skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BORAX_experiments
If you make each sail in the swarm light enough and self-adjusting, radiation from the star could keep them in place... here's a detailed writeup (not mine): https://canmom.art/physics/dyson-spheres
>>> Early- to mid-stage companies especially

If your early to mid-stage company needs queues to depth then what is in them is vital to your business.

You better know what is going on with mission critical data at every step of its journey. Or the data isnt that important and you should write something lighter than this because it can be lossy...
Cool stuff!
I'm a bit surprised it's an YC startup, can you share your thought process or a roadmap? It sounds like a cool fun project and I assume you want to target creators similar to midjourney?
Another question is if I want to have two characters in the scene I assume it's a bit more difficult with LoRA?
> how many of those hires already had clearances and/or military experience?
>
> you've got an active TS/SCI and we'll get you onboarded next week.

Defense contractors often want candidates to have an active clearance, but AFAIK that's not at all a requirement for DoD labs.

I'm guessing the contractors want to avoid the financial cost and scheduling uncertainty of applying for the clearance. Especially because the clearance follows a person when they change employers.

> and if you don't... it'll be at least 6 months.

I'm not sure where you got that information, but it doesn't match my experience. You get an interim (non-TS) clearance very quickly, and a permanent clearance eventually.

> and that's assuming people aren't too upset about ties to China, a polyamorous lifestyle, or how much weed you smoked.

I have no idea what exact criteria OPM uses for denying a clearance application.

But last I knew, DoD does do random drug testing. I'm not sure what the consequences are for failing a marijuana test, but it wouldn't shock me if it causes loss of clearance.
sure, but loneliness and being physically alone are arguably two totally separate things.
Not that this holds up to scrutiny, and there are certainly issues with fungibility of lives and money, but let's say the value of a life in the US is $10 million. $10 billion in fraud is 1,000 lives claimed. The sentence could have been worse.
Presidents generally don't suffer much from pardoning the wrong person.

There's maybe one President that didn't get elected because of his use of the pardon. But then, Ford wasn't elected President or Vice President before he pardoned Nixon either.

Otherwise, I'm not aware of a pardon so controversial that it became a major campaign issue. And for a second term President, there's not really any downside.
Unless he dies, gets a pardon, commutation, or sentence reduction first, the minimum he can serve under existing law is ~21 years based on a 25 year sentence and maximum good conduct time.
it would have been inaccurate to say George Marshall was promoted to Field Marshal, because he wasn't. He was promoted to General of the Army. It's sort of like saying someone who was promoted to Gunner in the Marines is a Chief Warrant Officer. The two are equivalent in rank, but very different roles in their organizations. And if you referred to a Navy Captain as a Colonel, people would look at you funny, even though the two are considered equivalent rank.
Vehicular deaths are almost always under prosecuted in the US.

This does not mean that it should be legal to defraud people of billions of dollars, ruin countless lives, and harm many more.

This is a rare case where a white collar crime was appropriately punished. Sam showed no remorse, and no evidence that he would not engage in similar crimes in the future. He earned this time.

Hopefully he’ll reform and be worthy of early release; but candidly I doubt it. I think he’s irredeemable.
It’s simple really. Money is considered more important than human lives.
Just checking: using a modded handset on ham frequencies with a ham license would still be perfectly legal, as long as you still abide by power/no-encoding rules right?
My mental picture is that violently curved decision surfaces could look like the convolutions of the brain even though they have nothing to do with how the brain actually works.

I think of how tSNE and other algorithms sometimes produce projections that sometimes look like that (maybe that’s just what you get when you have to bend something complicated to fit into a 2-d space) and frequently show cusps that to me look like a sign of trouble (took me a while in my PhD work to realize how Poincaré sections from 4 or 6 dimensions can look messed up when a part of the energy surface tilts perpendicularly to the projection surface.)

I still find it hard to believe that dense vectors are the right way to deal with text despite the fact that they work so well. For images it is one thing because changing one pixel a little doesn’t change the meaning of an image, but changing a single character of a text can completely change the meaning of the text. Also there’s the reality that if you randomly stick together tokens you get something meaningless, so it seems almost all of the representation space covers ill formed texts and only a low dimensional manifold holds the well formed texts. Now the decision surfaces really have to be nonlinear and crumpled over all but I think there’s a definitely a limit on how crumpled those surfaces can be.
I never needed a replacement but I tried Kate for quick edits and honestly it's a very lovely implementation
So epic, thank you for making this dataset available to everyone!
De jure so is Antarctica, but nobody seems to give a fuck in practice.
This article seems to stem from a desire to dunk on "evil Silicon Valley robber barons" more than anything else.

As others have pointed out here, the premise is based on a linked Washington Post survey that doesn't even really suggest that sci-fi is unpopular (at least no less popular than other "genre" fiction). Also, cyberpunk and other "near-future capitalism-dystopia" stories are only a subset of science fiction.

