skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a context of war crimes trial, it made all the sense.

If a missile is programmed to fall in a maternity full of pregnant women, they are necessary accomplices of a massive assassination. They could be lied about it the first couple of times. After nine full months of terrorism, "we didn't knew the consequences of our actions" is not reasonable
> To my mind, though, it’s important not to minimize the gravity of the fateful decision by conflating it with everything that preceded it. I confess to taking this sort of conflation extremely personally. For eight years now, the rap against me, advanced by thousands (!) on social media, has been: sure, while by all accounts Aaronson is kind and respectful to women, he seems like exactly the sort of nerdy guy who, still bitter and frustrated over high school, could’ve chosen instead to sexually harass women and hinder their scientific careers.

This seems like such an oddly prickly and defensive bit to throw into the middle of the essay? I have no idea why Aaronson is nervous about being associated with SBF ("both were affiliated with the same large research university at some point in time" hardly seems damning), nor what on earth these charges about disrespect to women are about. Am I missing something?
Camacho was a good president. He knew he was out of his depth, sought the best advice he could and was willing to take politically difficult risks for the good of his people. Unlike, say....
How does supabase not qualify as open source?

Their stack is primarily comprised of other independent open source projects. The one component that isn't is their "realtime" server that serves updates from postgres' WAL over websockets, but that is open sourced[0] under Apache 2.0. From my understanding the primary part that has not been open sourced is their database browser / web UI. There are plenty of alternative management tools for postgres though. As you can export your database what else would you need to ensure your portability and independence?

Granted they make their docs fairly opaque for trying to self host. Presumably to encourage you to just use their hosted service. Hosting open sourced projects seems like a very ecosystem friendly way of monetizing.

[0] https://github.com/supabase/realtime
Contrary to the wording of the title, this is a good thing for people that treat housing as a place to live instead of an ever appreciating asset.
I guess this does give people a chance to catch up to save and buy, at some point, it was a rocket ship, now it seems more like a broken old bus.
I still find it strange that housing is expected to be an appreciating asset class, rather than a depreciating one that requires continual investment to counteract wear and tear etc. I understand that this is largely by design, but it seems odd to me how much this is accepted as fundamental to properties, rather than something that’s been constructed.
Yes avoiding trust and attempting to construct something trustless is the biggest flaw in the bitcoin whitepaper.

Trust and identity are fundamental in financial transactions.
It seems something to add to this website https://timetoplayfair.com/timeline/
Banksters have been doing it for much longer and people hardly bat an eye at it.

Edit to add more substance and thought:

I know it's uncomfortable to address but it's true. On top of the money pulled out of "thin air" via electronic means by the central bank (US Treasury asks for a billion, fed manifests it in exchange for bonds, w/ the US fed at a 6% profit rake scheme, not sure about BoE, etc), the normal everyday banks as part of the fractional reserve system pull money out of "thin air" by loaning out more than they have on deposit. Furthermore, the fractional reserve rate which used to be 10% has been busted down to 0 afaik currently. Literally they can loan out money they don't have and the regional fed will bail them out with liquidity if it gets too bad.

I've known this for a while but in 2016 when I was considering running for congress and started digging into the funding sources of the incumbent, I started noticing a lot of NY banks donating to this random congressman, and pivoting out found that vast swaths of politicians have banks themselves donating money.
There's a guy in the clear stealing billions of dollars and nothing happens.

People go to prison for stealing a car, this is literally 1000000 times bigger and he's not even arrested.

He belongs to prison for a life time.

All the other talk about crypto / regulation is just hiding how corrupt the system is for not arresting this guy instantly.
This commentary on MS-DOS 1.x was written by the operating system’s original author, Tim Paterson. His company Seattle Computer Products sold the source code to Microsoft for $50k in what is often regarded as one of Bill Gates’s greatest acquisitions. He had been approached by IBM to provide an OS for their upcoming Personal Computer but didn’t actually have a product. Of course he didn’t tell this to SCP when making the licensing deal. Microsoft’s contract specified a per-customer fee paid to SCP, but they really had only one customer in mind — the largest computer company in the world.

Although it seems to me that Microsoft already had enough talented engineers in 1981 that they probably could have written a CP/M clone from scratch? But maybe the timeline they promised IBM was too tight, in which case Paterson / SCP was indeed the perfect unwitting savior.

(When these events took place I was wearing diapers, so it’s all third-hand information. The great thing about HN is that there’s probably someone around who was in the room for half of it, and then somebody else who witnessed the other side.)
Well he was into EA when he was a nobody at University… I doubt that it was all for show.

