skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in particular the United States, bears the burden of their relationship

sure except there were groups in the new Thirteen Colonies that were adamantly, ardently, and had always been, against the slave trade. The distinction between those that engaged in slave trade and those that did not and were against it, could not have been more vivid. Yet somehow now the powerful, financially succesful and English speaking USA gets collective responsibility for all Atlantic slavery. Where does that leave the culture, practices, efforts and lineage of the people in the USA that were against it at every stage? You cannot collectively pronounce guilt like that. It was certain actors, who wielded authority and weapons quite well also, to make it plain.
Sooo, even AI possess bias, and this is actually not that surprising considering the source of it's "knowledge" and the lack of an ability to possess wisdom beyond what a trainer can provide. I wonder if there is a way to predict the bias based upon on training text, methods and the trainer. Of course this could also be said of the study's methods as well. How did they eliminate bias?
I'm actually not sure of any science fiction shows I think are a reasonable depiction of the future. I guess Generation Kill with slightly different equipment for the soldiers and IED/drone jammers stuck to everything?
Holy shit it's Soldat in the quake engine. Dude that's cool. Totally giving that a bash with friends if we ever LAN again.
Trusting any of Microsoft, Google, or Apple... ngmi
At the risk of veering into crackpot territory, this operation is extremely profound and shows up in an absurd number of places.

For example, imagine you like the number three, so you want to make a three letter alphabet (ternary, which has the optimal radix economy amongst integers) — the simplest way to do it is to connect the 3rd row of Pascal’s triangle (1, 2, 1) to the popcount of two bits. And lo, you have trits! Coincidentally, this maps 4D onto 3D in such a way that there are two different spins to the number one: 01 or 10. Hmmm…where have we seen “spin” before?

It’s interesting to entertain the possibility that simple properties of the simplest possible strings of the simplest possible languages could explain all kinds of physical phenomena. And why wouldn’t they?

Also, HAMTs are incredible, so if the only thing you could do with popcount was make HAMTs, it would already be incredible.

Such a seemingly silly and mundane thing, how many hands are raised, how many coins flipped heads, how many voted for this or that candidate, I guess it’s just a tally function, but damn if I didn’t find myself astounded by the usefulness of popcount earlier this year. Not surprising to see it on hacker news. Great article, and timely.

Now, will someone please tell me how popcount is involved in neural coding?

Maybe it’s literally everywhere, even inside our own minds. Neurons vote for the presence of features, tally the votes, you can simplify your data substantially by not giving a bleep about whose hands are raised and instead only care about how many of them you can see.

That’s also why the second law of thermodynamics is, as Arieh titled his book, plain common sense. The more coins you flip, the more ways you can flip the same popcount total (a dim event), even though there might be many different combinations of heads and tails in various possible coin flip sequences (specific event).

So, yeah. Cheers to this one!
I had a great conversation with him. Very smart in some areas and context aware.
http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/Code_Inflation.pdf

Is it this one?
It was only a matter of time. I bought mine for this reason, and I realize that when the time comes to replace it, I will have to find another vendor, if one even exists, since Brother no longer waves that banner of openness.
Ask HN: Who is innovating in the defense industry currently?
Interested in learning more about companies (startups) who are innovating in the defense space. I'm aware of Anduril and some of their product offerings.

Palmer Luckey's approach to building Anduril is impressive and I appreciate his approach to building products that are both innovative and integrated into legacy defense systems, while focusing on a better pricing/subsidy model.

Any other companies outside of the big 5 defense companies that I should be aware of?
Scheme to protect hen harriers in England a waste of money, says charity
It’s also out of range for most people outside of SV. There are definitely jobs paying $180k where I am (Southeast US), but they aren’t anywhere near entry-level and also aren’t abundant.
I don't trust the GPL anymore after the RedHat debacle revealed the GPL allows you to charge for access to the source.
It’s supposed to be an oral version of Allopregnanolone. I’d definitely be a little bit more comfortable with it than with zolpiderm, which we tried to transition everyone off of if possible.
Woefully lacking on details. The immediate question is whether this falsification has anything to do with the SVB collapse or if it was just an isolated attempt at profiteering.
Perfect, now we have a common definition.

So let's see:

> Poland studied this, and found about 40% had lied about their age in the refugee wave 2007-2018.

You might not be able to read Polish, so I'll help you understand this article.

It refers to a German investigation (your link is just a Polish news outlet citing the German investigation) done by the University Hospital of Münster.

They found that 234 cases [1] (that's the 40%) in 12 years, of all cases that were reevaluated had lied about their age in order to get better chances at asylum approval. However, they only included cases for re-evaluation that were already looking suspicious.

