skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just LDPC but not as extreme.

If you're going to "nest" erasure codes, might as well make them XOR-based (fastest operation on modern CPUs and/or hardware), calculate a randomization scheme that has very-very high probability (99.9%+) of fixing errors, and other such benefits.

To provide assurances that you have enough LDPC, you then run LDPC on your LDPC-check bits. Then you run LDPC on your LDPC-LDPC-check bits. Then you run LDPC on your LPDC-LDPC-LDPC-check bits, until you've got the target probability / chance of fixing errors that you desire.

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LDPC's brilliance is that XOR-as-erasure-code is exceptionally fast, and this "repeated hierarchy" of error-correction codes leads to high-probabilities (99.9999%+) of successful correction of erasures.
Thank you! We think it's a less obvious but very useful application for LLMs
Someone else noted Cloudflare:

>> You and your End Users (as such term is defined in the Privacy Policy) will retain all right, title and interest in and to any data, content, code, video, images or other materials of any type that you or your End Users transmit to or through the Services (collectively, “Customer Content”) in the form provided to Cloudflare. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, fully sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free right to collect, use, copy, store, transmit, modify and create derivative works of Customer Content, in each case to the extent necessary to provide the Services.

but doesn't state as Vultr did: "and otherwise use and commercialize the User Content in any way that Vultr deems appropriate" and Cloudflare uses the term "to the extent necessary" which to me seems more specific than a vague wording of "for providing services".

I'm not a lawyer, I'm interpreting this to the best of my abilities. In general, if something feels odd, it's best to back away.
Yeah, definitely agree 100%. It’s not a popular ham opinion, but the general follow-up to “Is this illegal?” should be “Will anyone care?” Lots of practices in the radio world are, strictly speaking, illegal, but no one cares. See all the guys running multiple kW amps on CB, which is limited (laughably) to 4W AM and 12W PEP on SSB.

If you modify a bunch of Fengs to run on FRS/GMRS freqs to talk up and down the mountain out in the middle of nowhere, sure, it’s illegal, but if no one hears your transmissions other that the people on the mountain, it’s not an issue unless you take the FCC regs as moral edicts. But if you’re looking for a way to get a signal out in an emergency, a satphone is still going to be your best bet.
sure it can be securities fraud, but usually it's done to attract more investors.

companies on stock exchanges usually do stock splits, etc. (and based on bylaws majority or 2/3rs or more of existing owners need to approve.)
Whether it's okay to inspect traffic only depends on whether you own at least one of the endpoints. It has nothing to do with whether it's going over your network.
Occasionally, someone will submit their new text editor to Hacker News and the first thing I do is check if it quietly saves sessions upon closure.

It's amazing how many people don't bother implementing this indispensable feature.
yeah a common misconception people think because the input is the same they forget that their is a pre attention linear transofrmation for q k and v (using the decoder only version obv v is diff with encoder decoder bert style)
> All I’m saying is: Choose your weapons carefully.

That's the right moral of the story to take away.

> Today, I’m back with a single machine that handles the peak 500 concurrent users

And this is what tells me k8s is probably not the right tool for the job. Something that runs on a single machine should absolutely run on a single machine... Unless if there's a pre-existing, funded and operated cluster you can tap into.

