skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTX is going into liquidation in Bahamas: https://www.scb.gov.bs/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Securities...

Mr. Brian Simms, K.C. (Lennox Paton Counsel and Attorney-at Law) was appointed as provisional liquidator. Additionally, the powers of the directors of FDM have been suspended and no assets of FDM, client assets or trust assets held by FDM, can be transferred, assigned or otherwise dealt with, without the written approval of the provisional liquidator.
What point are you even trying to make with this nonsensical flame bait?
Not at all.

When you get a loan, the bank creates a liability and deposit out of thin air. The deposit is a "demand deposit", which is effectively equivalent and fungible to central-bank-backed currency (hence the term "money" usually applies to both, though they are different things).

The bank needs no existing customer deposits to create a demand deposit and liability in your account.

You should run through your example again, except begin by creating a loan, rather than first beginning by a customer lending the bank a deposit.

The BoE article linked above is absolutely correct.
The cantaloupe strain alone was not enough to make mass-production feasible. The process took years of refinement to take it where we are now.
This is true in all parts of law. Law is not code. It's part of why we have judges.
I'm also very happy, especially since I was in complete remission as per a PET/CT scan a month after infusion after my cancer had survived two previous lines of chemotherapy (DA-EPOCH-R and R-GemOx) and had even shrunk but became more metabolically active after the second line. I'm still in complete remission, with further destruction of the tumor, six months after infusion, and there's some evidence the CAR T-cells can persist a decade after infusion:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04390-6
I don’t think web rings have been killed, I think they’ve just been eaten by platforms like most of the internet.

In most contexts they’ve been replaced by AI driven recommendation engines.

Although I discovered a delightful example of a human curated recommendation engine the other day in the form of bandcamp’s `Recomendations` feature :)
That's Hanlon's razor.
Something like An-72.

But maintenance becomes a bitch, so they put'em back under the wings eventually.
To me, and granted I'm no expert, but it's written like a script.
This move was to be expected, they lost their lifeline from FTX/SBF. It is to be expected that they also have outstanding loans to Alameda Research.

I believe BlockFi will soon file for CH11 like Voyager and Celsius did.

If you have any funds with a crypto lender such as Nexo, Swissborg LEDN, or even crypto.com (Which also has a lending service). I highly recommend to withdraw your funds ASAP.
Is a retailer now obliged to run every single product they sell at a profit? So Costco can't do their chicken deal (which costs them millions and customers love), nobody is allowed loss leaders?
I love this idea. Hope it gets some traction!
I like it because if I stick to it, I can have 4 or 5 windows of code open at the same time, spread over one screen. Header files, caller code, and called code all visible at a glance.

If I don't stick to 80-cols, it's actually a roadblock to getting stuff done, and it's really not that hard to keep within the 80 column limit. I don't specifically care about the '80', I just care about what doing that, lets me do in turn.

So my code is pretty much religiously 80-chars max across. YMMV :)
> Could you give me an example from the USA?

Sure: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1590746170438975488

> It's not Ford gracing a page in NeoNazi's Monthly magazine with their ad, it's your nazi-laden feed that happens to get a truck ad in passing.

Do you think that makes Ford feel better or worse, as a brand that’s mostly tried to avoid Nazi connections over the last 70-odd years?

> They tended to block speech they don't like and leave worse from their friends.

Two points here:
First, I think you’d be shocked at how many people are super OK with blocking the speech Twitter blocked, and indeed prefer it. As a corporate money-making entity, Twitter is concerned about maximizing its user base, and if blocking the neo-nazi means 3 other people stay on the platform, by golly that’s the move Twitter Inc the business will make. It turns out speech is sometimes zero-sun or worse: one person’s instance of free speech makes another person feel like their life is in danger.

