skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tremendously detailed for how short it is. I struggle to understand how outsourcing the engineer was sold as good for shareholders. Anyone watching someone write a longer book on this publicly?
Sam is a crook, no doubt, but even now I find him a funny figure. His trial defence was awful. He sincerely believes he was trying to do the right thing, so spent his time on the stand defending his actions at length, instead of keeping his mouth shut except to express contrition. This probably cost him years of freedom.

It's strange to say but there's an... authenticity to this that I find endearing.
Would they really put you on the radar just for being memorable and friendly? Or are your skills what put you on the radar?
"What if it just means" -- I mean, we don't have to ask "what if". We can look at the original press release:

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai

« We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies. »

They never give an explicit explanation for their name, but it's pretty obvious.
> Besides (potentially) rehabilitation, prison serves to protect the populace from dangerous people who would harm others and as a deterrent to others who can see what punishment they might get if they do something illegal.

It is not like he will be getting away with a slap on the wrist one way or another. I just don't see more years in prison past some reasonable threshold as a good deterrent.

> I am not claiming prison does a good job of these things, just that its goal is not to "ruin people's lives".

The purpose of a system is what it does.
People Power! The system worked (this time).
Yes, as I said the parallel assumption is not quite realistic, and the number is an average, covering all states a transistor may be in. So it amounts to a rough lower bound for when a transistor is switching.
I think that probably depends on just how productive AGI is. AGI is fundamentally resource-constrained just like everything else. It can only do as much work as there is power and compute infrastructure to support that work, which means that AGI will tend to be allocated toward the tasks for which it provides the most value. There will likely still be tons of things where the AGI is better than a human being, but because the AGI resources are better spent elsewhere humans still end up doing those jobs. As long as the AGI is resource constrained comparative advantage will still come into play.

This has always been my head cannon for why you don't see more AGI in Star Trek. The computers in Star Trek clearly perform a lot of work and automation how else can you operate such a large and complex ship with such a small crew, but they don't have unlimited resources so the AIs perform the work where they are most valuable and humans do everything else.
The one detail I was unable to find was "What is the book about?"

Ironically, I think I'd be okay with my skin adorning an anatomy textbook!
The founder of Binance is going to jail in the US, but surely it won’t end badly if people keep their hard-earned dollars on this service. No such thing has ever happened in the history of crypto after all.
CDC alerts doctors to watch for rare, serious bacterial infection
Reports today say the engine was never restarted. Backup power only.
I am sure some of this can be explained by demographic change
I think there must be nuances here that are not being made clear.

What is the level below which one is no longer literate (it seems to be 5th grade level, which I think is 10 yo?)

Is this English (as opposed to perhaps a higher literacy rate in other languages (ie literacy is high, just America has a lot more non native speakers than we expect)

Just confused
This organization tries to rank online media political sources by their bias.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart

It’s not totally objective, but at least relatively can help you.
IIRC that was according to a fbi agent that ended up serving time due to pocketing a large sum of bitcoin.
That assumes quite a bit of freedom that may not exist for many people.

An Uber driver waiting for their next passenger isn’t able to go hang out with friends, but they can play on their phone, or read a book.
>So why would Edgar do that?

Because it's funny?
The Cognitive-Theoretic Model Of The Universe: A Partial Summary And Review
This is not about politics, it's all about marketing. The system was told "make sure that any images of people you generate are diverse" and it did just that. It performed as designed, there was no failure. The interesting political question is why we would care about these things in the first place, one way or the other.
> After all, whats the harm in letting a little girl from harlem believe someone like her could have been a medieval european monarch? It's beneficial to make people feel good about themselves and history is just dead people right?

The harm is that it's not true. When more and more people believe things that are fundamentally not true about the world, about history, we get further from the ability to move civilization forward in positive directions. History isn't just dead people, it's a record, to the best of our ability, of what actually happened to get us here. Any sort of improvement process always starts from where you are, but if you don't know where you are and the context that got you there, you can't improve.

There's definitely a lot more people these days that completely reject the very concept of objective truth and reality, and they are perfectly happy for us to spread that farther within society, but those concepts aren't just an idea, they're something tangible. The truth actually matters, it's foundational to being able to do things like science and engineering. Why many of us got into computers in the first place is because we felt comfort in the fact computers couldn't lie and could only do what they were told to do, if the computer did something unexpected it was because you had made a mistake, not because the system was non-rational or non-deterministic. LLMs, hallucinations, and filter bubbles create a world in which nobody has the comfort of truth anymore, we're all just suffering through some sort of delusion, mass or individual.
Polar ice is melting and changing Earth's rotation. Its messing with time itself
He’s on twitter expressing his own opinion all the time
you should reread what I wrote
The Onion was joking about this eventuality in 2010:

https://www.theonion.com/boeing-lays-off-only-guy-who-knows-...
Sure, tell that to all the people who were bankrupted because of him.
That was a big part of it; I recall heading home from school and stopping in at the used bookstore, grab a interesting looking novel for 25 cents, read it on the way home, toss or donate it.
Sorry but you’re suggesting that the USA is the only country that gets punitive justice right?

