skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have several corporate entities.

* "FTX Trading LTD is incorporated in Antigua and Barbuda, and headquartered in The Bahamas."

* West Realm Shire Services Inc. - incorporated in Delaware.

CNBC now says that Binance is only trying to buy the non-US operations of FTX.

FTX.US terms say "Title to cryptocurrency represented in your FTX.US Account shall at all times remain with you and shall not transfer to FTX.US." Are US customers having Bitcoin withdrawal problems? If they are, that's theft.
It wasn't. The misconception that SCOTUS declared "corporations are people" is a meme launched by those who think people lose their rights when they decide to act together. SCOTUS just confirmed they do not. Corporations are not people, never been, never will be, and you don't need an act of Congress to know that - you just need to be a bit better informed.

There is a legal concept of "corporate personhood", but it has nothing to do with "being people", it's a legal term of art. For example, it makes it possible to sue a corporation instead of trying to sue each of its shareholders and executives individually. And it wasn't used in Citizens United v. FEC at all.
While the phenomenon of promo projects is absolutely real, “not my favorite technology choice” is bad evidence that work is wasted. When you have a platform org that offers tooling and support for a golden path, it matters a lot whether you’re on it. It is actually easier to do gRPC APIs at my work than to cowboy RESTy stuff. And the golden path changes over time. Python was a supported language years ago, now Go is. So of course things are being migrated to Go, not because that’s objectively best, but because if you don’t then your Python builds and deploys on our infrastructure could stop working at any moment and no new library versions will ever be released. We also had a team operating Mattermost at one point because that team’s wages cost less than Slack.

I do think the platform org’s choices can cause a lot of low quality churn for the rest of engineering, and everybody resents having to switch out a perfectly fine dependency for somebody’s half baked promo project, but even the platform group when it does these things is trying to save itself the headcount involved in maintaining legacy. As things get leaner, support for older stuff gets worse, and we have to do even more migration work of dubious value to tread water.

If I were starting a Big Tech tomorrow I would put a lot of value on choosing a stable, long term supported tech stack and laying it out so that platform teams can iterate without distributed migration efforts. But no one ever starts a Big Tech. All that is awkward in Big Tech is due to path dependence flowing from the understandably odd choices made by tiny startups.
First time I read about a law I knew nothing about, but followed all my life :)
Theory of Vibration with Applications by William Thompson and Marie Dillon Dahleh.

Say you have two cars linked, with some spring constant;

| --^^-- [c1] --^^-- [c2] --^^--|

where '^^' is a spring and '|' is a wall.

The motion of these cars can be written using the spring forces in the system or, alternately, as the harmonic motion of the undamped system with some natural frequency.

Setting this up as two simultaneous equations (one for each car) and solving for the roots give you the eigenvalues. The natural frequency is the square root of the eigenvalue. In other words, the eigenvalues help you define the natural frequencies which can be used to characterize the motion of the cars in the more complicated spring-mass system.
Carbon credits rock! At least for Tesla. Why are they not mentioned in the article? As other car makers produce electrics and can avail themselves of the credits this number is likely to change.

https://carboncredits.com/tesla-regulatory-carbon-credit-sal...
There have been various proposals to publish all the records after an election has been been certified. Which is always shot down on the basis of voter privacy (protecting the secret ballot).
> For me the answer is "Not very."

Sure, I understand that response. Tomorrow the question will be "how important is Poland to us, really?", and the day after that it will be asked about Germany and France. And it's quite reasonable to always answer "well, I don't really care about country X so much that I'm willing to kill 5bn people over its independence".

But you will either end up with the whole world living as Russia's slaves, or you'll end up with a war when someone says "no, I'm not okay with that". Only that you'll have given Russia a lot of infrastructure to steal and re-use when that day finally comes.
Don't hesitate to share if you stumble upon something. Kid is 1½ yo so could be useful too.
Thanks. The time frame is only hundreds of years.
Bitcoin balance on FTX Exchange have gone negative [1]. The withdrawals have been disabled on FTX. It's probably the AltCoins bought with the BTC by FTX have gone down in value and the BTC are gone for good. When people withdraw against BTC, there aren't enough.

