skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know why you are getting downvoted. Yes, I believe that using customer funds to punt shitcoins at a supposed "quant market making firm" is really dumb, but people here really think the people in this operation are random idiots/got there via underhanded means. I think they just believed that the gravy train would last longer than they thought.

Several Alameda employees worked at JS, which is by far one of the most successful quant firms out there and they only hire the best. He also exploited a very creative arbitrage to start the firm, which is also not a fluke.

Then again, I would expect no less since the people on here constantly complain about leetcode interviews and "not wanting to interview for big tech for XYZ random reasons" when I know damn well they couldn't pass even if you gave them the answer.
separating people from their money
No they don’t. The method they are praising is already the base implementation for emacs.
My biggest complaint in go is "Defaults are useful" logic. I have seen numerous serious production incidents due to simple uninitialized variables. The only workaround is to use a function for all initialization but because that is more verbose it is often not done, and you lose the "keyword arguments" of struct literals.

There are other footguns like the unpredictable by-reference behaviour of slices and the printf functions corrupting your output if you make a type error but they are much less severe than the misguided idea that implicit default values are useful.
But the fact remains that someone is president and gets all the prestige and other perks of that position, and there are lots of other people who would like to be in that position yet aren't. Running things has never meant absolute ability to control systems, it has always been a relative measure of position within the hierarchy compared to others.
It's been 10+ years of a costly solution desperately looking for a problem.
While true, there's an endless supply of new buzzwords to use to capture another round of rubes.
One of my current client is a big institution whose decisions affect the life of probably 700+ millions people a year.

A lot of critical processes are just excel sheets that people open and run once in a while, maybe copy / paste or click a button in there, then close.

Some processes are automatized, but there is no way to check if the result is good. Best you can do is to have a human look at the numbers and say "LGTM" with some confident face and call it a day.

Said client handle billions of euros every year for other entities. They basically influence the entire world economy on a daily basis.

Now, get audited from top to bottom, from internal and external teams, and all audits pass eventually. I met mostly good people there that take their job seriously. But still, every time I dive deeper into their rabbit whole, I just can't believe what humanity stands on.
> What do you mean this knowledge cannot be used?

The knowledge will not be able to affect the outcome of your present, past, or future.

> ...but I don’t see how it is possible for me not to use that knowledge.

I don't see how it is possible for you to gain omniscience either.
I've heard horror stories from friends about working at meltwater. Setting that aside for a moment, this is an amazing software engineering achievement.

Pulling off this level of scale with Elasticsearch is no easy feat and very impressive from a technical perspective. When you're running ES with petabytes of mission critical data as a core service powering the universe of a business, cluster rebuilds aren't an option (or maybe they are, as a last resort, but absolutely will not be acceptable on an ongoing basis).

Relying on Elasticsearch mega-clusters in this manner is akin to running an ultra-marathon with a really sharp pair of scissors glued in each hand. Or maybe even more extreme than my (admittedly lame) analogy.

Running nodes with such high shard counts is an appreciably precarious proposition, because there is a fair amount of overhead in the Elasticsearch management protocol. I wonder what the performance testing strategy entailed.

I have a lot of respect for the engineers working to make this project and service a success story. When it comes to Elasticsearch at scale, such outcomes are the exception.
Who is whining about being cancelled? Who is complaining about being the real victim? Who is doubling down? Did you respond to the wrong thread?
People who understand that betting on red over and over again isn't a long-term winning strategy usually don't make the news for fraudulently pissing away 8 billion dollars of customer funds.

It's survivorship bias.
Like how they're introducing admonitions syntax by overloading the blockquote sigil that makes it difficult or impossible to nest, has a heavy English bias, and doesn't even transform the underlying element making the use of blockquote unsemantic. They also just skipped the CommonMark RFC and other implementations throwing their weight into the ring with no regard for prior art. I also don't think a corporation, Microsoft, needs to be in charge of the spec either. No thank you.
Nothing in this article proves that Musk is 'buddy buddy' with Saudi Arabia.
But then it's precisely the kind of processing the EU rightly wants to address, and not only because it's the USA: China is a similar case.

