skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have watched TWiST for years. He stopped doing the the live show with Molly Wood right after the take over. She mentioned him getting "called up" to Twitter in one solo episode.

This WaPo article[0] claims his internal title at Twitter is somehow software engineer. He has been talking about product ideas forever.

> He’s not CEO, but Musk has kept Calacanis around as part of the transition and his title is listed internally as a software engineer. On Monday, Calacanis tweeted that he was in New York to meet with advertisers on behalf of Twitter.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/06/elon-mu...
Argentina has an extradition treaty with the US though?
Well he was dumb enough to post a bunch of lies and nonsense to Twitter the last couple days…
This is absolutely wild and unprecedented. Imagine being a victim of Madoff's ponzi and - after already being traumatized by the unveiling of the fraud - discovering that the rest of the money had been stolen.

Madoff's ponzi was larger, but the recovery rate was 88%. It looks like customers who didn't withdraw in time will end up with 0%.
It's wild to me that he hasn't simply had a heart attack and died from the insanity of his actions and the consequences of it all.

Imagine throwing a life like that and he's barely turned 30. Hubris and foolishness can lead to one's own grave.

edit: I'm not wishing for his death. That's not what my comment was about. More on the psychological impact of deception at this magnitude and could any person cope with that.
That link is informative but the podcast is from 2016 and the last round for registering new gTLD's closed in 2012.

It looks like we're inching closer to a new round:

https://gac.icann.org/activity/subsequent-rounds-of-new-gtld...

Skimming the recommendations, they want wider participation from the non-western world and I suspect the $185k application fee may go down a bit (there's also an annual fee of $24k, +25 cents per second-level domain)

Anyone know how much a company like Afilias charges for its end of things if you choose to outsource the IT? (e.g. assistance with the application, spinning up the TLD, ongoing costs to maintain)?

EDIT: Some quotes from Instra:
https://www.instra.com/en/new-gtlds/pricing

Here are some links to prior ICANN guides and other info if you want a better sense of the application process:

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

And dated from an era when the fee was a mere $5k: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/tas
What is the source of rumor please?
Do the Pinkertons operate worldwide?

Or maybe Black Cube.
Yeah, I will post the link to the plane that is rumored to be his.
Please keep this sort of nastiness off HN. We're trying for something else here, as you'll see if you review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Developer Relations / Developer Advocate jobs involve a lot of travel.
No, only when you're not stuck in traffic
The irony!

> In 1992, Bernard Madoff explained his purported strategy to The Wall Street Journal. He said his returns were really nothing special, given that the Standard & Poors 500-stock index generated an average annual return of 16.3% between November 1982 and November 1992. "I would be surprised if anybody thought that matching the S&P over 10 years was anything outstanding." The majority of money managers actually trailed the S&P 500 during the 1980s.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal
Man in Black.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TgSGylIw2A

That in turn were quoting usual explanations from the Blue Book Project era.
He's going to prison anyway, his reputation is tarnished, maybe he figured: Why not make a run for it?
I don't think anything will top the squarified treemap for me, but I love this page.

I really don't get the appeal of the sunburst style visualizations. They seem like the worst possible use of area to [fail to] convey information.

I think I agree with arboles that a tree visualization wouldn't be appropriate for this page. However, this reminds me of an old idea I had, to present tree-based data structures in a tree. I was thinking something like a phylogenetic tree representing the evolution of these data structures over time. Too much of a research project for me though.
He said the whole thing was a calculated risk. He only spent five years on crypto so he has plenty of time to try again. He probably wasn't counting on prison time though.
Russia had long term contracts to support gas to many European countries. They stopped supplying gas, meaning the other parties on those contracts can sue them for many billions of dollars. But if the pipeline is destroyed it's not Russia's fault - no need to pay.

The fact that out of 4 pipes 3 were destroyed and one was left impact IMHO strongly points to Russia doing it - any other country would destroy all 4.
And like Saudi leaving massive amount of money on the table by exporting raw materials and will crash when it runs out
That was my first thought. Not FTX related, but I just got another email from Coinbase reassuring me that they’re not gonna use customer funds without permission. I have in the past moved my shit out of Coinbase wallets because of doubts about that. Honestly though I just want to GTFO of crypto at this point…
Related:

Iodine – tunneling IP over DNS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7619259 - April 2014 (36 comments)
Why not? Lying got him this far!
Elon Musk took on significant debt (i.e. interest payments) when he acquired Twitter, and Twitter was already losing money when he did.

