skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To study how they evolve and their potential to become a problem? Yeah, that’s the only way to go.

And given how fast viruses evolve, there’s no real alternative.
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That isn't the point, rather it is hit-and-miss with external libraries.
People can start acting with seemingly-conscious intent before they consciously become aware of the action

This idea is largely based on Libet's experiments in the 80s, and recent studies have concluded that what he was measuring was not the brain 'making a decision' but more or less just random noise which seemed to become significant due to the way the data was processed. It was widely reported in 2019, e.g. see here https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will...
This is an incredibly underutilized idea. It still feels like there's ample room for interoperability in the realm of "I write a short piece of code for someone I'm working with, and then they take it and use it for something else" in a way that could be very specific to one project.

I'd venture to say that essentially no one thinks like this, but there's no good reason they shouldn't?
Great link! Where did the money go exactly? If the investors invested in her company, and the company didn't really make any investments itself, isn't there a pile of money somewhere where they can give it back? If much fewer dollars were "lost", does not that lower her sentence drastically? Like to that 1x1 times table square?
> Over the last quarter of 2021, Facebook made over $60 per user In the US and Canada.

Wow. I guess it's clear why they would never move away from an ad-based model, to an ad-free paywall for example. No way anyone is paying $20/mo (maybe $5/mo in the US, and much less than that in most of the world).
No. Emacs' a huge REPL with zillions of ELISP modules for lots of cases.

Emacs and its grandpa ITS (and Emacs for ITS) are very different beasts.

Get SIMH and emulate ITS on it.
https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_ITS_on_SIMH
I really am amused by how _extremely_ abundant the anecdotes are of "almost" being hit by a bike, yet when it comes to cars, the anecdotes are typically of being _actually, really_ hit.

In reality bicycles have extremely good maneuverability and visibility, combined with lower speeds and a small hitbox. As someone who frequently walks and cycles I feel that on foot, something might "feel" like a near miss when the rider was in fact in complete control the entire time or was able to avert a crash due to all the inherent advantages bikes have for reacting quickly and decisively.
Aren't the vast majority of that 150T market in cross border payments already done outside of crypto?
Yeah, it couldn’t be possible that a person is capable of making and owning decisions for their own life…
The lesson for engineers is that it is better to fail than try to lead.

Should have just arrived at the handoff with a half finished project and a new job offer, leaving the business types with the mess.
Bad news like this should probably be first communicated up to management privately, not sprung upon them in a meeting in front of their peers and reports.
Some of what you said is true, but your analog is a little off. It wasn’t a junior and a senior in the same role, it was a technical team deputized to do what they did, and a management group that apparently thought the deputies would fail, or convinced themselves their conclusions were wrong.

The failure here is not one of lack of politics or communication on the part of the author or their team, but on the culture of the management team. Why invite that presentation if all it does is publicly humiliate your PMs?

Could the deputies have done more? How is amateur politicking by technical contributors perceived at your place of work?
No mention of bugs found in their codebase?

Wouldn't you expect bugs to turn up, or maybe not if they already have thorough testing?
If that’s the bar for emotional then all laws are emotional once you get down to it. The poster has the implicit value statement that the least powerful need the most legal protection, which is certainly a common cultural value in the modern West.

I mean, even the idea that a third party needs to come in and administer punishment when one group defrauds the other is an emotional statement. You could just as easily argue that they all should have vetted theranos’s statements and not taken their word on it
It’s common in many internet circles to refer to prominent people by their initials. Hackerdom has a long tradition of this: rms gls esr jwz et al. It also tends to happen in US federal politics for some reason (jfk rfk gwb fdr et al) but not to everyone.
Called it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31935844#31937338

Well, not with full confidence, but kinda.
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A large number of pyschologists would disagree with you.

You're right in that there's repetition, inconsistency, and it certainly doesn't predict the future, and there's nothing especially wise.

But if you regularly log your dream content, they do tend to consistently indicate areas of anxiety and conflict that your conscious self is often unaware of. Together with techniques like free association, free journaling, and so on, they provide important clues for therapists to uncover patterns of what underlying source issues are that can then be addressed therapeutically in order to bring about healing.

So to say there is "no" meaning in dreams is just as untrue as to say they can tell the future.
Are you seriously making the claim that nearly 100% of motorists run stop signs, and using a less than one minute long video of one specific intersection with less than 10 vehicles in it as some sort of proof? You're making a pretty bold claim about millions/billions of people.
You're talking about Libets famous emperiment in 1984 and the more recent articles (it was widely reported in 2019) that because of the aritificiality of the setup (as you say, participants were asked to just act randomly) Libet had essentially made a sortof statistical error and was not measuring 'decisions' at all. e.g. see https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will...
I think your comment actually supports the original comment. If what's at stake is a $60M javascript photo-sharing app, then you gotta decide how much you care to massage egos and play the game.