Works pretty well out here in Australia, or much of Eastern Europe.
Find the Savages
Step CI – open-source API test automation framework
Sam Bankman-Fried – How Astrology Tells It All [video]
> The day after Broken Dreams premiered, Swampy got an email informing him that he’d been put on a 60-day corrective action plan four weeks earlier. His alleged offense constituted using email to communicate about process violations

That is pretty shady. They didn't want to discuss violations in emails so it doesn't end up in a court case or found by the FAA during an investigation.

> the longtime former Boeing executive told me, “I don’t think one can be cynical enough when it comes to these guys.” Did that mean he thought Boeing assassinated Swampy? “It’s a top-secret military contractor, remember; there are spies everywhere,” he replied.

I am kind of surprised various executives don't order hits on each other more often. Or maybe they do but the assassinations are too subtle and they look like heart attacks and accidents? With billions on the line, what's a few millions in crypto found in a usb stick somewhere in the bushes for a "job well done". There is also the idea that sometimes it should look more an assassination to send a clear message to others: "you don't want to fall on the knife backwards, three times in as row, like so and so, now do you?"
Also, that person sends his/her CV to any job ad they see, even if there is a 30% match in the reqs.
I got a friend with IT Audit background. He has spent ALL his life doing IT Audit, and while some skills are transferable, it doesn't make sense he applies for a CISO role. Yet he applies to every job ad that has the words Audit, Security, Compliance. Only to be rejected from all.
I didn’t say Dr. Liskov was doing pBFT research for the express purpose of promoting cryptocurrency as an application, I said Professor Liskov was working on “blockchain tech”, it’s therefore pretty cheeky to call “blockchain” “junk”, and I said that she not only persisted in but increased the scope of such research during a period of time when it was impossible not to know this is how the technology is being adopted.

If you’re going to nitpick in an effort to discredit a robust argument by beam-searching for the weakest-looking link in the argument and go directly after it, then at a minimum, be right.

Don’t refute intentional misquotations.
It's maybe quick with low fees now while no one is using it.

It has the exact same practical problems every other distributed cryptocurrency has preventing it from being useful as an actual currency. If Monero ever started seeing adoption as an actual currency it would fall apart just like Bitcoin.
Not sure if this addresses what you are getting at but there’s a feature that lets you overlap stops and it’ll turn that particular stop into a carousel that you can use to browse other suggestion. This was added after a lot of the itineraries were already created which is why the alternatives exist in the description.
>FTX Says It Expects to Repay Customers in Full. Some Are Suing for More https://www.wired.com/story/ftx-bankruptcy-bitcoin-value/
That's one twisted sense of humor. Maybe I am underestimating Edgar.
Because state hospitals aren’t publicly listened they aren’t broken by this?

Yes I forgot every aspect of state run hospitals are the same…

But except wait.. almost every aspect of what makes that hospital is on the stock market.
Previous:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468052 (Nov 2022; 14 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33151474 (Oct 2022; 52 comments)
If only the crewmembers would maintain the airgap with the sexy computers.
> however with software nobody dies

Unless that software is running a life-critical or potentially life-threatening piece of equipment. People have died from software bugs in such things.
In addition to the other replies, bigger rotors achieve their power at lower rpm. That's because blade tip speed needs to stay well below the speed of sound, at all sizes. Where small, hectic rotations are annoying, the large ones appear majestic. They are seen very far, but blend in much better. The small turbines are the ones that are catching the eye.

You can spend many hours with a mix of different turbine sizes in view perceiving that difference without really being able to put a finger on it. But when you do realize how that plays out, you will never ever consider two smaller turbines where a larger would do. Chances are you'd even prefer a larger one over a single smaller.
Biology is incredibly efficient at what it does well though. Thus only 20 watts of brain energy to coordinate everything we do. We didn't evolve to be mentats.
It would be nice if we could talk about NPR's many missteps (as perceived from my quite left-leaning perspective). Journalists seem immune to substantive criticism and introspection, and it's quite frustrating - especially for those of us who would like journalism to remain a social pillar, in such a way that the public feels a duty to protect the institution. Corporate ownership and reader dissatisfaction are two sides of the "eroding trust/legitimacy" coin.
Alternatively, why should toys make the person playing with it feel bad? Toys are intentionally escapist, it’s the point? Feels like a weird argument.