Generally, in public downfalls like this, people over ascribe the causes to moral turpitude. There aren’t enough details here to say either way yet. There is a good book about this sort of thing Mistakes were made (but not by me). [1]

I think the blog post is very good, providing a unique perspective, and wonderfully written.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/1491514...
In the tech job market, the demand still exceeds the supply. This is beyond Covid, beyond the war (unless nuclear war happens I guess), beyond the current hire freeze in FAANG.

That means, when you are looking for a job you still have negotiation power when it comes to salary (but usually, negotiation, is an skill on itself and depends on many other things).

Found a bunch of statistics regarding this topic. Just linking one:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/09/27/tech-...
Exchange business models are supposed to be 100% different from banks.

If exchanges are using fractional reserves of any kind or amount, they have already committed fraud.
I think all political donations above a certain level should be scrutinized and audited and then banned at higher levels. But I don’t think the politicians care. They removed the limits to political donations and haven’t looked back, and it has been chaos ever since.

I was disturbed by Robert Mercer’s dastardly part in the 2016 election, both his donations, his people placing, and his technical consulting. The guy is basically a real life Bond villain. When you look into the other top donors of the Republican Party, you start seeing some real Machiavellian characters. The Democratic donors are not far behind in terms of greed and power, but it sure seems like some of the Republican donors just want the world to burn if it means they can keep their wealth.
Aye. Human pregnancy is an absolute mess. Far and away the worst of the primates, which themselves are pretty bad amongst the mammals. It's like a war between mother and child, each pursuing a path that will kill the other, and if they make it through the nine months, there's that final stage where human biology really shows another major design flaw (so to speak - "design" is of course entirely the wrong word for this mess).
> ... possibly the fastest evaporation of such a vast personal fortune in all human history.

That title would probably go to Zucc after the most recent set of earnings. But the previous title holder was none other than Mr. Cyber Hornets himself, the man who just about popped the Dot Com bubble - Michael Saylor.

Saylor lost $6B in a single day (and $10B in 2 weeks) after reporting that his firm had cooked the books in 2000 and his 1999 profit was actually a loss. This was the largest single-day decline in history at the time. [1]

He was fined $8.2M banned from running a public company (just kidding, of course). [2] You'll never imagine what line of work he got into next.

[edit] $6B in 2000 dollars is ~$10.38B in 2022 dollars, and similarly the $10B over 2 weeks would be ~17.31B adjusting for inflation. So it looks like Mr Cyber Hornets still gets to slide in at number two.

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2000/03/michael-saylor.h...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2000-186.txt
But it goes to the original point "It's so great that violence is illegal there, it should be everywhere."

It is. But just because it's illegal doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
The subtitle timing is also broken. Strangely when I cast the same video to my ATV I get better results than using the native app.

In general, on all Plex apps I've had a lot of issues with 4K content and Surround downmixing. You can configure an audio boost option for downmixing in the options but even then it's still barely usable.
I detect that your question probes the subtle difference how one can be implicitly defining the semantics of "living" and "in" when posing the question, influencing the expected answer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blo...

(Paywall avoidance: https://archive.ph/MdZa2)
EDIT: Found the link to the video!

https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62ba500cbcb...
Social.kernel.org: the Linux Kernel Fediverse instance
The hijacked cursor is very annoying and disappears as one scrolls. Not sure what it's meant to achieve.
Look for signals and be skeptical I guess. Watch for over-promising. For someone giving advice, try to imagine how they could be paid or gain from selling you on this, or whether they could be influenced by people who do. For someone offering to take your money, do due diligence, look for track record and whether they make legal recourse early available. For example, transacting in cash or something similarly attractive to money launderers could be a red flag. (And yes 98% of subject industry should probably not be trusted so your filter has to be really selective.)
The two File Control Blocks are also vestigial remains of CP/M, and they can also be found in the same section of memory.
Yet every example you gave was over 10 years ago and there has been regulation enacted to prevent that kind of exploit. Meanwhile every week some crypto scam blows losing some people billions, hundreds of millions or just tens if it's a good week.
Platformers play really nicely on the deck, so check out Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, and its ilk.
> Bank deposits, of course, are >100% backed (by a mix of assets),

The reserves are there to provide liquidity for people who want to withdraw their funds in normal times.

The assets are mostly loans. The lenders sometimes fail to repay the loan, and the collateral may not be worth as much as initially estimated.

The bank has capital requirements, so that if loans are not replayed, the bank shareholders take the hit.

If the capital is depleted beyond a certain point, the regulators (and the FDIC in the US) take over the bank, wipe out the shareholders, and install new management. Depositors are repayed up to the insured amount and if there are remaining funds they go to the insured depositors, creditors, and shareholders in that order.

