skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s a smart sociopath and the two things collide.

I wouldn’t say SBF is dumb, just that he was intelligent enough to get a crypto startup out of the ground, then he was sociopathic enough that the business ended up being a giant fraud machine.

He’s not like dumb dumb. It’s that his sociopathic tendencies prevent him of doing or continuing in any serious endeavour without taking supreme advantage of it. He was smart enough to make a business, but since he’s a sociopath he couldn’t deal with the fact that that business had to be reasonably honest, because to him people and money are just tools for him to get what he wants.

Im convinced by the trial and other info he is actually an EA, he just has a radically different understanding of what that means than you or me. For him, killing 500 people to save 500,000 is a no brainier, the same way stealing from millions of customers to save a company that can help tens of millions is just obviously correct.

He doesn’t care because he can’t care. It’s not in his DNA.
I guess you're right, the drama and competition is what draws viewers. An unlimited time-trial would still be pretty cool to watch, but a lot more niche.
Opus is doing this as well, right?
> Sure, but most of global harming pollution doesn't come from ICE cars and it won't be solved by people switching to EVs.

It's a necessary but not sufficient part of the solution. Solving all greenhouse gas sources in our world except the ones involved in switching from ICE to EV is nowhere near enough.

> EV evangelists should know that EV manufacturing is 70% more environmentally damaging than building ICE cars.

Manufacturing in general also needs to be made greener. Concrete, steel, etc. are, even by themselves, each such heavy emitters as to be environmentally unsustainable unless the tech is improved. Fortunately, other people are in fact working on those, they don't have to be on the same schedule as EVs.

Also, the main damage from cars isn't the manufacturing — over the vehicle lifetimes, the emissions from literally burning fuel far out-mass the manufacturing emissions.

> Also, mining enough materials to replace all ICE cars on the road today with EVs would literally obliterate the planet.

Not even close, and I don't know why your beliefs are so badly calibrated.

> So no, the reality is we literally can't all have EVs, or cars of any kind for that matter, if we really wish to save the planet, instead of pretending that we are just to sell EVs.

If we even attempt to solve greenhouse gas emissions just by reducing overall economic consumption, then whoever ignores that edict can trivially take over the world, because the "just be less rich" method requires returning to a pre-industrial-era society with a maximum sustainable global population of about 790 million, 90%-98% of whom are then at or under the UN extreme poverty threshold of 2.47 USD/day inflation-adjusted 2022 dollars.

No, the only sustainable solution is one that's sustainable by every measure: political and economic, not just environmental.
Can you link to me where lockdown mode would prevent this kind of attack ?
Maybe its irrational, but some people feel bad about creating a lot of plastic waste for one meal.
I use long linear ribbon softpots to build Open Sound Control controllers for my experimental instrument. (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nKFK_OhQv3k)

I feel that the very subtle control I get on these softpots would work well for expression control. It wouldn't be difficult to hook one up to a TRS and make a very good expression controller. The only thing missing may be the ability to stay a particular position, as depending on how you wire it, it would go to full on or off when you release your finger. I get around this in my OSC controllers because I do software based latching in my microcontroller code. Anyhoo, just passing that suggestion along to anyone fiddling around with DIY expression controllers.
Can't upvote this enough. This is going to kill small operators that might not be able to comply. Why not just let the leaded fuel users die from attrition naturally?
A type system like what a programming languages have doesn't make sense for databases.

For inserts, sure (but then, it's straightforward to use the host language for that).

But once you move beyond simple cases, data changes over time, not atomically. It's also common for data to be distributed. Static type system can handle either of these things.

If your database can't go down for the duration of a migration (which will need more time now, to type-check all the data), and you don't have a way to ensure all clients are updated at the same time also, then you can't use static type checking like programming languages have.
I absolutely agree that digital piracy isn't the same as physical theft. It can even improve sales.

