skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marc Identified several indicia of fraud:
1) He acknowledged SBF and the CTO, Gary Wang, are worth billions, however the money materialized out of nowhere.

This is highly irregular and a potential indicator of a scam on the backs of retail investors.

2) He noted the chief regulatory officer of FTX, Dan Friedberg, was the general counsel for a poker site that defrauded its players.

A big red flag for anyone thinking of interacting with FTX in any way.

3) SBF has a record of deploying capital poorly (making losing investments and falling for scams) and he provided no good rationale for making these bad bets

A clear sign he isn't a good businessman and it creates even more skepticism that FTX could be viable.

4) He sees through their obvious attempts to paint a rosy picture of SBF and FTX with their very vague but positive marketing, but no ability to explain concretely what is positive about FTX, what their business model is (why the founders are getting so rich!)

These things are "smelly". They are like "code smells". On their own, they don't necessarily indicate anything, but taken together they could be an indication of much deeper problems with the codebase.

Marc was saying that the microscope needed to be put on FTX, SBF, and Gary Wang ASAP, because things stunk to high heaven. He was saying questions needed to be answered and the fact they were seemingly purposely being evaded was a big red flag to him.
The image was from a 'book' published in 2022, so probably around 4-6 years old being generous as it is the 5th edition.

https://matmatch.com/resources/blog/advanced-high-strength-s...

AHSS is essentially steel at its core but is very hard to move once damaged, unlike 16 or 18 gauge pure stamped steel in an early 70's era car for example, that was superseded by the high strength low alloys (HSLA) in the late 1970's. If you hammer and dolly the older pure steels there will be a 'memory' of the original stamping it will reconform too. The newer HSLA alloys were much less malleable

It is amazing how fast this world has evolved in the last five years.

High strength 'steel' has a low alloying and carbon content to retain formability and weldability, with copper, titanium, vanadium, and niobium added for strengthening purposes. These are complex alloys that replaced the earlier HSLA and are both very hard to work and also to recycle.
That's wild - I'm sorry to hear that, it sounds unnerving. I wonder if there are other passive ways to prevent sleepwalking - like a weighted blanket to make it harder for your sleepy self to get out of bed? Pardon my naivete...
"It's just a simple change."

Listen, I've arm chaired with the best of them, but I've learned it's not wise. You can pretend you have a better understanding of their architecture and numbers, but the reality is, getting riled up over this is the real nonsense.
I'd propose replacing "indefinitely" with "until the systems it interacts with require changing it". It takes surprisingly short time for a mobile app that is written to current standards to turn into something that doesn't run on latest updated OS version. It's a good point that selling software indefinitely isn't possible. There are only a limited amount of people who want the software and are willing to pay for it.
Remote Worker Didn't Disclose Location, Led to $30K Fees
> In this case the pertinent question to ask oneself a priori is: "if, as I believe, tether breaks down what are the chances that people will be defaulting on Defi platforms thus turning my clever trade in a catastrophe where I lose my principal?"

I am extremely aware counterparty risk in DeFi protocols, which is why I have a toy-sized position and only put that on once someone explained to me, persuasively, that in futures where DeFi explodes I will gain more utility from the story than I will lose from a toy-sized position. I have sometime sardonically referred to this as 'mining comedy gold.'

This is also why, when people ask me how to short Tether, I try my darndest to avoid blessing any particular mechanism, because you can be right and still lose everything, as you're aware. I have been saying that on HN since before DeFi existed as a concept.
Meanwhile Bakken oil fields are still just burning off into the atmosphere over 1 BILLION cubic feet per DAY of natural gas.
Maybe, but who is in the market for a parking lot?
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Because you’re not buying that. The use cases used to build the solution have to make assumptions. Microsoft Outlook uses exponentially more network resources to fetch and send email than a purpose designed mobile app, for example.

You can get plans that support tethering or mobile LANs - they aren’t even that expensive. Carriers will usually prioritize those connections lower than public safety or mobile phone connections to ensure better user experience. LTE and 5G fixed home plans are an easy example of this available to consumers.
Agreed. This is a case of FB product managers/engineers trying to solve a problem that is not worth solving for.

Yes, having some sort of inexpensive video calling tablet can be more convenient but it's not convenient enough to justify over an iPad or phone video call.
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>>Medsafe regulates medicines, what is effective, and Pharmac buys them, for the whole country

This is no different than what happens in the UK and you're gonna run into the same problems that the UK has where cutting edge treatments cost too much for the government healthcare program to cover them.

The problem in medicine is that innovation is too expensive, and too slow to rollout, and this applies just as much to New Zealand as anywhere else.

Cancer and heart disease should have been cured by now, considering the pace of innovation we know is possible.

