skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been producing music as a hobby for around 25 years. There were maybe two songs where I had to put some effort into practicing the parts I was recording. Maybe even just one.

The hard parts for me are finding good arrangements, making stuff sound good in a mix, writing lyrics, finding ways to do certain non trivial things in my DAW, reviewing what software I want to purchase, ... Stuff like that.

It doesn't involve much focused dedicated practice. It's just too general of an activity, and it's very easy compared to playing classical pieces on a piano.
I honestly don't understand why any speculators get bailed out ever. They're in it for above-market profits, how is it that they don't have to accept the risk?
> There's a literal saying, "Not your keys, not your coins".

Doesn't that also legitimatize a hack then? If someone hacks or steals your keys, you can't then turn around and say "but wait, those aren't your keys".
Twitter blue check unavailable after impostor accounts erupt on platform
As I said before: that's a simple backtracker with exponential complexity, and it adding more operators will trigger that behavior faster. I think Thompson's NFA matcher is O(n m), but I didn't check the patent. If it isn't, it's fairly easy to make it that.
Implementation of EVERY service on AWS is unnecessarily complicated. Not an exaggeration. Making things simple takes considerable consideration and effort, and that costs money. AWS is a nano-margin business. As long as something works and doesn't fall apart, they ship it.
Space Doggity by Jonathan Coulton

https://youtu.be/zsV-qozMz9A

(Same musician who wrote Still Alive and Want You Gone for Portal)
This might be a good starting point:

The Flask Mega Tutorial https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...

I’m guessing there’s something similar for Ruby on Rails and Laravel.

For persistence, consider Litestream/SQLite. Or just good old PostgreSQL. Or MariaDB.
Murder She Wrote was well ahead of the times - I actually remember watching this episode back in the day, and it prompted all sorts of questions back then. Like some people commenting here, I thought back then we'd have fully immersive haptic VR in 10 years or so. Things I didn't think we'd have is nearly HD virtual screens in VR, in my head things would have been still blocky but interesting. I'm not sure if I've become more pessimestic, but I can't see the Metaverse thing coming out in 10 years from now!
A great post. Note that the post is specific to C++ and does not apply to, say, Java. Java is effectively always paying the cost of exception handling, so you might as well use it.
The exchange is a component of crypto, as an industry. Imagine defending social media but shitting on Facebook. To use your words to try and make your argument:

This isn't social media. This is Facebook with a centralized website, with centralized databases, that is run and controlled by humans. In fact, if you use a Facebook there is no use of social media for the most part.

There's a literal saying, "not paying for it, you're the proruct". Only if people would listen.
I didn't personally calculate it, or see exactly how they came to it. But I know it included things that all employees need, whether remote or not, plus a few things specifically needed by remote employees. For example:

* Laptop

* Accounts like email, Slack

* Entertainment (e.g. Christmas party)

* HR (this covered specific HR services like payroll, not the whole thing)

* IT support

* Travel expenses

* Home working budget

* Training
Different employers offer different compensation packages. That package includes salary, but it also includes things like the extent of 'democracy in the workplace'.

To a certain extent, as an employee I'm happy to trade off some 'democracy' for more money in that package.

As an employer, I would be happy to give people more 'democracy' if that's cheaper to provide than more money.
I'm pro-crypto. This is just a repeat of Mt Gox from 2014. Same scam. Gamblers and get-rich-quick idiots get wiped, as they should. Those people don't want regulation; they see that as an obstacle to becoming billionaires. In a few years, you'll see them gambling their money again.

The real reason there'll be regulation isn't because the community wants to be reassured; it's because governments are afraid, and want control over the entire financial system since they believe they can tame "systemic risks" (while using bullshit value-at-risk models; I guess everyone in this story's an idiot). And in the new bull market, when the abysmal idiots want to get rich quick again, you and I might bail them out.
And now some new domain name will be circulated. Whack-a-mole indeed. For the last 40years...
I was going to respond that DOS didn't have any such fanciness, but then I remembered SmartDrive. And indeed, it turns out it had a write-behind cache [1] that may well have ruined your day if abused in such fashion.

[1] https://www.computerhope.com/smartdrv.htm
> reduce my sentence or it dies with me

He would go to jail. This isn’t even a tough one.
And still not in mars
> 99% of HNers have no clue how to calculate that

This is just plain wrong. In big organizations it's the front line worker and not the CEO that can confidently gauge productivity changes simply because C level bean counters always try to quantify productivity with flawed metrics likes lines of code when most people know it's nonsensical.
It's crazy how much friction friction switching HDMI ports adds. I had the exact same problem trying to get my parents to use full screen video chat.

Ipads are ok but the experience of video chat on a 65 inch screen feels qualitatively different. I would buy a TV for my parents on the spot if it had a high quality built in camera. I didn't know about LG, too late now anyway.

