skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracking what you do can go a long way towards making the boring thing not boring.

A long walk on its own versus... a long walk where you've clicked the record button on Stava is for some reason a completely different experience. One is idle, meandering, and boring the other is (somehow psychologically) building something and fun.
At this point it wouldn't surprise me if they siphoned off the money by being on the other side of those trades via different entities...
If you can work remotely from anywhere you can afford a house in the burbs with space for a separate office - somewhere in the US.
There should be more discussion about how to store value without counterparty risk.

Most people think it is as easy as ordering a hardware wallet, following the process the wallet software suggests and - hurray! - your keys, your coins!

But it is not that easy. You also have to cut the wallet manufacturer and the software developer out of the loop.

I have yet to see a description on how to safely create a wallet that really does away with counterparty risk.

The way I understand Bitcoins signatures, there could be a way. But it would involve to somehow put your secret key into multiple air gapped, RFC-6979 compliant hardware wallets. And then create addresses and sign transactions with those hardware wallets without ever connecting them to a computer. And compare the addresses and signatures between these wallets to make sure they match. Because otherwise, the wallets could taint the output in a way that signals data back to the manufacturer.

I don't even know if there are fully operational air gapped hardware wallets on the market.
You must consider what the banks are lending with that ratio. It’s mostly mortgages, which are far less risky than what FTX was doing.
It actually seems fairly clear by this point that Apple does not actually give a shit about privacy except as a marketing tool to use in their fight against Google.

They have also shown a willingness to actively work with authoritarian regimes like the CCP to actively remove privacy protections and build out an extremely sketchy supply chain.
Oh they definitely went horribly wrong somewhere. And I suspect that shared sense is the reason so many alternative, niche, minimalist and retro projects are springing up. Personally I'm keeping a close eye on Haiku and SerenityOS as potential ports in the storm of ever-taller Jenga towers of dependencies and complexity...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/02/agricult...

https://globalnews.ca/news/5803929/amazon-rainforest-cattle-...
My understanding is that a lot of their assets were in their own cryptocoin that they borrowed against like:

1. Make million new coins called $mikecoin

2. Sell 1 $mikecoin to a friend for 1 USD

3. Claim that the "Total Market Cap" for $mikecoin is 1 million USD

4. Borrow Bitcoin or dollars against your $mikecoin reserve.
Liquid doesn't just mean "can trade out of it at any time", but also "would typically be willing to trade out of it at any time". If a market is in a downswing, you're typically told to hold on to your stocks: buy low, sell high. The same rule would apply here. But that does mean they're not guaranteed to be liquid ("willing to trade") at all times, given that there's a risk of loss if you are forced to trade out of it at times of a market-low.
A life of idle leisure, not just for me, but for everyone.
Don't disagree that SBF was obviously trying to curry favor with the regulatory regime, given that it was pretty much all out in the open - indeed, that was the source of CZ's major beef with him.

But this kind of shadowy argument that someone's father's ex-boss' best friend's cousin is some sort of smoking gun is nonsense.

At the end of the day, there were no implemented regulatory changes that benefited FTX or SBF. All the misappropriation of customer funds, the news about SBF having a secret "back door" for funds transfers happened regardless of any regulatory changes (or, as I stated, lack thereof) in DC.
Toxic fuel vented?
Generally you just have your wages garnished for as long as you have an income. This would include Social Security. If, somehow, you came into significant funds again you could probably negotiate a one time payment to satisfy the judgment. That seems highly unlikely in her case though.
It's hilarious that SBF is going to get put into jail by politicians that he donated hundreds of millions to. And funny enough, the fact that he donated money to them in such a high profile way means that they will likely slam the book on him harder just to "prove" there is no backdoor dealing.
I was under the impression that a substantial amount of it was being rewritten in Rust, which was part of the reason for the speedups (rewrite, not language)
51% vote to freeze (by validators) is decentralized.
Not worthless! Just, you know, worthless right now.
Hydrazine (used for maneuvering thrusters) is not your friend. Tanks will not be fully empty — draining them safely requires safety gear.
High Performance Geoip Blocking in eBPF with XDP
Satisfying any intent is a "benefit", simply feeling better or feeling satisfied is a benefit. It's another perspective or way to look at "having motive" or "having a reason". At the same time, the intent seems to be to make corruption a problem, without getting into the impossible enumeration of all of the payoffs. And if you find out by accident, not by your own agency, let you off the hook.