[1] https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-balance-on-ftx-exchange-goes...
Sadly, I think you are completely correct, and this exact sequence of events will go down. I don't think they're an idiot or malicious - I think they're clever and mean well, but perhaps they're blinded by their enthusiasm after getting certified
I wonder if you could just transpose the lower end, say 20-30 hz down to the 10-20 hz range since you can't hear them anyway so it won't sound bad, but you would "feel" it.
Find out the needs of your local schools. Help them get it. This could be money, school supplies, used computer equipment. You will impact a lot of young people's lives.
When I reach the end of my feed I get an error, 100% of the time. I see 3 days of content followed by:

"News Feed isn't available right now. This may be because of a technical error that we're working to get fixed. Try reloading this page."
Reading this alongside all the layoffs threads going around, I can’t help but wonder how many of these roles are going to be around in 2023.

It does feel like there’s large amounts of complexity that don’t need to exist, but why not have them in an upmarket when capital is free. This is most telling in the increase in average team size, this implies many of those teams could do the same with less. Sprinkled amongst this is genuine value and the hard but lucrative job will be in knowing how to distinguish the value from the waste.
Five months at the most comfortable female prison camp and five months on her horse farm? That's not exactly doing hard time. Also, Martha's crimes compared to Holmes were a lot less severe. I contend that you or I would have faced a much harsher sentence.
If you read the article, experts say that the statistic is rather due to the extremely high amount of red tape required to even file a claim (you basically need a lawyer). Plus, the idea of paying a niche lawyer for less than 6% chance of success is enough to make everyone give up, and not everyone can afford said lawyer because it is so complex. You also must provide a medical basis and explanation for how it happened (otherwise it's legally just a coincidence), which requires additional paperwork by doctors, hospitals, and so on. And last, all claims must be filed within 1 year of the vaccination, so if you develop something, say, 10 months later, you have only 2 months to figure out the mess and file the claim. If it took you 3 months to put the medical basis together - too late.

Plus, it's just common sense. Even by the official statistic of Thrombosis happening in "4 cases per one million" according to the CDC (as one potential side effect), that would indicate we should have 896 cases at a minimum, let alone authorized payouts.
I think anyone starting a lin alg course could do a lot worse than
watch all his "Essence of Linear Algebra" series before starting - then
watch the relevant (c. 15 min) episodes as you take each lecture.
People (insurgents) who lack RPGs and other ATGMs.

There are cases within the the last few years such as the siege of Marawi where small arms attacking armoured vehicles sensors disabled the vehicles.
Remote: Yes (15 years remote: efficient, productive and highly available)

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Experience in all phases of software development: architecting solutions from the ground up (from concept to shipping), reworking/rebuilding/refactoring existing projects (those left in poor shape, or reliant on outdated libraries), and contributing to existing modern codebases.

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I wonder if patients were not direct customers might be the technicality, whereas they had to go through Walgreens or similar, but I also haven't figured it out.
Roundabouts Improve Cities for Everyone
CEO of Binance - https://twitter.com/cz_binance
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What the author is describing isn't even an email caste. It's a phony email caste. There was and still is in many places a genuine email caste of product managers, account managers, customer service directors, and so-on, that, for all of their meetings and draining of engineering hours, managed to add some value to the company.
For ebola?
I've noticed it puts people on the defensive when I put 'just' in a sentence, even though I have no intent to disparage others with my words, so I make an effort to avoid using that word at all in any business setting. I've found it goes over much better when framing suggestions as 'Maybe you could try..." than 'Just do...'.
This is a real-time history rewrite.

"Once he got access to the company’s finances, the Tesla boss realized it was losing millions of dollars every day [...]"

He knew it would be losing $millions/day because he forced the situation that created the debt.

I stopped reading at that point, not interested in dissecting how a beat-sweetener slides into obsequious myth building.
So, report back here for the same thread in a few months? Who'll it be next?
"Exchanges"(Exchanges and brokerages in one) are not supposed to be banks. Everything can be withdrawn from brokerages without them being insolvent.
Can you explain this comment, I don't see democrats as being bought in crypto? What would giving them money accomplish? Most politicians in both parties are very skeptical of all this crypto tulipmania. There are a very small number who seem to bought in. Republicans are in that group too.
If you ask me to implement something and I don't understand why you need it, then I may not do it right, and you may get regressions in this functionality in the future. Developers need to build a mental model of the problem they're solving. If the answer is "we've always done it this way" that's not very compelling especially when we're building a new system! But if you say "this is required because of XYZ", then this is something that I can understand, and more importantly, document as a requirement.
Its ok to disagree friend, but when 95% percent of your bugs are syntax related rather than algorithmic design... it fails the sanity check.

