skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He won't get forty years. If he ever is indicted in America, he has to be extradited from the Bahamas first. Anyone with money can delay extradition proceedings for a couple years. Maybe he'll agree to extradition on the condition that he is granted bail in America (where he'll have $200,000 a month security guards from Guidepost Solutions enforce the conditions of his bail). Then he'll have Ben Brafman or a bigger $2000/hour firm, assisted by the world class investigators from Kobre & Kim and other high priced co-counsel negotiate the best deal possible and he'll plea guilty to some counts of wire fraud. Then at sentencing we'll hear about all his great charitable deeds, there'll be 100 letters from high level businessmen, politicians attesting to his great character, how he thought he was doing the right thing but "takes responsbility" for his actions, etc. Then maybe due to the massive losses and large number of victims he gets 10-15 years which of course after the 15% time good credit becomes 8 and a half. Then maybe we'll also find out he had a substance abuse disorder which makes him eligibile for the RDAP program and accordingly a 12 month sentence reduction. He'll also be eligible through the First Step Act to earn sentence reduction through "evidence-based recidivism reduction" classes in prison. And even if there is court ordered restitution almost no one ever pays that or if they do it is only a small fraction (there are major white collar fraudsters on $200/month payment plans for $10 million restitution orders). This is assuming he even faces justice in America because there are reports of several hundred million dollars of crypto being moved out of FTX wallets which to me looks like the internet money version of a "go bag" and someone intending to flee.
I like maildrop (from courier) way more than procmail. I used procmail for years, but when I switched, I never looked back
Hopefully this helps, but I’m going to just mind dump because I have a real love-hate relationship with designers and this is my therapy.

Yes, learn a bit. Design yourself some stuff and write it. Don’t worry about how bad the code is. In fact, I hope you make mistakes in architecture so you grok how architecture decisions matter, because they will also affect what UI/UX changes are easy and what’s shockingly hard.

Save the fancy design pitches for the stakeholders. My favourite talks with designers is not when they’re selling me on a design but just casually chatting about how they got to the final plan. I learn a lot by learning your process. It demystifies things that can too easily be dismissed as silly or pointless.

Don’t make change for the sake of change. Be that brave soul who is comfortable saying “after a bunch of studies and tests (using company resources), I would make these tiny changes but honestly, it’s all pretty much fine.”

Don’t feed us design or throw it over the wall. Work with us. Understand what’s easy and what’s hard to implement. Understand why that is. Don’t always accept our reasoning (because sometimes we make arch. mistakes that really corner us on design changes being hard), but generally we have scars to explain how we know why certain things are a bad idea or whatnot.

Teach us. Talk through your thought process. Don’t fear that we might think, “wow these people are impostors, there’s no science there!” Bruh, that’s programming too. Seat of our pants half the time. Sometimes we throw out jargon to feel legit. I love hearing “I did X because in the past I’ve found that works well for that kind of data view. I did Y because the AB years suggested as such. I did Z because I just think it works.”

Uhh I think that’s it for now. Good luck on your career. It’s gonna be a lot of fun!
If the pipeline was shut off it could presumably be turned back on. If the pipeline was blown up that changes things. At a time when much of the world is looking toward China and Russia instead of the US, Europe has been forced to be more dependent on the US.
Knowing little about how ftx works... Is the article talking about customer accounts at FTX being drained? Or accounts belonging to FTX being drained?
Indeed and many are in long term leases that can be 10 or 20 years and these companies leased (or even built) for growth. They have also invested in building rooms, buying equipment, power and networking. To these guys it is feeling like they wasted a lot of money and of course they are going to think about this investment and want folks to come back to the office.

As the job market is changing, I am worried about my work-from-home status despite having started over a year before the pandemic. I just think there is going to be a mass get your butt in the office email that will include everyone.
I knew there was a Chinese startup that made something similar years ago. Not sure why it didn't become popular.
Thanks! Wow even better than I recalled

To be fair there’s something to that idea. Market returns about 7% on average. Over six years that would be an opportunity cost of 50%.

But, as you say there’s got to be some loss for choosing to put one’s money with a con artist

I doubt there will be a crypto bailout as it seemingly didn’t get big enough to blow up anything outside itself. It also had an anti public relations campaign for years
Short answer: Don't be based in the US until the US respects fundamental human rights, like the right to sue before a proper court. Simple, isn't it?

The more pragmatic answer is: You can just ignore human rights. The other US companies operating in the EU also don't have issues with that.

The EU isn't going to enforce its own laws in this regard anyway as more or less all EU governments are violating this laws themself. They currently all just waiting for the next round of the "safe harbor" smoke grenade.

