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Want to Make a Crypto Bot
Hi,
I am an ex-app developer (McKinsey, WalmartLabs) with a math/statistics background (UC Berkeley, UCLA) originally from Millbrae, California. I use Python, Ruby, Elixir, NodeJS, and learning Rust. Looking for anyone who is interested in developing an automated crypto trading bot on a legitimate exchange like Kraken, Binance or Coinbase. I'm lookng for someone who would want to develop this with me, and/or an investor who can support me to build this. I lost about 90% of my crypto on FTX, so my savings account is kind of starting from scratch, and I'm highly motivated to work now. To avoid what happened to me, we can run the bot on multiple exchanges to distribute counterparty risk and only choose the most trustworthy exchanges like the ones mentioned above. I can work on this 10 hours per day 7 days per week until we make something happen. I just moved to the Philippines in April 2022, so after 5 pm Pacific is the best time for me to talk. That would be my morning.
I was thinking we could backtest a bunch of strategies, then try dry running them, then load up the accounts with real money, small at first, then gradually increase it as our confidence increases in the system. This kind of project would naturally lead to arbitrage opportunities as well. We would split the profits evenly and slowly organically build the trading account. We could even generate fake data that has the same statistical properties as the actual data set, so that we would theoretically have essentially infinite test data -- kind of like video game data. If we wanted to productize this, we can make an interface for users to input and withdraw money from their account. The bot will trade the lump sum using the same algorithm, and we all split the profit equally. If users want to make their own algorithms they can do that too. Ideally you would be an investor/entrepreneur or group of investors, or maybe a developer in a similar position in life, where you can dedicate 70 hrs per week doing this.
There are tons of strategies we can backtest. I'm thinking we could start on spot markets, preferably high time frames, then use neural networks to predict probability of success of a particular trade then use small leverage in proportion to the predicted probability of success. Most trades can have a trailing stop losses to skew the upside potential for every trade.
Anyway, like-minded individuals, please contact me: thirdreplicator@gmail.com
David
On the fire tv client, every time I load up the client and watch the 1st video, none of the ui/buttons respond. If I back out and go back in then it all works fine. Started a few months ago after working perfectly for years.
And, if one wants to be picky, Pauseless is a variation of Henry Baker's "real-time" copying collector from 1978 [2], although Pauseless uses tags corresponding to various interesting states (marked/unmarked, forwarded/unforwarded) rather than just from-space/to-space.

[2] https://plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/RealTimeGC.html
Even more satisfying, I tried this out in godbolt and it appears that compilers are able to optimize that check into a single `mul, jo` (jump on overflow) sequence, which is how you would write it if you were writing assembly directly. It avoids a division instruction (which would be far more expensive) even though the code is written as a division: https://godbolt.org/z/r6cxo8vc7
Most compiler bugs I’ve seen (a rare occurrence) had decent workarounds that didn’t require much effort, and kept me moving while I waited for a fix (the community responds very fast).

Overall, the design of the language is very clean and well thought out. Every decision that was made, and continues to be made, feels like it was put there for a reason; and, for the most part, nothing feels out of place.
> That's a problem with current blockchains

So another "crypto fixes that" that really, it doesn't fix
Well… yes. And the spec is perfect, right?
Awesome. Thanks!

Shorts is such a product fail by YouTube imo. They're trying to compete with TikTok but are just messing up
> what use is a currency that no bank will store, no business will accept as payment, and nobody else has ever heard of

Apart from not stored at a traditional "bank" I think most popular cryptocurrencies have the other 2 aspects. I know it's not accepted by amazon but there are some stores that accept payments.

I think the exchanges act as the "banks" and, I maybe wrong, therefore should be regulated like banks and not the blockchain and the associated technologies because you don't need an exchange to store the currency, you can use your personal wallet or cold storage to store the money.