If you're literally putting human lives at risk and you think there's a real chance of death, what a petty thing to say, "Oh well they should've just listened! It's a high-stakes game!" Do be clear, this doesn't shift the responsibility but it just reinforces that if you want to just raise a stink—do it however you think best. If you want to communicate effectively, you must play by the laws of human ego. Plain and simple.

People always underestimate the allure of human ego and pride.
Proof of what?
Lmao. So did all the guys at Lehman, Bear Stearns and LTCM.
There was an entire book about this that became famous during the 2008 financial crisis:

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb

https://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-Ince...

It's literally about how options traders and the like can be lucky for 10 or 20 years, but they are actually idiots who destroy the economy.

They think they are skilled, and others think they are skilled, but it's luck. You can also call it "anti-luck" because their short-term actions can cause the long-term crisis.

This book was a #1 best seller, as were most of Taleb's books, but for some reason whenever I mention it to anybody, I get blank stares.

I think it's just really hard for people to understand phenomena that occur at time scales of say more than a decade.

(BTW Another good book about recurring economic cycles is Dalio's 2022 The Changing World Order. All of this stuff has happened before. This is separate from crypto, and relates to the global economic environment.)
Matt Leving from Money Stuff discussed it today (!). If exchanges provide leverage products to customers, they become banks (providing leverage, through funding typically by other customer's deposit).
So bank runs are possible.
> where does the "likely" part come from?

It’s a zero-yield risk asset in a world of rising rates and economic uncertainty.
That experiment already failed to be honest.

Cryptocurrencies were prophesized to get rid of banks. Instead exchanges reinvented banks with all the drawbacks and none of the benefits.

Cryptocurrencies were supposed to be in wide circulation just like USD, eliminating the need for fiat on/off ramps. Instead we got these centralized corporations and endless KYC/AML surveillance with none of the regulation and government backing.

Real cryptocurrency is what you have in your wallet. How many of us hold our own coins? Pretty much everyone keeps "their" coins at the exchange...
India has a great fiat mobile payments system that doesn't require those credit card fees. The real solution is to ditch ACH.

>On the other hand I don't see why crypto needs to go up in value or how that actually helps anyone except people that got in early.

The price rises when someone buys into it. Because no one would sell for less than they just bought, their ask price is slightly higher in general. This makes the quote price rise - same with stocks.
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If the only thing between business failure and business success was contact with users, there’d be a lot fewer failed businesses.

Sometimes you just don’t see it, and that’s ok. Not everything is “I would have succeeded if only…”
The current headline "Binance Acquires FTX" is wrong. There's only a
"non-binding Letter of Intent" in place.
That "nightmares are part of a (slow and painful) processing of PTSD events".
Most AFV have some kind of integral infantry support (literally in the back) while a tank needs to be battle-teamed to do that. Battle-teaming is hard to do because inevitably the two vehicles don’t quite match capability.

I didn't say tanks only did anti-tank - I said they also do shock action. It's the only reason they exist in that it's the only thing that they are needed for that you couldn't do with another AFV.
Please don't post a link to FTX. Withdrawals on FTX are suspended, probably for ever.
Cross border payments are 50% bigger than the total planets gdp?
What's wild is just a few weeks ago SBF was strongly insinuating to the WSJ that FTX was planning to acquire COIN. Not surprisingly COIN has taken a noticeable drop since this news.

I won't even buy puts on crypto companies since the space is completely insane, even if you know the whole thing is a fraud it's still got some clever ways to bite you if you go near it.
It will still go on. He wasn't the only one, but he definitely supercharged funding as of late.

I think all the longtermism stuff that has come to prominence recently is a side-effect of too much money in EA trying to make up new causes that are magically more effective than philanthropy that currently exists.
I love a lot of the innovation going on in the healthcare digital space wrt apps, but this NightWare service reminds me of Sleep.io, which has become a nightmare to try to procure.

I've been trying for months to get on Sleep.io as I suffer from chronic insomnia, and it has been one of the most frustrating journeys I've endeavored upon. They only provide their app to insurance customers that partner with them, there is no option to buy a subscription directly. Despite their marketing and outward "shoot us a message and we'll help you out" virtue-signaling, you quickly realize that you're just sending messages into the void. I tried so hard and offered to pay a subscription rate to try the service. Didn't even get a response.

