skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can anyone speculate what Bankman-Fried's exit plan was?

I can speculate based on recently revealed facts.

SBF did grease politicians to the tune of 40 million USD in political donations. Several have described these donations as: "bribes" (I'll let you judge). (as a sidenote I wonder if these politicians are going to give these donations back to the people SBF scammed).

A US congressman, as reported here several times, wrote: "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".

It's "allegedly" but it's a fact that a US congressman posted that.

It's also established that a colleague of the SEC's Garry Gensler happens to be the father of... Drumroll... The 28 years old woman CEO of Alameda.

So I'll speculate a TL;DR:

SBF was working hand in hand with corrupt politicians and corrupt officials to kick Binance out of the US through regulatory capture in order to grab Binance's insane market share (easily 10x the size of FTX).

SBF would then have continued the established FTX/Alameda scam through FTT. So he'd have then used FTX to pump the price of FTT (and, because why not, other manipulated shitcoins too) in order to keep pretending traders at Alameda were geniuses.

Alameda would have been fully legit and would have take shitloads of money from various pension funds and investment funds (knowing he already got some: why not think he would have gone for more?).

That's my speculation: why stop at 1/10th the size of Binance when you can donate tens of millions to politicians (which is pocket change when you're making billions) and work with the SEC to get a monopoly on crypto exchanges in the US, all the while pumping the value of your Alameda fund and all the while having covers of magazines and people everywhere (Bloomberg, Sequoia, JP Morgan, etc.) saying how big of a genius you are and how geniuses all people around you are.

The guy is a megalomaniac: no longer than a few weeks ago he was saying that companies worth tens of billions were "potential acquisition targets".

And I think that, had the overall markets not have been crashing hard, he may have succeeded at all that, creating a scam 10x or 100x bigger than the one he actually ran.

But the market crashed and CZ took the opportunity to reveal the FTT scam to get rid of a very dangerous competitor. No matter if Binance is legit or not: SBF was after Binance but Binance was too big for SBF too chew. Binance may be going down too (no clue about that) but Binance was never going to go down alone while letting SBF free to run his SEC-endorsed scam.
I am hoping vanilla JS will some day replace all the frameworks as the core features the frameworks have get absorbed into web standards natively, like what happened to jQuery. It's already perfectly possible to build a modern SPA UX without frameworks but a lot of devs don't generally prefer it. Yet?
Let's just not talk about the Nissan Leaf. The Nissan Leaf is completely out-of-place in today's EV landscape and by current EV standards, it barely counts as a "real EV" you can live with. Speaking as a former Leaf owner.

The Leaf is the only model in the U.S. that uses, or has ever used, the CHAdeMO connection that the Leaf has. Good luck finding a CHAdeMO charger now, it was already hard 4 years ago and it is just getting worse. Most places that had one were Nissan dealerships, but those are almost always broken now. Nissan dealers just don't care about it. Even when they exist and are working, that has to be the most difficult connector I've ever seen for a consumer-grade product.

Their 40kW battery base model costs as much as a 60kW Chevy Bolt. Where I live, 40kW will get you only ~120 miles of range. That small of a battery also can't charge that fast.

The most damning thing of all though is that the Nissan Leaf is the only EV sold today that doesn't use active cooling on their battery pack. It was a horrible oversight on the Gen1 Leaf, but it is absurd for the Gen2 after most of those Gen1 batteries cooked themselves to death (and were eventually replaced after a class-action lawsuit).
not to make this political but this is more political than not. people vocally want certain things (eg. prevailing wages) more than they want efficient costs so there's little incentive to make things cheaper.

a good case is always california's railway vs. florida's brightline. the differences are stark:

- $1B per mile vs. <$20M per mile [1]

- prevailing wages vs. market wages

- politics and nimby-ism vs. privatized project

- delayed to maybe 2030 vs. opening 2023

[1] https://fee.org/articles/florida-company-shows-california-ho...
https://archive.is/20221111162245/https://www.washingtonpost...
Why would anybody trust the government to "disarm disinformation" when they have historically been the largest purveyors of it?

