skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those in China essentially have a get out out of jail free card for hacking. Just like we do for Chinese targets.

What does this have to do with inventing Bitcoin? And what does it have to do with living 'anonymously over the internet'? Btw, you can try hacking into Chinese targets and getting caught, and seeing whether you face any legal repercussions.

But, what does any of what you say have to do with inventing Bitcoin?

Especially as you say, if you are rich in China or Russia, more likely than not you are on more than friendly terms with the ruling clique. So what do you need cryptocurrency for?
The state of Mississippi ran Parchman Farm on this principle for decades, but as you might imagine it looked a lot like slavery. A lot of people suddenly got arrested for loitering come harvest time.
Thanks! You might find Wayne Hale's (Space Shuttle Program Manager or Deputy for 5 years, a Space Shuttle Flight Director for 40 missions) 10-year retrospective on the Columbia crash interesting:

https://waynehale.wordpress.com/category/after-ten-years/

Also, I recall reading somewhere that the chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, Admiral Harold Gehman, decided to conduct a test to see if the piece of foam seen hitting the leading edge could have broken it. As, at the time, it had not been decided to end the shuttle program, this was not an easy decision, as it meant sacrificing an essentially irreplaceable spare part. What finally convinced Gehman to go ahead was the fact that a great many NASA engineers firmly believed it could not possibly have been the cause.
I was on SSRIs for 7 years and I was unable to cry on them. While feeling extremely helpless and wanting to die often, unable to have sex etc
Adjuvanted nanoliposomes displaying six [HA] and [NA] as influenza virus vaccine
I'm not even Christian, I just thought this was an interesting essay about software development and wanted to share it. Not sure either.
Algebra problems selected from the Romanian Olympiad (Part 1)
Don't confuse malice and stupidity. None of the things that are being highlighted in the press were deliberate, they're just unintended side effects of poor decisions.

The recent google offerings have a real "designed by committee" feel which maybe is reflective of whatevers going on culturally there now? It feels like they're too big and institutional to do this right? Unless it really is because some small group has an agenda?
> Look at the big picture.

Tesla has been great for the shareholders, mediocre products overall.

Neuralink isn't even close to deliver.
west !== America.
If you combine the two ideas - incarceration and work -- you get prison farms, sometimes known as county farms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm
Why isn’t it acceptable? It’s the same way I want to own a yacht and a private jet but it’s too expensive so I accept that I can’t afford it.
Bring back the workhouse?

It's already a thing, and there are big issues with it https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-wo...)

Prison labour is often heavily discounted and it undercuts non-incarcerated people who're looking for a job.
Can you elaborate upon that? Apart from the multiplication and accumulations of activations and weights what additional computations can be applied to improve the outputs.

I think it has already been implied that we are not talking about increasing the quantity of parameters in this context but the possibily of applying additional compute to a model with a given number of parameters
The answer is stuff like ChromeBooks and Steam Decks.

The classic desktop open source/free software ecosystem that people are thinking of when they say “Linux” is driven by a technical community, so the types of problems that will be solved are the ones that bother technical people, not non-technical ones. There’s some overlap of course, (everyone wants the fonts and colors in their terminals to look nice, right?) but it is just a side effect of the fact that technical people are also people.
I haven't seen anybody in this thread suggesting that there are only two variables involved in managing crime rates. This discussion is about two different general approaches to the problem, each of which have their own complex set of variable to manage.

It's your suggestion that the low-crime jurisdictions that take the "hard on crime" approach can do so because they are just naturally low-crime jurisdictions and they have the luxury of being able to implement any policy they want that I consider to be rather insane, and completely in conflict with all of the data on the topic.
> Even a mediocre employees will often realize they’re stuck, seek assistance, and then learn something from the assistance instead of making stuff up.

Only if they’re aware of their mediocrity. It’s the ones who aren’t, who bumble on regardless who are dangerous - just like AI.
An analogy that works without having to explain anything at all about how LLMs actually work (or maybe does explain a lot, depending on how you look at it) could be:

* LLMs are lossy compression functions on their training data.

* The size of the model dictates how lossy the compression is.

* You can't spend compute to get more detail out of a model once it's been compressed/trained, anymore than you can spend compute to get an incredibly lossily-compressed movie to go from 240p back to the original 1080p source.
Found https://soggy.cat/
> That's their culture, why would they be unhappy?

Because you have no reason to assume they would tell you the truth, or that they are not lying even to themselves. Actions speak louder than words, and 99% of women who attain financial and physical security choose to not have 14, or even 4 kids.
PCB RE services are pretty cheap in China and the far East, and they use a lot of automation to do the work of creating the netlist from the pad locations --- the recognition and probing is automated.
> I know for a fact that participation here helps line the pockets of some of the men here.

