skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now how did this place end up managing billions of dollars and SBF the darling of politicians?

It's not that hard to be the darling of politicians in this day of extreme polarization - you just tell them what they want to hear.

SBF made a good safe bet that coming off as "pro-regulation" would be a winning strategy in the current climate. Heck, it was probably a good bet regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans are in power, because even though Republicans are nominally anti-regulation, being against "Silicon Valley billionaires" is basically the one thing that gets bipartisan support these days, so flattering politicians with "we need you to regulate us" was probably a good strategy.
Break bigger things down into goals that you can accomplish in shorter amounts of time.

Don’t fight it… just make it more productive.
If it's so sensitive to device variance, I'd expect that it doesn't behave well outside a narrow temperature range.
Speaking from first-hand, I can't remember any disrespectful behavior. Acting disrespectful toward the donor (what we called the cadavers) would get you kicked out of anatomy lab. There is even a "gift of body" ceremony commemorating the donations every year that family members can attend. Med students will speak about how the donors impacted their medical education and how much they appreciate them.

I would hope that tales of inappropriate jokes of posing with body parts are relegated to a bygone era.

Fwiw I would have no issue donating my body to my institution for dissection. I certainly benefited from the donation. Some notable memories:

- The brittleness and crunchiness of an atherosclerotic artery compared to the pliable rubber hose of a healthy artery

- How incredibly soft lungs are -- like a tempur-pedic pillow. Unless the donor had been a smoker. Then the lungs were hard and black-spotted like a pumice stone.

- The muscular atrophy of old age. There were some donors whose abdominal muscles were as thin as paper.

- Holding a donors brain in one's hand (it's smaller than one would expect). In the words of a lab partner, "I can't believe we are holding everything that made this person a person, all their personality, everything."
As others have pointed out, this is completely wrong in literally every way possible.

> Nobody actually has any custody of anything in crypto.

This is insanely wrong and it’s unreal things like this are being said in 2022.

DeFi Example: Take your self-custody bitcoin to Thorswap and exchange it for Ethereum. Pure defi. No trust needed. Total self-custody cross chain trading.
It's not that hard to be the darling of politicians - give them money.
"Microsoft and Chromium were telling this for years"

The advantages of memory safe languages have been discussed to death in programming circles for many decades.

This is absolutely nothing new, and it should surprise absolutely no one that both industry and government are behind the curve, as usual.
He already lost his whole net worth overnight ($16B) and will live in hiding with serious death threats for the rest of his life. This is no ordinary CEO switcheroo where the he walks away with a slap on the wrist and a golden handshake.
I'm genuinely grateful that the previous comment asked if I meant 'compromised'. Short, simple, and to the point. I do not read any bad intent into that comment, and point-outs like those seem to be protocol for HN.
Yt search has become infuriating lately.

Between shorts and stupid recommendations it's really harming my yt experience. By recommendations I mean content not directly related to the search but videos yt thinks I might want to watch mixed with search results.

Another thing that bothers me a lot is yt showing results of videos in a language different from the search query. I live in Mexico and very often half of the results are in Spanish. I'm from Spain, I speak Spanish, but more often than not Spanish videos in the topics that interest me are very bad.
I've heard of people bursting their eardrums there just duck-diving into a wave because of the sudden and severe change in pressure from imstantly being under that much water.
What is it with people who love Rust? If a language is not an absolute behemoth, it's a kid's language. Do you feel the same way about Lua? Like, this notion is wild to me.

> Rust IMO is much more advanced and expressive. It's a joy to write

It can be argued that in a professional setting, this isn't what a business cares about. Businesses care about getting stuff done, not whether you like to write your code and your language is "expressive". They want boring. Boring is good.
> Zoom fatigue is real

Wouldn't you experience in-person meeting fatigue sooner than zoom fatigue? What is it about sitting in the comfort of your own home having a conversation that is worse than sitting in an office having a conversation?
Within a few years of buying my apartment. I was actually in a dilemma due to conflicting advice. My dad was of the view that one should not be in debt for long. And my colleagues were of the view that instead of clearing the debt, that fund can be invested elsewhere. I finally took my dad's advice and cleared the mortgage.
By amazing do you mean specifically for Go? Because I don’t see how it differs from working on two Maven projects simultaneously in Java where one depends on the other.
The web is dead, it is all about "apps" now
How many gigawatt hours is 6 hours of storage though? Also is this just to cover current electricity demand or total primary energy?
That’s the one. Thanks for linking it.

Was he in denial? Lying? Clueless? I have no idea at this point.

He seemed earnest and genuine, but everything he’s saying is the exact opposite of reality.

Maybe he was having an anxiety attack. I had one once, and it completely sucks. It ruins your ability to form logical thoughts.