Second, Twitter’s customer is not you, nor the public, nor democracy. Twitter’s customer is Ford, and if you’ve noticed from advertising generally in this country lately, most brands have decided that embracing things like LGBTQ rights and immigration, at least at a surface level, are better for their global brand than not, so Twitter’s content moderation strategy will reflect that. Most of the people complaining about Twitter’s content moderation strategy were already mad at Cheerios for running ads celebrating gay marriage, so it‘s hard to say they’ve really missed the mark here.

Again, Twitter is an advertising company whose supply is “users”, and they need the maximal supply of palatable (read: users without paired lightning bolts in their bio) users for their customers, Advertisers. That’s what the platform is, that’s what their business is, and that’s who they’re moderating content for.
One of the complaints:

"... the Policy Statement repudiates the consumer welfare standard"

This is a reference to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox, and in my mind, doing away with that is an indication that FTC is doing the right (and long overdue) thing.
I think covid is when the internet jumped the shark for Joe Average.

You would get banned from twitter, facebook, reddit, instagram etc for saying what was official policy until _yesterday_. The sheer insanity of that policy left the terminally online in charge everywhere and the quality of every website suffered. If I look back to reddit posts which google still brings up more than half the people are banned. These are people who wrote thousand word replies to technical problems and were pillars of the community. The only ones left are the mentally ill unemployed since they are the only ones who have time to keep track of what is allowed there.

HN was headed down the same hole until that hilarious post by PG about heretics that got flagged for 8 hours. I imagine at that point it hit everyone in charge here that the people making the most noise were not their friends.
I think the demo site may have been hugged to death. It's not rendering anything for me.

I think it's also worth giving a shoutout to wave in this space; they have quite a few components you can use out-of-the-box https://github.com/h2oai/wave
Thanks for the great feedback latch! I'm a Director of Engineering supporting the SQL implementation at Cockroach Labs and couldn't resist responding to your comment as we're aware of some of these limitations and are working on lifting them.

- CockroachDB 22.2 will support `LANGUAGE SQL` user-defined functions when it is released in the next few weeks. Have a look at the documentation: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/dev/user-defined-function...
- Triggers and PL/pgSQL support are both on the roadmap.
- Postgres-compatible full-text search (tsvector/tsquery) is in development and we hope to land a preview in CockroachDB 23.1 (expected in the Spring of 2023).

Extensions-wise, we typically add support for them as users ask. Which Extensions do you typically need for a specific project that CockroachDB doesn't support?
>poor judgment call

>tell people their money is safe then basically steal it by giving it to your friend

SBF needs to be thrown in jail, he won't though, for obvious reasons.
Securities Commission of the Bahamas Freezes Assets of FTX [pdf]
Right, the cliff is when people lose confidence in the dollar, which probably has a lot to do with the inflation rate, changes in the inflation rate, and the duration over which we've seen what sort of behavior (... and probably a lot of other things) but not much to do with the actual price level itself.

If we average 2%yoy every single decade for the next 300 years, people will probably have a lot of trust in the dollar in the decade following. If we hit that same price level tomorrow, people will rightly flip. $1700 milk either way, but in one case we'd expect $1700 milk the following day and in the other we'd expect the dollar to plummet further from the shock of it.
> Gone are the days of just a shell and vim. Now it's all yaml, dockerfiles, scrum meetings, ERDs ,et cetera.

I miss shell too. I have setup a new challenge for myself, transition to shell + vim (neovim?) for all my dev work. The goal is to eventually use iPad + Blink shell and work off a VPS for personal projects. And stay in iTerm on work laptop.

Probably use Docker to make VPS reproducible or may just use a shell script to download and configure various softwares.

VSCode has spoiled me, control + click to browse to any class is just so hard to give up. But I am excited about going back to how I started with programming. This project has brought a lot of joy to my everyday work too.
That's a marketing line, it's not true. Nobody actually has any custody of anything in crypto. The value of the tokens is completely and totally dependent on a consensus of crypto miners doing their job within the parameters of the system, assuming you want them to maintain a price and trading volume that's favorable to the token holders. If the majority of miners suddenly go bust due to outside circumstances, or they decide to conspire together and attack the system, or conspire with some whales to perform a rug pull, or any number of other malicious actions, then it's extremely likely that your tokens aren't going to be worth anything anymore. This applies to every token, including bitcoin.
The core is deliberately small and is meant to be built upon and not be a opionated and monolithic. Such a protocol will become obsolete rather quickly if standardized.