This is so vague as to be unusable.

Firstly, I (sadly) have absolutely no doubt as to much of what you said. Offers of cash for sex, flirtations, white knighting.

> trying to establish an earned income via freelance writing and resume work and couldn't do it

HN isn't - as you know - really about soliciting work for yourself, outside a few sanctioned threads a month. There may be random people here and there who might make an ad hoc mention of it with a "reach out to me" message. But if done too much, they get sanctioned and censured. Regardless of gender.

I would not be surprised if you had said you could not earn income from HN as a freelance writer if your name was John Smith. I fail to surmise that it has anything to do with your gender.

But back to your comment, participation here lining the pockets of some of the men:

The biggest way I see for anyone to earn income here is networking. But this place is also very specifically not LinkedIn. There is an acceptance, even encouragement of it as far as it doesn't interfere with the general discourse on posted submissions.

Beyond that, job posts and similar? I can tell you that I have responded to dozens (realistically a couple of hundred) hiring and other posts in my time here. I have reached out to people with ideas, offered assistance and input. And of that, nothing has come. Not one thing.

I'm not saying your experience is wrong: I'm just not seeing evidence to support your conclusion that your gender is what is limiting things here.
> Of course, this trick violates every coding standard in the book. […] I would claim that the coding standards are at fault here.

Thoroughly disagree here. The coding standards for not at fault for rejecting this code, but rather the code is merely a cute trick. Software engineering in the large is all about removing surprises and making code readable even to the sleep-deprived on caller waking up at 3am to debug this. You can't rely on programmers remembering the ground rules all the time (and there are four of them!)

> Coding standards aim for clarity. By hiding vital things like switch, return and case statements inside "obfuscating" macros, the coding standards would claim you have obscured the syntactic structure of the program, and violated the requirement for clarity. But you have done so in the cause of revealing the algorithmic structure of the program, which is far more likely to be what the reader wants to know!

It takes skill to write programs that see clear in both their syntactic structure and their algorithmic structure. This isn't it. (I am a fan of Rust creating implicit state machines from async functions and I think that should be the model here.)
No don't
Early Snapdragon X Elite benchmark: Arm CPU faster than AMD's top mobile APU
I started scrolling that article to read, and not far into it, 100% of my (mobile) screen was ads.

I’m not interested enough in what the article is trying to tell me to put up with that.
Ask HN: Is it unethical to reverse engineer GPL violating software to create OSS
Question in title, situation is you have identified a GPL violation for which the authors refuse to comply and release source.

The authors reside in a country which is known for its rampant violations and theft of intellectual property.

Is it equally unethical to reverse engineer their modified software and release it as open source? Two wrongs don't make a right etc.
> They didn’t understand that people’s willingness to pay uncomfortably high prices was the entire reason tickets were so expensive.

this is something I found weird about how inflation was politicized.

One group said “its corporations being greedy, exclusively!” another group said “its the stimulus money in everyone’s hands, exclusively!”, centrists would say “supply chain disruptions!”

but…. capital misallocations are expected in any economic school of thinking? this means all of those politicized scapegoats are expected factors?

the part nobody wants to hear is that if you still begrudgingly bought overpriced necessities instead of starving to death in the street, then yes, you contributed to inflation. congratulations.

if corporations raised their prices and profits stayed the same, that would be the most equalized outcome.

if profits went down then there would be a case for attempting greed and failing, and if it was for withholding a necessity that would be a real case worth scrutiny!

but since they raised prices and profits went up, despite that combination being what really pissed people off the most, it means that the buyers … had more money… from… somewhere. hmmm….
Humans love drama. The news is mostly an entertainment medium. When your on the other side, talk about something with nuance and suck the drama out of it, you see that nobody really cares to read it compared to the dramatically colored version. Which means less ad revenue and thus less money. It's the same supply & demand you are talking about here.

I've seen it when I've written tweets, write it dramatically, engagement everywhere, write it with nuance, nobody engages.
Certainly, and to get that sort of compliance a faster, cheaper, and less likely to fall out of date mechanism is simply to document what the UX should look like and which libraries should be used to get there.

The issue with "make the framework" approach is what happened to our company. We had a team dedicated to maintaining blessed widgets that eventually got gutted as other priorities came up. So now the blessed framework is rotting on an old version of Angular with no path to upgrade.

Distributing things, making smaller dedicated UX libraries when needed, and documenting look and feel. Heck, maybe even get public facing UX sign off all work way better than having the one true company framework that gets abandoned.