Maybe if they lead by example, but until then...nope.
Lately my Firefox has been showing a ligature for "fi" in monospace code blocks, showing those two characters in the width of a single character. On every website with code blocks. It is mildly infuriating and I don't understand it.
> concepts of projects that each have their own files, windows etc.

Both Sublime and VSCode definitely have a concept of projects with their own files and windows. Is your complaint that the projects are folder-based instead of taking the form of a "project file" containing a list of files in the project? Because I really see the latter as an anti-feature.
Steam energy was what powered the industrial revolution, and is now a major enabler of the production of electricity.

https://petrotechinc.com/how-does-a-steam-turbine-work/

Unfortunately we are burning huge amounts of wood to produce electricity in this way. I prefer small modular nuclear reactors if we want to be environmentally efficient.
https://www.wbdg.org/resources/biomass-electricity-generatio....
Without disagreeing on the specific points about the tooling, I’m not convinced. Golang took off with a far weaker tooling story. Maybe the table stakes have changed in a decade - but I believe other factors are more important. Moreover I remain skeptical that even if those tooling issues were fixed tomorrow it would help Nim turn the corner.
https://archive.ph/kIvNP
An alternative to high pay is sustainable working conditions.
How Federated Learning Protects Privacy
Just to note, Pleroma also uses a job queue: Oban. https://hexdocs.pm/oban/Oban.html
Crypto is naturally globally networked. What jurisdiction could it be in?
It won't end. Ego is a helluva drug.
Where does the ratio of 10 to 1 come in here? I see 110:100, or 1.1:1, or 10%.

His explanation doesn't make sense to me. Are those assets borrowed or something? And having $10 million extra in assets means that if suddenly all your liabilities come due, you have $10m left over? How could that possibly wipe you out?

Very confused.
This seems to leave out the existence of debuggers in IDEs.

These days I tend to run most new code in the debugger, and step through it so I can see what’s going on. This works great in say, Rust, Python, or Swift. I haven’t used Java for a while, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work well there too.

I feel very connected to the code.
> '... I'm not even that successful; that is why I don't want to have everybody looking at me.'

I wonder what real success looks like to him.
Has SMB locking, and OP Locking become that much more reliable?

Pretty much one of the classic desktop support calls for me was "my access database on the shared drive is corrupt"

I'm out touch now, but one of the failure modes seemed to be that a client would take out an oplock, so it could do local caching etc. Then someone else opens the file, the server sends the oplock break to original client but that message gets lost/ignored, and we end up with 2 or more clients now making unsynchronised changes to a file.

Any smb client access to shared data more complicated than documents and spreadsheets just makes me twitch these days.

It was a long time ago now, and it probably was more prevalent in larger environments.. just more chances for things to go wrong I'd guess.

If something is designed for shared filesystems that's different, but my experience was that at the low midrange things aren't. They seem to work, until they don't.

What's wrong with sql express? Assuming you fit within its size constraints?
Would it be wrong to say that the US has lost the engineering skills necessary to build this kind of big projects?

During World War II the US was an mind blowingly efficient juggernaut of public projects, but it seems that it has lost is way, and that today its engineering culture lags way behind countries like Japan, Germany, France, Spain, ...

You can only reap what you sow in term of engineering skills.

The best minds in the US are focused on showing marginally more ads, wall street , and lots of other things that pay very well, but not big engineering works.
Elon will still have to contend with the anchor of process that is the public comment period and inevitable CEQA lawsuits by rich busybodies who are afraid the poors will have a more convenient time getting to their jobs in the service industry.
> In fact, I think we could replace the corner with just normal slash, "/", write = to the right of the divisor and spell out the digits of the result to the right of it; the substraction chain will still go down the page.