The features you mentioned are not just possible in theory, but have been implemented by more modern clients.
The problem with this is that "intellectual property" rights are fundamentally unlike physical property rights to the extent that they directly conflict. I'm not even making the argument that all IP is evil or whatever, just that weakening IP doesn't have to harm property rights as an overall category due to the tradeoffs between different forms of property right.

Consider the interaction of the doctrine of first sale with copyright in [1]. This is a spot where that conflict exists; if I've bought a thing, preventing me from re-selling that thing (without copying, etc being in the picture at all) abrogates my physical-property rights. That SCOTUS decision didn't undermine property rights as a general concept so much as buttress it: the pro-IP formulation benefits a handful of rights-holders, while the pro-physical-property formulation directly benefits everyone who owns real objects. A kind of utilitarian calculus of property rights, I guess?

Similarly, consider DRM. If I can't break DRM on a DVD I bought, to play it on a computing device that I own (without copying, etc being in the picture at all) then I don't actually own my computer or the DVD. That's an absurd dilution of the common understanding of a right that you're correct is the cornerstone of Western societies.

It's kinda like zoning law, really: the current beneficiaries can scream about "muh property rights" until they're blue in the face, but the regime they're defending is the greater violation of those rights.

So, overall, no: if anything, current corporatized formulations of "intellectual property" rights are a direct threat to actual property rights, which are indeed important.

edit: forgot to add that if it's a civilization's-gonna-collapse argument, there's a case to be made that environments with robust physical property protections but weak/no IP protections are the ideal environment for societal development: https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-...

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_So....
Show HN: I built a chess engine and AI in JavaScript
A few months ago, I saw a post on HN detailing how to build a chess AI. He used Chess.js as the engine, choosing to focus on the AI portion, but that was a bit slow and clunky so I've been building one of my own.

On 5s of thinking time, it beats Fairy Stockfish Level 6 on Lichess. Try it and lmk what you think: betafish.gavinong.com
I've seen the movie. Man gambles other people's money and attempts to hide the losses in a fake account. Basically the Mt Gox story and not too dissimilar to what FTX has done.
Isn't it quite possible there might be contagion there though as well? For instance the NY Times had the following in a piece they just published:

>"Mr. Bankman-Fried is also facing dissent from within the senior ranks of FTX. On Wednesday night, the general counsel for FTX’s U.S. arm wrote on an internal messaging system that he had “advised U.S. regulators of my instruction to founders to turn off functionality” of the websites for FTX and the U.S. arm, according to two people who saw the message and a screenshot that has circulated on Twitter.

“Sam has a different perspective than me on this,” wrote the lawyer, Ryne Miller. He added that “we should not be optimistic for an outcome that is positive.” The post was swiftly deleted."[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/technology/ftx-crypto-exc...
I flew relentlessly for work for years and the view out the window of the plane was the one thing that never got boring or I took for granted. Actually, add lie flat seats. Everything else definitely became part of the wallpaper.

