skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really disappointing that Marc went in this direction and continues to double down in flirting with what increasingly looks like unregistered securities.

Bubbles have come and go in the past and have ruined those who have been leveraged in their foolish stubborn future.

Unlike the Internet, which novelty quickly exploded into useful utilities that power much of our modern reality, blockchain, crypto have after 10+ years proven they are void pits of brining out the worst in people: greed.

It's sad that internet's earliest pioneer's endeavours and character have been building up to commit the biggest grift in human history.

Have a bottle of screaming eagles that I will open when Marc goes to prison after the politicians look for people to execute publicly when millions of its voters demand justice. Although I question whether such justice will be carried out in our modern America.

"All our heroes are counterfeit, the world itself is just one big ponzi"
Nearly a decade after mtgox and this insanity has only grown.
It’s not unreasonable to say I could build my own without having to reverse engineer the data format though.

I only lose the convenience of Obsidian, not the data I spent years building.
I think this is the macro. People are freezing hiring
That's like saying why does crime happen, are there no laws?

He broke plenty of regulations by co-mingling customer funds, trading deposits, and it seems just recently flat out stealing.
Exactly. Imagine if a wealthy person were to fund a terrorist to harm people, won't the wealthy person also be called a terrorist?

The money these vcs invest is not their own either. They get this money from their lps. Lp should also investigate them...and so should the government. Funding scam boys cannot go unscathed. At leat shut them down
> You let someone else hold your crypto currencies, don't take the time to check if the said people holding your money has any validity and then you lose all your money? it unfortunately is your fault for trusting a scammer

Sequoia and their team of analysts, lawyers, etc did not see anything wrong with FTX. You expect individual investors to be able to research and see something wrong?
It will be tested by youtubers and we will get a bit better view if we buy 2nd hand gears or this one.
Wow, you really added to the conversation. I just want to thank you for the effort you put into this insightful comment. We all know so much more about Charles de Gaulle airport now. This kind of content is was keeps me on HN.
Susannah Melvoin is the twin sister of Wendy Melvoin, who was Prince's guitarist in the Revolution for several years.

The stories that both have from their tenures with Prince could fill several very readable tomes.
FYI this should have (2016) in the title. The first paragraph talking about HN appears to be referring to some old moderation drama that was recent when posted.
Bahamas Regulator Says It Didn't Order FTX to Reopen Local Withdrawals
VC is an insider’s game. I know of 9 figure acquisitions that have been done as favors. There is real value and productive companies funded but a lot of nonsense and shell games as well.
that is unfortunately a common misconception among artists on Twitter (however representative that group is)
I doubt that, for a big company there are always a bunch of roles. It would be unusual to get through the interview process successfully and then be dumped after they've made the effort because there was another good candidate. My experience with big companies, on both sides, is that they would make an effort to place someone.
You can’t auth directly to your server from a Plex app with a local account anymore? I thought you could still at some point in the past but haven’t tried it in awhile. I know you can still do that from a web browser (I believe)..
I check on Jellyfin every few months. So far I still prefer the Plex UI, apps and feature set (especially all the AI based music playlist stuff in plexamp) but I'll switch over as soon as I think the alternatives are competitive.
It's actually about the SOL prototype as published with plans in the July 1976 issue of Popular Electronics. Probably only a single machine was ever completed, which was functional for a short period. A few PCBs were ordered, but the design was withdrawn in favor of what became the SOL 20 (with the authors, Bob Marsh and Lee Felsenstein, actively urging customers to wait for redesigned boards).

Compare the first video in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYx0s8SBC9Q
Who has hardware for transcoding any more, and what hardware is modern for that?

Last dedicated hardware encoder I used was bad old days of MPEG2 for DVDs, but that went the way of the dodo when MPEG2 went native to the CPU. Never used hardware for h.264/5. I guess there was a board for J2k doing realtime lossless, but that was 2010ish.