It will take significantly more than just liquidating Twitter's assets for him to succeed, he essentially needs to turn Twitter into successful company.
Australia has an incredibly dense population basis around the seaboard. There is virtually no one in the centre. I don’t know of any other continent like this.

We are freaking Arrakis.
honestly, the vulnerability was probably already there and there was a symbiosis with the person. Rules for rulers, there are various keyholders in your empire. This company wasn't following any best practices, so no reason to think they have crypto security best practices internally.

this person absolutely knows that they can kick leadership when they're down and that all blame will go to the leadership

it doesn't require being an "apologist" for leadership to see this vulnerability. Council and compliance all resigned, the ceo resigned. Any semblance of checks are gone and any rogue developer can use their keys on anything, rumor now is that an app update went out turning them into malware.

its equally as plausible as just a cringeworthy vendetta of spiraling founders, dumber things have happened in crypto. smart things have too, I’m leaving towards a smart thing
Cryptocurrencies are speedrunning the history of the financial system and why it is the way it is.
Why did it get so big? I thought it launched only one year ago, everyone laughed it off as some cash grab trying to take advantage of doge hype
> ...due to some deliverables for the year, worked 12 hours every day to get that done...

Don't. Do. This.

Our time on the planet is limited, and no amount of Jira ticket completion or revenue targets will change it.
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The trains are multiple units, so each car has its own powered motors. (Other than trailer cars, but it's pretty trivial to just add more motors.)

The logic is pretty simple. Less train cars means less people per train, which means you can have shorter/narrower platforms, less escalators, fewer exits, etc. and significantly reduce the structure size.
Simplex – the first messenger without user IDs
Related ongoing thread:

Notmuch – Just an email system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568388 - Nov 2022 (45 comments)
Every time one of these cryptoscams matures I curse my rotten, stupid, brain.

If I was smart, I too would be ripping off all of the cryptobros.

Instead I dumb and do honest work.
Taler Systems SA is looking for investors for development of GNU Taler
Not exactly related to article, but how is the social dynamics in the present day US between former South Vietnamese/their descendants and the expats and students from present day S R Vietnam.
SWEs that want to force everyone back to office have no life or a personality outside of their job.
Did you read the GDPR? I did not see any reference in there to location or "soil" being relevant to how it applies.
One Las Vegas Ed Saved Hundreds of Lives After a Mass Shooting (2017)
Well, that's one way to look at it. The other way to look at it is that he's still insanely rich even though he's lost the vast majority of his fortune, and he probably has it locked away in a place that the Feds can't get it... so as long as he gets to a non-extradition country, he will probably be better off than 99.99999% of the people currently residing on this planet. I'd rather not travel because authorities are out to get me than not travel because I'm too broke to do so.
Fake account and $8 blue checkmark wipe $20B off Eli Lilly's market cap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568165 - Nov 2022 (64 comments)
All I can say if this is true then good. However, whoever did it hopefully lives in a country far far away or has the best lawyer in human history because Eli Lilly basically has an obligation to go after them hard... Like real hard.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15688900
The thing is, the prime suspect(s) of this operation have means to do this much more stealthily.

Maybe they didn't expect to get caught. It seems we're assisting to a recalibration of what's possible in several fields.
Sounds like an El Niño or La Niña year.
Like half of HN feed is crypto now, when will that shitfountain stop?
Don't blame astronomers! We think it's cold when it's actually cold, not only after the solstice.
Ask HN: So what’s the status of ergonomic furniture in houseolds?
1 - Let’s end poor sofas and chairs
2 - Replace with better quality leading materials which don’t cause irritation.
For me it would be more of a toss-up if software engineers generally actually worked in real individual "offices" (like we used to, as a 49 year old I still remember the before-times).

But when compared to the modern nearly-universal open office plan... yeah there's no doubt I'd much rather work from home as often as possible, and based on my experience in both environments I'll be far more productive doing the job from home. Everyone's mileage may vary.
Quick scan before the twit dot com page prompted me for a login:

HI -> CA -> HI -> CA -> HI ...