But on the other hand you can always convert them to standard currency when you need it, so that is not an issue. I just want to have a way to send money across borders without censorship (and not for any criminal activities) because my government and PayPal and banks are not allowing it.
Definitely played a role.

It seems pretty clear from interviews that they have pretty bad god/savior complexes as well. Would definitely play into the delusions.

This is exactly why you need strict compliance controls! So your drug addicted executives can't go do something crazy
Gate.io audited 7 days after “accidentally” receiving 320k ETH from Crypto.com
I don't know about "disqualifying" but it does dredge up a pretty old Federalist/Anti-Federalist beef: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._78.
Just from reading the thread I think a lot of people are mixing up Reparability and upgradeability.
Good people can still do evil things. Should someone not face the repercussions simply because they are a good person?

This is in reply to those letters and not your position.
Since Microsoft is doing it with code, it makes sense others will do the same.
Well, show me these mom and pop shops (that aren't dark web drug dealers or porn sellers) that won't accept credit cards and will only accept crypto payments. Despite the chargeback fraud (an entirely different problem than what this thread was discussing, by the way) basically nobody has abandoned credit cards and gone crypto-only.
No one is happy when technology renders them obsolete or drives the marginal cost of what they produce to zero.
Here I'd agree with Gates that shifting the blame to the small guy won't do anything. If you want to fix ecology, aim at the big guy - manufacturers. Demand that every item on sale - from cars to plastic bottles - must be marked with the manufacturer id, and when the item ends up in a pile of trash, charge the manufacturer with a disposal fee. This will destroy mindless consumerism, and with it all our economy.

I'd compare this situation to a bus with broken brakes, packed with tourists, that's rapidly approaching a cliff. Everyone knows what to do, but is too afraid of the pain that would follow. So everyone is waiting and discussing solutions, such as rocking the bus to increase pressure on brakes, or opening windows to increase the drag. Some are blaming the driver, some are blaming the fat passengers who should've eaten more responsibly, but that's just a form of group therapy session.
The 2600 is undoubtedly a pivotal console in the history of video games, but you're right that it's a foundation more than anything. Few people would want to drive a Model T to work every day but skip forward a few decades and you have the type of classic car that most people would want in their garage. For a lot of us the 2600 is something to be admired from a distance, I suppose
I would make an exception for biotech VCs— these guys tend to have domain expertise (another indictment DG makes of the nonbio tech VC scene)
The FRAUD is so OBVIOUS here!!!!
Keep in mind that bitcoin was almost literally invented yesterday. It’s going go be around for a long, long time. In the scope of a thousand years, do you grow more certain about your words or less? History shows that what people believed even 200 years ago was often mistaken.

I don’t have a stake in the game either way (learned my lesson after gox), but being able to hoard your own digital gold all by yourself is genuinely new, and is at least one valuable use case. We’ll see if there are more, but it seems too early to tell.
There are at least a dozen people that live in the Philadelphia airport.
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it's not officially supported so there's a workaround but that has its own limitations.
Seems broken on Firefox for Android.
Oct 21 - Crypto.com sends 320k ETH to Gate.io

Oct 28 - Gate.io posts proof of reserves report

Oct 25-30 - Gate.io returns 285k ETH to Crypto.com

The timing is suspect.

More context, including some elusive replies from Crypto.com: https://twitter.com/jconorgrogan/status/1591517130150772740

On-chain data: https://etherscan.io/txs?a=0x6262998ced04146fa42253a5c0af90c...
You’re setting yourself up for disappointment with that one. You just send them reporting forms, and then you get nailed for false entries after the fact.
I believe config settings exist for Plex to be more aggressive. Alternatively if you use third party software like Radarr or Sonarr they can use webhooks to update instantly when media is added
> This is especially bad for artists with really distinct style as now hundreds of copycats can come and steal the previously unique style.

