skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't go through a trial in the 1990s for their anticompetitive conduct in the 2020s. They can be tried now for what they're doing now. The previous trial is not a "get out of jail free forevermore" card for the repeating the same conduct.
Not diversity. Younger cheaper quotas.
The companies are smart enough to learn from it. The problem is that in a late-stage capitalist market, companies have already grown so large that the easiest way to continue to grow profits is to cut costs as much as possible.

It’s pretty obvious that in many cases, this incentive is entirely opposed to human health and flourishing. Sure, you can cut costs in consumer electronics like TVs without harming anyone. (Assuming regulations that enforce a baseline quality in electrical components.) You can’t do that in aviation or health care.

Another aspect is that lower costs don’t make it back to consumers in many industries with little competition. A more “financially efficient” Boeing means more money for shareholders, not cheaper airplanes.

A counterpoint is that disasters should provide an economic incentive to the company to fix problems that cause disasters. As you point out, this simply isn’t happening. There was apparently not enough market incentive after the B737max crashes to fix their quality control problems. That means it’s cheaper for Boeing to crash its planes than to have really strong quality control. Obviously, the capitalist incentives in this system are no longer working for society.

These late stage, massive companies are not about making good products. They are legally about returning value to shareholders. The people in charge are therefore all about optimizing the company finances.

The only way to counteract this frequently terrible incentive is by us people (the government) creating the incentives that work for society. That could mean huge, costly fines in these situations such that the only way to get money for shareholders is to make quality products, since what should be a market incentive has gotten so messed up.
Because the market is barely better than a ponzi scheme.

There's ___just___ enough laws around it to keep people somewhat okay with it.
I've tackled UI from both the web end and the rust end, and I honestly can't say which I prefer. Javascript is definitely quicker and easier, I'll give you that, but I hold my nose when writing in it and people have been building interfaces in compiled/typed languages for decades without issue. I'd say it really depends on developer preference. I've grown to appreciate working with typed interfaces, and rust's compiler eliminates so many pains of working in the low-level space that I think it hits a really good mix of usability and performance. Do UIs really need the performance that the nerds on here gripe about every time something like Electron comes up? Probably not, so maybe HTML+Javascript (or WASM) is the winning combo. I don't really care either way, as long as I don't have to learn 5 different languages, platforms, UI frameworks, etc to release an app for desktop and phones as a single developer. And I already know Rust, so another option in that regard is welcome.
I blame index funds. Pump the % gain, index funds buy it up because it looks like a better ROI. Abuse that by doing short term shit and ride the wave of self fulfilling prophecy by the index funds buying into it (amplifying noise into a signal) and leave retail/workers holding the bags.

I get that statistically DIY'ing your portfolio will almost always lead to worse returns but I really do wish I could exclude certain stocks from my index funds.
The difference is whether organizations are willing--or forced--to invest in it.

That's not automatically a wrong though, since different objects or processes merit different levels of quality.
That new URL still just goes to a login screen. I believe this is due to recent reddit policy change.

> whoa there, pardner! Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing.

It seems that reddit has now followed Xitter with requiring logins to drive engagement numbers, effectively rejecting the open web. Extractive screw turning was probably inevitable with the naive central-server design of webapps, but going through the destruction part of creative destruction still sucks.
Not only that but his parents were actively involved in FTX and profited greatly from it[0].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/09/24/sam-b...
Welp. now the pros will go to the other suppliers
I believe he developed the idea with another researcher, Diederik Loerakker, aka Protolambda, who contributed the other part of the name:

https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/danksharding/
Wealth is well known for extending childhood, sometimes until death.
Only one person was sentenced in us for 2008 crisis. So, consistent, as in big financial crimes are not punished, because criminals are very close to the people on top.
This is true, they also cut costs by 'finding' less defects in QA, deferring them to production deployment several quarters out.
Because the MBAs and financiers have taken everything over and are working their way through our government now.
Then it could be way shittier because every GET request will be monetized. Also your whole browsing history will be public if you're ever tied to a wallet address.
I would love to see the glory days of pure research groups like PARC and Bell Labs return. But, so many business folks are aware of how Xerox was embarrassed by PARC that it's unlikely that approach will be tried again anytime soon. When I speak of embarrassment here, it's not about the incredible innovation that came out of PARC, but about Xerox management's handling of that innovation.

