skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People look at all the market failures and declare the system is broken. Crypto is here to show us all the market failures that didn't happen.
> And that's largely because of the lack of regulation that so many cryptocurrency fans tout.

In next sentence they will tell you, that you shouldn't have kept the private keys at the exchange. Use your own wallet and keep your copy of the Blockchain.
Rather than give his factory workers and delivery drivers a better, living wage and working conditions, he'd rather rehabilitate his public image after spending a ton of money going to the moon like a gilded age robber baron.
Do current DSLR models still have AA filters? My Nikon D7100 doesn't have one; I believe the explanation was that it doesn't need one because it's resolution is large enough. In any case that camera never gave me Moiré problems.

I haven't followed the digital camera market in detail anymore in +/- the last decade anymore, so I don't know what's going in regarding AA filters. I just kinda assumed other models would also drop AA filters.
At the time of this writing, 3 Americans own as much as the bottom half of all the Americans [1] .

https://inequality.org/facts/wealth-inequality/#richest-amer...

I don't know how you qualify that. I would qualify it as extreme. The fact that "most people are not companies" doesn't matter, what matters is where the wealth is.
> Stuart Hoegner, another former UB lawyer, holds a similar regulatory-compliance post with rival crypto firm Tether

Both Tether and FTX hired former white collar criminals from the same company to head their regulator compliance.
Facebook pays prevailing "Silicon Valley FAANG" wages. There are firms that abuse the H1B process, but Facebook/Meta is not one of those.
Is that a lot or a little compared to a high polluting company?
How can we know who sent it though? You can't state the truth as one way or another, at least not yet.
The "elites" in this situation are hundreds of millions of Americans driving trucks through the drive-thru at Hardees. It's not three guys you can browbeat into submission. It's an entire broken culture.
He stole people's home money and food money. That is violence.
Shot in the dark -- could it have been TCP/IP Illustrated? That's a pretty well-known book from that era. I actually read it in 2014 to nail down the fundamentals of networking and it paid off handsomely (despite its age).
It's a good question.

I find that outward judgement for something I feel strongly about is likely detrimental to the cause. Every militant opinion is energy wasted. I prefer to cook stuff people like and create bridges, not resentment in this case.
Alternative theory: it's crime and homelessness
Your description of rewiring the brain is an extra feedback loop, makes the system more complex but doesn't break determinism.

Regardless, even if the world isn't deterministic through e.g. quantum mechanics, throwing dice to decide your next turn isn't "free will" and doesn't make the case for free will any stronger.
Love the idea of managing support tickets via Slack threads!

- Is there a workflow to use this for a support@ email inbox? (& which pricing tier is that a part of?)

- Is there support for customizing an auto-response to those emails?
> match orders and they also hold client money

Matching orders is what brokers canonically do. Exchanges came about to consolidate their activity. There is nothing resembling a true exchange in the crypto space.
Most people hate people who are significantly richer than themselves.
Yeah - there's a whole industry of this.. I worked with a large nonprofit that had something like $50M FDIC insured through CDARs.

https://www.intrafinetworkdeposits.com/

I suspect the government / Fed will have something to say about these in the future since it's a bit contra the purpose/intent of FDIC insurance but for the moment, you can abstract away all of the complications.
Jeff Bezos says he plans to give away most of his $124B fortune
> Yes, true investigative reporting is rare (and expensive), but good work is still being done.

Still, it's weird to have to read about this at poker.org first instead of any "respected" news source.
U.S. sending money to Ukraine:
True

Ukraine funding FTX:
Mostly false. This appears to be a confusion related to the fact that Ukraine launched a website accepting cryptocurrency donations that were processed via FTX [1]. However, as far as I can tell, there was no funding of FTX by Ukraine other than possibly FTX earning transaction fees for processing the donations.

FTX being 2nd largest donor to Democratic party in the U.S.:
Semi-true. SBF was the 2nd largest donor, not FTX the company. [2]

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/14/ukraine-partners-...

[2] https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-joe-bid...
You are saying that the people who think that smoking pot deserves less punishment than stealing $1B, are the dissonant ones?
Notice I specifically said “oversell a weakness”. If what a short seller says is true and then they add their analysis, which presents a dire case, that is largely not seen as illegal market manipulation.

Activist funds do this every day.
remember when we used to playback our voicemails on analogue tape, and check our mail, and interact with strangers, and read the headlines, all maximum once a day..
Australia to 'stand up and punch back' against cyber crims
The use of XTDB and RabbitMQ is annoyingly overcomplicated. Why have a central database? Why not use a simpler more standard storage mechanism, or just pluggable storage for each component? Why not just use HTTP calls to static nodes instead of RabbitMQ?
"charitable grants" is some nice Newspeak for bribes
I totally agree. They also overlook that this wealth isn't entirely "earned" by the billionaire. After all, wage theft is the most common form of theft.

