skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> boring index funds

Ah yes the FIRE lifehack that absolutely cannot go wrong and will allow everyone to sip margaritas by the beach at 45. Still way safer than any crypto, but I hope you see how that's just another cult at this point.
I'm unaware of any evidence for that. To the contrary, people with PTSD can suffer chronic nightmares for the rest of their lives and show no improvement at all.

Recovering from PTSD involves a lot of therapy of the kind you're suggesting. But the idea that diminishing the strength/duration of nightmares would somehow interfere either with that therapeutic process or the self's own healing processes seems entirely unsupported.

Obviously a device like this should be used in conjunction with healing therapy. But healing therapy can take a long time, and continuing to suffer nightmares during that process seems counterproductive.
Why do you think people have nightmares?
The hid a known multimillion dollar over run from the customer. To me that goes beyond dishonest.
I wonder if finer-grained mutex wa or other concurrency protection types covering interior components would be an option.
Yes they are fixating on that because they’re still convinced society is wrong here, not them.
Personally I haven't seen it, but if people want to do drugs to enhance their performance, why not? Paul Erdos did it [0] - it's not just tech workers.

Coffee, which probably the majority of people in the U.S. are addicted to, is a stimulant that we all "abuse"

If drug use isn't causing problems for you, I think you should have every right to do it (if you can work around the legality aspect)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Personality
There’s a big difference between agreeing with someone, and acknowledging their emotional state.

In these situations people just want to hear you acknowledge that you understand they are in pain, no necessary agree with their cause of action.

If you’re not sure what to ask, then your best course of action is to enquire about why they think they feel a certain way. Why does they job makes them stressful, why does talking with a certain person make them anxious. You’re not rendering judgement on their emotions or feels, you simply acknowledge they are what they are, and that’s normal.

For some specifics the following might be useful:

“Why do you think X makes you anxious”

Once they answer

“Yes, I understand now why that might make you anxious”

Or

“It’s perfectly normal to feel anxious”

If there behaviour is causing issues:

“It’s perfectly normal to feel anxious, that’s ok, but the way you’re dealing with it is causing issues for X. Perhaps we can find a better way for you to cope?”

For more, it’s worth looking at Mental Health First Aid. It can provide a number of very practical tips of dealing with someone in crisis, which are also excellent for helping those that just need to vent to someone.
No, I disagree.

"Scrolling" means something like, "spending time on the app".

Facebook accepts less time spent on the app in the long term for more posting.
> Is pragmatism dead?

Yes, unfortunately. Along with many other things. Our society has become socially hyper-conscious and that means that anything practical and in some cases observation of reality itself must be sacrificed on the alter of social consciousness.
you can lose a lot of money trying to time options trades like that.
I don't know much about crypto or cross-border payments.

Is there current crypto solutions that work better than something like transferwise if i wanted to transfer USD to EUR for instance? (cheaper?, faster?, simpler?, reliable?)
To be clear, I don't see why it needs to fluctuate in value like a stock to be valuable tech. And I'd prefer it not.
Nobody knows. Lots of rumors. Few facts.
This is probably going to have ripple effects in unrelated industries - FTX Foundation, presumably funded by FTX/Alameda/SBF’s personal wealth, has been been the biggest funder of AGI projects and labs this year. They were the biggest funder (in a $500M fundraise) for Anthropic, which is (atm) a non-profit AI alignment lab. They also funded a bunch of esoteric EA projects which likely rely on them for continued funding - https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/
Wasn't that that "Quiet war" ie, both france and great britain had guaranteed poland, and declared war, but didn't actually push out troops or really do anything until france was invaded?
It is already happening to me that blue check mark crypto spammers are sending me DMs:

https://twitter.com/Doener/status/1590050418310418432
> Present solutions, not problems.

Sometimes that's just victim blaming.

In this story, the report presented the situation cogently, and the higher ups decided it would be best not to tell the client, within the context of semi-ripoff system development.
Oh funny, the peanut gallery doesn't have much to say about this one.
At some point, the ordering of events _has_ to become 'information about the ordering of events' and once that happens, they no longer need to be in order.
Shouldn't it be the other way around that the thing that is repeated 11 times should be hidden until you reveal it?
Ah will take a listen! Thanks!
I'm confused, were they leveraging people's stowed crypto? How can you have a liquidity crisis where you aren't leveraging up? Or is it more than an exchange? Another scam where the billionaire luminary ran away with the cash? Apologies, don't follow crypto
To some extent you can replace conditional logic with polymorphism in languages that support it (Java does).

See, for example:

https://refactoring.guru/replace-conditional-with-polymorphi...

