skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The consensus on the internet seems to be "serverless has its use cases" but it's not clear to me what those use cases are.

My $0.02, having used serverless before. Those use cases are:

* Very very low traffic apps. POST hooks for Slack bots, etc.. Works well!

* Someone who is an "architect" can now put "experience with Serverless" on their CV and get hired somewhere else that is looking for that keyword in their CV scans.

Those are any and all uses cases.
Crypto Exchange Binance Agrees to Acquire Rival FTX
You know what this makes me kind of wonder... back earlier in the year SBF made a big show of coming in and investing in a bunch of the companies that were collapsing due to the LUNA/3AC/Celsius problems. He stepped in and to some extent halted the unwinding of some of these issues. It turns out now that it's likely FTX is underwater, and Binance is basically doing the same thing - coming in, picking them up cheap and preventing them from really having to unwind.

So It's perfectly possible this action does the exact same thing as last time - simply stalls the unwinding of this catastrophe, which in the end could possibly even prove Binance insolvent. At the end of the day we just end up in a situation where Binance itself has pricing power over tonnes of coins, and if the market comes back they'll be fine, but if the market continues to slide at some point they won't be able to support the market any more.
On the whole timescale, the same principle applies.

Even if we define the start automation as the industrial revolution, if automation would (mostly) remove "interesting" jobs and compensate with "pointless" jobs, by now, all the jobs would be "pointless"; but they very evidently aren't.

The problem is, as I wrote, that some people think we're a special period in history (most of the times, based on an ambiguos interpretation of the term "robot"), while there have been significant revolutions for a long time (possibly, forever). There's nothing different under the sun (on the whole timescale).
We didnt consider any, hence the friction towards getting more capital
Well at this point I expect this to happen for any input on any web page or app.
I mean it could evolve to be airborne in the wild or in a research lab doing intentional gain of function research (a practice for which funding was temporarily halted by Obama) and hybridization much like has been done at BSL-4 facilities worldwide unchecked including by EcoHealth alliance with bat coronaviruses via US funding at the WIV prior to the Covid outbreak in Wuhan.

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-says-grantee-fai...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01209-w

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-fu...

But it's probably fine and we probably shouldn't worry about the possibility of a global pandemic or of mutation of Ebola into a more transmissible form.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/heres-the-rundown-on-the-b...
Calm down, you're not being marginalized. I'm fighting for more bike infrastructure. However, "but cars" isn't an excuse to be a jerk to pedestrians.
Nothing seems to stop the Feds from doing it though...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/feds-...

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-inches-even-closer-t...
>I’m sorry your municipality’s finances are poorly managed

I can almost guarantee that your municipality doesn’t collect enough gas taxes to cover road maintenance.

Regardless, cars do significant more damage to roads than do bicycles and represent an infinitely larger proportion of usage. The cost of maintaining bicycle infrastructure is infinitesimal in comparison.
Now it is clear that he was lying.

They stopped processing withdrawals according to on chain data.[0]

[0]: https://www.theblock.co/post/184176/ftx-appears-to-have-stop...
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> bit early to speculate on this

We’ve seen the balance sheet. The facts have been on the table for FTX as much as they are for Tether.

I can’t say when they will fail. But as soon as we saw the Alameda books and Alameda and FTX’s responses (the former, an irrelevant statement about other assets; the latter, a claim of solvency without proof), the endpoint was sealed. Insolvent, leveraged entities don’t pay out junior creditors absent a bail-out.
Is there a particular program or degree that makes me immune?

Because multiple members of Doctors Without Borders died in the previous outbreak.
Fair enough, edited.
I can guess a few reasons, without any insider knowledge at all.

- HN was previously a talent farm for YC, which is why only YC companies can post jobs as links. YC likely no longer needs HN for this, since most of their (thousands of?) portfolio companies will go bust and they can recycle talent from there. They also have more than one portfolio company attempting to solve talent shortages in other ways.

- People actually admitted to YC use Bookface to network with each other, not HN.

- Amid the decline in tech valuations, YC may be planning to spin off HN into a separate entity. This makes more sense nowadays for the above reasons.
> people who do things like focus all their energy on the Jacobian conjecture ... Most crash out never finishing their doctorates (because these problems are too hard and working on them does not provide what it takes to survive professionally).

In Zhang's case, I believe his doctoral thesis actually proved the Jacobian conjecture... but his thesis was relying on an incorrect result given by his advisor's own paper (presumably at the guidance of his advisor).
What kinds of areas are you finding CL work in?
I will always have a fondness for UUCP. I eventually moved to qmail (a bit hacked up to handle for some unusual requirements) for all the UUCP related stuff.

UUCP had it's issues, but it was (and still is) one of the best was to transfer stuff over really bad connections. We worked at a place where we had really remote locations and UUCP stuff worked without much work.

