skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No regulation would have prevented this crime from happening.

I want to be clear here, what happened here is already illegal as is, and no regulation would have prevented it from happening in the first place.

Hell, the firm was already being audited, and those auditors didn't catch the accounting discrepancies, so it's doubtful that any additional regulation would have found this earlier either...
We should be doing everything in our power to close Drax, Polish coal plants and Norwegian oil fields in the North Sea. Instead we're subsidizing fossil fuels and filling up Putin's warchest along with our filthy cars. [0]

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-022-01122-6
The pledge doesn’t mean dumb-throw money at any org you can find.
Eugenes physics videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0yBou72Lz9fqeMXh9mkog
helped me a lot, both in highschool, and for my EE education. It is what truly made opamps click for me for example. Though, I know people for whom these vids don't seem to work well, so I guess it depends on the person.
The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" made some statistics concepts click for me.

I think I finally understand the "Law of large numbers" and "Regression to mean". It also kind of helps me to understand machine learning which relies a lot on statistics.
same thought over here - love the product only problem I have is that there is no way for me to 'grow in to' unthread unless I'm a larger company from the start. Would love a freemium tier for the little guys, but also get why at this stage you might not have it :)
Jeff Bezos says he’ll give away the majority of his wealth in his lifetime
You didn't bother to interrogate the other poster on these aspects. Why is it only tricky when looking at the evidence against the claim?
I'd really like to take on a pi hack project on one of those Sony Ericsson Walkman phones.
No, the --node-modules-dir flag doesn't create a symlink to the home directory cache. It creates a copy in the node_modules folder (in the future it will use hardlinks to reduce space, there is an open issue). It's stored at node_modules/.deno/<package-name>@<version>/node_modules/<package-name> (that flag is heavily influenced by pnpm)

You can do a patch package by doing something like the following (and then you can move this into a `deno task` https://deno.land/manual@v1.28.0/tools/task_runner when launching your app to ensure it happens):

deno cache --node-modules-dir main.ts
deno run --allow-read=. --allow-write=. scripts/your_patch_script.ts
deno run --node-modules-dir main.ts
I mean if FTX was being held up as the highest quality this should absolutely cause fear that there are worse actors on fringier exchanges.
“Answers to Modernism” by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi.
... or around 1/227 ~ %0.4, and most of those were ejected by Twitter. So these numbers look more like a down tick at the moment than an exodus.
Ok buddy, look, one. You're right, it was a mistake. I misremembered something. I cited a source containing the right information and you pointed it out. Thanks.

> Why are you spreading election misinformation?

Two, Fuck off. This is needlessly passive aggressive. There is no need to throw in a worst-faith assessment of my motivations for posting all of this.
The Cossacks work for the Czar.
The use of intermediaries is due to the deficient user experience of cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency community:

1) They downplay the expertise and knowledge required to manage your own tokens.

2) They advocate for the use of cryptocurrencies by normal (i.e. non-expert) users as this increases the value of their holdings.

3) They prefer to blame users who make mistakes, are hacked/scammed, or otherwise lose (real) money for their lack of technical expertise.

Given this, it's not surprising that the enormous gap between naive engineering assumptions and human reality is filled by intermediaries despite how consistently they fail. As long as cryptocurrencies continue to exist beyond a tiny niche I don't see this changing.
For those that missed it:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/17/vlc-india/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/04/vlc-developer-videolan-sen...

https://internetfreedom.in/videolan-issued-legal-notice-to-d... .
Anything you learn needs to be applied.

My advice I give now: start with CS50 and dive deep into all the supplementary reading.

Then build something every day.

Read books, watch videos, take a course. But above all, make sure you can apply it to something real.
He won't sell it all at once. Bill Gates used to own lots of Microsoft stock. Over time he sold it off and diversified, to the point that it's now only about 25% of his net worth.

The key thing is that over time, Microsoft transitioned to a point where Bill Gates wasn't running things day-to-day and investors became comfortable with him not having any control. At that point, him selling shares was no big deal.

At the other end of the extreme would be someone like Elon Musk, where Tesla's stock price is almost entirely dependent on him being at the helm. If he were to walk away now, the shares would tank in value.

Jeff Bezos is somewhere in between. Clearly, Amazon would run okay without him, but he still has some involvement. He certainly can't sell all of his shares, but if he sells over time and makes it clear (and credible) that he is selling in order to use his money elsewhere (rather than trying to time the market because he thinks the stock is overpriced), the share prices of Amazon should hold up just fine.
What is it about that book that made it click? There's an awful lot of people who believe in sky daddy. What did they miss?
Correct, there seems to be an exodus from exchanges or at least moving to decentralized exchanges
What is the point in throwing someone who didn't commit violent crimes in prison? Punishment? Vengeance?
The first couple of lectures _alone_ are incredible to really grok raw matrix multiplication.

