skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're starting to see the cascade of exchange failures, just like we saw in 2008 with the banks during the GFC. The exchanges all made loans to one another in order to backstop their customer's assets. Now that the value of those loans are evaporating the entire system is going to come crashing down all at once. This is a systemic crisis, and there is no white knight to save it.
Interestingly, the article users the nowadays standard 4-equation form of the Maxwellian concept - but Maxwell himself used 20 equations [1]. The current version is due to Oliver Heaviside (who doesn't get enough respect for this).

As I understand things, Maxwell's work was held in high regard, but only became usable due to Heaviside's reformulation.

Whether that aspect (beautiful but unusable) is true and carries over to Lisp... dunno, I'm insufficiently familiar with Lisp. But the xkcd with brackets [2] comes to mind.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equat...

[2] https://xkcd.com/297/
> No, that's not the same thing at all.

Per Mark Blyth

Money, to be useful is what Economists call three things;
♦ A Unit of Account
♦ A Unit of Exchange
♦ A Store of Value: A hedge against uncertainty
Crypto is not money, so what is it? Is what the Chinese Central Bank characterized three years ago as Digital Gambling Asset
I mean blackbox in the sense that I can't explain how it works or look under the hood and understand it. Many machine learning models you want to be explainable for UX or debugging (e.g. Netflix's "because you watched X"). This is a rare case where it's better if you can't figure out how it produced a result.

Instead, you want to throw queries and user behavior into a blackbox algo and have it tell you a result then give it feedback on whether the result was good (did the user come back and ask the same question? did they click the top result and leave or did they have to come back and click through many more?). I think this is kind of how google works now, though results are frequently meh. Millions of backlinks will get you noticed but your ranking will just keep dropping if users don't appear to find your content useful (e.g. they hit the back button a lot and keep searching).
Perhaps a strong, independent board of directors could have mitigated this fiasco. The meta-verse never looked like a good idea especially after previous failures like "Second Life." YMMV

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/faceb...
We’re probably going to see a decline in market comp / offer competitiveness as the flood of big tech layoffs hits the job market and startups feed on the offerings from big companies.
That's not what I have heard. Specifically know people who have gotten offers, mostly in the 150k range with zero stock. Alameda research is also just random devs that went to MIT with a few years experience. Impressive to go to that school, but clearly not experienced enough to run a real finance operation. Zero real finance people.

If they were serious they would have hired portfolio managers with decades of experience.

Its the same thing as three arrows capital, random people ending up with a bunch of capital, overestimating their intelligence due to a bull market run, and ending up with nothing
The D Programming language actually uses assert(0) in that way. Except its not undefined behaviour if the code is reached in release builds. The compiler will put in a special assembly instruction which chrashes the programm.
Playwright is good, but stop thinking auto generated code is worthwhile.

Eventually you'll have to write your own scripts. I will admit Playwright can spit out code that will at least serve as a starting point.
I read the article as an exemplar of dual-use technology.
SBF literally describes a magic ponzi box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc
The blogspam has made Google and Bing/DDG almost completely unusable for technical searches.

Go search for something like "postgres cte" and you won't find anything useful until probably halfway down the page. And maybe not at all.
It's your keys, and your coins, and most importantly your initial and continuous due diligence... and not just on the asset itself, but on the possible motivations of any asset holder with a sufficient stake to meaningfully affect the price.
12% isn't an unusual day for cryptocurrency.

80% is newsworthy.
As a university student discovering constraint solvers like Z3, I believed that the future of computing was declarative programming, with black box solvers that would obviate the need for specialized algorithms.

Dealing with Webpack cured me of the idea that declarative is strictly superior. Configuring it is just endlessly consulting the documentation, and then the underlying code, and then cargo culting StackOverflow answers to coerce the black box to create the output I want.
Are you on Windows? I believe it is using Hyper-V and running containers in a VM. The loading time is probably how long it takes to start the VM.
And that does not make someone a highly skilled developer and even less a world-class genius.
> Roughly speaking, the complexity of an object is the length of its shortest description.

This has a ton of really interesting implications.

Even though Kolmogorov complexity is technically incomputable due to the halting problem, you can estimate it. One method of doing that is to create a bunch of random Turing machines and see how often they produce some output string[1]. You have to cut them off after running for a while to prevent infinite loops but it turns out that the output probability of a string strongly correlates with its Kolmogorov complexity.

This works for neural networks as well. You can treat a neural network as a binary classifier, or more generally a boolean function that has some number of binarized inputs mapping to a single binary output.

I explored this a bit in a blog post I wrote a while ago[2]. By randomly initializing weights and counting the truth tables produced, you can estimate Boolean complexity for different expressions which is NP hard.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014489/

[2] https://cprimozic.net/blog/boolean-logic-with-neural-network...
I am not sure what you mean calling me a bot and implying that Molly does not work. It takes effort to keep up with all this stuff and post those summaries. I hope she keeps it going a couple more years.