Billions and billions (trillions?) of dollars in value was created (e.g., Adobe, 3Com, SGI→NVIDIA, Mac / Windows, laser printers, ethernet, etc.) based on their research, but ~0% of that value went to Xerox. From a business point of view, it was a disaster. And business folks are primarily the ones deciding what's funded at this level. If I'm an executive who's not sure if I, or my organization, will be able to tell the great ideas from the duds, why spend money that might expose that?
Yeah, the broad campaign makes it extremely noticeable. There are active campaigns right now that don't take this approach. Singular packages with novel malicious payloads.

> As a person who regularly runs pip install on my main desktop, where I am worried about arbitrary code execution that happens when you pip install.

We've open-sourced a sandbox and wrapped the Phylum CLI with it so you can do something like `phylum pip install <pkgName>,` it'll check our API first for known malware, then if it appears clean, will perform the installation in the sandbox. You can specify what the sandbox is allowed to touch in a TOML file.

See: https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage
I must be too tired for this kind of stuff.
Because if you look at it by the numbers, expenses went down whilst output remained. If you’re an investor that investigates annual reports on finances, this would pique your interest. There is no way to price the talent and knowledge of your workforce until after they have left.
Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
Indeed :) but for many use cases, I find it fun and elegant
>> why do this intentionally?

Myopia + greed is a hell of a drug.
Ya, even better. I'm all for carbon taxes actually. Just saying that fossil fuel consumption reverberates through the whole economy. You cannot blame the suppliers that much more than you can blame anybody else.
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state = context

The difference between SSMs and GPTs here is how that state/context scales. Per usual in engineering, there are big trade offs!
"So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product.

They have no conception of the craftsmanship that's required to take a good idea and turn it into a good product. And they really have no feeling in their hearts, usually, about wanting to really help the customers."

Steve Jobs (1995) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs:_The_Lost_Interview
the center of a current Overton Window, to be precise, that thing's slippery
Is that really true? INS/inertial navigation systems accumulate errors over time, GPS is still required for them, its not a replacement?
maybe tens of thousands of dollars was not that much relative to your net worth. some people lost it all
Simply having the page open makes my GPU fans spin to max, and the whole page lags. The text stutters, the orange particles at the start are a slideshow, etc. Task manager shows my GPU "3D" processing at 100% for some reason, even though the page seems to be almost entirely text?

Windows 10, Firefox. Nvidia GPU. Not sure whats happening.
Because time and time again the government does. While hypocritical its a perfectly logical step to take because it has proven success.
Oh, so Tancred in English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tancred
You don't leak your password. There is some kind of hashing involved, but I can't remember the details and don't want to comment with incorrect information.

Hopefully someone who knows the answer will reply... :)
> If you want to believe a known fraudster saying “oh yeah I totally donated to the winning side, but I didn’t tell anyone”, that’s on you.

Salame has pled guilty to this, and his tens of millions in donations are entirely in the public record. https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Ryan+S...
I fail to see the similarity.
The more of our logic we can implement with addition, the more can be offloaded to noisy analog systems with approximate computing. It would be funny if model temperature stopped being metaphorical.
Seems pretty easy. My country's tax forms dont distinguish between how you got paid, just that you got paid. Gov doesn't care if it was through a bank, in gold bars, bitcoin, etc (capital gains they care more about of course)
Swimming and All-Cause Mortality Risk Compared with Other Forms of Exercise
How should a company promote diversity without jeopardizing safety?
Having spent time in academia, this gave me a good chuckle.
Well, yes, but also no. It was a hardware design change that necessitated a software hack (to escape mandatory retraining of pilots) that relied on unreliable hardware, right?

Sure, software played a big part in it, but I think it seems like it was more a management and communication failure. If it was just software it'd probably be much easier to diagnose and fix.
Why is this of particular interest? Frontiers are full of low-impact review articles.
prison is such an interesting concept. violent people need to be physically separated for the safety of the population. but for a crime like this maybe it would be better to just give him 5-10 years in prison but never let him deal in finance again. i would rather have him on a road crew tying re-bar than using up tax payer money in prison...
They absolutely learn! These jackasses got paid in stock, inflated their income 10x, cashed out, and then when shit hits the fan, the corporation is on the hook. These leaders never go on trial for this shit because destroying culture isn't a crime.

And then when there is an investigation, it's just a general cultural issue and no one person is at fault, so the company pays out a lawsuit, the current guy gets fired with a huge bonus to cover the fact that he couldn't inflate the stock and the pattern repeats.

