skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the well thought out reply.

> They need 'uncorrelated returns' which PE provides, and it might be worth paying extra fees for this.

I get they need "uncorrelated investments" as a part of their portfolio management, but that's an institutional investor decision. If their clients demand it, then you make it clear "ok, but you need to realize the fees are ridiculous". Or make alternative investments. All of this is in the control of the institutional investor.

But clearly they can make an informed decision if those fees are reasonable? I would disagree a huge institutional investor has a asymmetry of skills and power - CALPERS has a huge team of financial experts with experience across the financial industry. They can hire in house lawyers to go through contracts to their hearts delight - and negotiate (if they can) different terms. And i would argue institutional investors are heavily incentivized to reduce fees because they directly impact the returns they can get, which is linked to compensation. These aren't mom-and-pop organizations buying penny stocks, they are some of the most sophisticated investors out there. They turn down investments all time because they don't make sense.

> We need to protect the people who ultimately put the money in the funds, not the chain of asset managers extracting their rents on top of it.

But that's the fiduciary duty of the institutional investors. If they can't do the required due diligence, they shouldn't be investing on behalf of the individuals they represent. And as mentioned above, their compensation is directly related to making good returns.

> The underlying question is why aren't PE firms competing with each other to provide lower management fees to attract more institutional money.

It's because they don't need to. It's a problem as old as the history of PE. The old 2 & 20 has been an issue for a long time. If you have a product with high demand and low supply, you can set the terms. It's a sellers market. There are plenty of other investment vehicles that have onerous fees and lack transparency. Presumably institutional investors decide whether those fees are worth it or not.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for highly sophisticated investors complaining about the terms of an investment they had complete free will over investing or not.

It's sounds more to me that institutional investors "want their cake and to eat it too". They want access to LBO PE investments, but want better terms that they can't actually get themselves.
Every country has some form of propaganda. I’m not sure anyone has denied that US propaganda exists.

But the US isn’t invading a country to wipe it off the planet nor is it committing genocide to an ethnic minority within its own borders.
If you want, say, 70 GB of VRAM your options are either unified memory or pay $35K.
What's interesting about your statement is that if you knew they were chatbots, then by definition, they wouldn't be AI. e.g. they wouldn't have passed the Turing test.

I know what you're saying, and totally agree. Unfortunately the term "AI" is now meaningless.
I think it's a case of "I'm smarter than everybody else so I can talk my way out of these charges"

Like Hans Reiser trying to beat the murder charges, representing himself in court.
Why not drop to $5 per month and pay the 1.5 cents for anything over 300?
> stop using a broken protocol and enforcing the use of phone numbers as an identification for critical information or banking, there are better

There are no better ways for the average human (who doesn't have a clue what 2FA means but can understand being sent an SMS and using the code in it to access an account).
Veilid: Secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveil economy
"It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing"
Yeah you're right, usually you have to pay for car service manuals. I'm glad Tesla gives them away for free. Just one small step in the right direction at least.
The social animal bullshit is a myth. You can see it around you everyday. People in public places everywhere spending time on their phones rather than talking to people around them
Both articles seem to be in agreement that the campaign finance charges are being dropped because of the extradition treaty with the Bahamas. The second article indicates that the government intends to work around that limitation by charging it as wire fraud. From my perspective that kind of workaround seems like overzealous prosecution, not deliberate under-prosecution as the GP poster implies. But what do I know.
I’d be happy to demo a work in progress if you want to see a structured dvcs. This is a surprisingly tricky problem. There’ve been quite a few attempts throughout the years at a structured/visual dcvs but it’s almost impossible to solve without also building a schema language, an offline browser, and a package manager/app registry. There’s murmurs in some of the offline first/CRDT communities that suggest other solutions but I haven’t seen anything structured and viable emerge. Anyway, let me know if you want to chat. I’ll put my email in my bio
Our fight is far from over
I would agree, to not make any contributions. First, small contributing with many people still add up to a lot.

Second, is that you typically only need to sign it once, and you might later even forget that you signed it wham making some small contribution and don't own any copyright.
> "Assange uncovered... What?"

According to The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais and DER SPIEGEL, Assange exposed the corruption of the US State Department. This is apart from his exposing the war crimes committed by the US military in Iraq [1].

"Cable gate”, a set of 251,000 confidential cables from the US State Department disclosed corruption, diplomatic scandals and spy affairs on an international scale." [0]

[0] https://www.nytco.com/press/an-open-letter-from-editors-and-...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfvFpT-iypw
Imagine all the normal people who can not run their own mail server and do not have the paranoia or the time to set up 3 of everything and never miss the periodic chores to keep them all alive just to guard against one of them being cancelled.

