skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reposting one of my comments that wasn't particularly liked when i originally submitted it but i think becomes more relevant now.

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I find such white-collar crimes very interesting because of the math between crime and punishment.
For the crime that SBF is alleged to have committed, we can reasonably expect 20 yrs (he will be out in 10-12). But if he had committed a murder, he would be in prison for life (no parole).

Mathematically speaking, this implies that a life is worth more than fraud worth 8 billion dollars. We can make a very reasonable assumption that the govt can save 1 additional life using a million dollars (giving necessary treatment to drug addicts / suicidal people / etc). Out of the 8 billion dollars from SBF, government would have got at least 50 million dollars from taxes (this is a lower bound). Out of that 50 million, maybe the govt puts 10-20 million back for public good. So the govt could have saved at least 10-20 people from the money that SBF is alleged to have defrauded.

Based on the above, can we say that SBF indirectly killed 10-20 people? What would be the punishment for someone who kills 10-20 people? Surely more than 20 years.

This balance between the scale of crime and the severity of punishment can be very interesting. Should someone defrauding 2 billion dollars suffer twice the punishment of someone defrauding 1 billion dollars? What about 2 murders to 1 murder? What about numbers on scale that can change an economy (what SBF did)?

More fundamentally, is our legal system scalable?
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No I don’t think the generic report you can buy from Monroe for a million bucks has any digital files. Just words and drawings. I have obviously never bought one, but I saw them flipped through.
> These posts come up so frequently, people keep falling for buzzwords they don't understand and then start blaming the tech. Distributed systems are all cool and fun but use them as a last option when you have exhausted all other choices.

I've been in the SaaS application business since the early 2000's. When I first started, the big infra question was running on in-house infra or data-center infra. If it was the latter, then the follow-up question was which hosting provider. Regardless, as an Engineer, you were likely touching something that looked and felt like a variation of the box sitting under your desk.

Eventually we got cloud providers, serverless, containers, etc. Growing through the progression of technologies, they all seemed like a natural evolutiion of things to solve certain problems with other approaches.

For newer engineers starting out, they may only have seen these latter things, and at the scales and circumstances that make them a good choice. As such, it may not be that they're the new and shiny thing, but that they're the _only_ thing people have seen.
that doesn't sound very agile /s
Can this be generalized to:

The privatization and consequent monetization - in any way, manner, or form - of publicly-mandated requirements is.. evil^H^H^H^H vigorously contrary to the pubic interest.

Restated: Any law (and consequent mandate) is a public law, and any less-than-public variant is bogus, and subject to punishment-free leaks.
Looks like the link is unclickable in the text, here: https://cq2.co.
> Ideally, a much higher-tech system would have highly tailored solutions for incapacitation

This is pretty interesting. If a person could be anesthetized for the entire sentence and then revived at the end of their period of incapacity, would that be acceptable?
That is true, but it takes more than 1 second to find out about it.
Some of the first non-apian drones to ever fly were "missiles".

You're going to have to invent time travel, go back over a century, and murder all of the people who started calling drones "drones" if you want to win this battle.
A good biography does not cast too many moral aspersions. Its job is to paint a portrait of the person's life, including the details and quirks that shed insight into the subject's character. If you want affirmations of the awfulness of SBF and his crimes, there is no shortage of that by media and pundits.
Interestingly in the JetBrains emacs keybindings set, alt-x does exactly what you want. So, it's bindable, and you can use it in ANY keybinding, emacs or not.
Why in the world is the fence around that so short? This is nuts! I would have jumped that as a kid to climb the tower. Probably not in bare feet or the rain. It seems strange to not protect this better (yes, i know, kids are not supposed to be there, but kids are (properly) designed for finding trouble.)
> My thought was to harvest their IPs and publish them in blocklists.

Please do, it would mean good karma.
I don't think surviving for 90 years is the problem, the challenge would be surviving for the next 10 years. Or if we're being optimistic and poetic, another 90 years.
You have a source indicating the $473 to $600+ million that was supposedly moved to cold storage from client wallets was all recovered by the law, and/or the new stewards of FTX?
So, Ethereum "has blobs" now that "are provable," by an implementation that doesn't appear to contain tests [0]. Crypto, stay winning.

https://github.com/search?q=test+repo%3AOffchainLabs%2Fnitro...
No, you've confused my words. Happens in threads that stretch past a few hours.

There is a desire that humanity go extinct. But this isn't a goal for them, more like a fantasy. They're not actively working towards it, and they don't like to say it out loud.