So, basically, there's high upside and no downside so why not?
That can be said of anything. At some point you have to actually spend money to make things better, else nothing you do is in the public interest.
Where Chinese Science Fiction and Rand History Meet
Um so... what was he supposed to use email for, according to the manager?
> mach 5 for a reason, which is that the material science hasnt caught up yet

The X-15 did Mach 6 in the 60s. What materials and components are you referring to as cliffing us at Mach 5? Isn’t the simpler explanation that hypersonic flight is defined at Mach 5?
Apologies if it's hard to follow; I basically had to brain-dump the best I could because I'm still figuring this out from firsthand experience, and it isn't like this is a well-known phenomenon yet. Maybe I'll have a better way to organise my thoughts when I learn more about it myself.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

Every hour that a Boeing employee spends trying to design or build a good airplane is one less hour that he can spend angling for power within the organization. So the people who care the most about the original purpose of the organization will be systematically outcompeted by the people who care the most about obtaining power within the organization. A widespread and profound problem.

When companies are small, the machinations of political types and their inadequate contributions to the core product are too obvious, and they get weeded out.

But when the company grows large and successful (due to the efforts of the people who cared about the original mission), it has a brand and long-term customers. At that point, the political types can burrow in without any immediately obvious effects, since there are enough other people doing the real work and the company has enough momentum to keep moving for some time.
The entire first half of this (tfp directly above this comment) article blindly supports the spin that there is some conspiracy where someone killed him. HIs own family goes into great detail all over the press about how he had anxiety and ptsd. That he quit his job on DR orders or the stress was going to give him a heart attack.

The shit Boeing did to him was awful (stress, anxiety and ptsd) and Boeing should be blamed for that. They should be held accountable for that. Making his sucicide "Fishy" discredits the pressure he was under and its cause. Playing at the edges of conspiracy theory also serves to discredit the author of the article and the validity of everything else they are saying.

The man killed himself. The actions of Boeing played a part in that.
Don't blame this on young people, it's probably mostly post-40 dudes who run the board of these large companies
That’s not SBF. But perhaps Salame will be pardoned by Trump, sure. If any of those PACs supported trump.
the LLM scaling law
Nice work. Does it have auto-save, like npp?
> may have hurt me financially and limited my career

Weapons doesn’t pay as well as making people click ads. The people working on this stuff are usually doing so because they believe it’s the right thing.
Does this point to a way to compress entire LLMs by selecting a set of relations?
Generating Excel's What-If Analyses Data Tables in Python
As I was researching ways to use Python and automate my processes as a corporate valuation specialist, one snag that I hit was setting up these data/scenario analysis tables.

I genuinely spent hours trying to get some kind of lead on it, but the only option I found was a proprietary Excel/XLSX API. However, I wasn’t planning on giving up so quickly...
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I came here to comment the same thing. And just in case other HN users are not aware of it, here is the link for U.P. https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Thank me later for the productivity sinkhole and all the wasted time ;-)
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It seems more like a random act of violence from a nutjob than a targeted assassination.
Reflection, Tool use, Planning and Multi-agent collaboration
What a bunch of marketing gibberish, and why would someone send $10k to some random guy?
Exactly. I mean, you don't even have to trust financial institutions. You only have to trust the institutions that are in charge of maintaining law and order. Everything else follows from that. And if you can't trust those, then you have bigger problems that cannot be fixed with some damn cryptocurrency.
Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you for your service. Your dedication is my greater satisfaction of the game.
The crashes were a result of a single sensor being a point of failure. The update uses two sensors and they must agree with one another.
Declarative Partitioning in PostgreSQL
> What even is the elevator pitch use case of all this?

> It's a full-stack replacement for large parts of "centralized tech"

Anti-censorship, permissionless data that lasts longer than centralized companies..?
The article suggests lack of oversight from TSR on the Japanese market's needs is mostly to blame. They kept making products released much later than their NA counterparts, with half-hearted support, in packages that were more expensive than the competition. In fact, by being difficult with Group SNE, they actually created a competitor(Sword World RPG). That's no way to win a market!

I believe the core of it actually comes from the different approaches to media publishing that took hold back in the 1970's: US markets became very keen on going upmarket with more expensive products and big-budget franchises: that became the strategy to get positioning at retail. Japan's pop media, on the other hand, has been nearly synonymous with manga magazines and light novels, which are centered on individual authors and offer more opportunities to showcase work in anthologized and serialized formats. TSR's competition in Japan were churning out cheap books and magazine articles that made tabletop gaming accessible to a casual fan, while D&D had the big boxed sets, the special dice, the miniatures, etc.
Chevron owns Richmond, CA's news site
Ohk. The trick is that the "existing" fees are different for different cards. And merchants can't opt out of the fat cards without dropping all the cards from that network. So some refuse AmEx, but very few dare drop Visa.

