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Assuming I'm allowed to reply to you, generally when I get brigaded I can't. HN prevents me from replying.

I'm not surprised, I already knew what I was saying was going to be shutdown. No hard feelings.

>You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.

lol as predicted, HN shadow banned me again today. Lets see how long until I can post this reply.

edit/ 1 hour shadow ban this time.
How long does sudo take to load on your system. Multiply that by 3000, is it really a noticeable number?
Bahaha. Rigor and performance?? Teslas kill people. SpaceX is cool, but pays fuck all because it’s cool.

I once watched the YouTube video of musk talking about battery prices and buying raw materials on the London exchange, and I thought, wow this guy is so insightful, no wonder his companies do well. It’s not till later that I found out that everything he says is someone else’s idea that he takes credit for.
A notable difference between 2007 and now is that in 2007, major banks were highly leveraged and held large quantities of assets whose value was highly sensitive to increases in interest rates (specifically: ARM-financed mortgages). So when the single-family residential mortgage delinquency rate when from under 2% to over 10%, it was a balance sheet catastrophe for those banks.

There's no analogue to that highly leveraged dependence on rate-sensitive assets among the FAANG tech giants today. The FAANG companies are low-leverage, high-return monsters with an incredible 50+% average return on equity in 2021 and a low average debt-to-equity ratio of 1.8. (For comparison, in 2006 Bank of America had a return on equity of 15.6% and a debt-to-equity ratio of 9.8).
I'm intrigued, what was the row about?
Show HN: MakePlace – An Interior Design Simulator
MakePlace is a PC app that lets you drag-and-drop furniture and edit floorplans. The goal is to make interior design easy and fun, like playing with Lego.

It started off as an app to simulate housing in an MMORPG, since the furniture system there was atrocious. I'm now trying to adapt it as a simulator for general interior design.

Like many 3D design software, there are a bunch of tools and controls, and first-time users may feel somewhat lost. So I've made a starting tutorial to help ease users into the controls. Do you think the tutorial works well?

Let me know what else can be improved!
Given the assumption that their balance sheet is liquid enough or they have the cash flow to pay the debts, it's reasonable to say that they have take losses as a trading firm to be potentially insolvent.

In fact you could turn your argument around to critize the article too, as they are based on the assumption that some of the assets should marked to zero, rather than examining empirically whether those assets could be either collateral or be used to pay the debt.
> flipping the table over the first week belies more than a little arrogance and little motivation to understand what he bought

Typically you want to make major changes as soon as possible after a transition of power. It sets a new baseline to work from and avoids an overhang of fear that more drastic changes may be coming. You change regime and set a calm new normal.

It's also crucial to not then continue making drastic changes. Tbd on that.

I say that both for the weekend work crunch and the layoffs. The long hours and removal of benefits should be harsher on day one than going forward. You want to set the tone upfront and shake out people who aren't willing to go along, but you don't want to make unsustainable practices a constant. And you especially do not want the overhang of fear of additional layoffs coming.

So important to make harsh decisions day one and then back off a bit going forward.
>The entire economy operates on a rule of no double taxation

Citation needed here. Nowhere is such a rule explicitly written, nor is it clear why it must be the case. Further, what you’re saying is incorrect, people often claim estate taxes to be “double taxation” as well.

It’s not hard to see how many forms of taxes fall under this rubric. If corporate income taxes + taxes on dividends are “double taxation”, then couldn’t the same not be said about those same corporate income taxes and sales taxes? It’s honestly hard to think of any taxation regime that doesn’t include taxation at multiple points in a transaction chain.

Taxes exist to severe a function, and that is to extract money from the economy in a just and efficient manner. It would seem that you are implying that “double taxation” in this instance somehow violates the former, though I don’t think most would agree with you.
This makes sense to me in the sense that as far as I can tell SBF and Alameda's claims for the origin of their wealth is obviously false: He claims he made billions of dollars on an arbitrage with Korean exchanges and the rest of the world. Price differences existed, but with extremely small volume. If he claimed to have made millions from it I would have been highly skeptical, but billions? And during a major crypto down market to boot-- not a time when any idiot in the space could accidentally make a fortune just by having exposure.

But if that trade wasn't real where did the money come from? One possible answer is that the money never was: maybe it was always just marked up balance sheets holding multiple times the circulating market of illiquid and close traded tokens-- all a great big fake it until you make it.

[Apologies for the throwaway account, but I don't want to risk taking more retaliation from crypto scammers]
What happens when every major social network has a bad reputation?

"Start your own" isn't really a viable solution since the greatest challenge of making a social network is getting people to use it.
Thats a lot of effort going into something that 99% of the people couldn't care less.
> American refrigerators have the freezer on top and the refrigerator section on the bottom.

