skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That example reminds me of some follow-on commentary:

> And the only thing I would add is a few other scenarios. The third scenario: A person says to themselves "I'm going to go out and buy a crowbar to [...]" and then I go out and buy a crowbar. Still not a crime because there's no conspiracy, i.e. an agreement with another person.

> [...] And then there's the fourth scenario: A person says to themselves "I'm going to go out and buy a crowbar to [...]", buys the crowbar, and and then actually starts hitting people [...] Now there's still no conspiracy, but you've taken a substantial step towards the crime and and likely completed the crime and you're guilty of the initial crime.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIhNmoZLJQ&t=3m00s
I've seen more native pollinators when I've gone looking than honeybees. I can't tell you what that means. Maybe the native pollinators are eating the things that honeybees don't like that the native pollinators don't like either but it's all that's left. But in the hill country in Texas wet Springs produce endless fields of flowers for months. The flowers around my hives never seemed to be devoid of pollen or nectar (you can imagine that I go looking). I think there's enough forage, at least around here.
Eh, I just call that "good design" under most circumstances.
Any security engineer would have a heart attack if any employee, friend, or colleague said "security audit stuff [doesn't] matter." I wouldn't use software that doesn't undergo security audits.

Also, pentest ≠ audit. Completely different!
I haven't actually needed access so haven't tested this yet, but a month ago an AWS rep told me that priority went to folks who were willing to make up-front commitments; the longer-term, the better. He implied that there was a serious shortage.
One of the biggest users of Tornado Cash was Vitalik. He was not using it as a criminal, so there are some valid use cases outside of criminal behavior.
I’ve slowly moved towards pushing any serious modifications of my system to a container or vm. The cost of messing something up, in terms of lost productivity alone, just isn’t worth it.
No, I'm not joking. We do have this option, and it's consistent with the defaults across private mail providers. Still waiting for your list of the ones that don't load images by default.

It does not load the images. That's just patently false disinfo.
In the second photo I rolled, the generated human had legs that ended in hands instead of feet.
Paperwork is the same, but other work is not.

The time, and marketing, costs of a property tend to go up with price. If I'm buying a 12 bedroom mansion, I'm going to expect a lot more photos, better staging, and so on in the marketing compared to a 1 bed apartment.

Equally small, cheap, properties are likely to sell faster (bigger buying pool) than more expensive ones. That $20m mansion is going to take a lot more visits than the $200k apartment.

In other words, there is sufficient variability in the cost of selling to warrant a sliding fee. And generally the best way to do that is as a % of the sale. A % BTW which is negotiable based on how fast the realtor thinks the property will sell, and the sale price expected.
FAANGs can be _really accomodating_ money-wise if they badly want you. The initial offer is normally final except when it is not.
The idea is that you would buy other books to read on your ereader between best sellers that you were interested in. This isn't exactly rocket science...

The "holding costs" is precisely why the publishers stuck to the wholesale contract, and is why I brought it up. They kept the same terms and added ebooks to the deal. Then got upset when Amazon took advantage of that. (And... I noted that that is a silly model here.)

And you did bring up the idea that Amazon was a monopolists here. Which I pointed out was incoherent to the topic. Apologies for letting you continue it. :(
>>82.6% were aged 15 to 19 years<<

this age cohort is being referred to as children, rather than adolescents
What does "leaving a jurisdiction" mean? Can Tornado Cash "leave the US jurisdiction" as well and will then be left alone?

Will you support the UK if they ask for the extradition of Signal developers, on the basis that say Signal will continue to have UK users accessing their service?

Where are your values?
If CEOs had their way, even the janitors and helpdesk would be "innovative" and they need to bounce ideas off of each other most of the day to do that.

I swear, it isn't just CEOs but most humans just cannot fathom or think of others as living in a completely different headspace. The opposite end is service workers thinking CEOs are overpaid because they sit in a nice office and order people around.