But that doesn't matter to you. As long as you're too small to have a server and a (part-time) "controller" inside the EU, you seem to be out of luck (note: IANAL; there might be another way; cooperation with another small company, perhaps?).
NewPipe is a godsend on Android.
I would plan to add some details
Are you talking about engineers and programmers?
Technically, any present given "to" a US president is White House property; presumably, it became Johnson's dog after Kennedy's assassination, and, assuming the dog was still alive, later Nixon's.
While we're telling ES war stories:

FogBugz was still on twelve ElasticSearch 1.6 nodes when I left in 2018. We also had a custom plugin (essentially requesting facets that weren't stored in ElasticSearch back from FogBugz), which was the main reason we hadn't spent much time thinking about upgrading it. To keep performance adequate, we scheduled cache flush operations that, even at the time, we knew were pants-on-head crazy to be doing in production. I can't remember if we were running 32-bit or 64-bit with Compressed OOPs.

Kiln was on an even older version, v1.4 if I remember correctly. And one of the shards had a corruption warning, yet it didn't seem to affect stability or results. But that wasn't a fun cluster to operate, since it refused to do certain types of maintenance because of the supposed corruption.

Hopefully the newer versions are easier to migrate between. I don't remember what exactly was preventing us from upgrading, but I'm sure part of it was wanting to avoid a full reindex.
The dominant force in that department has been the OCLC.

I submitted an article yesterday about its own power-grab regarding bibliographic metadata, "Let the Metadata Wars Begin":

<https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/06/22/oclc-sues-cla...>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556442>

That lists a number of resources:

National Libraries <https://www.dnb.de/EN/Ueber-uns/Presse/ArchivPM2015/metadate...> (linked data: <https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0018834/>)

Harvard <https://hangingtogether.org/harvard-bibliographic-data-relea...>

MetaDoor <https://meli.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Chani-Yehuda_...> (from Clarivate, subject of the lawsuit headlining this article)

I'm also aware of the Internet Archive's Open Library (initiated by Aaron Swartz, see below), and some Wikidata efforts based largely on ISBN. And of course the almost wholly useless HathiTrust.

On Open Library data: <https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/using>

Wikipedia Book Sources: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/>

There's also the lawsuit by OCLC against Clarivate:

<https://www.infodocket.com/2022/06/15/oclc-files-lawsuit-aga...>

And ... searching "OCLC" in the HN archives turns up numerous other references, including Aaron Swartz (miss you, guy), "Stealing your Library: The OCLC Powergrab":

<https://web.archive.org/web/20081218092812/www.aaronsw.com/w...>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362769> (2008)

Algolia search for "OCLC" on HN: <https://hn.algolia.com/?q=oclc>
Mandatory mention to Markdeep: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
I'm so sorry. My mom was diagnosed a few years ago and she got preyed on by snake oil salesmen to the tune of 6 digits. The money doesn't matter to me, but people are really fucked up.

I can recommend Duke's neuro-oncology center though. They did a great job with her when Sloan Kettering wouldn't touch her.

Best of luck to the both of you and hang in there.
Worth noting that JPEG XL has a pretty good lossless mode too, however, I think in many cases you actually want to just use a lossy AVIF or JPEG XL in places you'd previously have used "lossless".

It was kind of an artificial split, much like text, alpha transparency or line drawing might be done as PNG, not because you wanted them to be "lossless" but because JPEG would mess them up due to a lack of tools for reproducing non-natural photo content.

See the lossless comparison here for more:

https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/
I don't trust you, you don't trust me, neither of us trust the guy who owns the git server but I need to give you something without anyone being able to stop us.
I am not saying rust is unfit and I think your first sentence gets to sorta my point.

