skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’ve clearly missed the point.

All I’m doing is paying my respects to a hyper-intelligent genius who was driven to suicide partially because of this website.
Yeah, C doesn't require null pointers to be represented as 0, even if its constant is written 0, nor does it require floats/doubles to be represented as per IEEE-754. Or at least it didn't use to.
Houses are pieces of wood nailed together in such a way that they meet building code
Fascinating, Filippo. We stayed silent on it at the time primarily because we were keeping a low profile particularly as more and more Chinese were using Lantern, but there was also back channel pressure through various contacts, to be honest related to the pending Cloudflare expansion in China.

There was also a prelude to all of this that I think made things stickier and bizarrely personal. Prince and I share a mutual friend who introduced us just a few weeks prior. Prince said he supported what we were doing, but asked that I not talk about it publicly, presumably because of the pending China deal. The problem was that literally moments after our friend had introduced us via email, and before he made that request, I had a call with the WSJ where I talked about precisely this. I did everything I could to walk back the article, but Prince didn't buy it and seemed to go ballistic over it. After the WSJ piece, we pulled back from talking more publicly in general.

Oh, I forgot! We also partly stayed silent because they didn't actually shut down what we were doing at all =). They matched the SNI to the Host header, sure, but they missed a little detail: we weren't using SNI. Hehe. Lantern worked for another six months or so, and then, through a similarly bizarre sequence of events, we essentially tipped them/you off to what was happening. We remained a customer throughout, and we're a customer to this day.

Either way, though, Cloudflare does great work, and everyone has their faults, so I'm generally sympathetic over the whole thing with the one caveat that I am truly unclear how much ultimately did relate to China, most clearly in terms of any public support for these internet freedom techniques.

Oh, and I've wanted you to work on Lantern forever btw. Oooh actually if you're not aware of it, the uTLS Go TLS fork is a hugely impactful project that's in widespread use (I would guess maybe 50 million monthly active users rely on it in censored regions via various projects) but needs updating - https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls

Oh, and if you think we were effective in China then, you should see what we're doing in Russia and especially Iran now!
Comparing what happened to FTX to a tiny leak in a gas tank due to a money saving measure by von Braun to balance the budget of the Apollo 11 mission, which results in a catastrophic failure and erroneously puts in question the ambition and mission to visit the moon and quantitative methods employed, is completely asinine.

This underplays what happened. FTX implosion appears to be due to fraud, lack of controls within the organisation and puts in question the judgement of the EA community, VCs, auditors, media.

The lessons to draw are not technical in nature. To continue the author's analogy: Wehrner von Brau as an individuap, construction and inspection procedures, or security culture at Nasa. They are instead fundamental. And would put in question all of NASA, the ecosystem (universities, suppliers), funders like the Congress and the president , and any oversight agencies.

If the what we've learnt so far is confirmed, then a Sequoia investment and its due diligence failed, trust in the EA community is undermined as it is not particularly ethical or rational.
Not knowledgeable:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M93Auk4AAAAJ&hl=en

https://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Steven-Goldfeder/2642...

3 different founders of startups working in crypto.
> You can't have a crypto exchange crash without underlying crypto tokens, period.

It seems like it's missing a word to me: without underlying crypto tokens what? Being used, getting lost, being stolen. If they're just there then I don't understand.
These things take a ridiculous amount of time.

Theranos was exposed as a fraud in 2015. but only now, in 2012, Elizabeth Holmes' trial has reached sentencing with the prosecution asking for 15 years.

It's an unbelievable amount of for persecutors to untangle the web of transactions to be able to prove to a jury the existence and scale of fraud.

I would bet that both Mashinsky and SBF will spend a lot of quality time in a federal prison.
I wouldn’t assume his family is wealthy, just because they are in academia. You don’t go to academia for the money.

(Although I’m not sure exactly what you mean by wealthy vs rich)
The revelation came while Bouricius was working on a housing committee. “The committee members were an outgoing and garrulous bunch,” he observed. “Shy wallflowers almost never become legislators.” More disturbing, he noted how his fellow politicians—all of whom owned their homes—tended to legislate in favor of landlords and against tenants. “I saw that the experiences and beliefs of legislators shape legislation far more than facts,” he said. “After that, I frequently commented that any 150 Vermonters pulled from the phone book would be more representative than the elected House membership.”
This is not a serious or widespread thing that people believe. Go look at some actual polls to see what people believe on a macro level
> I’m a complete crypto skeptic who would never touch anything like FTT, but it’s not an obvious Ponzi scheme. I think one of the troubles with crypto is that it’s very easy to operate what is effective a Ponzi scheme, without fully realizing it yourself.

