skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The deeper problem is that even the major part of the whole modern financial system (be it IPOs or mortgage bonds etc) — turned into a giant casino.

Where nobody win in the long term except the casino.

And everybody is kinda okay with that.
What happened to the key?

I think society is desperate for inflation hedges so perhaps it’s a strong marketing tool regardless of how accurate it might be.
Human attributes are generally distributed on something like a bell curve. Programming languages with "extreme" characteristics in any direction will almost inevitably be stuck with niche popularity, because they will only be appealing to a small fraction of people. Whereas, even "extreme" people will generally be able to tolerate at least a couple of conventional languages.
Anyone have a great example of something that this enables to be achieved more simply than with a class name?
Why? Agile has been the favored approach to software development among the startup crowd for over a decade now. I don't think I've had a job since 2008 that didn't use it in some fashion.
85% of Dubai is immigrants. Not all fraudsters are high profile enough to spend millions of dollars in extradition proceedings on especially when you'll just catch them at an airport eventually.
> where are all these people who claimed that Bitcoin was a good inflation hedge?

Same place they always were: making bad takes in relative anonymity with zero consequences for being wrong. And that’s fine: you should be able to say dumb things anonymously with no consequences.

The consequences come for the people who make investments on the basis of anonymous shitposts
He didn’t wear that stuff as motivation for his money and power chasing. Nor did the tshirt and unkempt hair community galvanize around him and accept his purported billions.
Interesting – I was just looking into visiting/living in Svalbard for a couple of months for the unique experience of it. Unfortunately, I could only find one apartment building [1] and the price for an apartment was $6,000 USD.

I've read that most of the apartments are owned by companies, and you have to work for the company to have access to the apartment. Does anyone know of any other alternatives for a short stay there?

[1] https://en.visitsvalbard.com/where-to-stay/svalbard-hotell-l...
The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC)
Doesn't the culture of being watched all of the time result in people staying later and doing things to appear busy but generally not productive? In Japan that culture is present in many offices but in the west we've adopted a different balance.
Most clay tablets pulled out of the ground are unfired. The act of removing unfired tablets that have been in the ground for so long kicks off some decay, so it used to be common to fire excavated tablets to preserve them. There's modern conservation techniques that remove the need to fire tablets, but those techniques post-date the lawful flow of material culture to western museums, so pretty much everything you'll see is fired. While fires in antiquity might have inadvertantly helped preserve some tablets that might not have otherwise survived, this is hardly the most common case. The talk of fires preserving tablets is mostly used to illustrate the stark difference in durability between records recorded on clay and records recorded on vellum or papyrus.
Have you ever heard of shape-up? https://basecamp.com/shapeup

One of the issues I have with how agile is all things to all people is that nobody's trying new things. They're trying to fit what they're already doing inside the definition of agile instead.
Crypto.com “accidentally” sent $400M worth of ETH to a wrong address
This is the only one unfortunately…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Programming

The Atari VCS's RAM size of 128 bytes restricts the possibilities for writing programs.

That’s not a typo, and also a severe limitation.
3 days ago, "Sequoia has marked its investment in FTX down to $0": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33541344
I'm wondering the same thing. He must've known for a long time it'll come crashing down eventually and made proper arrangements. Perhaps the sources are fake and he has already fled.

If I were to find myself in the middle of running such a scam and was a billionaire I would spend all my waking hours preparing ways to get out of it.
One of my favorite tracks where I think you clearly hear that the bassist is setting the time is Thelonious Monk's "Green Chimneys": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C-uJw1AiPA

The bassist is playing incredibly steady quarter notes throughout, except for some liberties during his own solos. The drummer is free to set accents as he sees fit. And if you were to take your time from the piano… may God have mercy on your soul!
Ha, at a YC backed startup I was at the entire C-suite (which had the two original founders) took a pay bump to $240k+ in less than one year of operation (was not anywhere near cashflow positive) on top of whatever multiple full percentages of stock they held (and assume the founders stock was better than the employee pool. I asked a few times to see the cap table, even redacted, and they refused).

I left so I don't know how much they are paying themselves now...
FWIW, there is also this online course:

https://www.udemy.com/course/programming-games-for-the-atari...
Very beautiful.

Suggestion: vcard data in qr code

https://www.qr-code-generator.com/solutions/vcard-qr-code/
One thing I didn't see in here that is absolutely relevant to life (but perhaps considered a foregone conclusion by the Norwegian government) is the concept of midnight sun and polar night, where the sun is periodically either above or below the horizon for 24 hours a day for months on end. It's a real mind-bender and can be very tough on the spirit in the winter. Quoting the 'time in Svalbard' Wikipedia article:

> As Svalbard is located north of the Arctic Circle, it experiences midnight sun during summer and polar night during winter. At the 74° parallel north, the midnight sun lasts 99 days and polar night 84 days, while the respective figures at the 81° parallel north are 141 and 128 days.[11] In Longyearbyen, midnight sun lasts from 20 April until 23 August, and polar night lasts from 26 October until 15 February.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Svalbard#Geography_and...