I agree no one writes actual kernels in GC languages. 100% Rust is the best choice where GCs can’t be.

I think my argument is that if you can use a GC, I think it’s considered best practice to use a GC. If you need thread safety, use a GC language like Elixir that handles concurrency well.

Like there’s no reason to act like Java community and try to force rust into every area. It’s very good at what it does, let it stay there.
Grigori Perelman – mathematician who refused to accept $1.000.000 prize
Probably your main way of detecting this is sudden IP differences for the customer(s).

If I login to my bank, it's usually either from my home IP or my cell provider's IPs.

If suddenly a login is from Russia, that's likely suspect.

However, even if you detect it, how do you "solve" it? That's harder, because anything you "put up" the customer will just put into the evil site.

Your best bet is to have email verification (side channel) for big ticket things. Assume all the above has done, and bank.evil stays logged in after the customer has left, and they try to transfer money - it now asks for a code sent to the customer email with a you are making a transfer in the email - that should get the customer excited enough to call and find out what is happening.
Hey now, PureScript is not that old.
To update an old saw, Kubernetes is proof you can write Java in any language.
> Interestingly, their customers are also often levered. A homeowner who has just made their 20% down payment is levered 5:1.

Isn't that only if the homeowner has no other equity or liabilities? Which is especially tricky when talking about people who, if we valued them like we value corporations, have equity in the form of the net present value of their future earnings.
Indeed, the deregulation that led to the 2008 financial crisis was a thoroughly bipartisan effort, one that began in the Clinton Administration. This is why Brooksley Born is a hero for our times, and Larry Summers, a villain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Born
U.S. Department of Justice lawyers are already closing in.[1]

Using customer funds held in custody is theft. Period. People go to jail for this.

This may be the biggest embezzlement of customer funds held in custody in history. Most scams involve misuse of funds invested, not just held in custody. The biggest outright theft of this type seems to have been Peregrine Financial.[2] That was $200 million, far smaller than this one.

What happened to the CEO of Peregrine? Here he is, 10 years after conviction:

Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator
RUSSELL R WASENDORF
Register Number: 12191-029
Age: 74
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Jesup FCI
Release Date: 02/19/2054

[1] https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/10/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-...

[2] https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/omaha/press-releases/2013/...
Yeah, at my last job I had a similar realization. I went in agreeing with the conventional wisdom that you have to use ladder logic so that techs and customers ands other engineers can understand and work on your program. In reality, modern machinery (with networks and servo motion and smart sensors etc) is wildly complex. In seven years I didn’t meet a single customer or technician who felt comfortable making program modifications, and even qualified engineers would struggle to learn the ins and outs of an unfamiliar program. Ladder logic just didn’t provide the benefits that folks claimed were the reason we used it.
That, too, is a revisionist take. Sure, earlier commentary concentrated on advantages of the militia, especially verses a standing army. But there is only limited discussion of the scope of the right prior to the 20th century. It was only with the development of federal regulation of guns with the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968 that the question of whether or not the militia clause limited the right began to be discussed.
Fewer than a quarter of a million people died in both atomic attacks combined, including post-war illnesses. Why is your desire to defend the Soviet Union more important to you than accurate information?
A “universal” api for moving money between financial institutions that don’t have existing relationships would be extremely valuable and could unlock innovation in everything from payments to mortgages.

But the blockchain space has an extreme bias against the existing finance world. Frequently products in the space want to tear it down as they view it as predatory.

This leaves us with the current situation, the crypto industry speed running the history of finance and a technology in search of a problem.
> they are also hellbent on showing me "shorts" in my search results.

