skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, let's ignore the extra day but why isn't anybody doing that today instead of the 10-15% layoffs?

I guess the fear seems to be that it will lead to uncontrolled attrition of good people. But I would assume hiring freezes in the industry would still prevent this. Also, you will retain the truly "loyal" employees that are willing to suffer a bit for future growth.

It also addresses the wasteful folks in a fair way. I've definitely observed shifts in company cultures of new hires not being attached to the overall mission, demanding more and more benefits (e.g. business class flights) without "giving back" in equal amounts by working hard.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=When%20it%27...
10B didn't go missing, it was stolen and they know stole it and where he put it.

One to two billion is missing and probably stolen.
All: I know it's a bit hard but if you're going to comment on this, please review your comment to make sure it isn't shallow, lurid, or gloating. Most posts so far in this thread have been below that line. On HN we want thoughtful, substantive, and above all curious comments—where by curious is meant intellectually curious, not gawking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Salesforce adjusted its HR policies to make firing workers easier
The technology enabled countless scammers and hackers to disappear with people's funds. It's daily news. Failing exchanges are just an off-chain variant.
Russia is a terrorist state oligarchy with a murderous dictator. No one is actually going to kill this guy in the US. He will obviously get threats, and then reboot with a new $500mm seed round for some new scam from Marc Andreessen in a few years. Nevermind that's Adam Neumann.
My thoughts also... can this be bigger than FTX?

Can iOS/Android apps be updated without 3rd party approval?
The problem with countries that don't extradite to the U.S. is that assassinations tend to be woefully easy.
Skills Match for Strategic Planners
iirc someone on hn said the going rate for zero-days is just $1-2 million. there were at least 3 RCE on chrome just this year: https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/15/google-third-fix-chro...

the math works out for someone to spend it here given the amount of panicky crypto whales trying to get their money out of ftx. (OTOH, the math also suggest that these exchanges should've been hacked long long ago if these cheap zero days exist, so idk)
Does that make Scotty from Marketing a Harkonnen?

Tony Abbott was a product of the Tleilaxu, that I'm sure of.
I was looking for apartments recently and I saw one that took rent in Bitcoin.
In my opinion it's a waste of time and energy if you're not using it.
> Won't many small and mid-size companies have come up under covid and not have an office lease in the liabilities column?

There are way more small and medium sized companies which are older than 3 years.
Interesting. Does this explain UFOs?
https://twitter.com/0xfoobar/status/1591292545346473984
This seems to be a rant from someone convinced beyond all doubt that the virus was lab-developed.

Which I think is fine. Let’s say it was developed in a lab. Now what? How does it change things? My best guess: maybe bio labs take safety a little more seriously? Maybe someone gets executed? Not much else is going to happen. Tilting at windmills IMO. Makes you feel like a hero, doesn’t accomplish anything.
To all the people replying that crypto isn't regulated: that's a myth. Exchanges are regulated and keep KYC info of their customers.

If the FTX hack is true, then all that KYC info will be sold in the black market.

Regulation didn't prevent the hack (or rug-pull?). Self-custody with DeFi does prevent it.

It's shocking how some people are for tinkering hardware/software and self-hosting services like Nextcloud, but it comes to money they would rather leave their life savings with a third party (a bank or a custodial exchange) and renounce to all financial privacy.
I think generals have an important advantage in honesty. No matter how political an officer's life is, it pales in comparison to the amount of lies needed to be a career politician.

Grant was also known for his unlacquered honesty. And for his desire to serve the nation. Whereas Lincoln changed opinions when favorable to him and was happy to suspend rule of law for the same reason.
Banks do have their customers money but are regulated and customers are protected.
Frank Herbert said roughly the same thing about writing Dune (from Wikipedia)

> I don't worry about inspiration or anything like that.... later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write."
Jho Low gave a few hundred million to charity too after stealing a few billion from the Malaysian government. It's easy to be charitable if it's not your money you're giving! But I guess you're right that this is a different than that. No one is really saying that he got rich from this massive fraud (although a clear accounting of what actually happened is not available yet and probably won't be for years), in fact he lost most of his net worth because of it.
And the giant scam that is crypto marches on. I feel like such a schmuck for not working on ICOs when that’s as all going on. Was sure that this was all fraudulent, but you can walk off with a billion dollars now and nothing will happen.
Sure. Apps can embed libraries that allow the developer to push in-app notifications to all or specific users.
Elon posted about this on twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591313397362352130
And money escaping from China and other regimes.
Ghostly is a simple, lightweight, and fast full-stack framework for Golang
> Your math is wrong and

You can't just say that. Show your work.

