skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there truth to the U.S. sending money to Ukraine -> Ukraine funding FTX -> FTX being 2nd largest donor to Democratic party in the U.S.?

Timeline:

- April 25, 2019: Biden announces his presidential campaign.

- 13 days later, Sam Bankman-Fried, son of Barbara Fried (co-founder of political fundraising organizations), launched FTX crypto exchange.

- The exchange is an overnight success. Sam Bankman-Fried (SBM) becomes biggest donor to Biden.

- Most of the FTX team is reported to have flown to Hong Kong now, so China, the CCP is their safe haven?
Oh, well you’ll get to post something to HN that’s “written in Rust”, isn’t that enough?

/s
Blame is not a scarce commodity. There's plenty to go around.
> My point stands, and that is that things have gotten past a melting point because no one wants to exit their insulated echo chambers

including you because your descriptions are not at all why people voted for Trump.

The guy publicly stood in front of a bunch of businessmen who were planning on taking more manufacturing overseas and told them if they did so he was going to tax the shit out of their imports.

In the late 90's people started ordering drugs from Canada, websites started popping up allowing it. Until it was made illegal to do because these Canadian drugs weren't approved by the FDA (just by the Canadian version of it).

Trump got rid of that law. None of the democratic presidents, including Obama, were willing to do it.

Everyone always thinks their bubble is the non-bubble.
Already gone, do you have a mirror?
Or the opposite. Short bitcoin or whatever
When I was two I started wondered how I could reconsile my qualia with determinism. But when I was three I read Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant and laid the matter to rest.
I always find these "which is real" comparisons interesting because there is always some type of distrotion around the borders of the face, like the AI has a good idea what a face looks like but things get fuzzy when it tries to create the stray hairs a person always has sticking out.
And so the whole house of cards starts to come crashing down...
For general development not that much, but for cutting edge machine learning research, it would be a pretty significant hit.
No, that's exactly it. People love the idea of decentralization and doing things on your own, except then they realize that it's actually kind of hard to be off-exchange and still be liquid (whatever the hell that means in crypto-land).

So basically no real change except they're much more exposed to risk (fraud and market swings notwithstanding)
What is meant by "the time the Microsoft Windows/Intel x86 juggernaut was stumbling with their mass market Windows 3.11 replacement"? The way I remember this time is x86/Windows PCs exploding in popularity and Mac declining. But maybe that's a distorted view of a home rather than business user.

What was the target market of a desktop PC running AIX at the time?
This is rather a simplistic view with the wrong conclusion of what the education means to our society and culture. The scientific progress has always been carried out by a small percent of population, and not a mass process. Its only recent when the education was made available to the masses.

I also suspect the author mistakes the term education for kwoledge. And yes, some knowledge is lost, but that is due the technological progress. It's always been that way.
murder implies intent, use accurate wording or you lose people like me that are interested in reality.
In a regulated market sure, but here they seem to be trading with customer assets - which is so much worse.
Developer Archetypes: Leverage Your Differences
The `satisfies` operator – Learning TypeScript
TypeScript 4.9 introduces a new operator, satisfies, that allows opting into a different kind of type inference from the type system's default. satisfies brings the best of type annotations and default type inference together in a useful manner.
That also really stuck out to me.

"We're aren't sure customer's recorded balances are accurate and it may be possible for money to simply appear or disappear in our system, but we definitely have enough money to pay out everyone's balance (which as already mentioned is inaccurate)"
From my understanding the way layoffs were handled at meta for most ppl on visas the 60 day count down was not triggered until 2 months into severance
You have couple years of savings and yet you worry. You are going to be awesome dad.

I am afraid of being poor anytime and never want to have kids. I never buy Elon Musks populate earth nonsense who did fire people in so indecent manner.
He writes whatever he wants to write about.

And he would argue, he can't control what he wants to write about.

What makes you want to make him not want to write what he wants to write about?

Well, unfortunately, you can't control it either!
You have to be. There is no money to be made at 0 fee exchanges unless you lend the money out or give unfavorable swap rates
Whenever people need to withdraw, "systems can't handle load" is a constant theme with crypto exchanges or is this an overstatement?
Actually, this seems like a rather interesting defense of crypto. To use the metaphor, did the trough create the pigs? Or did it only draw a horde of pre-existing pigs to one place? Perhaps the amount of quasi-criminals that we are seeing in the crypto sector right now is just a sign that crypto was highly successful and not a condemnation of crypto in and of itself.
I have tried to answer to your last paragraph in 2 or 3 different ways but it's such a complex argument I don't think I'm smart enough to express simply and eloquently in a forum comment.