For a comparison, an amazon warehouse employee making $15 an hour, would have to work 40hrs a week, 52 weeks a year for almost 4 million years to accumulate the wealth Jeff has. Personally, I don't think that's equitable.
My heuristic in picking the fake one was to examine the fabric - the fake ones are all wearing what seems to be Dan Flashes.
That's very insightful. I suspect you're very right. Thankyou for sharing the thought.
Tether is pretty specifically, if briefly mentioned. What is vague is the description of what provable role Stuart Hoegner had with UB's lawbreaking.
There are way more options than the two you listed. The trouble is that you're using bureaucratic thinking about how to handle all the cases instead of getting down to the human, personal level of how you handle each specific case.
It's strange how Grant Sanderson's (aka 3Blue1Brown [1]) name hasn't come up so far.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
Those emissions would mostly be counted in the airports on this map.
Let's not forget that "crypto" here is short for cryptocurrency.
Ask HN: Are there different “families” of eng career ladder? Which is best? Why?
Broadly, I've seen two different families of engineering job titles in the wild.

What I think of as the "startup" or "high tech" family typically just has levels of engineer: junior, mid, senior, staff, and principle. Engineering seems to be more of a core function at these companies.

On the other hand, I think of the "pre-web" job description cluster, where software engineering gradually budded off of an IT department that managed printers and phones. There are usually a variety of types of role (analyst, developer, programmer, architect, administrator, etc).

Is there any good writing about these, and their relative advantages/uses? I'm biased against the pre-web cluster based on my experience but I'm interested in getting more input.
I read an interesting thread on why this isn't a pyramid scheme. Basically there's no one at the top. It's decentralized so there's a loose federation of edges arranged in a many-sided polygon. So we need a new name. Instead of Ponzi, this is a Nakamoto Scheme.
"showed up at the same party" is not "very close".
> An EU person located in the US. This person is also covered by the GDPR

They are not, where are you getting this from?

Again, Article 3 from GDPR, "Territorial scope";

> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union

data subjects who are in the Union
Well, a lot of people will keep some $$$ and some cryptocurrency in their account at the exchange. Maybe because they want to play the day trader, being able to buy and sell at a moment's notice.

So the exchange ends up with a big account of client funds containing cash, and a big wallet of clients' cryptocurrencies.

If a bit of that money goes missing, they can cover it up for a long time, if cryptocurrencies are growing and there's net more money flowing in than flowing out. You just pay departing customers' withdrawals from new customers' deposits.

It is only when the tide goes out we find out which swimmers have lost their trunks.

And once a company's demise becomes inevitable, perhaps insiders decide to help it along. If you've already been hacked for $10 million, why not make it $100 million given the company's going under anyway and you'll be the prime suspect?
Looks amazing thanks for the tip!
Perhaps we’re looking for the feeling of memory or dream. I believe that’s why 24 fps persists in film, for example — because it’s less real in the immediate, analytical sense, but more real in that it feels closer in some undefinable way to the way we imagine or remember — or even perhaps in our non-analytical moments directly perceive — things to be
I'm not trying to defend them, but if 20% of the customer assets are in SHIB then that should be the pct they are holding in reserve?
This is mostly just political posturing on the part of the Democratic Party, which as far as I can tell is not any more interested in halting US fossil fuel production than the Republican party is. In fact, not a single country with large oil and gas reserves and an active export industry wants to see their revenue collapse due to something like an international ban on the trade in fossil fuels - and this is true regardless of their political ideology, i.e. capitalism vs socialism or authoritarian theocracy or whatever. Venezuela, the United States, Norway, Iran, Russia, Saudi & UAE, etc. all want to keep running their export programs for the next three decades at least. I mean, in the USA the Obama Administration oversaw the fracking boom for eight years and now that's the basis of the LNG exports to Europe.

As far as tracking the big polluters, that's more misdirection. Yes, it'd be nice if oil refineries were run tightly enough that they had no local emissions, but those refined products are all going into the fuel tanks of jet planes, ships, trucks, power plants and personal vehicles, from whene they will be combusted to CO2 and injected into the atmosphere, so does it really matter where the emissions take place? This is not rocket science, just basic accounting. The end result is the same, here's a model of the yearly cycle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SgmFa0r04

If countries had really wanted to slow fossil-fueled global warming, they'd have started a 1% per year replacement program (renewables for fossil fuels) in the 1980s, and we'd be at a ~40% renewable ~60% fossil energy mix by now (at least). As it stands today, every single fossil fuel company and nation-state producer is looking to maintain current production levels for the next 30 years, if they can manage it. Enough with the hypocrisy and two-faced posturing at these 'global climate meetups', already.