4 bytes can give you 2mm resolution within a 2.5x3.5x3.5 meter box. 1250x1750x1750 < 2^32

4 bytes can also give you orientation within 1/6 of a degree. ~42000 square degrees on the surface of a circle x 360 for rotation x 6^3 < 2^32

This could be slightly more optimal but it's a good round baseline. Improving it is a matter of a handful of bits.

> It's important to send skeletons that way each player only has to solve for bone positions and orientations for just themselves instead of for thousands of players.

How long does it take to calculate? Modern CPUs have a lot of cores, and GPUs can do so much math.

> Another thing you left out was the audio data for voice chat.

I did, because you don't need to hear 3000 people. And the server could merge large groups of further-away people into single tracks if you really wanted it. A hundred Opus tracks can fit into 2-3Mbps.
Has it? Who are these parties?
Popular appeal?

All sorts of scams, from dietary supplements to homeopathy pyramid schemes are permitted to carry on because fighting them is too unpopular.

Edit: take a look at Twitter. Crypto folks are busy worried that the Us gov will overreact and regulate crypto over this.
Very few skilled software engineers work for Russia's military industry. In general the level of corruption in Russia is equal to an average African country and in military, where there's less visibility to the public, corruption is even higher. It's all about siphoning budget money into private pockets.
Aussie and NZ are rather alike. We sold nearly all our sawmills to overseas owned companies that only bought them for the associated contracts to purchase timber.

The sawmills were promptly closed, and the raw logs exported in bulk to Japan and China as a form of protectionism / subsidised employment. They take the inefficiencies to keep portions of their population employed that might otherwise not be.

Then there's the fact that nearly all of our dairy exports are milk powder. It's hardly value add.
We’re not just talking about open source, though. Crypto is propped up by billions of dollars from some of the most powerful people on the planet. The fact that funds like Sequoia and a16z are showering crypto companies like FTX with money — while doing minimal due diligence and without taking any meaningful action to fight scammers — is incredibly revealing.

But even insofar as we are talking about “little guys”, so to speak, one very simple thing they could do would be to actively call out people and projects that are scams.
It also means that a Putin replacement can’t easily put things back how they were.

The side of this that is most opaque is the Russian one.

*it was never going to be easy, but it’s harder now.
Usually 10~15% are considered as "for redundancy". If you go further than that, you will likely lose continuity on your core business. The risk is just too much to take. Unless there's a good evidence that the business can sustain with 50% or whatever numbers, it'd better be safe.

It might true that some companies are extremely bloated and their competitors may be demonstrating a similar level of productivity with 30%~50% of people but different companies have different history and contexts; path dependency is the thing. For that level of productivity loss, the root problem is more likely deeply ingrained in the structure (especially management and decision making) so cutting more and more people usually won't help.
Could be as simple as the defenders walked off the job at FTX.
> Spreadsheets indicated between $1 billion and $2 billion in client money is unaccounted for

> Executives set up book-keeping "back door" that thwarted red flags

> Whereabouts of missing funds is unknown

I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but the part of the book-keeping “back door” that executives set up is mind-blowing to me. If I worked at a company and it was clear that we were breaking the law, I’d resign and get out as fast as possible, not aid in the fraud and risk going to jail myself. Crazy.
Apologies if my comment sounded like wishing for someone's death. I promise that was not my intent.

I'm aghast at the magnitude of his disastrous actions and wondering how could someone cope with the situation he put himself in, from a psychological point of view.
Ongoing related thread:

FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570274 - Nov 2022 (82 comments)
I'm a Kiwi, and our cheese is cheaper in Perth than anywhere in NZ...

...I feel like our governments had the same neoliberal consultants come in.
There are subs specifically designed for these kind of special operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter
A related and more technical discussion at MathOverflow: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/433949/consequences-resul...
> But when compared to the modern nearly-universal open office plan...

Indeed. Give me a proper office with a door, like I had for the first 18 years of my career, and I'll happily go to the office every day.

But open office? Nope, nope, nope. Work from home or nothing.
> FTX (like many others, but not so much Coinbase) were giving large sign up bonuses, and advertising like crazy.

Any company that sponsors more than one Formula 1 team is high on my "probably not a good thing for humans" list. The shit that has taken the place of tabacco advertising is just automatically suspicious.
> I’ve also heard rumors that inside bad actors pushed out a forced FTX app update to gain access to accounts.

If it's an inside job with this capability you'd likely already have such access?

Only way is that somebody has access to push this, doesn't have access to the keys, and rewrites the app to send them assets or something. But the mass withdrawals imply the keys are compromised, and pushing the app would very unquestionably imply you?

