skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone else in the industry, is it fair to categorize all HFs this way?
> "financial terrorist"

As a thought experiment, I like to wonder what would be the maximal amount of damage to humanity an extremely wealthy person could do entirely legally.

Or if not damage, just trolling. For instance, writing X on the moon or something like that.
Wait, which part of the social security system is investing in hedge funds?
Dupe (365 points, 3 hours ago, 366 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
I have to imagine that Tolkien would have been delighted to discuss how to translate LoTR.
I've been uncomfortable with this shit stain since he took over twitter. And it has gotten exponentially worse ever since he endorsed the orange clown.
N.K. Jemisin's SF short story Emergency Skin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Skin) is pretty much this.
Apparently, this is changing: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification...
While what you said is true (MacOS was really unstable in these tumultuous years), this link specifically celebrates the user interface of the later versions of non-OSX MacOS. This doesn't really have a relation to the stability of the OS.
I didn’t make it into academia really but I gave some lectures to undergrads. IMO laptops connected to projectors have been a real curse, people completely zone out when you are going through slides, and it is possible to zoom through the stuff wayyyy too fast.

I think everyone should make an excuse to grab the chalk at least for part of every lecture. Part of being the instructor is doing the presentation.
Interesting logic, but I think it's obvious to everyone that the reason they won't sell to Elon has nothing to do with the price of the offer.
For a real time application, there is no better option than elixir and phoenix if you actually want to get something working and shipped. Things that you will need to do which would be wildly complex in other stacks are so simple in erlang and elixir. I highly recommend taking the time to learn it - and it's a fairly simple language so that process should go pretty quickly. The debate about Liveview vs React+Phoenix channels is an exercise left up to the reader.
I'm not sure this is true, though I think it looks true.

I think the issue is that when a lot of people have put work into something you think that the chances of success yourself are low. This is a pretty reasonable belief too. With the current publish or perish paradigm I think this discourages a lot of people from even attempting. You have evidence that the problem is hard and even if solvable, probably is timely, so why risk your entire career? There are other interesting things that are less risky. In fact, I'd argue that this environment in of itself results in far less risk being taken. (There are other issues too and I laid out some in another comment) But I think this would look identical to what we're seeing.
I’m a little confused, how does npm play into this?

The article describes a vscode extension on vscode marketplace squatting the name of an existing extension, from how it’s worded it sounds like the extension directly contains the malware rather than being compromised through a dependency, what does it have to do with npm?
Original quote is just mind-bogglingly stupid. If If I can't read any programming language, that's a defect on my part. If I can read pretty much any language except k and brainfuck, that's a sign k is particularly difficult to read.
Yeah, I think that's the critical observation here. Good job cutting through the noise and spotting it.
Show me that process. I don't believe there is a HIPAA exemption process tgat exists to let your doctor use an LLM with your symptoms.
My hope is that he'll eventually make some big mistakes that will send him to jail. Or does presidential grace give him total immunity?
You can install a 800Wh installation without a certification.
Your monthly usage is 300 - 800 kWh.

In theory a 800Wh system can produce between 25kWh and 105kWh per month, depending on the location and month of the year.
Not this time, though the order is definitely unconstitutional[0], so it follows the same general pattern.

[0] Article I, section 8: “The Congress shall have Power to coin Money, regulate the Value thereof…”
What new problem without ambiguities do you suggest?
There is nothing about Tesla that is even one year ahead of EVs. My wife and I travel a lot and haven’t owned our own car since late 2022 until late last year and tried a lot of different EVs. They were all just as good as the Tesla and had a better infotainment system.

Tesla is not as profitable as Toyota, GM or Volkswagen and their profit is trending down. There is nothing justifying their market cap based on their profit or even 5 year expected profit.

Tesla has made a lot of promises that they haven’t come close to fulfilling and Musk right now is the definition of regulatory capture
> Why don't you target that anger and contempt to the organizations willfully giving money to these organizations?

This happens from time to time. Most recently, in pensions withdrawing from private equity. It’s historically come to bite when these managers hit a bout of volatility. Put simply, portfolio theory is incredibly robust.

The question isn’t why hedge funds, but why does it keep paying so well?
US Social Security doesn't. Other countries may like Norway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
No it doesn’t, it will also go down eventually, most likely due to irrelevance or whenever someone at Harvard grows tired of maintaining this pet project or there are problems with the .cc domain.

I would be surprised if this will survive past 2035.
sure, that is why we have all these on-board incidents and terrorist attacks crashing airplanes left and right with millions of people flying daily :)
Registers are always off at the end of the day everywhere I've worked retail.

I even worked as a bank teller and it wasn't uncommon for drawers to be out small amounts.
Does that number matter?

