skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see what books people come up with.

Another component is practice. Talk to lots of people. Get a job at Starbucks if you are really committed. Or go to toastmasters. Join any club that has lots of conversation.

Observation is also good. Watch people around you, and see how they speak.

Do not look to fiction, as someone else suggested. Almost all fiction these days is conflict oriented. The examples in fiction are almost always "what not to do", you'll learn to be an insufferable stalker.

There are also dozens of books on communication. Read a few.
Why would someone sell the share for less than this "inherent" value then? Or conversely why would some buy for more than that?
Yeah, that's literally what a git clone is.
Charting 10 Years of the Google Algorithm
If bullshitting was an art form, this is a high achievement.
Worth noting that Vultr has responded and modified their TOS to remove those terms.

https://www.vultr.com/news/A-Note-About-Vultrs-Terms-of-Serv...
Are you able to leave it off for a few days and see if it magically turns back on without you touching it?
Amazing! Please do an HN submit.
You get that Intel can make the same argument about sealed remote attestation protocols embedded in their chipset, right? You don't tolerate that argument when it's your network hosting sealed protocols, but you do when it's other people's. That's a strange position.
Virus was an awful movie, not redeemed by the honorable efforts of those among its actors who understood there was nothing about it that needed taking seriously.
Soldering skillz are always nice to have but the amount of Chinese 'USB C' gear that skimp on the 5.1K resistors is truly enormous, and adding them gets old really fast. Some designers even combine cc1 and cc2 to save 0.01¢ on the second resistor, with predictable results..
Reminds me: I THINK I heard PARC was going to resume those evening talks. No details, sorry.
Weird to read from a "you are holding it wrong" man
So where do you store the paper?
Property taxes will eventually get you, but if the bookstore owns the building its in, it will (almost by definition) be able to sell for millions and move elsewhere, if it wants to.

Usually (in my experience) it survives until the owner retires or dies, and then disappears.
Actually, we posted the original vision in Sep 2021 at https://blog.spiceai.org/posts/2021/09/07/introducing-spice.... for AI-driven applications and discussed needing a good source of data at https://blog.spiceai.org/posts/2021/12/05/ai-needs-ai-ready-....

We believe blockchain data is one of the most interesting time-series datasets to work in developing an AI-driven application platform, because it's continuous, well-structured, has many applications, and is open to index. Regardless of views on crypto, from a purely technical/data feed perspective, it's quite useful for testing time-series systems.
This verbiage is standard for almost all internet/service providers, it's language to allow them to display your content on their behalf.
It works because well, its actually pretty primitive at its core. Whole learning process is actually pretty brutal. Doing millions of interations w/ random (and semi-random) adjustments.
It's about the clearest way that they can tell you that they value your presence more than your skill without actually saying it.
oh it was no accident. it took a lot of determined laziness and disregard for the casual Friday corporate culture BS by smarter than most people to change to rules.. band shirts, cargo shorts and skate shoes beats button downs, khakis, and leather loafers all day err day. got a not so casual work event to attend? bust out the nice grateful dead shirt, black zip up hoodie, and the jeans without the holes, and own it hard
When you’re talking about 8 billion dollars, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that “a huge part of the shortfall was found” means that billions of dollars weren’t.
I don't understand what you're saying. Please explain.
>and that the approaches in Vienna

Vienna's approach worked because it happened after WW2 when the country was bombed and broken, land, construction materials and labor were dirt cheap, so the state built over half the city's homes and turned them into public housing cheaply no problem.

But fast forward to today where most of the land and buildings in a city are privately owned, how to you expect a city, any city, to buy up over half the buildings in the city at today's market and turn them into public housing?

The city would probably have to go broke or into huge amounts of debt and everyone would be screaming communism.

Even in the rest of Austria, this approach today would not be feasible due to how insane the cost of urban housing ahs reached no city could afford to buy up over half of it.

The monetary appreciation of housing prices and and turning it into an speculative asset is the west's biggest policy failure. You'd have to undo this first before you can think of implementing Vienna's policies.
> Punishment does work.

I should clarify. I think punishment mostly makes the punishee angry with the punisher. I don't think that they generally feel like they are paying their penance. If they didn't already think that what they were doing is wrong, I really don't see how they are going to suddenly start just because they were punished.

I generally think that the way that Scandinavia does prisons is better. I think that punishing people specifically with the intent of making their life worse is viscerally satisfying (the retribution part of that quote), but I think it's not actually a good thing to organize a society around increasing suffering. The US has a higher murder rate than Western European countries, despite having stricter punishments, including the death penalty. There can be thousands of factors that influence that, obviously, but it doesn't seem to be massively deterring crime.

I think prisons are basically a necessary evil; there are certain people that are antithetical to a functioning society, and so it's probably better to separate them from most people. I think the point should be, though, to not view these things as "punishment" but more "a chance at reformation".