I think the better comparison is what the other commenters brought up - maps. These are tools, and we turn to them for a purpose. And yet even geography is not ahem set in stone. We need our tools to be useful to the user, and that means different things to different people. There’s dispute in all facts. Just ask the people living in Taiwan, or Gaza or Ukraine…
What Google's New AI Fruit Fly Can Teach Us about Real Behavior
I thought the project was dead
> PARC could be revived only if Mr. Parekh could find a way to build some “slack” into the system by finding money to support open-ended research projects.
SRI may have found that slack. The research laboratory is located in Menlo Park, Calif., in walking distance to the San Francisco to San Jose commuter rail line on 63 of Silicon Valley’s most valuable acres.

Are they saying that they'll raise the money by doing real estate development? Could work, they certainly don't need all of the 63 acres. Or maybe they don't need any of those 63 acres? They could sell all of it off and move SRI/PARC to some much cheaper area of the country.
I'm not convinced of the additional danger in letting packages run code during installation. You install them because you want to use them, so the code they ship will get run anyway. Are there really common environments where the final product only gets run with less permissions than the package manager?
> The day a network exists where you can reliably send like $0.001 of value with little/no fees is the day the internet changes forever.

It will change absolutely nothing whatsoever.

> So many ideas are infeasible right now because CC fees are high, and making any payment is extremely high friction.

Making payments will always be, is inherently high friction, and reducing the amount does nothing below a threshold that is much, much higher than $0.001.

There have been lots and lots of micropayment schemes, and they have all failed because the very fact that there is a payment already introduces mental friction that's effectively higher than current CC fees.

Any idea that is infeasible because there is no way to reliably send $0.001 is in fact easily feasible today by monetizing it some other way, usually via ads.

Lower fees are only relevant for high-volume fully automated transactions with a substantial financial incentive behind them, and those can already be done basically for zero marginal cost, see HFT. The only micropayments that people are willing to engage in individually is when they involve addiction, and that as well can and is already done in gambling apps masquerading as games.
Here's an elevator pitch. Your twitter/facebook/github account gets banned, what do you do? With farcaster/lens/radicle, it's impossible.
> before something happens and my social security number winds up on a sticky note on some hacker's monitor in Belarus

Isn't the point of the article that they can't leak something they don't have?

So if I never get your social security number from you, then I have zero risk of leaking it or exposing it to hackers. I can't give them (intentionally or unintentionally) something that I don't possess.

The author says:

> Given these criteria and extremes, we decided that our best course of action is to just never have our users' private data.

---

To your next question on what happens if Matter is acquired. Well the app might stop working or change how it works or have new logo in the corner, but your data never left your device, so you don't really have to worry about it being leaked to Belarus.
I haven't lost any money, I avoid crypto.

The difference is consent and malicious behavior.

When I invest into stock market, it can always go down.

When you move your customers money to save your other failing company, it's fraud. There is no consent and there is malicious behavior.

Crypto repeats all failings of old-fashioned banking system we have learned over 2 centuries, except it's "with blockchain" now.
I’m just a shareholder, not employee or customer. For me it doesn’t inspire confidence in future performance. Seems like one of those stupid bean-counter moves that leads to organizational decline.

I wouldn’t call this “a good thing”, except in the very narrow perspective that you analyzed (I agree that honesty between management and employees generally leads to better outcomes). But I think the benefits of the honesty are far outweighed by the idiocy of the policy.
great list :)

too bad so many have been lost. I think bookbuyers is completely gone now.
> The first looks a bit like a sawtooth wave, the second is more like a chain of pulses. Wouldn't that sound different?

Not to me: https://mega.nz/folder/o5RWBLZZ#ihg7MAQG5qZjEmMuySwpxA
same goes for bad checks, the person cashing it pays a returned check fee!
Norminalization of Deviance: https://youtu.be/GN80sx3s4LA?si=de_4xxo1YhFVy0lD
I actually use three local hard drives in rotation plus a cloud provider to hopefully cover the "building catches on fire and I don't even have time grab a drive" scenario.

Maybe a second cloud provider would also be good. I'm going to think about this.
This phenomenon also explains some others that may or may not be surprising:

1. Founder led companies have higher returns. And it's by A LOT. Hard to quantify exactly but, I've seen quoted numbers as high as 20% outperformance for founder led companies.

2. The biggest corporations never remain the biggest. Where is the Dutch East India company today? More recent examples:
IBM was overtaken by Nippon Telephone, was overtaken by Exxon Mobil, was overtaken by GE, was overtaken by Microsoft etc.