It... might have something to do with a psychedelic experience I had on a plane once...
Generally speaking, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
Pretty easy to download a wallet that’s stored in the Secure Enclave of your iPhone with an encrypted backup to your Apple ID account and all those problems go away.
Cumulative inflation since 1998 is about ~83%, so that's part of it. There are other parallels to LTCM, too. Once the Alameda balance sheet leaked, people could see exactly what coins they had and where they were vulnerable. And most of the risk came from their FTT token, where their holdings would have taken years to sell at the average daily value traded. Thus other traders could start shorting FTT to catalyze the fall, just like what happened to LTCM's illiquid "off the run" bond positions:

(Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB968629287803799708 )
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Badly in need of a lift, Meriwether called an old friend, Vinny Mattone, who had been the fund's first contact at Bear Stearns, LTCM's clearing broker. Mattone, who had retired, was everything that J.M.'s elegant professors were not. He wore a gold chain and a pinkie ring, and he showed up at Long-Term in a black silk shirt, open at the chest. He looked as if he weighed 300 pounds. Unlike J.M.'s strangely wooden partners, Mattone saw markets as exquisitely human institutions -- inherently volatile, ever-fallible.

"Where are you?" Mattone asked bluntly.

"We're down by half," Meriwether said.

"You're finished," Mattone replied, as if this conclusion needed no explanation.

For the first time, Meriwether sounded worried. "What are you talking about? We still have two billion. We have half -- we have Soros."

Mattone smiled sadly. "When you're down by half, people figure you can go down all the way. They're going to push the market against you. They're not going to roll [refinance] your trades. You're finished."
“ So we want to have, you know, a reasonable percentage of humans. This is not for the sake of of money or anything like that. It’s just in order to do a lot of good…”

Sure.
>Do they not have any kind of compliance structure?

Not really, but again banks don't have compliance against this either, it's just that people are less likely to withdraw their money from the bank at the same time, and when they do the gov will tell the fed to print more, and with crypto you can't print more, so a bankrun has immediate effects.
- uses vast amounts of energy

Bank branches, ATMs, armored cars, computer systems for the banks, computer systems for card processors, credit rating firms, etc. Bitcoin replaces all of that and, comparatively, for significantly less energy. This is a surface-level argument intended for shortsighted thinkers.

- can only process a few TPS

- confirms slowly

On main net. Lightning network can outpace Visa.

- has limited quantities which warps economies

By warp, you actually mean makes them fair and natural. It encourages free trade, merit, and competition. Not fiendish scamming and Machiavellianism.

- is irreversible in cases of theft or fraud

Which is good. It increases the need for reliable actors in the world and creates a citizenry that's more discerning about whom they spend their money with (i.e., building strong, trustworthy relationships).

- is lost forever if you lose your keys

Which is good. It makes you value it. If I hold all of my money in cash and have a house fire, it's lost forever. No difference.

> For those of us who do not fetishize decentralisation

Slaves?
This has been tried over and over without commercial success. Ground effect vehicles were supposed to replace intermodal cargo container ships too. It ain't gonna happen this time either.
Looks like they've stepped up.

> FTX assets frozen by Bahamas regulator as crypto exchange fights to survive

https://www.ft.com/content/c6658ce8-26a3-4580-9e64-6083a7d35...
Which MacOS version? Monterey 12.6.1 doesn't want to play ...
A principle can be sound while not being applicable. Principles and applications are two separate things and there's no reason to conflate them.

>>That's like saying the principle behind 1 + 1 = 3

That's not sound in principle..

>>Another perspective to consider; the best way to help people in the future is to help people today.

That is an entirely valid, and I would argue probably correct, perspective yet it doesn't invalidate the principle that a greater number of future lives matter more than a fewer number of current lives. It may be that the best course of action for both future lives and current lives is to pursue the best interest of the currently living.
FTX assets frozen by Bahamas regulator as crypto exchange fights to survive
Why won't he be thrown in jail? This looks pretty open and shut. The courts will confiscate his assets and jail him. This is quite similar to what happened to Bernie Madoff.
Andrew Odlyzko – The glorious promise of the post-truth world (2017)
I've done some engineering and drug development...

Image trying to write code where you can't actually see what you wrote, where each time you compile it costs $1000 and the binary randomly is corrupted 50% of the time. And the only way to find out is to push it to prod and wait a few months for someone to call you. And every prod setup is subtly different without any documentation. That's about 100x easier than drug development.