My point is more that railing against small time media piracy while actual crimes are committed against human beings by big companies plays directly into the hands of those seeking to further the imbalance of power.
A New Generation of Mathematicians Pushes Prime Number Barriers
> a fair number of people I talked with back then thought she was absolutely brilliant and that her answers were the workings of a deeply complex mind.

I bet it's because she spoke with confidence. Stupid people follow confidence disregarding everything else.
OpenBSD: Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel
as a diesel engine mechanic ive always figured there was some amazing conspiracy about leaded avgas. Here on the ground, diesel regulations and formulations are basically a yearly theatricality. new scrubbers, new regenerators, fuels you can use and fuels you can never use, and special locations and applications for the fuels if you use them at all. The regulations are pretty rigorously developed and enforced.
It's almost as if reading trending blog posts isn't a great way to decide software architecture
Stress is a leading cause of inflammation. Financial insecurity causes stress and lack of free time to exercise or prepare meals. Hard to separate the variables.

The drive to eat and what is strongly influenced by gut biome. Fecal transplants have created new food preferences.

Even saying diet and exercise are the proximate cause may be an oversimplication. We know that the same level of activity and food intake can produce different results in different people. That doesn't violate thermodynamics. There are caloric expenditures that are not measured in such studies, like incomplete digestion and thermal regulation.

People shouldn't eat what they are eating, and they should have alternatives that are healthy for them (which also varies by person, but is almost never equal parts transfat and fructose with a petroleum based dye to make it pretty and to cut the sweetness, enough salt to cure a whole pig).
"Human connection does not scale" is succinctly expressed insight. You identify the follow on implications and what can be done to preserve it. Thank you.
One problem I have is recipe clustering by ingredients. I want to minimize the different ingredients I need to buy so I can get some economies of scale while shopping. I don't know of any service that does this, I have been thinking about building it for my website but I haven't figure out what is a good UI for it.
He's been plastered across the news. Embezzling a hundred million dollars will get you some notoriety.
I did a year of travel worldwide in over a dozen countries, and I had the most problems using my credit and debit cards in India. Particularly online, even at large, legitimate businesses like major airlines.

It becomes a tense situation when you are trying to buy a flight that you absolutely have to take, and despite 4 different credit/debit cards you still can't get any purchase on multiple different airlines go through! I even tried to go to the offices, but they were often difficult to find, non-existent, or just not open at the times you'd expect them to be. And good luck trying to purchase on a telephone, between trying to dial in international number, bad connections, and language issues!

FWIW, I had the most success with debit cards. I suspect it's because international companies feel more comfortable with cash in hand, vs. an American CC which can be easily charged back.
Well a big green tick for me on all those points. Thanks for being a voice of reason!
Not to mention the number of apps (and increasingly websites) which will require location services. So now you have a GPS location in India, and you're making credit card purchases alternating between USA IP's and India point-of-sale machines (and presumably sometimes Indian IP's for apps/sites that might block USA IP's) throughout the day.

As a fellow world traveler / international worker, I do still think this is wrong-headed on the part of the banks, but it's the current paradigm in which we all operate.

In the past it helped for me to call my banks and let them know I am traveling "for the next year" and to ease up on the fraud protection. But now with more and more layers of fraud protection, it's often not my bank that's the gatekeeper.

It's things like not being able to download a local version of an app, or not being able to get a local payment account (like as in UPI payments in India, I don't know if its hard for foreigners to get that specifically but in other countries it can be very difficult without being integrated into the local payment platforms)

P.S. - Re: location services...I like the catchphrase "Any device you truly own would lie on your behalf. If it won't lie for you, you don't own it." I should be able to tell my iPhone to report my location wherever I damn well want to pretend to be.
I'm not talking about how it works, but how it should work.
And that's one of the major concerns with tools like these. Besides the conceptual problems of spying on people's musings, when's the last time a heavily marketed "AI" tool turned out to be at all accurate?