You certainly don't want anything important like your retirement account to rely on something transient like your isp email, or even a paid email from some smaller company that you might forget to pay on time one year, or they just decide they don't like you for not even necessarily anything you did.

So you use gmail or hotmail etc, not because they are free, because they arre presumed to outlive everything else, and be safer because of that. And that much is completely true and not a mistake.

There are a few really bad things on a collision course here that hasn't been properly dealt with at a society/regulation level yet:

* gmail, and email in general, is not an inconsequential thing like a Spotify account, or like email when it was new and nothing important in life depended on it yet. Life-critical things depend on it now. There are many things now where your email is the ultimate way a service provider knows you. There is no office you can go to to clear up any kind of account error as an ultimate option.

* Yet, providers are allowed to TREAT it as a trivial inconsequintial thing.

* google absolutely is responsible for actively drawing people to use gmail and become dependant on gmail and other google services. It isn't good enough to say they don't make anyone, they do actively pursue it. Same goes for others not just google.

* too many consequential things are allowed accept mere email and login credentials as the only form of proof of identity without an equivalent for the ultimate option you always used to have for any possible thing: "Go down town to the credit union office and present myself and my drivers license and my birth certificate, or 20 other people from the community who all simply say "yeah that's her, I'm even the doctor who delivered her, and she's even your own siter in law so you know she was married to the house owner, so give her her house deed even though the husband died in the war last year and the town clerks office burned down and no one can produce the piece of paper now"

I don't know what I would do if betterment.com decided not to honor my login or I couldn't repond via either of the two email addresses on file. It's 2 different addresses from two different providers, but even 2 is still only 2. If one can break, two can break. So much of my life's resources all hinging on something so flimsy. This is not robust. Now multiply that by x billion other people, most of whom are not aware how fragile their access to these important things is, and how little they can do about it if they are unlucky and have a problem.
Why would you do that though? You can always open new accounts for free, than "pay" $10 for one..
Today, they are tracking badge swipes. In time, it will tracking butt wipes- or how often you go to the bathroom. Treating workers like those at their warehouses. It’s all about the metrics they can track and not the intangibles.
> its a special administrative region, there is a strict border when travelling to Szhenzen.

It /was/ a special…
Is git conflict resolution "intuitive and easy to use not just for programmers, but also for lawyers and artists"? Several programmers I know can barely manage it. I think we might be setting our bar a little high here.
Freedom to listen is a good right and arguably better than freedom of speech but you don't understand how it works. Freedom to listen means the censors don't get in the way. Facebook censoring a post from reaching someone who wants to see isn't "people not wanting to listen", it's facebook getting in the way of two consenting adults who want to communicate to eachother.

Freedom to listen requires freedom of speech, but also requires good blocking and filtering tools on the individual level. If the tools are not on an individual level, and you cannot choose to unblock or unfilter "dangerous" views, you don't have freedom to listen. By the way, we have this on hacker news, this is how the post flagging and dead systems work, you can just choose to see what's being moderated.
> Before COVID I don’t know how many times discussions around WFH basically stopped at “we can’t know that people aren’t just watching TV all day”.

Before COVID I’ve seen plenty of people shop online, chat to friends or play games all day in the office.

What difference does it make? Those that do will anyway. It’s pretty delusional to think sitting in-office = working. If that’s the case all the kids at school should pass, right?
Not quite new enough to cover Irit Dinur's proof of the PCP theorem. (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1236457.1236459)
Complaining about someone censoring your own opinions is not anti-censorship.
I’ve been wanting an electric motorcycle for years. But every time I look at the pricing I just can’t justify it.

An entry level electric bike for $25k or a top of the line BMW for $18k. It’s just not even a comparison.
The email-based workflow often requires quite specific email setup, many mobile-friendly email apps would break the formatting, etc, like Gmail.
I was going to vote for deCSS and the illegal number issue.
Ugh. Multi-day work offsites are the worst. Along with conferences. You have to make arrangements to be away, (try to) sleep in a hotel room, end up eating and drinking too much, getting a workout in is nearly impossible, they just completely disrupt all your routines and responsibilities.
Post on Mastodon:[0]

> We submitted a letter to the court today in the ongoing lawsuit against our library. We’re fighting for the rights of libraries to use their print collections in the digital age

[0] https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/11087231829363...
The Riemann sphere has always existed beyond my grasp of mathematics. I remember the maths undergraduates being excited about it. Thank you for the references, it looks like I need to learn more before proceeding with certainty.
My personal motto is: "Inappropriate laughter, there's nothing more appropriate."

Honestly, if you want to distinguish "human" from "lizard in a human skin suit", "animal" (a la Gom Jabbar), or "machine"*, the "Rubber Chicken Bearing Test" (https://youtu.be/9AqqmjGzeTQ) is your aqua regia**!