So I'm legit curious what hardware transcoding looks like today, and that Plex charges for the pleasure
Adventure does not meet many of the criteria you mention, and yet is one of the best games for the 2600. It also happens to date from the 1970s!
Actually, there is widespread use of what are called clinical decision support systems (CDSS). But, one of the primary problems with these systems is they generate a large number of false positives and negatives depending on the context.

You still need a physician/nurse/pharmacist to "hand fly the plane". In my own practice, they have been useful to an extent, but they are light years away from automating away clinicians.
Ethan Klein on steroids and nootropics
Just read the story, he was there in search of his mom.

Why would you want to send him back to Iran?

Ya he could've gone anyone and live as hermit, but this doesn't make the story less unfair.

He has gotten way less compared to what he has generated for the movie industry.
Why talk in absolutes? “Nobody wants to be their own bank” wrong, I prefer to be my own bank. Secondly, a deed is exactly what could go on the blockchain.
True, there's a problem with the way it's implemented. But developers rarely have a choice on how PMs manage their projects. Agile just doesn't work for long term projects. It leads to junk code that developers hope they will fix later or long hours for them trying to meet deadlines. A lot of the time it's both.
As soon as there is an Apple TV app I will switch. Infuse is... "fine", but I want an official app.
When you look at the thousands of command line utilities available for Linux/Unix etc, it's hard to think of anything that hasn't been already done or easily accomplished by scripting existing utilities. Furthermore, people who prefer CLI (TUI is a less common term) tend to be more technical and far fewer in number than potential GUI users.
The thing with Kodi is you set it once and then you pretty much forget about it. I'm not sure what plugins you need because for playing media off a SMB share or local drive it has everything included out-of-the-box. There is some configuration but, once again, its a one-time thing.

I've installed it on dozens of devices over the years (OG xbox, windows boxen, an nvidia shield, raspberry pi clones) and it is and has been amazingly consistent and low-maintenance.
If I tried to sell my story, I wouldn’t even be able to buy a tent with the proceeds. Maybe 250k isn’t such a bad deal for the rights to his story.
“This guy is going to dupe so many people into believing in him.” is roughly how the thinking goes.

A religious sect, a monorail, electron state in a machine; it’s all a path to a magical future.
No one has asked: what is the pain point with using make? Because the answer will depend on that.

Otherwise vanilla JS on the web is a good option to avoid build systems. There are a lot of bundler services that provide URLs to import dependencies right there in the file. For example if you need d3 or similar you still don’t need to
build.

I believe you can make chrome extensions without a build too. Not sure about electron, I don’t recall but probably you do although maybe not in the development/iteration process.
So internet's tell me Twitter claimed 273M daily monetisable users, seems at peak.

Divided by 15,000 employed, that's around 18,000 users per employee.

This doesn't seem excessively challenging.

I realise it's not linear, but has anyone tried to run some more relevant basic benchmarks as to what a "right size" twitter staffing number might be?
I had this as a kid. It was very difficult to enter text. The whole experience was underwhelming, unfortunately. Thank you to my parents who bought it for me. I’m a programmer to this day.
I honestly still believe the hype and feel this way about SBF. Call me naive but I think he is a good person. Sometimes good people do really stupid things. Sometimes if you just think about the numbers and financial system you can make yourself believe that you are doing “clever accounting”. It seems this was likely fraudulent although much remains to be disclosed. That’s why I am so disappointed. I really think he would have been a good leader and done great things. Additionally, this space will pay such a price for what he is done.

Counterpoint: Maybe he was egocentric and if not an outright grifter, someone who played it fast because they thought they had the midas touch. Believing that “only I” can make these choices and take these risks because I am so talented those things will never happen to me.

All around, it has been a pretty bad week for SBF, Crypto and alternative finance.
Wow, I did exactly this yesterday.
Went super smoothly, and Android, Google TV clients work fine, as does Chromecast. Android Auto support not great but at least did play the music I told it to which is the main thing I guess.