It's 2022. I want high qualify camera on a giant screen that is so seamless it's like sharing a window in my home. It seems like a tractable problem!
Can someone explain the gap after VFX1 ?
While I agree that those things would harm the popular perception of crypto, continued fraud, theft, and greed are also doing so too.
You're right that a lot of the risks are due to holding in a central website. But cryptocurrency in a central website is more risky than fiat in a central website, because if a central website gets hacked and the hackers steal fiat, generally those transactions will be reversed, whereas if the hackers steal cryptocurrency, generally those can't be reversed.
So? We're in the timeline where he made that choice, so now he owes those debts and the interest on them. Yes, in theory he could have bought Twitter without going into debt, but he didn't.
Does it matter? I'm sure 99% of .com is porn, but it doesn't seem to bother any of the stogy large corporations that have .com domains.

If I were Mr. Diamond, my opinion would be "why should I change, they're the ones who suck."
"Like the workplace itself, for most of us the stock market is simply another arena of capital extraction". So, to the author, workplace is an arena of capital extraction. Although the comparison is uncalled for, I'm glad of this candid Marxism because it lets me put this opinion piece in perspective. Given that bias I don't think I'll spend time reading it unless I'm bored.
This doesn't seem like you're remote at all
FTX was able to fleece Wall Street investors specifically because of their deep Wall Street connections. This is a corrupt Wall Street story. The only reason they were exposed is because they left evidence on-chain, and people started asking questions. There are very few people who have been in the cryptocurrency space for more than 5 years that had any sort of trust in FTX.

https://twitter.com/concodanomics/status/1591232063906217984
This whole saga has done irreparable damage to crypto. It will take a lot of time for it to come out of this hole. When there is money involved, and that too this much, there will be conspiracy theories flying around and the regular retail investor will be tough to win back. It will be very interesting to see what happens from here on out. Crypto doesn’t have any uses to begin with, if it’s purely used as pump and dump schemes why bother?
Using DEBUG.EXE (1999) [pdf]
Obviously nobody knows what the private repos are. I was talking about public projects. "Gary Wang" is not an uncommon name. For example, here is another one with a Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Wang
Spot on. Money is a social construct after all and thus subject to human fallacy.
Pick your poison.

Knights ride at night nightly, to get knighted.

Does that make any sense to someone learning English.

It's a silly argument though. Other countries are willing to learn English. We aren't willing, not nationally anyway, to learn anything else.
Yeah and I’m sure the Apple App Store review process won’t catch the steal_private_keys_and_upload_to_china() method they inserted. Not that iPhone apps can’t do this in the first place. A lot of FUD right now to create even more chaos.
Larry David was right: https://youtu.be/Ut3m9OK1c7Y?t=46
Alternatively, governments knew FTX was a fraud and let it happen to weaken peoples’ faith in crypto.
Especially that the gallery one is also in the gallery...
If a bank gets hacked, generally the transactions get reversed. If a cryptocurrency exchange gets hacked, that generally can't be reversed.

Regulation can make things more secure, but I don't think it can realistically stop all attacks. Regulation is slower than attackers. The ability to reverse transactions is what's really needed to prevent attackers from getting away with money.
Hey, that's a cool idea.

In my case, not so much because of the "motivate myself to program everyday" because, well... that's my job, I've programmed every (work)day for many years now.

But it does seem to be a cool way of collecting all the little experiments and fun projects in a single place where you can share them and keep a timeline of what you did.

I'm staring mine.
> I worry if that's the case, it'll be like all the buy out, chop up, and liquidate value takeovers they made movies about.

In general, if a company is worth more when chopped up than alive, it deserves to be chopped up.
> due to the interfce with fiat and they also tend to be where all of the fraud occurs.

Yes, because that's where the actual value is at the end of the day. Regardless of how much people want to pump crypto, when push comes to shove, the recognized value of crypto for the vast majority of people is it's conversation rate to fiat currencies.
Um many? Not me. Not any of the engineers I have talked to, which makes those who want to return the minority.
Does Mastodon need to spend more time per post on moderation than a service like Twitter? As I understand it, people generally report bad posts to the moderator of the instance they came from and expect them to take them down. And if the instance is unresponsive to takedown requests, it gets added to a blacklist that is shared widely across instances (via #fediblock etc). So the end result is you generally have one person either taking down a post or issuing a network-wide ban, just like on Twitter.
Did you click the link ? Planes are mentioned at the second sentence.
Walkie Talkie wins prize for worst building of the year (2015)
Are there any examples of things built with Ghostly?
The ended up with 0.9x their original capital
Exceptions are a nightmare.
On the other hand this site also teaches the internet that eventually everything becomes a reaction-diffusion system/phase separating fluids [1].