Honestly, I think we're still working through the psychic trauma of Donald Trump's 2016 victory over Clinton. The literary class was SO caught off guard and stunned by that unexpected outcome, that it lost its mind and has yet to recover.

I don't remember "Silicon Valley" being used as a scare phrase, or regarded all that negatively, prior to 2016. But immediately afterward, stunned people desperate for explanation latched onto whatever theories they could find. We ended up with Clinton losing "because Russia posted on Facebook too much", and overnight Silicon Valley became a bugbear. Then Elon messed with the rage echo chamber on Twitter, and immediately went from "pot-smoking goofball troll" to robber baron and devil incarnate.

In other words, the sort of people who write articles about books are feeling really down on social media companies and tech entrepreneurs these days. And transfer those feelings onto sci-fi, because they're not really into sci-fi themselves anyway, and therefore see all that as one and the same.
>Also would a Perceptron with the original architecture do what an LLM does just given scale?

Yes. The answer is yes. This is exactly what the universal approximation theorem [1] says, which was proven decades ago. It is also just another line of reasoning that compute matters more than architecture, but fewer people outside of ML research know about it. And it's also less practical, since the formal theorem has few empirics to go by for really large models. But mathematically, a scaled perceptron is 100% able to replicate any LLM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
>I see a lot of people who absolutely want kids but feel they can't have them, for a number of reasons

I remember thinking about that in the street, and then be overtaken by a rom family, the father pushing the kids in a shopping cart and the mother walking alongside.
interesting point.

i know of at least one startup working with that concept[1].

Im sure there are others.

1 - https://www.extropic.ai/
Breaking and entering into someone's house and stealing their cash is very different from having an obligation to pay them out cash and not fulfilling it. While it may be the same amount of money, it's a radically different relationship between parties.
Legally, Brian Peck injured two victims. SBF arguably injured far more than that (especially if you assign even partial responsibility for the suicides of people he victimized).
> > So basically the traders did a bank run and Sam ended up going to jail. It’s interesting that by contrast SVB leaders didn’t face any repercussions because they were part of the established ways of doing things even though that ended up being very costly for the government.

Because Silicon Valley Bank leaders were nobodies whereas SBF became perceived as a trophy, pretty much immediately.

This is something to be mindful on. When doing self promotion some people start seeing you as an inspiration , many others as a fraud or a human trophy to be captured and paraded around.

Especially in startup communities where groupthink takes over and everybody wants to be the new cult figure of the Silicon Valley or the crypto valley or whatever. People outside that bubble (especially LE, prosecutors and judges) see right through that BS and are specifically looking with a magnifying glass everything that goes on hoping to get themselves a nice trophy on their desk, they want the heads of cult founders. Some would say rightfully so.
FTX was attempting to buy influence on both sides of the aisle.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/20/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-allies...

> Ryan Salame, who was the CEO of FTX’s digital markets division, donated millions of dollars to Republican political action committees and affiliated “dark money” groups with funds from FTX’s affiliated hedge fund, Alameda Research, according to the documents. Salame pleaded guilty last month to federal campaign finance and money-transmitting crimes. Caroline Ellison, who ran Alameda and once dated Bankman-Fried, also gave millions to right-leaning nonprofit groups, the documents say.

> Bankman-Fried donated $10 million to a [Mitch] McConnell-linked group named One Nation in August 2022, according to the evidence filed by prosecutors. The money came directly from an Alameda Research account, prosecutors said.

There's little reason to believe any of that influence remains now that he's broke.
But they don't.

Because the pattern they usually follow is to pardon the questionable cases (personal friends, people with financial ties to the President, etc.) just before they go out of office.
I'm surprised to find this so far down. The Gervais Principle is the cynical cousin of the Peter Principle, and even if it isn't actually accurate for some workplaces, it makes for a compelling read.
Im over 30, but..

1. Job market is really difficult, somehow on both sides

2. The f*deral government is getting more brazen with it's gaslighting on the following topics

2a. Inflation

2b. The job market

2c. Global conflicts

3. Products are sinking in value and increasing in cost

4. Everything is a scam, you have to be vigilant when buying groceries now.

5. EVERYTHING IS A SCAM. Even something as silly as someone doing yarn stop motion animation to replicate the netflix intro was a lie.

6. The internet is becoming a flood of garbage even wothout AI, but its's getting even worse.

7. We're somehow living through a "post truth" transition. Was that something anyone even remotely considered 20 years ago?

8. Businesses are trying to get you addicted to something, because selling something useful isn't enough anymore.

9. Starting a business is getting harder because you have to compete with liars and scammers competing with literal truckloads of money behind them.

10. The atrocities that are being committed on your behalf so all this can keep going. e.g. slave labor for lithium batteries.