Have a gloriously wonderful day =)
Lots of companies use Glassbox to this degree.
An third possibility: Management and/or engineering leadership sees real problems but is investing in them poorly. For example, resourcing multiple teams to rearchitect your backend when the real issues lie in test coverage and observability, or something like that.
How he's not been taken legally out of circulation for his involvement is amazing.
You said:

> How about the percentage of bad drivers vs bad cyclists? I see a lot of bad drivers because they're more drivers. I'd guess about 1 in 40 cars I see are doing something illegal and unsafe. I'd say I see 1 in 10 bicyclists doing something illegal and unsafe.

Collected data disagrees with you. Strongly suggesting you’re falling prey to confirmation bias, or you’ve become highly desensitised to driver misbehaviour. Neither of which would be surprising if you live and drive in the US (my experience of driving in the US, is that it’s almost designed to make it hard to do the right thing as a driver, little to know affordances in the infrastructure to allow for normal human error).

> Just curious... Do you have asource for your data though? Google seems to indicate that cyclists and drivers are similar in their law breaking.

I assume these conclusions change by locality, and collections method. However I’ve never seen a study demonstrate that cyclists break the law substantially more than drivers. Certainly nothing close to the 4:1 ratio you suggest.

> I'd love to find data like this for the US. If your Google-Fu is better, can you source me some?

I don’t have any US data unfortunately, I’m mostly interested in the UK where I live.

Ultimately the TL;DR is that cyclists are no worse at rule breaking than drivers. They just tend to break different rules, and driver rule breaking is almost entirely normalised. Big difference of course is severity of outcome, which pedestrian fatality rates suggest is about 400x to 1000x greater when a car is involved.

If drivers really cared about the safety of road users, they be up in arms about poor driving standards, and the lack of consequences for drivers that kill people. They wouldn’t be shouting about cyclists.
That's a less correct description than what Walter gave
In world-first trial, lab-grown blood was just injected into two people
Right, well that's what the default distro provides on this hardware then. If you have any quick non destructive tests I would try them, but I've spent way too much time mucking around with low level parameters, and the way it is now suits me fine, especially being able to use the distro from install.
I'll go: because while the parent comment is (loosely, tangentially) based in fact, it's an enormous leap to go from the kind of differences we're talking about with SARS-CoV2 engineering, and the differences of type required to aerosolize a filiovirus.

Is it "possible"? Yes, theoretically. But it's not at all trivial, and far down my worry list. It's bit like worrying that sharks are going to evolve wings and start flying around eating people.
I still wear a mask when I go out. I'll probably stop eventually -- probably next summer when it gets hot again.

But I definitely agree that mask for should have been a big push. I'm not sure that sealing the gaps around the nose is that much of an issue from a transmissibility perspective, but it can make a significant difference in terms of comfort for those wearing glasses. And masks that are not comfortable don't get worn.
Telescopes generally. James Webb specifically. Being able to marvel at objects light years away, and having (large) glimpses to the past. A time machine aswell as a teleporter.
This has been my experience so far too. Serverless is amazing, it does require some shift in thought when it comes to backend architecture but once you get there it really does provide everything it promises. Less cost, less complexity (if done right), and the scalability is amazing. I agree it's not perfect but I highly recommend any backend or fullstack dev take a look at if you haven't already.

Been working on a lambda, dynamodb, typescript react app for about 6 months for work and it's been just mind-melting how much money and complexity we've saved switching. I'm talking like 5x the cost drop and we can more easily onboard devs to the project because it's just simpler, no need for a devops hire honestly.
At this point, Whatsapp is pretty much critical infrastructure in many countries. And yet Zuck has been so stupid in not leveraging its full potential and instead doing Metaverse and Reels shit.
it looks like the main application layer is a haskell code base, cool!
How can you say it's clear it wasn't cash? What's the source?

Also, FTX minted FTT out of nothing - effective cost zero - so no matter what they received in exchange, even if they had received nothing that is not an investment unless they received Alameda equity. I agree that lending is a form of investment but nothing says that they received a loan in exchange.

You could still be right, but it's all speculation :)
Not really, quite the opposite in fact. If humans were robots they’d trust each other completely, meaning all financial transactions could be done instantly with a simple database.

Humans are messy, so the solution we’ve arrived at is a database enforced by a complicated legal system + state power/violence (and arguably private power/violence via the mob). This works pretty well and powers trillions of dollars around the world.