But I very much appreciate the food for thought and input you've given me.
That is a really interesting thought. Thank you. Now that you mention it, I'm thinking that having a conscience means getting "false alarms" sometimes. One way some people choose to prevent that is to disable the alarm instead of fixing the actual problem. I'm sure anyone who has worked in tech for any amount of time has seen the literal form of that.
German antitrust watchdog widens Amazon probe under new regulation
I am no fan of that ashwagandha stuff that his mentor pushes. Your mileage may vary but for me it has half the anti-anxiety effect of valium and twice the "make you stupid" effect.
And thats why in UK almost 100 people burned alive in a skyscraper that was built in breach of all fire safety rules. It turns out noone is responsible- not the architect, builders, builder owner and management, or the fire safety inspector.

The only charges brought in relation to this incident, where against people making offensive jokes about it on social media.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10734735/Property-t...
There's a cool tool to detect regexes like these in your code: https://github.com/doyensec/regexploit

(disclosure: I work for Doyensec)
Binance and bybit offer 0% fees on spot, but you usually want some kind of leverage, so you pay interest in your margin loan.

If you are not a small retail and want to trade crypto, you usually need to use futures - which are associated with fees - because of liquidity and tighter spreads.
What was the other node alternative that was faster? I was going to try it out, but can't remember it. Deno seems too much of a change.
bitfinex.
What sort of due diligence would you have liked to see, and what do you expect it would have turned up? It was public that FTX money came from running a crypto exchange, but that FTX's CEO (SBF) secretly diverted customer funds to his hedge fund (Alameda) doesn't seem like something people would have discovered in due diligence. Major investors, with lots of money on the line, also didn't catch this.
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For me it was Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman’s 30x500[1].

Before I participated I struggled to see how it was possible to know there were people willing to pay for something before building it.

[1] https://30x500.com/academy/
I will second Ace & Tate.
I have three pairs, two of which have a clip on.
Very happy customer.
I recently learned calculus from the Herb Gross series from 1974. The way he explains things just clicked, after numerous failed attempts to learn from other sources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRWDuduuSw&list=PL3B08AE665...
I had a very poor model of what people meant when they spoke of divinity, god, and religion until reading the Tao Te Ching. Whenever I heard god, I just thought of sky daddy. The key is to understand that religion is a map, not the territory. All religions are essentially different paths to the same destination, mixed with varying levels of human interpretation.
I believe the reality is that people can change their minds about that too, though. I did.

I never wanted animals to suffer in the first place, but once upon a time I did think of it as an unfortunate consequence of a natural order of things. If I can chance my point of view on that, others can too. I think it’s worth trying.
> No CDN required (static files, not that much traffic).

Shops with actual traffic might need a CDN.

> If you're a small business owner you're either not affected by GDPR, or you're doing something shady.

Well, apparently I can't use Shopify despite having no interest in tracking, ads or any kind of analytics.
Rekwest – v4 – fetch-alike node client
Well, if you are fealing lucky that is a possibility as well,

This book has a Windows game, with DirectX, written in Assembly,

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Tricks-Trade-Premier-Deve...
But was that the reason it collapsed? Matt Levine thinks it's something else[1] (tl;dr: bad loans given to alameda research backed by FTT tokens). 8% pretty close to the rates that decentralized lending protocols provided[2]. There might be other issues with the product (eg. inadequate disclosures), but if it does what it's promised (eg. invest your money into decentralized lending protocols and/or yield farming) and the underlying product collapsed that's not really a ponzi any more a ETF composed of junk bonds going under is a ponzi.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-09/bankma...

[2] https://www.gemini.com/earn says that 1inch is providing 8.05% APY right now
"An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus" by Greg Michaelson - takes you on a journey from very basic lambda calculus, to how that evolves quite naturally into an ML-like language: https://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/books/gjm.lambook88.pdf

We covered lambda calculus at university (at HW actually) and I'd played with SML/NJ and OCaml before. But seeing the lambda calculus abstractions being constructed over and over to create numbers (which I'd covered) and types and things, then finally become recognisable as ML was a real "ahaaa" moment for me.
Also relevant:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/yty80b/maybe_the_...
> I found the concept of free will at odds with my opinion that the brain and physics are very deterministic.

IMO, this is the prime example of theory vs practice. In my opinion, our universe is deterministic at a theoretical level, but will never be practically deterministic.

* Everything is likely made of a fundamental building block that can be predicted and modeled. In isolation, there is a small enough system that can be represented deterministically.

* The universe is far, far too complex to apply determinism in any meaningful way.

* Any device able to model the determinism of the universe at a fundamental would itself be non-deterministic. That devices would either (1) need to model itself - which would be infinitely recursive since the model of itself would also need to model itself (2) isolated from the universe - which is currently impossible and also implies that our universe is a simulation within another system (3) operate on abstractions/simplifications - which leaves room for error.

