skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would the US care about a PR disaster? It's not like Europe has any choice in the matter at this point.

Because the will of the allied sanction group is strongly dependent upon PR? The EU nations are a fractious group on the best of days. One of the reasons why the support for Ukraine and sanctions for Russia were so swift was the fact that Biden played the PR and intelligence game perfectly.

> What?

What part of my statement is not clear? Putin is worried about assassins. Taking out Putin and taking over Russia can be converted to cash very quickly by turning the pipeline back on even before sanctions get lifted. Blowing up the pipeline prevents any would be assassins from making use of it later. Putin will suffer neither PR backlash (he controls the Russian media) nor diplomatic backlash (he has already been isolated) for blowing up the pipeline.

And I note that you completely ignored the point that the US would do this with subs (and this was what they could do 30+ years ago). See: Blind Man's Bluff--https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/...
Over 14 years of QE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_Sta...

And Quantitative Easing is a "refinement" of the Greenspan Put in the late 1980s. So yeah, 30+ years at this point.
Kinda makes you an outlier though, the people whose money they want are the people who are at most one model behind.
An impressive project, even if failed. What’s even more impressive is that he managed to decode the Los Angeles parking signs accurately enough to park 24 hours without getting a ticket.
Tens of thousands (24k by some estimates) is quite sizable in my book and it was long before cold weather and full economic impact of the high prices. The inflation issue is #1 in internal politics for many countries, add recession and job losses caused by raising energy prices on top of that and you can see environment prime for toppling governments. With rising populism everywhere the simple solution of using NS/NS2 for at least several years in exchange for not supporting Ukraine too much could be quite dangerous for the existing establishment.

>weaponized energy

I always find it amusing how Russia gets blamed for "weaponization", while US/Europe continuously use their control over technology and financial system as a weapon.
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OK so, let's say I completely understand every facet of signing up for and using Mastadon, but still think it's bullshit that few normal users will navigate. Is my opinion valid now?
I have a few friends who are very privacy minded. They even refuse to use most of the big social media networks out of privacy concerns. But most people spend a larger and larger proportion of our social life online. So what ends upp happening is the privacy minded folks become more and more isolated from old friends.

I would argue you have so much more to win, than you have to lose, from letting go of that fear to share your life online.
Goldilocks firing.
Pretty sure Russia exists but Martians do not. That’s a reason to stop there.
Dark ships? If this was Russias doing, or the US, why not send submarines to do something like this?

I don’t buy it.
It might help factions within Russia, or hurt factions within Russia. Not everything is about benefit for the country; in fact many things aren't. For example: continuing the war in Ukraine is beneficial to Vlad, or at least he must think it is to continue it over admitting defeat and withdrawing.

I can imagine Vlad or a faction aligned with him thinking this severs the ability for someone else displacing him to just turn on the taps, retreat out of Ukraine, and say "lol, whoops, our bad".

So the benefit may be to factions within Russia, even if it's detrimental to Russian economic capabilities.
What's your take on this for the NFT market more generally?
You may also like https://github.com/carlmjohnson/shitpic if you like this.
Lol, a 'hack.' An unfortunately extremely convenient one that I'll almost guarantee specifically took customer funds, you know, after the bros already took their first cut.
It's ridiculous because getting rid of the office entirely is the biggest cost savings going.
> One venture firm I know is encouraging companies to assume they should cut 50% and then use financial modeling to prove otherwise.

Is there any common tooling to do that kind of financial modeling other than spreadsheets?
I just want to be able to choose which I want on a day-by-day basis. Some days I am much more productive in the office because I need to, say, communicate with a bunch of people or there's some sort of back and forth that needs to occur. Or I just need to get out of the house for a bit. Other days, I just want to stay home and spend the time focusing on something in particular without being bothered. But I need both to have both to do my job effectively. However, I work at a small company and am the primary software engineer which changes the dynamic a bit.
>The PR disaster that would ensue if the US were caught doing this

Ha-ha, let's take a look how much of "PR disaster" was direct spying on European "allied" leaders. Europe simply swallowed it without much trouble. With NS/NS2 we have a much better field for deniability. Simply say that any evidence is a Russian conspiracy or false flag.
It's a beautiful page! I miss sites like this.