Sorry about the delayed reply. I have busy schedule today.
Given that it has no inherent value, the bottom is whatever keeps it interesting for hidden transfers and laundering. I would think that’s not all that large as their use of bitcoin seems transient to me. Like any such scheme, it needs buyers to exist.
Assuming most of these people are in the bay and even if everyone was in one county, none of the elections would have even flipped (except for districts which are already tiny such that 13k would dwarf the entire voting population). Trying to flip any of the bay is like pissing into the wind.
i would imagine other industries are going to suffer as well. my partner worked in fashion for a decade and realized it was horrendous and nothing was changing so she went to a bootcamp for UX design and got a job not too long ago. the pressure of the success of another industry would force bad industries to change certain ways of working for the better. when there is 0 competition, there is nothing stopping outdated and overworked industries from becoming any better. like it or not, the tech industry has helped elevate the broader market to a certain degree
Looks rather cool but right now there's only a signup page.
To get 3 billion dollars?

It's not a large amount of money for the US but it's 3 billion dollars...
We could ask how long till Binance implodes.
We can look at the different demographics of people who tried to log in less than others, and try determine why they aren't as hooked as others, and work to rectify by improving their experience!
Same with Chromium (Linux).
Is this even an official GitHub project?
There’s also an FTX Japan, although as far as I know it was wholly sold to a local buyer earlier this year. I had assumed they remained related only by brand. The FTX.intl insolvency makes me wonder whether they’ll be affected.

Edit: FTX Japan has halted withdrawals too.
My current thought on this is that the git model (or at least the interface for it) is probably a touch too simple to accommodate all the things people want to use it for. As a result, you get this whole 'clean history' vs 'what really happened' split. And often you can find a few more splits if you dig in a bit deeper into the actual mechanics people prefer.

Generally, bigger picture stuff works best with cleaner histories as they mop up a bunch of unnecessary and distracting details, and neatly package things together. But doing so also means you're getting rid of, well, the details. If you need them later - and some poor bastard always will - you're just screwed.

Unfortunately all we've got are commits, so you're constantly fighting different groups and even different people who value the benefits of different approaches due to their positions, histories, or preferences.

This isn't even a half-baked idea at this point, but at first glance something like a meta-commit which just contains more commits and a message seems like it might be better. The top-level commits could just be the 'clean history' while deeper levels could record more of the as-happened details.
Same in Safari 16.1
This is digital hoarding [1]

[1] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/techno-clutter-farnell...
Can someone who has a clue tell me
which happened?

Did SBF/FTX break the law and will see jail time?

Or did they break regulations and will receive a fine?

Or is it just a tough cookies situation?
Yes, because they will be replaced with offshore labor or visa workers.
Here's one example of the departure board at Paddington clearly showing Heathrow Airport for a Heathrow Connect train.

https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-de...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/_mia/2437542452

I found it clearly enough at Paddington in the spring, though the signs at Heathrow for the cheap option were terrible.
"Selenium IDE" is the recording tool: https://www.selenium.dev/selenium-ide/
Run inside a container with near zero effort for CI pipelines
I don't think it very good for them either. They might feel secure for a couple more days, but the crash is surely coming for them as well.
I don't think Google even uses PageRank anymore, do they? So, the title is correct, but not super meaningful. It sounded like the battle cry he's sounding is more like "The Age of Search Advertisement is Over", so why not use that as a title?

By the way, I've been a satisfied Kagi customer since the day the beta ended, and I have nothing bad to say about the service. Okay, it would be nice if they remembered I like to view temperature in Fahrenheit, but whatever.
FTX going under due to magic beans reminds me so much of Lehman Brothers going under in 2008. That time the magic beans were "mortgage backed securities" that somehow took low-quality debt, mixed it up with some magic, and out came high-quality debt, only it didn't.
VR with a multidirection treadmill
Ask HN: In your mind, what is the ideal social media?
With the takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, along with growing concerns over the Internet and social media in general, people are starting to question social media and internet corporations. In your mind, what would the ideal social media look like? How would it be moderated, hosted, and operated?
https://layoffs.fyi puts it at ~40k
Not really. If anything junior engineers are not going to see comp like this going forward. But it's still incredibly hard to hire more senior folks even with big comp packages and they do command a premium.

Expect the median to go down, doubtful the top 25% will change much.
I'm not sure if someone has discussed the firewall scenario before but I'm pretty sure I lifted it from somewhere, just can't remember where exactly. So someone out there has considered it seriously and if I was gonna bet on anything then I'd bet on the firewall scenario. The other options are a little too self-centered and are basically replacements for the geocentric model of the universe before people wised up and discovered that they were in fact not the center of the universe.

