skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some friends that work in a variety of positions on older boats in the maritime industry, and are quite skeptical about upgrades to drive by wire systems.

They also generally aren't technically advanced, so I'm wondering what the extent of training they'd consume outside of highly technical roles - if it is really value adding, or your typical corporate security training "don't click phishing links".
How about parents actually watch their kids and prevent them from going on Tik-Tok and other social media sites? It's too easy to let phones do the babysitting.

Typical response from Liberal governments like Ontario: blame everyone else for your own problems (and sue them over it).
Good time to reflect on Ross Ulbright’s 2xLife sentence
I agree. However, I think there's something to be said about how people don't understand what kind of protections are afforded to them by regulation.

A lot of these people were likely acting in some level of good faith, assuming that a company so big it could afford a Super Bowl commercial starring Larry David would never scam them. I know, it's stupid, but people don't understand where the guardrails are, what FDIC insurance really is, what sort of insurance exists on retail brokerage accounts, etc. And they didn't just lose money off of crypto losing value, they lost beyond that amount off of this business co-mingling funds when they were not supposed to.

But I do not feel that badly for anyone whose life was 'ruined' over this for one big reason: they were trying to get rich quick. That's the fact that underpins so much investment in crypto. BTC to the moon! SHTC to the moon! ETCC to the moon! These people were hoping for their 'investments' (speculative gamblings) to explode in value. And they weren't planning on sharing any of it with you or me, not beyond what they're legally required to through taxes (and sometimes, not even that, like you say as well).
> Federal sentences do not have parole…

TIL, thank you! That makes me feel much better at what initially seemed like a slap on the wrist.
Applying any level of systems thinking or lifecycle analysis to the problem will reveal that nearly none of the costs to the environment or society are paid by whatever cursory fee you pay at the pump. Most of those taxes are paid by everyone regardless of car ownership anyway.
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(when you are logged in on platform.openai.com, there is a link from the menu)
In addition to phone, also providing an accurate list of all other domains owned by the bank, all other domains used for legitimate emails, and all social media accounts.
Also worth noting that dystopian sci-fi isn't really a thought experiment. It's just a boring formula these days.
US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity in 27 years
> Also, frankly, infants are hard.

Honestly, they are as difficult as you want them to be. Some parents stress way to much about them hurting themselves in the process.

If you take everything in moderation, they are not that bad at all. There will be a few bad days ofc, but at large my kids are the best thing that happened to me, and I have two at the same age.
Is there any limiting principle to your remarkably stupid* rationale where everyone assumes all risk of their decisions implicitly and explicitly?

*: yes stupid, not an ad hominem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
One thing that I picked up on the spec sheet there which you shouldn't really have in a ham radio is a scrambler. I don't know if they really mean something like DTS/CTCSS which isn't actually encryption, but the word encryption shows up in the user manual, though this might just be a troubled translation.

I'm curious if anyone who has one of these has any further clarity on what exactly that feature is.
Which is only the case because the companies don't keep current employees' pay up to market rate. It's a problem with the company.

When the market rate salary increases 5-10% a year, year over year, and you're giving 2-3% raises, it's no surprise people leave for a 30% range after a few years.
Retribution shouldn't be the driving force, but I can understand it from a societal standpoint. Victims and the families of the victims will want to see a punishment applied for the harm they've suffered. It's in the state's interest to make sure that it's not excessively applied, but to degree there's a mix of correction and retribution that has to be taken into account at sentencing. One person's spite is another's justice.

I think that if too many people see retribution as no longer being applied, some people will start to take matters into their own hands to seek vengeance.

The state has an interest in preventing that and assuring retribution is applied as evenly as possible, and counterbalanced by other mitigating factors (e.g. the degree of offense, the circumstances under which it occurred, likelihood of reoffending, penitence of the guilty, etc.).
And since you looked it up in the DSM-V you'll already know that the only behavioral problem of that type accepted by it or the ICD is "gambling disorder" (not an addiction and only grandfathered in as a disorder).

Mis-using terms in legal contexts like these should get the cases thrown out at the very least. But it is also dangerous for our society to continue to call literally everything an addiction in informal contexts. Our legislators and elected officials do not know the difference. And what they do in response is far more dangerous and damaging then the imagined problems they think they will stop.
TBF, I don't think any of us really understood what it would take or were well prepared to become parents, even when getting into it on our terms.

I don't know if I'm a suitable person, but having a kid sure pushed me out of my boundaries pretty far, in every possible direction.
federal prisons already require prisoners to work. We DO have slavery with extra steps
I used zoom in browser before using the apps.. and the annoying dark patterns basically pushed me to avoid zoom whenever I can at this point.