11. The lack of control over any of the above

12. Plastic bits everywhere

12a. you cant use plastic without being a monster

12b. You cant not use plastic

13. Corn being used to fatten everyone up, while also being subsidised so it also steals money from you

14. Copywright laws designed to make everything harder, including benign things like buying a new tv and having to update other equipment to comply woth hdcp

15. Your job is most likely not even slightly working to make people happier (see also everything is a scam)

16. Having children is no longer an asset its a liability

16a. This is going to wreck our retirement

17. Looming financial collapse (see also f*deral gaslighting)

18. Housing is expensive because people are playing games with the market.

18a. Said people are going to get bailed out with your money for losing said game

19. Disappearing to the woods wont help with any of this and you will also be isolating your kids while doing it

20. Old cars are getting older and new cars are getting more and more disposable.

I havent even put on my tin foil hat yet.

If people reply to this comment I'm sure we can get to 100.
Are you kidding me? A modern CPU should run Quake at 600FPS at 720p. Yes, CPU.
A philanthropist with the money he stole? His entire fortune is fruit of the poisoned tree. Milken is trash. He was in the 80s, and he is trash in the 20s.

No amount of philanthropy washing can erase the damage his done.

Fuck that guy.
> SBF operated with forethought and malice.

And hometown guy accidentally got behind the wheel of a car while drunk?
Their traffic lights are sideways and have different shapes as well as colours too.
This is very similar to "a11y"[0] and "i18n"[1]. The abbreviation of words using this technique has become surprisingly common in the software industry.

[0]: https://www.wordnik.com/words/a11y
[1]: https://www.wordnik.com/words/i18n
What is a victimless crime? Speeding? Even though excessive speed is strongly correlated with crash deaths?

Fraud? The money comes from somewhere; someone is harmed by it (Pratchett's Going Postal has a good line on it - "No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.”
CA Senator Pushes Bill to Remove Anonymity from Anyone Who Is Influential Online
serious problem.

generally they don't take weed to seriously, but want to know you've been drug free for roughly a year.

By comparison, several / most of the Cali tech firms I've worked for / with / around had devs hitting a THC vape at lunch. Might have had to pass a piss test to get the job, but that's just 30 days, and no one is knocking on your neighbor's doors to verify your drug and employment history.
> fairly solidly proven that LLMs aren't just lookup tables/stochastic parrots

Well i'd strongly disagree. I see no evidence of this; I'm am quite well acquainted with the literature.

All empirical statistical AI is just a means of approximating an empirical distribution. The problem with NLP is that there is no empirical function from text tokens to meanings; just as there is no function from sets of 2D images to a 3D structure.

We know before we start that the distributions of text tokens are only coincidentally related to the distributions of meanings. The question is just how much value that coincidence has in any given task.

(Consider, eg., that if I ask, "do you like what i'm wearing?" there is no distribution of responses which is correct. I do not want you to say "yes" 99/100, or even 100/100 times. etc. what I want you to say is a word caused a mental state you have: that of (dis)liking what i'm wearing.

Since no statistical AI systems generate outputs based on causal features of reality, we know a priori that almost all possible questions that can be asked cannot be answered by LLMs.

They are only useful where questions have cannonical answers; and only because "cannonical" means that a text->text function is likely to be conidentally indistinguishable from a the meaning->meaning function we're interested in).
I had somewhere between $10k and $20k in FTX. Took it all out when CZ started tweeting
IIRC, the transmit power of all versions of the UV-5R are too high for FRS.

Besides being noncompliant in ways that people are more likely to consider harmless technicalities, such as the antenna being removable.
I think it would be useful if the full domain (vitalik.eth.limo) was displayed.

Not sure if that's possible or if it violates any HN policies about how links are displayed, apologies if it's a silly/useless suggestion.

Edit: Not sure how popularis eth.limo w.r.t. to HN submissions, but the full domain should probably be displayed for any eth.limo submission.
honest question - why was there a need to start a new repo? Would you be ok to merge yours with notepad++'s official repo[0] (both are in c++). Did this cross your mind before and what happened?

Not saying that they would allow but it'd help the community as a whole with less duplication of work and deliver more features.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
I actually had surgery done to fix a deviated septum about 10 years ago, now you mention it

You're probably right it's allergy related. Nothing ever shows up on scratch tests though

I use a nasal steroid I just wish there was a permanent fix
What is a good example of assymetrical cost in your favour?
Why do you think he will ever rehabilitate?

Prison is not and shouldn't be about rehabilitation. It's society that requires to be less exposed to SBF, by 20-25 years.
I'd love to see an analysis that wasn't done by an AI. I don't think that any AI-only analysis is worth much.

