skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Population growth. The city centre doesn't expand but the demand for it does.

And logically it should also be a hedge against inflation. I am not sure that our modern economies have the stomach for what it takes to rein in inflation (too leveraged).
The author effectively covers this rebuttal with a catch-all early on, but this still reads a bit like a defense of "fake it until you make it". The implication being that SBF (or e.g. Elizabeth Holmse) were only _somewhat_ responsible for their fraudulent activities - and that any "normal" person would have trouble discerning whether or not their actions are fraudulent or merely "overly optimistic leadership".

I wish I could say the era of "move fast, break things" is over, but I have lost all faith. Can we please just stop all this craziness now? Good leadership should be about having good intuition, good instincts and planning for _long_ time horizons.

Instead the valley's "idols" are Zuckerberg and Elon and a bunch of quants obsessed with financial engineering.
Effective altruism weights large amount of utility that are distant from the user higher than non-utilitarian moralities such as familial obligations, purity, or fairness. From an EA perspective, SBF made a morally correct gamble since his intent was to donate all the winnings. The discounted utility of donating the potential winnings of shitcoins outweighed the utility of not doing so. Perhaps it would be wise to reconsider the premises of EA rather than run to its defense as the author has done here.
I was just pushed into the new 'path' updated yesterday. So far, I am disappointed. I was unaware that this UI change was coming down the pipeline and it seems I am not the only disappointed user. I completely agree with the, 'If it isn't broke, don't fix it', take on this. My two cents for what little it is worth.
That is a clone of the older V2 hardware, with specs exaggerated and much more noisy, according to here: https://nanorfe.com/nanovna-v2.html#comparisons
Could you not argue that most automations do not compensate those who developed that what is being automated?
All these people are saying "not your keys not your coins".

Should we not do that because, with one voice they are all saying that you should do that?
> The only feature that people want and need from browsers ... is enhanced privacy and cast-iron control over what a browser is doing. ... client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to understand monitoring, file monitors, inviolable fine-grained per-io-device permissions, better Tor and IPFS integration

That's what you're interested in at least, I don't care about these features and if it was up to me the #1 priority for Firefox developers would be making desktop mode persistent by-site on Android
I think it might go further than that, a whole lot of the commission and entry level illustration work is pitched as "draw this scene in a style similar to x" or "draw my character doing x thing in y style". AI has the potential to completely gut this area (and I suspect that the number of artists employed doing this type of work is substantially higher than the few pushing in novel directions).

This changes the design and availability of the software tools, the willingness for educational institutions to engage in these topics, and may even reduce the idea of a professional artist back to high art only (and we only need like 50 artists a year thanks).
> water down the meaning of interpolation to be so generic it loses its meaning.

"Interpolation" was always a very generic word.
Arguably, a leakage of information already happens when you deallocate memory without zeroing it first.
You don't go to prison when you are the 2nd biggest donor to the current president's campaign.

Mark Karpales didn't go to prison for Mt Gox, he spent some months in jail because they were afraid he might leave Japan + Japan isn't like the west he prpbably doesn't have connections there, then left and worked for different financial companies and then started another company assessing risk or something.

Alex Mashinsky (founder of Celcius) didn't go to prison either.

On the other hand, Do Kwon (Terra) is a fugitive and interpol is looking for him, and Satish Kumbhani (Bitconnect) got indicted but disappeared so the cops are looking for him.

So yeah you have to turn off your pattern recognition or else be called a bad name.
But any kind of illiquid venture investment is just money out of your trading capital. Maybe Tom Brady takes tokens in exchange for doing adverts, but I doubt that stadium uses FTT to pay its employees. Likewise with any other venture, you need cold hard cash.

Swapping whatever cash you have for FTT in order to invest it elsewhere just seems insane. You've got a business that creates cash, and needs it for deposits and margins. I mean sure, split out some into a venture business, but be sensible and keep some for the cash cow?

Also, hire an adult to tell you this. Would have cost barely anything to get any old finance professional to come in and say that.
Lovely perspective. Esp. the first point.
Zoning. The city center is free to expand upward just about as much as we let it, but the problem is we don't let it so that we can enrich the existing landholders (they are the voting class after all).

The city of San Francisco is a prime example. The city makes is utterly impossible to build anything. From 2012 to 2016, SF metro added 373,000 jobs and only 58,000 new houses. The entire western half the city is hard-capped at 4 stories for no reason. There's a whole wikipedia page on it. [1]

If you let supply meet demand, the cost of housing converges around the cost of construction give or take, just like in Japan which has seen ~0% inflation-adjusted housing price growth since the mid-90s. [2]

This is a simple problem to solve. Allow construction, invest in transit.