* Forget the "Turing test" ... ***

** Or, aqua humanus ... or aqua homo ... to put it in words the channers undoubtedly lurking here might understand :)

*** More seriously, probably forget any "test" ... aside from "probing all the way through" https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think... ... though, even that seems likely to be inaccurate ... https://youtu.be/Umc9ezAyJv0 ...
It’s possibly because I’m looking for Australian models and it’s a smaller market, but I’ve never had much luck finding service manuals free or paid for my vehicles. Do you have any tips for where to search?

I should say specific examples are the Ford Territory and the Great Wall Steed (Wingle 6 in the domestic market).
Because Bitcoin never lived up to the hype. It’s nothing more than a scam. Nothing crypto or blockchain has done has advanced us forward in any meaningful way. But it has stolen 1000s of dollars from people and made a small number of people rich.
Usually the two are not mutually exclusive. Terraform Cloud (the HC equivalent of the aforementioned "opaque SaaS") is afaik not open source and never has been, you can't read the code for it or self-host it. Not opining on the broader issue, just clarifying this point.
Yes. That’s the whole problem. If you don’t crack that it’s useless
Where are you getting the top BMW for 18? Or are you talking about the ones they farm out?
Your ad profile is worth more.
West Virginia University to drop 32 majors including all world language programs
What action in particular?
He's an entitled psychopath with two Stanford law professor parents. I'd say he's been getting away with things this whole life and doesn't feel the need to stop now. Maybe reality will catch up with him when the sentencing happens
That's still an ad. A video is just a different format
Yes they do, in the law:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1003/neutrality...
On that last statement, see iPhone for an example of a ubiquitous luxury status symbol with it occupying the top three slots for smartphone sales by model. However, it is not accurate to say that rural people are not buying F150s, they like status symbols as much as the next person and it does fit the requirements if someone wants a truck.

Sometimes people who live in urban areas like to pretend that no one lives outside of cities except cows and guns. 20% is still quite a few people at about 60 million. Not a exactly a rounding error.
https://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/en/models/sport/r1250rs.html

Okay. 20k. Still less than an electric and more powerful with more features.
Haha. Thanks for sharing that. Rumsfeld definitely has a sense of humor.

He’s also one of the best candidates for that type of conspiracy theory. His career history is flabbergasting.

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld#Corporate_conn...

In addition to all the Bohemian Club, RAND corp, defense and government posts, in the 70s the guy was a CEO in the pharmaceuticals and electronics industries, was a director in aerospace, media and tech.

Definitely the type of resume that lets the imagination run wild with, “… wait, was he a lizard person …?”
Or you can swap to DRAM and stream over PCI. I do that all the time and it works fine, especially since you rarely need to load all 70gb into memory at once.

If you're a serious (read: enterprise) customer, you can buy InfiniBand-enabled cards and get duplex bandwidth faster than the M2 Max's entire memory bus. 'Unified memory' isn't even a bullet point on their spec sheet, it means nothing to their customers when they have CUDA primatives that do the same thing faster at a larger scale.
Times obituary writer Damian Arnold on how to make a living out of death
Error getting a database connection. This link was posted 7 minutes ago. Hmnn... sounds like their fight is definitely ongoing
Very insightful, thank you for writing this.
Exactly, there's a reason character assassination is a term at all. The more someone is damned for their character over the more meaningful topics in the context, the more your should consider someone is trying to deflect your attention.
Also Moltke: “no plan survives contact with the enemy”
Sounds like he may have been a Shania Twain fan - "Dance with the One That Brought You" is the similar phrase I've heard
I start work around 6:00 AM and frequently am still at it at 8:00 PM. I've always been a top performer, but I still worry I'm not productive enough and that I'll get laid off. I still prefer this arrangement to going to the office.
GDPR made some Danish companies and many German companies migrate away from American cloud providers. At least in Germany it feels like GDPR has (mistakenly?) been reduced to "don't trust Americans with your data". I think that is a good thing. However I would restrict it even further and only allow data to be stored in some Western European countries like Denmark and Germany because who in the right mind would trust Hungary with their data despite Hungary being an EU member.
You never see this kind of article on Scam Citizen
Maybe not currently, but the US has been guilty of both of those things in the past. The thing is that nobody invades a country desiring to wipe it off the planet. One could argue the legitimacy of such invasions happening today, and many of those same arguments would apply to the US invasion of Iraq, or the fact that we destabilized the Middle East to the point that it allowed ISIS to come to power. Was our invasion for oil any more moral than what Putin is doing today?

And genocide? Need we discuss the native Americans?
great comment, thanks - this is why I read HN
Lucky indeed. Spent 8 weeks there.