Interesting that social media clout is now a currency in the eyes of the courts.
Kraken's proof-of-reserves audits are looking more and more attractive and important these days!

https://blog.kraken.com/post/15002/kraken-proof-of-reserves-...
Look, I’m a savvy investor who builds marketing teams and would never fall for this, but I think other people will, so I’m going to invest.
doesn't make them less corrupt though
I think this is an excellent suggestion. When you do switch to a full build system you'll be able to troubleshoot any issues a lot faster.
https://archive.ph/UD0gj
I read it as "regular expression". God help me.
> It is still a Ponzi if people are "honest" about it being a Ponzi

It literally isn't. Please go back to the definition, which requires a specific type of deception. If you wished, perhaps you could call crypto some kind of gamble, confidence game, or other category of scam.

> Arguing that clear Ponzis aren't really Ponzis due to some kind of semantic rules is a gigantic display of "copium".

From your tone it seems like you think I'm trying to defend crypto in this thread. I'm not. I'm trying to defend the meaning of a precise and descriptive term so that it doesn't get watered down to the point of being synonymous with "scam". Because if that were to happen, we would lose a useful phrase in the English language.

It really ticks me off when people knowingly use terminology incorrectly like this out of anger. Just call crypto a scam or a con if you want. There's no need to let your anger leave a mark on the English language itself.

> And the CEO of JPMorgan has described crypto coins exactly as a "distributed Ponzi scheme" before Congress.

Well he was using the term "ponzi scheme" incorrectly then, and should have used a more general term like "scam". Really, this isn't hard. Just read the definition.

It's also worth noting that JPMorgan executed their first trade on a public ("crypto coin") blockchain last week, so maybe he ended up changing his mind? Or maybe there's some internal consistency with JPMorgan investing effort in things they believe to be ponzi schemes - I'm not one to try to make that distinction.

> If you wind up paying out redemptions with new deposits as fast as you can, right before you fail hard, then it was a Ponzi all along. That's it. That's the definition.

That's not even how cryptocurrency works. Not even beanie babies or tulips worked like that.
Why is there such a ridiculously long gap between her conviction and sentencing?
Hard to quantify far less but a few orders of magnitude probably isn’t too “far off.”
I never saw what the Bell Labs folks had against Berkeley sockets, aside from them being from Berkeley and not Bell Labs. It's a crufty interface either way, because you can't shove all the complexity under the rug.

They're optimizing for as few syscalls as possible, I suppose, but in Plan 9 you still create pipes with pipe(), not by writing to a special file. And if you already have pipe(), why not socket()?
I think we can give the ancient writers their credit. Ur was famous then, its name linked to the one city.

If future generations read that someone contemporary was born in an equivalently famous city like New York, they'll know where we mean.
> Well Apple has been iterating Ax Series Chips, M1 is no different to previous A(n)X Chip. i.e M1 wasn't really a "launch" for the M Chip.

Through an engineering lens, yes — one can look at the M1 SoC in a vacuum and characterize it as a logical evolutionary step in Apple's 20 years of silicon design. What made its introduction shocking (and its launch a slam dunk) is that Apple leveraged its experience in silicon design, OS design, hardware design, emulation, etc. to create new products, based on a completely new architecture for the desktop/laptop market, that definitively trounced their Intel-based predecessors.

You may have seen the clues before the M1 launched (which are crystal clear in retrospect), but for most people the unveiling of the M1 was as much a surprise as learning the identity of Keyser Söze.