>>medicines are held at bay by medsafe, and when approved are made affordable by Pharmac

You can't legislate affordable cutting edge treatments into being. Pharmaceuticals have to be incentivized to spend vast sums on developing them, and a mechanism needs to exist to select the best amongst those treatments for further development.

Evidently, that selection and resource allocation role is best left to consumers and their doctors, as opposed to one centralized body.

>>Appropriate regulation is absolutely needed because the incentives that drug companies and medical equipment manufacturers face are opposed to the incentives of the community.

Their incentives are to be selected by consumers, and the best way to do that in medicine, like any other industry, is to produce high quality products at low cost.

See the study on the positive effects of down-regulating medical devices, which are lower prices and greater safety.

>>Free markets, in this case, make people sick and impoverished.

I still don't see the basis for this assertion.
This resonates in an interesting way; like, I remember thinking S3 and then EC2 were pretty inspired simple concepts, and then they just kept getting more and more complicated over the years. I feel like if I were to start using them today as the sole engineer I am I'd be really daunted by the extreme complexity they've seemingly added. In particular, VPC to me looks like an over-engineered mess designed to replicate the historical baggage of network hardware and addressing when all they really needed to do was add nested security groups (as well as allow multiple security groups, which they did finally do at some point) and call it a day, but if you are some ridiculously large company that has a million legacy network engineers and want to build some super complicated stack of domains I guess you like doing it with virtual hardware? But it sucks because cloud (very much "to me") was the thing that allowed small teams--or even one sole bad-ass engineer--to rapidly build scalable infrastructure, NOT something that would be used by giant companies to build empires :(.
How supermarket design influences what you put in your trolley
I would appreciate downvote buttons if they were for misinformation rather than "I don't like what you said" so in general I'm happy with removal of downvotes. I liked it when they removed showing downvotes on youtube. Personally I never downvote at all on HN or reddit. I'd rather things just float to the top and others sink
Ah I am running much older ESR, maybe they finally changed behavior.
> The point remains though that you need to somehow get both the encoder side and the decoder side upgraded to benefit from the advantage,

Well, for PNG, Apple have shipped exactly that. It was something they could unilaterally do without e.g. having to get all of the major browser makers on board.

Apple's PNG encoders (i.e iOS dev SDKs) produce multi-thread-friendly PNGs and their decoders (i.e. iOS devices) reap the benefits. And unlike trying to introduce a new but not-backwards-compatible-with-PNG format (JPEG-XL), other PNG decoders can still decode these images. They just don't get the speed benefit.

> Any system that has to take arbitrary png as input cannot rely on MT decode being an option, etc.

It's forwards compatible too. Apple's PNG decoder will use MT decode if the PNG image was encoded with MT metadata, but Apple's PNG decoder can still decode arbitrary PNG (using its pre-existing single-thread code path).
Sorry, I was not intending to be hostile or cynical. But this whole discussion is overflowing with people who think Tesla can do no wrong, and they're not making anything like good faith arguments. It's grating. I should just walk away rather than respond, but... https://xkcd.com/386/
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> I just enjoy the relaxation involved.

I can't understand this at all.

I've been playing piano for 50+ years. Still practice every day. Play in amateur recitals. It's fun, but hardly relaxing. It's a lot of work, concentration, and study. And as I get older it gets more challenging because of physical limitations (movement, eyesight, hearing) that I have to work around. My fingers don't work like they used to, and sometimes I have to decide to leave out a note, or move something to a different hand, etc. Painstaking note-by-note and phrase-by-phrase analysis.

Memorization is also tough.
[Immediately sees another comment point out that the author is a high schooler.]

It's still bullshit! But the infraction is not severe enough to merit trial as an adult! I hereby remand the case to juvenile court! [Gavel: Bang! Bang!] Bullshit court: dismissed!
It was a generic dog name and also a breed before this Laika. It just means barker in Russian.
Those freezing temperatures could solve global warming for a couple years.
Yeah, they do. Big V8s usually require premium gas.

Premium gas costs more. Race cars need race gas — that costs even more.
Humans weren't "meant" to eat any single way, for what it's worth. We have the good fortune of possessing exceptionally flexible diets, but we can survive readily on many variations of what's possible.

Something people frequently overlook (or are unaware of) is that in much of the world, animal agriculture utilizes B12 supplementation. This is part of why there is B12 in commercial animal products. Without that, B12 levels in commercial animal products would be lower. Further, people who eat animal products aren't guaranteed to avoid deficiencies.

The idea that we "need" meat is thoroughly debunked by decades of excellent, high-quality research. What we "need" as far as B12 goes is essentially less sanitary environments; we (and animals we ate) used to get enough from food and water which wasn't clean by current standards.
... but first, you need a time machine to go back a decade.
And on the flip side, EVs tend to be heavier and therefore work their tyres even harder.
Yeah, I was going to say, the average BigCorp has probably 30-40% dead weight. So cutting close to half of that is probably not a terribly heavy lift. Most managers already have a stack rank, in their head at least.
Exactly. Take a look around and imagine your company with 10-15% less.