It's quite strange that a bad update was pushed at all since it implies that the bad actor doesn't have key access, but everything else they do does.
https://nic.joy/
Scientology, herbalife, and other obvious scams have persisted. I think crypto people love getting defrauded, and as long as they enjoy it there won't be much pressure to prosecute.
Where are the regulators and enforcers when we actually need them? How is any high up in this institution not arrested yet? What the hell are they doing?

Like is this a psyop to destroy crypto? Is this preferential treatment of SBF due to his donations/regulatory capture? Imagine if there was a mass shooter in a crowd of people and they just let him continue firing until he ran out of ammo, that's analogous to what's happening right now. Absolutely insane.
The "blockchain not crypto" and "enterprise blockchain" stuff completely failed though.
> Production of Gas is incidental to oil drilling

For some wells, yes. For others, no.
I caught an FTX logo while watching cricket yesterday.
As you grow, your research/mind grows gradually. The main game is to narrow down your research as much as possible.

From one website to other but only after specifying keywords you want to research on & further narrow down to use-cases.

Keep yourself 24/7 updated to whats going on in market.

1: get involved in communities on twitter/linkedin/slack/discord.
2: go & find bad reviews of products on internet/app stores, etc.
3: search on startup directories that whats launching in world.
4: go to ad libraries & see whats selling/what ads are put out in market.
& a lot more accordingly
> Some days I am much more productive in the office because I need to, say, communicate with a bunch of people

But on that day all of those people might've chosen to work from home so you sit all alone in the office.

The hybrid solution only really works well if the office days are the same for everyone.
That sounds potentially pretty similar to US insurance costs.
I saw my interviewers notes in our teams SharePoint.

Mixed emotions after knowing that i was almost not hired for being younger / having less experience than expected for the role.
7 years now in the same company and the same person has claimed that I hired him multiple times over the years.
There is one an individual might find works better for them. Another tractor is cost add employee market. I have a much bigger talent pool to choose from when hiring remote and I can recruite from much cheaper locations.

Of course teams work better in person. So many factors that impact that though.
My point is that Mastodon existed before it was as famous as it is now, and will continue to exist after, because it never needed to be famous to exist in the first place, unlike Clubhouse.
> Just because crypto is a 'decentralised' wild west opposed to government shouldn't mean they sit outside of the laws around fraud, laundering and deception, especially if they're registered companies.

Entirely speculation, but something fun I've heard repeated occasionally:

If this was "just tech", it could find itself regulated easily. (Though this isn't necessarily the case.)

If it's a geopolitical weapon or spy tool of any consequence, then there may be other stakeholders pushing back against weakening it.

Plausible, borderline conspiratorial, but fun to think about.
I 100% believe you. But just imagine if you were reading comments like those about yourself, and imagine there were a ton of them. We don't want HN to be a generator for that kind of thing. We all tend to underestimate the impact of our comments.
triggered much?

please, chicken little. Climate is important. you're idea of how to get people on your side is laughable. you're your own worst enemy.

extremism solves nothing. if you think it's ok to deprive someone else's rights, then you are an extremist and a terrorist.

if you are worried about the environment, then why do you say "extraordinarily tiny" - it doesn't matter. you aren't in charge of those billionaire's lives. but you are in charge of your own. how does anyone take you seriously when you say your decadent western lifestyle is a "tiny" problem? YOU are the problem as much as anyone.

> Legality != morality.

in this case the actually are the same. Eco-terrorism is both immoral and illegal.

it's a good, good thing that the real larger environmentalism movement is better at advocating for it's cause than you are. You aren't helping.
People take risk buying undeveloped land. It’s a chicken and egg problem. You want to build transit where people live and people want to live where there’s transit. The party that makes the first plunge will potentially make a lot of money.
At least at Twitter, sounds like they are in trouble.
This could be pretty interesting leverage.

"I hold the private key to refund 80% of my victims losses, reduce my sentence or it dies with me."
< looks over at twitters 50% layoffs >

More than 15% often means a change in the business model.
Regardless of whether you are pro- or anti- crypto, the collapse of FTX, SBF's bubble bursting in a rather extreme fashion, and now this hack are more nails in the coffin for mainstream support.

I am no fan of crypto myself, but it's interesting to think what would have to happen for crypto to burnish its image.

Would key people have to voluntarily form some sort of coordinating council and self-regulate? Would they have to invite governments to regulate them better? Whatever the solution is, I'd be highly surprised if it could be done algorithmically and reassure anyone.
You going to bet your tech skills vs a hacker when it comes to guarding your money?