Though strangely, it seems to disable all of my browser keyboard shortcuts. Even basic ones like going back, selecting the address bar, or changing the zoom level. I assume it's just listening for all key events, though I didn't even realize it was possible to override the basic ones.

edit: I found the bug! It has a list that's supposed to contain all possible keycodes, and if all the keys in your shortcut are on it that list it works. But I'm on macOS so my shortcuts all involve the "MetaLeft" or "MetaRight" key and those are missing from the list. Appending those keycodes to the minified array named `ba.G` fixes shortcuts for me!
Russia doesn’t need to benefit. The sabotage just needs to influence or weaken some Russian obliarch subject to Putin’s whims.
A correction to the last bull market
This is really inspiring, I really appreciate your response. Thanks for taking the time to write all this out, getting the dev perspective is really great.
> cannot be debased or otherwise corrupted by the government-de-jour

It doesn’t seem to need the government to corrupt it.
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That's an interesting observation. There's gotta be a pretty limited upper bound on redemptions because I know there is rather extensive KYC involved which 99% of Tether holders couldn't pass, high minimums, and country restrictions. If the 3% from treasuries on 60 billion dollars isn't enough to satisfy them then operating even at 80% reserve (which in the absence of leaks could probably go undetected for a very long time) would mean they stole about 12 billion dollars which should be enough many times over for a private jet, a whole new identity, extensive plastic surgery, and high ranking government officials of some Caribbean island in perpetuity.
same cause of the 2008 recession, too much money chasing risky bets. Once the party gets going, you will be stupid to not join in. Just amke sure you're not the one holding the bag, when the music sotps.
RIP Dan
No, not everyone asks that. And at higher level courses such as grad school, where everyone there has self-selected to be there out of interest, pretty much nobody ever asks that. Maybe you feel that way, but don't project yourself onto everyone.
Uhhhhh want to back that up?

Edit: Clearly not so your assertion is bull.
1. Who is transferring the funds?

a. Bankman-Fried and associates

b. insiders (disgruntled)

c. outsiders (hackers)

2. Is it plausible that the transferred funds be laundered?

3. Can this altruism get any more effective?

This story is utterly fascinating. It keeps getting better and better. I remember thinking Mt. Gox was wild. This fraud is second only to Ponzi.
> that lack of leverage was literally manufactured on purpose by the fed

As was the leverage. They artificially drove the economy in the other direction in an unsustainable manner for a number of years before that.
They'll be rehiring more when the people they thought they were keeping leave because remote is a deal breaker.
Some California congresspeople wanted to bail out dot-com speculators during the 2000 crash, at least of their tax oblications:

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2001/07/30/daily...

(I was opposed to this. I purposely didn't exercise stock options that I couldn't or wouldn't sell immediately because I knew about the tax liability. I don't believe the defense that someone who wants to speculate in stock options just didn't know about the taxes. People who wish to speculate with complicated forms of investors should be prepared to take all the risk.)
Hiring freeze is actually a mistake as you trend towards mediocrity. Natural turnover tends to lose you more good people than bad (head hunting, opportunity).
Success might be difficult to define. If this produces the results that are desired by Elon and the investors then it's probably a success from their perspective. I worry if that's the case, it'll be like all the buy out, chop up, and liquidate value takeovers they made movies about.
Its Covid lab leak theory reloaded.
There is one plausible theory that Occam Razors well but is inconvenient, and competing convoluted ones. This will only further decrease trust in the media and governments, „you can’t fool all the people all the time“.
These researchers seem to think Spirulina improves the health of b12 deprived mice: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31502254/ - the result looks pretty solid to me.

The same group tested Chlorella in another paper, same result.
I'm not going to keep going back and forth with you but since you insist on me addressing the subs thing it's worth pointing out that the ships mentioned in the article were just present in the days ahead of the leaks and there is no concrete evidence they were the attackers.
What I don't get (well I do, lobbying and inside deals), is why these guys have run so long (especially Tether). 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.

The lack of legal focus, given the obvious illegitimacy of it all is disgraceful and I can't even imagine the size of the wealth transfer happening through all this.
What difference would it make?
Ah, sure. It could've been swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket, which has reflected the light from Venus.
Exactly. Plus, they all have shared vested interest. Talking their book.
Notmuch integrates with mutt / neomutt very nicely for search.
Don't worry tweet that "he's sorry" and it will be all right.
The FTX App has allegedly been hacked as well. This reeks of an inside job/coordinated attack.

Edit: It is rumored that SBF is en-route to Argentina

Second Edit: This is a Twitter rumor, with no verification, could be fake news. I was going to paste the Tweet, but the Tweet has been removed because it was seen as unlikely.
You’re right, and I see where you’re coming from, but the reality is that this can end with a 50 year prison sentence for SBF. That’s what Wasendorf got for swiping a mere $200M (the largest fraud in history prior to this, according to Animats): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33564752

I think that reality hasn’t set in for most people yet. Especially SBF.
Tether is just as if not more shady than anything coming out of this whole FTX saga. It wouldn't surprise me if people behind the scenes are working on it right now to try and bring it down and be first to claim that scalp.
Ask HN: How Are Domain Name Priced?
SERP API provides the Top-100 SERP results for a search term. The results are specific to the selected search engine

