skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With many men the passing of these extraneous tests is a very grievous interference indeed

I feel seen 120 years ago

I am hopeful massive LLMs/other models will be an enabler in recognizing and fostering everyone's talents, capabilities and interests in learning with detailed nuance. We'll soon no longer need to whittle down the education experience to fit through the eye of 20-40 needles[0] which all need to be snapshotted synchronized across a classroom like when TV episodes were only available at their exact weekly time slot. We've got like, I don't know, a trillion 32-bit resolution needles to work with now, I imagine we'll find significantly more nuanced and effective ways of learning[1] and organizing hiring/work collaboration with each other.

[0]: Or as the 1890 Scantron predecessor Hollerith Electric Tabulating System called the needle eyeholes, "keypunches"

[1]: Having worked over the years often on school/learning-supporting tech, and using GPT-4 to learn new things, it feels like, FINALLY! One-on-one instruction with direct attention has always been the most OP way of teaching/learning, but extremely cost-prohibitive. This could easily enable widespread hard-to-fathom outcome changes for students otherwise falling through the cracks of the one size fits all education model.
I can't disagree with the results, SPs can change your life. HOWEVER, they require significant discipline and regular audits. All the code for them needs to be in source control with a Process for deployment to the DB. You also need a test suite as part of the Process which runs against a staging server with a comparable configuration to prod. The SPs need to be regularly dumped and compared against what's in source control and marked as what's supposed to be released in prod.
The lifelong effects of 'the favourite child'
Saying he's either a pariah or a hero is a very political stance either way, and I don't want to spout politics here on HN (That's not what HN is for, although political rants still slip through the cracks on HN).

That said, the leaks did leave some aftermath[0]. All the tinfoilers, pre-Snowden had their suspicions confirmed in real, tangible ways. Yeah we knew abut ECHELON[1] but the Snowden leaks were far more substantial IMHO, and leaked at a time when The Internet was really starting to ramp up (in terms of all the services/tooling now available, and social media making leaps and bounds).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_Effect

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
It's also because MS makes way, way, way more money on business licenses than they do on individual consumer ones. They don't have much incentive to care about individuals not giving them a sale. Meanwhile, businesses are actively audited if they're suspected of violating license agreements.
>256YB drives

Ah yes, Yagnibytes.
Multiplication/division include addition as a special case, at least if you allow adding 1:

a+b = a + a(b/a) = a(1 + (b/a))
Aatlantis is not affected by Terraform BUSL license change
Yes. So far, just for August:

"August 10, 2023 -- Bittrex settles with SEC for $24 million"

"August 7, 2023 -- Bitsonic CEO arrested for allegedly stealing $7.5 million"

"August 7, 2023 -- Rumors swirl that Huobi executives have been arrested, exchange is insolvent,"

"August 7, 2023 -- Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi raided by authorities"[1]

Crypto companies are running out of safe havens for unregulated activity. SBF was arrested in the Bahamas. Mainland China shut down most of the Bitcoin miners. Britain finally decided that the Financial Crimes Authority, not the Gambling Commission, had jurisdiction over crypto. The SEC and the CFTC stopped feuding and decided to just handle it as ordinary crime. Cyprus stopped being the safe haven for financial crime within the EU. There's still Bulgaria and Israel, and maybe Russia, but operating in those countries has its own problems.

[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
TLDR. We were going to completely rewrite our architecture but instead we optimized a few Postgres queries. LMAO
I bought my first HDD in the mid-90s: 850MB. There was a 1.2GB model, but I thought, "Why would I ever need that much space?" This was before videos, before mp3s, and images were all low quality jpegs.
> the perversive incentives make them align to just do that.

I don't think any therapist actively avoided helping me, but rather at some point they too get comfortable and sort of slack it off like "So what have you been doing/how was your week" sort of thing.
> for instance a hand of M&Ms

An excellent example of "serving" stupidity. How big a hand? Child's hand? Adult's hand? Bodybuilder's? Woman? Man? Full? Kind of full?