SF is so obstinate that it's short 82,000 units in its submission of a conforming housing element to the state. [3] The fun part is if they fail to produce a conforming element, the builder's remedy kicks in and the city loses its ability to deny housing (and new builds don't have to go through CEQA). [4]

Really in my opinion the Builder's Remedy should the default state. We should do what Japan did and federalize zoning. The federal government does have precedent. At least according to the "trillion-dollar coin" guy, Carlos Mucha. [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIHOUAINMEI

[3] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-California-co...

[4] https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2022/10/build...

[5] https://twitter.com/mucha_carlos/status/1420815462342959105?...
The whole thing stinks to high heaven. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/430493835265835021/10...
This is a good example showing why OS and services should be decoupled. Bundling both gives an incentive to nerf one to prop up the other.
I think you are miss interpreting me. I don't want to focus on privacy above all else. To do that well would compromise on the usability of the browser. For example, if I were to advertise it as "privacy focused", I would not feel comfortable unless I included strict anti-fingerprinting, which would break websites.

It is a balancing act, and I won't be collecting or selling your data, but I won't be competing with Librewolf or Tor for the "privacy" market either. However, at the bare minimum, we will be more "private" than Firefox by extent of including uBo and disabling Mozilla's non-critical telemetry by default.
This does not happen in a vacuum - it is not about this group at all. It is all about the future and if this will put a stop to a lot more people dying in the future. If it is only going to save 20 people a year, it hardly matters, but if 1,000,000 people will be saved every year, that's different story.

I don't know how bit the groups were, but if you have 500 people in the control group and 150 die, and you save 1,000,000 per year, that is a great trade-off.

Plus, when you go into this experiment, you know you it is an experiment and know in advance it is a 50/50 proposition that you will get the drug/placebo, but at least you have a 50% chance. Better than no chance. And personally, which normally I hate personal experiences, but personally, I wouldn't mind giving up my life in a test if I know I might have a 50% chance of getting the drug, but if not, I save 1,000,000 people a year (or whatever it is).

It's like being in the army. If you are the commander, the general, you might have to send 5,000 men charging up a hill that you know is well-defended and 80% will die, but you are using it as a diversionary tactic and take 80,000 men towards your real objective and you win it, then too bad for the 5,000 men. It's just the way things are. And if someone doesn't have the stomach to be the general, then they shouldn't be the general and look for another line of work.

That's how I see it.
> Why would he give a billion dollars to charities, when he could risk it, flip it into $20B, and give it to charity? Why would he give $20B to charity when he could risk it, and flip it into $150B? etc...

But that would be the rational thing to do...

$1B less donated to charity is only roughly 1/20 as bad as $20B donated to charity is good, because there are also other people donating large amounts. In other words it's not at all like betting everything and ending up homeless if you lose the bet. At $20B vs $150B the catastrophe of losing $20B starts to become more significant, but I would absolutely still take that bet.
I think Sturgeo's law applies here.

The problem with crypto scams is that they don't usually require some novel engineering work, but rather con artistry on top of well-known, open cryptocurrency technologies.
I think my understanding of central banking is quite correct. They don't incur a loss because the money they paid those assets with came out of nowhere. If you buy a car with $1000 that you printed with your money printer, and then sell the car for $800, you're still making a profit.
Depemda on your definition of those words. for example, Hollywood aggressively pushes their movies overseas. is that an intentional concerted effort, or the market moving organically?

Same thing with the Internet. People from all over the world are on the English Internet, absorbing American/British/etc memes and values. Is that 'intentional' in the sense there's some shadowy cabal behind it? No. It's just a consequence of communications technology.
It's beautiful. When I think about infinite amount of numbers and dimensions with this representation, the form of the universe appeared on my eyes.
Are people hoarding cash/assets? From what I understand the savings rate has been dropping across the western world.

In theory though, savings are countercyclical. People made unemployed can still maintain their spending. So it helps break the feedback loop of redundancies -> falling spending -> redundancies.

Although we seem to be heading for recession, with high inflation and interest rates, so the normal mechanism of decreasing interest rates to get people spending isn't really available currently.
It is interesting how that timelines blames the 30% Apple tax as the reason why they had to up the price to 12.99/mo; but they somehow did not bring it back to 9.99/mo when they managed to go around the tax.

I am not defending Apple’s practices, I just find the omission on a website called “time to play fair” sweetly ironic.
>From everything I’ve read, SBF’s mission to earn billions, then spend it saving the world, seems something like this imagined Apollo mission

How can the author pretend SBF his actions are comparable to a "tiny crack in an oxygen tank"? He willingly and knowingly defrauded customers and investors. Arguably as early as years ago and already provably months ago when he started bailing out crypto companies with funds defrauded from customers and funding his (failing) trading firm with customer funds.