Most people don't find that such a terrible idea.
There’s a ton of shibu ads on the streets of Dubai right now. They’re advertising soccer nfts, trying to get in on the World Cup action.

To me it seems weird to have giant animated billboards for crypto when the market is losing billions
Ok then, the community VR episode https://youtu.be/z4FGzE4endQ

"The font is larger! and Jesus wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
Nope. The public ones don't die, they simply get assigned a new registry operator. Check out EBERO: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en
Presumably every dog saved a man's life or a few. Doesn't it sound reasonable to send even all the dogs to bomb tanks?

The real problem was that the training they did was so superficial that the dogs made more harm than good.
Unfortunately that's a small subset of users. MKBHD calculated it to be about $20 mil in revenue for paid users, compared to $2.6 bil from ads. His analysis is around the 8m30s mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qsF0WQy8c
Every so often I would come across articles on CNBC written about this crypto genius (SBF) and they always reminded me of the media buzz around Elizabeth Holmes back in the day.
A cheeky response to Lucier's work: https://coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/2004-004-iron-maidens...
> E.g. nic.google redirects to registry.google, Google's domain registrar whose engineers also operate .google

Negative. Google's TLDs are operated by Google Registry, as shown on that site, which is an entirely separate team from Google Domains (the registrar).
Don't apologize at all. I honestly don't think there's a way besides tying myself down. I did make my bedroom lock which apparently I'm unable to figure out in my sleepwalking phase
If it's politics the odds are they're wrong. Anything else the odds are in their favor.
Archived: https://archive.ph/fxuSe
It would be interesting to see the code. This seems to provide a fairly interesting approach to image convolution. Does the data also compress or is this purely a data transformation?
I would love a youtube/vimeo/whatever video on this. And someone publishing regular SS pictures like news footage or something otherwise particularly relevant if I was somehow in the middle of nowhere with an HF radio and an iphone.
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Well, Google as well.

List of TLDs: https://ntldstats.com/registry/Charleston-Road-Registry-Inc

*.goog certificates (a bunch of [x].cloud.goog stuff ) https://crt.sh/?CN=%25.goog&exclude=expired&match=LIKE (page wil take a long time to load)
Oh man, I ate whale skin in Greenland. It was hairy and tasted like a decomposing car tire. You must have had the good kind.
ok, but i am not looking for backup software.

i copied trees of files onto disks without any backup software.

i now need a way to clean this up by finding copies of subtrees that are identical.
Just watched, isn't it Todd Rundgren? Well at least Eno is interviewed moments before.
It's not allowed on gTLDs though. .ai is a ccTLD.
I think Scott Adams figured this out in 2005: https://dilbert.com/strip/2005-06-11
Thanks for the thorough reply.

Websites definitely have great flexibility, but password protection (usually needed) does add an extra layer of complexity. GitHub Enterprise + Pages simplifies that if everyone has an account, but in my experience stakeholders often don’t. My other concern is with ownership transfer / long-term maintenance. Having it be backed by code adds some real friction.

I’m wondering if Zapier + Notion -> website might be a good alternative.

What kind of system have you used for live analysis? AWS (Kinesis, etc?)
> You don't want an accident, but you do want to read that text you just got, and you're more likely to wait until you're stationary if an at fault accident could ruin you instead of just raising your insurance premiums.

Literally no one ever has thought “self, I’m going to look at this text while I drive because I’m insured!” In the real world they’re doing it because they’re addicted and not because of some rational calculus. That might make a good scenario for a comedic skit though.

I don’t feel like looking it up on my phone, but I’d bet at worse than even odds that drunk drivers are in fact less likely to be insured, when the moral hazard theory would predict they’re more likely to be.

> Isn't suicide an exception to nearly all life insurance polices, among other reasons to remove that very incentive?

The answer is either not really or even an outright no. Individual policies usually have a 1-2 year no suicides clause and after that they pay. Group policies like employer offered ones usually have no wait period and will just pay out.
In other words, "ship it!"
Here's a fractional reserve banking simulator that can help to illustrate the concept of leverage and insolvency.

https://twitter.com/dharmatrade/status/1553059401975533568?t...

Video demo:

https://youtu.be/Kygc8OrTK_A
Are we really supposed to believe that on a large exchange 20% of customer holdings by value is shiba?
Nevermind, I’m stupid.
Shouldn't it be a warning, though? You'll still notice it, but you aren't forced to deal with the problem immediately.
AWS has its lightsail range of products which offers exactly this. A much more simplified and opinionated set of products and much fewer knobs to turn.
That tire dust though
Is it usually one and done? Or are they modified after the fact / kept up to date?
Next: Rendering Doom with Emojis on a graphing calculator/smart fridge/etc.
Frisco, ha ha.