Not any good desktop clients that aren't Electron garbage, but Plex is no better here.

First party docs for setting up Nginx in front of Jellyfin were Really Freaking Good. Like Arch Wiki levels of good.

Put the lot on a Tailscale IP and now I have access to my Jellyfin from anywhere - including, surprisingly, from my chromecast where the the Tailscale app installed without a hitch.

There's an interesting comparison actually between Plex and Tailscale.. both are sorta-in-the-universe-of-open-source-but-not-actually... but I know which one I trust and which one can go and get bent.
This. They act well as warning systems in case you may have missed something, but they don't solve the issue very well of who to work up in the first place or how to do it.
Is it possible to run a crypto exchange 'honestly'?

Ie. Actually holding all the assets you claim to hold?

I suspect the answer might be no... If you were to set up an honest exchange today, you would be outcompeted by dishonest exchanges who spend all their customer deposits on marketing schemes, referral bonuses, liquidity incentives, etc.
I suspect it’s because Chamath called them out on this weeks all in pod.
There are max. 2 millions TOR users, but everybody can access the website hosted on IPFS (7 billions). TOR is sensitive to DDoS attack, IPFS; it is not. Ipfs is permanent web.

BTW. Onion sites are not private. Law enforcement can access the onion sites in the same way as others. It just appears private. A cop in undercover can appear like an ordinary citizen and purchase dope from a dealer.
It's unfortunately like this with quite a bit of our technology that emerges from the for profit landscape. Companies work hard to guard and legally build a mote around what could be even more valuable technology if proliferated to more thinkers and problem solvers, because that's more profitable to a small segment of investors in the near term. It doesn't matter if its even more beneficial to our world as a whole to let that idea loose, if it means putting a personal cash cow at risk. It also leads to overall ossified process. It really seems that we can't get anything done as a society unless we've greatly incentivized an opportunity for a lucky few to profit. Sure, we are great at delivering new cellphones across the globe and turning that into enormous profits for shareholders, but not really effective at the things that actually matter, like getting a hold of our emissions so they don't reshape our environment faster than we can adapt to it, or protecting genetic diversity among species that is necessary for adaptation and the emergence of traits that we could all benefit from.

To those working on closed source software: fight for it to be opened. Share the knowledge you've painstakingly gained, leave the ladder down behind you, do humanity a service by leaving behind your notes. You will find that its even easier to prove your worth as an engineer for new opportunities if you can point to the very commits you've pushed to the public source code.
You can change the frequency to be as short as you want, fyi.
> If he wrote a book and sold it he would've made much more than that.

What makes you think that? Most books don’t net that much profit.

The movie did well because it has a compelling story, yes, but also because it involves Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
Euclidean rhythms
This thread has a lot of good info

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/yth3g7/plane_cras...
Nitter link: https://farside.link/nitter/zuccjet
Well the Minbari were losing souls to humans. I don't recall if that was fully explained in implication. The Vorlon are an example of what you said, individually powerful and long lived so no need to breed.
ClockJS – The fast, responsive, lightweight, easy-to-use JavaScript clock plugin
I worked at a company with the mission statement "To deliver well-qualified users to customers." Yeah, claiming it's your personal mission statement wouldn't go over so well.
Heh. The 1% are mostly the very successful predators and their heirs.

They buy/make a lot of rules, but there's still (currently) a ton more to constrain predation.

(The more money you have, of course, the easier it is to game a more complex system...)
The pubkey is only secure if the software you downloaded from GitHub, all its dependencies, GitHub itself and all its dependencies, your Browser and all its dependencies and your OS and all its dependencies were neither faulty or malicious at the time you created it.

Otherwise the pubkey might have been created in a way that makes it easy to guess for someone in your supply chain.
Because there's crypto, and then there's "crypto".