All to have in person meetings about web based ad broker and/or ill-conceived and poorly implemented VR game. So much time wasted, so much jet exhaust waste created.
Because someone screwed over too many other people
For our ~200 person company, remote has been more expensive than an office in the financial district, sf, fwiw. Cost of travel for team get togethers/offsites for a distributed team is expensive.
https://archive.ph/dZZ9U

https://web.archive.org/web/20221112043232/https://www.reute...
> Some residents in the small rural town of Lockeford have expressed concerns about privacy and safety. Amazon insists the drones are safe.

I guess one for two ain’t bad.
Our leaders are way more aware of events that surround them now.

But we do have a first rate health care system, high employment, decent weather and relatively stable government. We didn’t do anything stupid like leave important regional organisations, nor have we ever had our leader forment violent insurrection.
Ask HN: Can an app’s popup box be repurposed without an app update?
This relates to FTX. On twitter people are reporting the app is displaying an “update available” popup box. FTX former employees are warning it is a hack

A variety of similarly designed popup boxes existed in FTX’s app preciously, you can see them here: https://uxdesign.cc/design-principles-for-crypto-exchanges-14e95563a9d3

For example of update box, see here: https://mobile.twitter.com/graemeblake/status/1591309481631449088

The question: can you reconfigure a box like this on iOS or Android without updating the app? Or would the box have had to already exist in the app code?

Neither iOS nor Android app have been updated since crash
Why has this to be hack? Wouldn't it be much easier an inside job?
After 10 billion USD goes missing you can bet it won't stay unregulated for long.

But yeah it became apparent a while back that some very bad actors, speculators, had become involved in crypto, so I became inactive.
it does however suggest that some people might have been fired for reasons other than merit
Mastodon will never have the level of censorship or control that a centralized platform like Twitter, Facebook, or TikTok have. I can't wait for it to be the norm but I doubt that it will ever happen due to the lack of censorship.
"at some point, you are the greater fool"

"If you look around the table and can't see the chump, you are the chump"
Not to argue, but just to point out, banks can also do this. It's called "bailing-in".

Banks in the US can do it, but only with the excess of accounts containing more than $250k.
If something, this really smells like inside job. They are just draining everything out of the connected wallets. This is fucking shame.
You're really trying hard to disprove the definition.

GDP is the country's income. Full stop is not that hard.

Also you're wrong twice, because also the aggregated value of all the transactions of an individual sums up to something that is called income.

You're just being pedantic for no reason.

I can have many income sources: work, royalty, dividends, rent, selling books etc.

To use your analogy the are all transactions with my personal economy (made by myself, one person) and it's called: income
Yikes. The news seem to be that they’ve been hacked on all platforms, and all customer funds are gone.

On another hand, how convenient.
What's with the notion of "getting shit down" vs "being smart". I want to get shit done as well. And for me, an expressive proramming language helps me with that. Otherwise I would be using assembly. It really doesn't have to do anything with "being smart".
My personal setup involve:

- a homeserver who grab emails from upstream and allow ssh access

- muchsync (who run over ssh) from my desktop(s)/laptop to the server

Doing so allow full sync, no need to sync mails in a maildir with other means, all you need is SSH. Sure it's not "P2P", there is still a central point of potential failure but the homeserver run many things, not just my mail so it's something I care more than the rest and it's anyway under my full control...

mu on it's side offer a nice extras (separate small binary who wrap external WebKit) to render html emails as a modern WebVM (the monsters commonly known as "browsers" for legacy reasons), while in most client (i.e. notmuch-emacs by default you just get text or shr-rendered html).

Outside Emacs I think there are one or two TUI (curses) client able to run or notmuch or mu, and a notmuch GUI (Astroid) who is not much comfy IMVHO. Notmuch also have a small external webserver with a built-in webUI but seems to be abandoned.

Unfortunately ALL use emails, almost nobody care to archive and use them on personal iron treating mails like a proprietary third party platform bound to an webmail... A day most will regret that, but still most would not learn anyway...
Is it doable with submarines? What would you do, torpedo the pipes?

Assuming you want to plant charges, I've seen mini-subs attached to bigger submarines, but it was a movie (Red October), so no idea if that's really a thing.

Otherwise, what do you do? Can divers be deployed from a submarine?
Fancifully entertaining someone's death is definitely over the line in HN comments. Please don't post like that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I'm surprised at how many people are eager to go there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570385

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570266

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570205

That is not what HN is for, so please don't.
The Pinkertons are ruling class goons and it's not clear SBF and his clan aren't as well.
The oceans are Earth’s heat buffers. Summers are when the ocean stores heat, winters are when it releases heat.