It's somewhat childish and conceited to think that in the entire universe humanity is the only civilization that has managed to set its sights on the stars.
Thanks, that's useful information!
BS and snark aside, why would the masses pay to use Twitter? They’ve had years of free social media. I can see why those selling ideas or stuff might pay, but the consumers, err, products being sold? No.
I don't think that's true. Neither C nor C++ would allow you to invoke a function with an incomplete type, regardless of whether it is a `struct` or an `enum`, so there's no ABI issues with forward declaring them, but you wouldn't be able to define or invoke a function that takes an incomplete type argument by value.

struct A;
enum B; // as you pointed out, not allowed by the C++ standard

// fine to declare, define, and invoke
void fooA(struct A*);
void fooB(enum B*);

// ok to forward declare, but you can't call them
void barA(struct A);
void barB(enum B);
> There is no "I want to put the gear down in situation when enabling flaps would fuck stuff up too much"

Unless, maybe, you just limped your plane in because it’s missing a big chunk of a wing.

One thing the military does is try to make it hard to make a simple mistake and kill a bunch of your own troops.

During the last Iraq invasion I was running around with a fuel tanker which had a pony motor to offload the fuel. It was pretty complicated with a bunch of levers and valves you had to set to get the fuel flowing the right way (and not on the ground) but had a data plate to tell you what to do, easy peasy. One day we were at a bag farm dumping fuel and this staff sergeant wandered up and says I’m doing it wrong. “Data plate” I say and point at the data plate but she started to get all huffy so, whatever, do what she says which was all fine and good until the tanker starts filling up because it is set up backwards. She made some lame excuse for not following the law of the one true god, the data plate, and wandered off to bother someone else.
You know what I mean. Journalists are at least somewhat accountable
Modern Git workflow is very simple on its own:

1. Your codebase has a `main` branch which is write-protected

2. Devs submit changes to `main` from their own branches using PRs

3. Devs can do whatever the fuck they want on their own branch

4. PRs are merged one at a time

5. When merge happens a dev's PR is squashed into one commit that gets appended to `main`

6. If next dev wants to merge their PR with a conflicting change they have to resolve the conflict first and then they merge

7. The end result is that `main` is a linear history of all PRs with the time they were committed to the `main` branch i.e., when they could've started to break prod.

This is a solved problem and it works great in industry. Why break it? If you want interactive rebase then make 2 PRs.
I user Rancher Desktop on an i9 with 32gb of RAM. Starts in less than a minute. I also have Teams and slack. Sometimes I have over 200 browser tabs open (yes, I have a problem). The UI is responsive pretty quickly.

A lot of delays has to do with starting VMs. You need this for Linux on Mac/Windows.

Disclaimer: I started Rancher Desktop. I might be biased.
I could have been more clear: I don't understand why the non-advertising business's interest is aligned with that of the user. I follow the idea that advertising creates a conflict of interests, but I don't follow that not advertising aligns interests. The business is there to sell a product for the most profit. Making money by selling the product doesn't by itself give them an incentive to produce a better product.
>In fact “gambling with customer funds” was by design.

This is not accurate. The ToS for FTX explicitly said that customer funds would not be used for investment purposes. While it didn't explicitly say it wouldn't be used for lending, it was a broad assumption in the industry that the exchange was solvent and could back user assets on a 1:1 basis.

It is widely believed now that Alameda went deep underwater during the collapse of the Luna ponzi (this one was quite literally structured like a ponzi) and borrowed a large amount from FTX to bail themselves out of it. In the wake of this, FTX had a shortage of hard assets and a fat bag of FTT that the loan was issued against, which is what exposed them acutely to a bank run and/or price decrease in FTT.
It makes me wonder if technology can ever help with scale on something like this that appears to be really determined by true human artistry. Really nice story.
Anonymous Meta staff
Its much much worse than just psychological experiments. Meta currently stands accused as an enabler of a genocide in Myanmar [1], and provides a platform to spread massive hate against Muslims in India and elsewhere [2,3,4,5]. For folks trying to do bothsidesism here and bring out how great they've been, I am sorry but there is no excuse for enablers of Fascism.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
2. https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-...
3. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-services-are-used-to-s...
4. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985143101/stop-lying-muslim-r...
5. https://theintercept.com/2019/12/07/facebook-mark-zuckerberg...
Sort-of a nitpick, but for stateless services that's _precisely_ what you want to happen!
https://zxrenew.co.uk/HARLEQUIN-128K-REV-2D-LARGE-DIY-KIT-p3...
The value of a company contains Lalaland logic, as Tesla, Toyota and GameStop prove.

The link between actual business logic and company valuation broke down around 2010.
Do lots of things that you find interesting. With any hope you will naturally gravitate towards something (or things) that you enjoy and look forward to.