Never wish another person's turd out your arsehole as george washington put it.
I don't know. It's telling enough to me that they drive horribly. I would look at stats instead if they were known and if there were a statistically meaningful number of Cruise cars, but there are only 100-300 in SF.
Getting all those leather jackets cleaned is expensive!
Whilst not as effective as an alcohol wash, a sugar shake will show you some number of varroa, without killing (m)any bees. At the very least it'll show you if you've got lots of mites in your hive, but might report a false negative at low numbers.
I have found I remember my notes better when they are handwritten. Even when they are messy and semi-legible.
Don’t get high on your own supply
Any indication of whether the vague “2023” promise for the large swathe of Eastern United States availability will actually come to fruition? Or is it like Autopilot in that it will perpetually be 6 months in the future?
This reminds me of a conversation I frequently have with my dad and family. I have my cash investments in a cash plus account, earning 4.7% interest. They're all hooked on T-bills and laddering, which has a current rate of 5.55%. I'm finishing my PhD program so don't have a large investment. Let's say $10k for easy math. At 4.7% that's $480.26 on return, while 5.55% is 569.34, a difference of ~$90. In my cash account, I am: FDIC protected, can withdraw and deposit money at any time, and am able to employ a "set and forget" strategy. With the T-bill method I need to lock my money in for 6 months at a time and realistically laddering this decreases my gains. I have to be quite active to perform this. Here's the question, is that time worth $90? To me, no. I'd much rather spend that time doing my PhD work or taking breaks to do things like visit HN. Not worry about my finances and squabble over money that isn't significantly meaningful and is small compared to my expectation in a few years. Any time spent following the active strategy is time that would be better invested investing in my PhD work, where the expectation of return is several hundred thousand of dollars a year. Even were my investment 10x, we are talking the difference of <$900, but the FDIC protection carries far more weight here (coverage up to $1.25M).

This is a common mistake I see in all types of modeling (stock investing, time estimation, quality assurance, etc) and is exactly the same game afoot here. Like the article says, we assume a recruiter's interests are aligned with ours since the more money we make the more money they make. But this is a poor model because we are not our recruiter's only prospect. And, like the article discusses, their returns are diluted. The recruiter's more optimal strategy is to not hold all their eggs in one basket. To diversify and operate on quick turnover rather than a not-so-golden goose. External costs and auxiliary factors often play critical roles in models.

The devil is always in the details. Nearly everyone I talk to believes that a first order solution is at worst non-optimal, but relatively aligned with the target function's trajectory. But when we look deeper and include nuance, we actually realize that our first order approximation is in the opposite direction! I hear "don't let perfection get in the way of 'good enough'" or similar cliques. But there is such a thing as having too naive of a model. Many functions necessitate even considerable "nuance" (orders of approximation), as an example sin(x). The real world is far more complex than the sine function. It thus necessitates understanding the limitations of our approximation, rather than simply approximating.

Don't let "good enough" get in the way of __good enough__.

Nuance isn't equivalent to pedantry.
Quebec to ban 'distracting' cellphones from classrooms
Try doing things with large amounts of cash, and see what happens.

Take a million dollars and buy something with it. Even just depositing 10k in a bank account gets reported to the feds, and possibly investigated (And using lower amounts is illegal under structuring.)

That's setting aside the instances of civil asset forfeiture where money is seized because driving with large amounts of cash is assumed to be the product of a crime.

So yeah, whether it's a good policy or not, it definitely seems to be the view.
Dear @garrinm Firstly, thank you for sharing this!
We built something like this at work, and i'd love if you could share details on your effort.

I tried to follow: https://github.com/clint-llm/clint-cli/blob/main/clint/scrip... but it wasnt clear -- are you indexing the medical literature in entirety or just abstracts?

We tried to do this with arXiv and others, but getting commercial rights was difficult and we got stuck on that, could you share which medical literature source you used.