> Apple already does a lot of "Searching" with Siri Suggestions. And arguably it is the 2nd largest search engine on the planet.

Exactly! What will be "Apple Search" exists in a nascent state today, making its eventual launch as a branded product very analogous to the "develop secretly in plain sight" strategy Apple used for the M1.
10% liquid doesn't necessarily concern me when considering a bank. But, they have many more routes to liquidity than FTX (Liam from the fed, loans from other banks, etc.). And even still, 10% isn't legal for a bank if their liquid assets are too volatile.

450 mil was in SBFs Robinhood investment, and FTX clearly didn't have any other avenues towards liquidity. 10% without an out was a predictably bad idea
I thought there was just a SCOTUS case heard in the last week about a similar issue, whether police departments can assert qualified immunity when arresting/jailing someone for something that is free speech-related?
And can they go after her husband's money?
> You don’t question that the gas you purchase at a gas station is in fact gas, and not water.

Ooh, I have an analogy! If I park my car at the airport while I go on vacation, I expect it to still be there when I get back. I don’t expect to return from my trip and discover that the airport let the car rental company use it while I was away and now it’s gone because someone crashed it.

On the other hand, someone in this thread pointed out the yield that was offered to customers with FTX accounts. [0] I would be more suspicious of a parking lot that said, “Hey, you can park here for free. In fact, do you have any other cars? If you park them all in our parking lot, we’ll pay you $x per day!”

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33571873
This may be an unpopular opinion here, but Holmes is the mother of a young child and punishment for her is simultaneously punishment to the innocent child. Justice cannot be served by inflicting injustice on another. We need to be more creative in our sentencing - rather than 10 years then free, how about 25 years under some sort of restriction, that does not deprive child of their mother?
running and using an exchange to custody assets is entirely optional and also not the point of cryptocurrency

the regulations apply to people that chose to do that and don't apply to people that use cryptocurrency
Related to seeing mysterious outflows on ETH.

I built a little tool that tracks the transaction networks of several top tokens.

If anything: Highly entertaining, I see a LOT of weird stuff.

It's called Pudding (because that's where the proof is) at https://alexisrondeau.me/pudding/
Her husband is quite rich.
Like most things it'll end up being a mix. Some of the people running to Mastodon/AP will leave. Some will stay.

It's a net-win for fediverse. But as I've said elsewhere, will not replace Twitter.

But the world also doesn't need a Twitter.

That kind of single "town square" doesn't work. Can't work. And just attracts blowhards and narcissists. And the world will be better without it.
I clearly remember it being an explicit decision though, not a bug mitigation

To be clear, that's not correct we did do this to mitigate the bug.

We were facing the bug that I described (the cross stream thing) showing up when Lantern was used. It was causing disruption to our service and customers were writing in. We were trying to understand what was happening and needed to stop it. One of the things we did to stop it was disable domain fronting. As we were seeing the customer reports we didn't know if this was an OpenSSL bug, something in NGINX, something in our code, but we did know that Lantern was somehow causing it and they were doing domain fronting which wasn't the standard use of our service and so we dropped it.
When it works, it's flawless. It's very easy to ask it to make a fillet that fails where you're guessing as to why. "Almost always" is far too generous.
Shy cynically had that child because she wanted people to think exactly like you are doing.
Yes, true. But at the same time people in good relationships are also more productive.
It sure is interesting how they extended their tentacles into as many other companies and projects as possible (SBF even approached Elon about financing the Twitter acquisition) while knowing they were financing these deals with customer deposits, before blowing it up in the most spectacular way possible…

I can’t imagine a series of actions that would be more destructive to the industry. The actions don’t make sense unless they were taken to maximize the potential fallout.

The deep regulatory and political connections are also interesting…
I suppose in this case it's probably a negative sum game. The assets in question are the FTT token that Alameda mined and gave to FTX as collateral, in return for real customer assets from FTX that Alameda used to gamb... er trade with. But FTT then went to zero, tanked the whole market, and the customer assets Alameda holds lost value too. Everybody loses.
Ethereum multi-sig wallets do the trust side fantastically side very well.