Basically racketeering.
And that's was unjust, too.
As someone who is trying to hire for server-side and devops roles, we are getting pickier. We have a lot of incoming.

A lot of it is spam and people who clearly are using AI to fill in our form. One applicant didn’t even bother to remove “ChatGPT:” from the answer.

Of the remaining applicants I do feel that even those with years of experience at big companies are kind of hothouse flowers. They are skilled at using complex and costly frameworks, but they are often missing what I used to think of as the basics.

A lot of those frameworks are themselves ZIRPs! I kind of think the current generation has been cheated a bit. If I were starting out today I don’t know how I would have learned anything.

We had a candidate who detailed some of their achievements at their previous employer, things like “I got this third party service to feed their logs into that third party service”. And they are not wrong, this was a titanic effort and they had to navigate complex change procedures to get it done. But… this isn’t what I’m hiring for.

Candidates are also under a lot of pressure. I read an application the other day which was clearly human-written, but they gave two or three word answers to essay questions. The answers were actually correct, just not with the kind of detail we wanted. But I imagine that we were one of ten applications the guy filled out that day. In this environment I don’t know how much time I can legitimately expect a candidate to spend on us.
Parent is not trying to draw similarity, but contrast: Edgar takes while to get to rewarding feedback (but has rich gameplay), while Flappy Bird gets to gratification immediately (but has shallow gameplay)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, the Culture series, and Vorkosigan Saga

Sci Fi does tend to be bleak, these are the ones I can think of.
Index funds do not buy shares because shares “look like a better ROI”. Index funds buy because non index funds buy (and same with selling).
AGI won't monitor all human communication: only the human communication it deems cute enough to record and post to the group chat with the caption '<3 OMG they almost think they're AGI <3 so adorable <3 I love my humans <3 <3'

Other than that it'll probably leave us alone (with occasional new enrichment toys when it suspects we've been alone too long)
> That’s not SBF.

No shit. If you scroll up, I assert "FTX was attempting to buy influence on both sides of the aisle" and mention Salame numerous times. Please don't blame me for a lack of reading comprehension on your part.

SBF's texts to Salame about all this were obtained by prosecutors, garnering a guilty plea. I've presented a number of links to reputable sources, to which your replies amount to "nuh uh", so I think I'm out.
When setting up my DWS on the chain I performed a fresh implementation of the flex spanning system so that sharded stakes were accordingly modulated when dilution factors are on the rise. Retro validators should never rely on the sole consideration of performative liquidity, and that's why in most use-cases, distributive-non-passing underfitted categorization of assets is preferable. Every DNP-uca implementation has proto-failure systems that allow for better mining experiences, in fact every time assets are minted you obtain by-products of the initial dilution thanks to the false commitment that is produced when pseudo-stakers correct the current derivation according to the relative spike index. That's why the tech interested me at first.
First, they'll come for those who post more than 1000 pieces of content.
And I did not speak out because I don't post more than 1000 pieces of content.
Then they'll come for those who post more than 100 pieces of content.
And I did not speak out because I don't post more than 100 pieces of content.
Then they'll come for those who post more than 10 pieces of content.
And I did not speak out because I don't post more than 10 pieces of content.
Then they'll come for me because of a single comment.
And there is no one left to speak out for me.
> ML on a blockchain

I would actually love it if you had a link with more info on that. Don't take this the wrong way, but my first guess would be that that basically isn't true; either it's not actually machine learning (as is understood today) or it isn't actually a blockchain but rather normal distributed computing being "verified" via blockchain somehow?

Would love to be proven wrong though.
I haven't heard about LDPCs before. Thanks!

Do they serve the same use case though? With Reed-Solomon the idea is to recover from complete loss of a fragment of data (erasure coding), isn't LPDC strictly for error correction/"noise" (e.g. certain bits flipping but the data overall exists)?
> Clear signal that you can't justify the overheads.

There's a difference between an EC2 instance and EKS pricing.

Bare minimum, one control plane, zero usage, no workload, EKS starts at $873 per year.

EC2 starts at $36/year. t4g.small (2 vCPU, 2GB) is $145/year.
> business folks are primarily the ones deciding what's funded

A large part of the money that was funned into research at Xerox came from the government itself in the form of tax breaks and other benefits. So it was not a big sacrifice for Xerox to maintain that lab. If they had to change course was due to government policy becoming less interested in industrial innovation and more focused on offshoring and financial gains for the last decades.
I'm learning his age in this thread and pretty surprised. I would have pegged him as being in his late twenties. I think stuff like his haircut, his general attitude, the league of legends thing, all contribute to making him seem younger than he his.