I'm pretty certain most of us, at least in the BTC community, were mocking this yield farming as the new ICO since it's inception. The Effective Alturism, and his parent connection to Silicon Valley via Stanford make it clearer this was the typical disruptor cosplaying grifting that happens all the time: see Theranos.
One interesting type of childbirth magic in India and the Islamic world used magic squares. Why would contemplating the arithmological coherence of magic squares help a woman give birth? Maybe, just maybe, it would bring the woman’s mind off the present pain and provide a calming effect.

https://shwep.net/oddcast/bink-hallum-on-magic-squares/
Or just continue working post retirement age as a way to keep active.
> Effective altruism seems to be a sort of cult that’s way for elites (that is, the upper class) to both make themselves feel better and to give them yet another vector of superiority over people.

Setting aside the case of this crypto conman, is being holier-than-though the valid criticism it feels like - or is that just my instinct to protect my ego, when the guy sitting next to me and earning the same salary donates 100x more much to charity than I do?
My vague guess is they need money to spend on advertising and investments made by Alameda and FTX.

For that, they can't use FTX. They need USD or a stable coin like USDC.

They can't convert hundreds of millions of dollars of FTT to USDC since demand for FTT is relatively small. And a transaction like that might cause a huge decline in the price of FTT.

So they must have used ETH, BTC etc deposited by customers for swapping to USD or USDC.

I guess their theory must have been the surbowl ads, celebrity endorsemens and all would result in demand of FTT going up after some time. And they can later swap them back to customer funds when required.

But then crypto crashed.

Now customers want to withdraw the funds and they don't have it to give back. And nobody wants FTT.
And continuously working one. Or you end up in multiple chain splits with all sort of messes.
"I confess to taking this sort of conflation extremely personally."

Man's still very upset about whatever happened to get him cancelled. I refuse to look up this particular piece of drama.
I'm amazed there are Terry Davis quotes that are SFW.
You're repeating the same nonsense. How can a bond that the central bank got for free make the central bank lose money? Please explain.
> Recently, I opened up Plex and couldn’t find my own content. My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead.

It's an annoying (but understandable from a business persepctive) default - but a few minutes digging in the settings and I figured out how to configure Plex back to how it was.

My issues with Plex run deeper - the music metadata handling has some serious issues and that's 50% of my usage.

And if that's ever fixed I won't be able to use it because I'm stuck on an older Pleax version.

This is so I can it on an older Mac Mini. Surely Plex should be embracing running on older hardware?

(I would need to update MacOS which makes the box unusuable because of limited soldered-on RAM)
Thank you! That’s been a big pet peeve of mine in this discussion, where people casually throw around “illiquid” when the currency is really “liquid but collapsed in value”, which is what was going on with FTT and SOL. Earlier comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33539326
That is not undefined right? As long as p - 1 points into a valid object.

Edit:
Maybe Clang abuses the bitand with an int 7 to remove the code?
And why wouldn't such systems be build up from ground up if they were adopted. I'm pretty certain that big players that is nation states would not take Bitcoin or Ethereum. But instead launch new one.
On Rob Pike and Go (2020)
I thin Apple should have rejected all versions of the Spotify app. It’s atrocious.
I'd like to see sortition tried somewhere, but not as a full replacement for elections. Maybe it would be a good replacement for the House of Lords.
Hong Kong is a fragile anti pattern of artificially high density enabled by fossil fuels. We don’t want that (though it’s less bad than the suburbs, but just barely).

What we need to continue to strive for is medium density, where you have a mix of housing types and transit options, and also work options.

In this mode you have a good density level that is in harmony with the surrounding environment, but you can also do things like fix your own house or make changes or improvements. These types of neighborhoods also offer multi-generational living and better social interactions.
Anyway, once again, well done. It seems to me that mainstream "web
browsers" have become new "operating systems", but without the
visbility, structure and purpose of actual operating systems.
So you're using four or five different things to replicate the functionality of one thing? This is sounding a lot like a certain Dropbox-related comment.
Why would you make something like this when you know all these open source tools are used by authoritarian governments...
If an artificial intelligence could open its pipes and vomit onto a newly-allocated two-dimensional array, I imagine its undigested bits would look very much like this.
If firefox starts to add more and more stuff no one wants to use, yes.
If the stars don't make millions, then I'm guessing the stars would just go shine somewhere else.
> yeah you have to turn off your pattern recognition or else be called a bad name

I don't see what's wrong with having "crypto=fraud" pattern recognition?

(Especially "staking"/"yield farming"! Anyone offering risk free high return is being dishonest about one of those two aspects)

Another good piece of pattern recognition: is this being run from a financial secrecy or tax evasion jurisdiction? (In this case, the Bahamas)
I've found a lot of useful Lua code out there, but it's a very different ecosystem.

I need some function(s) in python, I'm browsing pip and bringing in whatever looks like it has stars in recent activity.