I found the rest of the lectures a bit less of an epiphany, I think he meanders sometimes too much, but that’s a personal note. The whole series is absolutely incredible.
In my experience, v8 has a better memory and garbage collection system, but JSC produces faster code. I don't know how that works in a server context though.
Basically, there is no free will. Think about it like this: where do your thoughts come from? They appear magically in your head. So you can choose between the set of things you think about, but the set of things you think about is out of your control.
You get things, I think, but bitcoin’s transaction bottleneck meant it was never going to be able to handle anything approaching wide scale adoption for day to day transactions. Attempts to address that with other coins or centralized exchanges is at least one of the major factors that lead to this point.
Does everyone fully vet their companies executive suite, board of directors and operations before accepting a job? Or the bank they use? Or the owner of the coffee shop they frequent?

Everyone walks around with a computer in their pocket built in a factory where people were to have known to be treated poorly, possibly to the point of suicide and then they use that device to type in comments about moral superiority.
Darned if you do, damned if you don't. You need to block fascists but need to stop short of fascist levels of intolerance or else you're the fascist. Strive not with monsters, as Nietzsche said.
There is an ocean of distance between wanting to use all the cores on a CPU and spinning up (or paying for) the monster abstraction that is kubernetes.
Neocities ($5/mo), https://neocities.org/supporter
Buy local organic if possible

Also if you eat vegetables does not mean you support pesticides or natives exploitation, or natural ecosystems destruction....
Surely you have heard opposite opinions to your own that are not reductive (as you have written yours)? I.e. I understand that you might disagree with the opinions of others, but I don't understand the implication that you should feel "like a lunatic", since that usually implies that you don't comprehend the opinions of others (which is different from disagreeing).
I feel conflicted about this.

It makes 100% sense for Deno to do this from a business and marketshare standpoint: they need those modules in order for people to make the kind of projects they're making with Node. But I was really hoping that Deno would be a reboot: flush out all the awful NPM modules out there you don't even know you have a dependency on and create a JS module ecosystem worth its salt. In some ways "1.3M new modules" is more scary than impressive.

But alas, here we are. We've got the JS ecosystem we deserve.
> AFAIK unlike node, Deno's API is largely promise-based and therefore all unhandled exceptions should become unhandled rejections withou crashing the process - so this should be less of an issue than it is with node

Perhaps you're right, I have not tried this out in Deno-land so I cannot say wether this actually applies to Deno the same way.

I just know that I got burned by this exact issue in node and I think this can be a security issue that people usually don't really think about. If you know that some api is a node api, if you manage to find a bug that is crashing the process one could probably script it to trigger it to crash over and over again. Even if it restarts quickly, usually it takes a second or and in that time one could bring the entire api down.

I am not aware of any instance that this have been used against some api in practice but most other languages handle this much better than node does and the javascript way of crashing on error is one of the things that made me question using javascript for backend services at all.

Regarding the kubernetes... no thanks. I would not go into that beehive unless forced. I didn't like the complexity increase of adding a load balancer and that is like a drop in the ocean of the complexity that is kubernetes.
As someone who's struggled with addiction most of my life, the idea that free will doesn't exist is worse than useless to me.

The way we experience our lives indicates that we make choices and they have consequences. I don't know what kind of life you would have if you suddenly decided to stop making choices one day, but you would probably end up institutionalized if it didn't kill you first.

Even if my choices are predetermined somehow, I can do an end run around that by flipping coins or rolling dice when faced with multiple options. I have in fact done so on many occasions. At that point I didn't choose, RNG did. You could argue a particular coin flip was predetermined to land on 'heads', but I cannot see how that argument is useful if it doesn't lead to making better predictions.
Fox News is primarily a cable news network that republishes some of their work as articles. Television isn't really a medium that lends itself to long form investigative journalism.

Why would they bother with it when what they're doing is way more profitable? They also have a reputation for being the partisan press. They'd have to completely rebrand to get into a less lucrative area.
> Serious investigative reporters with the smarts and experience to dive deep were always the exception, maybe a handful in the world at any given time.

Correct answer.

People dramatically underestimate the extent to which reporters are stenographers: they go to relevant people, get quotes, write some background around the quotes (which itself is derived from previous statements), and hit publish.

Almost every business article you see is push-driven. The business being covered will issue a press release and it gets rewritten into articles.