Plus, I learned a ton in writing something to do reports and monitoring of the UUCP connections. Fun times, but I am still scarred Sendmail. Some wounds are pretty deep.
Except it didn't, it fell off the news cycle before the peak in August and people just stopped talking about it. New cases are still happening: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.h...
And I've been backhandedly encouraging by admonishing you to challenge a percieved constraint by rejecting its legitimacy. I think we're aligned, and one hopes iron still sharpens iron. :)
Pyroprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel
I agree with your friends: machine learning is boring. At the ground level it is basically fancy ETL. I think it would be a gross mistake for schools to encourage undergrads to make a career out of ML (masters and PhD level stuff is hopefully better). InfoSec on the other hand is dynamic, even in the trenches, and is something that should continue to be in high demand for the coming decades.
My response was in regard to the bitrot argument.
I’m glad the community was able to find a solution, and luckily monkey pox was not inherently deadly, but they did not comply with some efforts to mitigate the disease, particularly contact tracing

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-all-but-give...
More like a dump and pump
Ask HN: What technology seems like magic to you?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
Stop the count. Refund the man his money.
The work will take place in China.
I am wondering if that was Amazon. It was the reason I left.
I am not a fan of serverless computing. I am more familiar with AWS after being in a company that went all in on AWS so I will speak to those terms.

I think Serverless is good in some areas, S3 and Dynamo are both good products for example.

I have a few big issues with serverless:
1. It is harder to develop for. Sure you get to ignore server configuration but honestly a well made infra team should be removing that concern for the development team anyways. The problem is when you are running it locally you so rarely can actually run the code. So setting up things is annoying, especially when you get into the final stage of serverless which is some object lands in SQS which fires a lambda, which puts puts another object in another queue which fires another lambda which load s3 which writes to a db, etc. This all ends up more complicated than just writing an application for it, but its harder to develop for it. Often the only way to actually run this stuff ends up being setting up the whole infra in the cloud and running it through that way, so that means dealing with deploys, and you lose a lot of debugging ability.

2. It doesn't save money. A single lambda that runs quickly on some event does save money vs a server all of the time. But most companies seem to over-provision servers so that's easier. But once you include the prod environment, dev environment, and the serverless things running all of the time, it does not save money since often 100 lambdas could be a single instance.

3. It doesn't save time. Developer messing around with setting up hundreds of new services and the corresponding rules and configurations and deployments and cicd pipelines , I don't think saves dev time vs a normal well maintained infra with servers and a good a cicd pipeline. Often the time savers are vs like manually configured bare metal servers moving to serverless, but there are better ways to save time.
This a.m. before securing an emergency lifeline from rival Binance, FTX was canvassing deep pockets in Silicon Valley and Wall St — think billionaires, not institutions — ppl familiar told me & @lmatsakis @SaacksAttack. Two of the ppl he was seeking more than $1bn.

https://twitter.com/lizrhoffman/status/1590021299295768578

He / his people didnt call me, but I would have passed anyway
Probably right. It's actually still normal/correct to draw a PNP circuit between negative rail and ground with the negative supply at the top. Schematics should convey how the engineer thinks about the circuit, and inputs come in the top and left and outputs exit at the bottom/right. Except no one really designs PNP-oriented circuits with negative supply voltages these days because eugh.
pc = Parsec :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

I don't know what the G stands for. Possibly luminosity of some kind?
> While approximately 34% of motorbike crashes involve no other vehicle, only around 19% of car crashes are single-vehicle accidents.

There may be no defendant.
I've long wondered about skipping the speaker and just going for a method to create long-waves to vibrate everyday environments. In sync after tuning it could be like a 360 earthquake internally.

If it works for microphones to catch radiant sound (as I learned in on-set film production) then it probably works the other way too (as I learned when in the booth watching a DJ friend plugged his headphones into the mic jack and used one earpiece to talk to the crowd).
> It's not fair to ask people for help and then complain about their word usage when trying to help. This is a situation where solicited advice was asked for.

This is not wrong but it's not always useful. Being more kind in your language when giving help will carry your point across more clearly. Consider a junior engineer stressed out by deadlines -- sure, they should listen to you calmly and fix the problem, but it can be hard when you're not used to the right mindstate. A bit of finesse when choosing your words will go a long way.

This goes the other way too -- ignoring when people use unnecessary language when giving help is for the best, even though in a perfect world they wouldn't. Communication is about being understood, not being fair. Giving a bit from your side to speak on terms the other side is more comfortable on is a great skill to have.
I heard that as well, but how did FTX put themselves in a position where that can happen? Leveraging up in your own token?
Novel social networks fail to gain traction for all number of issues, of which UI/UX is only one small part. Founding cohort and compelling case is the most critical issue, and tipping points may occur precipitously. The instances of Slashdot, Digg, and Reddit, or of MySpace and Facebook come to mind.

