skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sad to see people are genuinely thrilled to gift it to their loved ones.
If felt as hand-waving as reading that "Clean Code" guy.

> Before you say "what about template files! jinja2! go templates! hcl!", that is merely a DSL, which is no longer a configuration file; it is effectively a program in a crude programming language, interpreted by an interpreter (the program loading the file).

It will devolve into messy "imperative" code writing "declarative" "configuration"? or whatever using templates, so there's no point in being a purist about The One True Way.
I feel had this comment been on reddit, it would have been interpreted as sarcasm and received upvotes.
I was close to getting a staff engineer promotion at my last job after doing a stint as an engineering manager and then switching back to an individual contributor. I declined the promotion and ended up switching jobs and staying at the senior level.

I loved writing proposals, planning them, leading the team on them, and putting larger pieces of the puzzle together. But I couldn't stand having to get in endless arguments with upper management, designers, and other staff level engineers about how to do something. Everybody had an opinion, including me, and there were never any good answers. I chalk a lot of the negativity up to the culture of the company- it wasn't fun and tensions were often very high.

Glad to be back at the senior level, but I do miss having more say over the broader direction that the platform that I'm working on is headed.
It's down 20% in the last week..
Until the numbers get revised in 4 months.
If you’re talking about NATO, that’s a treaty organization that doesn’t include political subservience.
> All of the Active Cyber Defence services are really treating symptoms, rather than underlying causes. I’m really proud of what we’ve achieved in the ACD programme and we've used it to force some systemic changes. But even that programme is about mitigating harm caused by the problems we see, rather than fixing the problems. We really need to get to the root causes and solutions to some of those really thorny issues.

Yes, absolutely!

For example we build all kinds of crazy things into our CPUs but don't make them safe because this would break compatibility with software design form the 1960s. That's pure insanity given the gigantic costs caused by the to this day unsafe computer architectures. We're talking here about hundreds of billions of dollars, every year. Still nobody wants to change anything.

But than the text goes on:

> For example, one problem (in my opinion) is that it’s too easy to set up free hosting for your cybercrime site. There’s no friction and no risk to dissuade would-be-crims.

Pure nonsense and propaganda!

First of all, there is no "free hosting" for cybercrime. If it would be free the whole following argument about economical initiatives for the hosting providers falls apart.

Also it seems someone wants to change the fundamental nature of the internet: A key principle of the internet is that everybody with access can provide services. So even if hosting providers would be strongly regulated the cybercrime gangs can still host their shit themself. (And because of initiatives some "illegal" unregulated hosting providers would pop up quickly anyway, as it actually the case already).

Fighting the root cause would in this case mean to restructure the internet to a fully state controlled entity. What this guy (indirectly) proposes it pervert! But of course nicely in line with everything the British government stands for…

It has reasons why our governments across the globe pushing for "everything online", payed with "digital currency" (this includes "plastic" and online banking and such, in the future "digital Dollars / Euros / Pounds" etc), and in the last step digital IDs bound to the vital internet access. The result of this is full control—a new age of slavery. (But at least there wouldn't be much cybercrime than; isn't that great? /s)

A much more favorable solution would be safe free hard- and software, so cybercrime would be infeasible by pure technological means (of course nothing can protect people from their own stupidity, but that's a different story, and not unique to the cyberspace). Such a resolution to the root causes means of course less power to the central governments and all power to the people making and using digital things. But I understand that governments aren't in favor of this and dream instead of the full control approach.

The article contains actually much more of the typical intelligence propaganda (or "narrative" how they themself call this kind of propaganda), as others pointed out here already. I would not consider this text anyhow honest.
Wow, this really brings me back to the early days of GMail. What a flashback.
> absolute worst black currency

Yeah, Visa is much better.
Facebook Research has indeed made a prototype for a sunglasses-sized VR headset! https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Holograph...
Yes crypto has the evil property of bypassing KYC/AML to allow peaceful citizens to escape genocidal kleptocratic governments who seek to draft you to go into war with a WWI era Mosin a feminine hygiene product as a first aid kit and an oversized pair of rotten boots. Once again crypto proves to do nothing but aid and abet criminals such as those who refuse to invade their neighbors.
And browsing through, I realize that on the very last page is the entry point to one of my favorite story universes.

https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?searchType=journalSea...

COMP.BASILISK FAQ

What I didn't realize was that there were (currently) 49 other pages of links to stories.

And now I have something to work through during the 10 minutes between meetings that's too much time to do nothing but not enough time to do something.
This is the critical leap into fantasy.