No abstraction comes for free, as the author mentioned you need to figure routing, backup, etc. You are paying a premium for the fact that you want to make that somewhat generic enough to fit with multiple use cases. The abstraction doesn't materialize for the operator of the cluster. It's there for the customers of that cluster - the devs who can now avoid to configure whatever the cluster is already handling.
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I’d say “Don’t gamble money you don’t want to lose”. Because let’s face it, you had to have your head pretty deep in the sand to think that crypto is anything else
Yes. Thought customer means a lot of things. I have purchased their MacBooks recently, iphones for family and such.
It isn't just a marketing term, it is also a brand new button on your keyboard.
We're starting to see more and more of this actually! Some kinds of legal work fit flat fees well -- eg. immigration or company incorporations. Other kinds are highly variable and unpredictable (eg. litigation or anything involving external negotiations) and so will likely remain on the billable hour
Looks like a useful tool, I know some other ones exist for lawyers so probably need to address why this is an upgrade over those old school ones. A bit of social proof/case study would help, but overall seems like you have a product with a clear market and a value prop that is easy to express. Best of luck! More thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtyXzCYmVVs
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2.0? ;) I started with 1.0.1, which had very confusing versions like 1.0.1.1 and other weird nonsense... I wanted to scream at Microsoft.
“less cluttered than ever before while computer monitors are larger than ever before.”

Less cluttered but with more white space, especially in the vertical direction which is particularly cramped since the change in monitor aspect ratios so the toolbars have less functionality but take up more of the usable screen space.

Progress is great…
>Judge Lewis Kaplan, just before announcing Bankman-Fried's 25-year sentence, said there was a risk "that this man will be in a position to do something very bad in the future, and it's not a trivial risk."

I call bullshit. Typical punitive justice reasoning. He might had done fraud, but it's hardly a risk that he "will be in a position to do something very bad in the future".
Certainly, but there are other tradeoffs. You can write a byte to a replicated stripe, but encoded stripes either demand full-stripe writes or writing a byte is hilariously expensive. It's not clear in the blog if we are talking about sealed read-only data or what.
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If you ascertain some value to the permissionless and self-custodial value of cash. And you see value in the internet's ability to connect the entire world. Then it follows immediately that you see value in cryptocurrency.

Because you cannot use cash to transact globally, and you cannot use digital forms of central bank issued currency permissionlessly or have self-custody. Cryptocurrency gives you all those three properties.

So you must give up something. HNers typically are willing to give up the permissionless and self-custody properties. After all, most of HN audience lives in developed democratic countries where personal freedoms are considered fundamental pillars and protected. But at a minimum you should consider that, not all the world lives under those circumstances. And that there are no guarantees that those circumstances will always be preserved in your cozy first world country. Certainly if you are willing to give them up so easily.

Don't be so quick to assume it cannot happen where you live. One day they may go after some fringe truckers protesting in Canada. Another day they may go after some camgirls earning a living in ways that some executive board of a payment processor considers reprobable. Maybe one day they will tell you in what you can or cannot spend your money or where you can invest it and how much.
Notepad++, as the name suggests for me, was actually the next editor I learned how to use after Windows Notepad. I saw all this pretty syntax highlighting, and the ability to use tabs, and I decided to use it.

I got pretty good with it, even making custom macros and the like, and as I was learning C and C++ on Windows it was still the text editor I used.

The reason I stopped using it really did just come down to the fact that it didn't work on Linux. I had already been dual-booting Windows by 2011, and when Windows 8 got announced I utterly hated it so much that I decided to just do Linux full-time. While I was aware that Notepad++ worked on Wine, I didn't really want to muck with anything emulator or emulator-adjacent, so I just picked up Emacs and Vim (went back and forth for multiple years until finally settling on Vim).

I will need to look at NotepadNext. NeoVim is great, but sometimes I want a simple, non-IDE, GUI text editor as a place to just dump notes down.
> It’s not fully funded by the banks & borrows from the government when it’s short.

While it's true that the FDIC is "backed by the full faith and credit of the US Government" it is funded by the banks and by interest from treasuries [0]. Has there ever been a case when the FDIC actually ran out of funds and had to be bailed out?

[0] https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/understandi...
> Accounts controlled or administered by the user have posted or sent more than 1,000 pieces of content, whether text, images, audio, or video, that are found to be 90 percent or more likely to contain content generated by artificial intelligence, as assessed by the platform using state-of-the-art tools and techniques for detecting AI-generated content.