If you desire to experience such polar wackiness in a less isolated location, one place I can definitely recommend is the mainland Norwegian city of Tromsø.
It looks like an interesting place to visit (in the summer), but I don't think I'd want to live there.

I watched a pretty terrible horror movie that was filmed there. Don't remember the name.
Astronomy actually is sort of about telescopes. Without telescopes, astronomy doesn't exist beyond some basic things. That's of course not true about computation, which is what I assume he meant by "computer science". Maybe a better analogy would have been astrophysics or cosmology.
Citizens United vs FEC is a Supreme Court decision, it will take another Supreme Court decision to revert it. Interfering in elections is done probably more so for influencing foreign policy, it does not guarantee any effect on Supreme Court decisions.
Absence of an extradition treaty is usually not enough. Especially in a dictatorship like the UAE.
I don’t think the typography on this site is particularly remarkable. Seems to be the browser default. Though, the orange header is interesting.
When you tell a lie so many times, you start to forget that it is a lie and you live it as truth.
My expectation, based mostly on seeing who I have observed being laid off is that there will be many fewer positions at a mid-senior level (Google L5 / Amazon SDE III, etc), and that many folks who have historically been in those roles will have to either pass interviews for Staff-level, enter management, or accept pay in the L4/SDE II bracket if they want to find work quickly.
> Think most Pixar films

This becomes less and less true as they pump out more movies. They clearly have peaked a long time ago now.
> EA really has no bearing on the financial mechanisms that undid SBF.

It had bearing on the ethical/moral decisions he has been making. EA has allowed him to justify doing blatantly illegal acts.
Or the family was the primary early investors.
Python I think got a major popularity boost by becoming the de-facto standard language of the natural sciences, machine learning, AI, and data science. That, and being a substantially more accessible alternative to Java, and arguably to Ruby as well.
Related:

Svalbard – where the sun don’t shine (for 5 months) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33577717 - Nov 2022 (1 comment)

Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago that anyone can call home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29865861 - Jan 2022 (5 comments)

Bearing Witness to Svalbard’s Fragile Splendor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29463405 - Dec 2021 (3 comments)

Editor of world's northernmost English-language newspaper expelled from Svalbard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28154838 - Aug 2021 (1 comment)

Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26670465 - April 2021 (158 comments)

Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20642156 - Aug 2019 (253 comments)

Running the Arctic’s Alt-Weekly Newspaper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20626734 - Aug 2019 (5 comments)

Pretty sure there are other threads - anyone? (I left out the ones about the seed vault and other topics that mention Svalbard but aren't related to residency)
Could you expand a bit on what you mean by "the first pulse"?
I don't feel that these arguments are compelling. In fact, they diverge from the history of the macintosh interface, and they would diminish the Mac Presence. The Mac Presence is what makes the Mac admired by so many around the world. The Mac Presence is already under assault by Apple's feature-bloat mentality. There is no need for further ill-advised interference.
I totally understand. What I meant was that the meaning of such names, or the names chosen for a given meaning, is a convention of the library (or set of libraries) that defines the names, and not a semantics the language guarantees, like keywords and punctuation do in other languages. (In Lisp I don't know what `string->number` does any more than I know what `stringToNumber` does.) So S-expressions give you more freedom in the syntax of your function names, but they don't provide more kinds of constructs in the language.
No the guideline is about not filling threads with one's irritation, however righteous. If it was too annoying to read, that's regrettable but largely interesting to the person who didn't read it. If a wasp is pestering you the entire time you read a piece you probably don't feel the urge to comment about it on HN right? Same thing.
Even if they’re down 30% on tc that’s still probably at least p90 for startup pay considering the fact most startups’ monopoly money is in even worse predicament facing inevitable dilution
They never said they were, read it again, slowly
How many FTT coins were the Sequoia partners given as part of the deal or sold at very low prices? AFAIK from the crypto deals in VC I've been an observer to that is the normal way business occurs. We give you $200m you sell each partner $50m worth of your scam coin for $50,000.
Mobile phones have regressed in several areas. This is one definitely.
> it is instead a subsidy that regressively targets property owners (including landlords and commercial properties) at the expense of recent buyers and non-property owners (including widows and single moms who do not own an appreciating property).

Just because the rich also benefit from X doesn't make X bad. The rich are not automatically evil.

The loss in tax revenue due to prop 13 is roughly $17bn per year.
(https://web.archive.org/web/20120920093924/http://hjta.org/a...)