We have to get some form of self-sustaining fusion, i.e., producing energy, before we have a shot at making an engine out of it.
PDF (189 pages): http://www.sirjamesgoldsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/...
Why not a contact lens? Or a brain implant.
Binance has a token, but it is a lot more useful than FTX's coin. Binance has their own blockchain with a lot of applications. Their coin, BNB, is used to pay for fees on that network. As far as I know, FTX's coin FTT was used by FTX customers to get cheaper trading fees and for price speculation.
It is definitely not easy to pay your rent with open source and the money is likely not as good, but there are a lot of folks who do. Some resources for different ways to do that:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
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>>Well, it has no intrinsic value

Like nearly every other asset. 'Bitcoin is dead' has been said for over a decade now. We'll see what happens. I mined one of the first few thousand blocks. I don't think it's going anywhere unless civilization gets destroyed but that's just my opinion.
Empathy for people worse off than you, even for people who you think make bad decisions, is not hard. Think of someone you care for unconditionally, maybe your child, and imagine that person suffering through this because of poor decision. Would you castigate him or try to soothe him?
New Twitter verification process creates chaos from fake Adam Schefter account
From April of this year:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/sam-bankm...

I don't know how to reconcile this with the comments people are making. He didn't sound like he was under illusions about what he was doing. And surely other people read/listened to this.

It was pretty much laid out with a ton of foreshadowing.

Near the end:

"And it is sort of like real monetizable stuff in some senses. And you know, at some point if the world never decides that we are wrong about this in like a coordinated way, right? Like you're kind of the guy calling and saying, no, this thing's actually worthless, but in what sense are you right?"

"And if you're like, that's dumb, it has no cashflow flow. I'm gonna short sell it. You lose all your money."
Help me understand, is this a replacement for docker desktop? Docker desktop provides kubernetes in a neat way. Does podman provide k8s on WSL?
Yup. That's the reason why we did this.
Also, easy to understand. When I learn a new language I usually start with Vonnegut's book to pick up the vocabulary and grammar - since his prose is so easy to read. And lovely, of course.
I didn’t ask rhetorically. I was hopeful. A open internet was the better option. With VR/AR, we might need a strong shove toward robust interconnectivity.
For a while I refused to use the new name because I thought it was a lame attempt to change the subject on their problems.

In the last few weeks I call it Meta all the time because with a stock chart like

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/chart?p=META

calling it "Meta" is the greatest humiliation I can inflict on them. It steams me that META is a big part of the S&P 500 index so I can't help holding it in my index funds. I wonder if we can get a shareholder lawsuit to stop Zuckerberg from setting the controls to the heart of the sun.
It's a fusor, a glorified toy for making neutrons, not a fusion reactor.
I have very little embedded experience. I think I got the general approach from a python script shipped with Ubuntu to create bootable thumb drives but I might be misremembering.
Why not prepaid debit cards? (Bought with cash)
Perhaps it would be helpful to articulate what you feel you are missing? (I'm presuming money, but I don't want to put words in your mouth.)

It sounds to me like you have a solid project, and some number of users. With good docs. Which is great (we'll done.)

I'm assuming you want to monetize it? That seems to be the logical next step. Alas I'm not going to be very comforting with the next bit.

A) the time to think about monetization is when you start the project, not when it's done. Obviously a lot of projects get done for reasons other than money, and when you started you may have had other reasons. That's fine. But monetizing after-the-fact is a very difficult, dare I say "unsolved" problem.

B) this is going to sting, but most successful money-earning products have nothing to do with the code, beyond that it exists. A "business" requires more than "product" - a lot more. Marketing, sales, revenue, administration and so on. All of this is expensive, hence the need to have a business plan (ie, how does this thing make money?) before you start.

As developers we have a code-first mindset. But we try and compete with companies that have a business-first mindset. Companies are winning.

The fact that your project is complete, that it is solid is fantastic. Well done for that. However turning it into a business may be impossible, or expensive. That's OK. Celebrate what is is, don't pine for what isn't.

If nothing else you've learned the difference between a code project, and a business, and if you internalise that then you will have gained something of high value.
My first encounter with a camera on a phone was when I was a kid in Japan in 2004. These girls had taken a video of me being bad at bowling (Amusingly the alley was called "Exciting Boring") and showed me on the bus, I was just completely aghast at the fact that this technology existed. It felt really invasive at the time, to be honest, but out in another culture you just have to roll with things like that.
Coinbase makes money on fees and doesn’t lend out deposits.

Seriously look at their balance sheet!

They have zero risk of this kind of insolvency, their only risk is people stop using them to trade.

Say what you will about that being a weird/dumb model but here we are.
Binance's claims about 1:1 backing for BUSD seem legitimate but then again FTX also seemed like a legitimate exchange.

People who use exchanges should withdraw their crypto asap. Does not matter if it's binance or coinbase or kraken. There is 0 benefit to keeping it on any exchange and unlimited risk for doing so
FTX’s exchange business is regulated by the Securities Commission of the Bahamas.
This is maybe tangential of me to say, but since this post is coming from an EA forum: I think the cozy relationship between EA and FTX has done immense damage to the public image and standing of the EA movement.

