to-right. The body text in the infoboxes in the top left and right corners of the page also goes from left to right, though it appears to be true that the article text is in columns. The name of the newspaper (top center) is also printed left-to-right.
> like the injunction to never split an infinitive

Whoa, whoa, I believe you mean "the injunction never to split an infinitive"! /s
Movie scriptwriter takes notes.

> after the aircraft landed the cargo was unloaded and taken to a holding facility, in line with normal procedure ... thieves accessed the public side of a warehouse leased to a third party, outside the GTAA's primary security line ... theft "did not involve access to Toronto Pearson itself
> The main edge is freedom in research topic

The way I see things, freedom is a consequence of tenure. Or at least it was intended to be like that. If you want to pursue ground-breaking ideas, you might not publish for a while. If you are tenured this doesn't matter much. If you aren't, it's like playing Russian roulette with your career.

> Tenure is a ridiculous gamble right now

In some systems, you are tenured right from the beginning. For example, in British Academia, most assistant professor positions are permanent and it's not impossible to get one straight after your PhD. However, pay and funding is much lower.
Does the Washington Post realize how badly its credibility has been damaged since the Bezos takeover? Everything they publish is now seen in the context of Bezos's other interests - Discord runs on Google Cloud, not AWS, so the attack on Discord is understandable. Resentment over the failures of Blue Origin inform this article, don't they?

Kind of like Buzzfeed, if you ask me. The WaPo has sold its soul for a mess of pottage.