This was probably true up until the 90s. At that point side by sides became pretty popular with the left side being a freezer and the right side being a fridge, full height. See:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ge-25-1-cu-ft-side-by-side-refr...

After these broke the trend of the top freezer, other styles became more popular. These days one of the most popular style is the "french door" where there are two side by side doors for the fridge compartment up top with a drawer below for the freezer.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-26-5-cu-ft-french-door-count...

Top freezer fridges these days are often seen as a very outdated and out of fashion style of fridge usually only relegated to the bottom tier models of fridges. If you go into most appliance stores you'll see row after row of french door, several side by sides, and then a couple of super basic top freezers.

Personally, IDGAF about "style" for a fridge when it comes to door arrangements. I like my side by side the most as then I have both fridge and freezer items as convenient heights instead of only really having a freezer at eye level and having to duck down to grab anything in the fridge.
Others have had different experiences.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14571234
I was more or less neutral until he posted Russian propaganda - then I realized he is willing to talk about things he has no idea about (he posted election stats from 10 years ago ignoring more recent elections and the fact that even people who were very much pro-Russia completely changed their views once the Russian army started shelling them).
Molten salt is very corrosive, and this only heats to 600C, and sodium chloride doesn't melt until 800C.

This is a cheaper, lower maintenance option.
I might be wrong, but most of these programs have partner banks, which take part of the revenue for themselves. I think it's more likely they make Fed Funds minus some take rate from the bank, so maybe Fed Funds - 0.50bps. Point still stands, but I don't think they're making 3.75-4%. Wealthfront is passing through 3.30%, so likely only making 0.25bps on that cash.
Reads like a short story. A good one.
We can certainly agree that the UK has underperformed relative to, say, America. I don't think Chinese GDP stats have ever been accurate and developing countries often have high growth anyway, so am not so interested in comparisons to that. But certainly it can be compared to the US and there we see poor relative performance, and indeed the same is true of Europe in general.

Comparing UK growth to the EU average isn't so useful because the EU contains a lot of countries still catching up from decades of Soviet rule. Poland posts 6% GDP growth but that doesn't mean it's a richer country than the USA, obviously. That sort of thing skews the average upwards. That's why I plotted the EU line but also more comparable non-ex-Soviet countries. German GDP was historically boosted by their fixation with subsidizing the rest of the EU with cheap exports, leading to their massive Target2 imbalances. That is nearly a sort of broken windows fallacy style of growth so those figures also have to be taken in context.

But these things aren't anything to do with Brexit, and the UK isn't really so different to comparable western European countries. Their growth is all within narrow bands on that graph, especially from 2017. Indeed the poor growth rates inside the EU were one of the arguments made for why leaving is a good idea! EU policy leads to poor growth, so went the argument and therefore by leaving, the UK can change policies to go faster and catch up with the USA. Of course the mere act of leaving doesn't make that automatic - it's necessary but not sufficient, and it's unclear if the other conditions will ever be satisfied (primarily social attitudes towards capitalism are the problem, imo). Brexit actually taking effect happened simultaneous with the appearance of COVID and then the government was dominated by that, so very little of what's theoretically possible has been done, and now of course the economy is trashed due to lockdowns so who knows when or if the a more US style approach can ever be implemented. But it is at least now theoretically possible.
Loops like PDCA/PDSA aren't necessarily tight loops, where you immediately jump into the next. Since the objective is process/quality/whatever improvement the Plan phase is defining a plan to improve the process (sticking with that one). The Do phase is enacting the plan. The Study phase is studying the effect and learning. The Act phase is the continuation of the plan (if successful) or perhaps a rollback if not. Then, at some point, you start another loop (ideally this becomes continuous, but most orgs and teams aren't ready for that I've found). But again, continuous doesn't mean tight.

As a hypothetical, you get hired into a team that doesn't use version control (me 12 years ago, fortunately they already knew it was dumb and were fixing it). So you decide to introduce git. There are a dozen codebases and 30+ people on this system. So you start with one codebase and a coupe motivated individuals, you create a Plan. You plan to use gitlab or whatever and see if you can work out kinks (like merge conflicts that they never know about until testing because "merge" is "copy files into the same directory, keep the newest"). Then you Do the plan, you and the motivated individuals try it out for a cycle (whatever that means in this team). Then you study it, see if you had fewer issues, delivered faster, higher quality, fewer erroneous "merges" (probably none now). Then you Act, you roll out this process to the rest of the team and codebases.

And if your team is ready for it, you repeat this method over and over to reach continuous process improvement, tackling different aspects of the process and system that are causing problems.
I'm not naive. Places like Harvard select the best of the best, and that students like my son will be common in their applicant pool, etc. The original point I made and stand by was that, AA should be based on economic conditions, not race. Race should not be used as a short-hand for economic adversity. I think colleges just want to see more "black and brown" faces, and Asian Americans (including brown-skinned Indians, like my son) are not the right shade of brown.