On the other side, the EU companies that use US cloud services (so more or less all EU companies) do by the way exactly the same. Nobody cares.
I think employers might have a hard time convincing their entire remote workforce to sell their house / break their lease and move to entirely new city.
They're basically water "bugs". Equivalent to eating scorpions on land.
We do and the flavours are ridiculously good, but the price of the material is prohibitive, often around 90 € per kg.
>> nobody's firing productive workers.

Remind me why Twitter is trying to rehire workers they let go, within a week?
From the article: "A quadratic fit to the data (gray line) as an indicator of preferential swing ratios reveals an increasing trend as a function of tempo up to 160 bpm and a decreasing trend above 160 bpm."
Heck, they are making Mark Karpelès look good.

https://twitter.com/MagicalTux/status/1591295272621314049
First look at Amazon's new delivery drone, slated to start deliveries this year
Thank you for finding it, this is still a great interview! To be fair that does sound like something Eno would say.
David Heinemeier Hansson said in https://uxmag.com/articles/less-is-better about 37 Signals:

The best example of how we try to be just like a regular business is that we try to maximize our profits and minimize our expenses.

Although he sort of contradicts himself later:

I think that making people happy is pretty much why we’re all here and why we’re all working in software or working anywhere, for that matter.
That's inaccurate. VP is a really high title, most likely your manager's manager is Sundar Pitchai or someone who reports to him. TC is in the millions of dollars for those people.
The onboarding process is certainly inferior to that of twitter, but that's baked into the design of mastodon, and literally cannot change. It is definitely the single most challenging thing about mastodon, with the second probably being vocabulary choices made entirely by developers rather than anybody with UX experience.

On the other hand, as a result of this design, no number of oligarchs can run the mastodon network into the ground, so there are obviously trade-offs.

Many mastodon servers do, in fact, have a normal, near-instant sign-up process, although given the huge influx of users, many have switched to manually approve registrations in an effort to control load/costs and keep moderation manageable.
They also recovered money by clawing back returns that investors made in the years leading up to the scandal finale.
I could relate to this article and I’m glad it was written. HN has a strange obsession with demanding “citations” when someone is writing an anecdotal experience. It’s as though anecdotes are immediately dismissed as “false” till they’re backed with “citations” which are “true”. It’s bizarre.
I use bower for my regular email client. It can connect to a remote machine with notmuch over ssh. It's fairly sparse on the features, but I love it.

As a bonus, it's written in a fairly niche programming language: mercury, which is a strongly typed prolog dialect.

1: https://github.com/wangp/bower
Perhaps there's some effective altruist argument for why this is best for the world. Trying to make the Ponzi lesson stick or something.
FTX is a centralized entity, just like PayPal is. There is no such difference. As a centralized company, they are supposed to hold all customer funds in their own bank/wallet/whatever account(s).
No More Tipping
You would think Tom Brady and Steph Curry would have their endorsements taken down...

https://ftx.us/our-partners#item-2
Symbian OS Kernel (2010)
"Symbian Source Code
Final repositories from the defunct Symbian Foundation"
Lots of folks are laughing at this whole debacle, but I find it really depressing.

Elon worked on such great things. He seemed like such a clear thinker just a few years ago.

And say what you will about Calacanis, but as an outsider, I at least feel like I have learned a lot of inside baseball from that guy.
This is an unreal speedrun nightmare timeline. At this rate I am half expecting to wake up to news tomorrow that SBF is dead.
You've made two mistakes in your reasoning. One is explained as Jevon's paradox [0]. If there is a move from 60W light-bulbs to 10W then people usually end up finding a new use for the 50W. It would be unusual for them to use less energy overall - indeed, as they get more productive they could end up demanding more energy (if it made sense to win X kW for Y production, it often makes sense to win X++ kW for Y++++ production). Ditto home insulation. If less energy needs to go to warming a home, more can go to fabricating goods to put in the home. Energy use wouldn't decrease, it'd hold steady.

The other mistake you've made is, those changes won't cause GDP to go up. The 10W LED probably costs the same/less than the 60W one, and the insulation causes reduced spending too. That is one of the arguments I sometimes trot out to explain that GDP isn't a useful measure if it is divorced from energy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I work at a big company that is remote only and productivity is high. Might it be that they actually thought about how to implement it and kept improving the tools and processes needed?
Everyone in the office? Really? All the time?
He is allowed to be human, and act in a personal capacity, with his personal Twitter account. People should be able to differentiate Musk the CEO fron Musk the man.

Society doesn't need to be infantilized, with important people speaking like politicians lest they influence an allegedly impressionable and undiscerning public.
A wise man once told me (and others), never get offended. Being offended is just you with your dander up. It doesn't do anything other than ruin your day. So instead of getting offended, he said, get even. Work to make whatever was offending you stop or change. That's a good use of your energy. Spouting the vitriol of offense... isn't.