It's one thing for the government to spy on your social media postings and decide you're a risk to the country, it's a whole 'nother thing for that to be an error because you posted about that "killer" concert or how a movie is "the bomb".

Given what we know of government contractors and their inflated claims about AI my bet is that this tool - however justifiable or not in its use - doesn't even actually work as advertised.
Mostly because the use of lead in fuels is something to avoid at all costs. I know a lot of GA people were VERY happy to hear that they approved G100UL. Leaded fuels aren't just toxic, but they also cause issues with airplanes such as lead fouling.

AVWeb did a couple videos on the subject here:

https://youtu.be/9F-WngVMJBQ?si=Qb_IYu4QwZlOTDCv

https://youtu.be/ovJBJjZTjsk?si=f2OwwZMmuEUTx6wL
There are two considerable points here:

1) this is a simple molecule, not an organism that can react to the threat. As you said, it would be interesting to be evaluate whether the antibodies actually have an effect, but they probably have, else they likely wouldn't have been detected at all.

2) the blood samples were taken from patients. It would be interesting to evaluate blood samples from the population at large.
Damn. The chemtrails people were right. For all the wrong reasons.
Apples initial fixes for spectre/meltdown were for safari only. They did not fix the rest of the OS for some time.
One can be a criminal fraud and inept at the same time so.
It's likely that every kilogram of lead you atomize into the air has a far worse impact on people and the environment than a kilo of lead in, for example, electronics, paint, or flashing.

Increased lead in crops grown within a few miles of airports has been noticed.[1].

As had reduced IQ's in children living near airports. [2]

[1]: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/344932499.pdf

[2]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2353962-children-living...
Serious question: what is the actual story or solution here?

Are food manufacturers breaking California law or not?

And given that it's the cacao beans themselves with lead and cadmium (not factory contamination or something), is the solution to test every batch from each farm individually, and then just throw half the beans into the garbage? Or shut down half the cacao farms worldwide because of tainted soil?

Or is this pretty much in line with food safety levels generally, there's nothing to be worried about, and California guidelines are overly strict?

I just find it unfortunate that the article presents all the facts but basically zero analysis or context.
Thank you! "Data catalog" is indeed the magic phrase I was looking for.
It’ll probably take another 10-20 years to outright ban it. Though the EPA might make it illegal to manufacture any engines that use leaded gas far sooner than that.

Now that there is an unleaded alternative, older planes will slowly replace their engines at the next engine rebuild. There is a grave pilot shortage already and the FAA loathes to make GA even more inaccessible than it already is so it’ll be a slow process.
There was a really nice post on doing this kind of thing with CRF back in 2015 [0]. Open source data, and code on github. Also a nice tutorial on structured prediction using CRF type models.

Would be interesting if you could prompt, LoRA distill, or use modern LLM tricks against a well-labeled and curated set, similar to how other tagging problems are handled with modern pretrained models.

[0] https://open.nytimes.com/our-tagged-ingredients-data-is-now-...
I've seen people use a few hundred lines of javascript to create full blown distributed systems that are offline and end to end encrypted and backed by sqlite. They only use the server as a glorified caching system to sync to\from. It's esoteric (logical clocks, conflict free replicated data types), but that's a hell of a lot more distributed than a client-server architecture and it's backed entirely with sqlite.
Gee, I wonder how the NYT got its hands on internal documents that reinforce Google’s public narrative, just days before they’re due to set out their defense in court. :)
I mean, brand new single-engine prop planes with modern fuel-injection systems are also running on leaded gas, so the fact that really old planes also are is kind of obvious/irrelevant. With a handful of exceptions, single-engine prop planes are only certified to run on 100-octane leaded gasoline. For many (maybe even most, but I don't know the exact numbers) certified aircraft there is no legal path to get it to run on any other type of fuel. Certain planes have supplemental type certificates to allow an expensive conversion but it's far from the norm.
It's greedy to want things for free that aren't available for free. You're right that greed is normal human behaviour, but that doesn't make it okay, let alone good.
False equivalence. This doesn't help advance the debate. The amount of olive oil in the average diet is minuscule relative to the amounts of sugar or palm oil.