Thanks for your sentiments in the last paragraph. He will make a dent!
OK generally I think you're doing exactly what I believe ML is lacking right now. Another huge opportunity is instead of taking the average neural network and designing accelerators for it, designing hardware-friendly networks that run well on a sane accelerator that was designed to work with only these specialised networks (that doesn't need 80% chip area for on-chip memory for example). These might end up being completely different networks to what researchers use today. I work in this area and I think it's also possible to use the loss function to optimise the network for a specific HW.
Germany hasn't changed anything. And there are also seriously complex ballots on the local level, so that isn't a limit.
> We already had rockets, and scaling that up was never a huge unknown.

Then why did NASA never create cost-effective reusable launch vehicles?

> The real problems with settling Mars are the things that Musk is spending nothing on - building safe self-sustaining habitats in extreme conditions.

I'm not sure how this refutes the claim that this is one of his ultimate goals. He's not going to invest in the kind of research you describe until it's necessary or will plausibly create a return. He has to keep a business focus to continue funding these efforts because governments have been seriously falling short.

> We can try to guess what he believes, or we can look at his actions and their results - and in the latter case, he has repeatedly spoken and acted against public transport (in most hyper-loop and Boring Company presentations at least).

OK, I still don't see why that's problem. Public mass transit is not going to save the planet on its own. Personal transport is something like only 20% of global emissions. EVs can get that down to below 5%, and public transit might make another single digit difference over that. It's just not a big change.
z3 is so cool. I used it in the same way you used it for optimizations to make sure the transformations my obfuscating LLVM pass was making were correct.

Compilers can even tell that

int count(uint64_t x) {
int v = 0;
while(x != 0) {
x &= x - 1;
v++;
}
return v;
}

is the same as the popcnt instruction. Though I’m not sure it’s possible to transform that loop into terms Z3 can understand.
"They’re trying to destroy free speech in America."

Twitter: 16 years old

United States of America: 246 years old

Amazing that we went 230 years without free speech, right?
I don't see any tests on the github. Is there some way to do pipelines for open source projects that wouldn't require funding? Would a free gitlab tier account for stuff like this be within the TOS? I just find it kind of crazy how most of the open source ecosystem has no static analysis or unit tests. I'm not criticizing, I'm trying to figure out how to contribute.
Why use this over the new ordered UUID RFC?
To put the relative simplicity into perspective, here is the official Github mirror of sudo:

https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo

On the contributors tab:

https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors

We can see that sudo has been maintained by one person for ~29 years who has single-handedly committed ~2,936,000 changes over that time resulting in a net increase of ~480,000. It is also being actively developed with ~270,000 changes resulting in a net increase of ~40,000 lines in the last twelve months.

In contrast doas is, just eyeballing it, maybe ~500 lines and at most 1000 lines all together.
Thanks

https://archive.ph/RRraM
Not bad; so you say it's "to review in order to reconsider", or something. So I'll buy that interpretation. I still think the language is clumsy, and way too ambiguous for a lawyer.

I'm sorry the author didn't explain why these words are magical. They flipped the judge (who seems to be hardline) from 180 days jail, to time served. Is there some rule of court procedure that these words invoke? Do the words comprise an implicit threat to appeal?
I feel that most computers may be used by 1 user but belong to someone else with their own requirements as to what is permissible. Company laptops seem to be more common than personal machines. Most will just have iPads and phones For personal use.
> Get that through your head. They owe you nothing.

If you want to be abrasive on tangents, you can definitely be that guy, but that was not the subject, rather the nature of censorship. You completely disregard my example of iligitemate private censorship by the banks, intended to point out the problem, only to forcefully restate a extremist ideological position that doesn't really function in any true society. Ok...
A motivated person could kick open your front door and tickle you, that doesn't mean a deadbolt isn't useful as part of home security plan.

Defence in depth.

A very least now they have to bring a math nerd into the conversation, increasing the footprint of the operation.
Hi, as someone attempting this full time, here is my take.

Legit or not, I have no idea, demand being high, it's not that hard to get a job I guess if you're not aiming for FANG level. Plus, most of these people, as far as I know, are a developer advocate or content creator for the their company and not developers per se.

Project based learning is good, but structured learning is better IMO. For the single reason that when you start you don't know what you don't know someone has to guide you. You can learn everything from building whatever you like, making mistakes, correct said mistakes, rinse and repeat. But it will take you way more time than just following a premade path, and be done with it. For that I made my own "boot camp" (here https://github.com/woadray/bootcamp if interested). I, like you was lost in this YouTube business of self a taught dev recommending courses and such. Decided after more research and discussions with qualified people that most of them are trash. I'm experimenting on myself to see how doable is it to get a job as a self taught developer with a twist, I'm from Africa and I live in France (for now at least), aiming for US remote job if not sponsored. All you need is discipline I think.