I have been a web developer since the late 90s. In the last few years, I’ve moved somewhat into shooting travel content - getting paid to go on adventures. It happened after I turned 40 and I wouldn’t have seen it coming even just a year prior.
Any truth to the 'NRW' based on the Motorola 88k CPU, rumors?
> Another one is also that Docker is really not pleasant to install on Linux.

I'm curious on which Linux did you encounter issues while installing Docker? I cannot comment on the (to me somewhat pointless) Docker Desktop GUI installation on Linux, but I can confidently report that installing and using docker engine on Ubuntu, at least, is quite trivial and clearly documented[0] on the website.

[0] https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/
If the materials are cheap and readily available is it something that can be built at home?
My guess is that the fortunes of twitter continue to be tied to the news cycle. When there are a lot of newsworthy events, traffic on twitter will increase, and when things quiet down, so will the traffic. This is not really something twitter can control, but I wouldn't be surprised to see high usage stats around the midterm election. The suggestion that Elon was intentionally creating drama in order to drive up usage stats is another one of those fun stories that probably doesn't have much behind it.

Nor do I see Twitter really growing a whole lot in terms of new users, as it's already saturated the market. The idea that outraged techies leaving twitter will materially affect usage stats seems implausible to me. A platform with ~300 million monthly active users isn't going to notice this. Earnings growth depends on cutting costs or selling subscriptions. In this sense, what Musk did was what anyone else would have done. My impression is that Elon Musk surrounds himself with drama wherever he goes, but that doesn't mean slashing headcount and raising subscription prices wasn't the way forward. It was probably the only way forward, but a lot of the drama is squarely on Musk.
Journalists for mainstream media outlets don't post anonymously
Explore exploit is my basic mental model for everything. When you don't know what to do randomly sample your options. When you start finding things you like begin shifting your efforts towards exploiting what you know.

If you don't know what your purpose is, try different things - art, making money, helping people, socializing, etc. Figure out low cost ways you can try new stuff. When you start to enjoy an area invest more in that area. When you start to imagine possible plans, increase your focus.
For Rancher Desktop, Docker Compose works with Rancher Desktop when you choose dockerd (moby). If you choose to use straight containerd (with nerdctl as a CLI) than compose isn't going to work.
If I had a $1 for everyone who "called it" or "knew it"...
Justified or not, people treat him like the one legitimate and non-scammy crypto billionaire. This is going to have an outsize influence.
Does the ledger capture loans of user funds held by FTX?
Just want to make sure: what they meant was Podman Desktop will show you both podman-based containers AND DD based containers.
So many twats tweeting about how bad the chief twat's been running the company and how poor the outlook is!
> I don't understand why funding through direct sales will give a better product than funding through advertising

The more the economic incentives of a business are aligned with the customer's interest, the better. Of course, it's not perfect, and business still might have an incentive to show ads on top of charging you, but it's certainly much better than having hugely misaligned incentives as with Google and social media today.

> Why does everything in the future-web have a price tag attached?

Because it uses real resources like humans and hardware that cost real money in the real world. You don't ask why you need to pay money to buy an apple at the grocery store, do you?
MicroStrategy
Should have done you initial and continuous don't diligence.
I have had a "Plaque Remover" since the 80's when they were medical appliances($$$) due to medical needs. In a sample size of 1 my oral health is always worse when I use a regular tooth on vacation. Today I use a moderately priced ($$) brush with a round head and it works as well as the medical appliance of the past. I get two weeks of 2+ minutes brushing out of a charge and it lasts for several years. As my screen name suggests I have tried to replace batteries on my own. However they are not designed for repair.
Concealing from users they were gambling with their funds - and not a scam?
https://youtu.be/kSCgsifwnDw
By taken advantage of, you mean like becoming a debt slave paying off mortgage on overvalued house because of a housing bubble they blew out of proportion yet nobody was held accountable for?
Oh, I live in Seattle myself. I just know the warning signs to avoid.
I hope this kills the "disheveled awkward guy must actually be a genuis!" meme forever.
I think you are forgetting one more category: what the world needs

OP may find this helpful: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aKPqgFP1m1Y/WdVP2sfqAmI/AAAAAAAAl...
As long as people think cryptography is about money it will never lead to anything useful.
You don't seem to realize the scale of a full blown war.

ruZZia throws at Ukraine everything it has except weapons of mass destruction i.e. nuclear, chemical and bio.

The number of ballistic and cruise missiles, including capable of carrying nuclear weapons, fighter jets, tanks, artillery (rocket and otherwise) in use is astounding.

This is a full scale war in invading other country not a "conflict".
I was curious and went to their Pricing page. Their link to pledging "5% of its profits" to supporting non-profit organizations for a more humane internet leads to a dead AWS page