skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-50% is still a better return than many tech stocks.
The German aspects puzzles me, not sure if the implied German School exists.

Other German Lisp (and related) implementations: CLISP (a Common Lisp written in C+Lisp by Haible/Stoll), CLICC (a CL to C compiler by Goerigk/Hoffmann/Knutzen), Eu2C (an EuLisp to C compiler, from a Fraunhofer Institute), Chicken Scheme (Winkelmann), ...
"Ur-Lisp" – what is the exact definition of this?
Wouldn’t the Alameda CEO’s experience as a Jane Street trader be more relevant than the fiction she likes?

That doesn’t change the larger story of inexperienced people being given money far beyond their demonstrated ability to manage it, but not listing it makes your comment read as if you’re attacking her for some other reason than her professional choices — like describing Vitaly Buterin parenthetically as a former Workd of Warcraft player.
> an advocate for more regulation.

Perhaps he was envisioning a GFC style bailout in case one of his martingale bets increased beyond the size of M2.
He's banning people who make fun of him. I'd call that abuse of power. Especially after all his words about how bad censorship is. So instead of a leftist bastion (which I disagree was true, but that's beside the point), it will now be a bastion of things that Elon finds favorable. Is that better? Depends on your overlap of favorability with Elon's I guess. The use of the N-word on Twitter is up 500% since the take-over, and leftists probably don't like that much -- so looks like he's 'winning'.
> “We’re so early,” goes one popular crypto mantra

I'm tired of this mantra.

To me, crypto is starting to look less like the early internet, and more like the file-sharing mania of the late 90s early 00s, ie Napster, Kazaa, Limewire etc.

A very likely outcome is that crypto will continue to be around, like some of the file sharing services, but using them will be more and more irrelevant and frowned upon by most people, who prefer the ease of the legal media streaming platforms.
I see why it was so slow - there are DELAYs sprinkled everywhere.
Possibly reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur, the first prehistoric city, in ancient Mesopotamia
Actually, the health system that Canada has did not start until 1947, and the product you are talking about is literally not the product under discussion.
On a server level users can be reported by users and banned by admins. Mastodon is federated, and individual servers (or even individual users on servers) can choose not to federate with particular servers.
Ask HN: How do you deal with the human ability to never take responsibility
I notice this in myself and many others. The mental gymnastics we play to deflect. Just about everyone plays this game. Elon just did this recently and wrecked havoc on the Twitter staff.

How do we deal with this? That it’s my fault, and I don’t want to contort it and take it out on someone else or even myself. Why do we humans lack an ability to let a person confess within reason?

Or do I need to show up with a sink somewhere?

What exactly is a mistake?

Religion had a confession booth. You say it and move on. The house of rationality requires you to play out your mistake.

I don’t know the answers. It is cruel and unusual punishment to oneself and anyone that cares for you to live out a confession. It is better just said, and smacked in the head. Move on.
DIY? The whole industry uses it and many cities use plastic pipes to deliver water as well.
Simply put, you're not supposed to use water pipes for ground. That was done many years ago (prior to 1980 here).
Twitter was doing pretty okay though, looking at revenue and profit trajectories. A fairly sharp layoff of around 20-25% might've been needed to trim back down from the pandemic hiring spree and the lack of the anticipated growth, but that should've been sufficient to restore profitability looking at their last reported numbers.

With Twitter Blue steadily and exclusively rolling out new features like edit functionality that might've begun contributing more to the bottom line in time too. It was still too new and too geographically limited to be certain.

None of this was necessary.
> All the mac chargers I've had had a grounding pin.

The MBPs I've had only came with an USB-C charger. Those come with a Europlug, which doesn't have an earth connector.
Making-of clip: https://youtu.be/dgVyl9CxHpM
> bankruptcy proceedings take a long time and to a retail investor ‘you might get some money back in N years’ isn’t so different from ‘you get nothing’.

Does anyone actually remember MtGox? It wasn't actually that long ago!
banking started 2000 BCE according to wikipeida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking

FDIC put people at ease about putting their money in bank. banking regulations created over years to protect people's money.

crypto bros preach about decentralized. what can go wrong?
Try this link: http://www.varietysoftworks.com/jbaldwin/Education/single-le...

The truth is, most of us that worked on top of OS/400 do not really know what a lot of this means ... just that it is good because IBM told us it was :)

In a way, that is what made this a great place to develop applications. You work in RPG (some use COBOL) in languages that are purpose built for working with the built-in database and do not worry about things like memory and where things are stored. The runtime environment and OS handle those details.

I was employee 1 at an ISV that made "Change Management" application, what would we be called DevOps today. The way the OS treats everything as objects that have properties we can manipulate and move around was just cool. It was just so straight forward to manage the applications people were creating and deploying, it is hard to explain because it is very different from the *nix/Windows world of how it is done. Even mainframe is not quite the same.