:)
Learn Apache Apisix from Official Tutorials: Expose API, Protect API
https://archive.ph/1XvxN
It's easy to be altruistic when it's not your money!
The Elon-Twitter saga is fascinating in quasi r/ABoringDystopia meets, well, Twitter sort of way.

The stage is set with a billionaire doubling down on a meme and then stumbling into an absurd $45B baby trap. The Internet loves watching a fool and their money parted; Twitter definitely loves watching a fool and their money parted.

And then, for some, it’s dawning that Musk has been on this MAGA-infused, grade-school-interpretation-of-free-speech trajectory and the stakes of this Twitter acquisition are suddenly much higher. Doubly so when you review the behind the scenes discussions [1] and believe Musk is completely disingenuous (any guess who “the boss himself” is?) in his desire for a neutral platform[2].

I’ve been doom-scrolling the Elon-Twitter news mostly for the rapid unravelling of Musk’s ur-engineer persona. His engineering management has been a cavalcade of bully choices: shitcan half the company, stack rank your engineers by LOC, enforce work-the-weekend death marches, and throw all your coders on to a manager schedule...in an office...in 2022.

Maybe my opinion will change when I start hearing stories about the first of his Twitter pull requests, but right now he’s looking like a dilettante who meme'd into a shit show and has forgotten his ambitions to make us a multi-planet species.

[1] https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#22
[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589639376186724354
In what I guess is confusing to many, when a company buys another company, or even purchases capital equipment of some kind, it can finance that by a loan, and the result is that the asset side of the ledger doesn't take a hit. But when a company pays salary, it can't finance that with a loan, as expenditures on salary do cause the asset side to take a hit. This is the difference.

I understand that to many people they seem like they are in the same category of "spending money" but spending money on an income earning investment is not the same as spending money on operating expenses.
To do it right we have to dispense with old ideas about why we’re doing it to whittle down what to preserve.

We don’t need to preserve every cat picture and vacation moment, just enough geometric and color data to replicate them. Same with text.

Deduplicate to an essential data model of knowledge and algorithms to boot strap that into a useful state.

Stable Diffusion runs in a browser on a phone. I have no doubt we can get a “bigger model” out of a tiny model and a few algorithms that will hydrate it and update its state based upon a context. But IT is too literal to serve “business” so we end up with the janky mess you called out.

So in summary; a rethink of our economic approach to keeping people busy, and compressed, deduplicated model that fits on a phone, with hardware and software that know to get what the user asks for out of this small hash.

That’s what all the ML is leading to. It’s just like I said; IT is a boring industry to serve business traditions. Intentionally: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/Bobby-Kotick-Wants-to-Take-...

I’m not that smart and figured this out. Asked a colleague with a PhD in math working at MS who was all wink and nudge at me. The “smarter people” know what’s up and want to be the first one there. Then under politically correct traditions it’s “their property.”

It’s not that hard to conceive; all information displayed on a machine is 2D geometry and games simulate 3D through well understood perspective and color theory. We just need a model that captures all the coordinates of our text and those perspective shifts and color compositions.

But to get there you need social change to avoid the loop you say you’re tired of but no one else does. Good luck.
NASA Launched an Inflatable Flying Saucer, Then Landed It in the Ocean
On Thursday morning, NASA sent a giant inflatable device to space and then brought it back down from orbit, splashing in the ocean near Hawaii.
I sadly know little about all this technology.
It is fantastically expensive at the moment from what you say.
That keeps it away from the vast majority of cancer patients in the world.

Technology does tend to get cheaper over time, though not always.

Do you think this treatment could reach $30.000 in 2,5,10,15 years?
And $300 in another 10,20,50 more years?
We need more stories like this.
it's almost like the headline that was buried about Twitter and Facebook colluding with Biden's DHS to "police disinformation", where social media companies were shills for government propaganda

> the director of the Election Security Initiative at CISA, recommended the use of third-party information-sharing nonprofits as a “clearing house for information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda.”

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...