skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those wondering, prosecutors asked for 50 years in prison, defense asked for 5 years. So this sentence is right down the middle. 50 years in prison would have been way too long IMO.
No parole in the Federal system. There's (some) time off for good behavior.
Dupe [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953]
Considering the multitude of charges, this is actually pretty low. It appears he was sentenced to a less-than-full term for each of the charges, to be served sequentially (since if the sentences were served simultaneously, the total actual term would be much less than 25 years).

We'll know more in about an hour.

EDIT: Actually, the Verge has already reported:"The judge applied a 240-month sentence and a 60-month sentence to be served consecutively."
I think ruining thousands of lives through fraud without remorse constitutes a threat to society. He should never see the light of day again.
Are you comparing FTX to Silk Road?
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There were dozens if not hundreds of SBF threads; the above link is just one subthread of one of those threads. In each of them, quite a few people would argue he'd never see consequences; his political donations were extensively pointed to as evidence of this.

(Including, notably, Elon Musk: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591822387267665921)
I feel like I’ve been hearing a lot of folks trying to switch off of firebase and into something more scalable for the long term. Nice to see a write up of one of the processes to do that.

A database migration can take ages to finish and there’s so much room for error that it can debilitate a startups growth permanently. Nice to see a success story here.
9 trillion flops per core? That's... mind-boggling. Is that real?

And, 9 trillion flops per core in 4.4 million transistors per core. That sounds a bit too good to be true.
UW-Madison's ML+X community is hosting Machine Learning Marathon that will be featured as a competition on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/c/about/host)

"What is the 2024 Machine Learning Marathon (MLM24)?

This approximately 12-week summer event (exact dates TBA) is an opportunity for machine learning (ML) practitioners to learn and apply ML tools together and come up with innovative solutions to real-world datasets. There will be different challenges to select from — some suited for beginners and some suited for advanced practitioners. All participants, project advisors, and event organizers will gather on a weekly or biweekly basis to share tips with one another and present short demos/discussions (e.g., how to load and finetune a pretrained model, getting started with GitHub, how to select a model, etc.). Beyond the intrinsic rewards of skill enhancement and community building, the stakes are heightened by the prospect of a cash prize for the winning team."

More information here: https://datascience.wisc.edu/2024/03/19/crowdsourced-ml-for-...
What? Action potentials are extremely digital, in that small perturbations are suppressed so as to encode information in a higher level conceptual state (the "digit" / "bit" is the presence or absence of an AP) to obtain robustness and integration scale.
Insanely low? Insanely high?

SBF hasn’t really accepted responsibility or apologized through the trial, and didn’t at sentencing either.

Judge Kaplan seems to have taken a balanced view — far from the statutory maximum, less than the U.S. wanted, more than the defense wanted.

There will of course be appeals — SBF has already indicated he will file one.

There’s good coverage of what took place at sentencing today here — https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/177334004374401064...

Also of note is since this is a federal conviction there is no parole in that system, and so unless SBF is successful in his appeal, he will spend at least 255 months in prison, that’s a 15% reduction versus the total sentence in return for good behavior while serving his sentence.
Sourced from https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/united-s....
A tiny violin just started playing somewhere on Riker's island.
Is this fedral? I thought it was Manhattan DA?
Is it possible he gets a pardon from Biden? Apparently Ross Ulbrecht who is arguably much more serious crime, was close to getting a pardon from Trump (he seriously discusses it with his advisors at least and expressed sympathy)
That’s a subplot in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three, where a mountain-sized diamond is discovered on Ganymede.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2061:_Odyssey_Three
“Geoffrey S. Corn is the George R. Killam, Jr. Chair of Criminal Law and Director of the Center for Military Law and Policy, Texas Tech University School of Law and a Distinguished Fellow with the Gemunder Center for Defense Strategy (part of the Jewish Institute for National Security in America). A retired U.S. Army Judge Advocate Officer, he served as the Army's senior law of war advisor.”

Sounds unbiased, and full of integrity if he was a lawyer for the US army.
> there isn't much social benefit to keeping folks locked up

Deterrent
I'm not singling out beans, just using them as one example. All of the other plant proteins you listed have similar quality issues.
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With the possible exception of something extremely expensive to store like nuclear waste, we do not want to eject trash. It contains many valuable elements, and we have plenty of storage space. Much better to pile it up, as we are doing on Earth, and then mine it later once we have better tech.
Can we roughly say that LLMs produces (training mode) a lot of IF-THENs in an automatic way from a vast quantity of information (nor techniques) that was not available before?
Low? That's high! He didn't kill anyone. A sentence of 25 years completely destroys his life. He's been made an example of.
Good.