I have absolutely no idea what a "serving of cheese" constitutes.
> Assange is incoherent. Why would Sweden frame him for a rape that he didn't commit?

He wasn't incoherent when the charges were filed.
I have no credentials but I'm going to suggest something anyway.

Clone something you already have proof is profitable. Simply find an existing business you KNOW has good economics and that you know you can execute by yourself possibly better than the original… and just clone it.

You eliminate the need for ideas and a lot of risk. You simply have to execute better than existing competitors (not always hard).
Perhaps I shouldn't expect rational behavior from someone who ran a cryptocurrency exchange, but this decision is utterly bewildering: judges tends to take even the perception of witness intimidation seriously, and there's no light in which releasing someone's diary (versus than attempting to have it admitted as ordinary evidence) isn't meant to be intimidation.
its wild because the 4gb h265 ones are great

I have 4k screens and an okay sound system, who are these whatever-philes that think these 60gb rips change the experience meaningfully

like, how many audio tracks you need and the other 50gb so you can stare at black pixels and say “wow these blacks are so impressive”
We will indeed! I had heard superfluid DM had been ruled out for some things too.

Exciting times!
He is the prosecutor who was assigned to the case by Trump's DOJ.

Weiss asked to be appointed special prosecutor.

Appointing him as special prosecutor gives Biden's DOJ less control over the case.

If they had put a new prosecutor in there, people would (rightly) be making noise about that, instead.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/who-is-david-weiss-u...
Great point about working on teams. For the vast majority of tasks, people are only marginally better or worse than each other. A few people with decent communication will outpace a "star" any day of the week.

I try to remind myself of this fact when I'm frustrated with other people. A bit of humility and gratitude go a long way.
some kind of scaled up database server.

they build now with many smaller SSD attached, and maybe with this large one all maintenance process will be encapsulated in one component, so you can think about it as NAS but placed directly inside the server.
All perfectly ethical if it can reduce shrimp suffering on a population basis by getting him free and able to buy a tank and as many sea monkies as possible to provide positive micro utility to each and every one.
Depends on if you consider "crazy" to include rampant narcissism fueled by the usual ridiculous elitism and we're-smart-so-everything-will-work failure mode of "rationalist" culture.
3d scans are the future

Imagine how much data could you generate daily!

Thos aside, a FHD movie in good quality still takes 10-30gb

We are still limited by size and internet speed and need to compress data
SF residential rents have stayed relatively flat vs NYC and it’s frankly a place many people prefer to live in over other major corporate nexuses like Chicago and Seattle. Eventually the pendulum will swing the other direction and SF will be the hip and hot place to be vs NYC. Of course both have been popular for early career/recent college grads for a long time, but anecdotally NYC has “just” began to attract more 20s people away from the Bay Area since 2020, and it’s getting expensive.

Once the cost of living difference between SF and NYC becomes large and well known enough, companies will start hiring more, or choose to start, in SF vs the current trend of picking NYC because talent will begin to prefer it.
Tlon Corporation: How to start a secret society
This is actually a very deep conversation. Being good requires a methodology of what it means to be good, which puts you on rails you'll never leave. This means you won't recognize a discovery or an innovation even if it hits you in the face.

This is why there's a principle that you can ask an expert if something is possible to do currently, but never ask them whether something is impossible to do in principle. History is full of examples of experts, established minds that rejected discovery. We'll never fly. Electric power is useless and so on.

Being random, being childish, can bring you luck, because you're trying things that have been abandoned by the "good" as "bad". Electric cars have been tried a few times in the past, and the industry has largely concluded they're "bad". But Musk approached this from inspirational perspective. It was a cool story for the investors and something that could fire up the imagination of the public, so he went for it. And turns out there was more to explore there.