That's exactly the way I was taught long division (in Germany).
I've been talking to a lot of people in your situation recently and my personal mission is to make part-time employment more common in the tech industry. A few tips:

* I would reach out to early-stage startups. Many early startups don't have the capacity/budget to add full-time employees, but may be willing to take on someone flexible on an hourly basis who knows how to code and can help with other things as well. Bonus of course if you can get warm intros. The key is most places aren't advertising these types of roles, it's your job to convince them that you would be a value add and a low risk hire.

* What are your papers and research about? Is there a way you can turn this into advising or consulting based on your expertise?

* I wrote about the part-time tech landscape here: https://blog.parttimetech.io/p/the-part-time-tech-landscape. An expert network could be good if your research or papers are of interest to companies for quick cash. Fiverr/upwork/toptal type gigs are possible, but they take huge cuts and tend to be smaller engagements so you have to keep getting more work.

* I know in Germany companies are required to allow part-time work if it doesn't pose significant harm to the business. 10-15 hours may be bordering on too few hours for continuity (I feel you should try to do 15-20 if possible), but you should reach out to many software companies in Germany and see if they'd be willing to take you on from the get go at reduced hours. If you look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33422129 you'll notice many of the German companies offer part-time.

* I've started a job board for part-time roles: parttimetech.io. It's a little sparse right now, but we're working on filling it up. Maybe something there of interest.

Hope this is helpful, good luck.
People can move from one country to another.

The majority of people on Earth live in countries which are considered corrupt & incompetent and have regular bank crashes. It would be a good thing if we remove control of money from corrupt governments.
Of course - and they should.

But the argument that you shouldn't be using AdBlue in your diesel because rich people fly private jets is frankly, crazy. Both things should be addressed, but one of those things is far more important to tackle right now for the health of everyone.
They don't need to get that money from the recipient of their shots, they can get it from the insurance companies and/or taxpayers.
> That's literally the raison d'etre of commercial companies

Maybe for some financial companies, perhaps crypto or high-frequency trading firms, I might imagine.

But for most companies, the reason they exist is that they provide some product or service to customers. For example, FedEx delivers packages. Apple makes smartphones and runs its App Store. Netflix provides video streaming services and makes its own programs. Etc.. Without such a product or service, there is little reason for any of these companies to exist.

I've yet to find a company mission statement which is "make as much of a profit as possible." There probably is one somewhere, but they certainly aren't the norm.

If we look at Netflix, for example, we see

"We promise our customers stellar service, our suppliers a valuable partner, our investors the prospects of sustained profitable growth, and our employees the allure of huge impact."

In this statement they acknowledge multiple stakeholders: customers, suppliers, investors, and employees. A company without customers is either a startup or a pyramid scheme.
yes I agree D should have been on that list, bummer
Also, you can run that Go binary on any Linux system whereas with Python you'll be lucky if you can run on any non-Ubuntu/RHEL Linux system. Moreover, that Go binary will be like 10% of the size of a Python artifact (which amounts to significantly faster deployments and cold start times for things like Lambdas) and it will perform about 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than Python and there will be headroom to optimize (whereas with Python you're usually not going to eek much performance out beyond the naive implementation without substantially overhauling the architecture).
"v1.13(14) - expires on 1/12/2022 (DD/MM/YYYY)"
damn, I've never heard of software "expireing" on a certain date, cool app though
And that is arguably the simplest explanation of what bitcoin is: digital cash.
There is still some steel in the core load bearing areas of modern vehicle but they are predominantly alloys. I'd say around 60% alloys, 35% plastics and 5% steel would be an average
In Texas, anytime you move and update your mailing address it generally takes 7 to 10 business days for the information to fully propagate. So the timing could make it so that you are unable to vote if you miss early voting(in the same county) before you move or are not able to reach your voting location on the day off the election.

https://comptroller.texas.gov/help/manage-account/update-add...