A lot of these kinds of dark patterns sacrifice long term user satisfaction and brand reputation for short-term gains in questionable internal metrics (metrics that are often tied to bonuses for people who couldn't care less about the long-term success of the company or its customers).
"Never any criminal intent"

Sounds like someone didn't follow this case closely enough
I think that might be the best normal path, but I think there's a (relatively small) population of offenders who we can know have no real prospect of rehabilitation.

Perhaps the more important distinction: if we're going to let people out of prison eventually, we should make sure that prison is a place that is set up in the best way to make that eventual return to society successful. Right now, it feels like we do the opposite.
If the problem is that not many people read SF, how can popular SF books be part of the problem? Are you supposing that if not for popular books like Dune, people would read a wider variety of other SF works? I don't think that's how it works.

I think popular SF books are important for bringing the genre to a wider audience. Someone who is not familiar with the genre might pick up Dune because of the films, and sure, maybe that's all they'll read, but maybe they'll enjoy it and pick up some more.
i agree, at first i thought GPL was crazy. If i add a google tracking code to a template file I have to submit that back. but now i'm like ok, you modify it you have to publish your changes. makes sense so these a*hole corps don't rip our shit and make billions
But a lot more of them would be practical if we had a launchpad on the moon, no?
I think it was in Skyfall where Q says to 007 "We don't do that kind of thing any more" ... because it wasn't really possible for the writers to come up with exciting tech gadgets. It was just entirely believable that there was already an app for anything they could think of. We have jetpacks, flying cars are going to show up literally in a year or two, Internet comes from space, "AI robot vacuum" is an entirely mundane product, we've got government investigations of robot cars running people over... what kind of thing could a sci-fi writer imagine that you couldn't see a startup selling in a couple of years?

Science fiction is hard to do now.
> By similar logic, should we imprison all tobacco executives?

If it was for me to decide - yes, absolutely.
The website and manual mention "10 groups of scrambled voice encryption". They don't specify what this is actually doing.

I've always wondered what it would take to make a really good encrypted coms system using one of these. However my understanding is that encrypted transmission on HAM is illegal.
It's not terribly useful yet but I like where we're headed. Needs a beefier CPU and more memory. I'm going to buy a few more to help signal to manufacturers that this is the right direction.
I blame JJs and Kurtzman's Star Trek for this. They dropped Roddenberry's amazing idea of a future that was hard earned, but worthy to aspire towards - not just as society but also as individuals. On top of that they replaced the competency-porn role-models with Hollywood's desire to have loveable goofs and misfits everywhere, as if everyone in their audience was an idiot loser and could otherwise not identify with the characters. It definitely killed my interest in this kind of future.
> 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?

Dbs that are backed by s3-like-storage, the storage does this for you, but for blocks of, say, 1MB, and not per-kv (high overhead).

Think you use rocksdb in your db, and erasure-code the sstables.
Also, don't run such a startup if you want to avoid 25 years in prison.
> most (a lot of?) people got their money back

On average people got 70% of their money back I believe. However the story is way more complicated than that.

Most Madoff investors put their money in decades before, saw 20+ years of growth, and took out dividends over those years. Most investors were pensioners living off their dividends.

When the team came in to clear up the mess at the end, they redistributed the money according to pay-ins and pay-outs. So, imagine you put $1m into the fund in 1985, took $100k out per year, and in 2005, 20 years later, still had >$1m in the fund. In ~2010, the restructuring team would sue you for $1m because you had taken out $2m after putting in only $1m. But you don't have that money, all you've got is a house and a reasonable yearly salary. Unfortunately many people lost their houses and other assets because they had taken out more than their original contribution over the >20 year period.

Even if you didn't take anything out, people bet the rest of their financial lives on the fact that their initial contribution had gone up. Only counting for inflation, getting back their initial investment would be a terrible financial outcome, but accounting for what they reasonably thought they had, this would still be ruinous.

This is all why FTX saying people might get back their money is a terribly misleading statement.
I think you're misunderstanding what I mean by immediate noticeable harm. Running pipelines next to rivers has the potential to cause an oil spill, so the harm is not immediate. There's still room for people to convince themselves that they'll make the pipeline safe and reliable. But the mass of the Moon is so high, that mining and shipping off significant portions of it has to be very deliberate and there's no question of 'potential' in causing a shift in the Earth's orbit.

For context, at the rate at which we mine metals on Earth, it'd take tens to hundreds of millions of years to mine even 0.1% of the Moon, and that's without considering that all that mass would have to be transported elsewhere for it to be a problem (and since other destinations, mostly by definition, have their own easier to access resources, that seems unnecessary). Mining all that material on human timescales would be a very deliberate operation dwarfing all human mining from the start of civilization.
An uncle once commented about a cousin of ours that he demonstrated how it's possible to screw things up so badly that you can't possibly recover. I think that's true for Sam. I hope it's not true for the people in his orbit; I hope they can get out from under this and try to find meaning, ideally from repairing the harm they've done.