(It’s rare to see someone so powerful be so confidently mistaken. The confidence is the part I’m struggling to figure out. There doesn’t seem to be much benefit for him to knowingly lie about FTX US not being impacted, so it seemed like something else was going on.)
Well, to begin with, Go passes function arguments in registers since 1.17

Go 1.17 implements a new way of passing function arguments and results using registers instead of the stack. Benchmarks for a representative set of Go packages and programs show performance improvements of about 5%, and a typical reduction in binary size of about 2%. (https://go.dev/doc/go1.17)

I think the basic problem here is that you don't know the facts.
Emacs already implements exactly what they are proposing: an undo operation is just another action added to the chain of states, which can itself be undone.
Why are they filing in the US? I thought they were Bahamas or Hong Kong besides ftx.us
What's the point of your comment? Why do you care? Why do we need to know about this project at all? Why is anything posted to hackernews at all? Why?

Please discuss the project if it's interesting to you, otherwise move on. There is a human who posted the project. Maybe they were nervous to post because of the feedback they get. Maybe they wish it ran faster (as they noted on its slowness), and provided some context by stating they couldn't devote 100% focus to this project because they were caring for a new born baby.
Key staff driving Apple search engine leave to rejoin Google
Simply because it's limiting. Which is good if you are inexperienced, but not so great once you grow and try to become more productive. A more expressive language is a must then or you'll be stuck. For some people it's this feeling of being stuck that they don't like - others can live with it more easily.

> I honestly also have no idea why Rust always makes an appearance in a Go thread

Both Rust and Go people are very vocal about their languages.
Yes, many orgs and developers will only change habits when law comes into play.
I do the same thing. Reeder even has some adblock magic. In Firefox I use Unhook to just allow search. I do admit, however, that I barely find anything new anymore now that everything's blocked. Have to figure out new ways to find inspriation.
> Nothing fundamental has changed about blockchains that could ever prevent this from happening

DeFi
>Biodiversity loss, deforestation, aquifer depletion, desertification, etc. are just as concerning for most people here as rising global temperatures.

The disconnect is between the recognition that there are problems and the assertion that we cannot simply solve those problems. Wastewater reclamation, urban planning, and the at least partial displacement of dietary animal protein can address the cited problems without "degrowth". Furthermore, while several trends are concerning, they mostly do not represent an immediate threat on the level of climate change except in the writings of click-chasing environmental journalists and the appeals of donation-funded activist organizations. We have time to study and refine our approach.

For example, the largest biodiversity loss event actually happened before the dawn of recorded history — the Quaternary Extinction. Yet this massive 'crisis' failed to prevent the rise of human civilization. Degrowth advocates usually want to impose a lot of pain on society very soon — in your words, 'suddenly' — which is more punk rock than practical reason. In reality, most of these trends are things we need to be aware of and plan for, but the sky is not falling. Climate change is still the biggest threat, and the one thing that may require a little pain. Attaching pain in service of other causes becomes a lead shoe as we are trying to swim to the shore.
I don't get the market position of this.

A number of Chinese companies produce DIN rail mounted PLCs which already cover this market, cost virtually nothing and actually emulate Mitsu GX ones so work with existing off the shelf tools and have the same real time guarantees as the commercial units. If you're going to cheap out, these are fine.

But this isn't the problem. The expensive bit of a PLC is the dude perma-welded to the cabinet. Last thing people want to do is rock the boat by expanding the risk to a vendor like Arduino, which quite frankly doesn't have a great reputation or history of tested industrial or reliable hardware. It's better to pay 3x as much for a well established vendor.
It's not exactly a hug of death, but a wait time of 90m is a bit long. I hope that people that leave the queue won't be processed.
I think this tweet reply to the bankruptcy announcement is pretty brilliant, https://mobile.twitter.com/Abrahamweb3eth/status/15910726841....

I made the argument a couple days ago that CZ thought he was playing "4D chess" as the kids like to say these days by publicly and loudly dumping FTT, and he ended up burning the whole thing down.
>does that mean the company owns the twitter account too???

At this point I think there are a lot of people who operate as if they and the company are fundamentally joined / the same thing.
Yes, but having thousands of snippets in a bucket can be quite confusing too, where do the pieces go back and so on.

For this reason I comment out code then keep it until I’m sure I no longer need it. This works in sessions, and do the final delete, clean up etc at the end of the session before committing the changes to the repo. I see devs keeping commented out code in repos but that adds too much noise, makes the code a real mess..
A gentle note that an incomplete piece of a goal (e.g. a loss function computed on a subset of the data) is a proxy for the full goal (e.g. the loss function on the full dataset).