It's the absolute worst of all worlds: being prevented from being able to use an app that I shouldn't need to talk to a doctor about or have the correct insurance for is unbelievably frustrating. Stuff like this terrifies me for our future.
I always thought it was interesting feds don't have jurisdiction over most murder as it doesn't fit into one of the constitution approved uses of the federal government, but somehow merely sawing down a shotgun barrel or feeding crops you grow to your own animals is considered 'interstate trade' and thus subject to federal law. As if murder doesn't have effect on interstate trade at least as much as Filburn's crops did.
>This is significant because pristine vegetable oils are expected to be a healthier food than animal fat, while vegetable oils that have been strongly heated are expected to be a less healthy food than strongly heated animal fat.

Not true. Omega 6 is worse than animal fat even not fried. It just isn't part of the study.

>it is not a HO vegetable oil

Like I said, "HO vegetable oil" is not really a thing in the first place. At the very least it's reasonable to not include it in the plain meaning of vegetable oil.
with luck they’ll get their hands dirty, in a good way.
Well, if the customers are holding FTT and they're trying to get rid of their FTT, that could cause the liquidity crisis. The crisis isn't with the customer assets, it's with their FTT side of the business.
You don't need to host a Mastodon instance yourself. Plenty of them are open for registration :)

e.g https://masto.ai/ or https://fosstodon.org
"problematic countries without civil rights"

The next World Cup will be in the US and Mexico and Canada. Some would say some of those countries fit your criteria.
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>But she's 38, and she may have decided that even an 8-10 year sentence would make it impossible for her to have children later, so did it now while she's free.

That's her decision to make, no one can stop her or anything, though that also means only very rarely seeing your child for the first 8-10 years of their life.
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Better approach is to leave.
Talking to those kind of ppl is like playing chess with pigeon.
Just dont, have dignity. We are some of the smartest ppl this earth is supporting.
A curated collection of Human-Computer Interaction demo videos from 1983-2002
One prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26514456 - March 20, 2021 (62 comments)

A few other submissions, but all with 0 comments.
Working in dysfunction wears me down. To me Dilbert is funny for the first 10 strips or so, then it becomes dull and depressing. My way is to try to get small victories against dysfunction. When I stop getting these, I start seeking for another dysfunction elsewhere.
Most of controversy comes from scientists, often biologists and doctors, yeah. But not virologists. You know, people who actually know what they’re talking about.

Biology is such an enormously wide and diverse field that opinions of someone who’s not a virologist is often as relevant as an opinion of the software engineer.
Not sure how safe Alameda is. $6 billion out of $14 billion of Alameda assets is FTT based. With FTT tanking, its asset balance shrunk greatly. It might well has its own liquidity problem.

Also with Biannce buying FTX, it can call back the loaned FTT from Alameda.
Hate speech is free speech in the US. Calls for violence is not included.
Pretty much. I have never seen a product manager/project manager see a multi year project through to the end.

I also suspect a lot of it comes down to it not being the problem of anyone until the end of the project. Sales can promise whatever they want. Tech can put it off for a while.
I did not initially read it as a threat, but as a warning. That somehow the client would end the project manager's career, or something. How naive of me! Clearly the project manager knew full well they were just milking the client for an endless stream of money for a doomed project as long as they could just provide the client with some hope that it really was nearly finished.

Of course that's the kind of behaviour that should be career-limiting, but clearly the industry has more than enough room for leeches like that. Because this is hardly the first time I've heard of a story like this; some companies really seem to exist primarily to live off these sort of projects.
> The nightmares are part of a (slow and painful) processing of PTSD events. Suppressing them may not be helpful and actually just kick the can down the road.
People still can get rich when BTC drops, if they shorted the market.
There's a lot of apologizing in this thread for incompetent/lying management.

Many of us 'less socially aware' (or perhaps 'neuro diverse') people would like this waste to disappear.

If I suck at coding, you have no issue letting me go.

If you suck at management, then I have no issue letting you go.

Symmetry is beautiful.
I get a notification on my phone when my watch is fully charged. This is my reminder to put the watch back on.
i used my imagination and took that to be a very good outcome. can you confirm this is the case?
Did the company actually believe that the breakthrough could be made? That is a huge distinction between a scam and a scientific experiment that did not yield positive results. It did become an outright scam after a while, though.

Moral of the story: don't mess with extremely rich people's money unless you yourself are also extremely rich.
Looks to me like someone overstepped their bounds.

Your job is to write code, not directly challenge senior management.
I read through to the end. Because that's what a thorough engineer does. But honestly, I guessed exactly how this story was going to end when they rattled off the long list of the different kinds of managers. Manager::engineer ratio has exactly the opposite effect as teacher::student ratio does.
This is not an important aspect of the discussion at all dude. The layman uses “scrolling” the way tech marketers use engagement and everyone knows this. No one cares about this attempt to strawman the actual problem here by yet again assuring they masses they’re too dumb to understand.