All crypto criminals should be jailed, I'm surprised why this wasn't more years given the magnitude of his crimes and the lives he destroyed.

Justice is slow and when it works, it works.
You need to serve 85% of your sentence in federal prison. He will likely appeal for a reduction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht

> The evidence that Ulbricht had commissioned murders was considered by the judge in sentencing Ulbricht to life and was a factor in the Second Circuit's decision to uphold the sentence.

If this is what you are referring to...

Commissioning murders makes him quite a dangerous person.
There's nothing wrong with being wrong, but its important to remember the times that we were and remind ourselves that we are not infallible :)
> The simplest solution is to get two memory sticks and copy your data to them. One stays with you, the other is in a safe-deposit box. Rotate them regularly. It's really not that much effort.

Another option is to keep a memory stick is in your car or even at work, if you keep it encrypted.
If I could edit it, I would fix it.
He’s ‘new money’. Useful to ‘old money’; nothing more.
I despise avocados. I actively avoid food that contains them as the taste and texture annoys me. How do avocado farmers make any money when avocados are so gross?

When an entire industry/community/religion/sport/thing made up of hundreds of thousands of people and companies continues to exist and I can't understand why, I lean to assuming I have the blind spot, not them.
There had to be some scale or additive nature though.

If an otherwise peaceful person is committing fraud on a scale 1000 times larger than the next guy, wouldn’t it at least scale up logarithmically?
This is a federal sentence, so there is no parole. The most time off you can get in the federal system for good behavior is 54 days per year of sentence, so less than 4 years off for SBF's 25-year sentence.
25 years is a damn long time. I don’t know how that can “seem low”.
The internet's always been this bad
this is a really cool idea.

one followup I was thinking of is whether this can generalize to queries other than key value point lookups. if I'm understanding correctly, the article is suggesting to take a key value store, and for every `(key, value)` in the system, split `value` into fragments that are stored on different shards with some `k` of `M` code. then at query time, we can split a query for `key` into `k` subqueries that we send to the relevant shards and reassemble the query results into `value`.

so, if we were to do the same business for an ordered map with range queries, we'd need to find a way to turn a query for `interval: [start, end]` into some number of subqueries that we could send to the different shards and reassemble into the final result. any ideas?
> ‘then dont live there’

I hear you but for most people that translates to "don't be born there".
Most of the same people who would tell you if you can't afford it move out are the same people who think NYC should be a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants because they were born in unfortunate circumstances and desire a better life.

I've moved in and out of NYC several times and each of those moves ended up costing between 5k and 10k in expenses. Broke people can't afford that shit.
That was one of the points of the new repo. A plain text version of the file is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.tx...

The other point was to make this community maintained rather than rely on one source to provide all the inputs.
He shoulda watched the end of the Boiler Room.
What's amazing is that the human brain does it all on the equivalent of like 20 watts of power. That's basically a couple of LED light bulbs.
Not to undermine what he did. The US prison system just seems very unproductive, put him in a factory for 20 of those years.
For him work constitutes for the most part just being at the bodega. I worked from home for about 5 years. I was at home nearly all the time, and did concentrated work 8-9 hours a day. Can I claim I actually worked 16 hours a day just because I was at home and there were deep learning training runs running in my garage? Of course not. When I say "work" I specifically mean _doing_ something, not just being there.
There’s no real point, not in a physical science way

It’s all contrived political points; contracts, socialized norms the elders in charge refuse to negotiate.

The stubbornness and selfishness of the gerontocracy, to serve the dying and dead is gross. Some kind of mental illness fueled by their huffing leaded gas and growing up in world war/Cold War paranoia made it so they cannot escape the idea life is 24/7 militarized economic production.
For some sense of how far out/close 1 trillion transistors in one GPU is:

NVIDIA just announced Blackwell which gets to 208bn transistors on a chip by stitching two dies together into a single GPU. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/technologies/blackw...

They’re sticking two of them in a board with a Grace CPU in between, then linking 36 of those those boards together in racks with NVLink switches that offer “130TB/s of GPU bandwidth in one 72-GPU NVLink domain”.

In terms of marketing, NVidia calls one of those racks a GB200 NVL72 “super GPU”.

So on one level NVIDIA would say they already have a GPU with ‘trillions’ of transistors.
I'd say it depends on how confident/aggressive someone was. Perhaps OP didn't word it the best way, but it's also good to pause and reflect?
Well, 27.5 would be right down the middle.