I've never seen taking offense the same way since hearing that.
No biggy my dude, it was clear from the jump that you didn't intend anything combative. Enjoy your scotch
Are you serious? The NS/NS2 pipelines were a constant temptation for Germany and a good leverage for Russia. Before the pipelines got blown up we have seen quite sizable protests in Germany with demands to open NS2 and find some compromise with Russia.

By physically removing capability to transport gas from Russia to Germany, US not only secures fat margins for several years (at the very least until new LNG sources become available), but also significantly reduces probability of Germany acting independently in the near term, even if energy situation becomes critical. Don't forget that the gas storage numbers do not show the whole picture. A lot of energy-intensive industry got shut down and will not reopen in the near future.
Not sure what you are talking about. I can sign up for mastodon right now with a hundred different servers.

Yes, people might be expecting a single corporate entity called "Mastodon, Inc," but that's why the (very poor) analogy to email is bandied about. You have to pick a service provider in order to use email (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc), and you have to pick a service provider in order to use mastodon, too.

Twitter, Inc, is the single provider of the twitter service, but that's falling apart because there's no way for the twitter service to route around the damage being done by Twitter, Inc's new owner.
That's quite dumb. Shrimp actually clean the water by feeding on waste. I'm sure other crustaceans do it as well to some extent. I only have shrimp in my aquariums which I've branded as the cleanup team specifically because they keep my tanks clean.
I wrote something similar a few years ago https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/ephemeral-media/

When you look at a web page, there are only a few ways you know how old it is. Absent a date in the URl or page, your best guess is how modern or fashionable the CSS is.

With a paper document, you get yellowing, staining, curling, tearing - moreso if it were popular.

I'm not saying that adding wear and tear to a digital document is a good thing - but it could be a handy contextual skeuomorph.
I've been around the block a few times, and I've had people over the years tell me about an "investment" or a fund, or their brother-in-law who could get me 15% or more on my money. And every time I've been smart enough to say "no thanks."

I must admit, I don't have a lot of sympathy for Madoff's victims. Especially the charities! If I donate money to a charity, I'd expect the money to go to help people or to further their cause -- not to be invested in a high-risk ponzi scheme.
The difference is that the grade game can lead to positive life outcomes. People who do really well in school, all else being equal, tend to do better in life. Of course, all else is rarely equal and people who spend all their time studying tend to have a difficult time making friends.

How that affects them in the long run is difficult to say. Very few people continue to take courses throughout their lives. At some point the grades game comes to an end.
My gawd, I'm moderately dyslexic and I need to check my spelling on everything unusual. I generally succeed but this time I didn't. It's truly bizarre that you think there's anything weird here.

Overall, I'd suspect people not immersed in the crypto world would easily fall into a spelling that "sounds" like they remember it - spelling phonetically is a lousy way to spell but some percentage of the world does it.
> which implies that people who use Go have not grown and become as productive

That's not what it says, or at least not what I meant.

People are different and can accept a different amounts of repetitive work. Heck, there are even people who really like it and want to think as little as possible. So all I'm saying is that there exist people in Go that grow and then want to improve their productivity but are now restricted by the language.

And I think I have a point in the sense that Go is already adapting to those people by e.g. adding generics. So the number of those people can't be that small, otherwise I don't think they would follow their requests.

> because such languages are a "must" to grow in this way

And yeah, there are of course different ways to become more productive, e.g. through other kind of tooling, better organization etc. But the language is definitely one of our most important tools so if the language limits you then switching it is the only way to improve in this regards.

In fact, English is not my native language and I often feel limited in both my mother tongue and English. Sometimes I'd love to just mix the two but obviously I can't. It's the same thing, but natural languages are much closer to each in terms of expressivenes than programming languages are.

> At the very least, you are obviously disparaging Go programmers' productivity.

I'm saying that a developer who feels limited by golang can and will become more productive with a less restrictive language, all other things being equal(!).
Past mistakes to avoid in our grand return to the Moon this decade
> This is a surprisingly comprehensive and well-written article, worth reading

Well, maybe. But it’s a bit ridiculous to have an article about mining without a single map or any links to maps. How many people reading the article know where Kalgoorlie or the Pilbara is? (or even Perth?)

Anyway, here are the mines referred to in the article, with links and/or Geohack

Cornwall Pit and Greenbushes mine, Greenbushes, WA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbushes_mine

(looks impressive in Google Earth: https://earth.google.com/web/search/-33.8567368,116.0649188/)

Mount Marion mine, south-west of Kalgoorlie, WA:
https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Mount_Mar...

Earl Grey Lithium Mine, Mount Holland, WA:
https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Earl_Grey...

Ball Hill Lithium and Tantalum Mine, WA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Hill_Lithium_and_Tantalum...

Mount Cattlin mine, Ravensthorpe, WA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt_Cattlin_mine

Altura Lithium Mine, Pilgangoora, Pilbara, WA:
https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Altura_Mi...

