skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a Wall Street corruption story.

https://twitter.com/wallstreetpro/status/1591167190996504576

Sam, Caroline, and everyone at the top of FTX and Alameda have very close family ties to key power brokers on Wall Street, which is how they were able to run this scam. FTX has also lobbied extensively for harsh regulations on DeFi, which is a key reason that he was hated by people in the cryptocurrency space, and adored by Wall Street.

The only reason FTX got caught is because of evidence they left on-chain. Any other investment fund might have been able to sweep it all under the rug, but since the massive payout from FTX to Alameda was visible for the world to see, the corruption was obvious, and the whole thing collapsed.
Linux isn't compiled with your application inside it, that's why I had pause
WTF. 5/6 on Haskell despite having barely touched it 10+ years ago. Pretty descriptive signatures, although the function names could do with some clarification.
I'm unaware of any conspiratorial hysteria regarding salt. I only thought that I'd mention something I had found while researching causes for thyroid cancer, which I got while living in east Asia.
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And that’s why most people don’t own any crypto
I don’t really understand what point you’re trying to make. The way moderation is handled in your example sure sounds a lot more democratic, or at the very least with some fundamentals allowing it to be democratic, than twitter ever will be.
Some clearnet domains still work, though currently just displaying onion addresses with downloads disabled. Any guesses on how long it'll take them to get back like before?

Everything was recently mirrored, incidentally.

The organization itself is quite mysterious. I'd love to know more about how it operates, but obviously secretly must be maintained.
Just to make the links clickable:

https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/main/examples/i...

https://medium.com/@yangyou_berkeley/diffusion-pretraining-a...
You forgot:

Regulation works but it was just human failure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Global
I don't understand the network-wide ban? That makes Mastodon inherently centralised. Who is the person who has the final say which server may be part of the fediverse? Why does a network-ban even need to exist? There is no algorithm that presents your feed with posts from other servers. You only see who you follow. It's like saying some person has the final say which RSS feeds all RSS feed readers should ban from the RSS-verse.
The Sherman act and newer FTC act have been finding offending conduct just fine, the question is why these laws aren't being followed as written.
>The whole scheme seems more about getting someone in third world country to work delivery in a first world country than efficiency of any sort.

Paying third world wages to deliver items in the first world seems pretty efficient.
Parent mentions decentralized anonymous asset exchange being the goal and 51% attacks being the biggest concern. That tells me he's talking about Satoshi. Those topics don't apply to SBF.
You're being downvoted because it's too soon to judge so harshly. You may be just as biased in the opposite direction as the fanboys. There's been a lot of dumbness and silliness involved but it's pretty hard to assume that a random HN commenter is a better businessman than Musk.
Not answering your question, but a side comment:

You are on the right track…. strive for simple.

That’s exactly what I aim for when doing web application development.

A React application uploaded to a static web server, talking to a plain old Linux server running a simple back end like nodejs or python, talking plain SQL to a Postgres server.
Downvoting helps maintain community standards and also makes it so that people don't have to waste as much time policing/correcting misinformation.

Obviously if someone is just plain wrong about something they should be corrected and not downvoted for it, but when someone posts misinformation it's nice that it can be downvoted out of sight fast enough that it's gone before many people are exposed to it and before a bunch of people have spent their time posting facts/corrections or providing critical context for the benefit of others.

We'll likely just have to agree to disagree on misinformation being a "pretend" problem, and it's understandable if your perspective means you don't consider the downvote's utility in fighting against misinformation important, but I'm glad for it.
> Alameda people or the devs etc behind everything.

SBF used to have intercourse with the Alameda CEO, and if I'm not mistaken they were all in this together (FTX + Alameda, that is). Article on the intercourse thing [1]. The admins of this forum can complain about "the level of discussion getting low" as much as they want, but this is the reality, this is how billions of dollars have been stolen.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/10/bankman-frieds-...
> Lumping diagonally opposed things (centralized coins like FTT or decentralized coins like BTC) under the same category (crypto) is quite misleading.

Crypto generally means digital currency, does it not? I think leaving them out would be actually misleading.

> BTC (on chain) is still working as intended, after all these years.

Working in what sense?
This is one of the first concrete steps to moderating inflation. Discounters will be another. Hopefully this keeps up and we'll be in the clear after all.
Just read "the cold time of year" when you see "winter" and you'll get past this.
Do you know what a Ponzi scheme is?
For comparison - a regulated traditional finance entity:

On October 31, 2011, MF Global executives admitted that transfer of $700 million from customer accounts to the broker-dealer and a loan of $175 million in customer funds to MF Global's U.K. subsidiary to cover (or mask) liquidity shortfalls at the company occurred on October 28, 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Global
It's an interesting level of abstraction question. On a fine-grained level, yes, BTC works algorithmically as you have pointed out, and FFT is not the exact same thing as BTC. The question the is whether either of these things work socially / for society.