A co-worker lived up in The City (see, I'm legit) and I asked him if anyone called it Frisco. "No, no one does," he said in a monotone.
Ask HN: Why are so many people still convinced blockchain is a viable solution?
They can send it back just as easily
Getting a mule to attest they own an account they do not obviously is illegal, and does an end run against KYC laws
Seek a medical professional, many hormones reduce with age, including; control of body movement, need to urinate, etc.

'age related reduction in sleep hormones'

<https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='age related reduction i...>
Well that can be solved with versioning.

Rollups can simply be a suggested collection of permissions. When they change, view a diff, and accept what you need.
I'm confused because you say "this couldn't be further from the truth" and the state pretty much exactly what I was saying.
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3 is SBF's equivalent of Madoff's split-strike conversion. A strategy that can make a little bit of money that a fraudster uses to claim to be making a lot of money. And just like Madoff nobody questioned it until it all came crashing down.
It was a feral/stray dog they got from pest control.
Ask HN: Is radiation from mobile phones harmful long-term?
I seem to recall early on when cell phones were coming onto the scene, there were warnings and studies surrounding holding the phone close to the head. Is this still the case? Has it been suppressed, or were the claims invalid?
I liked FTXQ personally
It looks quite close to what the vision of a person with migraine aura is like.
Yeah, exactly, and you only actually use 10% of your brain. Probably don’t need two hemispheres to be honest.
FTX general counsel confirms not intentional. Likely a rug pull

https://twitter.com/_ryne_miller/status/1591281729125613570?...
Where is Dalle2 for creating music from text prompts?
Gordon Lightfoot
Open source companies often require their employees to present their work at conferences, along with a yearly or more often conference for the company. For eg, Igalia and Collabora do this. Some resources for open source jobs here:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
I'm not saying it caught syntax errors. I'm saying it caught actual bugs in my code. I don't want to be allowed to blow those off.
They could probably even claw back some of the money
Discussed at the time:

The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884471 - Sept 2019 (98 comments)
Decimation is a concept going back to ancient times. The Romans would punish units by having every 10th soldier killed by his fellow legionnaires.

It’s a number big enough to reduce cost and create fear but not enough to cause panic.
‘Gentle’ islet cell transplant cures mice of diabetes with few side effects
Since we know that to be false, I assume you're just being a smartass. If you disagree, there are more polite, constructive ways to say so.
At least $1B of client funds missing at failed crypto firm FTX
He is the CEO of multiple companies, the richest person in the world, not some random Twitter troll. His voice has far more impact and reach than most too, so what he said will be seen by many. Also many online places will get you banned for calling someone that in an argument.

And what does the social justice crowed have anything to do with this? Bringing them up and their hypothetical behaviour is just some whataboutism, it's got no impact on Musks behaviour.
Very true, but you know idealism, denial and delusion is a thing. Many will literally die rather than come to terms with the 'fact' that every human (without exception) needs some animal products.
As someone who has recently started therapy, I really do feel what you are saying.
What I started wondering now is how different my life may have turned out would I have been smart enough to get therapy in my 20s.
It turns out, the amount of things we normalize during childhood with our 5 year old brain is astounding. You don’t even have to be a bad parent. Just lough at your toddler a few to many times when they fall down and they might just end up feeling worthless until they are 35.
Recent and related:

Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33512338 - Nov 2022 (415 comments)
It's unclear if they paid it all up-front.

While https://decrypt.co/70004/ftx-ceo-sbf-19-year-miami-heat-stad... has their statement:

> Without going into the details, it's been a pretty good year for us. To the point where, frankly, we don't need to rely on the other 18 years to have the funds for this.

But it doesn't say they did pay up-front, just that they could.
Or a front to launder money via crypto into “causes”
Love insightful StackExchange answers like that, thanks!
10% comes from the ancient Roman tradition of Decimation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)

>> The dual purpose intended was to stiffen discipline amongst the army at large and to demoralise the enemy
As a UX designer, what should I learn in order to talk to developers?
Hello all. I am a newly graduated UX designer (Cog Sci major) that is basically leading the design team at a startup. We've recently hired a new development team, and I'd like to learn more technical skills in order to really understand the development side of the product, as well as to communicate ideas better and to understand our design constraints. I have a little bit of coding experience from school and am using some online tools to learn CSS/HTML/Javascript. I'm also using some online resources to learn about software architecture. Is this the best way to go about this? What would be some good resources for me to learn this skills? Appreciate it.
Practicing piano and fooling around in a DAW are completely different realms of music related activities. The pianists all know have given me the impression the activity is many more parts stress if the goal is practicing to be able to play a challenging piece, while working in a DAW can be more like splattering paint on a canvas when done like the parent comment describes