[1]: https://www.karlsims.com/rd.html
IANAL. I think that your assessment is correct in the consequences but not in the letter: your source code does become GPL but if you don't distribute the binary and only use it on your servers nobody is entitled to ask you the source code. That would happen with the AGPL license.

Same thing if you make changes to Ghostly itself and don't distribute the binary. Those changes are GPL but you can keep them to you.

If you are working for customers and the IP of the software is yours but the servers are theirs, that is an act of distribution and the source code must be available. For sure customers can ask for it because binaries are distributed to them, maybe everyone else can ask it too. This is the same as GPL code on set top boxes or other devices.

If the contract states that the IP belongs to the customer, the source code is theirs but nobody else is entitled to ask for it because there is no distribution.
A less-discussed effect here is that crypto sketchiness crowds out legitimate applications. If someone has a problem that crypto is actually a good fit for -- an application that would legitimately deliver value for customers, insuring medical tourism perhaps -- a lot of people will dismiss it just because they assume crypto=scam.

As crypto gets scammier by the year, this crowding-out effect means that the dream of early adopters 10+ years ago, of a world economy running on cryptocurrency, becomes more and more distant.

Combine with rising interest rates, I wouldn't be shocked to see BTC drop below $10K and never recover. Past crypto bubbles have reinflated by exposing crypto to larger and larger segments of the investing public, but I think we may be running out of greater fools. For example, last I checked the number of Americans who own crypto is pretty similar to the number who have an old-fashioned brokerage account.
I worked in companies where remote worked but the whole structure of collaboration was built to support that. Can't imagine company that worked on site transition easily

Currently working for company where we our team gets together once a week and that part works well, but management is mostly stuck in old ways so sometimes it's weird.
How do we know the crypto owners were held there?

> 5. That may explain why Russian army and the military equipment are so archaic btw. In order to create something new, e.g. drones you normally need non-violent entrepreneurs who would actually create stuff. In Russia they're being wiped out by the violent ones. Hence, no drones

Iran has drones. Does that mean Iran is an example of "an artificial, abnormal environment which selected out the violent entrepreneurs, allowing the non-violent ones to flourish"?
That logic is complex, but not that much. The industry is full of RBAC implementations that are orders of magnitude worse, and don't necessarily do what their owners think they do.
That doesn't sound like being remote
That's a good point. For whatever reason, I missed the first part of your comment. I did indeed operate under the assumption, incorrectly, that it was his profile.

What's interesting is that a lot of the FTX people on the about page (https://about.ftx.com/), including Gary Wang and Dan Friedberg have deleted their LinkedIn accounts, whereas they were available earlier. If they're deleting something so harmless, then who knows what else they are deleting and covering up.
> They give you an address to send to when you say you want to make a deposit. How did you think it worked?

And then people can keep sending to the same address. The way crypto works there’s no way to stop someone doing that I’m afraid - just how it works.

They could send it back (spending money) but you can’t stop it being sent.
> If there were a clear and well-regulated equivalent of Tether, with obvious and transparent dollar-backing

There are several. I compiled a list of them a few months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31381864
> It’s unfortunate that what started out with altruistic motives

Are you actually buying into SBF’s pathetic ideologies? Or are you more referring to Satoshi’s white paper when you refer to “altruistic motives”.

I can’t understand how anyone would take SBF seriously. He’s a smug charlatan who converted funny money to real money so that he could dump it into politics for his own aims, all while calling his actions “altruism”. Biggest false virtue signaler of all time.
A few years ago I was tasked with migrating a database from one AWS org to another and thanks to IAM we were able to allow this without me accessing anything else in the other org and migrate the database without any more support from the other org. Some time later I found a key in the database I migrated which turned out to give me full access to their AWS...
So, be careful with it and check or even remove old keys after a few years.
That cave-sub was well out of depth, and portage, and ability to navigate tight turns.

I'm pretty sure Elon put more thought into that than his buy twitter impulse.
Indeed. Beyond the failure of human greed in the crypto Ponzi schemes, FTX is also a massive regulatory failure. These firms have been allowed to play with people’s money for too long.
> blockchain ledgers will probably only be long term useful for record keeping between small closed groups of independent entities like banks settling overnight balances between themselves

It’s never going to be useful for that, though. It doesn’t solve any of the problems that small, closed groups who know each other and have legal recourse have.
I would remind you that classifying crypto to be securities would very easily make all of this illegal. Yet the crypto sphere fought tooth and nail against this.
And if you can't find the person to sue because the person is an anoymous hacker? With fiat the court will tell the banks to reverse the transactions.
Dealing with large volumes of cash is very difficult.

It's physically large so you can't move it between countries with drawing attention from customs and security. You can't exchange it between currencies easily since brokers are required to implement KYC/AML. Banks have automatic triggers on their internal systems to notify regulators if you deposit/withdraw large sums.