Finally, this 'hope' business is ridiculous. The tipping point has come and gone, there are numerous global carbon models and observational data showing that even with 100% renewables tomorrow, warming will steadily continue due to permafrost melt and carbon outgassing from marine sediments. The last time CO2 levels were this high was in the Pliocene, ~2-5 million years ago, and that's where the climate is heading. Hence, human civilization will just have to adapt to these new conditions, which will be difficult and expensive and disruptive. However, since noticeable changes in climate (i.e. clearly distinguishable from the noise in the data) only appear on a ~10 year running average, this could be accomplished, with massive infrastructure projects.

However, making efforts to adapt to new conditions would require admitting that fossil fuels drive global warming, which would create more pressure to switch to renewables, and that would be resisted by entrenched economic interests... sort of a Catch-22 situation.
nice rant but no -- the data on the site shows that individual transportation is NOT at the top of emitters; rather it is industrial infrastructure that creates fuels and industrial infrastructure using fuels for heavy materials.

https://climatetrace.org/explore
The commitment was "commitment to give the majority of their wealth".

https://givingpledge.org/about
Honestly, just fiddling with a mix of documentation and videos are what help me learn. This is also incredibly ironic since I write books over iOS development, but everyone is different. Some love being able to go their own pace with books.
It's worse than that. FTX's regulation and compliance officer was previously the legal representation for a shady online poker operation that used a bunch of offshore shell companies and whatnot to avoid US law for years. It's clear FTX's posture was to maximally avoid regulation.
I know this guy on a street corner in Athens - dm me - I'll send you the address
It's time to pivot to tangible long term assets, like tulip bulbs.
I did some investigation around this. At their peak, Nokia launched 46 models a single year [1]. I believe Apple has launched somewhere <35 models of iPhone in the fifteen years of its existence. Part of the problem was, companies like Nokia couldn't conceive thinking that there could be one model that's good for everyone. Like music? You need to get a music phone like XpressMusic. Business person? Get N97. Low on budget? Get the simple 1108. The proliferation of models just spread expertise, and marketing dollars, and ended up diluting both. Instead of making one awesome phone, you have tons of mediocre models.

The genius of Steve Jobs was in showing that you can have whole company focus on making a brilliant device that works for everyone. I still don't get why companies are so much focused on launching hundreds of different models instead of one and leveraging economies of scale.

[1]: https://twitter.com/shubhamjainco/status/1406338323531010050
Keep it simple. My inbox only contains mails that require an action at some time. If I have done this action, I immediately archive the mail. I often mail todo's to myself so I have only one place for todo's.
If I have to do something on a specific time, I put it in my online agenda.
I have a separate setup for work and private, that's it. This works great.
Instagram star gets 11 years for $300M email scam plot
Not for Wirecard, or FTX.
I should add that one consequence of this is that bankruptcy carries a real stigma in Germany. If you defraud people and can't pay damages and have to declare bankruptcy, you can't just change your name and continue defrauding people.

Also you can't just change your name. You can legally change your name, but it is a rarity and you have to give compelling reasons for it and is usually seen with suspicion if people hear about it. This is one of the reasons it took comparatively long for Germany to allow transgender people to pick a new name.

Changing the name is so foreign a concept in Germany that instead of allowing inmates who served their time to start fresh with a new name, the German way was to institute the right to be forgotten, to make it possible to expunge damaging references in search engines and even the paper record to a certain extent.

This is also why Germans tend to be reluctant to open an account with some web site if they have to give their real name. That feels like a boundary, an actual commitment.
This sounds similar to PNPM: https://pnpm.io/. You still get a node_modules folder but it just has symlinks into the global cache. Ot was basically a drop-in replacement (minus the need for —shamefully-hoist on our install) and ended up being faster to install and build
In that case, the Meme defining society is "Meh". It's not always a top-down thing.
Show HN: R/Place Clone in Minecraft
> It's literally a cultural joke that no-one reads those

I read every single document I sign my name to, every time. I'm not alone either. I assume we're mostly engineers here, some of us maybe are involved in contractual things, so tell me: in your job do you sign your business's name or your own name as Officer to contracts you haven't read? Now tell me, if work is less important than your personal affairs why on earth would you review the terms for work agreements, but not for yourself? If I agreed to contracts without reading them in a job context, I'd be in the unemployment line so fast the IRS would send me their condolences.
> autistic spectrum than normal people do. So most likely many of the commentators just don't have the biological wiring for feeling empathy like many others do

This is outdated. Assuming you are using "empathy" conversationally, it's driven by the fact that people higher on the autistic spectrum don't perceive what other people feel very well, and historically this was misinterpreted. The comments on HN aren't "I don't understand why anyone would be upset". They are "it's only business". Those who claim that they are autistic so they can be assholes are just assholes who are happy to lie to try to justify it socially.