This appears to impose a requirement to purchase the services of AI detection tools on any site that wants to allow users to remain anonymous.
We can not even get close to saying our current networks can be even close to synapses in performance or functional because architecturally we still use feedforward networks no recursion, no timing elements, very static connections. Transitors will definitely have some advantages in terms of being able to synchronize information and steps to an infinitely better degree than biological neurons, but as long as we stick with transformers it's the equivalent of trying to get to space by stacking sand, could you get there eventually? Yes, but there's better ways.
From the paper:

> Finally, we use our dataset and LRE-estimating method to build a visualization tool we call an attribute lens. Instead of showing the next token distribution like Logit Lens (nostalgebraist, 2020) the attribute lens shows the object-token distribution at each layer for a given relation. This lets us visualize where and when the LM finishes retrieving knowledge about a specific relation, and can reveal the presence of knowledge about attributes even when that knowledge does not reach the output.

They're just looking at what lights up in the embedding when they feed something in, and whatever lights up is "knowing" about that topic. The function is an approximation they added on top of the model. It's important to not conflate this with the actual weights of the model.

You can't separate the hallucinations from the model -- they exist precisely because of the lossy compression.
> It seems that his _actual_ take was that SBF was a dumbass rather than a criminal mastermind.

He was a dumbass though. He got caught up in it all and you bend, bend, bend until the next thing you know...
What are multiple cursors used for?
I think it could be used for some kind of permissioned, collectively crowdsourced database that's (mostly) free from the control of a single group of administrators/gatekeepers. I guess kind of like a decentralized wiki.

In my view, blockchains shine where you need auditable global state, bonus points if you don't want central control in your operations (obviously this then kicks the can to the core devs). This use-case is fairly miniscule for most applications, though.

As far as currency, I think they also have their use-cases as well but most people don't want a global audit trail of all their purchases. Things like Monero and Zcash shine here. The value fluctuations are obnoxious, though.

I'm saying this as a big blockchain skeptic. I think most of the things people use them for are silly.
Ah if that is your true point, then no, I am not an Apple fanboy. My daily primary use phone is Android but my work machine is typically the highest available MacBook. (I can not stand windows). I buy iPhones for my family members.
Most of those are scams.
have them read blog posts, docs, and client code from Temporal
Mamba is bad with long context. It doesn't remember phone numbers

https://www.harvard.edu/kempner-institute/2024/02/05/repeat-...
Agreed, this has nothing to do with passenger flight, and the pretense is gross.

Thin vernier -> thin veneer btw
> Maybe I misunderstand the example, but in what way is that "the whole point"?

I wanted to express that having functions

f(a) -> b {}
f(b) -> c {}
f(c) -> d {}
...

would be quite trivial.

I would say that the whole point of the builder pattern is _not_ having an ordering of the "chained" functions.
"We" are not forbidding you to open a computer, start experimenting and publishing some new method. If you're so convinced that "we" are stuck in a local maxima, you can do some of the work you are advocating instead of asking other to do it for you.
Thanks for pointing that out, I know it's very clunky to use at the moment. It's something I'm looking to fix in my next update.
even this place has people not reading the articles. we are doomed
Your AI PC will perform local analysis of your data and what you're doing, to save the NSA money from having to upload it to their datacenter and do it themselves.
That would be nice, but what are the other on-ramps from fiat that are usable for mainstream folks? (Genuinely asking)
SVB stock is a different thing than an SVB deposit.
Even moreso than that, future generations will see social media users the same way our generation sees smokers.

Honestly looking forward to the trials in similar form that cigarette companies had
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There's 8 million+ people in NYC. So even if there are 8 severe crimes in a period of time that is still a one in a million chance. Seems extremely uncommon to me. Though I do agree, the uptick in crime is not great.
Pascal doesn't really have enums as a language feature, so there is no direct analog. It has enums as an implementation detail, but for all intents and purposes the language could be implemented with something other than enums. The same is not true of C or Go, which make enums a first-class citizen of the language.

