skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone speculate what Bankman-Fried's exit plan was?

Was this a fraud that got out of control, or premeditated? If it was premeditated, what was the exit plan?

Did he expect to be able to gamble with customer funds indefinitely?

Were the Effective Altruism intimations genuine?

Why, if Alameda was a market maker, and they therefore presumably have some form of insight into the markets, did they then decide to take a huge directional bet on Crypto [source?]? This is contrary to market making principles.

What was the purpose of encouraging employees to invest? Was it to buy their silence/cooperation ('you have to stay employed and invested if you ever want your money back') if they found out about the fraud, or did Bankman-Fried genuinely believe it was to their benefit?

Why were there so many puff pieces in the media, without any journalist questioning the narrative?
>However, I know it can't be the real solution

Why not?
> Elon adding, and then removing, a second verified checkmark to replace the one he devalued, something any B2C product expert would know is a terrible idea
Elon proposing a $20/month price for Twitter Blue, and then immediately dropping to $8 at the first celebrity pushback, something any pricing expert would know is a terrible idea
Elon (or his EA?) personally reinterviewing engineers at Twitter and telling them to print out code and then changing his mind, something any engineering manager would know is a terrible idea

I'm sure Elon knows how stupid these are, it's a publicity stunt
I wish people would learn that "don't leave a comment" is a completely viable and reasonable option.
The caption on the photo says it all: "Musk’s missteps at Twitter are playing out in public view."

The old way of thinking, the old paradigm looks down on "misteps." That's not how Musk and his ilk operate. They're comfortable with authenticity (if you will). Mind you, HN knows this. But the rest of the world is still stuck in the past (esp. The Media).

As it is, "Musk" in a headline is the clickbait-y word of the momemt. The (shameless) Media will say anything if it gets clicks and plays to the conventional narrative (i.e., take him down and pray he fails). They see themselves as gods.

For what it's worth, I once heard Mark Cuban say he often goes to Twitter to vet ideas. That the Twitter feedback loop is efficient and effective. Now perhaps the new owner is taking his new toy to a whole new level? We'll see.

No one can see into the future. We can say that Musk has placed bets in to past and has done well for himself. I'm not defending him. Only that he's a big boy, with a proven track record and I for one am wise enough to wait a couple more months before I start making judgements about his "missteps".
Paid it off in 8 years, since I’m not in the US with 30 year fixed interest rate loans, 2 to 5 years “fixed” is the range here.

Great decision in the end - I know people who have their monthly payments almost doubling because their loan rates are going from 2.25% to 6%.

For me the security and peace of mind of being able to quit my job at any time and support my family even on minimum wage is worth it.
Are there any potential repercussions for those with "perfect" timing who bought low and sold high?
Who's being defrauded? How are the parody accounts taking receipt of anything that is intended for the people they are parodying? And David Daleiden did a whole lot more than just make a parody Twitter account[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Daleiden
> high-risk exchanges like FTX

Larry David + Steph Curry "endorsed" television commercials?
Gerbil's docs are incomplete right now, which makes starting out for the uninitiated Schemer rather difficult.
Well, apart from IP addresses. Say I am running a service in Europe, GDPR compliant etc. All the PII are in some database running on AWS, in one of the European regions of course. If what is said here about CLOUD act etc. is true, then it looks like I'm in a breach of GDPR in this scenario - which sounds afwul to me frankly.
I thought that mitmproxy did this, but cursory searches didn't show anything; that said, their actual format[1] has even more fidelity (I'd guess it's comparable to wireshark)

One should be aware that WARC is great for preservation, but getting content back out of it would require specialized tooling ala: https://github.com/alard/warc-proxy

1: https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/9.0.1/mitmproxy/...
Ask HN: Any examples of hosted software failing do to attempts at saving costs?
With all the discussion around Twitter layoffs and the concern about site stability, are there any examples of a large, hosted software system completely failing and shutting down in a disorderly fashion do to cost saving measures gone wrong?
Vim has plugins for that. ;)

I use https://github.com/mbbill/undotree but if that's not to your taste there are many others.

e.g. https://docs.stevelosh.com/gundo.vim/
They can just write it off?
Do you have a reliable source for the lack of supply?

Ideally with a detailed breakdown for each potentially problematic material.

I keep seeing claims that go both way on that matter. But none were backed by serious research.
> Did he reset his wealth, connections, etc. between each of those 'tickets'? No.

So because he once made 23 million. Making 23 billion $ is not impressive?

> And we will never know if those companies would have succeeded or been created without him.

Tesla had his money but not his leadership and was run straight into the ground. Musk took over and now its making almost the same amount of money as Toyota.

> Without tesla there is no spacex.

What? This isn't accurate.

> And we will never know if those companies would have succeeded or been created without him.