3. It's not very common that a company stays in the S&P 500 for more than 30 years. The average lifespan is 21 years.

The common thread is that as soon as the sociopath MBA's take over, they Boeing the whole business.
I don't think the existence of Gemini disproves the author's statement. The model is clearly broken, not only within the definitions of what you or I would consider acceptable but also within the definition set by the prudes on-high. The wildly diverse output seems especially emblematic of a hackjob finetune not dissimilar to what OpenAI does with their instruction-tuning.

The quoted comment seems to align with how Google saw the situation. They wanted a specific desired outcome (neutered AI output), they applied a documented strategy, and got a torrential wave of "observed results" from the audience.
I'd happily pay a subscription to a closed community if I thought the value of the community was higher than the entry cost. However, I'm glad Hacker News is open and democratic.
the amazon hemorrhaging already happened and the industry stabilized. new indie stores are trending up: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/books/bookstores-diversit...

also: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/books-back-what-caused-bookst...
The race to replace Redis
I disagree. Surely Redis will take advantage of a solution to a given problem.
You don't have to pay it. It's only payable if you want to receive the letter.
From the article, sounds like the recipient can pay the fine and get the mail, or not pay the fine and not get the mail. Maybe it'll get returned to sender, for insufficient postage? Maybe it'll be destroyed?
People who still think cryptocurrency is pointless are like fundamentalist Christians saying that condoms are pointless.

You're trying to imagine away the use cases because you don't agree with them.
From the article:

"...dietary acetate, and acetate supplementation can exert positive effects on human health."

So arguably the synthesis provided by this article and the conclusion are a great read for many laymen not directly involved in biosciences.
https://youtu.be/GN80sx3s4LA?si=de_4xxo1YhFVy0lD
I lost hundreds of thousands of dollars with this guy. I was hateful when this whole thing was unwinding. Now I’m indifferent — I just hope John Ray can make the customers whole
I thought it changed to 57 days.
Isn't that confusing an ineffective treatment (prompt engineering) with the actual disease (insufficiently apolitical training data and use cases)?
Yes, he's a Republican.

Typical engineering humor of that era where they'd make up "rules of the universe" that were just them saying something vaguely cynical.
You pay the fine if want the post. You don't legally have to pay. Presumably it works like this because they can't always identify who sent the letter.
>Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.

So they devalued Wisdom, and Elders... and things fell apart. This seems to be a pattern repeated all over the modern world.
Guiding the future of FreeBSD releases: Colin Percival
I want this feature on by default, but recognize that all but a tiny number of users will be confused and inconvenienced by this when using a public wifi.

Imagine using this in India where they law requires that every public wifi require a phone number to authenticate before use.
This aligns pretty well, with my own PoV.

I can tell you that it has not made me popular with my coworkers. This whole blasted industry has become completely drenched in PID harvesting, and incredibly casual treatment of said PID. My solitaire apps are constantly trying to get me to sign up for leaderboards and challenges.

I have been denying pig-butchering (most likely) signups for our new app, at about a 30% rate. It's pretty damn sobering (each signup is manually vetted. We don't really care about quantity). We are restricted to US, Canada, and India, and have barely made any efforts to promote the app, but the scammers jumped all over it.

Right now, they are primitive (we have a specific demographic that is hard to fake), but I expect that to change.

I have just come to accept that baddies will get in, so it's important that the liquor cabinet be empty, if they try raiding it.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39488667 .

It’s commonly used on HN.
SpaceX is a much better analogy than Tesla.

Tesla accepts that there will be some accidents at the cost of progress.

SpaceX does not. (Or specifically lines up launches so that accidents have negligible consequences)
She willingly conjured up fake financial documents to suit Sam's needs. She had the kind of credentials that would have easily landed her a job at other financial institutions, she absolutely could have quit at any point.
Yeah, those are good, but they still treat money as static. And our brains just aren't wired like that. It's very hard to conceptualize because we think numbers like 1bn is close to 2bn due to the aggregation of the 0's but they just aren't.
> Remember the big rollout of the Dreamliner in 2014 to show it was all done, but it was actually an empty metal tube with landing gear duct taped on it?

It was in 2007 (on July 8th, a date obviously picked for the memes). Maiden flight was supposed to be two months or so away with introduction in 2008.

Maiden flight was on December 15, 2009. Commercial service started October 2011.

> name a commercially successful Boeing-designed product from the 21st century

The MAX was commercially successful before it started falling out the sky. Orders even picked back up after the dip and cancellations from the MCAS crisis.

It's not like customers have much of a choice if they need a new frame, there are 7000 outstanding orders for the A320neo family and in 2023 Airbus built 45 a month, with plans to eventually reach 75 a month (and stabilise there) circa 2026.