Or, people with autism have a correlation to issues with cognitive empathy (recognizing what another person's mental state), but not affective empathy (the desire to respond to the other person's mental state.)[1]

> Musk would probably have given someone those three months to find other employment, seeing as he gave Twitter employees up to six months.

Has it changed again? Last I saw was 3 months. At any rate, he started and continues to try to get people to quit by a lot of policy changes. And has a history of burning out his employees in fairly harsh ways.

You can say he's effective, but he doesn't sound pleasant to work for.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-017-0082-6
Scaling Mastodon is impossible
>In other words, how much of their pollution is for domestic activity and how much is for making stuff that we in the west consume.

It's about 7.7%. In other words, if we factor in our imports, our co2 emissions would be 7.7% higher than our territorial emissions.

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
Now we get the cascade of exchange failures, followed by the absolute collapse of all Crypto prices.

If you have any money on the exchanges now is the time to get out.
Lots of journalists literally think they're a charitable cause. And much of "charity spending" is for puff pieces to increase funding for the charity, after all.
I don’t understand how you can possibly think that someone’s contribution to the world is so outsized as to be worth millions of times that of say a teacher or a care worker. Would the world really be that much a worse place without bezos? I actually think there’s a decent argument to be made that it would be better…

Have you just swallowed the idea that the market value of something is equal to its value to society?

I guess I would like to hear your justification that billionaire’s deserve their wealth, bearing in mind that this typically does come at the expense of others.
Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7B, with worse to come
Well, yes, it was a startup by a bunch of twentysomethings with no real banking experience. There was no partitioning.

> the size of the fines that get imposed on people who fuck with client money.

This is crypto, law doesn't apply here.

Well, that's the marketing pitch at least. So far a lot of exchanges and such like have gone bankrupt or been blatently stolen by their operators and nowhere near enough people have gone to jail.
Logotherapy: Viktor Frankl's Psychology of Meaning
It happens that rich people sue journalists (personally) even when they have no substantial case. Read this case: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/08/are-ou...
Wow, that's a new one for me (only app payments accepted). In the US, at least.
Woot!

– Yes there is. This is available for any tier

– We currently have auto-responses for Slack messages. Auto-responses for emails is on the way!
Crypto.com has 20% of their reserves in SHIB since that’s what their users own 1:1. That’s the correct approach; you would prefer they gamble with their customer’s assets by swapping a portion to more blue chip crypto like ETH?
I'm told that all press is the partisan press of one side or the other, but it seems that there is little to no investigative reporting done by the conservative media - I wonder if it's an opportunity.
FYI: Not DeFi.

All actual DeFi (based on smart contracts) continues in a healthy and orderly fashion.
Yeah, after the fact might work too. But the fact being painful and an experienced of how bad how they treat others is, I've also seen help, in a "Damn, have I've been such a jerk to others all along?" way.

Else many will often brush it off and reboot the "jerk" act when they've recovered.

Especially if they feel entitled to the help and compassion shown to them when they're down, and it helps them recover faster and scratch free (and thus makes the falling down less impactful). In that case they end up still not valuing said help and compassion (because for them it was on full and easy supply).
Nice, like there's a CAP theorem for finance. Pick two:

- civil: transactions are just

- accessible: customers can withdraw their assets

- partitioned: customers can exchange assets with other customers
> Small b blogging is learning to write and think with the network. Small b blogging is writing content designed for small deliberate audiences and showing it to them.

Are there plans for ActivityPub integration?
This reminds me of the guy who lost his keys. He was looking by the street light when his friend asked him if he lost his keys by the light. "No, I lost them over by my car, but it's too dark to see anything over there."

Here is a graph from wikipedia that shows that taxes in the US are in total about as high as they have ever been (which was 2000). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Federal%... You can very clearly see that while Federal taxes are gradually decreasing, that is more than made up by Payroll taxes.
We know pretty well what forced worker ownership looks like. Hundreds of millions of people dead.

Needs to be opt-in.

The next wave of famous business people will likely be the Platform Coop-ists.

Activists building unicorns not for the $$$ but for the Klout of taking on the status quo model.
contaigon
I do wonder whether it's even possible to substantiate longevity claims of this sort, or whether it's purely an exercise in "here's a number that would look impressive on our sales materials".
Where do you find places with specific lenses? Basically nowhere in the UK seems to call out their lense quality from what I've seen - perhaps I'm just looking in the wrong places. Are you ringing each optician up individually and asking them?
Genetically engineered bacteria make self-repairing walls and cleans pollution