skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does anyone find it strange that this is described as a loss for the victims?

As the dissent notes, this decision means the victims won’t get money now. When is an open question, as well as whether it will be similar, more or less after litigation costs, and to whom it will be paid.

What is certain is the Sacklers will be hurt more. (Unless a couple bizarre legal maneuvres pay off, e.g. the Sacklers extinguishing liability by way of a 2004 indemnification agreement.) So in a sense, this is deterrence and retribution winning over restitution [1].

[1] https://open.lib.umn.edu/criminallaw/chapter/1-5-the-purpose...
Surya here from the core Gemma team -- we can think of a distillation loss as learning to model the entire distribution of tokens that are likely to follow the prefix thus far, instead of only the token in the training example. If you do some back of the envelope calculations, we can see that learning to model a larger distribution yields many more bits of information to learn from.
I didn't commend on that. I commented on you replying "no" to the question "If your boss tells you you'll lose your job if you don't have sex with him, and you quit to avoid that, would you disagree with the statement that you were forced to quit?" after which you edited all your previous comments. The first of which originally just read "force?" (a single word) which leads me to believe, along with your original response to the point I initially commented on, that you didn't have that point in mind. Also, "tust" in "force people to trust the medical industry" clearly means something along the lines of "to commit or place in one's care or keeping."[0] But that point is irrelevant because you made up that point after my initial response.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trust
He reported Spirit's improper maintenance to Boeing which is the correct thing to do. Boeing investigated, which is also the proper thing to do.

It is not ethical to make allegations that depend on speculation that in the future there may be evidence for them.
So true.

The advice of "commoditize your complements" is working out great for amazon. Ironically, AWS is almost a commodity itself, and the OSS community could flip the table, but we haven't figured out how to do it.
This seems like it would be square within CFPB complaint territory.
Yeah I feel like people just don’t understand that the efficiency gains have not kept up with the scope of problems we’ve been tackling and that’s why it feels people used to be great.

Games yesterday: worked on certain HW, sound probably required you to jump through hoops to get working, and networking maybe worked on a LAN. If things crashed it was fine because that’s the only thing you ran anyway. Cutting edge graphics for the time but at that time showing an image or playing a video was also an achievement.

Games today: supports HW from at least 2 GPU vendors, an insane amount of resolutions and typically basically the same code for PC, PlayStation, XBOX and maybe even Linux and Mac. Sounds and graphics just works. Networking lets you play with people across the continent over the public internet. Oh and the time and effort invested in graphics quality is insane.

Teams yesterday: highly motivated engineers who were extremely talented and new every part of the machine

Teams today: a mix of highly motivated engineers who are extremely talented with many more who just want their paycheck and to go home of very varying quality of talent. Same expectations of excellence. Machines have gotten very complex that cutting through abstractions is challenging

Infrastructure yesterday: sell a database and the business is responsible for maintaining it and having it run well with onsite domain experts to help

Infrastructure today: sell almost anything so that you need almost no understanding and expertise of the software you’re utilizing.
sorry, it is not a real mirror, all the links in repo get changed when doing the 'mirroring'. it also created pages...etc all things that do not get the permission from author.
The more languages the better. Google Translate has been very useful while abroad.
> I would want justice (ie. jail time) not money

Retribution not restitution [1]. “Justice” in this context is ambiguous.

[1] https://open.lib.umn.edu/criminallaw/chapter/1-5-the-purpose...
Yes. It was prudent to do anything to save Ukraine. Absolutely. If you love your country you'd deal with the devil himself to save it from what Russia was doing.

10 million people died in Genrikh Yagoda's torture chambers. Another 5 million starved to death in the holodomor.

Hitler was bad, sure, but only a third as bad as the Bolsheviks. And about half of those 15 million deaths happened in Ukraine, and Bandera's fiduciary duty was to fellow Ukrainians, not to some foreign nation. If you had to pick a side (and Bandera did) it was best to go with Hitler.
This surprised me, as I'd heard otherwise. Per https://www.sarahwoodbury.com/how-tall-are-you/, "the average height of people who lived in the 9-11th centuries was comparable to ours today. It then declined slightly during the 12th through 16th centuries, and hit an all-time low during the 17th and 18th centuries – when those doorframes were made."
The announcements are live on Twitter! See this for example: https://x.com/suryabhupa/status/1806342617191379167
This can be extrapolated to say something a little more like, every field of study can be used to analyze the world. It means that partially, everything is connected to anything else like the Holographic Theory of Learning[1] states. Creating a field of study is creating a framework for tackling problems. Architecture for spatial and material problems, software for logical and procedural problems, history for causal problems, chemistry for material, etc. Any one of those fields gives you a tool for addressing any problem, and some of those tools are extremely useful in some narrow definition of a problem. Everything has a historical, material and spatial dimension, and everything is processed through our logic and behavior. The goal is to know which hammer to use when, I suppose.