Whether it's accurate or not, I imagine non-experts would regard the difference between BTC and FFT as pretty negligible, perhaps akin to the difference between "social media" and IG vs. Reddit.
I was responding to the "human inefficiencies" section of the article, which claims that Mastodon is inherently much more inefficient than Twitter because many different moderators (from different instances) must act on the same post. I don't think that's true in practice.
Gzip exceptions, but only on hot or rainy days
The last I looked, there was a different character limit for inline (2k) vs attached (10k) policies, as well as a character limit for all aggregated policies that applied to a single principal+resource+request.

The API forbids you from exceeding the character limit for individual policies, but the latter limit is only something you can encounter at "run time" or when a request occurs. I asked our account rep at the time what would happen if the sum of all policies was larger than that character limit, they said some arbitrary policy statements would be dropped.
Is this "whataboutism"? And if so, what's your point precisely?

I don't think anyone has ever claimed that financial malfeasance is impossible in traditional banking entities.
Conventional management advice -- at least that I've gotten -- is that you cam increase people's salaries, but you can't cut people's salaries. Without a very unique culture, they take it personally and will likely quit. Better to fire underperformers.

Side note: if staff took better to getting their pay cut, they'd get more frequent (faster) raises. When a company is suddenly more profitable, compensation increases lag far behind, as they have to first feel very secure of the higher profit level. After all, if it falls back to normal, they can't cut salaries...

Note: my personal experience is limited to managing a few dozen people and there are surely plenty of exceptions to the advice above.
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> Ponzi schemes by definition use opaque ledgers.

Why? To me a ponzi scheme is where the earlier "investors" get paid out with the money of later "investors". That's it. By that definition it's quite the "decentralized", somewhat stochastic ponzi.
Absolutely bullshit. Fried's parents are helping him build a defense against jail time for breach of fiduciary duty and embezzlement while his team coincidentally gets "hacked". Hacks are quickly becoming strategic fail-safes against corporate incompetence and useful as backroom data sales.

The promise of cryptographic currency was that we have the power. These exchanges by design sap that power for a promise that now seems illusionary at best and a massive liability at worst.

FINRA and the SEC need to charge Fried and his executive team immediately and begin the process of tearing apart that exchange.
One key difference is the following:

> In January 2013, a judge approved a settlement that would return 93 percent of customers' investments, with the prospect of additional payouts from the company's general estate.
> I spent the next few months spending time with my family

must be nice to be able to afford to just dick around and relax searching for your true calling. Unfortunately, not everyone is in the position to do that when they suddenly get sliced.
Very interesting take.

How would another investment fund transfer customer funds to Alameda while being able to sweep it under the rug?

I think the transfer wasn’t the problem. It was illegal, yes. But the empire fell because Alameda lost the money.

Alameda’s CEO: “I use very little math. Being comfortable with risk is important. We tend not to have things like stop losses.” https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRxWbctK/
> If someone has a problem that crypto is actually a good fit for -- an application that would legitimately deliver value for customers, insuring medical tourism perhaps -- a lot of people will dismiss it just because they assume crypto=scam.

If there's a great application that solves an important problem using crypto then I imagine most people would focus on the problem and not the fact that crypto is used to solve it; they'd probably even gloss over how the application works.
Musk halts Twitter's coveted blue check amid proliferation of imposters
> it gets added to a blacklist

unless there is an election about who gets added to the list it s not even democratic. And the freedom of speech is generally protected, not subject to the whims of democracy
They can also spoof it, as the article suggests. Since it's rather suspicious when you suddenly turn off the transponder, I would certainly assume the sabotaging ship could have had a "cover story" in a nearby position.
Past crypto bubbles reinflated primarily because everyone had too much cash and interest rates were falling for decades. Even smart money had nowhere to go.

We may not see an environment like that for the rest of our lives.
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1. Crypto and web3 is so tarnished in consumer minds, it cannot recover. The next big thing in this space needs stay away from those terms like the plague.

2. Energy has become so valuable these days and Crypto tech has become so WASTEFULLY, UNNECESSARILY energy intensive, that the next iteration needs to be as cost efficient and effective as software. Transaction costs need to begin and remain extremely low to none. Only a process that is always cheap to run will be able to take over micro transactions worldwide and unlock true financial freedom for the world.

