skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a story of a corrupt CEO. The main crypto part of it is that FTT was seen as actual money on its balance sheets.

The main crypto part is that it's the person who dictated the upcoming crypto exchange legislation.

That corrupt CEO was greasing politicians (to the tune of $40m), was using an ex-CFTC commissioner to lobby a law regulating exchanges (which, by chance, would have made FTX legal and Binance and decentralized exchanges illegal) --ex-CFTC commissioner who just deleted his Twitter account by the way--, had nomimated has CEO of his Alameda Research fund the daughter of a colleague of the SEC's chair, etc.

Here what a US congressman has to say about the SEC's chair:

Interesting. @GaryGensler runs to the media while reports to my office allege he was helping SBF and FTX work on legal loopholes to obtain a regulatory monopoly. We're looking into this.

Interesting indeed.

There's much more to this story than: "we fucked up using leverage so we used a shitcoin of our creation as collateral to hide billions in losses".

We're potentially talking about a little cabal trying to regulatory capture the cryptocurrency exchange market very likely with the intent to run an ever bigger scam.
It's risky running a company that doesn't have user access control over it's own repos. Given the low cost of running your own remote, it seems like a no-brainer.
This is so appalling with the added context that this might be the worst airport in Europe.
I agree. It's not like 95% of the work to make a movie like that comes from thinking about a good story to base it on. Once you have a story like that, most of the effort is yet to come until you can see a fully produced movie on cinema screens. And 250k should be a life changing amount of money to someone in that situation if they really wanted to get out of it.
They over hired in 2020-2021 and now hopefully they are keeping the best, but that is 5150 considering the retarded metaverse.
Almost any image of a building in the world is geolocatable with a bit of effort.
These guys might have made a lot of money but in 5 years everyone will think of them as Herbalife of tech.
Literally any GPU?
Can someone explain to me like I am 5 ?
I was about to comment that “this reminds me of the old internet where people took time to write papers online”.

Apparently I was more correct than I realized.
That’s eagles expression is interesting. Where did you pick it up and what does it mean?
DeviantArt is not the cultural force it once was. All the cool kids moved to Artstation. It is on Artstation images that a lot of these AI tools have been trained.
Does it have subtitle support?
I think the server is just getting hammered. Not loading in Brave or Chrome on Android.
If by "we" you mean Americans with in-demand technical skills and 6-figure salaries, then yes, we'll be okay. North America has a great setup for internal good security.

However, the rest of the world has to deal with losing 25% of cereals (from Russia and Ukraine) as well as the curtailment of rice imports from China, India, and Parisian. Similarly, the loss of Russia's and China's nitrogen, potassium, and potash exports cuts out ~20-30% of those resources, each of which is necessary to sustain post-industrial agricultural yields. This can easily cascade, for example, with Brazil and Latin American food exports drying up due to insufficient fertilizer input, or Saudi fertilizer output drying up due to regional insecurity or state collapse driven in part by high food prices.

So yes, "we" will be fine. North Africa and the Middle East... not so much.
Why does zsh start so slowly?
House deeds won't be simple NFTs, there will have to be other parties that can move the deed to handle things like foreclosures and eminent domain. So if your hardware wallet burns down in the neighborhood wildfire you just get the county clerk to move it for you, much like if the physical deed burned in the same fire.

So why the heck would you bother putting your house on a blockchain if you still need the county clerk and other entities?
This is not a blockchain problem.
Seeing 4.5 billions dumped in crypto makes me uneasy.
Related: https://www.wsj.com/articles/andreessen-horowitz-went-all-in...

It's pretty hard to a16z and Marc seriously these days after they turned into full on crypto-shills
Interesting study, very bad title.

As the proud owner of rats in the past, visually in the video their head movements are indistinguishable from the "Roomba" like movement of searching for interesting scents. Yes it will be rhythmic because you must move your nose up and down while you are scanning.

At the same time, the article states that head movement was measured via accelerometer and video analysis, I suppose to find some correlation between music and "rhythmicity".

I buy the premise that rats can anticipate a beat and will react accordingly, but "just like humans" is a stretch. Humans' conscious interaction with music is emotional, whereas rats may be responding to perceived threat or physical disturbance. While rats are "smart", there's no evidence they respond to this stimulus beyond how we would respond to a rhythmic thunderstorm.

That being said, the neural mechanisms of temporal perception, anticipation, and repetition are interesting and worthwhile.
I was working full time for a company for 4 years as a digital nomad, and they knew.