Note that this can be made to work for simple conditionals. It's probably not going to help if you have really complicated conditions, the kind where you need to break out your old discrete math book and draw a truth table and use DeMorgan's Law and all of those other "rules of inference" to work out what happens.

Note also that there are (practical) limits to this in general. Creating lots of classes and overridden methods just to get rid of some conditional logic has the potential to make things even more byzantine and confusing, not less. But done well, and in limited doses, it can be a viable strategy.
He saw that the project was doomed because of absent management, he presented the facts to management, and he quit after it was clear that the previously oblivious management was going to carry on in denial. It sounds like he read the room perfectly.
Free Jon Corzine!
But some gamblers have a larger share of the total market(lets call them whales), and are therefor incentivized to coordinate their actions with other whales. They also have more resources to acquire information on the market that may give a competitive advantage. Whereas commoners tend to discuss in common areas, and they don't have enough of a share of the market to move the price through coordinated action.
hackaday has tons wonderfully written content going back many years, their podcast is also good fun
commenting and liking or disliking.
1000 out of ~75k. That's 1% of the workforce. Would you call that "major"?
For what it’s worth, I don’t think they could have done more. But the conclusion of the story is to heroically drive off a cliff, and say “it’s all I could do.” That’s where I disagree.

If it were me, I would have privately (emphasis on private) worked my way up the chain of command, trying to alert more and more people that there was a serious problem brewing.

The meeting in the story was obviously going to be a failure. So if you’re in a situation where you know that X is going to fail, doing something other than X is advisable. I would’ve tried to work with the deputized team to come up with a smaller plan that could be executed in, say, three months, and then figured out how to sell it to management in a way that three months isn’t a dealbreaker.

Alternatively, I would have gone to management ahead of the meeting and let them know privately what they should expect to hear. That way they’re not completely surprised when you’re in Zoom, presenting a 12 month extension, and they have to say something. “It would be career limiting” is about the best thing they could say.

You want to give them a better alternative. And giving management good alternatives is arguably the job of line engineers like us. We’re a part of a team; our job isn’t merely to do what we’re told, nor is it to say blatantly that a project is doomed. There’s usually a middle ground.
In the old days, an IBM man-year was 500 guys trying to get done by lunchtime.
If a bot pays $8 a month you'd think it would be welcome.
I like to watch movies about space, astronauts, and travel to other planets. I don't know that that they provide a realistic view of what it means to live in space or to be an astronaut.

I like to read urban fantasy like the "Rivers of London" series by Ben Aaronovitch, which offers--as far as I can tell--a realistic depiction of police work, London history, and a hypothetical system of magic. I have not tried any of the spells Aaronovitch details but I suspect I won't be able to make them work.

People with unrealistic ideas of about relationships should broaden their information diet beyond porn. If they are repeatedly frustrated that their partner does not respond in the same way as actors do in a movie they should re-assess and realize they are not watching a documentary or training film.

I think reading "entrepreneur porn" is a waste of time--or perhaps the source of a rich fantasy life in the same way I enjoy science fiction and urban fantasy. But I don't try to act either out.

Entrepreneurship is not like algebra: the methods are not permanently settled and amenable to classroom instruction. It's a practice that--like learning how to ride a bike--involves making your own mistakes and mastering a specific local situation (at least initially).
The cynical view is that it was a management team who knew the conclusions were correct, but also knew the client was on the hook for years of development time and telling them the project was doomed would result in losing profits.
If you want to buy any crypto, you should either buy it as an entertaining gambling habit, or you should buy it because you believe in the core philosophy behind it.

If you buy it as an "investment", you were missold.
Leap teams – Making a leap into the future
I don’t know how likely it is, but if binance does complete the acquisition, maybe it can be converted to BNB?
Does anyone have any thoughts as to which of these ideas are the real money makers? Or is there some other income generator like selling data that they’re not quite as public about.
If they're smart, they would covert some to fiat, and use the rest for sting operations. Like, buying drugs from a darknet marketplace and tracking down the seller via the postal system.
What conversation are you trying to start exactly?

That there is some god who is the only one who can judge if something is right or wrong? And that whole countries can hide behind this?

It’s pretty clear what “problematic” is, no? The mistreatment of whole subgroups based on their gender or sexuality in Quatar is objectively wrong, or as you would like it defined: Problematic.
I mean I really don't get what they're about. Most of what I know about these guys seems to revolve around shuffling money around so it's not clear to me what exactly is effective or altruistic about what they're doing.
Careful, friend. Sounds like karma has its eye on you.
I am going to go out on a limb here and say you have not moved any significant amount of money around, especially internationally. Trying moving $250,000, between the paperwork, back and forth, fees, it is a nightmare.
Well, we disagree on what would qualify as "emotional statements", but I don't think that's the central point.