That is, with the caveat that Pascal does allow the union to be converted to its underlying enum representation. If we provide such conversion to get at the enum, then sure:

Program Lander(output);
type
planet = (unknown, mercury);
var
landingOn: Integer;
begin
landingOn := Ord(mercury);
writeln('Landing on ', landingOn);
landingOn := 42;
writeln('Landing on ', landingOn);
end.

But you're ultimately comparing apples and oranges.
How to handle a productive but overleveled employee
Thank-you for the helpful links. Can you share some resources to learn about data availability sampling?

Also, have folks invented a cheap/fast way of going from L2 <-> L2 without having to do an L1 tx?

I fear that L2s may never be adopted due to network segmentation, but if it's possible for all L2s to interchange with each other cheaply, then it's just as good as L1 IMO.
I don’t know if being a product is a bad or dark part of open source at all.

IIRC Cygnus was celebrated on their launch.
The Linux foundation makes money despite Linux being free.
The Godot foundation doesn’t seem to be monetizing Godot, but it’s still very much treated as a product.
Same with the entire Apache organization.
You can't be serious.

>A platform like Android would have an SDK with all dependencies pre-installed, anything else would be nuts.

Android is usually Java, but you still have to manage dependencies yourself. There is no SDK which includes "all" dependencies, that would be absurd. You are going to create your own dependencies.

For CMake, it is so bad that there are many high effort attempts to replace it, by Google, Microsoft and some others, just to not have to deal with it.
The problem with tool bars is that usually you cannot guess what 80% of the icons mean.
It's funny how many times in my career I've heard someone say "____ is not a database, it's a datastore" referring to something they made that's basically Postgres with extra steps.
Many of the comments here about the utility of punishment is very utilitarian, which is ironically fitting since we're talking of SBF.

What I never see acknowledged (or believed) by more lenient people is the fact that adequate punishment (sometimes harsh is adequate) serves to send a message not only to other offenders, but maybe most importantly to non-offenders, that the justice system is worth something.

"Crime doesn't pay" is to me a greater message to people who are not willing to commit crimes in the first place.
Thank you so much for the support! We would always love intros to any lawyers who hate time tracking.

We completely agree about supporting large firms, either with on-prem or deployment within their cloud environment.
I don't know that it will actually "deter" anyone, I think most criminals think they're not going to get caught, but I think it comes down to the much simpler "it's hard to commit more fraud when you're in prison".

I'm not going to say it's impossible, maybe he could be managing this big crypto empire from jail, but it would certainly be harder to do all that from prison.
Is that a distinction between modern SSD drives and the small spinning drives? The ECC? Is a modern SSD more resistant to corruption than a modern spinning drive?

And the drives I’m talking about the external usb drives everyone (me) have dangling off their machines (notably things like Time Machine and such).
Banks have been using the Ethereum blockchain for behind the scenes bad debt transfers for about seven years now.

Banks don’t want to deal with treasury departments nor do the banks want to be beholden to federal governments regarding prime rates.

Ethereum allows banks to circumvent these types of issues because rates are dictated by banks not by governments and their treasury departments.

Crypto currency is coming soon. It’s only a matter of time and validating processes now.
Does anyone know/have an idea what a plea might have netted him?
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As a longtime Notepad++ user, I hate those buttons as well. Fortunately, the settings contain the option to hide the menu, the icons, the buttons on the tabs, the status bar, etc. resulting in a very minimalistic experience, which is how I use it.

I recommend giving it another look.
If you are talking about the time Alameda lost track of a bunch of money, and everyone freaks out except SBF, who turns out to be right, that story was hilarious foreshadowing.

Lewis also spends lots of time explaining how the whole thing that led to the collapse could have been avoided, they didn't need to be 'lent' money from clients coffers. They had money they could draw on and had in the past to finance market bets. SBF was just not very detail oriented, certain of his success and sure the rules didn't matter much.