The overall system was ahead of its time in many ways. Recall arriving at work in AM (tiny company in a small town) and walking in and having our IBM rep also arrive. Ask why he is there? The system phoned home (via mode) to let IBM know a disk was failing. He has replacement with him to swap in.

These systems were expensive, especially for a small company. Recall we had to get a loan so we could buy a tape drive for $25K so we could then put our software onto $50 tapes that we had to mail to customers to let them try or update the software. Some of our bigger customers needed their tapes on a drive that was more like $100K to buy. Thankfully, there were other AS/400 customers within driving distance that would let us come over a couple of times a month and copy our software onto tapes using their drives.

When CD-ROM finally became standard it became a god-send for our business.
Some sort of regulation gets passed, institutional investors get interested (some already were: https://decrypt.co/114235/ontario-teachers-95m-ftx-pension-f...) and the next time a crypto exchange like this goes bust they get bailed out due to financial contagion fears and crypto is totally legitimized with the downside risk publicized.

That's the end goal of this and it doesn't seem far fetched to me. The great libertarian experiment.
Yes, here's a bit of the background: https://youtu.be/dgVyl9CxHpM
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>I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.

Either his three books are really short, or they're one of his several fuck ups.
I don't have the personality/aptitude for the business aspects of consulting work; e.g. finding contracts, managing billing, etc.

I have the skills and resources to work in a crafting/cottage industry. However, I know a number of people who work in various cottage industries (massage therapy, tailoring, art). They all make significantly less than I do. The work is also often extremely unstable.

I don't have the resources or knowhow to start a business in a capital intensive industry like manufacturing or trucking.
What do you mean "have been trying to make zfs happen"? ZFS is used in production in many places.
Any time there are price controls, there is scarcity. That is, unless the price controls are subsidized in some way like in the situation we're talking about.

I like the innovative drugs that are being made, so I'm not in favor of price controls.

If you think drugs are too expensive, then do something about it. Create some useful drugs and sell them for a cheaper price.
The future of finance
The question for cloud providers is not which one is morally more important, but which one is better for their shareholders. It seems like creating a situation where organizations move their workloads off your public cloud because they have to blacklist your entire domain to stop an attack would be bad for their shareholders.
Before, you would not had blue tick on something that looks like major brand, known person etc. So yes, quite often you could know "this was said by this person".

The trolling (both for fun and for harm) on platform went off the charts last two weeks and there are multiple blue checkmarks accounts for a lot of companies/individuals.
I really enjoyed this explanation

https://hackernoon.com/domain-fronting-101-what-is-domain-fr...
I wonder if the issue is not with personal identities, but with whether you represent a company brand or group.
with a name like bankman...
spam email is a good analogy. Email would suck if you needed some central authority to grant you permission to send. spam filters work on email and will get better for crypto.
Looks interesting, but it'snot clear on how they protect metadata from the STUN/TURN part of webrtc. Potentially its use of the Multi-Party Relay that insulates peers from those services knowing anything about the peer. Some interesting points were from the article:

- Booth leverages the same INVISV Multi-Party Relay (MPR) architecture that we also use to provide Internet privacy for Relay users. Using an MPR, users’ network identities (IP addresses) are masked from the cloud server that they connect to. https://invisv.com/articles/relay

- Booth is designed to use meeting “booths”, where the booth link is randomized for each meeting. Likewise, Booth users don’t need to reveal their names to the server. ... (Note that Booth relies on browser support for Insertable Streams/Encoded Transform, which is limited to Chrome-based browsers at this time.) In addition to this end-to-end encryption, Booth also employs additional outer layers of encryption as described in the MPR architecture.
FTX Is Investigating a Potential Hack Amid Bankruptcy Filing
He knew that playing friends with people in power was good insurance policy and that he could trick them.
> Without the ability to express negative interest rates the only way for the system to continue is through grifting.
I mean think about for a second. Positive rates mean more want to borrow than others want to save.

I'm not sure what you mean. The European Central Bank has dabbled with negative interest rates. So have others.

Anything you can express in a system like Taler you could conceivably replicate in existing financial systems, it always just comes down to political will.
They are not using it wrong the same way someone being scammed by Nigerian prince spam are not using email wrong.

Uniswap filters the tokens available the same modern email providers filters email. If you go looking in the spam folder and fall pray to a scam there, it is your fault, not the fault of the email provider.
Honestly, this sounds to me like... "welcome to the real world of software development!" :-)

Not saying that every job is identical in every respect, but probably few jobs will ever fit your (or my) definition of perfect.

Sounds like there are some great opportunities here. If management is at least on board with the theory of doing better CI/CD, then there is probably opportunity for you to lead that! And also opportunity for you to work with management to figure out how to fund it! Customers often don't care about engineering improvements if they can't tell a difference in the end product, so you may have to be creative about how to sell this.