It's not "40% of migrants lie about their age". The "study" was not published or at least isn't online.

So let's see what happened.

The Merkel administration had to deal with a surge of asylum seekers.

Some of them claimed false ages to get a better chance in the approval process.

Some courts and Jugendämter in Germany noticed that. People at UKM in Münster re-analysed some suspicious looking cases, and talked about methods for improvement of age determination.

Wouldn't you agree that the system worked? A problem was diagnosed, and measures were introduced to solve the problem.

Now, the AfD's trick is to not tell their voters what's happened since then: The numbers for people seeking asylum went downhill after 2016, so the problem didn't exist anymore, at all [2].

What we're dealing with now are mostly war refugees from Ukraine.

Now, AfD's trick is now to convince people that the amount of fake refugees in itself is problematic, without giving specific numbers, and without telling how it's problematic, and why. They make it seem as if it's a real problem that exists, and as if it's being ignored (it's not, as we see by the scientists trying to solve it)

[1] https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2019-09/studie-minderjaehri...

[2] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/76095/umfrage...
Scarecrow and Mrs. King was a fun show. Sort of a precursor to Chuck, I think.
Text-only:

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Investment Lessons from 400 Years of “Confusion of Confusions”
Can a 350 year old book, the first of its kind about stock market trading be considered an indispensable guide to modern investors?
> Your criticism is unfair.

I think it doesn't even get close to being a criticism, and it's certainly unclear if the goal is to literally clone SQLite or to implement SQLite-ish. This is a fair question.
Kia ora from Tauranga

100%. There are 2 NZ employment markets. Those working for NZ companies in the $100k region, and those working for US firms for the $200+k region.

I've had an annoying time explaining this to past US employers when they present median values for NZ salary fudge factors.
I wonder how much profit the VP made during his tenure and as part of the insider trading. It seems like the cost of that benefit is $11,300 ($10K fine + $1.3K special assessment) and 15 months in prison which I assume will be a "nicer" prison.

White collar crime seems to pay well, and the consequences don't seem too harsh.

Edit: the $11.3K and 15 months is for falsifying documents. I don't know if he had a separate fine for the insider trading.
More people than just you are starting to feel that way:

"I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need for holistic systems"
https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...

This also talks about how you need a boot processor to do things like train up the RAM interface just so you can boot the main processor.
Strange article. It seems to imply that air-conditioners and heat-pumps are two different animals. But all air-conditioners are just heat-pumps. They just work one-way only. For a few extra bucks, the so-called 'heat-pump' merely has the capability to direct the hot and cold air-flows in the opposite direction.

(In other words, if you took that window-installed air-conditioner and reinstalled it to face the other way in autumn, it would blow the cold air outside in Winter and the hot-air inside.)
As I got further through the thread: someone had the same idea 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24788932
This is not private. It's still hosted on Microsoft's cloud.
Nitrogen fill on the tires. Complete bullshit. It's a marketing company
> I've been around long enough to remember several supposed "raptures" that were going to happen.

What are you referring to? If it's some hysteria affecting the members of an opt-in religious group then that's hardly relevant to the discussion.
Agree regarding the details - I'm guessing unrelated given the indictment was over a year before the collapse "On Jan. 13, 2022, a federal grand jury indicted Gad"
Yes, Sweden (Stockholm) at least is similar. I think Italy and Greece's problems are more just that they're poor and underdeveloped, so it's more like poor areas of the US than rich areas. But they don't have nearly the self-defeating housing planning systems of the UK.

I'm told Greece has some interesting housing typologies (polikatoikia):

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/the-desig...
Now that, at least, is probably true. Pathetic, but true.
"On Jan. 13, 2022, a federal grand jury indicted Gad, charging him with three counts of tampering with documents, three counts of tampering, six counts of identity theft and one count of criminal contempt, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. The 36-year-old pleaded guilty to all charges without a plea agreement."

The SVB bank collapse was in March 2023 -- over a year later -- so this would be a completely unrelated matter.
Calling something a psyop is just a meme. But it is true that everybody has a perspective they want to promote. People have the ability to think and speak more or less objectively to differing levels, but people don’t tend to say things unless the want other people to think those things are true. If somebody makes a claim that is substantially different from your own experience of reality, it’s perfectly reasonable to ask yourself why does that person want me or others to think that that is true?