That's of course how thing are supposed to be done. In reality, large connected banks are often bailed out.
this is more about trust ownership and copyright not the meaning of art
Crypto.com transfers 320k ETH from cold storage
One of the worst posts I've ever read from Scott, this reads as shockingly tone-deaf and blithely optimistic. He totally ignores the actual events that transpired and instead focuses on Sam's purported ideals, probably because Scott Aaronson feels a lot of kinship with him as a fellow nerd and therefore can't seem to believe anything other than "he just made a mistake somewhere". I don't want to pass judgment on Sam, as we don't fully know what happened yet, but Aaronson seems to be taking an extremely strong stance in support of Sam by saying "the worst thing he did is he incorrectly weighted money", which seems undue.

IMO, it seems like Sam had an astonishing amount of pride in himself -- purportedly installing backdoors, playing LoL while on calls with investors, antagonizing competitors, installing nobody with any experience -- and it was all accepted, even rewarded. I can't help but think that if he had trusted others a little bit more, he might have been able to make better decisions for the sake of his company and the world. If I could give him advice, something like that would be it.
In English they are commonly called "venetian blinds". In northern Europe they are often installed between the panes in the triple glazing.
Taiwan to launch first homegrown weather satellite in 2023
I have that also, using a chrome cast, as well as the inbuilt chrome cast on another tv.
floats being IEEE compliant is optional by the language standards. Otherwise the bit representation is not specified.
Brussels sprouted its own unique dialect
There are lots and lots of movies which invested that and more and lost big time. Some of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bom...
So? If keep your code in a single file and use an interpreted language, then there is not always a build system.
The Safari extension they provide is using the old extension format, not supported anymore by Safari…
I suspect there have been some comments here suggesting that SBF was less than totally honest and FTX etc were not completely open in their accounting. Does that count as "spotting"? Does it count when those comments were downvoted? I think it does.

Its like asking "why didn't anyone suggest COVID might've escaped a lab via someone selling bats?" Someone did.
FTX splashed money on sponsorships and ads. It either had a lot of investor money or was a ponzi from the beginning
I haven't verified this for veracity, but supposedly a screenshot from tumblr blog of the CEO of Alameda Research

"this blog endorses double-or-nothing coin flips and high leverage"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhaKXhRXwAEfvKD?format=jpg&name=...
The king of Euclidean rhythm hardware sequencer (MIDI/CV) is still the Squarp Pyramid[1] to my knowledge. Some crazy stuff you can do. Sold mine a few years ago as you really need training and muscle memory to get the best out of it though...

[1] https://squarp.net/pyramid/
That's really cool, so the connection ground is in the cable, but the earth ground is the connector itself? Is that part of the spec or just something which sometimes happens?
I'm not sure if it's that far to be a cult because I was never in it, and the will to share is commendable.

To me it sounds like a way to justify making more money at all costs under the guise of a moral high ground. It'd feel more honest to do it without the cosplay around it and the "I donate better than you" holier than thou-ness.

I think it's more of a reactionary outburst from people who became wealthy enough to wonder about the purpose of their life and want to detach themselves from the late stage capitalist brand they get as cushy first world living while still reaping all the benefits.

I'm afraid if there were many good hearted people in that movement this single event will also discredit the rest. But maybe it was all a cult, who knows.

In this guy's case it sounds like a handy way to minimize whatever sentence he gets over this because he can argue "he did it out of pure intentions to help the world", which basically counts as insurance / marketing expenses for the scam.
It sure seemed like it in all his interviews. He can’t keep his leg still and always looked like he just came from an all night LAN party.

Also, the phrase “jacked to the hilt” just makes me giggle. I’ve always thought it was funny.
The whole piece, "the geometry of conscience" is about guilt-by-association.

Rather than use the phrase, he takes "association" to be a distance metric, and guilt to be a measure of conscience.

I'd suppose quite a lot of people have, of late, felt the "guilt by association" culture inimical to a lot of social media. This is just his way of illustrating its impact on him.

A woman in a leadership position might likewise have said, "and I'm supposed to be JK Rowling, ..."
But less satisfying, it looks like clang optimizes out the entire zero-initialization logic, presumably because it assumes the expression ((size_t *)p)[-1] is undefined behavior.

Makes me wonder what kind of compiler flags muslibc uses to prevent this.
It's mainly about the location and property value and not so much about the asset built on that property.
The author of the post seems a bit blind.

From what it seems, SBF is a pathological liar. He tried to lie at the last minute, assuring everything was fine and that others were to blame. After the last minute, he kept saying that if you filter out the mandatory "sorry" messages. It's not just Apollo 11 gone wrong, it was NOT Apollo from the start.