Personally with all the lies and deception I'm starting to believe his entry and reign in crypto is one big fraud. There's no record of his geographical Bitcoin arbitrage whatsoever except hearsay. His exposure to tradfi (jane street) is limited and he didn't do anything impactful there. His "baby" Solana is a glorified Excel sheet working on a few centralized nodes. Most of his networth has always been in illiquid coins he created himself. And to see how this drama has unfolded, I find it hard to believe how he is into EA and not just obsessed with having influence and driving up his money-highscore as if it's a game.
It’s trivial for Siri to know the song that is currently playing - Spotify signals it to iOS so that iOS can display it on the Lock Screen.
It’s likely much easier for siri to construct a URL based on this information than to try and get a url from Spotify.

If the song itself is not on Spotify, Siri will send a link to a similar one - for example, same name and artist, but a live recording instead of the studio version. If it doesn’t have that, it fails your request and doesn’t send anything.
There seems to be an issue open for this https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/issues/58
There’s little chance that any form of digital currency that does not allow for tax evasion at then same level we currently have will ever take off. The people doing the tax evasion are the ones running the world.
Another, similar project: https://github.com/minexew/Shrine
The core of economics is people, not companies or money. People with incentives are quite predictable.

You do have a good point there, that you have model it as people. A person doesn't simply leave their city for a better wage; they can be tied down by family, friends, and certain loyalties.

In this case, you can model a working class human like you'd model lifestock, always seeking greener pastures, or like a bag of flour, whose price is controlled by regulation instead of supply. I don't think these models are necessarily wrong. And sometimes the more accurate ones tend to dehumanize. But it's useful to have experiments that prove/disprove a theory, instead of assuming everything in papers is true and applicable.

I also don't believe you can model tech workers like blue collar workers. The conditions are very different - length to get a job, severance pay, money in the bank, and so on. I would also assume that those in the minimum wage range would always search for higher paying jobs, because the difference between $7/hour and $11/hour is life-changing, whereas there's not a big quality of life difference between $70/hour and $110/hour.
There's not an HVAC vendor on the planet selling a CO2 scrubber for a building. All commercial HVAC manages CO2 levels via ventilation with outside air. They'll often use economizers and such to avoid losing all the energy put into conditioning the air for heat and humidity but none of them can ever bring CO2 levels down below outside atmospheric conditions.

The only HVAC applications that actually try to reduce CO2 instead of just ventilate are submarines and spacecraft, so good luck trying to make that practical for a house. If I for some reason wanted to try something crazy like this I'd probably look at some of the carbonate solution carbon capture projects out there and try to make that work.

As others have already pointed out, plants are a bit of a fools errand here. You'd need to live inside a large greenhouse.
No, EA's cultish aspects played a huge role in this.

SBF got his start in crypto doing arbitrage with Japan, because setting up a trading account in Japan was hard. He got someone to do it through the EA community.

Most of the people who are in positions of power in his companies came from the EA community. And no joke a bunch of them are all in romantic relationships with each other too. You've got the CEO of his trading firm, who SBF dated, posting on tumblr about how poly relationships should be a vicious power struggle to get to the top.

I think you're way underestimating just how weird and cultish this whole clique is, and how moral criticism is actually valid here as the ideology is in a central role. These people cast themselves as noble heros making the world better in the net, when in reality they're total nepotistic weirdos.
The problem is that it is kind of like the stock market. This year's Nasdaq's bear market has only reversed a couple of years worth of growth. If you have been waiting on the sideline in cash for a sell off to invest for the last 10 years, you are way worse off than having jumped in at the first opportunity and taken the ups and downs of the market.
Martin Shkreli (pharma bro) did a livestream on youtube[0] going over it a few days ago. Yes, he is out of jail.

[0] https://youtu.be/XnwRMaW-Kdc
The book covers the vast topic with an incremental approach; in the first chapter, readers will implement a "compiler" that accepts just a single number as a "language", which will then gain one feature at a time in each section of the book until the language that the compiler accepts matches what the C11 spec specifies. I took this incremental approach from the paper by Abdulaziz Ghuloum.

Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" tutorial series --- from the late 80s/early 90s --- uses exactly the same approach:

https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/tutor2.txt
I find everything that Spotify says about the Watch to be disingenuous.

> Us: "Hey Apple, we love your watch; can we make an app for that?" Them: "nah

The first Apple Watch was slow, and didn’t have any real third party apps at all. They were basically all running on the phone and displaying things slowly on the Watch.

> Apple rejects Spotify's proposal for an Apple Watch app yet again (2016)

This was before the cellular watch came out. How much good would any streaming service be with wifi only? Even then, for battery saving reasons, the Watch really preferred Bluetooth to communicate with the phone

> This app update means that rival apps have to agree not to “directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than IAP or discourage the use of IAP.”

No retailer is going to let a company advertise how to buy products cheaper somewhere else.

> Apple finally allows enhanced functionality for the Spotify app on the Apple Watch (2018)

And it took Spotify over two years to support streaming music from the Watch.