What’s the conversion rate on any single typical ad hosted by Google? Yet it all adds up to make a lot of money, for Google and (presumably) the advertisers.
Forgive my mathematical ignorance, but why would it be? Isn’t it just asymptotically close but not actually equal? What does the 0’s repeating give you that 1 does not?
Regardless of what you think about the content of the order, it’s unconstitutional, so he’s still going about it the wrong way.
-iekins makes sense to me as a nickname for an infant in Britain. Probably only spoken within the family.
A former employer classified them as "facilitating payments" that are often necessary to complete a business transaction.
It absolutely is, if you take a moment to set it up. By default outgoing connections that don't match a rule are allowed. It's very easy to change the settings to disallow by default, and to set up rules based on "process, domain, specific address, port and more".

In Windows Defender Firewall settings right click Outbound Rules, click New Rule. Choose the type of rule (Program, Port, Predefined, Custom). You can apply the rule to a program / set of programs, a service or globally. You can apply it by protocol, port, IP, specific network interfaces etc. The only thing I can't find that was mentioned in GP is rules based on domain/address - I'm not sure if this is a limitation of the firewall or I'm just too dumb to find it.
(1) widespread education and awareness of this phenomenon, (2) put in restrictions on large institutions i.e. the government, unions, universities so that they only invest in funds with 'low-fee' structures and hire professional risk management at the institution-level that hedge risks using more standard methods like mixing bonds and equities and cash. Ban large institutions from investing in private equity, which is a high fee structure built to hide losses over long term periods.
> managing government money through the social security system

Do you mean the social safety net? Social security does not invest in hedge funds.
The problem is the H1Bs flooding the market in an unsustainable way.
Scientists say the shape of Earth's inner core is changing
And yet those who want AGI often talk about the potential for AI to solve all our major problems.
2x leaves at the mercy of margin calls, which inconveniently come at the moment where you least want to sell (right after a huge crash). Getting margin called after a 50% crashes leaves you with $0, as an example.

A 50% market crash would be brutal even without leverage, but at least no one would force you to sell.
Yeah, I'm not sure who is being scammed. Myself, I have never heard of any of these — Citadel, etc.
CFPB is irrelevant for hedge fund LPs.
Fully Integrated Semiconductor Technologies?

That is a good point about pronouncing the name as a single word instead of three letters. Although, I still think DEC is better than ARM. Ending on the hard C adds to the oomph.
Someone hasn’t heard of the “Innovator’s Dilemma”.

Tesla is far from the most profitable automaker and doesn’t even have the largest margins.

Compare thier place in the automaker to say Apple’s place in the phone market
I also hate this. In asking the question, I frequently have to boil done what can be a very lengthy set of requirements and constraints and so on into a compact minimal version to demonstrate that I want to know how to use Y to X. But then comes the 'why you doing it that way', and the answer is because I have a lengthy set of requirements and constraints that I don't want to have delve into because all I want to know is how to use Y to get X. Frustration!
Ok so in defense of their voronoi graphs, if they used a segmented bar or pie chart instead, you wouldn't be able to see the small quantities clearly, and if they used circles of different sizes, it would be easy to mistake the radii as the measured quantity instead of the area. Similar issue arises with lengths/widths if you use rectangles. Their visualization nudges you to compare areas which is a good feature imo.
> I think Musk (probably using his Saudi admirers yet again) wants to buy OpenAI because he needs a working chatbot right now.

But I think Musk does have a working chatbot right now? Haven't used it so I won't speak from experience, but Grok by xAI is working and is not that much behind OpenAI, maybe like half a year behind, judging by LLM Arena[0] and other benchmarks that I've seen.

[0] https://lmarena.ai
The summer of 9/11 I brought on a full suit of hoplite armor with shield and spear on board a regional plane. The stewardess told me I can't have it in the passenger compartment so I should just give it to the pilot before takeoff.

I'm not saying that we should let people board in full armor again, but surely there is a happy medium?
Easy: buy media companies to sow political division and pollute the discourse, buy political influence to restrict access to open and unbiased education to ensure the populace cannot engage in critical thinking, then poison the environment in myriad ways until people in their 20s require a dozen rounds of IVF to have kids (or more likely, just giving up because of the ruinious state of inflation compared to incomes).
Discussion (47 points, 8 hours ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002130
yea, the percentage of H1Bs is so big compared to the market that we will soon be shutting down all higher ed facilities
No updates because its just a dude freaking out about his incredible jump to conclusions. The bug was fixed and everyone kept living their lives
things i have had confiscated: the blades for my twin-blade razor, pocketknives, leathermans, bottles of water, supplements, liquids that are slightly over 3.4oz.

this is retarded. there is no good reason to do this. if there is a good reason, i really don't care and would rather live in a freer society with slightly more risk.