Wodgina mine, Pilbara region, WA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wodgina_mine

Finniss Lithium Project, near Darwin, NT:
https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Finniss_L...
This is correct; Circumstantial evidence, which is a clue, not a conclusion. We need to keep collecting information.

I think the obvious conclusion is a false flag operation, but again, all evidence is circumstantial.
Knowing its financials, I would feel more "safe" after a 50% cut than a 25% cut.

But why would we want employees to feel safe? They should feel like they need to produce value, or they'll get cut.
What makes you think this?

I haven't observed any advantages to an office beyond overexposing the company to real estate (not really an advantage) - there is nothing I could do in person that I haven't been able to do faster in MS Teams (and better - now I have a written record and recording of everything). Another advantage of remote is that nobody ruins my train of thought by tapping me on the shoulder and asking stupid questions like "hey did you get that email." Best of all, no stupid pressure to go to lunch with anyone
Ok. I just expected musicianship to be musicianship regardless of the instrument.
Why stop there? Maybe Martians blew it as now humans are pointing fingers at each other which is a pretty useful strategic result.
You are forgetting that repairing the pipelines is not easy and longer they stay in sea water, less likely it can be done reliably due to corrosion. Also secretly blowing up a pipeline in effectively NATOs backwater is easier said than done for Russia (remember the Nordic countries blaming Russian subs for suspicious sonar readings?), meanwhile for UK/US it's much easier.
As my comment was calling out the citations, allow me to clarify that if one is defining a new category of pathology, it would be wise to build on prior support. This is why citations get requested.

I get the intent of the article, but still feel it dilutes the meaning of addiction by claiming good grades are addictive.
In unrelated news SBF just found he had a bunch of crypto in his personal wallet. Totally not at all the pile of crypto that was last seen in the FTX wallet.
New speedrun world-best?

I realize this doesn’t add much by way of substance but this has been an incredible watch.

I hope someone is keeping an eye on SBF.
We're just gonna gloss over, "quick your employees don't have leverage, make changes they won't like" like that isn't indicative of a capitalist hellscape? If shit like this doesn't radicalize you into democracy in the workplace then we're fucked.

Especially since right now that lack of leverage was literally manufactured on purpose by the fed.
Btw, if you ever had Indian cuisine, you had hempseeds. Basically they can be integrated into any cuisine without being the main dish.
It has been proven to work well in Cryptocurrency it can work in other applications.
The digital euro may have spending limits
But we can ask the same about Russia: how do they benefit? If there is any benefit to Russia then I'm not seeing it, beyond some vague and essentially meaningless chest-beating. And the pipeline was valuable to Russia, even when turned off, as it was a reasonably effective piece of leverage that's now just gone.

I'd be surprised if the US was involved because the thing could backfire massively it were to come out they were behind it, and it's just not worth the risk. But Russia is not really an "obvious" suspect either IMO. My best guess is that it's an irrational act from an irrational regime (Putin) as a kind of "fuck you".
Your examples are literally describing the average student. Everyone asks 'will this be on the test' and everyone will say they forget everything the day after the exam. Maybe this depends on many factors, such as field of study, male/female ratio, country etc.
But the main cause might be that all results and achievements are described in numbers. And those numbers are the sole measure of success. Student loans are forgiven based on grades. You are not allowed to continue your studies based on your grades. You will be hired based on your grades.

Maybe it is society that makes these grades more important than they should be, so calling it an addiction is pointless if you don't take into account other motivating factors.
Their physics engine doesn't seem related to the bubble toy as far as I can tell (although another HN comment implies it is). The physics engine implements 3D collisions between solid objects, joints, springs, etc. But the bubble toy is a different type of physics.
Bahamas has an extradition treaty with the US. If SBF doesn’t flee he will definitely get indicted in US court
No, the reason is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

> The vitality model of former General Electric chairman and CEO Jack Welch has been described as a "20-70-10" system. The "top 20" percent of the workforce is most productive, and 70% (the "vital 70") work adequately. The other 10% ("bottom 10") are nonproducers and should be fired.

10% layoff means you are being ranked.
Splitting code into functions isolates blocks of their context of what situations they are called in and what parameters are passed in. In my experience, Transcribing code into notes, where struct fields are inlined as indented blocks into their surrounding types, and function calls' interiors are inlined as indented blocks into their call sites, restores this context, places lines on-screen in the order they execute, and enables casual reasoning. (You still won't know data invariants without asking the original programmers, but you can guess and check at this point.) http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm... advocates for a style where code is inlined in the actual source code whenever possible.
>I doubt there will be a crypto bailout as it seemingly didn’t get big enough to blow up anything outside itself

If politicians wanted to make crypto bros whole, I would lose my mind. I doubt I am the only one, and I would hope that would be scene as a political death sentence to endorse such a proposition.