And if it's being tracked then washing it requires you having to go through exotic means like poker machines since all simpler options have been locked down over the decades.

It's one of the reasons crypto is so popular with states like North Korea, Iran etc because it's scalable enough to allow them to move billions.
oh wow, this looks like a great reading! thank you.

also. loved your LISP pun in your about page for HN :-)
Is this really an issue?

I never used a portal, but all of my devices seem to have some kind of override, even with an HDMI dock. I press the home button on my Roku and my Roku is switched over, I press the power button on my switch and my switch takes over. The old direct TV box that came with my apartment even switches over, although it does ignore other devices after. It's not perfect but there does seem to be an HDMI protocol for asking for control
I recently switched teams from one where all but one other person (who was hired when the office was closed down and would have an inconveniently long commute) works from the office most days to one where I'm the only person who doesn't. So that's about 80% at least partly in office.
Right, so it's not very rigorously defined; it's kind of a "feeling" about how easy it is to subvert the high-level system, and it only makes sense to describe a language as "strong" in contrast to another language — which is kind of what I'd said originally. ;)

In any case, I think we agree that it's not what the parent comment of mine had intended to refer to!
https://twitter.com/jagoecapital/status/1590751676105125888
Crypto works for what use case exactly? Crypto payments take much longer time than traditional credit card ones , are barely supported by most websites and in many cases cost more in transaction fees than credit cards.

And with a lot of people storing their money in these major crypto banks , what we now have is a fairly centralised structure which kind of defeats the purpose of crypto. Worse, these banks also hold each other’s tokens similar to what your normal banks do. And if that’s not enough some of them even do fractional reserves and use the real money they get for investing.
A better way to put it: java doesn't have destructors—mostly because it has proper gc, so it doesn't have to spend time piddling around and freeing objects—so you never have to pay most of the costs that c++ pays.
Linux is under GPL. Running your website on Linux doesn't force you to open its sources.
I think we’re in agreement.

I knew the exact (non)answer I’d get from the other poster based on their other comments.
I use vim exclusively, and I laughed, because you are sort of right.
Lumping diagonally opposed things (centralized coins like FTT or decentralized coins like BTC) under the same category (crypto) is quite misleading.

> How long do we have to wait to see crypto working?

BTC (on chain) is still working as intended, after all these years.
100% agree. Very much with the freedom part, but also on the dealing with people and offices.

I even founded a company where there's an office with actual humans sitting in chairs and clients needing meetings and so on... and I don't go there more than twice a week. I'm very fortunate in having a partner who enjoys dealing with all that.

The fear of being 100% tied to an external schedule both with my time as well on what should I do each day is what keeps me motivated to be an entrepreneur, even when I'm fully aware I'm missing on the crazy salaries and perks party boat we've been having lately in this industry.
There have been plenty of examples of Smart Contracts doing unexpected things because all of the myriad of edge cases were not anticipated for.

It's one of the reasons the classic financial system works so well because it has the flexibility of manual fail-safes in cases where mistakes have been made. Smart Contracts will never really work unless it has the same.
> keep KYC info of their customers

This is AML. It has nothing to do with protecting client funds.

Though knowing FTX, they might have advertised compliance with "Employees must wash hands" as "We are a fully reglulated exchange complying with all applicable local and national laws"
Corps use it for a clean and unobtrusive public precense. But I'm not sure we lose anything if that stops.
In a ponzi scheme, there is a fictitious business model that's purported to be turning a profit, and its lack of profit is hidden by secretly using new inflows to pay off old investors.

In crypto, none of that is hidden. It's widely known that dollars cashed out by earlier investors come from the coffers of later investors. Since e.g. Bitcoin doesn't deceive people about being a profitable company, it's by definition not a ponzi scheme. It's important to use this terminology correctly.
Crypto is a ponzy scheme and always has been. The FTX disaster is just another sign of this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_deck_shelter
The MDN 'Learn web development' guide is a good place to start:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn
Island raises additional $60M funding for its secure enterprise browser
Did a Silent Film About a Train Cause Audiences to Stampede?
Thre is also a similar tool now for JMAP and Fastmail
https://github.com/elizagamedev/mujmap
Almost ALL manuals for setting up something on AWS, third party tools, and sometimes AWS official tools, effectively have a step that requires admin permissions, like being able to attach arbitrary policies to an instance.

At that point you can either:

- give everybody Admin access

- involve the same 2 or 3 trusted people in processes that they shouldn't really be involved

- dig down into permissions to try to build something yourself that apparently the people writting the manuals gave up on doing

Looks very bleak, anybody has a different view in this? Seems unlikely that big organizations work like this on AWS.
What do you mean by stealing fiat currency from a central website? How would a website custody fiat?