As Rick Heicklen writes, "We are not ever going to be Sam. But we could be Caroline, or Nishad, or Natalie. Or even Michael Lewis. We could easily make the same mistakes they do." [0]

[0] https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/michael-lewis-s-blind-side, posted previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39118124
> If anything, it's excessive if you consider the nature of the crime relative to the nature of murder or kidnapping.

I suspect the resulting number of shortened lives amongst all the people who lost $8 billion worth of their money due to the fraud is more than the number caused by a single murder.
UXL Foundation: Unified Acceleration
I do not follow. How is it possible that the latency is lower in a 4-of-5 read of a coded stripe compared to a 1-of-4 replicated stripe?
People say things all the time. That's not relevant to this story, and is kind of flamebaity.
I think it's generally appropriate to group violence, coercion, and fraud together in these discussions.
A gravity measuring device, mounted in an airplane. Specifically a gravity gradiometer. The isolation platform was needed to isolate the device from the plane's movement to the greatest degree possible, as while we were doing a differential measurement, the common mode error was still significant enough that a very high degree of mechanical isolation was necessary.

An _exceptionally_ hard problem... unfortunately the company eventually went bankrupt a few years after I left, having never quite managing to ship a commercially viable product.
There's the loss of liquidity for years and loss of opportunity cost. It's not victimless by far.
There https://ydb.tech/ open source db that uses erasure coding for replication in single zone/region.
At some point its not about deterrent or social benefit but justice. People can say its not fair or productive for people like him to be locked up forever. Well, what about their victims? How many people's financial futures were destroyed by SBF? Is it fair to all those people that he will get to live a normal life? And likely a comfortable well off one at that. He already had a privileged family and I have no doubt it will be easy for him to profit off his story once he gets out. The hardly seems right.
It's wild that 99% of the "point" of crypto and a Bahamas-based exchange was to avoid all the laws around securities trading, banking, money transferring (anti-money laundering, taxes, etc), etc and yet when things go south, people still expect the government to come in and enforce a tiny subset of the financial laws they've otherwise been operating outside of.

This is a weird form of "privatize the profits, socialize the losses" but with the benefactors being the people intentionally avoiding all the financial laws.
Aren’t functions and equations two different things?
Maybe that girl shouldn't have worn that skirt, maybe that black guy shouldn't have been in that town after sunset, maybe that guy shouldn't have had a boyfriend.

There was a trial and now a sentencing, your argument according to law is wrong.
FTX claims are being sold for 96 cents on the dollar, so there's high expectation that creditors will be paid in full.
Anything I explicitly drop I do so in the raw table to keep them out of the state table. The state table is more CPU expensive especially at high packet rates and runs the risk of depleting the default state table limits especially for anything that now has a broken state on purpose like these poor lil bots. Since I brought it up, here is how to increase the state table limits.

Create /etc/modprobe.d/nf_conntrack.conf

cat /etc/modprobe.d/nf_conntrack.conf
options nf_conntrack expect_hashsize=256400 hashsize=256400

And then in /etc/sysctl.conf:

# from /etc/sysctl.conf: increase state table limits.
# Requires 1/4 mem to hash table plus 400 overhead because I am the cargo culting king:
# cat /etc/modprobe.d/nf_conntrack.conf
# options nf_conntrack expect_hashsize=256400 hashsize=256400
net.nf_conntrack_max = 1024000

Should people use default state table memory allocations on a busy node, everyone can be locked out of it regardless of how many TB of RAM are free. The node can appear "down".
Part of it is that he took it to trial. He likely could have negotiated a deal for single-digit years if he had admitted guilt and cooperated.
I think it's okay to consider both to be too long.
Yes, it is extremely backwards. The prison system in the US (like vehicle and environmental regulations in the US) exemplifies how little the culture there values human lives and lifespan.
> Can't enterprises just MITM the traffic and sign it with a CA the clients trust?