While FTX & co. don't match the technical blockchain-based definition of crypto, they are what people think of when they talk about the crypto ecosystem, and are part of the crypto hype chain.

If we filter the crypto market to only the true not-my-keys-not-my-coin crowd, the market wouldn't be anywhere near as large and influential as it is today.
My point is that actually while everyone knows tether is a fraud, it was not actually obvious SBF was a fraud. Unless you're relying on a generic "everything crypto is fraud" heuristic (which, fine, but not clear why SBF would merit special attention before this week)
I mean it's just the way "pure capitalists" think. "It's okay if I fuck over this guy because I gave him -some- money for it". If you make me rich with something I bought off you (patent, book, something you dug up), I'm going to make you rich back. I may not give you half but I'll give you a chonk and not a rounding error, especially if you're destitute.
Tether is decentralised in the sense that other stable coins can compete. In reality though a basket of even multiple of these coins would still feel too risky to me. Especially as I am already eating inflation on it! And banks can pay interest now.
You can have the library update on change or at set time intervals if the auto detect doesn’t work.

See this article:

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289306-scanning-vs-refre...
It's worse than copying parts of images, it's replacing artists.

I know because I'm literally working on setting up Dreambooth to do what I'd otherwise have to pay an artist to do.

And not only is it replacing artists, it's using their own work to do so. None of these could exist without being trained on the original artwork.

Surely you can imagine why they're largely not happy?
The big problem here is that it trains the artists style and allows third parties to create art in their style without effort. This is especially bad for artists with really distinct style as now hundreds of copycats can come and steal the previously unique style.
> For me, it was simply a gut feeling. I’ve been talking to founders and doing deep dives into technology companies for decades. It’s been my entire professional life as a writer. And because of that experience, there must be a pattern-matching algorithm churning away somewhere in my subconscious. I don’t know how I know, I just do. SBF is a winner.

This is a fantastic insight into journalists. They need to fit their story into a narrative. If you match their stereotype, then they'll spin whatever tale they can imagine to convince themselves that it's really true. The level of self-deception that's needed is difficult to comprehend for me.
I'd imagine it's a step up for someone who lived in an airport for 18 years.
Human behaviour.

But also, it's predicting human behaviour, like a trader attempting to get in front of the trade flood. There's going to be pain as a result of further dominoes falling that were propped up against FTX, and this will result in a shark-like media feeding frenzy that will scare off, for years, any (potential) retail traders that weren't already in the game.

You're not wrong, it's just that humans are more emotion driven than logic driven. Logic requires effort and second-order thinking, emotion is passive; involuntary.

There's also the very real distinction between Bitcoin (and Ethereum) and "the rest"; the other fucking thousands of 'projects' that has VC / insider distributions and haven't had the time to decentralise and / spread themselves amongst a large group and still have the ability to be controlled by a central entity.

I'm no Bitcoin maxi, but I'm inching closer, which is not the direction that progress should be taking me, and it's due to fraudsters corrupting the ideals, and seemingly being in The majority as it relates to founding projects and services in the cryptocurrency space.
When I mention journalistic sensationalism it was a criticism, not a challenge.
Expressing genuine interest in their problem space and challenges will get you further than feigned agreeableness.
Discussed to dupeshreds the last 48 hours at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549059

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33571734

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33573636
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/12/1-billion-to-2-billion-of-ft...

Seems like a good person wouldn't build a backdoor to siphon off funds without triggering the checks and balances. This requires planning and clear evidence of intent to commit a serious felonies amongst others.
This link points to the archive because the original story has been deleted.

>>"Nothing is a sure bet in crypto, but just the possibility that FTX could join—or even eclipse—the big four of American banking (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank) means it’s already valued at $32 billion. SBF himself has amassed more wealth in a shorter period of time than anyone else, ever."

This is interesting because it is estimated that his 16 billion to zero destruction of wealth has been estimated to also be the fastest "of anyone ever"
How little I remember of my own history.