Nuance is important.
Social media is a lesson for all of us that sometimes the cost of something isn't readily apparent. It reminds me of Cowslip's Warren in Watership Down - apparently healthy and safe rabbits welcoming in others, with a mortal danger that isn't obvious and somewhat overlooked.

Thankfully we are at that stage with social (and other) media where Bigwig gets caught in a snare and narrowly escapes, and I can look around me and see my fellow people getting caught in these traps. For some people it is too late, for anyone who knows people who have gone too far down the youtube algorithm (like my mother) will know they aren't easily rescued.
The problem is that they won't approve engines for general aviation that use unleaded gas. All the engines used in general aviation are basically 60 year old designs. General aviation is not a major concern for the FAA. It's an afterthought. And so they don't devote any time to approving new, modern engines and make it as difficult as possible.
I remember news saying the FAA added supplemental type certs allowing G100UL for basically every engine in 2022. What gaps are there?
Because lead is not safe?

Like small planes are spewing lead over everywhere they’re flying. I’m glad this is happening.

I don’t really care about small operators vs the health of everyone else, and especially kids in the case of lead.
Considering we're talking about leaded fuel that is some terrible wording.
Benefits of Docs Writing Code Examples
I don't disagree with this. The process of copyright law can be corrupted, but it doesn't negate the validity of intellectual property rights. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Or, human-compatible kidneys grown in bioengineered pigs.

GLP1 drugs are also very promising for reducing the rate of kidney disease.
>>Coffee grounds or that mechanic paste might do pretty well also

“Magic All Natural Industrial Hand Cleaner (with walnut shells)”

Is downright the best thing I’ve ever encountered for cleaning anything on the hands. Anything sticky, greasy, non-newtonian… etc. it scrubs right off.
Person who’s worked in grimy machine shops for 30 years introduced me to it. Fast Orange is a complete & utter disgrace comparatively.

Coffee grounds are nice, but walnut grounds are far superior.
Gilad Shalit Prisoner Exchange
Right, no one is getting fat because of fat! It's the catbohydrates that make you fat! And humans eat butter and olive oil since climbing down the trees. Eating fruit and cane is a world domination scheme by the oppressing caste.
Suing Meta: What US prosecutors know about how the company harms children
At least this answered my question about G forces on the drive.
I know right?

Operating a plane is a privilege, not a right.
'Forever chemical' bans face hard truth: Many can't be replaced
Interesting, found an article:

https://www.dailynews.com/2013/11/09/nhra-debate-rages-on-10...

Talks about runoff space at smaller venues, tires, insurance, etc
Your comment takes an (unfair IMO) position that it somehow matters what country the OP was in. It's not like the auth systems are designed for higher scrutiny in specific countries. There is more than one way to confirm identity, but somehow BigTech and Co keep assuming a happy path environment for you.

Case in point: my US bank insists on sending an OTP to my US number (and US number alone) for any transaction, making it impossible for me to move money when abroad. The problem exists in the other direction too, my foreign account only allows verification thru one mechanism. It's really frustrating.
This issue I sense with respect to whether there are truly any safe exposure amounts is that the moment you say anything greater than zero, you give wiggle room for companies (hell, even governments and regulatory bodies in general) to fuck around and pretend their negligence in allowing an-after-the-fact higher amount product was due to some arbitrary reason that ignores the fact that there really shouldn't be any of the thing at all for practical purposes and that, consequently, this thing really can't exist or be allowed to continue being marketed. Folks interested in the language that this evokes have zero issue doing this with drugs, why so serious (in terms of incompetency) with respect to this?
hmm no, my bank is fine, Amazon customer service told me they won't accept my card, that was the only option, but excuse me, how is 100-200$ gift card is money laundering?
you are of course correct, so i have removed that assertion