This is what Zscaler is doing. I know because my company was (unfortunately) using this.
The biggest Ponzi scheme in US history was Bernie Madoff's.
In the future all jobs may go away, in the nearer future we may so become AI shepherds first training our replacement. ie where web dev jobs end prompt engineering jobs begin. At least that's where I'm transitioning, but not just prompting like using langchain and such for ai apps but I consider it prompt engineering or at least the dumber side of ai for those of us without masters in machine learning. I'm not sure if there's a name yet for what's essentially scripting and ai engineering without building the models etc...
The judge provided a good counterargument: if a thief burgles a bank, goes to Vegas and doubles his money and gives the original amount back to the bank, does that deserve punishment?
> I think Notion is too complicated

I wrote about the problem space extensively on this site before, tl;dr, to me the issue lies in the fact that most of the contenders aim to manage data/knowledge/notes as "types" (for categorization, templating and derivation/re-purposing), but, to my knowledge, only trilium is enabling that with a "sound" design. Notion is exposing a lot of incidental complexity due to its "unsoundness".
He was playing fast and loose with clients' money (and ultimately made profitable investments). Elizabeth Holmes played fast and loose with medical testing and people's very lives. She got less than half this sentence.
Wrote about that here: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus?tab=readme-ov-file#diox...

You're probably not going to be building an email client or the next instagram in egui, but it is good for stuff where you're fine with re-rendering every entire frame (data viz, graphics stuff).
Any recommendations for sci-fi books written recently? 3 body problem, anything else?
> But the longer any conversation goes on, on virtually any platform, the more toxic it becomes

That's something of a restating of Godwin's Law.

Since Gab, Voat, Nextdoor and Usenet all came up similar, I'm going to call BS on this. The "Perspective AI" is probably what's at fault here, because there's a radical difference between these platforms.
I didn't imply that they know anything about where atoms are, I was just pointing out the sheer absurdity of that volume of data.

I should make it clear that my comparison there is unfair and mostly just funny – you don't need to store every possible combination of 10 tokens, because most of them will be nonsense, so you wouldn't actually need that much storage. That being said, it's been fairly solidly proven that LLMs aren't just lookup tables/stochastic parrots.
A little guide to building Large Language Models in 2024 [video]
We ALL know/knew who Bernie Madoff was and what happened to him. Are you sure your logic is sound here?
Came here to say this, I was quite surprised to see the old Scuttlebutt app on the front page. Oh, it's not that, it's a different communication app with the same name.
To piggy-back on this, not only is it explicitly authorized it's often expected.

Failure to voluntarily participate in a work-program is grounds for solitary confinement (which entails more penalties than just being by yourself).
Okay, so:

Huberman does not cancel appointments in good time.

I’ll keep that in mind if I ever make an appointment with him.
What are some of the solutions to an cybersecurity incident in-progress that involves taking over a moving ship? Much of the article talks about how it's important to prepare for this incident and that there's a simulation developed for this scenario, but the recommendations at the end look preventative instead of intended to fix an active incident.

The article's preventative methods include "Install security updates as soon as they come and automatically as much as possible," "Do not assign administrator rights to end users," "Do not allow the use of weak passwords," use multi-factor authentication, don't install non-approved software, conduct risk assessments for computer systems in use, and make plans for cyber incidents in advance.
I don't think it hallucinates very much. If a customer asks a question that is answerable based on documents you uploaded, it will find the answer! I am working on a playground to showcase the RAG.
This. Gutenberg has Astounding Stories as the prime example:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/198
Cryptographers want to know which of five possible worlds we inhabit, which will reveal whether truly secure cryptography is even possible.
It sounds callous, but if accept the suggestion that he's responsible for their deaths, how can we then excuse people working in the casinos or other gambling ventures that surely lead to the deaths of many.

Or would folks here suggest the numerous HN contributors who have worked in gambling tech are deserving of life in prison as well?
I think both of those are flawed views. Not necessarily mistaken, but incomplete. One of the key reasons we imprison people is to prevent them from doing further harm to society: i.e., we put them in prison for our benefit, not theirs. It's definitely good if they're rehabilitated along the way, but rehabilitation isn't necessary for their imprisonment to be a net benefit to society.
> The difference is society gets 12 additional years of safety which it wouldn't get otherwise.

Naturally, by this logic I have to ask: why not 32 years? 52? 102? Aren't we doing society a disservice by ever allowing criminals to leave prison?

> Ostensibly

I chose this word carefully, because I think a lot of our preconceived notions on criminal behavior have not been validated by the real world, including the deterrent effects of long-term imprisonments.
This one works:

https://techstartups.com/2024/03/27/netflix-acquires-ai-powe...
Deterrence makes someone not want to commit the crime because of fear of the consequences.

Retribution ("spite") is about getting even.

Rehabilitation is about making it so that the person is less likely to offend again when released and more likely to be of positive value to society.

Removal is about locking someone up so they cannot do more crimes.

A good prison system should balance all four.
I think biggest difference is millions of years evolutionary development. That's a lot of time difference.
> If anything, it's excessive if you consider the nature of the crime relative to the nature of murder or kidnapping.

It also affected tens of thousands of people more than a murder or kidnapping.
If the same court put Ross Ulbricht (a way more sympathetic case) for 40 years, no way they're lenient on SBF.