Every content site is hoping the US bans tiktok and they can be positioned to pick up all the traffic
Surely as a paid subscriber I am a customer?
I don't think AVIF was ever behind a flag in Chrome, it was always enabled by default as long as it have been a part of it.
There is also this one written by Jeff Lemire, though it is obviously a work of fiction. It also features the American monkeys Able and Baker:
https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/primordial
Back in the beginning, bitcoin was intensely attractive to people who were in the intersection of extreme libertarian ethics and cosmopolitan financial capitalism ethos.

It's a fundamentally contradictory world view, of course. You cannot have cosmopolitan financial capitalism without very strong states propping up an extremely unnatural global order. But you can understand how middle-wealthy tech people ended up there. They were self-made, annoyed with taxes, and primarily held wealth that was generated without geographic ties. This is opposed to traditional middle-wealthy folks, whose revenue streams were historically closely tied to place and/or community.

Now that the End Of History is over, the contradiction is laid bare, and the reaction has been a sort of ideological immune response triggering fever dreams that are increasingly absurd and desperate (metaverse, web3, NFTs).
> Don't use CDNs for delivering assets, they've long stopped being useful anyway.

How do you handle large DDOS? Your provider won't, they'll nullroute your IP because they don't want to waste their bandwidth on your issues and impact all their other customers.

Also, using a global CDN with edge caching speeds up loading your site significantly if the user isn't close to the DC.

Regarding Hetzner: what's the verdict on them having to comply with the CLOUD Act via their US subsidiary?
Thanks, I'll keep it in mind.

Given that I'm generally driving an e-ink device, mpv/Termux is actually preferable for playing audio-only.

Actually, that's my preference in most cases for "video", especially anything that's talking heads / expository.

There's also effectively no data surveillance capture possible, other than IP.
Because it actually often works and there has been research that has found benefits. The question is whether or not the benefits are worth the drawbacks and that's highly sensitive to your actual objectives, to the local conditions, and extremely sensitive to the details of how your rent control is implemented.

For example, it is an empirical fact that rent control greatly decreases the number of people that leave a city, which especially for poorer people means that they get to keep an invaluable support network.

At the same time, there have been publications that straight up found that rent control did not reduce housing stock meaningfully and yet reduced rents.

So the assertion that it "never works" cannot be supported by the evidence because we have evidence of cases and dimensions in which it definitely worked. And that is part of the reason why some of us are subjected to rent control.

I find that this post https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control... is a good start, the video by Unlearning Economics on the subject is also pretty good, which IIRC also touches on the issue that in the rent control debate an increase in the exact same metrics (for example, mobility) is interpreted by some as good and by others as bad.

I think there is a solid case to be made that when used carefully rent control can be a good tool to use in keeping housing costs under control, though of course if used as the only tool then things are likely to end up disastrously.
I think they refer to different things.

I could ask why use the term "Hunger" rather than "Starvation" or "malnutrition" etc.

Food security I think of as a measure of the risk associated of available nutrient supplies not being adequate to meet the need (not the market demand, as that may differ) of people in a particular locality.

Hunger is an end state feeling in a human-being when they feel the need to eat.

You can have terrible food security and no hunger if there is tremendous risk of mass starvation due to small unforseen disruptions in supply, but there is existing supply and forecasted supply to meet demand if all goes well.
It's run by people no smarter than you, with rules enforced by mentally domesticated highschool graduates with pistols.
Once upon a time, all of that would have been managed on just pen and paper, calculated by humans instead of machines!
We got Twitter ‘verified’ in minutes posing as a comedian and a senator
https://archive.ph/tcW2T
I was exploring options all morning, they all seem to miss the "bottom line" (I understand why, but my customer doesn't need much resources).

