skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so here is FTX’s CEO Sam Bankman Fried explains how the Ponzi scheme works using crypto farming as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZYqL79GDXU&t=1276s
Motivated thinking is a hell of a drug. The folks that thought bitcoin was going to usher in an ideal libertarian age of commerce did not understand the technology but simply wanted to use it as a wedge against the existing "elite" political structure. So they overpromised on crypto's potential and underdelivered.

The reality is always more complicated and it turns out people didn't much care about the political aspects and simply wanted to gamble. Turns out that gambling is not enough to sustain the ecosystem and so now it's all crashing down.
Nvidia’s selling a nerfed GPU in China to get around export restrictions
I assume it's because there's only so much of that heat that the globs could radiate into space as (infrared) light.

Maybe someone familiar with the intimate details of blackbody radiation could chime in here?
No problem. It's still cool, still makes him a hacker, just slightly less impressive than if he had done it while juggling the needs of his Foundation.
His claim that republicans will get rid of social security makes me take the rest of the piece less seriously.
Technically your git history isn't a record of what you did, only what you committed. If I make a bunch of changes locally, commit then realise I need to make a few extra changes before pushing there's really no harm amending the commit. But once pushed, I agree, it should stay as is.
You need a substantial period of time to prevent localized events from affecting the numbers. COVID measures started 2 years ago, which could be involved. The "defund the police" movement caught wind within that period, it could be that crimes are being over-reported.

Analyzing crime rates over a couple of years is fraught with sampling bias. E.g. there was an 83% decrease in mass shootings between 2018 and 2020, does that mean those aren't a problem anymore?
Indeed, lawyers will be involved now; just not on his side...
You're welcome. We agree, good times ahead =)
safety is not what is limiting fusion development on earth - we simply can't do it effectively
We can condone the good behaviors and condemn the bad ones. It is important to do both because if all we do is condemn then there is no pressure to do the right thing. If all you can do is evil then you'll only ever be evil and criticism will fall upon deaf ears.

A lot of people here agree with you about Meta's faults, even me. But that doesn't mean we can't appreciate the good they've done. Even if it isn't much and even if it is vastly outweighed by the bad. We should still use positive reinforcement to pressure companies to do the right thing.
Is there a search engine that just omits pages with surveillance tracking scripts? Could it be done?

Then you can check google or a mainstream engine when needed.
I have a prediction for all of you here:

Bitcoin at 1000 by March 1st.
My journey has been Selenium, then Cypress, then Playwright.

This was the first time I was happy writing ui tests, Playwright is great!

(Though I don't use the recording tool at all this article focuses on I rather write the tests manually)
Nov 13th, 2020 was around when BTC was last at this price.

What a wild ride it's been.
I’ve been in the beta (I guess the alpha) for a little over a year now. It’s absolutely fantastic and has been great to understand, discover, and learn new code.

Great work!
My favorite was LinkExchange. An interesting little success story too [0]. We should also bring back the term "webmaster" so when people ask what you do, respond, "I'm a webmaster".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkExchange
Yeah, but HN isn't exactly the least autistic forum on the internet.
Directed energy weapons don't exclusively exist in the visible light spectrum, as far as I know. Reflecting the stuff you can see only protects you against the least-harmful effects of the weapon.
And then there’s always the outlier where optimizing for size makes the working memory fit into cache and thus the whole thing substantially faster.
Not exactly, since it's a very specific suspension.
Minor nitpick, but I would say Phoenician is to Canaanite as Byzantine is to Roman. It gives a name to the local continuity and further development of the Canaanite culture in the northwestern coastal region of Canaan, i.e. Phoenicia, at a time when Canaanite culture to the south developed related but distinct branches of its own.
Because r&d spending at tech companies means engineers and product.
> If you designed programs in haskell then you designed them using concepts from category theory.

It's the level of abstraction and focus. Category theory can describe "mapping over promises" it doesn't give a lot of insight into how to design an internet communication protocol with low latency (for example).

> I would say you didn't get very far then

Sounds like you put a lot of value in your experience with this topic and I am unlikely to convince you.
This feels like a consequence of a centralized, gardened web, not because Reddit / FB are inherently superior experiences.
Freshman physics was too long ago. Are there wavelength effects on how the mirror reflects, or is there thermal or shock limitations from the impact of the photon stream? As I recall, clouds of small particulates (phosphorus smoke?) screw up lower-power lasers but it's possible it can blow/burn a hole through at higher E?