Likewise, customers don't care about programming. If they think about it at all, they'd probably be happy that most of your work is light customization, as that's less likely to cause them bugs. Understanding what makes customers want to hand over money in exchange for your work is very valuable. You may be able to eventually propose new products or feature that they want to pay for, and that you can write software for.

I feel like I'm missing context for your iOS maintenance mode question, but sure, "finished" iOS applications need to be maintained for new iOS devices and such.

If it's really what you want, you probably can find another job that's all (or mostly) coding, and on a team that's already using better practices.

But on the other hand, I think your job sounds like a great place to learn about what makes customers happy and how to push better engineering concepts from "suggestion" to "funded plan" to "finished".

As always, beware of career advice from random people on the internet!
>There are many lists created by reputable players such as Aave and Gemini which cover the entire gamut of projects users want to trade without exposing end users to scam tokens.

Reputable how? like ftx a couple weeks ago? Gemini holds an F rating by the BBB and a massive amount of complaints on trust pilot.[1][2]

This is their marketing message "Put your crypto to work. With Gemini Earn, you can receive up to 8.05% APY on your cryptocurrency." This is done by buying and holding stablecoins. Just curious how do you suppose they return such high APY on stablecoins without doing the exact same scam as FTX?

[1]https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/new-york/profile/cryptocurrency-ex...

[2]https://www.trustpilot.com/review/gemini.com

[edit] added quote for clarity
And their means both as determined by their doctrine and expressed by their history vary greatly. In the US religions have been legally defined (a subject of much debate historically) as they are given tax and regulatory exemptions and often public funding. Here’s a good read on the topic from 1969:

https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3...

I’m curious, are there specific ones your referring to, or do you consider all mainstream denominations of Christianity cults?
This paper is discussing listings and not volume. No one is claiming these tokens had any amount of meaningful volume and most likely weren't even traded by a real user. If 97% of Uniswap's volume was fraudulent then I wouldn't even give it the time of day.

To fix your analogy, it's like a payment processor having thousands of fake storefronts able to accept payment. If 97% of their volume was to those fake entities then definitely shut them down but most of the volume would be Amazon and Walmart and the fake storefronts wouldn't even be a rounding error.

Volume info: https://info.uniswap.org/
Sure, to the extent you could trust any other piece of writing. Tweets come with the same caveats as any other source of information and require critical thinking to process.
> Would allow him to get his girlfriend as the CEO?

Ellison was CEO of the hedge fund, Alameda Research, not FTX.

Also, while the descriptions of her in this and other threads as a "Harry Potter fan" and "his girlfriend" dovetail with the erstwhile HN tendency toward "it's so simple, everybody is an idiot except for me," I don't think their relationship was public knowledge until quite recently and until that point she was probably more likely viewed through the lens of "Jane Street alum and Stanford grad."

Which is not that different from SBF's VC friendly pedigree of "Jane Street alum and MIT grad," so given their relationship wasn't public, it's a bit unreasonable to claim she should have been the red flag.
I have direct knowledge of several bank hacks. Most of the time they don’t publish it.
The hacker has spent the last 11 hours slowky and incrementally converting all the various tokens they got to ETH. They've been using a variety of different defi exchange and have eaten large slippage fees, at least once over 5M lost in slippage.

We're not seeing any else, e.g. laundering through another exchange, splitting into different accounts, automating the liquidation of tokens to ETH, off loading ETH into a cold wallet etc.

The on chain activity makes this look like an individual who did not prepare extensively before doing this or doesn't have the skills to use automation/operational best practices

EDIT: first outflows from 0x59abf3837fa962d6853b4cc0a19513aa031fd32b have started, they still haven't liquidated all their PAXG, a stable coin pegged to gold, unclear if it's freezable.

They were able to liquidate all of their USDT except 4M on avalanche, and all of their usdc both of which can be frozen. Dai is a usd pegged stable coin that can't be frozen, they have nearly 1% of it. Note that Dai is heavily exposed to USDC so authorities could pressure USDC to destroy Dai
Though featuring a politician, it's essentially named after an internet meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-am-once-again-asking-for-yo...
Have you ever tried sending money abroad?

With BTC/ETH/USDC it takes seconds. The whole process is entirely transparent. It doesn't get blocked if you reach some threshold. And the fees are smaller than with the traditional banking system.

And unlike with banks, anybody is allowed to open a new wallet. You don't have to get approval, which is difficult if you live in the streets or in a 3rd-world country.