I tried to follow the code and it looks like you embed, so i'm assuming you're using RAG, is that it, or are you trying to fine-tune also? I didnt see any fine-tune code. (We didnt fine tune due to cost)

Did you benchmark different embedding chunk sizes, etc?
(Yes for us! We've tried a matrix search of chunk sizes, including sliding window and found the sweet spot for different types of media, usually a single paragraph)

Did you manage to get access to a fine-tuned model like MedPALM and benchmark that? (we are still awaiting access)
The problem with remote work is management not employees.

ICs job is literally to work not to come up with innovative new ideas to advance the company. Thats what MANAGERS AND EXECUTIVES ARE SUPPOSED TO DO and the ICs implement those ideas.

For some reason it's expected now for IC s to be doing managements jobs and for that reason they need to be coming into the office for collaboration?

The managers and executives are the ones who meed to be going into the office to collaborate.

Good management would come up with the ideas and efficiently break it down so that ICs can take the work and run with it no collaboration needed.

No this is all about control and 'cultural fit' shaming to fear people into doing their jobs rather than being a good manager that is capable of distributing work in an efficient way and treating people in a way that people are inspired to do great work for you a thousand miles away even without any supervision.

It's a lot more difficult to be a manager that people follow out of respect and love vs a manager people follow out of fear and constant monitoring.
I believe Eric is right. It's often the moments before or after the scheduled meeting when the side conversations happen that build relationships. Sometimes the insight comes 20 minutes after the meeting ends and you walk up to the person at their desk and keep going (even though there is no scheduled meeting). These things are still possible remotely over zoom, but they don't hit the same. In 3 years I think I've answered 3 zoom cold calls (from people I knew). The real value to the company of being in office is unstructured time together.

All that said, I fall into the camp of lets get in-person together once a quarter to plan and then execute remotely. We can meet up occasionally in between somewhere awesome (not in an office).
> Well there's a major difference here. [Money]

I'd also like to interject that "Productivity" metrics are almost never some kind of efficiency of human potential to create civilization against a hostile universe. They're b(i)ased on what the employer spends.

So even if a study says an employee is X% more "productive" at the office, that means ignoring all the time/money spent commuting, since that's typically shouldered entirely by employees.

So watch out for people conflating "employers get a better deal" with "offices are good for society."
The claim in question is that they are genetically predisposed to, that that they’re simply predisposed to.
We are pre-trained by billions of years of evolution.
BioWare developed the Infinity Engine, BG1 and BG2. Interplay was the publisher. Black Isle was an internal division of Interplay and box label. Black Isle developed Icewind Dale 1 & 2, and Planescape: Torment using the Infinity Engine.
Looks like that’s the case, yes. Still, that’s a reporting requirement, not a limit.
It depends what you mean or want by way of introduction. Are you interested at all in how your CPU does what it does and why, or were you interested in the "learn x86, ARM and RISC-V" tag-line that was originally on the book title. Do you imagine you will read this book and be writing all your software in assembler straight after? That won't happen, most likely - if you want that and insist you do, I'd suggest the flatassembler forums.

The COD book I recommended was recommended to me by an EE undergrad who took it on one of their courses, and I think it is suitable as an introduction to how computers actually work, with plenty of real-world examples and mentions of architecture features that indicate specific tradeoffs. Of course, whether that is suitable is really going to depend on the person reading it.

The Packt book looks like it might be attempting to do the same thing - except I am slightly worried it likely digresses a bit into virtualization, self driving cars and quantum computers (based on the Packt TOC and github repo). I'm going to say this is scope creep - I don't know how deep it goes into virtualization, but personally I think understanding how x86 does virtualization is much less useful than understanding the wider problem of how to partition hardware. If it doesn't say LPAR somewhere in there or discuss mainframes, I'd be disappointed. Self-driving cars do not, in my opinion, belong in a book on how modern computers work, and I'm not sure the author's experiments with IBM's quantum computer cloud thingabob are really what I want out of such a book either.

That said, I've not read the Packt book and I can't say anything about the earlier content. I have read the COD book - but I wish I'd come across it earlier than I did. Still, I got something out of it.