Lua? I'm looking for a Lua file, usually in a git repo (or a gist, oddly enough), and vendoring it with a link to the original and license.

The 'funny' part, if you will, is they're often 8 years old with like three commits total and less than a dozen stars. You would think that would make it buggy, but that hasn't been my experience.

It's just that Lua shows up in so many different contexts, with all the idiosyncrasies. The majority of Lua users don't care about luarocks, so when they want to share some code, they don't necessarily bother with a rockspec.

Just a very different culture. What JavaScript is to the browser, Lua is to anything you want: and this is a large difference, JS's relationship to the browser is much more intimate.

The Lua interpreter is best viewed as almost a demonstration program, sure, you can write software with it, but this is the degenerate case of embedding the interpreter in just enough host program to run it.
Abortion is not illegal in the US… please read up on what Roe v. Wade overturn actually did - returned the decision to the states.
You mean he has the gall not to jump on the “let’s drag the billionaire on Twitter” bandwagon?

The way I am gauging the situation is that even if you tap your breaks on the “this guy is total scum and is trying to make a break for Argentina/Dubai” narrative that you’re complicit in his evil doings.

Why do I make that bold claim? Your very interpretation of Scott’s plea to wait on passing judgment.
High interest means high mortgage payments. Unless you already saved enough to buy without mortgage
> I'm glad to see someone still has the courage to work on browsers - which is increasingly declared "infeasible".

It’s new browser engines which are increasingly declared unfeasible. Browsers themselves are a dime a dozen.
they can't afford to make same mistakes they did in 2018 though. when you're as big as facebook, mistakes you make shape the regulations in the world.
That does seem appropriate as opposed to making salary not guaranteed.
Maybe from ... "at scale" bit? ML approaches are relatively computationally expensive.
FWIW, it's a technical term defined as:

> the process by which a value is reduced modulo 2ᴺ, where N is the width of the resulting type
Thats the same as to say: let's buy a couple more servers rather than replace bubble sort in our code by qsort.
I suspect their indignation has more to do with the fact that the marginal cost of what they do to feed themselves (so that they can live another day to express themselves, of course) is now close to zero. If we had arrived at these art producing machines by some other means, I doubt that the artists would be pulling any punches, seeing as they suffer all the same.
Maldives was supposed to be entirely underwater by 2020.
This project made me so happy. Requiescat in pace, Terry Davis.
Israel’s Chutzpah at the United Nations
The demand for crypto was zero 15 years ago. It has since proven spectacularly unsuitable for storing value, transactions or really any purpose at all because of fundamental design flaws and misconceptions. Re ‘historically…nobody faced lower demand’ see the 2017 crash and the 2022 crash.

The bold claim is that it has any value at all.
‘We Had It Good in Iran. We’ve Been Waiting 43 Years to Return’
rereead the article

its 40% of Tether issued on Tron

and you have to understand that Alameda was one of the licensced brokers of USDT. Institutions could mint USDT from Tether via Alameda by using dollars. This is not a loan. Its a 1:1 conversion.
165Hz at 8K
Seems like it’s the other way around?

Real estate is a thing the government can’t print. When its value goes down, it becomes more affordable to people with savings in fiat.
MF Global

edit: And a ton of others, like every major investment bank (who also used customer funds as collateral for prop bets) except that the government bailed them out.
> However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, […]; they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in a menu button.

I'm not sure what you are referring to here.
Listening to your own music in the macOS Music app is as simple as dragging (importing) the music into Music.app and selecting any of the options ("Recently Added", "Songs", etc.) in the Library sidebar.

Most media players I've used work like that.
The application reopens where you last left off,
so it is not like the Apple Music "Explore" or "Listen Now" page is shown on every launch
to push the service on you.

I think the complaint makes sense in relation to the Apple Music sidebar items,
but considering that there are users who want to use Apple Music,
how would you surface it without having an easily discoverable item in the sidebar?
I think having the option to hide it would be enough to alleviate it, but apparently one cannot,
so that's a point against Apple here.
this should be enough to discount nearly all of this FUD - a bunch of errors in the OP...
We spent a lot of years with export controls on a lot of things, and continue to have them on many pieces of software. Trying to do legal jujitsu to say “the code is speech”, especially given SCOTUSs current makeup, and the context of this being components of literal weapons systems… you’re not gonna get far IMO
Show HN: twitter2nitter – redirect twitter to nitter [Android app]
Share twitter url to this app, and you will be redirected. Works for materialistic hackernews app.
I like the idea of expendable democratic power. It works something like this:

Each voter gets say (for example) 1,000 votes, which they allocate to whichever parties they want at election time.

The number of votes a party gets become its “currency”.

Any political party can put forward legislation to become law. They back their legislation with some number of their votes/currency.

Other parties can defeat legislation by spending a greater number of their votes to stop it.