As others have suggested, likely he won't even serve the 25 though.
If 20+ years isn't enough of a deterrent, I seriously doubt even more would be.
...didn't the Silk Road guy (which is what I assume you're referencing) also hire assassins to attack his criminal-enterprise opponents?
Has never been shown to work when studying the impact of "harsh punishments".
> For instance, where I live I would say most people are bilingual to A2 or better

Sure, I just meant that you can't have a conversation with A2. You exchange a few words and a smile in a simple situation. Which is great, don't get me wrong!
He's completely destroyed thousands of lives through his actions.
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It is long enough to destroy his life. What matters if he gets out at 70 or 80 if he gets out at 60?
You are confused about the role of the BBC. It's not there for state propaganda ( though that happens - as with any broadcaster ), it's mission is more parentalistic - ( Yep I've invented a word to cover maternalistic/paternalistic. )

Ask yourself - if the BBC was such a state machine - why do members of the government complain about it's output so much?

It's there to lift the nation culturally, to create a British identity and social cohesion - to inform, educate, and entertain. To be a positive inspirational force.

It's not a single entity, with a single voice - but a sum of it's employees.

> For every Murdoch there's a dozen other channels,

I'm not sure quantity is the best metric here....
the bullet points at the top of the article say they asked for 40-50 years and that his defense said 6.5 years.
now trending, basket made of reeds floating down the nile, it was full of rooster chicks /
Can I bill the bank when they waste my time on this activity?

Even if I could, I would still be dubious. It seems that the long-term efficacy of phishing tests is still disputed.
Yeah there is a known cheat code that he used

- Donate millions to the political party of your choice.( Preferably both)
- Hire the best lawyers money can buy.
- Avoid life sentence that peasants get for much simpler crimes.
At least for home users, this is not feasible. We're quickly developing a world where the owners of devices have no insight into what they're doing. ECH means your ISP can't monitor you, but even if you're going through cloudflare so the IP doesn't say who you're connecting to, the state can just make cloudflare tell them, so it doesn't protect against state monitoring. And ECH + DOH and cert pinning give tools for malicious devices (i.e. every modern consumer device) to exfiltrate data without the owner being able to monitor/block specific requests.

The reality is many if not most devices are malicious now. You're protecting against one threat while enabling another.
It depends on the cause but for the TNXB subset which is probably a big chunk of them there is hGH peptides, Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), low dose modafinil, amitriptyline, IGF-agonists (semaglutide/ozempic), low dose naltrexone (LDN), TUDCA, eliminate sugar (including fruit) from diet, melatonin, UV-A light therapy in eyes during the day, blue light blocking glasses at night, sleep hygiene, lower stress lifestyle, supplemental T3 hormone, caffeine, and resistance exercise. Cardio above a fast walk should probably be eliminated due to post exertional malaise (PEM). The cause of PEM is a tough one that I’m still working on.
I don't know. The appropriateness of the sentence is not something I feel super strongly about one way or the other, but 25 years is objectively a very long time. Think about what a typical person does in their first 25 years. That's long enough for a person to be born, go through early childhood, go through all of their basic schooling, attend college, get a job and work for 5 years, and have a kid of their own. Or, think about a 25 year old person, and put them next to a 50 year old person. Or a 50 year old person next to a 75 year old person. It's just a very long amount of time, no matter how you slice it.
I think that’s their point.

But as white collar stuff goes seems pretty good to me.
There is no parole for federal crimes. https://www.justice.gov/doj/organization-mission-and-functio...
Traditionally I believe tariffs and trade agreements were the typical approach at shoring up domestic production.

I have very little knowledge over their current effectiveness or use.
If WebKit was maintained better than Gecko on Windows, Android and Linux you might have a point. But it's not. The build system is on life-support for non-Darwin targets and Apple barely even acknowledges it exists outside the context of Safari. Mozilla would end up building a browser from scratch either way, they might as well keep what they have already and not do Apple's dirty work for them.

Again, as a Firefox user I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about. Switching Firefox to WebKit would actually ruin the experience, and force me onto Chrome if I wanted my browser functionality back. Unless you're explicitly trying to harm browser competition, there is ostensibly no benefit to this strategy.

Also, Apple is a prudish partner anyways, and the last company you'd want to trust with ensuring user freedom. Mozilla would sooner leave iOS altogether.
I have to ask: does 20 years provide more social benefit than 10? 5? Surely there's diminishing returns on imprisonment.

As a deterrent and as a punitive, I get it, but even life sentences don't seem to deter crimes that can yield those punishments.
Great little game @ramly! Quick question about Zen Mode, are you using something like Wave Function Collapse to create the infinite game?
I've always had an even worse idea, ethically speaking, that I think would combine well with yours : the first generation would raise the third, as you said, but that third generation would be born out of the frozen gametes of the now deceased zero generation.

That way, embryos would only be created after the death of both biological parents, which would give you whole lives to look at to decide if you wanted these persons to reproduce.