If one wants to argue it was unfair that she was guilty of a crime against investors but not patients, that's a fine and good discussion to have. I'm just pushing back against the comment I was replying to, "I'll always be shocked that she was guilty of deceiving investors and not patients." I think the evidence showed their was clear deceit against investors in a way there wasn't against patients.
Why wouldn't I just use differential dataflow, bindings to it or a higher level library using it in a language I know like Rust or Python?

I think differential dataflow is very interesting and could be very useful at scale for certain businesses but I just don't get the need for the lang.

And I'll plug for https://bytewax.io/ which is one company I know doing interesting things within the niche!

(I have no association to it besides having talked with the founder once upon a time.)
The article being discussed here is about a Qatari official judging Western standards immoral, not the other way. This is particularly problematic because he is in charge of organising an event that is likely to attract primarily visitors from the very countries he is criticising.

There is a disconnect here. FIFA, as an organisation mostly funded from those countries where accepting homosexuality has become a moral standard, has been under pressure for decades to be more inclusive of homosexuals. In that context they made a mistake to award the world cup to Qatar. The same goes with women: they can't pretend that they care about making stadiums more welcoming of women and organise their main event in a country where organisers take the opposite view.
As a parent who doesn't enjoy young children, honestly being able to jump in at the less physically demanding ages (like 5+) sounds like a dream, if somehow it can be navigated while still paying top people to take care of them (her family can) and have them not hate you. For the first couple years with a kid I thought about how prison would have had a lot more freedom than parenthood, and yes I've been locked in a cell before (although not for years). If you get tossed in a cell with chill people it's honestly way more peaceful than a baby/toddler.

If Holmes actually wanted kids IMO it does seem like the stars align for her to do it now while the sociopathic upsides are at their maximum. There's a decent chance the baby will be shrieking in someone's face while she peacefully sleeps in minimum security bunk. She likely won't experience the tantrums, the worst of the sleepless nights, changing diapers, potty training, the worst years of illness and communicable disease, and when she emerges her children will be semi-rational beings capable of logic and physically durable and possibly even independent enough to be left alone briefly while she goes on a trip to the store or a run.
you still have currency risk and exchange rate slippage, but even worse because you are introducing a third currency. Any "innovation" crypto does in cross border payments is skirting regulation which clearly will not scale well. Regulators will just crack down when the market is sufficiently large for their attention.
I agree you can make arguments, I like your explanation for the final form further downthread. For the second form, another choice could be (.x foo) or (. foo x). Or if you're trying to write something like System.out.println("x"), Clojure's .. shows it could be written as (.. System out (println "x")). Or, if you're using CL, you can use the access library (https://github.com/AccelerationNet/access) and write things like #Dfoo.bar.bast or (with-dot () (do-thing whatever.thing another.thing)).

In trying to further steelman a case where random Lisp syntax can be more difficult to read than, say, equivalent Python, two other areas come to mind. First is the inside-outness order of operations thing, it trips people up sometimes. Like the famous "REPL" (with a bad printer) is just (loop (print (eval (read)))), but in English we want to see that as LPER. Solutions include things like the arrow macro (Clojure did good work on showcasing it and other simple macros that can resolve this issue in many places) and if you write/pull one into CL REPL becomes (-> (read) (eval) (print) (loop)), how nice to read. But even the ancient let/let* forms allow you to express a more linear version of something, and you can avoid some instances of the problem with just general programming taste on expression complexity (an issue with all languages -- https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-expression-complexity shows one form).

The second area is on functions that have multiple exit points. A lot of Lispers seem to just not like return-from, and will convert things into cond expressions or similar or just say no to early exits and it can make things a bit more awkward. The solution here I think comes from both ends, the first is a broader cultural norm spreading in other languages against functions with multiple return statements and getting used to code written that way, the other is to just not get so upset about return-from and use it when it makes the code nicer to read.
My condolences to author.

This is unfortunately typical case for smb (small business), but for hundreds devs (definitely, large business), this is something extremely anomaly.

Looks like it is grown from small project, with small business level management not changed to appropriate when where need.

But such projects are also opportunity for smart brave persons, who could make great career grow.
It must be nice not to need anything from your government.

Here in the US, we've still got a lot for the government to do. We don't yet have things like health care, or even the right to control your own body, like they have in Australia. Because of the split between House, Senate, President, and Supreme Court, there are so many checks and balances that practically nothing is ever able to get passed.