There is a long history of rocket startup before and after him. And non are SpaceX. Most failed. Beal Aerospace being a good example. There was a company called Rocketplane Kistler that could have been SpaceX but failed.

So yes, we do have quite a bit of evidence that starting a successful space company is incredibly hard even with quite a bit of money behind it.

> Unless... perhaps... there's more to this than intelligence or hard work.

And perhaps you need to reverse your thinking and realize that huge success without hard work work, intelligence is very unlikely even if some luck is also involved.
They also have the resources to delegate substantial work to others. I often wonder how much more productive or happy I'd be if I had a "chief of staff" that ensures less interesting things get delegated to the right people.
You can't really explain these things, but you might be able to explain this guy.

>In 1971, Harlow's wife died of cancer and he began to suffer from depression. He was treated and returned to work but, as Lauren Slater writes, his colleagues noticed a difference in his demeanor.[6] He abandoned his research into maternal attachment and developed an interest in isolation and depression.

From the wikipedia page.
Saw a theory that their liquidation engine may have failed them during the LUNA meltdown.

https://twitter.com/westiecapital/status/1591089073468280832...
Weapons of the weak: Russia and AI-driven asymmetric warfare(2018)
You’re usually autosaving. So it’s not every character, but maybe every minute and lots of other logical triggers like running the file. I’ve found it works very well.
For something scheme like, my mind immediately goes to chibi-scheme. Larger than this for sure, but still statically linkable.

If you're willing to dynamically link, guile seems like a good choice. Almost 30 years old at this point, and seems to be getting a bit of a revival with guix.
No idea, on MTGOX I don't even know if I'm still a creditor. I had ~100BTC on there I've already written it off.
Many thanks to the team at Replicated[1] -- their feedback and input has made rqlite much better.

[1] https://www.replicated.com/
SecOps in M&A: Adding Value Pre and Post-Deal
This blog provides some key lessons that ReliaQuest has learned over the years as we have helped CISOs to add value and control risk throughout the M&A lifecycle.
Nobody is too smart to be inflicted with blinding hubris. On the flip side, maybe Zuckerberg is playimg a really long game and sees something the rest of us don’t.
Depends what you want to do with the meat. Corn fed beef is superior for certain applications like BBQ.
That, plus deadlines forcing some sloppy coding, projects changing hands and, then... boom! Someone forgot to add something to the move constructor and now you dropped an allocation on the floor
C# allows you to tune the GC, which I believe was the cause of that issue.

Keep in mind by turning off the GC, how have now made C# just as safe as rust, not unsafer.
I was always wondering.

Ant politician cannot make everyone happy.

The brightest do not go into politics, the morally cleanest do not go there either.

So what is left? The power hungry and greedy, not sure if any party is better or worse.

I cannot think of one government that is perceived as great by the populace and foreigners on a wide scale.

Same for the powerful insurances, tech companies, banks, the leaders arent the best, the whole and lack of better competition makes them strong.
It's fast at compiling, and it's decent-to-fast in performance. It doesn't have the best performance for a compiled language, though. That was an explicit tradeoff that the Go team made. Getting better performance requires implementing more compiler optimizations, which would slow down compilation. And compiler slowdowns are treated as regressions. Speed has improved though, over the years. [0]

1.17 saw a major performance boost because of the switch from stack-based to register-based ABI for go function calls [1]. The release notes claimed a 5% average improvement, but benhoyt (in that discussion) has benchmarks showing much greater improvement for GoAWK.

[0] https://go.dev/doc/faq#Why_doesnt_Go_have_feature_X

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201732
HN is a funny place. Each time one of these billion (or trillion) dollar scumbag companies does something scumbaggy, people come out of the woodwork and wish there was an alternative frontend. Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Facebook... it has happened before and it will happen again. YET there's a A LOT of people here who get incredibly butthurt as soon as you mention the crazy idea of public website crawling being explicitly encoded into law as allowed. The only entities that would be hurt by this would be these fucking evil corps who abuse and evade the law all the time and are conspiring to extract as much money from the population as they can in countless shady ways.
never attribute to wisdom that which is adequately explained by stupidity
>> Most significant, no reason to get too incensed by this article.

Your opinion is appreciate but I disagree heartily.

This article does not strike me at all as clickbait, and it completely worthy of "getting incensed" in my view.

The way you describe the Oxfam "claim" while correct, is a strawman argument. Why, because they were already managing to capture $20 - $30 a dose.
I think, much like maps, a search engine requires an iterative development process. I don't think you can reasonably launch either product (search nor maps) and surpass the quality of Google on day 1 because there is so much user feedback on both products which you can not capture without actual users. Apple, with Maps, has shown an ability to stick with things and iteratively grow them to be really great (Apple maps IMO now far surpasses google maps and except for some specific data layers it's far and above OSM).
I simply don't believe there are people who are super-clever. I don't believe in "geniuses".