I've never been an EA person (much less a utilitarian) but I can appreciate the meat and potatoes of applied ethics, especially when those ethics are applied consistently. The infusion of cryptocurrency funny money into that world has completely perverted both aspects: much of EA now seems focused on speculative concerns (AGI) rather than real ones (world hunger or civic integrity), and all sorts of perverse rationales are offered for wealth extraction in service of future utils rather than just doing morally good things.
https://www.julian.com/guide/muscle/intro
{slow clap}
My powerpc widescreen powerbook what is the finest product Apple has ever put out.

It was repairable, it had MagSafe, it was beautiful, and it had actual fricken ports.

Usbc pretty much negates the need for ports, except ethernet, but still…
You’ve been waiting years for people to suffer? Lookup “ schadenfreude”.
Perhaps not -- reportedly he has $650MM in debt and just filed for bankruptcy today.
Sounds trustworthy
Apple to restrict ‘Everyone’ option in AirDrop in China
Nuclear thermal rockets have been tested to around 3000K. The limiting factor is the material containing the nuclear fuel.

Chemical rockets need oxygen, which is heavy and limits Isp. Nuclear rockets can use pure hydrogen and achieve higher Isp.
And if they didn't know how large the hole was, they must have gotten a pretty good idea before signing the LOI. Even if it was rushed, surely that would be the first question they ask.

It seems clear from CZ's public announcement of a $2b FTT dump that their intention was to destroy FTX and Alameda. So my theory is that the LOI was a trap to put a nail in the coffin, destroying any remaining trust in FTX.

Before they were merely starting rumors; the phony acquisition attempt let them declare "we've seen the books and FTX is unsalvageable".
Compare a programmer with good autocomplete to a programmer who has to keep stopping to look up documentation online. That’s a double digit % improvement just by installing the right plugins.
The logical conclusion of everyone taking the model of "pay me to review patches or read your issues" is fragmentation. Instead of a vibrant ecosystem where people collaborate on patches and the project grows, the issues and solutions remain internalized in private forks. Is that a better outcome? From the time/money standpoint it's great, and it may make the project more sustainable since there are fewer issues and PRs to review, but it hurts the project long term.
> Like nearly every other asset.

Prove to me you know nothing about investing in one sentence. Bravo.

Plenty of assets cashflow and provide tangible value. Crypto is not one of them. Unless you consider yields from a lending ponzi to be sustainable
> ... it was a broad assumption in the industry that the exchange was solvent and could back user assets on a 1:1 basis.

Anyone in crypto who makes this assumption about any other entity in crypto is either brand spanking new or a fool.
Coinbase avoided this fate by being a us regulated company. FTX.us is still above water. It’s the Bahamas based company that was able to cook the books and is now defunct.

As for Binance, they have the SAFU (https://academy.binance.com/en/glossary/secure-asset-fund-fo...) which they just topped up to $1B at current market prices (today). You can verify the balances on chain, but there aren’t any statements about outstanding obligations, and there are no guarantees that those funds haven’t been earmarked for other things.
> useful for illicit goods

a purchase traceable down to the KYC’d buyer dumb enough to put their purchase on a public, immutable ledger
Also see; Mozilla security policy: concerns about Trustcor : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33541718
What was SBF upto? Regulatory capture? this is going to make nice Netflix drama. Probably played high stakes poker and lost.
Nope. The spark is gone. Now it's just monotony.

I thoroughly enjoyed it in my 20s. I was fascinated by code and prolific. Now I struggle to just motivate myself to get through a workday.

I don't know why, precisely. Maybe I'm just bored with it. Maybe I just hate the direction it's all gone. Gone are the days of just a shell and vim. Now it's all yaml, dockerfiles, scrum meetings, ERDs ,et cetera. It kinda feels like too many weasels got their hands in the pot.

I don't know what's next, if anything. I can probably ride it out another 15 or 20 years and retire. But I hope I find some calling that pays maybe 60% as well. Guess time will tell.
Many of us have been warning people for years that this would be the outcome. We were ridiculed for it.
Look, if you have a belief that Ethereum will power the digital economy, you should have no problem waiting until it does, and just use it within the digital economy. I use Venmo to buy random things from vendors at Art and Wine festivals , pay back some friends for dinner and (probably to crypto's envy) I pay for a legit therapist that I get rembursed from insurance (just not on venmo). Right now, I have $70 on my balance from people paying me back.

If I have a speculative belief that Venmo will rise above Cash.App, PayPal and crypto and end up powering the digital economy, even to the point that a major Blue Shield insurance company would send me reimbursements on it, should I be putting my savings into its balance? What should I value my money on Venmo? What utility would there be for holding ETH in that balance vs USD, besides sheer speculation that ETH would rise in value?
Smart fella
A big part of being 10x is to use the right tool for the job. In this case a plane.
> the bank does loan you the money out of their own funds

Nope. This is the toy model of money and banking taught in high school.