Tips:

- BOOKS are better than VIDEOS

- Leetcode style website are puzzle games, try to have fun with them. You can learn on the job, but in order to do that you have to get that job first.

- Build hard stuff
We keep a cool whip container filled with water, with a quarter under the lid, on top of the water in the top of our freezer.

Then, when (not if) we lose power for a while, we duct tape the lid to the freezers closed. Once power comes back on, we check the quarter. It's a pretty good indicator of what we should get rid of, based on how far in the container the quarter has sunk and re-frozen.
Toyota has built more hybrid cars than Tesla had which are more complex than EVs, so yes.
Interestingly, you can drink 60%fresh / 40%sea water. So if you're on a lifeboat you can make your fresh water rations last almost twice as long.
Timing attacks and similar methods of vote snooping is definitely a big issue I've been thinking about for a very simple calculator like this. At first you'd think you could mitigate that with some sort of analog capacitor timer buffer thing somewhere in the chain but then you screw up a lot of predictablity needed to trust such a device...
It's for the central bankers: to deflect attention from their printing of money which is the cause of inflation.
%50 headcount reduction will be more than 1b in savings.
He bought a McLaren F1 and wrecked it ~1 year later. [0] If you don't follow cars, this is an extremely special car. It was designed and built before the modern supercar era, long before computer design had the power it does not, and it still utterly destroyed anything that had come before it, and would come after it for quite some time. The engineering detail in it borders on absurd. They only made ~100 of the road-legal versions.

[0]: https://www.thedrive.com/news/32191/did-you-know-elon-musk-w...
Why anyone would buy shares of stock that don’t have voting rights, a dividend, or share buybacks is beyond me.

Where is your return on capital supposed to come from?
Why should you want that if you can just use https://github.com/SimonBrazell/nitter-redirect?
What? My Zoom call (I actually use MS-Teams) can include dozens of people, with video, who are from all over the world. The old phone system wasn't able to do that - especially at the cost of Zoom. People today would be shocked to know what our monthly phone bill cost was back in the day in today's dollars and the lack of value purchased for that money.
Yeah, but you could also just assume some 100-120 down with 30-40 up. Still same "ballpark" for me, and yet better than the upload of my official 50/10 that is actually 60/12 or so.
The page count
You have 60 days from termination to opt in and it applies retroactively, which is nice for changing jobs. You can have a couple months gap between the old insurance ending and your new stuff picking up and if something happens just opt in.

Rougher if you don't already have that next job lined up though.
>Jobs wasn't like Musk or Bezos, cared deeply about employees

I doubt if any CEO can pull it off for the long run without being caring enough about his/her inner circle. Even ruthless dictators have to be 'mostly' nice to their inner circle ( guards, butlers etc.).

The larger point being that often they can be ruthless with people who are not in the 'inner circle', sometime justifiably so and sometime not so justified. I'm basing all of this on typical human behavior, not specifically on Jobs/Musk/Bezos, of whom I know nothing. You will see this trait even in families, the stereotype of the current ruthless man being a gentle and loving father to his kids.
Those paragraphs are discussing that there are a number of KNOWN fake accounts that are not included in mDAU.

The very next paragraphs state that they have no idea just how many total fake accounts there are. That is, there is a number of fake accounts that they don't know about (and don't make any effort to count), and they are concerned that counting them will affect stock price.

Said another way, they are admitting they aren't counting all the fake accounts. That's in paragraphs 17 & 18
(I don’t want to suggest that journalists are incompetent, just that they aren’t super competent in the way you describe and that motivated reasoning is pretty easy for any human to do, eg a lot of comments on this submission feel a lot like they’re motivated by disliking big tech and not really thinking about journalism at all).
That's basically just pen and paper but with automated counting machines.
> the bulk of their liabilities are in the same tokens on their balance sheet

Do we have evidence of this?

The article says $292mm are FTT-denominated, with the rest unknown. Absent further information, it’s fair to assume some of that is dollar denominated. With less than 2% cash to cover liabilities, even a small amount of normal borrowing could render Alameda insolvent.

Moreover, if the losses are entirely passed through, whose are they? That’s over $7bn of losses sitting on someone’s balance sheets. Are they distributed? Is it FTX’s?
Here we go, hope this helps: https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1588378198168915968
Speed of counting is not a problem. Most countries in the world finish counting their election votes by the end of the second day after the election, with pure paper voting. The great thing about elections is that election officials can very easily scale with the number of votes, so there is no reason why you'd need automation here.