That would open the way to some interesting possibilities in directing human evolution while opening a whole new world of horrific abuse and creative eugenics.
I think that's about fair and reasonable. It's been said in Europe he would not have gotten more than years and it's probably true. 25 years is a really long time and even if he does only 20, still super long.

Here's a live tweeting of the sentencing hearing; some of Judge Kaplan's remarks are really interesting.

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/177334004374401064...
I would think `x = 4` is considered an equation, yes?
Jewish theocracy with nukes is fine, but islamic theocracy without nukes is not?
From TFA:

The FuryGPU is set to be open-sourced. “I am intending on open-sourcing the entire stack (PCB schematic/layout, all the HDL, Windows WDDM drivers, API runtime drivers, and Quake ported to use the API) at some point, but there are a number of legal issues,” Barrie wrote in a Hacker News post [0] on Wednesday.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836745
Feel free to submit a PR. :-)
No chance, it would be a very politically expensive pardon for no real benefit
This is what I had in mind.

Bank.com hires pen-testers to trick people to go to Bank.evil, spill their ID/Password/OTP.
Maybe he didn't kill anyone directly, but I can assure you that plenty of people committed suicide solely as a consequence of his actions
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1. We'll add in option to get both Dark and Light at the same time.
3. Yes, that's something we'll change soon to 8px or 4px
4. Would it help if you could export grid styles and other styles separately rather than the complete export at once?
5. Fair point, we'll change the UX for it.
6. It was made in this as the default shadows are blank as of now. But, I get your point. We'll add in recommendation for a complete shadow system in the future with a revamped UI.

7. We tried to incorporate the most common components used. Any particular reason for you to use Figa Kits like Untitled UI? Is the because they have complete page designs as well?

Again thanks for such feedback, helps a lot.

By the way, we'll also add component code library in the future.
There is no "old money" in the US. The country is young enough for all of it to be "new money".
If you have something else, they will not be trying so hard.

Generally, to make people try hard you need either punishments for not working or some benefits. Skinner proposed a little more complex classifications: positive/negative punishment/reinforcement[1]. Positive when you react by bringing punishment or reinforcement, negative if you remove them. So four different kinds of operant conditioning. His findings are not directly applicable to human subjects, but they are not completely irrelevant either.

So if you are trying to fix Stalin's system towards more humanism,... I have two ideas:

1. Negative punishment: make lives of highly ranked bureaucrats miserable, with the "promotion" as the only way to stop their misery.

2. Positive reinforcement: make a promotion for them to be a dream of their lives.

I'd try (1), with (2) conditionally on their performance. This way you could get an endless stream of applicants to pick from, and they really-really would do their best to move to the last part of their life, even if they turned out to be incompetents.

The only problem is how to distinguish short term and long term successes.

PS. Please don't get it too seriously, I was carried away by the idea of good Stalin.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment_(psychology)
Parole means you're still serving your time and have a bunch of restrictions on movement and other things.

Early release means your sentence is concluded and the only lasting impacts on your life is that of having been convicted of a felony.
Because they were made mandatory in TLS 1.3 the organisations who wants this now must do this to use TLS 1.3 whereas previously they'd just disregard all warnings telling them they should have ephemeral keys.

Specifically, they would use RSA kex, which makes Forward Secrecy impossible and in TLS 1.3 they can't any more.
> If he’s eligible for parole at 1/3 of a 25 year sentence

He is not; there is no federal parole (for people sentenced ib the last ~37 years.) There is “good conduct time” that can reduce time served to not less than ~85% of the time sentenced, so around 21 years minimum.
I think the charitable interpretation of who you are replying to is that it would be silly to give this drug for an acute event to people that received control (a life-long standard anti-platelet) weeks after they had an MI event. You're not going to say, oh that guy that had a heart attack and PCI 4 weeks ago who is on DAPT, oh now we're going to give this drug, the horse has already left the barn so to speak and the intervention is no longer indicated. That's how I interpreted the point at least.
Speaking strictly as a non-technical employee at an org that does this regularly, I view the practice as anti-pattern, un-educative and denigrating.

Should we place dummy card skimmers on gas pumps to teach people to be cautious of credit card fraud?
Would you conduct a similar campaign over the phone or in person?

Don't lie to your dependents. Secure your infra.
When I briefly had my own store I blocked amex because of their ridiculous fees. And they are pretty merchant hostile re: chargebacks too. The overhead and headache wasn't worth dealing with them. That was a while ago so maybe they have improved, but I still occasionally run into places that don't take them so I guess not.
Ok, people with "passion" then
And I'm wondering now, who else will join him?
not to be too unsympathetic but if those people he defrauded (which yes is a very bad thing) were all crypto degens gambling on things they knew they shouldnt be gambling on, does that change the calculus at all