They do design curricula (they're in positions where that's a responsibility, quite often). But they aren't conspiring. They're bumbling towards a doomsday, instinctively. They merely want to change the curricula to discourage the Star Trek future. In some vague hand-wavy way, this "makes it better". They're not sure why, and if you were to ask one hundred of them, you'd get 100 answers. And then if you asked months later, you'd get 100 different answers. It's just not purposeful, and there is no actual conspiracy.

If only there were one. Conspirators can be found out, rounded up, the evil plot exposed. But this microbe-like quorum sensing, where none need feel guilty, but simple coordination can take place, they're all innocent. There's no secret documents, no secret plan, no sinister mastermind.

Even you, you're part of it, and you don't even know it. People like you come by, mistake it for some conspiracy theory, and stir up shit as a sort of invisibility cloak. Unless of course, you were doing it deliberately. like when you quote a statement where I said "neither/nor [...] deliberately" with the very direct and simple negation of that idea.
A local maxima, that is, /usr/bin/wxmaxima...
Impressive uptime.

Sidenote: I used to take pride with these kinds of uptime. I now see it as a significant risk. If I take over a machine with an uptime of more than a month, I assume that the machine cannot survive a reboot. Which means I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to deploy that server with all the data it needs. These days there’s likely deployment systems in place that prevent some of the horrors I’ve seen, but there was a time in the not to distant past when you had to assume someone ssh’d into a box at least once a quarter to muck with something. If they didn’t reboot, there was no guarantee the changes they made would survive.
>Very glad to see GANs (or GAN-likes) coming back!
Adobe has had GigaGAN out a while now though?
Congrats on the Launch !
We can end the culture wars
Arguing lack of one-to-one causation is really tone-deaf if you've been following the climate change conversation for any time now.

Climate change is affected by multiple factors...
It looks like they are supplying a DMG so you would just drag the executable to Applications
I initially ran into that issue too (sending frames over IPC was not gonna work!) so I create a native OS-specific overlay and draw on it with wgpu.

The IPC layer has been a bit annoying and I'm looking forward to Tauri 2 where that'll get faster. I've worked around it for some stuff in the meantime by using a custom protocol and serializing stuff to binary.
It doesn't seem that hard to believe given how much automatically generated "content" (mostly garbage) there is.

I think a more interesting question is how much information there is on the internet, especially after optimal compression. I'm guessing this is a very difficult question to answer, but also much higher than LLMs currently store.
@dang this is blogspam for the official post: https://www.ai21.com/blog/announcing-jamba
People can learn. So I've often wondered if the Peter Principle is more of a recognition that people stop learning as they get older. Seems like the data could fit either scenario. People rise until their job requires more skills than they have, or people rise until they stop learning (or learn to stop learning, or until their learning capacity is reduced.) There's this thing that is called "growing up". Does growing up entail not being naive and an end to accepting what you are told (i.e., learning)? "They" say that when you're over 30 you are "over the hill". Has anyone ever tried to measure that? Maybe it's not a physical change in the body, maybe it's a consequence of getting hurt and learning not to be naive and accepting less teaching, being less open. If you've watched children grow up you can see them becoming more reticent and adopting postures.
Best way to use API for noobs?
Hello! I'm new to coding and have been learning so much by building projects with Claude Opus and GPT4, but I always hear people talking about using the API instead of the the main websites. I think this would be beneficial for me so that I can put the entire project into the AI. What is the best way to go about this?
I'm not versed in this at all. What is the DOJ's US Parole Commission?

https://www.justice.gov/uspc

"The mission of the U.S. Parole Commission is to promote public safety and strive for justice and fairness in the exercise of its authority to release and revoke offenders under its jurisdiction."
Ah, we mostly call that a garbage disposal. They are very common.
They specifically mentioned a scenario where someone is trespassing into the home. There isn't a single state that has a duty to retreat requirement that pertains to home invaders.
No, we don't need it. This "aid" is a net loss for us.

It’s the reason US State Dept treats us like Puerto Rico, without giving us any of the perks of Puerto Rico's status, like tax exemption and unrestricted access to the US mainland.

Netanyahu tried to get rid of American military "aid" in the past, but he failed to do so.

Aid must be spent to purchase arms from American suppliers at greatly inflated prices.

It also creates perverse incentives that ultimately weakens, if not cripples, our military.
As someone who lost a little bit through this whole debacle I think it is because we willingly gave our money to FTX. We wanted to believe in this story that was too good to be true. We got fooled and we are slightly ashamed.