I'm not saying that Mastodon doesn't have significant UI/UX issues. I've written on several of these at length on Mastodon. I've addressed at least one in this thread. But its multi-instance aspect really doesn't strike me as a weakness. Anything but.

You clearly feel strongly and differently. I doubt we'll progress on this point here and now.
We will have super advanced AGI exploring the frontiers of Math and Physics. Check out the recent Lex Fridman pod with Andrej Karpathy. Fascinating discussion.
I understand those in poverty in India are typically still part of a religious, family or social community. In the UK those in poverty are often completely isolated.

Sometimes community can provide a safety net, but even a community so poor that it can't help materially is better for, e.g. mental health.
It does but it's a relatively new feature - not every website is recently coded (& many do their best to support some older browsers).
> it is only the non-US part of FTX that is in play

The U.S. subsidiary had to follow rules that made FTX’s shenanigans more difficult.
The gay community?
Most probably some of those people had skin in the game, hence the comments of “everything is five here! Move along!”.
Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals)
If anyone wants to “experience” some of this, check out the book “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry.
I dont think this is the case.

I use time machine to backup to a Ubuntu server's ZFS share.

Time machine creates a folder for each machine [my first machine.sparsebundle], etc.

I can navigate to the "sparsebundle" directory under linux and it is not an image.

Works just fine.

Edit:

this is what is inside "mymachine.sparsebundle"

252G ./bands

35M ./mapped

252G .
What are some Julia projects outside of data science and academia?
This is where I am stuck (albeit with drastically fewers years of experience). I want to make every piece of code in our pipelines differentiable. But ramping people up to Julia, not to mention creating and maintaining specialty libraries for in-house use, is too much just for me. But we are a small shop and no one around feels like learning a new technology.
> They stopped processing withdrawals

If you look at the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518961 that article missed that FTX uses multiple addresses for withdrawals.
I have now 3 times attempted to research and understand quantum computing.

I know assembly for my nop sleds, so I'm ahead of the curve knowing how silicon works. I just don't get QC. It's magic.
It sounds like this hypothesis would predict a much larger population of obese vegetarians and vegans than what is actually observed.
Who uses small-arms fire against tanks? I'm sure tanks can withstand arrows and crossbow bolts too, but that won't help in an environment where the enemy has a healthy supply of Javelins.

When your weapon costs >10x more than the weapon needed to eliminate it with near-100% certainty, your weapon is obsolete. Tanks for the memories.
Do we have a price/valuation?
> Around here used steel frame bicycles from the 80s

I mean that's not any kind of comparison. Sure, I sold my steel frame hybrid from 1992 for $120 recently, it was still a great bike. But not comparable a new bike from today.

That said, the prices for new bike are insane and I don't fully understand why they are well over $10K.

The prices of those other two wheelers, motorcycles, are far cheaper even though they contain far more mechanical complexity! The MSRP for a Kawasaki Ninja 400 is $4300, so how can a bicycle cost $10K-$15K!
> In my view, the very limited potential upside (successful Socratic rubber ducking)

It depends on the situation - if you're not familiar with the person asking, and you're talking with them one-on-one, it can be a chance for them to establish their dignity so you can triage their request properly.

If I'm looking after a shopping website and someone tells me they can't put things in their basket, I might usually start by asking with some pretty basic questions.

By giving them a chance to tell me they can't put things in their basket on pages X and Y but can on Z, and it only happens when using Firefox, and that they've tested with multiple accounts, these browser versions and OSes, with and without plugins/ad blockers, and they've got confirmation from several other people - probably I'm going to skip asking them to clear their cookies and I'll launch straight into reproducing it myself.

On the other hand, if I'm looking after a shopping website with clumsy warehouse staff and a customer tells me they ordered two widgets and only received one, probably I don't need any more info from the customer - and resolving the problem rather than batting it back to the customer would be good customer service.
BNPL has already exploded though, but good call. Klarna is down about 90% in the private markets, Affirm about the same from all time high.

Another good candidate is "AI-powered" insurance i.e Lemonade.
I guess this guy must be shadow banned. Sad.
I wonder if it would increase developer productivity?
I know it's already been said, but:

swerve across the double yellow into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting them.

Jeepers. You should probably take some classes on driving if you think this is the correct behavior in that situation. Any time you're behind another vehicle, you should stay behind them until it is safe to pass. If that means driving at 20mph for a mile, who cares? You're in a climate controlled metal box with a stereo system. All it requires is patience. But apparently you think you're better off putting another human being's life at risk instead of waiting until it's safe to pass?