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It gets worse: somebody has pushed what appears to be a malicious update to the FTX app, and the official FTX telegram channel is warning people not to even browse to the website!

https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1591293813519253504
He'll probably play a Leauge of Legends match before though.
...presuming the goal is to retain any of the current employees, rather than just building a new company around the existing IP+assets.
The simplest explanation I have (occam’s razor) is a tie between 1.a and 1.b

I’ve also heard rumors that inside bad actors pushed out a forced FTX app update to gain access to accounts. So the advisory is to uninstall FTX and not go anywhere near that website. Any money one has is unfortunately gone, wait for the bankruptcy proceedings to recoup it, if at all.
FTX claims it has been hacked of all funds, website and mobile app compromised
It can also be understood as the majority, per wiktionary

> the generality; the common herd

GP was countering the possibility that GGP meant the above.
Aah... "digital money"... it's a trap. Avoid it. If you don't control your money, you don't really own it.

Keep the cash. Governments all around the world are taking steps to eliminate every inch of freedom people have. They are trying to turn everyone into slaves. You either do what we tell you, the way we tell you, or you starve.
nice submarine PR article for SpaceKnow
Isn’t this just people that live in the Bahamas draining their own accounts (which is still allowed)?

Plus, obviously, people who can find a random Bahamas native to KYC their account for them.
You're being down-voted (not by me) because your point is both cynical, and common as a caricature of management.

Employees need to feel safe because that improves their ability to focus on the job at hand.

Employees that do not feel safe spend time updating their resume, playing office-politics games to make others look worse, spend time with other employees (detracting them) to either spread rumours or get gossip.

In an unsafe environment, where the unsafty is internal, people don't "work harder" they work much less.

If the risk is external, then yes, people can pull together for the common good. When covid started our staff accepted huge pay cuts so that all jobs could bd preserved. They did a fantastic job, and all ultimately got back-pay, and all jobs were preserved. But that was "us against the world" - cuts included management, and salaries returned from the bottom to the top, not the other way around.
> We have 38 specific algorithms that can detect military equipment

Just trying to imagine the real-time data feeds of Russian military gear deployments that Ukraine gets from NATO.

Russia has a long history of operating satellites and they have plenty of skilled software engineers as well. But I have a feeling it's hard to match the level of funding / ability brought to fore by the west.

Having a constant accurate picture of where counter-battery radar is, where SAM/AA-radars are deployed, etc could massively increase survivability of high-value vehicles like HIMARs and their limited set of aircraft.
I think it’s designed for mobile or touch screens. Works perfectly on iPhone, and you need touch for various features.
Spying between allies is not uncommon and is even tacitly allowed because it increases trust between partners.
I imagine a large chunk of FTX users in the Bahamas are FTX employees, and others associated with the company.
Jeff Bezos - The real villain. In fact, all billionaire are actually A-holes. stop buying their stuff. Stop using their services. Support smaller players. Support yourself.
I’m getting my mtgox claim paid out, finally. Never would have picked that for my 2022 bingo card.
And what’re your qualifications and citations?
I passed this over just yesterday and went with a fusion 360 demo but you’ve convinced me to give it a shot.

I’ve been having issues with my cheap-ish peristaltic pumps and realized I’d either need to spend way too much or build/3d print something myself in order to resolve the issues.

The cloud aspect of fusion seriously kills my enthusiasm for it.
Works – Oimo.io
Zhang, Yitang’s life at Purdue [pdf, 2018]
Uncle Dave?
The thing is, the prime suspect(s) of this operation have means to do this much more stealthily. Why send a 95 to 130 meter ship to do that?

I believe this is sabotage. I have no idea who did it and why, but saying "Hey, there are two ships, miles away from the site with transponders off. It's them!" is a bit of a stretch.
In Alberta November is Firmly in Winter, same with February (normally the coldest month of the year). Most years October & April also fall into it. Only month I haven't seen snow is July.
SBF and Caroline (and probably Trabucco) probably already on their way to non-extradition countries and taking what little cash remains with them. They'll end up in prison if they don't.
10–15% is about the maximum amount of dead-weight employees (the kind who don't have the skills to perform the job-role they're hired for, who were hired due to favoritism, bribes, blackmail, or pure hiring-process "throw a dart" laziness) you can have on a corporate balance sheet before the aggregate lack of expected productivity per OpEx dollar starts to be suspicious. The further below this limit a company is operating at, the 'safer' hiring managers can feel in making arbitrary/capricious decisions without being called out on them.

And so — presuming at least some hiring managers in each bigcorp are unethical and lazy or able to be manipulated — 10–15% dead-weight becomes an equilibrium point: the number of dead-weight employees asymptotically approaches 10–15%, where firing one means being able to hire one more, and hiring one means being unable to hire one more.