I can also create a roughly accurate flow chart to demonstrate this: “does this person want me to believe something that aligns with their own agenda/perspective/goals?” -> “yes”.
I'm afraid that's not how employment markets work. As an employee you are in a competitive environment and worth what at least one employer is willing to pay you. How that relates to the value you generate for the employer is largely irrelevant in an employer's market and that is what we have today. If you want to price based on value then you might consider a different path that leads to more of a B2B relationship such as entrepreneurialism, contracting or freelancing. The traditional alternative would be something like unionisation and collective bargaining but I don't see that happening effectively for software developers any time soon.
>> wouldn’t want to have a family right now…

People had families during economic downturns, wars and famines. It is also a long term commitment so there are going to be bad times no matter when you decide to take the plunge.
If only there were ways to get superior versions of games that don't have these lousy, baked-in restrictions that break a perfectly good set of bits...
U.S. doctors’ salaries have been higher than anywhere else in the world for the last 5+ decades.

It all depends how effectively you can lobby for your rights & prevent foreign competition (and control the pipeline of new entrants / gatekeep / keep your industry profitable)
You are right. Engineers are the ultimate scapegoat. Which is why engineers hate management in this industry. Nobody likes "leaders" who will throw reports under the bus when the time comes.

The only way out is for engineers to spend more time recognizing a manager falling off the cliff and switching teams/companies. Doing actual work is not enough to protect one from politics.
IME consulting is where you can really win in a market like this. Especially moonlighting. If you can find an extra 10 hours per week reliably to work on something you can easily supplement your income by $60k or more. It’s not guaranteed to be interesting work, but there’s no shortage of people just trying to get a new thing over the finish line or an keep an old thing afloat for a bit longer. It’s a good value for the company because they don’t have to hire a “whole” developer, and it’s easier for especially smaller organizations to bucket all your hours into either CapEx or OpEx based on the project.
Where I used to work, IT staff were treated like garbage. The HR folks and project managers all got huge pay increases, while the increases for tech staff was always less than the increase in cost of living. So I left, started contracting, and now I'm making more than the directors in that old place. I drive a luxury car with very available option, but just to keep me in my place, I just went outside and found a flock of about 60 billion birds have crapped all over it. Stupid universe. /shakes fist
And it's a practical guarantee that something like this will never happen again. The wise man learns from his mistakes.
At Def Con the EFF had a talk on just this addressing abortion rights and the means of the state to use your digital footprints against you if you decide to go to a other state for services.

I guess the saying should be "you may not have anything to hide until the moment you do"
> And how do we strengthen the system?

According to the founder of the migrant sea rescue NGO Mission Lifeline [1], by importing more immigrants and giving them voting rights, to overwhelm the native population's vote:

If there had been enough immigration from abroad (e.g., by abolishing the visa requirement for Afghans and other persecuted people), and if these people had been given the right to vote immediately, (the German district of) Sonneberg would not be an issue today. Therefore: Open the borders! - https://twitter.com/Axel_Steier/status/1673019802523254785

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Lifeline
When unemployment systems malfunctioned during the pandemic, COBOL was blamed. But what really failed?
The falsified documents have nothing to do with SVB or the insider training. They were character letters to try to reduce his sentence on the insider trading charges. Frankly, the submitted article is misleading.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-bank-vice-presid...
I am rewatching Stargate with my 9yo. She loves it. It introduces a lot of sci-fi, science, culture, political, and humanitarian topics that are fun to talk with her about. We're somewhere in season 3, so definitely in its prime. TBD how the later seasons go. It can get pretty intense for a 9yo, but it always comes out light hearted and a pretty good message. I intentionally skipped ~2 scenes and maybe one episode from the first season, but really everything else has been fine for a more mature kid.

I finished watching B5 and making my way through Farscape. At the moment it just doesn't come close to what I think she gets out of the Stargate franchise. B5 story was good, not probably not for someone new to sci-fi. Farscape I am still reserving judgement.
A single person cannot guard 15 acres of crops. The arrogance is the assumption that the farmers are so stupid that they didn't even try this "simple solution" that would never work.
> imgproxy server that needs to run somewhere publicly available, be kept alive and secure

Why make this runtime instead of a prepublish script (even a git commit hook or CI action)? Doesn't seem like your images would ever change so it introduces a point of failure, but I guess relieves you of ever thinking about images again?
Perhaps this cliche should be changed to "I've got nothing confidential."
The justice.gov article has more insights than the news article. From what I can tell, he initially got off on probation for insider trading instead of prison due to 12 letters of references vouching for his character, and he altered/falsified 6 of them. Seems like isolated attempt at profiteering, but I also wonder if this helped contribute to the collapse as well.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-bank-vice-presid....
The fact you think it is obvious and the fact it is not implemented should mean it is flawed in an obvious way for those facing the problem. It is indeed arrogant to think that naive armchair solutions should be considered seriously.
Let's bring back the pen plotter. It can use a lot of the existing parts and software now being made for 3D printers but changing the filament head to a pen carriage.
All bankers are nefarious.
People are doing short certifications for security and immediately earning more than people who racked up $100K debts over 4 year computer science degrees. Everything you need to work in IT (except actual science and engineering roles) can be learned through the Internet and experience, for free. There's no value in a university debt for such.
In which case another developer will build them. Assuming the numbers make sense.