Similarly, concept drift can be a source of overfitting -- the objective you care about is the one after the concept drift occurred, but the objective you trained on is the one from before the concept drift. (Here's a scholar search for papers where the two concepts co-occur: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis... )
Finally, a Terminal for the 21st Century
I really want to love this language, a fast and simple garbage collected lang, but feel like they missed the spot a little. I just wish they did something different with error handling / nil, doesn't feel right for the language. Also whats up with stuff like unused imports being such a big deal?
And/or JetBrains.

Makes me wonder honestly what tool in widespread use doesn’t have this? Notepad?
He was running a Ponzi scheme. Don't feel sorry for him.
No one said there isn't more work to do, but continuing to grow without growing emissions (or even better, also reducing emissions) is the point.
And an animation studio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika_(company)
Or not at all. The list serves to alienate certain people and prevent them from becoming competitive or developing networks.

The negatives of this kind of behavior are equal to the supposed benefits
I'm shocked that the RSS feeds still exist honestly. I think it's only a matter of time until they're killed off.
Thought it was some fun context, but I can see why it might come off as a strange detail to include. Edited to remove the distraction.
The more I read and learn about all this it feels like the work of a criminal mind more than just plain greed or hubris.
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I have just embedded entire SPA dist in Go binary, much easier to deploy and reduce read from disk latency.
That's how they're supposed to operate, not how they actually operate. They've been hoarding zero-days for years, and they have even worked surreptitiously to undermine encryption by endorsing algorithms that they had already compromised. They couldn't give a single fuck about protecting US infrastructure if it comes at the cost of their offensive weapons portfolio.
Whats even more amazing is that you can right click the package/folder and get local history and see entire files that you previously deleted.

Took me a while to discover this but has saved me almost as many times as local history in a file. Also makes me feel much better when refactoring and deleting tons of old code.
Someone writing in C or C++ isn’t likely to find JS or Python fits their use case, but that same is true of Ruby that somehow snuck in there
Music may help as several others have mentioned - personally I find classical piano or organ music works well; but I also use a white noise generator instead sometimes, so that might be worth trying too. Somehow it's good at drowning out the little distraction "what's on HN now" itch. I use "A soft murmer" on Android, but I expect they're all much of a muchness.
Twitter drama continues with blue-tick confusion
I think one of the interesting signals they are sending is that, in an era where increasingly law seems to feel like ‘whatever you can construct a Supreme Court majority to uphold’, there are other elements within the constitutional checks and balances, and executive agencies enforcing legislative intent is one such important component.
Rust is the new "I use Arch btw"
You control the rate of money returned in beating the term of your home mortgage. You don't control the rate of gain in the markets. If you want to balance it you could just pay slow at first and pay into an investment account with extra money. At year, idk 10 (just pick) -- pay off your home mortgage aggressively. That's my 2-cents. Doing the math on things like cars, homes, investments -- beating the system is incidental. Much less in your control than you think. IDK maybe you'd end up with $5k more in 2040.
I don't know how applicable this is, but even the basic if-else syntax can hit you with hours of frustrating struggles. The parantheses have to be arranged in a specific way that was never mentioned in the online language specs over at go.dev, otherwise the code will fail:

if (cond) {
return x
} else {
return y
}

works, but

if (cond) { return x }
else { return y }

doesn't.
> we developed sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer for better privacy, security and far broader app compatibility.

Does this mean you could install and run Google Play apps on GrapheneOS now? Last I used GrapheneOS (2020), I wasn't able to.

Thank you for the explanation!
Well, a very famous shortseller, Marc Cohodes, has been railing on about Bankman Fried for quite some time now, convinced he was fraud.

One thing though is that Cohodes never alleged the customer funds were being misused like that, but his line of questioning IIRC was basically the following:

1. SBF had no rep(i.e Cohodes could not find anybody from TradFi who could vouch for this guy being smart, viewed JaneStreet stint as very questionable per his research, etc).

2.Garry Wang is basically a ghost with very little info despite being CTO.

3. Dan Friedberg, who was basically in charge of regulation at FTX IIRC, was one of the lawyers involved in the Ultimate Bet poker scandal.

4. SBF was super late to the crypto game and their whole "geographical arbitrage" trade that propelled Alameda to fame was never fully explained. In Marc's opinion every single person who has ever put on a massive trade and won can describe the trade with granular detail, SBF never went into specifics of his.

If you try googling around SBF and Marc Cohodes you should probably be able to find more detailed arguments. Cohodes is the only one I know who was super public about calling him a fraud before the balance sheet leaks.
Not everyone drives a car or buys alcohol (or gets carded when they’re decades past 21 in a place where everyone knows them), and if they don’t need it regularly it’s not uncommon for older people to let theirs expire. For example, I know someone who spent the last 40 years of her life medically unable to drive a car and unwilling to travel internationally but that doesn’t mean she didn’t have a right to vote. It’s not a huge number of people but it’s consistently on the order of a single digit percentage nationally - millions of people - and higher in certain communities, which is where the fairness question arises:

https://www.npr.org/2012/02/01/146204308/why-millions-of-ame...