3. Last but not least, any transaction tech that cannot cash you out cheaply and immediately and easily should be considered a ponzi scheme. Marketing your coin and not allowing people to liquidate it due to natural or artificial constraints, makes you immediately not a store of value but a scam and dangerous to the entire ecosystem of trust.

The current financial system took a LOT of guardrails to keep people from tanking the trust in it for their own self gain. When you lose trust in the system, people pool their money out of it and go buy oil, or bricks, or stocks, or whatever else is actually worth something. If you want to dominate with a tech-based system. Trust should be completely unbreakable - as in identity needs to be absolute and bad actors banished from the system forever or some severe term that works as deterrence.
“People are using it to send messages like “Cleaning my apartment” and “Hungry”. You can also add friends via text message, nudge friends, etc. It really a social network around text messaging.”

So mainly updating their social status and locations. Interacting at the social event with #hastags etc.

This evolved into an autistic interaction media stream due to growth and the core function was lost.

This status is now coined by a badge and number of followers and their influence etc.
We have a weekly slack poll every Friday for office days the next week. Works pretty well.

We used to have so that every Thursday was "come to the office if you can" -day, but switched to the poll system.
Really liked Jon talking about the importance of experience in development. I just wanted to add that it’s also important to consider experience on the system. Even the most talented developers will need time to find their feet if they’ve only worked with a system for a few months.

So don’t treat developers as replaceable resources! If you fire an experienced team because you found some cheaper bums on seats elsewhere, you’ll usually pay the price!
None of the representatives I voted for got elected.

No candidate had on her proposal list "hunt and close cookie consent dialogs on the web forever".

I recommend you go out on the street and find out how real governing in the EU works, you seem to be deeply idealistic about it. It’s important, it could be why the next brexit happens.
And it isn't even all that useful as your only metric: A hypothetical language with only strings can have strong typing if it only allows you to do stringly things on those strings and doesn't, for example, allow you to ever see the codepoints as sequences of bytes; however, you'd have to represent everything in that language as strings, so the semantic types of those objects would be purely conceptual, like types in BCPL, where the compiler only knew about machine words, or, indeed, assembly language.

So we have at least three axes: Static vs Dynamic, Weak vs Strong, and Conceptual vs Semantic, where more Semantically-typed languages allow you to represent more of the meaning you're going for in the type system, and have the language enforce semantic rules like not being able to add person-height to person-weight even if they're both integral types.

(Note that my imaginary string-only language is also statically typed of necessity, given that all variables must have type string and no value can ever move from a variable of one type to a variable of another type.)
> BTC (on chain) is still working as intended, after all these years.

It's certainly working on destroying the planet with its obscene energy requirements.
Well, it would result in exactly that, best people leaving

> 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.

The best are near-immune to that. It's the average worker that will have problems finding next job, not the best one.

> Also, you will retain the truly "loyal" employees that are willing to suffer a bit for future growth.

That doesn't mean productivity

> 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.

It's a job for money, not charity, and you're competing with other companies. New hire have no reason to be attached to the company either. It's fine to like where you work, but people don't live with their work.

They have family and hobbies, that's why they work, to fund that, not to "have a mission", in job where someone on top is earning way more than what they put in effort.
How is $ftt still at $2? What will happen to it in bankruptcy proceedings? $2 is still higher than it was in 2019.
Yeah, I've never used purescript and got the same.
And in general religions are in business of extracting money from people and using it for their own means. Scientology is not any different from any other. Including the mainstream Christian cults...
I guess it varies from person to person, but normally what causes nausea is the motion. If you fix the camera and let the character roam around there should be minimal nausea. But then you're a little more limited in your gameplay.
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Does anyone know what the state of fintech is now? Haven’t heard much about them. There are a lot of companies like chime that received investments but not sure how much they can survive in a downturn
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Yeah, just cut 1% at a time so they don't notice
If this was AWS you’d have to kill them in dependency order or they would be immortal and you’d need to make yourself a coffee while they were slowly dying.
> how dumb everything about this has been.

Including pre-musk twitter as a directionless and weird company imo.
I’m not seeing anything about a hack
Easy heuristic: every billionaire in crypto except Satoshi is a fraudster. Maybe it's overfitted maybe not but historically you'd be correct 100% of the time.
No, you see engineering takes time. Getting people in to orbit took 15 years, it took at least 10 to get mass production of electric cars up and running. All those where late but he did it.
> This is a Wall Street corruption story.

No, stop trying to spin this. It's a stereotypical crypto story.

> Sam, Caroline, and everyone at the top of FTX and Alameda have very close family ties to key power brokers on Wall Street, which is how they were able to run this scam.