Now, you might say "they shouldn't have abandoned it" but the fact is that long before the team was gutted they were spending an inordinate amount of time fixing and extending widgets and trying to add new widgets as UX needs came up. Often for 1 shot usages. Before the team was gutted they were already behind on the Angular version with a plan to update "maybe next year" as it was a fairly large hurdle.
The United States does have forced labor, although not a whole lot that isn't under a pretense of a optional program. Notably at Angola (https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/11/10/angola-pri...)

But even if you want more, what should the prision do if a prisioner refuses to participate in the forced labor? How do you force them. Violence and torture is the only ultimate way. That is what you are demanding.
You don’t have to go to a concert. No one needs to go to a concert. You go if you can afford it, and you don’t go if you can’t.

Or find a free concert to go to. There’s always free music performances to be found if you know where to look.
No, fucking little kids is not in the same ballpark as smoking weed.
Forced arbitration for crimes is not a thing. Don't worry - we're good there. That simply is not how criminal law works
I wouldn't recommend doing any of this stuff at all, personally. It's just always amazed me though how much you can do with with just basic string substitution and no homoiconicity/no AST access.
And adding some more here. I don't know if any models doing this but there is the possibility of generating tokens that it does not show to the user. I think there's quite a lot of scope for internal monologue/chain of thought that could provide concise but clever answers. The difficulty in this is the latency while it ponders to itself, but having played with the groq demos. I think there's scope for a decent interactive experience.

The concern people might feel when they realise an ai might have private thoughts is another issue entirely.
You can train a smaller model and run inference multiple times and it will reach similar performance as a larger model running inference just once. What's the best way to make use of those multiple inferences is still up to debate, but we already know it works (self-consistency is one example).
If the 'meta' stays the same, so to speak, I would agree. But that said it's hardly unfathomable that there is a step change in the effectiveness of AA weapons in the near future. Drones, missiles, and sensors are all getting better and better and so far there hasn't been a real hard need to push for anti air drones in active conflicts (vs. anti tank and anti human).
No, they also have desktop apps. Even as Flatpaks and Snaps
really appreciate the work you put into oldtweetdeck :)
As explained in the article, the "new" area lacks critical functionality that's needed to fix certain kinds of problems.
I'll do you one better, the market doesn't care about competitive advantage.

If it did, then we'd not see every company adopting this year's technobabble to get a stock price bump. How many companies this year are chasing LLMs and AI even when it has absolutely nothing to do with their core product? How about a few years ago when everyone was after ML? A few years before that when it was setting up blockchains?

Heck, how many of these layoffs going around are due to the fact that every time a company does it they get a stock price bump?
Put a brain in a jar and expose it only to photos and you’d get the same results. It’s hard to learn what holding a book is like if you’ve never held anything.
I wrote once many years ago, showing me all my TOTP codes in a terminal. I'd run it on a text-only offline/airgapped Raspberry Pi (an old one, with not even WiFi capabilities).

I was also pissed off by the clock issue, so I'd show both the previous, present and next code to come: because it's really a PITA when you see 213987 but you've got only two seconds left before it rolls. So I may as well start entering the next code (what the server accept is something not in my control).

And I always, always, always have a known, public, 2FA which I can use to double-check that everything is smooth (for example by entering it on some online computer and verifying that I get the same tokens generated).

I just reused whatever 2FA/TOTP Java library I found and wrapped that in a little CLI utility.

My secrets were unlocked by entering a password when I'd start the app.
Preface, I'm not a vegan or vegetarian. I also hunt and have killed and butchered animals for meat.

That people consider meat an inelastic good shows a cultural and commercial brainwashing. The idea that an individual or family could go without meat is practically heresy in the United States. Frankly, it's ridiculous and shows a fundamental lack of imagination and willingness to accept that reality doesn't guarantee anyone's ability to acquire cheap hamburger, chicken breasts, bacon, or any other meat.
I've been involved with both litigation and arbitration. I've also extensively researched the topic: see every article, footnote, and final opinion of every cited case in the website [0]. I'm actually in middle of multiple such cases now.

This is misguided. You are correct that a fairly negotiated arbitration agreement can be cheaper for both sides. Corporate mandatory arbitration agreements like the ones found in terms of service are not these. Companies will continue to use a mixture of court and arbitration procedures to raise your costs and delay cases when they can.

I actually started with an opinion similar to yours but ended up changing my mind as I read more. This is the brief summary. [1]

I tried to cover counter arguments too. If you know of any others I'd love to hear more. I seriously want to steelman support for mandatory arbitration agreements where possible.

[0] https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/references/

[1] https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/problems/
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It sounds like you're conflating strong consistency with ACID transactions. The strong consistency guarantee with QUORUM writes with Cassandra is only if the write is acknowledged as successful. If you write something successfully, you'll be able to read it. When a write fails the end state is undefined.