* Finally, determinism is only practically useful if it can be used to (1) repeatedly generate the same results for the same inputs (2) or, predict the results based on knowing the inputs.

* 1. This will never be possible because we operate within the system being modeled. That system progresses forward and the same inputs can never be utilized more than once (some variable somewhere would be different).

* 2. We are so incredibly far from modeling determinism that it's still impossible to predict results for known inputs. There will always be unknown in a model that leads to error.
Even if a journalist is too scared to criticize an apparent billionaire, that's no excuse for getting onto that billionaires gravy train and writing articles about how great the billionaire is. If they were too scared to do their job properly, they should at least have kept their mouths shut and said nothing. They didn't have to take the money of the guy they feared, and they didn't have to write nice things about him.

What's he going to do, sue you for libel for saying nothing at all?
Bird overstated shared electric scooter revenue for 2 years
(*stealing their customers’ money, but I can’t edit it without making it seem like you’re replying to something else entirely)

Okay, but that’s only half of what OP said. They’re also trading on customer assets. That is an extremely bad thing no matter how you look at it.
My question too! They say a goal is [1]:

> Be more extensible than great things like Concourse.ci

There's a "Bob vs the rest of the CI tools" section in the docs, but none of it really applies to Concourse.

[1] https://bob-cd.github.io/pages/why-bob.html
no that's not it, I have opinions as well, I didn't say I didn't have them. I wanted to hear a genuine opinion and tried to ask a stranger for it, is that so bad? For some people, maybe behind the hateful rhetoric some of them see and some of them do, there would be other reasons for their alignment, maybe good reasons which in actuality would have nothing to do with Trump, and could be debated as political issues on their own merit, and is it wrong to be curious about that?

The problem is that people immedietly put people into either against or with, and the whole rhetoric is so tribalistic since it always ends up being so emotional as well. Instead of talking about interesting issues, it's just these one dimensional soundbite opinions.

But what do you really mean? You think that hearing a person out without immedietly announcing my political stances is wrong? Could the issue be that you are tired of injustice and think of people as 'enablers' immedietly if they are not in opposition?

In the spirit of openness, I don't have problems admitting my politicals views, I never liked Trumps political agendas or the person himself. And I think what he did is not ok, and I'm bewildered that he hasn't been brought to court, or gone to jail. Doesn't mean I can't hear other people's opinions without shouting my alignemnts first, which seems unproductive tbh.
It sounds like what you built just isn't that critical. Sure you could try to blackmail your old company, but why? If you really think it's that useful a tool, can't you just write it again and rid yourself of the IP entanglements?

Probably your employer doesn't see the value of what you built, which means they're unlikely to give you much for it anyway. What if you wrote the new version and then offered it to them with a discounted support contract?
The Complete ZX Spectrum ROM Disassembly

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2000076/Book/The_Compl...

Made me realise that no part of a computer is magic! Masses of function squashed into its small memory, and a good reference for implementing rough math functions. One of a handful of books I still have.
Is it? There's no reserve rate on the books but there's still a natural interest rate. And I'd estimate that for something like Bitcoin it's sky high. That's how it produced massive returns with no equity or assets. When Bitcoin was first launched, economists said the mining and splitting algorithm would be massively deflationary and that seems to have come true.
Crypto doesn't pose an existential threat to the NYT business model like social media and search do. I.e. The NYT is in the advertising business. Google, Facebook, et al are direct competitors.
I think the link time optimization work is amazing as well. Calling out to different languages can really suck without whole program optimization, even if both the rust and the c++ sides are fully optimized, but taking the LLVM bit code of each and then running optimizations those bridges that gap.
> The desktop OS is a dying product. If everyone could do their work on their phones and tablets, they would.

Count me out of this brave new world of tiny screens and crappy UI/UX.
Also not your cheese if you bought BTC any time in the last few years. Without the exchanges, and especially without investor confidence, the days of wild speculation are ending. The price is going to continue to fall and everyone with BTC in their personal wallets gets to take a haircut too.
Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins
> Apparently nobody does this anymore, and gives their wallets to these exchanges (i.e. banks) and balks when the obvious happens in pyramid schemes.

The name of the game is pump and dump, you can't play the game (speculation) if you're not on the field (the exchange).

Crypto's marketing is 'financial freedom' as in get-rich-quick, not free as in libre.
I've had things I wanted to want, but didn't want. They were usually things that would have put me closer to the values of a group I was involved in.

An off-the-top-of-my-head example would be talking with friends about video games, and they start talking about physical art from the game that they bought and enjoy. I don't like having little knick-knacks around the the house, and I don't get enjoyment from them. But I see the joy they get from them, and I want that, too.