"police state reduces crime" okay i do not care.

even their stupid IMS machines are just calibrated for lots and lots of type II error, and i don't believe they've actually ever caught anyone.

p.s. the sixties hijacking thing wasn't for purposes of terrorism. it's also why federal marshals started traveling around on planes.
I was 30 years old, saw it live on TV. So ... no

But as others have pointed out, a lot of the TSA processes (taking off shoes, laptops, liquids, etc.) are pointless.

What prevents another 9/11 are the cockpit doors, which have nothing to do with TSA.
I used to think this a few decades ago. I think it's just as accessible with some mix of anti-authoritarianism and defiant personality.

Essentially you learn a thing, you accept it for now and you think "well but maybe!"

Like I personally think there should be multiple mathematical zeroes but I accept it as wackiness unless I can clearly demonstrate coherency and utility as to why.
It is not only security, it is the lockable cockpit doors and entire set of changed assumptions. The airplane hijacking game was entirely ruined by Al-Qaeda on 9/11.

Prior to those events, the standard protocol was to assume a diversion, a hostage negotiation and a standoff, with likelihood resolution without bloodshed. Hijacking was either for extortion or for a ride somewhere else. They would get the plane on the ground and start negotiating.

Post-9/11, the assumption is now the entire planeload is already dead and the hijackers DGAF if they get out alive. As a potential hijacker, this removes your primary bargaining chip.

Plus, the locked cockpit doors mean you can't get to the pilots. Even if you can somehow convince the pilots to get a message out, you'll get nothing. They'll just get to an appropriate airport whether or not you start killing passengers every 5min. Then, you'll just be shot by the SWAT team on landing. Moreover, in many countries including the US, the protocol now includes shooting down hijacked commercial airliners if the plane is deemed a threat to strategic targets [0].

So, since then, the likelihood of any potential reward from hijacking has gone to near-zero, and the risks have become essentially infinite.

And of course on top of that, despite the publicized failures, the security theater still substantially increases the risk of getting caught even trying to board a plane to hijack it.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3161354.stm
They are getting even cheaper. I have four modules with a total capacity of about 1800W (the inverter has a limit of 800W to comply with the regulations). Cost was about 370€ including delivery.
I still remember in the late oughts, when Mac software updates came out (say, 10.x.1 or whatever, Safari updates, etc.) an app called Software Update would tell you about them, allow you to click to download and install what you wanted, the installation all happened in the background while you worked, and then at the end the SWU dock icon would bounce to prompt you to restart when ready. Guess what? quick option-right-click → Force Quit on the app would shut that up, then you could go about your day and reboot when you were ready.

Today, the Mac harangues you every time you wake it about the updates, then to apply them, you must reboot immediately, and stare at various Apple logos and progress bars for an indeterminate amount of time (no estimates offered).
I found this to be a fascinating dive into a potentially serious safety concern. I was impressed how simple the mitigations could be based on the recommendations in the report. I find the evidence credible for an attempt to burry the issue, but honestly I don't understand the motivation. At this stage I feel Boeing and the FAA could really stand to gain some good press from being extra proactive about such issues. Especially when the proposed mitigations seem like they would be relatively easy to implement, and should not be expensive for airlines from what I can see. It seems like the source being the engine manufacturer and consequently having the potential of affecting other jets including potentially the airbus A320 would only improve the incentives for Boeing to get out ahead of this, and demonstrate a safety culture. Does anyone understand the motivations that could lead to the response we have seen from the FAA and Boeing?
Viewed through the lens of personal development I suppose one could make an argument that there wasn't much difference between rediscovering an existing valid or invalid solution. Both lead to internalisation of a domain's constraints.
The difference is in the cost of the equipment.

Sure, you can learn all about power electronics by yourself. But have some ideas you want to implement? Hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars.
do you understand how bids work?
Is this still true? Recent numbers from EU countries didn’t look good for Tesla. Only 11% of Swedes approve of Tesla now.
U.S. electricity customers averaged five and one-half hours of power interruptions in 2022

Source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61303

In 2023, German households experienced an average of 13.7 minutes of power outages.

Source: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Power-supply-13-7-minutes-of-po...

Not sure if the metrics are 100% comparable (they seem to be?) but points to a huge difference in reliability.
It doesn't. This is particularly tough to search for and i'm not on social media. I'd be surprised if Le Cunn somehow thought these reasoning models were somehow architecturally unique from a good old LLM. It's all in the training regime, right?

In any case I'll take your word for it, but that's still surprising to me.
> Does everyone just want in on the big names?

Yes. Generating consistent returns is hard. Proving you can do it is harder. Investors may be rationally willing to cede most of the upside in exchange for less exposure to the downside. (Part of the problem is the political pressure on public fund managers to avoid losses.)
> Opinions are information?