But that said, "sentiment analysis" has always been a bit questionable no matter whether it's done by human or machine.
> forces you to think about it

forcing people to type something never forces them to think about it.
Point 18

> The request for access concerned four harmonised standards adopted by CEN, in accordance with Regulation No 1025/2012, namely, standard EN 71-5:2015, entitled ‘Safety of toys – Part 5: Chemical toys (sets) other than experimental sets’; standard EN 71‑4:2013, entitled ‘Safety of toys – Part 4: Experimental sets for chemistry and related activities’; standard EN 71‑12:2013, entitled ‘Safety of toys – Part 12: N-Nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances’; and standard EN 12472:2005+A 1:2009, entitled ‘Method for the simulation of wear and corrosion for the detection of nickel released from coated items’ (‘the requested harmonised standards’).
> it's becoming more common in my group of SWEs to specifically opt to NOT use VC backed software

so, what they use instead? Bugged, dead OSS dropped by creators?..
If I worked for Dell I'd hear this as
"Return to office or get a job elsewhere for insta-promotion."

Draconian workplace rules just lose your best people, haven't companies learnt this yet?
As a kid I read a Tom Swift book than read all of them, and then started reading Asimov and many other authors. I don’t know what it is but people who read Dune and Hitchhiker just don’t move on to other books and authors.

And it’s just those two series. I can look down on Xanth but people I’ve met who’ve read that have read other fantasy books like the Deryni books or the Narnia books.

I think it is that people feel socially pressured to read Dune and Hitchhiker and come to conclusions like “reading science fiction is like watching protons decay” or “reading science fiction is being compelled to laugh at jokes that aren’t really funny”.
I remember there were several pilots to rewrite some of C++ libraries in Rust at the exploration stage, keeping their behavior as close as possible. IIUC, the outcome was positive in general, consistent with the tweet's claim.
For this story: https://hnrankings.info/39852849/
A plausible alternative is that the culture in the US puts considerably more value on the lives of the victims and assigns nearly zero value to the life of the criminal. Arguing that people should "please think of the criminals" is a non-starter.
These services attempt to teach users to guess whether email content has malicious intention. But if an email from no-reply@chase.com says someone emptied your saving, you can't just laugh it off.

From a technical perspective, in order to successfully reach customers, they have to actually pass DMARC/DKIM/SPF tests and also some spam filters. For a company to do this to their employees, they typically have to ask their email admins to whitelist such service or even let them use a legit company domain. When I got such email for the first time, I thought our email system was compromised.
Same here, former enthusiast now appalled by it.

GP: > HN, where everyone reflexively hates crypto

Yeah, no, the hate of crypto stems from a fairly well grounded understanding of the technology here. BTW, the good folks at FT Alphaville also mostly hate crypto - there, it stems from a good understanding of finance. Basically, everyone that understands the tech/finance intersection reasonably well hates crypto, with one important caveat best expressed by Upton Sinclair nearly a century ago:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Your logic is strange. With robbery, the primary crime is the violence (or para-violent threat), and not the theft. This is easy to demonstrate: the punishment for breaking into someone's home in many jurisdictions is essentially the same, even if you steal nothing.
Motor crimes are punished leniently because almost everyone drives, and every driver can imagine themselves making a mistake behind the wheel and they don't want that mistake to ruin their life or the lives of their loved ones.

I'm not saying it's right. But it's the tacit consensus we maintain to make ourselves comfortable with the risks of piloting deadly machines every day.
https://youtu.be/1dt6ykstvOo?si=itGvWonj4MPQaSrq&t=384

Mentions that it's a basic scrambler. I doubt a $30 radio has a chip powerful enough for real-time (proper) encryption.
Sublime text for me takes too long to load. It's also too heavy for what my use case is. I just want a simple text editor, not an entire development app.
Funny but my first thought wasn't wasting their time at all, that's easily fixed with a few code adjustments on their client end. My thought was to harvest their IPs and publish them in blocklists.
We have grants and corporate sponsors to keep the project alive even if the VC money runs out. This was all a side project for me at first, so I went down the "donation" route in the beginning.

Donations are great but they're not how the system works, unfortunately. Dioxus could never compete with the two most valuable companies on earth if it wasn't a self-sustaining business. VC just lets me scale the team from 2 people to 10(?) and have some cash to iterate. We were "profitable" even before taking venture money.

Now we're able to take on more moonshot-type projects like the blitz renderer, a deploy platform, UI fuzz tooling, and more. We're using our seed round exclusively to make dioxus as awesome as possible, so even if it doesn't work out at a venture level, there's still a really cool, polished, end-to-end app framework that you can build and ship with in Rust.
I don’t think OpenAI are gonna lose any sleep over this.

Isn’t a “community forum” like this basically just: “we’re not gonna spend money on providing adequate customer support so instead here is a forum where y’all can talk amongst yourselves and we’ll give you some badges and imaginary points for doing the customer support yourselves”?
Yea let’s let fraudsters run amuck, he damaged the lives of millions of people, fuck him