When a bank makes a loan, it creates money. The fact that there are stabilising deposits is a fortunate convenience. This is why leveraged finance is inherently unstable. The BoE had a good paper about this.
> "Halt and Catch Fire"

Another fan!
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish - the Microsoft strategy (per their internal documents) towards anything it didn't control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin...

Adopt an open standard, add proprietary bits so that content worked best (or exclusively) on their own version, and force other players and competitors out.
Fascinating. Dude needed to crack open a Taleb book.
You seem to imply something here, what it is?
Most people are putting down 20%. Even if you have a non-recourse loan that's a huge loss. Plus the hit to credit record means you probably won't be able to take out a new mortgage for years.

It'd only be a tiny percent of people who found themselves underwater, but with so little equity they didn't care to lose it, and who also didn't care about tanking their credit score for the next decade.
I'm a bit behind on the times, but I'm failing to see how the philosophy of effective altruism and cryptocurrency are related. Do you know how the two got intertwined?
By that definition, which financial instruments aren't negative sum? E.g. stocks trade hands in a very similar way, and companies can always issue new shares.
It's not an asset. It doesn't provide value or a return.
CZ says the primary lesson is "never use a token you created as collateral", and Binance has never used BNB for collateral, and (by implication) FTX did use FTT for collateral.

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1590103159506341888

As far as I can tell, this seems to be the correct analysis. The technical term for why you should avoid this is "wrong way risk".
> The infusion of cryptocurrency funny money into that world has completely perverted both aspects: much of EA now seems focused on speculative concerns (AGI) rather than real ones (world hunger or civic integrity)

My impression is the (excessive) AGI focus predated FTX (which was founded in 2019), rather than being caused by cryptocurrency money. For example, OpenAI was founded in 2015.
> FTX.us is still above water

FTX.us has been under SEC investigation for security fraud for months, so still too early to make this call
SBF participates or participated in the EA movement.
They are facing a systemic risk of crypto having such bad PR that no one will be willing to go near them.
Context (adapted from comment section):

The ban is an reaction to a creative way of using Airdrop as a not mass-censored communication tool with strangers, by pure chance of them having Airdrop open. This method was know for some time, but has been more extensively exploited following the Beijing Sitong Bridge protest[1] and during the course of 20th National Congress meetings, even though this is extremely inefficient, unsafe in terms of anti-forensic, and only available to a rather small group demographically.

The user base of the above method is extremely small, yet retaliated by their schools or police apparatus. Now they want to make sure that this communication channel to not exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Sitong_Bridge_protest
What email tool do you use now?
Sucks because I can't complement someones cleverness anymore, saying "That's so meta!". Also can't use the word "meta-data" without sounding creepy.
Command palette is a feature I miss in my current browser. Though there's probably some Alfred extension for it, I use Firefox on macOS, Linux, Android, and Windows. There's Plotinus [1] for Gtk3 (Linux) but that won't work on Gtk4, nor is it cross-platform.

Firefox also has a sidebar (I use TTS extension) and permanent pages (Pins) as well as containers e.g. against FAMAG tracking. TTS has themes. Its a bit annoying hiding top tabs but it can be done with some CSS.

[1] https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus/issues/45
My experience mostly matches yours. I keep my camera on in standup, 1-on-1s, sometimes during planning/grooming/etc but usually off.

The only one that gets me is the standup- we all work remotely, so the standup is the only time that I interact with some members of the team. It kills me that I literally do not EVER see some of their faces. It's hard to think of them as a coworker/friend if the only interactions we have are minimal text messages and some voice chat.

Anecdotally, when I started at this new company, one of the coworkers on my team always had his camera on. At some point over the last year, he started keeping it off all of the time (I think he had to start taking care of kids more often, so they were sometimes in the room with him). I really feel a lot less connected to him than I did when I saw his face every day and our interactions have become a lot curter (but maybe that's also because of the kids haha)

Like somebody else said in the comments, if nobody else has their camera on, I'll still keep mine on more often than not. I feel like if people see your face more, they'll think of you more often when they need to ask for help (or when they're giving out promotions...) and I love helping people out.
I'm a pragmatic person, not some crazy fundamentalist. I do use fiat where necessary, yeah.

> I do not think everybody will want to deal with it.

The thing is, crypto should be much, MUCH easier to deal with, we just don't have mature software/UX around this. Because we're still figuring out best practices, and people are learning about this tech.
Coinbase is listed on NASDAQ and has significant reporting requirements because of that. Civil and maybe criminal penalties for the board if they lie on SEC filings.
i have an ipad. the regular non air/pro/m1 one and the app installed and when i run it, it says "could be device incompatibility" and subsequently crashes