When a party has spent all its votes/currency, it must wait till the next election to get more.
How accurate is this? What are some potential use cases?
Was the whole thing intentional fraud or was she just incredibly stupid and dense?
Uber certainly has most of the rideshare market; I believe around 75% in recent years. It also competes with the local black cabs, with some limited success.

With the recent price hikes Uber is no longer always a dramatic saving compared to black cabs, especially during "surge" periods. After ten years of operating at a loss, plus laws being passed about tax enforcement and driver payments, and a sexual abuse scandal, it seems like they've been forced into a bit of a reality check.
Who said anything about highways?
The App Store on your iPhone is watching your every move
Wouldn't that find articles that are semantically similar, rather than structurally similar (which I interpreted GP as wanting)?

In the structural-comparison case, I imagine you might have better luck with just doing cosine similarity across the term frequency vector or some such, possibly doing random projection first to reduce dimensionality.

Or really, an LSH would do the trick.
Not surprised. I did this with a few friends and they were scared to sh*t. Back in 2010s.
Amen. I'm 100% in the old-school, self-managed local media camp, but I'm well aware that I'm an extreme minority and can't expect mass-market companies to cater to my use case.

I'm probably one of the last 1,000 people still using Apple Home Sharing, but honestly I can't even believe it's still working. There must be someone on the inside that uses it at home and keeps fixing it whenever the architecture shifts around it.
Ye you need to know what you are doing of course.

My point is that houses are not like electronics were ICs have become like unsolderable for DIY due too small size SMDs.

I could do what a carpenter does, if I just were competent. Which I am not.
Oh it's also worth noting that Cloudflare is actually more aggressive in blocking domain fronting than almost anyone else. Lots of folks match the SNI to the Host header, but Cloudflare takes it a step further and also makes sure that TLS connections without SNI have a Host header that's scoped to the IP/server they're actually visiting. That means you can't, for example (not that we would ever, ever do this hehehe), scan the whole Cloudflare IP space for IPs to front through without SNI.
That's Scott. Steve's dead.
It is undefined behavior. The undefined behavior rules for pointers boil down to (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56360316/c-standard-rega...)

“Pointer arithmetic is well defined only on array type and between array[0] and array[array_size+1]”

And it’s even stricter:

- you can create a pointer to array[array_size+1], but dereferencing it invokes undefined behavior.

- changing a pointer that points into an object so that it points into another object invokes undefined behavior. Modern compilers track “pointer provenance” to sometimes speed up code (and occasionally perplex the programmer)
> There are tons of small budget and artistic films made in the US.

There are tons of small budget local movies abroad as well, these aren't the ones that are mass marketed in western media.
While I generally agree with you, they have some good points you're missing.

It isn't "inspiration". These machine models aren't actually intelligent. There's no expressive element here, with regard to the machine producing the art.

What it really is is just a new tool for producing art. The sculptor had his chisel, the painter had a paintbrush, the photographer had a camera, the graphic designer had Photoshop or whatever, and now you can make art by being skillful in coming up with a prompt. It still requires skill, skill with the tool, just like anything else.

The difference is that this new tool (probably) doesn't enable the creation of anything truly novel.
In the real world, musl would call its own `malloc` and can presumably trust that `((size_t *)p)[-1]` is valid and contains the block metadata (and the compiler can't assume it isn't valid), whereas the godbolt snippet calls libc's `malloc` which is a black box to outside callers. Or maybe LLVM can even deduce that the low bits are always zero on `libc`?
> A better firefox would be a better Chrome

I don't like the idea of my web browser being owned by Google or anyone else who made their fortune collecting people's personal data to use against them.

A better firefox would be a firefox that cared a bit more about people's privacy by default, but as long they keep caring enough to let me disable what I don't like I'll happily stick with firefox as it is.
Author here. I'm amused that I opened HN thinking that https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kiW9qmNlJ9oQZM6r5o4_N54s... (which I posted today) might come to the front page and found this post instead.

So the chibicc book is not available yet. I'm busy working on the other project (the mold linker) and don't have time to work on it. That being said, I believe the repo is still very valuable for those who want to learn how easy it is to implement a simple C compiler. chibicc's each commit was carefully written so that you can read one commit at a time. I'd recommend starting from the initial commit and observe how each feature (`if`, `for`, local variables, global variables, etc.) is implemented by following each commit.
Slightly OT but on my second visit to their page I got enrolled in their "frontpage redesign experiment" with an opt-out link in the info box. Clicking on that gave me a "page not found".

edit: While wanting to provide feedback about this I noticed someone else already did[1].

[1] https://tosdr.atlassian.net/browse/CRISP-195
I saw the link to CSS Garden in the second section and was happy to see the site is still up and working. Separation of concerns is such a powerful idea — losing it by tying styles too tightly to markup is a huge step backwards.