They didn’t care as long as I performed well
What was the point of the blockchain if I have to … trust the county clerk? Why are they involved? Heck, why is there a “clerk” at all? Isn’t the point to have a trust less, decentralized system?
> just use Git submodules

Easier said than done. I have never gotten submodules to work the way I want them to, and I’ve since abandoned the idea completely.
If you work on anything even distantly military related, it's a risk you take as part of the job. If your country loses any war/power struggle, the new incoming government will punish you for being involved in the military of the old government fighting against the incomers.
Ask HN: What are some one-person engineering marvels of recent times?
> At first I thought this was sarcasm... Dont do not... putting samba or any other SMB server on the wider internet is a bad bad idea. It is a good way to get your system compromised.

Fearmongering FUDdy advice thats a decade old now. There's nothing in this 10 year old post that seems relevant today, from what I can tell. People just cannot give up their fear! Get over it.

https://superuser.com/a/311664

Post a real reply if you have it but dont just shit up a topic with insubstantiated terrormongering.

> They Provide Meta Data about the Media, Play Series in proper order, Allow you to see rankings, Ratings, provides Art, etc and most importantly Keeps track of play history on a per user basis. SMB would not do any of this.

Have you never used a media player on a phone? They all do this. I should be able to do this with files on my phone, or files shared with my phone. I dont see ehy custom software beyond a regular media playing app is warranted.

Except transcoding. That alone is a harder problem.
That’s the point, though. We can’t foresee the changes that can come from blockchain. Yes, right now it’s filled with scams. But we’re what, 14 years in? That’s the lifetime of a teenager. It’s way too early to know whether that teenager might think of a new use case, let alone the rest of history.

Investing in the ecosystem makes sense from a theoretical point of view. Personally I wouldn’t, but that’s due to personal preference rather than some fundamental disagreement with the tech vs society. Condemning others for investing at all always struck me as odd.
This is manifestly true. Artists worried that they would be rendered obselete by photography, and to a degree they were correct. Those that survide had to completely redifine their role and how they served that role.
Yeah, that's about the only real choice, but how messy will it be getting there? Certain political parties will absolutely burn everything down before they let anything like that happen.
How to hack the simulation?
Well increasing the usage would also increase the number of messages.

How does Whatsapp choose to ban people? Total messages sent? Then increasing the message size doesn't stop you from being banned, it just makes it take longer before you're banned. Messages/second? Then avoiding the ban by a message size restriction seems like a very clumsy way of doing it; it would be much more straightforward to avoid the ban by limiting the messages/second.
It snows in Arizona. So, likely it snows elsewhere.
Eli Lilly never even issued a press release to correct this "non-obvious fake". They later issued a correction via their real Twitter account.

I mean come on. The tweet said "We are excited to announce insulin is free now." Does that actually seem like corporate messaging? No product mention, no talk about how ethical they are?

It was obviously fake.
A repo for the @vercel/og API it uses isn't here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vercel/og

...but it's easy enough to find on https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/@vercel/og

It looks to be a tiny bit of glue code (minified but with source maps that I didn't examine), 2 wasm bundles which are probably open source, and an open source font.

Clever but I happen to be looking for documented open source stuff that does this. I guess knowing the names of yoga (which is a library from Facebook I already heard about) and resvg (which I probably already heard about) is a good starting point! https://github.com/facebook/yoga https://github.com/yisibl/resvg-js

Edit: fonts are here https://github.com/yisibl/resvg-js/search?q=font and the yoga part seems to be here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33156130 It's pretty neat but I think most of this can be had without using facebook stuff :) https://time.com/6217730/myanmar-meta-rohingya-facebook/
People who are anti-crypto are expressing the privilege that comes when you assume transactions you want to do will never be illegal. Crypto and trustless systems like DeFi are essential technologies to help in protecting the freedom to transact in the face of authoritarian regimes or other similar threats.
Plex sometimes annoys me, but it looks like Jellyfin doesn’t have the clients I need.

I use Plex on my XBOX, iPad, chrome cast, and computer. Plex has apps for all of those, but it looks like Jellyfin doesn’t have an XBOX player.
Even better: listen to it! https://youtu.be/S7kpAxJD7Wc
When was it $20? It hasn't been less than $60 since 2009.

https://www.businessinsider.com/insulin-price-increased-last...
Ask HN: As a self-taught programmer, how did you fill in knowledge gaps?
How did you start your journey as a self-taught programmer?

Did you use books or online university courses to fill in the gaps in your knowledge? Or did you read academic papers? Which among them are worth mentioning?
It’s terrifying how many people lack an understanding of what a state entails. For anyone reading and wondering, a state (not to be confused with a government) is defined as a monopoly on violence. It’s literally that simple, but the repercussions are immense.
Here's Crypto .com CEO's reply:

All funds were returned. We have single digit USD million balance on Gate as of now.

It was supposed to be a move to a new cold storage address, but was sent to a whitelisted external exchange address. We worked with Gate team and the funds were subsequently returned to our cold storage. New process and features were implemented to prevent this from reoccurring.