But this doesn't mean he had any clue what he's doing. Just trying to do cool things. And he's starting to generate far more misses than hits now. Reversion to the mean. But he was lucky.
While I agree, it's been hard filling up the 2TB drive in my laptop.

My home server has a couple dozen terabytes (on spinning metal) and, with current fill rate, it's predicted it'll need an increase in space only after two of the drives reach retirement according to SMART. It hosts multiple development VMs and stores backups for all computers in the house.

Another aspect is that the total write lifetime is a multiple of the drive capacity. You can treat a 256TB drive as a very durable 16TB drive, able to last 16 times more writes than the 16TB one.
Prompt criticality is the best criticality!
i know it's been said before but why did anyone ever think this guy was responsible enough to handle all that fucking "money"
I didn't go to college and compared to friends who did the personal balance sheet head start was about ten years, and that's earning fairly low wages until mid 20s. Between not having as much time to earn, the expense of school, and the student debt that has to be paid down in order to save and compound, it amounts to a decade.
100%, it makes it easy for bad programmers to write bad performing queries, but you can easily write performant code. Btw that’s a feature - letting people ramp up to full db knowledge is beneficial, you don’t want to be spending your time writing performant queries before you need to.
>The tax information could be used to commit tax refund fraud, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the office that conducted the report.

Of course it could be used in theory, but the fact is, taxpayer info needed to file a return (name, address, SSN, date of birth) has leaked out from many sources over decades, it's hard to see how 13-year old stale data from the IRS that is stored on ancient analog media is going to significantly increase the availablilty of leaked data.

More to the point, the IRS has implemented a number of anti-fraud techniques in recent years that have greatly reduced the prior flood of fraudulently-filed returns. Both paid preparer and DIY taxpayer return preparation now requires much more meta data which software vendors have agreed to extract and provide, which makes it much easier to identify and hold up suspect efiled returns.

Lastly, the best thing by far is the ability beginning several years ago for every taxpayer to request from the IRS an annual IP (identity protection) PIN which must be used to file a return, it's nearly as effective as a password.

My opinion is that this particular report is as much about TIGTA justifying its existence as it is about an actual serious threat to the integrity of the income tax filing system.
Same way the bipartisan safer communities act defunded archery and hunting programs in public high schools, it’s part of the plan to delegitimize all guns.
Are you referring to the relationship of network to fill it?
Well, trading off democracy for stability is pretty common in the area. Israel is currently falling out with their last few Western allies. Check out their neighboring countries Wikipedia pages to guess what happens next.
The Stellarator is theoretically a superior design over the Tokamak, designed to neutralize the JxB force, where J is the current through the plasma and B is the magnetic field guiding the plasma around the device. By twisting the plasma into a shape where the curl of B (proportional to J) is parallel to B, i.e. a helix, the cross product is 0, and thus there are no net magnetohydrodynamic forces on the plasma.
I think the why is obvious — to make money.

I think a lot of this discussion is around human-level AGI. Does it have to be human-level for it to be an AGI? What would a minimally intelligent AGI be like?
Etcd + one of the etcd desktop clients. There are a few template+restart tools as well. confd was one such project, iirc.

You'll end up writing some glue code.
> the label states the number of grams of sugar for every 100 grams of product

Isn't it required in the whole EU?
There's a lot of things I really like about UXN. The idea of a portable, unchanging VM target is so cool!

But... it's programmed in Assembler and seems pretty minimalism focused.

It seems as though anything complex is always be subject to breaking changes, the fact that it can always be done better(Since complex systems are built around arbitrary trends and use cases rather than an ideal) makes people want to always fuss with it.
From an older generation, we have: 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'

Governments are responsible for more than protection for foreign threats. I think the remaining items on the GP's list are legitimate in light of Jefferson's words.
I'll argue that "thinking in mobius" is simpler than thinking in circles, and more true to life than thinking in basic shapes.