Are you talking about human copycats? Same thing applied before AI models, to be honest.
Don't forget, it was an "accident" that they send the ETH!!

https://twitter.com/kris/status/1591605600638881792

Do they think we are that dumb not to understand their musical chair game?
A lot of ppl live in hostels. A lot of ppl live in worse conditions too. It’s a reasonable state in comparison to say sleeping rough.
There are a huge contingent of people whose idea of “performance” isn’t aligned with those around them. Given some of the absolutely terse personalities I see on HN sometimes, and the wider developer community, I always take these “I aced the interviews” stories with a grain of salt. I’ve certainly interviewed and ultimately rejected candidates who ace the technical component but have some other blatant showstopper.
Lesson learned: Always take the royalties deal.
And in my lifetime it'll probably come for coders too.

What happens to society when none of the workers are needed anymore, and any pretense of it being anything other than solely "the rich get richer" disappears?
I wonder what would Beeple say..

"Welp, I made my worth, so long suckers!"?
> if (n && m > (size_t)-1/n)

Am I the only one that doesn’t think this is “sweet”?

I mean I know what it does and why and how it works, but IMHO a good language should let you express your intention and algorithm in human terms and logic in which there is no -1 value for an unsigned integer type.
As opposed to copycats before the AI?.. Frankly, neither "stealing" nor "unique" make sense to me. Art styles aren't copyrightable for this exact reason - the entire culture is built on iterative variations, that's literally how it evolves.
I'm sure a lot of men would rather be house husbands too rather than grinding at a job they hate.
An open-source (and charityware) software I wrote: Video Hub App - shows screenshots from inside each video as you scroll across the thumbnail (scrub). I didn't like the interface of various video browsers / launchers - perhaps others will find what I created to their taste:

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

https://videohubapp.com/
I bought a GPU to get smooth 4k sources streaming to my devices.
U.S. Covid health emergency to stay in place
It sounds like the core of your personality issue comes down to you thinking that this is the dichotomy.
One other note is that reprocessing is distinct from breeding.

Reprocessing doesn't create new fissile material. You're stuck with the small fraction of Pu239 in the waste (which is about a 7th of the original U235). It buys you very little extra energy at huge financial cost and in the current form releases more radiation than the rest of the nuclear industry combined if you exclude weapons tests and chernobyl -- it even rivals coal in terms of radiation released per joule. Plus there is a hidden amount of CFCs and other extremely potent greenhouse gases involved in the process.

Breeding to close the fuel cycle would be great (if it could be done economically and safely), but there is a laundry list of reasons why it may never happen, and every tonne of fissile material used before it happens is 200GW that can't be produced until a decade is spent breeding it back.
i am right there with you our "like minded" individuals are gaining traction and so far this true every thing for me is backwards on this upside down inverted reallity of actuallity
Come on, this isn't the kind of person who would do that!
Here is the beta app for Apple TV: https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

It‘s a bit unstable for me, so I switched to the web app on my iPad and beam it with AirPlay to my Apple TV.
How is this 'fucking him over'? He got paid 250k for basically existing in a certain location.
I'm a fan of the ezra klein show, but this is probably the worst episode. I vaguely remember a torrent of nonsense from someone whose job it is to make cryptocurrency sound good with basically no pushback.
The problem with creating buchla recreation modules is that you can never adjust the pseudo-resistive attenuation (PRA)
I wonder why he didn't head for Russia, China, or Nicaragua or something?
if you end up poor after receiving 250k, 1M wont change anything in how you end up
How much of DOS did you learn by reading MS's raw source code vs reversing the OS yourself?
For what it’s worth - I have never seen ‘incestuous relationships’ used in any way other than the common usage of referring to ‘nefarious bedfellows’

Edit: grammar, for clarity.
Haha. Ok.
Why do you need to live in Paris?
Some guy bought a Dominos Pizza for 500 bitcoins way back before it was popular.
Can Hong Kong reprise its role as China’s intermediary and window on the world?
There's a video of rats moving around to 3 songs in the article, just wade through the various ads vying for attention til you find it.
It's a common thing in the Fediverse that controversial moderation actions are discussed criticaly. People who don't like it then move onto another server. That's a feature.