[1]. Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40439572#40464765
> American hegemony has essentially produced the most peaceful, prosperous period ever

In US, yes. In the rest of the world, no.
Funny I made a TV show for public access titled "The Real Debate" where I spliced Ralph Nader into a Bush-Gore debate. I had one sequence where I spliced the two mainstream candidates to make them breathlessly advocate militarism and then segue into a discussion of schools. The timing was brilliant for most of it except for the part where Gore says forcefully "IF IT'S A FAILING SCHOOL, SHUT IT DOWN!" at which point a smart bomb was supposed to hit a bunker but because of the weirdness of the S-VHS editor I was using I could never get that synced perfectly with the sound track.

So far as flagging, this is my understanding.

A small number of people need to flag something for it to appear [flagged]. It may be as little as 2 or 3 but it is certainly more than 1. Some people do watch the new queue and flag a lot, other things are likely to get flagged when they get more visibility.

I made a model which could predict the fate of HN submissions and found my model seemed to perform unreasonably well at predicting flagging (a ROC around 0.96 as compared to the 0.72 or so of my "does it get more than 1/2 a comment per vote?" model and the 0.63 of my "does it get more than 10 votes?")

Turned out it was too good to be true because HN automatically kills a lot of submissions that you never see unless you turn on showdead. Some people spam the same headline over and over again hundreds of times and if you don't design your test-train split such that the same headline can never appear on both sides you will get the wrong idea of the performance of the model. (This affected my other models too but not so catastrophically)

The #1 way people get their posts marked [dead] all the time is they keep posting links over and over from their own blog or other site but never post anything else. You can certainly do some self-promotion as a community member of HN but if you're not a participant in the community it's not welcome.
USvEU Food Ingredients
Someone should make an app that allows you to scan the product barcode here in US and compare the ingredients against EU.
> you WILL cooperate with the state if the law says you should

As the dissent notes, we don’t yet know what the law says about the Sacklers’ liability.
Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist
The question I always have on these kinds of things is - what would we have done prior to cell phones?

What is stopping your mum from calling the school and having them pull you aside to let you know you are needed?

Am I that old that people have just forgotten what it was like when having a pager was like, a super rare thing for high end business folk?
It’s harder because it requires piercing the veil of protection of an LLC, a legal construct that is explicitly designed to limit liabilities. There are simply more legal hurdles to this.

Though I do agree with the conclusion that the bankruptcy court should not be able to grant immunity to the Sackler family. It feels deeply, deeply immoral
You can just use vi keybinds in readline globally via the inputrc file.
Modern MacBooks are great at this stuff since they have unified memory and the GPU can use all of it
there are interesting technical details

There aren't any in the thing you linked. There are interesting technical details in, say, delivering a twitch stream but most twitch streams are not good HN posts.

What's more of a hack than working around some of the most powerful institutions in the world?

That's the 'everything is related to everything somehow' argument but, similarly, you can make it about anything - it just tends to avoid the concrete objections to the thing.
> Eventually Boeing will have to speed up production if it’s going to satisfy the airlines that are eager for new planes, not to mention investors and analysts on Wall Street.

> But for now the company’s leaders say their focus is on getting every bolt and rivet right.

Leaders on the shop floor, that is. In the C-suites, the focus is on re-establishing regulatory capture.
> the argument for is textual

And here's the language: "any other appropriate provision"

The Sacklers: the law says we can take away other people's rights to sue us as part of a bankruptcy settlement.

SC: Yeah, no, the text doesn't say that.
In practice, and at scale, that's exactly what having <bos> and <eos> tokens allow you to easily and programmatically do.
Hardly pendantic to point out the obvious truth. Headline is a lie
Or Minecraft.
I think that's definitely very common. Though it's possibly tricky to distinguish from "<domain expert> will see the world through their lens," which is a bit more innocent, I think.

I've never met someone who doesn't behave this way. Especially the ones who think they don't. We are a product of our experiences, and our expertise is our experience.
There was a private tank collection in Portola Valley. There was a way to arrange tours but it didn't have anything like regular hours. It was just a guy with lots of money spending it on buying and restoring tanks. Most of them could run under their own power. Stuff like a German Tiger parked facing an American Sherman and a Russian T34. 2 huge garage fulls of these things. And visitors were allowed to climb onto and into all the tanks. It's how I learned that British tanks are righthand drive.

Anyway, guy died, his heirs preferred money to tanks, and they all got sold off. At best they are on display somewhere on the east coast behind velvet rope where no one will touch or drive them again.
>"We do need to put rich people in jail at least every now and again, if for no other reason than to demonstrate we're not a banana republic."