Anytime you update your postal address with the US Postal service, they make sure you have the option to also update your voter registration at the same time. Updating your voter registration is just a checkbox away when you are using the website.

https://USPS.com/move

>I can only imagine how hard it is to vote here for someone who moves around a lot or has to rely on public transportation. It makes me wonder how much of the abysmal 27% voter turnout range for ages 18-29 [0], which is still one of the highest turnouts in 3 decades, is due to voting accessibility issues versus plain apathy.

The die in the wool cynic in me would say plain apathy was the most like culprit for low turnout in that age group. Although public transportation in most of the US is an abysmally bad joke. There are some large cities that have decent public transportation but for the most part I feel like if you don't own a vehicle in the US then your are treated as a 3rd class citizen. Even in some cities with public transportation it can be difficult to get even get a job if you don't have your own vehicle(It's a painful catch 22 that a lot of people struggle with).
Ouch, today I learn "blue-green algae" isn't "algae".
I am paid to write Haskell and I pay several people to write Haskell.

We're happy.
Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent history
Same. I'm just so flipping happy for Sublime's ongoing success. I'm so glad they proved the early doubters wrong.

There are so many fantastic editors these days. A real embarrassment of riches. Something for everyone.

I hope Sublime is a motivating role model for other indie devs. If you create a great product, and pace yourself for the long-term, you too could become a "working artist" style dev (solo or team).
Homepage link since I use it myself: https://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/
Musk proposes turning Twitter into a bank to avoid bankruptcy
This theory certainly seems more plausible — he'd hate having to reach an agreement with people he can't order around, whereas selling cars is comparatively easy:

> Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.

https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions...
Let’s not treat senior management and owners of a company that has gambled away billions of dollars of customers (and investors) money as kids. They should get jail time from what I’ve read so far.

They were either criminally stupid or did this on purpose. It really wasn’t that complex. This isn’t even close to 2008 complexity since this was all happening within one organization With the same owner SBF.
You’re confusing the CCS chargers outside of North America. The ones in NA are absolute trash and Tesla is right to try to kill them off as fast as possible before electric car volume that uses them becomes significant.

Tesla is well over half of the electric cars. There’s no reason for them to accommodate the absolute worst standard at their stations.
Watching the demonstrator scrolling @12:43 did something in my brain. That looks incredibly compelling.

https://youtu.be/k1DxL-vyjfs?t=763
Three phase power is very common in Europe. I have three phase sockets (for the oven etc) in my 80m² apartment.
Poaching does not imply ownership of the "game". You shoot a deer on my property, hunting season or not, you are a poacher. In my area, hunters are required to acquire permission from landowners. I would not give anyone permission to shoot deer on my property. That does not make me the owner of the deer, just a limited temporary custodian until they decide to leave my property.
Can't answer that question, but I use Mac and Linux, and Sublime being cross platform is a huge win for me.
If you're all in on Mac, you should look at Nova, as it is beautifully designed, and you often can't beat apps that are designed specifically for a single OS.
As panick21_ mentioned, I don't understand what's so hard about this. Those people should move away from aliases (which are not used in a real town square in any format) and instead change to their real name. You see this all the time in conservative circles, where there is now an implicit level of trust and authenticity between all participants who do this.
I tried the google camera app on GrapheneOS and can't make it work, in CalyxOS it just works
Maybe! It would get me on board, though :) I'm working on a new server side project and am using Java for now, because of this reason. I hope someday I have time to help build IDE plugins and so on :)
How much cheaper is it to build a vehicle with the NACS port vs J1772 port? If the build savings are enough, I foresee manufactures making the switch.
Does Tesla still sell more EVs in the US than the rest combined?

Though if most of the bulk/plug is on the charger side, than this is all a non-issue.
> Lentils and rice are a complete protein. While they don't provide 100% of the nutrients you need, if you throw in a few green vegetables you'll be absolutely fine.

Sounds like the South Indian Sambar with rice meets this criteria.