The core concepts in mobius-land are local curvature and global cumulative field.
Yea, I see more and more of these content farms when I'm googling various topics as well, which is actually making using the internet to learn how to do things less productive.

Your post overall was not written in that manner, but the tangent into the stairs thing was unexpected and borderline supernatural, actually would have been an interesting segue into a ghost story.

@influx post is so low effort it's hard to tell if they're the one profiting from the content farm or just posted up the first result he found on a quick google search.
Update on (My) Minimalism (Journey)
Long-Term Acid Reflux Drugs Linked to Higher Dementia Risk?
I’m guessing it’s closed because you can’t download it. It’s only available through the API.
Show HN: A Chrome Extension that allows quote reply to ChatGPT
Sometimes you want to quote reply to ChatGPT's response to ask follow up question or explain more. So I built a simple Chrome extension that adds reply buttons and allows you quote reply with ease.

Download from Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quotereply-chatgpt...

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Not for cryptographically useful group like elliptic curves. Multiplication is defined as additions and can be made fast by repeatedly doubling and add. The inverse function, division, is incomputable for large curves.
I'm curious what form factor the drive is. I've wondered if you could squeeze a bunch of m.2 SSD's into a 3.5 HDD case, how much capacity you would have. I wouldn't be surprised if this SSD ends up fitting the 3.5in standard form
Some philosophers write for other philosophers, they don't have to be discernable by everyone. Is it fair to deride anything generally indiscernible as bullshit? It depends on how that activity, essay, book, treatise etc. is treated by well-versed critics or peers of that writer/philosopher. For example, I don't think differential equations or category theory can be grokked by everyone, and that's okay. Are these aspects bullshit simply because the majority of casual practitioners do not find them useful or practical? I would say no.
Its probably one of those 'if you have to ask, its out of your budget' type things.
This article is really well-written and has an excellent description of differential manifolds.

Worth a read just for that part (not implying that the rest isn't good as well).

[Edit]: and the rest is really good as well. In particular if you ever wanted to understand how space-time (4D) can be intrinsically "curved" without it being embedded in a larger dimensional space (5D), this explains it very well.
Right - for those you'll want fast.com, speed.cloudflare.com, fiber.google.com/speedtest/, etc... But at first you need to make sure that your fiber/co-ax/DSL was installed correctly - that's why all the cable testers I've watched use speedtest.net
Define “rich.”
You messed up at your last step 1 millionth = 1mm, 10 millionth = 0.1mm, 100 millionth = 0.01mm

0.01mm is very difficult when you’re talking large custom objects with complex shapes.
Transactions are not only (actually mainly not) about atomicity. Of course it’s possible to keep data integrity without normalisation, but that means you need to maintain the invariants yourself at application level and a big could result in data inconsistency. Normalisation isn’t there to make integrity possible, it’s there to make (some) non-integrity impossible.

Nobody says you have to have only one view of your data though. You can have a normalised view of your data to write, and another denormalised for fast reads (you usually have to, at scale). Something like event sourcing is another way (which is actually pushing invariants to application level, in a structured way)
This guy is going to jail for at least 20 years. He knows it too, and is doing crazy stuff because that’s all he has left. He is going to sell his life story to the highest bidder and set up a Twitter handle where he can post via snail mail like Ross Ulbricht. SBF is a total piece of shit and deserves whatever he gets.
It's not impossible to remove that branch. Until you do that then this is a reduced branch implementation.
>While I agree, it's been hard filling up the 2TB drive in my laptop.

Then you're defiantly not torrenting enough "definitely legit" content as I am. Once you sail the dark seas it piles up quick. Or maybe I have ADHD.
Isn’t one of the problems with nuclear that it increases water temperature in rivers
This is not true for all tasks. For many NLP tasks, you just need to reformat existing data to match the LLM format.
Adding in, they are still around just having merged with LocationSmart: https://www.locationsmart.com/company/news/locationsmart-and...
the Sacco era Benzes mostly lacked cupholders. (maybe the 500 series or SEL had them)
Please share it if you can recall. As someone who just figured out what Base-2 and Base-10 meant, I’m eager for all sorts of Mathematica.
This is the book in English:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3186233-russian-secret-t...