Some graduate textbooks are highly specialized and for niche fields - my formal education is in mathematics and I can definitely say this about some graduate maths books - but this is not one of them. I think it is widely applicable to anyone who a) wants an introduction to how computers do their stuff or b) already broadly knows, but has some gaps and wants to fill them in.
Bias in surveys is an interesting and hard problem to think about, but not really a new one. Seems to me like the typical demographic control approaches would work here too.
the very act of writing it down by hand helps commit the contents to long term memory
Worth noting this is some straight up psycho behavior.
The indictment says they knew they were laundering proceeds of a specific hack, by a specific group.

See page 24

Not "they created a tool and it got misused" but instead "these specific criminally sanctioned folks are using our tool to launder 600 million dollars, and we know, should we do something about that?"

Their messages back up that they know it was being used in a specific instance, by criminals, to launder money, and they did nothing.

Sorry, no sympathy.
I'm with you that we need to ensure tools are available, and i'm even okay arguing about KYC/etc.

But when you have specific, actual, knowledge that a criminal actor is using your tool to launder money, and you do nothing, sorry, that's just aiding and abetting.
Honestly how many companies are actually innovating, most of the time people are just imitating. I don’t use Zoom but have used Microsoft Teams for the last few years and basically nothing has changed in the app. All their “innovation” is just junk features that they remove from the app 3 months later. They have all this data on how people use the app. How haven’t I improved my productivity at work 10x using this app everyday?
A .zip website? Yuck
This is not the first or the last case of CEOs not using/trusting their own products, Zuckerberg covering the camera, Jobs banning his kids from using iPads, Gates limiting his kids’ tech use, and list goes on.
I think it's easiest to remember that -L listens on a local port whose number comes right after, and -R listens on a remote port whose number comes right after.

Then the rest (the host:port) is just the normal way to tell where to connect.

Since we're doing port forwarding over an SSH tunnel, it's obvious that the host is contacted from the other side of the tunnel than where the listening port is.
Thanks! Yes, to be clear I was rewriting it in Swift which I'm new at, so I appreciate the expert advice there.
No, in this analogy the punishment is aimed at Nike employees who after creating a shoe for kicking puppies also operated puppy-kicking-as-a-service with that shoe.

The people charged are the subset of the Tornado Cash devs who ran the service, not for solely developing some code.
Sorry, I'm not best with social cues. Thank goodness for companies that hire local weirdos like me!
I literally just replaced my GTX 970 a week ago. Fantastic GPU, lasted me a good ten years. Baldur's Gate 3 finally got me to update it, which it could run it but I dunno a new game got me excited. It ran Elden Ring just fine last year though.
Right to Repair law can now be enforced in Massachusetts as feds reverse course
> Translation

Certainly not

That is quite divorced from what I wrote given that the model I presented is dependent upon accounting for modes of failure.

> Oh, and in a parallel thread, a error I'm sure you would never make /s

Quite the irony give littlestymaar is following a similar model as I am.
> The main question recruiters ask up front about money is: “What are your compensation expectations?” They claim that it’s because they want to make sure that you’re not so far off in your expectations that interviewing with that company would be a waste of time. This is a nonsense reason — very few companies pay so much below market that it would be a nonstarter. Those companies know who they are, and they know to give you a heads up that they pay below market.

This contradict my own experience with companies who pay below market trying to mitigate this by lowballing with an even more below market offer, acting surprised at the market salary you say you're interested in, and then making a show of reaching deep into their coffers to make you a "generous" offer that's closer to (but still below) market.
Yes I have.
I am writing about it for a thesis so I've been looking for as much specificity as I can get regarding it, which is why the things I have seen thus far haven't exactly cut it for me.

Yes, I have also seen this post if anyone was about to ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20651210

Any information regarding the topic is appreciated and needed, thanks!
> However, Bowser now has to fulfil the other part of his sentence, in which he has been ordered to pay $14.5 million in damages, of which a $10 million payment to Nintendo is considered the priority.