Maybe EA is a bit too far stretched, maybe it just attracts the wrong kind of individuals.
If you have enough people spouting opinions someone is bound to be right. It doesn't have to mean the opinion was based on sound reasoning.
To what extent were responsible members of the financial industry hired to try to turn FTX into a legitimate financial company? Was everyone a "brilliant outsider", irreverent to hundreds of years of industry wisdom?
I've ever understood it either. I love s-expressions!
But I suppose there must be something to the complaint.
If you ask me I'd say Python's space-as-syntax is far more horrible, but doesn't get nearly the same amount of vitriol.
There is a whole lot of artistic work that is done in fairly mechanical environments, game dev in particular is what Im thinking of, where you need a couple of lead charicters and then a bunch of extras. If you can generate the extras with AI then suddenly you have a substantially reduced need for artists.

I wonder how much this applies to other fields, corporate art and imagery for sure, but also a whole bunch of the low cost illustration and commission work I can see getting completely gutted, with the existing space for an entry level human to build from is no longer worthwile.
Fun!

https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/#IzBQKaIkyOM1lbn9IiXdyw...
The TLI/XTI t_open() call takes a path to a character device to identify the desired protocol, instead of a bunch of numbers like BSD socket() does. Isn’t the former approach both more Unix-like and more elegant-and also more extensible? Supporting new protocols, multiple TCP/IP stacks - all easily achievable just by creating a different device driver and telling the app to open a different path (or even using something like a mount namespace to make the hardcoded path go to a different device for each app.) With Berkeley sockets it isn’t clear how to achieve that.
Where has the passive radar code gone?
I think it has been said in the past on HN that open source in itself is not a business model. It can be part of a business model to keep a community around a specific variant of the software, but most of the attempts to switch to a more restrictive source-available type of licence are usually met with a massive shrink of the community and potentially a fork if the product had enough traction (see e.g. Elastic vs OpenSearch).

My approach would be to land a high paid tech job using the traction my product has, potentially being paid part of my time to work on it while it still stays open source.

Alternatively, you might think about maintaining a more restricitvely licensed premium version that has features so compelling above the community version (and everything else on the market), that corporations would love to pay for it.

Another point hindering big corporate from incorporating your product into their pipeline might be the bus factor. What happens if you break both arms? Who will do the bug fixes?

So building a cash producing start up around an open source dev tool is one of the hardest things I can imagine except for maybe consulting work around the tool itself.
I do wonder what addictions he has. It seems amphetamines and gambling are at least two. Or it’s possible they’re more sociopathic tendencies.
People are infinite resource (relatively speaking), land and houses are not.

Also, some places disproportionately attract more people. (Just like attractive people are disproportionately attracting more attention than “uglies”)
Housing downturn in an environment of rising interest rates doesn’t help affordability
Summary: article complains that JSON has a monopoly as the transport for web apps, they think the transport should be... HTML, you know the thing that doesn't know if it wants to be a programming language or a document mark-up, the thing with like a gazillion tags, none of which is about your domain. Hey what about GRPC, websocket... aka real transports?
Not necessarily.

If you have an asset worth 100k and a mortgage for 200k, then it isn't very good if you want to move, or change mortgages.

Also, if you're a net seller (downsizing, moving to a care home) you may have been relying on funds locked in the house for other things.

So this is generally good for younger people and bad for older people.
The observatory there has some sky-pointed cameras to check for the aurora borealis etc. When I was there in January there was quite a lot of clear sky.

http://kho.unis.no

https://virmalised.ee/aurora-live-cameras/#svalbard
Chibicc – A Small C Compiler
There are always so much talk of rates, economics, NIMBYism. Concerning housing prices.

How about that people are not handy anymore? The alternative to expensive professional construction have always been "I'll build it my self with my father's or brother's help". Most people can't do that anymore. The same thing with fixing cars.

There is a shortage of handy people is my take.
I just use Jellyfin with transcoding disabled. It’s still nice having a web client and being able to watch anywhere. Plus it doesn’t cost me a dollar a month which is nice.
How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS)
If the allegations of criminal activity are true, he will very likely end up in prison.

Obviously it will take time for investigations to gather evidence, prosecutors to file charges, etc. These are still very recent events. Just be patient!
The notion of being covered by the social insurance system for only four weeks after unemployment is quite fascinating. I guess it's a compromise between having to completely exempt Svalbard from Norway's social insurance system (and thus having to find some replacement for it) and completely including it (and thus having to raise taxes).

This might seem almost libertarian in design, but it's important to remember that Svalbard is not meant to be a self-sufficient place where people can live their entire lives. You literally are not allowed to die there, and I assume the solution to unemployment is to simply return where you came from. No normal place has this luxury.
NCD's WinCenterPro – Networking NT Applications Using X
that the next domino that will fall is USDT?
https://www.theonion.com/crypto-confidence-soars-after-ceo-d...
Also posted yesterday: “A constructive look at TempleOS (2015)” (3 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33576385.
Scott is incredibly smart but I have him down as very biased and take everything he writes that is not hard science with a huge grain of salt.
“Problem with my open source startup” (mold linker author)
Please post an URL to the excel file, thanks!