(Which isn't to suggest that there's top-down awareness in all these companies of these employees being dead-weight; rather the opposite — they survive because the structure of these companies has no continuous visibility into employee productivity. But when they consider layoffs, that's the time to do a point-in-time productivity audit... and that's when they find that this dead-weight has been accruing, and set out to burn it off. And, if they're smart, to also "burn off" the people who were willing to commit malfeasance by hiring/endorsing them.)
I don’t (consider) Bitcoin as a high risk investment at all at this point because of the 4 year halving super cycle, until 2030 ish

Hash rate is still climbing, the price will follow.

Everything else is noise.
Guys, don't worry: Sam has said he's sorry
Is it that difficult to mention GRH in the title? I thought it is a scientific media
Is Jason really on the inside? His text messages to and behavior around Musk make him seem rather desperate for inclusion, as if he wasn’t yet “in”.
Sure, I am confident the US will react in the same way to Germany or France intelligence services tapping their president.
Pianist here. The essential idea rings true. I do collaborative work, accompanying, coaching, performing with soloists and ensembles. There’s a lot of repertoire in play at any given time. Much of the background work is very much a chore - strategically breaking down the pieces into practiceable chunks, prioritizing, gradually building tempo over days to weeks, and of course building technique that allows the music to flourish.

Many non-musicians are surprised by this, expecting that the finished product to emerge as a result of talent and inspiration. Several years ago I was involved in preparations to host a well-known international artist whose name you would recognize immediately. We were told to block four to six hours per day for her practice time.

The creative process itself must be similar. There’s a quote from Chuck Close, the painter. “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”

What’s equally mysterious is that in this work, a dialect is in play. It is at the same time a chore and all-consuming & gratifying in a “flow” sense. Rarely is it fun.
Man repatriates 19 antiquities after reading Guardian article
Who (which government agency etc.) would be expected to track their whereabouts in this scenario?
"Strong" as a descriptor makes more sense if you see a type as a kind of contract: You agree that you will only perform these operations on this value, and the language agrees that all of those operations will be well-defined. "Strength" is how difficult it is to disregard those contracts and peel back the abstraction they enforce to get at some underlying representation, possibly all the way down to where "Bits Is Bits" and everything is permitted. You'll notice that this makes Python's type system stronger than the one C++ has, once you get over the idea that Python's types attach to values, not variables.
Bot Tracking Mark Zuckerberg’s Jet
The Hungarian algorithm. It solves the assignment problem (the optimal way to assign workers to tasks given their completion time of each task). The assignment problem looks hopelessly O(n!), but by some magic, the algorithm can solve it in polynomial time.
Is Scala meaningfully more mainstream than Haskell?
I like to have thousands of browser tabs open and use virtual machines so the time for 32GB of RAM was about six years ago when I could get fairly-cheap used RAM from ebay.
I am not saying that it's proven that the "dark" ship is responsible here. I am objecting to the opinion that blowing up NS/NS2 is somehow not an obvious act of sabotage.

With all the rhetoric from the US about not allowing NS2 using any means, I think that it's quite possible that charges were planted long before the explosions and were activated remotely.
DoJ and SEC are both already investigating FTX.
He just wanted to bring back the guillotine. He’s a big picture thinker.
Interesting about the omega 3. Maybe the oil is also less likely to get rancid if it’s still bound to the plant.

Re testing, the article you linked has another article linked on the same site: https://www.b12-vitamin.com/analogues/
They mention MMA testing here (you could get one as part of the Organic Acids Test at „The Great Plains“ lab for example), but that’s quite expensive ($299 right now). It’s maybe the most accurate B12 test out there. Technically, it’s a test by proxy.

If you are currently serum B12 deficient, then there’s probably not that much to worry about, because the B12 analogues in algae also won’t be absorbed properly (maybe due to a lack of intrinsic factor). Supplemental methyl- and adenosyl-B12 don’t have that problem.
What a ridiculous article. Kudos to WIRED for digging deep to let us know what the people who did this have to say about this mystery of mysteries.
I wonder how that's implemented if all the traffic is encrypted. Presumably images are sent via a different domain or IP address?
Lol at the first comment from over a year ago: “ Make it so I can withdraw like a normal wallet and I'm in”
Please don't post unsubstantive comments. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did you make that up on the spot or was it recycled?
(not op)

Bitcoin's difficulty adjusts on-demand. Regardless of how many or few people use it, as long as some people do then it'll keep existing and sitting there clearing transactions all day long, spitting out new blocks every ten minutes like clockwork. That's the beauty of Bitcoin -- it's a program that once started never stops running, like a watch that keeps ticking.

The work in place to build L2 systems (Lightning, Web5, etc) that can derive a secure economic system from that base consensus clock will continue on just fine.