I'm not endorsing the rest of crypto but having a trusted and transparent ledger for large transactions is nice.
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I've been in cryptocurrencies/blockchain since 2012. I "missed" the BTC boat and got into ETH early. I'm of the thought that CeFi services like Ftx, Nexo, Coinbase and similar are stupid. The only thing that should exist is simple Exchanges between Fiat and cryptocurrency. But everything else is just a scam IMHO. Why would you do a CeFi in crypto , when theres more TAM in doing it normal FIAT? Because you want to Avoid regulation and scrutiny.

Anyways, through all this saga, I see ETH is still at $1200, which has held pretty well. I think the right price is around $600, how it was on Nov 2020, before all speculation. The rest of the price is just people playing around. But that's not what ETH is for, and these high prices are hurting it's real goal.

I'm definitely still holding crypto. Mostly ETH, because I believe in the core technology. I've done some smart contracts and have a couple ideas for the future.

But man, I surely hope all cryptos crash and burn this time, so that speculators stop polluting the technology.
Threat actors use knives to stab people - we have to stop selling those.
There’s a very beneficial reinforcing effect of saving a high percentage of your income: you have lower monthly spending, meaning not only does your savings/investment accounts’ balances go up faster, the amount of annual spending you need to replace is lower.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
> I mean it should be obvious that anyone who offers 8% interest has to do some high-risk stuff with your funds, right?

That wouldn't be obvious at all to me; the lowest-risk investment in my country (federal government bonds) is currently offering over 13% interest (https://www.tesourodireto.com.br/titulos/precos-e-taxas.htm).
You are right. Elon didnt file the incorporation papers, he only took it from a grarage startup to the worlds most valuable car maker. Clearly the founder who never shiped a car is is the one who deserves credit, not Elon.
I find it funny that people think these countries just ran up into this problem and they finally have a solution for it

Yeah they do use a "dollar denominated stable coin": dollar bills under the mattress. Or just pegging transaction to USD/EUR etc and doing the conversion at transaction time

BTC might be useful for transferring money, but compared to existing mechanisms (legal or kinda legal), maybe not so much
Looks useful!

> LeanQt is a stripped-down Qt version which includes the essential features and is easy to build from source and to integrate with an application.
They've been waging this war for a couple years now. I guess they finally got to every cloud provider. Some related reading:

"Amazon and Google bow to Russian censors in Telegram battle"

https://www.fastcompany.com/40568177/amazon-and-google-bow-t...

"U.S. Cloud Providers Face Backlash From China’s Censors"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cloud-providers-face-backla...

https://archive.ph/qhFQ5

>China’s Internet censors have strengthened content screening in recent months, creating difficulties for businesses and disrupting more commonly used firewall-circumvention software called virtual private networks, which connect users to the Web through a proxy server overseas. President Xi Jinping has ordered tighter control of online content that may undermine the ruling Communist Party, with bloggers facing jail for spreading what the government says are false rumors.
Ahh the privilege of not living under an authoritarian government combined with the arrogance to believe your government will never turn on you...

Crypto is no more of a Ponzi Scheme than Fiat currency is, the big difference is Fiat currency is back by threats of violence (aka government).
I think that is a inline response in the article to SBF's statement
50 units per dose would be 20 doses per vial.

3 meals a day * 30 days would be 90 meals.

90 meals / 20 doses / 1 vial = 4.5 vials / month

4.5 * 25 = 112.5

I’m not seeing how we get to $666
I thought this was one of those jokes people play on the internet. The two guys in casual clothes looking at her, a lack of acting ability, gibberish about investment... all points towards it being the beginning scene of a certain kind of movie.

I didn't think it was genuinely an interview with the CEO of Alameda.
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Are they really though?

https://restofworld.org/2022/argentina-nigeria-terra-crash/ ("From Argentina to Nigeria, people saw Terra as more stable than local currency. They lost everything")
Does Uniswap prominently advertise that as a warning to users?

I don't know anything about the space, but it sounds like a fact and statistic that should be front and centre in peoples face all the time.
I enjoyed this explanation of the FTX situation. It's not at all snarky!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFhnpf-IE0
This title should be changed. It is heavily editorialized. It’s not what the paper is about. It is just causing the typical crypto haters to get out their pitch forks.

This article is about fraud detection. The conversation should really be about the machine learning techniques used, and the actual conclusion, which is using those techniques, ” This implies that new malicious tokens can be detected prior to the malicious act,and, on the other hand, tokens supported by a strong project can also detected at an early stage.”
Healthcare around the world is subsidized by the insane prices people in US pay for their healthcare.
“Not your keys, not your crypto” is one of the most out of touch axioms in the crypto space (and that’s really saying something).

See: the vast majority of the population (even within crypto) that can’t figure out how to setup a wallet in the first place. Then, if you get that far, you can join the hordes of people that lose access to it, dig through garbage dumps for a laptop, have malware that inspects the clipboard and replaces addresses, make a wrong click in Metamask and get cleaned out, etc, etc, etc.