First, 35k were not returned. So he lied that all were returned. Second, he says this was a mistake. How could you trust an organization that sends $500m to someone else by mistake, and with a protocol that does not allow you to reverse transactions? Even if he's honest and it was a mistake, just what the heck?
Soldering the RAM is good for literally every single use case that doesn't involve the vanishingly-low probability that someone will want to upgrade the RAM in their tablet or phone.

Less weight, less cost, better long-term reliability... but one in a hundred thousand nerds get thwarted. Wearing my hardware-dev hat, I'm more than OK with that.
You and I would have good party conversations
Convert numbers to a vector space represented by their prime factors:

2 => [1 0 0 0...]
3 => [0 1 0 0...]
4 => [1 0 0 0...]

And map that high dimensional space back down to two dimensions (using some technique I haven't dug into yet). Colors are assigned by some scheme, later images help to illustrate how the particular clusterings happen like one where primes are rendered in white.
Yeah this. Would it suck? Yes. Would I be as fucked as some other platforms? No.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or if you genuinely don't understand reading fiction. In case of the latter consider this:

Imagine traveling to a destination. The way is fraught and perilous, but you reach your goal- a blissful paradise. Would you say that the whole experience was happy?

It's the same with literature: it's about the journey, not the destination.
That seems to be changing, slowly.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/brea...

https://www.science.org/content/article/white-house-requires...

The same is true for court proceedings: we paid for it, it's our data.
I suppose I understand the reasons people prefer Jellyfin. But on the small chance of liking a commercial product, Plex is truly dead simple for my parents. They have an AppleTV. They signed up. I share it with them via their registered email address. And they’re in. It was as simple a process as I could hope for.

That being said, do I like everything they’re pushing for? No. But they at least allow users to opt out.

I understand the sentiments here, truly. I just don’t have a compelling reason to change since it does what I want, is simple to set up and use, simple to share, and gets refined all the time.

This is heresy, but not all commercial software is the devil. I suspect RMS would hate me for this.
Adventure Painters of the Southwest
If we have other parties who can act outside the blockchain… isn’t that what we have now?

Why use the blockchain at all then?
Good movie though.
The evidence in the form of CVEs suggests that we don't get it right.

> You mean the vector::operator[] is an example of fast-and-potentially-UB ? I don't see any UB if the constraints are met (keeping the index within valid range).

I don't understand this line of reasoning when it's plain that the contraints are not met. Routinely. It happens all the time. Again, see the CVEs.
Removed my meaningless rant. There is no point in sharing my views here on this subject. I forgot that I am on HN, and artist are underrepresented here.
Lots of movie does not make money. And ask all those actors and actress not making it. It is not that millionaire you should shoot at as arts need to be paid. It could be the 1% or 0.1% should pay back to the society. Not the 10%. The society need innovation and competition and money to drive this.
Astronomy existed before telescopes. Jupiter's movements were noted well before glass was invented.
This site has been around since at least 2018.

If that was the year they invested, it was probably hugely profitable.

Back then, the crypto market cap was at around $350B. Now it is at around $850B. Up 142%.

If their investments went up by the same factor, that would be an annualized ROI of about 25%. Which would mean they outperformed the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 by a good margin.
> The worst thing is the human talent and energy resources wasted on crypto. Imagine if the billions were invested in useful products and services

You mean like Twitter, Meta, and TikTok? Even though 99% of crypto is scams, I prefer people working on figuring out a better financial system than figuring out more ways to steal human attention and get people addicted to ads. Probably crypto will crash and burn and not succeed, but I'd rather take that chance instead of building better addiction engines for our children.

Just look at the top SV companies. Do you really believe they are such a positive to humanity?
I was vaguely horrified when it was mentioned that their solvespace model was not parametrized. so I made one that was.

https://nl1.outband.net/extra/angle_post_bracket.slvs

Solvespace has a lot of problems, I think I would have trouble using it in a professional setting, however, it is such a joy to use. it feels like the program has captured the pure essence of parametric modeling and put it in program form. lightweight and nimble, nothing extra, just plain fun to use. until your models start exploding, which happens often in solvespace.

I mainly did the above as a sort of kata, to stretch those metaphorical solvespace muscles
That’s not really any different than a shell script, right?
> If he wrote a book

He did.
Is anyone operating under authoritarian regimes easier with blockchain now?

Compared or cash or anything else?

This seems like a scenario where there are other issues and blockchain isn’t really solving anything for you…

And if you get caught it’s all on the chain..
interesting, I was wondering about the tax/legal side of this thing also? did you face any issues like that?
Ok. As per my above comment, it should be possible to filter out the analytics/sentry via DNS using pi hole. In theory, you'd just have to set up your Plex machine to use pi hole DNS ad blocking, and ensure that the pi hole domain list includes analytics domains. And Tailscale MagicDNS with the primary DNS server being your Plex/pi hole server, with your other devices configured with Tailscale, should block everything.