In addition you get ways to handle lost keys, ownership changes, and the ability to require multiple people to sign off on any action.
We should have trusted Larry David on FTX...

https://youtu.be/noekVG8XLQI?t=45
By this logic, having children provides immunity from punishment. Doesn't seem fair to me.
By far not having to work in Corporate America, with managers and peers pedantically and pointlessly questioning my code and designs. Everything else would nicely fall into place.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

This aims to address these issues. Verifiable hardware and open source OS and wallet.
protection against possible hypergolic fuel
How does that change anything from the child's perspective?
My guess she’ll get 5 years and Sunny will get 15 even though both committed the same crime.

Edit: context for my guess
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_disparity#Evidenc...
Tokens are very liquid, until they are not. And sadly with both FTT, Luna and so many others, that transition seems to happen instantly and without any warning.

Well, I guess the warning would be that someone created something from nothing and said it was worth a few Billion dollars, but other than that, it's a surprise event to everyone - just ask Sequoia Capital and Forbes.
The greater fool game is probably fun, but I am too dumb to play it.
FTX isn’t a bank. They aren’t supposed to operate as a fractional reserve. Coinbase would be crucified by the SEC if they did this.
"By an experienced person" is, I suspect, doing a lot more heavy lifting here than one might assume.
Multisig, with hardware from different companies, no one of which could constitute a quorum of your keys.

If you have even just a 2-of-3 keyset with one Ledger, one Trezor, and a Coldcard, none of those companies can screw you by itself.

If you go up to 3-of-5, it's even more robust.

You can set it up yourself using FOSS like Electrum.

Or you can hire somebody like Casa[0] to get it all set up and set up the infrastructure to verify Casa App is doing exactly what it says it's doing.

[0] https://keys.casa

ETA: There are lots of airgapped wallets. Coldcard, Keystone, and Passport all work airgapped.
> So FTX had an 11% leverage ratio, pretty good.

A better comparison would be a stock brokerage that took your money to buy specific stocks on your behalf but then did something totally different, including “investing” in illiquid assets.

If they had just bought the stock you requested, then they could just liquidate your stock at market price when you said you want to sell.

This was not the situation that FTX was/is in.

Instead, the way FTX allocated money/assets was suspicious (at best) if not flat out irresponsible and deceptive.

Also, FTX was not and is not a bank, and the idea that this is levering in the same way regulated banks lever is laughable.
Might have to wait a while. If Karpeles, Mashinsky and Ehrlich are still free men things look pretty good for SBF.
Of course! I guess I should drop the ‘very fast’ comment (Though that is typical).

They can move as fast as they have been designed to move, if further computation is not required.

In most cases (repetitive work, stuff with relatively basic, straightforward computation - the human equivalent of reflexes), that means they’re basically constrained by their physical limits.

Those fast object detection algorithms require an extremely artificial environment (with high contrast backgrounds, tuned high intensity light), and are generally only good at sorting specific classes of items, at least last I researched them.

The algorithms involve do a LOT of down sampling too, if I remember.

They aren’t general purpose navigation or object detection algorithms, I’m trying to say, and won’t work at that speed in anything but a very controlled environment. It’s the problem that a lot of players have been dumping billions into for decades - Waymo, DJI, Tesla, and a million smaller names.

General purpose navigation in an unknown environment starts running up against real hardware limits right now at speed, even with essentially unlimited power budgets (aka a car, truck, drone with a huge battery and limited flight time, etc). Based on the context, I understood the question to be in reference to something portable, and most of those hardware implementations would be nearly impossible to fit in a humanoid style robot.

It’s going to take a decade or so for that to change probably, maybe a half that, depending on what Skydio and DJI have cooking.
Purely on intuition and no facts at all: my intuition is that it’s already baked into their risk profile. They don’t need to “make up for it.”
> GNU Taler is developed as part of the GNU project for the GNU operating system.