It does something to you when it's July 4th and you look upon the Statue of Liberty, who is looking past you, through a federal detention window.
The Potatoes of Doom (2020)
> I would compare the Twin towers falling to them not falling, for example.

That's effectively saying that no amount of failure is acceptable.
Doors Open 2023: Go Behind–The-Scenes at the Physical Web Archive
This is a trap very smart successful people fall into. They think they can figure out anything better than somebody who spent years learning the trade and acquiring the experience, just because they are so smart. Sometimes it's true, but often it's an illusion which can have life changing and sometimes deadly consequences.
I've listened to that song hundreds of times yet somehow never realized it was Worf.
I tend to trust “side project” OSS software more than OSS software that is some company’s main product. Something like Apache Samza that a company builds for some aspect of its operations and then opens seems to be more trustworthy long-term because the commercial backer doesn’t have to compete with *aaS providers for their main source of revenue. Such projects obviously have their own problems (neglect, deprioritization of features the maker doesn’t need now), but otoh, the maintainers are more likely to accept contributions adding features because they have to think less about market segmentation and such.
> Is it not an existential threat that large swaths of the population will essentially become redundant in the next decades?

This is precisely the crux. In the scenario where there's no mass-paperclipping etc, AI is not an existential threat. It's a threat to the current regime, and I probably agree with you that the regimes it enables will be worse for people with our current values, but it's not an existential threat to humanity.

The people who worry about AI existential threats primarily worry about one thing: can humanity as a species survive? There are likely scenarios where it won't. Those scenarios should be prevented.

Another frame to think about this is: a libertarian probably wouldn't be concerned about the threats described in your comment. But both a libertarian and a socialist will be worried about paperclipping.
From the same article you posted:

> “They are different experiments, measuring different things, and there may or may not be a connection,” he said.
Also being dropped are MS and PhD programs in math.

https://provost.wvu.edu/files/d/62ea2c4f-99bd-431d-9e97-7199...
The issue is that `log` orders the patches by when they were made, not by when they were merged (in reality it might be a bit more detailed, probably a patch will always be ordered after the patches it depends on).

git log also has parameters to configure it in that fashion, and it's also what github uses. However, importantly, git bisect does not use it. It uses the DAG of commits that git maintains.

Yes, also git also only has a weak notion of a history of a branch: it is somewhat inside the titles of merge commits, and merge commits also have an order of their parents, so often you can just walk the first parent and always get to commits that used to be state of the master branch at a specific point in time. Sometimes it's even easier when merged PRs get squashed. But yeah, it's a bit implicit and if you e.g. rebase a PR then some of the commits in it have never been the tip of the master branch.

But very importantly, every commit in git depends on every single commit that has contributed to that commit's tree.

In pijul, they break up that property, and patches only depend on those patches which have directly modified the pieces of code that the change is editing. IIRC you can also manually introduce dependencies but those are rare. There isn't even a notion of a "patch's tree". You could construct a branch with only the patch and its dependencies but probably that wouldn't compile, and it will definitely not reflect the state of the branch at that point in time.

You can make new branches in pijul that you don't modify and use like tags, but it is an explicitly requested thing.

I mean, I see the elegance in pijul. Reverting a patch that has no conflicts and un-reverting it is trivial. But on the other hand, how often do you do that?

Some workflows need patch based thinking, others need snapshot based thinking, and VCS tools need to master both, whether they start out with a snapshot history (like git) and then build diff based workflows on it (diff, rebase, etc), or whether they start out with a patch tree, and then build snapshot based workflows on it. pijul has weak snapshot based workflows, this part is still missing.
many of the predators we eliminated also ate the same birds and rodents that the cats ate.
For me, there's no money or perks or flexibility that will get me into an office. I haven't had covid, don't plan to get it, and it's honestly a lot riskier today than it would have been in 2020 since we've collectively given up on precautions. I need my brain to work effectively, and the risk of cognitive impairment caused by long covid is just too high to be worth the risk.
VP Kamala Harris to play a leading role in Biden’s 2024 campaign
A Look Inside the Cerebras CS-2 AI Accelerator [video]
Yes. Just look at how they demonize commercial real estate decline. Real estate is the new feudal system to extract the values from the serfs
The way to win with fewer resources than your competition is to convince them it's not a competition. Or even better, to not let them know you exist.
"Troll farm" is also based on this new usage of the word.
What do you think? Leaking over 1 million classified documents because he objected to surveillance programs.
Where precisely was I 'defending' anyone, nonetheless 'obsessing' over it? hm? care to provide some citations? This isn't reddit.

I wrote one line of facetious comment. Definition of "obsessed" and "defending" are clear cut. Words have meaning.