Not really. That's why there's a saying, "Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one."

Information has to correspond to reality, the only arbiter of truth. When I give you my opinion I can say pretty much anything, usually they correspond to feelings e.g. "I think if you ask her out she'll say yes. I think this because you're my friend and I like you so surely she will."

But I think you already know that opinions are not information and perhaps you're asking rhetorically and hopefully not trolling me?
My money is on Gabe Newall
> The traditional auto industry would have never embraced EVs to the extent they have if someone did not disrupt the market in a way like Tesla did.

This isn't clear to me. Maybe in the US? but in Europe, there should be no new CO2-emitting cars by 2035. There's a global trend to move to EV due to climate change that has little to do with Tesla.
I wonder that as well. I'm pretty sure there's manual manipulation involved sometimes.
Yes and Microsoft would never have embraced the GUI if it weren’t for Apple and other AI companies would never have embraced LLMs if it weren’t for OpenAI.

But that doesn’t justify Teslas value. In the words of the AI industry - “there is no moat” around EVs
That’s covered in the article. There’s even a photo.
Maybe they should be called the Nazgul.
This is impractical in the US as things currently stand; most utilities have a permitting process for a grid tie (anything that backfeeds the grid) and smartmeters are capable of detecting and reporting any backfeed.

Mostly the technical aspects are not a problem (most modern meters are two-way); you'd just need a policy like the one in Germany allowing de minimis backfeed.
I'll bite. Can you list specific things not freely available online?
For whatever reason, Newsom's gotten many colorful nicknames from his critics. It was one of the funnier parts of moving to California. At one point I maintained a list of any I heard but it appears to be lost. Newssolini, Gruesome Newsom, Any Twosome Newsom, Gavin Gruesome, Governor Gaslight...
presidents can't pardon state crimes
As a trial attorney for over 40 years, it is sad to bear witness to the end of democracy.

Prior to the election, multiple billionaires belonging to the 'Tech Right', referring to themselves as Dark Gothic MAGA, backed Curtis Yarvin's plan to overthrow democracy in three simple steps:

1. Gut the federal bureaucracy and replace all federal workers with 'true believers'

2. Render Congress impotent by refusing to spend money allocated by Congress for programs contrary to MAGA philosophy.

3. Ignore directives issued by SCOTUS upon the basis such Orders are only advisory, because the Judicial Branch does not possess the Constitutional power to issue binding orders to the Executive Branch.

It is distressing to see the overthrow take place in real time with hardly a whimper from the public.

IMO the only thing that will defeat the plan is a nationwide general strike threatening the billionaires with a total deprivation of their sources of income. Sadly, I have never seen any indication the American people have the ability to do what what the Europeans have successfully accomplished on multiple occasions.
We don't really know the situation if all we were told is that we picked a door, and the host showed us a goat behind another door.

If we know that the host will always show us a goat behind another door, then yes, we should clearly switch.

If the host typically lets us just open the door, but will show us a goat before we open the door if the show is running too fast and they need to kill time, then we should switch if offered.

If the host typically lets us open the door, but will show us a goat if the show is running too fast, or if the prize budget is running low and we picked the car, then we should switch if we think the previous games went quickly, but not if there were some slow games already.

If the host only shows a goat when the contestent picks the car, then we should never switch.

Many problem statements include that the host always shows a goat; and if it doesn't you can kind of assume it, because it's a well-known problem, but if it's a novel problem and unsaid, then how are you supposed to know? I haven't watched enough Let's Make a Deal to know if they always give a second choice. Reading the NYT article linked elsewhere in the thread, I am reminded that Monty Hall could offer cash to not open doors too, so with the problem as stated and Let's Make a Deal being referenced, I have to assume an antagonistic host, unless provided with more information on their behavior.

As stated, assuming unknown behavior of the host, we can't put a number on the probability of switching.

Also, to address another point you made elsewhere in the thread. In addition to specifying the host behavior, it should also be specified in the problem statement that the car and goat positions were determined randomly, or at least the car was random, and the two goats are considered equal and assigned as convenient.
https://archive.ph/Ml5uG
There might be some good uses for these effects, but IMHO this particular Web page is an argument against them.
I don't think anyone is in doubt about this presedency being legendary. We mostly disagree on the context the legend will be told in.
From that link, there were 137 hijacking attempts in the U.S. between 1968-1972, and 90 of them had Cuba as the destination. Seems like this could've been prevented more easily by not embargoing Cuba.

Also of note: these 137 hijacking attempts resulted in 1 fatality. By contrast, in each of those years 55,000+ people died in car crashes.

People are terrible at judging risk.
It's also another great view into Musk's character.
I pay more taxes than Tesla.
... "permanently high plateau" and all that...