So I want to want those things, but I still don't want them.
I actually think PG is exploring something that is at the heart of what it means to be a human being.

Interestingly, the traditional teaching of Original Sin is that we are broken at the level of what we 'want'. The phrase commonly used is 'disordered desire'.

The key idea here is that if you want the wrong things, you are not actually free, even if you perceive yourself as choosing freely. As a corollary, the more you practice the good, the more you desire it, and the freer you become.
It’s a quote from soul of a new machine that has haunted me for years.
I think the confusing part to the parent comment is that they don't understand that your GPL license infects their project, but not the code they write for that project (which can be MIT or Apache).

Personally, I'm not a big fan of licenses like GPL and BSL, but you do you. I just won't use your product.
At least for me -- and I'm certain I'm not alone on this -- what makes a question interesting is not the question itself but rather how one approaches it.

To what extent humans and other life forms have agency is a question one can approach with things like neuroscience or with things like vacuous word salad.

> The trouble is that much of philosophy is castles built on sand.

Most serious philosophers would agree with the idea that scientific evidence is a good way to rule out beliefs inconsistent with reality.

Almost zero serious economists are marxists, almost zero serious philosophers embrace Spinoza with no revisions, and please don't read Ayn Rand.
It reminded me of the Private Eye headline, “Woman gives birth to child”.

The clickbaity headline in this case would be about a spy agency not using computer network exploitation.
FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried Sit in the Crosshairs of U.S. Prosecutors
What Is Habituation and Its Role in the Modern World
Tale as old as time... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2RYhNhBdw
Hey, thanks for reading! That is possibly a solution I could take. At the time I was focused mainly on getting something shipped asap.

It's been working well so far, although I did run into that issue of having more than 30 posts, so the oldest ones have already fallen off. Oops!
Core team member of rrweb here: I've seen a number of tools do as you suggest so I think stepping away from video for the dom makes sense.

PS. Linkkraft looks cool
Combining this with an infinite universe theory, it could also just be random noise intentionally introduced to a specific "instance" of a universe.
I found this exchange between Sam Bankman-Fried and Matt Levine to be pretty revealing:

> SBF: (26:43) And they’re like ‘10X’ that's insane. 1X is the norm.’ And so then, you know, X token price goes way up. And now it's $130 million market cap token because of, you know, the bullishness of people's usage of the box. And now all of a sudden of course, the smart money's like, oh, wow, this thing's now yielding like 60% a year in X tokens. Of course I'll take my 60% yield, right? So they go and pour another $300 million in the box and you get a psych and then it goes to infinity. And then everyone makes money.

> Matt: (27:13) I think of myself as like a fairly cynical person. And that was so much more cynical than how I would've described farming. You're just like, well, I'm in the Ponzi business and it's pretty good.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/sam-bankm...
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python (2021)
> Not everyone can afford to self host a secure Gitea.

..what??
When bosses walk in employees’ shoes
Reality has much higher polygon count, and much better texture mapping.
Index funds means buying stock in every fraudulent company on the market, and inflating the price of merely decent companies. It's freeloading off of real investors doing intelligent capital allocation, and it's going to come crashing down.
When it comes to frames, you can buy cheaper frames if you don't care about the brand and put whatever lenses you want in them, but you don't want to use cheap lenses, as those don't offer fantastic visual clarity and could even damage your eyesight if not properly fitted.

Some of the online shops that offer cheap lenses, like Zenni won't really be as good quality as some Zeiss ones. It's about a lot more than just the blue filter and how thin they are.
Can you go work at the same place as that guy does? That seems a simpler solution than building or bringing in a large bureaucracy (a union) that is another leech in your paycheck, and makes your employer less flexible to deal with changing market conditions.
Bun?[1]

Which is a bigger change then Deno, as that is basically node with some more stuff included (same engine, lead developer, similar attitude towards standard library etc.), whereas Bun is using the JavaScript Core engine from Safari.

[1]: https://bun.sh
Assessing Police Use of Facial Recognition
Same but I focused on their expressions. Faces with expression “we are taking a picture of me” were fakes.

But that being said, all the pictures were insanely convincing and I picked fakes only because I knew I had to pick one and not because I knew one was fake.
A new report says oil and gas flaring releases 5x more methane than known
Bun is probably what you're thinking of.

https://bun.sh
After going to an expensive opticians for a good few years, I thought I'd get a "fun" second pair of glasses at one of the new optician chains, Ace & Tate. When they arrived the lenses were rubbish quality - I hadn't realised how lucky I was to have used a really good optician from the get-go. When I went back to him, tail between my legs, he explained a lot of what a sibling comment says about lightness, refractive index etc. I have Zeiss lenses in my glasses - if you can afford good lenses, they're absolutely worth it.