When you get mugged you have no choice on what is happening. The actions are being forced physically on you. With FTX We chose to go that way so it somehow feels like we are as much to blame as SBF (and to be honest, we are).
For that, I'd just get FRS (US) or PMR446 (EU) radios (or your local equivalent). No license needed and very cheaply available but still interoperable across manufacturers.
> a few numbers in a database somewhere changed

That is very crass. Tell that to someone who lost a big chunk of their savings. "Just numbers in a database" indeed.
There is no "right" choice. Both choices immediately end the "game". It's just a short story with two endings.
Sumatra is such an awesome piece of software, small, fast, almost entirely bug-free, incredible load speeds for large pdfs...
my Linux alternative is Evince, which does about the same
> The money’s gone.

Hilariously with crypto, that's not necessarily true, for better or worse. The change in valuation of underlying crypto assets means that customers can sometimes be made "whole" - meaning they get back the value in USD they put in, but not including inflation and interest, so they're still poorer than they would be, but at least not out the whole amount.
It's still not resolved, but it's possible creditors in Mt Gox will be made whole. 1 BTC was worth $760 when Mt Gox went down. Today 1 BTC is around $70k, meaning they have almost $10 billion in BTC with which to pay back creditors.
I agree we should not pressure it but if you are guilty and caught with your hand in the cookie jar, it could be your best option. A good attorney will advise you if your best course is to minimize the damage by accepting a plea deal.
But that is a recent developement? Some years ago the experience under WINE with npp was not great.

(might be also 10 years, since I tried it the last time)
Sure, I agree that the school boards should be publicly calling out the province to solve this problem. But you were/are getting down voted because it sounded like a "my precious tax dollars" rant.
This press release content marketing appears hung up on some mythical perfect ESB system containing kitchen sink cross-cutting concerns.

There are many tools in the toolbox for backend infrastructure: nosqls (memcache/redis/keydb), dlms (zk), kafka, rabbitmq, ejabberd, 0mq, nng. Some scale better than others, and some are more atomic or durable than others. OLTP and infrastructure orchestration will have different needs. Sometimes, cross-cutting concerns can be added by gating the sender, receiver, or both with "controller"-like middleware proxies or modifications.

"Use good judgement" is the prime directive.
He wasn’t offered a plea deal: https://www.axios.com/2023/10/03/sam-bankman-fried-trial-ftx...
> It's interesting the things we do to get around the little things we don't like.

Yeah and perhaps pick up valuable skills, that might help us down the road in ways that are hard to quantify.
There no intent to personally harm with a disease/virus — it's just what they do and one of the players in the game of life.

Versus someone calling you specifically to cause harm, especially when they can comprehend the harm they are intending to inflict, in your example.
I believe power increases exponentially with scale. Essentially, Area = (pi) * r^2 (but much more complex given it's turbines).

This article has a good summary: https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/wind-turbines-bigger-be...

* 89ft - 0.2mw

* 173ft - 0.9mw (2x radius, 4.5x power)

* 410ft - 3mw (2.5x radius, 3x power)

* 820ft - 17mw (2x radius, 5.5x power)
5 cents per transaction is high for many parts of the world, and exceptionally high if every interaction in normal life is turned into a financial transaction.
(1) I agree w/ the problem, just look at how awful discussions are with the Mastodon web client.

(2) I am not seeing any sign of a solution on the page though, just another confusing interface and no explanation of how it is going to solve the problem.
Look up "Peterson emotional intelligence" on YouTube to explore a slightly different take on emotional intelligence.

Jordan Peterson argues that EQ doesn't exist, and you can explore your personality with the Big 5 (mostly agreeableness).

I suggest also looking into "Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg" as it closely matches the issue you described.
The way any of the modern compositors work is essentially the same.
A company called Vectorspace Biosciences/Vectorspace AI’s revenue and technology model is based largely on crypto/blockchain. They’re focused on helping to facilitate scientific discovery through what’s essentially AI data analysis, so knowing when and why data changed is critical. Blockchain and their token are used as part of their dataset provenance and security pipeline to help keep track of dataset modifications and history. It also acts as a licensing mechanism, so that tiered API access is granted based on how much of the token is held in the user’s wallet.