And to that end, the USA must demonstrate that it's totalitarian and abuses people's rights?
On the other hand, most techs are bias. That is, the tool they know is always the best solution, whether that's true to not.

Yeah, perhaps there are times when WP isn't the ideal choice from a pure technology POV, but there's more to it than that. For example, most (solo) devs complete dismiss the "getting hit by a bus" test. Sorry, but no one should accept advice from anyone who dismisses that test.
> Except I don't think we can consider the city's debt load to be related to trying to solve the poverty problem at all. It seems quite the opposite based on the discussion in this thread. I haven't read anything about any of that money going to any poverty-related social programs other than making poor people's lives harder.

I don’t understand the relevance or logic of this paragraph. Carmel borrowed money to buy amenities that attract a higher socioeconomic class of people. That they did not spend it on courting lower socioeconomic classes is the claim that indymike made for why Carmel is the way it is.

> One of the downsides to federalism is it creates a way for people to absolve themselves of any responsibility.

I vote for the leaders I think will help raise the floor of quality of life, but I do not think I should sacrifice and possibly sink my community because other parts of the federation are not ready to play ball. At some point, I have to prioritize me and mine.
> Or is it some kinds of fallacy to believe that simplicity has a rather obvious form?

That: the simplest solutions look obvious once you see them, but they’re rarely, if ever, obvious from the outset. Simply put, the simplest solutions are rarely the most obvious. You have too actively look for them, and that takes time and effort.

One corollary is that people who take the time to design the simplest solutions that end up making life easier for everyone else, tend to look much less productive than the tactical tornados that masquerade as a heroes. Worse, when the boss looks at their code it’s much simpler and much easier than everyone else. Clearly they took the easy route and chose the easiest things to work on.

And what do you think happens to low performers who chose the easiest work? They can leave, one way or another. But they can also give in and expedite more, more complex code.

Simplicity isn’t just hard. It’s a hard sell.
I dont know. I Never use three way merges for anything productive.

Always felt three way merges were a great way to melt human brains.
Haha I remember an old trip report about this on Erowid.

There's a few of them on there https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Xenon.shtml
Yeah, bytevectors in Scheme are just some linear chunk of memory that you can get/set however you'd like. Funny that you mention this because this is actually another area where Wasm GC needs improvement. Hoot uses a (ref (array i8)) to store bytevector contents. However, Wasm GC doesn't provide any instructions for, say, interpreting 4 bytes within as a 32-bit integer. This is in contrast to instructions like i32.load that work with linear memory. The workaround for now is that you read 4 bytes, bit shift appropriately, and then OR them together. Wasm GC is fantastic overall but these little issues add up and implementers targeting GC feel like they're not on even footing with linear memory.
This feels ... 20 years too late?

But excellent. Thanks!
Revisiting Chrome's installability criteria (+PWA removal from Lighthouse)
Not having read the license, for me as a private person this is more than source available no?
I directly print STEP files. Faster, quieter and better finish than STL for curved surfaces. I print at fairly high speeds (300-400mm/s, >20k accels, 25 SCV on quality) so this might not be a universal consideration but for me it's a deal breaker usually unless I'm doing something silly
Looks cool, but I’m still team everything-in-Postgres
Oh absolutely, science journalism is absolutely terrible for the most part. That's why I always try to find the original paper they're reporting on to see what's actually going on

Most journalists don't understand research either and I've even seen some PhD science writers get things wrong too but usually less often.

Science journalism is filled with incredible sweeping claims and jumps in logic that boggle the mind and are nothing like what's in the research being reported on, it truly makes me disappointed
That’s an interesting point - how accessible is JSON to differently abled users?
I hesitate to engage with your comment as it indicates a low level of openness to ideas. But I'll take a chance. Consider the following:

- Michael Flynn founded the Flynn Intel group in 2014 and was hired by Turkish interests, Russia Today, and is alleged to have worked on behalf of other Russian lobbyists.

- Rudy Giuliani founded Giuliani Partners and had clients in Ukraine, Qatar and Venezuela.

- The Clinton Foundation accepted numerous "donations" for alleged philanthropic work. Yet the donations dried up and the foundation dramatically shrunk after HRC lost in 2016.

- John Podesta founded the Podesta group which did lobbying work for Ukraine and Saudi Arabia

- Newt Gingrich has consulted for a variety of foreign entities.

- Bob Dole consulted for Taiwan

- John Bolton had a consulting firm that was hired by interests desiring Ukraine to join NATO

- Corey Lewandowski's firm sought foreign clients

- Paul Manafort did extensive consulting for Ukraine's pro-Russian political party

- Tony Podesta (John's brother) did extensive consulting for foreign governments

- Richard Gephardt has consulted for Turkish interests, among others.