The definition of strong consistency does not require a rollback, nor does it define the behavior of the system during a write failure. Strong consistency makes no assertions regarding atomicity (all or nothing) or isolation.
Kill Bill was good actually.
If they don't police 'misinfo', they're accused of helping russia manipulate the election and helping trump get elected. If they do, they get accused of censoring speech and aiding the CIA/FBI. These peoples arguments don't make much of a point other than, look at this person who previously worked for the government and is now influencing free-speech related decisions at big tech!!!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1685797053413126145.html
What would happen without a Leap Day?
Fairly negotiated arbitration in a B2B context is entirely different. This is what the FAA was designed for.
Timely article. I’m doing straightedge and compass constructions for fun, and want them to look good. I’ve realized that in terms of compasses (at least), they don’t make em like they used to. Browsing for used stuff turns up plenty of incredible high quality gear for technical drawings. At very good prices.
There are human-drawn bicycle carriages for two.

Upcoming are bigger pedal-assist cargo bikes, https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nyc-cargo-bikes-cou...
But why would they not want “the continuation of the republic?” You don’t offer any plausible motive for why they wouldn’t. The power of the state — eg the ability to get folks to row in the same direction towards a common goal — is contingent upon the social contract, which at the present moment most seem to experience as perilously broken.
I didn’t even leave a bad review (I didn’t leave one at all), which is why I was so surprised to get the letter.

I’m sure the tactic is very successful overall. I’m curious what percentage of the population will turn down free money to stay true to their values. The item I bought was $140. I’m not going to sell out over $140, even if they offered a full refund.

I was planning to buy some other stuff that matched, but they lost all figure sales from me.
Most of the Linux ecosystem is not really interested in selling Linux, they are interested in solving their problems using Linux and then sharing. This leaves space open for groups like Valve or Google to create a nice UI on top of Linux and sell that. How can they compete with free? It turns out free is not actually interested in competing with them…

I still give it, like, less than 50% chance of occurring, but it wouldn’t be totally mind blowing to see MS selling a Linux distro, IMO. Why not, right?
Then who does performance reviews, sets expectations, hires and fires, makes the case for raises, ensures you have all the support you need, acts as a point of contact for any issues, etc?
I have some fantastic leads who are great at tactical thinking but abysmal at the longer term, strategic planning. They are so bad they can't even entertain a 12 month conversation. I trust them absolutely to think is 3 month of less cycles. They cannot manage a a team for long and they don't want to, which is why the middle management layer exists.
Google blocks unverified Android apps in Singapore
>all that's broken at the moment in our end-stage capitalist societies

That's a weird way to spell "the most prosperous time/space ever, where borderline poor people live like kings 200 years ago, and there are fewer and fewer poor people as time goes on and poverty threshold goes up".
I think you’re proving the point. They never remotely suggested it was, the context is discussions about sex work not child sexual abuse.

People like you can’t even read a very coherent analogy about sex work without getting emotional.
It's a good thing all conflicts are one-sided, with a clearly delineated good guy and bad guy, so that people on the internet can post simplistic takes like this.
A startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed
LOL@ the visual. “Ugh, these private jets are so expensive these days!” as he buys a King Air.

A lot of people just don't get it: Tickets for major sporting events and concerts are luxuries for the rich, exactly like private jets. They are supposed to be unaffordable. I don’t know where this idea came from that a middle class family is supposed to just be able to afford live Taylor Swift tickets. This isn’t 1970.

If artists price them below what they are worth, they are going to sell out to (mostly) scalpers in 200 milliseconds. If they price them at what they're worth, people grumble and complain about how expensive they have gotten, but that doesn't stop people from buying them, so there is no downward pressure on the price.
Quite the opposite.

Copyright is all about encouraging the production of "art" and has all these exceptions to ensure the exploitation doesn't restrict creation.

Without copyright we'd have guilds that enforce secrecy and fidelity.
Endlessly "dumbing down" lowest-common-denominator crap is what's responsible for the quality, or lack thereof, of most software today. Shunning knowledge and education will come back to bite you.
Mediocre? Not sure. Especially the Cybertruck, groundbreaking things such as steer-by-wire, 48v architecture to name just two of them.

Then we have the manufacturing plants of Tesla, also groundbreaking in so many areas.

And you forgot to mention SpaceX at all. Maybe that’s because they are as good as they are.

Some (many?) people would consider even only one of these companies proof of excellence from the man. But he’s done so much more than only one or only these three.

And yes, he’s still flawed, like any other human being. But he’s done so much more than most human beings.
Looks like there is an update now and it wasn't just piracy-related domains.

It's reported as being a technical issue at the registry.

https://torrentfreak.com/hundreds-of-tv-domains-still-down-a...
Saying “I don’t know” implies you understand what “I” means.