I believe there are people that are cleverer than me, and they can leave me mystified about how they worked out X. But that mystification doesn't require them to have a multiple of my smarts; it only requires them to have 10% more smarts than me.

In popular discourse, for example, Einstein is commonly credited as having been a genius. I'm not a physicist; but my understanding is that Einstein's SR and GR were essentially natural conclusions to draw from Maxwell's and Lagrange's equations. IOW, if Einstein had remained a patent reviewer, someone else would have produced those theories.

The same belief extends to "great men" of history; I think they emerge from the sea that they swim in, they do not command the tides. So I think that if Hitler had been killed in the WW1 trenches, some other authoritarian would have come along to unite the German people (perhaps not as bad as Hitler; perhaps worse).
After 10 years he might even be as fast as with a non-modal editor.
Yes the euphoria is the first thing to go, got to wait quite a while for that "magic" to come back.

I was using it daily for about a year or two, and it really helped but also caused issues with my personal life, relationship and so on.

I think you're probably ok, keep in mind it is a neurotoxic drug so you'll want to mitigate that, and your usage as much as possible, antioxidants, not overheating and that sort of thing.
Sure. Downvote me. Perhaps you weren't around when IE was still a thing. As a webdesigner back in those days your job was basically working around IE6's limitations and quirks. _You couldn't even use transparant PNG's ffs_. MS didn't give a flying F and only started improving IE again when they started losing big chunks of marketshare. We are heading towards that exact same situation right now.
I recently integrated stdbuf logic in an embedded product. Basically same logic: set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, taking care to extend LD_PRELOAD if it already has a value.

This was part of an effort to redirect the output of sub-programs such as external command executions and daemons into the application's logging system (fork and capture stdout). Problem is, some things things redirected to a pipe will fully buffer their output so you don't get the output in a timely way.

I noticed that the target system has a libstdbuf.so (even though its rootfs image lacks the stdbuf program) and the rest was history.
I don't think this is a dumb question. I was also wondering. They had a 19 year deal 135 million naming rights with the Miami Heat, but I'm fairly certain they didn't pay everything up front. Apparently the county owns the arena, so they will be involved.

At least Larry David got paid.
Those are good. I especially liked the Chiquita post.
I think the true statement would be 'The People who run the World are not uncommonly intelligent'. They almost all probably have IQs in the 120 to 135 range. That's not that smart, you can round up dozens of people smarter than that at most colleges. However, even at the low end of 120 that's still almost 91% percentile, which makes the statement 'The World Is Run by People No Smarter Than You' only true for like 9% of people.

I agree with the sentiment but lots of people would not be in the same position as the people who 'run the world' even with equally good luck, because they would not have been able to understand the situations they found themselves in well enough to make decisions that were in their own interest.
Neuralink is trying something that amazingly difficult and many medical companies, specially those working in something as complex as operating on the human brain are not expected to launch a product within a year or two.

> The Boring Company

The Boring company if sold today would likely make more money then most lottery winners get.
You know what's worse than climate change being real and doing nothing about it?

Climate change being real but getting the real reason wrong because of hubris, and doing measures that only harm and economy and makes us more fragile ahead of dealing with the crisis, and in the process destroying any public trust in science that will be required for dealing with the crisis.

Almost like doing lockdowns for coronavirus.

Temperature measurements and real world data and trends is not something I can deny. But there's important difference between climate change is from CO2 and greenhouse gas, to any other possible explanation.

Just like there's a difference between "inflation is transitory because of supply chain problems" to the dumpster fire we're having today.

I've had enough of this hubris. How is it that nobody is preparing for the impacts of climate change? How is everyone so confident that somehow whatever measures are done will be enough, and that everyone will actually implement them?

Adaptation is clearly the only viable solution because that's the only thing that's independent of the competence of things you don't control.
Show HN: f-of-xstate - query & transform XState logic for metaprogramming
Paperspace (YC W15) is hiring to build a better ML model deployment service
I disagree. Direct vs representative democracy is orthogonal to this issue. In a representative democracy, the mandate to exercise power still comes from popular vote. That is a qualitatively different situation from one where someone can exercise power by virtue of birth.
Reverse Engineering an EV Charger
For someone that only dabbles in investing, what are the reasons people choose ultra-high-risk investments like crypto?
> So if we now grow algae in "reactors" their nutrient profile will be artificial and out of line of their natural counterparts

This is wild speculation. Plenty of scientific research shows that farming plants, algae, and producing fermented food in a controlled environment can be even healthier than "natural" food.
Well now, sounds like you’ve just given centralized control to a third party. Guess your keys aren’t your keys after all.
G7 countries are already all below replacement fertility rates.
Sounds pretty awful to know exactly how and why I die, but can't do anything about it. I think this whole thing is a false-choice dilemma.
I want to know what happened at the end of the Younger Dryas... but I'd want to be able to tell people about it.