Out of print and hard to find.

Naughty illustration on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Secret-Tales-Folktales-annota...
Once you start saving media or playing with ai models space goes quickly.
here there is no power generated as it's not working with deuterium-tritium. most of the heating will heat the plasma and a fraction of this will reach the cooling system. To make a comparison ITER is expected to have 50 MW heating for 400 seconds approx. = 20 GJoule. Using a DT mix will result though in 500 MW Fusion Power
He stood on stage with all the right people said all the right shibboleths!
I agree with this approach. the other added benefit is that when they decided to optimize the app by eliminating or tuning queries and utilizing replicas for reads, they ultimately made the app much more performant while possibly reducing complexity. the "squeeze" mindset pays off in the long-run here. the continued optimization over time is infinitely better than adding the complexity of microservices or expanded infrastructure because the latter will simply bury and compound the potential optimizations which could AND SHOULD have been made. squeeze squeeze squeeze until you just can't squeeze any more!
The problem is that the size of media has been growing exponentially.

When I keep wondering how my phone is running out of space every time its images / videos. Even when you look at an app that is like 400 MB its not 400 MB of code, its like 350 MB of images and 50 MB of code.
I don't mean to be snarky, but there's always a weight listed on stuff, I think that removes the requirement for carrying a food scale?
Complexity in software is bad, things can be bad and necessary. It's bad in itself, but sometimes it can provide new functionality...
Oh look at Mr. “I pay legitimate streaming services for all my tv shows and movies” over there. (=

I have a 12 TB NAS that is 99% full at the moment. Should I delete movies I may want to watch later, knowing full well they aren’t easily available on the streaming services I pay for? Ha.

It fills fast!
Well-spoken and connected dude with MIT and Jane Street on his resume
Induction sensors are being phased out for cameras which I have observed do a much better job. For example magnetic sensors will “shut off” the lane if there’s too much space between turning cars, camera systems on the other hand allows for all the waiting vehicles to turn before shutting off.
After Snowden, I realized there are two types of security: the one that protect your from high-profile black hats, and the one that protects you from governments.

I just want to be protected from criminals and other black hats that only do harm. It's pointless to be protected from the government, because I want real criminals to get caught. The chilling effect is real, but I still don't want criminals to hack me, and so far it seems things are okay, and online ads are more worrying than the NSA.

What's worrying with this NSA story, is how politics can influence with justice, when agencies use their powers for political gain but it doesn't seem the NSA is really using it on the US political scene.

However, the US abuse its power on the international scene, so it spies on its allies or even work with large US corporation to loot other countries. That's a real problem.

At the end of the day, lay people will just argue that what the NSA does is to preserve American dominance, so it must be good.

So in the end, the NSA and digital surveillance is never the problem, the problem has not changed, the problem is how the US behaves on the planet.

But ask yourself this question: do you trust your government? I'm not american, the US scares me, and I trust the US government. Even Trump could not do all the damage he wanted.

So in the end, the Snowden story only resonates with libertarians who fears that the US government will turn into a fascist soviet empire. It's not cyber surveillance that will do it. They should learn more about politics and history. Technology isn't everything.
IMHO in The Gatekeepers [0] six former heads of Israeli internal security service Shin Bet in 2012 more or less predicted the current turmoil in Israel.

I saw from their eyes how our Israeli leaders really don’t want to solve the Israel-Palestian problem. … I think the Palestinian leaders suffer from the same horrible disease.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gatekeepers_(film)
A completely foreseeable outcome when bad policies are perpetuated by moral narcissists.
Over 30 years, and you could name five things. That's not the bad track record you think it is.