Who was Do Kwon's wall street family tie?

> FTX has also lobbied extensively for harsh regulations on DeFi, which is a key reason that he was hated by people in the cryptocurrency space, and adored by Wall Street.

Centralized exchange lobbies against decentralized exchange, isn't that just business?

> The only reason FTX got caught is because of evidence they left on-chain.

Really? Source? From what I know it was just good old balance sheet (probably an Excel file, even) that got leaked.

> Any other investment fund might have been able to sweep it all under the rug, but since the massive payout from FTX to Alameda was visible for the world to see, the corruption was obvious, and the whole thing collapsed

Utter bull. FTX paid Alameda a long time ago. No one knew this story until 2 days ago because none of this works the way you are talking about.
I've asked this before and every time it's been ignored and downvoted, but it's a genuine question that I do want answered, so I'll ask again: what does this mean? how does the US military guarantee the value of the dollar? It seems to me like the main capability of the military is killing people, and the definition of the "the dollar has value" is "people will accept dollars in exchange for goods and services". Is the military going to kill people who refuse to accept dollars as payment? What does the scenario where the military gets involved in this look like?

If this is somehow an offensive question or reads as trolling I would love to know, because I don't understand the statement and I don't understand why nobody is willing to answer me.
I was on a boat recently where WhatsApp was free to use, and you had to pay to use the rest of the internet. You could send and receive messages but attempting to send an image, which wasn’t even all that big in size, did not work on the free connection.

It must be either message size, or WhatsApp using a separate host name for attachments.
Regulators are like the fire trucking coming after the home burned down. Regulators seem to do a poor at at stopping people from being scammed. Scammers keep coming up with new types of scams that evade regulators, and people keep falling for them.
Have you seen the sorry excuses for “historical precedent” that NYS dug up for Antonyuk v Hochul?

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/new-york-gun-law-temp...

This was filed by the State. Search the word “negro” to find their justification for character references.

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/11/07/preliminary-injunction-...

For a summary and explanation.
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Microblogging was an early target by Twitter because of the limited characters in the post.

Also the fact that can be RT and could become viral.

“Social media” evolution from RSS in a more interactive manner.
The creation, distribution and governance are completely different. The public may not care but in the long run we mow see it matters.
What's weird is, why wasn't the system turned off? They've totally collapsed, filing bankruptcy, and supposedly aren't allowing withdrawals, so what was the point of leaving the system up and vulnerable?
No this is exactly how it works. There’s technically ideal policy and a bunch of exceptions which are behind a “break glass in case of emergency” account. Realistically nothing works however many hours you spend in IAM unless you use the emergency account so that’s what everyone does.
this is some kind of rare triple word score double-reverse irony. I love it.
Socialism to some extent has been successful in some countries. Sweden is a good example.
> But... they can also be programmed NOT to allow terrible human behavior.

Maybe, if you are a god tier programmer. On a long enough timescale the probability of your crypto project ending up on the rekt.news leaderboard is 1.
To correct your comment a bit, fraud occurs much more on centralized human-run exchanges that do NOT handle fiat. Handling fiat => licenses => regulation => harder to do fraud and get away with it.
I'm not sure I follow... SBF seems to be talking about the marginal utility of a dollar. True, most people think of this value as logarithmic. However, Kelly Criterion makes no such assumption: It's simply the optimal bet size (as a fraction of your bankroll) that optimally maximizes your returns over successive game plays. If you over-bet, it's much more likely that you'll blow-out -- as SBF mentions in your link (and ironically, occurred to SBF & FTX!).
China's transit projects are extremely well done, in general.

Chinese high-speed rail carries about 2 billion passengers a year and has a similar safety record to commercial aviation. Chinese underground systems are much more modern (and cleaner) than anything in the US or Europe.
The design elements are:
1) it is designed to look exactly like a prison, so the occupant thinks he will get out. Thus, it is designed for extortion.
2) a crematorium is provided, anticipating the requirement to be used many times in a similar way.

This doesn't fit the profile of political enemies very well.
1) political enemies commit political acts, which can be extorted but not normally after you are dead. Crypto still works after you are dead
2) each political enemy would stand in a slightly different relation or context to you, which suggests a bespoke approach not a system. Crypto owners can all be processed in the same way
FTX is a centralized (not DeFi) exchange that used their own coin as collateral and obfuscated their liquidity. This wouldn’t be possible in open decentralized exchanges that many in web3/crypto were advocating for. However SBF made it his mission to lobby regulation on DeFi and a blind eye to CeFi exchanges like his own.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2022/10/2...
...how fancy are your offsites exactly? :D