100,000 BC - 10,000 BC
A CO2 meter? ...
I think that one was actually circular references in event handlers...
Everyone is subject to the Dunning-Kruger effect. IMO intelligence is more about how quickly can you adapt to a new field. Everyone will have stupid moments if they are thrown in the deep waters of an unfamiliar field.
One of them got a boo boo though and that justifies murdering anyone else they ever encounter.
It's like the phenomenon of businessmen and politicians preferring to dazzle the public with implausible gadgetbahn concepts, instead of opting for presently-existing trains, of the various types that actually exist.

The concrete existence of train technology causes the ball to get pushed further than the the 3D render stage to the far less exciting endeavors of drafting up projects, gathering political support, securing funding, doing environmental impact studies, battling NIMBYs in court, and may end up undercutting the bottom line of auto manufacturers that could make campaign contributions, and won't line up the pockets of visionary consultants writing reports on how other solutions to car traffic and long commutes could be dreamed up.

https://www.cat-bus.com/2017/12/gadgetbahn/
> What was the “automated margin plan”?

And does/would it bring any value into the world, or is it just an effort to keep the plates spinning in the multi dimensional scam crypto has become?

Genuine question btw, if there is a real business there, does it serve the interests of broader society in any way?
Mastodon: Cool architecture, the usual moderation problems
> I hate articles that use Steve Jobs as some kind of guru, he was a lucky, successful asshole, but I guess that's charisma for you.

He was lucky an awful lot then.
A quick Google search reveals that beans are not a complete, since they lack several essential amino acids.

Edit: correction, it appears that soybeans are the exception. But when one thinks of having a serving of "beans and rice", soybeans are unlikely to be the bean served.
Rust’s scoping rules prevent most double free errors. You can get them with certain techniques but it’s also possible, say, use JNI to shoot yourself in the foot, too.

Basically, I’d say that at fond point this gets to be a lot more complicated because you’re talking about which sets of features & cultural practices make you more or less likely to make exploitable errors. Does using a GC buy you enough to balance out the complexity fetish common in the open source Java world? Which is safer probably depends on what type of projects you work on.
Well, as a good example... Shockley, as brilliant of a physicist he was, was an ardent racist and proponent of eugenics.[0] He was cruel towards his children and wife, and ended up dying alone.

If that doesn't show that people can be exceptional in one portion of their life, while horribly lacking in others... I don't know what does.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley#:~:text=Views...
> "getting incensed" in my view.

Why do you feel the need that Pfizer deserves to not make a profit/why do you have an issue with the amount of profit Pfizer aims/wants to make/why do you feel your opinion on the subject matters/why do you feel qualified to "pick a bone" with how much profit Pfizer wants to make/why is it worth getting upset about/what control over the situation do you have that makes it worth your time/thought/resources?
Do water color artists use broad strokes?
> complete protein source

On the “complete protein” concept, by a famous popularizer of plant-based protein-combining[0]

——

There is no need to combine foods at individual meals.

“In 1971 I stressed protein complementarity because I assumed that the only way to get enough protein ... was to create a protein as usable by the body as animal protein. In combating the myth that meat is the only way to get high-quality protein, I reinforced another myth. I gave the impression that in order to get enough protein without meat, considerable care was needed in choosing foods. Actually, it is much easier than I thought.
With three important exceptions, there is little danger of protein deficiency in a plant food diet.”

—-

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_for_a_Small_Planet

Edit: adjust description of what Lappé was popularizer of
Regarding his exit plan: not sure if you will find a good answer right now. One way to get some insight into this type of mental game is to read about other major scammers who just couldn't help themselves and got too deep to pull out. Bernie Madoff comes to mind, and there are many books written about him and his business.
Two possible outcomes:

- They miss their next payment and the contract is terminated. The arena owners find a new sponsor.

- The naming rights are considered an asset of FTX and are sold off during bankruptcy proceedings to recover cash. The buyer puts their own name on the arena for the rest of the contract term.

Considering naming rights are sold for such lengthy terms (20 years in FTX's case) it is incredibly common for companies to go under or get bought out in the middle of it.
That is some overt bipedalism there :)

Many (most?) monkeys like chimpanzees have opposable thumbs on their “feet” so they’re more like a second pair of hands, which get exercised as such by gripping tree branches. Humans, on the other hand, keep their bottom hands in rigid clothing so they never get any real exercise.
Mona Sans, a variable font from GitHub
This is the exact kind of material I hope never makes it to HackerNews/never takes over/stays far away from it.
If your laptop has a Kensington lock slot you can lock it with a cable that wraps around a table leg.
Fruitfly evolved pictures of ants on its wings (2013)
Musk Didn't Acquire Anything – He Is Overseeing an Acquisition