California lost a similar amount just to EDD fraud $31bn (probably every year).

https://abc7news.com/california-edd-unemployment-fraud-ca-sc...

Worker's comp fraud comes out to a few billions

http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0300-fraud/0100-fraud-division-o...

Why did the writer ignore that?

Let us fix fraud and corruption before raising taxes.

Would you pour water into a leaky bucket before fixing it when there is a water crisis?

> the state’s largest entitlement program

The state's largest entitlement program is fraud and corruption by public officials.

I will happily pay more taxes if there is 100% visibility and near zero waste (or at least honest attempts towards zero waste).
Is this more or less flammable than rooftop solar?

Could adjacent H2O and CO2 capture and storage help mitigate hydrogen fire risk?
Brilliant info, thanks!
Lisp syntax is an extreme impediment to uptake. Consider what happened to Lisp-Stat. It was a really slick package, but people immediately dropped it when R became available. Lisp defenders like to think that R won out because of better libraries, performance, or some such. The truth is that the stampede began while R was still in a rough state, people were so eager to get away from Lisp.
Well it's not clear how much customer funds were diverted to SBF & co if any at all (though the recent "hack" makes me incredibly suspicious). If that Coindesk article never was released Alameda could've eventually paid back the loan to FTX and no one on the outside would've been the wiser. If they wanted to just exit scam the customer funds there would've been a much cleaner way to do it where by the time anyone found out they'd already be in some GCC country or Moscow.
I actually think it's quite valuable for the young hot-shot to do a stint at a larger company. See how things are done, see what parts of the business you like and don't like, tech that works and tech you'd rather never touch again. Then go take that knowledge to a startup and roll the dice while you're not worried about babysitting or saving for a new roof. You'll have more perspective and more to contribute than a fresh grad for whom everything is greenfield.
fwiw I think an important distinction is that you're talking about a majority group. It's probably different for the indigenous people that the Japanese Empire committed genocide against, like the Ainu
Came here to mention Smalltalk. In things like Smalltalk-80 and Squeak, there was no build system, there are no source code files, there isn't anything but the Smalltalk Development Environment. With something like ENVY/Developer, building involved generating an exported image from the environment.

If OP wants to try it: https://squeak.org/
I'm guessing there's a fancy name for this phenomenon that I'm not aware of, but a lot of these kinds of advocacy-news pieces fall victim to it: The assumption that a problem that will occur in X number of years, where X is anything greater than, say, 20 will be met only with the exact technology available to us, today.

If tomorrow, most of the non-elderly population died off leaving only the less-capable-of-working-and-therefore-feeding-the-world-elderly to fend for themselves, we'd have a crisis on our hands. This will happen gradually, over time. Over time, nearly every thing we produce -- food included -- is done more efficiently when the market requires it.

I should temper this a little -- I'm not saying "let's just start pouring sewage into the rivers because robots will come by and clean it up some day"[0], ignore climate change (or deny it or anything else). I am suggesting those who believe this is a problem that requires awareness (and not dismissal) might be better served by being less sensational. And it would be intelligent of us to remember that when we try to make predictions about the future that the future happens all around the thing you're predicting, too ... and might even make it irrelevant.

[0] If anything it's over-reacting pieces like this that cause people to think that way ... especially when they end up being the opposite of previous hauntingly similar sounding over-reactions (see The Population Bomb)
Dubai is one of the few counties that lacks an extradition treaty with the US[1] and has a high standard of living.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradit...
This sounds nice. Can you recommend any materials I can forward to my (inexperienced)PM?
registeredcorn posted a workaround. I've pinned it to the top of the thread. Let's stay on topic now please.
I proposed C+++ name many years ago, and I don't think I was the first one to do so...
Siegel Zero
> Who's going to write the stored procs and views? Unless it's all going to be tables only.

My upshot was: sci-hub/libgen is a civic database. It exists. Frankly, its current content is some of the most important content that could populate any database.

Given that, what are the most sensible political policies/processes that could stand a chance of keeping it from burning down the way previous civic databases did?

Judging by the responses I got, there may not currently be enough public policy domain expertise on HN for such an effort to succeed. (And almost surely not enough time to organize before it burns down.) But I think it's still worth pursuing, if only to begin to generate that experience in the first place.

Whatever the case, if you're talking about which data fields ought to populate which structs, you're quite far afield from the effort I was trying to describe. That's why I started by asking: what would a cipherpunk not do? That was meant to be tongue in cheek, but let's take it seriously and call it plaintextpunk. :)
> What are you talking about?

Can you please edit out swipes like that? This is in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment would be just fine without that bit.
You’re assuming an intentional scam frame of mind instead of increasing “i know this is wrong but it’ll save things” frame of mind. Criminals are stupid and rarely think of themselves as openly malicious.