If I host a personal instance, it's good that I can ban anyone I want. If you host a public instance, you probably will try to enforce your rules somewhat consistently, else it's gonna be hard to earn the trust of your users.
there is no multimillion dollar story before the movie is actually out.
> "SBF looked relaxed as he answered questions, talking, as he usually does, in complete paragraphs"

The bar has never been lower, apparently.
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Yeah very few things that are that copacetic are actually "coincidences" so I suspect you are right. The only other thing I could come up with were Russian/Chinese/North Korean hackers had a back door, read Bloomberg, and drained it while they could.
better means what?
the cryptocurrencies are not necessarily tied to any specific network infrastructure
Both gate.io and crypto.com look like total scams to me. Never heard of them before, but they are just more centralized exchanges, right? Just a matter of time before they go under.

I don't understand how people still fall for this stuff after so many years. If you want to buy crypto, go to a reputable exchange, buy it, and transfer it to your own wallet asap. Then do the rest of transactions/trades/whatever on-chain and stay way from these centralized things. If you did that you wouldn't have been impacted by any of the stuff that has happened this year (other than the price of course).
Don’t see what the disagreement about is. “They don’t care” is compatible with what I said. My point is you shouldn’t care.
Transition to a superior compatible economic system? It’s all I’ve got honestly as a suggestion. The technology is coming regardless.
Really? what's your bitcoin address? can you sign a proof?
take away retail and these coins will have much much less demand which deflates the whole bubble. so you keys-coins people need all the clueless civilians, it seems to me. it's their desperate speculating that make you wealthy.
Agreed that it would be better if C had standardized versions of GCC's overflow checking functions: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-9.1.0/gcc/Integer-Overflo...

With these functions, it could be written as: if (__builtin_mul_overflow(n, m, &n))
This is a really fast route to failure. If building a bot was easy, everyone would be doing it (and successful at it).

Never double down gamble when you're desperate.
This is wirecard level fraud.

Funny fact. Jan Marsalek was the mastermind behind Wirecard. Crypto.com CEO's name is Kris Marszalek.

Not clear if they are related.
I didn’t know this until just now (since I was avoiding the industry and didn’t need to research anything), but it seems like “the company is run by a polycule of stimulant abusers in the Bahamas” is a bad sign.

https://twitter.com/sbf_ftx/status/1173351344159117312

https://twitter.com/carolinecapital/status/13790363463003054...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Flowers_Gon...
I believe the DMCA and the WIPO Copyright Treaty for the rest of the world is what lets specific kinds of math (in a different field) be banned. DeCSS tested this back in '99, with legislation that prohibited publication. Civil disobedience to protest/circumvent this ruling were rife, including the discovery of an illegal number.
> Lose your key? Lose the ability to sell your house forever.

House deeds won't be simple NFTs, there will have to be other parties that can move the deed to handle things like foreclosures and eminent domain. So if your hardware wallet burns down in the neighborhood wildfire you just get the county clerk to move it for you, much like if the physical deed burned in the same fire.

And title fraud is already a thing without DLTs, just listen to all the identity theft surveillance pitches.
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Who gained from the BCH fork? Curious. The only people with anything to lose are those that bought BTC after the fork.
... aligning with the Anti-Federalists more or less confirms that you're operating in an alternative universe, doesn't it? Not that they're wrong, but they're the opponents of the Constitution.
That's really misleading. There are large spans of Earth's recentish (i.e. Phanerozoic) history where there are aren't significant reef building organisms at all. Furthermore, "bleaching" is very specific to today's scleractinian corals, which are not the main reef building organisms in the past. They didn't exist before the Triassic.

It's true that some mass extinctions coincide with the loss of the major reef builders at the time, but that's mostly reflective of most shallow marine life dying off. It's not necessarily causal.