The solution is easy: require access to state ID to be free, and reverse budget cuts which mean that in some areas of the country you might need to drive for hours to get to a DMV or produce things like utility bills which not everyone has.

I will believe anyone talking about voter ID has a goal other than suppressing opposition votes when their bill includes a robust implementation of any of this.

It’s also worth remembering that the “cheating going on” is largely an urban legend. Every credible study has found it to be exceedingly rare, nowhere near the level of affecting election results.
Had it been going on behind the doors, the VCs would have pumped more money in to the scam. Since it became too public to hurt their brand they will no more fund it.

It happens all the time. The VCs know how their portfolio companies operate and still keep supporting them.
Tailwind Toucan
looking at which page?
> The fediverse culture is based around consent and guarding each other's safety.… If you truly believe that it's okay to index things just because "well, I can technically access it" without any further consideration, then to put it bluntly: you are a threat to the safety of marginalized folks, and you are not welcome in those spaces. You should also consider that there are plenty of people who cannot afford to take such a cavalier attitude as you.

This just makes no sense. You can't paint a message on a billboard and then get angry when cars driving by can read it. If a group of people wants to post messages secretly amongst themselves, the Fediverse is the wrong place to do it. Use Telegram or a private Discord server or something, but even then screenshot leaks are bound to happen eventually.

If you are truly concerned about the safety of "vulnerable folks," you should be all for educating them on the true workings of the internet so that they can avoid publishing things they don't want the world to see. You are saying it's fine for them to use a system whose stated purpose is blasting messaged all across the internet to whoever wants to see them and then expecting all the recipients to know about and follow the unwritten rules they are somehow bound to when handling that message. That is not a realistic expectation.
What Do Tech Layoffs Mean for Developers?
I hope people read this and really understand what it says. It Crypto had any intrinsic value this paragraph would be ridiculous ... but it's not. At least tulips were pretty to look at.
In other related news how is Adam Neumann's new crypto real estate company (Flow) invested in by A16Z (350M @ >1B valuation) doing these days?
And that you still want a linear path through your undos and redos...and that's something that Emacs does.
I have a job that I like. I work about 40 hours a week and enjoy the company of my teammates. I even like the work we do.

And still, this makes me livid with jealousy. To get paid 500k - 1m a year to basically just fuck around with side projects and stuff you like to do is the dream of dreams.

I don't even know how to think about this. I can't decide whether I have some moral superiority to make me feel better or if I'm just a pure sap for trying to do the right thing and work hard. It would take me around 8 years to net a million dollars. My mortgage is a chunk of change that hurts to pay every month. Saving is challenging and I just can't help but feel like I'm a sucker when I see these folks who do fun stuff all day and get paid 5-10x what I make.

Someone, please: make me feel better!
Yup, I used caffeine and alcohol for years to deal with ADHD symptoms and only got diagnosed recently. Now, I can't even have them, for medical reasons.

Anyway, maybe you have ADHD lol, and caffeine is not a particularly good substance for the condition (not the worst, but it has a bad stress-to-focus ratio, IME, and Drs seemed to confirm this)... maybe it's better than long term nicotine (although in the short term nicotine can be very helpful).

Basically, I'm experiencing the same as you. Without the chems I'm fucked. Btw, stimulant medication won't necessarily disrupt your sleep; it's also not a silver bullet.
And with the diff panel you can easily cherry pick selected changes to apply.
The Final Death of Crypto
Feels like I'm missing something...

If I press ctrl-z ctrl-z, I expect the last 2 things typed to be undone. Based on what he's saying, the first ctrl-z undoes one step, and the second ctrl-z undoes the undo i.e. puts me back where I started, with no way to get back further.

Is there a special case for multiple undo's in a row? If so it seems unclear where to draw the line. If not it sounds nonfunctional.
I am still not convinced that he did not steal the missing FTX client funds. So at this point it is not clear to me how much he lost or gained from this. I do hope the DOJ conduct a full investigation and trace where all the money went.
Is this FTX US?

Yesterday SBF said FTX US was not impacted by the shitshow:

https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709195892195329
Perhaps you are correct. Maybe it's better to not correct people on the internet when what they were saying is technically incorrect, but otherwise understandable.
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I have about 30 years of coding experience, try again. C++ to Python, C to Go. Often I want to get shit done and not marvel at how smart I am.
This makes a lot of sense. Stop Losses suck