- Jared Kushner had numerous foreign deals in play when he was a US official

FARA (the Foreign Agents Registration Act) was intended to promote transparency in these kinds of dealings. Of the people listed above, only Flynn, Manafort, the Podesta brothers and Dole registered under FARA.

The rest tread on the very large gray area of influence peddling. The thing to keep in mind is that all of the people involved in these kinds of schemes are easily bought for very little money when dealing with state-actor level budgets.

As you can see, the graft spreads across both parties and is generally concentrated a few degrees away from the ones holding current office. The Clinton Foundation was particularly ingenious and had the 2016 election gone differently would likely today be among the nation's most influential and financially successful NGOs.
Ask yourself, why would large multinational corps step in to save a failing product that isn't their own, unless that product was a serious contender that threatened their bottom line.
A simple way to do that is to write your problems down somewhere where they are seen often, with a simple command at the top like:

Solve these:

or a question to kick start this like:

What is the solution to these problems:

You'll quickly reach the point where you are ignoring what is written, but the subtle visual reminder will keep a small portion of your mind churning away at them.
We just have a lot more people writing a lot more software. It's no longer a bunch of very motivated self-taught people working with limited resources of sheer passion. Software development became a boring job that people do for the money. Some of the craft was lost to convenience and expediency.
Is there any corruption law that this court won't overturn? They seem extremely "pro" on quid pro quo.
grace hopper would carry around nanosecond-long wires, for demonstrations

https://youtu.be/ZR0ujwlvbkQ?si=aAj2OkbS8cj_MeGo&t=2707
I know my website doesn't need progress bars, its bare html, no javascript, no php, no need for it
For larger applications things like method dispatch performance start to dominate and you land closer to 2x overall performance uplift.
I'm somewhat curious why they even chose Java over Rust or Zig, considering the spreadsheet data paths should be relatively straight forward even with a lot of clone() activity.
Probably not bothered because it's fast thanks to this work. I'd probably be bothered if it was slow.
> the law says we can take away other people's rights to sue us as part of a bankruptcy settlement

As the dissent notes, third-party releases are part of the law. The turn is on whether the Sacklers are having third-party liabilities discharged versus released.

The solution may be in re-drafting the Plan so it’s more clearly a release. That might mean the Sacklers can be sued for fraud, but not other things.
If the title were "Is Everything Behavioral Science?" I certainly would have answered the question myself with a "no" and then moved on with my day. Instead, I was fooled into clicking on the article with the false hope that this would be an interesting take on the rise of bullshit.

Can someone update the title to be less clickbait?
> Teams today: a mix of highly motivated engineers who are extremely talented with many more who just want their paycheck and to go home

These two are not mutually exclusive.
can you buy it from overseas mail order pharmacies, by driving to mexico, on darknet markets, or on alibaba?
Is this real? You’re comparing AAA games of the Atari era to AAA games today?

You can argue that the game companies are focusing on hyper realism at the cost of fun games, but the games we’re playing today are orders of magnitude more complex than in the Atari days. Those Atari games built on today’s technology would take comparatively little time and could be as easily ported. That likely also explains why the game industry is focused on limit pushing AAA titles. It’s a defensible market position of technical advantage whereas competing on “most fun” puts investment dollars at risk because you can be undercut by an underdog more easily. So the big companies just focus on the places where it’s harder for upstarts to compete and why almost all games look and feel very similar.
If you want money from the Purdue bankruptcy entity: you just file a claim while they still have money.

If you want money from the Sackler family: you need to lawyer up, prove a bunch of personal liability claims (which are very, very hard cases to win), and wait a long time. And hope they still have money.

While it may feel nice to eventually, maybe, be able to throw the Sackler family in jail, it basically just blows up the ability to do mass tort arbitration.

From the dissent, which even includes Sotomayor and Kagan:

"As a result of the Court’s decision, each victim and creditor receives the essential equivalent of a lottery ticket for a possible future recovery for (at most) a few of them. And as the Bankruptcy Court explained, without the non-debtor releases, there is no good reason to believe that any of the victims or state or local governments will ever recover anything."
You can get a 12TB HDD for a couple hundred dollars. What do you consider cheap?
Ego T6 Electric Lawn Tractor Review – Gas landscaping isn't worth it anymore
Unfortunately, vermin like the Sacklers have access to top lawyers. The two founding brothers are dead, so you won't be able to put them away; they are already put away, permanently.

However, their despicable offspring managed to flee the country with their ill-gotten gains; good luck finding them now.

My biggest beef with this case has been that people should not be allowed to just "buy" themselves out of jail. The US does not have a concept of "blood money" in its legal code (at least, not yet anyways). This agreement amounted to blood money, practically. Blood money != justice.
thank you for the correction
In my kitchen I don’t have space to hang the pots and pans. If I could move a wall or a cupboard then that problem would free up a drawer and one of those fiddly corner cupboards.