And now they introduce their own “podcast player” that can’t play podcasts - ie audio hosted on a server where I can subscribe to a RSS feed.
I cannot imagine writing something this embarrassing and deeming it worthy of public consumption.

There is a very, very weird phenomenon of people that consider themselves to be very clever inexplicably carrying water for others that also consider themselves to be very clever, regardless of the material conditions or facts at hand. It’s like Scott Aaronson is applying to be in a club that Mr Fried is the bouncer for.

I know that it garners fewer clicks, but wouldn’t it be more honest to just say “Damn. I wish I had been rewarded with billions of dollars for my shitty behavior, and further (since I’m imagining myself in this scenario) it all worked out in such a way that I was deified for this grift.”
If everything else fails, there's always ncmpcpp: https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/
Have you tried to fix anything lately? Between ultrasonic welding, firmware, the disappearance of spare parts, and the who-needs-leisure-time-work-until-you-die mentality, and a general total complexity explosion, fixing stuff got hard. Hell, I have products in my house that I literally designed -- I'm on the patent, I have the full electronic and mechanical CAD, I have as much of the code as anyone, I have the bloody design documents, and I can't fix them because the moment I open one to get access to the goodies, it'll never go back together again. (That's just cost-engineering plus IP54 at work, nothing nefarious.)

So don't tell me I'm not handy enough. It's simply not 1952 anymore.
It's great to see that Terry's legacy lives on.

He was an incredibly gifted, yet equally troubled, individual, with some noble goals for what computing should look like. There are many good ideas in TempleOS we can all be inspired from, and I'm glad there are people working on expanding and making them more accessible.
BTW has Netscape been a large commercial success? Did they proceed in a prudent, measured way with the tech they were offering, like, well, all the new HTML tags, and JavaScript?
To be accurate, Mark Karpeles was sentenced to prison, albeit a suspended setence.
I'm not spending my money until house prices come down basically, so maybe I'm the cause of the recession but bad luck I guess.
What about detransitioners?
What do you mean? JSON can be hypermedia, you can even click hyperlinks in browsers.
Currently it is in the "tech demo" phase. The only people I would recommend using this are people willing to contribute in some form. I would not recommend it as a daily driver hence the "alpha" tag on all the builds.

To be honest, the only part that I would recommend is our tooling that we use for soft-forking Firefox/Gecko, which is where we have the most outside testers and where I am focusing most of my upstream (mozilla-centeral) patches to improving.
Eh, it is _obviously_ a ponzi scheme after doing a bit of research. In this podcast he all but says it out loud.

https://jaxandmartinshow.com/sam-bankman-fried-transcript/
Back in 2017 when there was an new coin spiking every day Binance was by far the easiest place to sign up and trade. Everywhere else had either much stricter KYC or a much worse reputation.

It’s likely Binance was so much easier because they were ignoring KYC laws, but I’m not a lawyer.
Well, Japan hasn't seen population growth.

I have a lot of sympathy for deregulation and think it should be the primary tool, though many cities also have a character and you can't replace every construction with a high rise building without destroying the city. Think of Paris or London.
What do you mean? He was always treated with respect and admiration on HN, with an understanding of his personal difficulties.

I think your conflating the treatment he received here with how he was treated on Reddit.
In most cases, yes. Most.
I'd choose a young person getting their first home over an old person moving to Florida, but I'm a young person so I'm biased.
From all this talk of Effective Altruism, it seems we actually need a greater push for "Effective Justice".

Individuals and companies need to be better held to account for the scale of societal (and environmental) damage that they cause.
This is awesome! Do you happen to know anything about IBS-C that hasn't made it to medical practicioners?
> "It's good to be King. Wait. Maybe. I think maybe I'm just a bizarre little person who walks back and forth."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH41gGBVpkE

His last Video. Aug. 11, 2018.
If they're not retraining, you'd expect new uploads wouldn't be used anyhow.

That would effectively make the opt-out worthless.
Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap (2018)
Given the parameters of malloc() and calloc(), I assume it's to express intent---malloc() is used to allocate a single structure (thus, avoiding the whole multiplication issue) and calloc() for allocating an array (and initializing the entire array to a known value). Why realloc() doesn't take an items and size parameters, given that's it's almost always used to resize an array.
C++ has entered the chat.

T *foo = new T(1000);
This is not a novel problem - the same situation occurs in "pre-crypto finance" with other non-stable assets like stock and currency risk; that's why we do have all kinds of frameworks on how to properly account for required reserves with the assumption that $1 B (current!) worth of such assets is not enough to cover $1B of cash liabilities.
High inflation is good if you've just bought a house though.

Yes it's hard to begin with but compound inflation soon erodes the value of the debt.
This is incorrect. You can very simply go find that out with your own time.

Happy to be downvoted into the ground for my earlier statement.

He deserved so much better.