Crypto is a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes modern finance hard. It’s not about trust, it’s about enforcement. I don’t need to trust my bank, but I need to trust that somebody will make things right if my bank takes my money. That allows me to trust my bank with my life savings, even though I’ve never met my banker or even know a single employee at the bank.

Crypto is missing this point and it’s why, despite following it since the beginning, I’ve never thought it has a future. It’s fundamentally solving the wrong problem.
How far out did the Covid forecasts look, to justify global lockdowns?
> so they can't convert the FTT to cash which means can't process withdrawals.

That implies they embezzled customer funds (customer deposits should never be invested or loaned or intermingled with company funds)
Are you seriously asking? He lied like every other exchange does. The man's middle name is Bankman for god's sake.
Isn't FTT like FTX's own issuing tokens? It's like printing one's own money. But when the backing firm fails, the printed money is worthless, just like what LUNA issued by Terra had become.
https://80000hours.org/ (conceptually related to GiveWell) can help you figure out ways to use your career to do good, aside from simply earning a lot and donating. They also do free 1:1 coaching along these lines.
I'm curious what these trip-ups look like, if anyone has the relevant info to share here. It seems easy to make the argument that the FBI is just tricking people, but I suspect that the lies people are caught in are much more sinister.
> reset expectations

Voters want accurate results.

The recurring tantrums over speed come from media and candidates.
There's an awful lot of "it depends" to all of these scenarios. It may even be possible that there is, in fact, some scenario where I'd be OK with what's quoted above. But generally speaking, I would not be happy with something that comes off as smug and suggesting a "I'm the teacher, and you're the student, now let me show you how stupid you are" mind-set. But if the person speaking had the right standing in my world-view and I was really stuck, well then maybe I would tolerate that (even if it wouldn't be my preference).

I lean towards the kind of language I mentioned in another comment, with things like "Hmm... have you tried _______?" or "The first thing that occurs to me when I see ______ is ________" and so on. Or even "Do you think that maybe _________?"
CU vs FEC did not rely on the concept of corporate personhood. If anything, if this concept didn't exist it would be even stronger, because then there would be absolutely no legal reason to treat a group of people differently just because they're acting together. What would be the argument - you can do it individually, but once you gather in one building and have a banner at the entrance and a receptionist, you all suddenly lose your free speech rights?
> have you thought that maybe this is not the reason at all why they want this ?

Yes, that is the reason I ask questions about who is using this and what their objectives are.

> They're paying you for your time, no?

No. They're paying me for the value my skillset and experience brings. I don't bill hourly, I bill bi-weekly, 2 weeks in advance.

At any time they can fire me or I can fire them. Most likely we're setting the stage for either of those two outcomes right now, unless we can get our communication in sync.

I'll try to find a replacement client who's interested in communicating the problems they're facing, working with me to come up with solutions, then working with me to iterate on them.

> If they ask you to dig in a hole and then fill it back after you do it.

I'm not currently at the point of desperation that accepting something like this would require.

This is more like something a prison or internment camp might do to mentally break prisoners.
"Once he got access to the company’s finances, the Tesla boss realized it was losing millions of dollars every day, and that many of its employees weren’t doing much work at all."

Once he took possession of the company, he had to demonstrate that it was somebody else's fault that the finances make no sense.
Vim Is Just English
We ate lunch for ~£6 today - 4 people. Cod[0], mashed potatoes[1], Brussels sprouts[2], Broccoli[3]

[0]https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/the-fish-market-cod-fillets-320g... (3 for £10! - I stocked some in the fridge as well!)
[1]https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/garden-of-elveden-baby-salad-pot...
[2]https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-button-sprouts-900g/8369...
[3]https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-broccoli-florets-800g/83...

If you cook yourself it's all good.

Our monthly grocery bill is actually less because we switched to Lidl, Tesco and Iceland. We do notice higher energy bills but it's still manageable.
Such an amazing theatrical play.

So FTX is AIG and Binance gets to play the Fed.

What happens in the second act when Binance transitions to its next role of Lehman but there is nobody to play the Fed?
That’s what subharmonic generators do and I’ve heard mixed reviews.

Like, if you were to take the bottom octave of a piano pieces and replicate it on the next octave down, it could easily sound like crap. Might sound decent for some songs though?
> maybe the problem was we were listening to too much punk and hardcore and were determined to reject everything about [not punk]

IMO a classic artistic trap, especially for those enamored with a particular genre. Also a musician here, who has seen plenty of copycat scene bands, as well as others who have transcended their niche partially by having rich and diverse sources of inspiration.