Prisons in the US used to have college education programs, and job training programs, so that when you left you had a means of supporting yourself that wasn't criminal. If I understand correctly, this is still the case in Sweden, and I think that's a good idea.

Now of course, there are humans that are so warped that really no amount of job training is going to help them (e.g. a Jeffrey Dahmer), and at that point you really do just need to treat it like punishment.
Try CudaText.
If you are selecting for anything besides competence, your chances of getting competence is effectively random. It says nothing about one group of people being more or less competent than another.

I have observed that selecting for competence leads to diversity, and I believe that diversity is a strength. But it is best achieved organically.

Personally I think the shortcomings we have with achieving diversity is in the framing stage, not the hiring stage.
All that adds is fast shipping because someone with an alphabet soup brand name upfronted a bit of money to get a container load of them shipped from China to an Amazon warehouse.
It's not used to be. It used to be optimistic. But then I guess the creators thought that "real literature" should be more "complex" and started to put more fear and desolation in. After all, as we know, all happy futures are alike and all unhappy futures are unhappy in their own different ways.
I think people should stop using PyPI altogether. It's full of abandoned garbage and malware because there's really no filter on who can upload what. I don't even use it to search for packages anymore.

If Linux distro packaging worked the same way, Linux would be a hellscape of malware and weird random broken apps. I'd rather use old software than constantly worry about fat fingering a package name and ending up with a crypto miner on a thousand machines. Thank goodness for that culture of vetting packages.
Ctrl-Shift-A, or something. There is a dialog with universal search for actions, files, classes....
Geany already exists and could use some help.
Hard agree on the unhinged cost.

One thing we're working on at https://www.definite.app/ (full data stack for less than you spend on your daily coffee)
It's almost as if an economic system based on maximizing greed instead of reigning it in was not sustainable or desirable.
Microsoft was a large owner (7% stake) in Apple when this stuff was happening. It seems a little bit off to use Microsoft's implicit support of their investment (Apple) as a rationale for why Apple should support companies it has no direct interest in. Microsoft stopped so playing nicely with Apple after divesting -- for a very long time they stopped releasing anything for Apple's platforms.
But, take for instance, sight. Sighted people use a large percentage of their brain to process visual input. People born congenitally blind are no smarter or dumber for their brains not having to process that input- so clearly that's not the secret sauce.

I'm not convinced consciousness is emergent, I don't really have an opinion on _that_- but I'm > 50% convinced that consciousness itself doesn't require a neural network as large as a human brain's.
Do people lose their lives over loosing $2000?

* In developed countries. I doubt people from 3rd world countries had $2000 on FTX.
This is not an even comparison.

This was not intended to be one or at best in the following sense. Making products and making profits are two features of businesses, the first one is essential, the second one is dispensable. No products, no business. No profits, no problem. Even more, no profits is where every business would ideally be, in a functioning market competition should drive the margins towards zero, the price should be equal to the costs of production.
It’s this, absolutely. Professional managers trained in finance who either don’t know or don’t care about the actual business they’re managing. Work = moving money around a spreadsheet and all else is incidental at best and something to be avoided at worst, doubly so if it can’t be captured in a spreadsheet with a dollar value attached.
The "Killer App" for a cryptocurrency would be the ability to use it as a currency.
And I'd also like to add that psychological hacks and tricks, from books like "Never Split The Difference" and "How to Win Friends and Influence People" don't really work in an effective way. The best way to navigate relationships is naturally, in the moment with no playbook in your mind. It all comes naturally once one is relaxed, but getting to that relaxed state is the challenge, especially if one has spent one's life doing the opposite by being constantly in their mind.
Also, the company is privately owned or the owner is also a majority stakeholder. Otherwise owning the building is a liability that venture capital types will exploit to pay themselves back for the expenses of taking over your company.
I've been saving a lot of time in the terminal recently with shell-gpt (https://github.com/tbckr/sgpt):

$ sgpt -s "The command 'sp current' outputs
> Album Tea For The Tillerman (Remastered 2020)
> AlbumArtist Yusuf / Cat Stevens
> Artist Yusuf / Cat Stevens
> Title Wild World
> I want just 'Wild World by Yusuf/Cat Stevens'"

sp current | awk -F' +' '/Title/{title=$2} /Artist/{artist=$2} END{print title " by " artist}'
[E]xecute, [D]escribe, [A]bort: A
E

Wild World by Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Looking back at it, the awk command it uses is actually pretty clean.
I think that many of the managers honestly didn’t understand where the quality and safety came from. They probably thought that they could just coast and the quality would continue.

As a counterpoint, I work at very large financial firm in technology and in general, the 20+ year veterans who’ve been here forever are terrible. They are hidebound in their actions, years behind in industry best practices and they maintain little fiefdoms simply because of their intimate knowledge of the banks arcane and idiosyncratic policies. The place would be better of without the bulk of them.