I wonder what you would do if your mother, father, daughter or son was riding that same "bicycle in the margin". Would you be just as blasé about their life and limb?
If deeply wide low frequency waves are detectable as we both agree, that would genuinely explain why the horses and wildlife fled the area around the Mt. St. Helens eruption with seemingly uncanny head start. Enough of a mass run that it was observed and noted. Just like here in North Texas when big prairie thunderclaps can rattle just about everything in a brick house set solidly on a foundation.
This is showing extreme business ignorance, I am not sure about Tesco, or UK grocers, but in the US the average margin is around 3%, this is one of if not the lowest margin industries. Keeping that margin at 3%, even if raw profits increase is a responsible business model, margin that low can put businesses in terrible places when recessions hit.

To believe grocers to stick to a raw profit number, and not look at margin at all is ridiculous and irresponsible to not only the shareholders of the company but the employee's and customers as well

Your advice is what leads to store closings and food deserts
Yeah, that sounds right.

> "All current iOS devices include built-in microphones. These mics tend to be very consistent from one unit to the next, and are wide-range. However, Apple does include a very steep high-pass filter (which cuts low frequencies), presumably as a wind and pop filter. The low-frequency roll-off for the internal mic in these devices is very steep, on the order of 24dB / octave starting at 250Hz."

However developers can turn the filter off.
I think Alameda only held those positions in service to their market making operations, not FTX operations.

The line between where FTX starts and Alameda ends always confused me.
It's pretty impossible to be paid $100k in a place where your house costs you $100k.
People eat chicken... People wouldn't just become vegan without GMOs, they'd eat the same food and its price would go up. The US would stop exporting all its soy and asian pork farms would collapse. Without imported food asian countries would not be able to feed their populace.
“we’ll clear out liquidity crunches” - they have everyone’s money if they get more money from someone else.
No.

If the US didn't use gas for personal transport or pleasure vehicles, its domestic supply would be more than sufficient.
Road damage is proportional to the square of vehicle axle weight. The difference in weight between a bike and a car is so great, that bike do effectively zero damage to roads.

A high quality segregated cycle lane requires effectively no maintenance. It won’t develop potholes, it won’t need resurfacing, it just needs cleaning. A standard road will need regular maintenance and resurfacing for its entire life.

You could make cyclists cover the full cost of their infrastructure usage, but you would spend far more on collecting the money, than would actually collect. Off normal road, cycle damage is measured in cents/pence per year.

> cyclists increase traffic congestion

So you think putting that person in car is going to reduce congestion? Cyclists are people too, many of them cycle to go somewhere, if they didn’t cycle they would drive.

> People that drive cars pay taxes on gas and their vehicle to fund and maintain streets but city councils around the country are expropriating lanes for cyclist use.

No municipality in world makes drivers pay the full cost of externalities they create. Most municipalities don’t even make drivers cover the cost of road building and maintenance, zero make them cover the costs created from the pollution and environmental damage they cause.
Thanks. Now having installed it a couple of months back, I'll actually try to figure it out. That's the motivation I needed.
The period every word thing could. Not. Go. Away. Fast. Enough.

I haven't really seen UsInG aLtErNaTiNg CaPs to indicate mockery lately, so maybe there's hope.
The law[1] you're referring to says the following:

>> (5) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.

So this restriction only applies to motor vehicles. Safe operation would involve yielding to slower traffic in front of you, so you would not be ticketed if traffic in front of you is also moving slowly. Compliance with the law would include yielding to oncoming traffic while waiting to make a left, or stopped while waiting for the light to change, so you wouldn't be cited for this either in those cases.

[1] http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
Earlier this year, I was the tech lead in a project where 75% of the people were short term contractors. I was one of three company employees who would actually code. The rest of them were managers or product types. I was also on call roughly one week per month.

Management wasn't keen on spending money on medium or long term projects. Instead, they would redirect resources to short term, high single sale impact, or performance critical stuff, thus no good features were added for a while and people got severely burnt.

I suspect that the misalignment in resource allocation with actual requirements, is a larger problem than overstaffing, and all derives from wrong management incentives.
Ftx is quite profitable: Good fee income with little marketing expense. So it has a large intangible value.

I assume most traders on ftx only put enough capital on the exchange to keep their positions open in the short term.

So the intangible value of ftx may well exceed the value of clients assets by a significant margin. Then ftx may well be able to issue new shares should it experience a liquidity crunch.
I have Enigma by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (https://www.amazon.com/Enigma-Battle-Code-Hugh-Sebag-Montefi...) except in incredibly nice Folio Society edition. It is meticulously researched and covers all the fun parts of Bombes and programming. The appendixes do step by step algorithm explanation of how this work. Tons of unsung heroism in the seas with the capture of various machines from U boats and ships.