The press are pretty good at attribution: if the NYT says that "Bob said X", you can be pretty sure that an NYT reporter heard Bob say X. That doesn't tell you anything about whether X is true or not.
I was prepared with all the skepticism I can muster, but I am pleasantly surprised. It correctly identifies the streets of Los Angeles as a top-20 emitter. Really getting to the heart of things, the opposite of "100 corporations cause climate change" B.S.
we could still remove both WebP and AVIF and go with JPEG XL only
Whats the verdict -- is this good content or is this just a great way to get your brand into the market? Are there differentiators here?
Agree, if FTX was actually backed by a country with its own currency and an actual economy to back it up. Which it isn't.
Re point #2 - this is one of the crazy things for me. When you work in finance, in the UK at least, you get it drilled into your head what "client money" is, what that implies, what you can do with it, and notably you get reminded during any training session the size of the fines that get imposed on people who fuck with client money.

So to me it suggests that they simply don't employ anyone with any experience in banking or compliance, if they did those people would be raising hell or at least leaking or whistleblowing
I like to call it "eventual civilisation" ...
The dollars add up, every time.
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What does that mean his wealth hasn't reduced? Any money that he's given away (and he's given away a lot) has reduced his wealth. He'd be worth more if hadn't given it away.
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College campus is never the preferred venue however as I said, it’s a money maker. Similar to corporate gigs.

The difference is now they’re not worth the trouble.

Seinfeld (not even who you think of as “anti-woke”) has a good take on it you could search for. https://ew.com/article/2015/06/08/jerry-seinfeld-politically...

>“I don’t play colleges.” Seinfeld says teens and college-aged kids don’t understand what it means to throw around certain politically-correct terms. “They just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist;’ ‘That’s sexist;’ ‘That’s prejudice,'” he said. “They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about”
So the defense is no longer "the journalists were afraid of getting sued" but rather "the journalists like access." Access which affords them money and power.

That is as I already assumed. How is that any different from a bank robber excusing himself by citing the utility of money?
Take your magic beans off-exchange, because otherwise someone might steal them.
The global income distribution model (farmers in India -> Jeff Bezos) is problematic.

But it's such a chaotic system that anyone claiming to have the solution (similar to anyone claiming there is no problem) is likely lying.

The only solution (to me) that even starts to make sense is some sort of forced worker ownership, but lord knows what the details of that might look like.
To say this as gently as I can, do you really think people like Blair or the Clintons are the good guys?

HSBC teaches us that the US govt happily approves of financial crime as long as it's large and they get their cut:
https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...

Madoff's mistake was probably not sharing with the right people, and that the optics were a bridge too far.
If I give $10 to charity, my wealth is reduced by $10. The naive assumption is that if Bill Gates gives $10B to charity, his wealth is also reduced by $10B.

Can you explain why the naive assumption is wrong? Because I actually can't, not without more thought and research than I've given it.
You're just starting to think that? They're massively long, convoluted, legalese documents. It's literally a cultural joke that no-one reads those.

I believe there needs to be a change in how terms and conditions are written - people need bullet points.

By clicking "I Agree", the user (you) agrees that:

1. [COMPANY] can sell your data to third-parties. This data includes [x, y, z]

2. [COMPANY] will retain your data for [X YEARS]

3. [COMPANY] will allow you to delete your data by visiting [WEBSITE]

That sort of thing. People don't read; right, wrong, or indifferent, people don't read. They especially don't read convoluted, exceedingly long terms and conditions that they HAVE to accept to use a product.
> "OK... what if instead of it flipping, it PIVOTED"

Kinda like the LG Wing: https://www.lg.com/global/lgwing
There's nothing to stop people using crypto to buy/sell goods directly, or to trade directly between themselves, completely outside of government control. And crypto itself can't be inflated away, or obsoleted, or otherwise really controlled by government, except by attacking it; making it illegal to own or trade, to operate nodes, to write code, or use CIA shenanigans, etc.

But if an exchange claims that they hold your crypto 'frozen' and completely separate from their trading activities, and especially if the exchange also deal in government currency, then I think it's quite right for government to regulate, and ensure the exchanges are compliant.
If you didn't know, you can say you didn't know. You're alluding to the fact that no one cares. Even that's hardly fair, as it's near impossible to get a mobile device at the same usability as iPhone or Android without similar tracking involved.
The Selfish Gene --- It finally gave me all the answers my teachers could not.

An amazing book
It actually makes sense if they were “dropshipping” lol, which an exchange might do to increase liquidity. In other words, when you deposited to their exchange they actually held your money and executed your trades at FTX for certain pairs. Then FTX suddenly zeroed everyone’s balances (! or at least many people’s) so their crappy scraping system overwrote your old balance with zero and they have to manually check backups to see how much money you had with them. Definitely possible as an exchange is a chicken and egg problem and they seem to be a nobody.
several wasm solutions will soon appear in libjxl github
Looks like they've claimed Brian Lovin's work as their own, judging by this commit:

https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/3dda085064e745bd43f8b05...
Oh that’s an interesting idea.
I can see at: https://deno.land/manual@v1.28.0/basics/permissions, that I can set permissions through parameters.
Coursr manipulation can, and does, so.
> when you consider that desktop workloads are very different from "here is an API for our walled garden" workloads.