That is to say we are the complete opposite of what Boeing was. But the most charitable interpretation you could offer the Boeing management is that they thought they were in the situation of my company rather than the situation they actually had.
Some packaging ecosystems are more risky than others, primarily because they allow running arbitrary code at some point during the install cycle. Node and Python being two notable ones, especially considering how commonly they are used[1]. Others do it more safely where, at a minimum, no code can run until the library is imported and run with application code.

Depending on how and where you deploy, you can mitigate some of that by isolating the installs and not keeping sensitive information there (e.g. in a docker image).

[1] - I don't follow node/npm closely anymore, so this may have changed.
Based on my personal experience with delayed replies to Indian business letters, the inflation from hyper polite to enraged in one exchange is going to be hilarious if it gets out more widely.
Garfield phones beach mystery solved after 35 years (2019)
Telegram Cooperates with Russian Authorities
> It just took 25 years to finally happen.

"Quality inertia" is one thing which allows for giant amounts of damage to be done long before the wheels visibly come off, as deviance gets normalised (and even mandated in cases such as Boeing) and the company eats its reserve of quality and goodwill, it starts going off-track in small ways before it falls off a cliff.

It took closer to 20 years than 25 for the wheels to come off of Boeing. Lion Air 610 crashed on October 29, 2018, the MDD merger was on August 1, 1997.

And that crash was the first major externally visible symptom[0], the decisions which led to it happened years earlier (2014-2015).

[0] unless you count the dreamliner's joke of a rollout, which probably should have been the warning shot that things were getting unwell
I'm one of the co-founders @ Phylum. We've been tracking this campaign [1] (along with several other unrelated ones). The collective group of security researchers (Shoutout to https://vipyrsec.com/) in our Discord have been reporting these packages to PyPI for removal. If this is something you'd be interested in helping with, please join our Discord (https://discord.gg/Fe6pr5eW6p)!

Besides the gigantic analytics platform we've constructed to monitor supply chain attacks targeting open source, we've also open sourced a few tools to better mitigate attacks targeting developers. For example, a sandbox to minimize the impacts of malicious packages during installation [2] (with a pre-check to our API for known malware), which allows you to do things like

phylum npm install <pkgName>

Happy to answer any questions about this campaign or others we've uncovered!

1. https://blog.phylum.io/typosquatting-campaign-targets-python...

2. https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage
> On March 13, the Dencun hard fork activated, enabling one of the long-awaited features of Ethereum: proto-danksharding (aka EIP-4844, aka blobs). Initially, the fork reduced the transaction fees of rollups by a factor of over 100, as blobs were nearly free. In the last day, we finally saw blobs spike up in volume and the fee market activate as the blobscriptions protocol started to use them. Blobs are not free, but they remain much cheaper than calldata.

> proto-danksharding

> rollups

> blobscriptions

> calldata

I realize this post is the High Priest of Ethereum preaching to his disciples, but we are deep deep into "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" territory here.

Does anyone know if you can use multiple slurp juices on a single danksharded blob?
Small correction I think. The 4KiB for HDDs is fairly new and afaik most NAND is going to also be 4KiB with the exception of QLC which last I saw had a 64KiB minimum sector write size. If you have a source that NAND flash is using MiB minimum sector size, can you point me to that link?
Education and market forces.
You pay the property taxes either way. It's not like the landlord can just make them go away, they just get hidden in the rent hikes.
Open Source Hardware Is Not a New Concept
You're right that Mojo is a completely general purpose programming language. Community members are already building gui libraries and serving stuff etc.

It might not be the best thing, but here's the rationale for why we do this: it's basically that Mojo is still early, and being "good" at something requires more than a language - you also need a library ecosystem and committed community around there. We don't think it is time to declare that Mojo is a great solution for GUI development (for example) until these things happen.

In contrast, Modular is pushing hard to build out the AI part of the ecosystem and already has MAX engine and even more things coming, so we're pretty confident that Mojo will be great in the AI domain.

As the community builds out, we can expand positioning where it makes sense. We just don't want to overclaim.

-Chris
The article doesn’t say that anything was too complex to put in front of the jury. It says that prosecutors presented the story as a straightforward case of fraud.

>The key at trial, aside from the multiple cooperators, was the way in which prosecutors simplified the case and tried it as a garden-variety fraud instead of as a complex crypto scheme.
(edited) Are you claiming (1) that children from single-parent households have worse outcomes and (2) that left-leaning policies result in more single-parent households?

(Not going to argue about #1, that seems pretty well established, just pulling it out as a claim for clarity. #2 is what I'd argue against, and would want to actually see your example so that it's possible to do so in a constructive way)

> That’s just one example off the top of my head

It's not an example until you provide enough for information for us to find what you're talking about ourselves; ideally, a link.
I'd be able to do it easily and sleep at night like a baby.