Or rice-dal-subji combo in North Indian cuisine.
I really think this is pretty much solely about politics. The US has plenty of engineering success in the private sector, but public sector projects are weighed down by corruption, environmental requirements, community support requirements, overpaid union wage requirements. Everyone wants a piece of the pie.
Institutions funded FTX - what are you on about with your very wordy but empty post?
Why be a civil engineer with all of the liability and hard stuff to learn, and earn $35k coming out of school, when you could be CS grad and earn $150k, with way less stress?
Plenty of Indian foods are already vegan or can be made vegan with simple substitutions.
I wonder if they're reputations would have stood up to the media scrutiny of today.
that proves their point does it not?

some transit costs $5m per mile, some transit is $1b per mile, find the corrupt one.

anytime you have a large spigot of taxpayer money you'll have people in charge trying to funnel it away using contractors, lobbyists, etc.
Note also that recently a fork called Akkoma[1] sprung up. If one is looking to self-host, it might be worth looking into this vs Pleroma (I don't have a horse in this race, was just doing some research on different ActivityPub servers).

[1]: https://coffee-and-dreams.uk/development/2022/06/24/akkoma.h...
Businesses operating as custodians should be subject to all the usual banking regulations. They are holding other people’s money.

But that’s not crypto, that’s just a crypto-related service.
Yes a lot of smart people like crypto and like Haskell. That "lot" is still miniscule compared to the other languages people have jobs using.
in the case of Los Angeles its a combination of factors hobbling rail at any level. First, NIMBY suits every now and then that threaten minor stretches of the project and require significant funds to combat, or restructuring the program entirely so as to avoid the town in question. this added YEARS to the purple line expansion in LA and ensured it could not go through Beverly Hills or Westwood. Second, deliberate political boondoggling from Republicans ideologically opposed to any public transit, mass or otherwise. They know they cant defund or sanction it, so they get elected on platforms to "form a committee" or put a measure on the ballots to "fund an investigation and research" into things like delays or budgets for the program, which inevitably saps resources and time from the program and slows things down.

IMO its largely NIMBYS though. California in particular has a bold cadre of arrogant holdouts for practically ANY expansion project. pull up google maps and look at the 710 freeway. Notice anything? yep, it stops deliberately before it gets to Pasadena. this lawsuit lasted nearly a decade and forced the city to give up entirely on the project, ending it right around el sereno and safely away from rich people.

say what you will about communism, but the central planning committees get things done.
vouched. you're shadowbanned fyi, you might want to email dang.
Please read the actual article. It's much more complicated than that. France has incredibly strong unions, and yet their costs are a fraction of the US's.
Jekyll on GitHub Pages does exactly this.

I wrote a dynamic PHP markdown site thing years ago which I still use at work to host Markdown files: https://github.com/superjamie/emdee
... I'm not sure about that. Most of my problems with Youtube have much more to do with me being a niche customer than anything.

I honestly believe most of the world most wants to see stupid cat videos, videos of people embarrassing themselves, videos which will make them feel validated, and so on.

The older I get, the less faith I have in humanity.
They are all tiny in comparison...

The vast majority of EVs in the United States use this now, and it's not just historical - Just to emphasis the most popular EV cars in the US today are:

Tesla Model Y 60,271 20% 191,451 50.7% 33.2%
Tesla Model 3 55,030 67% 156,357 94.5% 27.1%
Ford Mustang Mach-E 10,414 – 28,089 49% 4.9%
Tesla Model S 9,171 150% 23,464 79.9% 4.1%
Chevy Bolt EV/EUV 14,709 226% 22,012 -11.3% 3.8%
Hyundai IONIQ 5 4,800 – 18,492 – 3.2%
Tesla Model X 6,552 43% 19,542 16.4% 3.4%
This happens far more often than you seem to think.
> Or concepts of projects that each have their own files, windows etc.

You mean like workspaces[1]? Or Multi-Root Workspaces[2]?

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/workspaces
[2] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/multi-root-workspa...