It is so fragmented in the many years that have past.
Open Source does not help here. You cannot read all that code you downloaded with all its dependencies and understand it. Its much too complex.
glad you enjoyed it. I wish I could have been there to witness your reacton.
Updated this month? Incredible that people still see value in this so many years later!
https://archive.ph/3678z
It makes sense. I suspect(guess) it can change orbits. It would be a great tool to inspect other satellites at close range.
FYI;

* @securedrop at fosstodon : https://fosstodon.org/@securedrop
Sequoia rejected me wearing my best blazer because I chuckled when they asked my plan to make 100B - I should have just said I was a diamond support, eh? Haha
> thinks it is literally copying parts of people's images

It is. Changing the colors a bit doesn't make it not a copy, just like Copilot changing variable names doesn't make it not an unlicensed copy of someone else's code.
GPU accelerated transcoding. Skylake and newer i3 or higher Intel iGPUs can do simultaneous transcode of 20x 1080p streams without breaking a sweat.
> With abundance of clean energy that nuclear can provide, we can drive fast, procreate a lot, and eat globally.

You're thinking only of energy, but the world we live in is more way, way complex than that. Keep that up and we're living on Trantor, or Coruscant, not the Earth.

Anecdotally, and I have no reason to doubt this, 200 species go extinct every day.

Most people only know about 200 people. Imagine if one day you woke up and suddenly everyone you knew -- family, friends, colleauges, aquaintences, the people you see behind the checkout -- was gone. Just gone.

Imagine that happening every day.

Or maybe you have 1,000 followers on Twitter. Imagine every day you lost 200 of them. After 5 days, you don't have any followers.

So: 1,000 species gone every 5 days. Less than a week. You do the math for a year.

And that's just one angle on the problem. Another is that we are poisoning ourselves: plastics are endocrine disrupters. Microplastics are a serious environmental problem. We are using materials in our day-to-day life that haven't been proven safe to actually use. Nobody did studies to see if the things you are using are safe: they just wait until they're proven problematic and then "phase them out" over 5 years ... if you're in a country that does that (some countries still use DDT which is persistant and fucking toxic).

And you're right that our actions alone won't solve the CO2 problem, or most other environmental problems. That needs to happen at a government and corporate level. But it's our responsibility to put pressure on those institutions.

And you can make changes locally that affect your sphere of life. We live on a farm and have planted the landscape back, in places, with thousands of trees. These support birds, insects and small animals. It reclaims a little of what was lost. It doesn't make a huge difference in the broader sense, but it makes a big difference in the lives of other creatures.
There is a piece of text just below that reads:

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Playing the hiring manager's advocate:

Why should I hire you if you don't like my mission, my tech stack or my culture when there are clearly a bunch of talented people who do like all of them?

Would it not serve both of us for you to shut up, be grateful for the work while you keep looking for that perfect fit? Or even better, just keep looking and I'll keep looking for someone who genuinely likes the way we do things.
Yep. There is also generally vague language saying your job includes "other duties as required." The end result of these "agreements" are essentially generic and as useless as the paper their printed on (which is usually none these days.) One would be wasting their time and money talking to lawyers, though I'm sure they'd take it anyway.
You don’t have to fail an interview to not get a job. You just have to not be the best.

Maybe someone else answered questions faster or more confidently. Maybe someone else’s background is more aligned. Maybe someone else clicks more.

Remember there is the minimum score to get a job and the competitive score.

There is no such thing as “finding excuses” for the most part. They didn’t like you, didn’t feel confident in you, or liked someone else better.

Are you really answering questions correctly? I’ve never seen an interview where I can confidently say I answered everything absolutely correctly, meaning “the most correct”. Asked the best questions, answered the most optimal algorithm, explained it the smoothest way possible, etc.

If you think you have, you likely have a perception problem. Ask yourself those questions again, video record yourself answering them and watch yourself.