I'm pleased that your country has reached a state where all there is for your government to do is to pass "authoritarian bullshit". Our country still wants to be a third-world theocracy, and that's what Musk just told everybody to vote for.
> I’ve found that you need to get as much done as possible early on. Once you get to certain point HIPPA will drive all business decisions. Mostly by making people terrified of making changes and causing a violation.

Sounds pretty similar to my FinTech experience: PCI, SOC2 and ISO27001 or ISO37001 will drive companies into inaction.
If there are going to be media/influencers pushing tips to achieve a FIRE lifestyle, I can’t imagine what I’d prefer they encourage besides low cost broad market index funds. Don’t really see the problem there: investing like that really is most likely the best use of excess capital in the long term.
The S&P 500 has yielded like a 9% return for almost 65 years - since your grandpappy was knee-high to a grasshopper. The nice thing about index funds is they track indices that are curated. Only the 500 best companies (according to a metric) are included and the companies are rotated in and out as that changes. It's not really a cult, what matters is your time horizon.
Graph query over relational data, brilliant. I need this yesterday.
There's a little bit of cargo-culting with the practice: I thought CZ was short for the Czech Republic. The only reason I know "SBF" is because the New Yorker obliged him in that William MacAskill piece.
Google search. How so fast?

Google autocomplete. How so accurate?

Good job Google!
Can you train xgboost on a GPU and use that model to make predications on the CPU?
If you want to legally move the money you still need to do paperwork and pay fees, as well as the additional slippage from introducing a third currency.
I don't think a Ponzi scheme adequately explains the problems with centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. They're just banks. There are plenty of scammers in this space, I just don't think Binance is one of them.

The problem is they leverage user deposits as gambling money. These corporations can't bear to watch a pile of money sitting around doing nothing while in their custody. They just need to loan it out.
> exchanges provide leverage products to customers

Levine spoke about brokerages. When brokerages extend credit, they can be subject to run dynamics. Not exchanges.
Common people gamble all the time.
Url changed from https://slashdot.org/story/22/11/08/1612256/binance-to-acqui..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we changed the URL again—this time from https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/08/binance-signs-letter-of-in... to a different one that seems to give more background and more explanation. (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33523192, but no comments there)
> So is denying climate change or the moon landings...

Ah yes, so I would assume that the WHO would conclusively say that the lab leak theory is incorrect then?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/09/who-sago-cov...

Oh... they say they are still investigating it and that the theory should be left on the table... but I guess the British Medical Journal would say it's total nonsense right?!

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1656

Hmm... Maybe not, they say it's plausible too. Presumably Nature just flat-out tells us that it's a total conspiracy theory though right?!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01529-3

Ah, they stay on the fence and say that it's plausible.

So it's not exactly like denying the moon landings, as I haven't heard NASA saying "the moon landings might have been faked, but we can't prove either way" anytime recently.
G is the apparent magnitude in the green part of the spectrum. Astronomers have a standardised set of optical bandpass filters to record the brightness of a star at various wavelengths - U (ultraviolet), B (blue), V (visual), G (green), etc. Using the letter ID of the filter to mean "apparent magnitude as seen through this filter" is a common convention.
FTT is not a stablecoin
The fact that no patients were harmed, or as I understand it, in any way exposed to potential harm, her case seems common: someone promotes their new idea before they get it off the ground, fake it til they make it. Her tech didn't make it and then she lied a bunch. I don't see what years in prison solves. She is of literally no harm to society so as long as you keep her away from healthcare and money.
Crypto exchange Binance to acquire rival FTX
> work for mega-corps and then donate all the money instead of actually doing anything directly?

Early on most effective altruists were working to earn money and fund important things. More recently, with the money from Open Philanthropy (Dustin Moskovitz, FB), FTX Foundation (SBF, FTX), and others there's been less need for money relative to need for doing things, so many of us have switched away from earning to give. Me included: https://www.jefftk.com/p/leaving-google-joining-the-nucleic-...

> do anything other than go along with the status quo

EAs are overall pretty weird folks: there are a lot of criticisms you could make but that they're just going along with the status quo is a surprising one ;)
I'd love to see that number broken down. I expect it to be mostly "used cryptocurrencies", not traded them, and those cryptocurrencies to be mostly BTC and ETH, possibly XMR, but not some utility token of an exchange.
I have many friends that use marijuana in the evening, which helps them relax and sleep. Edibles are very effective these days.
The two big evolutionary pressures are believed to be a balance between protection against skin cancer vs. enough sunlight for vitamin D production.

And maybe a little bit about the calories needed to actually produce melanin.

For Britons, if it was hotter it's likely there would less cloud cover, but that's just a guess.