Making a competent escape plan is admitting to yourself that there’s a good chance of getting caught and jailed. People in this situation are more likely to be of a mind to think they can save things and get away with it.
Wifi is a marvel of modern technology. It's neither stodgy or variable. Maybe upgrade your stuff?
> Why did you leave out corruption?

In New Zealand this is a very small problem and we are arguably the least corrupt place on earth. I forgot it exists.

https://www.transparency.org.nz/corruption-perceptions-index
There's still nothing that beats imake for the X Window System. From Wikipedia: "imake generates makefiles from a template, a set of C preprocessor macro functions, and a per-directory input file called an Imakefile". And it does all this within the byzantine cathedral that is X.
> If that Coindesk article never was released Alameda could've eventually paid back the loan to FTX and no one on the outside would've been the wiser.

I don't know about that, the loans were huge. Billions of dollars. It's extremely unlikely that a (unprofitable) hedge fund can turn around its business and make that money back in a short time frame. Not impossible, but very unlikely. It must've been obvious to the insiders that the probability they'll get away with this is very low. Hard to believe they'd gamble their lives on that small chance.

I'm wondering how exactly Alameda managed to be so unprofitable. They literally had the easiest trading job in the world: Market make on their own exchange while seeing all order flow and being able to front-run anyone they want.
Sorry I must be too thick and not pick the sarcasm or lack thereof. Could you please reveal the country you all know by "that country" but you shouldn't name it?
Maybe, but cointelegraph also has no sources (best guess) in law enforcement, IC/fincen, etc.

The others very likely do, and it's been long enough that anyone who'd care has long ago adapted to the crypto space anyway. It would've been a different story five years ago, but not today.
FTX: The Deadly Art of Illusion
It’s more likely he tried to cover up massive Alameda losses due to all the usual reasons people turn to illegal acts: shame, myopia, gambling addiction. One core EA principle is integrity. If he was actually “EA”, this wouldn’t have happened the way it did.
> If that Coindesk article never was released Alameda could've eventually paid back the loan to FTX and no one on the outside would've been the wiser.

Alameda needed the loan because they were losing money.

Why did you assume they would have been able to suddenly make the required billions?
What happens if the US cancels his passport? It's my understanding Cody Wilson was kicked out of Taiwan, which lacked formal extradition agreement, by cancelling his passport which nullified his legal presence in the country.
Must read article if you like the Atari 2600

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2600
A philosopher, a psychologist, and a religious teacher walk into a bar... they find a scientist drowning his sorrows and ask how they can help.

What is the point of resolving the Riemann hypothesis?

The reason it's an important question is not because we don't (philosophically) already know the answer, but rather that we don't have a bloody clue how to prove it. It means that there are fundamental issues in computability (which is a hell of an important subject these days) that we just don't understand. Solving P≠NP will be important not for the result but for the techniques that will be used. (Of course, in the unlikely event that P=NP, enormous consequences will follow. But that is about as likely as it is that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is based on true events.) (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/404624/what-does-pr...)

Qualified proof of Riemann hypothesis can be demonstrated by any living or non-living system learning to play a game or exploit an environment of which it was not previously aware. Systems exhibit emergent properties when conditions are sufficient. The zero point or, the proof in the proverbial pudding, is observable when the system becomes conscious of it's awareness in the environment and begins to exhibit emergent or novel behavior.

Label me a fool or, is this proof consciousness can bootstrap itself?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel_zero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Dirac_statistics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_polygon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_(particle)
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/The_Ghost_in_the_Machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_revolution
https://commons.trincoll.edu/macecourses/james-consciousness-of-self/
This is going to take some time to digest, but this is very interesting.
How is asking for book recommendations an indication people are not willing to dig deeper? An intellectual approach to exercise is highly advisable. Yes, you can become too extreme and never end up actually exercising, but conversely a lack of knowledge can lead to poor outcomes depending on your goals.
tether is a mind blowingly large amount of money to siphon to just 13 people, a massive scam. its amazing.
Seems the Vittoz work still exists: http://www.americanvittozsociety.com/. Has anyone here tried it?
Have you looked up hotels/hostels e.g. on Booking.com? Last time I checked this fall there were enough reasonably priced options.

As an aside, IME the expectation that you can show up and rent an actual apartment for a month or two is just not met (locals don't like that and/or law explicitly forbids) in many places around the world, not just Svalbard. Being able to do it for $6000 or at all is seems fair. In Seoul, for example, you'd need to have substantially more than $6000, possibly two or three times that will be required as a deposit even if you are able to find someone who rents you, a tourist, an actual flat in a residential building for two months (which I doubt; note that on Airbnb most rentals listed as "flats" mean you get a private room with shared space).