Either way refusing to allow apartments to be built because you fear they will be "luxury" is dumb. It just means that the only people who get to live there are the really rich who can afford a full-sized house.
https://archive.is/ay8qb
Ultimately, the only things that matter are outcomes. So Burning Man is primarily an anti-geothermal meeting, most environmentalists are primarily pro-climate-change, and the NRC is an anti-nuclear-power organization.

I model people by what they accomplish and I have found that this is an accurate way to see how they'll behave, and this is what I have found.

Revealed preferences manifest through action alone. One can always construct reasons couched in any language to support / prevent anything.
The first thing that authoritarian and fascist states create is the police with extra judicial powers. Like flies and shit, they are always found together.
Where do people find jobs in the US that can be done from outside the US?

The few job boards I've seen all have either low salaries, or are US-only...
And strangely enough, the goal of these articles is never to increase the number of Americans trained for these plentiful jobs. The idea is always to bring more workers from other countries, so the industry will have an easier time to pay lower salaries.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds was first published in 1841, so, um, maybe?
Data from numerous defectors is clear enough, Russian secret services don't normally employ female officers for client-facing work.
The delicate art of selling safety in a paranoid America
https://www.bfhelaw.com/blog/2021/03/surprising-facts-about-...

There is no such thing as an ‘easy’ prison

It really grinds my gears people perpetuate this. Federal prison is federal prison.
Sysadmin is no longer a role because now every commit has a little bit of sysadmin rolled in.

The larger systems, AWS Batch, K8S, Fargate, etc... have all replaced sysadmin with specific commits in specific TF files. There's no longer a need for someone to "watch" for servers to go down or discs to run out of space if everything is using the appropriate service.

If you're unaware of this, of course you won't have a sysadmin job going forward. 8 9's is now guaranteed if you just choose anything but us-east-1
I began using python as a way to "mock" out the overall design; intending to re-implement it in rust. The main reasoning for using python: was the ability to focus on "high-level" concepts and speed of tinkering.
This implements a single process, single thread, single connection database- so performance and low-level concurrency control were not explicit goals or really optimized for. For those (real-live concerns) rust or C++ are much better; but also come with their set of complexities.
Except that in the Farscape segment of Stargate's "200", Michael Shanks played John Crichton while Browder played Stark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNDdlCo4rA
> a few episodes are clearly setting up something Big and then just barely get referenced.

Usually because of cast availability -- Sinclair's girlfriend, f.ex. would have been caught on Z'ha'dum but the actor had to leave, so she was cut; the telepath switcharoo; etc
The big thing that caused all the differential was scan lithography vs step-and-repeat lithography.

The US companies made a bet that step-and-repeat was the future of photolithography. They were entirely correct, but it took longer than expected to make it work well and bring the cost down.

However, in the meantime, the Japanese continued refining scan photolithography and absolutely slaughtered the US companies on production cost.

Eventually, scan lithography ran out of gas and the situation reversed--the US companies were similar production cost and could produce chips that the Japanese couldn't even try without retooling everything.
"AI has hardly any penetration into society."

To clarify, I assume you are talking about Gen AI when you say "AI"?
They can levy fines on campaigns.
https://archive.is/WzgVx
TIS-100 is certainly far up there in "nerdiest game" rankings, and I must offer Bombe as well, the only game I know of that embeds Z3: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/
Unlike cookie clicker, this game can actually teach you something.
I'm from Canada so maybe this is more typical of the US, but does anyone else find these degree programs a bit odd? Like here, we get a degree in Computer Science, or in Biology, or in Life Sciences, or Health Sciences (I will say, those last three can get a bit weirdly specific) but I've never heard anyone say that they are getting a degree in 'Human and Community Development'. That seems so specific so as to reduce the value in getting a degree.
Historically, many scientists have dabbled in philosophy and many philosophers have done some science. Some were know for contributions in both areas (as well as mathematics).

Feynman may not have cared about philosophy, but plenty of other scientists did and do. Plus, philosophy doesn't necessarily have to justify itself in terms of "utility", because that just assumes that everything needs to have some ulterior motive and can't just be enjoyed for its own sake.