He literally had meetings where he told people to buy other crypto companies with the criteria "Don't stop until you hit a billion dollars spent".

One of his supporters was certain he didn't do anything wrong, when the collapse happened, because he thought it would be insane to risk a golden goose like FTX, where you are the house in a giant gambling frenzy.

A special kind of non-chalant, non-selfaware hubris.
Chips these days can run as high as 90-95°C which is awfully close to the boiling point of water, and could even be past the boiling point of other liquids, at least when under pressure.

It's not something you could do with a typical closed-loop water cooling system, but if you used different fluids, converted the loop into a heat exchanger, and had some kind of Sterling engine to recover energy...
It’s called a numeronym https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
That's true too, this approach isn't limited to Reed-Solomon (or MDS codes). For non-MDS codes the fetch logic becomes a little more complicated (you need to wait for a subset you can reconstruct from rather than just the first k), but that's not a huge increase in complexity.
I wrote about why I created this here: https://dailey.page/p/tech-founder-community-nashville/
So, yes, I forgot to account for FSA earned time, of which up to 12 months can be applied to early supervised release (essentially, parole, though its not called that) and the remainder for pre-release custody (home confinement or residential re-entry center insteas of prison.) so, by completing the right activities, SBF could be on a parole-like status in ~20 instead of ~21 years, and in custody but not in actual prison in ~12.5 years.

That's not an automatic reduction (or even as close to it as good conduct time), as it requires successful participation in specified activities, but it is generally available except for a defined list of mostly violent offenses.
Actually, I wish we could burn down the IRS instead. I have to pay $1 of taxes to the US government for every $1 of Bitcoin I want to spend, because when I pull it out of my Bitcoin wallet (hardware, software, exchange, it doesn't matter) they consider it a "taxable event" and I have to pay taxes according to it's USD value, which ultimately makes its ecosystem still tied to USD, and makes me reluctant to spend crypto because of the taxation. Total bullshit. I'm just spending a currency.

Singapore doesn't tax this, you can spend crypto and transact crypto and none of that is taxable.
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Some code challenge sites offer all their challenges in bash - I highly recommend working through these if you want to get better at this type of stuff. Some problems are surprisingly simple, others torturously difficult.
> We don't only consider societal safety - if we did we'd just jail everyone for life.

This is why I asked why 22 was right and 32 is wrong. "Because the judge said so" is no more useful than my asking "why heads?" and you answering "because that's where it landed when I flipped it."

There might not be a "right answer," and I'm ok with that. But it's odd to decide it's right simply because an authority decided it was.

> You're ignoring all of these and projecting the sentence to a single dimension (societal safety).

I'm not ignoring them, I'm simply responding to the reasoning you gave. By your metrics, 22 gives 12 more years of societal safety than does 10. This is what you responded to me, and I'm trying to point out that I believe it's flawed. If there are more factors included, it doesn't make this reasoning less flawed, it's just a smaller slice of the judgment's pie.

> You haven't answered why you think we imprison people in the first place (or if we should). We cant have a fruitful discussion about which sentence durations are "better" without knowing what metrics we are measuring.

Perhaps inadvertently, I think you hit the nail on the head. We don't have metrics that validate or invalidate any of this. We rely on a set of arbitrary guidelines mediated by emotions and feelings. In a great many cases, I don't think we're accomplishing anything but pushing a problem away and pretending we fixed it.
Interesting.

Reading through the page, that sounds super complicated though.

Couldn't the podcasts simply put a lightning invoice (Which is just a string of text I guess?) on their website with a text like "Support us via Lightning: 1f73ac220b9..."?
Our prison system is undeniable terrible but we also so rarely see white collar criminals get what they deserve. Most of these guys get a slap on the wrist and somehow fail upwards.

And he's almost guaranteed to serve a smaller portion of that time for "good behavior".