Remember, photons have momentum proportional to frequency. So a whole lot of them at higher frequency might blow a "protected drone" away by force not by optics?
Yeah, it's a great time for these people to finally learn to code
Cool but why do I need to do a login to even give it a test drive? Immediate turn off.
The Bitcoin protocol and network continues to operate exactly as expected. Here, people trusted a "bank" (an exchange acting like a bank), and got burned when the bank gambled and lost.
Thanks for the response. :)

Under what circumstance do you believe the current landscape would be comparable to the 2000's era? Certainly, I would hope that the same kind of foolish behavior wouldn't reoccur, outside of a very specific set of circumstances, but do you see any sort of comparison between the historical foolishness of the market, and the wastes of money that have been devoted to things like, Stadia, Zillow AI pricing, Quibi, WeWork, etc.?

When I see the amount of money spent vs brought in by the various big names out there (social networks, in particular) I can't help but see a thing essentially worth little outside of name recognition. I naturally assume it to be a house of cards ready to collapse at some point, I just can't really determine when or why that might be. Perhaps not anytime soon, or to the extent that it would have were it 2000, but certainly companies that has such a noticeably poor ability to create profit, that it seems assured to fail.

I've certainly been wrong about such things in the past. Twitter, for example, was a thing that I assumed around 2008 or 2009, would never catch on, and that whatever traction it had would fade within a few months. I had similar assumptions with Netflix being "doomed to failure" after they tried to split the steaming/DVD rental services. I've been laughably wrong on each of those things, so it's entirely possible that I'm just not appreciating that maybe the world itself works has changed in a way that I haven't grasped. I just don't see how tech companies which can't manage to turn a profit, let alone offer predictable income, are able to sustain longterm value investment. It just seems like a hopeful anemic.
They make folding bikes for just that: https://www.cyclist.co.uk/buying-guides/4528/best-folding-bi...
If FTX was at least close to solvent it could have been worth acquiring for the customer relationships.
I started using Kagi and Orion a while back and it has changed how I used the web. Both the products Kagi offers has only increased my productivity and removed the internet junk that I am used to seeing on the web. A note on Orion, the ability to use extensions from both Firefox and Chrome store is why it is admirable, the cherry is Mac integration and its similarity to safari with the tree-view tabs.
The article talks about hoarding objects, newspapers and magazines. The digital equivalent would be bookmarks, browser tabs and data hoarding (https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/).
Except that he's examining current trends. If anything this is more like someone who opposed WTO saying "I told you so"
Funny how the mainstream media seems to focus on the one or two attention seekers leaving - as opposed to the actual data which shows the platform thriving.

It’s almost as if the establishment wants to pick a political fight with Elon…
Rich folks have no time to spell
No surprise whatsoever. They killed a competitor, avoided being on the hook for ~$6B in missing funds and without paying anything they are basically inheriting all FTX customers still happy to trade crypto. FTX or whatever is left will be under massive legal scrutiny for years to come. The "institutional investors" they were attracting and lobbying for are the kind of folks you don't want legal battles with.

Meanwhile, FTX is still operating (!), accepting new users and accepting customer deposits even though it is insolvent. If you haven't been following the crypto news much or aren't on Twitter, you will have received ZERO direct communication from FTX that they are insolvent (not even an email). This is coming from someone who went on the record[0] trying to lobby, blaming the financial industry for lack of transparency and taking on too much risk and publicly lying that FTX doesn't use customer funds to trade (tweets have since been deleted)[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/HaloCrypto/status/1590417311839981569

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried...
If and after cryptocurrency becomes deeply intertwined with the economy (like Banks), I wonder bailouts would be the norm besides relatively inconsequential jail times?

I wonder what's going on / will happen in countries where governments (or citizens en masse) have endorsed / adopted cryptocurrencies?
Google added some "plus" button when Google+ was pretending to be a thing. It made no sense though as how would someone know it's a good result before they visit it?
I've been using Kagi the last few months. I've never had a reason to complain about its search results - they seem to work plenty well enough day to day that I don't really 'notice' them. Like most, I now search reflexively, as an extension of the mind, so I only 'notice' search when it's bad.

What really excites me is that is that I'm paying them. That sounds odd, but seriously. It's incredibly refreshing to know that the company providing my search results has an incentive to make things better for _me_ and not a legion of advertisers. With Google I can't help thinking about every keypress being logged to optimize sales pitches at me. I just don't feel that with Kagi, because I'm paying them.

Sure, they might be logging every keypress (I don't actually think they are, but you never can tell) but even if they were, I could be reasonably certain they were doing it to retain my subscription, which probably means making my search better, not selling me other stuff.

It's a priveleged position to be in, and the economic argument isn't watertight, but in the "search as a brain extension" space it still _feels_ premium, because it creates trust. And that frees up brain space for other things - like where the hell was that article I was looking for?
Hah I called them magic beans yesterday!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33524912
Or use PolyScale and get the cache without changing the code.
It didn't show up in best, the top of the day, nor the top of the hour when I posted the above, but I am glad that it is pinned.