How many hours, days, weeks, months, and years did he steal from the people who bought crypto in FTX? Most of them were workers, using their wages (which means trading their working hours for money) to buy crypto. How many years of their time did he lose?

If there was real justice in the world, they'd take the amount of money he lost, divide it by the average hourly rate of the account holders, convert that to years, and then make him serve each and every single one.
Alas, no. I'm mostly spitballing here since I know that XOR-based codes are obviously much faster than Reed-solomon erasure code / matrix solving methodology.

There's a lot of names thrown out for practical LDPC erasure codes. Raptor Codes, Tornado Codes, and the like. Hopefully those names can give you a good starting point?

EDIT: I also remember reading a paper on a LDPC Fountain Code (ex: keep sending data + LDPC checkbits until the other side got enough to reconstruct the data), as a kind of "might as well keep sending data while waiting for the ACK", kind of thing, which should cut down on latency.

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I'm personally on the "Finished reading my book on Reed-Solomon codes. Figuring out what to study next" phase. There's a lot of codes out there, and LDPC is a huge class...

Then again, the project at work that I had that benefited from these error (erm... erasure) correcting codes was complete and my Reed-solomon implementation was good enough and doesn't really need to be touched anymore. So its not like I have a real reason to study this stuff anymore. Just a little bit of extra data that allowed the protocol to cut off some latency and reduce the number of resends in a very noisy channel we had. The good ol' "MVP into shelved code" situation, lol. Enough code to prove it works, made a nice demo that impressed the higher-ups, and then no one ended up caring for the idea.

If I were to productize the concept, I'd research these more modern, faster codes (like LDPC, Raptor, Tornado, etc. etc.) and implement a state-of-the-art erasure correction solution, ya know? But at this point, the projects just dead.

But honestly, the blog-post's situation (cut down on latency with forward error correction) is seemingly a common problem that's solved again and again in our industry. But at the same time, there's so much to learn in the world of Comp. Sci that sometimes its important to "be lazy" and "learn it when its clearly going to be useful" (and not learning it to hypothetically improve a dead project, lol).
https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/index
Apologies: germany and Japan pulling above their weights
> Vorkosigan Saga

Bujold ranks near Terry Pratchett in terms of my favorite re-readable books.

Yeah, it's space opera, but it's damn good space opera.
Incredible they’re willing to admit so openly that promotions are not based on work performance.

Makes me want to work less.
There's actually interesting technology being developed here in the areas of distributed computation and zero trust systems. The implementations of Zero Knowledge Proofs and ongoing work on ZK-SNARKS I personally find most fascinating.

There's a lot more to this ecosystem than just speculation. At it's core is a distributed world computer but all anyone knows about is money.exe because this stuff is immensely complex.

If you look into the researcher rather than paying attention to the soyjack youtube thumbnails you'll find the actual substance. Nobody is going do the work for you. Or you know, just write it all off with a snide joke because "crypto bad".
Or you can not complain about a dismissable popup on quality article being presented to you for free.
Control via emotional abuse. I've currently got a middle manager who is perhaps the most clueless person I have ever worked for (we gave him the nickname "Bumble" which is short for what we actually call him).

He has no leadership abilities, doesn't understand the tech, can't mentor us, can't pathfind for us and every vendor we deal with he has managed to upset.

To make up for all these shortcomings, he is manipulative and two faced, micro-managing to an extreme degree and generally when he does find something he half understands he's all over it (and you) to a degree that reduces your productivity to nothing.

Control is the aim. Everything is out of control, so the one thing he does have (seniority, the ear of upper management) he uses wilfully.

At one point this guy got an alert on one of the monitoring services, so he panicked and called customers, dragged in senior management and only after that started sending texts that I urgently had to look at it even though I had already dismissed the error as a minor fault in the monitor itself. I made the mistake of telling him to fuck off after the 6th text message in 2 minutes.

I, of course, got a formal warning from HR. He bumbles on regardless.
Yeah we should support that soon. What did you have in mind?
I doubt xitter has as much quality buffer as Boeing had in '97, and Elon's brutalisation of it was a lot less gradual.
All a nation-state needs to do to asymmetrically cripple the US is to buy a few hundred junkers and stall them on busy bridges during rush hour.

There's no need for Tom Clancy 46-dimensional chess plots that involve hacking the Gibson.

The next time you see your neighbour driving poorly, ask yourself - are they a spy, wrecker, or saboteur? (/s)
Very lenient and it doesn't set a deterrent at all for people like SBF. Basically you can go off the charts on the sentencing guidelines and commit 3 counts of perjury in court and still have the same Expected Value as if you stopped the crime at a smaller scale