The reason people are comfortable tinkering with hardware and software is that it involves little to no risk. The stakes are extremely low.
Maybe you should try getting a dumb phone for your 2FA? My nokia 3310 is a delight to carry and forget about.
Yep absolutely, almost all of them are more powerful than PDAs and in fact Perl's are Turing complete.
this is it. Luck can look a lot like genius. We see it everywhere. And when you have credentials behind you, you really start to attribute luck to your genius.
How about read-only free; comment-cost? Would that be fair? That way truth can permeate their world, but shaping it requires payment?
I'd say learn another 1 or 2 languages, but not to repeat what you can solve with Python, e.g:

- Kotlin/Swift/Dart for mobile frontend

- C/Rust for system programming

- JS for web frontend

- ... (fill the blanks with your personal interest)
That sounds like a great employer.

I only have anecdotal data but from recent discussions with friends who got laid off, they all lost trust in their company's leadership and losing arbitrary team mates has made them unhappy and reduced morale. I don't know if it's something special this time but if great teammates you worked with since before the pandemic are cut off while ones joining after and never having achieved or released anything remained (paraphrasing) does that. These layoffs seem haphazard.
Noted. And I agree with you 100%.
I’ve been trying to figure out the technicalities there. Neither the ios nor android apps have updates since the crash.

The update box is clearly based on their pre existing popup used for things like 2FA.

Could this popup have been modified with new text and linked to a new malicious site without an app update on ios or android?

Or, could the popup only function if it was already coded into the app waiting to be activated? Meaning premeditated
Are you sure? The numbers I saw that were a draft of the balance sheet showed ~$1 billion in liquid assets, and ~$9 billion in very illiquid, mostly very low volume crypto assets, such that it would likely be hard to even get an additional $1 billion out of that "$9 billion".

Source: https://twitter.com/minigrogu/status/1591104167455510529
If so, it'd be more interesting if the lexer didn't barf on syntax error, but perhaps just skipped characters until it finds a valid token. And probably some similar "best effort" algorithm for the parser.
It's technically correct that we need some animal products. The big one I can think of is crude oil. It's from animals long dead and also used to make plastics. Not sure if we count insects as animal products but the work of bees helps pollinate our crops. We don't eat the bees but we do take advantage of them and breed them to go around and pollinate crops.
Is it really that surprising people would rather keep their money in a bank that has hired professional security guards rather than at home under their mattress?
App not updated in app store. Could popup box be edited in app to be malicious of would such a feature need to already be coded in like Epic’s non app store payments thing?
I think it's entirely reasonable that they come from the same place. 10% is about the right number to apply in both contexts if one was choosing arbitrarily. We are effectively 'decimating' with our layoffs.

Though one notable difference is that with layoffs it's an excuse to drop so-called poor performers, but I believe decimation was more or less random i.e. drawing straws.
> no I'm not building that at all

Oof. I work in finance and if you say that to a trader/business manager you'll be out of a job. Rightfully so.
You're far more correct in that China would far rather buy the iron ore and coal from Australia and make steel in China.

Why? Social stability, and the security of the party. Even if it's less efficient to import the ore and coal, the steelworks keeps people employed, particularly young men who might otherwise grow restive.
Working according to weather patterns. I don't have to fake productivity according to a fixed schedule.
... and extremely porous borders. Doubt anybody would be dumb enough to actually fly directly to their target country.

Also worth noting, due to a quirk in the way Argentina citizenship laws are written once he is in the country he can file immediately for citizenship and he won't be deportable (although he will be extraditable). I'm not an attorney but that may help him in case his passport is revoked.
I think the actual history is that they built them for internal videocalling inside FB and then decided to sell them without really doing the research on the outside market.

1. "Man videoconferencing totally blows and is really expensive!" [1] "We've got lots of smart people and expertise in streaming video from live events, bet we could knock together a solution in no time" (a team builds internal FB solution)

2. "Man our internal FB videoconferencing rules! It's a shame all those plebes in the wider world can't experience how great this is" "What if we take the gizmo we've built for every meeting room and turn it into a consumer device?"

3. <don't worry about step 3>

4. Profit!

[1]This was absolutely the case circa like 2012. Cisco had the only really decent enterprise option and it was really expensive. All the other ones couldn't interoperate and were terrible.
I'm not sure how you are getting past the writing a python script part...

Vercel looks to be some service that deploys pre-built apps (geared towards nodejs/react, hard pass).
Is there another industry that has had such consistent fraud, scams, failed companies, stolen money, etc. over a period of several years?
What about the 4 or so alternates in the same category? Same side effects? If so, fuck.
While everyone's loving the bubble physics, I just like the attention to detail where if you put the fan _in front_ of the bubble blower facing away from it, it will still blow bubbles in that direction if the air stream would still be drawn through the blower.
Indian government can spy on Indian internet users in real time
The difference is that when a bank gets robbed, I can still go get my money back via the legal system.

When a crypto exchange or a crypto wallet gets robbed, you have nowhere to go to get your money back.

There are good reasons why we don't keep large amounts of cash in our pockets or in our mattresses.