(I use Apollo but I was looking via the old. site; I wonder if that might be the cause?)
I have often lamented not being able to hint to the JIT when I’ve transitioned from startup code to normal operation. I don’t need my Config file parsing optimized. But the code for interrogating the Config at runtime better be.

Everything before listen() is probably run once. Except not ever program calls listen().
Does that count American adults by birth year, regardless of where they were born? (I couldn't immediately tell from the link.) I would expect immigration trends to be a big driver during that timespan.
With copy, Think Different not Differently
"More than 18 million coins worth approximately $320 million will hit the cryptocurrency market in the next 24 hours after they are released from staking. ... In addition to the aforementioned 18 million SOL, the market should be ready for a 1.7 million Solend whale liquidation; the whale borrowed 30 million USDC against his two million SOL collateral. A total of 96.7% of his loan is backed by the cryptocurrency that is rapidly losing value on the market right now. Technically, liquidation has been triggered already, and the borrow utilization greatly exceeded the liquidation threshold by more than 50%..."[1]

And that's just stuff that's publicly known.

[1] https://u.today/320-million-in-solana-will-hit-market-in-24-...
My smartwatch can run Windows 3.1 inside an emulator running inside of web browser.
I’ve tried writing e2e tests for web apps using browser drivers on-and-off for the last decade, and it feels like with playwright that the tech has finally matured enough to make the tests reliable enough to be worth the effort of maintaining them.
> So much so, I started looking at Javascript testing frameworks like Chai, Mocha, Cypress etc. The problem I found is that they require a completely different setup, and aren't easy to get started for someone from a Python background.

A shame to see Cypress lumped in and dismissed like that. It really is a fantastic way to test.

> The killer feature of Playwright is: You can automatically generate tests by opening a web browser and manually running through the steps you want. It saves the hassle I faced with Selenium, where you were opening developer tools and finding the Xpath or similar. Yuck

This is absolutely not the primary hassle with testing. Recording steps can help kick start your testing, sure. But very quickly you start to realize that it's only saving you from the easiest work at best, and is creating flaky tests at worst.
It was tulips, money laundering, or disguising transactions. The last two have operated just fine year over year. Purchasing tulips works until the music stops, and at least they could eat them. Bits and bytes, not so much.
10% as defined as the natural equilibrium for a profitable company paying market rate to its engineers.

So yes, 10% is arbitrary as anything not coming from a peer-reviewed study would be.
This seems to be talking about a much larger span of time. The recent push has been in the last few weeks to a month.

We'll see if it's any different this time. I think it's in response to the uptick described in that article.

Sucks if you jump a turnstile in front of a police officer, they'll certainly stop you for that stuff.
You will be catching a falling knife. You think people are going to jump in while prices are falling? That's not how it works.

And what part of economic collapse do you all not get yet?
Hmm I can't seem to find any Bulgarian sources citing any religious controversy around the statues, BNT vaguely mentioning that the statues "met the disapproval of some of the locals". I doubt a whole town will ever agree on everything. And given how secular Bulgaria is I doubt it is a big thing.

I will try to check them out next time I'm in Varna
At present no major currency is backed by anything material but trust. USD, for example, is only viable because, at the deepest level, trust in it is enforced by US army. There are three major class of people who need digital currency: (1) who are super rich and won't care about putting their 1% of wealth for "diversify and forget", (2) who need to transfer money eyes off from governments, (3) people who need alternative to be manipulated away from US fed. As long as there exist a group of people needing digital currency there is an intrinsic value assigned to that currency.
Real answer? If the value of maintaining trust in the over-all ponzi environment is worth more to you than the lost value of the failed ponzi scheme, it might be worth buying the other ponzi scheme.
Back in the day, SOL used to stand for "shit outta luck"
It can sit there without using any power.
Can the technology behind GPT-3 be used to find relevant articles given a query?

E.g. instead of training it to generate sentences given a prompt, train it to generate URLs given a query (?)
Search peaked 10 years ago. There's lots of regression in Google Search. For example, you used to be able to search images by specific dimensions. You can do this today on Yandex. The quality of results and promotion of sponsored results, the scraping and displaying of site contents so users visit less (how is this legal btw?) Not respecting verbatim searches.
I'd be interested in the stats, but my perception is that he (and his products) are much more well-known now than before. I always saw his foray into politics as a very aggressive niching strategy. He saw Trump's momentum and hitched his wagon.