Ha, yes, the GNU operating system. I appreciate GNU's commitment to this idea notion that they are developing an operating system (for which Linux is just the kernel)! And, I mean, I understand their thinking (I think). But it stills makes me chuckle for some reason.
It is likely she only got pregnant as a manipulation tactic to elicit maximum sympathy from the legal system. The timing was all too convenient.

The child is innocent but the mother is weaponizing her fetus and using it as a pawn. What is an appropriate answer or solution for the mother (ab)using the child as a hostage tactic?

There are lots of thriving and competent single parents out there. The kid can live with and be raised by daddy. In fact, the father has so much money and resources there is no reason for this kid to ever want for anything.
Probably taken from yesterday's discussion: Ken Thompson's NFA regex patent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566557
I think you can argue about the efficacy of deterrence/justice but it seems wrong to judge any sentence based on the person and their family as the focus. There are zero individuals for whom a sentence would help - but if you had no (or greatly reduced) sentences for all crime then society as a whole could suffer.

In this case it seems even more obviously bad to factor this since she got pregnant when she knew she was going to trial and likely to be convicted. Some even say the defense team wanted her pregnant for the trial. If the rule is "if you have a baby you don't have to go to jail" what type of moral hazard is this?
My understanding is that OJ Simpson moved to avoid the liability payments around the judgement against him (he was never found criminally liable, but a civil suit did). So apparently it is as easy as just moving from state to the next.
Jeffrey Epstein funneled hundreds of million of dollars (and 16-yr-old girls) through politicians and business celebrities, and there were trivial consequences outside his family.

SBF just stumbled into money and spread it around, like the Oculus guy.
You are sort of missing the point, i think.

Tesla is claiming that now is a good time to move to NACS because they already have 60% more NACS ports than CCS.

But this is not really right, because all those cars/charge stations also have J1772 connectors they are using and would no longer work.

So

1. Tesla is a lot less ubiquitous than they are claiming. J1772 + CCS is far more ubiquitous - by a factor of 3x.

2. You'd either have to retrofit or use adapters for all the J1772 stations as well (Yes, tesla ships an adapter, i know).

3. Nobody is going to do that.
The interesting thing is the truth there was not behind a paywall. It was in the anarchic corners of the internet that allowed such heresy. What was behind the paywalls was pure state serving propaganda.

The last few years have been a real lesson to those who are paying attention. Unfortunately I've been really disappointed with how few of my friends have kept an open mind despite the poisoned information landscape.
They had Sunni’s trial as well and the judge deferred sentencing.
"What I came to understand, after years of work on Common Lisp and the death of Dylan, the ongoing popularity of the hideous C++, and the rise of Java, is that programming languages don't become mainstream based on their elegance or their deep utility. ... [T]he best languages very rarely take over, if ever. Some language starts being used because it has the backing of some big company or project, people doing similar things use it as well, positive feedback sets in, and soon it is the language everyone is using. Java is an example -- not nearly as good as Lisp on many dimensions, but it appeared at the right time for a language with some good properties for creating downloadable Internet apps. And it had the backing of Sun Microsystems, at a time when Sun was powerful. So Java became mainstream, while Common Lisp and Dylan faded away."

:-(
Should you apply the same reasoning to any person with a young child?

What if someone doesn't have a child when they're arrested but, due to the complexity of the case, they're able to get pregnant and have a baby before sentencing?

That would be a good way to avoid prison, no?
I have no idea where your data is coming from, and doesn't match my tesla or non-tesla experience, but this actually would change nothing even if true.
Highly unethical project: It's a centralized digital cash premised on pervasive always-on surveillance. It's marketed by dishonest descriptions of how taxation regimes work or need to work in order to pretend that it's unprecedented surveillance is in any way normal or acceptable or useful for any purpose.

I stopped supporting FSF over their backing of this.
Reserves means nothing without also knowing the liabilities. Without that it is simply more smoke and mirrors.