There is more land in the northern hemisphere, more ocean in the Southern Hemisphere. Summers get hotter in the north, winters get colder. This is because land does not store/release nearly as much heat as ocean.
That’s just what the Martians would like you to believe. Try doing your own research.
It pays to be a 10x legionnaire.
>Is creating a false “Musk” account to spam people with some shitcoin “parody”? Is creating a fake Musk account to post hatefull shit under his name “parody”?

No, and yes. I'm not sure what's difficult to navigate about that? the first might even be commercial speech.

>"What is up with the New Left and this total absence of reason and ethics?"

I don't know? You tell me? Who is the new left? What do they have to do with this conversation at all?

>Actual parody is completely okay and NOT banned (unlike it was on Old Twitter).

There is no category of parody that is "actual parody". There is just parody, and not parody. The examples I provided were all parody that is now again banned... In your example, posting hateful shit as musk is parodic and is banned.
to what extent can my pc/phone be compromised simply by going to a website? how would i know if malicious software is downloaded/active?
A rusty tanker or cargo ship with a dozen mercs and a ROV is probably way cheaper and has plausible deniability compared to a navy submarine.
You can't measure productivity during the pandemic and assume it speaks for work from home in general. There were a lot of things about the pandemic that caused a reduction in productivity that had nothing to do with whether or not workers were in an office.

Also consider that productivity might be best with employees choosing their office schedule. Some might be more productive in the office five days a week, others zero... and the majority will probably be somewhere in between, spending some days at home and some days in the office.

Bottom line, though: the pandemic is not a good time to measure productivity for any reason, and consider it representative of the norm.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570274.
The cost of office space for tech employees rarely exceeds 5% of pay (for high-paid tech workers).

It's not as expensive as you might first expect.

To the people who actually go into the office, it's probably well worth it.
Which ones because honestly I have a very hard time believing that based on your comment
This seems like a big flaw of crypto. Banks don't have their customers actual money. Crypto does. All that money in one place, under the control of a few, so tempting.
Or perhaps it is their Telegram that is compromised?
Video images (taken after the removal of the debris from the site) apparently show that at least one pipe was vertically driven into the ground over a length of about 50 meters. Provided that this rift seen in the video is not manufactured evidence, this seems to hint at an external force, probably applied at two separate points, something like mines.
A) few people can make money off of a ponsi scheme

B) The unregulated crooks are making it so crypto either will be outlawed or regulated (e.g. central exchanges regulated), so you won't be able to scam for very much longer

C) it's not just crypto bros, many people made the speculative investment who are relatively uninterested in it, you are mote likely to defraud your standard investor looking to trade stocks with e.g. Robinhood than any major players.

So don't feel bad or think you have missed out. If you want to defraud someone go sell NFTs, those are literally nonsense sold to idiots...
The Renaissance Medallion fund made over 30% per year, so people who had heard of that would be primed to believe that 15% was possible.
There is absolutely no need to blow pipelines for that. Pipelines which were paid in half by Russia. Russia was successfully limiting gas supplies by citing "technical" issues, which were likely to continue until some solution for political. Have you heard about any countries suing Russia for that?
It seems to me unlikely that they both couldn’t tell who was performing in normal times and then find them with surgical precision while panicking.
The German government has already taken action several times during this crisis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory
Feds Seize One of the Largest Sites for Pirated Books and Articles, Z-Library
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570274
People will be going to jail for this. Do not take the short term view.
Where are you finding problems?
I've seen their sports sponsorships all over the place and often thought to myself "that's a risky sponsor - anything could happen" and here we are. Another blow to the trustworthiness of this industry
I really feel this. I run a small studio working on my own music and music for friends. The review cycles, listening and modifying is really important for me, incremental progress and all that. I’ve been working on bespoke software to smooth out the process. Audiopile.cloud if you’re interested.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570274, which seems to have a little more info.
Note that OnShape is pure cloud (web app) if I understand it correctly -- so perhaps it provides the best parts of a web native app too.

The Fusion 360 move to cloud appear to be purely aimed at justifying forcing a subscription model for Fusion stuff. Though the monthly price for hobbyist isn't half bad.