He might have lost Costco and their low margins, but he picked up an army of high-margin D2C sympathizers who have been shown to be generous with their money (if the cause is right).
Nothing but crashes. Bitcoin crashed to $2 in 2011, then it crashed to $250 in 2015, then it crashed to $3000 in 2019, and now it's crashed again to $15000. Smart money knows to stay away and avoid the crashes.
Can we “fix” social media while maintaining arenas of discourse? (2020)
Aren’t there a couple dozen countries in the world with high speed rail? How do we compare to Spain?

Let me save you some time Because we’ve been over this 1000 times… There are plenty of places in the United States with similar population densities as Spain, for example
Why both deposits and withdrawals? They risk spooking their customers by preventing withdrawals. If you wanted to mitigate risk, wouldn't you just prevent deposits/buys?
Yeah, I wasn’t really talking about the technology itself. You’re absolutely correct. I was talking more about the financial engineering side.
Be nice of them to fix outstanding bugs, like the nondeterministic turing machine that is doing anything with certificates in Thunderbird e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481969

The javascript disaster that is the compose window refuses to find certificates that NSS finds, because... something to do with intermediate certificates.

Signing messages is a feature thunderbird has had forever, yet is unstable and nobody is dealing with the obvious open issue in their bug tracker, open since v60 and ignored.

Honestly what I want from an email client is this, plus cardbook (the default address book can't talk carddav, what century are we in), plus calendars. That's it. That's what I want a mail client to do.
StumbleUpon!
I do wonder how unique web searches really are. It'd definitely take some time to achieve a critical mass but I swear most of the stuff I want to look up I could do with an index although sites come and go so the larger your index gets the more upkeep it costs.

I think the biggest issue is live news but I mean then just pay like 12 people to watch news/sports networks and you won't be that far behind. (Or just have an section of the index for live information and let users to go nfl/espn/oan/cnn).
it depends on what you're implementing them in, but in a term-rewriting language all you need is the two lines above. in js you need to implement some kind of term-rewriting. in 02006 i wrote a compiler from λ-calculus (using \ for λ, so you can write for example \x.\y.x for λx.λy.x, which is equivalent to the k combinator) to an augmented sk-combinator language in js that's at http://canonical.org/~kragen/tmp/sk.html

the definitions of s and k in it are

S: [3, function(f, g, x) { return App(App(f, x), App(g, x)) }],
K: [2, function(k, _) { return Ind(k) }],

which are used as templates for matching by the 33-line-long sk_reduce function, which i'll spare you here

the λ-calculus parser, the compiler from λ-calculus to sk-combinators, the sk-combinator parser, and the sk-combinator evaluator together are 391 lines of js

if you just want to define the s and k combinators in js they look like this

s = f => g => x => f(x)(g(x))
k = a => b => a

but that is depending on the js interpreter to do the actual evaluation

more recently i implemented a term-rewriting language in i386 assembly, it's about 800 bytes and 400 instructions: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/qfitzah.s but i haven't quite figured out how to handle arithmetic, i/o, and variadic lists

i think you could probably implement sk combinatory logic in about half a page of c if you were okay with leaking memory, you don't really need the flexibility of variadic lists and arbitrary identifiers in the sk-combinator language. every term is either a function application (of one function to one argument), s, or k
CZ knew about the bad leverage to begin with, which is why he tweeted about selling all of the FTT

What are the chances he never intended to buy FTX, just to destroy it after their public back and forth? It's almost like a reverse Musk - he sent a purchase offer with an option to back out no matter what

CZ knew from day 1 all he needed to do was crash FTT just enough, and the rest would happen organically
This reads like this is the death of all network centrality algorithms, and no way, guys, no way. At most this application will somehow decline even if only for a while.
Thanks! Nothing like a little friendly competition... :)
It's nice to know that there is an alternative to Docker.
The people who used to make niche sites that helped people and linked to other sites moved to youtube.

Plenty of excellent youtube channels that 10 years ago would've been websites.

I don't really have a problem with this, all things change.
> Or optimized for size.

Note that on gcc (I think) and clang (I'm sure), -Oz is a strict superset of -O2 (the "fast+safe" optimizations, compared to -O3 that can be a bit too aggressive, given C's minefield of Undefined Behavior that compilers can exploit).

I'd guess that, with cache fit considerations, -Oz can even be faster than -O2.
A program in Binary Lambda Calculus to compute the Ackermann function is less than 7 bytes: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/83924
> We're fighting chinese chipmakers

Well, hang on, what's the counter strategy here? Part of the reason that Chinese chipmakers are so advanced is because they work 80 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. The whole essay is about returning dignity and prosperity back to the American worker - although I disagree with his socialist slant on how that should be done, I don't think adopting the Chinese work-til-you-drop mentality is the right way to get there, either.
Reminds me of natbot, which uses GPT-3 to do all 3:
https://github.com/nat/natbot