There are also mass extinctions where reef builders truck right through. E.g. the K-T boundary.
VS Code Notebook APIs
Unprecedented exodus of young life scientists is shaking up academia
For folks who don't know the author, Regina Ip has been in the top echelon's of HK politics since the late 1990s.

While this will understandably turn some people off, I think this piece is a good description in English of HK / China's story at this juncture.

Honest question: China has talked a lot lately about Marxism and ideology, how much of what the Central government actually does can be called Marxism or Communism? I'm not expert on Marxism / Communism and I find it interesting to see the contrast between this triumphal talk of this ideology with the way I've commonly seen it portrayed in the West as: "Tried and failed", "Look at the Soviet union", etc.

Also...for anyone game or interested in this who wants to say more: to the extent that China really is a communist/marxist country, how were they able to succeed where other such implementations of the same ideologies failed?
As someone who has pulled the night shift for a couple years, I could handle it no probs; black out curtains, a white noise box fan, a regular sleep schedule, and soft music are all you need. Just to get to live in a Scandanavian country, i could deal with it. Unfortunately, I'm not rich enough to buy my way in :) .
What's the typical cloud coverage in Svalbard? Is it typically cloudy? I've always been interested in the polar night strictly from an astronomy viewing perspective. Does the convenience of 24 hour night sky become moot from near constant cloud cover?
Only if they can kick out the CCP, otherwise they are just a useless puppet state. Seriously, Britain needs to return because the CCP has acted against the treaty in bad faith.
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Immutable, decentralized ledgers are useful for things (oh, hey CT logs, how do you do?).

Immutable decentralized ledgers are not useful for legal constructs like ownership, since in the current (and foreseeable) legal construct of property ownership is held by centralized records for which the state is the arbiter. This arbitration happens through either registries (for example, automobile, real estate, business ownership, etc), or through the courts. In order for blockchain technology to replace this legal construct in a meaningful way, there would need to a mechanism for a central authority to provide clear arbitration and resolution.

If the state can't meaningfully and authoritatively reassign those ownership rights through a legal process, then blockchain is simply a non-authoritative ledger, at which point it's existence is marginally useful since it is expensive, technically challenging to operate, and fraught with risk due to potential abuse cases from implementation errors.

This is one simple example, and doesn't dig into the fact that implementing laws as code is also problematic in countries where those laws can be rewritten by elected officials and courts.

Blockchain and bitcoin might become more useful in the future, but so far almost all blockchain uses that have gained traction have done so by grifters and the remora like folks who have attached to the bellies of the blockchain industry to enrich themselves while throwing around terms like legacy finance until their employers implode.
I like the framing of coral reef restoration as an apollo style moonshot project, that we know where we’re need to get but not how, so let’s figure out how. Cool stuff.

I also liked the words of caution and urgency from other animal preservation groups, that reefs have a chance to get ahead of the problem.
She also became a rape counselor.

She was obsessed with her image, and I question whether these are her even her attorneys' ideas.
A deed is just a fancy hyperlink to property. Unless you register it with the same entity that is in a position to enforce it, you're in the same dubious position as the owner of an NFT. Owning a pointer to something is useless without some off-chain mechanism to enforce the link, and once you start positing off-chain trusted parties to enforce your rights, the whole exercise gets a bit silly.
He didn’t make a movie, just sold his story.

A movie costs a lot more.
There is no doubt that the executive team at FTX should be investigated and pay for what they have done to their users, but let me tell you one thing, they did not force you lazy greedy humans to put a dime into FTX without reading what is an exchange and why everything you have inside there is not yours.

Given this, the fact that some of you believe that this is a flaw in blockchain technology worries me because: either you just hate (stupid position, it's like hating toasters) and you're taking pleasure in other people's misery or you really don't know what blockchain is and you don't understand the value it can add.

The saddest? That tomorrow another Ivy League graduate with trouble understanding a Ponzi scheme will go to a VC and be given millions to create nothing.