The only potential blocker I can see is whether the HDMI streaming device makes HTTP requests, in which case it would need to use the Tailscale proxy, and I'm not sure if that's supported.
Many exchange operators will soon end up in handcuffs. This is accounting fraud.
A claimed monopoly on violence. And I know everything else flows on from that, but that’s still a very narrow definition of a state.
Screaming Eagle is a winery that produces very expensive wine.
Not perfect, no. But imperfection is no excuse not to try, like agile would have you believe.
> "My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead."

This is my biggest pet-peeve coming from Linux world. In Linux the music players you find bundled with different distros are simple, but they just work.

However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, and in Android the default music player and the latest updates of the alt music player I installed the author problem is true; they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in a menu button.

This is a fairly ridiculous situation IMHO (well, solitaire in Windows getting ads/online is slightly more, but I'll never go there) since a music player that fulfills my needs is pretty easy: show a list of artists, play either the whole artist or a single album in shuffle mode.

Attempt 1: https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1364892370509127681

Attempt 2: https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1578720636645826560
Well these days the definition commonly includes some sort of international recognition. Warlords don’t count anymore.
Yes indeed they probably should. Or if he refuses maybe his family or a charity for refugees.
Not all commercial software is the devil, but money is the root of all evil. Rember Big G's old slogan before they were beholden to shareholders? Given Plex already employs multiple dark patterns in an attempt to obtain your email address, it's hard to imagine they wouldn't slide down the same slippery slope if they got bigger.
Traditionally technology renders people obsolete because the technologists figure out how to do something better than those people. Nobody's happy when it comes for them, but that's life. Someone invents the camera, and art is changed forever.

In this case, technologists figured out how to exploit people's work without compensating them. A camera is possible without the artists it replaces. Generative modeling is not. It's fundamentally different.

If people figured out how to generate this kind of art without exploiting uncompensated unwilling artists' free labor, it would be a different story.
Cool - this is sort of reversed for me, it's using the Euclidean algorithm to illuminate the structure of traditional rhythms, but I'm very knowledgeable about the latter and have never studied / have forgotten the former, so I've just learned the Euclidean Algorithm by drumming on the table..
What race were the Sumerians?
Fourteen years after Tim Berners Lee released his www app was, let’s call it 2005ish.

I’d say the impact of http on the world was pretty damn life changing by 2005. Linux? Fourteen years after it was released it had entirely disrupted not just the commercial Unix world but was on its way to becoming the most widely deployed operating system on the planet.

Bitcoin? Eh. I suppose ransomware authors would still be using green dot to try and collect their take if it hadn’t shown up. YouTube creators would have a harder time financing their passion without the sweet cash infusion from random vc backed crypto currency exchanges. Many quadrillion hashes would have sadly been skipped in the small chance they would have resulted in the correct number of leading zeroes.
This reminds me of the rhetoric used by people who think TOR is a vital tool for valiant and heroic freedom fighters in the clutching claws of despotic dictators.

When in reality it's only used to purchase benzos and child pornography and its use it easily detectable by authoritarian regimes that control the nation's internet infrastructure.

Any authoritarian regime that will ban transactions will also ban crypto.

Detecting its use is as easy as detecting TOR usage.
> Doesn't really speak positively or poorly on cryptocurrency as a technology though.

Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum though, and the fact that so much of the ecosystem that sprung up around crypto is rotten is a hint that maybe the technology isn't all that useful. Crypto's nominal reason to exist is to have a way to transact without government oversight, but its popularity is due mostly to speculation and outright scams enabled by said lack of oversight.
The whole thing seemed elaborately overly-formally-described and that just lessened the value of the cool graph.
What sets the number of employees isn’t the number of users, its the amount being spent by competitors trying to pull those users engagement elsewhere.
My impression is that you certainly were angling for a very specific negative interpretation of what the person you were responding to was saying, namely that that person was implying they didn't want to perform the duties of their job. They were not saying this, they were saying that constant surveillance is not good.

The only reasons an employer has to constantly be watching relate to paranoia or micromanagement, i.e. a lack of trust in the professionalism and competence of their employees. This is abysmal and the employee quitting or not is unrelated, much as how bullying is bad even if technically an employee can quit. Not to mention that quitting is not an optional for everyone, depending on their circumstances.
China semiconductor industry in the brink of desperation due US sanctions
Absolutely agreed. However, the parent comment is still not wrong.

Crypto _has_ legit use cases (like you mentioned) and I hope it stays. But those use cases will never justify billions of dollars and this much resource, talent and energy poured to it (Usually to the benefit of a few, while costing clueless people their money)

Crypto could've been Bitcoin/Eth with a much smaller valuation and a healthy community and I'm sure most "anti crypto" people would've not been "anti crypto". It didn't have to be this big to have people against it. It could've been a technology we use like Venmo or IMAP. Something that solves some use cases.