Scaleaway seemed way better than the competition though in terms of price for the bottom line, allowing to grow gradually rather than having to go all in in terms of pricing.
All dialects of Org Mode, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, HTML files, ODF files, EXIF data on images support metadata in file--it's the norm. The fact that Markdown's spec doesn't support metadata by default and most "dialects" don't this ad hoc syntax (YAML of all broken things) shows that Markdown not suitable for most kinds of documents.
Jobs was highly successful 3 times (Apple I, Pixar, and his return to Apple). Once could be luck, twice is highly unlikely to be luck, and 3 times? fuggeddabootit
Correct. I've been in this world so long I forget 'normal people' don't really know all the acronyms :)

more rumours are surfacing, including Yuga Labs (biggest name in the NFT space), Jump Crypto, Paradigm... this is basically our Lehman Brothers moment

edit: looks like Yuga might be ok after all. luckily, sometimes rumour is just a rumour.
I feel like its just a feature thats on with default settings than a careful analysis of cash on hand of the average american by the restaurant owner. Anecdotally, you are more likely to have cash on hand if you frequent street food or weed dispensaries so it probably varies by local culture quite a lot.
Although thanks to the electoral college, your vote is completely irrelevant in most states for presidential elections
> I don't really get how he got people to vote for him; I suspect it's that he appealled specifically to an anti-intellectual constituency - the same constituency that rejected Al Gore for being too intellectual.

Since it was the same constituency (in the margin) that voted Obama and Trump in, maybe the question is how Obama appealed to that "anti-intellectual" group more successfully than the succeeding candidate.
They were greatly embarrassed by the Apple Maps launch, leading to Scott Fortall's firing. It's definitely not a strategy they want to repeat.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/executive-reportedly-fired-ap...
Business acumen seems to be a pretty broad term. There is a subset of skills useful in many situations and for many business but maybe for some business some specific skills that are outside of 'business acumen' were the trigger for success.

Maybe Musk has bad 'business acumen' but is good at coordinating engineering teams and that lead to the success of SpaceX and Tesla but doesn't work for Twitter because its not really an engineering problem.
Makes sense. I've been in these audit meetings. If the auditors don't ask the right questions large parts of systems can be missed. As an operator if you open your mouth and explain it you could double the scope, which I always got the feeling was disincentivized.
Well the bank can't get your future earnings or other assets if you default, but they can get the house. So if the house is worth zero dollars (never true) then you are 5 to 1 leveraged.
(Audit was by Ernst & Young, one of the "Big 4" accounting firms.)

IANAMBA (not an MBA) ...but my understanding was that "Never Ask Tough Questions", "Always Certify Propriety & Compliance", "Fast", and "Cheap" were the Big 4 reasons why ~all large businesses get low-bid audits from major accounting firms.
Let’s assume you already know what the agile manifesto is. Let’s consider that you apply most of the “extreme programming” values, principles, and practices. How can you work with other teams that aren’t agile?
What are you saying? Those organizations aren't doing a good enough job, so we may as not have them at all?
The argument isn't that the free market will solve everything. It's that there isn't a better solution. It's a lower bar.
I disagree because I've worked with a sales guy who could sell an enterprise license for a product that didn't exist yet
>Remember when Biden said the Hunter Biden laptop was fake?

I don't think Joe Biden has ever said that.
Yes, it seems he even mixed definitions as well. He said that the $110M in assets and $100M in liabilities was a 10:1 leverage.

However, later he says that a home owner with a down payment of 20% is levered 5:1. Yet, if we do the same math as he did above, then 20% of $100,000 loan is $20k in equity with an $80k loan, giving a leverage ratio of 4:1.
Like most people doing sales, I am cold calling and cold emailing like a fiend, and it's a little bit depressing, but it gets a response.
>> What even is loyalty to you?

To me, loyalty to reasoning regardless of outcome.

>> You've also not substantiated your claims about how the military cultivates a culture of cheating.

Here’s a paper that showed veterans report extramarital sexual relationships at 2x the rate of nonveterans:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192513X1246051...

How else might you explain such a significant difference in rate of cheating beyond it being part of the culture? Beyond that, under UCMJ adultery is a crime, even if retired, yet what percentage of active duty and veterans are charged? How frequently are those aware of adultery in military subject to UCMJ actions?