> Bowser has paid $175 of the $14.5 million damages owed to date

After decades of kidnapping women and terrorizing the Mushroom Kingdom, Bowser finally faced justice for...circumventing DRM.
Re: that last quote, I'm not sure they could have done a better job of copying the Macintosh at the time, except in a very crude way.

Microsoft was targeting 16-bit Intel CPUs which required a coprocessor for floating point support. That's a huge constraint on what you can practically do, compared to the Mac's 68k.

Hardware is probably the biggest reason Windows was garbage until Windows 95, where they jumped ahead of Mac OS with preemptive multitasking etc.
What was the severance offer?
Sure, I don't see why not if they were willing to put in the same amount of time your kid did. That is basically how you acquire language when you move into a culture. The value of classes, IMHO, is marginal, especially before you have some gross concept of the structure of the language.
They’re not being charged for the design:

> As alleged, when it became clear that a sanctioned North Korean cybercrime organization was using the platform to launder hundreds of millions of dollars derived from cyber heists, Storm and Semenov turned a blind eye to the illicit activity and made public representations that they were compliant with sanctions laws.

Now, we don’t know how much evidence they have about that knowledge but federal prosecutors usually don’t bring cases like this speculatively. I would be surprised if they didn’t have specific example of them clearly being aware of that information and choosing not to act - for a relatively high-profile case they’re not going to want the embarrassment of losing.

EDIT: Tracking down the actual PDF has things like this:

> 59. ROMAN STORM, ROMAN SEMENOV, the defendants, and CC-1 were fully aware within days of the Ronin Network hack that the proceeds of the hack were in fact being deposited into the Tornado Cash service. For instance, on or about April 4, 2022, a reporter sent an email to an email address used by all three Tornado Cash founders asking for comment on the Ronin Network hack, in which the reporter included a link to a blockchain analytics website and stated that "it appears that these hackers are trying to use Tornado.cash to launder stolen funds."

> 67. ROMAN STORM and ROMAN SEMENOV, the defendants, and CC-1 well knew that the Tornado Cash service was continuing to launder proceeds of the Ronin Network hack held in the Lazarus Group's 0x098B716 Address. On or about April 30, 2022, SEMENOV sent a message to STORM and CC-1 through the Encrypted App with a link to a blockchain analysis
showing that 15% of all of the deposits into the Tornado Cash service over the preceding three
months had come from the Ronin Network hack. The analysis also showed that more than 90% of
all the deposits into the Tornado Cash service for which a source could be identified during that same time period were attributable to criminal exploits.

https://www.justice.gov/media/1311391/dl

90% is a pretty large number, and that pattern of ongoing knowledge is significant, too. As an analogy, if I run a bike shop and some dude brings in a stolen bike, I’m not getting arrested but that’s not true if 90% of the bikes in my shop are from the same dodgy guys the cops are looking for.
AUI752 was shot down by Iranians, not Russians. They happened to be using gear bought from Russia, but that's not really important.

MH17 wasn't shot down by the Russian military either, but independent rebels. Basically Russia gave anti-aircraft equipment to disorganized yahoos, who then proceeded to do disorganized yahoo things with it. Surprised Pikachu face.

All of this could have happened with US equipment too; the equipment wasn't at fault, the choices people made were at fault, and those choices weren't (directly) made by the Russian military.

That said, friendly fire has happened in combat zones (e.g. [1]), but this is ... kind of normal and happens in any armed force, and Prigozhin's plane wasn't anywhere near a combat zone. It's still possible it was mistaken for a drone or missile (especially as there have been missile attacks), but I don't know ... seems a little to coincidental it just so happens to be Prigozhin's plane, especially with the history of people inconvenient to Putin falling out of windows, down stairs, ending up with radioactive material in their possession without their knowledge, brutally accidentally cutting of their own head while combing their hair, etc.

[1]: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/07/russia-shot-down-it...