This is a solid point, but iPad workloads were pretty clearly converging with laptop workflows. (And Apple was obviously moving in the direction of converging the SDKs even before the M1 was announced.) Plus, they already had the ability for devs to build apps to run on MacOS & iPad/iPhone. This was a strategic move that was visibly underway for years.

> a successful transition was entirely dependant on how well rosetta works (it turns out it works well, but that wasn't a given at all), evidenced by how people got burned in the powerpc-x86 transition

All the more reason to expect them to make a transition -- they had pulled it off successfully (if with some hiccups) before. I would not be surprised if they had some of the original Rosetta team around to revise for this time around.
Likewise it makes the false assumption that taxes are collected in the same year that income is received. Beginning in the 1980s, many billions of dollars that were subject to tax ended up in IRAs and 401k retirement plans where taxes are deferred for many decades in most cases. Likewise, like kind exchanges of property also defer huge amounts of taxes. So looking at annual tax receipts omits a huge amount of taxed-but-deferred income.
The people who have the skills to accumulate wealth at this scale don’t have the skills to give it away. They are extraction minded, and philanthropy is a direct contradiction to this mental model. Keep some to stay comfortable of course, but you have to be comfortable with your status, influence, and wealth substantially declining as a second order effect of the distribution logistics, and that’s just not who these people are.

MacKenzie Scott can’t give her wealth away fast enough, for example.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/mackenzie-scott-...
the majority of comedians are residents of said campuses
Probably, the words “give away” imply that all the wealth will, indeed, be given away.

For instance, Chuck Feeney gave away billions until it he was left with only $2 million (or so it was reported).
No you're not the only one, plenty of people think like that which is why they keep capturing most of the value created by their employees and getting away with it.
> their mass market Windows 3.11 replacement

was code-named Chicago, and they pre-leaked data about it for years in the press while struggling with Apple Computer for lots of markets
Are these not at least two possibilities? Furthermore, what kind of heuristic is that? I don't see people being able to predict the future with much reliability.
Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism.

This feels like all those accounts of "room mates".
He would probably have given away $300B by the time his net worth is $2T.
Now offering PSI (Population Stability Index) in the profiler differencing functionality!
Browsers aren't single threaded, so the ST performance isn't the end-all-be-all metric to use. JavaScript is single threaded, but the browser itself uses multiple threads. E.g. there is the main thread, which handles the user input. There is the rendering thread, which actually takes up a majority of the CPU time on a lot of websites. And then there is stuff like GPU acceleration, which makes a lot of the web performant when it wouldn't be otherwise. Of course, a server does all of these things worse than a decent laptop.
Like most political donors, he gave to both sides. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2022/11/11/checks--...

" The $69 million spent by Bankman-Fried and his deputies on the 2022 midterms likely would’ve done little to plug FTX’s reported financial hole, but it couldn’t have hurt. Bankman-Fried told Forbes last month that “in the end, I care about policy more than politics,” adding that “my giving has been bipartisan, and my goal is to help support great policy makers.”

Bankman-Fried has supported Republicans during this cycle, primarily through his $2 million contribution to the blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused GMI super PAC. But the bulk of his giving, including $27 million to the Protect Our Future super PAC and $6 million to the House Majority super PAC, has gone to support Democrats. Bankman-Fried told Forbes last month that “much of this was for primaries, rather than D vs R general elections” ($33 million of his contributions were made during the first four months of 2022.) "
For me, the backgrounds were interesting for their _more salient_ features rather than their ambience, e.g. unexpected smears of color, textures that vaguely looked like real things at a glance (like fabric or nature) but wouldn't stand up to scrutiny. They reminded me of the typical "mistakes" that you see when playing around with image generators.
Ah but think of all the money that leaves on the table!
If someone can accumulate that much wealth in a lifetime it means way too much was extracted from each individual.

Then they distribute it back to mend the damage as they see fit, not as society deems needed.

I'm not against millionaires but the exponential level up to billionaires probably shouldn't exist because it means the balance in the system is beyond broken.

No-one has contributed billions of value to society.
ok, so you just confirmed rust does some stuff behind the scenes for you. and that comes at a cost.

what is more important is to understand how to architecturally build software and achieve performance and maintainability and so on. i rather spend my limited hours becoming better in a language like c or c++ which is not going away anytime soon than learning syntax, a new way of thinking and a package management system i don’t need.
Is it a pledge? Or an Amber Heard pledge? I feel like we're seeing the Michael Scott version of declaring bankruptcy here. I'll believe it when I see it.
Yeah, but once it's in a donor advised fund, it can't come out. No, it doesn't have to be spent right away but at some point it needs to be given away. It's not like you can just put money in a DAF and take it back out when you want to buy a yacht.