Disclaimer: I’m an investor.
Unless you're looking for a compelling reason to switch. For example, I use VS Code sometimes because of its markdown preview pane. That's not available in emacs or vim (to my knowledge).
Honest question: Is this unique to python? or can we expect this in Go, Rust, vcpkg, conan, etc?
How do they use it right away?
How can you rehabilitee someone like him? It can work even with violent criminals, whose crimes was strongly related to the circumstances they were in. A guy like him who stole billions? What could anyone ever do to convince him to not commit fraud again if given the opportunity...
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Airstrikes against a nuclear-armed state just isn't something that the US is willing to do right now, and it's something it will be less willing to do in the future.

Additionally, American airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Yemen are ineffective, so I'm not sure why you mention them. In Syria it's only Turkey that's preventing Assad from a complete victory; Iraq's primary military force is an Iranian proxy, while Yemen is still hitting ships in the Red Sea.

There is no need to invade Israel to pose an existential threat. Israel is a tiny country with very little resources - should it be blockaded it would fall apart, even just for lack of energy.

Israel's strategic problem just isn't the same. For the first time ever, it has to deal with an adversary that is almost completely strategically independent and that it simply cannot defeat militarily.

There's nothing here that needs recklessness either - as it is right now we are at the stage of threats. That's part of what the Houthi missile strikes, it's Iran sending a message that it can threaten shipping in the region and that no one can actually stop them. If Iran wanted to actually hurt Israeli shipping, the missiles would be fired into the Mediterranean, not into the Red Sea. Just the fact that the Houthis are still hitting ships today is a momentous geopolitical shift - it's a Suez crisis lite edition.

If all you're looking forward is a decade, then it's probably true that there isn't going to be something huge. But if you're talking about 1-2 generations, there are clear strategic trends that threaten Israel's current strategy of relying on the US for protection and pressure. The idea that the US can no longer ensure maritime safety in any major trade route, let alone in the ME, or that there is a nuclear threshold state with a missile industry advanced enough to export to Russia in the ME is something that would get you laughed out of the room just 15 years ago.
AWS likely already maintains own Redis fork so the main change is that it will be harder to stay compatible with features added after license change. May be they even use a different backend entirely exposing Redis compatible protocol outside
> Or how else are we going to send secure messages in the future?

That's an intriguing comment. What do you mean by that? Do you mean a future when governments force tech companies to install backdoors in all end-to-end encrypted software we use? Or when AGI writes all of our software, designs all hardware, and AGI decides that it needs to monitor all human communications. Only half joking.
You mean compiler. And yes, it has not been open-sourced just yet.
> This is a Marxist reading of History

Marxist only in the sense that Marx observed that colonialism/imperialism is a part of the rise of capitalism.

Claiming something is "Marxist" because you disagree with it is itself:

> way too simple and results in a lot of inconsistencies
The new management found many billions of assets of various asset classes https://www.reuters.com/technology/bankrupt-crypto-exchange-... When FTX thought it was broke, there were really billions of dollars of stuff they were too much of a mess to come up with.

That isn't to say that 'all the money was there' or that the conduct wasn't deeply criminal and unethical, but a huge part of the shortfall was really just terrible books.
Pretty sure if the money is withdrawn from the account and sent to say Almeada Research it's not longer FDIC insured because it's not money in an FDIC account.

Not that I'm saying the money was every within an FDIC [1] insured account.

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Depends on the kind of fraud that Robinhood wanted to do. CEO/CFO definitely have the ability to arbitrarily transfer money amount to accounts they personally control.

FDIC only protects against bank failure, it doesn't save you from somebody credential stuffing your bank to authorize a wire transfer.

[1]: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/brochures/d...
As a researcher, it would be wonderful if there were an industrial research lab again that doesn’t demand immediate ROI (like how most industrial research labs sadly demand) and also avoids the “publish or perish” pressures of academia. Rather, my ideal lab would be dedicated to providing an environment that enables researchers to pursue ambitious visions that will change computing. Xerox PARC would easily return to its former glory if it returned to its style under Bob Taylor in the 1970s. In fact, it would be quite fitting if Alan Kay gets tapped to run the lab.

While there’s a need for more directed short-term research, I feel that industry has largely moved away from more free, longer-term, “pure” research, and I also feel that academic research has become affected by “publish or perish” and fundraising demands. There seems to be no room these days for researchers who want to do more exploratory work, short of becoming independently wealthy or relegating such exploration to nights and weekends.
And John Ray had previously served as the chairman of Enron after its bankruptcy, so he might know a thing or two about dysfunctional accounting. :)