This is why these tech firms will be heavily regulated to death. They still don’t get that these minor nuances are things only they care about thus it’s passed time to let them figure this out on their own. They’ve talked passed the average citizen for long enough.
It's of course possible to mitigate, but that's somewhat more involved than "just" sprinkling e2e encryption on top ;)
Perhaps a quip on the untrustworthy nature of bankers.
Oh, and I should add, it doesn't work if you ended up on an instance that doesn't federate with the one that your followee is on. And the UI for that is "it just doesn't show up in search."
I'm not a veteran (though I went through 1.5 year of mandatory service back in my country) but I constantly have nightmares for as long as I could remember. There are nights where I don't want to go to sleep because the night before I had a particularly disturbing nightmare. Remarkably scary dreams.

I'm healthy, exercise nearly ever day. I avoid eating several hours before bedtime.

I was diagnosed with GAD (general anxiety disorder) but I don't take any meds. I'm slowly coming to the realization that my baseline anxiety level is way higher than of the average person. For no apparent reason.

It's frustrating but I'm trying my best to figure out a long term solution.

edit: grammar
>migrating to Go because, using Protobuffs for a simple eCommerce API that does not need it

I would imagine improving throughput a fractional percentage point could have multiple millions of dollars in return for any company close to FAANG size. I fail to see how these are good examples of 'wasted' engineering effort.

Building your own chat system is a good one though, definitely seems like a vanity project.
According to the article you posted, X is probably true - the scientists' model shows it being true, "focused on 36 points of comparison in 16 genes" and compared to "genetic data taken from more than 1,400 people". That is science - developing a model, experiments, etc., whatever you can do and studying the results - a continuous process of refinement. Science is not a set of facts we know are absolutely, 100% true, but hopefully that's the end result. So I think it's fair to say the science shows so far, to the best of their knowledge, it's true. It could be wrong, but I think it's reasonable to depict the Cheddar Man as having dark skin if to the best of anyone's knowledge including scientists' models, he was dark skinned.
"If no one's asking, they're probably not interested in hearing."
I'd put it in the category of "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" [0]. There is no way for somebody with authority to express a preference without it coming across as a request. The same words that from a trusted coworker would be advice to keep your head down become an implied threat when given from an executive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
I do not get involved with shorting companies either - but with interest rates higher it does strike me as magnitude more difficult to keep some of these companies (or schemes) floating.
Is the problem conditional logic or pretzel logic?
Polls have shown >20% of people have traded or used cryptocurrencies [1]. Clearly there are common people in the space.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/31/cryptocurrency-news-21percen...
Also former infantry: To expand the point, in US Army doctrine, an obstacle has one of four effects, block, turn, fix, or disrupt.

Typically, you use obstacles in engagement area development as part of a defense. An obstacle that's not observed isn't valuable because it's easy to circumvent. You can probably use a bulldozer (guessing, I was light infantry, not a tanker) to breach the dragon's teeth relatively quickly so the obstacle doesn't have the intended effect. However, it's much harder to breach the dragon's teeth if someone is shooting at you. Now you need an armored bulldozer, or enough suppressing fire to cover the breach.
The current fiat/fx cross border payment mechanisms are better than crypto. Faster, cheaper and more secure.
Of course it is a red flag! It's the corporate equivalent of drawing a knife in a bar fight.
An obvious spam account with blue check mark
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My concerns about serverless aren't to do with them not scaling - quite the opposite! I'm worried that we'll sacrifice developer experience in the name of "scaleability" of Functions without any real benefit.

Our current hosting costs for the projects I work on are about two orders of magnitude below your "worth it" cutoff :)

The integration stuff you mention is indeed very interesting, thank you for mentioning. I can think of a couple projects that would would really benefit from Functions in this way. Our architect is mainly concerned with scalability here, however.
Isn't the whole point that they work for mega-corps and then donate all the money instead of actually doing anything directly? I am pretty sure I read about this somewhere. I don't think effective altruists are the type to actually do anything other than go along with the status quo.
Hey, I was just trying to help. I didn't make Signal and don't work for them.
I submitted an application just yesterday! I know it was an automated response, but I really appreciated the follow-up email that acknowledges the difficulties of job searching for a candidate. It's such a contrast to most companies that don't even tell you whether or not they've received your application. Whoever wrote that deserves a raise.
They may be insolvent now due to FTT dip, but at the time this comment was written, he was right. They were almost certainly not insolvent. I think this all started with a tiny bit of FUD about Alameda and FTX being naughty with user deposits. CZ saw that and did a supreme job of taking advantage, but probably this would have all blown over otherwise.

Easy to look at someone's post in hindsight and see that they were mistaken. Probably
So did tulips. But yeah, holding those forever would have been a bad idea…
Depending on your counterparty risk.