my own level of ignorance is life-threatening in a life form that is literally made out of molecules

i appreciate your efforts to ameliorate that predicament ;)
So higher octane means it needs higher temp/ pressure to burn? I've completely misunderstood octane my whole life.. i always thought it meant "high octane make engine brrrrrr fast"
Are there any 9000 pound EVs other than the Hummer? That one is notable for its excess, most EVs are much lighter (just like most ICE cars are smaller and more efficient than humvees!)
There is very little salient difference between digital copying and physical printing of books, in the last hundred years. The cost of printing a book has been next to nothing for a long time compared to the rights to publish that book.
> Honestly, I would have respected "I wanted to do it, I became obsessed with doing it, I knew it was likely dangerous and I can't quantify how dangerous, but it did it anyway because I thought it was important" more than this many-page attempt to mathematize the un-mathematizable.

Eh, I felt that already came across strongly in the article itself. He attempted to quantify the risk, but every avenue resulted in "it's fine, maybe?", and he chose to go ahead with it despite not having any dependable numbers.
Running instances, not machines. There's like 15 years of architectural advancement in running web apps that says that more than one copy of stateless software is the best practice. SQLite was not designed to be used for web apps.

HN's bizarre groupthink occasionally decides to subvert architectural norms for fun, and any blog post that's trending on the front page suddenly counts as "good advice". Even if it's literally insane, if it's on the front page it's considered sage wisdom, and naysayers are downvoted for being negative about the insanity.
Nice will try that, thanks!
> It is not a crime to deprive someone of their income stream.

It is if it's owed. It's a crime not to pay for a car, it's a crime not to pay taxes, and it's a crime not to pay your employees. I'm betting you'd lawyer up if nobody ever paid for your software.
A few quotes from the top results on DuckDuckGo for "quotation marks and punctuation":

Question marks are a little different. If the question mark is part of the quote, place it inside the quotation marks. If the question mark is not part of the quote, and instead the quote is part of a question, place it outside of the quotation marks. This rule also applies to exclamation points.

- https://www.grammarly.com/blog/quotation-marks/

Place a question mark or exclamation point within closing quotation marks if the punctuation applies to the quotation itself. Place the punctuation outside the closing quotation marks if the punctuation applies to the whole sentence.

- https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/quota...

Different varieties and styles of English have different conventions regarding whether terminal punctuation should be written inside or outside the quotation marks. North American printing usually puts full stops and commas (but not colons, semicolons, exclamation or question marks) inside the closing quotation mark, whether it is part of the original quoted material or not.[14][15] Styles elsewhere vary widely and have different rationales for placing it inside or outside, often a matter of house style.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
No, commercial airplanes all use unleaded jet fuel. But the small, 2 and 4 seater general aviation planes you see are almost all using 60-year old engine designs that run on leaded fuel because the FAA doesn't want to devote time to approving new engines for general aviation.
What do you do for apps like uber or other similar apps?
SQLite has a solution for this! There's called strict tables and final SQLite to get mad at you when you try to put a string into a number column, etc.

https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
A ton. It’s a shame it’s taken this long. And it’s a shame there are folk here defending leaded fuel.
Any petrol engine can run on 100 RON fuel. There are several options that involve no lead, generally substituting with ethanol.
Can I press 1-9 just do get 1-9 minutes.

My current one is:

Press cook time, 1, 0, 0, start. Too long.

So for 1 minute it is faster to do +30, +30, as that immediately starts.
Ask HN: How do you capture client requests?
I presume that some of us here provide bespoke services (i.e., freelancers, design/dev agencies, etc).

How do you capture and track requests from your clients? Do you require that everyone submits their inquiries via a form, or directly to Trello/Asana/Jira? Or do you work via Slack?

Thanks in advance. I've been working directly via Slack, and it's sometimes quite overwhelming.
Huh what do folks use for money in Sqlite?